Sunday, November 25, 2007

Beauty will save the world

...and we all want to this to be true, but do we collaborate so that this will happen? If we want this great event to be realized, I think that all of us need to do their part. The world is not simply a “globe” within which there is a mass of agitated people. The world is each one of us with their own interior beauty, for this reason, young or old that we are, we need to dip into this beauty which has as a base love and spread it to everyone so that this joy can be celebrated with children, the sick, the poor, friends, relatives, neighbours and strangers...It is the Beauty of God and the splendor of the whole creation that will save the world. Mimma (translate by Diliana)

Thursday, November 15, 2007

REMEMBRANCE OF THE DECEASED

In the month of November we all feel motivated to go to the cemetery to honour our dead. Everybody goes, or almost, those that practice our faith and those that don’t. Huge plant pots filled with chrysanthemums and other flowers emerge from the white tomb stone. One has the impression that there is a competition for who puts the biggest plant of flowers... It true, that in the end the cemetery looks like a garden! Pity that only a week ago that same cemetery looked rather sad with those faded, scentless fake flowers! I imagine the souls of our dead watching the scene in silence and full of love in eternity, with their mysterious wisdom they fix their eyes filled with light in ours filled with tears. Mimma (translate by Diliana)

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

The Tenderness of God

Tenderness is one of the most beautiful emotions that anyone in the world could ever hope for. If you watch a child cry, a lamb bleat, a defenceless old man thet looks upon you with tenderness you can't help but be moved and can't help but fell the desire to caress, comfort and give, to make them feel, alive, your unconditional love? And if you do these things you can't help but feel repaid by a deep joy and peace never found before? Even though, being very imperfect people, we are able to give tenderness to others, how much more God is able to give each of us for having loved our neighbours like ourselves! Well, there are instants in life when you truely realize the tenderness of God upon you. If you are innocent like a child and Keep an intorior listening attitude, you will feel an endless tenderness deep in your heart which makes you say: Thankyou...Thankyou...And then you rejoice for this gift of love, for this state of grace that you hope will continue forever. Mimma (translate by Diliana)