Jesus loved John. Both men, grew as a Person, the same Person, dually unique.
Next year in Jerusalem.
Clear with heart clearness
Dampen with hope
The lips of the wayfarer.
Father, purify me. Make my will more and more straight.
Oh Sky
Infinite flower of light
You hold me
and Gaia laughs with incense
He went over the meaning of the moonlighting in that moonless night, in the darkness of his bedroom. His heart adored the Father of the fathers, mainly the Mother of the mothers, the Lady of he ladies, the Virgin of the virgins, the Poetry and the Life, who had bent over the Carthusian to kiss him with the moon.
The physical Lenten fast makes sense as a Christian fast only by taking part emotionally in Jesus fast in the desert and mainly in Jesus fast at the Last Supper near the Cross, most of all on the Cross.
But the real fast is looking at Jesus on the Cross and sinking into His heart.
Love is fast of oneself, hunger and thirst of the Other.
Jesus has espoused, self-violently, his Father’s plan about Him: the cross, followed by the resurrection, as a medium of the highest “media” communication and exhibition of Love. “Everybody” would have looked at the Snake trembling with love and pain, draining their own selfishness and indifference.
Two people, one only Person. Jesus loved John.
Erri De Luca. I wrote and showed that Neapolitan language has in the verb «go» the fastest one in the world: i’. «T’ n’ ia i’», You have to go: it is clear that Italian language spins out. And I like the fact that it uses the verb “tenere” instead of “avere”. “Avere” (have got) is a presumptuous verb, it claims a possession granted by the law. “Tenere” (have) is different: one has, but it is not certain. The Neapolitan person stands under a violent volcano and on a seismic land: they know the idea of precariousness. Tenere is definitely better than avere.
Cesare Segre. Dialects, you know, are born by the medieval fragmentation and the evolution of Latin… from the 1300 to the 1500, the Tuscan dialect, thanks to the Dante and Petrarca, established on the others, becoming, with Bembo and Ariosto, a national language three centuries before Italy exists as a Nation.
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