Yes, I know you are out purchasing new books on Scrovegni. But I do not I read them and I really like the traditional version of history: Henry built the chapel and then profiting from indulgences of which it would have been checked.
I say this because it is clear that I am not exactly an apologist for what is said.
Finding a dinner with the Anglican below, I extolled the beauty of these frescoes by Giotto. I remember how, in general, the Chapel was an investment not only to earn heaven, but also to make money. And he replies: "This is why we made the reform." To which I objected: "You will be reformed as well, but not c'avete Giotto."
Ultimately I think the point is just that, and I like how he dealt with the card. Caffarra during the Via Crucis, last Easter, the Church has nothing more to offer than the forgiveness of Christ.
that loss with which Peter, after having betrayed Jesus, is able to tell him she loves him, as he said today's Gospel.
Why I like the story of a money lender who offers to allow his art to speak of Giotto. Wear is a disgusting act. But the beauty that is reflected in the art of Giotto also came to erase this crime.
Alas, the moral world - which is also reflected in the mindset of our Protestant friends - can not understand these things. Such a slogan: if you do not recognize our limitations, we do not understand that we need forgiveness from God, and if we do not need Christ, even we do not need his Church.
But the truth, as we know, is quite another. We are sinners, as St. Peter and also much more of him. But Christ came to redeem us and His forgiveness is there offered through the sacraments, we are recovering the lost grace (baptism and confession) or increase it if already there.
Certainly not alligavit potentiam Deus suam Sacramentis. But sadness fills my heart with pass in front of the confessional in which he confessed to as the Anglican CS Lewis (from what I saw it yesterday).
What should be our gratitude for being part of the church that dispenses true sacraments? And 'maybe something so great that we can not understand it, as we strive.
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