Lourdes - ルルド: 6/04-05

遠くに雪山を頂き、バスからの街並みも魅力的に見えたルルドだが、実際に入ってみると何とも言い難い混沌の存在を感じる。宗教に向かうエネルギーがある種の繁栄を支えて来た土地だ。総本山はどこもこういう風景なのだろうが、夥しい数の人達が集団で移動し、それを相手に数えきれない土産物屋、食堂、ホテルが並ぶ。そしてあまりに別世界的にモダンなインフォメーション・センターに少し驚く。21時半の夕べの祈りにも行ってみた。いつもながら賛美歌は心に響く。グロットは右の奥の方にあってルルドの泉の聖水もしっかり戴いて来た。蛇口からは我が家以上に勢いの良い水が出てきて、湧き水という感覚ではなかった。





With a view of snowy mountains far beyond and the appearance of houses from the bus, Lourdes looked like an attractive ville, but when I really stayed there, I felt some indescribable sense of chaos. This is the place where the energy toward religion generated some sort of prosperity. The perspectives in any religious headquarters might be more or less similar like this, but numerous people move in groups and dealing with them are souvenir shops, restaurants and hotels. The information office here was incomparably modern in the environment.
I went to see the evening prayer at 21:30 which was an international event, and the hymns were sort of touching as always. The Glotte was behind the church further on the right side, and I surely got a bottle of sacred fountain water of Loudes, but it flew out from the faucet rather powerfully, more so than that in my house, and it wasn't like from a fountain.