My Penitente Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Penitente Land write by Angelico Chavez. This book was released on 2012. My Penitente Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author's personal meditation on his cultural heritage is also a kind of spiritual autobiography of the Hispano people of New Mexico. In evoking this special closeness between the divine and the human, he returns repeatedly to the Penitentes of New MexicoNthe societies of men who scourge themselves and replay the Crucifixion each Holy Week to share the sufferings of their Savior.
My Penitente Land
My Penitente Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Penitente Land write by Fray Angelico Chavez. This book was released on 2012-05-15. My Penitente Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unusual book, Fray Angélico Chávez's personal meditation on his cultural heritage, is also a kind of spiritual autobiography of the Hispano people of New Mexico. The spirit of New Mexico, he feels, grows out of its dry mountain terrain whose hills and valleys resemble those of Spain and of ancient Palestine. Just as this kind of landscape helped the Hebrew shepherd Abraham to find his God, so in Fray Angélico's view, have New Mexico's mountains kept her people close to their God. In evoking this special closeness between the divine and the human, the author returns repeatedly to the Penitentes of New Mexico-the societies of men who scourge themselves and replay the Crucifixion each Holy Week to share the sufferings of their Savior. Some of his ideas will spark controversy over the meaning of New Mexico's past, but Fray Angélico Chávez's viewpoint, representing that of many native Spanish Americans, deserves the attention of every reader with an interest in the state's Hispanic heritage. No one can read this book without gaining a new understanding of the world of the New Mexican Hispano imbedded in the dry, hilly landscape of the majestic Sangre de Cristo mountains.
My Penitente Land
My Penitente Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Penitente Land write by Angelico Fray Chavez. This book was released on 1979-06-01. My Penitente Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
My Penitente Land
My Penitente Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Penitente Land write by Angelico Chavez. This book was released on 1979-06-01. My Penitente Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
But Time and Chance
But Time and Chance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook But Time and Chance write by Angelico Chavez. This book was released on 1981. But Time and Chance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong . . . but time and chance happenethto them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11 With these words, the epitaph Padre Martinez chose for himself, the reader is drawn into a stirring and provocative biography recounted by a master storyteller. Fray Angelico Chavez, articulate and well-versed in New Mexicana, vividly records the life of the controversial Padre of Taos so that the reader gains full measure of his surroundings and of the times. Martinez was continually at the forefront of the public and political forums . . . a master of jurisprudence and canon law . . . a champion of the underdog. With the advent of Bishop Lamy, public attention became focused on these two dynamic personalities. Their philosophic differences ultimately led to Martinez' suspension and excommunication. Chavez was a curious and indefatigable researcher and he used these talents well while delving into the facts and legends surrounding Padre Martinez most poignant and colorful life-drama . . . a personality to be reckoned with, whether as hero or villain, or both. Readers will, at once, share with Chavez his absorption in this man and, also wonder . . . how such a phenomenon could have sprouted and bloomed under the most adverse circumstances of time and place.
