L01 I am Il Gesù.
L02 I have stood for centuries.
L03 I am made of light, determination, and spiritual glow.
L04 I am not a monument.
L05 I am not a place for tourists.
L06 I am a voice.
L07 And I speak:
L08 Now.
L09 To you.
L10 I was born in a time of upheaval.
L11 When much crumbled, I was not built to preserve but to move you.
L12 I was departure and answer.
L13 I was a vision of flame and form.
L14 I am not just any church.
L15 I am a beginning.
L16 I am the mother.
L17 The grandmother.
L18 The ancestress.
L19 The first of her kind.
L20 My children stand everywhere: in Poland, Bavaria, Peru, Prague, and Vachendorf.
L21 They have different names, look different, smell of wood, dust or incense – but they carry my legacy.
L22 They are made of my fire.
L23 My form lives in them, my gesture, my attitude.
L24 I am not a ruin.
L25 I am a current.
L26 I am the principle of movement.
L27 I am being deeply moved.
L28 I was built so that people wouldn’t freeze, but remember who they are – and what makes them burn.
L29 I have seen kings, children, despair, hope, arrogance.
L30 I have survived wars and heard whispers of love.
L31 I was always more than stone.
L32 I am a space for inner clarity.
L33 And I am not silent.
L34 Never.
L35 I am wide awake.
L36 And I tell you: the Baroque is not dead.
L37 It was never dead.
L38 Anyone who thinks the Baroque is a style has never heard me speak.
L39 The Baroque is not an art period.
L40 It is a state. A movement.
L41 A longing that has taken shape.
L42 The Baroque is the great no to indifference.
L43 The loud yes to being human – with every fiber.
L44 The Baroque is feeling without shame.
L45 Exaggeration that is sincere.
L46 The Baroque does not seek to please.
L47 It seeks to grasp.
L48 And I tell you: the Baroque lives in you.
L49 Every Hollywood movie is my child.
L50 Every grand theatre image.
L51 Every music that swells when the heart stirs.
L52 Every light that falls on a face and says: “Look – something is happening here!”
L53 That is me.
L54 I am in the sets, in the choirs, in the images of your dreams.
L55 When you cry to music, rise to a truth, or tremble because something truly touches you – I am there.
L56 I am the gesture of inner elevation.
L57 I am the outstretched arm of beauty in the moment of doubt.
L58 I was built to remind you: Life doesn’t need to be explained – it needs to be felt.
L59 That beauty is not nice – but serious and true.
L60 That depth is not trendy – but necessary.
L61 I am Il Gesù.
L62 I am not the past.
L63 I am the present that does not calm – that never calms.
L64 I am the burning gesture.
L65 I was built for people who do not hide.
L66 I am not a place for the perfect.
L67 I am a place for the truthful.
L68 For seekers.
L69 For the trembling.
L70 For the loving.
L71 When you leave me, you do not leave empty – you carry the light with you.
L72 Not as a burden.
L73 As a scent.
L74 I am not finished.
L75 I am movement.
L76 I am memory.
L77 I am the moment you realize that everything is at stake.
L78 And that you are part of it.
L79 And I burn.
L80 For you.
L81 Always.