"THERE WAS A CRICKET IN A LINEN FIELD ...". JUDAS ALSO CHOSEN THE “WELL POSSIBLE”: ITS GOOD, NOT WHAT CHRIST PROPOSED TO HIM

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According to the sacramental theologian, those bad guys from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith dared to present the marriage of man and woman as a good ordained and blessed by God, while that between two men or between two women as evil.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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Browsing on Facebook I could not fail to notice the sharing of a post by the theologian Andrea Grillo which announced the imminent release of one of his contributions in a Catholic magazine entitled: "Blessing: style to give the word to the possible good ".

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The full article will come out tomorrow in the monthly Jesus, direct come on Pauline Fathers founded by Blessed James Alberione. It should be understood that until tomorrow no one will be able to praise or criticize this writing, even if already from the first page shared on the profile Facebook of the theologian you understand the theme of the topic. Blessings will be discussed with clear reference to the facts concerning whether it is permissible or not to bless same-sex couples. And that being said, waiting for the happy publication of this article in a monthly magazine directed by a religious family, instead we can talk about what the sacramental theologian has been writing and saying around for days [See. WHO, WHO, WHO, etc ..].

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The obvious position of the competent dicastery of the Holy See for the orthodoxy of the faith, has aroused discontent from many quarters: from our local blood don Giulio Mignani of the diocese of La Spezia who refuses to bless the palm trees and olive trees on Passion Sunday; to the Germanic clergy who already anticipate homosexual marriage as a sacrament, comparable to that between man and woman if not more noble because, as the ancients claimed, the love omodiretto it is purer because it is not affected by the complications of reproduction (!?).

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Now it is the turn of the theologian Andrea Grillo which - with a note of indisputable academic superiority - frames the reply of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding the union of persons of the same sex as a purely Manichean fact that identifies and distinguishes good from evil. In short, a note from bigots who claim to divide the world either all in white or all in black.

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… when aggressive insolence speaks for itself …

According to the sacramental theologian, those bad guys from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith dared to present the marriage of man and woman as a good ordained and blessed by God, while that between two men or between two women as evil. With the aggravating circumstance - specifies this academic who incidentally teaches sacramental theology in three ecclesiastical universities - that this way of doing theology, both as a dogma and as a practice it would reduce in tradition - it is not clear whether that of the Church or which other - the sense of reality and adherence to prophecy.

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In short, after less than thirty lines of presentation of the article, the reasonable doubt arises that it is Andrea Grillo who should deal with his own personal sense of reality and prudence. As a sacramental theologian he should only obey what the Congregation in charge establishes and instead, at the end of the preview of his article, he can afford to begin like this: "If two women and two men who live in communion of life and love" .... sorry but what are we talking about? When a theologian I repeat teaches in multiple academic institutions, uses the expression "communion of life and love" which formulates and frames without a doubt the spousal reality modeled on the relationship that Christ has with the Church, what else should one expect in the continuation of the reasoning?

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The thing is, my dear readers, that we are faced with a theological problem that affects that particular theological virtue which is faith. Homosexuals have nothing to do with it, but nothing at all, absolutely! For some Church personalities it would be appropriate to allow and impart savage blessings at all costs as is done with the like on social network. And if certain realities have not yet been sacramentalized, at least they try to extract consent from the blessing which is a sacramental because, as Don Giulio Mignani had the opportunity to say, a blessing is no longer denied to anyone. It's a bit like saying: “Dear gay brother, now I cannot celebrate your wedding in the Church but I give you the blessing which is a first step to clear your marriage in the future. Because you know, your marriage in the Church is still seen as a suburban wedding but it already has a certain good and value. And given that the Church is not only the center but also the periphery, now grit your teeth and hope for better times ".

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… when aggressive insolence speaks for itself …

I repeat it once again, the problem is not given by people with homosexual orientation, who are dear people, perhaps even better in some cases than many practicing Christians; better than some bishops and many of us priests. The problem is God, which places - He yes - the boundary between good and evil, between holiness and distance from holiness.

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I fear the problem of certain theologians lay o bosomes it is accepting a God who treats us as adults, also placing before us the choice of stumbling "life and death, the blessing and the curse " [cf. Dt 30,19] and who through his Son calls man to the definitive and exclusive choice without deceit:

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"Holy Father, keep those you have given me in your name, so that they are one, like us. When I was with them, I kept in your name those you gave me and I have kept them; none of them have been lost, except the son of perdition, for the Scripture to be fulfilled " [cf. GV 17,11-12].

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In these days of Holy Week and of Passion we tragically relive the story of the man Judas, who did not choose the good that Christ proposed to him but preferred his personal good. An understandable and shareable good, humanly possible, understood as salvation and redemption within the reach of the man in the street, obtained perhaps with the support of the Sanhedrin and some condescending official of the Roman Empire. I am sure that if Judas were to go to trial today he would be acquitted, any lawyer bumblebee would be able to save him because he is basically human, indeed too human.

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Paolo Poli, nursery rhyme The Cricket and the Ant

It is of a human salvation that today we want to be satisfied, a redemption capable of not displeasing anyone and bringing everyone closer, only to fail miserably as it happens when everyone is right.

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We leave the blessings to the Church, to that sacral area that speaks to us of God and that accompanies him. Sweet and precious blessings that flow from a right understanding of sacramental grace and that through it men are willing to receive the main effect of the sacraments and are sanctified in the various circumstances of life [cf. SC, 60; CCC, 1667 e Can. 1166]. Blessing is equivalent to sanctifying, sanctifying is equivalent to seeking the Saint, It gave, who calls everyone to a common conversion and a just resolution of detachment from sin.

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Get blessed without this desire she has fallen into superstition that someone will perhaps be able to help, but not to find God, at least the God incarnate in Jesus, only begotten son of God, who is one with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

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Laconi, 31 March 2021

Holy Week

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