Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci
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From financial wolves to accumulators and rich in grace: “Poverty is lacking many things, all avarice

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FROM FINANCIAL WOLVES TO ACCUMULATORS AND RICH IN GRACE: «POVERTY IS LACKING MANY THINGS, TO THE GREED EVERYONE»

 

“But God said to the rich farmer: "Fool, this very night your life will be demanded of you. And what you have prepared, whose it will be?”. So it is with those who accumulate treasures for themselves and are not enriched with God".

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Dear readers of The island of Patmos,

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In Gospel of this XVIII Sunday Ordinary Time, Jesus condemns greed or avarice, hence the immoderate accumulation of goods. A theme that may seem far from us small and medium-sized workers. Accumulation is not just about goods and treasures related to money or property. This was Jordan Belfort's experience, broker and financial entrepreneur, whose story was also told in the film 2013, The Wolf of Wall Street. At the beginning of his career he began with fraudulent investments and earnings, with an increasingly messy and flawed attachment to money. This will lead him to completely destroy his life by reducing him to drug addiction and the destruction of his friends and loved ones, up to prison.

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Today Jesus wants to offer us this teaching, he clearly says it in this pericope:

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“Be careful and keep away from all covetousness because, even if one is in abundance, his life does not depend on what he possesses".

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The life of each of us does not depend on good money. But it depends on the primary and essential good which is God. It is He who, if we trust, he gives us all the other goods and the means to reach the ultimate goal: Holiness and the eternal encounter with Him in Paradise. To clarify this, the Lord tells the parable of the rich man and his countryside. Here it calls again to the real dependence we have on God, that decides our life and our death. But even more: in this parable Jesus says a much stronger phrase, taking up the ending of his narration:

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“But God said to the rich farmer: "Fool, this very night your life will be demanded of you. And what you have prepared, whose it will be?”. So it is with those who accumulate treasures for themselves and are not enriched with God".

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True wealth to which we are all called is then the wealth in God. A wealth that does not accumulate by shopping on Amazon, playing on the stock market, or buying real estate. It is the wealth of those who truly have and are filled with the presence and grace of God.

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Jesus does not ask us to live as miserable, like poor people looking for a pauperistic form in which misery is our aim. He asks us to relocate all goods to obtain the richness of the Presence of God, which today you can get as a free gift, especially in the Sacraments and the Eucharist. A spiritual wealth that is obtained by free gift, when we grow in prayer and meditation: this is the treasure of the doctrine taught by Jesus which leads our every life. Got all this then, the Lord will not let us lack other material goods as well.

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The Roman author Pubblio Sirio wrote, in its Judgments: “Poverty is lacking many things, to avarice all".

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We ask the Lord to heal from the morbid attachment to all material and ephemeral realities, to learn to draw from the Trinitarian treasures of eternal life.

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Rome, 31 July 2022

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The German Synod, between Romanophobic Lutheranism and lesbian theologians who claim to overturn Catholic doctrine

THE GERMAN SYNOD, BETWEEN ROMANOPHOBIC LUTHERANISM AND LESBIAN THEOLOGISTS WHO PURPOSE TO OVERRIDE THE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE

 

Or the Holy See learns from history and proceeds to bestow a solemn and salutary volley of beatings on the Germans, or this farcical synod will continue until the end with all the consequences that will derive from it, acting as a horrid and grotesque outlet for a handful of nasty lesbian theologians who are piloting it too much.

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The problem is not to say badly, as I am sometimes accused of doing, but tell them true. And when they are said to be true, one should overlook the strong way in which it is sometimes necessary to say them. Otherwise, the accusers will fall into Pharisaism, attaching itself to the form or the colorful word, to evade the substance and all the facts with which they do not want to deal, because it would involve taking responsibility and taking action.

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As a priest I lived and studied in Germany and when we say the German Catholic Church, I think I know a little about what we are talking about. I wrote about it in alarmed tones in the now distant 2011 in my book And Satan became triune, narrating how advanced was the state of Protestantization of the Catholic Church in many regions of Northern Europe, stating that a de facto schism was in progress that only needed to be made official. I pointed out that a swollen river was coming down from Northern Europe and that it would soon overwhelm our local Churches as well, especially the Italian one, subject for over half a century to the worst German theological drifts, because everything that is not German is not worthy of being called theological on our homeland. For this thanks to the deceptions of the Jesuits of the Pontifical Gregorian University, loving grandchildren of Karl Rahner, which had inevitably on the Supreme Pontiff Paul VI - revealed in this naive - the Roman School was destroyed, whose center was the Pontifical Lateran University, with great and extraordinary theologians of the caliber of Pietro Parente, Antonio Piolanti, Pier Carlo Lad … all reduced to silence in the "glorious" period of the post-council dialogue in the 1970s. The last exponent of the Roman School was Antonio Livi (cf.. WHO). A decade later, Paul VI himself, he complained and feared that "the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God through some crevice" (full text WHO). I wonder why, above all: who threw open the doors to him?

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History teaches that the barbaric spirit always survives in the anthropological memory of the German people. He also teaches, the story, that the Germans cannot be patted on the little hand with a smile on their lips saying "bad guy this way you don't, otherwise mammina suffers ". They are beaten to death and left on the ground with broken bones after being humiliated. At that point they subside for the following decades. Then little by little they go back to pulling their heads up again, with the same spirit and the same arrogance. At that point, more healthy beats will be needed. Some might think that my talk is gratuitous and inappropriate violence. Never, it is simply prudent and legitimate defense of the European peoples. The pacifist candid souls fast to know, instead of tearing his clothes at the cry rainbows Of peace and love rather study history, because in this way they will understand all the reasons for my saying, starting from the price paid by Europe and the whole world for German psychology since the 1930s.

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The Germans are the great pissed offs of Europe because in fact they have always been the big losers in the history of our Old Continent. Or it appears to anyone that they have ever won a war? At the end of the First World War they were humiliated at the negotiating table in Versailles. Years later they reared their heads with ominous deeds that produced consequences never seen before. At the end of the Second World War they found themselves with their country razed to the ground and reduced to starvation. As for today, I spread a merciful veil, because there would be a lot of talk about the human and moral sense of the "civilized" Germany in which no one would ever throw a cigarette butt in the garden of a public park, however, there are private clinics in which organs are transplanted whose origin is unknown, something that in uncivilized Italy could never happen, with the strict restrictive laws we have, but above all for that sense of humanity that has not yet completely abandoned us. Overflight on economic ethics, because this is not the place to discuss it, let's just say that Germany years ago gave China the ropes with which Europe will soon be hanged.

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In the season of synodal drunkenness this phase has also begun in Germany, before the opening of which I said that the result would be attacks on Catholic doctrine and the deposit of faith that would make Martin Luther pale, let's not forget he was Catholic. Heretic, but Catholic. Most of the bishops, of German priests and faithful, Catholics have not been so for some time, they were not really born there and as such they were not formed and raised, while Luther did, lo fu. Those who are improperly defined as "German Catholics" are for the most part Christians who are much more affected by Luther and above all by Calvin, instead of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

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Never open Pandora's boxes in Germany, because giving them a synod will end up producing the best of the worst of their never-dormant Romanophobic spirit.

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Now the Holy See laments and publicly declares that the initiative underway in Germany "has no power to force bishops and faithful to new ways of governing and new approaches to doctrine and morals" [cf.. WHO]. For this he invites them to re-enter the ranks of the correct synodal path of the universal Church. In short: they hit his little hand with a smile on their lips saying "bad guys.", this is not done, otherwise mammina suffers ".

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What the Holy See expected from such a jumble of subjects now self-styled Catholics? Obviously, the synod - as it immediately happened - would have been the pretext for throwing up against Rome by demanding everything about which it is not even allowed to open discussions and let alone carry them out.: abolition of priestly celibacy, priesthood to women, or at least the diaconate, derubrication of the sin of sodomy, blessing of gay couples, evaluation of particular cases in which abortion or euthanasia could be lawful, total openness to contraception and so on and so forth.

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Applying certain logics we could question, vote by majority and abolish various precepts of the Holy Gospel, because, according to many, they no longer conform to the present times and the needs of the contemporary world. Exactly what tragic is happening with this local German Synod, where with all the worst arrogance a horde of sour feminists are allowing themselves to discuss what the Church just cannot discuss, because he has no authority to do so. Not only and not so much they demand the questioning of the legitimacy of the priesthood to women, blessings to gay and lesbian couples who decide to "get married" justifying everything with an unspecified “love”, because what they are actually claiming is that the Church declares that what it has hitherto considered mortal sin is in truth good, therefore that you declare that you have erred in retrograde spirit by making amends and not even opening the doors, but literally spreading the legs.

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Then we want to add more, admitted it is lawful to say it clearly and truthfully without being overwhelmed by complaints from the radical circles LGBT? I note that the feminist theologians who for years have been setting fires and flames in the little Catholic that remains in various countries of Northern Europe, for the most part they are full-blown lesbians and many live with their partners. Only a double agent like Cardinal Reinhard Marx Metropolitan Archbishop of München - who until the first ten days of February of 2013 he was more Ratzingerian than Benedict XVI, except to become more Bergoglian than Francis I three months later - he could allow such tomboys to create disorder and disturbance within the German Church by giving them space, voice and a stage of release during a synod. But then it is known: if according to the theories of Sigmund Freud the woman suffers from unconscious envy of the male penis, the lesbian Teutonic theologian suffers from the envy of the priest.

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So let's take some examples relevant and real: it is true that in the biblical narrative it is specified that God created them male and female (cf.. Gen 1, 26-28), but those were other times. Today, the needs of gay and lesbian couples who want to marry between man and man are quite different, between woman and woman, claiming the approval and blessing of the Church, or the triumphal baptism of babies purchased from so-called rented wombs, with all the gotha LGBT lined up in the church, not because he is interested in anything about Holy Baptism, but to exploit a sacrament for the sole purpose of demonstrating that he has bent Catholicism to its own moral disorders, or worse to their aberrations, as in the case of babies commissioned to so-called rented uteri. Since, however,, at the time, the Almighty Creator could not be updated, it will be appropriate that the precepts, the divine word and God himself are correct. Because God was wrong to create only male and female without foreseeing the other variants, likewise Jesus Christ was wrong to confer the priesthood only on men, rather, perhaps he was also a bit misogynist. But what kind of Almighty and Omniscient he is, this clumsy God the Creator so devoid of future prospects? Luckily there is a compact group of German lesbian theologians ready to correct him in the context of this Synod.

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O the Holy See learns from history and proceeds to deliver a solemn and salutary volley of blows to the Germans, or this farcical synod will continue until the end with all the consequences that will derive from it, acting as a horrid and grotesque outlet for a handful of nasty lesbian theologians who are piloting it too much.

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I know perfectly well that certain things I say and express them badly, however I say them true and without easy pain of denial. I just hope I don't get another lawsuit from some radical association LGBT, Why I already have one in progress at the competent Court. And neither the Holy See nor the Italian Episcopal Conference would ever give me a contribution towards my court costs, they are too busy investing money in welcoming Muslim migrants who then piss as a sign of contempt in the fonts of historic churches in Rome and who occasionally vandalize some around Italy.

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Or maybe you don't know why from all the historic churches of Rome and beyond, they removed the holy water from the fonts? Covid-19 has nothing to do with it, they were already emptied a few years before the pandemic. Simple why: several Muslim migrant brothers were repeatedly filmed by surveillance cameras documenting everything. When it went well inside the fonts they washed our underpants and socks, others as a sign of gratitude for the loving welcome of our far-sighted Italian Episcopal Conference, they pissed directly into it.

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the Island of Patmos, 29 July 2022

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please read this article [WHO vedere] and to be as sensitive and thoughtful as you can

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(3rd part) Today there is an obvious problem in the formation of the clergy: the Ambrosian presbyter who celebrates Holy Mass in water on a mat is worthy of blame but not of media lynching

(3rd part) TODAY THERE IS AN EVIDENT PROBLEM IN THE FORMATION OF THE CLERGY: THE AMBROSIAN PRIEST WHO CELEBRATES THE HOLY MASS IN WATER ON A MATTRESS IS WORTHY OF BIASYM BUT NOT OF LINCIAGGIO MEDIATICO

The Crotone Public Prosecutor's Office felt the duty to intervene following an offense committed against the religious sensitivity of Catholic believers. What if the insult was perpetrated by an LGBT exponent or by a "protected category" of different geographic backgrounds? Because the offender remains such before the law that does not admit distinctions of geographical origin, ethnic, religious or sexual. So why in front of the various Gay Pride in June there were no measures against individuals who have caused blatant insult to the signs of the Catholic religion? [previous articles: who, who]

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I couldn't resist curiosity to go and look in the various social media in the last two days the story linked to Mattia Bernasconi, an Ambrosian presbyter. Well believe me, based on the results obtained, I've really seen all the colors: a finished and finished Court of Miracles, chock full of dwarfs and dancers, of convinced heretics, of confused believers, of avid censors, of public defenders and vilified virgins up to the purest justicialists and compulsive guarantors of Catholic doctrine. The same thing I could see by going to google on some search engines the case of the "Missa aquatica", as it was nicely renamed by the magazine The New Compass Daily.

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So I decided to write some considerations regarding that I wish to share with the Readers de The Island of Patmos. Having had the opportunity to metabolize the whole story, putting her in prayer, I also had the time to identify myself in the person of the young Ambrosian presbyter Mattia Bernasconi who is worthy of blame yes, but not of media lynching. I am therefore convinced that today there is an obvious one, real and objective problematic in the theological formation of the clergy. Yup, dear Readers, the true wound it is not that of celibacy and the priestly pant, more or less visible indication of a promised but not kept chastity. The only, the only real problem is that priests no longer know what they are celebrating and therefore no longer know what they believe in: "Understand what you do, imitate what you celebrate, conform your life to the mystery of the cross of Christ the Lord ", exhorts the bishop when he consecrates a presbyter. None of this is more evident.

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The most immediate consequence of this theological amnesia is given by the loss of one's own priestly identity which leads to experiencing different human drifts, even those linked to a human sexuality that is no longer ordered to love and the good of God is degraded. And when sexuality is no longer ordered to good, takes over and controls the person, in the most depressing forms that we know well. However, it is useful to remember that falling against the sixth commandment for a priest is a much less serious thing than what can be done by falling against the first commandment., against that mystery of God who reveals himself in the Eucharist and of which the priest is the custodian and privileged administrator.

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For all those who … "Oh my God! But that priest has a lover, has a son, fell into masturbation, took a nude selfie "they would do well to remember that this is not the only sin to be sorry for, something that for the bishops themselves appears unbecoming, ready to dissociate with immediate diocesan communications, only to justify with tooth and nail the priests affiliated with anticlerical associations, propagators of the most porcine anti-human policies and who have made the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ the Great Charter of the most moneyed globalist and globalist NGO.

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When we don't feel the need to be scandalized, in the evangelical sense of the term, for the visible sacramental realities widely mistreated with the alibi of the pastoral care of proximity; when we are happy with a Sunday Mass celebrated in 15 minutes; when we do not feel discomfort for a mocked and mortified confession in its sacredness, it is not even permissible for us to point the finger at the chastity of a priest whose heart and weaknesses only God knows and understands.

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Clarified this point, I don't think Mattia Bernasconi acted out of wickedness or out of luciferian bad faith, however, he certainly acted out of evident theological ignorance and a mortified priestly sloppiness. And we say all this not following a personal judgment on the facts but from what he himself said and affirmed to the Corriere della Sera journalist who interviewed him., highlighting the fact that the problem of the Mass. And it doesn't take long to understand that when Holy Mass becomes a problem we have reached a fairly serious tipping point. It becomes a problem in the summer when I am on vacation and I would like to dedicate myself to doing what I like. It becomes a problem when it's too hot and I don't want to wear a coat, amice, the track, the stole and the chasuble. It becomes a problem when I have to undergo uncomfortable times to be able to celebrate it or I have to go to a distant church. It becomes a problem when temporal realities and human values ​​appear more important than the realities of heaven that the Holy Mass sums up in itself. You understand now why the Western Catholic priesthood is slowly changing its form into a form of social welfare? You understand now why a priest today has more advantages in becoming a psychologist, politico, trade unionist, social educator, compared to what it really is, that is, man of the sacred who leads to the sacred? He is looking for that immediate and fulfilling satisfaction which he is unable to find in the divine mysteries [See. Robert Sarah, For eternity, meditations on the figure of the priest, Cantagalli, 2022, p.195-214].

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Dear brother priests and dear lay faithful, let's remember one thing well: the Sacrament of the Eucharist and its institution never deviates from the sacrament of Holy Orders and its institution. So much so that it is not risky to paraphrase that medieval axiom relaunched by Henri de Lubac which says that "the Church makes the Eucharist and the Eucharist makes the Church" in "The Eucharist makes the priest and the priest makes the Eucharist". Without the priest in the Church there is no Eucharist but without the Eucharist the priesthood cannot stand up.

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When a priest, who should have done at least six years of theological and philosophical study, does not come to understand that Holy Mass cannot and must not be celebrated with the conditions and provisions that we have seen in the sea of ​​Crotone the problem exists but does not concern only the presbyter. The problem is also the seminary he attended and the theological faculty that formed him. The problem lies with his bishop, of his spiritual father, of his confessor. In the present case we do not seem to recall reactions on the part of S. E. Mons. Mario Delpini archbishop of Milan, who should have at heart the ongoing formation of his clergy by preventing such incidents, maybe take note that something did not go the right way. Instead, from the Church of Milan, no word has reached us about the Crotone accident other than the re-proposal of the embarrassing one note which first appeared on the site of the diocese of Crotone-Santa Severina. I think S should also ask himself some problems. E. Mons. Angelo Raffaele Panzetta, archbishop of Crotone, that with loving paternal charity and pastoral zeal he should have told Mattia Bernasconi: «Son, until we have the guarantee that you have understood the sacrilegious gesture made towards the Most Holy Eucharist, you in the diocesan territory are no longer welcome, go back to your bishop who will be able to show you the right penance in order to recover your confusion of faith and your identity ". But that would be asking too much, an abundance of grace that we are not allowed to see. Unfortunately, we no longer have the courage to exceed for God, for his glory as they used to say in the time of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, today the Holy Mass is smart, as it is smart the Catholic priesthood, if this is true we are certainly lost.

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As I finished writing this third chapter of the story of the Mass in Crotone, come the public apology from Mattia Bernasconi published on the website of the San Luigi Gonzaga Parish and reported in various newspapers (who, who, who). This is undoubtedly something worthy and to be appreciated, in the most sincere and fraternal hope that this admission of responsibility is motivated only by sincere regret for the contempt for the sacrifice of the Holy Mass and not by the media fuss that has affected the whole affair. I am very grateful to the Lord and to Mattia Bernasconi for this conversion which must be accepted in the fullest and most integral way. Just as full and integral is the mercy that the Church shows towards her children when they make mistakes and repent, be they lay people or priests. But at the same time I wonder: how come the Prosecutor of the Republic of Crotone felt the need to open a file against the Milanese priest for outrage against the Catholic religion? These measures are not so frequent in very Catholic Italy. Although the Italian Criminal Code provides in art. 403 the pecuniary penalty for anyone who publicly offends the religion of the State or a religious denomination or one of its ministers, why Mattia Bernasconi, Ambrosian presbyter, he is the only one to have paid the price?

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The Prosecutor's Office of Crotone felt the duty to intervene following an offense committed against the religious sensitivity of Catholic believers - something that the two Archdioceses of Milan and Crotone have been careful not to do - but a doubt remains: and if the insult had been perpetrated by a LGBT speaker or from a "protected category" of different geographical origin? Why let's understand, the offender remains such before the law that does not admit distinctions of geographical origin, ethnic, religious or sexual. But why in front of the various Gay Pride in June there were no measures against individuals who have caused blatant insult to the signs of the Catholic religion? It may not be that the priest today is the simplest subject to punish and ridicule? What if, let's put the hypothesis again, a member of the clergy had offended a gay boy by calling him a "fag" or a citizen of Ghana by calling him a "black", perhaps that his diocese would not have immediately raised the deepest anathema with a lot of indignation and ostracism?

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Dear Mattia, perhaps the problem is not so much the reckless gesture that you ignorantly made towards the Holy Mass, but your being a priest which at the present is extremely annoying and who is on the wrong side of history. Remember this when the storm is over: Christ continues to renew his trust in you, this is clear enough to you to go on and become a holy priest. About everything else, including those who defended or attacked you, remember that they did it because they did not see in you the man of God but only a weak category to be used as a kleenex without the danger of risking anything. And maybe this, of this whole affair, it is the aspect on which we should meditate more seriously, you like all of us your brothers, united to you in eternal and indissoluble kinship by the redeeming blood of Christ.

Laconi 27 July 2022

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A video that raises very serious questions about the ongoing formation of priests, but above all on the formation of their bishops for the episcopate

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(Part II) Worse than tearing the patch: Mass celebrated by soaking in the sea? Punctual as the ecclesial and ecclesiastical death comes the response of the Archdiocese of Crotone

(Part II) WORSE OF THE TEAR THE PATCH: CELEBRATED MASS IN SPRING AT SEA? AS TIMELY AS THE ECCLESIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL DEATH COMES THE RESPONSE FROM THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CROTONE

"Before the Eucharist, a sense of the sacred is needed before the pastoral sense, that is, of the divine Presence ". And what divine presence is perceived in the wet mass by Mattia Bernasconi? I'd be curious to ask your bishop, as well as his dogmatic teacher, of liturgy and canon law that surely will have explained to him what the Catholic Mass is and how it is celebrated [previous article: who]

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In the lexicon clerical-correct modern accusing someone of pharisaism or calling him a Pharisee is equivalent to sinister things radical chic who accuse of fascism and call anyone who dares to say that evil is evil a fascist

Punctual like the film An armchair for two the evening of 24 December, The press release from the Archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina has arrived (cf.. who) the day after the news of the Holy Mass celebrated at sea, on an inflatable mattress and in a bathing suit by the presbyter Mattia Bernasconi of the parish of San Luigi Gonzaga in Milan.

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Already from the title of the press release Rediscover the beauty of Liturgical Symbols – it's easy to understand that the patch, as usual, turns out to be worse than the tear. And in fact if we read the text carefully we have no difficulty in classifying this defense as the most classic of all supercazzole to Ugo Tognazzi.

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First of all, questionable is the emphasis at the beginning of the diocesan statement. The seriousness of the fact that i.e. is not considered in the slightest, a Holy Mass has been ridiculed and assimilated like entertainment from an 80s holiday village, caring only to reiterate the «beauty and seriousness of the experience lived by these young people, who have chosen our territory to engage in a volunteer field and question themselves on the issue of legality".

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You have understood, rigid dogmatists and phrenic liturgists, whited sepulchres, all grandmother's lace and lace? The important thing is to have given these kids a strong civil experience, having been able to educate them in legality and civic commitment and not in conscious participation in the Eucharistic mystery, something that would be hoped for young people coming from a parish in Milan and not from a provincial section of the Uar. But let's leave aside these claims of rigid and crooked-necked Christians.

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You bigots messaioli you have the obligation to update yourself and understand that the new kerygma that is the most popular in the Church today is the valorization of civil rights in the territory. The rediscovery, maybe, of local and food and wine resources. It doesn't matter if then, in the name of the highest civil values, we fall into a clear violation of the deposit of faith, of the liturgical and canonical norms of the Church, perhaps to the scandal of the simple, that is, of those who still believe and participate in a Holy Mass with devotion as Domineddio intended it.

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What matters it was the instrument that allowed these scions of the church of Milan to have a strong experience of something «to be appreciated and to be grateful for». And so we too join this very civil chorus of gratitude and say: «Thank you Lord thank you, Thank you sir (cf.. who)».

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Still with jubilation in my heart and the tremor between the lips, hands down like those who know they have been defeated and surpassed, I shyly allow myself to suggest to the Archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina some pastoral ideas for the next summer youth gathering. First of all, the organization of some rave party educational courses for kids come on 15 to the 25 year old. Rave – who are we to doubt that rave party you can't even find something good? – in which young people feel encouraged to strengthen theirs socialization skills and at the same time be introduced to the knowledge and practical study of the most common psychotropic substances in the area - perhaps in collaboration with the toxicology department and risking the patronage of some anti-drug unit - which is certainly useful in anticipation of a hypothetical future university career in Pharmaceutical chemistry and technologies or enlistment in the police force.

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Specifically I would propose also the setting up of some gazebos around bonfires suitable for tasting some good food and wine products from the region which helps agricultural businesses in difficulty to regain their space and self-confidence starting from the use of materials green with zero environmental impact to respect sister mother earth, starting from those extraordinary bombs that are the Calabrian sauces with very hot chili peppers that will leave you breathless.

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With a summer program like that, we are sure of it, there will no longer be any need to even celebrate Holy Mass or pray to have a strong experience of God, because all, either for psychotropic substances or thanks to a good Cirò Rosso DOC, they will certainly be able to be prophets and see visions better than they did, at the time of Moses, Eldad and Medad [cf.. Nm 11,25-29].

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But let's go ahead. Continuing reading the press release, one can only share the liturgy, as well as every celebration of the divine mysteries of the Church, consists of gestures and symbols that are right to respect and value. But the statement - or the writer of the statement - seems to omit the consequence that such respect and valorization implies - something which in the magisterium of the Church appears clear and crystalline both for the Sacrosanctum Concilium that for the Sacramentum – that is, the celebration of the Mass, as an action of Christ and the Church, it is not an asset for use private of the priest, which he cannot, on its own initiative, to add, remove or change anything in liturgical and sacramental matters. And this applies both to the material and formal part of the Holy Sacrifice. Precisely the use of the conciliar expression through rites and prayers [cf.. SC 48] should arouse in the writer of the diocesan note a rightful veneration for the entire complex of the liturgical law of the Church which in this case constitutes an evident illicit act which must be corrected as soon as possible using the theological virtue of charity which is always understood, validated and practiced in the light of the truth that cannot be denied [cf.. Benedict XVI, Encyclical letter Charity in truth, NN. 1-2, 29].

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And what is the truth? The truth is that a priest cannot celebrate in those conditions that are not even remotely acceptable inside a bar of a bathing establishment, where civic good taste and the manager's etiquette require customers to at least put on a t-shirt when going to eat at the counter.

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The truth implies and also in the particular cases provided for by the Code of Canon Law, where the prerogative of sporadicity and not ordinariness is underlined [See. can. 932 §1 e 2 CIC in Commentary on the Code of Canon Law by Mons. Pio Vito Pinto, LEV, 2001 and Pastoral Legal Commentary on the Code of Canon Law by Luigi Chiappetta, EDB 2011], Eucharistic celebrations (even those on holidays and school camps) are celebrated in an appropriate manner, in well-kept places, decorous and respectful of the sacredness of the Paschal sacrifice of Christ which is celebrated therein. I therefore ask the most cultured and prepared canonists of the undersigned whether the particularity and exceptional nature foreseen by the canon can.932 §1 and 2 applies to Italian temperature peaks, this thing seems to have guided the choice of the mass at sea celebrated by the presbyter Mattia Bernasconi (cf.. who). Because if that were the case, all the brother priests of Sardinia and Sicily would feel authorized to celebrate from June to September inside inflatable churches like in Las Vegas a few meters from the shoreline having as an excuse the temperatures that fluctuate in summer from 35 to the 42 degrees.

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I still remind the faithful, the most distracted and naive ones, that Crotone is located in Italy, where the Roman Catholic Church still exists. This geographical clarification is useful to avoid any confusion, if anyone ever thought of living in Gaul in the time of Julius Caesar among the Druids, which would then authorize us to seek not a church as a place of celebration, but an oak forest, a mistletoe plant or the banks of a lake.

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If amazement is an essential part of the liturgical act, We old-fashioned priests and rigid faithful would have gladly done without certain amazements. I suggest that the venerable bishops and rectors of the seminaries take particular care of the liturgical-sacramental formation of the future priests of their areas, perhaps more careful to shave their eyebrows in a sculpted way like the young ladies, instead of studying the General Instruction of the Roman Missal. This will allow us to have a healthy pastoral sense so that in the future we will be spared the embarrassment and amazement of having to reluctantly leave similar celebrations and priests to head for other shores..

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We entrust it to the Carthusian Monks of the historic and ancient Calabrian Charterhouse of Serre San Bruno an adequate prayer of reparation, which will be joined by those of us Fathers of The Island of Patmos.

Laconi, 27 July 2022

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A video that raises very serious questions about the ongoing formation of priests, but above all on the formation of their bishops for the episcopate

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The clerical correctness of the cartoonist Don Giovanni Berti could have been missing?

Father Ariel's colorful response was not long in coming …

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(1st part) Sunstrokes: Mattia Bernasconi Ambrosian presbyter celebrates Holy Mass in a bathing suit by soaking in water with an inflatable mattress as an altar

(1st part) SHOTS OF SUN: MATTIA BERNASCONI AMBROSIAN PRIEST CELEBRATES THE HOLY MASS IN A SPRING SWIMSUIT IN WATER WITH AN INFLATABLE MATTRESS AS AN ALTAR

"Before the Eucharist, a sense of the sacred is needed before the pastoral sense, that is, of the divine Presence ". And what divine presence is perceived in the wet mass by Mattia Bernasconi? I'd be curious to ask your bishop, as well as his dogmatic teacher, of liturgy and canon law that surely will have explained to him what the Catholic Mass is and how it is celebrated.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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«The Church makes the Eucharist and the Eucharist makes the Church» is a simple medieval theological concept that surely H.E. Mons. Mario Delpini, archbishop of Milan and successor of Saint Ambrose, will know more than well. Perhaps, however, this medieval maxim escaped its presbyter Mattia Bernasconi who made public mockery and outrage of the mass in Crotone in the locality of Alfieri-Scifo. (you see who, who, who), making members of Christ, limbs of a prostitute [See. 1Color 6,15].

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I'll be honest, if I were a young 20-year-old today, I'd be well off this church 2.0 that day after day finds new reasons for pride [Pride as they say] to mortify and mortify. A Church very attentive to temporal purposes such as welcoming the poor and migrants, education for legality, the ecological-dietary-food commitment, the political struggle for peace, up to the unscrupulous race towards justice and universal brotherhood of sanculottiana memory but diaphanous and sloppy when it comes to defending and guarding its most precious asset which is the Eucharist and the divine mysteries.

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And it is not just about the Eucharist that it is only right to speak at this juncture, but of the true and proper sense of the sacred which has now disappeared from the Church and from the "pretific" archbishops, as our Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo in his book of Beyond 10 Years ago: And Satan became triune. Indeed, as the theologian and liturgist rightly maintains Nicola Bux: "Before the Eucharist, a sense of the sacred is needed before the pastoral sense, that is, of the divine Presence " (who). And what divine presence is perceived in the wet mass by Mattia Bernasconi? I'd be curious to ask your bishop, as well as his dogmatic teacher, of liturgy and canon law that surely will have explained to him what the Catholic Mass is and how it is celebrated.

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Who knows to what high pastoral sense - that of the "shepherd with the smell of sheep" - Mattia Bernasconi arrived in his priestly years to feel the irrepressible need to celebrate with a bare and hairy chest, immersed to the waist in the limpid sea of ​​Calabria with an inflatable mattress for the altar and a ministrant in costume that holds the corporal to prevent the sea breeze and the waves from overturning the chalice (perhaps made of ice cream waffle?) and the great host (maybe sponsored by Algida?).

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Why is clear, today the mission of the priest lies in upsetting, not in sanctifying. It must upset in every field - for good as well as for evil - to the point of touching the excesses of a pastoral pornography made up of an absolute supremacy of conscience over everything., especially on the things of God. «A shocking experience […] upsetting because it has actually upset many of our thoughts e, obviously, shocking in a positive sense " [cf.. who]. And between one upheaval and another, we actually arrive at that masterpiece of God's death that Nietzsche had foretold but that we priests 2.0 we have achieved in practice. If those who serve God and the Altar mingle with the baseness of this world, God is clinically dead in their life and in their ministry and thus resurrects not the new man but the Promethean one who in excess, in the upheaval and in the do it yourself of a self-centered faith that seeks salvation in immanence and not in transcendence.

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Dear Mattia Bernasconi, Ambrosian presbyter, your field on legality with the children of the parish of San Luigi Gonzaga in Milan may have been a resounding success but now, please, be kind enough to explain to him that in addition to civil legality there is also a dogmatic legality, liturgical and canonical that is inextricably linked to that health of the soul that the Church desires for its children and that you as a priest must defend with all your strength. Explain to him, please that any shocking experience does not entitle you to barbarously kill the holy and perfect sacrifice of the Mass as you did, mocking the apostolic teaching on which the the law of praying from believing of the church. The heart of your kids will perhaps be ready and prepared tomorrow to resist the lure of lawlessness but will in fact be disarmed and impatient in the face of the sense of the sacred, oblivious to God, unable to hold back with Him, tired in front of the Saint who reveals himself, just as it was for Abraham, in the hottest time of the day [GN 18,1].

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Even the noblest of civil and human values constitutes a pale reflection when compared to the treasure of the Eucharist which is capable of building the Church but on the condition that it recognizes its value and its centrality, making it become fund you culmination of every Christian experience and of every Christian in every time and season. Only if we recognize in the Eucharist well celebrated and well prepared: «the daily manna, without which for this harsh desert in the back goes those who are more anxious than gir» [Dante Alighieri, The divine Comedy, Purgatory, XI, 13-15] we could be saved as believers and trustworthy as presbyters. And you, dear Mattia Ambrosian presbyter, it is really the case that I tell you, thanks to the Calabrian sun you labored in vain by retreating in your knowledge of Christ to follow a modern pastoral profile of a shepherd with an evil understood "smell of the sheep". With the hope that with all that water and the movement of the waves that pastoral sense has finally been washed away from your priesthood, alas definitely.

Laconi, 25 July 2022

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A video that raises very serious questions about the ongoing formation of priests, but above all on the formation of their bishops for the episcopate

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Father Ivano's latest book is on sale in the online shop of The Island of Patmos

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