A little over a year ago pope francis Appointed Dominican Bishop of Sant Feliu de Llobregat Xavier Gomez Garciaserved as head of the immigration department of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
This is what religion looks like this week … Featured in the news after publishing an open letter to the singer Rosalia. He does just that on this Sunday’s Sunday Page, in which Gomez García talks candidly about his spirituality and analyzes the artist’s new album, Lux, in which he reflects on his faith.
“I write to you from this cover, like someone who puts a message in a bottle and throws it into the sea. “No one knows whether it will reach you or not,” the priest begins. “I don’t understand what you’re saying, but I want to. Your art, so hypnotically eclectic and performative, and you yourself, raise a question in me. Maybe I don’t need to understand it, but as a woman, as an artist, at this stage and cycle of life, what is in your inner world, your inner world?” she reflected on the album’s songs.
spiritual journey
“When we talk about a “thirst” that nothing in this world can satisfy, a “thirst” that only God can fill, the search for meaning that runs through Andrei Rublev’s films comes to mind. tarkovsky. In the midst of darkness and violence, the Russian painter seeks light, beauty and faith, even though there are no easy answers. Like him, you seem to experience art as a spiritual journey, where creation is a form of pilgrimage to the transcendent. But you haven’t just done it yet… If you don’t let go of your moored ship, it won’t be easy to reach your coveted port. If you want to go there,” he says of some of his lyrics.
“Your lyrics puzzle me, but they also offer me the possibility of dialogue about the complexities of human experience. You understand love as a force that is painful, liberating, even sacred. Your art is a space where weakness and strength can coexist, and desire and faith can find each other,” he added.
And he concluded by saying:There is a silence that speaks over a thousand songs. Do people feel peace when everything is quiet, or is there just more noise? Maybe the answer is not outside, but inside you.
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