Italy has chosen with its democratic vote, but the most libertarian and demanding choice remains that for Christ

ITALY HAS CHOSEN WITH ITS DEMOCRATIC VOTE, BUT THE MOST LIBERTARIAN AND DEMANDING CHOICE REMAINS THAT FOR CHRIST

If the truth will be seen in Jesus everything will be recovered, otherwise everything will be lost for our poor Italy which has been struggling for some time in a Europe which is floundering lost between hatred towards its own Christian roots and an exasperated and maddening secularism which has lost, along with the Christian ones, also the roots of democratic liberalism itself.

- Church news -

.

Author
Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

.

PDF print format article

 

.

.

the leaders of the Center Right

I just got back to the convent, after a retreat of a day and a half in the company of some priest confreres belonging to a priestly fraternity and I was unable to experience live the electoral count of the last political elections which involved all of Italy between Sunday and Monday, if not for short twitter beds before going to sleep, borrowed from some news agencies.

.

During a sera to dinner, together with the other priests of this fraternity of which I belong, I was struck by the words of one of them, older than me in age and wiser in wisdom that thus began: "my experience with politicians has always been one of either disappointment or betrayal".

.

This confession it was for me a bolt from the blue, because I found it profoundly topical and painfully true. The politician, when of his own free will he turns to the Church or to the priests, he does so either to ask for a vote or because he intends to carry out an exchange of favours. But surely he does not go to the priest as a baptized person who questions his being a politician and seeks the light of that Holy Spirit who is the only one who can obtain a wise heart in government, as we see done in the prayer of the young King Solomon [See. 1 Re 3, 5-15].

.

It's very frequent for a politician running for election to identify as a Christian, but once elected he forgets it very easily, not hesitating to bite the hand of his electorate, not making the slightest scruple about going against the Gospel, to the Church and mocking the priests, the latter thing that many parish priests personally experience in the daily skirmishes with the various mayors and presidents of regions at any level, sign and color belong.

.

To tell the truth, this occurrence occurs much more frequently with centre-right alignments which have always boasted a historic closeness to the Catholic electorate and even propose themselves as Defender of the Faith, except then endorsing anti-Christian policies using civil rights as a carpet and the untouchability of already established regulations that, needless to say, vary from abortion to euthanasia, from the recognition of marriage between same-sex couples to gender forced in schools and so on.

.

This first look deserves careful reflection and at the same time a question: how come the Christian denomination within politics never coincides with adherence to the person of the living Risen One, except for some accident amarcord cultural, how is the matter of Halloween at the end of October or the crib before Christmas? Fare amarcord culture does not help salvation, both for man as well as for the State which is equally immersed in those pangs of Creation wounded by original sin which awaits a definitive redemption. We therefore need to walk a path of recovery that can only be undertaken with Christ and which is preserved within a path of holiness that, as John Chrysostom suggested, above all it needs the recognition of sin, so that the latter may be handed over to Him who has made a massacre of sin. Because it is clear, the baptized man, before any other work activity, social or political is a man handed over to Christ according to the words that the Blessed Apostle Paul will say to the Galatians:

.

"Brothers, all of you are children of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for how many of you have been baptized into Christ, you have put on Christ. There is no Jew or Greek; there is no slave nor free; there is no male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." [Gal 3,26-28].

.

Christ is truly the all-encompassing element around which the new man reborn in baptism finds his deepest and truest identity together with that operation which drives him to build the Kingdom of God on earth (as we ask moreover in the Our father), which is not the antiquated implementation of an anachronistic theocracy but the definitive realization of that mystery of the incarnation in which "God became man to make human life, both personal and social, a concrete way of salvation [See. Speech of the Holy Father Francis on the occasion of 50 years after the encyclical Development of Peoples].

.

It is not the political manifesto of an alignment that engages my characterization as a man but is the ontological resemblance to the Son of God who became man for me and in his humanity redeemed me by dying on the cross. With all due respect to the numerous baptized members of any political party, I would like to remind you that the ideal to be pursued in the Christian life, the fundamental option that informs action resides in the person of the glorious Crucified, in that tiring Amen daily uttered while following the Risen One in which all the authority of the Father is present who gives the possibility of doing things that would not be contemplated in our concrete possibilities [See. GV 21,1-14, MC 16,9-20].

.

Christ is the life option that does not admit antagonists, which leaves no room for other suitors who aspire to win the heart of man, as we well know that those who are not willing to love Christ more than their father, of his own son, of his own daughter, of his wife, of his own party is not worthy of him [See. Mt 10,34-11,1]. Yup, dear, you understood correctly, even of his own party, just as the various disciples of Jesus who militated within the Zealot party had to learn.

.

We often run the easy illusion to be disciples of Christ because we identify with perfect moral acts which not only do not lead to Christ but are revealing of that vanity and that narcissism which leads towards a pathological self-salvation. And of leader pathological narcissistic politicians and heads of state we can number several in this historical moment. Our local politics is sick and highlights the narcissistic aspect of the human, creating operational perspectives that are not redemptive because they lack the true Redeemer of man who is Christ. Invariably, with such programs based on narcissism, shipwreck is reached and the sovereign people go astray by revolting in the bed of their own conscience, now at right and now to left, in the fleeting hope of calming down and reaching the longed-for sleep, without knowing that he will still have to stay awake for a good part of the night waiting for that Bridegroom who he will only be able to recognize if his own baptismal lamp has not run out of oil.

.

Italy has chosen the Centre-Right coalition with its vote, headed by the Honorable Giorgia Meloni. As a Christian and as a priest I can only pray for them as it is right to do, especially in a historical period so tormented by the specter of war, from a thousand human criticalities and the fragility of our planet's resources. I remain convinced that this last democratic expression is not yet fully mature, there is still too much evident passion that has guided the hand of the Italian voters. This portends an immediate future of bitter disappointments: from the appointment of ministers to the first measures in the courtroom, the veil will fall from the eyes of many and will be revealed, perhaps even betrayed and disillusioned with what one had hoped to be able to change.

.

Meloni will be the first woman to head the Presidency of the Council of ministers in Italy, its task will be very difficult not so much for the fragile plethora of the current opposition but for the narcissistic dynamisms of the center-right coalition which will not allow it a serene government sheltered from snipers and moral blackmail. I am also very concerned about the possible tensions with the Quirinale which will entrust the task to a political coalition that does not seem to play its music and which in many respects has been prevented in various circumstances.

.

I conclude with the reference to Italian Episcopal Conference which through the mouth of its Cardinal president affirms that the Church «will continue to indicate, severely if necessary, the common good and not personal interest, the defense of the inviolable rights of the person and of the community". I was surprised by the use of this noun in Cardinal Matteo Zuppi's communiqué, given that the Church in recent years has been everything, except strict with the various governments with mandatory traction PD. And so I thought, have you ever seen that also in via Aurelia n. 468 Has anyone thought of packing their bags and leaving the country as Chiara Ferragni proudly declared to the four winds, Fedez, Elodie, the Berte, Rula Jebreal, Roberto Saviano and many others still in view of Meloni's electoral victory? One might say, in both cases … God willing!

.

Maybe it will be a mischievous thought but even within the Church the danger of parliamentarianism and narcissism is very strong, so as to obscure the primacy of the glorious Christ and it will certainly not be an unplanned severity to revive the fate of what appears lost. It takes seriousness to start afresh from Christ, not severity, it is necessary to invoke the Holy Spirit so that there may be a new Pentecost within the nation-states, this must be done by the Church.

.

My very personal wish for the future premier italiano and his coalition is to start looking Christ in the eye and wondering like Governor Pilate: «What is truth?», if the truth will be seen in Jesus everything will be recovered, otherwise everything will be lost for our poor Italy which has been struggling for some time in a Europe which is floundering lost between hatred towards its own Christian roots and an exasperated and maddening secularism which has lost, along with the Christian ones, also the roots of democratic liberalism itself.

Laconi, 1October, 2022

.

.

.

______________________

Dear Readers,
this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our
Bank account in the name of:
Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome
Iban code:
IT74R0503403259000000301118
For international bank transfers:
Codice SWIFT:
BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff, the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message:
isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.

Elections 2022 - «I'm Giorgia: I am a woman, i am a mother, I am Italian, I'm a Christian " … and I consider abortion an untouchable "right"

Elections 2022 - «I AM GIORGIA: I AM A WOMAN, I AM A MOTHER, I AM ITALIAN, I AM A CHRISTIAN ... AND I CONSIDER ABORTION AS AN "INVIOLABLE RIGHT"

 

A Catholic cannot sign a blank check without date and without amount to people who demonstrate that they have a completely distorted idea of ​​the very concept of human life, or who, in the face of the vote, pass over the right to life by speaking of the right to abortion.

- Actuality -

.

.

PDF print format article

 

.

.

It is indubitable that the Hon. Giorgia Meloni is a woman, a mother and an Italian, but I doubt she is Christian. He demonstrated this during the election campaign by reiterating to the various talk show that "Brothers of Italy would never have questioned the right to abortion" [Rete4: Straight and Reverse, 15.09, Fourth Republic, 19.09].

The PD bandwagon where many adult Catholics camp out radical chic who flirt with the Left of the post-proletarian freaks with the super penthouses in Parioli and the villas in Capalbio, it brings together fringes that have been fighting for years for euthanasia and marriage between same-sex couples, who complain of the excessive number of conscientious objecting doctors guilty of preventing the "sacred right" to abortion. Recently, the Piddine fringes have tried to pass a law that, behind the false banner of the crime of homotransphobia, would have effectively punished the crime of opinion. What if that law was passed as it was written, today we priests would be dragged from one court to another for having read the texts of the Blessed Apostle Paul in our churches or for having passed on what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches about certain spheres of morality. For now, the proposal has failed, by passing i gay friendly piddini From Prozan to Prozac, as Father Ivano Liguori and I explained in one of our books.

.

To hit Giorgia Meloni, woman with undoubted political talent, intuitive and intelligent, temperamentally amiable and great communicator, the Left have repeatedly accused her that the Brothers of Italy intended to strike the law 194 than in 1978 made the worst form of the death penalty legal in our country: the killing of children in the womb. Except then wave the rainbow flags shouting peace and love and tear his clothes if in the United States of America he is sentenced to the electric chair a serial killer. All in the name of "no to the death penalty always and in any case", except for the legalized death penalty for abortion imposed by mothers and carried out by serial killer operating legally in our hospitals.

.

A politician who from speech to speech, Of talk show in talk show states that abortion is a right and that as such it will not be touched ", the vote of the Catholics deserves it as much as the PD bandwagon with all its avid supporters of euthanasia deserves it, of the fight against conscientious objectors, marriage between same-sex couples, of the attempt to pass a liberticidal law which, under pretexts for the protection of the LGBT world, intended to establish the dictatorship of minorities through The coup of the politically correct, as our author Francesco Mangiacapra wrote in one of his splendid books.

.

Today we Catholics we are not even able to vote for the so-called least worst. And who would be the least worst, perhaps Cav. Silvio Berlusconi suffering from hypertrophic narcissism and delirium of omnipotence or the Sen. Matteo Salvini who changes his mind overnight? We fly over the grillini that should have redesigned an entire country, except to become worse than the old levers of the D.C.. and of the P.S.I, which at least were made up of men of great preparation and culture, or by authentic statesmen of great class and race like Bettino Craxi. A Catholic cannot sign a blank check without date and without amount to people who demonstrate that they have a completely distorted idea of ​​the very concept of human life, or who, in the face of the vote, pass over the right to life by speaking of the right to abortion.

.

Like the sound of the Pied Piper of Hamelin elections always end up bringing the mice out into the open, because you need votes to win them. And to get votes you need not so much pleasure, but please the worst of this world. However, a Christian cannot please what is bad, nor can it call the massacre of the innocent "intangible right", with the deafening silence of the very Catholic Elisabetta Gardini, also a candidate in the Brothers of Italy.

.

A person who has declared himself a Christian around all of Europe, but that before the elections it justifies itself for the sake of voting with repeated public confessions ensuring that "no one will touch the right to abortion", she qualified enough not to get the vote of the Catholics, even cost abstention or a canceled ballot inside the polling station. Without detracting from the high quality and capabilities of the On. Giorgia Meloni, which undoubtedly is Giorgia, is a woman, she is a mother and an Italian, but in the face of the vote she proved that she was not Christian at all. And of this Catholics are kept in conscience and take seriously, if some of them had wanted to choose the least worst.

.

the Island of Patmos, 23 September 2022

.

.

THE LATEST BOOK BY ARIEL S. LEVI of GUALDO – TO ACCESS THE BOOKSHOP CLICK ON THE COVER

.

 

.

.

.

.

.

______________________

Dear Readers,
this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our
Bank account in the name of:
Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome
Iban code:
IT74R0503403259000000301118
For international bank transfers:
Codice SWIFT:
BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff, the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message:
isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.

Political elections 2022. The truth will make you free and happy. To rediscover the person and the common good

POLITICAL ELECTIONS 2022. THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE AND HAPPY. TO THE REDISCOVERY OF THE PERSON AND THE COMMON GOOD

 

The Common Good is tension to perfection reminds us that the political choice is always a choice in the making. The perfections, living conditions change and change, just like the parties: we need a heart and an attentive look at the signs of the times and at the neighbor who lives in a state of material poverty, moral and spiritual.

- Actuality -

.

Author:
Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

.

PDF print format article

 

.

.

The year was 2005. As a young undergraduate student in philosophy at the state university Wisdom I had to make one of the first academic choices of my life. The curriculum of studies at the time required me to make a choice of specialization, then choose which specific subject I would have deepened within the philosophical branches.

.

After careful reflection and prayer, I matured with God's help, the will to continue my studies in the specialization in political philosophy. This implied that the courses and research that I would support would also touch upon the fields of moral philosophy and law. The most recurring theme in those years among us young students and young philosophers was more or less always that: what is the relationship between the citizen and the institution? Between the whole and the part?

.

After entering religious life this topic has continued to interest me. Especially because I have had good professors of moral theology and of the social doctrine of the Church who have been able to rigorously and systematically explain the thought of the Church on socio-political issues. I thank these teachers, many of whom are my brothers, because with their lessons today they allow me to express some reflections on the forthcoming political elections in which we all as citizens will have the opportunity to participate.

.

The current political landscape, as it is known, is divided into three major parties, with the necessary internal nuances: Right, Left and Third Pole. So, to the nomenclature and division typical of Italian politics at the beginning of the twentieth century, we also find the insertion of a centrist pole. This is therefore the fact of reality what will be presented in the ballot paper that the Catholic voter will open and on which he will have the right to vote. Already the Father Ivano expressed himself in another very nice and profound article.

.

We are therefore in a democratic system where we are all called to be responsible for the Common Good.

.

About democracy, I always loved, read and meditated several times on the beautiful words of Annus, social encyclical which I advise all Catholics to read and meditate deeply:

.

«The Church appreciates the system of democracy, as it ensures the participation of citizens in political choices and guarantees the governed the possibility of both electing and controlling their rulers, and to replace them peacefully, where this is appropriate. That, therefore, it cannot favor the formation of small managerial groups, who for particular interests or for ideological ends usurp the power of the State [1]».

.

Now democracy, as Aristotle already teaches in the Policy, if badly managed, by free choice or incompetence, easily becomes demagoguery. I won't get too specific so as not to digress, but I also remember the studies on democracy, which can also easily assume dictatorial or totalitarian forms [2]. In practice what the Father Ariel analyzes in one of his works as "the phenomenon of democracy without freedom". What is the democratic foundation that then avoids these drifts? She explains it herself Annus:

.

«[…] An authentic democracy is possible only in a rule of law and on the basis of a correct conception of the human person. It demands that the necessary conditions be met for the promotion of both individuals through education and formation in true ideals, and of the "subjectivity" of society through the creation of structures of participation and co-responsibility [3]

.

The first and true pillar of the company it is then the human person. Many books have been written on the concept of person, so much ink has been poured into as many reflections, on which perhaps a thousand pages would not be enough. Thus the person is the propulsive and intensive center of ideas, actions and values ​​for civil society and for the Church. So every democracy must defend it, promote it and educate it in civic and universal values. Every local Church must sanctify it, teach her correct doctrine and govern her on the way to holiness.

.

The invitation to this rediscovery of man in its freedom and vocation to sociality it comes directly from God who created man in his own image and likeness. Like the One God, he is one in nature but threefold in person, thus by creating us, he in turn gave us the possibility of being people and of living according to freedom and relationship with one's neighbor. Jesus asks the apostles to be the light of the world. To lead every person to truth and goodness. This allows us to introduce the second major pillar of society and the state, according to the Church: the Common Good.

.

We have seen that the document of St. John Paul II speaks of participation and co-responsibility in democratic choice. This is because it has a great Catholic tradition and reflection behind it on the theme of the Common Good, as the second great pillar of the Company. Each person is the center if he also knows how to decentralize. If he knows how to come out of himself to give himself to find himself in a collective communion that respects his individuality at the same time but also knows how to elevate it. Every person is relational and is called to social and ecclesial communion. She is called on a journey of truth and goodness. That is: the Lord invites us to the truth which makes us free to do good. Jesus then told those Jews that they had believed in him:

.

“If you stick to my word, you will truly be my disciples; you will know the truth and the truth will set you free" [GV 8, 31-32].

.

The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church clearly and concisely expresses the concept of the Common Good:

.

"From dignity, unity and equality of all people derives above all the principle of the common good, to which every aspect of social life must refer to find full meaning. According to a first and broad meaning, by common good we mean "the set of conditions of social life that allow both communities and individual members, to reach one's perfection more fully and more quickly". The common good does not consist in the simple sum of the particular goods of each subject of the social body. Being of all and of each one, it is and remains common, because it is indivisible and because it is only possible to achieve it together, grow it and keep it, also in view of the future. How the moral action of the individual is realized in doing good, thus social action reaches its fullness by realizing the common good. The common good, indeed, can be understood as the social and community dimension of the moral good"[4].

.

The Common Good as a set of conditions for the achievement of a greater perfection for the person. I think I have never found a more beautiful and more complete definition of the Common Good, in all the authors I studied and wrote about during my university years and even after. The Common Good as a tension towards improvement is in the first place, call for the enhancement and recognition of our neighbor ― with our work (basis of the Italian constitution), with respect for civic duties ― the neighbor who is a you that God has placed in our Italian nation and with which we must cohabit responsibly.

.

In second place, the Common Good is tension to perfection reminds us that the political choice is always and in any case a choice in the making. The perfections, living conditions change and change, just like the parties: we need a heart and an attentive look at the signs of the times and at the neighbor who lives in a state of material poverty, moral and spiritual.

.

there, so, the two poles that every Catholic must keep in mind when they present themselves at the polling station. And that every Catholic deputy or senator must always have in mind, if he is elected, and will present itself in Parliament.

.

If perhaps this to the keyboard theologians and their supercazzole exhibited in the cathedrals of the social network it will sound like an abstract and beautiful speech in theory, but in practice absolutely impracticable, will once again prove how this generation of Digital Age she is perhaps one of the most ignorant ones in history but who at the same time believes herself to be the smartest ever. Because it's one of those digital generations that thinks of splitting up theory e praxis, but he knows nothing of either. That said, this is the call in conscience to the moral and social principles that should guide us. I have no intention of offering electoral and party suggestions. My task as a priest and theologian is therefore only to remember those core values ​​for all the faithful and encourage them to live them consistently. To imitate those who have embodied these values ​​in the past. Their actualization will also be made explicit by the circumstances from the principle of epic who will be able to suggest it to the readers.

.

I conclude by asking you to pray for our Italy, because it also rediscovers the values ​​of secularism - against the prevailing secularism - and knows how to make faith dialogue, culture and theology, between Catholics and men distant from the faith always with the good will to serve the person and the Common Good.

Jesus sweet Jesus love (St. Caterina da Siena)

.

Rome, 23 September 2022

.

NOTE

[1] Annus, 46.

[2] I refer to those who want to deepen the necessary J. Talmon, At the origins of totalitarian democracy, The Mill, Bologna, 1967.

[3] Annus, 46.

[4] Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 164.

.

 

.

 

.

.

Staff Blog

Father Gabriele

.

.

Visit the pages of our book shop WHO and support our editions by purchasing and distributing our books.

.

News from the Dominican Province Roman: visit the official website of the Dominicans, WHO

.

.

.

______________________

Dear Readers,
this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our
Bank account in the name of:
Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome
Iban code:
IT74R0503403259000000301118
For international bank transfers:
Codice SWIFT:
BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff, the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message:
isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.

A country is not saved with protest votes. As a Catholic electorate for the upcoming elections that risk being yet another “belly vote”?

A COUNTRY IS NOT SAVED WITH PROTEST VOTES. WHICH CATHOLIC ELECTORATE FOR THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS THAT RISK TO BE THE NTH "BELLY VOTE"?

We are left with hilarious bitterness of our local politics boutade of some farce characters, iconic phrases more worthy of a walker than a statesman called to guard the good and the beautiful of a country: “We will open the Parliament like a can of tuna […] We're not here to spot the jaguars ". And between a can of tuna and a jaguar the 25 September is approaching and what Catholics are doing, what they think, where am I?

- Church news -

.

Author
Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

.

PDF print format article

 

.

.

I am afraid that even the political elections the 25 September will no longer be the expression of a vote tummy that not of a real democratic feeling that takes the good of our country into due account. Which is why I am undecided whether to vote or not. For a priest, the vow is a serious matter of moral conscience, not just a civic duty enshrined in the Constitution.

.

A belly vote, how will that of the 25 September, we don't need it now, it has never and never will be used to build a balanced and sensible future. Anyone who still thinks that something could change from the next elections is very wrong, nothing will change, because politics - the real one, that of our Greek fathers - was designed not to change the system but to change man from within. As a presbyter I am allowed to say that man must be converted? Because this is the heart of the problem, the Pelagian effort of voluntarism is not enough. Man hardly educates himself, learning from their mistakes and its history, that most of the time he does not know and ignore. If it were that simple, we would have long ago stopped formulating and pursuing anti-human laws and policies, worthy of the most ruthless totalitarian policies that are repeated cyclically from time to time.

.

If we had paid more attention to history, we would have understood that the realities that truly improve the world all have the note of gratuitousness and non-repayable investment. I think, eg, to public health, to school and the world of education. School and healthcare are those magnificent realities in which you have to invest in generosity without expecting anything in return, because the fruits are not immediately visible but over time and the reward will certainly not be quantifiable in monetary figures but in better men, compassionate and wise.

.

We wanted to profit from hospitals transforming them into companies where it is good and nice to save on infirmities to increase the visibility of the manager on duty and where the pathologies are categorized according to a political and certainly not a clinical value. In the space of fifty years, schools have become the centers of an ideological tolerance in which students - less and less wise and proud of it - are not led to think with a critical sense and freedom. Indeed, it has been assumed that too much study was even deleterious, so it was necessary to introduce some alternation with work, in the illusion of planning a permanent job after high school. But even in this we have done worse, coming to conceive the mirifico income of citizenship that leads to the proof of facts to evaluate the study and work as disvalues ​​from which to beware of which it is possible to live only and only by claiming rights instead of getting busy in duties.

.

It was the rights to constitute the hinge of the all-Italian policy of the last ten years. Rights, we focus on rights, only and only rights! Forgetting the fact that to grow well the seed of any right must meet with the soil of duties, hard ground to work that requires the sacrifice of everyone.

.

For this reason I am convinced, both as a believer and as a presbyter, that the next elections will still displease most of Italy and that Catholic electorate that still remains there.

.

The entire political management was emblematic during the Covid-19 pandemic of both the last Draghi government and the two Conte governments. It was well highlighted how deep the dark barrel of Italian politics is, wound and wounding, it is called to scrape. In the last two years we have really come close to the popular uprising, as for the events in Trieste - something that would certainly have happened in a more realistic country than Italy - but not in Italy, we have always been the champions in the separation with reality, so as to put a patch on everything and make us like it, up to connivance with evil.

.

Even in the face of this important detachment from reality, I am convinced that there are still many good people in Italy: there are, they exist and will also exist in the future, but they are sufficiently sensible not to enter the vortex of politics that appears like that Count Ugolino who does not skimp on devouring his children. Well aware of the mechanisms of political power, they keep Socratically away from the lure of tyrants, who virtuously declaim examples of credibility, honesty and incorruptibility but which eventually become corrupted by the end of those famous mountain fifes that went to play and were played.

.

Of our own politics we are left with hilarious bitterness boutade of some farce characters, iconic phrases more worthy of a walker than a statesman called to guard the good and the beautiful of a country: “We will open the Parliament like a can of tuna […] We're not here to spot the jaguars ". And between a can of tuna and a jaguar the 25 September is approaching and what Catholics are doing, what they think, where am I? Yup, where am I? Not in the sense of their political weight which is non-existent (there is no longer a true Catholic politician since the time of Giorgio La Pira) but at least as believers where they are? Which direction are they called to choose in order to avoid conniving with certain structures of sin? Unfortunately, we have already experienced this, there is a serious danger that politics, free from everything and everyone, can become corrupted into a structure of sin, enemy of God and man, and fall into that original sin in which truth and virtue are excluded. Faced with the obsessive concern to make politics secular (and politicians) we have come to forget the areté (virtue), the sacred virtue par excellence that every politician and politician should pursue.

.

St. Thomas More, a Catholic politician too, was well aware of the danger for a believer of living in a corrupt state and of the need to resist as believers, as the evil of the rulers affects not only one part of the nation but all its members and what is objectively evil for one part is also evil for the other. Says St. Thomas More:

.

“If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us holy. But since we see that greed, anger, pride and stupidity commonly yield much more than charity, to modesty, justice and wisdom, maybe we need to keep a little steady, even at the cost of being heroes ".

.

Avarice today, anger, pride and stupidity are the guidelines within which the plots of a belly vote will be woven that will end up creating discontented and deceived citizens. Let us not be under any illusions, today even those parties that are built around the cornerstones of alternative thought and the anti-system and that insist on the abolition of GreenPass, on the end of the vaccination obligation, on the reintegration of those suspended from work, on the position of the war in Ukraine, on expensive bills, they will stop in front of the non-negotiable values. And what should a Catholic do? Pinch your nose and choose between the worst and the slightly less worst? But even no!

.

It is self-evident that no party that matters (not zero-point ones) will dare to say anything about non-negotiable values essential for a believer, because they are well aware of reducing their electorate. Faced with important issues such as abortion, the end of life, assisted suicide, the legalization of soft drugs, LGBT issues such as parties can be said to be truly anti-system? Which parties will marry charity, to modesty, justice and wisdom in their electoral program? Certainly not the current center-right whose current coalition is as embarrassing as that of the center-left. Just look at a few talk-show to hear how many male politicians, but above all women candidates in those parties that virtually would even refer to Christian values, they become as soft as butter in the sun on certain very sensitive subjects, they put their hands forward and promptly justify in a decisive and reassuring way that the Law 194 do not touch. Some even let slip that it is an "acquired right", implied: intangible! And these would be the parties and their respective candidates who would like to try to court the lost one, confused and disheartened Catholic electorate? And don't expect salvation even from the new coalitions that have sprung from the tormented gestation of a time of pandemic, where the Masaniellis went to waste, some years and they will be clones of the former Five Star Movement.

.

As Christians there is nothing else left which makes sense to do if not to pray, with that same request that the blessed apostle Paul made to Timothy:

.

«I recommend you therefore, first of all, asking questions, pleas, prayers and thanks for all men, for kings and for all those in power, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity " (1TM 2,1-2).

.

We have to pray - as we do in the universal prayer of Good Friday - so that those who are called to govern the civil community may be enlightened by the Lord in their minds and hearts so that the common good is reached, to true freedom and peace. We have to pray, asking the Lord for the strength to promote a Christian policy that changes man from within and not the system. A politics of virtue, in which the beautiful, the good and the true inspire the rulers to something more than an armchair and an annuity. I don't know if it will be possible but we have already hit rock bottom, so what do you say, at least we try?

.

Laconi, 12 September 2022

 

 

 

.

______________________

Dear Readers,
this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our
Bank account in the name of:
Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome
Iban code:
IT74R0503403259000000301118
For international bank transfers:
Codice SWIFT:
BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff, the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message:
isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.

All is not lost: the Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan doctor of the Church, right away!

NOT ALL IS LOST: THE METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP OF MILAN DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH, IMMEDIATELY!

Sooner or later there will be a conclave. Perhaps it would be appropriate to have the majority of the Cardinal electors recite the formula of oath in their national languages, exempting them from pronouncing it in a Latin that many do not know. In this way we will avoid the anticlerical secularists, agnostics and atheists, however, gifted with culture and preparation, can make fun of us for centuries to come.

- Church news -

Author
The Fathers of the Island of Patmos.

.

We never would have imagined than one day, the actor and director Carlo Verdone entered the literature of the Wisdom Books with his famous phrase: or it's strange, at least until the Supreme Pontiff began to give his best in the choice of new cardinals.

.

In 2017 he was made a cardinal the auxiliary bishop of San Salvador S.E. Mons. Gregory Rosa Chavez. The archbishop of that diocese, S. AND. Mons. Jose Luis Escobar Alas, thus he found himself as auxiliary a cardinal. Everything always to be read in the light of the great wisdom of Carlo Verdone: …or Word Association!

.

Without cardinal all those Italian dioceses which historically have been residential cardinal seats remain: Palermo, Naples, Florence, Bologna, Genoa, Milan, Turin and Venice. In all these historic seats there are currently two cardinals, the meek but decisive and determined Giuseppe Betori in Florence, created cardinal by Benedict XVI in 2012 and the meek and enough Matteo Maria Zuppi, created cardinal by Francis and today President of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

.

With a subtle Socratic irony that one would never have expected from a Milanese - we are so used to thinking that it is almost a prerogative of the inhabitants of the Italic areas of Magna Graecia which was, being ironic -, S. AND. Mons. Mario Delpini delivered memorable jabs in his official greeting to the newly elected Cardinal Oscar Cantoni, Bishop of Como, Suffragan diocese of Milan.

.

We are sincere: but who are they baucia Milanese? After all, Milan is only an ancient diocese that has given saints to Christianity, blessed, Doctors of the Church and Supreme Pontiffs. It is only a Diocese that with its missionary priests or the gift of faith he contributed in a decisive way to evangelize entire nations around the world. All trivial and completely obvious things. Perhaps we want to compare this Diocese, the largest in Europe, historically and ecclesially so insignificant, with the Apostolic Vicariate of Mongolia (1.300 baptized Catholics) with the diocese of Tonga (9.000 baptized), with the Vicariate of Brunei, where there are barely any baptized Catholics throughout the country 15.000, whose bishops were created cardinals? What is Milan, in the face of the eccentric papal extravagance of … 'O famously strange? Because we are reduced to this: to wanting to do eccentric things that can surprise, since no one seems to be able to amaze with Jesus Christ anymore.

.

A subdued advice: sooner or later there will be a conclave. Perhaps it would be appropriate to have the majority of the Cardinal electors recite the formula of oath in their national languages, exempting them from pronouncing it in a Latin that many do not know. In this way we will avoid the anticlerical secularists, agnostics and atheists, however, gifted with culture and preparation, can make fun of us for centuries to come. Not everyone can in fact understand the profound and great mystagogical wisdom of ... 'O famously strange!

.

the Island of Patmos, 1September 2022

.

.

.

.

«You will know the truth and the truth will set you free» (GV 8,32),
but bring, spread and defend the truth not only of
risks but also the costs. Help us supporting this Island
with your offers by clicking on the secure system logo below PayPal:









or you can use our bank account:

Subsidiary n. 59 of Rome in the name of Editions The island of Patmos

IBAN IT74R0503403259000000301118

CODE SWIFT: BAPPIT21D21

in this case, send us an email warning, because the bank
It does not provide your email and we could not send you a
thanks [ isoladipatmos@gmail.com ].

.

.

.

The Church and the crisis of the sacred: the Eucharist is the real presence of Christ and the bloodless Holy Mass memorial of the sacrifice of Calvary

THE CHURCH AND THE CRISIS OF THE SACRED: THE EUCHARIST IS THE REAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST AND THE HOLY MEMORIAL MASS INCRUING THE CALVARY SACRIFICE

In the letter of the 7 April 1913, Padre Pio da Pietrelcina wrote to his spiritual director Padre Agostino da San Marco in Lamis describing the mystical experience he had witnessed, where the weeping Lord Jesus complains of his priests calling them "butchers" precisely in relation to the celebration of the divine sacrifice and the provisions with which it was celebrated.

- Church news -

.

Author
Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

.

PDF print format article

 

.

click on image to open the video

The story of the Ambrosian priest Mattia Bernasconi and his idea of ​​celebrating Holy Mass at sea, as I have already dealt with in the past in my previous articles [see who, who, who], showed very well the level of weakness of the The sense of Faith circulating today among the clergy and the faithful. On the contrary, precisely because the clergy are the first to be deficient in The meaning of Faithi, of Tradition and knowledge of the Magisterium, the faithful feel entitled to behave accordingly, distilling their faith within a creed that is the result of an emotional drive and corporate solidarity.

.

By the grace of God, after some time of inexplicable silence, the Archbishop of Milan has his say and says it with the authority of a pastor whose purpose is to defend the People of God entrusted to him against the shipwrecks of faith and sound doctrine. In spite of all those beautiful souls who for some time have defended the horrendous antics of putting into the sea with the sword, complaining of stiffness, ignorance and judgment all those who - including us priests - have had to say and have reacted ... because you know, in the Church there are other problems, the important things are certainly not these. Poor us!

.

Just take an excerpt from the press release of the Ambrosian prelate [see who] to understand how much this Brother was wrong, so much so that he forced his bishop to such expressions:

.

«I believe that Don Mattia's way of celebrating is nonsense without justification […] It will be a duty for Don Mattia to seriously resume liturgical training that allows us to understand how this behavior was possible and to prevent it from happening again ".

.

As always the painful point it is given by the formation of the clergy, to always be taken care of and to be checked periodically over the years. Ignorant clergy leads to the consequence of an ignorant laity, in the etymological sense of the term. It is not only a problem of dogmatic theology that informs liturgical and pastoral theology but above all of an immersion in that dimension of mystery which touches the very heart of God and constitutes its spiritual texture..

.

All the sacred mysteries, in the first place The holy Mass, they allow man to touch the action of the Holy Spirit in his own creaturality, working out salvation. If we don't allow the Holy Spirit to speak to us through the sacred mysteries, nobody will. The spirit of the world is unable to reinvigorate the withered bones of a God-forgetful life [cf.. This 37,1-14], it distorts everything in disordered emotionality, in do it yourself compulsive and sectarian solidarity, all things that cannot find a justification in the Church, especially when you push yourself to the limit of sacrilege.

.

I think it is useful and constructive re-read some of the many comments of the "faithful" that appeared on the profile Facebook by Mattia Bernasconi, as well as in that of other presbyters. For example Giovanni Berti, the cartoonist priest of the clerically correct who immediately ran to the defense of his Milanese brother by making drawings to this. Here are some of the more interesting comments:

.

«I am on the side of the priest who made the mass on the mat. And I defend it. God can be found everywhere, even at sea […] total solidarity with Don Mattia and his authentic testimony […] Don Mattia was and is also authentic in apologizing. The young priests who are nostalgic for the Council of Trent and who celebrate in Latin terrify me […] Mattia you haven't done anything wrong! I hope that the support of those who love you will give you strength and comfort you! […] Don Mattia the true word of God is practiced in this simple and humble way, we are all with you […] But Jesus must have been happy to be celebrated in such a context and then maybe someone who hadn't been to mass for a long time, he had a chance to remind those who have criticized it only out of envy, not to have the courage or the imagination to do it to them! How much hypocrisy… how many Taliban we have in the church […] Thank you Don Mattia for yet another teaching you have given me. The essence […] But apologize for what??? Offended who? Of zotic people? It does not seem to me that Jesus went to preach the faith around in a suit and tie had an altar all in gold!

.

There is also a letter from a certain Don Paolo, entitled: "The mattress of the scandal and the Catholic dinosaurs", whose contents are comparable to those learned during a course online in theology, whose dogmatic teacher is the magician Oronzo. I am not here to open any debate on these expressions that speak for themselves and that, as I said earlier, they are just a mixture of emotionality and corporate solidarity. but yet, the tragic nature of a non-existent Eucharistic faith is evident and leaps to the eye, the lack of understanding for the violation of the mystery of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord combined with a luciferian denial of sin that nullifies any possibility of recovery of the offender and of recognition and expiation of the guilt. In short, to hear these testimonies, Mattia Bernasconi is more devoted to the Eucharist than Saint Pasquale Baylon, patron of Eucharistic congresses.

.

My intent with this further article on the subject is to publicly reiterate to the Presbyterian Confreres and to the Venerable Bishops that our faithful have completely lost the sense of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Just as they have lost the meaning of the Eucharistic celebration of Mass as a bloodless memorial of the sacrifice of Calvary. And this is because of us priests! Definitely, if we still want to save the least that can still be saved, we must start afresh from the Eucharist, both as a mystery revealed by the Lord Jesus and as theological understanding and reflection within the Magisterium of the Church. Start from the basics, starting with children, educating their hearts to know how to see Jesus, to be with him in the Sacrament. My experience as a priest of the Order of the Capuchin Friars Minor, for years chaplain in a large hospital, today parish priest of a parish annexed to our Sardinian convent in Laconi, is the one that tells me that children easily fall in love with the Sacrament of the altar if we adults know how to provide them with the bare minimum to understand its mystery and the dignity of greatness. In my opinion, the concepts of faith in the Christian faithful should not be burdened and multiplied if they are not yet able to assimilate its essentials. The Eucharistic presence of Christ adored and proclaimed real in the celebration of the Holy Mass becomes the hyphen that allows me, at a later time, to have a more dilated and pure look, almost mystical, to see the Lord present in the poor, in the sick and in all the brothers I will meet.

.

The hours of Eucharistic adoration, which in parishes are increasingly disappearing, they represent the real training ground in which to recognize the living Jesus. A Christian who does not worship and praise is a weak Christian. A priest who in his spiritual life does not feel the need to stand before Jesus in the sacrament is a bureaucrat and if he is also in the care of souls and does not peel his knees in front of the tabernacle he endangers his apostolic mission, his spiritual health and weakens the flock entrusted to him.

.

If we were to observe the awareness of the presence of the Lord in most of the faithful who cross the entrance of a church, we will see some good ones: how many of them enter with decorous and not skimpy clothes? How many turn off their mobile phones or silence it out of respect for the Blessed Eucharist and out of respect for those present who are already in prayer? How many look for the red lamp that signals that the church is inhabited by the Eucharistic presence of the living Christ? How many kneel, once you get to the counter, and recite the prayers of praise and reverence to the Holy Eucharist like those taught by the holy doctor Alfonso Maria de 'Liguori or say a heartfelt "May the Most Holy and Divine Sacrament be praised and thanked every moment" ending everything with a doxology? How many of those who enter the church, they hurry to seek the comfort of the person of Christ in the tabernacle instead of hurrying to look for the wooden or plaster statue of the saint on duty, not understanding the substantial difference between simulacrum and real presence, between the worship of latria, dulia and iperdulia?

.

And this could be just the beginning of a long collective examination of conscience that involves the faithful and priests together. We can go further by analyzing the Holy Mass: those who arrive on time so that the celebration can begin with the entrance song and end it with the final song? How many are the faithful still convinced that the Holy Mass is valid if it has arrived at least before the proclamation of the Holy Gospel? How many, during the consecration and elevation, they know how to look at the Body of Christ in the white host and the chalice with wine, Blood of the Lord? How many still firmly argue that to receive communion at Holy Mass just one Act of Pain without the need for any prior sacramental confession, even if you are aware of having failed to some commandment? How many are convinced that to receive sacramental Communion the only passionate desire that makes people say "I felt like taking the Eucharist" forgetting a Christian life that excludes habitual sin, the conditions of moral disorder and the impediments of conscience that would need a profound healing? How many are the faithful who present themselves to receive Communion from the priest only for baptisms, weddings and funerals, thinking that that communion thrown there is a duty due to etiquette and not as a response of faith? How many still go to Communion with candy or chewing gum in their mouths? How many still approach with contempt and derision, with no awareness of who you are going to receive? How many challenge the Church and the priest who distributes the Eucharist considering Communion as a proper acquired right? How many public advocates or defenders of positions such as abortion, l'euthanasia, divorce, coexistence, drug use, marriages outside the natural law, war and all those cases in which division abounds, hostility and oppression of the weakest today approach Communion with evident sacrilege?

.

It seems normal to you affirm that, after all these inconsistencies, we can still believe in a serious and mature way in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist? The marine mass of Crotone is the tip of theiceberg of a pathological sacramental malaise that is affecting everyone.

.

And when you point out this incompatibility, even with force, immediately you become one who judges, a betraying Judas or an anachronistic Catholic "dinosaur". Today these accusations become the most immediate way to discredit the adversary and defuse the goad towards the sanctity that is required of those who want to cross the narrow door [LC 13,24]. With this antidote, the prosecution charge, we get rid of any bigot, just as in politics the word fascist is used and in the LGBT community the word homophobia to silence opposing dissent.

.

As a Capuchin friar I would have a good game in reminding everyone of the position, in relation to the Holy Mass, by Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. His, stigmatized priest, to each Eucharist that he celebrated or attended he relived on his flesh and in his soul the terrible pangs of the passion of the Lord Jesus with vivid realism. In the letter of the 7 April 1913, Padre Pio wrote to his spiritual director Padre Agostino da San Marco in Lamis describing the mystical experience he had been a spectator of, where the weeping Lord Jesus complains of his priests calling them "butchers" precisely in relation to the celebration of the divine sacrifice and the provisions with which it was celebrated. I wanted to cite an example dear and close to me, but I could go on to list other saints such as Blessed Carlo Acutis, eg, and other memorable pages in the history of the Church in which the importance of the celebration of the Eucharist and the Body of the Lord is reaffirmed.

.

I'm not doing this to provoke a lynching of anyone, something that I would be careful not to do being a sinner more than the others but, Alas, I was also credited with this intention by someone who has read my latest articles, not just misinterpreting them, but just completely distorting them.

.

Dear Brothers in the Priesthood and Venerable Bishops, I consider true and right the ministerial duty to affirm that when the limit of decency is exceeded in such a clear way with regard to the Most Holy Eucharist and the Holy Mass, as happened in Crotone, it takes the right indignation, the due reparation and the courage of fatherhood. Yup, knowing how to use virile paternity with immediacy and authority, that neither the Archbishop of Milan nor that of Crotone have been able to do immediately. As he said in 1972 the Venerable Father Divo Barsotti preaching the spiritual exercises to the Roman Curia under the invitation of Paul VI:

.

"The Church has been endowed by God with a coercive power that she must exercise if necessary because if she does not exercise it, both the charity and the mandate that Christ has given her are lost".

.

And as a father in front of the son who is wrong he does not strive with firmness and mercy, as we read in Hebrews [cf.. 12,5-11], so that this is repentant and not lost? Because it is from the correction that underlines the error that the charity is born that recovers the one who makes mistakes and surrounds him with mercy. For this reason we must not be afraid to affirm with the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church that:

.

"Our Savior at the Last Supper, the night he was betrayed, he instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood, with which to perpetuate over the centuries, until his return, the sacrifice of the cross, and to entrust thus to his beloved Bride, the church, the memorial of his death and resurrection: sacrament of piety, sign of unity, bond of charity, Easter banquet, in which Christ is received, the soul is filled with grace and the pledge of future glory is given " (See. CCC n.1323).

.

Who helps us in this understanding of the Eucharistic mystery are our priests who are not masters but servants without ulterior motives:

.

“They exercise their sacred function in the Eucharistic cult or assembly, where is that, acting in the person of Christ and proclaiming his mystery, they unite the vows of the faithful to the sacrifice of their Head and in the sacrifice of the Mass they make present and apply, until the coming of the Lord, the only sacrifice of the New Testament, that is, the sacrifice of Christ, who once and for all offers himself to the Father as an immaculate victim. From this one sacrifice all their priestly ministry draws its strength " [cf.. CCC n.1566].

.

In the daily liturgical diakonia at the service of the altar made up of gestures, rites, signs and symbols, the priests, they celebrate the Eucharist in which the Lord renews his Easter redemption from sin and death in favor of man. This ritual language needs an appropriate space, that it is worthy of the greatness of the mystery that is celebrated in it. Therefore the Holy Mass:

.

«Let it be done in the sacred place, unless in a particular case necessity requires nothing else; in which case, the celebration must take place in a decent place " [cf.. Sacramentum n. 108 and Code of Canon Law, Can. 932 § 1; cf.. S. Congress. for the Cult Div., Istr., Liturgical establishments, n. 9: AAS 62 (1970) p. 701].

.

Like this, celebrating with lively faith and in a worthy way the Holy Mass, the priest and with him the Church, realizes what St. Ambrose Bishop of Milan says about the real presence of the Body of the Lord:

.

«This bread is bread before the sacramental words; ma, intervening the consecration, the bread becomes Christ's flesh […] From which words the consecration is made and whose are these words? Of the Lord Jesus! All the things that are said before that moment are said by the priest who praises God, pray for the people, for kings and for others; but when it comes to fulfilling the venerable sacrament, the priest no longer uses his words, but of Christ. It is therefore the word that operates (traverses) the sacrament […] See how effective it is (operator) speaking of Christ? Before the consecration there was no Body of Christ, but after the consecration, I tell you that the body of Christ is now there. He said and it was done, he commanded and was created (cf Shall 33, 9)» [See. Ambrogio, Of the sacraments, IV, 14-16 (PL 16, 439 ss].

.

With the last and definitive word of the Archbishop of Milan, on the story of the Mass of Crotone, we are moving towards the end of the summer 2022. Summer is ending, the Righeira Brothers sang in 1985, for us it would be enough that these liturgical and dogmatic oddities were to end, with the hope that in this period the bishops will be a little closer to the priests and a little less to the polls and politicians, since we still believe that Christ is the one and only Redeemer of humanity.

Laconi, 23 August 2022

feast of Saint Ignatius of Laconi

 

 

 

.

______________________

Dear Readers,
this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our
Bank account in the name of:
Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome
Iban code:
IT74R0503403259000000301118
For international bank transfers:
Codice SWIFT:
BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff, the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message:
isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.

Anticipation: Amoris Tristitia, the new book dedicated by Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo to the great figure of Cardinal Carlo Caffarra

- shop book editions of The Island of Patmos -

ANTICIPATION: IS OUT «THE SADNESS OF LOVE»THE NEW BOOK DEDICATED BY THE FATHER ARIEL S. LEVI di GUALDO TO THE GREAT FIGURE OF CARDINAL CARLO CAFFARRA

.

“Far be it from me to cut your wings, I would like to ask you a prayer that you are not required to answer: you can put your hand to this work and publish it in 5 year old?» (Carlo Caffara, 19 January 2017)

.

Jorge Facio Lynx
President of Editions The island of Patmos

.

.

.

The 5 September 2022 five years will have passed since the death of Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna, who was one of the world's foremost experts in the doctrine of marriage and the family, of which our Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo was a friend, later discreet and confidential private collaborator between the 2015 and the 2017.

.

The objective ambiguities of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation love joy given by the Supreme Pontiff Francis after the closing of the Synod on the family, many bishops have touched very deeply, presbyters and theologians reduced today more and more to silence, as can sometimes happen when one is too open, too much dialogue, too synodal and above all too merciful.

.

A lucidly critical book written by a scholar of solid doctrine, capable of drawing up even hard and severe pages if necessary, but completely unassailable on the theological level. Father Ariel spoke of this project with Cardinal Carlo Caffarra in January of 2017, who in response addressed a non-binding request to him, remittance to its free decision: “You could wait five years before publishing it?». He expressed it to him in a long and detailed letter, of which the Author reports an excerpt in the opening of the book:

.

.

Dearest Father Ariel,

I understand your pain for the article appeared yesterday on Future where I was attacked with inaccuracy and malice. Imagine my pain. It is the newspaper of the Italian Episcopal Conference, of which I was a member for twenty years as bishop of two dioceses.

I have examined the draft of the book you intend to prepare on doctrinal topics related to the last Synod on the family. I have always recognized your writing skills and your theological skills to which you combine the look of an eagle and courage of a lion. You'll get a great job out of it, I'm sure.

Far be it from me to cut your wings, I would like to ask you a prayer that you are not required to answer: you can put your hand to this work and publish it in 5 year old?

I know that you are not emotional and that you proceed with speculative rigor, but these qualities of yours are not common to others, and at this moment the minds are too hot.

If you will listen to me, I will appreciate it from heaven, while on earth I will be a forgotten old cardinal, come before the judgment of God aware of being a sinner, but sure I can say that I did what I had to do with the strength that was given to me.

Next month I will come to Rome and as always we will have the opportunity to meet.

Pray for me.

19 January 2017

XCarlo Caffara

.

.

When the book goes into distribution in early September we will announce it in the columns of ours Patmos Island, because you will hardly be able to learn it from Future and yes The Osservatore Romano.

 

From the island of Patmos, 21 August 2022

.

.

.

LIBRARY STORE, WHO

.

our books are published and distributed by Amazon Inc.

you can also request them directly from the L’Isola di Patmos Editions: isoladipatmos@gmail.com

and receive them at your address in 5 working days

.

.

 

 

.

 

.

.

«You will know the truth and the truth will set you free» [GV 8,32],
but bring, spread and defend the truth not only of
risks but also the costs. Help us supporting this Island
with your offers through the secure Paypal system:









or you can use the bank account:

payable to Editions The island of Patmos

IBAN IT 74R0503403259000000301118
in this case, send us an email warning, because the bank
It does not provide your email and we could not send you a
thanks [ isoladipatmos@gmail.com ]




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

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

 

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

- Actuality -

.

.

PDF print format article

 

.

.

Older lesbian couple

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

the Island of Patmos, 29 July 2022

.

Dear Readers,

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

Thank you

.

.

.

______________________

Dear Readers,
this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our
Bank account in the name of:
Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome
Iban code:
IT74R0503403259000000301118
For international bank transfers:
Codice SWIFT:
BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff, the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message:
isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.

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

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

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

- Church news -

.

Author
Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

.

PDF print format article

 

.

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

Laconi 27 July 2022

.

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

.

.

 

.

.

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

to go to the shop click on the image

.

.

______________________

Dear Readers,
this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our
Bank account in the name of:
Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome
Iban code:
IT74R0503403259000000301118
For international bank transfers:
Codice SWIFT:
BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff, the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message:
isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.

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

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

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

- Church news -

.

Author
Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

.

PDF print format article

 

.

.

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

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

.

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

Laconi, 27 July 2022

.

.

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

.

.

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

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

.

.

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

to go to the shop click on the image

.

.

______________________

Dear Readers,
this magazine requires management costs that we have always faced only with your free offers. Those who wish to support our apostolic work can send us their contribution through the convenient and safe way PayPal by clicking below:

Or if you prefer you can use our
Bank account in the name of:
Editions The island of Patmos

n Agency. 59 From Rome
Iban code:
IT74R0503403259000000301118
For international bank transfers:
Codice SWIFT:
BAPPIT21D21

If you make a bank transfer, send an email to the editorial staff, the bank does not provide your email and we will not be able to send you a thank you message:
isoladipatmos@gmail.com

We thank you for the support you wish to offer to our apostolic service.

The Fathers of the Island of Patmos

.

.

.