BIBLE, LYON & ART
One scene in Dostoevsky’s work has remained famous: in the middle of his novel Crime and Punishment, two very unusual characters begin to read the Gospel of John. They are Sonia, a young girl who has become a prostitute against her will, and Raskolnikov, the murderer whose state of mind the author analyses. Together, they … Read more
Why do we men look so much at women’s faces? Is it in search of aesthetic emotion? The desire to love and, above all, to be loved? Nostalgia for that first face-to-face encounter with our mother that awakened us to joy? All of these things together, certainly, and much more… Similarly, when we stand before … Read more
The first page of the whole Scripture features the clarity of a crystal-clear spring: God creates the world with extreme simplicity, through his all-powerful Word that punctuates the six days of creation. Let us open the sacred text and contemplate how light appears as the very first work of the divine craftsman: In the beginning … Read more