"Salvi" (Hope)

"Salvi" (Hope)
Loz. 2008. Acrylic on canvas. Original size 150 x 60 cm

"Dominus Flevit" (The Lord Wept)

"Dominus Flevit" (The Lord Wept)
Loz. 2008. Acrylic on canvas. Original size 70 x 50 cm

Dominus Flevit

Luke 19:41-44

As He drew near and came in sight of [Jerusalem], He shed tears over it and said,

“If you too had only recognized on this day the way to peace! But in fact it is hidden from your eyes! Yes, a time is coming when your enemies will raise fortifications all round you, when they will encircle you and hem you in on every side; they will dash you and the children inside your walls to the ground; they will leave not one stone standing on another within you, because you did not recognize the moment of your visitation.”


Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Song of the Brightness of Water

Poem by Karol Wojtyla (now Pope John Paul II), on the Samaritan woman's reflections after her encounter with Jesus at the well (John 4)

Song of the Brightness of Water
Karol Wojtyla (1950)

From this depth-I came only to draw water
in a jug-so long ago, this brightness
still clings to my eyes-the perception I found,
and so much empty space, my own
reflected in the well.

Yet it is good. I can never take all of you
into me. Stay then as a mirror in the well.
Leaves and flowers remain, and each astonished gaze
brings them down
to my eyes transfixed more by light
Than by sorrow.

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