Nichts Abstraktes

Nichts Abstraktes

Dieser Friedhof ist nichts Abstraktes. Hier liegen nämlich auch Polen.

Polen: Die Wiedergeburt eines Staates.

von Robert Baag.

Gesichter Europas. Deutschlandfunk.

Samstag den 23 August 2014

The vignettes in this series Gesichter Europas are lyrical, and carry that delicacy of narration I associate with Theodor Storm.

Olsztyn

The head forester described how he came upon the cemetery of Olsztyn, deep in a forest, overgrown, and unmarked.

He set about thinning the timber to mark an oasis of clearing for the cemetery, in which a thousand five hundred fallen Russian, and German and Poles of the 1914 war rest.

When asked how he had funded the task of clearing, and then erecting memorial tablets, and a crucifix, the head forester, with a knowing smile, attributed the cost to creative Polish accounting.

There was no official budget.

Love what is Real

Choose and love what is real, expressed HH Pope Francis, joined by HE Cardinal Parolin's Keep your gaze on essentials, in their common invitation to the Rimini Friendship Symposium August 24 to 31.

Liturgy

This morning in the Liturgy of Hours I read plantatum secus decorsum aquarum.. LH IV:545

Later in the morning a Messe Fondation pour le 70e anniversaire de la libération de Paris was celebrated in Notre-Dame-de-Paris.

The Titulaire des grandes orgues introduced the Credo with a dozen bars of august improvisation, and married to this an Offertoire sur le Credo improvisée à chœur d'anches.

The Communion antiphon was

De fructu operum tuorum, Domine, satiabitur terra, ut educes panem de terra, et vinum lætificat cor hominibus: ut exhilaret facem in oleo, et panis cor hominis confirmet.

Graduale Triplex Communione p.329

Vivos et Mortuos

Dieser Friedhof ist nichts Abstraktes..

The cemetery at Olsztyn;

the fallen Parisians and their fellow countrymen..,

German,

Russian,

Poles.

Immense thoughts of Europe.

..iudicare vivos et mortuos..

..to form an opinion of the living and the dead..

..Dieser Friedhof ist nichts Abstraktes. Hier liegen nämlich auch Polen.

Grateful Acknowledgement

Deutschlandfunk

Vatican News

Liturgia Horarum

France Culture

Notre-Dame-de-Paris

Graduale Triplex