The View Up Here

My #blog post for the @CatholicCourier this week! Thank you for reading and sharing. https://t.co/gOjd31wcgz — Elena Cambio (@ElenaMCambio) March 26, 2019

Recently my good friend Rosalie posted on her blog an insightful reading of the movie Amadeus  where she draws a parallel to how the Holy Spirit works in us. I wrote a comment on Rosalie's excellent post, and then between the two of us, we realized it was a bit long for a comment. So here it will live and breathe on its own, expanded for my own blog post, but please do read her  original post (and watch the clip she includes at the end which sums up the heart of the film). I was a sophomore in high school when Amadeus (the film) came out. I went to see it with my Mom at the Elmira 1-2-3, and we both became huge admirers of the film and Mozart in general. I'd grown up listening to classical music, but now I had a much more personal connection with this particular composer. I even wrote a bad teenage poem to Mozart! (No, you may not read it.) It was a spiritual connection, to be sure, and remains so. I pray for him and ask him to pray for me, as odd as it may sound. ...