You are not the only one, Mario, to mispells my name: imagine that after
having miscalled me as Elly for three years, my next door neighbour just
called her new-born baby girl "Elly" , stressing that the baby was called
like that after me.
Talking about "sacrifice"......
Sacrificio/sacrifice: etymologically containing the word Sacro- sacred-
"offer made to render sacred something." In the Christian rituality, the
word remembering Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross (an offer made to us, to
save us, to render us sacred...the act implying the sacrifice of the person
or animal itself...sacred....
It implies the giving of something (person or animal or thing) which is
taken away from oneself and giving entirely to someone else with no
concern for personal or selfish convenience - in the case of Christ
sacrifice, the sacrifice of his own life for the human kind, it is the
ultimate giving, the extreme offer made for a particular aim which aims not
at the Self.
(from the compound Latin . sacri- ficiu(m).
Yet, also an action as ideologically pure as the sacrifice proves to be
based on calculation, and most often motivated by personal gain, as in the
majority of ritual offers.
(So, I do not have an answer...but doubts on doubts deepening my already
gloomy pessimistic view of mankind).
(I am not authorized to preach, though, I do not doing anthing generous at
present as to be able to feel orientated in this subject).
Yet, hope exists as a possibility....
Ciao, Emilia
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