MARIA
meditation with music
Music: S.Rahmaninoff, G.P. Pergolesi, M.Durufle, Orthodox chants, Traditional music, M.Head, K. Šilec, Codex Las Huelgas, A.Kastalsky and other
Performers: Carmina Slovenica /Ansamble Kebataola /Youth choir Maribor
Karmina Silec, conductor
Mother Mary – the most sublime and beautiful image in man’s struggle towards the good and the pure
A female figure who has attained the status of a myth – a myth that for nearly two thousand years has coursed through our culture, spirited and often imperceptible
Virgin Mary – the most significant religious image of the western world who officially never gains the status of a Catholic goddess
Meditation with music:
A mooring point for the humanization of love
Mother Mary – as a social construct, not as objective, historical reality, as an instrument of supervision and control?
The Lady and the Virgin as an absolute authority
Unique of all her sex – without hostility between mother and daughter, the key moment of the virginal myth
Human mother, yet mother of God.
Question: to fall or not to fall
Mary who defies death
Mother Mary – her mercy can abolish or change God’s judgment
Mother Mary – the absolute giving of love; the power that can bear the greatest sorrow; infinite fidelity and tireless dedication to work; ability of combining penetrating intuition with words of support and encouragement
Mary, full of grace: the law of downward movement. To humble oneself is to rise in the sense of moral gravity. Due to moral gravity one falls upward