Nothing man has ever since he gained consciousness thousands of years ago and it was also cursed with the knowledge of his mortality, just as doggedly fought desperately and unsuccessfully as the inexorable transience. Age and death are regarded as the eternal humiliation, the unforgivable insult to the human race. Of the long-forgotten caves of Stone Age shamans, the Chinese emperor to the alchemists of the Middle Ages - by thousands of people hoping to find an elixir that confers immortality, a fountain of lasting youth. As the tests proceeded, is known.
"Live fast, die fast and leave a beautiful corpse," to James Dean said. From his first film "East of Eden", he was celebrated as a star, nominated for an Oscar and was considered a new idol. He is the image it is understood today as immortality and sought. Recognition and fame, "Traces" it says - this time, the spiritual way to eternal life, which also take into account an early death. The people will long remain fascinated by life and death of James Dean, who felt already famous when he had to clean the tables in fast food. And how can one not be fascinated by someone who writes in such a young age, these rates in a letter to the minister of his native city: "I mean, there is only one true form of greatness for a man to me is the only success , the only size of immortality. " James Dean has had to give for this success are very young life. But he was probably totally agree with this.
But this is the way "Lord, to whom shall we go, you've got words of eternal life?" (John 6:68) immortality has anything to do with the turn of the movement. With repentance and remorse. For the finite seems itself a kind of sin, because it is something non-divine. Only through the reverse action releases the "sin" in the finite, and in this sense is "God all in all". This approach means salvation and redemption, liberation means of the finite, which as such is the brunt of our being. (See "The Spirit of the Liturgy") Non
fame or the traces left by brings us eternal life, immortality, but rather the reverse, for "the sting of death is sin. "But" Death is swallowed up in victory! Death, where is thy sting? ?. Death, where is thy victory "(1 Cor 15, 53-54) Through love Christ has conquered death, who hears his word and believes him who sent him has eternal life, and he does not come into condemnation, but is from death to life. (cf. Jn 5:24) crossed over
How comforting!