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Particularly instructive, though, is a message he gave to us using actions more than words: his behavior during his final days. In a society in which personal convenience is paramount and pain is something dealt with as quickly as possible, the sheer grace with which he accepted his demise is breathtaking. John Paul II suffered greatly in his time on this earth, yet he did not seek to die with “dignity” by having a needle stuck in his arm—as many “ethicists” now compel us to?...
Hail, Mary, Full of Grace...
...some comfort, when we wait for those we love to die, to celebrate the way they lived. For Christians this is a season of mystery and grace, and during the final days, John Paul II gave his people one last gift: the message of his visible pain and transcendent love, like a bell ringing out over St. Peter's Square, clear and resounding as it carried up to heaven. --With reporting by Jeff Israely and Giancarlo Zizola/Rome
Bartosik has an intuitive sense of which points in a piece require slowing down and which require speeding up, and as a result she expertly transitioned between loud and soft. As her body swayed gently back and forth with the music, the audience could feel the grace of Beethoven’s composition consume her. Nonetheless, there were sections of the piece that seemed to call for more aggression than she was able to muster...
...preserved. The show comes at a fitting time. Today, inhabitants of the places that held these treasures tend to look back at the culture of their forbears as monolithic, and only now beset by tainting influences from abroad. But their ancestors knew differently. They managed their confusing times with grace and curiosity?and wandering among the pieces of what they left behind is a rare pleasure...