CyanotypesThose who have lived a life in obscurity.After watching Martin Scorsese's "Silence," Terrence Malick wrote to the director and asked him a question: "What does Christ want from us?" At that time, he was already working on "A Hidden Life."...Pr. Ioan Gînscă15 Oct. 20262
CyanotypesWith the naked eyeI spent entire years on University Street, past the Transylvanian School group sculpted by Romulus Ladea. I thought I knew it. I saw it, without really looking at it anymore. One day, my wife asked...Pr. Ioan Gînscă8 Oct. 20266
CyanotypesHeaven descended in 1944, with machine guns in the streets.Before dawn breaks and the cat jumps on me for food, I often know what I'll write before the day begins. For quite some time now, ideas have started waking up before me. This morning I thought about...Pr. Ioan Gînscă3 Oct. 20262
CyanotypesAdam, where are you?(Imaginary dialogue inspired by the painting of Deacon Andrei Bodko) Christ: Adam, where are you? Adam: I don't know, Lord. Everyone finds me. I can't find myself anymore. Christ: I found you. Adam:...Pr. Ioan Gînscă23 Sep. 20265
CyanotypesChildren's SpaceOn the eve of a day when we will inevitably talk about children as the future of society, it's worth reading a text that poses a less comfortable question: how much room is left for children in a...Pr. Ioan Gînscă15 Sep. 20264
CyanotypesMy First PaintingMy first attempt at oil painting was a depiction of a storm. Not just any storm, but that biblical tempest, in which the Savior walked on water and commanded the wind to tame its fury. It was the...Pr. Ioan Gînscă9 Sep. 20264
CyanotypesThe ErasureI dreamed I was a painting. I hung on the wall of a public building, in a corridor through which hurried people passed daily. From time to time, an official would emerge from an office, examine me...Pr. Ioan Gînscă2 Sep. 20262
CyanotypesThe Girl in the PhotographToday my mother turns eighty-five. When I was a child, we had a photo in the house where she appeared with a boy. She was very young, with her hair braided in two pigtails, wearing her best clothes,...Pr. Ioan Gînscă24 Aug. 20265
CyanotypesAnd yet, to singThe last verses in the book of the prophet Habakkuk have been called "The Great Yet": "Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the...Pr. Ioan Gînscă17 Aug. 20265
CyanotypesTwo carts of carrotsDuring my first student years, my hands discovered before I did that I was ill. One day, they no longer had the strength to ring the cathedral bell. I had lost weight, dropping below sixty-five...Pr. Ioan Gînscă12 Aug. 20265
CyanotypesHow I thought I could safeguard tranquility with a grand bellWhen I was an art student, I wanted to ring the cathedral bell, just once. The desire had something pure and childlike about it. I wanted to feel how a rope could set in motion a call that would...Pr. Ioan Gînscă30 Iul. 20265
CyanotypesDaily BreadGod tells Elijah to go to the Cherith brook and hide there. He commands ravens to feed him. Elijah and the ravens are encompassed in the same command. The prophet obeys by withdrawing and waiting;...Pr. Ioan Gînscă20 Iul. 20263
