{"id":15467,"date":"2024-11-16T05:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T04:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fillesstesprit.org\/?p=15467"},"modified":"2024-11-16T10:17:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T09:17:41","slug":"the-ballad-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fillesstesprit.org\/en\/the-ballad-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The ballad of words&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.2&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A look at the friendly Secours Catholique group in Flers <\/strong>&#8211; a French town in the Normandy region where I am involved<strong> &#8211; which decided to change its activity: instead of \u2018reupholstering furniture\u2019, it wanted to do theatre!\u00a0 It took us the whole year&#8230; <\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group is Eric, Alice, Anne Marie, J\u00e9r\u00e9my, Elie, Claude, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, Yannick, accompanied by Sylvie and myself, Danielle.\u00a0 We had to do a lot of listening to their lives, talking with them and reflecting ourselves&#8230;<br \/>After reflecting, we decided together on the theme that would emerge, expressing it as follows: <strong>\u201d<\/strong><strong>A ballad of words by anonymous people!<\/strong> <strong>\u201c <\/strong><strong>The words we chose: Respect Solitude Friendship Solidarity Sharing Love Together<\/strong>.\u00a0 It was a long road of happiness but also of suffering, which ended in the joy of success!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following this implementation process, a number of questions arose for me and for many others: how was this group able to surpass itself? How did these very different people make me believe in them and give them the chance to take charge of their lives? They never gave up, despite the ups and downs between them! Sylvie, who is very talented, built the play with their words and we both \u2018played the game\u2019 with them. However, sometimes I went home without any hope that it would succeed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>We did two performances: at the first there were about thirty people, and the following Saturday there were 80! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"reference\"><strong><em>Danielle GUILLOUF, DHS, Flers Community<\/em><\/strong><em>. <\/em><em>Published 17 November 2024, t<strong>he eve of World Day of the Poor<\/strong>, created by Pope Francis in 2017, <strong>and the eve of the National Day of Secours catholique Caritas France<\/strong>, <strong>which calls on us to broaden the horizons of our hearts through a solidarity of welcome, listening, giving and prayer.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=&#8221;15452,15455,15458,15461,15464&#8243; posts_number=&#8221;20&#8243; show_title_and_caption=&#8221;off&#8221; show_pagination=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at the friendly Secours Catholique group in Flers &#8211; a French town in the Normandy region where I am involved &#8211; which decided to change its activity: instead of \u2018reupholstering furniture\u2019, it wanted to do theatre!\u00a0 It took us the whole year&#8230; The group is Eric, Alice, Anne Marie, J\u00e9r\u00e9my, Elie, Claude, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A look at the friendly Secours Catholique group in Flers <\/strong>- a French town in the Normandy region where I am involved<strong> - which decided to change its activity: instead of \u2018reupholstering furniture\u2019, it wanted to do theatre!\u00a0 It took us the whole year... <\/strong><\/h5><h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group is Eric, Alice, Anne Marie, J\u00e9r\u00e9my, Elie, Claude, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, Yannick, accompanied by Sylvie and myself, Danielle.\u00a0 We had to do a lot of listening to their lives, talking with them and reflecting ourselves... 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