January 2011
ayşe.: 1-Jan-65 →
The following poem was written by Joseph Brodsky while in internal exile in Norenskaia, in the Arkhangelsk region of northern Russia. In the Soviet Union, New Year’s celebrations came to be seen as a substitute for Christmas. This translation was found among his papers.
The kings will lose your old address. No star will flare up to impress. The ear may yield, under duress, to blizzards’...
December 2010
“We know from experience that there is an abstract way of speaking of the faith...”
– Julián Carrón, In the mystery of the incarnation man and history: The miracle we all await
“Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly...”
– G.K. Chesterton in New Jerusalem (via gkchestertonquote)
“Quindi, la libertà. Con quella punta acuta che è il perdono a sé, la capacità...”
– Luigi Giussani, Il miracolo dell’ospitalità
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the...”
– Albert Camus (via adrianomaini)
“Jesus announces his coming from the perspective of his Resurrection, his coming...”
– Seeing Jesus in the Gospel of John, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
“There is a new wonder in heaven and on earth: God is on earth and man is in...”
– St Thalassios the Libyan (via Eric von Mizener)
“If my children wake up on Christmas morning and have someone to thank for...”
– GK Chesterton (via quotationsblog)
“I joyfully proclaim the message of Christmas: God became man; he came to dwell...”
– Benedict XVI, today (via invicemsunt)
“Out of love for us he took upon himself our human condition, our fragility, our...”
– Pope Benedict XVI delivers “Thought for the Day” in Britain
“In the night of the world, let us still allow ourselves to be surprised and...”
– Benedict XVI, Joyful Expectation of Christmas
“La parola “misericordia” indica l’accoglienza come una...”
– Luigi Giussani, Il miracolo dell’ospitalità
Lines for Winter, Mark Strand
Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself— inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going. And you will be able for...
“Lower your heavens and come down”
– Ps 143
“Lower your heavens and come down”
– Ps 143
“The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be...”
– G.K. Chesterton in Generally Speaking (via gkchestertonquote) 