![]() It is important to apply it to one’s own life: “Do I not already find a wonderful harmony behind the tangled threads of my life story? It is necessary to discover the new fabric that Mary is weaving and each one of us is called to discover the threads – and not only the golden ones – of our own life with which Our Lady is weaving new motifs. The weaving shows tangled threads on the reverse and harmony on the foreground. Three exemplary moments, which he interprets as an intercession from heaven, have become places of learning for him, he said: The loomįirst, the painting “Mary at the Loom,” which is in Spello, a small town in Umbria near Assisi, on the wall of an ancient weaving mill. A reproduction of the painting “Mary of the Loom” and a real loom decorate the stage area of the Father Kentenich House (Photo: Brehm) “There is something new awaiting for us in the crack. ![]() ![]() Father Peter Falk is reminded of Father Kentenich, who went into the cracks of souls and discovered what was hidden. This year’s Lenten loom in his parish, a large white cloth with a crack backed by a red cloth, deftly casts a luminous glimmer on the present times: “Cracks everywhere.” Gerhard Pross of the “Together for Europe” network said by way of invitation, “It’s time to step into the crack!”. It is about “discovering what is ours in the crisis.” Times of crisis, the speaker said, are times when people are “disrupted” in order to learn to fly and discover something new.” “We do not have the solution, especially not the perfect solution, but we are challenged to look for solutions, and temporary solutions are solutions as well.” In such a context, Father Kentenich had asked a class of priests to experiment in 1967. “Times of crisis can become a healing disturbance,” Falk said. His friend, violin maker Martin Schleske, spoke of a “time of sacred uncertainty” with regard to the present day. It remains a “prophetic challenge” not to lose sight of what is on the horizon. It is important to ask what horizons are currently opening up in one’s personal life. He invited each member of the audience to reflect on their personal challenges at this time.
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