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«WOE TO THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL WHO PASTURE THEMSELVES!». TO BE EXECUTED BY NAZI WE WERE PREPARED, TO BE EXECUTED BY EXECUTION PLATONS OF THE MERCIFUL CHURCH DO NOT, WE WERE NOT PREPARED.

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He said recently a bishop: «Let's be clear, the Church as we once knew it no longer exists". In fact, we noticed it, just examine the rubble…

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli … [item, WHO]

The letter of a young priest published on the blog The deep by the Vatican expert Aldo Maria Valli [see text, WHO] it brought to mind chapter XXXIV of the book of the prophet Ezekiel about the shepherds of Israel who abdicated their task as leaders of the people to think of their own interests [cf. This 34, 1-31, full text WHO].

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Reading this letter I immediately felt very close to this brother and - being perhaps greater than he as chronological age - a brotherly feeling of friendship has united me to him even spiritually.

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First of all, a clarification I consider very important: not always these letters-vent must be read through the lens of the controversy or disobedience. As well as, in the same way, It is done a disservice when these texts are challenged by Christians diehard to foment some kind of revolt against the King and his Court. In fact, it is good to remember that history teaches us how the Masaniellos always end up unpleasant.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

Behind these writings, often an authentic outburst is hidden which is the unexpressed groan of those who desire that the Kingdom of God be visibly fulfilled on earth and that, in a world torn by discord, may the Church shine as a prophetic sign of unity and peace [cf. Eucharistic Prayer V/d – The Church on the path towards unity].

We are approaching the solemnity of Pentecost, which is the womb in which the Church is born of Christ, that Church for two millennia brings good news: Christ rose from the dead, Alleluia! The Holy Spirit is unity and creates unity, Church enjoys this feature when you find cohesive with her Spouse and among its members and therein lies its unity and strength. But the freedom that the Holy Spirit gives to the Church, sometimes raises many dissident voices that, as the prophets of Israel often unheeded, they try to make men aware, and in particular the men responsible for exercising the so-called power, of what will be our natural return to God.

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Or to put it in other words: we often find ourselves faced with brothers who in the frankness of the Holy Spirit indicate to us that the King is naked and that the time has come to cover his pudenda to restore his lost dignity, which is the dignity of all of us, both as individuals and as the People of God.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

Widespread discomfort that this young priest presents in his letter he is palpable, not so much in relation to those who define themselves as non-practicing believers, but at those people who have the faith of the Church in their mission and their pride. Like this, this discomfort that turns into disturbance, It is the disease of many Christians of today and of many priests and religious. And note well: The trouble is that reality from which the Holy Mass, immediately after the recitation of the Our father, we ask for the grace to be freed from it together with sin:

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«Deliver us Lord from all evils, grant peace in our days, because with the help of your mercy we will always be free from sin and safe from every disturbance, while waiting for the blessed hope to be fulfilled and our Savior Jesus Christ to come"

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Disturbation is not a sign of the presence of God, there's little to go around, when I find myself in front of upset believers, as a pastor I must, out of duty of justice, respond by trying to instill that peace which is the most beautiful fruit of the Holy Spirit. The sign of disturbance, today widespread within the Church, is highlighted through a massive disconnect between the shepherds and the sheep, precisely within those themes where once there was clarity of vision and a certain uniformity.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

We then have to patch things up in justifications because that politician – whatever orientation he belongs to – is framed as the bad guy on duty and it messes up my plans? We don't need excuses at every turn to appear trustworthy, that Latin phrase that says is all too clear: «Excuse not claimed, clear accusation». Indeed, by dint of apologizing always and for everything, we will also end up apologizing because of the death of our Divine Redeemer. Other times we instead categorize our brothers into alignments: traditionalists versus progressives, haters versus lovatori, the enthusiasts supporter of this or that pontiff and his detractors.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

Venerable Fathers Bishops and Brother Priests, It's useless to play Ciccio mother touches me and then assign blame to others for our failures as men of God. If many brothers in the People of God perceive us as dysfunctional men, schizophrenics and neurotics, probably, there will be something true. Perhaps they are indicating to us that faint breeze of God's presence that Elijah distinctly perceived [cf. 1Re 19,1-16] and that we don't want to hear, much less indulge. We really want to achieve this type of revolution?

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I was told that a bishop, speaking to busy lay people, he literally said: «Let's be clear, the Church as we once knew it no longer exists". Well – I say – if this is already so clear, why not let us return to the Lord, He who is the true shepherd of his flock and probably from here by little we whisk off, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth? [cf. Mt 13,42]. And unfortunately, many of us, They are already out for some time from the mind and heart of God's people, ready for that place of eternal damnation where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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We mourn our confirmation candidates do not put the foot in church, that our engaged couples have already experienced everything that can be experienced and that the wedding rite is just an entertainment to escape from the monotony of a life lived together for a long time. Even our sick no longer call us to their bedside to administer the Holy Viaticum and the Anointing, because they see us interested in anything but their soul.

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The large basilicas and large squares are increasingly empty, we priests are desperate that our liturgical assemblies are now reduced to a minimum. And in the face of all this, the "wisest" thing we can think of - instead of being priests - is to give our churches out to ecclesiastical and lay movements in the hope of selling a few more tickets and being sold out the following Sunday.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

Let's ask ourselves with seriousness: how could our faithful enter the temple of the Lord after it has been used as a refectory, political tribune, art Gallery, auditorium, flea market and so on? And all of this - what is more serious - without even having removed the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle, the red light turned off, left the door of the sacred reserve open, removed the tablecloth and candles from the altar. As it was once done with the express authorization of the local bishop, a consecrated church was occasionally used for non-liturgical activities. Request: who does this, he still believes in the real presence of Christ, the living and true God, present in the soul, body and divinity in the sacred Eucharistic species?

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The same holy sacrifice of the Mass risks being trivialized so that it is more friendly and – believe me – you don't need to be a devotee of Marcel Lefebvre or Gricigliano to improve things. Our homilies are steeped in atheist humanism which has among its dogmas the promotion of presumed rights incompatible with our faith, enough to make us abandon the sacred cassock or religious habit to wear the electrician's overalls, of the green activist, of the social worker, of the politician or the disk jockey.

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The film In the Name of the Pope King comes to mind shot by Luigi Magni del 1977, in which the character of Monsignor Colombo da Priverno – played by the great Nino Manfredi – says a sentence which in my opinion is decisive:

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

«Siblings, we are old… we were on borrowed time. We want ago’ good deed, the first to die? Just one: let's retire the executioner and end on a high note. Let's look for them as priests, to be priests, that we don't miss anything!».

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How beautiful, let's try to be priests, priests and pastors like this with our weaknesses, shortcomings, inconsistencies but priests. This is what simple people ask of us and what God expects, By doing this we won't miss anything, but there's more: at that point, the good People of God, still seeing our commitment, will forgive us with great magnanimity also all our human weaknesses, our faults and our faults.

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In calling the apostles Christ did not choose the best course of his time but he chose the most suitable for his purposes. This should get into the heads and hearts, we are here to further the purposes of the Savior that the feast of the Ascension reminds us:

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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. And here, I am with you always;, until the end of the world " [cf. Mt 28,19-20].

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

The alleged waves of new ecclesial, if they do not come from the Holy Spirit who gives peace, They know old, There is nothing new under the sun, also alleged novelties are already old, stink of mothballs, Christ alone is modern, because it is the living, One who was, which is, What will be, as acclaim during the Easter Vigil.

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Let us send retired the disturbance Executioner and he too modern Executioner's mercy. The one and the other their toll and cut so many innocent heads in our ecclesial communities performing their death sentences by order of the worst culprits. Via, that the Executioner, while she is dressing a luxurious and elegant red hood up at the foot, is constantly dripping with the blood of the innocent martyrs who, as in the time of Christ, pay their testimony to King Herod which claims to be revolutionary in his being the Messiah and Savior of the chosen people who never loved and who used to enrich themselves and to tighten connivance: via!

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Cagliari, 4 June 2019

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To be executed by the Nazis we were prepared, to be executed by firing squads of Merciful Church no, that we were not prepared …

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