Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Man capsizes, 1950, Bronze, 60 x 14 x 32.5 cm, Kunsthaus Zurich.
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" The temple which he spoke was his body " (Jn 2:21)
What is holding the man standing? This is the poignant question on the nature of man that I am asked the sculptor Giacometti and texts on this third Sunday of Lent. The graceful silhouette
bronze staggers, capsizes, falls, collapses. The body plays with space, dancing with a vacuum, fall into nothingness, and question them. The law of gravity is returning humans to the humus, the man on earth, Adam primordial mud.
Here do not even matter to bow to any idol, the man disappears empty. He lost breath, no longer exists.
man who lost capsizes: Jesus is also outraged at the indignity of the Temple, home of the Father where traffic is no longer adored. Where to meet the Lord now, if his people there invokes his most holy name?
Now Jesus, tormented by love, not resigned to the absence, emptiness, lack of faith of his contemporaries: he offers his body as a place of rendezvous and encounter with the Father.
And here comes the body and broken: man alone, stripped, destroyed, which in three short days will become only the secret place, a jewel box of obedience to the wisdom and power of God are given, forever, to all men who believe in him, the son of God.
Lord, come live in our hearts, we become to our whole temple of your Holy Spirit, good way of Lent.
Sr. Nathalie CSJ, St. Guilhem le Desert, March 15, 2009.
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