"Open Church" (twelfth episode) - The valuable work of catechists and catechists during emergency coronavirus

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"CHURCH OPEN» (twelfth episode) - the valuable work of catechists and CATECHISTIC DURING EMERGENCY coronavirus

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We offer our readers this valuable new video of our esteemed brother John Zanchi, priest of the Diocese of Arezzo, so that it can also serve as an effective and wise antidote to all those who unfortunately, at this time of extraordinary crisis and emergency, They have nothing better to do than argue, often in harsh and aggressive tone, against decisions taken by our bishops for safety reasons to protect public health: suspend the sacred celebrations and in many cases close the churches. Recall that the Church, during crises and emergencies, It has never been saved by the controversy of those who stand for all time the most faithful among the faithful or to the purest of the pure, but the unit. Someone has written these days that "the bishops are committing suicide the Italian Church". Unfortunately he did not understand anything of the essence of the Catholic faith: the church “if suicidal” attacking the bishops, instead follow them and support them in a moment of so severe test.

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The texts of Father John Zanchi, director of the Pastoral Center Divine Worship of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, They are not meant as articles but as audio-narrative texts. We proceeded to transcribe audio text for our Readers.

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John Zanchi

Welcome to the twelfth episode of Open Church.

The purpose of this modest book It is always the same: help you understand that The church remains opened and operating, as well as possible, even during the emergency of pandemic; the churches of stone and brick remained open although with difficulty frequented by individual believers, are the sign.

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Today I will simply mention to another sector of the Church which continues to operate with creativity to the glory of God and the sanctification of souls; I speak of catechists, which persist throughout Italy to collaborate with the bishops, pastors and parents in the catechetical ministry, devising new ways of working with children, the boys, young people and adults in their care and continue for them and with them the catechetical formation of faith.

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Nobody talks about it almost and actually vacuous today's common mentality does not give importance to education in the faith; but considering that the activity of the Holy Church is expressed in the three major dimensions of catechesis, the liturgy and charity, one understands what is in fact essential that even in the emergency caused by the pandemic catechetical work is not interrupted and continues as possible.

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In this time in which students can not go to school, rightly we are concerned to continue in some way the study and many teachers, not only of the University, They shall endeavor to ensure the continuity of teaching, imparting lessons to students through the means of social communication. In this period in which the catechism students can not go to Parish, also many catechists seek to achieve their catechized otherwise. We know that the catechetical method not simply mirrors that of school learning, but there are however some similarities between the two, in this situation united by the use of distance learning.

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Let's take some examples: First, we note that from Monday to Saturday TV2000, the television channel ever published by the Italian bishops, broadcasts in 2 several times the book Dear Jesus. With the children: a daily catechism strip dedicated to the age group from 8 to the 12 year old. Then point out the Internet portal that the Italian Bishops' Conference has opened to inform on the initiatives of the Church in the time of a pandemic and called Who shall separate us? [cf WHO]; There are some "best practices" started to distance from many dioceses and Christian communities to meet emergency catechetical. There is something for everyone: ranging from proposals designed primarily for catechesis in the family as a whole, the classical catechesis with children, boys, adolescents and young, including people with disabilities, experiences celebratory family, up to the comments to the Word of God for adults. Finally, remember the simple parish catechists everywhere, not rise to the headlines, endeavor to spread videos and texts.

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Who wants to continue to catechism then he spoiled for choice and we hope you take advantage of it as many people as possible, profitably using the time of forced domestic confinement. With the catechetical creativity of these days, the Open Church and continues to be close to Christian parents who, never forget, They are the original, and their first catechists of their children.

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Finally we need to remember a particular category of catechized, ie catechumens, ie the non-baptized adults who are preparing to become Christians; among them, There are many foreigners living in our country and this reminds us that the most important form of social integration is the religious.

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Lent is an important liturgical time for all Christians and particularly for catechumens, which the First Sunday of Lent were elected to receive the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist at the next Easter Vigil. During Lent were then to receive the great preparatory catechesis, exorcisms, deliveries of the Our Father and the Creed, the pre-baptismal anointing.

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Unfortunately in this situation this is not possible and also their Christian initiation through the sacraments is postponed until better times, hopefully no later than the next Pentecost. But in the meantime the church remained opened for them, and every diocese continues to ensure its spiritual formation as possible, according to the information disseminated by the National Catechetical and conveniently be consulted on the internet [cf WHO].

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With this television program So we want to help to signal the commitment of families, of the parish priests and catechists who, under the guidance of Bishops, in this time of great difficulty, continue with dedication and creativity in keeping the Open Church well as in the field of catechesis. These zealous ministers of Holy Church are a sign of hope in the present and an essential resource for the challenging future that awaits us as a Christian community.

A resent the next episode of Open Church.

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Sansepolcro (Arezzo), 31 March 2020

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"Fideism idiot in power" … God save us from the hypocrites Catholics virus, Children of Cain and Judas Iscariot

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"Fideism IDIOT IN POWER" … GOD SAVE THE VIRUS OF CATHOLICS Hypocrites, SONS OF CAIN AND JUDAS ISCARIOT

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The pandemic coronavirus did come out all the fake bad Catholics educated and uneducated, such as not educated, untrained, so why ignore that the Church, company divinely instituted, not from the base. The term "basic church" is theologically wrong and misleading. The Church is by nature a "top" structure, where everything goes from above with cascading effect. If so, the bishops give provisions for the Masses and pastoral liturgy decreeing a ban on publicly celebrate with the people, you just obey, starting from the faithful. This is the hierarchical Church instituted by Christ that puts Peter at the head of the college of the apostles, then Peter and the apostles to guide the People of God. And whoever denies - and has full right and freedom to deny it - is not, however, Catholic, is more ... is the Catholic of himself and of his emotional and subjective idea of ​​the Church ...

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I offer our readers a reflection of my videos 25 minutes in which I illustrate a genre perhaps not widely known but very present virus: the pandemic exploded in a busy army of hypocritical Catholics, fallen like leaves at the first gust of wind before a test of faith and that some weeks are giving the best of the worst of themselves on social network.

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The coronavirus during Lent World. While in, spin doctors and demented insult bishops and priests on social: "Atheists without faith, You have deprived of Jesus!»

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CORONAVIRUS THE WORLD IN LENT. WHILE IN spin doctors and demented CRY TO THE BISHOPS PRIESTS AND ON SOCIAL: "ATEI WITHOUT FAITH, You HAVE PRIVATE OF JESUS!»

[…] open to the public worship of the churches can not be considered a safe place, therefore it went immediately limited, if not closed, how then actually happened. The whole, thanks to a wide slice of people who, from small up to big things, now seems a long time specialized in not listening to the shepherds, rather: if anything, even doing the opposite of what the pastors teach and ask, the whole, not rarely, even with smug attitudes of defiance on the part of many of the faithful.

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"Open Church" (XI episode) - Can the worthy law enforcement err on zeal until reaching stop the sacred celebrations in churches?

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"CHURCH OPEN» (XI episode) - MAY EXCEED the worthy POLICE IN ZEAL UP TO COME TO DISCONTINUE THE SACRED CELEBRATIONS IN THE CHURCHES?

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We offer our readers this valuable new video of our esteemed brother John Zanchi, priest of the Diocese of Arezzo, so that it can also serve as an effective and wise antidote to all those who unfortunately, at this time of extraordinary crisis and emergency, They have nothing better to do than argue, often in harsh and aggressive tone, against decisions taken by our bishops for safety reasons to protect public health: suspend the sacred celebrations and in many cases close the churches. Recall that the Church, during crises and emergencies, It has never been saved by the controversy of those who stand for all time the most faithful among the faithful or to the purest of the pure, but the unit. Someone has written these days that "the bishops are committing suicide the Italian Church". Unfortunately he did not understand anything of the essence of the Catholic faith: the church “if suicidal” attacking the bishops, instead follow them and support them in a moment of so severe test.

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The texts of Father John Zanchi, director of the Pastoral Center Divine Worship of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, They are not meant as articles but as audio-narrative texts. We proceeded to transcribe audio text for our Readers.

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Welcome to the eleventh episode of Open Church.

The stone and brick churches are open, well no public celebrations, as a sign of The church that remains opened and working for the glory of God and the sanctification of souls, although in exceptional shapes. We had two wonderful examples last Friday 27 March: thanks to the means of social communication, Catholics around the world have united spiritually to the Holy Father the Pope in a historic supplication to God for the end of the pandemic. In the same day, every single Italian bishop has visited a cemetery in suffrage for the souls of the many victims of the pandemic, buried with funeral in the form very small, because emergency health.

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Now we come to today's. In the previous episode I helped to reflect on some of the underlying prudential reasons for the suspension of public liturgies in the time of a pandemic. In the short time available, I will now mention a complementary aspect of the same issue: in open churches are not held public celebrations, but the faithful have the right to go to church for personal prayer and to receive the sacraments in individual form, especially Confession and Holy Communion; obviously respecting the preventive health rules we all now know well. On the website of the Italian Government [cf WHO] clicking in the section F.A.Q. and clicking on "Ceremonies", It is written as follows: "Question: You can go to church or other houses of worship?" Reply: "They are allowed to open and access to places of worship, as long as you avoid gatherings and make sure the distance between the goers not less than one meter ".

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The Lombardy Region It issued on even more detailed rules; In fact, the Regional Ordinance No.. 514 the 21 March 2020 to the point 22 reads textually: "The access to places of worship is allowed in quota and in observance of the necessary measures to ensure the safety of interpersonal distance of one meter". Therefore you can go to pray individually in any church in the local council area, fitted with the necessary self-certification and avoiding gatherings. No one can prevent it; it would be an abuse of power. An advice: as when going for food shopping is good to keep your sales slip, to show that actually has gone into this shop, so it is appropriate photographing themselves inside the church, as evidence to be shown to the Authority responsible for the control.

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We have to address this topic, because they are increasing reports about faithful censored by the Police (however meritorious) just because they were on their way to church to pray alone. More seriously: in various parts of Italy the Police disrupted Masses that were taking place in full respect of the rules of prophylaxis against the pandemic; remember that the current Italian laws strictly forbid: If a church is doing is an act of worship, Police and Carabinieri can enter to perform their duties only after having previously informed the bishop of the place and in any case can not stop the act of worship.

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To guard against any arbitrariness or forced removal from a sacred place or complaints or fines imposed for such reasons, you can turn to a lawyer, to assert their rights. But it would be better not to have to go that far! By the grace of God, these days many public administrators have officially gone into churches to entrust to divine protection their fellow citizens. Well done! They fulfilled their duty! But it is absurd that the joints of Giulianova Carabinieri, in Abruzzo, They reported to the Public Prosecutor, the Mayor of the City, others 3 administrators, 5 priests and 3 journalists, which, in the large sanctuary of the Madonna of Splendor, They had entrusted their Common to Mary Most Holy, with a lot of deposition of the tricolor sash at the foot of the statue. 12 People spaced well over a meter from one another inside a spacious building, They were considered the most dangerous of the dozens of people present simultaneously in any supermarket!

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Did I mention that our police forces are praiseworthy, especially in this emergency, and they must go to all our gratitude; indeed, in the case of Giulianova they have simply made a duty, following specious arguments raised by third parties, driven by malice towards Christians. The fact remains that some have tried to besmirch an act of devotion as if it were a crime; we also have reports of priests who have received written threats simply because very large churches have celebrated Mass with the assistance of a few people at a safe distance! It seems that some anti-Christian satanised want to use the opportunity of the pandemic to discredit and attack the Catholic faithful. We can not allow these abuses!

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The Italian Church is giving great test of prudence and love for the common good with the painful suspension of celebrations with the people, while ensuring the daily opening of the churches, even agreeing to celebrate in the form emergency next Easter, but it is not acceptable that it is forbidden to the individual exercising the right of worship (cf Constitution of the Italian Republic, item 19), exercised in currently possible forms. Accepting such a thing would be a dangerous precedent for the protection of the freedom of all Italian citizens. There is a danger that, once the emergency has passed, enter a church to pray to become a concession by the State, no longer a human right. Our bishops and the government must immediately take steps to ensure clear rules and strict waves are issued to guarantee the exercise of the constitutional right to freedom of worship even in these calamitous times.

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Finally point out a very important practical aspect: a prudent individual frequency of churches also allows their custody during the opening hours; most of our historic and artistic heritage is made by the churches and their furnishings: leave them open and empty for many hours throughout the day is the best way to ensure the preservation? We remember that, even in normal times, They are frequent theft and vandalism in our churches! Faithful prevented from attending churches individually, reported while they perform acts of devotion with all due attention ... sad Signs, which show the degree of de-Christianization which has plunged our society and the social devaluation of the necessity of the interior life and the value of supernatural reality; but Italy can not become the country where the pandemic in time you can safely go out to buy a pack of cigarettes (and this is said with all due respect to tobacconists), but you can not bear to church to pray, even in solitude!

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The churches of stone and brick even in the time of a pandemic remain open, to remind us that Christians are committed to pray for the good of all, both in their homes and in public places, because - as we are reminded in Psalm 126, 1: "Unless the Lord builds the house, in vain do its builders labor;. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain ".

Thank you for listening. Appointment to the next episode Open Church.

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Sansepolcro (Arezzo), 29 March 2020

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Also today, crammed in before the coffins awaiting burial stores, It seems to hear again the lament Marta: "Man, if you had been here, my brother would not have died "

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ALSO TODAY, WITH BARE crammed STORES IN WAITING FOR BURIAL, It SEEMS TO HEAR AGAIN LAMENTO MARTA: "LORD, STATE IF YOU WERE HERE, MY BROTHER IS NOT DEAD!»

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Where is God? It is also useless to think of an answer that is based solely on the reasonableness or that such difficulties with the rational theology, in order to familiarize us with a reality like death which is so natural but never totally accepted. Nand time of the loss of a loved one, the reason is fragile.

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"Open Church" (X episode) - That today's irresistible longing to sacrifice the priests to death for their own personal whims of opinion. What if that happens, then who will return to celebrate Holy Mass for the People of God after the epidemic coronavirus?

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"CHURCH OPEN» (X episode) - IRRESISTIBLE BRAMA THAT TODAY'S SACRIFICE OF PRIESTS TO DEATH FOR THEIR PERSONAL WHIMS OF OPINION. WHAT IF THAT HAPPENED, THEN WHO WILL RETURN TO CELEBRATE THE MASS FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD AFTER THE EPIDEMIC OF CORONAVIRUS?

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We offer our readers this valuable new video of our esteemed brother John Zanchi, priest of the Diocese of Arezzo, so that it can also serve as an effective and wise antidote to all those who unfortunately, at this time of extraordinary crisis and emergency, They have nothing better to do than argue, often in harsh and aggressive tone, against decisions taken by our bishops for safety reasons to protect public health: suspend the sacred celebrations and in many cases close the churches. Recall that the Church, during crises and emergencies, It has never been saved by the controversy of those who stand for all time the most faithful among the faithful or to the purest of the pure, but the unit. Someone has written these days that "the bishops are committing suicide the Italian Church". Unfortunately he did not understand anything of the essence of the Catholic faith: the church “if suicidal” attacking the bishops, instead follow them and support them in a moment of so severe test.

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VIDEO SHOOTING AND ASSEMBLY BY THE ISSUER TELESANDOMENICO (AREZZO)

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TEXT OF THE VIDEO

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The texts of Father John Zanchi, director of the Pastoral Center Divine Worship of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, They are not meant as articles but as audio-narrative texts. We proceeded to transcribe audio text for our Readers.

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Welcome to X episode Open Church.

The churches, understood as buildings, remain open during the pandemic, well if you do not perform public celebrations and the faithful can not easily attend. In the present situation, Priests are giving proof of great inventiveness to help the faithful also in going to church, as well as possible.

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Many faithful appreciate the sacrifice made by so many priests to fulfill their ministry, even with severe limitations. Others manifest their discontent, especially for the temporary suspension of the Mass with the people and call for the immediate resumption of public celebrations. In here, we want to say a word that helps to understand the terms of the issue and to avoid counterproductive controversy.

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In the tragic situation of recent days are at stake two fundamental aspects: one part, the Church must continue his divine mission to serve the salvation of souls, with all the necessary self-denial, without jeopardizing public health and then operating the necessary sacrifices and taking painful limitations in behavior, But without flattening the logic of the world; on the other side, the Church does not even give the most distant impression of abandoning true to yourself, neglecting their spiritual needs and risking to be considered fugitive or, worse, insignificant, as if he had decided not to affirm the primacy of the supernatural. Let's take a step forward …

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... the authentic moral theology It teaches us that it is not enough to state the broad principles, but must then implement them in a particular situation, by means of a prudent discernment, and then, more it descends from the general principle to a concrete situation, especially perilous, most operating decisions can become all the more difficult to detect. The high moral principle is: "Do good and avoid evil"; but in a tragic emergency situation like this, It is not immediately easy to determine how to implement the good and avoid evil.

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To those who, bitter about the suspension of Masses with the people, calling for greater courage on the part of bishops and priests, respectfully remember three facts, to keep absolutely present to formulate a practical judgment consistent with the reality of the present situation.

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First fact: Emergencies are not programmed, suddenly they arrive and are sometimes even exceptional and ever faced by this generation, as it is currently. Even our bishops were surprised by the spread of the epidemic and quickly had to take difficult decisions for the protection of all. To help secure the celebration of Holy Mass with the people it would be necessary to organize a regular service order to ensure at least the entry and exit of the participants (each duly principals of defense against infection), their spacing within the church, the sanitization of the same. All things not easy to achieve and practice management. Considering that often only one priest has to cater to more parishes and churches, even the allegation of rarefare attendance of the faithful increasing the number of Masses to be practicable in Italy.

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second fact: The toll of victims that the Italian clergy is already paying for a pandemic: while there are plenty of infected bishops and finished in isolation, al 22 March were well 50 priests decimated, most of them fall in the line of ministry. Even the clergy aside for old age is not spared: a Parma, in the house of the Xaverian Missionaries, immediately subjected to strict isolation, They died in solitude 13 priests in 15 days, giungesse without anyone from the outside to assist. If Holy Mass with the people they were regularly celebrated everywhere, the number of deceased priests would certainly be even bigger, then taking into account that the Italian Clergy, due to the high average age of almost 68 year old, It is fully included in the category of older and older, then the people to be protected from further danger of contagion. A similar argument about old age needs to be done about the same faithful who regularly frequent our churches.

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Third fact: as there are concerns that the medical staff is not decimated by the pandemic and the sick remain without assistance, so you need to worry that the Italian Church is not reduced drastically without more priests for the pastoral care of the faithful. From this point of view, the data are merciless: in Italy the clergy is not only very elderly, but even now numerically small. Let's just one example: Archdiocese of Turin in 1950 there was 1 priest (middle age 43 year old) per 561 baptized; In the 2017 again in Turin there was 1 priest (middle age 68 years and 6 months) per 2065 baptized! After the plague in the sixteenth century it killed most of the Milanese, St. Charles Borromeo had no trouble in parts of the fallen priests to assist lepers; today, Behind our few priests and elders, unfortunately there are not crowds of seminarians ready to replace them. After termination of the emergency, how many of the churches that now they are supposed to keep working unwisely should then be closed, perhaps forever, to a serious lack of priests?

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Reasoning as well, someone will accuse me of lacking faith in God's power. Ma, apart from that we should not groped the Lord (cf. Lk 4, 12), in the current tragedy the teaching of St. John Paul II should be aware of: that we must combine faith and reason; why should not exclude faith and faith has to accept the service of reason (then it is often common sense).

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Only in this way it is possible to avoid two opposite extremes: The proponents of the celebration to the bitter end of the Mass with the people likely to commit the sin of fideism; the advocates of indiscriminate closure of churches in danger of committing the sin of rationalism. Faith attests that during the Mass God works already the great miracle of transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ; but God is not obliged simultaneously to preserve the viral contagion individual participants.

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We conclude by recalling two great principles of theology: against rationalism say: "Who makes what can, God does not deny the grace »; against fideism say: "God does not bind the grace of the Sacraments," and can also donate to out of them, under certain circumstances. The suspension of the Mass with the people is a painful loss for the souls of the faithful; beseech God to grant as soon as possible to his Church the grace and joy to gather again to celebrate the Eucharist and also implore God for the grace to keep our few priests and elders, giving the eternal reward to those fallen victims of duty during the pandemic.

A resent tomorrow for a new installment of Open Church.

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Sansepolcro (Arezzo), 27 March 2020

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Sitting on communist motorcycle Vauro I had a revelation that changed my life and my beliefs: and now I will explain why Jesus Christ never rose from the dead …

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SITTING ON MOTORBIKE COMMUNIST Vauro I HAD A SHOCK THAT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE AND MY BELIEFS: AND NOW I EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW JESUS ​​CHRIST HAS NEVER RISEN FROM THE DEAD ...

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To announce such an event Christ, if it had truly risen, he should announce his resurrection to far more credible people, for example by appearing to the High Priest and the members of the Great Sanhedrin. We are realistic and concrete: if I risorgessi from the dead, I would try to appear Faithful Confaloneri and Pier Silvio Berlusconi, Chiambretti to Peter and Barbara d'Urso, the President of Rai and Bruno Vespa ... certainly not to a former Nigerian prostitute who lives in a suburb of Milan.

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The Island of Patmos yesterday awarded the prize Johannine Golden Eagle Roberto Burioni and Alessandro Cattelan [cf WHO]. Today I am announcing that this Lent marked by epidemic coronavirus, in me something happened that shook my beliefs of faith, coming to acknowledge that Jesus Christ never rose from the dead.

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The spark that triggered in me this awareness, I was given one of the many scholars who populate the pages of Facebook, that manages to be simultaneously both the International Academy of Sciences is the Supreme Criminal Court established by the people of the wise network.

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At times, beliefs even more entrenched, end up collapsing before things apparently banal, however, able to trigger a spark from which everything ends up being questioned. It is at that point that, well what one is firmly believed, eventually crumble like a sand castle built on the banks of the incoming tide. AndI have to thank one of the wise men of Facebook, I do not know personally, but I can mention without any violation of privacy, since it came into my public page by writing a comment with your name, name and link to his profile, so it's all the public and anyone may raise questions in this regard. The wise is some Fulgenzio Nicola Di Liberto.

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But we come to the fact: to announce to my Profile Facebook that in the evening of Thursday, 26 March I participated as almost usual to the episode of the program Straight and Reverse on Network 4, I have included a photo taken in early February in which they captured with three friends: the cartoonist Vauro Senesi, the journalist and radio host Giuseppe Cruciani and one of the young employees of the editorial staff. Not only is this three friends, but three people who enjoy of my highest consideration.

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It happens, however, that the aforementioned member the International Academy of Sciences, under that my post, the afternoon of 27 March, He wrote this comment: "With these people I would not take even a coffee". This wise commentator perhaps did not imagine that with this short sentence would end up disrupting the life of a priest, as well as small and modest dogmatic theologian and equally modest little history of dogma. Yup, by that phrase as pithy as wise, This commentator has opened my horizon on all the contradictions contained in the Gospels, but above all in the life of Jesus Christ, forcing me to take note of how the Nazarene has been put to the test a bad teacher. It is written in the Gospels and documented by themselves, but unfortunately I, for blindness and stupidity, just I had not ever noticed.

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Jesus Christ was in this imprudent step to have dangerous relationships and especially inopportune, It is documented by one of the Evangelists who narrates:

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"As Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples. The Pharisees, saw it, He said to his disciples: "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”» [Mt 9, 10-11].

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Giuseppe Cruciani and Father Ariel exit from the study of transmission of Mediaset Cologno Monzese (Milan)

Not to justify myself, but I can guarantee that the levels of Jesus Christ I'm not there come. Indeed, when one evening, at the end of the direct of this program, Vauro Senesi, Giuseppe Cruciani and I, We went in front of the citadel of Mediaset Cologno Monzese to eat a pizza in the only place open, the kitchen was closed. So we could just drink something: Vauro her vodka smooth - because a true communist Soviets only drink liquor -, Giuseppe Cruciani took a cheeky beer, while i, I do not drink alcohol "out of service", because the only alcohol I drink is the wine used for the Sacrifice of the Mass, I took a pineapple juice. In any case, I must say to my justification that my act was less serious than that of Jesus Christ, that with certain people did banquets. Empirical evidence shows, I drank it with just a pineapple juice.

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At what levels Jesus Christ was unwise as demonstrated by the Gospel of St. John telling his meeting and conversation with a Canaanite woman in the water well, the so-called Tale of the Samaritan. Taking apart the serious inappropriateness of this dialogue, because no Jew has good tone He would never have started talking alone with a woman, especially with such a, which at one point Jesus Christ questions:

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«[…] "Go, call your husband and come here". The woman answered: "I have no husband". Jesus told her: "You said well, I have not husband; for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; What you have said is true "". The woman said: "Man, I see that you are a prophet ' " [GV 4, 16-18].

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We analyze the gravity of what: Jesus Christ addressed word, alone, at the edges of a well, emerita a slut who after being jumped by a man other, at that time he was living with another man ancòra, which obviously he was not her husband. But I tell: are perhaps people and situations in which a decent man you go to hunt? I bet if you were right the learned scribes and Pharisees of Facebook era, to accuse him to spend time with prostitutes, and sinners varies made.

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It is said that Jesus Christ, after his death, is risen from the tomb. The mystery of His resurrection is the main foundation of the Christian faith, He is telling the Blessed Apostle Paul stating:

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«[…] if Christ has not been raised, then empty is our preaching is in vain and your faith " [The Cor 15, 14].

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Father Ariel in the Mediaset del Celio studios in Rome next to Vauro's legendary motorcycle with red star and Soviet plate

This I understood after years of priesthood, of theological studies and profession of faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, namely that Christ can not be resurrected. That's why: who announced the alleged resurrection of Jesus Christ? Hear, listen ... a former prostitute! Now you tell me, in a society like that of the Jewish era, where women had no say, where they could not be heard as witnesses in court, where they could be repudiated on the word of her husband and even stoned, if the wife accused of adultery, this alleged Risen uses not only as a woman announcer, but even a former prostitute? I can well imagine that the apostles, called the empty tomb, They responded by not believing this woman and his wives:

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«E, returned from the tomb, They told all these things to the eleven and to all other. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Mary of James. Even the others with them who told this to the apostles. Those words seemed to them like nonsense and they did not believe in them " [LC 24, 1-11].

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To announce such an event Christ, if it had truly risen, he should announce his resurrection to far more credible people, for example by appearing to the High Priest and the members of the Great Sanhedrin. We are realistic and concrete: if I risorgessi from the dead, I would try to appear Faithful Confaloneri and Pier Silvio Berlusconi, Chiambretti to Peter and Barbara d'Urso, the President of Rai and Bruno Vespa ... certainly not to a former Nigerian prostitute who lives in a suburb of Milan.

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For a sentence written on my page an adept of the international Catholic Academy of Sciences Facebook, who he said that with people like Vauro and Giuseppe Cruciani not even take a coffee, I have acquired knowledge and proof that Jesus Christ never resurrected, because with certain subjects did not just have a coffee, but to do banquets and to have dangerous liaisons, inopportune and imprudent, something I've never done in my life.

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Faith and needs: an emergency such as that of the coronavirus, at the end of emergency can not change the future freedom of the Church and its faithful

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[…] We can cite other examples, but this is enough to realize that we can not live by bread alone, but you need to give access to other resources, among which is so imminent faith. And we speak of faith we invent and intimate perspective, sentimental and palliative from beauty farm soul, but as a gift of God that intelligence work and gives wisdom to discern the world and grasp its presence savior. Faith is a human right, It regards the freedom of personal self-determination and is (still) guaranteed by the Constitution of the Italian Republic [art. 19].

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"CHURCH OPEN» (VIII and IX episode) - VI EXPLAIN HOW IT WORKS DURING THE PANDEMIC OF THE ACQUITTAL CORONAVIRUS GENERAL GIVEN BY CONFESSORS IN THIS TIME OF GRAVE CRISIS OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH

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We offer our readers this third precious videos of our esteemed brother John Zanchi, priest of the Diocese of Arezzo, so that it can also serve as an effective and wise antidote to all those who unfortunately, at this time of extraordinary crisis and emergency, They have nothing better to do than argue, often in harsh and aggressive tone, against decisions taken by our bishops for safety reasons to protect public health: suspend the sacred celebrations and in many cases close the churches. Recall that the Church, during crises and emergencies, It has never been saved by the controversy of those who stand for all time the most faithful among the faithful or to the purest of the pure, but the unit. Someone has written these days that "the bishops are committing suicide the Italian Church". Unfortunately he did not understand anything of the essence of the Catholic faith: the church “if suicidal” attacking the bishops, instead follow them and support them in a moment of so severe test.

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Welcome to the eighth installment of Open Church!

In this time of a pandemic the churches of stone and bricks remain open, without public celebrations, as a sign of Open Church that remains opened to the glory of God and for the salvation of mankind.

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The ecclesiastical and civil authorities They have adopted exceptional measures to contain the pandemic and making it difficult to receive Holy Communion and other sacraments, including Confession; difficult, but not impossible. The Church also remains open to sinners in ensuring the sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation with God.

First of all, for those who are not sick it is not impossible to confession, putting into practice the recently Rules issued by the Bishops according to the criteria of prudence: that is, to meet with the priest in ventilated places, keeping the safety distance but still guaranteeing the confidentiality of the accusation of sins and also wearing disposable gloves and an airway protection mask. No shortage of priests implementing those prudential rules with great pastoral creativity (as seen in this image - Ed on audio-video).

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Different is unfortunately the situation of those infected hospitalized in Hospitals, especially in intensive care units; Priests often fail to achieve them, not because they like it, but because they are hampered by a lack of safeguards against contagion (tute, gloves, masks) and therapies protocols. So the Pope, through the Apostolic Penitentiary, the 20 last March issued precise and multiple provisions, to reach even the seriously ill the gift of the sacramental forgiveness of sins [cf WHO]. For example, to ensure the necessary spiritual assistance to the sick and dying, the Pope suggested to the Bishops, If necessary, to form groups of "extraordinary hospital chaplains" even on a voluntary basis, according to the health authorities and in compliance with the rules for protection from infection. This is certainly the best way to guarantee spiritual assistance to hospitalized and especially the sacrament of Confession.

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In this regard, allow me to state the Pope and the Bishops They should invoke state laws that already exist to obtain that priests have free access to the sick, with the same caution they use doctors. Many hospital chaplains are also state employees, so they must be enabled to carry out its mission. If doctors entering and leaving the wards with due caution, just as it must be possible to Chaplains. In many places are the same doctors to apply for this work, first of all for himself same. Moreover, the Pope reminded the bishops that, in this emergency situation, they may use a particular form of the sacrament of Confession namely the collective absolution of penitents; the latter are exempt from the charge on time staff of one's sins to a priest, but they must emit an act of perfect contrition, which necessarily includes the vote to accuse one's sins to a priest earliest possible.

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The Apostolic Penitentiary It acknowledged that "Reconciliation of several penitents with general confession and absolution" is now to be implemented especially in places most affected by the pandemic infection and until it will not cease. The Bishop of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, S. AND: Mons. Riccardo Fontana (Ed Diocese to which belongs the author of the audio-video), He was the first in Italy to impart in this form the Sacrament of Reconciliation; the morning of 19 March went at the San Donato of Arezzo, where are also hospitalized patients of coronavirus; the patients had been previously warned and were able to follow the course of the ritual through the diocesan broadcaster Telesandomenico, spiritually uniting himself to the Bishop who absolved them.

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In the end, in the present situation There can be quarantined sick and dying quite unable to receive sacramental absolution; then, The pope recently reminded that they can receive God's forgiveness of their sins by issuing an act of perfect contrition, including the firm purpose of confessing if and as soon as it will be possible for them.

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Most of the mass media He has devoted only a few superficial mention of these measures taken by the Church to facilitate as much as possible the use of sacramental Reconciliation, with the risk that steps in the minds of this type of message: "Then I can also confess to me only, no need for a priest!"and: "The Church of changing many things; now well on the way to confess!». In reality it is not so. Holy Mother Church has always celebrated in various forms the sacrament of Confession, depending on the circumstances and the possibilities, true to its fundamental principle: the salvation of souls is the supreme law.

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Furthermore, the Holy Mother Church He has always taught that God forgives the sins of those who are sincerely repentant of them committed, not only because they fear eternal damnation, but because they have offended God and therefore firmly resolve to sin no more. This is what we say in 'Pain act: «My God, I regret it and I regret with all my heart for my sins, because sinning I deserved your punishment, and much more because I offended you, infinitely good and worthy of being loved above all else. I propose, with your holy aid, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of sin. man, mercy, forgive me!».

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That contrition of the penitent is the heart of the sacrament of Confession is also demonstrated by the fact that the priest can not absolve a penitent not properly repented and received God's grace through sacramental absolution helping us to mature the perfect contrition, then to be converted from sin because we love God, not only because we fear. At the same time it is always true that contrition for sins committed is perfect because it necessarily includes the accusing vote for their sins before the Confessor, earliest possible.

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In this episode of Open Church We hinted at a complex and sensitive subject, looking in the little time available to be clear and concise. Sacramental Confession is a topical, because our spiritual preparation for Easter continues in this Lenten time in quarantine; "Confession at least once a year and Communion at least at Easter," it remains one of the General Precepts of the Church, the bare minimum to do to say that Catholic Christians.

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Reflecting on the importance of the sacrament of Penance We remind us of our duties in normal time: always live in God's grace, always take advantage of opportunities for confession, know the truths of faith and the norms of Christian conduct, pray often for the grace of a happy death (ie comforted by the Sacraments). So we will always be spiritually ready, although the emergency sopraggiungerà! Anyhow, Now it is important to realize that the Open Church, also to give to men in every way possible the forgiveness of sins and thus to ensure the eternal salvation of souls, which remains the most important thing of all.

A resent the next episode of Open Church.

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Welcome to a new edition of Open Church!

The topic of this episode IX It is a continuation of the previous one: the Church even in time of a pandemic remains opened to ensure the reconciliation of sinners with God. After pointing out how it is possible in this time of social emergency administer the sacrament of Confession, We mention now to the practice of Indulgences, because in recent days there have been promulgated new.

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We start from a basic premise: the sinner freed from the guilt of sin through the sacrament of Confession, still it has to serve the punishment due for sin; In fact, God is merciful to the same time but also fair. Because of this, with sacramental absolution, the confessor priest also assigns a penance to be done. Who does not fully atoned for in this mortal life the due punishment for their sins, I will have to do necessarily in the Hereafter, if he dies in the grace of God; then we might as well do penance as much as possible now.

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The sacraments of Baptism and Confession, Holy Mother Church frees us from the guilt of sin; with the indulgences then it helps us to atone for the punishment due for sins.

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Deepen now this topic: a church that was never closed and will remain open for eternity is that of Paradise. The Madonna in body and soul, the Angels, Saints and other souls of the saved already enjoy the vision of God and intercede for us at the same time still journey towards the common homeland of heaven. During their earthly life, Mary and the Saints have gained by the grace of God supernatural merits; acquistatici joined the infinite merits of Christ the Redeemer with his sacrifice on the cross, these supernatural merits of the saints are the "treasure" of satisfaction to divine justice, "Treasure" that the Church puts at our disposal to help us to repent of our sins and to better attain the eternal bliss.

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Duly prepared faithful (confessed and communicated) and who meet certain conditions established (exclusion of any affection for sin, fulfillment of prescribed work, recitation of the Our Father and the Creed, prayer for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff), get the gift of abbreviation (A partial indulgence) or even the cancellation (plenary indulgence) the due punishment for their sins, satisfying divine justice by drawing on the supernatural "treasure" of the merits of the Saints. Said "in a nutshell": it is as if a debtor extinguished its debt because a benefactor gives you free of charge the necessary money he does not have. It should be noted that some indulgences can also be applied to the soul of a deceased, by way of suffrage.

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Anyone wishing to explore the doctrine and practice regarding the indulgences can read the following document: Apostolic Penitentiary, Manual of Indulgences, Vatican Publishing House, 20084.

In this Lenten time in quarantine, the Pope has issued precise instructions, not only because the faithful are helped to continue to receive the sacrament of Confession, but also to help the faithful to continue to do penance for their sins and come spiritually renewed at the next Easter. The popular media do not pay attention to the new Indulgences newly promulgated; for this you need to talk about it, so that the faithful are aware of and can enjoy them.

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The decree issued by the Apostolic Penitentiary in data 20 last March is easily available via the Internet [cf WHO]. Here let me summarize the main points of the papal decree: the "faithful affections Coronavirus, undergo regime for the disposal of sanitary quarantine in hospitals or in their homes, "get the plenary indulgence" if, with a spirit detached from any sin, They will join spiritually through the media to the celebration of Holy Mass, the recitation of the Holy Rosary, the devotion of the Via Crucis or other forms of devotion, or if at least recite the Creed, the Our Father and a pious invocation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, providing this evidence in a spirit of faith in God and charity towards our brothers, with the intention of fulfilling the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father), as soon as they can ". "Under the same conditions" may obtain a Plenary Indulgence 'caregivers, family members and how many, example of the Good Samaritan, exposing themselves to the risk of contagion, Coronavirus assist the sick ". Even the faithful that "offer a visit to the Blessed Sacrament, or Eucharistic adoration, or reading the Holy Scriptures for at least half an hour, or reciting of the Holy Rosary, or pious exercise of the Via Crucis, or recitation of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, to implore from God the Almighty epidemic termination, relief for those who are afflicted and the eternal salvation of those whom the Lord called to himself can also benefit from the Plenary Indulgence. The plenary indulgence can also be achieved by the faithful that on his deathbed he was unable to receive the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick and Viaticum: In this case we recommend the use of the crucifix or the cross ".

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The ordinary way of expiating the punishment due for sins is first to perform their duties and endure the hardships of life, raising the soul with humble trust to God (cf Manual of Indulgences, cit., p. 37); so, put themselves or their goods at the service of the brothers who are in need and do so in a spirit of faith and merciful mood (In the same place, p. 40). The two works just mentioned are extremely relevant and urgent in the present calamity and are also within everyone's reach. The Holy Church in fact has now indulgenced such works, thus helping us to enhance a supernatural spirit what is happening to us.

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"All things work together for good to them that love God" (RM 8, 28), He reveals the apostle St. Paul; "The sins", chiosava St. Augustine of Hippo; Also the pandemic, we add. Praying God and doing good to get the next new Indulgences, we can transform this time sacrifices in a powerful supernatural opportunity to do good to ourselves, as well as to our next.

A resent the next episode of Open Church.

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Sansepolcro (Arezzo), 24 March 2020

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"Open Church" (VII episode) How to escape the coronavirus? Certainly not with the rainbows and the inscription “we'll make it”, implied: with our own strength. But asking God: «Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened " [Mt 7, 7]

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We offer our readers this third precious videos of our esteemed brother John Zanchi, priest of the Diocese of Arezzo, so that it can also serve as an effective and wise antidote to all those who unfortunately, at this time of extraordinary crisis and emergency, They have nothing better to do than argue, often in harsh and aggressive tone, against decisions taken by our bishops for safety reasons to protect public health: suspend the sacred celebrations and in many cases close the churches. Recall that the Church, during crises and emergencies, It has never been saved by the controversy of those who stand for all time the most faithful among the faithful or to the purest of the pure, but the unit. Someone has written these days that "the bishops are committing suicide the Italian Church". Unfortunately he did not understand anything of the essence of the Catholic faith: the church “if suicidal” attacking the bishops, instead follow them and support them in a moment of so severe test.

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John Zanchi

Welcome to the VII episode of Chiesa Aperta!

In this time of a pandemic, a priest at the door of his church hung the following written: "Thus says the Lord: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it shall be opened!” (Mt 7, 7)», to bring home to his faithful that the priest remains available to them, prejudice course due prudence and the necessary confidentiality (cf The deep, 18 March 2020). So even in the time of a pandemic churches remain open, without public celebrations, as a sign of the Church that remains open glory of God and the salvation of men.

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In this emergency situation our Bishops have excused from duty to attend Sunday Mass, which is one of the general precepts of the Church. But it remains the obligation to sanctify Sunday, it is a divine commandment: "Remember to keep holy the Sabbath" (It is cf 20, 8 – 10).

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We note that the ecclesiastical law already covers cases in which "the absence of a sacred minister or for other grave cause can not participate in the Eucharistic celebration"; in such a situation, "It is strongly recommended that the faithful ... to spend an appropriate amount of time personally or family prayer" (Code of Canon Law, 1248 §2).

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In this Sunday and more to follow, the Church remains open then anyway for the sanctification of the Lord's Day, Memorial of Christ's Resurrection: in churches of stone and brick Clergy continues to celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice and Christian families, "Small domestic churches" (cf The light 11) and Christians who live alone, They will unite spiritually, as well through direct television or radio, by which it is guaranteed in a certain way at least the participation in the Liturgy of the Sunday Word (readings, homily, profession of faith, universal prayer); unfortunately currently the Eucharist can hardly be received in the holy communion, but at least the spiritual communion always remains possible, especially on Sunday. Also do not forget that the Sunday Liturgy is not reduced to Mass, but also contemplates the Liturgy of the Hours, articulated in well 7 moments spread throughout the day, especially Lauds and Vespers; are prayers that can easily be celebrated with family or alone, especially in Sunday.

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Even in normal times, the sanctification of Sunday is not reduced to participation in Holy Mass and the Sunday obligation also includes the duty of the rest, that is the refrain "from those jobs and those matters which impede the worship of God and disturb their daily joy of the Lord, or the relaxation of mind and body" (In the same place, 1247). This time a pandemic is characterized unfortunately by the forced cessation of so many daily activities, but Sunday rest is not simply take time off work, but to live the Sunday devoting more time to God, to themselves and to the next.

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We recall here it teaches us Catechism of the Catholic Church to the number 2186:

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"It is a duty for Christians who have leisure should be mindful of their brethren who have the same needs and the same rights, yet can not rest from work because of poverty and misery. By Christian piety Sunday is traditionally consecrated to good works and humble service of the sick they need, the infirm, seniors. Christians will also sanctify Sunday by giving to their family and their relatives the time and attention that you can hardly accord them the other days of the week » (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2186).

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In this exceptional situation, every Christian must discern how to apply these standards of conduct Sunday. Rest does not mean simply do plenty of entertainment and distraction; Sunday rest should also be a time dedicated to the training of their faith through information and the study of religious and spiritual topics; for instance, the reading of the Pastoral Note of the Italian Bishops entitled The Day of the Lord, published way back in 1984 but always present and available easily on the internet WHO. For too long we have neglected on Sunday as the Lord's Day, reducing wearily only to participation in Holy Mass or, even worse, occasion to give us our own convenience, defrauding happily the day of God that belongs in a special way and that he gives us for free for our spiritual health. Now is the time to rediscover Sunday at its true value and in all its aspects; the painful deprivation of Sunday Mass paradoxically helps us in this rediscovery.

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I conclude by recalling that on Sunday It is simultaneously both "the first day of the week", one in which Christ rose from the dead, is "the eighth day", advance and waiting for the "day without evening" in which the people of the saved will enter definitively into "God's rest" (cf. Preface for Sundays in Ordinary Time X, Roman missal). This is why the Catechism of the Catholic Church the numbers 2185 e 2188 remember that Sunday is characterized by the "joy proper to the Lord's Day" and must be "lived as the day of our liberation, that makes us participate in the festive assembly and assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven " (EB 12, 22 – 23)».

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The Sunday gladness especially striking every year on this Fourth Sunday of Lent, in which the Holy Church sings at the beginning of the Mass:

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"Rallégrati, Jerusalem, and all ye that love her, regroup. Exult and rejoice, you who mourned for her: eat your fill of the abundance of your consolation " (cf Is 66, 10 – 11).

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These prophetic words They remain true even in time of distress, because the risen Christ dispels the darkness of death. Until there is a Sunday to celebrate, the Church remains open.

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Sansepolcro (Arezzo), 22 March 2020

 

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