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06 April, 2012

Holy Sepulchre Inside Out

Holy Sepulchre Inside Out, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

Happy Easter to you all!

Shot taken during the Holy Easter Celebrations in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

Israel

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05 April, 2012

Flying | Flight | Il volo del tacchino | Cristoforo Colombo

Flying | Flight | Il volo del tacchino | Cristoforo Colombo, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

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Listen to:
Guccini: Cristoforo Colombo

"E' gia stanco di vagabondare sotto un cielo sfibrato
per quel regno affacciato sul mare che dai Mori è insidiato
e di terra ne ha avuta abbastanza, non di vele e di prua,
perché ha trovato una strada di stelle nel cielo dell'anima sua.
Se lo sente, non può più fallire, scoprirà un nuovo mondo;
quell'attesa lo lascia impaurito di toccare già il fondo.
Non gli manca il coraggio o la forza per vivere quella follia
e anche senza equipaggio, anche fosse un miraggio ormai salperà via.

E la Spagna di spada e di croce riconquista Granata,
con chitarre gitane e flamenco fa suonare ogni strada;
Isabella è la grande regina del Guadalquivir
ma come lui è una donna convinta che il mondo non pùo finir lì,.
Ha la mente già tesa all'impresa sull'oceano profondo,
caravelle e una ciurma ha concesso, per quel viaggio tremendo,
per cercare di un mondo lontano ed incerto che non sa se ci sia
ma è già l'alba e sul molo l'abbraccia una raffica di nostalgia.
E naviga, naviga via
verso un mondo impensabile ancora da ogni teoria
e naviga, naviga via,
nel suo cuore la Niña, la Pinta e la Santa Maria.

E' da un mese che naviga a vuoto quell'Atlantico amaro,
ma continua a puntare l'ignoto con lo sguardo corsaro;
sarà forse un'assurda battaglia ma ignorare non puoi
che l'Assurdo ci sfida per spingerci ad essere fieri di noi.
Quante volte ha sfidato il destino aggrappato ad un legno, senza patria bestemmi in latino prendi il bere d'impegno,
per fortuna che il vino non manca e trasforma la vigliaccheria
di una ciurma ribelle e già stanca, in un'isola di compagnia.

E naviga, naviga via,
sulla prua che s'impenna violenta lasciando una scia,
naviga, naviga via
nel suo cuore la Niña, la Pinta e la Santa Maria.

Non si era sentito mai solo come in quel momento
ma ha imparato dal vivere in mare a non darsi per vinto;
andrà a sbattere in quell'orizzonte, se una terra non c'è,
grida: "Fuori sul ponte compagni dovete fidarvi di me!"
Anche se non accenna a spezzarsi quel tramonto di vetro,
ma li aspettano fame e rimorso se tornassero indietro,
proprio adesso che manca un respiro per giungere alla verità,
a quel mondo che ha forse per faro una fiaccola di libertà.

E naviga, naviga là
come prima di nascere l'anima naviga già,
naviga, naviga ma
quell'oceano è di sogni e di sabbia
poi si alza un sipario di nebbia
e come un circo illusorio s'illumina l'America.

Dove il sogno dell'oro ha creato
mendicanti di un senso
che galleggiano vacui nel vuoto
affamati d'immenso.
Là babeliche torri di cristallo
già più alte del cielo
fan subire al tuo cuore uno stallo
come a un Icaro in volo
Dove da una prigione a una luna d'amianto
"l'uomo morto cammina"
dove il Giorno del Ringraziamento
il tacchino in cucina
e mentre sciami assordanti d'aerei
circondano di ragnatele
quell'inutile America amara
leva l'ancora e alza le vele.

E naviga, naviga via
più lontano possibile
da quell'assordante bugia
naviga, naviga via
nel suo cuore la Niña, la Pinta e la Santa Maria

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Precious Water | It's Raining Again

Precious Water | It's Raining Again, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

04 April, 2012

Lost Stuff

Lost Stuff, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

02 April, 2012

Big Nose

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Cool

Cool, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

31 March, 2012

A Toy Station for a Real City | Biella San Paolo

A Toy Station for a Real City | Biella San Paolo, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

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The train station in Biella with a tilt shift effect

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Postcard from Biella | perfino trombare ...

Postcard from Biella | perfino trombare ..., originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

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Wall art near the train station in Biella

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30 March, 2012

Di ombra, Di luce e Di altre cose

Di ombra, Di luce e Di altre cose, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

29 March, 2012

I shine like a Star

I shine like a Star, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

27 March, 2012

Defying gravity law | Spring edition

Defying gravity law | Spring edition, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

26 March, 2012

Brothers

Brothers, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

25 March, 2012

Fungis Roundabout

Fungis Roundabout, originally uploaded by ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !.

24 March, 2012

Medieval Reflections

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taken in Monastero di Cherasco. Cherasco, Piedmont, Italy

This was a Somaschi Fathers Monastery

Somaschi Fathers

The Somascan Fathers are a charitable religious congregation of priests and brothers, founded in Italy in the 16th century by Saint Jerome Emiliani and named after the mother-house at Somasca. They are often called Somascans for short. Their formal name is Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha, abbreviated as C.R.S. after members' names. There are currently about 500 Somascans serving around the world. They run many boys' homes, pastor parishes, and engage in other ministries.
[edit]History

In 1532, the priests Alessandro Besuzio and Agostino Bariso joined the charitable labors of St. Jerome Emiliani, a converted former soldier from Venice. St. Jerome founded the religious order called the "Company of the Servants of the Poor" in 1534, calling together his collaborators and companions for a general assembly. This handful of laymen and priests adopted an organized structure for the movement of religious and social reform started by Jerome in 1529 in Venice. Their goal was to dedicate themselves to the care, assistance, promotion of poor, orphans, abandoned youth, sick, etc, to any kind of works of mercy, and to any pastoral ministry according to the instructions of the bishops. placing the motherhouse at Somascha, a secluded hamlet between Milan and Bergamo. In the rule, Jerome puts down as the principal work of the community the care of orphans, poor, and sick, and demands that dwellings, food and clothing shall bear the mark of religious poverty.
After the death of Jerome, his community was about to disband, but was kept together by Gambarana, who had been chosen superior and obtained the approval (1540) of Pope Paul III. In 1547 the members vainly sought affiliation with the Jesuits; then in 1547-1555 they were united with the Theatines. Pius IV (1563) approved the institution. St. Pius V raised it to the dignity of a religious order, according to the Rule of St. Augustine, with solemn vows, the privileges of the mendicants, and exemption. In 1569 the first six members made their profession, and Gambarana was made first superior general. Great favour was shown to the order by St. Charles Borromeo, and he gave it the church of St. Mayeul at Pavia, from which church the order takes its official name "Clerici regulares S. Majoli Papiae congregationis Somaschae".
Later the education of youth was put into the programme of the order, and the colleges at Rome and Pavia became renowned. It spread into Austria and Switzerland, and before the great Revolution it had 119 houses in its four provinces: Rome, Lombardy, Venice, and France.
Following early 20th century statistics, obtained from F. Gius. Landini of the Somaschi at the Curia Generalitia at Rome, the order counted in three provinces (Rome, Lombardy, and Liguria) 16 houses, all in Italy except one (in Bellinzona, Switzerland), and about 180 members, of whom 100 are priests, 50 clerics, and 30 lay brothers. At Rome they had three houses: San Girolamo della Carità, residence of the general and one of the three novitiates (the other two being in Genoa and Somasca); Santa Maria in Aquiro with a parish and orphanage; Sant'Alessio on the Aventine for blind boys. The congregation managed three colleges with classical and technical studies at Spello, Como, Nervi, and finally, including those already mentioned, three orphanages and five parishes.
First the Company was recognized by the papal nuncio to the Republic of Venice in 1535 and then approved by Pope Paul III in 1540, and finally constituted as a religious order by Pius V in 1568 with the name of Somascan Regular Clerics. At this time the first Constitutions were issued to define a common lifestyle for all its members, both lay and clergy. In 1767, the Church canonized its founder, Jerome Emiliani. Moved by the zeal of its founder, the Order extended its charitable ministries beyond the care of orphans by supporting and staffing seminaries (just then mandated by the Council of Trent), by educating and forming youth, and by ministering to people in parishes. Its expansion, however, was abruptly stopped by laws obstructing religious life issued by Napoleon in 1810 and by the Italian government in 1861. It followed a painful dark period characterized by persecution, injustice, suffering, from which only at the beginning of the 20th century has the Order emerged with new vitality. It expansion resumed, reaching new continents and new countries. Nowadays, the Somascans number about 500 religious.

Somascan Fathers Seminary at Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines
[edit]Today

The Somascan Fathers and Brothers continue St. Jerome's mission by: living in communities pursuing holiness by prayer and ministry to the poor living in humility and kindness loving poverty and work praying to the Crucified Jesus and Mary Mother of the Orphans being either priests or brothers. Performing different ministries in the Church, such as: care of orphans, disadvantaged and poor treatment of at-risk-youth rehabilitation of drug addicts education pastoral care and spiritual guidance pastoral care of minorities foreign missions youth formation. Working in: group homes treatment and rehabilitation centers retreat houses schools youth centers parishes. Somascan efforts are in the following countries: Europe: Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Americas: USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil Asia: Philippines, India, Sri-Lanka, Australia.

Courtesy of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia