Art – Literature – Music – Movies
Luigi Giussani’s book At the Origin of the Christian Claim will be presented Thursday evening May 3rd at 7:00 P.M. at the Newman Center- 1810 North Roosevelt – on the campus of Wichita State University . Discussing the book will be Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, a Franciscan brother and physician who is the Kilbride-Clinton Chair in […]
Daniel Sulmasy in Wichita May 3-4 … Read More »
Gods, my gods! How sad the evening earth! How mysterious the mists over the swamps! He who has wandered in these mists, he who has suffered much before death, he who has flown over this earth bearing on himself too heavy a burden, knows it. The weary man knows it. And without regret he leaves
giving ourselves into the hands of death … Read More »
Quality of life is the provoking theme launched by Medicine and the Person as the subject of a systematic review for this year. Science offers us adequate tools for understanding the biological side of a disease. Nevertheless, we need different methods to understand the sick person who relies on us. Looking at the sick
my glance meets the glance of the other … Read More »
See, we don’t love like flowers, in a single year: when we love, an ancient sap rises in our arms. O, girls, this: that we loved inside us, not one to come, but the immeasurable seething: not a single child, but the fathers: resting on our depths like the rubble of mountains: the dry river-beds
feelings welling up from lost lives … Read More »
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune—without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chilliest land, And on
hope … the thing with feathers … Read More »
Coulehan discusses hope, especially in the context of hospice and palliative care… “Studies of terminally ill patients have demonstrated clusters of personal and situational factors associated with enhancement or suppression of hope at the end of life. Enhancing factors included interpersonal connectedness, attainable goals, spiritual beliefs and practices, personal attributes of determination, courage, and serenity,
hope … a song without words … Read More »
Elegy I open the first door. It is a large sunlit room. A heavy car passes outside and makes the china quiver. I open door number two. Friends! You drank some darkness and became visible. Door number three. A narrow hotel room. View on an alley. One lamppost shines on the asphalt. Experience, its beautiful
drinking the darkness … Read More »
… not that God became a man … but that he became a baby. “We all know the strength of presence and love. At night in our homes, being alone makes us afraid. Having a loved one there ― any loved one ― gives us courage. In our families, being in the presence of love,
the great mystery of Christmas … Read More »
