English term (edited): a table set that even christ might find delight in serving, crying out (etc.)

le sens est que cette scène (une table bien joliment mise ... de couvert? de fleurs? de mets?, d'eucharistie? n'importe) plaira tellement au Christ qu'il fera service avec grande joie à tous ceux qui sont autour, en hurlant de joie ou en étouffant son cri pour que la Mère Sacre Coeur s'y mette la tête . .

... ou servirait avec plaisir

"starved or starving souls crying out or smothering the cry for one mother heart to lay their head upon while just beyond, there is a table set that Christ might find delight in serving"; voilà un peu comment je comprends la phrase.

hope it helps

While I can't really vouch for my suggesion in tems of the FR, I feel sure this is what it means.

The 'table set' is nothing to do with how the table is decorated; it means 'the group of people sitting at the table', and is a clear reference to the last Supper.

The writer is contrasting the "starved and starving souls, crying out..." with the happy people sitting round the table waiting to be served a super meal by the Lord himself (who reputedly was not quite so happy about serving the apostles at the Last Supper, since he at least knew what the outcome was going to be).

F-X has of course correctly pointed out that the subject of the verb 'crying' and what follows is of course the 'starved and starving souls'.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-09-01 07:57:27 GMT)
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To me, the key clue is that it is a "table set that Christ would delight in serving" — now if it meant 'a table, nicely laid with clean linen and pretty flowers', then one would be unlikely to say that someone would 'serve' it — we might 'serve in / on / at' a table, but saying 'serve' like this with no preposition seems to me a clear indication that this is a different meaning of 'set', i.e. the set of people around the table (cf. for example 'the jet-set') — if it is referring to people (like the 'set' of apostles), then of course the verb 'serve' would be used with out a preposition.

Note, however, the modern US usage of 'to wait table' — but I get the impression that this is not modern language, and possibly not US either, and I am not familiar with 'to serve table' used in the same way.



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Note added at 6 hrs (2009-09-01 12:23:57 GMT)
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Well, that's quite surprising, since it is one of the most prominent examples in the Bible of Christ serving a meal to others.