The Valanga di Vita Company, Inc.

V is not for Vendetta. V is for Valanga: Via Verita e Vita.


The origins of the company lie in part with Pier Paolo Pasolini,a controversial post-war intellectual from Bologna. Pa' was the director of Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo as well a the lesser known Ricotta and Hawks and Sparrows and who was portrayed by Daniel Defoe in Ferrara's biopic-who wrote an essay called The unhappy Young people in 1975, and with Pier Giorgio Frassati who was known as the man of the beatitudes (see day one of the total consecration to Jesus through Mary for the Sermon in the Mount)and a valanga di vita. indeed it is the company's contention that Frassati is the answer to Pasolini's question about how to restore joy to the generation de Gregori portrayed as killing Babbo Natale..and to the ones who inherited that worldview. Pasolini is controversial at best and Frassati is not widely known outside the Catholic Church. Though, Frassati is increasingly popular among Catholics as a friend rather than a saint.

For English speaking readers we offer the following background: Guido Fawkes is known for his attempt to blow up the English government in the 1600s, because it was persecuting Catholics. (In other words, he wanted to "auto correct" the cosmos, which in turn led to him being tortured and killed and has led to countless other religious wars, like the one now in Gaza, because an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.) Because the English crown ultimately gave rise to the United States which became a political, economic and cultural superpower in the past couple of centuries, this legacy of attempting to dismantle and destroy the Papal, Eucharistic church has not only endured for four hundred years,but become fashionable and taken for granted.
Jesus predicted that his followers would be persecuted just as he was, so it is not really any sort of surprise.
Others have appropriated the Guy Fawkes story for their own agenda.
For example, in our times, a movie was made about this sort of retaliatory violence, so logical according to human calculations, called V for Vendetta.
V is not for Vendetta. V is for Via, Verita e Vita.L Jesus came into the world as a light in a dark place, his coming was announced by invisible angels.
(As a matter of plain fact, the date chosen for the Guy Fawkes incident was November 5, which is in our times the feast of Zacariah who was the first to definitively hear the good news of the arrival of the redemption of the earth.)
the splendor of his glory is revealed in his transfiguration on Mount Tabor. Pope John Paul II wrote an encyclical on this day called "Veritatis Splendor."

the splendor of truth.