Posted on 03/31/2005 3:17:19 PM PST by IchBinEinBerliner20
Given the sudden deterioration of the Pope's Condition, I thought a thread of this nature might be appropriate. I read in one of the articles that the POPE HIMSELF is disappointed at his slow recovery, not because of desires relating to self-preservation but because of his scheduled duties and tasks. I find that truly aspiring. Here's to you Karol Jozef Wojtyla !
At a United Nations Function.
Kissing the Ground in a Foreign Land
Unmarred compassion with his would-be assassin
Weekly Address in St. Peter's Square
With Princess Diana
In Prayer (Very powerful I think)
Brief Respit
From Cover to Cover
The Papal Wall
Two symbols of peace
Communal blessings
Man of the Century I think!
Recent visit with the Bushes
Visit with Rosa Parks and others
Blessings
Admiring God's beautiful work!
Exercising his beautiful mind
Nice pics, but you might want to change the title. :-)
Teary day bump. V's wife.
On "The Tonight Show" hosted by Alf?
I'd suggest asking the admin to change the title.
You got that right.. A lesson a lot of us can use.
I'm not Catholic, but I love and respect the Pope. The good that he's done is unmeasurable and his unwaivering integrity is truly awesome. God Bless the Pope.
Thank you for posting these pics. What a wonderful man! God's will be done!
That was some busy day! ;-) Thanks for the great pics of the Pope.
I stand in awe of his beautiful soul; be well; be well!!!!
Dziekuje Bardzo, Jan Pawel.
Thank you for a wonderful array of inspiring pictures.
His Holiness is truly extraordinary, and we are all blessed to have him. I remember very well when he was elected. The world was astounded and intrigued by a Polish pope, and the Poles were ecstatic.
Lord have Mercy what a day, what a day.
ping
Thank you bump!
John Paul II we love you... God Bless you always.
CeeCee
Material
1
Listen: the even knocking of hammers,
so much their own,
I project on to the people
to test the strength of each blow.
Listen now: electric current
cuts through a river of rock.
And a thought grows in me day after day:
the greatness of work is inside man.
Hard and cracked
his hand is differently charged
by the hammer
and thought differently unravels in stone
as human energy splits from the strength of stone
cutting the bloodstream, an artery
in the right place.
Look, how love feeds
on this well-grounded anger
which flows in to people's breath
as a river bent by the wind,
and which is never spoken, but just breaks high vocal cords.
Passers-by scuttle off into doorways,
someone whispers: "Yet here is a great force."
Fear not. Man's daily deeds have a wide span,
a strait riverbed can't imprison them long.
Fear not. For centuries they all stand in Him,
and you look at Him now
through the even knocking of hammers.
2
Bound are the blocks of stone, the low-voltage wire
cuts deep in their flesh, an invisible whip--
stones know this violence.
When an elusive blast rips their ripe compactness
and tears them from their eternal simplicity,
the stones know this violence.
Yet can the current unbind their full strength?
It is he who carries that strength in his hands:
the worker.
3
Hands are the heart's landscape. They split sometimes
like ravines into which an undefined force rolls.
The very same hands which man only opens
when his palms have had their fill of toil.
Now he sees: because of him alone others can walk in peace.
Hands are a landscape. When they split, the pain of their sores
surges free as a stream.
But no thought of pain--
no grandeur in pain alone.
For his own grandeur he does not know how to name.
4
No, not just hands drooping with the hammer's weight,
not the taut torso, muscles shaping their own style,
but thought informing his work,
deep, knotted in wrinkles on his brow,
and over his head, joined in a sharp arc, shoulders and veins vaulted.
So for a moment he is a Gothic building
cut by a vertical thought born in the eyes.
No, not a profile alone,
not a mere figure between God and the stone,
sentenced to grandeur and error.
by Karol Wojtyla (written while he was a parish priest and auxiliary bishop of Krakow)
that's really a beautiful piece!!!!!!
They have some of his poems at pbs website from the Frontline piece they did on him.
I'd never read any of them, although I know he is a prolific writer. Quite extraordinary, good poetry is very difficult to write.
ping
hahaha; what an awesome picture. I wonder if he knew it was going to be used that way. He looks incognito : }}}}
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hello mr donut welcome to FR
hehe thanks but I've been here a while hehe; danke schoen!!!
technically its a jelly-filled pastry, not a doughnot. Its unique to detuschland.
I do not want write I do feel:{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Thank you
Thanks all for these images.
hehehe...hey it was a combination polish-german effort :P
I knew you would like the wonderful pictures of His Holiness.
Thank you all good friend be strong good G-D do will help be strong!!!!!life is life good is good love is love be strong!!!!I do write I do have had cry I do feel time:{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Thank you all!!!!!!!!!
Serdecznie dziêkujê. Zycze Wam obfitych lask Bozych.
((((hugs))))). Prayers are needed for strength--which we can only have through God!
I do will write why do you not do write my country persons nasz papiez Jan Pawel II do need you time do come Thank you
Obudzcie sie z letargu czas powstac. Papiez nam umiera przynajmniej modlitwa by sie przydala no nie. Trzymta sie
thank you all I do want write THANK YOU"IchBinEinBerliner20"!!!!!!Danke
((((double hugs)))) I wish I could do something to ease your worries Polish friend...your people are strong so is Pope. God bless!
Time is time life is life good strong G-D do will help!!!Thank you all
"though the body goes frail, the soul is ageless."
Thank you
May God Always Bless John Paul II
""though the body goes frail, the soul is ageless.""TOTAL TRUTH GOOD FRIEND TOTAL TRUTH!!!!thank you
Latest report is that he is improving.
"Latest report is that he is improving."Yes No my country news persons write this is not good I do know I do want Jan Pawel drugi go Watykan this is"that he is improving."Thank you"Meg33"
Great stuff. A life worth celebrating! Pax Christi.
Thanks for the ping! Pope John Paul II is true hero and real visionaire. I hope he gets better soon.
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