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“The deeper one is drawn into God, the more he needs to go out of himself — out into the world, that is, to carry the divine life into it.“ ~ Edith Stein  [Saint Francis of Assisi with the Sultan of Egypt, Centro Aletti (Marko Rupnik)] 

• Edith Stein (1891–1942) was a realist phenomenologist associated with the Göttingen school and later a Christian metaphysician. She was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in 1922 and was ordained a Carmelite nun in 1933. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stein/ 

• Marko Ivan Rupnik (Salloga d'Idria, November 28, 1954) is a Slovenian artist, theologian and presbyter, belonging to the Jesuits. Together with the Spiritual Art Atelier of the Aletti Center, of which he is director, he has created famous works all over the world... More: http://www.churches-of-rome.info/ArtistBios/RUPNIK.pdf 

Si conferma ancora una volta il classico detto che chi entra Papa in conclave esce cardinale. La rapidità dell’elezione, appena 4 scrutini, lasciava presagire che nuovo Papa fosse il cardinale Pietro Parolin, l’ex segretario di Stato grande favorito, spinto pure dai “doppi auguri” del cardinale Giovanbattista Re durante la Missa pro Eligendo Pontifice. E invece Parolin ne esce ancora…

Le polemiche riguardo alla presenza delle opere di padre Marko Rupnik, l’artista ed ex gesuita ora sotto processo in Vaticano per abusi sessuali ai danni di alcune religiose, continuano a infiammare il dibattito pubblico e si estendono anche ai media della Santa Sede. In particolare, le critiche si sono amplificate online, con un focus su un’opera di Rupnik ancora visibile su VaticanNews, il…

“Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late, and the day is coming to a close, and life passes, death, judgment, eternity approach. It is necessary to renew my strength, so that I will not stop along the way and for that, I need You. It is getting late and death approaches. I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the cross, the sorrows. O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile.”