#luigi giussani

“You are the living fountain of hope. Hope is the one station where the great train of eternity makes a brief stop. You are the living fountain of hope for, without hope, there is no chance for life.
“The person’s life is hope, it is hope that I invite your eyes to seek–your eyes that have been sharpened in these days by the many voices you have heard.
“O Lady, among mortals you are the living fountain of hope.
“The figure of Our Lady is truly the figure of hope, the certainty that in the pavilions of the universe (as medieval people would say) she is the spring of water that can be heard running day and night, night and day.”
~ Luigi Giussani. August, 2002, Rimini Italy. 
[At the Mother of God Oak, 1835 - Karl Bryullov] 

• Luigi Giovanni Giussani was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian, educator, public intellectual, Servant of God and founder of the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. For more:  https://english.clonline.org/fr-giussani 

• Bryullov saw beauty in the profusion of sensations in life, in the immediacy of human feelings, in simple everyday things. More: http://artroots.com/ra/bio/bryullov/bryullovbio.htm 

“When the heart rises to the insight that everything is gift,
when it makes this discovery, human beings no longer invent
themselves. They cease to pretend. They no longer need to
imagine what they might be. Finally they are. They acquire the
substantial solidity which is displayed before their eyes by the stars.”
~ Luigi Giussani
[Fayum Mummy portrait of a young woman, 3rd century, Louvre, Paris] 

• Luigi Giovanni Giussani was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian, educator, public intellectual, Servant of God and founder of the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. For more:  https://english.clonline.org/fr-giussani 

• The images seem to allow us to gaze directly into the ancient world. “The Fayum portraits have an almost disturbing lifelike quality and intensity,” says Euphrosyne Doxiadis, an artist who lives in Athens and Paris and is the author of The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. “The illusion, when standing in front of them, is that of coming face to face with someone one has to answer to—someone real.” More: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-oldest-modernist-paintings-20169750/