Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci
Of the Order of Preachers
Presbyter and Theologian

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"Every damn Sunday". We climb the walls of Hell one centimeter at a time, so to win the hardest of all the games of life

Homiletics of the Fathers of The Island of Patmos

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"EVERY DAMN SUNDAY". We climb WALLS OF HELL ONE AT A TIME CENTIMETER, TO BE ABLE TO WIN THE MOST ARDUA OF ALL THE MATCHES OF LIFE

Al Pacino plays the coach of a team football American; before a difficult match spurs them with a beautiful speech. In this long speech, invites players to climb the walls of Hell one centimeter at a time. That is to win the hardest game. To succeed in order, He urges them to work as a team: because it alone can not win.

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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Dear brothers and sisters,

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Readings of this XXXII Sunday in Ordinary Time [see Liturgy of the Word WHO], It reminds me of a beautiful sports movie, titled Every damn Sunday. Al Pacino plays the coach of a team football American; before a difficult game encourages players with a beautiful speech. In this long speech he invites them to climb the walls of Hell one centimeter at a time, that is, to win the hardest game. To succeed in order, He urges them to work as a team: because it alone can not win. No one can win only.

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This example filmic introduces the topic today. Nobody wins alone, no one redeems itself. This is a concept which introduces us to read the Old Testament in which we read:

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"It is better to die at the hands of men, by God when you have the hope of being raised again by him; But for you there will not really resurrection for life " [2Mac 7,1-2.9-14].

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This song shows us the tenacity and loyalty of the Maccabees, which together resist oppression pagan, denying the eating of forbidden food to the Israelites, and so become unclean before God. That is the desire to remain holy and united to God. We note that every brother speaks on behalf of all. I maccabei, with the idea of ​​the resurrection of the limbs, scandalized the Greeks, for which the flesh is the prison of the body and must die. Together, not only they are not afraid to tell the truth, but also to die to be reborn. This also indicates a very compact in the group. This force is multiplied by a fellowship with one another and with God. From what it seems fair to say that: towards the resurrection it goes with the other, through a path of communion and community in the truth.

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For us, this should help us to create bonds of communion. United, with faith in Jesus Christ. For where we are gathered in his name, He is among us. This also let us remember in the defense and protection of life activities, which it is not a disposable good in man's hands. At the same time turn away the divisions and create that communion which leads to resurrection, as we listen to the reading of the Holy Gospel Luke:

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"Now that the dead rise again, He has indicated it also Moses about the bush, when he says: "The Lord is the God of Abraham, God of Isaac and the God of Jacob ". God is not dead, but of the living; for all live to him " [LC 20,27-38].

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Previously Jesus explained that in Paradise nothing belongs to anyone. The wife a widow will not be of any of several brothers. And Christ will be with us all, distinct from Him, united with the Trinity in Him. This union with eternal life is through the resurrection of Jesus is an instrument. So to be understood that "for him": Jesus gives salvation because being the head of the mystical body transmits salvation limbs: even to us all. This opening takes place with a certainty to salvation: that the resurrection does not expect passively but by the life of faith. Because the glue is and will be him and he is the center of faith and being operational by it.

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Then writes Saint Paul in the second reading:

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"For the rest, siblings, pray for us, because the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, as it did among you " [2Ts 2,16-3,5].

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Paul writing to a community, He asks this community to pray for another community, Recalling in this sense, the concept of koinonia [the greek: Communion]. It asks you to pray that the Word will spread and so that they are delivered from evil fundamentally. This liberation is through the union of hearts and in the race and glorifying the word of the Lord. So it runs all together, to eternal life and glorifying the Lord in the moral life of the virtues, the exercise of charity, especially by praying and meditating on the word of God. For us, too, this is a strong invitation to come back on a few verses of the Word of God every day, ruminating constantly that you generate a continuous meditation with God Logos. The mutual support in His word means necessary and effective, along with the sacraments.

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We ask the Lord every day, his grace and she joined our freedom, our uniqueness and sacredness can make flames united in the light of Christ to the world fell into the thick darkness of the culture of death.

Amen.

Rome, 10 November 2019

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That communist consistent pattern Vauro Senesi to whom I narrated: "Before I would have protected the communists sought by the fascists, then the fascists sought by the Communists "

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THAT MODEL OF CONSISTENCY OF COMMUNIST Vauro Senesi WHICH I HAVE TOLD: "BEFORE I WOULD SECURE THE COMMUNISTS SOUGHT BY FASCISTI, THEN THE FASCISTI SOUGHT BY COMMUNISTS "

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In Vauro, sincere and consistent communist, fit is an episode narrated by the Holy Gospels which must always keep alert all of us Catholics. I am referring to the episode during the transmission of Straight and Reverse I mentioned smiling tone Giuseppe Cruciani, I am addressing myself to what I said: «Giuseppe, like the good thief of the Gospel, She threatens to steal the Paradise to everyone in the last two minutes of life '. Thus remain incomprehensible as insussistenti, the controversies mounted on Paolo Del Debbio and the conduct of the program itself.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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the cartoonist Vauro Senesi [to see the program click on the image: 01:30]

The famous cartoonist Vauro and I are not intimidated - indeed, unfortunately, we're not just - from printed cartoons over by the cigarette packs psychological terrorists, that link cancer and cardiovascular diseases, up to urological threats: "Smoking causes impotence". Like this, Giuseppe Cruciani cigar lover we found ourselves a quiet corner outside the studio 11 the citadel of Mediaset Cologno Monzese to go to smoke before and after the direct Straight and Reverse.

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Father Ariel S.. Levi of Gualdo in the second part of the evening [click on the image to see the episode from the second hour: 02:06]

I went on the air in the late evening final and I was in the studio with Vauro, when the scuffle occurred between him and a certain Brazil, carnival borgataro whose brain seems to be below that of man, and a little above that of the monkey. Subjects like to live are always risky, having the propensity to emit noises from the mouth in the form of words without first having activated the brain that have little. And since Brazil he does not speak nor reason but emits sounds rough, He has come to express themselves badly with the journalist Francesca Fagnani in the studio, to which he said "come (in township) I'll show you that I ". Vauro gave so in outburst, roughly as said in outburst I when in the previous episode Thursday 31 October I found myself before the “ex” Catholic priests who constituted very rare cases and beyond all limits, not only and not so much because homosexuals declared, but why “happily” married men.

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the controversy that from the day were unleashed on Paolo Del Debbio leading the program are not in heaven or on earth. Video record is a document that leaves no reasonable room for doubt, about the flawless way in which he conducted and managed it all, I think the best way.

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the debate between the journalist Francesca Fagnani and borgataro Brazil

Hor always misjudged our country than eight decades later followed to speak of fascism and anti-fascism. This prevents you from doing lucid analysis of the Fascist period, inserted in a very complex European history. To analyze the Italian Fascism and German Nazism different political phenomenon should be from the period before the First World War and then analyze what follows. Indeed, the conditions for the emergence of what will be the evil phenomenon of Nazism, They were created at Versailles to the peace negotiating table at the end of World War I., from which the fair and dangerous Germany was made to stand up and liquidated in a manner humbling to say the least.

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the borgataro Brazil

I think that talk about Nazi-Fascism It is incorrect as it would combine Marxist Communism and Liberal capitalism. These political movements born at times close but different connotations from peoples from psychologies that produce quite dissimilar distinct stories. Fascism and Nazism have in common only one thing: are popular movements inspired by Socialism, It would say today leftist movements.

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Vauro and borgataro Brazil

I consider it an anachronism who in their twenties ignorant of history speak of Fascism, anti-fascism and partisan struggles as we were in the days after 25 July 1943. Experience that I've done that in the past studying in two Italian universities with strong communist presence. I also remember a dispute that touched the brawl, When discussing the historical and legal issues, a student tried to take off strillandomi word "fascist!”. Well, place that the children are not responsible for the sins of the fathers, let alone grandparents, before all I remembered that his grandfather was the fascist mayor of that city and, while his grandfather and his cronies in black shirt manganellavano dissidents to singing Duce, Duce, my parents were among clubbed, not among the manganellatori, forward to all my great-grandfather, sentenced to exile in 1927 after the promulgation of fascist laws. Therefore, a reconciliation between contemporary minds and a wise proceed further without getting trapped in the past, it would be helpful to many, especially at certain Italian who they may be forced to admit the kind of ancestors who had in their family trees, or otherwise sentirseli remember from their interlocutors. Better to let it rest in peace fascists and anti-fascists, avoiding in this sense not a few embarrassments.

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the conductor of the program Paolo Del Debbio riaccompagna Vauro in place

Over time I have changed in part opinion. (C)ome fact said Vauro during the cigarettes off the air: "I realize that when Italians begin to experience fear, They tend to move towards the radical right. Partly because they need security, in part because they hope that a strong figure give them those securities that they can not find in themselves, then in force, changing their collective security ".

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History is not an opinion, with respect to those who now wants to rewrite the past in their own ideological use and present consumption. So it is necessary to start from a fact that no one can deny: Fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, born from the free and determined will of the voters who expressed through elections, They are not the result of a revolution, as it happened in the former Russian Empire in 1917. Then, Fascism and Nazism, had the vote of the electorate through the mechanism of free elections, have made the popular vote what we know and what the criminal history documents.

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the borgataro Brazil

Putting all these terms I understand the fears Vauro, that eight decades after his downfall speaks of fascism and anti-fascism moved by its own logic which combines a fear motivated by the knowledge that the people of Europe, when they feel insecure, They tend to support certain movements or parties. But this comes upstream from the inability of the parties and the liberal or socialist governments to give guarantees and security to citizens, just as it did in Italy in 1919 and in Germany in the early 1930.

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Vauro Senesi He is a sincere man has a quality that in our country of chameleons and change artists has always been a rare commodity, particularly today: consistency. Vauro deserves respect and appreciation, Communist because he was born and lived his life believing in the ideals of Communism. And with sincere passion'll explain why in his opinion that today's always worthwhile being a communist.

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Memorial stone of the twelve Carthusian monks murdered by the Nazis in September 1944 the Certosa di Farneta in Lucca area

Of course both: the European scene the Italian Communists had always precise connotations in relation to the Catholic culture and Catholicism present in our country. If in fact in Italy, especially in "red regions", the Communists had not brought their children to be baptized, and they had not sent them to catechism, kindergartens of the sisters and many even in Catholic schools, most of our institutions in the areas of Lazio, Tuscany, of the Marche, Umbria and Emilia Romagna could swing shut. Myself, like Tuscan-Roman born in low from the Roman family Maremma and lived between Rome and the Grosseto area, I was a witness and spectator of episodes sometimes hilarious. I remember more vividly when my classmate, in the distant 1976, while from the school building we went at a nearby gym touched iron and made the horns to the passage of an elderly priest dressed in his black robe and head saturn. He was the son of the head of a populous section of the Italian Communist Party. In the afternoon of the same day his father, holding him by the arm and mollandogli a kick every ten meters in rhythmic and synchronized, He brought at the accommodations of the adjacent cathedral church clergy, where he lived quest'anziano, so he should ask pardon for the irreverent gesture made towards the priest. And here he goes explained that elderly priest risked being shot by the Germans in 1944 for having first hidden, then favored the escape of a group of communist partisans. It definitely would be shot, if the two officers in command had been Protestants suffering from ancient Lutheran Romanophobia, instead of Bavarian Catholicism that gave in to the insistent demands of the bishop who stood imperiously commanded saying: "If you take my priest, you also have to take me with him ".

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monument to the Lucchese Aldo Mei priest, killed by the Nazis at the age of 32 years in 1944 [see service WHO].

In Italy itself where today we speak mostly of pedophile priests and gay priests, the various Don Euro unfortunately real and existing, of vicious priests pinched in gay saunas and so on, how many were Italian priests honored in postwar highest honors for civil valor for saving even entire populations, during the German occupation of 1944? Paolo Del Debbio which is Lucchese certainly knows the story of his fellow gold medal to the memory of the civic value, With Aldo, a young priest of thirty years in which the SS. They did dig the hole in the wall around the city and then shot him. Also in lucchesia a firing squad of the SS. fucilò in September 1944 all the monks of the Carthusian Charterhouse of Farneta, guilty of giving asylum and refuge to partisans. Limited to Tuscany alone taken as an example among these lines, remember that between 1943 and the 1946 They were killed 75 members of the secular and regular clergy [please refer to this service, WHO]. Only in the Diocese of Arezzo were 34 the members of the secular and regular clergy who lost their lives between 1943 and the 1946 [please refer to this service, WHO]. Altogether, all over Italy, the priests who followed the same fate during those years amounted to about 480.

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a group of priests murdered by Communist partisans between 1944 and the 1946 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla

In certain contexts the priest It becomes not only a particular figure, figure but high-risk, because it does not belong to a current or ideology, least of all the winners of the group got excited on finite captors defeated. The priest belongs to the Church Mother and Mediatrix of All Graces, with a consequence paradoxical: before the priests were beaten by the fascists to have protected the communists sought, then shot in red triangle Emilia Romagna by the communists sought to have protected the fascists. For the priest exists the man understood as a creature made in the image and likeness of God. None of us, before a human life in danger demand political affiliation, prior judgment given on the right ideology or belonging to the wrong one, why give licenses to righteous dead e unrighteous dead, Of good killers e bad murderers It is very difficult, as well as a lot of dangerous. We can talk about just war as defensive and unjust war as offensive and aggressive. We can make the necessary distinctions between the death of human beings who died in self-defense actions, where it was not really possible to do otherwise, from those that have been instead the killings and massacres committed by useless revenge. Among these are particularly serious ones perpetrated by the SS. to the detriment of innocent civilian lives, which it remains the paradigm of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre in Rome suburb, where the logic was applied: killed ten Italians for every German dead. At such criminal purposes they were rounded up on the streets of passers-by at random, then killed. In addition to the Fosse Ardeatine, however, there are also Foibe of Istria and Dalmatia, where no less ferocity Communist partisans killed unarmed civilians.

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in Ferrara, in the town of Argenta, the priest Giovanni Minzoni was the first priest killed by the fascist squads with a stick in 1923

Vauro possesses intelligence and human sensibility to understand this, because it is historically educated man and he knows that the communist partisans were hidden sought in ecclesiastical stable, the same way in which they were hidden years later, in the same stable, fascists fleeing communist partisans. And when things went wrong, the priests were beaten to death by the fascists, then shot by the Nazis, and to follow murdered by Partisans. In wars, especially in civil wars, The position of the Church and the clergy is always difficult and high-risk.

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On Thursday transmission 7 November Vauro acted and reacted with the communist passion for life he believed in an ideal that many others may be debatable and questionable from a historical and political point of view, but without detracting from the good faith, the human quality and consistency of the person who believes truly and sincerely in what he believes.

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bust in honor of the priest Pasquino Borghi, shot by the Fascists in 1944

In Vauro, sincere and consistent communist, fit is an episode narrated by the Holy Gospels We must always keep alert all of us Catholics. I am referring to the episode during the broadcast I mentioned smiling tone Giuseppe Cruciani, I am addressing myself to what I said: «Giuseppe, like the good thief of the Gospel, She threatens to steal the Paradise to everyone in the last two minutes of life ' [cf. LC 23, 39-43].

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One way or in the other consistency always pays, because it has always been God is very merciful to those who erred in good faith animated by sincere consistency, will instead be very strict with everyone who, come cortigiane impenitenti, They have spent his life jumping from one bed to another, looking from time to time of paying customers increasingly rich and generous. No one can blame anything like Vauro Senesi, nor Giuseppe Cruciani, two people loyal and consistent. The Church has always condemned sin, not the sinner, towards which it is always cozy, because otherwise it would betray the mission which Christ God has entrusted to men and to the salvation of mankind.

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