Free version. Who is begging whom in these Antiphons? You at the Bottom of everything that exists. All beings to you, at the Bottom of you
December 17: O Wisdom, you that order all things firmly and gently, come and show us the way of health!
I, too, wanted to escape from the world. You did not let me do it with your letters, your words in the streets, your helplessness. So, I propose to you, with the solemnity the words at the end of one´s life have, that we may embrace one another in a commitment: let’s go out to […]
It’s Advent again and the prophecies written by Isaiah a mere 2,700 years ago have a new feel about them. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more (Isa 2:4). There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear […]
Welcome, Advent,
herald of the Good News,
threshold of hope, matured in a long wait.
You open our eyes of the spirit
towards the eternity,
Since in what is already accomplished
you are the promise of accomplishment.
Take a smile
and give it to those who have never had one.
Take a ray of sun
and send it flying to the kingdom of darkness.
Look for a spring of water
and show it to those who only know how to roll in the mud.
Take a tear
and put it on the cheeks of those who have never cried.
This happened about thirty years ago on the banks of the Ganges in Benares. A woman whose age could just as easily have been thirty or fifty, because of the way TB had taken its toll on her, was holding her young son in her arms and beside her was her daughter, who was about […]
I am impressed by the advances in technology and the sciences that make it possible. It is an incredible collective success of sapiens, our species, to make life more comfortable and with less suffering. I would certainly not want to go back to the living conditions of just 200 years ago: no vaccines, antibiotics, anesthesia, […]
What can I do, oh Muslims, as I don’t recognise myself? I am not a Christian, a Jew, a Magian, or a Muslim. I am not from the East, nor from the West, nor from the land, nor from the sea. I am not from the nature, nor from the rotating skies. I am not […]
The princes Pandavas, dethroned by their opponents, were found in exile. The youngest of the brothers went to find water. He got to a crystalline lake, but when he approached and bent to drink, he listened to a voice that said to him: -Stop! You will only be able to drink water from this lake […]
On 22 October the Constitutional Court of Poland ruled that abortion on the grounds of foetal malformation was unconstitutional. I remember what happened; in 1993 and defying the Church, the State legalised abortion on four grounds: rape, incest, serious risk for the mother’s health and foetal malformation. It was a symptom of the new Poland, […]