Sanctify yourself in the world
Louis et Zélie show on RCF
Episode 1 – April 21, 2024
It is less known, but Saints Louis and Zélie Martin were also canonized as a Christian couple rooted in their time. Indeed, sanctification is possible at the very heart of our relationship with the world: political and social commitment, professional and friendly relationships, exercise of fraternity and charity.
In this, the Martin couple were able to place themselves in a certain light through their life choices, without renouncing the love of God or their values but by dialoguing with a society whose tensions and changes were significant. Evocation this week of the academic and spiritual training of each of them, Louis and Zélie, and the sense of fraternity and mutual aid acquired during these young years.
Episode 2 – April 28, 2024
This learning of fraternity and the meaning of the other, both among the Brothers of the Christian schools for Louis, and among the sisters of Picpus (the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts and the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament) for Zélie will push both in the aspiration for a religious vocation oriented towards service to others. Vocations which cannot succeed but which will open the way to a fruitful and spiritually rooted laity.
Episode 3 – May 5, 2024
Spotlight on Christian figures from Alençon who were significant for Louis and Zélie and who will be decisive in their commitment to the weakest: Félicité Baudouin, Vital and Pauline Romet, devoted singles who will bear a lot of fruit in the heart of the Lower Normandy city. A Christian commitment which was also embodied in the Vital Romet circle, a place of sharing and reflection in which Louis Martin participated.
