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And breath became a Hallelujah
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And breath became a Hallelujah

The soul and the harp/ 31 - Adam guardian of the whole world finally gives voice to the Earth and the universe By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  01/11/2020 "My love, you who formed me in the image of the God who has no face, my Love who tenderly reassembled me after my ruin, my Love,...
Midwives of a different kind of joy
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Midwives of a different kind of joy

The soul and the harp/30 - True freedom is freeing oneself from misery, not from the «perfect joy» of poverty  By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 25/10/2020 "The righteous, in whom the Lord has created the desperate need for joy, will have joy" Sergio Quinzio, A commentary on the Bible (Un ...
With God's very own name
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With God's very own name

The soul and the harp/29 - There are prayers that are also civil songs, songs of work, of time and of bread By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  18/10/2020 "The prohibition of images was a capital precept that would fatally be violated. First of all by YHWH himself, who had shaped man "...
Greater than our heart
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Greater than our heart

Greater than our heart The soul and the harp/28 - From our inhabited intimacy we learn that the whole universe is inhabited by God By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  11/10/2020 "If there is an Other, whoever he is, wherever he is, and whatever his relations with me are, even if he doe...
And the song gave way to life again
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And the song gave way to life again

The soul and the harp/27 - We return from exile and leave our mourning behind us when we find our voice again. By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 04/10/2020 "However great the pain of a loss may be, the task of avoiding the most irreparable and decisive loss is immediately imposed on us: tha...
Like perfume and dew
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Like perfume and dew

The soul and the harp/26 - There is also a good form of wasting of time and things, for the sake great and true relationships By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  27/09/2020 "Maximum restoring and relief came to me from the comfort of my friends ... the talks, laughing together, the exc...
Gifts that we call merit
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Gifts that we call merit

The soul and the harp/25 - Wealth and talents serve to free those who have been at the receiving end of suffering and evil By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 20/09/2020 "They are the "children of youth" because those who were destined to die between the ages of twenty-five and thirty had to...
Not in the image of an idol
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Not in the image of an idol

The soul and the harp/24 – Rather than a simulacrum of God, each human being is a spark of his mystery By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  13/09/2020 The question how I came to such an archaic subject has not yet been answered. Various circumstances influenced it, interconnected throug...
The name of the Father is Bible
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The name of the Father is Bible

The soul and the harp/23 - Psalm 109 is the earth we need in order to rise from the depths of the waters into which we have fallen By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 06/09/2020 "But God understands. The desperate also have a right to pray. And I must make myself the voice of all creatures whe...
The civilization of the stork
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The civilization of the stork

The soul and the harp/22 - Like God, we too, at least once, can love those who do not deserve it by Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 30/08/2020 «Priests cannot accept gifts», said Don Paolo. The woman protested: «Then it will not apply», she said. «If you do not accept the hen, grace will not ap...
The fragile movements of faith
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The fragile movements of faith

The soul and the harp/21 - One cannot believe without valuing all of humanity, nothing and no one excluded by Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  23/08/2020 "The book of Psalms dominates all the others because it summarizes what the others contain and adds something of its own in its song...
Like an ephemeral butterfly
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Like an ephemeral butterfly

The soul and the harp/20 - The art of counting our days is an essential yet rare spiritual craft By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 9/08/2020 "Back in the day when God created all things, he created the sun. The sun is born, wanes, dies and returns. And he created the moon. The moon is born,...
The womb of the different seed
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The womb of the different seed

The soul and the harp/19 – In times of trial we come to say to the Father: "Be faithful, remember yourself" by Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 02/08/2020 "Only the word of man in response to the word of God, which in essence is a "no", attests to human freedom. This is why the freedom to say ...
Like sparrows and swallows
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Like sparrows and swallows

The soul and the harp/18 - The space of the prophet is profane and goes from the valley of tears to the threshold of the temple  By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 26/07/2020 "The dryness that springs up, the wall that breaks so that God appears without appearing is the wonderful lesson of ...