18 - 012 A time to remember

and here we are again, a time given to us, a "present" to remember!
To remember who we are,
where we come from,
the gifted we've received.
it is only by remembering who we are and where we come from that we can understand where we have to go.

A Time of deep Silence
waiting for LIFE to win death.

In Italy we are used to give up something for lent. It's a well established tradition, within my family, that we give up chocolate (we're all chocoholic!!). But this year, beside what we all do in secret and within my fraternity here in the monastery, I give up internet, but not email (I need email for work).  Forty days out of the net, forty days the net out of my life!

See you all after Easter Sunday, I wish you all the best

Enjoy life and remember to remember!!
Shalom
br.Freddy

17 - 012 Visual recepy

Last Saturday we had 21 monks in our monastery and I had to cook for everyone... beside what my sisters might think, I cooked the most fantastic:

PASTA AL FORNO

SOOOOOOOO

TASTY!!!!

16 - 012 when the green turns to white

I truly simply love it!

15 - 012 Friars at work

I keep loving snow!!!

A work worth the fatigue, 

the joy of working together,

the chance to throw snow balls

to anyone who would never ever

play "snow-ball fight"!

14 - 012 Let it snow let it snow let it snow...

In Italy people kept complaining that this winter was not winter at all... Someone has listened to us and here we go...

I LOVE SNOW!

snow ball fight to come... hope so

13 - 012 Take your time, time...

I found this video some time ago and I did like it! It's very well done and interesting too. It's about this wonderful planet that hosts us all. A planet that keeps giving us so much, but for how long? Shall we not think about our future generations?


There's a balance we've lost!


The video lasts about one hour and a half, but it is worth watching it!

HOME in English

Home in Italian

12 - 012 We need to change our eyes

Most of the things we look at, are really as we see them? Do we have any power to go beyond appearance?

Some of us do not even question themselves about this matter, others learn it and others seem to have this natural/divine capacity.

The video linked below, might seem to be about deformity, about handicaps, and it shows an astonishing and disgraceful race of cynical people who kill anyone who does not fit into their own parameters.

I think to the Gospel (Mk 6, 1-6) where we find Jesus who cannot do many miracles in Nazareth, his own home town. He couldn’t do much because people did not (or could not?) believe him. He was the son of the carpenter, the son of Mary, He was one of them, how could he possibly do anything special? He did not fit into their scheme of how a person should be, has to be! He did not fit into their strict mind; but we know He did fit into this wonderful world of ours. A gift from Him, where He does love anything normal and anything special; in fact He knows that variety (difference) brings us richness and, most of the time, only special people bring us unexpected gifts; they are able to open our eyes and believe in all the good that surrounds us, in all the good that, too much often, is hidden within ourselves.

It is the difference that makes the difference.

And this is why, the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference is not only ignoring someone else, but ignoring their hidden beauty, and their love.

Shalom

God bless you

br. Freddy

11 - 012 The same procedure as every year...

I remember I saw this video many years ago, I think I wasn't even 10 y.o., but I remember I laughed a lot just watching it and without understanding a single word, I could not speak English at that time.

Anyway, enjoy it and have a nice life.

10 - 012 It all started from here...

9 - 012 A short pilgrimage by night

I usually wake up early and, after a necessary Italian coffee, I go to the little chapple. Today I changed. I woke up even earlier and walked toward Assisi, like a short pilgrimage.