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Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller's book contains reality and truth, but it makes us long for all the men of the old school like Cardinal Angelo Sodano

9 February 2023/2 Comments/in Actuality/by Hypatia

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CARDINAL GERHARD LUDWIG MÜLLER'S BOOK CONTAINS FACT AND TRUTH, BUT IT MAKES US LISTEN TO ALL OLD SCHOOL MEN LIKE CARDINAL ANGELO SODANO

we must kiss the hand that slaps us, if that hand is the hand of the Supreme Pontiff or of our Bishop. Too bad a poor priest like me learned this lesson, but a great theologian like Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller did not learn it, who even titled his own book: In good faith.

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The radical left of Micromega resists the “violence” of Baptism. That is to say: the ridiculous paradox of God-obsessed atheists

6 February 2023/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

THE RADICAL LEFT OF MICROMEGA RESISTS THE “VIOLENCE” OF BAPTISM. THAT IS TO SAY: THE RIDICULOUS PARADOX OF GOD-OBBSESSED ATHEISTS

Circles of anti-clerical atheists could run the serious risk of being asked a much more dramatic and realistic question: if a father and a mother who bring a newborn to be baptized would commit violence to them by means of baptism, those fathers and mothers who decide instead to prevent their children from coming into the world through the practice of abortion, what kind of violence they commit, on the children?

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“Why Baptism for Minors Should Be Banned” is an article appeared on Micromega signed by Alessandro Giacomoni, in which the editorialist claims that the Catholic Church subtly forces them to baptize their children to avoid being discriminated against in the context of their own social community [see article: WHO]. According to this thought, parents would therefore be blackmailed into taking their children to the baptismal font, under penalty of being seen as "rare animals" to be avoided, to sympathize and therefore to discriminate.

These statements of the reporter they only denote a visible ignorance enriched by clichés about the sacramental and pastoral realities of the Church. Moreover, Nowadays, among the majority of those who define themselves as "non-practicing Christians" this problem is not contemplated in the slightest, least of all do they face the problem of being reprimanded by their own priest. As the parish priests know well, it is easier for the opposite to happen and for a "non-practicing Christian" to blame the priest and say what is right to do, sometimes even bordering on personal offense or aggressive verbal attitude.

We wonder: it will not be, perhaps, that this Micromega columnist is referring to the usual familiar faces of anti-clericalism? The list is soon done: let's start with the small Italian circles of the UAAR association (Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics), to then move on to some nostalgic for Communism and the most vulgar Socialism, ending with those mythological figures of the activists who set up a gazebo in Piazza del Popolo at the weekend, deeming it possible to democratically decree the end of the Catholic Church and of the Christian message through a collection of signatures.

If this is the level of dispute, then we really are at the tragicomic farce. So that, just to lighten things up a bit, one could paraphrase that expression of the nice Obelix ― the friend of Asterix ― who reinvented the acrostic S.P.Q.R. from the well-known meaning «the senate and the Roman people» translating it into «sThese Romans are crazy". Just so: "these atheists are crazy" who talk about God and the things of God more than the priests themselves talk about it. Their "secularist dogmatisms" are hilarious but smell of mothballs like grandmother Abelarda's old lace, to quote another mythical figure from classic comics. Robust nurses are therefore urgently needed to accompany the compulsive obsessions of atheism which claims to refute an entity, the divine one, that it shouldn't exist and therefore shouldn't even create any problems for sane people: "these atheists are crazy".

But let's go ahead, the good columnist begins by sifting through the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Code of Canon Law with the same attention and awareness with which one leafs through the newspapers on the barber's table and then extrapolates some definitions by operating a mash-up of secular exegesis which concludes with this rare pearl of "wisdom":

«It follows that even to this day, every prelate can easily afford disparaging utterances against the baptized».

The question arises spontaneously: but what sci-fi film has the good columnist seen? How many churches did he enter, how many Masses or homilies he attended, how many baptisms has she seen to be able to say these things with such certainty? We are not given to know, but let us assume none of these things, what we know, however, is that in front of a certain snooty moral superiority it is not possible to do anything, except to recognize that in some individuals critical thinking is clinically dead.

The apex of the article, how not to expect it, comes to ask for the abolition of baptism and the inclusion of secular baptism as the confessional one would violate the "convention on the rights of children, ratified by Italy in 1991", and again «every decision, legislative action, legal provision, public or private initiative must safeguard the best interests of the child» which obviously for ours, baptism does not do. So baptism for a child would be an occasion for harm? Of what entity? What aggravating injuries are to be prevented? It would be interesting and we would have an easy game in inviting the journalist to do the same with other religious faiths, for example the Abrahamic ones, which provide for the practice of circumcision as a sign in the flesh, which is decidedly more invasive than the gesture of pouring a little warm water on the head of a newborn, you don't think so? And if by chance, once he becomes an adult, the young Jew or young Muslim wanted the foreskin back, what do you plan to tell him, the wise columnist of Micromega so shocked by a little warm water poured on a baby's head? Because a few drops of warm water leave no visible mark, while the removal of a foreskin from the male genital organ leaves an indelible mark for life. It is not by chance, the Jews, they define circumcision with a beautiful expression full of spiritual meanings: Circumcision (Brit please), which literally means “covenant covenant”. But we already know that at certain addresses it is better not to knock, because you find bread for your teeth and sometimes even more. So better attack Christians, especially Catholics, because they don't say anything and don't defend themselves, to then take the applause and i likes of the dominant modern thought with its own icone pop who dominate on TV, on the web and in parterre of the Sanremo festival.

The theory that has always been the most popular is that the child will have to decide once he becomes an adult, whether to be baptized or not. Theory that would like to be presented as logic, but that in fact it is not, nor are all those statements based on pure and ill-concealed prejudice. Soon said: by applying this pseudo-logic, parents should not take any initiative aimed at growth, to the training and even to the physical care of the child, that once he becomes an adult he may deem it appropriate to be completely different, compared to what his parents have chosen for him. This is true for everything, from the choice of school to orthodontics through which the dentist applies a special appliance to correct crooked teeth, or to widen a narrow tooth opening. What if, once he becomes an adult, the son says he would rather go to another school, or have crooked teeth and a narrow dental arch, rather than wearing braces for several years? How can, a parent, choose and decide to have a child undergo orthopedic surgery to correct flatfoot, or have him wear a growth-phase brace for a few years to correct a form of scoliosis? How dare they, the parents, choose for him what they see fit, better and healthier? Maybe it's not violence? What if his son preferred flat feet and scoliosis when he came of age, instead of being operated on by an orthopedist or instead of wearing a brace for years? Because, these atheists-agnostics-rationalists do not try to leave their children free to choose what they instinctively deem appropriate to do? It would be very interesting to see what a child of a few years who has not yet acquired a sense of danger would choose to do.

I wish to remind our Readers that objections to infant baptism are not a recent discovery, but this problem had already been posed in the first centuries of Christianity and the arguments of the opponents were not very different from those of today. Seems useful to me, so, to remind and enlighten the faithful on the subject by making the Fathers of the Church speak who wrote wonderful pages on baptism, both to defend it from opposition and to enlighten minds with that thought of the Apostolic Church which has always believed and lived baptism as conformation to Christ and the beginning of a serious journey of conversion to the Gospel and renunciation of sin. In this regard, the holy bishop Augustine of Hippo responds in his Letter to Bonifacio [See. Letter 98 of Sant'Agostino in Bonifacio 7-10,11]:

“Because of your usual intense aversion to the slightest lie, in your last question it seemed to you that you had proposed a very difficult question. "If ― you say ― I presented you with a child and asked you if, gives adult, he will be chaste and will not be a thief, no doubt you would answer me: “I do not know”. Likewise if I asked you if the child was still at the same tender age, think something good or bad, you would say: “I do not know”. If, therefore, you dare not guarantee anything certain as to his future conduct and present thinking, why not when they are presented at baptism, the parents, on the other hand, answer to them as guarantors and affirm that they do what that age cannot think or, if he can, remains unknown to us? In reality, to the godparents who offer us a child to be baptized, we ask if he believes in God and in the name of the little one, who doesn't even know if God exists, they answer: “Believe”. All the other individual questions addressed to them are answered with the same certainty. I am therefore amazed that parents respond in place of children with absolute certainty since these are such serious and demanding things, affirming that the child performs such important actions on which the questions asked by the minister of baptism at the moment that he is baptized concern; while at the same time if I asked them this other question: “This baby, who is now being baptized, he will be chaste or he will not rather be a thief?”, I don't know if anyone would dare to say: “It will or it won't be”, as without a shadow of a doubt I am told that he believes in God”. Eventually, conclude your reasoning by saying: ” Use the courtesy to briefly answer these questions of mine, not attaching the rule of custom but citing the reason and explanation".

In this answer one can perfectly see the role that the Bishop of Hippo attributes to the faith of parents and godparents who freely and voluntarily accompany their children to baptism. The baptized child is made faithful not by an act similar to that of faithful adults, but from the Sacrament of the same faith which is transmitted as a good thing by those who have already experienced Christ and wish to transmit it. In the same way, for St. Augustine, both parents and godparents respond to their children's baptism by affirming their beliefs, free and non-coercive will, in times where calling oneself a Christian was much more uncomfortable and dangerous than today. We understand that the baptized child is called faithful - in the sense of united with Christ - not simply by giving the personal assent of his intelligence, but with receiving the Sacrament of the same faith that was transmitted in one's family. When then the child, crescendo, will begin to understand, he will no longer need a new baptism, but he will understand the Sacrament received and will comply, with the consent of his will, from the spiritual reality represented by baptism.

After this description so clear, we can understand that all things considered good are transmitted from parents to children and that often the passions of the fathers become those of the children, but no one would ever dream of saying that the child is the victim of violence.

In the Rite of Baptism the priest asks: "What do you ask of the Church of God?» is a simple question that defines a very free will to proceed on a journey of faith through baptism. But this is not enough, the priest informs the parents of the baptized of the responsibility for this request: «asking for Baptism for your child, you are committed to educating him in the faith, Why, in keeping the commandments, learn to love God and neighbor, as Christ taught us. You are aware of this responsibility?». If this awareness exists, well, otherwise wait, there is no hurry in the things of God, it is useless to baptize your child for other reasons than because you want him to live the same life as Christ. Baptism is the beginning of every discipleship and that evangelical change (Metanoia) ― involving the whole family, Home church, to constitute the fulcrum of the first announcement of the faith.

St. Fulgentius of Ruspe in Rule of true faith [See. 30,14] he claims:

«[…] no man can receive eternal salvation, if he has not converted down here from his sins with penance and faith, and that through the sacrament of faith and penance, that is, by means of baptism, he didn't get rid of it"

The “Institutional Church”, let's call it that for the less skilled in these matters, subsequently takes over this awareness and accompanies the family's journey of faith, strengthening it and directing it to the fullest with the grace that comes from the Holy Spirit. But the same is not the case with learning? When the six-year-old enters first grade, he doesn't already know many things and is able to speak. Where did he get this information from if not the house? Attending school and following the learning path is just the continuation of what the family has already done, structuring it in a robust way and opening to the pleasure and desire for knowledge the young minds that tomorrow will be able to govern themselves in the world as mature people.

Finally, we cordially invite the journalists of Micromega to exempt himself for the future from these embarrassing utterances that would have made men of great talent and intellect of the caliber of Enrico Berlinguer and Marco Pannella pale, or which would lead an authentic liberal like Daniele Capezzone to hastily call them ignorant without any hesitation. Indeed, let it be clear: the exponents of the old Italian Communist Party, or the Radicals who grew up in the political school of that brilliant mind of Marco Pannella - of whom we share little or perhaps nothing, but which we recognize however as having undoubted political qualities ―, with certain vulgar subjects they have nothing in common both on the level of ideality and on that of the exposition of the criticisms formulated against the Catholic Church.

The proposal of lay baptism? It is certainly the best gimmick of atheist "dogmatism"., after the one that led them to propose the figure of ... "lay hospital chaplain". All done to pursue the desperate desire to become the new priests of secularism with all that liberal-clerical baggage that derives from it. The Roman poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, who in terms of criticism of the Church was second to none, taking up the acrostic S.P.Q.R. translated it into "Solo Priests Qua Regnano". Yup, you pursue this dream to be the new reigning lay clergy of worldliness, but remember one thing, if after two thousand years the Church is still present and baptizes by command of Christ it is because there is that something more - we ask the atheists, maybe it's God? ― who supports and defends it. Perhaps a little more attention would be better on your part, at least a little more caution. Also because anti-clerical atheist circles could run the serious risk of being asked a much more dramatic and realistic question: if a father and a mother who bring a newborn to be baptized would commit violence to them by means of baptism, those fathers and mothers who decide instead to prevent their children from coming into the world through the practice of abortion, what kind of violence they commit, on the children?

Laconi, 6 February 2023

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Over the centuries, sacramental confession has undergone radical changes that are great “theological doctors” of Facebook and Twitter ignore

4 February 2023/in Actuality/by father ariel

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OVER THE CENTURIES THE SACRAMENTAL CONFESSION HAS UNDERGOING RADICAL CHANGES THAT THE GREAT “DOCTORS THEOLOGISTS” OF FACEBOOK E TWITTER THEY IGNORE

Thanks to Social media a lot of, grouped together in dense legions of increasingly fierce fools, as well as worse than the biblical invasion of locusts, they usually self-form in this way: first pick from a blog to the other, then they engage in the use of words of which they do not even know the etymological meaning - but above all the meaning they have in the philosophical language, metaphysical and theological-dogmatic -, finally they get on the chair of Facebook o di Twitter to give lessons of correct doctrine to us theologians, firing one nonsense after another in bursts, often even violently and aggressively.

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By asking a question a Reader I was inspired by this article that could be useful to many people:

«It is true that Christ condemns sin and not the sinner. It is true that the sinner is to be forgiven seventy times seven, therefore always. But on the hundredth time that a person comes to her to confess the same sin, she never thinks that maybe she is "sucking" us a little? The first Christian communities, if I remember correctly, didn't go so lightly in the judgment on the sinner e, after sin, contrition of heart was not enough and before being readmitted into the community he had to pass under the public caudine gallows. Probably my feelings of guilt arise from here ... masochism? But it seems to me that even in the apostolic canons they speak of this path ".

Capuchin friar confessor (photo by Aldo Lancioni)

These are questions that offer opportunity to do some sacramental dogmatics, subject to which I have devoted myself a lot together with the history of dogma.

In the sad and confused times we are living in, we priests and theologians have to deal with the reality of "Catholics" who range between magical-aesthetic and the most vulgar fideism. Thanks to Social media a lot of, grouped together in dense legions of increasingly fierce fools, as well as worse than the biblical invasion of locusts, they usually self-form in this way: first pick from a blog to the other, then they engage in the use of words of which they do not even know the etymological meaning - but above all the meaning they have in the philosophical language, metaphysical and theological-dogmatic -, finally they get on the chair of Facebook o di Twitter to give lessons of correct doctrine to us theologians, shooting nonsense in bursts, often even violently and aggressively. And not always, Unfortunately, you can laugh at the nonsense of these internetici theologians. Sometimes yes, others do not.

Here is a typical example of sinister and vulgar fideism based on the magical-aesthetic, of the series ... abracadabra the magic is done! Someone wrote on my page social that "the prayers recited in Latin are very powerful and the devil just can't stand them", because he is terrified of it.

For pedagogy, above all out of authentic Christian charity, such people cannot be taken seriously, they are just for fun. What else could be done with subjects who from their professorships erected on social media they think they can speak of the mystery of divine grace, of the sacramental - which is the most complex branch of dogmatic theology - and of the discipline of the sacraments, with the slight nonchalance with which one can discuss the latest article published in a magazine Of gossip?

Here then is the tease addressed to these people becomes an appropriate and pedagogical act of the most authentic Christian charity. Indeed, what is not serious and what appears so grotesque and anti-scientific, anti-doctrinal and anti-theological, it must be deprived of value. To do this, the most effective weapon is irony and wise and charitable mockery.

And so, to that Lady which almost certainly would not be able to translate even the first very simple lines of the De bello Gallico but who invokes the "magic language" of Latin to terrorize the devil, I replied that when we celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice in Italian, or when instead of saying the Lord be with you we say The Lord be with you, surely the devil cracks up with laughter, not feeling struck by the magical Latin that instead knocks him down instantly frightened and stunned.

This complex premise to say that when I've been asked intelligent questions like the one sent by this Reader of ours, it is as if I received a free gift:

"On the hundredth time that a person comes to her to confess the same sin, she never thinks that maybe she is" sucking "us a little?».

Relevant question, because precisely in these cases one can see how much a wise confessor is and enlightened by God's grace. First of all it must be taken into account that Christ, divine cornerstone, he chose Peter for the building and government of his Church (cf.. Mt 13, 16-20). And of all the Apostles, Peter was the most fragile and haughty, as he repeatedly demonstrated, at the same time he also showed himself the most cowardly. If necessary, he was confused, indecisive and ambiguous in matters of doctrine. He was a naive Galilean fisherman, passionate and good that he remained so throughout his life. He did not shine for intelligence, least of all for culture. Suffice it to recall how it was made black in Antioch by the Blessed Apostle Paul, albeit with all due respect for his primacy as Head of the College of Apostles. Now let's retrace that very interesting story of Antioch narrated by the Apostle Paul himself:

«But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him openly because he was wrong. Indeed, before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles:; ma, after their coming, he withdrew and separated himself, for fear of the circumcision. And the other Jews did the same in the simulation, so much so that even Barnabas allowed himself to be drawn into their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not behaving righteously according to the truth of the gospel, said to Peter before all: "Be yourself, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not in the manner of the Jews, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”. We, that by birth we are Jews and not pagan sinners, knowing however that man is not justified by the works of the Law but only by faith in Jesus Christ, we too believed in Christ Jesus to be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law no one will ever be justified. If therefore we who seek justification in Christ are found sinners like others, Christ is perhaps a minister of sin? Impossible! In fact, if I go back to building what I destroyed, I denounce myself as a transgressor. Actually by the Law I died to the Law, so that I live for God. I was crucified with Christ, and I don't live anymore, but Christ lives in me. And this life, that I live in the body, I live it in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me. Therefore I am not making the grace of God in vain; indeed, if the justification comes from the Law, Christ died in vain "" (Gal 2, 11-21).

In this debate that took place in Antioch, the Blessed Apostle Paul enunciates the theology and doctrine of grace and justification. Exactly what a German Augustinian friar famously donkey misunderstood, I think he was called Martin Luther, forge of enormous damage produced in the Church around the sixteenth century, with all due respect to a certain Catholic flattery which today indicates him as a "reformer" and who calls his schismatic heresy "reform". Among other things, it came from a historic Order that takes its name from St. Augustine who was the author of Of nature and grace.

Always remaining in the order of hyperbolic examples: if a conclave had been held after the death of Jesus Christ, how many Peter would have voted and how many Paul? What a profound difference there was between Peter, Giacomo the Greater and his brother Giovanni, indicated by Christ God with the Aramaic name of "sons of thunder" - boanèrghes ―, then reported in Greek characters as βοανηργες (cf.. MC 3, 16-18). If we compare Peter with figures of apostles such as John or Paul, the difference will appear roughly like the one that could exist between Roberto Benigni and Marcello Mastroianni, tra Jerry Lewis e Gregory Peck. Yet Christ chose him who embodied all our human frailties, giving it the keys to the kingdom and the power to bind and untie (cf.. Mt 16, 13-19), all despite having had much better elements from which to choose the Head of the College of Apostles. So let's try to ask ourselves: because he chose Peter and not others?

It is not an Angel of God who absolves sins, just as it is not a group of Cherubim and Seraphim who lead the Church of Christ, but of priests, Of another Christ acting in Person Christi and that they can often be worse sinners than the one to whom they grant grace and divine forgiveness through sacramental absolution: "Whom you forgive sins will be forgiven ..." (GV 20, 22-23).

Theology, sacramental dogmatics in particular, it cannot be separated from the history of dogma, because in the course of two thousand years the discipline of the sacraments has undergone sometimes radical changes, fruit of a long gestation understood as the acquisition of the perception of the Sacrament and of the Sacraments in themselves. Or perhaps someone thinks that the first Christians had the perception of the Holy Eucharist that we have today? Or that they display the Blessed Sacrament inside the monstrance for Eucharistic adoration, practice of sacred devotion to the Most Holy Body of Christ which will come to life only about 1300 years after the death and resurrection of the Word of God? What prayer books did the first Christians use in the apostolic age and with which Missal they celebrated Holy Mass, perhaps with what certain ridiculous contemporaries call … the missal of Mass of All Time? The early Christians perhaps recited prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary? The Twelve Apostles gathered together sang Hi Regina in Gregorian in the presence of the Mater Dei to honor her while she was staying in Ephesus or Jerusalem? They venerated the relics of the Saints? They went on pilgrimage to the sanctuaries where indulgence could be gained, or perhaps they crowded the hill of Medjugorje where in complete travel package conversion is also guaranteed, besides - of course - the assured apparition of the Madonna? Or, after the February Edict of Milan 313, the Christians screamed, style invaded neocatechumenal: … «We have been recognized and approved… approved! You cannot therefore tell us and do nothing about it: we have been approved! Whoever is against us is against the august emperors Constantine and Licinius who approved us … approved!»? And always after this edict, the Christians were perhaps given the ancient basilicas of the romanitas with a place of honor in the ancient Senate reserved for the Bishop of Rome? I honestly would like to know what science fiction movies some people have seen, it would be interesting to know at least the title.

Simply said,: a sinner could commit that particular sin even once every 48 hours, then going to ask for God's grace and forgiveness. Obviously as long as he is repentant and a “victim” of fragility and weaknesses that he cannot manage and overcome at the moment. It is quite another matter if the sinner continuously commits the same sin because of indolence, laziness or selfishness wants to be weak and fragile and does not intend in any way to react to those weaknesses and frailties to which it could instead react, or worse because convinced ".... Oh well, then I'll go to confession ". In that case, for the good of the penitent, absolution can even be denied. However, I can guarantee that it is difficult for people of this kind - I would say almost impossible - to go back and forth to the confessional to ask forgiveness for the same sin..

The reader keep asking:

«The first Christian communities, if I remember correctly, didn't go so lightly in the judgment on the sinner e, after sin, contrition of heart was not enough and before being readmitted into the community he had to pass under the public caudine forks ".

It's true, but we are at the very beginning of the Christian experience, in an era in which many were not yet clear what truly great had happened for all humanity from Calvary to the empty tomb of Christ risen and then ascended to heaven. The currents of the first Christians were different, two are the main ones: the Judeo-Jesuits, that is, the Jews who had chosen to follow the message of Christ and who were very affected by Jewish culture and rabbinic law, in particular of the Pharisaic one, from which lineage came the same Apostle Paul (cf.. At 23, 6) and the converted pagans belonging to the Greek and Latin populations.

As evidenced by the "incident" of Antioch between the Apostles Peter and Paul, the exchanges between the circumcised and the uncircumcised were very intense. And with all the confusion that often followed it was debated whether Christians should continue with the ritual practice of circumcision. Many understood the Eucharist as a celebration of Passover (Passover) which instead of once a year was celebrated once a week. It would then suffice to recall that from then on it will take almost four centuries and two great dogmatic councils to first define at Nicaea in 325, then in Constantinople in 381, the mystery of the person and nature of Christ. And since there were not even lexical terms to define it, the Fathers of the Church were forced to borrow terminologies from the Greek philosophical lexicon and modulate them to give a definition to this ineffable mystery.

At first I called back to the “doctors of sacramental theology” specialized at the academy of Facebook and of Twitter, those to be made fun of by imperative of conscience and above all for Christian charity, ready to launch into topics for which often, if not almost usual, sixty-year-old priests with thirty years of priestly ministry behind them ask for explanations from some theologian brother or dogma historian, if anything, twenty years younger than them, before going into some very complex disquisitions on the theological level, which consequently involve equally complex issues on a historical level. Indeed, it is impossible to understand the discipline of the Sacraments if one does not know the history well and in depth.

It's true, the first Christian communities they had another conception of the forgiveness of sins, suffice it to say that the Sacrament of Penance could only be received once in a lifetime, after a penitential journey made under the guidance of the Bishop. Once the faithful received this sacrament, they could no longer sin, except at your own risk, because he could never receive it again. For seven centuries, absolution from sins was considered a "non-repeatable" sacrament. For this reason, Christians tried to receive absolution before dying, or in any case in old age. And many died without receiving it.

In these first centuries the complex problem of child. Latin term that literally means "slipped", used to indicate the Christians who during the persecutions of the third and fourth centuries burned incense to the pagan gods doing an act of adoration towards them. This is not out of conviction but because they are threatened with death, therefore only for fear of dying. Even before the case of child the discipline of the unrepeatability of penance was held firm. On the readmission of the child to the Community of believers the early Church found itself divided between the Cornelius current, elected Bishop of Rome in 251, inclined to forgive and accept them, and the followers of the Novatian presbyter who denied them any form of acceptance and who ended up excommunicated by the Roman synod. From him came the current known today as the Novatian heresy, who for some centuries continued to find followers. The theological battle waged against the Novatians by Ambrose, bishop of Mediolanum, is memorable, who at the end of the fourth century composed the Of Penance, work divided into two books in which it is refuted: in the first, the theses of the followers of Novatian who considered mortal sins not forgivable and the need to proceed with a new baptism for the followers of their heretical sect; in the second he offers a learned dissertation on the concept of penance and the way in which it must be administered. Bishop Ambrose refutes the Novatians by reminding them that God's mercy offers all repentant sinners his grace. It reaffirms the analogical foundation between baptism and penance and finally reaffirms the unrepeatability of both these sacraments that generate a substantial transformation of life in anyone who repents for the sins committed and the evil that with them has been caused to others. The Novatians claimed to invite on the one hand to penance and repentance, on the other, however, they denied forgiveness, convinced of praising the Almighty with their rigor, but in fact despising God's grace and forgiveness through their blind hardness of heart. Let me now evaluate, to anyone who has read only a few rants of certain self-styled Internet theologians do it yourself, if the Novatian one is not by chance one of the various returning heresies of our present time.

With the descent of the barbarians from Northern Europe - who shortly afterwards converted en masse to Christianity fascinated by the great and virile figures of certain Bishops and Fathers of the Church -, the hypothesis of making this sacrament repeatable to make the path of conversion and Christian life less impossible for these peoples began to be aired.. Hypothesis in front of which many Fathers of the Church and theologians of the time shouted heresy! Presumably, one of these, it would have been Ambrose himself, just mentioned, who three centuries earlier reaffirmed the unrepeatability of penance in one of his famous theological works.

Because with the converted barbarians the pastoral need arises to make the Sacrament repeatable? Because beyond their good will, their habits and customs of life were what they were… well, we must be grateful to the barbarians if this sacrament became repeatable. Only in the seventh century was the private practice of Penance introduced, something we owe to the Irish monks who lived at the time of San Colombano who founded the monastery of Bobbio in the early seventh century and who helped to revive the practice of this Sacrament through a private dimension based on the expiation of sins. Like this, these monks, coming down from the regions of northern Europe to Italy they brought the sacramental habit of "confessing" their sins to a presbyter in such a way as to receive a penance, this paid penance. And here we must explain that for paid penance we mean the classification of the sins to which the penances to be imposed corresponded. This system introduced in the seventh century began to be practiced first in the monastic sphere, then among the people with subsequent great diffusion. We therefore owe the repeatability of this sacrament to the Irish Saint Columban and his monks, instead of being able to receive it once in a lifetime. We also owe him the secrecy of the penitential path instead of the public dimension.

In the two hundred years that followed between the eighth and ninth centuries, i Penitential Books they had a great diffusion and application. the rates enclosed within them consisted mainly of imposed fasts, which according to the gravity of the sin committed could sometimes last days, other times years. Disgrace wanted - because in fact it was -, that the Penitential Books contained within them commutations that allowed the sinner to commute his fast into expiatory works done by himself or even performed by third parties, all in exchange for money, celebrations of Holy Masses, land donations, construction of churches and monasteries in cases of particularly wealthy sinners. Then came the verge of ridicule, this just to remember with an aside that at a certain point in history, in that of Certaldo, Giovanni Boccaccio was born anything but by chance in the fourteenth century and that some of his short stories are anything but fanciful inventions. So I leave the reader to guess, without going into useless and shameful details, which abuses originated certain commutations and how many "holy" monks obtained the construction of great monasteries by selling the atonement for sins in concrete facts, while certain sovereigns and powerful feudal lords subjected to harsh penance came to pay their own faithful servant to do penance in their place (!?). There will also be a reason, if several councils of the Church severely condemned the vile sin of simony, whose etymology stems from the story of Simon Magus who tried to offer money to the Apostles to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit through the imposition of their hands (cf.. At 8, 18-19).

Subsequently, the Sacrament of Penance will experience new developments and innovations between the ninth and tenth centuries with the Carolingian theologians beginning to focus attention from the atonement of sins to the accusation of sins, considering it the true heart of the entire penitential process. Without sincere repentance, there can be no forgiveness and atoning penance can risk being an end in itself.. Until reaching the Council of Trent which in 1563 establishes the norms of Confession with a specific decree, structuring the sacramental and canonical discipline of this sacrament as we know it today. In the post-Tridentine era, suitable spaces and places were also created for administering this Sacrament, for example, the penitentiaries inside the great cathedrals and basilicas, hence the use of confessionals created between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century to ensure confidentiality and separation between the confessor and the penitent and to encourage the confession itself. Nobody would be comfortable, to men and perhaps even more to women, accuse your sins to a man who sits in front of you and looks you in the face as you speak. It is worth mentioning that confessionals were invented by the Jesuits, precisely the same ones who between the end of the sixties and the seventies of the twentieth century were the first to remove them from many of their churches to put them in the basements, or by selling them to antique dealers, if anything, to give money to the poor, mind you! Indeed, the casuistic reason of the Jesuit, or it is always noble in and of itself, or in any case it becomes so through manipulation.

It is not true that the sinner "Before being readmitted to the community he had to pass under the public caudine forks". But some historians write it, many read it around and take such claims to be true and then spread them as such. It was not the confession of sins that was public, but the state of penitents, that yes it was made public. The penitents, almost always gathered in groups, they had to make a specific penitential path under the guidance of the Bishop, they certainly could not be kept hidden, but their sins yes, so much so that the Holy Pontiff Leo the Great, the long pontificate of which lasted from 440 al 461, he prohibited public confession and declared it illegitimate and contrary to apostolic norms:

“We forbid that on this occasion a writing should be publicly read in which their sins are listed in detail. In fact, it is sufficient that the faults be manifested only to the Bishop, in a private interview " (Letter 168).

From all these historical notes it should be understood that the Sacrament of Penance, like other Sacraments, has undergone major mutations over time, at times truly radical. Always with all due respect to whoever speaks of Mass of All Time or doctrines, rules and disciplines always and absolutely immutable, with a lot of indisputable seal «it has always been done like this over the centuries!». Typical expression of the imbecile who usually ignores all of the mutations and events that have occurred over the centuries, because a past has been created that never existed, in order to make the present unreal.

I conclude with a touch of irony narrating when a mega-catechist de The Neocatechumenal sect he rattled kikian-carmeniano on the necessity of returning to the Church of the first apostolic origins. And here it is necessary to specify that the mega-catechist made the so-called scrutinies - that is to say that she investigated the consciences - not only of the laity, but even of the priests e, when their assemblies were held in the closed rooms, she talked and rambled heresies outright, while the priest present sat silently next to her, silent, ashamed of himself and of priestly dignity. At that point I quoted some passages from Sacred Scripture in which the Blessed Apostle Paul does not limit himself to exhorting, but he addresses real severe intimations:

"I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man; rather it be in silence " (The Tm 2, 12) "As in all churches of the saints, the women keep silent in the assemblies because it is not allowed to speak; but should be subordinate, as the law also says. If they want to learn something, question their husbands at home, it is improper for a woman to speak in church " (The Cor 14, 34-35).

(D)before those clear passages, I told her that her job was to just keep quiet. And having said this, I asked her if she intended to return to the Church of the origins and apply certain commands and precepts to the letter, thus showing that he is truly yearning for the hoped-for return to origins. Not knowing what to answer, the poor ignoramus, paradigm of what mega-catechists actually are neokatekiki, he literally snapped stating: "Well, you always know, that Saint Paul was a misogynist ". Well, even if this is not the place, I think it is appropriate to briefly clarify that the Blessed Apostle, far from being a misogynist, he addressed these words to the inhabitants of Corinth, a basically matriarchal society in which women used to condition men with strong influences and pressures. But when they tried to do the same in the Christian community, trying to put their feet on the heads of bishops and presbyters, the Apostle called them to order. Therefore, the admonition "If they want to learn something, ask their husbands at home ", most likely it was aimed precisely at the wives of the first bishops and presbyters of that geographical area, it is clear from this other passage of the Epistle addressed to the disciple Timothy:

«[…] the bishop must be blameless, the husband of one time, sober, prudent, decent, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not attached to money. Know how to manage his family well and have submissive children with every dignity, because if one does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of the Church of God?» (The Tm 3, 2-5).

The problem is that on the one hand we have more or less sectarian pseudo-Catholics which invoke the return to unknown origins and which instead constitute only a starting evolutionary nucleus to which it is certainly not desirable to return, because it would be like getting out of the car and going back to the time before the invention of the wheel. On the other hand, we have pseudo-Catholics of unspecified tradition who have built a past that never existed, convinced that the Blessed Apostle Peter celebrated the Mass of All Time dressed in solemn vestments with assistant presbyters dressed in copes and deacons dressed in damask baroque dalmatics. Of course celebrating - it goes without saying, needless to say! - in perfect and magical Latin, the one that scares and drives the Devil away, as that certain scientist wrote on my page Social. And certainly Simon, son of Jonah, known as Peter, was also called him “Holiness” O “Most Holy Father”. In fact, when the Roman soldiers arrested him on the Via Appia to take him to the Vatican Hill where he was crucified, they ordered him: "Up there, Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, Your Holiness is under arrest!». And he was dragged towards the torture, giving at the end of his life the proof of the heroic nature of his virtues and dying by the grace of God the martyr.

It took Peter a lifetime to die a martyr, after running away several times, the last in series order shortly before his death, during Nero's persecutions, under the reign of which he ended up captured together with other fleeing Christians and ending up on the cross in what in the early Roman era was a wet and unhealthy marshy place outside the metropolitan urban core: the Vatican Hill. Name that some derive from Vagitano, a pagan divinity who protected newborn babies as they uttered their first cry. Others derive it from forecaster, which in Latin means "to predict", therefore linking it to the fact that in that area they practiced their profession of diviners already in the ancient Etruscan era. Whatever the true meaning of the word, it remains certain that the Vatican is a place where for love and respect for the faith ends up being put on the cross, in antiquity as in the contemporary world.

the Island of Patmos, 4 February 2023

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The necessary pastoral care of Christian funerals opens up to the hope of the resurrection not to the extemporaneous bizarreness of the celebrating priest even when a bishop presides

27 January 2023/1 Comment/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

THE NECESSARY PASTORAL CARE OF THE CHRISTIAN FUNERALS OPENS TO THE HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION NOT TO THE EXTERNAL BIZARRE OF THE CELEBRATING PRIEST EVEN WHEN A BISHOP IS PRESIDENT

[…] in Rome itself we were forced to assist in the 2012 at the funeral of the most famous director of porn films, during which famous porn-actors and porn-actresses anything but repentant, after having received the Most Holy Eucharist in a sacrilegious way, not satisfied, they went up to the ambo during the liturgical action to give a real and proud praise to pornography before the end of the Holy Mass.

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Who like me is a parish priest - even before I was chaplain of a large city hospital - he will be able to understand me when I say that one of the greatest difficulties for a priest is to make the faithful understand - but also to those who are a little less so - that with the Sacraments it's just a joke. The Sacraments are not comparable to a ductile modeling clay, useful to shape according to the times and circumstances, fabulous when it comes to meeting artistic needs, so as to express the inspiration of the creator, but without demanding more than what this humble material really can give outside of what it was created for by the mind of man.

With the Sacraments some think they can do it all, absolutely everything. And if something cannot be done, it is invented from scratch: find your soul mate, fix the economy, mend broken ties or forge new ones, bring together chronic delays and put the thermometer of faith back on par. Or use the Sacramento as a political or musical podium to convey certain messages or amarcord, organize kermesse of various potentates in which profanation invariably escapes us, up to the belated request for forgiveness complete with a fake tear in front of the coffin of the one who until recently did not deign to even look at. For this I repeat: with the Sacraments one cannot and must not joke because through the right understanding and celebration of these sacred signs we publicly reveal our faith and in doing so we express our belief and the greatness of our dignity as Christians within the Catholic Church which is its faithful guardian on behalf of Christ the Lord.

Both liturgical and sacramental theology start from a fundamental axiom that says that the The law of prayer And The law of belief (the law of prayer is the law of believing). This means that my way of praying or celebrating makes my faith manifest. Obviously this axiom is true even if formulated in reverse, the The law of belief And The law of prayer and my faith makes it possible for me to pray and celebrate well. However, I leave this type of insight to our liturgist brother Simone Pifizzi who will be able to explain the matter better than me. I am interested first of all in clarifying the dogmatic and subsequently the pastoral aspect. Because it is from what we believe and what we defend within the Tradition of the Church that a good pastoral care is born that the most perfectines would call Practical Theology.

The practical aspect of our pastoral care reflects the most intimate aspect of the relationship with God, what the Catechism of the Catholic Church [cf.. NN. 2095-ss] calls the virtue of religion and which disposes us to adoring recognition of the Lord, first reality and commandment sanctioned by the Decalogue and messianic truth that Jesus strongly rejects before the devil in the desert when he says: «It is written: "The Sir, Your God, will love: him alone shall you serve"" [Mt 4,10]. Therefore, if in my practical faith there is no recognition of having to worship and adore the living Lord, in Spirit and Truth [cf.. GV 4,24], I will also do beautiful things but they will always remain limited to the glorification of man and transient realities that do not save and do not help for eternal life.

He is with the Lord in his Church that we intend to compromise our lives, till death, event in which most of the screens of mortals fall apart to leave uncovered the true sore nerve of our creatures sick from sin: we are afraid to die because we do not believe in a living and resurrected God!

In the hypothetical ranking of the most scrambled Sacraments, you don't even have to ask, in the first place that of the Eucharist stands out, meaning both the sacrifice of the Holy Mass, Eucharistic Communion, Holy Viaticum and Eucharistic Adoration. Thanks to the fact that if the majority of the faithful and priests no longer believe in the living and real presence of the Lord present in his true body, blood, soul and divinity of that consecrated unleavened bread, everything else follows accordingly. And I say this not because I want to launch defamatory accusations against the People of God or some confrere - something that would immediately attract the ire of those beautiful devout souls with scandalized virgin hearts whose only priestly sin consists in the bad word or in that area geographical below the waistband of the pants ― but I say this because today with the Smartphone e i social network everything is taken up, all recorded and documented and reproduced in real time as it happened for the Cycling Mass Kobram cup, the Put on the mat in the sea and still others of which traces can easily be found in the boundless archive of the web.

At this point it is only a matter of viewing the video documents and to draw the necessary conclusions ... in this regard someone would have to say «the argument against the fact is not valid». But we, here from The Island of Patmos, we want to add the arguments to the facts, not so much to defend such desolates Mexican butchers of liturgical and sacramental indecorousness but those believers of Christ who have the right to have good antibodies to resist in faith these oddities that now seem to constitute the objective normality in many communities.

Before moving on to present the facts I would like to recall that in Rome itself we were forced to assist in the 2012 at the funeral of the most famous director of porn films, during which famous porn-actors and porn-actresses anything but repentant, after having received the Most Holy Eucharist in a sacrilegious way, not satisfied, they went up to the ambo during the liturgical action to give a real and proud praise to pornography before the end of the Holy Mass. Episode reported in detail by our Father Ariel in an article of 2017 to which I refer you [see article WHO].

Holy Mass is the heart of the Church and it often happens that some Eucharistic celebrations become the framework for expressing something else or the complete opposite of what a Catholic Holy Mass should be. Often this happens in delicate circumstances, such as for example at religious funerals in which the rule now in vogue seems to be only that of the search for human respect which is thought to be superior and more urgent than that attitude of toilets which is due and pertains only to the Lord really present in the Sacred Species. And incidentally it is good to remember that in the Catholic faith we usually indicate with toilets the cult reserved to God and to the Persons of the Most Holy Trinity, which is a cult of worship; with hyperdulia the one dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary which is not a cult of adoration but of veneration, likewise that of the Angels and Saints indicated with the term of dulia.

The fact that the Eucharistic celebration is used to “say or do anything else” is wrong in itself, precisely because the celebration of the Holy Mass is used. The flaw of inappropriateness of a deformed faith is evident, because already the Holy Mass with its redemptive mystery says something infinitely more powerful and definitive: "We announce your death, man, we proclaim your resurrection in anticipation of your coming!» (acclamation of the assembly after the Eucharistic Prayer). Which we can also express in this way: “Death and life faced each other in a prodigious duel: the Lord of life was dead; but now, vivo, triumphs!» [from the hymn of praise Gregorian].

What could we possibly add more and better before this announcement that characterizes the blessed hope to which all men are called by the risen Christ? but yet, the case of funeral masses revisited it is very common and the confrere parish priests will understand me very well, some of whom will have already resigned themselves to passing the time of the funeral living it as a penitential moment to avoid finding the relatives of the deceased who list all the most offensive and poisonous litanies about priests and the "rigid Church".

Still others resist stoically and they try to make people understand that a funeral Eucharistic celebration, like the one recently celebrated in the church of Santa Maria Ausiliatrice in the presence of the Venezuelan prelate H.E. Monsignor Riccardo Lamba auxiliary bishop of Rome [you see WHO], it can be quite another thing, prophetic announcement of hope and consolation in the face of the nullification of death.

We have to state decisively that the concept of Christian death is different from that of pagan death. Here we do not wish to examine the very serious tragedy of the news story of Martina Scialdone killed in Rome by her ex-partner. We are more interested in bringing into this event of absurd death a Christian response of faith that goes beyond the sentiment highlighted by the entire national press and to which the celebrating Bishop seems to have implicitly consented by allowing a song by the singer Irama to be performed: «Wherever you are: the farewell to Martina Scialdone and those words that break the silence of the church at the funeral» [cf.. WHO].

We are aware or not what does it mean to propose such a song in memory of a deceased who, making a clear reference to reincarnation, literally says: «Wherever you are / if you will come back here / if more / you know that I will wait for you»? [cf.. WHO]. A Christian shouldn't already know what eschatological destiny his deceased brothers are destined for? The Catechism of the Catholic Church says in n. 1013:

“Death is the end of man's earthly pilgrimage, it is the end of the time of grace and mercy that God offers him to carry out his earthly life according to the divine plan and to decide his ultimate destiny. When is “the one course of our earthly life over”, we will never return to live other earthly lives. “It is appointed for men to die once” [EB 9,27]. There is no "reincarnation" after death.".

Understand this first we are also accompanied to see the definitive condition in which our dead are destined to stay, the Christian vision of death is expressed in an incomparable way in the liturgy of the Church that says:

«To your faithful, man, life is not taken away, but transformed; and while the home of this earthly exile is being destroyed, an eternal habitation is prepared in heaven" [See. Preface of the dead I: Roman Missal].

This new home in which life is transformed after death leads directly into the glory of Paradise with God, in that mystery called the Communion of Saints which constitutes us as a triumphant Church, purgative and militant. It is therefore not sensible and useful to ask ourselves, from the point of view of a mature faith, the "physical place inhabited" by the deceased: rather the deceased must be found alive in God awaiting the final resurrection and in that communion of love that we mortals must seek with God and which allows us to be close to them every time we pray, we participate in the Holy Mass, we perform works of mercy in their memory, we strive to live a life of conversion and union with the Lord in the expectation that we too will be united with theirs in Heaven.

In conclusion, I pause to briefly comment on the liturgical indications of the funeral ritual in use in the Catholic Church that a priest in the care of souls, and much more a bishop, should know and apply not out of a sense of cold formalism but to preserve the strength of faith in the Church and nourish the hope that does not disappoint in the people of God.

From the clarifications to the General Premises the Funeral Ritual [cf.. pp. 29-30] we read in the paragraph 6:

«after the introductory remarks to the last recommendation and farewell, according to local customs approved by the diocesan bishop, short words of Christian remembrance regarding the deceased can be added. The text is previously agreed and is not pronounced from the ambo. Avoid using recorded text or images, as well as the performance of songs or music extraneous to the liturgy».

Above all at the end of the funeral Mass, after celebrating the sacrifice of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ who rises victorious before death and the coffin in the church, there would be little to add, if not a solemn: I believe. But the Church, in her maternal care, still wishes to be a balm of tenderness and to recommend the deceased to God and to say goodbye to him in the hope of a new encounter in Paradise. For this reason, he allows an affectionate and familiar farewell as long as it is in a Christian spirit, reverberating that mystery that has just concluded in the Eucharist celebrated.

This greeting is to be agreed with the priest which verifies its suitability and the opportunity of an undue spectacularization, so that values that clash with the Christian faith are not expressed, just as the pagan expression is abundantly fashionable today: "may the earth be light on you". All this is done not from the ambo, which is the place where the Word of God alone must resound, but from a suitable place.

As explicit as necessary is the clarification to avoid singing, music or anything else that is extraneous to the liturgy and that could create confusion even if in some way a connection can be found with the history of the deceased or his family. We repeat that the sacraments are not modeling clay that I can adapt or modify according to my wishes.

If we really have to look for suitable words or songs that may have the strength to break the silence of a church funeral, let us make use of what the treasure of the Church already places in our hands, in that Easter hymn ofExulte

“This is the night when Christ, destroying the bonds of death, He rose as victor from the tomb. No advantage for us to be born, if he hadn't redeemed us".

We forget too often that we have been called into existence to be redeemed and ransomed by Christ and this is what allows us to see death as a passage and not an end. In every funeral Christ is there to remind us that he has broken death and with it the absurd pain of a life that can be violated or insulted in the eyes of the most, just believe it. And the first to believe it should be the sacred pastors as celebrators and zealous custodians of the sacred mysteries.

Laconi, 27 January 2023

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Parallel existences: Lady Diana e Georg Gänswein, like having everything in life and then spending your time complaining about it?

15 January 2023/2 Comments/in Actuality/by Hypatia

Ecce Agnus Dei. Recognizing Jesus the Baptist opens the doors to the mystery of God and the mystery of ourselves

11 January 2023/6 Comments/in Actuality, Our videos/by Jorge Facio Lynx

«EXCCE AGNUS DEI». RECOGNIZING JESUS THE BAPTIST OPENS THE DOORS TO THE MYSTERY OF GOD AND THE MYSTERY OF OURSELVES

Acknowledging Jesus with this statement, John the Baptist opens up the mystery of God and the mystery of ourselves and guides us to discover God to gradually discover the mystery of man enclosed within ourselves.

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the Dominican theologian Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, father editor de The Island of Patmos

A step foundation of the Gospel of Blessed John the Evangelist narrates:

"The day after, John seeing Jesus coming towards him said: “Here is the lamb of God, behold the one who takes away the sin of the world! Here is the one of whom I spoke: After me comes a man who has passed me, because it was before me. I didn't know him, but I came to baptize with water so that he might be made known to Israel”. John testified by saying: “I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from heaven and land on him. I didn't know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me: The man upon whom you will see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes in the Holy Spirit. And I saw and testified that this is the Son of God”» [GV 1, 29-34].

Recognizing Jesus with this affirmation the Baptist opens up the mystery of God and the mystery of ourselves, guiding us to discover God to gradually discover the mystery of man enclosed within ourselves.

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From the flight of the bumblebee to the flight of the jackal: Gianluigi Nuzzi, than with his”Quarto Grado acts as Rete4's gravedigger, a dead Pope has already launched on Emanuela Orlandi

11 January 2023/in Actuality/by Hypatia

FROM THE FLIGHT OF THE HORNET TO THE FLIGHT OF THE JACKAL: GIANLUIGI NUZZI, THAT WITH HIS FOURTH DEGREE IT PERFORMS THE FUNCTION OF THE NETWORK COLLECTOR4, A DEAD POPE HAS ALREADY LAUNCHED ON EMANUELA ORLANDI

It deals with, in truth, of a painful and pitiful case, primarily for the disappearance in those times of this teenager, to follow for all the most absurd and fantastic speculations that have been made on it, but what is worse: which continue to be made.

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Jesus Christ be praised!

The journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi author of several tabloid books on things Vatican

It was a long time that I didn't go back to the columns of ours Patmos Island, soon explained the reason: like all powerful women, I prefer to live and work in the shadows, behind the scenes. It is not by chance, when I was collected newborn at the Catacombs of Priscilla that eccentric of the Father Ariel, on the first ones, wanted to call me Marozia, then he immediately opted to call me Hypatia.

On the case of Emanuela Orlandi I wrote in 2019. It deals with, in truth, of a painful and pitiful case, primarily for the disappearance in those times of this teenager, to follow for all the most absurd and fantastic speculations that have been made on it, but what is worse: which continue to be made.

I've already said everything there is to say, therefore today, at the exit of the article in La Stampa by Gianluigi Nuzzi who anticipates his new and sensational looting work, I can only limit myself to repeating this old article of mine.

the Island of Patmos, 11 January 2023

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WORLD EXCLUSIVE!

EMANUELA ORLANDI WAS BURIED IN VATICAN IN CAVES SAINT PETER IN THE SARCOPHAGUS OF POPE BONIFACE VIII

The Holy See, to any request made by Pietro Orlandi, Also, and only on the basis of an anonymous message received, would not hesitate to agree to the opening and inspection of any. So that, to put an end to it all, the Saint Pius Cat told me that the young woman was buried in caves under the Pontifical Archbasilica St. Peter, inside the coffin containing the remains of auguste Pope Boniface VIII.

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historian and sad manifesto that poor Orlandi family had put up for Rome after the death of the young Emanuela

In the last two days this scorching July heat in Rome is a bit’ decreased, but on Saturday, when I went to the convent of the Dominican Fathers in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, I thought of them inside 'n oven. So much so that I am called: mo 'I'm going' n little 'refreshes inside ar Pantheon, before de reaches the Dominican cloister inquisigatto Torque ner.

In the church of the Pantheon entrar were around ... 'NBE: not blocked me from perhaps those from 'the honor guard sabbauda?

Just so, they told me:

«Too, them cats, nun came Ponna».

Since I was already upset from the heat, at that point I did not see anymore and I answered:

«But the kids stamo? You just made entrà 'na de whores co bracket’ the zinne de Fora, then ampresso 'na coppietta de fags little hand na' to co manina’ them tight shorts' n half ar ass, and not make me unable to know '' a gattolica apostolic Roman? But de c'avete that fear, that if there Magnino them cats from the tombs the bones of those four carrion de Savoia them?».

Said this

… ueh, but you know that nun m'allontano m'ammollava 'n carcio, quer large fijo de 'na bitch dressed as' n nineteenth puppet? It hath been made well in strillamme:

"This is insulting to the Fathers of the Fatherland!».

al che, before I moved away - because what else would take me to kick it seriously - then I screamed:

«... see, them Founding Fathers? They were only four mercenaries Masons, see the emparatte 'n bit' of history: to 'asshole!».

Just go through the gate of the Dominican Convent Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, dear Torque, inquisigatto more, He came to welcome me, amiable as ever. It is really a great cat of faith, very solid in the doctrine. We exchanged greetings, He then updated on the latest feline tribunal of the Inquisition.

«Dear Hypatia, I say to you that? Now nun potemo longer works. Just du 'weeks ago far we have put in three rats process bazzicaveno the church of’ Canadian, accused all three of diffonne heretical thoughts on cristologgia and pneumatologgia. goats, You know what happened?»

I turn my eyes to the sky and wonder lights in this regard, He responds Torque:

«Far we have risked us, de ended on trial! And you know why? But because the three rats were three heretical der catechists Neocatechumenal, understood? And you say that there is de vintage luxury because, a gay cat, margrado them that his withered ce vo 'b'bene, He has put everything in silent at er Supreme Tribbunale from 'Apostolic Signatura. Figurete, Hypatia my, Semo now ar legal chaos. Just think of the various b'botte de genie de 'sti times, nun found by de Meijo ago that abolished er tribbunale diocesan appeal by 'in the Diocese of Rome, essenno er President n'omo saint in one piece jie riggettava that the judgments of first instance on matrimonial nullity, made and dates' n jiffy, It was not even been set up pe 'er davero Catholic divorce».

At that point I explained to my dear Torque the problem, hence the reason for my visit. The day 11 July, at the request of his brother Pietro Orlandi, two tombs were opened at the Vatican Teutonic cemetery, to see if in them are the remains of the young Emanuela Orlandi were found, disappeared in 1983 at the age of sixteen [cf. WHO, WHO].

The day before I had been achieved by our beloved sister gattolica Tac, which as you may recall Readers lives in Cagliari, at the Hospital Chaplaincy Brotzu, where he is devoted to volunteering. A real Mother Teresa of Calcutta in size cat. The dear Tac is a mystic with special miraculous gifts. The only problem is that speaks and communicates only in Barbagia language, which it is not a dialect, but a real language. This forces me to turn to Torque, because it is a specialist in the philology of ancient Italic languages. Read the text, Good Torque has made me a faithful translation, which is as follows:

"In a moment of ecstasy, He appeared in a vision the Saint Pius Cat, who told me: must end, once and for all, the painful story of the young Emanuela Orlandi. Also because, if not, his brother Peter, long as he lives, will not rest. In order for this peace comes it is good to be revealed once and for all the burial of the remains of the poor girl. Otherwise it will continue to make regular excavations, buchi, inspection of tombs and so on. The Holy See, to any request made by Pietro Orlandi, Also, and only on the basis of an anonymous message received, would not hesitate to agree to the opening and inspection of any. So that, to put an end to it all, the Saint Pius Cat told me that the young woman was buried in caves under the Pontifical Archbasilica St. Peter, inside the coffin containing the remains of auguste Pope Boniface VIII» [CF. Transcript translated into Italian vision of the cat Tac, mystique of Sardinian Barbagia].

Without the translation Torque and I just looked stunned. Until, his breath, the distinguished Inquisigatto Major asked me:

Sentime b'bene Hypatia, you know I know '' No cat de faith, But, with all respect er pe’ 'It is our most valued mystical, nun is that na’ 'Sardinia, of these times, there is one of those sultry thistles that would sbarella cor brain well saints?

While this hypothesis valutavamo we exchanged various opinions on the painful story of the young Emanuela Orlandi, the case of which has long since been closed by the Roman magistracy. But above all there is a question of rigor to do: during the long and careful investigation carried out for years and years, emerged perhaps the figure of a teenager on model Agnes, virgin and martyr? It is perhaps, in the minutes of the investigations and interrogations, is on record that this young man attending parties, if anything, even larger than she, who were not properly or the young San Luigi Gonzaga or the great teacher of St. Philip Blacks? [cf. WHO, WHO …]. And in those eighties and beyond, how many were girls in the age group between 15 e i 18 year old, disappeared and were never found again? Various investigators, during those years, how many times they are put on the tracks of the so-called white slavery?

At the Prosecutor's Office in Rome, exist dossiers and open investigation cases, finally he closed after years without success, regarding adolescents and young girls disappeared and were never found again. You go in the historical archives of the Public Prosecutor of Rome, for confirmation, but especially ample evidence. The first that maybe he should go would be the lawyer acting for his brother, who have not the legal talent of the lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, he still had on several occasions its bath of cameras on the sad story of Emanuela Orlandi, as well as on the skin of the Holy See cyclically exposed to the media pillory.

Because none of these girls disappeared and were never found again did the news that after more than three decades followed but to work in the case of Emanuela Orlandi? But for the simple fact that the girl was part of the small circle of those few lay people who are citizens of Vatican City State, or a few dozen people, of which about one thousand to eighty percent they are all ecclesiastical. Or someone thinks that if the young man had been a Swiss citizen, French, German or Italian, his case would be continued for three decades, and pulled out each time in a corner of Italy is discovered a body buried somewhere outside of a cemetery?

This is what unleashes always morbid itching which unfortunately it is likely to give rise and breath the same brother, on whose sense of faith Catholic There is much to discuss, saw the way, the first anonymous tip, he demands and gets scoperchiamenti of tombs and analysis of remains of corpses, as happened in the recent case of the finds at the palace of the Apostolic Nunciature in Italy [cf. WHO]. And before each of these situations, the good brother Peter - which as mentioned above is not obligated at all to be a devout Catholic -, It favors the exposure of the Church in repeated forms of media pillory.

Just think, a level of journalistic literature and sinister gossip editorial, What it was published over three decades, often with very shameful accusations against the same Popes, followed by a considerable number of deceased prelates who have never been able to defend, but the memories which has made havoc in the name of an unspecified "truth about Emanuela Orlandi". Just as if the "truth about Emanuela Orlandi" justify any inference or any shovelful of mud thrown on the memories of other people. A random name among many? Just think about what has been written over time on the Cardinal Ugo Poletti [1914-1997], Vicar General of His Holiness for the Diocese of Rome [1973-1991], who has even gone so far as to be accused of having plotted with the criminals of the Banda della Magliana and its boss Robertino De Pedis, not to mention the inferences fiction on the then Secretary of State, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli [1914-1998] [cf. WHO]. Therefore, If Pietro Orlandi, as baptized and as a person born, He grew up and lived in the Vatican City State, It does not intend to have respect toward the Catholic Church and the Holy See, have least respect for himself and for his sister's memory, exposed for decades to gossip morbid journalists, especially because of him that never fails to give them generous waterfalls for their mills.

If no one has ever had the courage to say to the person concerned, it will be good that someone tell the good brother that journalists, tele-journalists and authors of tabloid books that aim to sell as many copies as possible, his sister Emanuela Orlandi not interested in anything. Is it possible that we all know but him, that this kind of heartless people and ten centimeters on wild boar followed undeterred stomach to provide jobs and editorial gains?

By now the Holy See, before any unreasonable and irrational demand that comes from Pietro Orlandi, He did not hesitate to run the forensic, to be analyzed remains of corpses, to proceed to the svellimento of floors, the opening of graves and so to follow, He was desperate to show the public that the Vatican has nothing to hide on the story of this teenager, already accustomed to frequent sixteen of not very advisable companies, as it is clear from the acts and lengthy, thorough investigative inquiries, or not? A young man was kidnapped on the streets of the capital of Italy, not in the Vatican gardens or while walking in the courtyard of San Damaso under the windows of the State Secretariat playing his flute.

Give her won to Peter Orlandi, whatever he asks and pretends, It is neither just nor pedagogic. Therefore, Dear Lord this that lies beyond all limits, it should first be said some no, then adequately advised to turn to a good clinical psychologist, in case it failed, over the decades, to process pain or trauma of bereavement.

The cat and I Torque finally we said to ourselves that certain things are not joking, nor ever should joking. But … why not falsify the message written by our mystical Barbagia after his vision? In conclusion, some say and claim that they even forged the third secret of Fatima.

«Torque, you launch 'n'idea. If it was very sbajiata, I ask God for forgiveness with all my heart er».

«Dimming, Dear Hypatia, what is' st'idea».

«Here we ... er tarot message from’ 'Mystics Tac, facenno reaches a similar message but different. For example, say that potemo 'is pora creature was made rests under the altar of' Confession in St. Peter, inside 'to the grave der Blessed Apostle Peter ...».

«Hypatia, to 'or say that with all core er: tojiete st'idea mind. Because if Peter Orlandi comes a kind der Post, within forty-eight hours ar maximum, mannerebbero them workers under the cameras' on television to seporcro opened er der Prince delli Apostles. Do not think, Hypatia my, but we still own».

May the soul of this beloved creature enjoy the divine peace between the Angels and Saints, wherever he buried his mortal body, but it can allow yourself above God's peace to those who just will not find peace, up to take peace to other, starting with the peace repeatedly taken to the Holy See, that the defects it has many and serious, but that does not deserve all this. Once fact, to the point where we are, If an anonymous did report it to Pietro Orlandi, we risk seriously to see even open the tomb of the Blessed Apostle Peter.

the Island of Patmos, 15 July 2019

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When during the Holy Mass Father Ariel smashed a guitar on the column of the nave of a parish church

9 January 2023/in Actuality/by Jorge Facio Lynx

WHEN DURING THE HOLY MASS FATHER ARIEL Smashed A GUITAR ON THE COLUMN OF THE NAVE OF A PARISH CHURCH

When he goes to places he doesn't know, he prefers to have a policeman nearby who can possibly block him, "privilege" this granted of motu proprio a me, poor wretch that I am! Simple reason: holding a Bengal tiger is easier and less dangerous than holding him.

— Stories never written —

Author:
Jorge Facio Lynx
President of Editions The island of Patmos

I'm 12 year old that I live and work closely with him, are therefore a living archive of the deeds of Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo. Naturally, when you are meek, one does not narrate one's most beautiful deeds, for matters of meekness. I fear that one day I will have to give an account to God for having prevented the performance of various not beautiful feats, but beautiful. And who knows what punishment I will have to suffer for this, when I stand before the judgment of God, having prevented the realization of certain strokes of genius.

Characteristic of Father Ariel is to surprise you with things you would never expect. Because of this, when he begins with certain performance, always and strictly sudden and unexpected, people can't even react in the moment, because they need to get into the order of ideas that what happened is true, which just really happened.

May 2010, a brother of Father Ariel, Colombian, while he was doing his doctorate in sacred liturgy in a pontifical university in Rome he carried out the ministry of second assistant pastor in a parish that I won't name, in a suburbicarian diocese of Rome which I will not name. Having decided to make a pilgrimage to Fatima and stay in Portugal for a few days, calls Father Ariel and asks him if he can replace him for the evening Mass on Saturday and for that of Sunday morning. He accepts right away, also for the deep fraternal and emotional bond he nurtures towards that priest, who was master of ceremonies at his priestly ordination.

As it usually does, he asks me if I can accompany him and carry out the service of acolyte, not being able to admit that when he goes to places he doesn't know, he prefers to have a policeman nearby who can possibly block him, "privilege" this granted of motu proprio a me, poor wretch that I am! Simple reason: holding a Bengal tiger is easier and less dangerous than holding him.

Against guitars Father Ariel has nothing, why the guitar, if played well, by professionals and musicians, it can be a splendid liturgical instrument. Time and again we have heard guitarists play arias by J.S. Bach, on other occasions even accompany Gregorian chants in the background. An authentic marvel.

But when he hears about sixty-year-old post-sixty-eight-year-olds play the guitars they can't play, if anything on the melody of When the Saints Go Marching In, Father Ariel might even make you regret not meeting Jack the Ripper instead, with which all in all could go better.

I admit: Sunday morning that coretto hit rock bottom. During Communion they began to sing a song taken from the famous opera Jesus Christ Superstar. And here it must be stated: Father Ariel greatly appreciates both that work and the ballet of Martha Graham Dance Company, which he considers one of his greatest works rock in the twentieth century. But, at the same time, he is a presbyter and a theologian of solid doctrine and knows that that work and the lyrics of his songs strongly deny the divinity of Christ. That's when the chorus begins to sing on the words translated into Italian of the Magdalene in love with Christ: "… it's a man, he's just a man". Father Ariel ceases to distribute Communion, goes up to the altar, he places the pyx on it, he kneels reverently, descends under the presbytery, he takes the guitar from the guitarist's hand and smashes it on the column of a nave. He leaves the guitar in pieces on the floor and says: “At the end of real concerts rock that's how it's done".

A grave silence fell in the church. And as if nothing happened, composed and frozen like a piece of ice, the Eucharistic celebration continued and ended.

The pastor didn't dare say anything, I assume fearing ending up with a bronze candlestick stamped on my back. But the next day he was the first to support the protest of those choristers to the Bishop, saying he didn't know that priest and blaming the second assistant pastor who had called him to replace him. Obviously Father Ariel had already taken care to call his Bishop, who at the time was Msgr. Luigi Negri, and tell him the story.

No later than Monday afternoon the Bishop of that Diocese calls Mons. Luigi Negri, which basically was perhaps even more indisposed of the Father Ariel himself in the face of certain liturgical antics, and that so calms him down: «I reassure you and please also reassure the guitarist that all in all it went really well for him, rather thank God, because for the type that is, I'm amazed that he smashed the guitar on the column and not on his head».

Spent a year, while the Colombian priest was about to leave Rome at the end of his studies and return to his diocese, a few days before taking the plane he confided to Father Ariel that he had invited him on purpose to replace him, imagining that in the face of similar things he would have reacted, after he had had to put up with that choir and that ignorant parish priest for two years in matters of doctrine and faith, that he didn't even realize the heresies that those people sang during Mass.

But I repeat: being Father Ariel meek, deeply tame, avoid narrating some of his finest deeds, certainly for a speech of profound humility.

the Island of Patmos, 9 January 2023

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The civil juridical aspects of Communion on the hands in the face of the absurd legal actions undertaken by priests and bishops who deserve to be flogged in blood

8 January 2023/2 Comments/in Actuality/by father ariel

THE CIVIL LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMMUNION ON THE HANDS BEFORE THE ABSURD LEGAL ACTIONS TAKEN BY PRIESTS AND BISHOPS WHICH WOULD DESERVE TO BE FLOGISHED

We will pay a lot, we will pay for everything, with so many and such interest inflicted by God's chastisement that will be so high as to leave even the worst money lenders speechless. Because we have throttled God who at the right time will let us experience first-hand what a divine loan shark is capable of.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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if l'ideology surpasses the transcendental value, metaphysical and mystagogical of the ineffable Eucharistic Mystery, our Venerable Bishops could also close the great shop of the Italian Episcopal Conference, send his folks away 400 and useless salaried employees, most of whom were hired because they were friends of friends of friends of this or that monsignor, after which to found a Non Governmental Organization to dedicate itself to refugees, migrants and non-EU citizens who are so fashionable today, because it seems that only "they are the Church".

It's a matter of consistency, ever since the gloriously reigning Supreme Pontiff, on the day of Holy Thursday in which the institution of the ministerial priesthood and of the Most Holy Eucharist is celebrated, he found nothing better to do than rinse and kiss the feet of convicts and whores, several of whom are non-Catholics and not even baptized Christians. Indeed, it is notoriously known that Jesus Christ, as apostles, a small group of prisoners and whores was chosen. And I repeat the magic word: consistency! Unless, to some of our bishops, it does not appear that Our Lord Jesus Christ took a poor man during the last supper, exhibited it to the apostles and said: “This is my body, this is my blood". Then giving the command: "Do this in memory of me". And this is done, far from consecrating them Priests of the New Covenant, he took a group of pagan whores and told them to go and evangelize the peoples [cf.. Mt 10, 5-8; MC 16, 15-20], to baptize [cf.. Mt 28, 19-20] and to forgive sins [cf.. GV 20, 22-23].

On the threshold of sixty, not having to become bishop and cardinal, nor having ever had any career ambitions, I can benefit from that freedom of God's children which allows me to tell bad teachers and bad pastors that they are such, to grave harm to the Church and the People of God, if anything even with the aggravating circumstance of the cowardice of those who know perfectly well what is wrong, if not worse sacrilegious. But for a quiet life they are silent, because they don't want problems, or because the bishop of the suffragan diocese points to the nearby metropolitan archiepiscopal see, or why the metropolitan archbishop of that archdiocese is clamoring for the cardinalate, for this he sports a pectoral cross made from the piece of wood of a migrant boat that sank off the coast of Lampedusa, proceeding in procession with a wooden pastoral stick that seems to have come out of Mastro Geppetto's workshop, whose son Pinocchio, as known, was born by the work of a saw. And if a person like me dares to point them out for what they are, that is, sensational kiss-ass, he even risks appearing as a vulgar priest. Because it is good to clarify: vulgar is not who kisses the ass of the powerful bully by bending to his worst and most harmful whims, but who indicates it as such using a word that upsets the tender and delicate ears of the children of the new and modest Victorian England of the late nineteenth century, with all its private vices and public virtues. A Prudibonda England where it was possible to bugger merrily in private, as long as the word "ass" was not used in public, Oscar Wilde sweett!

We know perfectly well that giving Holy Communion on the hands today is very dangerous, especially in certain areas and localities of our country, in which magical and esoteric practices are widespread, on the rise, however, throughout our national territory. As well known, when one no longer believes in God and in the mysteries of faith, you always end up believing in everything.

On the casual way in which Holy Communion is administered, our Father Ivano Liguori has just written [see WHO]. This article of mine is nothing more than a sort of continuation appendix to yours. Obviously with a substantial difference: he expresses himself in a seraphic way, even when it's harsh, I do not. When I am strict I sometimes become very harsh and I am not afraid to resort even to trivial expressions.

Inside the church, thanks to the influences of a Calvinist matrix that taint the Catholic ecclesial communities of Northern Europe, Communion given on the hands has become a real ideological claim since the 1970s, a sign of distinction, a hallmark of certain so-called Catholic-Protestant progressivism. And when with the Covid epidemic it was really forced to give it up for reasonable safety reasons, the few embankments that remained have totally decayed. Here then is that today, not a few ideological priests, they impudently allow themselves to deny it to those who dare to receive it in the mouth or worse than ever on their knees. Just as this pitiful video proves, where a Metropolitan Archbishop and his Auxiliary Bishop distribute Holy Communion.

We also reported it recently, complete with film document, the shameful case of the priest who denied Communion in St. Peter's Square at the funeral of Benedict XVI and rejected a faithful who, making an intolerable affront, even dared to kneel [see WHO]. Let's not joke, kneeling before Christ God present alive and true in soul, body and divinity borders on blasphemy today. Only in front of the Nigerian whores invited as protagonists of honor at the papal Mass of the Lord's Supper kneel down, complete with rinsing and kissing the feet [cf.. my book WHO]. Then, wanting to be good all the way, we could also apply softening creams for the heels hardened by the heels and pass a little polish on his nails, finally exhort them by saying: "… daughter, Now go back to being a whore, because God loves you as you are and for the job you do".

The plates have been missing for years used for some centuries during the distribution of Holy Communion, in case a Holy Host had inadvertently fallen. On the other hand, however, they were established by certain sculettanti aesthetic ceremonies the silver plates to place the much holier and more precious red bishop's skullcap on top, before which the Body of Christ is very little.

In various locations it has happened more times than people, received Holy Communion, they put it in their pocket. In others some young people, received the Holy Wafer, they ran off, surely to make use of it in various Satanist circles. One time, and Satanists, to steal the Eucharist they had to enter the churches, if anything at night, or in any case break into the tabernacles. Today we went to meet them making their job much easier: we put it directly into his hand.

Faced with such specific and by no means rare cases we come now to the idiocy of those bishops and priests who have seen fit to react by even making complaints. It is obvious to say the least that such complaints ended up being filed immediately. And I will tell: I applaud and congratulate the Public Prosecutors who prepared the filing as they were unable to identify elements of a crime in the reported fact in order to be able to start a criminal action. Or someone expects a Public Prosecutor to take into consideration the mystery of the transubstantiation of the Eucharistic species and the real presence of Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist? These are things that concern the mysteries of faith, not the courtrooms of the courts of any non-denominational country, including thank God our. Which judge could severely sentence a person who left after a priest placed a Host in his hand? And what should he be sentenced for?, perhaps for having stolen and profaned the Body of Christ? If there is a judge who, applying the penal laws of our system, can write in a condemnation sentence that in that piece of unleavened bread there is really and substantially Christ present, living and true, please point it out to me, I would be very happy to get to know him, before the court of appeal annuls his sentence and the Superior Council of Magistracy opens disciplinary proceedings against him for clear and manifest incapacity to judge rationally and consequently give a fair sentence.

“art opera” made with 242 Holy Hosts placed in this one's hand “artist” by very attentive celebrant priests filled with faith and sacred care for the precious Body of Christ

When the pseudo artist Abel Azcona he received Holy Communion dozens of times until he subtracted 242 Holy Hosts, after he had used them to compose one of his "works of art" on the ground which consisted in the composition of the word "pedophilia" written with the profaned pieces of the living Body of Christ, shortly thereafter he was denounced by the Association of Catholic Lawyers of Spain, by virtue of the fact that the penal code of that country sanctions with a sentence of between eight and twelve months of imprisonment the offenses «to the sentiments of a religious denomination» through mockery «of its dogmas, beliefs, rites and ceremonies». The so called artist explained flawlessly, rational and incontestable: “I did not commit any crime if I decided to put them in my pocket and walk out of the church, they were the ones who handed them to me, so it's all legal.

I think that bad figure the Association of Catholic Lawyers of Spain did it, that they should have been so annoyed and protested, but towards the superficiality, the lack of control and perhaps the scant consideration of certain bishops and priests on the sacredness of the Body of Christ. Always assuming that they truly believe that the Holy Wafer is the Body of Christ, because many bishops and priests just don't believe in it, the way they celebrate Holy Mass and the total carelessness with which they administer Holy Communion proves it, except to see the sculettare around them aesthetic ceremonies who with great class and fluttering place their most holy zucchetto on the silver saucer.

During the celebration of my first Holy Mass I was forced to chase a lady with the pyx in her hand who, having received Holy Communion, put it inside her purse. I what ever, since he was a deacon, I gladly gave Communion in the hands and for this reason I was particularly careful when giving it, I saw her and immediately ran after her, pulling it out of his bag and consuming it. An elderly retired magistrate was present among the faithful, who a few days later commented on that fact by telling me: “The only one who could be prosecuted in that context was you, that you actually stopped a person, all the more a woman, you took the purse from under her arm, you opened it to him and you took something inside. You basically searched it without having any authority. Not to mention the image damage you've done to her in front of everyone. Any judge would have found himself forced to make these assessments, even a Catholic magistrate and believer like me who has always had a particular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament».

I no longer gave Communion on the hands to anyone, always availing myself of the granted right to give it under both species, dipping the Sacred Host into the chalice of the Blood of Christ and offering it to the faithful saying: "The Body and Blood of Christ", thus forcing them to receive it in the mouth.

When during the emergency from Covid it was appropriate and prudent not to give Communion in the mouth but only on the hands, I have always distributed it with two people next to me, one to my right and one to my left, besides me who never took my eyes off the faithful until they had consumed it in my presence without leaving. And several times I called back the people who tried to leave without having consumed the Eucharist in front of me.

Most of my confreres don't do this, because after having torn the balls of the faithful with long talkative sermons on the poor and migrants, when they come to the Eucharistic Prayer they are in a hurry than the mythical one Doctor Terzilli health insurance doctor, for this reason always and strictly only the Second, which it is the shortest. Then they arrived at Communion more hasty than ever, here they are "slamming" quickly on the hands of the faithful the Holy Eucharist as a throwing of sheets made with unleavened bread, also because then there are ten minutes of parish announcements ranging from youth meetings to the roast pork festival, more or less like the announcements that Our Lord Jesus Christ made before the end of the Last Supper and then on Mount Calvary before expiring on the cross.

Numerous brothers, who are like-minded about me and who are likewise very attentive, they asked me several times if any bishop had ever called me around Italy, since, except for the Covid period, I never give Communion on the hands to anyone. In a playful way, but quite serious, I answered: “If there is one thing our bishops care about, it is their skin. They love to talk about martyrs at the right moment, but they have no predisposition to martyrdom, especially to defend the supreme and absolute truths of our faith". Just enough to understand that before me, that for the Body of Christ I would sacrifice my life instantly, it is better to sketch and keep quiet.

It's true, I'm a priest who occasionally swears and what's worse I also purposely tell them in a calculated and scientific way, But, when I gave the viaticum to a dying elderly man and he remained with the Host on his tongue with his mouth open because he could not swallow it, I took it from him and consumed it myself. And anyone who knows me knows to what extent I am a picky hygienist. It's true, I'm a priest who occasionally swears and what's worse I also say them on purpose in a calculated and scientific way, But, when an elderly deacon inadvertently nudged me while I was holding the chalice with the Blood of Christ and some of the liquid fell out, I knelt down and wiped the floor with my tongue to the last drop. Therefore I think I can afford to give some balls to those bishops who fully deserve it for the way they treat and allow the Most Holy Eucharist to be treated by some of their priests, showing more attention not to offend ideologies rather than protecting the Body of Christ. Because if I decide to do this, or wanting even worse, the entire Italian Episcopal Conference can only keep silent, in the light of my priestly living and acting, fruit of a markedly and profoundly Eucharistic vocation. Because the Precious Blood of Christ fell on the floor I instantly licked it with my kneeling tongue on the ground, but I've never kissed a powerful bully's ass in my life, was even the august ass of the Roman Pontiff, to whom I am bound to pay filial respect and devoted obedience, but certainly not bidet service, a dense army of career ass-lickers takes care of that with Mastro Geppetto's croziers in hand and the pectoral cross made from the wood of a boat sunk off the coast of Lampedusa.

We will pay a lot, we will pay for everything, with so many and such interests inflicted by God's chastisement that will be so high as to leave even the worst money lenders speechless. Because we have strangled God who at the right time will let us experience firsthand what a divine usurer is capable of on the day he will tell us priests:

"To whom much is given, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, It will ask the more " [LC 12, 48].

the Island of Patmos, 8 January 2023

RARE CASES OR LIMIT CASES? DO NOT, INCREASINGLY FREQUENT CASES IN OUR CHURCHES

It doesn't matter what happens by giving Communion on the hands without attention to whoever you find yourself in front of, the important thing is to protect the ideology of Communion in the hand rather than the Body of Christ. Above all, we should ask ourselves: when this obvious madman presented himself before the priest, the good shepherd who placed the Most Holy Eucharist in his hand, where he had his eyes and attention? Or maybe he had to hurry up “Pull” quickly Communion in a hurry to give then 10 minutes of parish announcements, which as we know are the primary foundation of the mysteries of our faith? Shortly after, the priest also filed a complaint. penalty Question: and the priest, for his carelessness and imprudence towards the Most Holy Eucharist, to which ecclesiastical court was he denounced, after giving Holy Communion to an obvious provocateur and even saying to him «... magna … magna …»?

We will pay a lot, we will pay for everything, our bishops in the lead!

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Giorgia Meloni's Communion and that clerical ideology on Communion in hand even in high-risk situations that goes beyond the very value of protecting the Body of Christ

8 January 2023/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

COMMUNION BY GIORGIA MELONI AND THAT CLERICAL IDEOLOGISM ON COMMUNION IN HANDS EVEN IN HIGH RISK SITUATIONS WHICH EXCEEDS THE VERY VALUE OF PROTECTING THE BODY OF CHRIST

It is necessary in certain great pontifical celebrations and beyond, Holy Communion is administered to thousands of people, more on the hands, where exercising control is impossible and where real sacrileges can occur, which punctually occurred and continue to occur?

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp..

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Among many, during the funeral celebration of Benedict XVI, the photo of our Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni receiving Holy Communion from the hands of a priest did not go unnoticed. Someone maliciously pointed out that political sympathies risk overshadowing the Catechism of the Catholic Church, but we, up here The Island of Patmos we have no political sympathies because we care about people and their souls and we know that for God there are no serial souls “a” or serial “b”, much less souls of the right or of the left but all are called to salvation in Jesus Christ, because this is why God called the Church and a priest should be concerned daily and primarily with the salvation and health of the souls entrusted to him, not of "other", and it is better to spread a pitiful veil and not add anything else on the nature and modality of this "other".

the sacrilegious visible results of Communion given in unchecked hands to please clerical ideology

Given the public case of Communion at Meloni, there would be so much to say and to object from the point of view of the doctrine and teaching of the Catholic Church but I believe that the point now is not this, if not to ignite sterile controversies that are completely useless and to be avoided. In my personal opinion it would certainly be appropriate to give a nice tug of the ear to the national Giorgia - a pastorally dutiful thing for the good of her soul and for the protection of many Christians who voted for her in the last elections - who did not have the slightest hesitation to receive the Eucharist although not being able to do it because still today linked through a cohabitation with Andrea Giambruno. Let us remember that coexistence is an emotional bond not recognized by the Church for two baptized persons, whose only valid bond of union is the sacramental one of marriage, in which Christ Himself unites spouses into one. Unfortunately, a significant aggravating circumstance is added to the specific case of our Prime Minister: either, her and her partner, are totally free from previous constraints. None of them has previously contracted a marriage which would constitute an impediment to their union. Therefore there is precisely the manifest will not to marry and to live in a state of coexistence. A situation that deserves all due respect for the free and unquestionable choices of others, but which however has nothing to do with those of the many people animated by deep Christian sentiments, divorced and later married civilly, that although they want to experience a regular situation they are not able to do it, unless there are elements such as to allow the ecclesiastical court to declare it invalid, therefore null, their previous marriage.

I hope some brother priest, maybe a friend of Meloni, made her understand the responsibility for her public act, not so much as a civil and lay representative of the Italian State present there to pay homage to a deceased Pontiff, but above all as a person who defines himself as a Catholic Christian and who on more than one occasion has wanted to present himself as a guardian of the traditional values of the faith. Except for giving repeated guarantees during the electoral campaign that no one would touch the abortion law in any way, something further guaranteed by the Catholic Elisabetta Gardini to various television programs in the pre-election period [cf.. See WHO, WHO]

In the recent past, we have had other politicians who have brandished rosaries and sacred images for propaganda purposes and we have always ended up with farce, with great detriment to the faith of the simple and the unprepared. This is not because a politician is prohibited from testifying his faith and religious affiliation in public, but because when one does so one must keep one's own role as an official of a secular State which has certain obligations as well as that of a person of faith which has others and perhaps more burdensome and binding because they are addressed to God and to the Church which are not they are certainly voters.

So here is the crux of the matter: but is it ever possible that in the organization of the celebrations of the Holy See there is no provision for limiting these abuses and these outbursts of sentimental transport, especially in the section reserved for politicians and public authorities whose living condition is easy to trace and know their public thinking so as to evaluate whether or not these people should have access to the Sacraments? If this is possible to do it in smaller and less organized contexts, we should perhaps think that the organizational and diplomatic arm of the Holy See has become so short-sighted as to be short-sighted and not see certain situations? We do not want and cannot believe it.

The most striking reality it is that of a fallacious and dissipated organization of ceremonial. If a reprimand is necessary, it must be done to His Holiness' master of ceremonies and to the other masters of ceremonies in charge of the order and decorum of the celebration, who have not organized themselves to prevent certain offenses that, although they are not to be used to make a derogatory or hurtful judgment about the person, must be absolutely and by all means avoided by virtue of their sacredness which can easily lead to scandal - in the sense of stumbling to the faith - and to the mortification of the mysteries celebrated.

I remember very well than at the funeral of John Paul II, at the time of Communion, the notice was clearly given - due given the influx of people of different origins from all parts of the world - that the Eucharist was approached only by those who were in the conditions required by the Church to be able to receive it, so as to avoid the equivalence that the Body of the Lord has the same value and importance as a comforting embrace, of a gesture of solidarity in times of need or worse of a sentimental-passionate transport in which I "feel like taking Communion" for an unspecified reason.

The problem has always been discussed it is also another: it is necessary that in certain great pontifical celebrations and beyond, Holy Communion is administered to thousands of people, more on the hands, where exercising control is impossible and where real sacrileges can occur, which punctually occurred and continue to occur? At certain large and crowded celebrations, would it not be better to select a small group of faithful who receive Holy Communion, for example by the Supreme Pontiff or the Bishop, while thousands more of the faithful join them in spiritual communion? Or do we want to forget when in the 2005, shortly after the death of John Paul II, was auctioned off EBay a Host received by a non-Catholic participant in a Holy Mass celebrated by him in 1988? The problem was solved by the US Diocese of Sioux City who managed to withdraw it. But there is much worse: the so-called Spanish “artist” Abel Azcona subtracted 242 Hosts presenting themselves to receive Holy Communion, obviously given on the hands, then using them to compose the word «pederastia» which in Spanish means paedophilia on the ground. Yet not even cases of this kind have ever dissuaded the clerical ideologues of Communion in hand at all costs, in any situation even at high risk. For intimate knowledge of the subject in question I add: it is reasonable to blame our confrere Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo who has always refused to give communion on the hands to anyone, after running into an attempted abduction during the celebration of his first Holy Mass? There is a video documenting it in which Father Ariel is seen chasing after a woman with the pyx in his hand and taking the Host away from the bag in which he had placed it. Does anyone have an idea of the indelible trauma that it entails for a priest to have given the Eucharist to a person who has tried to take it away, moreover during the celebration of his first Holy Mass? We want to give Communion on the hands? Good, but that at least it imposes itself to check with extreme attention. It is not possible for many priests to place the Most Holy Eucharist in the hands of unknown people without exercising any control. How many people, instead of consuming it before the priest as it should, they turn their backs or leave in the total carelessness of the celebrant, or they consume it while walking through the church without anyone calling them back? These are ordinary scenes. However, it is known how much clerical ideology far exceeds the very value of the Body of Christ and the maximum protection that it should require.

If these things don't remediate at the source, downstream there will hardly be someone who will keep and appreciate the value so as to enforce them. And between the political fevers that are waiting to catch the foot of the wrong adversary and the assaulting Puritan traditionalists who cry out to sin and threaten hell, there will always be in between the runaway from home which seraphically will remind us: "Who am I to judge?». Maybe we are nobody, but as priests and keepers of the mysteries of God entrusted to us with the laying on of hands, we want with all of ourselves to avoid that holy things are given to dogs, as well as pearls before swine [See. Mt 7,6]. It is not a question of spiritual racism but of pastoral charity which primarily wishes to protect those who still have to grow in the knowledge of God and in the proclamation of salvation within a gradual and mature journey of ecclesial faith. We cannot afford to waste the graces of God, and this also applies to those who are not yet able to appreciate them in order to grow in the right knowledge of Him and not to increase their own narcissistic and pathological religious sense. Perhaps we are wasting time but it is useful to recall the first letter to the Corinthians of the Blessed Apostle Paul [See. 1Color 11,17-34] in which the correct modality with which the faithful are called to approach the Body of the Lord is underlined, not only understood in its sacramental but ecclesial component, because it is the Eucharist that makes the Church, Body of the Lord. In a few lines «Paul educates us to have this look of responsibility on both of these "Bodies" by communicating to the rite established by Christ, ecclesial communion is also given shape and cohesion" [See. B. Standard, Letters of St. Paul, introduction, translation and commentary, St. Paul, 2021].

We don't expect that in the Vatican understand this Pauline theological concept but at least it would not hurt to have a little respectful decency towards all those brothers who due to their irregular condition cannot yet fully receive Holy Communion and who respectfully observe fasting towards the sacred species of the Lord thus manifesting a heroic testimony of love for the Church, the Body of Christ.

These Communions not made, more so than any done through deceit or the occasional sentimental carried away, today more than ever they are like a finger pointed at us priests who have long since abdicated the role of fathers in the faith to become friends who allow everything, they apologize and concede. We priests too, that we communicate at every Holy Mass, someone should make us think, know if we are truly in a state of grace to be able to receive that sacramental body that we consecrate daily when perhaps we are still totally unable to keep, to grow and defend that ecclesial body which is equally a sign of Christ in the world and communion with him.

Laconi, 8 January 2023

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