zaterdag 29 maart 2008

Low - You may need a murderer


In het Uur van de de Wolf was afgelopen week de documentaire Low - You may need a murderer te zien. Daarin werpt Alan Sparhawk veel terechte vragen op en geeft in woord en zang ook een aantal waarheidsgetrouwe antwoorden. Over het gezin, God, geweld en deze wereld.

Bekijk de uitzending:



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donderdag 13 maart 2008

Tien geboden op Arte

De alom gewaardeerde filmserie Dekalog van Krzysztof Kieslowski is van zaterdag tot donderdagnacht te zien op Arte. Richard Corliss (Time) over Decalogue:
In the last really rich decade for movies (sorry, 90s), the three great cinematic monuments — Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Singing Detective and this one — were all made for television. Kieslowski's series, which he wrote with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, is the TV-iest of the trio: ten little dramas, each about 55 mins. long, each finding a contemporary metaphor for one of the Commandments. Its characters, all of whom live in a drab Warsaw apartment block, must cope with infidelity, cupidity, murder, abortion, the loss of a child. You needn't adhere to any religious creed (I don't know that the filmmakers had one) to be moved and exalted by these stories, to have your faith in the power of movies reaffirmed or restored. Viewers who haven't 10 hours to devote to Decalogue may get the most pleasure from episodes 1, 5, 6 and 7. But that's like going to Mass just for Communion.


Alvast een voorproefje.


Het uitzendschema:
- Gij zult geen afgoden vereren, maar Mij alleen aanbidden en boven alles beminnen op zaterdag 15 maart om 22.35 uur;
- Gij zult de Naam van de Heer, uw God, niet zonder eerbied gebruiken op zaterdag 15 maart om 23.30 uur;
- Wees gedachtig, dat gij de dag des Heren heiligt van zondag op maandag om 00.15 uur;
- Eer uw vader en uw moeder van zondag op maandag om 01.15 uur;
- Gij zult niet doden van maandag op dinsdag om 00.05 uur;
- Gij zult geen onkuisheid doen van dinsdag op woensdag om 00.55 uur;
- Gij zult niet stelen woensdag 19 maart om 22.45 uur;
- Gij zult tegen uw naaste niet vals getuigen woensdag 19 maart om 23.40 uur;
- Gij zult geen onkuisheid begeren donderdag 20 maart om 23.55 uur;
- Gij zult niet onrechtvaardig begeren, wat uw naaste toebehoort van donderdag op vrijdag om 00.50 uur.

donderdag 6 maart 2008

Lourdes and the Modern World


George Weigel bespreekt Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age,
Professor Harris' scholarship is impeccable, but it's neither detached nor dessicated. As few secular academics do, she went to Lourdes as a volunteer aide to the sick and found herself caught up in a web of human solidarity, open-mindedness and "spiritual generosity" (as she puts it in a fine phrase).

That experience, coupled with the discovery that modern medicine had no diagnosis (let alone a cure) for a condition then plaguing her, led Ruth Harris to question the modern mythology of scientific progress, according to which phenomena like Lourdes are mindless and reactionary. Breaking with the chief unexamined assumption of secular modernity -- that humanity, tutored by the scientific method, will outgrow its "need" for religion -- Professor Harris found her scholar's interest piqued by aspects of the story of Lourdes that skeptics typically miss.

en Lourdes: Font of Faith, Hope, and Charity,
Elizabeth Ficocelli tells the story of the shrine of Lourdes through the prism of the three theological virtues. Her description of Bernadette -- whom the Church recognizes as a saint, "not because she saw visions, but because of her heroic virtue in responding to God's mysterious call" -- is a powerful reminder that sanctity is for everyone, and that the extraordinary enters the ordinary in order to call us to our true vocations. Genuine conversion, not spectacle, is what visions are for.

Lees het volledige artikel.