About the Coronavirus: and every plague pandemic in human history has always marked a renaissance: "The above, famine and war libera nos, Dominated"

– health ministry –

ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS: PESTILENCE EACH AND PANDEMIC HAS ALWAYS MARKED THE HISTORY OF MANKIND A RENAISSANCE: «fish, FAME ET BEAUTIFUL FREE NOS, DOMINATED»

 

As we approach of a particularly extensive disease, this would seem to be the Coronavirus, Today we do not discuss more about spreaders, monat, hospitals and crucifers: the Manzoni era ended long ago. The discussion climbs, instead, of land much more rugged and treacherous, that involve the responsibility of the government and ruling classes immigrazioniste and health policies in place to limit the contamination. And in this scene there are plenty of buck, the deniers radicals, the conspiracy theorists, or certain Catholics who advocate the impending Apocalypse, to follow along with the devotees of conspiracy more refined and so to follow.

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S.O.S. Who takes care of Catholics migrants seeking pastors the Church as the boat sinks?

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S.O.S. WHO TAKES CARE OF MIGRANTS IN SEARCH OF CATHOLIC PASTORS WHILE THE BOAT SINKING OF THE CHURCH?

Save our souls! Take good care of us, poor migrants from this world to the Father, we cross the stormy sea of ​​this life into Peter's boat, do not leave us drowning in the waves of the world and its ideologies poor.

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S.O.S is a signal to call for help in major emergencies adopted in Berlin at the international conference of the radio telegraph 1806 and entered into force from 1908. easy to communicate in Morse code and reinterpreted in various ways, among which prevails Save Our Souls: save our souls! Sign made famous by the Titanic disaster, because on that occasion it was launched the first S.O.S.

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This S.O.S we would like to direct it agonizing scream as the Catholic Church and its pastors: Save our souls!

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We certainly know that it is God, through the Paschal Mystery of Christ, in the Spirit, to save souls. However, He himself wanted to engage deeply into this mystery of redemption, his Mystical Body, that is, the Church, providing it with the ordinary means for the salvation of mankind. Means which do not exclude the extraordinary means, but these latter are, however, in the hands of God and in his drawings to us totally inscrutable.

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If the church forgets, minimizes, neglects, or even shelve the means given by the Lord, It does not make a good work, indeed betrays their specific mission, making itself present as any mundane reality, therefore subject to the laws of any society of this world, with all the consequences. And as purely mundane reality can hardly claim to have or to exercise gift infallible, for example in politics, in the economy, in technique and so on. This gift the Church possesses the hand itself, regarding the Doctrine of the Faith.

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AND curious that the right principle: "The Church does not have technical solutions to offer", solemnly announced the Second Vatican Council and confirmed by the papal magisterium in Eightieth of Paul VI, to follow with the Centennial year John Paul II and the Charity in truth by Benedict XVI, It is often used against the "bad" Church of the past that you interfered in political matters, Today is instead ignored by a certain way of being of many pastors of our times. It seems, effectively, attitude of many revolutionaries, which I am definitely side with indignation against "police state", But not until gain power, discovering at that point that the police is quite comfortable!

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No Council, suddenly it comes out of nowhere in Church history. Therefore, the reform carried out by the Council of Trent, with large advances in the previous period, It had as its ideal and goal is the care of souls, as well summarized in the motto salvation of souls supreme law.

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It was the shooting in an organic and systematic form of attention that had very ancient roots; at the bottom of some moral decay apparatus ecclesiastical pre-Tridentine it was caused by removal of the cure of souls, to pursue other. In facts the reformer Council knew then, rightly, redirect the Church towards her primary. Recite the Canon I of the XXIII Session, the Sacrament of Orders:

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«Because with divine precept it has been commanded to all those who have been entrusted with the care of souls, to know their sheep, to provide for them the Sacrifice, pascerle with the preaching of God's Word, with the administration of the sacraments and example of all good works; It had a paternal care for the poor and others in need and wait for all the other pastoral duties - all things that can not be made and carried out by those who do not watch over their flock and not assisting him, but they leave as mercenaries - the sacred synod warns them and urges them, Why, Mindful of the divine precepts and become examples to the flock, I graze and direct it in the wisdom and truth ".

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Words that keep an unaltered current. It is certainly not sterile regrets of a mythical past - no past has been error-free, sins, deformation and so on - but to grasp what is good and important has been processed and has borne fruit, visible and those invisible.

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Today the cure It seems completely disappeared spiritual horizon, cultural and pastoral thought and action of the Church today. The term treatment, into Latin, It has a wide semantic value, may in fact correspond to care, solicitude, hurry, Attention, regard, diligence, alacrity, restlessness, breathlessness, thought, worry, government, custody, surveillance, cultivation, breeding, treatment, treatment of disease, remedy, healing, curiosity, interest, protection, up to go even to love, pain of love.

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It would be nice to see the shepherds that manifest, I say not all, but at least one of the aforementioned meanings. Find a pastor who even arrive at a sentence of love for the souls entrusted to him is certainly a great joy. Today, however, this seems not reserved to the souls, but mottos, slogans, of current ideologies.

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The salvation of souls It is still the supreme criterion that guides the action of the Church today? The eternal salvation of men still regard this ecclesiastical society? The tough but merciful call of the Lord: "Fool, this night you will be prompted for your soul " (Luca 12,20) still it has some echo in the current church facilities, given that this is the true mercy of who's experiencing a mortal danger?

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If we look at what appears from official structures, the answer appears negative. Certainly the grace of Christ continues to spill over men through the work often hidden but many conscientious priests, religious and lay Christians who remain faithful generosity with the mandate of Jesus.

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Care of souls It does not mean a Christianity intimate, spiritualistic, detached from real life, attentive only to the perfections of a select few, Forget the great human issues; indeed it is the care of the soul that truth, force, strength and meaning for a real commitment to the world, not, however, according to ideological mode but according to evangelical mode, ie the living Christ, Savior of mankind. The cure It is not the estrangement from human problems, but is the assumption of every authentically human problem in soteriological perspective. The concept of the soul has no values ​​from mystery cult, o of ectoplasm of spiritisti; There simply redo our doctrine that finds synthesis in the Catechism of the Catholic Church [See. NN. it gives 362 a 368, text WHO].

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Precisely in this perspective it includes the express command of Christ:

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“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. there, I am with you always;, until the end of the world " [Mt 28,19-20].

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It does not take a cure of souls without the necessary and constant announcement of Christ. A Church that is reduced to repeating slogans which no one paid attention, as the poor Don Abbondio of Manzoni, It is likely to be formed by pastors who do not evangelize …

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It is the paradigmatic case of migration: How many pastors of the church feel called to proclaim Christ to the many foreigners who come to live in Italy? An ad that also goes certainly in the works of justice and material assistance, but that may not stop there, almost that foreigners have no soul to save.

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The increasingly marked absence a real cure of souls leads to devastating results, both within the ecclesial body, both in society. The lack of attention to the spiritual dimension, transcendental leads to disastrous results. Here, then, that many, quell'insopprimibile driven by desire for interior life, They are turning to other realities, that seem to offer more attention to the spiritual needs.

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Here is the renewed attention the various religious oriental type, or the use of wizards and fortune tellers, or the attendance of those spiritualist groups or para-Catholic, with the entire apparatus of visions, locutions, appearances DIY way to follow. While pastors lose the very perception that, without the care of souls, They will produce very serious damage.

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He walked long ago a joke among priests: "How many souls have your parish?"He asked a pastor to another. And the answer was: "Two thousand bodies, of which some, every now and again, remember having a soul ". Today this has been spilled on the same ecclesiastical structure.

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We can only repeat the initial appeal: S.O.S. Save our souls! Take good care of us, poor migrants from this world to the Father, we cross the stormy sea of ​​this life into Peter's boat, do not leave us drowning in the waves of the world and its ideologies poor.

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Dear pastors, take care of our souls: S.O.S! S.O.S! S.O.S! While I, He retired in my hermitage, and silent seclusion, I pray for you, because this mission I have dedicated the whole of earthly life that God the Father will grant me.

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From the cell of the hermit monaco, 24 February 2020

 

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I understand the Communist China and its fear of Catholicism, however I do not understand why the agreement Phantom of the Holy See with the Beijing Government … An old article to understand even better the problem coronavirus

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I UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNIST CHINA AND HIS FEAR TO CATHOLICISM, RATHER NOT UNDERSTAND THE REASONS OF THE PHANTOM OF THE HOLY SEE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF BEIJING … AN OLD ARTICLE FOR EVEN BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM CORONAVIRUS

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Christianity has become an element of aggregation and unity, but did not prevent, as perhaps he thought the Emperor Constantine, the disintegration of the Empire, indeed in some respects favoring. So that, the political power that tried to strengthen itself using Christianity as an element of unity and unification, believing that they can in this respect and to this end absorb Christianity, It has instead been absorbed by Christianity, who survived Empire Roman keeping inside traditions, uses and totally Christianized Roman costumes. This is what frightens the Communist government of China, and they are right, on the political level, to be scared, then to act accordingly. It is the Holy See that maybe did not understand the reason for these fears..

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Yet the solution exists: "Love your enemies is the only way because it does not remain on the ground even one enemy"

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YET THERE IS THE SOLUTION: "LOVE THE ENEMIES IS THE ONLY WAY WHY IS LEFT ON EARTH EVEN AN ENEMY"

The mentality of the law of retaliation must be overcome, not because it is wrong distributive justice, which is the value that the same law wants to teach: For if I make a wrong, is right recast. But love for the enemy and pray for those who offend us, It harms us and considers us enemies is a great commandment that goes beyond the law. The current one, which it is increasingly a culture without God, this message does not know how to receive it, as we have seen talking about the films of Tarantino.

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the film series Quentin Tarantino

who has seen the films of Quentin Tarantino: Kill Bill vol. 1 – 2, remember that the heroine Beatrix Kiddo, known as the Bride, flies between Japan and the US, with a single purpose: avenge their relatives killed in the day of his wedding. Beatrix wants to kill Bill, the instigator of the murders that have involved. The film is a collection of frames that tell a gratuitous violence, therefore a cold chronicle of a Revenge.

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This terrible message escapes from optics evangelical. The message of Jesus, in this seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time [cf.. Liturgy of the Word, WHO] It is diametrically opposed. It is an invitation to a great love, born from the desire for holiness, to be in full friendship with God. Of holiness there first talks Leviticus, where God tells the Israelites:

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"Be holy, why me, the Sir, your God, am holy. Coverai not hate in your heart against your brother ' [Lv 19,2].

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This should be holy for the Israelites thus indicating a belonging to God. They were the chosen people, It is chosen so that first received the Decalogue, then propagated to the testimony of the presence of YES all over the world. Because of this, God makes them partakers of the holiness of being detached from other things in the world, in particular from feeling hatred, which easily generates in man with anger.

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This call to holiness also for us: therefore a reminder not harbor hatred, But love of God. Greater Love, universal and that involves not only ourselves but those we meet. Therefore we are holy, not of the world but in the world, ready to let the world in holiness of God. This is our vocation, as St Paul tells us:

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«Paolo, Apollo, Cefa, the world, the life, the death, the present, the future: all are yours;! But you are Christ's and Christ is God " [The Cor 3, 21-23].

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The invitation of Paul to the Corinthians It is not to focus their attention to all these things. Because all these things, Paul's friends, Apollo, Cefa, all things in the world as life and death, knowledge of current and future events have already offered to believers in Christ. Owning the world means to fill the believer of Christ's message and give it a new sense: So to shine as a carrier and witness of a message that exceeds, but at the same time it shows the specialty and uniqueness in front of everyone. Personal holiness is then the source of witness and charity in truth for the world in need of God.

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But holiness has a stronger effect, more evident, and that in a sense shocked the world itself. It is the central teaching of the Gospel today:

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"You have heard that it was said: "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy". But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven " [Mt 5, 43-44].

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The mentality of the law of retaliation must be overcome, not because it is wrong distributive justice, which is the value that the same law wants to teach: For if I make a wrong, is right recast. But love for the enemy and pray for those who offend us, It harms us and considers us enemies is a great commandment that goes beyond the law. The current one, which it is increasingly a culture without God, this message does not know how to receive it, as we have seen talking about the films of Tarantino. This love for the enemy springs from a special holiness that is given by the Eternal Father to all of us. The first to have it displayed was the same Jesus: In fact, on the cross has continued to love, forgive and pray for his tormentors. What is Jesus' commandment par excellence, and with his help we can all come to this. For as scriveva essayist Giovanni Papini: "Love your enemies is the only way because it does not remain on the ground even one enemy".

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We ask the Lord dare, perseverance and tenacity to love those who hate us piously, to create a realm of faith and peace, where the Trinitarian love is day by day the light beam that illuminates the darkness of the world that hates.

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The Mediaset TV studios are the "Monte" from above which, as a priest and theologian, I'm happy to render shine the light of a single lit match, so shine for … forehand and backhand

- society and topical benefit to the Church

STUDIES OF MEDIASET TELEVISION THAT ARE "MONTE" FROM ABOVE WHICH, AS PRIEST AND Theologian, I'll settle for FAR TOO SHINE THE LIGHT OF ONE MATCH ON, SO THAT YOU SHINE FOR… STRAIGHT AND REVERSE

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If in this time of great crisis and ecclesial and ecclesiastical decadence I try to also turn on a single match, perhaps I deserve the support from those Catholics who do not know what he's like a mountain, how we rise above and, above all, as it turns a simple but valuable match from the television studio of a network of Mediaset. Often God just very little, because even through the light of a match, soul may decide to be saved, through the mysterious gift of freedom and the free will given to man by the Eternal Creator.

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It should reply for those having never found before the red light of a camera that sends live, They have written to me to give me advice. To respond is however necessary premise that narrates the "behind the scenes". Reading some tips they understand that they are given by people who ignore what is the complex structure of the drafting of a television program designed and conducted to fine-class professionals. Example: in an already-planned day program changes can occur due to unforeseen circumstances that require you to mount a service in a few minutes, revolutionizing the entire lineup studied in previous days of painstaking work.

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The screen viewers see Paolo Del Debbio that leads, assisted in the study of transmission by journalist Giorgio Tosi who gave the floor to any member of the "public speaking" for comments or questions. We often see on the screen the connecting services of Henri Kociu, Another good professional that along with the good Ilaria Mura and their colleagues treat the exteriors from various parts of Italy. Few know, however, that for these professionals, realize connections implies displacements, often long journeys, if anything, to broadcast live the answers to two questions addressed to an individual party, or to document, in fifteen seconds, images that serve to support what is being debated in the studio.

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Always behind the scenes I witnessed a change dictated by sudden emergency: during the episode of 17 January Paolo Del Debbio was seized by an illness due to a leg problem, replaced on the spot by Marcello Vinonuovo, responsible for directing and producing the program, who brought forward the entire live television with all the professionalism to him their.

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I saw the young journalist Edward Dallari quickly maneuver in achieving in a few minutes a link from the study of Milan Spallanzani Hospital in Rome to allow the conductor to put questions to a distinguished virologist, after he received news of a new case of coronavirus infection. Needless to say: among the spectators who followed from home, no one can know or imagine that working brings to improvise at any moment that lasted three minutes and then link, not to say how many people worked for those three minutes live link in the interiors and exteriors.

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Also in the episode of 6 February the program underwent changes: it was necessary to include in prime time news of the train derailed Frecciarossa in Lodi. Even in that case they were marked by services and connections in a short space of time, searched and then picked up and taken to some witnesses studio. Even at that time I was in preparation to participate in the program and I could watch live how everything went and how fast and professional skill has been achieved. This is to explain to the readers, in my capacity as a witness and a participant, that behind this program is a job that few imagine; job that requires excellent professional skills, place an incompetent could cause enormous damage similar contexts, especially at a company like Mediaset, who do not benefit from any compulsory television license fee, to be clear that the same as saying: you like it or not, I'll put it ... the electricity bill, so you have to pay it by force.

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Mediaset lives of plays, of advertising. And to produce advertising that produces money, Listens are indeed necessary. This complex set of things in which market information and merge together of necessity, It involves precise rules which also extend to those who will participate as guests or commentators to these programs.

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People my age remember how I was born the three television networks RAI and as years went on. Rai has always been a politicized company in which the first channel was the Christian Democrats, the second channel of the Socialist Party, the third channel of the Communist Party and its friends minority parties. As a result, subject to various professionals of undoubted excellence, This state company has always brulicato an army of inept and parasitic figures that had the sole merit of being friends of friends of that powerful politician who had placed them at the Rai. All of this, a large private company is not if you can afford. Of course, Also the largest private company assumes the friend of the friend of the powerful political, but provided it is capable, because paying with your own money and not with public, enter within itself unable or-nothing parasites in the good graces of politicians, it would not be a simple damage, but a danger that could lead to real failure.

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One of the criticisms addressed to me it was: "Why do not you talk high and theological way as you do in your other writings or different your video-conferences?». another critical: "You must animarti and raise your voice". Finally the drastic and decisive advice: "No, do not go there anymore, it is useless, It's all useless" …

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We leave for order with the answers: first of all, I note that in a "high" and "theological" no longer even speak our existing Italian bishops, sad emblem of a precipitate episcopate in a bleak mediocrity, whereas the Italian Church in particular, the concept of "friend of the powerful friend" - which in our case is not "politically powerful" but far more damaging powerful bishop or cardinal -, It is applied in the worst way as applying the old Christian Democrats, Socialists and Communists with their men or their-nothing parasites placed at the Rai. Indeed, Angle of the chairs of their cathedrals, our supreme masters of faith and doctrine - in case some of my critics they have not grasped -, Far from speaking of the great Fathers and Doctors of the Church and their wise theological teaching, now speak only of migrants and a watered-down and adulterated charity that has nothing to do with what the Bible teaches the Blessed Apostle Paul [cf.. The Cor 13, 13]. Sad and bitter truth: episcopal pulpits most renowned is now also marketed mostly a social concept that has nothing to do with the theological virtue of charity, lot instead with the suicide philanthropy blood volume b'bene.

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Clarified that do good It does not imply exercise the supreme virtue of Christian charity, it should be recalled that following Christ God, those who practiced doing good in ancient Judaea two thousand years ago, He said clearly: "Do not even the Gentiles?» [cf.. Mt 5, 47]. And he added: "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect" [cf.. Mt 5, 48]. Namely: charity is not in emotional quirks of the world, or what is the world like, resides in the Father's thanksgivings, of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Faith, as he learns from the author of the Letter to the Hebrews, far from being emotional impulse "[…] is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen " [EB 11, 1]. So why, in a television studio, I should make those teacher's lessons high theology that our bishops, in their conformist and low art homiletics, do from the pulpits of their churches cathedrals during the great liturgical solemnities of the year, place that Holy Christmas and Easter, for years now, instead of being their celebrations of the Word of God incarnate and risen Christ who defeats death, seem to become emotional obsessive-theater of the most fashionable and philanthropic migrantopoli?

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In the episode of 6 February I was very clear in explaining in a few words that it was necessary to turn in a simple and understandable to an audience who in increasing numbers, Catholics included, no longer he knows even the basics of the Catechism. An objective and sad problem before which, think you can do "high theology" from a TV studio, really it means to live outside of the real world, or at least have with it a bad relationship.

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My critics have not caught that in contrast to some of my brethren radical chic, I granted in the areas I have never failed to make reference to the doctrine, morals and teachings of the Church, with simple words and short phrases that are not allowed to me, but anyone involved. On the contrary, complain that "they did not give you room to explore that theme», as some have written, What it is unjust and false. It is true in fact the exact opposite: They have always given me ample space, along with a sincere respect paid to my figure of a priest, both live and behind the scenes populated by beautiful human beings, with several of them have established a sincere friendship, including people who for many years not exchanged a word with a priest. Said this is taken into account that the program is divided into four blocks whose duration is approximately 40 minutes each. In parterre There are usually four to six guests, each of which must speak at least once. At this time there are presentations to the theme through introductory films, there are almost always several external links, some people who comment or address questions from the public and some commercial breaks. Any mind with common sense and minimum spirit of analysis, should be understood that if one of the guests of parterre unable to speak for a total of three minutes, really he had a great space, to me which are always granted, for which I am grateful to Paul Del Debbio and Drafting.

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With regard to the invitation I addressed to me "not to yell", I want to clarify what are the mechanisms of fast communication targeted to the essential requirements. First of all, alive and raise your voice as I did on a few occasions, it was not an excess but a necessity. It may be that before certain sensitive topics, one or more parties attempt to deviate from the subject in order not to make you talk, preventing you from putting forward a message, for example by clarifying what they teach in this regard the Catholic doctrine and morals, or what really happened in history. In a similar situation, if I did not take the right to conclude a speech or a brief reply saying what is true and what is false, I would do the figure of the subject not only yielding, ometterei but just to clarify what the Church is wrong. Having said that it takes into account that in this delicate context, for those who are listening to me from home, I'm not the freelancer's own personal opinion, but a member of the Catholic Church and her Priests College. I ask then to my critics so sensitive before a priest who in case of need comes alive during a speech: for you, it is more important to say and make clear what is right or wrong, what it is true or false, or, to a distorted view of clerical etiquette, silence while one or more interlocutors say things historically misleading or incorrect? Having said that I add: how to live a priest in a Church that is going through a terrible decline in the ecclesial and ecclesiastical plan. A Church in which I have seen too many priests from, bishops and cardinals implement genuine injustices and abominations which cry before God, all with diaphanous smiles etched on the faces, Voci yeast, tones content and persuasive words. Maybe this is it, the kind of clergy "measured" and "stiff" that appeals to some of my critics, or that some of my critics wish the Church of Christ to be able to have or continue to have?

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People who invited me to "go no", because they say 'no use', are the same as they then complain of the figures of certain media priests of the past and present that, Of pleasure in pleasure go hand in hand with the world, to which always show acquiescence, it cost well say, as it has often happened in front of millions of viewers: "… it's true, the Church says this, But I think otherwise, I have another opinion ». Well, There is perhaps that before the television audience I have also issued a single sigh contrary to the doctrine, morals and teachings of the Church? So some critics should understand that if I do not participate, You are saying that you can tell by the times and rules of the slots, the so-called scene will only be trodden by those priests in sweater and sneakers that give the public an image of a priest secularized and not terribly uplifting, which often he does not transmit to the teaching of the Church, but what he thinks from the egocentrism, often, unfortunately, from the top of his ignorance on the fundamentals of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, so widespread today, even among our clergy. What good, then shut himself, how does the Catholic depressed, in the ghetto made madonnas and self-styled seers announcing impending disasters, while outside everything collapses around us? Rather it needs instead to reflect on the profound affection that Christ God proved to the crowd of people who appeared in his eyes like sheep without a shepherd:

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«[…] and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things " [cf.. MC 6, 34].

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Now more than ever, how many are these "sheep without a shepherd" that we expect, indeed often implore, just a simple word of good comfort?

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Christ the Lord invites us in clear words to be "the light of the world", and in this regard explains:

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«[…] It can not be hidden a city set on a mountain, nor is a lamp lit to put it under a bushel, but on a stand where it shines for all who are in the house. So let your light shine before men, they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven " [Mt 5, 14-16].

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I do not get how some Catholics read the Holy Gospel, which it is not a closed ghetto phenomenon excluded from the world, is the light of the Incarnate Word, as explained by the Blessed Apostle John in the Prologue to his Gospel, where light is used as a metaphor for the "light from light" who is Christ the incarnate Word of God [cf.. GV 1, 1-18]. And that Christ is not a light that lights up "and put it under a bushel", search depressed Catholics ghetto, that among madonnas and self-styled visionaries who will excite you with listings of upcoming disasters, forget - or perhaps you do not know - that the Book of Revelation of John the Apostle Blessed encloses the greatest message of hope. It would be enough to know the simple meaning of the words: the word of Greek origin, apocalypse, means "discover", "Uncover" what is hidden. The apocalyptic message reassures us that the good has already won over evil, Christ God has already triumphed. The Apocalypse is the message of the joy of faith, not the gloomy excitations use of chronic pessimists irredeemable that abound in the Holy People of God.

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What in gifts of grace was given to me in light of Christ's God which it is "Light from Light", I must make it shine in every way, as it is written in the stern warning which is the Parable of the Talents [cf.. Mt 25, 14-30]. If necessary, going quietly with my lamp on the "mountain" of Mediaset and also trying to light a match just inside the studio number 11 from which it is transmitted by direct Straight and Reverse conducted by Paolo Del Debbio and organized by a team of excellent professionals. Because, with the times we live, able to render the world see the light of only one match, It is a genuine grace of God, for people like me try Christological tenderness for all of you, It always seemed more like "sheep without a shepherd".

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For this I am grateful to the friends of preparation of the program Straight and Reverse for giving me the opportunity to be myself, ie a priest, if necessary we can go against the trends of this world, to exercise the right to the political incorrectness that it is written and shown the whole word for word in the Holy Gospel, of which I am a teacher and preacher for the sacred mandate through priestly consecration. All this in a society in which, the priest and the Catholic faith, it now tends to give an image grotesque and distorted. It is indeed notorious that we, to deserve to be treated grotesquely, We worked long, often giving the world the best of the worst of the image of the Church and clergy who could give. And today, the world, It is paying off upsetting the best of ridicule on our worst miseries.

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If in this time of crisis and ecclesial and ecclesiastical decadence I try to also turn on a single match, perhaps I deserve the support from those Catholics who do not know what he's like a mountain, how we rise above and, above all, as it turns a simple but valuable match from the television studio of a network of Mediaset. Often God just very little, because even through the light of a match, soul may decide to be saved, through the mysterious gift of freedom and the free will given to man by the Eternal Creator.

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the Island of Patmos, 17 February 2020

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Sugar and "The spirit in the dark," where shines the inextinguishable light of Christ the Redeemer

Homiletics of the Fathers of The Island of Patmos

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SUGAR AND THE "SPIRIT IN THE DARK" WHERE THE INESTINGUABLE LIGHT OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER SHINES

On the Feast of the Presentation, said Candlemas, light candles. These candles, our candles allows the tiny flame to light the darkness in the world. To show our spirit in the dark, because lit by the spirit of love of Jesus offered to the temple.

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Author:
Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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Dear brothers and sisters,

on this feast of the Presentation [texts of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO], He passed through the radio a song by Italian singer Zucchero, entitled Spirit in the dark. The author has a wish: that the world is poured out of a love light. In fact, the lyrics explicitly says: "I'd like to see the world in a celebration that lights up the spirit in the dark '.

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On the Feast of the Presentation, said Candlemas, light candles. These candles, our candles allows the tiny flame to light the darkness in the world. To show our spirit in the dark, because lit by the spirit of love of Jesus offered to the temple.

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Let us meditate on this feast, starting from the text of the Old Testament prophet Malachi:

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"Behold, I will send my messenger to prepare the way before me: […] He is like a refiner's fire and like 'soap' [Ml 3, 2].

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In this prophecy, Malachi He describes God's messenger with two images: fire and lye, that it was used as a detergent to whiten clothes. Both of these two elements, recall the purification and back clean after dirty. This messenger is not then an angel, that it is not called to purify, disinfect and wash. Malachi already proclaims Christ, It called for this task so important: volunteer for our purification.

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This is a reminder to purify our lives then, our habits, above all, our way of living the faith. Let us purify our lives by idols that, unseen, They have occupied the center.

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To reach questO we become aware that God takes care of us, as he explained by the author of the Letter to the Hebrews:

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"Christ did not take care of the angels, but the stock of Abraham cares " [EB 2, 16]

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In a sense, we can rest assured of this continuing protection of the Lord. Even in the face of difficult and terrible events of history, that are beyond our control and our responsibility, we can only put us under his wing.

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I also think of these days, for example about the news on the Coronavirus, that however exaggerated, show by good share of the world population a sense of loss. Let the Lord to protect us, with the help of scientists and doctors: fearless.

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In fact, the feast of Jesus which is presented to the temple it is summarized in this: Jesus is offered to the Father, devoted father to free us from sin and from all the attendant anxieties, as they illustrate the words of the wise and old Simeon read benedisse and Mary his mother said:

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"There, he is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and as a sign of contradiction - and you yourself a sword will pierce your soul -, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed " [LC 2, 34].

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Jesus is called and is offered in the Temple, of which he becomes the center and foundation. Indeed, in his being offered and presented in the Temple, It stands as the definitive place to meet God. That is why Jesus is a sign of contradiction and fall for many: because the Pharisees were tied to their ritual patterns and practices of the Temple, but they had lost their characteristic of being rituals to bring us into communion with God. Jesus is rather the one who reveals the thoughts of many hearts: reveals the contradiction of a bigoted religion and repetitive rather than to God who asks us a true faith membership, actively and responsibly.

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Faith thus becomes not a habit for us all and mechanical repetition: This would indeed be a contradiction for all of us. Instead fan the faith, offering all of us to the temple with Jesus, living it with strength in the everyday.

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Charles Baudelaire, although he counted from literary criticism to the group of so-called "cursed poets", far from being devoid of depth, writes: "Fly away away from these morbid miasma; goes' to purify the upper air, and drink, as a pure and divine liquor, clear fire that fills the limpid spaces »

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The Lord always give us the desire to quench our thirst his consecrated wine, to let the spaces of his eternity in our life offered to him.

Amen.

Rome, 2 February 2020

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