M. T. BELLO - Holy Mary, Woman of New Wine, how many times do we not experience that the banquet of life is languishing and joy disappears from the faces of the guests! It is the wine of the feast that is lacking. On the table there is everything: but, without the juice of the vine, we have lost the wish for bread that tastes like wheat. We chew with annoyance the products of wealth: together with the greed of the wealthy and with the anger of who is not hungry. The meals of our kitchen have lost their old tastes: also the exotic fruit has no attraction for us. You know very well what the cause of this is; Our senses are not what they used to be. We have no more wine. The smell of the wine does not attract us any longer. The old cellars do not ferment any more. The empty wineskins contain only vinegar. Have compassion on us, and grant us once more the taste for things. Only in this way will the pitchers of our existence be filled to the brim with good wine. The taste for living and for making live will finally satisfy us.
Holy mary, Woman of new wine, so impatient for change who in Cana of Galilee provoked before the time the greatest episode of all times, obliging Jesus to give proof of Easter. You are for us the symbol of youth, because it is proper to youth to perceive those things that are no more useful, and to bring about renewals that are obtained solely by overthrowing the old, and not by restoring in the laboratory. Free us, we beg you, from easy satisfaction, from small conversions that are not costly, from comfortable patches. Preserve us from the false security of the fence, from the annoyance of repetitive rituals.
M. T. BELLO - Holy Mary,
RispondiEliminaWoman of New Wine,
how many times do we not experience
that the banquet of life is languishing
and joy disappears from the faces of the guests!
It is the wine of the feast that is lacking.
On the table there is everything:
but, without the juice of the vine, we have lost
the wish for bread that tastes like wheat.
We chew with annoyance the products of wealth:
together with the greed of the wealthy
and with the anger of who is not hungry.
The meals of our kitchen
have lost their old tastes:
also the exotic fruit has no attraction for us.
You know very well
what the cause of this is;
Our senses are not what they used to be.
We have no more wine.
The smell of the wine
does not attract us any longer.
The old cellars do not ferment any more.
The empty wineskins contain only vinegar.
Have compassion on us,
and grant us once more the taste for things.
Only in this way will the pitchers of our existence
be filled to the brim with good wine.
The taste for living and for making live
will finally satisfy us.
Holy mary,
Woman of new wine,
so impatient for change
who in Cana of Galilee provoked before the time
the greatest episode of all times,
obliging Jesus
to give proof of Easter.
You are for us the symbol of youth,
because it is proper to youth
to perceive those things that are no more useful,
and to bring about renewals that are obtained solely
by overthrowing the old,
and not by restoring in the laboratory.
Free us, we beg you, from easy satisfaction,
from small conversions that are not costly,
from comfortable patches.
Preserve us from the false security of the fence,
from the annoyance of repetitive rituals.