A friend from the Balearic Islands writes to me: “Another great witness of light has left us: Mgr. Arturo Lona, the bishop of the poor. I still remember him wearing his jeans, his white T-shirt and his wooden crucifix hanging from his neck with a little rope tied to it. I met him in a […]
In the rising of the sun and in its going down, we remember them. In the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter, we remember them. In the opening of buds and in the rebirth of spring, we remember them. In the blueness of the sky and in the warmth of summer, […]
You will live life,slowly and with open eyes.You will live the life God gave youjust beside the worm, the owl, the moon… You will live life,just as it is, with realism,but immersed in the magic of dreams,with that melody that wishes to sing to youthe mystique of God’s smile. You will live life,with the illusion […]
I celebrate your life, Javier, now that you have gone, now that you have stayed never to go away, now that you have once again become fully one with the Source of Being, now that you LIVE. Sorrow weighs heavily upon us, of course, because the light of your eyes so full of clarity and […]
The fact that an 18-year-old man slit the throat of Samuel Paty, history teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in the outskirts of Paris, for showing his teenage students some caricatures of Mohammed is a failure for the human species, Homo sapiens. It is a failure for Europe and the entire so-called Western society and its civilization. More […]
I believe in God-Silence, mysterious Presence…in you, in me, in us, in the immensity.It is only omnipotent in Love.It is the Love, it is the Life, and it is the Breath…I know Jesus of Nazareth,our light waiting for the day…He was born in Galilee from a very young woman.He rose to purge his religion from […]
A few months ago, the French Government announced that, until at least 2037, it will not make a decision about extending the Paris-Hendaya High Speed line from Bordeaux (where it currently ends) to Hendaya. It is not clear –it has never been very clear- when it will ever make it to Hendaya, or even if […]
“I invite you to abide and dwell in ‘That’, which precedes your judgement and words as it beats in the thudding of your deepest artery: in that breath behind all words and language; I invite you to bend down and open yourself up to listening where the song of light can be heard, to peer […]
Over dinner a few days ago Malen treated us to the reading of one of those remarks that she loves so much: “Aliens exist. The proof is that they don’t show up.” We laughed and then I pointed out: “Of course there are aliens and the best thing for them would be not to show […]
October 4, Saint Francis of Assisi: founder of the Franciscan family, Patron Saint of ecology, inspiration to thousands, claimed by people of all faiths as well as by those with no particular faith. Though born in the 12th century, he belongs to all ages He wrote these “Praises to God” or to Life, to the […]