Rome. On the two sixteen year olds he died on the spot near the Ponte Milvio yet another crocodile tears of a civil society that is unable to wonder: where is that, we parents, we were wrong and then tragically failed?

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ROMA. DEATH ON TWO sixteen UP SHOT NEAR Ponte Milvio Yet another CROCODILE TEARS OF A CIVIL SOCIETY UNABLE TO WONDERING: DOVE, PARENTS OF US, WRONG AND THEN WE HAVE FAILED DESPERATELY?

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every now and again, any of these immortal youth, hopefully dies, because very often instead kill others without them they do a scratch. And when any of these unpunished, invincible and immortal dies, We cry a couple of days, colored balloons are launched on coffins, as if death were a circus, They will lay flowers, signs and puppets at the scene. Then, if anything, is also assumed as a defender and talentata the famous criminal lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, because the parent who does not train disaster, does not care, no guards and gives no solid rules of life to their children, first of all essential to protect the children themselves, It must be always right, He does not fail, and can not fail. The whole world is in error, he and his son no, May!

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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The two young men died in Rome sixteen and twenty investor [photo taken from public social]

The death of two sixteen year olds run over by a car in Rome leads me to narrate a fact of which I was protagonist, since it useful to introduce a complex and difficult issue to be addressed.

Three years ago I passed by the square of a certain Italian cities, When adolescents, two boys who were the cockerels with four peers, BLOW me as I passed behind him with this phrase:

"These pedophile priests shit!».

I turn towards the two boys, and even if I had before me a mirror, I imagine that my look, in that moment, would create some sense of fear even a hungry hyena. I ask sternly to the two boys:

"By chance, you have it with me?».

With unspeakable arrogance one of the two, swelling before the four mignottelle in bloom - as these have already made, finished and finished, from skirts to make to follow with vamp hairstyles - replica:

"Yup. So what? what problems did you ... what the fuck you want?».

On the interrogative sound 'want?», part of my left hand a slap deliberately measured. In fact, if we had put strength, the head of the boy would have become detached from the neck. And if you had stuck, He would bring some permanent damage. Or to clarify: when I shake of the valves, or when I close the coffee machine, it happens sometimes that I am asked to unscrew the whole thing, Why, if inadvertently not I measure the force, it happens that others do not then be able to open the closures …

... After a few seconds of stunning for the measured received sberla, the would-be "tough boy" runs away from me cautiously and begins to scream:

"I denounce you ... I'll sue!».

With a calm whole seraphic - stuff to embarrass really Fra Angelico with the entire choir of Seraphim - answer:

"Meanwhile you've taken a slap, Now go ahead and denounce ".

In a completely lawful some might wonder if they are not I was a reckless fool authentic, to give a slap to a minor in a public square, around noon on Sunday morning, all in front of dozens of witnesses. Question more than understandable to which answer: no recklessness on impulse risky move: I did so studied, but above all for the greater good of that boy, humiliating him before his friend, Everyone mignottelle in bloom and a whole square that is not filled with looks of disappointment, but complacency. That characteristic complacency of the people these days have to suffer frequently little monsters and the like tyrants, lack of education and the minimum respect for adults, adult, seniors and elderly. And they have to suffer because these monsters are untouchable, as evidenced by the continuation of the story …

... Monday morning I called the commander of the local police station that, knowing me, tries at once to avoid a problem. After a few pleasantries I ask me if I can go at their offices to 15.30. and short answer Cutting:

"Captain, if by chance it is the slap given to the streets yesterday to guy, know that it's all true, Did I dumped it seriously. The rest of her story in person today, when I come to visit you ".

That's what had happened and why that invitation: the police had tried to restrain the boy's father, about to take 17 years the following month, who had gone with them with the intention to sue for assault and injury. In conciliatory way the police had tried to convince him that maybe, his son, She had addressed some provocation to a priest, up to make him lose his temper. And while not knowing what had happened, They reassured him that knew me for years and I was not the kind of person to do such a thing, if not before something very serious. In short: They had convinced him to talk to me, they think I would definitely explained, wondering if anything even apologize to the father and the son and, maybe, perhaps even to the Holy Spirit.

What it happened in the barracks between the boy's father and me, It was later defined by police as "a memorable lesson in pedagogy", of course, in private talks between them, but promptly disseminated - always privately -, colleagues from all neighboring stations. so I smile at the boy's father painting by an air mingled in the dark and angry and I invest with a question:

"She called me to apologize, vero? Know therefore right now that what the really are very grateful ".

Stunned he replies:

"You're kidding, or you out of your mind? She slaps my minor child and asks me if I have come to apologize?».

We are having already collected the day before all the most accurate information, I answer:

"And moreover, apologize, she should thank me, because with his son, undoubtedly a minor, but some time ago use of alcohol and soft drugs, who comes home late at night, that the guide scooter recklessly and so, I did what she should have done long ago for his own good, but unfortunately he never made ... ".

Unable to rage before police the father searches for words, while I take advantage of his silence to continue:

"... I have no idea what I would do my parents, or what would make any parent worth his salt, learning that his year-old son, a public square, He had insulted an ultra fifty serene and peaceful man who was passing? I tell him at once that I would have done what my father, who he never used physical violence on me: in that case it would change the connotations. Then, just medicate the wounds, would take me by the person offended by me to apologize. Mine was, however, a real parent, as she is a true parent failure, ready to legitimize a child of which you should be ashamed, because certain monsters do not just happen, They are manufactured by men and women like her as his wife '.

Then I inform him of what he had told me his son behind him, insulting me and the entire College of Priests of the Catholic Church, finally concluding:

"Said this, He intends to apologize to me and thank me for the salutary slap given to his son?».

Instead of grasping the gravity of the, He understands that his son had insulted a man unknown adult and an entire institution, the parent tries to justify himself:

"It is not the fault of my son, We know well what do priests, It is written all over the papers'.

Hearing this and fully understood where it came from the natural candidate to violence and crime that had revealed his son, We report:

"You know that in this world there are many women who do the whores? Well, if I met his mother and his wife, and I gave you the whores in the public square, then I think that I can justify saying "... well, you know what women do, It is written in all the newspapers that speak of prostitution ". As if women because these were all whores and rigor, of course, also included his mother and his wife, or not?».

At that point the parent had two solutions: or to rage, but as I said it would not be appropriate and conducive to its intolerable because inside a military base before four policemen, or sketch. So all he said:

"I should denounce the, but I want to be good and I will just tell you to never afford more ».

Two years later I learned that at that same barracks He was taken to the son of this great parent in detention, because at the age he had passed from the use of alcohol and hashish to the more adult and strong cocaine. The police had caught him red-handed as he pushed in a room a few meters from the front door of the barracks, however, cocaine diluted with substances anything but beneficial, the purpose of obtaining ten o'clock doses from a quantity of five. So what is obvious: one that holds and selling drugs a few meters from the entrance of the police station, or is a total lunatic, or a person who feels untouchable, invincible and then impunibile. Or to put it as far grotesque: it would be like if someone came in with swagger safe and absolute certainty of impunity in direct mosque frequented by a group of fundamentalist Islamists with a pig on a leash, He convinced to get away and be especially harder and more powerful than they.

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Roman Christmas was bloodied by the death of two girls sixteen [see chronicle WHO], overwhelmed by a twenty to a guide Suv. The image of two girls olds died on the spot is a fact that the majority of people takes away any incentive to exercise the little that remains of human reason in our decadent society, to leave space to the emotional and sentimental. All but a few days, on the street corner where today were deposed flowers, billboards and dolls, flowers wither soon, discolor the billboards will disappear and the puppets, without changing anything in the minds of some children and some parents. Without any emotional and sentimental consciousness is raised those questions that must not even touch the mind of our army of failed parents, as well as dangerous and deadly monsters manufacturers who feel untouchable, invincible, unpunished and finally immortal.

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From the statements of the Roman magistrate Bernadette Nicotra, judge for preliminary investigations, reported in quotation marks in the press, we learn that "In the blood of Peter Genovese [N.d.A the driver of the SUV] They were found traces of cocaine and opiates, but it is not possible to determine how long before the substances have been taken. Immediately after the accident the young man was upset, but it did not seem stunned, so that the municipal officers have noted in the minutes that he had only "a winey breath '. Although Camilla and Gaia [N.d.A. the two young men died on the spot] He had conducted a "reckless recklessly" and "prohibited" - have in fact gone through this dangerous road with the red, bypassing guard-rail ―, as specifies the judge for preliminary investigations. The responsibility for Genovese was heavy and aggravates his position there are several administrative precedents and the risk of recurrence ". Previously, indeed, the young investor driver's license had been suspended.

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While she is crying on the two sixteen year olds death and the young investor from this incident will surely marked for life, it is legitimate to ask: where were the respective parents of the girls and the young driver of the SUV? It is legitimate to ask what they were doing two girls of sixteen late night, Saturday night, around a city like Rome, where you can find everything and more, at all hours of the day and, above all, of the night? You might wonder why a twenty problematic, already made subject to strict administrative procedures and inclined to contemptuously violate the rules, It was equipped with a motor vehicle and the necessary money to take to the beautiful wild life? Expenses, I gave the money, if the parents?

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I understand that before the two white coffins when two sixteen year olds during the Christmas festivities were closed, to say the obvious and painful it is very difficult, indeed perhaps impossible, but almost always the truth is the one that no one wants to say, much less hear: to lead those two coffins to the cemetery were their parents, gravely responsible for having left two sixteen year olds walking around late at night on Saturday for a metropolis. Officers are parents to have grown daughters who wrapped that complex of invincibility and immortality that characterizes our youth, with rare imprudence have bypassed a guard-rail and crossed in the pouring rain a dangerous road, in the dark and through a red light [cf. WHO]. Officers are the parents of the driver, that despite having manifested all the more serious recklessness, designed to endanger their lives and those of others, He was left free to continue to do what he wanted and how he wanted more in total disregard of all rules of civilized life. And not justified, the parents, He is saying that their son is twenty years of age and is, because the money required for its conduct of disordered life certainly does not come from her work, but from the portfolios of the father and mother. Unless it can be demonstrated that this is an age manager that just twenty years earns handsomely, thus being able to allow the vices and the quirks that better prefers.

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No one dares to tell the truth, before the coffins of two sixteen year olds on Christmas Day, but behind the tragedy of these young death is the total failure of their parents now, to feel in place and to find somewhere else responsible for culprit, will launch a lawsuit entrusted to the best Italian lawyers. All this just to say: we have failed as parents, because he had failed to watch over our children or having given them the rules of life, we let them grow in the firm conviction that everything was permissible and granted beyond good and evil. Having said that I add: I hope never be regarded as established as true the hypothesis reported shortly after the fatal accident, about the fact that among the young seems in vogue dangerous game of red light. In fact, according to several testimonies it seems that among the young people who attend the local Ponte Milvio is in vogue the dangerous habit of rushing on the street through a red light while speeding cars at high speed [cf. WHO, WHO].

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Not long ago, also in Rome, a young sixteen year old died within a disused stable in the busy district of San Lorenzo, where investigators later found that it was gone - too late at night - to try drugs by the pusher African. This sixteen year later found dead with signs of him had sex with more people widely grown, He called Desiree. Africans, initially investigated for murder and gang rape, They were then cleared of these accusations. The young man is in fact died from a mixture of drugs, it was not a rape, but of sexual abuse of a minor of age at night, inside the stable, He had entered his willingness to try drugs to be consumed, there had been dragged with force and violence [see chronicle, WHO, WHO]. Even then we witnessed the deposition of bouquets, billboards and dolls before the gate of the building in which the poor girl was found dead. Again the question is, however, to say the least uncomfortable, and in a matter of whether they are placed in that of the emotional world and the sentimental soon forget the tragedies and then live other new tragedies: what was she doing a sixteen year Cisterna di Latina, distant location 70 kilometers from Rome, around late at night to the districts of the capital, after he said with a phone call to her grandmother, as if this was the most obvious thing in the world: "I'll be home tomorrow, Tonight I stay at a friend '?

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The poor Desiree died in a dilapidated stable seedy San Lorenzo, came from a dysfunctional family and was the daughter of two problematic parents. The two young people died in these days in Rome, They did not come at all from contexts affected by natural disasters, but two families of the so-called "high levels" of high society. Evidence that is something behind these families immediately went out the name of Giulia Bongiorno [cf. WHO], He inscribed as a woman in the pink of the greatest criminal lawyers in Italy, It equipped to the point of a really great and rare gift of being, who was very young at the time, defender Giulio Andreotti in one of the criminal cases of the most complex of the entire history of the Italian Republic.

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I cherish profound esteem for Giulia Bongiorno, But I doubt that even a very talented criminal lawyer as you can reassure parents of the two young people that those responsible are other, it is so difficult for some people, before the life and death, take responsibility and say to themselves: we have failed. A terrible failure ultimately paid with the burial of our daughters.

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I know the area of ​​Ponte Milvio, twenties because I lived for a time on the Foreign Ministry Hills. At the time the residential neighborhood was a far cry. Today it has become a place of the move for young hippies that they seem to come from the living room of the miserable and dangerous Maria De Filippi, that on the psychological and behavioral disasters that afflict children and young people today, It has its considerable responsibilities, thanks to his television programs imprinted on miseducation and hedonism. That said I conclude by telling you a few months ago, in the old neighborhood of yore, I saved an elderly physical aggression of a twenty year old suffering from megalomania, one among many, among the numerous …

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… I was on my way for a visit at the Clinica Villa del Rosario, which is located in Via Flaminia Vecchia, a few hundred meters from Ponte Milvio, in an area that today is teeming with cafes very trendy frequented by children and young people. Ahead of me, the senior who proceeded driving a subcompact, remains at the height of a historic building known to the Romans as The Castellaccio, because the right and the left were parked "Youth" Smart which prevented transit. I, who proceeded behind, stay stuck in my turn. At one point the old man starts to honk, as long as one of those spaces out a twenty year old, that followed for a while 'talking with friends. Then, calmly, so really mocking and provocative, go in front of their Smart. You might think it's gone up and ran away, never! He pulls out his phone and starts to send a message. Then the old man sticks out his head and screams calling him rude. In response, the young, furious like a beast, He rushes towards him and strillandogli "dickhead!»Shake their fists and intimate" come out ... come on out old shit!». Then I jump out of my car and I take a deluge of insults to be rushed to the defense of the elderly, that seriously risked falling taken to blows. Of course, if I followed my lower instincts would have gouged out crick the trunk and I crushed my knees, sending him for a couple of months at the orthopedic traumatology department to reflect on the meaninglessness of his life, to be converted and to repent of his sins. But as I am known for peace and love, in this society that can not punish because he has to recover what is structurally irrecoverable, can not complain because it must dialogue. A company accustomed to say poor murderess rather poor murdered, poor poor aggressor instead assaulted, poor poor thief instead robbed …

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… or perhaps you've forgotten the brave Marco Pannella which together with the "great Italian" Emma Bonino, in the eighties of lawsuits clogging the courts against those responsible for recovery for drug addicts, accusing them of mistreatment and kidnapping? And at the same time they wanted to free drugs, as before they had obtained the legalization of abortion calling it "great social achievement ', to follow up with the “marriage” between same-sex couples. Today Marco Pannella is dead, however, remains alive "great Italian" that, before also kick the bucket, He wants to see another "great social achievement ': euthanasia legalized. although she, Although ultra septuagenarian and suffering from cancer, He refrained from going to Switzerland to be suppress, Perhaps having planning many more damage yet to be bear in our poor country, before his departure happy to ... well, God the Father of mercies has really pity the poor soul, and like the good thief, this letami, can steal all heaven with his act of pure and sincere repentance expressed in his last two minutes of life!

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This young fricchettone it gives happy-hour pontemilviano that gave ferociously toward an elderly and then insulting so unspeakable a priest during his rescue to thwart the aggression of the poor, It is the real paradigm of the product that parents do not know ever say "no", who denounce the teacher for daring to address a rebuke to their son, if they do not go directly to the school to beat! Or that before a school rejection entirely deserved, subissano the Regional Administrative Court of Appeals. And when their children are stopped by the police because they found the drunken driving and drug addicts, they pick on the same intimating: "Blame the criminals, not with our children!». And down to no end lawsuits against police officers and police, penalty by parents accused of having abused their children while in police custody, well if you come out of the barracks and the police headquarters without even a scratch on him, such terror have the employees of the police to raise them only slightly’ the voice. And every now and then, any of these immortal youth, hopefully dies, Instead they often kill others without them you do a scratch. And when any of these unpunished, invincible and immortal dies, We cry a couple of days, colored balloons are launched on coffins, as if death were a circus, They will lay flowers, signs and puppets at the scene. Por if anything is also assumed as a defender and talentata the famous criminal lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, because the parent who does not train disaster, does not care, no guards and gives no solid rules of life to their children, first of all essential to protect the children themselves, must always ragione, He does not fail, and can not fail. The whole world is in error, he and his son no, May!

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From painful cross-dress hanging of political correctness, the saving mystery of the Word of God made man for the salvation of the world which now rushes toward the abyss

L'Angolo di Girolamo Savonarola: Catholic homiletics in lean times

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BY HANG painful CROSS-DRESS THE POLITICALLY CORRECT, TO THE SALVIFIC MYSTERY OF THE VERB OF GOD MADE MAN FOR THE SALVATION OF THE WORLD THAT TODAY RETURNS TO THE ABYSS

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… and today, this terrible worldly vanity that aims to please the World, emptied the mystery of the Word of God made man, to fill it with another: of Boat Migrants, rescue donuts, or life jackets attached to the cross of Christ. It is the emblem of the worst sloppiness of contemporary visible Church: the reduced cross-dress to hang, before jubilant chorus of people who do not even enter our churches for Christmas and for Easter, but applaud revelers before our self-destruction, while the poor bride of Christ is drowning, not in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, He is drowning in ridicule, the grotesque of sloppiness, no one cares to throw even a miserable lifeline, perhaps because guilty of not being Muslim, so that it can also easily drown, under the applause of a world that hates more and more all that is truly and authentically Christian.

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The boy is born, Alleluia !

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For centuries, on the cross, the only thing that the Christian tradition has hung, it was only the shroud of Christ God

The light shines in the darkness. The light shines in the darkness, is the light of the Incarnate Word narrated in the poetics of this monumental prologue to the Gospel of John [see text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO]. We are wishing we could add: The light shines in darkness, especially in this world of ours in which we must be animated by the Christian and active hope, while we are subjected to the greatest, difficult and fearsome of all tests: the great test of faith.

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For several years we viewers silent and powerless protagonists of radical changes generated by a condition of great crisis that invests worldwide morals, ethics, politics, the economy, the ecclesiastical and ecclesial communities of the moral and ethical crisis is likely to be a paradigm. And in this situation of crisis and decay, we should welcome the light that breaks into the darkness through the incarnation of God's Word, welcome it as our principle and ultimate end.

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The Word has been announced in times of pain by words, love and hope of the prophets; by the voice of John the Baptist, the dawn of His intervention in human history raised his voice from the wilderness to break the human spirit deserts. The Word is living and enduring word, but it is also silent, because in our worldly noise that devours everything indifference to better swallow us in the Great Nothing, the Word is silent to the extent that man does not grant her eternal love no room to dwell among us, even a makeshift hotel; even a manger in which lie inside a barn.

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To prove the Word It needs that sweet spot that is silence, in order to manifest and communicate to the man who is the object of his love and loved his subject.

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The ancient Israelites They were so intimidated by the Hebrew tetragrammaton which composed the name of God, that no one should dare to pronounce it, only the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest, closed in Holy of Holies the Temple of Jerusalem, head bowed his head covered, after long purified pronounced it softly once a year for Yom Kippur, For the great day of atonement.

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We learn to regard Christmas as the ineffable name of God, because during this festival the Word of God incarnate in a man and comes to live among us in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, opening our horizons to the mystery of the true God and true man. So Let us flee from the great curse of Christmas profaned, the Word emptied and filled with another, in a proliferation of cribs constructed by Supreme Politically Correct on barges and rescue donuts, with the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Blessed Patriarch Joseph put on a lifebelt. Riappropriamoci the Mystery of Christmas, as the irruption of God in the flesh in human history, through this Jesus whom we adore in the manger in Bethlehem where all of humanity has been reborn and is called to be reborn, to reach its peak with the torn stone of the empty tomb of Christ, by which all mankind is resurrected and is called to rise again. Let us adore the Eucharist, his memorial holy and living, gift of his real presence among us, our support and our food of eternal life. Let us adore, because he alone is the beginning, the Centre and the ultimate goal of our entire humanism. Only then can we open the doors of the heart to express in a relevant and coherent: Merry Christmas ... Christmas of God who became like us to invite us to make us like Him, in Him and for Him.

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In moments of silence of this sacred liturgy, prostrating during the Eucharistic Prayer on the words of the Last Supper that will make the bread and wine the body and blood of Christ alive, we try to grasp the mystery and intimate become Parties, aware that silent incarnates the Word and silence the Word speaks. Prostrate on the ground with knees, because "in the name of Jesus every knee should bow" [Fil 2, 10]. We do not mourn as those before the Body and Blood of Christ alive have hip problems, but it works wonders to kneel with athletic shooting before the new "truth of faith", or the new "dogma of the migrant" to which rinse your feet before the regime journalists who applaud the "new church" of the "epoch-making revolution", imprinted on the "mercy" which grants the grace of the guillotine to anyone who dares to utter a legitimate, respectful and quiet sigh of disapproval of everything that can be objectively wrong and misleading.

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The Jesus of history, that with Christmas enters our human experience in the flesh, it is not even a tender symbol to use and human and commercial consumption of different traditions or family, is the supreme mystery of God made man in Jesus through the mystery begins his earthly path laid in the manger in a stable and laid terminating it on the wood of a cross, to explode shortly after as the Christ of faith spilling the stone from the tomb, making us all by vocation in his resurrection.

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To this we are called through the Christian experience: to incarnate, to live, to die and rise again in Christ, for God has come to be like us so that we, projected in the mystery of His grace, There we did like him.

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This is the deposit of our faith, the rest is just modern paganism, new idolatry targeted at will and please the world's increasingly anti-Christ-to which we should try in every way not to please. And we, called to serve and assist the people of God as priests, we have to fight both the new paganism is the world increasingly anti-Christic, bringing in a loving and decided the true ad through the gospel ministry true, which is certainly not the neurotic-obsessive ministry today poor or refugee real or perceived, but Christological reality of life lived. We can not postpone, nor worse justify certain deviations as expressions of faith, indeed we are supposed to call them by their real name: poison the faith.

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In any page of the Gospel is it written that you have to please the whims and vices of the world, or worse remain silent on the serious sins, because the Word of God became incarnate to become a sacrificial lamb then washing with the blood of his sacrifice on the cross the sin of the world, but especially after having notified:

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"If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you " [GV 15, 18-19].

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What terrible judgment and deserved punishment, many of us pastors in charge of souls will receive from the Divine Judge, to have left in the meal paganites the people that God has entrusted to us, to be gone hand in hand with Démoni, to have invited and welcomed the wolf into the sheepfold and beaten at the same time the sheep who dared shout: "Beware of the Wolf!». Because even in this we were advised:

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"Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter
the sheep of my pasture!!», says the Lord.
Therefore thus speaks the Lord, God of Israel,
concerning the shepherds who feed my people:
"You have scattered my flock, and you are driven them away,
and you have not visited them care;
there, I will punish, for the evil of your doings »,
says the Lord.
"I will gather the remnant of my flock
from all countries whither I have driven,
I will bring them back to their folds,
they shall be fruitful and multiply.
I will set up over them shepherds who shall feed the flock,
and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed,
I shall not lack any ", says the Lord [Gives 23, 1-4].

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It's still:

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"Prophet and priest are profane,
in my house I have found their wickedness ",
says the Lord .
"Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness;
they shall be driven and fall;
for I will bring upon them a calamity,
the year of their visitation ", says the Lord [Gives 23, 11-12].

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All it sealed by the words of Christ that God warns:

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"To whom much is given, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, It will ask the more " [LC 12, 48].

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Needless to remember, although the face: us his priests, God has entrusted what was most precious: He has entrusted us to care, custody and pastoral care of his flock, His Holy People.

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The Gospel of the Blessed Luca Evangelista proclaimed a few days ago at the Mass of the Holy Night, recounts in a few words with the event of the birth the way chosen by God to be the Jesus of history. Following the words of this passage we could speak of the divine modesty of God that comes to light and which manifests itself to men who were waiting for the Messiah, the Saviour, almost as if he wanted to hide in the very act in which manifested itself. It is an aspect that leads us to reflect on the increasingly open challenges of his divine intentions, of his divine pedagogy.

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Perhaps the Lord, in front of his visible revelation, physical body and, He wanted to invite people to not feel exempt from having to search for it, like the shepherds who come, like the Magi who follow the light of a star come to bring precious gifts, without any fear of offending the future “Idolatry of the poor”. Perhaps, the Sir, the Savior born in a stable, He wanted this our pursuit of his eternal being and his becoming among us, We oblige us to bend our self-centeredness on the way of humility, which it is certainly not a neck twisted pose, but the true dignity of being true Christians.

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To contemplate the humility of God Incarnate lying in bands inside the manger in a stable is an invitation to penetrate the true and profound sense of Christian virtue which is the authentic humility, Our road to fix the main obstacle that stands in the way to our true encounter with Christ the Savior: pride that keeps us from a relationship with him and a relationship with others. And pride can be cured only by starting from the divine humility of the baby Jesus in the stable in Bethlehem, to follow him along the Via Dolorosa to Golgotha, Finally rise with the Christ of faith that made him say in Sao Paulo: "It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me" [Gal 2, 20].

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God is born hidden and sometimes hides so that man can look through the free and liberating instinct to love that when it is perfect casts out all fear, as he taught by the Blessed John the Apostle in another passage of his Gospel [CF. GV 4, 18]. Because God never hides behind the great things that so often fascinate us, but behind the small details that often leave us totally indifferent; God do not find it and not meet him, in what the world like, but in all that the world hates and rejects.

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The way in which we can seek and find God hidden in a barn, reminds one of the greatest converts in the history, that with his experience he invites us all to conversion. This teacher is Aurelio Thagaste, better known as St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo, who later became a saint and Doctor of the Church: «Love petitur, love quaèritur, love pulsàtur, love revelàtur"With love wonders, with love trying, with love knocks, with love is revealed.

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Only in this way we can get into real stable in Bethlehem, which it is the stable of the faith and the divine mystery; then understand something of Christmas; for living Christmas in faith in Jesus Christ our God, Lord and Savior. The rest - as he said back in the sixteenth century the great teacher of St. Philip Blacks taking inspiration from the Book of Ecclesiastes - it's just vanity, nothing but vanity of vanities [cf. q 1,2]. And today, this terrible worldly vanity that aims to please the World, emptied the mystery of the Word of God made man, to fill it with another: of Boat Migrants, rescue donuts, or life jackets attached to the cross of Christ. It is the emblem of the worst sloppiness of contemporary visible Church: the reduced cross-dress to hang, before jubilant chorus of people who do not even enter our churches for Christmas and for Easter, but applaud revelers to our self-destruction, while the poor bride of Christ is drowning, not in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, He is drowning in ridicule, the grotesque of sloppiness, no one cares to throw even a miserable lifeline, perhaps because guilty of not being Muslim, so that it can also easily drown, under the applause of a world that hates more and more all that is truly and authentically Christian. And we, unworthy priests, Today we are genuflecting to the world as miserable prostitutes before the customer, of this we are drowning makers. And what we will have to give an account to the Word of God that severe remind us:

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"To whom much is given, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, It will ask the more " [LC 12, 48].

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Christmas is the feast of the tenderness of God made man who came to dwell among us

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CHRISTMAS IS THE FEAST OF TENDERNESS OF GOD MADE MAN COME TO LIVING AMONG US

Christmas is the feast of the Incarnation, the glory of each of us in the Lord. We are the dream that the baby Jesus is doing sleeping in the arms of Mary. Let's believe with firm faith and Trinitarian Crowned the dream of each of us: the Word was made flesh, Really, coming to dwell in our midst, truly, in the flesh, with his spirit and his divinity.

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Dear brothers and sisters,

Salvador Dali: Nativity, the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe

Merry Christmas to all! And the Lord warm our hearts with his warmth and joy of children. The Liturgy of the Word of this Holy Night gives us a prophetic song, an Apostle Paul's Letter and one of Luke's Gospel passage that recounts the birth of the Word of God made man, the redeemer [texts of Liturgy of the Word: WHO].

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All in life we ​​waited and witnessed the birth a grandson, a cousin, of a child. Here then there is Christmas for this family celebration: the party of the tenderness of God who became man. But there is something more, as Jean-Paul Sartre wrote about love:

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"The lover wants to be" worldwide "for sweetheart means that arises side of the world".

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The small child in the manger It is our whole world, therefore,: the one who gives meaning and direction to our nights. Let's see why, first reading the prophetic words of Isaiah:

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"Because each shoe soldier marching booming / and every cloak drenched in blood / will be burned, Data feed the fire. / Because a child is born to us, /He has been given to a child. / On his shoulders is the power ".

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It is noted an obvious contrast built by Isaiah of the soldier who has power and defense in the rumble, into violence, in the blood, in fire, and announced that the baby is defenseless, vulnerable, tender and devoid of force. The announced is Jesus, who has the power of agape. And the child will show naked, as it is really: that man will show who really is the man. That is the living being created in God's image, in its physicality and fragility and awaiting the grace of God to be holy. The child announced by Isaiah is Jesus showing us that we live among the torment of vulnerability and divine grace. This is also announced by St. Paul in his Letter to Titus:

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"My son, It appeared the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men and teaches us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live in this world with sobriety, with righteousness and piety ".

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The story of Jesus' birth really squeeze the heart and gives us another big announcement. To better understand this we divide the text into three parts. From the first moment in which St. Luke tells us:

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"In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be of the whole earth. This first census was made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone went to be enrolled, respective cities'.

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The Evangelist Luke shows that God enters the world in Jesus, at a given moment in history, because God, which it is in History, It is made visible in its historic mission and visible, objectively verifiable and by testimonial to all. So God does not act in theory: It does not remain in heaven, but it draws near, concrete next to us. This brings us to the second moment:

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"While [Joseph and Mary] you were there, time came for her to be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, She wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because for them there was in its slot '.

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Really poignant. I wonder how it is possible to find a place to allow the birth of a mother, I do not know how it was possible for men of the time. Mary and Joseph, however, are not discouraged, and at the end of Jesus' birth, wrapped by human bands of Mary, wrapped by the love of Giuseppe. God lets himself be wrapped in our swaddling clothes. From this we pass the third time:

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"An angel of the Lord appeared to [of the shepherds] the glory of the Lord shone around them. [..] the angel said to them,: “Don't worry: there, you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people: today, the City of David, is born for you a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. This sign for you: You find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger ' ".

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Here at this point is a wonderful exchange: God had let enveloped by human; it's here, the shepherds, They allow themselves to be enveloped by the light of divine love transmitted by the Angel. So the man is stripped from its internal divisions, from its fragility, its divisions, from his sin nuclei and poured a greater love. Each of us at Christmas is wrapped by this Angel of Light. Every person of good will, Christmas Eve is part of this wonderful exchange and becomes God's masterpiece. Crediamoci all tonight: Christmas is the feast of the Incarnation, the glory of each of us in the Lord. We are the dream that the baby Jesus is doing sleeping in the arms of Mary. Let's believe with firm faith and Trinitarian Crowned the dream of each of us: the Word was made flesh, Really, coming to dwell in our midst, truly, in the flesh, with his spirit and his divinity.

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Rome, 24 December 2019

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ANNOUNCEMENTS – From the guillotine to freedom through the truth that will set us free: "Nada te turbe", literary gem Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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NEW - THE GUILLOTINE TO FREEDOM THROUGH THE TRUTH THAT MAKE YOU FREE: «NADA TE TURBE», THE JEWEL OF LITERARY S ARIEL. LEVI GUALDO

This historical novel is "the jewel Father Ariel". Opera set in the late eighteenth century whose protagonists are the Carmelite Nuns of the Monastery of Compiègne guillotined in Paris in 1794. NNot only we recommend this book, but we suggest you keep this as a gift, in a period in which the useless junk apparently become the main protagonist, under the trees and out of the trees ...

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the cover of the historical novel by Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo: the martyrdom of the Carmelite nuns

It is also a novelist father ariel, although mostly he is known as a theologian and essayist. This work was written after having gained over the years of training for the priesthood that the element of martyrdom, not necessarily blood, it is a living part of the priestly and religious life ministry, but also of the Christian life of all the baptized.

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Unlike the blood, which can be consumed within a few minutes or seconds, that "white" is a martyrdom to which you may end up subjected to a lifetime, as evidenced by the lives of many Saints.

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This historical novel It is "the jewel Father Ariel" because it is linked to the mystery of faith and vocation. Opera set in the late eighteenth century whose protagonists are the Carmelite Nuns of the Monastery of Compiègne guillotined in Paris in 1794.

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Rich rare depth of the dialogues between the protagonists. No less original and full of fascinating images and paintings created by the creativity author, that around this real history plays a fantasy where nothing is obvious, but all unexpected surprises reserves.

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wax Museum Paris: the price paid for that freedom, equality and fraternity, of which but few speak …

The first framework It opens with a meeting of Freemasons in a secret place, where they have their principal Loggia. Immediately you feel the deep understanding of the narrator about customs and phrase books of this secret society. Well-kept narrative language that, without ever slipping into cutesy, It provides a realistic depiction of styles and customs of the eighteenth century French.

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In this context It finds the fictional story but real Dame of the Carmel of Compiègne, ending their lives in Paris under the blade of the guillotine, in France shocked by terror. Sixteen women who came to the conquest of inner freedom which exalts the empowerment of women and the values ​​of a healthy secularism of the people; because freedom, equality and fraternity are pillars of Christianity, blended together by the sense of solidarity and the spirit of charity. From weakness comes the strength and uncertainty faith: you have to appreciate those who have many doubts and distrust of those is something lacking. Faith is a logic that rests on the absurd where the weakness lies in the certainty of being powerful and the true vigor in the fragility of insecurities where God hides himself waiting for man to be made strong.

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the main instrument of equality and justice: the guillotine

A meditation the Eucharistic sense of martyrdom inserted in the liturgical cycle, and through a play of lights that reverberate from a soul that captures the past with its feet in the present, It causes reflections with subtle paradoxes game, through dialogues that defy seductively modern man's slumber, touching the sensitivity of the finest players and the general public, inducing non-believers to ask deeper questions AGAIN.

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At the threshold of Christmas We recommend this book and suggest you keep it in mind as a gift, in a period in which the useless junk apparently become the main protagonist, under the trees and out of the trees ...

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A book that reads and rereads gladly again, because it made a great novel by the great mysteries that give life and sustain it from cover to cover, going to hit elegantly destructive stupidity of ideologies, enhancing and challenging at the same time human intelligence, which together with the true freedom it is the only possible antidote to the blind ideologies of yesterday and today.

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From the island of Patmos, 15 December 2019

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On the road on the way to a Catholic Christmas. Ariel S-video meditations. Levi Gualdo on Advent

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WALKING ON THE ROAD TO CHRISTMAS CATHOLIC. ARIEL S-VIDEO MEDITATION. LEVI of GUALDO on Advent

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To accompany our readers on the path toward a Holy Catholic Christmas, we offer in this period of Advent Meditations Ariel held by the Father and dedicated to two passages from the Gospel and a biblical reading from the Book of Genesis, in which they are shown three key concepts: the will of the Father, the is Mary, the compassion for Christ.

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Dear Readers,

the better to accompany you to a Holy Christmas that it can be truly Catholic, I wish to offer three of Advent meditations held in December 2015, but still they retain their full relevance.

I take this opportunity to convey to his readers the hope of our young author and Dominican theologian Giordano Gabriele M. Scardocci this Sunday Break [see WHO].

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FIRST MEDITATION: The Father's will

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SECOND MEDITATION: Mary's yes

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THIRD MEDITATION: Compassion of Christ

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The interview – "The Vatican is a circus condemning to death the truth and justice". The interview – "Father Ariel thunders: “Keep away from the priests money”»

INTERVIEW - "THE VATICAN IS A CIRCUS THAT THE DEATH SENTENCE TRUTH AND JUSTICE "

INTERVIEW - "VATICAN: FATHER ARIEL thunders “KEEP AWAY FROM MONEY PRIESTS”»

The national newspaper “The truth” directed by Maurizio Belpietro, through an interview conducted by Stefano Filippi, under the title of drafting "the Vatican is a circus condemning to death the truth and justice", dedicated a page to our Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo who answered questions relating to several emerging issues: the crisis of the Church, German face of panamazzonico Synod, the problem of immigration, Italian Catholics and today's politics.

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the journalist Stefano De Filippi

We thank the Director and Editor the national newspaper The truth who they were kind enough to make available to our readers the page in which their daily Monday 9 December came out to interview Father Ariel made by the journalist Stefano De Filippi.

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The conversation between Father Stefano De Filippi and Ariel It touched the delicate current issues, the crisis of the Church Synod panamazzonico, by uncontrolled immigration to the relationship between Italian Catholics and their country's politics. Opening the pdf format you can read the text [see WHO].

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the young journalist Francesco Boezi

The young journalist Francesco Boezi, Vatican correspondent of The newspaper, He has realized a subsequent interview on other topics, appeared on The Giornale.it.

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After several questions related to the themes of the new organization of the Roman Curia, and the absence of immigration of Catholics from the political scene of the country, Father Ariel concludes by explaining why, but especially by which reactive element depend on the undeniable hate campaigns towards Catholics and the Catholic world today.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS – JOHN Cavalcoli: «JESUS ​​CHRIST THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: BEGINNING, CENTER AND LAST END OF OUR INTEGRAL HUMANISM "

The concept of Christ the foundation of the world, It contains the most sublime heights of the Holy Father and Doctor of the Church Augustine, Bishop of Hippo: the Christ the whole. How it will repeat the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI during his apostolic ministry: Christ is not a part of the human experience, but our whole. He is the beginning, the center and the goal of our integral humanism. And it was on these theological premises that the then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, posting on the disposal of the Holy Father John Paul II's exhortation Lord Jesus, reiterated this totality, in open opposition to a misunderstood ecumenism and to an ill understood inter-religious dialogue, but above all as opposed to relativism.

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He just left the book of the Dominican theologian Giovanni Cavalcoli, that This Christology from an angle since today is not very thorough: metaphysics of Jesus Christ [full cover, see: WHO].

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With clear style, similar to that of Pope Benedict XVI, the author makes it accessible to the general public themes that would be proposed only to scholars, when treated in an academic way.

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The concept Christ the foundation of the world, It encloses the sublime Christology of St. Augustine: the Christ the whole. For as he repeated the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI: Christ is not a part of human experience, It is our all. It is the beginning, the Centre and the ultimate goal of our entire humanism. On this basis, the then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, He published by the will of St. John Paul II's exhortation Lord Jesus, reiterates that this totality in front of a poorly understood ecumenism and a poorly understood inter-religious dialogue, but above all as opposed to relativism.

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John Cavalcoli and Ariel S. Levi Gualdo while filming some video lectures from the Dominican theologian [see page “our videos” in The Island of Patmos]

"How can you accept Christ, if there is no soul the love of wisdom, since Christ is the Eternal Wisdom of the Father?». It is a question asked in an unpublished homily 5 January 1986 by the Servant of God Father Tomas Tyn [1950-1990]. This book aims to be an easy and clear guide for those who question the meaning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for man, for the faith that can not exist without reason and for the reason that necessity of faith, for nature, for the world and the cosmos. It was written for those who already believe in the Word of God made man and are seeking the best and highest to meet him, for those affected by human wisdom of Christ and wish to deepen, for lovers of contemplation that "God alone suffices", in the words of St. Teresa of Avila. It was written for those who believe that Christ is the beginning, the Centre and the ultimate goal of our entire humanism.

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