The Word Among Us


the place of Francis de Sales' inspiration for a new religious order (photo by Steve Shapiro)

a repertory company performing
the dramatic works of Karol Wojtyla / John Paul II

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DRAMATIC WORKS of Karol Wojtyla:
  • The Jeweler's Shop

 This three-act play explores fundamental human concerns about love through the experiences of three couples whose lives are intertwined:  How do we know we are in love? Will our love last? Is it real? What happens if loves withers?

The subject has no easy answers!  Yet the play offers astonishing insight into the complex nature of mankind. Filled with the wisdom of the Spirit and Faith, this work guides men and women through the mysterious and unstable emotions that we all experience.

Written in 1960, the play was produced as a movie, starring Burt Lancaster, in 1989.

[click on the photo for a more detailed synopsis]

 

  • Our God's Brother

The play, written in 1949 and filmed in 1997 as "Brother of Our God," offers a meditation on poverty and suffering as told in the story of St. Albert Chmielowski (1845-1916).  A well-known artist in Krakow, and later founder of the religious order of the Albertines, he believed that the great calamity of our time is that so many refuse to see and relieve the sufferings of other because of the interpersonal gap between the "haves" and the "have nots."

 

  • Radiation of Fatherhood

Written in 1964, this play champions freedom:  Love is always a choice and is always born by choice.  ... Giving birth this way through perpetual choice, we give birth to love.

For the sake of true human fatherhood In this world, as David Blankenhorn summarizes the play, this means that "men must seek to let the perfect paternity of God the Father radiate through the frail man, understanding that the human father is genuinely authoritative only to the degree that he himself is under authority, recognizing himself as God's obedient son."

 

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