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The Church today, at least in the West, it is not a very happy place. Gone are the wonder and the joy of being young, the innocent laughter that so characterizes us when we're still pre-neurotic. There's a middle-aged heaviness to the Church today, a certain sadness. We're grieving a lot of things:
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In the movie, The English Patient, there's a wonderful scene, stunning in its lesson:
A number of people from various countries are thrown together by circumstance in an abandoned villa in post-war Italy. Among them are a young nurse, attending to an English pilot who's been badly burned in an air-crash, and a young Asian man whose job it is to find and defuse land-mines. The young man and the nurse become friends and, one day, he announces he has a special surprise for her.
The award-winning Broadway play, Children of a Lesser God, tells an interesting story of how love can go wrong, even when it seems like it's going right.
In the Jewish Scriptures there's a story that's unique both in its capacity to shock and to fascinate.