From the skies resound on earth the echo admirable de “The Name of The rose”, our: the real one …

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FROM HEAVEN ON EARTH resonate ECO DE MIRABILE THE NAME OF THE ROSE, OUR: THE ONE TRUE …

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Each of us has a name that our parents have chosen. Perhaps a family tradition, for a personal desire, or to perpetuate the name of a grandparent or great-grandfather. Or maybe to give the name of some writer, author, artist and actor who our parents really liked. This is to clarify that if only the name, He says something about our origin.

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The Name of The rose: movie poster of 1986 with Sean Connery

There are devotions you need to discover and meditate, like that of the Holy Name of Mary, which is very important because I believe encompasses a set of beautiful teachings about our faith.

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Let us dwell on the nature of the name. Each of us has a name that our parents have chosen. Perhaps a family tradition, for a personal desire, or to perpetuate the name of a grandparent or great-grandfather. Or maybe to give the name of some writer, author, artist and actor who our parents really liked. This is to clarify that if only the name, He says something about our origin.

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Born The Lord of the Rings, the blond elf accompanying the Fellowship of the Ring It has a very unique name: Legolas. Tolkien devised the Elvish language specially for his epic saga. And indeed, Legolas, in Elvish means Green leaf and indicates, again, the archer's origins, original no coincidence Woodland Realm.

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Let's now an example from the real world: if you hear a few friends call themselves very religious Efisio, most likely Sardinian origin, Sant'Efisio is a saint because Cagliari. This is to reiterate that the name can tell our identity origin, and this name the Lord binds a particular mission entrusted to each of us: our mission.

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As part of religious life, For centuries, dressing gown of monastic or religious family, It has assumed a different name than to his baptismal name. In some cases the same secular priests, who have never had this tradition, they asked in some cases to their bishops to take another name. This request was made several times mostly by men become priests in adulthood, almost as if to mark, Also in the name, the brand of their radical lifestyle choice. Here then is the name, chosen and given by religious superiors, or selected and proposed by religious, or assumed by the secular priest at his request made to the bishop, is something closely related to vocational choice, the character and spirituality of the person.

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The fact that a name characterizes a person is an element that involves our Mother in the primary mode, Maria. Indeed, while I am doing research on the words Most Holy Name of Mary, providentially I found a beautiful poem that the Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni composed of 1812 and the 1815. The writer and poet, by writing the name of Mary, he claims:

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In the brunette waking fears, / You noma the little boy; and Te, trembling,/ When swells roaring luck,/ It occurs boater.

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The verses seem just turn to us all. The name of Mary takes the children and adolescents participating in the oratory and other activities and at the same time the boater. Interpreting freely we could say that sailing is all of us, cybernauts no longer children and adolescents; the sailor is every believer sailing vessel with Jesus: the church. It relies on Mary when her life of faith, and even in the daily vicissitudes, coming of stormy moments, that precisely recall Manzoni roar of fortune.

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I think back to three readings typically Marian that show us how great teachings are enclosed in Mary's name, our mother. The Book of Genesis, also said Protogospel, that serves as an introduction to the Gospel of Christ:

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"I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; this offspring will crush your head and you shall bruise his heel " [GN 3,15].

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The woman here will give the offspring who will crush the serpent, Maria will own, which it is present in typical form. Moving on from the Book of Genesis all'Epistolario Paolino, Instead we read in the Letter to the Galatians: "God sent forth His Son, born of woman". Here we show how Jesus is indeed the descendants prophesied by God, true God and true Man.

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Introduciamoci now in the Marian Gospel text for excellence, The passage in Luke that tells the Annunciation. We imagine ourselves to be in the house of Mary, and listen to the words of the Archangel:

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"In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent to a bride. The virgin's name was Mary " [cf. LC 1, 26 – 38].

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The first lesson linked to the name of Mary It is related to the Marriage and at the same time virgin. Mary teaches this to everyone, through a virginity which should also be seen as purity and readiness to respond to God's call. As a pure field and virgin, Mary is for us an example of person who is prepared to say yes to God. Immediately after the archangel greets:

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"" Rejoice, full of grace: the Lord is with you" […] "Do not fear, Maria, for you have found favor with God " '.

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Mary is full of grace, Immaculate Conception, and the Archangel gives her why she came to her: her that although virgin betrothed, she will conceive a son by God: Jesus. Here's how Mary shows us the gift of a motherhood that generates - teaches Marian dogma - Jesus in his human body. It is thanks to Mary and to the Holy Spirit, Jesus became man like us, through the mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God. E, like all people, facing a huge ad, Also little Maria reflects and meditates on which the Archangel says:

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"But she was very upset and pondered what sort of greeting like this».

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Maria has no doubt that the Lord wants to give something great: but the question is how will it happen. And that 'wondered', It should literally translate it as "reflected, he meditated ". In this the small handmaiden of Nazareth there is an example: we can also reflect on the message that God gives us each day. Meditate that message to make our life full of deep meaning. In the end, after the reassurances of the Archangel, here is break out the yes of Marian Love:

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"Behold the handmaid of the Lord: done to me according to your word ".

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The Marian yes is that Jesus comes to the world. The Son of God is generated by the Eternal Father, and Maria. It is born for us. The mission of Mary now you can take: generate Jesus for us.

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In each of our states of life also we have this particular mission: generate Jesus in people, namely to ensure that we become witnesses that Jesus came into our lives, changing them radically. Like this, those who observe us from afar, You will hear our testimony: and the Holy Spirit will act in him and spread the seeds of the Word of eternal life.

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Emphasizing the Marian name, implies the exaltation of the name of Mary, Mother of God, what model of all believers. So we thank God, because today all our names are written in the book of eternal life given to us by Jesus. Our names are written in the fiery heart of our heavenly mother, button of love and tenderness, He donates them to God.

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May the Lord grant us more strength and courage to live faithfully the Christian life, following the example of our Holy Mother.

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sweet Jesus, Jesus Love [St. Caterina da Siena]

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Rome, 28 September 2019

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Article taken from a meditation given on the feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary at the Marianist Fathers.

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Because the Virgin Mary did not ask for euthanasia of Jesus Christ on the cross, as it will allow the government of Joseph Conte, child prodigy of Villa Nazareth? But for the Vatican Secretariat of State and the Italian bishops the real problem was Matteo Salvini exhibiting the rosary in the square

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WHY NOT THE VIRGIN MARY CHURCH THE EUTHANASIA OF JESUS ​​CHRIST ON THE CROSS, AS IT WILL ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT OF GIUSEPPE CONTE, CHILD PRODIGY OF VILLA NAZARETH? BUT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE VATICAN ITALIAN BISHOPS THE REAL PROBLEM WAS THE POPULIST Matteo SALVINI exhibiting ROSARY IN PIAZZA

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While in Italy he won the satanic culture of death, seguitino also ran after the Supreme modern dogma of the migrant, Cardinals Pietro Parolin and Gualtiero Bassetti, now flirting with the world, Now with the prodigy children of Villa Nazareth head-modernist late Cardinal Achille Silvestrini. But we are there, kneeling in the best place, under the cross of Christ, from which it does not drip death, but the blood that has redeemed us. And all these people, Red political color or red cardinal, We do not really scared, the shadow of the cross of Christ God.

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The Supreme Pontiff and the Head of the Italian Giuseppe Conte Government, private meeting after the funeral of Cardinal Achille Silvestrini

Today the Constitutional Court He said the article illegitimate 580 of the Criminal Code [cf. WHO] who punishes the instigation or assisted suicide, and for which they provided penalties between 5 e i 12 years in prison. The Supreme Court was asked to rule on the issue by the Assize Court of Milan as part of the process in which the defendant a famous Trojan Horse: the leader of the Radical Party, Marco Cappato, involved in assisted suicide Fabiano Antoniani, known to the public as Dj Fabo [cf. WHO] In this way the Supreme Court has opened a door to the possibility of helping a person to die, declaring lawful the entrance of the Trojan Horse, and decreeing that a rule that punishes assisted suicide but that does not take into account the situation of those suffering from unsustainably, is to be considered unconstitutional. So, starting today, the Supreme Court ruled in its judgment the "right to die" by stating at the same time:

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"Whoever facilitates the execution of the intention to commit suicide is not punishable, independently and freely formed of a patient kept alive by life-sustaining treatments and suffering from a fatal disease, source of physical and psychological suffering that he considers intolerable, but fully able to make free and informed decisions ".

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At this point the legislature will have to intervene with a special law, namely that very government headed by Professor Giuseppe Conte as supported by the Holy See and the Italian Episcopal Conference. In this, as in other cases, he put his mind at rest good Catholics faithful, because both from the Holy See and from the Italian Episcopal Conference you will not hear the dignified and humble lament: "Pardon, we were wrong". Because the logic of the worst pride, which it is the clerical arrogance, work on the basis of this principle that in itself obviously has the blasphemy: the Divine Father and the Divine Son, they can also make mistakes in advancing the Divine Holy Spirit, but the Holy See and the Episcopal Conference Italian no, They can not go wrong assessment and judgment, May!

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While a Government also formed by members of the most furious radical left It is preparing to toast the passing of the law on euthanasia masked by "extreme case", The Supreme Constitutional Court has opened all the tracks by subjecting the non-punishment:

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«[…] to compliance with the procedures prescribed by law on informed consent, on palliative care and continuous deep sedation (articles 1 e 2 of the law 219/2017) and to verify whether the required conditions of the Implementing Rules by a public structure of the National Health Service, After consulting the competent local ethics committee […] the identification of these specific conditions and procedural arrangements, taken from existing standards law, It was necessary to prevent risk of abuse against people especially vulnerable, as he had already pointed out in its previous order 207 the 2018. Compared to pipelines already realized, the judge will evaluate the existence of conditions substantially equivalent to those indicated ».

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At the hearing It was attended by Marco Cappato and Dj Fabo companion, with them even Mina, the widow of Piergiorgio Welby, d. 2006 after his request had been disconnected the respirator that kept him alive. All have publicly exulted, as if death were a victory. From your hand Marco Cappato reiterated by appealing to nothing less than a moral duty: "I helped Fabiano because I considered it my moral duty" [cf. WHO]. To follow to rejoice with Twitter: "Victory of civil disobedience; now all more free, even those who disagreed '.

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These words sound like blasphemies the ears of any Christian spirit during the Easter memory relives the mystery of Christ, who conquered death by his resurrection, to which we are made partakers. Today instead, from a worthy product of that Mephistophelian party known as the Radical Party, we have to hear that the achievement is rather death, with a lot of reference to "moral duties". These comments of jubilation were followed by those of the Senator of the Democratic Party Monica Cirinnà, on which we fly over, because in the words of Marco Cappato we said just about everything. Only one thing we can add: before our eyes apathetic and powerless Catholic citizens, all of them equipped with ballot, but most of all beneficiaries of the constitutional rights of freedom of thought, speech and expression, that no one can certainly revocarci as Catholics, we witnessed the painful rendition of an Italian Church now fossilized in sclerotic obsessively only on migrants, while in our country we have now entered the Trojan Horse of the culture of death: assisted suicide.

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Equally important would be the perfect note repetition what has already occurred at the time in 1978 the referendum on the legalization of abortion: the supporters of certain laws, aiming variously to touch the life of the heart - as if it were a disposable good in the hands of voters, Lawmakers and doctors - their struggles unleashed the increasingly relying on borderline cases, indeed on very rare occasions. Playing on them before they go to hit the collective emotion, then perform a subversion of the fundamental laws by reversing the same legal logic: transform the exception - often rare but extremely rare - as a general rule. Let me be clear: The law takes into account always the existence and possible rare exception livelihood, but at the moment in which it, subject to manipulation, It ends up transformed into a general rule, at that point we are before the actual legal and legislative aberration.

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If anything, many do not realized it, it should be clear that we are only at the beginning of the process of radical evil and dehumanizing. The Trojan Horse was in fact just introduced, soldiers still have not come from her womb, but soon they will manifest out. Then, in a future far at all, thanks to the exponents of those present parties shouting at each trifle the fascist e to the Nazi, we will find ourselves in a society in this free and democratic point to embarrass the Third Reich Nazi, but especially Dr. Josef Mengele. And tomorrow, the most exquisite accordance with the law and without any consent from interested parties or their family members, perhaps seriously ill people will be killed if they remain alive without any possibility of cure and healing, young or old alike, will not burden the state budget and the National Health Service. Also because our population, growing old and birth rates to below zero for four decades, will soon find out that the much-welcomed and unwanted migrants, They will not be at all in our country for us to change diapers, nor bid us emptying bedpans and parrots, nor to hold and pay with their work, with their taxes and their contributions to our pension system for the future collapse together with the National Health Service.

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If we did not live obsessed by political correctness, we should know that the majority of young Africans who emigrate to our country, mostly come from countries where the males have never shined neither desire nor ability to work. This for a purely anthropological and cultural discourse: in the company of some African countries to work are women, not men. For their part, our law enforcement agencies and the judicial files that overflow for certain specific crimes in our courts, show that when these anthropologically and culturally idle males are put to work, often they create companies of this kind: take wives and daughters and bring them into prostitution in our streets. How many, but above all because there are many husbands and fathers, originating from Nigeria repeatedly arrested for pimping, in particular of that child? Yet in his time, that "great scientist" Senator Laura Boldrini, had the audacity to say that if we had not welcomed migrants, tomorrow we would not have had anyone from old diapers he changed us (!?). Soon said: or this senator has traded young Nigerian Muslim-nothing, with a proven propensity for violence and crime, for the hardworking Filipino Catholics, notoriously hard-working and very respectful to the elderly and sick, or was he acting on their own set of a science fiction movie, as for years they tend to make the leaders of the Democratic Party. But there is also a third possibility: perhaps the Senator does not know its uses, customs and habits of some populations of the African continent, however, those that produce the highest migration flows and at the same time the highest number of crimes committed, once you arrive in Europe. That said it noted: to say such things, I'm not after having played the role of so-called racist, Fascist and Nazi, but they are the facts and legal documents. It would be enough to tour in various European countries to find out instantly that even the diligent, disciplined and rigorous police of the Federal Republic of Germany, He manages to hold off certain gangs of violent criminals, mostly from Nigeria.

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As we said poc'anzi it is no mystery that the current government was brazenly supported by the Holy See and the Italian Episcopal Conference which entered the electoral campaign for the European elections of the 26 May 2019. And this government is the Prime Minister Professor Giuseppe Conte, a child prodigy grew up at Villa Nazareth in Rome, among her skirts at all mourned Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, Modernist in the round and prominent member of the so-called cardinal Mafia St. Gallen. For ecclesial modesty and love of country many of us have chosen to be silent, but those who know certain characters and the way they act, It included instantly, in the days of the government crisis that began in mid-August, the famous speech aimed primarily to the attack Interior Minister, Senator Matteo Salvini, Professor Giuseppe Conte [cf. WHO], It was written mostly between the Secretariat of State and Villa Nazareth, located in Rome Via della Pineta Sacchetti, pleasant place where, however, it is much easier to meet and spend time conversing in a completely confidential to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness.

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Great fear was shown for the populist Matteo Salvini, while the Catholic press "of" regime discoursed on inappropriate performance by the rosary and its references to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, almost as if they were authentic blasphemies. We are taking apart then on Tweet and inappropriate jokes in which he has experimented Father Antonio Spadaro, now that ranges between The master's voice e the voice of unconsciousness. Now, these same people, They will gather to collect the fruits they have sown and soon, their child prodigy of Villa Nazareth will have to open with his own hands the belly of the Trojan Horse introduced into our city. These are the facts and the results of a Holy See and of the Italian Episcopal Conference which irritated by rosaries and populist appeals to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, It started flirting with the fringes of the radical Left, of which we know always the various instances: l'euthanasia, the abolition of the objection of conscience for doctors who do not want to perform abortions, marriage between same-sex couples, being granted the adoption of children, lawfulness of the uterus for rent, the imposition of education gender in primary schools and so to follow ... But, we repeat again: the problem was the rosary crowns and the invocations addressed to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary by that populist Senator Matteo Salvini.

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I fear however that, unfortunately, the big problem It consists of chameleons professionals as the current President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Gualtieri Bassetti, that some decades ago, Florentine priest who was, climbed the pulpit in pre-election periods and invited to vote for the Christian Democrats, would cost even hold their nose to smell the. Today, walking towards the eightieth, we see him reduced to smiling at a supporter of the culture of death like Senator Emma Bonino, already previously counted among the figures of the great Italian for the august mouth of the happily reigning Pope [cf. WHO, WHO]. What else to say: … Ah, when I would have preferred, instead of Gualtiero Bassetti, the salvation of my soul and Heaven, a cardinal conquered after missing for a lifetime from a cart to another!

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I am aware that we priests and theologians not yet sold to the Prince of this world we turn to a secularized and de-Christianized world that no longer understands either our language or the sentiments and evangelical foundations that animate it. Add to this more and worse: we find ourselves even be ostracized and persecuted in the same church where today, including a shot of mercy and a collegial collegiality blow, we are now reduced - as I have often said - to the Cambodian regime of Pol Pot.

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To understand the terrible mystery of death, of the disease, of physical decay, of pain and suffering, you must start from far away: the creation of the world and of man. The dead, indicated by many as "natural element" and "inevitable" cycle of life, in addition to being quite natural, It is actually about as unnatural to exist. God did not create mortal man, it created immortal. It gave, giver of perfect and eternal life, the mystery of creation has not conceived neither pain nor suffering, or physical decay or disease. The dead, with all its consequences, enters the world stage when the man, benefiting from the freedom and the free will given to him by God, He decides to rebel against his Creator. It is then that that element enters the world scene completely unnatural that is death, Consequently a sin which has altered the creation itself. This is referred to as Original Sin; a pity that none of us has committed, but that all together we inherited a corrupt nature originally from this same sin.

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This is our faith, which starts from the mystery of creation. A faith that gives us believers a completely different perception of death and pain, an element sometimes more unwelcome, and a source of even greater suffering, when it afflicts us, but it strikes through illness of our loved ones and beloved.

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In a society that together with Christian principles refuses physical decay, illness and death itself, more than difficult it can sometimes be almost impossible to talk to the men of this world of that great element is education that is saving you the pain. Topic treated by the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II in his memorable Apostolic Letter dedicated to the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering [CF. Saving pain, full text, WHO].

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In a society that together with Christian principles refuses physical decay, illness and death itself, more than difficult it can sometimes be almost impossible to talk to the people of this world the mystery of the Cross, which it is primarily unspeakable suffering. Indeed, If a specialist in forensic medicine and a specialist in anatomical pathology is mettessero to explain to the general public who are both pain, both the physical consequences for a death caused by torture of crucifixion - not surprisingly called the Roman Criminal Law An extraordinary penalty, namely the the greatest punishment ―, perhaps many would not stand up to detailed descriptions.

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but yet, under the cross ... Mother stood beside the cross weeping, While her Son [was the grieving mother in tears, under the cross, on which hung his Son]. And the Mother of Sorrows, before the suffering child dying, He not pleaded any centurion to end the torment with a "merciful" spear. Because the Blessed Virgin Mary, as stated in the prayer of St Bernard to the Virgin reported by Dante in Canto XXXIII of Paradise, He was "Daughter of your Son, humble and high beyond, Fixed term of the eternal counsel '. Just so: Daughter was the Son of God, she was not a daughter of Satan like that soul of poor Marco Cappato - except for his sincere and profound repentance -, worthy son of politician Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino, the great Italian, which today celebrates the conquest of death, introduced to the world by the Devil, certainly not from God.

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While in Italy the satanic culture of death risks overcoming, let them continue to run after the supreme dogma Cardinal Achille Silvestrini. But we are there, kneeling in the best place, under the cross of Christ, from which it does not drip death, but the blood that has redeemed us. And all these people, Red political color or red cardinal, We do not really scared, the shadow of the cross of Christ God, it is they who must fear, even more than tomorrow, the eternal that awaits them.

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the Island of Patmos, 26 September 2019

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"I tell you that if these were silent, grideranno the pietre ". Pasquino laughs: presto!

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"I TELL YOU THAT IF THESE WILL SHUT UP THE STONES WILL SHOUT" RIDATE PASQUINO: PRESTO!

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The truth, who is the mother of all democracies, is in itself liberating, It is not imposed, It enlightens man's intelligence and freedom of each individual. Before the truth, man can not avoid taking sides, it must decide whether to embrace it or reject it. The moment that you embrace it becomes the seeker, not for personal gain, but because the truth is persuasive and seductive man toward the good - staff or Community - which knows no compromise or duplicity, it disregard the very truth which deteriorates so falsehood.

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Rome, statue of Pasquino

Who is to pass for Parione in Rome, will not have trouble getting Pasquino square, where the visitor will notice, the corner of Palazzo Braschi, the famous talking statue of the satirical epigrammatic chatty most famous in the history of the Capital.

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Pasquino, statue of the Hellenistic period B.C., he was the one who gave voice to the people, using satire and irony to highlight political situations, social or even religious that it was no longer possible to tolerate. From the pungent pasquinate They were not spared even the Popes. Under the pontificates of Pope Adrian VI, Sisto V and Clement VIII, the statue risked being shattered and destroyed. Only the wisdom of some farsighted prelate within the Papal States dissuaded the Roman Pontiff Sisto V by this connection, after he had appeared the inscription: «Whether float der Pope Sixtus nun forgives not even Christ». Penalty for the destruction of the statue, They would be the repercussions and uncontrollable reactions of the Roman people.

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So we must agree, obtorto neck, that er puppet de Pasquino He held with its activities a useful service to many: to the powerful who saw rebuked and brought back to the reflection; the people who felt protected, uniting under a common symbol; to freedom of thought he could finally express themselves beyond the inevitable censorship that threatened to cloud the truth of things. Perhaps this is why some healthy satire and equitable self-criticism, in a correct manner, in times and contexts right, It can be much more useful than some official measures.

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The character of Pasquino, omitting the instrumental use, political or ideological that this symbol has embodied over time, constituted in fact the voice of the people. As a people papal, loyal to the throne and the altar, but the need did not renounce to practice the well-known Roman bluntness much-vaunted by today mainstream Ecclesiastical with the term parresia. Already … parresia, but what we are talking? The parresia is an ancient reality, according to scholars already playwright Euripides [that. 480-406 a.C.] expressed by this term the virtues of strongly affirm the truth. Other philosophers of the classical world such as Socrates [that. 469-399 a.C], Plato [that. 428-348] and Aristotle [that. 384-322 a.C.] Professing themselves to be seekers of truth and in the practice and teaching of parresia helped to build the foundation for what would be the Athenian democratic system. A company can stand only if it remains firmly anchored in the truth, lies and duplicity are therefore the only real obstacle to any good democratic system of government.

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The French philosopher and essayist Paul-Michel Foucault for this reason expressed their thoughts in the famous aphorism: "Because there is democracy there must be parresia". But it is precisely at this point of the argument that it is necessary to clarify. Plato distinguished between two types of parresia: a truthful denoted as a virtue wise and constructive and a false denoted as misleading and deceptive. I want to focus on the first typology, ignoring for the moment the second to other subsequent insights. We understand how parresia push the man to the laborious search well-rounded truth, compared to the danger of absolutizing the personal views of promoting them in truth elite. About this, just think of the most famous story of dictatorships that have characterized their own following the personal truth of their leaders.

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The truth, who is the mother of all democracies, is in itself liberating, It is not imposed, It enlightens man's intelligence and freedom of each individual. Before the truth, man can not avoid taking sides, it must decide whether to embrace it or reject it. The moment that you embrace it becomes the seeker, not for personal gain, but because the truth is persuasive and seductive man toward the good - staff or Community - which knows no compromise or duplicity, it disregard the very truth which deteriorates so falsehood. And before the truth can not be silenced, because "If these were silent, even the stones will cry " [cf. LC 19, 40].

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Faced with the danger, increasingly looming, a contemporary relativism that distorts and falsifies the truth, You need to emphasize strongly that the truth is unique and has a name: Jesus Christ. There are other truths - truths or parallel - to which man can approach to reach the desired good. It is explained to the Magisterium of the Church: "Called to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, "The true light that enlightens every man" [GV 1,9], people become "light in the Lord" and "children of light" [Ef 5,8] and they are made holy by "obedience to the truth" [1 PT 1,22 – cf.. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter The Splendor of Truth n° 1], realizing every parresia and allows you to experience the grace of God that precedes and assists the man in front of the spirit liar par excellence - Satan - and his work. In fact, if God's work and action are declined through the mediation of the truth of the Word incarnate in the world, the work of the Evil One and his followers declines through the denial of God and Christ to the willful disobedience and informed the fruits of modernity and contemporary ranging from relativism and skepticism [cf. GV 18, 38], up in search of an illusory freedom apart from truth itself. [cf.. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter The Splendor of Truth n° 1].

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With the advent of Christianity It parresia assumes a role more and more profit from the truth of the Gospel and its moral that in the person of Christ - the Word made man - his source and summit. The strenuous workout that the Christian must practice in order to cross the narrow door that allows it to penetrate into the truth of Christ [LC 13,24] It is similar to the effort that the philosopher Socrates practiced to emerge from his listeners the truth, with the difference that Socrates was not acting the divine grace given to each man with the baptism. The truth was manifested to man and the grace that was given for making it all possible: "Because the grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" [GV 1,17].

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I am more and more convinced that for the Christian the act or speak with parresia It implies not only an academic discussion or an exchange of views and opinions in order to synthesize, but it is above all the discovery and recognition of that eternal reality that insists in the person of God's Truth. The Christian therefore acts with parresia when, recognizing the truth of the Triune God, It gives each created thing its rightful place and value, coming to the order that is the opposite of chaos liar.

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We live in a historical period in which the Truth of Revelation is adapted and, in severe cases, denied to make room for personal opinions and judgments that swollen with personalism and individualism surging to the truth. Today everyone can express themselves with the fateful: "in my opinion…», the magic formula that opens the alternative and contrasts each Inconvenient Truth in order to clear any illegal. In front of the historical events and philosophical, before natural or biological evidence, in front of each divine teaching stands revealed merciless strainer "in my opinion…», new mantra of unique contemporary thought and a certain ecclesiology output.

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I challenge our readers never to have heard at home or at work, from her neighbors and distant, opposing the phrase "in my opinion…», unsheathed against the radicalism of the Gospel and the teaching of the Church. Like this, questioning everything and trying partisanship a sterile dialogue, son of a deceptive parresia, the followers of the "I think…"- which then turns into in our opinion when you conceal lobbies - impose de facto censorship and, creating hypothetical enemies, dictate the agenda of world leaders, thus displacing the democratic freedom which is no longer able to recognize and approach the truth.

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In some areas We have already made the prophecy of Gilbert Keith Chesterton says that:

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"Fires are stoked to witness that two plus two equals four. Spade will be unsheathed to show that the leaves are green in summer…» [cf. G.K. Chesterton, Heretics, Lindau, Torino, 2010, pp. 242-243].

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Rome, statue of Pasquino

Laying eyes on the Church, the situation is not entirely dissimilar to that present in the secular world. Losing God's Truth, They recycle mundane truth frantically hoping to appear more convincing, more engaging and often more updated of Christ himself. This attitude leads to an inability to utter a word, and strongly reminiscent of the case of the priest Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, that by not accepting the work of God's healing, became silent until he had proclaimed the truth that the name of his only begotten son from the merciful divine truth.

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The disruptive silence that arises today the sacristy, convents and monasteries, by curies and vicariates is the consequent result of a profound loss of identity that denies the redemptive work of Christ Way, Truth and Life to glorify the work of man and the Prince of this world [GV 12,31]. Like this, tll actually more terrible today: from attack to life in all its forms, the breakup of the institute of marriage and family, the dignity of man as God's image, They are passed off as humanitarian achievements and civilization from new coryphaei of truth. A false parresia, insincere and devious leads man in his Promethean liberation in disavows himself and to exchange the redemption for the social struggle and the good news of the Gospel to the revolutionary movement which includes hatred of the enemy and the elimination of opponents.

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The Church and churchmen They are no longer made, and shaped as meeting places and reference to find the Truth, but become newly hungry amphitheaters where roam the fairs of ideologies ready to tear the newly martyrs of the Truth of Christ, arena pushed by those who once were its guardians. Perhaps, there are too many priests that if the damage of holy on social network tweeting all against all ... aridatece Pasquino! Perhaps, There are too many Eminences and Excellencies who as spin doctors attend more assiduously talk show instead of the canonical of their priests to bring comfort and paternal closeness ... aridatece Pasquino! Perhaps, too many religious focus more in the dancing and singing among the boxes, in the grip of an undefined collective irenicism, instead of re-propose with courage and firmness the charism of consecrated life as it was lived by their holy founders ... aridatece Pasquino!

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also the reigning Pontiff, like many of his predecessors, It was made the subject of a lampoon

How much would be healthy listen to the lampoons that make us ashamed authentically, that put ridiculed our manias last-redeemers, they leave in our underpants pretensions baby dictators, to put us back into the heart's desire of the Truth that saves and takes place only doing what Christ has called us.

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Among the many talkers modern and sproloquiatori authorized, Give us back the ancient voice of the Roman people that often embodies the truth of the saying The voice of the people, vox Dei. So bring back him: Give us back Pasquino!

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Laconi, 23 September 2019

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"Sect Neocatechumenal. Heresy BECAME KIKO AND CAME TO LIVING AMONG US "

The Neocatecumenali are a sect of Jewish-Catholic Protestant matrix that has only the outer casing emptied inside of the foundations of Catholicism. The official recognition granted to them by the Pontifical Council for the Laity does not force all bishops, Catholic priests and faithful adherence to a faith in respect of the Neocatechumenal Way, which it is certainly not a dogma, but a tumor with metastases, spread within the Church also and above all because of the weakness shown by recent Popes.

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the author: Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, presbyter and theologian

The main heresies of the Neocatechumenal Way I am the Calvinist Eucharist perception and the confusion between the common priesthood, with the participation of all the baptized, and the ministerial priesthood of Christ, which involves only ministers of the sacred.

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Hitting Priesthood and Eucharist, closely related to one another, It hits the Church to the heart through some of the oldest heresies return.

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The Neocatechumenal is a sect Jewish-Catholic Protestant matrix that has only the outer casing emptied inside of the foundations of Catholicism.

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The official recognition granted to them by the Pontifical Council for the Laity does not force all bishops, Catholic priests and faithful adherence to a faith in respect of the Neocatechumenal Way, which it is certainly not a dogma, but a tumor with metastases, spread within the Church also and above all because of the weakness shown by recent Popes.

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This book is built on objective data, the author does not even deviate for a moment from those who are the writings and catechesis held by the founders of this movement heretical, the documents and records of the Holy See and those of their respective and competent ministries that dealt with over the years of the Neocatechumenal Way, not least for those liturgical abuses that border often the real sacrilege of the Holy Eucharist and for which, every call they turned over four decades, It proved to be in fact almost compartment.

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Undoubtedly the author dares - truly "beyond measure" and leonine courage - explaining what were the objective and serious indiscretions of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, It canonized today and elevated to the altars, but not for this perfect, as perfect and faultless than they have ever been all the Saints of the entire history of the Church. E, the proven evidence of facts not subject to easy refutation, the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, allowing direct and indirect acquiescence to the Neocatechumenal Way, he was wrong, thereby creating serious problems that are then passed on the whole Church, asking bishops and priests before a heretical cult-phenomenon difficult to manage. The biggest mistake made by Pope John Paul II was especially to give to this intra-ecclesial sect of open seminars for the training of future priests, thereby giving the possibility to a lay movement, unique and unprecedented in the history of the Church, to form its own clergy, responsible not least neocatecumenalizzare whole dioceses and parishes [cf. WHO].

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The author explains that before the truth unpleasant and painful, there are only two solutions: a silence, if you are not able to expose, support and pay particular consequences, or to say, and present the truth for what it is in reality. Indeed, before some serious problems, soften or dilute the truth, enunciate involves blatant lies, and even in the worst way.

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The work of Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo It is dedicated to the Servant of God Pier Carlo Landucci and the Passionist Enrico Zoffoli, Roman priests, who denounced the first Ecclesiastical Authority heresies of the Neocatechumenal Way, In the 1983 It is in the 1992. There were, however, heard, because before with the Supreme Pontiff Paul VI then with the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II he had exploded the great intoxication lay movements, in which the one and the other saw the future of the Church, while the diocesan seminaries and houses of formation for religious life were increasingly empty, and subsequently closed in large numbers.

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In front of the today's reality before which puts its head in the sand like ostriches, the question Author: What has produced this great drunkenness movimentista? He explains with these words: "The secularization of the clergy and the laity clericalization, while today, wrong for the umpteenth time, There is going to make the further mistake with the next Synod Panamazzonico, where discussion on the opportunity to order priests sources try, to compensate for the lack of clergy in certain regions of the world. A synod that in itself has the grotesque, if it considers that it will be celebrated in Rome, to the Amazon, under the great direction of the Germans, whose national church pays for decades in an advanced state of protestantization ".

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The big one intoxication marked by seasonal movements born from the para-council in the post-conciliar season, has failed so bleak and damages of no small importance, but no one has the humility to admit, rather we are launching to even worse errors: the Synod Panamazzonico, or as long ago he wrote our author … the Synod Pantedesco [cf. WHO].

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The golden calves of our modern society, long regressed to neo-paganism

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GOLDEN CALVES OF OUR MODERN SOCIETY, FROM THE TIME regressed Neopaganism

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The media and fashions They tend to build the image of people without flaws, impeccable. The error? It happens simply an oversight, an incident in the person "perfect". Just listen to a newscast But back to reality, for example listening to the news of the crime, before which, this purity and perfection, It ends overturned.

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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Dear brothers and sisters,

Marc Chagall, etching: The Golden Calf

we all make mistakes and sins. The abstract ideal of absolute perfection achieved on this earth is unreal and we can snatch it from head, It would be enough to remind ourselves that we have inherited a corrupt nature by original sin.

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The media The mode They tend to create images of people without flaws, impeccable. The error? It's just an oversight, an accident in the person "perfect". But just listen to a newscast back to reality, for example, reports of crime; and this image of purity and perfection, It ends overturned.

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In today's readings [see Liturgy of the word, This XXIV Sunday in Ordinary Time, WHO] we can have a Catholic perspective on our sinfulness, repented and forgiven by God, Eternal Father through Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Starting from reading the Old Testament that contains the admonition:

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"We ', get off, for your people, […] They have made them a molten calf, then they have worshiped, they offered sacrifices " [Is, 32,7-11.13-14].

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Prostrate in front of a statue of molten metal it is very significant, because for the People of Israel it is tantamount to giving enormous importance to material things. At the same time this also implies the hide under a metal protection: ie seek protection in their beliefs, in human certainties. It is a typical error even nowadays, a sin by which we prevent that God is more important, unable to perceive and welcome the Eternal God and transcendent as it offers us protection.

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As a totally opposite experience instead San Paolo, when he writes to his beloved disciple Timothy:

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"Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, the first of which I am " [1 TM 1,12-17]

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St. Paul acknowledges that he needs Jesus: He recognizes fragile sinner, no other defense but God Himself. Symbolically, we could say that prostrates himself before gold: It is placed under the maximum protection that is God. Moreover, He is having received mercy for his sins, It is able to transmit this mercy.

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Let's also think about this: when we get mercy, then we become instruments of mercy truthful, because we have pioneered a great love.

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In the long version of the Lucan Gospel, this great love there is described by the parable of the prodigal son. The final step, that of the return home of the young reckless, shows this scene:

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"Suo father Vide, had compassion, He ran to meet, and he fell on his neck and kissed him " [LC 15,1-32].

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A parable describing images with what happens every time we present ourselves to the confessional to ask forgiveness of our sins. The Eternal Father has indeed compassion, tenderness [the greek viscera] the human condition of lost children, but eager to so much love. For this meeting the running and throwing the neck are images that recall the idea of ​​the cancellation of our sins absolution: when in fact we absolved, Jesus the Priest runs towards us and frees us from the burden of sin, a kind of yoke on the neck. So we are ready to resume the life of holiness: the Holy Spirit puts us like a kiss on the heart, When we comply penance we are asked to do, as a small satisfaction for sins committed and who gives us spiritual healing.

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For us, the staff and the other salvation, it happens every time we confess to God and let all our sins, it is a journey we make with the whole Church. A community path, which it has the most beautiful expression of communion with God and with each other. The human feeling that accompanies us in our moments of redemption, It is the joy. A real encounter with Jesus rarely does not lead to joy. He wrote Jerome David Salinger:

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"The most striking difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid" (Nine stories, 1953).

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We ask the Lord to grant us happiness in the solidity of his Bread of eternal life and joy in the liquid of the Salvation Wine.

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Amen.

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Rome, 14 September 2019

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What is the true vision of authentic Christian? Imitations of Christ

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WHICH IS THE REAL VISIBILITY authentic Christian? THE IMITATION OF CHRIST

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A certain humility ecclesiastical flavor moth has unfortunately become accustomed to flaunt a false humility - when strategically seeking the last place - expect the glorification and prestige coveted. With this false humility, which unfortunately today in the Church save very few, there is a serious risk that it also distorts the virtue of charity. Indeed, when the charity is made to show off power and prestige, obtain favors, transpose gains up to the speculation you can rest assured that there is more charity.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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This XXII Sunday Ordinary Time, It reminds us of one of the classics of Christian spirituality, The imitation of Christ, in particular in the part in which it warns: «Then love and to be esteemed» [He loves to be not known and felt nothing (cf.. lib. I, cap. 2, v. 15)].

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If we think about the way of life we lead today, even as believers, This warning sounds completely irrational and even a little 'offensive. No one likes it be forgotten, we live in an era that demands visibility along with the underlining of egocentrism and of person. At this point, We crossed the limits of narcissism, we are pushed us beyond, maybe to a point of no return.

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The liturgy of this Sunday We assist us in this drift ego, by teaching that Christ gives to the Pharisees during a lunch [see Liturgy of the Word, WHO]. The passage in Luke asks its believers on the subject of humility to introduce a beautiful reflection on the way to work actively charity without hiding ulterior motives.

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Humility is the Christian virtue that makes us more like Christ, who "he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross" (Fil 2,8). Unfortunately, this virtue is not easily conquered if we become able to ask for it with the Holy Spirit and unless we adapt our feelings, the sentiments of Christ Jesus during his earthly life.

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Humility is a grace you need to take every day since none of us is immune from pride reputarsi, by virtue of the fact that original sin is explicitly a sin of pride. Although redeemed by Christ through baptism into His death and resurrection, the wound of original sin still disturbs us right through the nefarious sin of pride. And from pride come cascading all other vices and sins.

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The same devil - character now denied by a certain group of emancipated Christians, adults as well as theologians [see previous article, WHO] - is the father of pride and rebellion originated from the desire to overcome God and to take his place. Jesus in the Gospel urges us to desire the last place because our value lies not in the event of a power or a worldly prestige but in the exclusive relationship with the Father.

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Remember the Blessed Father Francis in its Yellow:

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"Blessed is the servant, do not you think best, when it is praised and exalted by men, when it is considered vile, simple and despicable, because what man is before God, It is and no more " [cf.. Yellow Cards Nineteenth, FF 169]

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For this man is called to be small and love this exceedingly small size because that is where his treasure is hidden.

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A certain ecclesiastical humility the taste of mothballs has unfortunately become accustomed to flaunt a false humility - when strategically seeking the last place - expect the glorification and prestige coveted. With this false humility, which unfortunately today in the Church save very few, there is a serious risk that it also distorts the virtue of charity. Indeed, when the charity is made to show off power and prestige, obtain favors, transpose gains up to the speculation you can rest assured that there is more charity.

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The recompense, according to the teaching of the Kingdom, It is not the trading currency of the disciple and this is true in secular realities in those sacred: "You received, freely give " [cf.. Mt 10,8].

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The charity is evident in the care of the needy, of the sick, the prisoner, the distant, the lost of faith, the confusing, the sinner, of the heretic, apostate and so to follow, both free and urges, It deprives many arguments that turn into socio-psychological discipline. The Christian charity only speaks of God, and God through His Son humbled himself on the cross to teach us to love to the total gift of ourselves. The theology of humility and last place coincides with the Calvary, a hard lesson to swallow.

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The last place It is certainly an uncomfortable place but it is the safest outpost of paradise that man could wish on earth.

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Cagliari, 31 August 2019

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