Father Ivano
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Ivano Liguori
Of the Order of the Capuchin Friars Minor
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V. Catechism breakfast with the Capuchin - «The Sacrament of Penance, the confession " (Fifth part)

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V. CATECHISM BREAKFAST WITH CAPPUCCINO - «THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE, THE CONFESSION " (Fifth part)

When we priests administer confession, we often realize that Christians have more guilt than sin. The sense of sin what is it? It is being aware that you have missed a love, to have failed in the highest good which is God, thus missing an opportunity to love and be loved.

 

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Historical figures of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin: Friar Lawrence of Sardara (1919 – 2016)

We offer the fifth five o'clock catechesis held by our editor Father Ivano Liguori, which will be published once a week, and then move on to other themes of doctrine and faith.

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Last time we concluded the fourth catechesis by saying that the Council of Trent who had somewhat revised the entire discipline on the Sacraments, clearly reiterates that Baptism - which is the first form of Christian conversion to Jesus - is fundamental and necessary for salvation, because it washes the creature from original sin. For those who have sinned after Baptism it is necessary, for salvation, the Sacrament of Penance […] when we priests administer confession, we often realize that Christians have more guilt than sin. The sense of sin what is it? It is being aware that you have missed a love, to have failed in the highest good which is God, thus missing an opportunity to love and be loved.

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I social media they can be a portentous tool for carrying out pastoral activities and for proclaiming the Holy Gospel, for meet, meet and answer the questions of Believers in Christ and support them in their Christian journey of search or return to the faith. Everything is seeing what people are looking for in this ocean where it is possible to find everything and in all senses. This initiative de The Island of Patmos it is an opportunity offered to all those who want to take up or deepen the themes of faith starting from the basic elements of the Catechism and the Magisterium of the Church.

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the Island of Patmos, 26 March 2022

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Dear Fedez, but when death takes you, that will remain of your desires, perhaps vanity of vanity?

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DEAR FEDEZ, BUT WHEN DEATH WILL GET YOU, THAT WILL REMAIN OF YOUR WISHES, MAYBE VANITY OF VANITY?

- Church news - Before life, to physical decay, to sickness and death, we are all truly the same. Then, that after death our lifeless body is placed in a monumental tomb inside a precious chest or buried in the bare earth wrapped in a sheet, decomposition is the same for everyone, from the emperor to the last of his yokels.

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photo posted by Polynesia on social media from Fedez

Federico Leonardo Lucia, known to the public as Fedez, in his short video announced that he was suffering from a health problem. Of course, we must first of all see what is authentic, because these characters would be willing to do anything for publicity's sake. We therefore take it for granted - unfortunately and with sincere human regret - that everything is true.

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The reflection that I did hot was very short and I quickly let you know: it takes very little to find yourself as they say with your ass on the ground for one “variable” or for a “accident” that it is not possible to foresee and that - thanks be to God - it remains totally democratic by striking every man, because in front of life, to physical decay, to sickness and death, we are all truly the same. Then, that after death our lifeless body is placed in a monumental tomb inside a precious chest or buried in the bare earth wrapped in a sheet, decomposition is the same for everyone, from the emperor to the last of his yokels.

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This means that our life understood as a gift from God cannot be given any other purpose than that which has already been revealed to us by Our Savior Jesus Christ in the Holy Gospel. But we often think otherwise, as they are used to doing these influence who - as public figures - feel invested in conveying their banal, superficial and often vulgar lifestyles that should not find acceptance and justification either for social background or age, nor for a more or less turbulent past. And the reason is simple: we will all one day be judged on charity, therefore on the true riches of our heart which has been conquered by the Truth.

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The Providence of God, which is full truth, often puts the limit in front of us to remind us that we are «Vanity of vanity», as imprinted in Book of the Qoelet. Just so. And vanity cannot stand in the face of the inevitable confrontation sooner or later with the fear of disease, with the terror of losing those you love, with the realism of those who look back and discover that they are as fragile and poor as the rich Dives [cf.. LC 16, 19-31].

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In the blessing wish may the Lord assist Fedez, his family, his doctors, I pray that the superficial style, diseducative and arrogant with which he has often influenced others - perhaps in the illusion of having found his own truth - in particular our very young, from today to follow changes and take on a different perspective from the image that has spread up to now. And who knows, maybe he will come to find out that Christ that, as with the Samaritan woman, was waiting for him at the well of Sychar, that well of proof to quench his thirst with his presence as Savior [cf.. GV 4, 1-25].

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To say this is a Capuchin presbyter who served long and intensely as chaplain in a large hospital, in contact with sickness and death day after day, for years and years. E, incidentally: a few days ago I was discharged from a hospital where I stayed for a couple of weeks, running a serious and concrete risk. Despite this, I was calm, even in the face of the by no means remote risk of not getting out alive, despite having all in all "only" 44 year old. And this is because my hope has a name: Jesus Christ Son of God, who in spite of my many and grave sins gives me salvation from that ephemeral world, patinated, arrogant and vulgar in which the influence they delude themselves that they have found the new earthly paradise.

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God bless you Fedez, I wish you so as a priest and as an older brother.

 

the Island of Patmos, 17 March 2022

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci
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The transfiguration of Jesus is that event that invites us to transfigure ourselves and then rise again with him

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THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS ​​IS THAT EVENT THAT INVITES US TO TRANSFIGURE OURSELVES AND THEN RISE WITH HIM

prayer also gives us the authority and courage to account for the hope that is in us. Therefore to bear witness to the faith even in environments that reject it

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The transfiguration of Jesus, by Raffaello Sanzio

On this second Sunday of Lent, in readings from the Liturgy of the Word we remember the moment of the Transfiguration, an event that gives life to a celebration in which God asks us to be intimately united with him in prayer and to listen to him. About listening, feel a bit’ what does Clive S write?. Lewis, imagining he was the imp Screwtape, who gives instructions to his nephew Malacoda to lead man away from God:

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“My dear Wormwood, the amateurish propositions which appear in your last letter suggest to me that it is high time I wrote to you at length on the painful subject of prayer […] the best thing, if it were possible, would be to keep the patient completely away from any serious intention of praying".

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For the devil it is really important that we cease to pray because in doing so we cease to be under the gaze of God and heart to heart with Jesus. Let's take a closer look at these points.

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“About eight days after these talks, Jesus took Peter with him, John and James and went up on the mountain to pray".

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Trying to imagine a bit’ the scene, we can see mount tabor. Desertic, hot and high. Perhaps inhospitable place for a walk. But Jesus calls three apostles right there. To be alone with him. So Jesus makes them leave the desert tracks of Palestine to make them climb the high mountain. This image is a reminder of the Church that walks with Jesus. But that's a bit’ meaning for us too in this Lent: walk and let ourselves be taken by the Lord, that comes in our moments of desert, of misunderstanding, in the moments when our souls grow, in a moment of deep prayer. Like Peter, James and John so we too can enter the secret space between God the Eternal Father and God the Eternal Son, wedge ourselves together to be alone. Alone with God to renew our view of all things and observe them from above. From a divine and human point of view together. Jesus himself while praying changes in appearance. His tunic turns white. Color of the presence of God. Suddenly Moses and Elijah appear. A sudden appearance [cf.. vv. 29 – 32] as Jesus begins to speak of his coming days in Jerusalem. A truly glorious and at the same time tremendous scene must have appeared to the three apostles. Moses, the one who received the law, Elia, the great prophet. The two Old Testament messengers par excellence. All while Jesus is offering the central message of his mission: offering himself on the cross for our redemption. Probably the three apostles are a bit’ dazed. Until a few moments later the cloud breaks over the mountain, and then they begin to fear. To make matters worse, immediately after, the most important announcement happens. The very reason why the Lord had brought them there. We feel:

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“A voice came out of the cloud, who said: "This is my Son, the chosen one; listen!».

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This voice is the Eternal Father who asks to listen to Jesus his Son. A revelation shock for the poor three, who had also been spectators, until that moment, of various extraordinary events. Jesus is man but also God. God is also the Eternal Father who announces him and asks to listen to him. Indeed, after moments of intimacy with Jesus, in deep prayer one must listen.

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What does this mean for us today? Listening means transforming prayer into concrete actions. Like this, as happened to Peter, prayer also gives us the authority and courage to account for the hope that is in us. Therefore to bear witness to the faith even in environments that reject it [cfr.1 Pt 4]. Exactly like in Giacomo's experience, prayer allows us to carry out the material and spiritual works of mercy, to show the beauty and fullness of faith precisely through works [cf.. GC 2]. In the end, like John, prayer allows us to contemplate the profound mystery of the Incarnation, to meditate that who was in the beginning of the World, God is also the principle and sap of our life [GV 1, 2 -4].

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The transfiguration of Jesus it is therefore that event that invites us to transfigure ourselves in order to then rise again with him. By listening and putting it into practice, all of us, day by day, we are transfigured in Christ, with a changed face, smiling and open to the dimensions of the sacred, to marvel at a love that welcomes us to the end. For this we ask the Lord, with the example and help of Mary, humility of heart to open ourselves to attentive listening to God to give the world the hope of eternal life.

 

Rome, 12 March 2022

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The conflict in Ukraine and ecclesiastical diplomacy. A fundamental element is contained in the charioteer virtue of prudence: that silence unknown to a certain Russian Orthodox Caesaropapism

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THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE AND ECCLESIASTICAL DIPOMACY. A FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT IS ENCLOSED IN THE AURIGA VIRTUE OF PRUDENCE: THAT SILENCE UNKNOWN TO CERTAIN RUSSIAN-ORTHODOX CAESAROPAPISM

Moscow Patriarch Kirill I added a religious war to the war, paradigm of the war that has characterized orthodoxy internally for ten centuries. Let's try to ask ourselves: what would happen, within the Catholic Church, if during the First World War the Austrian bishops had turned against the French ones and the German ones against the Italian ones, fearing reasons of a metaphysical nature?

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IV. Catechism breakfast with the Capuchin - «The Sacrament of Penance, the confession " (Part Four)

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IV. CATECHISM BREAKFAST WITH CAPPUCCINO - «THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE, THE CONFESSION " (Part Four)

To penetrate the profound meaning of this sacrament, it is necessary to start from the words of St. Paul the Apostle: "We beg you in the name of Christ to be reconciled with God". This is the center and fulcrum on which all catechesis on the Sacrament of Reconciliation revolves.

 

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San Leopoldo Mandic, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, protector of cancer patients

We offer the fourth five o'clock catechesis held by our editor Father Ivano Liguori, which will be published once a week, and then move on to other themes of doctrine and faith.

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To penetrate the profound meaning of this sacrament, it is necessary to start from the words of St. Paul the Apostle: "We beg you in the name of Christ to be reconciled with God" [II Cor 5, 20]. This is the center and fulcrum on which all catechesis on the Sacrament of Reconciliation revolves. The need to be reconciled with God is an apostolic command that the Apostle expresses to the inhabitants of Corinth, but that goes through the times and is aimed at all of us.

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I social media they can be a portentous tool for carrying out pastoral activities and for proclaiming the Holy Gospel, for meet, meet and answer the questions of Believers in Christ and support them in their Christian journey of search or return to the faith. Everything is seeing what people are looking for in this ocean where it is possible to find everything and in all senses. This initiative de The Island of Patmos it is an opportunity offered to all those who want to take up or deepen the themes of faith starting from the basic elements of the Catechism and the Magisterium of the Church.

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the Island of Patmos, 5 March 2022

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