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Throw the footsteps of Princess Grace at La Verna Sanctuary, in Italy.

September 17, 2024.

This weekend, Prince Albert II travelled to Tuscany to visit the sanctuary of La Verna, in the province of Arezzo, and the medieval village of Rondine.

At La Verna, the Sovereign was accompanied by Anne Eastwood, Monaco’s Ambassador to Italy, Brother Guido Fineschi, Guardian of the sanctuary, and Brother David Gagrcic, the house Vicar.

A place where nature and spirituality meet, and where Saint Francis of Assisi received the stigmata on 17 September 1224. Prince Albert II paid tribute to Italy’s patron saint for the eight-hundredth anniversary of the event.

The Prince’s Palace adds that “Francis of Assisi embodies values that align perfectly with the Sovereign’s commitment to protecting the environment and biodiversity,” as the author of the famous “Canticle of Creatures” was named the patron saint of ecologists by Pope John Paul II in 1979.

But the visit had another, more personal dimension, as Princess Grace and her elder daughter, Princess Caroline, had also made the trip to the La Verna sanctuary during a pilgrimage by Monegasque scouts in the summer of 1968. 42 years to the day after her death, Prince Albert II was able to see the archives of his mother’s visit to Tuscany.

(Princess Grace during her private visit to La Verna on July 28, 1968).

The Sovereign then visited the “Rondine Cittadella della Pace” in the medieval village of Rondine, an organisation dedicated to reducing armed conflict and promoting a culture of peace throughout the world.

The Principality has supported the non-profit’s actions for many years, and last year joined its “Leaders for Peace” appeal to the United Nations. The appeal encourages nations to invest in the training of future world leaders for peace and to educate the younger generations about human rights from school age, says the Prince’s Palace press release.

**Source: Monaco Tribune.

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Another attraction that you’ll see on your way to the Royal Palace is the Saint Nicholas Cathedral (Cathédrale de Monaco)  where many of the Grimaldis were buried, including Grace Kelly and Rainier III.

Еще одна достопримечательность, которую вы можете увидеть по пути в королевский дворец, это собор Святого Николая (собор Монако), место где похоронены многие из королевской семьи Гримальди, включая Грейс Келли и Рейниер III.

[gnossienne]

What are your favorite love stories, in any (all) sense(s)?

The deviant ones. Grotesque, frenetic, unrequited, heretical love. Love that stretches across space and time and centuries. Love as obsession, as delusion, as homicide. Like Sarah Kane’s ‘Cleansed’ - “either love me or kill me.” Stories like those, I suppose.

Exempli gratia:

The novels of Patrick McGrathThe plays of Sarah KaneMary Renault's Alexander trilogyAngela Carter, The Bloody Chamber & Other StoriesAndrew Davidson, The GargoyleDavid Mitchell, Cloud AtlasEmily Brontë, Wuthering HeightsOrhan Pamuk, The Museum of InnocenceElfriede Jelinek, The Piano TeacherMadeline Miller, The Song of AchillesJohn Banville, AthenaLeo Tolstoy, Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer SonataJames Baldwin, Giovanni’s RoomPatricia Highsmith, The Sweet SicknessAndre Aciman, Call Me By Your NameCharlotte Brontë, Jane EyreAnaïs Nin and Henry Miller, Henry and June Poppy Brite, Exquisite CorpseRadclyffe Hall, The Well of LonelinessMarguerite Duras, L'amantKazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the DayGabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of CholeraPatrick Süskind, PerfumeElizabeth Knox, The Vintner’s LuckYukio Mishima, The Frolic of the BeastsRaymond Radiguet, The Devil in the FleshMilan Kundera, L'identitéErnesto Sabato, The Tunnel

[riverdamien]

Hanging Out!

Hanging Out "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than that someone lay down his life for his friends. . ." I have just purchased a new Bible, and a new translation, The English Standard Version, as I do on every five year anniversary, which I will use and read during the next five years. I picked this translation because it is the translation that my professors at Knox Seminary use, and I buy in in their honor. I will asked my friends and donors to sign, to commemorate their support. I have read the Bible since I was twelve years old, and from my freshman year of seminary until present, I read through it every year. I read it daily, I turn to it, when I am in pain, and in joy, for through it God speaks of love, and compassion and holds the hope. The Bible has sustained me, strengthen me through the deaths of my parents, and all of my street youth, it has sustained me in the times of being totally rejected and alone, and it has given me strength in times of illness and fear, and the Scriptures give me courage in the face of criticism, opposition , threats of and ultimately my death. On the eve of my birthday, I see the end far closer than when I started, it is just around the corner, and I asked myself the question: "Have I failed?" And as I hear the voices around me and let them worry me, I laugh, because the answer to that question comes only from me and ultimately from God. For I do not view ministry as most of the world views ministry, and there are those who have gone before me, and are still doing ministry in similar ways but they can attest to that same view point. In my final year of seminary my supervising therapist, Patricia, who was supervising my counseling and my psychological testing one day gave me the greatest look of compassion, as she told me she was recommending me for graduation and ordination, and said: "River, you have a special gift, that only a few have in a generation, with youth, especially, and with those who hurt severely, you are able to let them into your heart, and life, let them become your friend, and in that friendship they will find healing." Patricia continued, "Ultimately you will find your self very alone, for there will be things you can not share with anyone". I have learned the hard way there are things I can not share about my daily life, the things that I see, the words that I hear, because people can not and do not want to hear them. There are now the thousands of secrets, of pain, of violence, of hatred, of deceit, that I can never reveal even on the threat of death. I feel the pain sometimes in myself. I am not lonely, but am alone. I feel alone hanging with people with money, education, and who can not understand the streets. I feel alone when I can not express my political or other opinions, because they will walk away. I find myself alone when I seek to explain my understanding of the PTSD that I have as simply a part of the journey, and a part that brings much good, even as painful as it is. There are something you can not fix, but they heal as beautiful scars on a piece of broken wood. She gave me the water color on this blog--"the Counselor", who is torn a part, like the "The Velveteen Babbitt." She said, "Welcome to your life! And a it is a life I would not change for anything, for I learn from every failing, mistake, and condemnation and see so clearly that we are to love one another and all of our creation. We are to take risks for one another. I am often asked, "When do you work?" I hang out, I don't work. I "chauffeured" one my seventeen year old friend's and his girlfriend, on their one month anniversary to a movie, Saturday night, I had picked up another seventeen year old in the City and took him home; Another I am tutoring him and simply hanging out; One eighteen year old stayed all night three weeks ago with a high fever and I nursed him, and I caught the fever; tomorrow five of my young friends who are not housed and live in the Haight are taking me out to lunch, and they are paying, tomorrow night my sixteen-nineteen year old friends in Marin are having a pizza party for me. Is that work? All of life is ministry. People struggle with the fact that I do not have set vacations, but I take time off alone a lot, nothing set, just when I need to. You see I do not have a job, I simply do not work--I hang out. This morning my shoulder hurts like hell, my rib from where it was busted last year is in pain, the old stab wound hurts, ,my skate board injuries hurt, but I arise again to set my sail, looking to the Guiding Star that will lead me home, and hopefully I will hear the words: "Well done, my good and faithful servant," reminding me that at least I tried to be a good friend! Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God" "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than that someone lay down his life for his friends. . ." Fr. River Damien Sims, sfw, D.Min., D.S.T. P.O. Box 642656 San Francisco, CA 94164 www.temenos.org 415-305-2124

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Mente Física 19 de junio de 2017 Tema: Gratitud y Amistad (Para ti mi amiga del alma Patricia Díaz de la Vega) Conductoras: Sandra Reynoso

La amistad es un alma que habita en dos cuerpos; un corazón que habita en dos almas. Aristóteles El origen etimológico del término gratitud, procede del vocablo gratitudo que es fruto de la suma de dos partes claramente definidas: por un lado, la palabra gratus, que es sinónimo de “agradable y agradecido”, y por otro, el sufijo –tudo que es equivalente a “cualidad”. Gratitud es el sentimiento que experimenta una persona al estimar un favor o beneficio que alguien le ha concedido. Como Sentimiento-Se conoce como gratitud a aquel sentimiento de agradecimiento sentido ante el reconocimiento de un favor o la recepción de un beneficio, que experimentará una persona cuando el mismo se haga efectivo y presente ante sí. La palabra gracia viene del latín gratia formado de gratus (agradable, agradecido) más el sufijo (agrega a la palabra) ya que indica cualidad de aquí también viene la palabra agradecer, gracias, gracioso, agraciado, desgracia etc. Por lo tanto agradecer es integrar, integrar lo que se recibe, siempre implica un recibimiento que puede ser de diferentes formas: conocimiento, atenciones, un presente material, una sanación, algo económico, y todo lo relacionado con lo que pedimos, lo que nos es necesario, básico y merecido. Amistad, del lat. amīcus 'amigo'. Afecto personal, puro y desinteresado, compartido con otra persona, que nace y se fortalece con el trato, una relación afectiva entre dos o más personas. La amistad es una de las relaciones interpersonales más comunes que la mayoría de las personas tienen en la vida. La amistad se da en distintas etapas de la vida y en diferentes grados de importancia y trascendencia. El 27 de abril de 2011, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas resolvió finalmente invitar a todos los países miembros a celebrar el Día Internacional de la Amistad el 30 de julio de cada año, siguiendo la propuesta original promovida por la Cruzada mundial de la amistad. Un amigo es uno que lo sabe todo de ti y a pesar de ello te quiere Elbert Hubbard El verdadero amigo es aquél que está a tu lado cuando preferiría estar en otra parte Len Wein

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The 2014 Grace Challenge: Day 28 | Favorite Grace moment personally (e.g. visiting Monaco, attending one of her exhibits, going to Philadelphia…)

Though it was a more somber type of visit, I'd have to say visiting her grave at Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Monaco. It was very touching and rather surreal.

(Disclaimer: this is not my photo. I do have a photo somewhere that my aunt took, but there were signs at the time requesting no photography.)

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Mente Física 2 de enero de 2017 Tema: Gratitud (repetición) Conductoras: Patricia Díaz de la Vega y Sandra Reynoso

El origen etimológico del término gratitud, procede del vocablo gratitud  que es fruto de la suma de dos partes claramente definidas: por un lado, la palabra gratus, que es sinónimo de “agradable y agradecido”, y por otro, el sufijo –tudo que es equivalente a “cualidad”.

 Gratitud es el sentimiento que experimenta una persona al estimar un favor o beneficio que alguien le ha concedido. Como Sentimiento-Se conoce como gratitud a aquel sentimiento de agradecimiento sentido ante el reconocimiento de un favor o la recepción de un beneficio, que experimentará una persona cuando el mismo se haga efectivo y presente ante sí. La palabra gracia viene del latín gratia formado de gratus (agradable, agradecido) más el sufijo (agrega a la palabra) ya que indica cualidad de aquí también viene la palabra agradecer, gracias, gracioso, agraciado, desgracia etc.

Por lo tanto agradecer es integrar, integrar lo que se recibe, siempre implica un recibimiento que puede ser de diferentes formas: conocimiento, atenciones, un presente material, una sanación, algo económico, y todo lo relacionado con lo que pedimos, lo que nos es necesario, básico y merecido.

Para dar mayor comprensión de este tema también nos referiremos al amor, pues el amor es un proceso, y para llegar a él requerimos de reconocernos en los siguientes pasos: aceptación, paciencia, tolerancia, perdón, altruismo, comprensión, incondicionalidad, valor, alegría, misericordia, organización y sabiduría.

Oración.

Hoy, creador del universo, mi corazón rebosa gratitud por el don de la vida que tú me has dado.  

Gracias por la oportunidad de experimentar este precioso cuerpo y esta maravillosa mente. Hoy señor quiero expresar mi gratitud por todo lo que he recibido de ti.

Sé que el medio para darte las gracias por la vida es disfrutar plenamente de cada instante de la misma. Y el único modo de hacerlo es mediante el amor. Hoy expresare todo el amor y la felicidad que existe en mi corazón. Amare todas tus creaciones, me amare a mí mismo y amare a las personas que viven conmigo. Sé que la vida es demasiado corta para desperdiciarla generando infelicidad y dramas con la gente que amo. Disfrutare de la presencia de las personas que amo y respetaré sus elecciones en la vida tal y como respeto las mías.

Hoy recibiré graciosamente tus regalos, disfrutándolos, deleitándome con la belleza de toda tu creación. Ayúdame a ser tan generoso como tú, a compartir lo que tengo con generosidad, del mismo modo que tu tan generosamente compartes conmigo tus regalos, ayúdame a convertirme en un maestro de la gratitud, la generosidad y el amor a fin de disfrutar de toda tu creación.

Hoy señor ayúdame a manifestar mi creación del mismo modo que tus manifiestas el universo, para expresar la belleza de mi espíritu con el arte supremo de los seres humanos: el arte de soñar mi vida. Hoy, Señor, te doy toda mi gratitud y mi amor porque tú me has dado vida a mí.

          Bibliografía:    Oraciones, Dr. Miguel Ruiz, editorial Urano.

                          “Nuestra misión en la vida ser felices.

Para obrar, el que da debe olvidar pronto, y el que recibe, nunca

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Gracias Patricia Díaz de la Vega por estar en mi vida, he recibido y seguiré recibiendo tus enseñanzas  

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