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d another latin stanza the most popular english translation o come all ye faithful is that by frederick oakeley a church of england priest who subsequently followed john h newman in converting to roman catholicism giotto la natività the birth of christ assisi lower basilica yet apart from the above mentioned historical and philological aspects of the whole subject let s not forget the main issue here i mean there s only one thing missing we should ask ourselves and try to figure out a good answer why adeste fideles is one of the most beloved christmas hymns ever it invites all the faithful to come to bethlehem to worship the new born saviour and that s a great thing in itself the greatest thing in the world but there are a lot of hymns and christmas songs that express the same concept so why this and not one of the others well the answer is up to each of us perhaps in my humblest opinion this one is not as amazing as silent night nor as moving and yet it is somehow unique it has something old if not ancestral something eternal it is as if we were transported back in time to 2000 years ago as if we were surrounded by shepherds and we could see the star of bethlehem it s timeless that s more than enough for me adeste fideles for ever and ever posted by s r piccoli a 10 53 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette history music religion r i p václav havel candles illuminate a portrait of former czech president vaclav havel prague december 19 2011 afp photo str the strange coincidence of december 18 will be remembered for a long time the deaths of both kim jong il north korea s totalitarian dear leader and václav havel the czech dissident playwright who stood firm against communism and led his people to freedom in 1989 and turned president in other words and in brief respectively the bad and the good of course with all due respect for our sister bodily death as st francis of assisi called it we mourn the latter not the former here is a video showing how how czechs bid goodbye to havel the clip ends on a humorous note with an excerpt from a film directed by havel himself in which he emerges from below the surface of a pond wearing a suit and tie to say thank you for turning off your cellphones truth and love must win over lies and hatred you can now turn your cellphones back on soon after with both arms extended in a wave he descends back into the pond via nyt but as not many may know havel was also a thoughtful observer of western democracies in a series of speeches given in the 1990s he saw similar absolutist trends in government structures that strive toward uniformity and ultimate solutions an analysis that if truth be told seems even more relevant today read this piece in the atlantic to dig deeper into this here is an excerpt western governments he said are organized on a flawed premise not far removed from the soviet system that had just collapsed the modern era has been dominated by the culminating belief he said that the world is a wholly knowable system governed by finite number of universal laws that man can grasp and rationally direct objectively describing explaining and controlling everything these bureaucratic structures are profoundly dehumanizing havel believed striving to control choices that should be left to human judgment and values this era of systems institutions mechanisms and statistical averages is doomed to failure because there is too much to know and it cannot be fully grasped the drive towards standardization is fatally flawed havel believed life is nonstandard posted by s r piccoli a 12 09 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette europa december 20 2011 theologians of the 20th century what the credo proclaims from the ecumenical councils of nicaea and chalcedon on that the only begotten son of god became man without ceasing to be god is also what is most contested or obfuscated or forgotten today inside and outside of the church which 20 th century theologians have given the most brilliant responses to this crucial problem they are oscar cullmann wolfhart pannenberg and ioannis zizioulas the first two are protestant the third orthodox and yet they are among the closest to the vision of benedict xvi this is what you will learn by reading a book which has been published this year in italy la teologia del novecento the author is a protestant theologian the waldensian fulvio ferrario which is striking not only for the rare clarity and richness of its exposition and its narrative efficacy but also for the prominence given to some great theologians who are among non catholics precisely those closest to the vision and sensibility of the current pope himself a theologian go to sandro magister s website to read a brief but comprehensive introduction to the book the many false theologians who are crowding the stage today to humanize jesus instead of preaching him as true god and true man says magister have been served posted by s r piccoli a 4 51 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette books philosophy religion december 19 2011 the versatile blogger award as a nobel prize winner recently said prizes are always a nice thing it doesn t change the research per se of course but it s lovely to have the recognition well er mutatis mutandis this could apply to me too in fact last thursday a talented young lady from india a country i deeply love and which has always inspired me was kind enough to nominate me for the versatile blogger award of course it s an honor for which i am truly grateful but mostly i like the idea that this recognition comes from a young blogger from the other side of the world it just shows how small this world has become yet as the old saying goes there is no rose without a thorn that is in this case since life is full of rules and regulations and the versatile blogger award is no exception there is no prize without rules and since i wouldn t disappoint my kind and generous friend for anything in the world i ll take upon myself the burden of the rules even though only in part as i will explain later which are the following thank the award giver and link back to them in your post share 7 things about yourself pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs you enjoy reading contact your chosen bloggers to let them know about the award now since i already thanked my friend and since the rule number 4 is my own business only the rules number 2 and 3 are left 7 things about myself the first thing i think of when i wake up is listening to radio and tv news reports my favorite smell is that of bread baking which as i once heard like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight a reminder of my childhood and in my humble opinion one of the greatest aromas on earth my favorite place to relax is along the seaside watching sea gulls and listening to the sound of waves washing up the shore the animal i would most like to be is a seagull i like the way seagulls fly as much as i love some of their typical habitats such as for instance the cliff of moher in ireland and the côte sauvage in brittany moreover i love the sea any time in any season in any latitude as every seagull is supposed to do i have always been a strong believer in the power of words they can build up and just as quickly tear down how we speak says libraries about who we are and what we believe my most beloved movie is howard hawks 1959 rio bravo with john wayne and dean martin the last thing i do before falling asleep is read at least a page of the bible passing this along to other bloggers this is the most difficult part of the task you know how to make a choice between dozens of bloggers i am dealing with everyday how to avoid hurting someone s feelings or annoying someone else because bloggers sometimes are such touchy and or lazy people that s why i decided to limit the range to just two categories of bloggers the most frequent commentators and contributors on wrh and some recently discovered bloggers i like very much but they unfortunately or fortunately it depends on the point of view are not 15 but only 6 here they are diana stevan someday somewhere the metaphysical peregrine viewfinder kitty s pitara news from italy posted by s r piccoli a 8 27 pm 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette bloggers december 17 2011 r i p christopher hitchens christopher hitchens died thursday night at 62 journalist essayist and one of england s most celebrated yet controversial polemicists he waged countless battles on behalf of causes left and right the following excerpt from the full interview with him by richard dawkins in the new statesman that was trailed a few days ago is perhaps the most effective portrait of him it is not yet online and i m quoting from norman geras blog and yes along with norm and many others i will miss him i have one consistency which is being against the totalitarian on the left and on the right the totalitarian to me is the enemy the one that s absolute the one that wants control over the inside of your head not just your actions and your taxes and the origins of that are theocratic obviously the beginning of that is the idea that there is a supreme leader or infallible pope or a chief rabbi or whatever who can ventriloquise the divine and tell us what to do that has secular forms with gurus and dictators of course but it s essentially the same there have been some thinkers orwell is pre eminent who understood that unfortunately there is innate in humans a strong tendency to worship to become abject so we re not just fighting the dictators we re criticising our fellow humans for trying to short cut to make their lives simpler by surrendering and saying if you offer me bliss of course i m going to give up some of my mental freedom for that we say it s a false bargain you ll get nothing you re a fool posted by s r piccoli a 2 54 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette uk politics us politics world december 15 2011 these emotional germans friedrich overbeck italy and germany neue pinakothek münchen i must admit it germany has been for years one of my favorite countries i was a student in philosophy many moons ago and everybody know how much germans have given to the history of philosophy and i had to learn some german in addition later on i changed my mind i mean not that i loved germany less but that i loved other countries more in other words i opted so to speak for different priorities or more banally i felt a little guilt or shame for having been such a huge lover of richard wagner may god and giuseppe verdi forgive me for having sown my wild oats after all as a wise lady once said youth is a disease from which we all recover dorothy fuldheim be it as it may i still can t say anything bad about germany and germans and certainly not more than what they could do themselves and to avoid any misunderstandings as for today my favorite composer is by far j s bach and i have a great veneration for german poet friedrich hölderlin philosopher martin heidegger and novelist thomas mann to mention just a few however all of the above was just to introduce an article in yesterday s ft reg required and corriere della sera by italian columnist beppe severgnini about how to deal with these emotional germans in a time of eurozone crisis i don t know whether he is right or wrong to be honest i rarely agree with him but in this case i must admit his arguments make sense to corroborate his thesis severgnini quotes what former italian ambassador sergio romano wrote in a recent leader in corriere della sera nothing protects the german people from its recurrent romantic angst more than the feeling to accomplish a meticulously conceived and prepared project but when things do not go as planned germany becomes restless and nervous almost neurotic sounds appropriate doesn t it at any rate as french philosopher paul ricoeur might have said all that gives us to think posted by s r piccoli a 11 59 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette economy europa italy s politics december 14 2011 frances chesterton a photo album collection frances chesterton 1869 1938 was married for 35 years to g k chesterton here is a picture album tribute to her by the american chesterton society the soundtrack of this video is how far is it to bethlehem a christmas song whose lyrics were written by frances chesterton herself the music is based on a 16th 18th century tune called stowey h t società chestertoniana italiana posted by s r piccoli a 10 51 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette philosophy religion december 13 2011 if the god particle actually exists image maximilien brice cern just a quick note for those of my readers who like me are weak in science physics in this case but willing to learn and to be taught european physicists at the cern announced a few hours ago that they have found evidence that the higgs boson aka the god particle actually exists they have stopped short of claiming discovery but in a press conference they said they may have finally glimpsed the elusive elemental particle critical to our understanding of how the universe works here is a video by the telegraph in which cern director general rolf dieter heuer and cern physicists fabiola gianotti and guido tornelli explain what they have found but what does the expression higgs boson named after physicist peter higgs exactly mean and what does this announcement mean for technology to the first question the answer is according to scientific american s kelly oakes the higgs boson is the smallest part of the higgs field which physicists believe gives all matter the property of mass translated and oversimplified that means that nothing would have weight without the higgs field for academics finding the particle would complete a puzzle about the universe that s been bugging them for decades to the second question the answer is honestly very little said university of maryland physics department chairman drew baden it is merely a look see as to where the experiments are in looking for new particles not seen since the first trillionth of a second after the big bang he said but baden said that the technology that cern developed for its research has spun off other valuable advances much of the progress in accelerators comes out of this kind of basic research he said in an e mail pointing to technology used in food radiation and cancer therapy people are now working on laser powered accelerators he said and future applications of that work could create sci fi like particle beams however and to be fair with reference to the expression god particle there 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