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Titus Brandsma. He spoke! He comforted. He encouraged. He beamed. This farmer's son. Anno Sjoerd Brandsma. from Ugeklooster, (the Netherlands) Son of the Frisian countryside.
Phyllis Diller guest stars as Grandma Titus, who still intimidates Ken – despite showing signs of Alzheimer's disease, which has her trying to teach a high-school class.
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On this site we present the fruits of this on-going edition project, including translations and commentaries. 1. Writings. The writings of Saint Titus Brandsma O. Carm., which are preserved in the Titus Brandsma archives of the Dutch Carmelite Institute, include thousands of documents.
- The Inscription
- The Opening Line
- Once More Alive, that… that…
- Suffering Shared in Friendship
- The Union with God
- O, Leave Me Here
- Your Presence Makes All Things Good For Me
The inscription above the poem consists of three elements. Firstly, the spiritual setting: ‘Before the image of Jesus’. Secondly, the political setting: ‘In prison’. Finally, the date: ’12/13 Feb. 1942′. We begin with the date. Titus wrote the poem in two days: 12 and 13 February 1942. A few weeks before (27 January) he had written ‘My cell’, in wh...
The opening line ‘O Jesus, when I gaze on You’ evokes the atmosphere of contemplative attention: seated silently ‘before the image of Jesus’, Titus Brandsma keeps the loving gaze directed to Jesus on the cross. In spirituality this is called ‘devotion’, intimate dedication. Here, three aspects are interwoven with each other.Firstly, ‘allow the imag...
Titus prayerfully explains what is happening there whilst he gazes: ‘Once more alive…’ Characteristic of devotion is that it causes one to ‘rise up out of tepidity’ and ‘awakens love’.Therefore, Titus says: ‘Once more alive…’. The experience teaches that love easily fades. The ‘gazing’ awakens love ‘once more’ to ‘life’. Two ‘that’ sentences succee...
Via the indicated pronoun ‘that’, the second stanza aligns itself with the first: ‘Although that calls me to suffer more/ Oh, for me all suffering is good’. A friend asks for the courage to suffer, a ‘special friend’ asks for ‘the courage to suffer more’, certainly when it concerns the friendship with Jesus who bears the suffering of humanity. Titu...
The third stanza continues with the motif of suffering which, in the triptych on the small folding table of Titus, is present in the figures of Teresa and John of the Cross with the mottos: ‘to die or to suffer’ and ‘to suffer and to be scorned’. Is this a glorification of suffering: ‘Oh, for me all suffering is good’, ‘I am blissful in my sufferin...
The fourth stanza begins with the third ‘O’ and via the demonstrative ‘here’, connects with the situation which has developed in the previous stanza: ‘O, just leave me here silently alone, / The chill and cold around me.’ This ‘here’ has two sides. The first is the outside: here ‘in prison’, which is ‘around me’: ‘O, just leave me here silently alo...
Solitariness is the place where Titus can expose himself to the bliss of the suffering shared in friendship. This is thematised in the final stanza. Just as in the first stanza, Titus addresses Jesus by his name: ‘For Thou, O Jesus, art with me, / I have never been so close to You’. For the fourth time we hear ‘O’, now intimate and tender. In ‘My c...
* Grandma Titus: You're nuts! Just like your mother! I have just two words for you; shock therapy. * Christopher Titus: [scared] Dad, Gram-gram bad. * Ken Titus: All right, all right. That is it! you know something, Mom. You have abused me, my whole life, but you do not abuse my son! * Christopher Titus: Yeah, *he* does that! * Ken Titus: Yeah!
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May 15, 2022 · Titus prayerfully explains what is happening whilst he gazes: ‘Once more alive…’ Devotion causes us to ‘rise up out of tepidity’ and ‘awakens love’.
