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Christmas, birth and rebirth

The mystery of Christmas is something a great chiaroscuro and metaphysics. Darkness and light in their radical expressions! Before the radiant light of divine glory that accompanied the message of the angel, the shepherds of Bethlehem's campaign appear to have collected, intact with their faculty of wonder, the scope of this unusual light contrast: the heart of the night the longest of the year in full winter solstice, the burst of the "Light of the world," Christ. But today, evokes such a contrast for our time who can really see the symbols? While the flicker that animate our cities long boulevards, night of this Christmas season, still show a certain symbolism and evidence of its origin confused, but ultimately in a festive mode flatly. Garlands more flash to the consumer for the busy man facing his destiny.

Yet it is the latter that the Creator intended and signs revealing his actions. When His Son was born in a humble stable, this opposition between light and the ultimate night denser refers to "Fiat lux "Creation. Everything begins and everything starts with a light that arose in the absolute night. Yes, the Nativity appears as the second act of this creation. In a world darkened by sin and some with the horizon of death, "wages of sin" (Rom. 6, 23), it is a new beginning.

Indeed, the advent of Christ is a victory over death, no less. This divine birth is rich in promise unprecedented. Breaking the fatal cycle of alternating life / death in the existence of mankind. Mechanism to end the millennium of the Fall, which makes death a mode of regulation Life. Following Christ freely, man finds his destiny, down and all being for death ". The story takes another direction. Also, good news among all is well and truly the rebirth of humanity urbi et orbi that began in the Valley of the Dead Sea, in the little town of Bethlehem.

Lawrence Tollinier

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The Grizzly Man, or the ideology of nature

Timothy Treadwell, the man is best known in the USA under the name of Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog and which devoted a film of the same name in 2005. Sweet crazy who began to live in the company of the great North American bears, during thirteen summers, Timothy Treadwell devoted most of his life to defend these ferocious beasts, in which he expected to find some kind of redemption of the world, a pure order opposite to that of a modern civilization gone mad. Alas, during his last visit in the summer of 2003, a friend of his plantigrade, hungry, decided he would make good his dinner and consumed him and his wife. Nature had reasserted itself, and the predatory life of the poor visionary who, more than the friendship of the animals, in fact seeking to die under their claws, sacrificed to the great god Pan and his pagan sacrifice.

What we learn from this story? What is the meaning of life and death of the Grizzly Man in a world which, as it moves away from nature, seems to fantasize more and more until there see an Eden immanent a lost paradise but still accessible by helicopter and even if a bishop gives him a recent Justice autonomous, capable of making only his accounts? This story teaches us that nature is an idol like any other, and that its main characteristic, as such, is to deceive one who concedes that part of him that she does not claim absolute not yet. That his ontology is that of murder and imperfection in the sense transcendent of the term. A fortiori for us Catholics, who can not hear mentioned the concepts of justice and order other than through this mysterious love which the Lord tells us that she is the real purpose of the Incarnation. The bear eats its young, rampaging illnesses equally innocent lives and that of others. This is how nature works, and software that moves the least is that of balance, than the barbaric equalizing devouring the weak to feed the strong ... Nature is libertarian ...

Vigny said, there are nearly two centuries, that man becomes ape. It seems, in light of the unfortunate Experience of Timothy Treadwell, that this sentence is eminently true, except that it is now a monkey suit. The modern world we live in, unlike what would make us believe the José Bové and other proponents of ecological decline is the barbaric world of nature, and if the forests disappear and that here in the jungle Equatorial we know nothing more than a cliché postcard, the fact remains that its laws are our fearless. His letter eludes us, while we violate the spirit giveth life far nothing, he will surely take us, forever.

liberal society, in particular, is the image of nature that provides the only animals capable of adapting the possibility of survival, which strengthens the strongest and eradicate the weak. That there is now an ideology of nature, defenders of the economy in a world which has integrated the contradiction as a condition of its completion, it is not evidence of opposition to the modern world but, conversely, that a perfect match of this ideology with him. For what stirred the psyche of the capitalists, even more than the profit and personal gain is no doubt that the unconscious will of the vacuum and death, collected in a natural order which justifies them! "Perish the weak and the failures," said Nietzsche. "To each his due," announced the gate of Buchenwald. So many phrases which our contemporary psychology does not blush, and rather than worry, because we whisper reassurance that all is well that the world works, and that every thing has its place here, in the fuss death.

Timothy Treadwell did not want to live with bears, he wanted to die because of them, to find this natural law of the strong and weak, that Christ came to abolish! And the crazy system of Wall Street, as the fascination retributive in nature and sufficient to mimic in that it does not want men to a better life, more just, but it guarantees them the unconscious certainty of death. Certainty that today is better than faith in an "after" which we know nothing, and only the promise of Him who, on Golgotha, suffered and died for our sins, just upset.

Remi Lelian