Thursday, December 12, 2013

Passeata de Natal em Itajubá

Imagens

A person who disbelieved the Christian story as fact but continually fed on it as myth would, perhaps, be more spiritually alive than one who assented and did not think much about it. 

The modernist - the extreme modernist, infidel in all but name - need not be called a fool or hypocrite because he obstinately retains, even in the midst of his intellectual atheism, the language, rites, sacraments, and story of the Christians. The poor person may be clinging (with a wisdom he himself by no means understands) to that which is his life.  




















Sunday, December 8, 2013

Saturday, November 23, 2013

CS Lewis


C.S. Lewis 50th Anniversary Celebration


Check This Site and Listen to the Broadcasts 
for a
A selection of programmes that celebrate the novelist, academic and Christian apologist.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01l8hs8

http://www.cslewis.org/programs/50thcelebration/



CS Lewis included in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey



The stone has been placed in Poets' Corner, alongside renowned literary figures including Chaucer and Dickens.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams - a fan of his work - gave the main address at the ceremony.

Lewis, born in 1898, is best known for the Chronicles of Narnia series, which has sold 100 million copies worldwide and been adapted for screen and stage.

His other work includes The Screwtape Letters and the Ransom Trilogy novels.

The writer was also a respected Oxford scholar and literary critic, while his book Mere Christianity was adapted from a series of BBC radio broadcasts, which sought to explain Christian teachings to a wider audience.

CS Lewis's memorial stone is set in the floor of Poets' Corner - though he was not known for poetry - and is inscribed with lines from one of his theological lectures : "I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen. Not only because I can see it but because by it I can see everything else."

Around 1,000 guests from around the world attended the service to unveil the stone.

A prayer was read by the Rev Adrian Dorrian, the current rector of St Marks' church, Dundela, in Belfast, where the writer's grandfather was the first rector.

Douglas Gresham, the son of Lewis's wife Joy, spoke at the service. The story of the author's marriage to her was told in the film Shadowlands.

A conference looking at the impact of Lewis's work has also been taking place at the abbey, while a festival celebrating his life and work has been held in his hometown of Belfast.

Clive Staples Lewis - known as Jack to his family - died on 22 November 1963 at the age of 64, the same day President JF Kennedy was assassinated.

Other literary greats to be commemorated in Westminster Abbey's South Transept are Samuel Johnson, John Keats and the Bronte sisters.

From the BBC



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