Ieda

Novamente, trabalhei na Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo e, neste ano, um diretor italiano chamado Guido Chiesa veio apresentar o filme “Io Sono Con Te” ou “Estou com Você,” sobre Maria, mãe de Jesus. Não pude ver o filme, mas acompanhei o debate após a sessão, e gostei do que o diretor disse sobre cristianismo e, principalmente, sobre o papel da mulher no cristianismo. Resolvi mandar um email para ele e recebi uma resposta muito simpática hoje de manhã. Não tenho mais o email que enviei para ele porque redigi em seu próprio site oficial. Mas segue a resposta dele:

Dear Ieda

I came looking for you before leaving but you weren’t there.
Thank you for your moving words. I often feel that all I’m doing is worthless, but messages like yours give me the strenght to keep going on.I’m aware of Chesterton work: he was a very deep and original thinker. People believe that they can live without God, but we’re all are deeply caught in a religious way of thinking. In the sense, that we all need to believe into something (“to be linked to something”: that’s the original meaning of religion in Latin). But I’m less concerned about the future of religion in modern society, rather than the state of Christianity today: Christians are very much in danger of transforming themselves into another spiritual sect, where the meaning of Incarnation - the flesh, the blood - gets lost into some kind of mysticism with no relation to our human experience.It might sound corny, but I dare to say: only women - mothers creating life - could save us. They know what the word love means: love before any kind of culture, rules, education, thinking. Love, just simply it.

Hope to meet you one day and I pray God to protect you.

Ciao, Guido