Christ is risen from the dead,trampling down death by death and on those in the tombs bestowing life!

I do not know if I will continue posting. There are many reasons for which I currently consider closing this site for good. Anyway, I thank you to all who ever read this blog, who encouraged and supported me. By the end of the Lent I will come, I think, to a final resolution.

Peace to all

Update 29 February 2008: I am humbled by your comments. Thank you to all for your kindness. This blog will remain on-line even if I won´t post here anymore.

Symbolic image of Christ: a pelican tearing his own flesh and feeding his babies with it. An old legend says that the bird does this  in order to save his young from starvation.

The only talking sequence from the movie Into Great Silence.

Update 14 February 2008:

The movie is about the life of the Carthusian monks in the monastery Le Grande Chartreuse, near Grenoble.

More from the movie:

More about the Carthusians…

Good news: Katyn was nominated for Oscar. This movie is more than a reminder of the Katyn tragedy, it is a movie made for: those moviegoers for whom it matters that we are a society, and not just an accidental crowd, as the director Andrezj Wajda put it.

From Catholic Church Conservation I got this link: Vocation Stations. Simply beautiful. Take a look.

On Fish Eaters site is beautifully explained how to pray the Seven Penitential Psalms during Lent. One can read also how to observe the Lent in a traditional way….

Peace

Communio from Mozart´s Requiem… Close your eyes. Listen. Remember the final destination of our journey.

From Per Christum. Please read and consider helping.

Some time ago, Ginny wrote this little piece.

My thanks to Pia who sent me via e-mail this most beautiful song, as a farewell to the Christmas season…

Moving toward silence.

The Vienna Boys Choir interpreting Gloria from Krönungsmesse by Mozart

The bread which you do not use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes that you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the money that you keep locked away is the money of the poor; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.

St. Basil

To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer life over death.
To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer peace over war.
To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer freedom over oppression.
To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer forgiveness over revenge.

To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer reconciliation over alienation.
To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer contrition over excuses.
To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer helping over hurting.

To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer humility over pride.
To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer vulnerability over power.
To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer weakness over strength.

To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer letting go over acquiring.
To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer mysticism over materialism.
To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer silence over noise.
To be a follower of Jesus
is to prefer prayer over idle chatter.

Gerry Straub

May you all have a blessed year, dear friends.

Merry Christmas to you all!

Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ has come uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, his place is with those others for whom there is no room. His place is with those who do not belong, who are rejected by power because they are regarded as weak, those who are discredited, who are denied the status of persons, tortured, exterminated. With those for whom there is no room, Christ is present in this world.

Thomas Merton

It is done. I got my PhD today. Thank you for your support and for your prayers, dear friends. Praise be to God.