Nu mă refer numai la Dante. În Franţa, slujbaşii judecătoreşti şi chiar călugării din mănăstiri organizau adevărate spectacole, în care Maica Domnului, îngerii, sfinţii, Hristos şi până şi Dumnezeu apăreau pe scenă figurând printre personaje. La epoca respectivă, asemenea spectacole erau extrem de naive. În Notre Dame de Paris Victor Hugo arată cum în capitala…
The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God’s Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. For He broke it for us in a garden Under the olive-trees Where the angel of strength was the warden And the soul of the world found ease.…
Dostoevsky said that ‘beauty will save the world.’… When these words were spoken, Russia did not yet know what artistic treasures it possessed…. [Yet, our ancient] icon painters saw this beauty, by which the world will be saved, and immortalized it in paints.” (E. Trubetskoi, 1915; machine translation) If there is in Dostoevsky a…
{It is perhaps not necessary to elucidate everything about the Metropolitan’s much debated piece, „The Dogma of Redemption” [archived pdf], before appreciating some of his most practical points. On the same note, from two of his saintly followers, see here, here, and here. A rich assortment from the Metropolitan’s seminal writings on Dostoevsky is available…
Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series: Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V]) Nellie’s Story (from the novel The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI]) Marie’s Story (from…
Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series: Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V]) Nellie’s Story (from the novel The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI]) Marie’s Story (from…
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the Mother of Jesus was there…” ” Whenever a person gazes upon an object he receives in himself an image of that object. Those who gaze at the true God receive in themselves the properties of the divine nature. Those who…
Motto: „In the face of such icons as the Vladimir one, it is easiest to understand why the veneration of the Mother of God plays such an exceptional role in the history of Christianity… Mankind in the image of the Mother, grieving for the crucified Son, saw the most complete embodiment of that element of…
Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series: Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) An Honest Thief (from Stories of a Man of Experience, 1848 [suggested by the Introduction to the 1897 anthology, DPC V]) Nellie’s Story (from The Insulted and Injured, 1861 [1883, 1887, DPC VI]) Marie’s Story (from The Idiot,…
{From the fact that in real life certain people, at a certain stage of spiritual development, and presumably after a certain number of ascending steps taken on the Ladder of askesis and/or suffering, can embody the ‘all are guilty for all ethics’ profitably for themselves and others, it does not seem to follow that anyone,…
