2023-12-25 20:47:53
Lausanne Cathedral welcomed some 650 people on Sunday evening for an unusual Christmas service. Pastor Line Dépraz invited the author of detective novels Marc Voltenauer to a dialogue around light and darkness.
In front of the faithful, the pastor stressed that a world without grace was a world that we seek to make bearable as it is rather than focusing on transforming it. And to wonder why humans struggle so much to receive light, both in the time of the prophets and today.
Marc Voltenauer, who completed theology studies at the University of Geneva, before turning to banking, then writing crime fiction, took part for the first time in a service in Lausanne Cathedral. He echoed his hero Inspector Andreas Auer who regularly wonders how a person can end up taking the life of another human being.
One of the first thrillers
If his novels are very dark and do not lack hemoglobin, Marc Voltenauer recalled that the Bible could be quite bloody and that it was perhaps one of the first thrillers. And to mention the story of a murder in Genesis, that of Abel by his brother Cain.
For the writer, this first murder of humanity deals with the relationship with others and the difficulty in fully accepting them. “Cain invaded by the shadow cannot control himself. Jesus invites us to discover the dark side of each person, to tame it,” he continued. And to conclude that everyone can bring the light to life, be kind and overshadow no one.
Line Dépraz, for her part, underlined the porosity of the border between light and shadow. Life is not binary. It is not possible to always clearly distinguish the shadow of the day, the evil from the good, she noted. And to invite those present to light up the world by being stars on earth.
Leaving the dialect of Canaan
Line Dépraz has already welcomed several personalities during her worship services. Among them, the philosopher Alexandre Jollien, the politicians Philippe Leuba and Oscar Tosato and the poet and musician Stéphane Blok. For her, these exchanges allow us to move away from the “patois of Canaan” and shed a different light.
The pastor and Marc Voltenauer were already in touch: “I asked her for her help for the wedding ceremony of Inspector Auer and his companion Michael in my latest book ‘Cendres ardentes’. She has a way of speaking, a language of today,” the author described.
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