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Jesus and the Paraclete
Jesus is the Savior for us, it is He who makes us pass out of the state of a sinner to the one of a child of God. But it remains for us to pass from the state of one redeemed to the one of the elect, of the friend. And if Jesus sends the Paraclete to...
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What is love?
If one wants to go beyond this ambiguity of self-love, it is necessary to consider attentively what love is what “self” is. How can the “self” be a real good, capable of determining an authentic love? We thus soon find ourselves in the midst of immense...
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The Regard of Mary on today's Church
When we look at what is happening in the world today, not only do we see the difficulty that this world has to find a real equilibrium (it can be asked in what measure is it would be possible to do it), but one is impressed to see how these tensions augment...
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The Struggle between Arabs and Israel
Coming back from Jerusalem (I was still there this morning) where I was preaching a series of retreats to contemplative sisters, I am still spell bound by what I saw there. Only 50 kilometers from Jerusalem people are massacring one another. The Arabs...
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The Terrible Anguish That Words Cannot Describe
The terrible anguish that words cannot describe of the man who passes into death and does not know where he is destined to go (he cannot tell whether God will receive him or whether He will decide to bury him in Hell): this is the sort of pain that racks...
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Is self love or friendship most important in my life?
The ancient philosophers understood very well this ambiguity of self-love. Aristotle posed the question to himself: should a person “put self-love or love for someone above all else?” And with regard to this, he recalled the criticisms that people spontaneously...
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Is self love for me?
Self-love is undoubtedly one of the most difficult matters to explicate as well as one of the most important to consider in reflecting upon encounters with other persons. Does not self-love seem to exist as something confused, as inexpressible? Is it...
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Ecstasy and the Wound of Love
As for the intentionality of love, it is no longer a “having,” but a “tendency toward,” a going beyond what we are to orientate us toward the good loved. In this sense, one can say that this intentionality which presupposes that of knowledge, bears within...
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Weary with trying so long
Weary with trying so long, I am carrying on living so determinedly that my soul is sorrowful even unto death. Condemned, I commend my life into your hands. O pity that I richly deserve! Why have you forsaken me? The prophecy given by my evil luck will...
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Solzhenitsyn on Literature and National Identity
Literature transmits condensed and irrefutable human experience in still another priceless way: from generation to generation. It thus becomes the living memory of a nation. What has faded into history it thus keeps warm and preserves in a form that defies...
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The Tears of Caravaggio
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Pope Francis: the door of the Lord is always open
He was close to them and gave hope, He approached with tenderness. But we think of the tenderness He had with the Apostles, with Mary Magdalene, with those of Emmaus. He approached with tenderness: “Give me something to eat.” With Thomas: “Put your finger...
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Published from Overblog
He blew harmonica and he was pretty good with that, but he wanted to play guitar. -Son House on Robert Johnson In November, it's hard to know a cherry tree is a cherry tree. If it has any leaves ... He blew harmonica and he was pretty good with that,...
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Pope Francis: hunger is a scandal
The Pope was addressing the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Audience. His appeal followed his weekly catechesis which was based on the Creed. He reminded those present that we will be held accountable before God for the good we have done...
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Pope Francis: Be silent, so we can hear the tenderness of God
Pope Francis referred to Elijah’s encounter with God, when the Lord came to him as “a sweet breeze” (cf. 1 Kings 19,11ff), or, as it says in the original text, “a sound of silence”. That is how the Lord draws near, with that resonance of silence that...
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Pope Francis celebrates mass with 4 homeless men on his 77th birthday
“God,” the Pope continued, “has always walked alongside his people,” beginning with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He did not want to come to redeem us without coming to live among us and share our lives. The Pope said this long list of God’s people included...
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Pope Francis: Humility necessary for fruitfulness
“Humility is necessary for fruitfulness. How many people imagine they are just, like Michal, but who are really [sorry souls (poveracce)]. The humility to say to the Lord: ‘Lord, I am sterile, I am a desert’ and to repeat in these days this beautiful...
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Pope: silence guards one's relationship with God
“Each of us,” affirmed the Pope, “knows how mysteriously the Lord works in our hearts, in our souls.” And what is “the cloud, the power, the way the Holy Spirit covers our mystery?” “This cloud in us, in our lives is called silence: the silence is exactly...
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Pope approves miracle attributed to American nun
Pope Francis has approved the attribution a miraculous healing to the intercession of a young American nun, opening the way to her beatification. Born and raised in New Jersey, Miriam Teresa Demjanovich (1901-1927) entered the Sisters of Charity of Saint...
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A la recherche de la Sagesse
De tout temps la recherche d'une sagesse de vie a été chose difficile et rare; parce que l'homme, en raison même de sa complexité et de sa richesse, risque toujours de se distraire, de se laisser prendre par les problèmes immédiats et d'oublier l'essentiel,...
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Arte y Autenticidad/Art and Authenticity
"Lo que pasó en la época no lo sabemos. Es imposible. Lo que es importante es la autenticidad. Que lo que hagamos sea vivido. Que sea fruto de una mezcla entre el conocimiento y la emoción" Jordi Savall "What has taken place in an epoch is something that...
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L'Apocalypse
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Love of Self
To love in ourselves what is most profound in our spirit is therefore necessarily to love what God Himself loves in us, since He created us by love. It is therefore a way for us to draw closer to Him. Moreover, God in Himself is He who is "Thought of...
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Victory of Faith
“Faith makes all things possible,” but we must place our trust completely in God. This was the central focus of Pope Francis’ remarks following the readings of the day at Mass on Friday morning in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican. Pope...
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El Sacrificio Andrei Tarkovsky
