The Radiance in Your Eyes: What Saves Us From Nothingness

by Julián Carrón

In this book, Julián Carrón, the president of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, refects on this dizzying time in which nothingness looms so powerfully over everyone’s life, making us doubt whether life is positive and question the ultimate substance of reality, leading us to feel that all is in vain, even our own lives. Paradoxically, this context also reveals how unbearable it is to live without meaning and brings to light our indestructible desire to love and be loved. This book offers a powerful look at present events and at our insufficient attempts to survive in the midst of distraction and forgetfulness.
Carrón writes of the search for an answer that meets the challenge: a “You” who hears the cry of our humanity, reawakening love for ourselves and our lives. He describes an encounter with a living Christian community that makes the journey together fascinating and recounts testimonies of a faith that enters into present
experience, generating new knowledge and affection, a faith capable of valorizing all the true, beautiful, and good things it encounters along the road.

149 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Julián Carrón (born 25 February 1950) is a Spanish Catholic priest, and theologian and the former leader of the Italian Communion and Liberation movement.

Reviews

[Liam Byrne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this book. It was a dense and hard read for me but it was totally worth it. It proposes a way of living life that is very freeing, a life not trapped in yourself and your own thoughts and feelings. To search for conversion and not self satisfaction makes so much sense too. One road is self centered, fickle and ends in nothingness while the other is eternal and continually renews. I hope to live like this.

I also think the part on authority and the church and both of their importance is super helpful for anyone who struggles with submitting to an authority such as the church.

[Don Mario · Rating 3 out of 5]

Affascinante la radicalità con cui riporta sempre all'"incontro" come riferimento primo per la nostra vita. Sempre tentati di cercare sistemazioni più comode e rassicuranti e invece sempre invitati a lasciarci rimettere in discussione.
Interessanti le considerazioni sull'obbedienza che fa verso la fine. Non c'è appartenenza senza obbedienza.
Il linguaggio non mi è familiare e a volte fatico a comprendere. Il grandissimo numero di citazioni mi ha fatto passare dall'ammirazione a un pochino di fastidio.

[Marco Castellani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Agile nella lettura ma degno di essere studiato a fondo questo piccolo libro. Da inserire tra gli strumenti di lavoro per la guerra non sempre facile contro il nichilismo, sostenuti dal pensiero limpido di Carron che a sua volta si immerge nelle ragioni di grandi come Giussani, von Balthazar, Benedetto XVI, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, ma anche lo scrittore Mencarelli e il cantautore Guccini. Il brillìo degli occhi va cercato ogni giorno e se a volte è fatica il lavoro a cui siamo invitati, ha sempre il suo senso per la nostra vita.

[Erin Dye · Rating 5 out of 5]

A gaze.

An attentive & radiant gaze into living a life of reality is all that it takes to save us from nothingness. Living in reality is something that I have tried to become better at for the last couple years and I way that I thought that I could master doing just that was getting rid of most of my social media. This book helped me realize that to live in reality to get out of living a life of nothingness goes way beyond social media, and it is living a life where one is connected to the Father, especially through the Eucharist. To live in reality to better know the Father is to live in the flesh, to live in wonderment as children, to live in victory, to live in trust, to love more fully, to live in truth, and it is to live in complete dependence. There were a lot of great points mentioned in this book that I am going to have to go back and reread/pray through. Overall, it was a fantastic book that helped me better understand how to live in reality and in the flesh allows me to better love the Father and those around me at every moment.

[Stephen Bauer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't possibly review this book, but it's CL charism all the way. Read it if you dare!

[Benedetti Marco · Rating 4 out of 5]

concetti interessanti

[Alessia Masciocchi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mi aspettavo una visione più "aperta".
La parte iniziale, generica, è una grande fonte di spunti!