 LA CRÈCHE DE LA PAIX FRIEDENSKRIPPE |
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| "… Et paix sur la terre parmi les hommes qu’il agrée !" Luc 2,14 |
| Les hommes qu’il agrée – ce sont lesquels ? Ou exprimé un peu plus moderne : les hommes auxquels il trouve plaisir – ce sont lesquels? La crèche pose cette question au contemplateur : “ J’en fait partie ? ” Est-ce que Dieu trouve plaisir à moi ? Est-ce que j’ai paix avec Dieu ? – par l’enfant dans la crèche, par l’homme à la croix, qui - par sa mort et sa résurrection – a créé paix avec Dieu pour moi? Jésus, auquel j’appartiens! Nuremberg, en automne 2001 |
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been engraved into this Nativity Scene: The erratic blocks and boulders of the walls: pebbles which have been cut and polished during their lifetime in the tirolian river Ache. The two main beams: an old withered branch from a wild rose bush which grew on a cattle field in Chiemgau. The nativity figures from ANRI: "Florentine Crib" - memories of the solemn joy and piousness of Italian peasants. The wonderful smell of freshly ploughed Italian earth, still warm from the heat of the day. This earth on which shortly before the fruits of the earth had grown... Last not least Rembrandt's picture: The adoration of the shepherds And yet another special experience: Normally when I lay out the stones for the first outline of a crib scene, they are what stones usually are: dead. When they have been cut and the first few cemented into place they begin to come alive With this scene it was different. The walls were half finished and the stones were still dead. I began to query what was false or what I had done wrong. And then suddenly the walls came to life. I asked the stall, "Why did you take so long to come alive?" And it answered, "Why did you take so long?" Then I understood, Why did I take so long to come to the Father - to receive life. Through this experience it became a joyful Nativity Scene. Like a threshing floor during the harvest. |
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- ADORATION OF THE SHEPERDS |