Already a previous post, we explored the nature of original sin, in the beautiful and the movie prologue tragiquísimo Antichrist (2010) by Lars von Trier. I add now the lament about it makes San Anselmo d'Aosta, OSB, Archbishop of Canterbury and Doctor of the Church:
Domenichino, Adam and Eve , s. XVII 'Oh, miserable fate of the man when he lost that for which it was created! Oh, tough and unfortunate event that one! Ay! What lost and found? What was denied and what has stayed? He lost the happiness for which it was made, and found misery for which was not done. He lost that without which no one is happy, and he was that for which you are not only miserable. Then Man ate the bread of angels, which are now hungry, he eats the bread of sorrows, then unknown. Oh, the public mourning of Men! Universal cries of the children of Adam! He swam in abundance, we sigh hungry. He was rich, we beg. He was happy and he lost miserably, miserably unhappy and we have no desire, and oh! remain in a vacuum. Why him, he could do it easily, not saved us from what what is so unfortunately lack? Why are we deprived of light and took us to the darkness? What took our life and we killed? Woe! Where have we been thrown, where buried! Of the country into exile, the vision of God in our blindness, to the joy of immortality to the bitterness and pain of death. Miserable mutation of this great blessing to so great an evil! Severe damage, severe pain, severe whole.
But, alas, miserable me, one from the other miserable children of Eve away from God! What I tried? What did I do? Where did you go? Where do I? What I aspire to? Why Why sigh? Looking good, and sudden terror! Going to God and fell on me. Sought to rest in my solitude and intimacy found in my tribulation and pain. I wanted to laugh for the joy of my mind and I had to mourn over the groaning of my heart. Expected and behold the joy that crowd sighs.
And you, how long, Lord, we forget? How long stray thy face from us? When we behold and hear us? When enlighten our eyes and show your face? When we return to Thee? Look at us, Lord, hear us, enlighten us, show yourself to us. Turn to us for we have the good without which we so badly. Have mercy on our work and efforts to reach you, are worth nothing without you. You call us, help us. Please. Lord, my heart is bitter in his desolation; sweeten your comfort. Hungry to get you started, I beg you, Lord, that You will not end fast, hungry I went to Thee, and which are not dissatisfied. Poor, I went to the rich, miserly, the merciful, do not come back empty and neglected. And if before I can eat, breathe, give me some food to eat after the sighs. Lord, I'm hunched over, but I can not look down; enderézame so they can go up. My sins were raised above my head, around me and overwhelm me as a burden. Deliver me, descárgame of them, that the abyss is not press your mouth on me. Let me see your light from afar or from the bottom. Teach me to find you, and show yourself that you are looking for, because I can not find you if you show me, or if you do not find samples. I'll look for loving you, I love finding you.
I confess, sir, and thank you for your image you created in me, that I remember you, you think, I love you. But so is obliterated by contact with the vices, so obscured by the smoke of sins, can not that for which it was made, if you do not renew and reform. Do not try, Lord, come to your height, because in no way I can compare my understanding with it, but somehow I want to understand your truth that my heart believes and loves. And I endeavor to believe, but I think to understand. And I also believe this, that if believed, would not understand. "
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