A theological reflection on coronavirus: of correct information and hoaxes of dangerous idiots internetici, while the man is no longer able to read the signs of the earth and sky
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Peace and love !
This message can not be published, since it is directed at the man or woman in charge of moderating and filter comments. In my previous post I expressed my thoughts. I do not know if they are in error,I'm not holding anyone pitfalls. But if something wrong was the work of Mercy Spiritual correct me.
Thank you.
Dear Father Ariel,
Regarding the question that I asked you a few days ago, not having received a reply, I try to tell my thoughts. Of course God does not fear it does nothing. And the removal of it from your extension takes place looking good reasons which will help overcoming. Humanly the actual company provides (in its worst) all sorts of numbing stunning “useful” not already at the resolution of such a state but at one of its ephemeral coverage. It is therefore necessary discernment and objectivity to recognize our sins and if such awareness ripens too afraid (why not?) the loss of Grace. Here are the germs of Repentance may find fertile ground and fear will have a time limit because a sinner who repents, confesses and tries not to fall(also mindful of the aforesaid fear) He has already begun the ascent. He does not want to feel sick inside and knows those who cause him such pain. Peace and love !
Dear Father Ariel, I do not agree with what was said by Meluzzi and its uncritical adhesion. You talk about not surrender to fear and terror, but at the same time welcomes the words of that Meluzzi (very inappropriately) dice “to try to contain this virus would be "how to catch the air with his hands”, and at the same time he argues that the only hope is to rely on the Virgin Mary.
May the Virgin Mary is always great hope is beyond doubt, and to her we rely more and.
But at the same time the words of Meluzzi spread exactly the same “terrore” that in theory she has previously stigmatized . He as a critical part of the ignorance of fear, after which uses words and phrases (catch the air with his hands) that just the fear spread, using exactly the ignorance. Now it will not be easy to contain this virus, and if you were to get in Africa the situation would most likely be even more serious. And though to stigmatize him who sows terror, denouncing the uselessness of any preventive action, then stigmatize those who are terrified.
There is a curious thing that struck me. He cries to the scandal in Italy because the Chinese would be victims of racism as a result of the virus. But no one notices that not only the Chinese are quite racist in their area (p. is. towards ethnic minorities in Africa with Africans), but also that, instead blaming Italians hosting them, They would do better to take it with their government that is based on fear and the silence and quite possibly produces repeatedly virus. But they do not do it out of fear or because they hate to lose face in front of foreigners, Unlike the Italians who like to disparage their own country and their own rulers before foreign.
Dear Iginio,
I can not be accused either of pro-Marxist or pro-communism, Given the above: I pray to God that in China the Communist regime can hold as much as possible, because if in that country inhabited by nearly a billion and a half inhabitants fell the regime as it did in the late eighties early nineties in former Soviet countries and the former Soviet Union, the civil war that occurred within the former Yugoslavia would be truly a joke compared; and the results would be unpredictable and uncontrollable of all for the safety of the whole world.
In Yugoslavia, the ethnic groups who hated each other were kept at bay by Josif Broz dictatorship, detto il maresciallo Tito, in China, ethnic groups that hate each other and that the communist regime keeps at bay, are hundreds, all within a very populous country, militarily advanced and with a technology of the highest order.
What Italians love to denigrate their country and its rulers it is well known to the extent that Italians have no sense of the State, many believe that the State is an abstract entity, whereas the state we are us. As for the complaints of governments, governors and local administrators, since we tend irresponsible, including large numbers of people who go to vote as a joke or to protest, average Italian escapes a basic element: the rulers we elect them we, so those responsible are we. The rulers are where they are thanks to our vote, not to have made a coup.
I say “we” broadly, because I do not go to my free choice to vote by 19 year old, ie when there is no longer even the “less worse”, but only the truly impossible. But this is my personal choice, not to be taken either as a model or to follow.
dear father Ariel
the last part of the article you remember how long ago the supreme pontiff might stop upon migrants and poor, to point out an article
https://www.ilmessaggero.it/umbria/cardinale_bassetti_qualcuno_piace_papa_criticare_va_bene_distruttismo_no-5007080.html
Do you think it is right that a pastor of souls requests to leave the church? Now I read in the gospel that the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep rather mercenary flees.
The ask is the distruttismo denounce the distortions of a pontificate?
Thank you.
dear fabio,
his question already contains the answer from the Gospel that you yourself quotes: "The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep rather mercenary flees'.
P. Ariel she mean that fear may spring forth Repentance ? And if so, in Repentance (and subsequent Confession) we find that Jesus cast out?
Dear Father Ariel, I agree in all respects the substance of his article. And it is also why among others do not share, and I did not have the opportunity to discuss with students, Greta Thurnberg movement, which relies on “fear” It is on “terrore” Future robbed and threatened by the Apocalypse. She applies it to faith, which should not be dominated by “fear of…” but fueled by full trust in the Lord who loves his creatures, and all he has created, I apply it in many contexts of our world, where not only Salvini, but also by many other so-called good, those with elevated language pontificating from their “wisdom”-supponenza, and instill fear in people's hearts, although it seems the opposite. Starting from the EU, that does nothing but threaten and stangare soon as you do things contrary to his ideology. If the speech that she does not also apply to all of these things I can not accept it. I hope you understand what I mean. Thank you
dear father Ariel
I would like to ask you when there is a sacrilegious confession and communion sacrilegious ?
dear fabio,
there is "Admission sacrilegeously» when the penitent, aware of some of his sins, if anything, even serious, it is silent confessor, ie not accuse them and they do not ask for mercy and forgiveness of God.
There is "Sacrilegious communion» When a believer receives the Most Holy Body of Christ in a state of mortal sin.
Obviously, the speech, in itself and by itself, in many respects can be quite complex, place that is not easy to say “black and white”, “Yes or no”.
Example anything but rare peregrine and perhaps even: a missionary priest who lives in an isolated place and it does not have the material ability to confess because the nearest brother is hundreds of kilometers away and this would result in a high-risk trip, if anything in war zones and so to follow, to achieve it, being in a state of sin, can celebrate Mass?
Yup, because the good of the People of God is greater than its state of sin.
Naturally, the priest aware of his state of sin, ask God for forgiveness before, during and after each celebration with the firm purpose of confessing as soon as soon as practically possible,.
The same principle can be applied to any Catholic faithful that in a situation quite the same can not avail of the Sacrament because there is a priest. In similar cases of objective impossibility, sincere repentance and the desire to confess, It can equate to an absolution, if that is faithful in danger of death or if he were to die without having the opportunity of being able to confess.
There are in the world isolated places where a priest manages to reach the faithful once every two or three months and when he goes there, if anything, there are several hundred people participating in the Mass, being in the physical impossibility of administering the confession of hundreds of people, because after a few hours have to start to get to another location.
In those very exceptional cases – and only in very exceptional cases similar – he imparts absolution, conditioned to regard that those who receive it will confess as soon as possible to have a priest who has the availability and time to individually administer the sacrament to penitents.
I have often been asked questions like: "What about the state of the public and notorious sinner who died without receiving the sacraments and without being able to reconcile with God?».
Well, in these cases, beware of those who apply to the mystery of salvation clear and precise rules of the Highway Code, He is responding with precise judgments and decided, why nobody – from the Church and all its sacred ministers – You can know what happened between the consciousness of man and God, also and only in the last moments of life.
There are indeed things before which we can not have answers to give, except for those who, with the Highway Code in hand, presume to know God's judgment on the souls. And to say that they are presumptuous, It is really a euphemism.
dear father Ariel
I read in the Catechism 1453 The contrition called "imperfect" (or "attrition") And, anch'essa, un dono di Dio, a prompting of the Holy Spirit. It born of the consideration of sin's ugliness or the fear of eternal damnation and the other penalties threatening the sinner (contrition of fear). When consciousness is so shaken, It can initiate an interior process that will be carried through, under the action of grace, by sacramental. Alone, however, imperfect contrition can not obtain the forgiveness of grave sins, it has to receive the sacrament of Penance [Cf Concilio di Trento: Denz. -beautiful, 1677]. vorrei un suo parere
I am sorry, but she misunderstood.
I assure you that I know what you quote, non potrebbe essere diversamente, because otherwise it would be instantly revoked the faculty to administer the sacramental confessions.
In my writing I do not speak of contrition "imperfect" (or "attrition"), but the port with great clarity the example and the case of the penitent unrepentant moved to ask forgiveness only “fear” e “terrore”, or because induced someone to be scared and terrified. And this inner state does not produce a request for pardon based on sincere repentance.