Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Ruined Nylonstockings
The Sermon on the Mount is supremely the identity of man: man is poor in nature and must live as such, using things without turning them into idols that remain in slavery must orient their lives to the affirmation of justice, based on which can build a peaceful society. The fascination of the Beatitudes speech lies in the fact that everyone, regardless of its decisions, may find it a safe direction, a vision of human being, still far from widespread lifestyle appears to be the only real. Brother Arturo these pages guide the reader to search for a spirituality of the Beatitudes, founded on the identity of the person, which can be achieved through the relationships they have assumed responsibility. Justice, peace and poverty are concrete relations (political, economic, ...) through which every individual realizes his true identity.
Arturo Paoli, a priest since 1940 and would later become "Little Brother of Jesus", he moved in 1960 to Latin America. In 1983 he established in Brazil, where he lived for twenty years in Foz do Iguaçu (Paraná) and projects involving many human and social promotion for the poor in the slums. In 2005 he returned to Italy, where he continued his spiritual animator activity. Among his publications are: Finding freedom: poverty, chastity, obedience (2000), "Bread and Wine" Earth: from exile to the fellowship (1997); policy Reading Luke's Gospel and many others.
Content
The book has an introduction with eight chapters devoted to each of the Beatitudes to finish with a cast of literature that the author describes as "essential." Each chapter opens with a text by noted author (R. Maria Rilke, St. Francis of Assisi, David Maria Turoldo, Alda Marinid, Etty Hillesum, Marie Noel, Ernesto Balducci and Erri de Luca) and is summarized at the end of the reflection of a keyword (happiness, pain, hospitality, secularism, other-alterity, silence, responsibility and cost).
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