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culture and tradition: the festivals of the Academia Christiana

Our old, joyless world has lost the authentic meaning of celebration.

Academia Christiana aims to rediscover French and European culture and traditions through the organization of popular festivals:

Traditional dances, regional languages, costumes, drinks, gastronomy...

"Tradition is a matter of choice: pass it on, ensure its succession and keep the heritage alive, or let it disappear in the face of nihilism. If there is no more tradition, we renounce what we are and we leave the field open to all the excesses that the world generates on a daily basis."

Armand Berger

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the meaning of celebration

Just as the collapse of the sacred has caused the disappearance of the profane, contemporary society constantly cultivates a substitute for celebration.

Since May 1968, the dominant commercial culture has plunged our daily lives into a general lack of differentiation that affects all areas of life. The city becomes a playground, children and adults merge, and everyone is a rebel.

By rejecting the Apollonian domain, that is to say that of seriousness, of form, of rigor, by wanting to make every day a celebration, we have lost the true meaning of our traditional celebrations.

Traditional festivals play a central role in culture and societies. They bring individuals together by making them commune in a set of symbols that transcend the group. They extend the liturgy, are anchored in the astral cycle, and punctuate human life by imposing a time of leisure (scholè - free time) as opposed to that of servile labor. Authentic celebration is not a disorderly agitation; it is a time when the body escapes from work to allow the mind to contemplate.

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