2023-05-05 17:32:33
If you don’t have much time, say so. pape this Friday on his Twitter account, ““a wise spiritual practice can help (you), the one called ejaculatory”. If you have a lot of them, you can go and read on the social network the very many amused reactions to the pontiff’s tweet.
The jaculatories, from the Latin “jaculor” which means to dart, to throw an arrow, are short and fervent prayers, according to the Le Robert dictionary. They share with ejaculation a Latin root and a sound proximity which probably explains why they are no longer really used. The English language speaks of “aspirations”.
“The ejaculatories, it gives average in French language, I do not hide it from you”, reacted on Twitter a user. Some Internet users suspected a hacking of the Pontifex account while others believed they saw a bad translation.
“The substance is good”
Requested by theAFPa source at Vatican indicates that the account Twitter of the pope is managed by the Dicastery (equivalent to a ministry for the Holy See) for communication. “The French is a simple translation” of the original Italian tweet, the source said. In October 2022, during a Sunday prayer for the Angelus, Francis had already mentioned these forms of meditation, in Italian.
The official French translation evoked “a scholarly spiritual practice, which we have somewhat forgotten today, which our elders, especially grandmothers, know well: the one called ejaculatory”. “The name is a little outdated, but the substance is good,” added the text. Even more than ejaculatory, it was the dictionary that the tweet ultimately promoted.
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