To the Brother Priests: how to defend yourself from certain new generation Bishops, especially since the invasion of the Apulians?

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TO THE BROTHER PRIESTS: HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF FROM CERTAIN BISHOPS NEW GENERATION, SPECIALLY FROM THE INVASION OF THE PUGLIÈNI?

There is a sense of proportion that must always be applied through the exercise of that wisdom that the Roman jurists called aequitas, then transferred from scratch into Roman Canon Law. What aequitas means and how it is applied? Soon said: if members of the Roman Senate are allowed to insult and rape Caesar's wife, without Caesar and his deputies reacting in any way, you cannot then apply maximum rigor by crushing the legs of anyone who has allowed himself to respond badly to a servant in charge of cleaning the calidarium of the Baths of Diocletian.

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Italy is now full of bishops ― or rather of episcopetti ― all very social, with one eye winking at the PD and the other at LGBT activists. And all, like broken records, they pronounce precise watchwords: «Church on the way out … break the mold … get your hands dirty...", but above all «the poor and migrants … migrants and the poor...".

Then there are also those who turn on you saying: «How dare you call me Your Excellency? We are no longer in the Renaissance era, Can't you see that I wear a wooden cross around my neck and that I am a native of the land of the most holy Tonino Bello? Call me Don Checco, because maybe you don't know, but I am a small bishop who graduated from the school of Checco Zalone. After all, I belong to the Apulian species, half Apulian and half alien, very popular today. Because if you are not from Puglia, to divide the bishop new generation in Italy it is not easy, but not even apostolic nuncio, academic or official of the Roman Curia". Also because the bishops, although they are not saints, it seems that they do them directly at the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, where today a famous Apulian prefect lives, half Apulian and half alien.

Well, dear Brothers, all these grotesque images circulating on the social media, depicting grotesque priests whose existence is due to bishops more grotesque than them, set them aside, in an archive, all of them. Then, the first time that the bishop on duty who speaks continuously in public about «more dialogue, more democracy in the Church... synodality and conversation in the Spirit are needed...", he will call you to report inside a closed room more authoritarian and despotic than Pol Pot and Korean Kim Jong, if anything to reproach you for being too Catholic, which today means to be “rigid” e “gloomy”, show them all these images and videos: by the priest with the moustache, the earring and sunglasses during the sacred liturgies, to all the others who seem to compete with each other to see who screws up the biggest, but above all the most irreverent …

If the bishop dares to sigh, remind him that there is a sense of proportion that must always be applied through the exercise of that wisdom that the Roman jurists called aequitas, then transferred from scratch into Roman Canon Law. What does it mean aequitas and how it is applied? Soon said: if members of the Roman Senate are allowed to insult and rape Caesar's wife, without Caesar and his deputies reacting in any way, you cannot then apply maximum rigor by crushing the legs of anyone who has allowed himself to respond badly to a servant in charge of cleaning the calidarium of the Baths of Diocletian. And if the bishops were to insist, despite the evidence of the facts, what they are capable of doing, having now lost along with modesty also the sense of shame, you know where to send them, because their authority is not in question, which remains undisputed, but their intelligence, which can and must be discussed. Even a bishop, without prejudice to his own authority apostolic, he can be a complete idiot. And today, of idiotic bishops, we have an inflation rate that would be the envy of the Argentine currency at its all-time high in devaluation.

the Island of Patmos, 4 September 2024

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We believers must avoid entering historic churches to protect our faith and our sense of the sacred?

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WE BELIEVERS MUST AVOID ENTERING HISTORIC CHURCHES TO PROTECT OUR FAITH AND OUR INNATE SENSE OF THE SACRED?

If a believer, moreover a priest - even if today being a priest does not imply being a believer, we have plenty of priests who are perfect atheists devoted to the new clerical power, all involved in social work - refuses to enter historic churches, The bishops should ask themselves some questions, if they weren't themselves busy being chief social workers.

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This month of August I spent ten days in the cool, on the mountains of Abruzzo. Soon “fresh” I'll end up there in the literal sense of the word: loss in. Or to put it with the Cardinal Francis George (1937 – †2015), about which the Cardinal also bears witness Angelo Comastri:

«I think I'll die in my bed but I'm afraid my successor will die in prison. And I still fear that his successor will die by firing squad, because we defend the family, because we say that the family is made up of a man and a woman and that life must be born from a father and a mother. We will be persecuted for this" (from the homily of 4 August 2024, WHO).

Even though many aren't aware of it, our fate is sealed. Others, who are aware of it, they flirt with this unclean world of ours trying to please it, in the hope of obtaining his graces and being pardoned at the right time.

For years I have avoided entering historic churches, starting from those of Rome, mindful of the desecrations that believers are forced to witness due to the assault of modern landsknechts (cf.. Sack of Rome 1527). And so, when, meeting up with people around our capital, I was asked several times to enter some of these churches with them, without hesitation I replied: «You go, I'll wait for you outside".

Before leaving again from the cool mountains I went to the nearby Marche, in Ascoli Piceno, to visit that authentic urban jewel, this time entering the Cathedral Church, with the results visible from the video I shot with my mobile phone. I can only tell one, because I think it's enough and more: upon entering the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament I knelt at the balustrade in front of the tabernacle, behind me a female voice begins in such a low tone: «…and what the fuck is he doing kneeling in front of that piece of furniture?». I turn and see three thirteen-year-old girls a few meters away from me, about fourteen years old, in shorts-underpants-crotches, intent on observing me from behind as if I were David Bowie in the science fiction film The man who fell to earth.

If a believer, moreover a priest - even if today being a priest does not imply being a believer, we have plenty of priests who are perfect atheists devoted to the new clerical power, all involved in social work - refuses to enter historic churches, The bishops should ask themselves some questions, if they weren't themselves busy being chief social workers.

I don't go inside historic churches reduced to museums visited by people who are increasingly irreverent and deliberately contemptuous of everything that is sacred, because I'm not willing to see girls who don't even wear short shorts anymore shorts, now they enter places of worship wearing real underwear, what they were once called culottes and which constituted women's underwear worn under clothes. Today the culottes instead they have assumed rank of dress and with them you enter churches, complete with said bras top that leave the belly exposed in plain sight.

I don't go inside historic churches because many women and girls who deliberately and intentionally provoke with certain attitudes, they would like nothing better than for some priest irritated by their outrageous attitudes towards the sacredness of the place to open his mouth to rebuke them; This is what they want and seek, and then spark public controversy over social media or give life to a real media case.

If I dared to scold some of these porn visitors, As absurd as it may seem, I would end up reprimanded by the competent ecclesiastical authority, being neither the bishop of that diocese nor the parish priest nor the rector of that church. Also because, if you enter a cathedral church in your underwear, who in fact allows it is first and foremost the bishop.

On the occasion of the traditional Palio I commented days ago on my page social — in a deliberately colorful way - the image of several girls entering screaming and shouting into the metropolitan cathedral of Siena dressed not so indecently, but really half naked. The video shown here shows in close-up the damsels crossing the central nave in their underwear with their stomachs exposed.

Obviously I had to put up with the anger and insults of the narrowest Sienese provincialism made up of Contrada members who, if stopped and questioned, would not be able to recite the Our father from start to finish; subjects who would remain speechless when faced with the question: can you tell me the first five words of the I believe? This army social of people who don't even know from which precise point on their body to start to make the sign of the cross, defended these shameless women with drawn swords, calling me "vulgar" and "the shame of a priest" for having dared - according to them - to let out a sigh on the “sacred dogma” of the Palio, which I don't care about, as I had explained clearly. What only interests me is that young women with no common sense of decency are not forced screaming into a historic cathedral church in their underwear with their stomachs exposed., not even if their so-called Contrada won, referred to me, like any other child of the Orbe catholica, I repeat, couldn't care less, because the respect for the sacred place is far superior to the traditional pagan games of the Palio of Siena.

15 August 2024, triumphal entry of women in their underwear into the metropolitan cathedral of Siena to celebrate the winning district of the Palio

This is why I don't go inside historic churches, with all due respect to our bishops who, faced with these irreverent scenes, vent more than ever by talking about the poor and migrants, of migrants and the poor, as well as «Church going out».

The problem is that we believers are leaving the churches, we priests ourselves animated by faith and solid priestly spirit, to leave room for the panties of the shameless ones who, with their thongs in the middle of their asses, gaze in the historic cathedral at that large chair placed on display in the presbytery, known to us as the episcopal chair, on which it climbs only one one of the numerous guys who tries to please and please the international Left by talking about poor people and migrants about migrants and poor people, while inside its cathedral church you walk with the culottes or the thread of the thong exposed in the middle of the ass under transparent shorts. For this reason it is very coherent that the Holy Father launched the excitatory at the right time slogan of the «Church that goes forth», from which the first to emerge are the believers, to protect and safeguard their faith, if anything, on the advice of us priests who still remained Catholic.

I will be among those who will not die in their bed, I will surely die in prison, while those after me, the few who have kept the faith, they will die by shooting in the square for having stated that a child can only be born from a father and a mother, while the self-satisfied clericals of the "outgoing Church" will ask forgiveness from all the international Lefts for the rigor of certain unworthy Catholics devoid of an inclusive spirit and incapable of keeping up with the times, just like those vile ecclesiastics who, to save their skins and maintain their privileges, swore allegiance on the atheist and anti-Christian text of the Constitutional Charter of France during the Revolution.

The thong thread some women wear it in the middle of their ass when they go to visit historic churches; certain ecclesiastical, the thong, instead they wear it printed on their faces as they govern and manage the Church in such a way as to demonstrate from day to day how deeply ashamed they are of Christ, apologizing to the world for him and for his excessive rigor imprinted on the pages of the Holy Gospel which contains within it everything that the world doesn't like, for this reason it is a source of ever-increasing embarrassment for the condescending clericalism that desires to please, please and live peacefully.

 

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The homoerotic frescoes created by Sodoma in the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore are worse than the parody of the last supper made by gays and trans at the opening of the Olympics in France

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THE HOMOEROTIC FRESCOES CREATED BY SODOMA IN THE ABBEY OF MONTE OLIVETO MAGGIORE ARE WORSE THAN THE PARODY OF THE LAST SUPPER MADE BY GAY AND TRANS AT THE OPENING OF THE OLYMPICS IN FRANCE

Intellectual honesty requires us to admit that much worse images have been fixed on frescoes and canvases inside our sacred places, with scenes that would make the theater of gays and trans people who parodied the Last Supper at the opening of the Olympics pale in comparison.

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In 2019 I wrote and published an article that I am reposting today following the completely legitimate controversy over the anti-Christian desecration made at the inauguration of the Olympics in France, whose ceremony was transformed into a grotesque Gay Pride.

Intellectual honesty forces us to admit that much worse images have been fixed on frescoes and canvases inside our sacred places, with scenes that would make the theater of gays and trans people who parodied the Last Supper at the opening of the Olympics pale in comparison. Think for example of the obscene homoerotic frescoes in the central cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore on which no pious abbot, over the course of more than five centuries, have you ever dreamed of passing white lime over it?, even though they are splendid paintings created by Ugo Bassi, known by his stage name which it was no coincidence Sodom.

In front of certain triumphs of frocismo in our sacred places, we truly have reason to be scandalized like vilified virgins, without prejudice to the offense and vulgarity of what happened at the Olympics?

the Island of Patmos, 5 August 2024

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FROM THE SODOM SPINELLO UP TO RETREAT TO THE ROMAN CURIA, WHILE NO ONE IN THE WORLD IS unreal MAKES STATEMENT THAT LIFE MONASTIC IS DEAD AND THAT THAT REMAINS IS A PARODY: "You call them IF YOU WANT, EMOTIONS "

The preacher Abbot will speak to the Roman Curia about the dreamer Giorgio La Pira and the poet Mario Luzi, as if it was a dream spirituality and theology poetry, as if the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, loudly proclaimed a saint had never written the encyclical Faith and Reason, the base of which there is the thought of a great Benedictine Abbot, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, who did not live the relationship with faith in dreams and poetry, but explaining that faith seeking understanding [faith requires reason] and in need: «I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust» [I think to understand, I understand to believe]. Unfortunately the famous Italian singer Lucio Battisti has been dead for years, otherwise, for the next retreat, perhaps Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi would have proposed the thoughtful lyrics of his famous song Emotions …

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Next the Council of Trent who attempted to curb the drifts of the clergy, Many abbeys poured in disastrous moral conditions. Recently he's talked in an essay dedicated to religious life [cf. WHO]. The state of men's abbeys, towards the end of the fifteenth century it was not unlike that of many female monasteries bleak, especially in those with rich heritages.

The Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, 14th century, erected in the Crete Senesi area

One example among many: in the architecture of many historic abbeys we can observe the standing buildings, detached from the monastery at least a hundred meters. If we ask the monks who continue to live in those abbeys and monasteries - because many of these facilities are no longer abbeys and monasteries, others are not inhabited by monks -, the answers that we shall receive will be varied, and equally disparate will not be the real answer, because often the truth burns, especially it can be really unedifying.

the ancient bachelor pad abbots more or less renaissance

Since we will speak of the frescoes of the cloister Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, erected in the fourteenth century in the countryside of the Crete Senesi, as an example we will take one of these stable detached from the monastery and today referred to as entrance door. Nothing to say that architectural styles change in the course of the centuries, but that function had a detached tower of the abbey and not visible from the abbey, which it is spread over four levels and incorporates a structure that, starting from the ground floor is dominated by two upper levels, all on an area of ​​over one thousand square meters? Do we have to believe that this gift of God architecture was really created only as a gateway to the abbey, or perhaps as a fortress? But a fort that would be if there were solid and high walls, that in that property, however, never existed, so?

So the structure was the residence of some revelers abbots, become such good offices of powerful families or for questions related to specific political arrangements, that being accustomed to lead monastic lifestyle at all, in those places they had their own small courts, They were devoted to hunting, at parties and so on. Then sometimes down in the monastery, necessary to fulfill their offices.

the ancient garçonnière of the more or less Renaissance abbots

The era the late fifteenth century He marked a doctrinal crisis, morality and customs preceded about three centuries earlier by an equally unfortunate epoch, when in the thirteenth century, Pope Eugenius III called for the Fourth Lateran Council that enacted strict rules against the immorality of the clergy and religious. It was in this jolly Renaissance that comes from Vercelli at the rich and powerful Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore a gay character: Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom [1477-1549].

About Sodom, subsequent historiography penned by religious pious attempt to clarify how mischievous connect the nickname by which the famous artist went to art history with those who would be his homosexual tastes. He even tried to resort to a pathetic sophistry arguing that the nickname Sodom It had nothing to do with the practice of sodomy but was linked to an expression that the artist in his local dialect used to say 'his, 'nduma», meaning "to go". Unlike what later tried to say critics pious to save the honor of not Bazzi, but that of the monastic structures that this bugger if contending with each other, the famous painter and architect Giorgio Vasari from Arezzo [1511-1574], who was his contemporary and connoisseur of his deeds, states that the source of such a nickname derived from his own homosexuality. The precise than that of Vasari Sodom It was also a hidden homosexuality at all, quite the opposite: He was performed in ostentatious and brazen way.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma: Christ bound to the column for the scourging

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom he married in his youth, but very soon he separated from his wife. Who knows if even in this regard some pious art critic - convinced that no one knows canon law and the discipline of the sacraments -, It can say that this separation was due to pure temperamental incompatibility. As if the end of the fifteenth separation from his wife and cut and run what would be more obvious could happen?

The Gay search for beauty which in this artist transcends nell'omoerotico, It is a feature of the painting Sodom, suffice to analyze the really striking figure of Christ tied to the column located in a corner of the central cloister Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore before the internal entrance door to the Abbey cathedral. Picture this sufficient to assess whether Christ bound to the column can look so sexy boy by winking. But for divine charity, you look carefully air and shameless position of the Christ at the Column portrait Sodom: there may remember certain images of the famous film Midnight Cowboy, with the then young Jon Voight in the provincial role Texan who arrived in New York full of dreams he ends up leaning against a street pole to hustle?

the historic poster of the famous film The Man on the Sidewalk, with the young Jon Voight leaning against the pole in the role of the hustler

Sodom, in that place of apparent quiet, as well as even more apparent religiosity, Perhaps the sign left him not only in the frescoes, but also in the air, and through the centuries! Indeed, the beautiful nature that surrounds equally stunning that abbey with all the architectural and artistic works of art, including homoerotic paintings, suppliscono for centuries the poor lack of religiosity; this thing that I do not say, because to prove it is the story. It would be enough just ask yourself this question: from the 1313 to date, how many monks of the Benedictine Congregation Olivetan that in the following seven hundred years of life we ​​have been beatified and canonized? Note that this Congregation, albeit reached between the end of the fifteenth and the end of the seventeenth century to count up to 1200 Monks distributed in several tens of Italian monasteries, seven centuries of existence has given the Church a unique blessed, its founder Maria Bernardo Tolomei [Siena 1272 — †Siena 1348], beatified three centuries after his death. Then, elapsed 661 year old, Blessed Bernardo Tolomei Maria was eventually canonized 20 August 2009.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said

Concerning the canonization of Maria Bernardo Tolomei would be interesting to see how the distinguished biographer Belgian Benedictine Dom Réginald Grégoire [1935 — †2013], postulator of the cause, has finally retrieved documents to carry on this historical cause at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, if it considers that for centuries has been complained precisely the impossibility of proceeding with a process of canonization for the lack of necessary historical documentation, which it seems to have finally compensated for the hagiography (!?). However, since this congregation with a rich heritage and being counted among the great Tuscan companies that possess the largest land plots, it may be that he had the means to finally find the historiography which for centuries did not exist?

particularly large fresco

Di Maria Bernardo Tolomei There were perhaps handed memorable sermons and wonderful spiritual lessons to its monks or as many of his lyrics lofty theological stature? To be honest, the collection of his letters [cf. WHO] more than the spiritual have the flavor of the writings of an administrator who organizes, directs, issuing directives and requires a papal legates and bishops concessions and privileges to their monasteries. As for the texts on his life, from one of the oldest [cf. WHO], they are an obvious jumble of ordinary gold legends with whom they were infiorettate the middle of the seventeenth century the lives of Saints or the candidates for canonization, all through precise and repetitive styles, thanks to writers who often gathered together episodes, visions and tests virtue that emerged as such in the lives of dozens of other saints or candidates for canonization. And even working in hagiography hagiography but apografia in apografia, the distinguished Belgian Benedictine biographer has finally changed over the centuries in a stratified apografie Position on life, virtues and reputation of holiness. So today, narrate the holy deeds of Bernardo Maria Tolomei, of which there are no written and original works but only posthumous biographies, It is like telling the struggle of St George and the dragon, canonizing finally biographers and hagiographers. That said it is good to clarify, to those to whom it was not clear if necessary, that the speeches have just made they do not rely on more or less stringent opinions or even ungenerous, but strictly on scientific data and not easy to disprove.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma

By way of historical inquiry, we want to check how many blesseds and saints were instead donated, including also some Doctors of the Church, from other religious congregations, in a life span far below the Congregation of Benedictine monks Olivetani? Can a monastic congregation not donate to the Church and Blessed Saints in seven hundred years? Yup, it's possible, As a gay character like Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom He does not just leave their mark only of ancient frescoes, but also in the air that permeates the walls, from the entrance building that was the bachelor pad connoisseurs of Renaissance abbots until the stable monastic populated by several other monks no less revelers. If the saying is true that "the barrel the wine that ', shortages blessed, santi, mystical and spiritual fathers, however, it was compensated with other talents, from that of Dom Francis Ringhieri [1721-1787], devoted to theatrical works in the Baroque era and defined by critics as "More heretical than any other tragedy friar in that century" [can be consulted WHO, WHO, WHO].

Speaking on asset plan: no Abbot of Monte Oliveto Maggiore has never had problems accommodating between those rich spiritual walls of an aesthetic but often empty Anima Christi, a large army of children of Sodom roughly similar to the poor sensual and winking Christ tied to the column. But when the abbot Dom Maurizio Maria Outlines [1986-1992], previously already economer general of the congregation, nell'avallo he was involved in financial transactions which led to the loss of several billion old lire, the children of Sodom They did not hesitate to remove him, because you can defer the morale of flickering monks tied to the column, but on the money deposited with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena can not however compromise. Everything although a Abate remain in office until 75 years of age, though re-elected by the general chapter every six years. A document everything is cronotassi of the abbots of the twentieth century, that until 1970 They remained in office for life, only from the successor of Dom Romualdo Maria Zilianti [1928-1946], with his successor Dom Angelo Maria Sabatini [1970-1986] takes over the practice of giving up the chair at the abbey they are 75 years of age.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma, between the sacred, profane and scenes of Bacchanalian … to the right are depicted the family Abbot era

If today we can call ourselves Christians we owe it to the children of St. Benedict of Norcia through monasticism have first saved, then spread Christianity in the West. The same lemma Europe, of which St. Benedict is the patron, It was born as an idea and concept in the great Benedictine abbeys circuit, because they were the sons of St. Benedict in creating Europe. And if today we can read and study Greek philosophy, Latin classical literature or know the works of the great Fathers of the Church, if we have so many secular works from the contents anything but Christians, Gaius Valerius Catullus, including, we owe it to the Benedictine monks, born children of St. Benedict, and then it is reduced centuries after the children of Sodom.

To those who have always nurtured great veneration historical and theological towards the Benedictine Order, heart-wrenching to see today reduced monasticism in a similar decline. Unfortunately in this world in which even the most scandalous news today are born to die tomorrow and make room for other scandals, I fear that few have realized that to Montecassino, mother of all Western abbeys, gangrenous a homosexual in their unbridled vices has decreed the death of monasticism; and today, what's left, It is an empty shell, fact of historical abbeys - those that today have survived - rich in works of art and beautiful scenery,, but empty of the substance of the faith and of that glorious monasticism from the sixth century faith saved her and then spread. In short: attention to be seduced by the historical frames of the beautiful and the aesthetic that, however, conceals the emptiness of the spirit and of the Christian virtues, because the Devil, in addition to having extraordinary aesthetic sense, wonderfully sung in Gregorian chant and “celebrates pontifical abbey” with great stylish exterior, He is having trained at the monastic life by jumping from a “another particular friendship”. And today, all the “special friends” of yesterday, are abbots in the various abbeys, not to mention the monks that “special friendships” they sealed them with their vow in the monastic chapters and in the general chapter, ie how much it would be enough to pray God's mercy throughout their lives so that it can preserve them from Hellfire.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma.

The funeral march on monasticism, after so many scandals in the abbeys and monasteries of Europe has finally played Dom Pietro Vittorelli, 191Th successor of St. Benedict of Norcia, who delighted to lead a life of luxury around Europe, to stay in expensive hotels and pay a high price the company of young gay with Abbey money [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO, etc …]. To this is then also added the use of drugs, for which has had consequent health problems cost the Abbey of Montecassino very high amounts when for a period of time the Abbot took refuge in a Swiss clinic to detox and to try to cure his cocaine addiction. The most tragic thing though is that he was not subjected to canonical penalties and has not been dismissed from the clerical state, so as to be still in the cronotassi Arciabati of Monte Cassino and in the yearbooks of the Italian Episcopal Conference as "Abbot Emeritus Professor ' [cf. WHO] rather than as "destitute".

the homoerotic figures for nothing hidden in painting “sacred” by Giovanni Bazzi known as Sodoma

(C)On the abbot of Montecassino the funeral march of monasticism has only come to an end, because the execution was carried out previously with moral scandals scattered abbeys spread across Europe. Of course, other cases it was able to treat them with confidentiality, from the Abbey of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Finally, the private status territorial prelature, to follow with the Abbey of Grottaferrata, where he was deposed Abbot Dom Emiliano maker, even in that case this happened especially for the nocturnal comings and goings of the inevitable paid young men who went to amuse some vicious monks, so much so that the Holy See - a rare thing indeed - proceeded to declare invalid certain priestly ordinations of young monks. We could follow with the St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum, academic structure of the Benedictine Confederation, to which Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski several times, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education [1999-2015], between 2007 and the 2008 intimated that if not cleaned up their internal college from various pleasantries and numerous fact coppiette, the Holy See would have shut him.

To limit ourselves only ever scope Roman: what happened to the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, where he was elected abbot a former Milanese designer, also very gay, He rose from the fashion world to monasticism and become in a few years monaco, a priest and then abbot aesthetic? but yet, near the Aventine Hill, It is the General Curia of the Cistercian Monks, where a decade ago, at the time of certain facts, He lays the Abbot General Dom Mauro Esteva i Alsina [1933 — †2014], the concern of which was to impart obsessive etiquette lessons to young monks and verify that the dining hall was set with forks and knives positioned at the right distance to the right and left of the plate, or that the bows were made according to the proper angle, as if they had depended survival and the historic honor of the Cistercian Order. May today this man rest in peace in the crypt of the Abbey of Poblet Catalan and may the mercy of God forgive him with a mild purgatory all serious and irreparable damage to him went the entire Cistercian Order during its general mandate carried out between 1995 and the 2010.

particular: efebo winking

To retreat at the Roman Curia this year a member of the Congregation of Olivetan Benedictine Monks was chosen by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi and presented to the Pope, Dom Bernardo Gianni, Abbot of the Abbey of San Miniato al Monte in Florence. If nell'Archicenobio of Monte Oliveto Maggiore stands Sodom, San Miniato the most valuable frescoes are those of Spinello Aretino. The substance, however, remains the same, while ranging from the art of Sodom to that of the Spinel. And this - the Joint -, It would be particularly appreciated dall'Arciabate Montecassino Dom Pietro Vittorelli, that the drug was a great expert and consumer.

The abbot of the Abbey of San Miniato in Florence He is one who can speak to this world. He speaks to the world language that appeals to the world. Indeed, the spiritual exercises, They will be marked on dreams and poetry: the dream of political Giorgio La Pira and the poetry of Mario Luzi, whose poetry, Christian speaking, it is certainly not that of the French writer and priest Michel Quoist [1921-1997].

the homoerotic figures for nothing hidden in painting “sacred” by Giovanni Bazzi known as Sodoma

The abbot preacher, son of the noble Order of St. Benedict which we owe the survival of Christianity and the preservation of historical heritage, philosophical and literary, He will speak to the Roman Curia of a dreamer and a poet, as if it was a dream spirituality and theology poetry, as if the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, loudly proclaimed saint, had never written the Encyclical Faith and Reason, the base of which there is the thought of a great Benedictine Abbot, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, who did not live the relationship with faith in dreams and poetry, but explaining that faith seeking understanding [faith requires reason] and in need: «I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust» [I think to understand, I understand to believe]. Unfortunately the famous Italian singer Lucio Battisti has been dead for years, otherwise, for the next retreat, perhaps Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi would have proposed the thoughtful lyrics of his famous song Emotions :

particular: ephebus winking that shows the rear

“And close your eyes to stop
something that's inside me
but in your mind it is not
You cannot understand
you call them if you want
emotions " [Mogol-Battisti, 1970]

We know that after the tragedy comes the increasingly grotesque farce precisely that ranges between Sodom and Spinello. All the more reason to pray and to cleanse us during this Holy Lent, in the course of which, the largest of the mortifications, It remains the awareness of not being credible in the world, but instead of being laughed at by the world, especially when the world to please try to speak the language of the world, after having emptied of Christ and of the mystery of the Cross, to fill us with dreams and poems … "you call them if you want emotions".

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: Sodom's insistent obsession with depicting the male posterior which “if offer” and in which we read the prophecy about the posthumous decadent monasticism …

One thing is certain: art leaves no sign simply on the walls, especially if certain pictorial images are the most realistic representation of who certain walls inhabits. Obviously, the question as to why seven hundred years of life the monks of the Benedictine Congregation Olivetan have given the Church blessed, santi, mystics, theology, doctors and spirituality fathers, It is a purely rhetorical question, the answer is in fact all contained in homoerotic images that stand in the frescoes realized by Sodom in the cloister; and the cloister is reached after entering the abbey territory passing through the building once used as bachelor pad abbots Renaissance revelers. In Paradise, instead, it comes only after converting, repented and cleansed of sins, no one comes or with Giorgio La Pira dreams, nor with poems by Mario Luzi. Lent begins with the imposition of ashes followed by the admonition "converted and believe in the Gospel", it does not begin with an invitation to believe in dreams and live poems …

 

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Dear Cousins ​​from beyond the Alps, these circumstances, very simply, give us back the Mona Lisa

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CARI CUGINI D’OLTRALPE, THIS BEING SO, VERY SIMPLY, RIDATECI LA GIOCONDA

Non mi straccio le vesti in nome del sacrilegio, this is not what this is about. Le vesti me le straccio per l’aborto inserito in Costituzione. Terrible. In this case, let's keep our clothes on, nonostante l’afa, e chiediamoci: cosa c’entra la carnevalata con le Olimpiadi?

— Actuality —

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Anna Monia Alfieri, I.M.
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In sostanza è questo che ho pensato, quando ho visto, all’interno della cerimonia di inaugurazione delle Olimpiadi, il carro con la parodia, let's call it, dell’ultima cena di Leonardo (cf.. Future, WHO e WHO).

Non mi straccio le vesti in nome del sacrilegio, this is not what this is about. Le vesti me le straccio per l’aborto inserito nella Costituzione Francese. Terrible. In this case, let's keep our clothes on, nonostante l’afa, e chiediamoci: cosa c’entra la carnevalata con le Olimpiadi, (c)ui prodest?

Si è voluto ribadire il carattere laico dello Stato? Laicità non vuol dire cattivo gusto o dissacrazione della cultura. Credo che si sia trattato di una brutta pagina della storia delle Olimpiadi e della Francia, in generale della cultura occidentale, visto anche il silenzio pressoché generale. Del resto tutti, I stand corrected, quasi tutti — perché chi non è allineato con la cultura dominante deve stare zitto, pena l’accusa di essere oscurantista — hanno il diritto di dire la loro, indipendentemente dalla forma che è sempre sostanza.

Ancora un’altra considerazione, this, I admit, suoresca, del resto appartengo anch’io alla categoria: vedendo quelle immagini ho pensato a Carlo Magno, ho pensato alle pagine del Bossuet, così tanto amato dal Manzoni, ho pensato a Santa Teresa di Lisieux, ho pensato a Maritain, così apprezzato da San Paolo VI. Ma, above all, ho pensato alla grotta di Lourdes che ancora attira pellegrini da tutto il mondo e che rimane segno di contraddizione per le intelligenze di tutti, anche laiche, quelle oneste, it's obvious.

Cari giovani, riflettete e rifiutate il cattivo gusto, l’ignoranza e il vilipendio della vera cultura che, to be such, è frutto di cuori e menti liberi e onesti. A noi che abbiamo ereditato tanta bellezza spetta il compito di custodirla e rispettarla. Se non ne siamo capaci, diamo ad altri il compito di farlo. So, give us back the Mona Lisa!

Milan, 1 August 2024

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When the dream amphibologist author of “Codice Katzinger” he took care of “cat and cat” and tried to scratch itches by celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Viagra …

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WHEN THE DREAM AMPHIBOLOGIST AUTHOR OF CODICE KATZINGER HE WAS DEALING WITH CATZ AND MATZ AND HE TRIED TO PITCH THE ITCHES BY CELEBRATING TWENTY YEARS OF VIAGRA …

Good times, when it was more of a woman's hair rather than ridicule Codice Katzinger of a pathetic character who, in order to make news and cassettes, makes no distinction between the twentieth anniversary of Viagra and the twenty centuries of history of the Papacy!

— Smiling at what isn't serious but would like to be —

 

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Overwhelmed by the heat that envelops us this summer, Fathers de The Island of Patmos they have entrusted to my pen the gift of a fresh smile with which to pay homage to our Readers, reiterating incidentally that as priests we are called to be serious and not serious people. In fact, between the serious and the serious lies the difference between a sincere man and a hypocritical man.

The Italian man is no longer what he once was, when for a skirt he lost the light of reason. And faced with certain current situations we can only say... those were good times! Today, the light of reason, many lose it behind conspiracies or unlikely cryptic codes of the Supreme Pontiffs who have made false renouncements of the pontificate, to follow with unspecified amphibologies marketed by some salesman …

Instead of testosterone certain Italian men exude science fiction phobias, often even of a pseudo-religious nature. No longer foaming at the mouth as happened in the past, to talk about the unforgettable performances from One Thousand and One Nights that they would offer to certain beautiful women; today, with their mouths, they drool excitedly to talk about gift e ministry pontifical, getting excited much more than they would get excited in front of a beautiful model put on the cover of an erotic monthly magazine.

And so it was that a certain journalist - whose intellectual honesty is equal to that of a fox who enters a henhouse dressed as a Carmelite nun to preach penitential fasting -, he understood that the wise popular proverb had been tragically reversed. In fact, our wise elders said:

«It pulls a woman's hair more than an ox cart».

That's why ours, in data 6 February 2019, he tried to arouse itching with the historical apologia of the ancestors of Viagra by writing in the newspaper The 19th Century this article:

«The ancestors of Viagra. Thousand-year history of aphrodisiacs, from the ancient Romans to words in chat» (see article WHO).

It may be that while working on this article ended up discovering that if Viagra exists it's precisely because women's hair grows less and less, the cart is increasingly tired and the oxen that pull it are increasingly horned. And as if by magic he decided to transform himself from an unlikely historian of urology and andrology into a canonist, ecclesiologist and historian of the most unlikely Church yet, creating a kind of hair and itching that today is more painful than ever, perhaps even on a compensatory level, because many men seem to make up for their natural lack of libido by arousing themselves with plots centered on false popes ruling false churches after their predecessor had falsely renounced the sacred throne to inaugurate a fantastic “venue prevented” (!?).

We priests miss them terribly those men who let themselves be pulled more by a woman's hair than by an ox cart. For us confessors, then, it was a pleasure and a great act of grace to absolve an army of lustful people, behind which, well never forget it, there were just as many lustful women, because men did not do it alone, in that case it would have just been masturbation. Therefore, when certain weeping women, groaning and afflicted in their victimhood, they speak of the plague of cheaters, referring to them as whoremongers, with due honesty they should remember and admit that behind every whoremonger there is always and necessarily a whoremonger, unless, as we said just now, man does not do it alone, in this case, however, it would not be betrayal but a completely different thing and very different sexual practice and activity.

Today, the psycho-impotent in the brain following Carini's rabid rabid dogs and amphibologists who wrote cryptic codes to decode, I am far from coming to confession, because the more they wreak havoc on the Church and the Papacy, the more they pretend to feel right.

Good times, when it was more of a woman's hair rather than ridicule Codice Katzinger of a pathetic character who, in order to make news and cassettes, makes no distinction between the twentieth anniversary of Viagra and the twenty centuries of history of the Papacy!

Happy summer everyone.

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The work of the Devil in the history of man: temptation as a daily battle

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THE WORK OF THE DEVIL IN THE HISTORY OF MAN: LA TENTAZIONE COME BATTAGLIA QUOTIDIANA

Ora la possessione diabolica, of which even the Lord Jesus was accused is an extraordinary action, very rare, of which the Church follows a strict procedure and rules for its certification. Ma l’azione ordinaria, quotidiana, del Demonio è la tentazione che arriva a colpire l’uomo sia nel corpo che nella psiche.

 

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Tempo fa ho dedicato un articolo alla figura del Demonio, dopo che in Sicilia, nel febbraio di quest’anno, è stato compiuto un efferato delitto dove l’uccisore, per spiegare il suo gesto insano, si nascondeva dietro il motivo che in casa sua, nei suoi familiari, ci fosse questa oscura presenza (WHO).

Ho continuato a riflettervi sopra e trovo sia prudente oltre che ragionevole aggiungere alcune parole sulla tentazione, che appare come la via ordinaria attraverso la quale Satana agisce fra gli uomini, ponendo inciampi, in virtù del suo essere lui per primo disobbediente e mentitore. Nel Catechismo della Chiesa Cattolica, al n. 395, questi viene definito come uno spirito dotato di una potenza limitata:

«La potenza di Satana però non è infinita. Egli non è che una creatura, potente per il fatto di essere puro spirito, ma pur sempre una creatura: non può impedire l’edificazione del regno di Dio. Sebbene Satana agisca nel mondo per odio contro Dio e il suo regno in Cristo Gesù, e sebbene la sua azione causi gravi danni – di natura spirituale e indirettamente anche di natura fisica – per ogni uomo e per la società, questa azione è permessa dalla divina provvidenza, la quale guida la storia dell’uomo e del mondo con forza e dolcezza. La permissione divina dell’attività diabolica è un grande mistero, ma «noi sappiamo che tutto concorre al bene di coloro che amano Dio (RM 8,28)».

Ritengo sia giusto tornare a riflettere sul significato della tentazione, perché tale argomento sembra sparito dall’orizzonte della vita cristiana, rather, sometimes, si cerca di sminuire la responsabilità personale in ordine al peccato. Quante volte abbiamo sentito pronunciare, a mo di burla, la celebre frase di Oscar Wilde: «Il modo migliore per liberarsi di una tentazione, è cedervi». Oppure di una nota frase di Gesù nel Vangelo si mantiene solo la prima parte: «Neanch’io ti condanno»; dimenticando che il testo prosegue con: "will’ and from now on sin no more ". O quando nel frasario quotidiano, a scusa di particolari peccati si suol dire: «La carne è debole».

Solo per accenno, avendo citato il celebre scrittore Oscar Wilde, vorrei ricordare che, nonostante i suoi trascorsi, le molte avventure omosessuali, egli mori da cattolico, dopo aver ricevuto da un sacerdote il Battesimo, l’assoluzione dai peccati the moment of death e l’estrema unzione. Nella celebre lettera De profundis indirizzata a un suo amante, Oscar Wilde non smette un attimo di rimproverarsi le debolezze dimostrate in ogni occasione e pronuncia la frase: «Il Cattolicesimo è la sola religione in cui valga la pena di morire».

Sempre per allentare la responsabilità personale nel peccare, a volte si arriva, in ambito religioso, a dare l’intera colpa al Diavolo. Oppure si ricorre, fuori dall’orizzonte di fede, ai processi psicologici per cui l’essere umano, siccome è tale, soggetto a pulsioni e desideri che spesso risalgono all’infanzia, è esente dal peccato; egli può autoassolversi senza intermediari, arrivando perfino alla rimozione della colpa stessa, in barba ad ogni etica della responsabilità. Cosa questa nella quale è pioniera la Psicoanalisi freudiana.

Comprendere cosa sia la tentazione vuol dire capire proprio questa umana fragilità. In un contesto religioso e specificatamente cristiano, vediamo che questa umanità soggetta a caducità non è stata condannata da Dio, but rather, assunta da Verbo, la seconda persona della Santa Trinità, tanto che nel Credo si professa che Egli è: «Vero Dio e vero Uomo». Sappiamo infatti che Gesù stesso subì l’attacco della tentazione e portò la parola del perdono e della misericordia a tutti, lasciando la libertà all’uomo di poter anche disattendere questa proposta a proprio discapito.

Affrontare la tentazione per noi esseri umani vuol dire intraprendere una guerra che combattiamo di frequente. E ci viene incontro proprio l’esempio del Cristo che ingaggiò col Demonio una battaglia finale. Secondo il racconto dei Sinottici, alla manifestazione pubblica della messianicità di Gesù nel battesimo fa immediatamente seguito il conflitto con il Demonio, il cui apice è raggiunto dalla versione lucana della seconda tentazione:

«E, conducendolo in alto, gli mostrò in un istante tutti i regni dell’ecumene; e gli disse il Diavolo: “Ti darò tutta questa potenza e la loro gloria, perché a me è stata rimessa ed io la do a chi voglio; se tu dunque ti prostri davanti a me, sarà tutta tua”» (LC 4, 5-6).

È una sfida mortale. Gesù non può contestare l’affermazione di potere del Demonio, ma vi oppone la fede in un’altra potenza. A chi più tardi, facendo eco alle parole del demonio, lo accuserà di essere lui stesso un indemoniato, will answer:

«Ma se è con il dito di Dio che io scaccio i demoni, allora è giunto a voi il regno di Dio» (LC 11, 20).

Ora la possessione diabolica, of which even the Lord Jesus was accused is an extraordinary action, very rare, of which the Church follows a strict procedure and rules for its certification. Ma l’azione ordinaria, quotidiana, del Demonio è la tentazione che arriva a colpire l’uomo sia nel corpo che nella psiche.

Come affermava il Catechismo su menzionato, per i disegni misteriosi di Dio, questa attività tentatrice seppur limitata, pure è permessa, evidentemente per un fine superiore. Potremmo dire, for the good of souls. La dinamica psicologica e spirituale della tentazione ha come fine il rovesciamento del reale rapporto fra noi e Dio. Il demonio facendoci apparire come buone cose che invece non lo sono, inducendoci al peccato, tenta di allontanarci dal Dio vivo e vero mettendo davanti ai nostri occhi realtà appetibili che sono in verità poveri idoli.

Queste dinamiche demoniache della tentazione le possiamo rintracciare nel primo libro biblico della Genesi. È lì che troviamo narrata la madre di ogni tentazione, nel capitolo terzo dell’opera. Il testo ci mostra come si muove una tentazione che va a scapito dell’uomo e del suo originario rapporto col Creatore.

Innanzitutto la tentazione, nel suo primo movimento, si frappone fra l’uomo e il progetto di Dio su di lui, fino a corromperlo.

«Il serpente […] disse alla donna: “È vero che Dio ha detto: Non dovete mangiare di nessun albero del giardino?”» (Gen 3, 1).

Il tentatore si insinua così nel rapporto fra la creatura ed il Creatore, iniziando a porre dei dubbi sotto forma di domanda in un contesto di dialogo. Avviene qui il primo cedimento, il tranello nel quale cade Eva, perché risponde. Tutti gli autori spirituali, sulla scorta del testo biblico, avvisano che non bisogna dialogare col demonio, bensì tacitarlo, impedendo che inneschi un eventuale sospetto. L’unica voce che dobbiamo ascoltare è quella di Dio.

La prossima mossa, o secondo movimento di ogni tentazione, consiste nello stravolgimento morale di un bene, facendolo percepire come l’opposto:

«Il serpente disse alla donna: “Non morirete affatto! On the contrary, Dio sa che quando voi ne mangiaste, si aprirebbero i vostri occhi e diventereste come Dio, conoscendo il bene e il male”» (Gen 3, 4-5).

Una volta aperta una porta per il dialogo il Demonio non solo subdolamente si insinua e pone dubbi su Dio come pochi, ma stravolge il Suo insegnamento pervertendolo. È la fine della moralità e della ricerca del vero bene: far sembrare una scelta errata, un peccato, come la cosa più buona e ragionevole. Giunti a questo punto, come si può non cadere? Anzi tutto avviene con facilità. Perché il peccato ci è presentato come la via più vera e utile, salvo poi scoprire che invece è insidiosa e soprattutto ci allontana da Dio:

«Allora la donna vide che l’albero era buono da mangiare, gradito agli occhi e desiderabile per acquistare saggezza; prese del suo frutto e ne mangiò, poi ne diede anche al marito, che era con lei, e anch’egli ne mangiò»(Gen 3,6).

As noted, uscire poi dal tunnel della tentazione, una volta imboccato, è difficile se non impossibile. Eppure all’inizio dicevamo che non siamo soggetti senza libertà e responsabilità. Anche se beni indispensabili vengono minati da una minaccia come quella demoniaca, abbiamo la capacità, se non il dovere, di opporci. I Santi ed i maestri dello spirito ci hanno indicato alcuni mezzi i quali, se non ci fanno evitare di essere tentati, ci fortificano, ci donano quegli anticorpi che ci rendono quasi inattaccabili. Accennavo prima a non dare spazio al dialogo col demonio, che può essere, for instance, inner, nei nostri pensieri; e per fare questo occorre essere vigilanti.

The prayer, sull’esempio di Gesù, aiuta molto nel non cadere nella tentazione. Essa ci allena alla vigilanza e ci prepara alle future difficoltà e lotte col demonio. Ma a volte è necessario anche fuggire dalla tentazione, come davanti ad un pericolo che ci sovrasta o che non possiamo controllare, un fuoco che divampa. I detti dei padri del deserto sono pieni di esempi di questo genere, quando erano tentati sulla loro fede genuina o sulla castità che avevano scelto. C’è un bellissimo quadro di Matthias Grünewald, conservato a Colmar in Francia, dove si vede il padre del deserto, Sant’Antonio abate, stiracchiato e assalito da ogni lato da bestie che rappresentano i demoni con le loro tentazioni. Ma non cede o demorde. Il resoconto delle battaglie di Sant’Antonio abate contro il demonio ci viene narrato in questi termini dal vescovo Atanasio di Alessandria che scrisse, avendolo conosciuto in vita, una biografia del santo anacoreta:

«Il posto sembrò esser sconquassato da un terremoto, ed i demoni, quasi abbattessero le quattro mura del ricovero sembravano penetrare attraverso esse, ed apparire in forma di bestie e di cose striscianti. Il posto si riempì improvvisamente di forme di leoni, orsi, leopardi, Market, serpenti, aspidi, scorpioni, ed ognuna di esse si muoveva in accordo alla sua natura».

Si è giustamente osservato che le prediche sui demoni costituiscono

«… un grandioso esempio di psicologia cristiana, in cui le intemperanze umane vengono descritte sotto forma di demoni richiamati dagli abissi dell’inconscio, una sorta di Freud ante litteram con la potenza di Dostoevskij.» (Louis Goosen, Dizionario dei santi, Mondadori, 2000).

Da quanto detto finora risulta evidente che, essendo l’umanità fragile, è facile per noi cedere al peccato in conseguenza di una tentazione. Eppure sappiamo da tutta la rivelazione che non possiamo essere tentati oltre le nostre capacità, che Dio è la nostra forza in qualsiasi circostanza. E se pure cadiamo, Dio ama l’uomo pentito e lo accoglie sempre nella sua grande bontà, come ci insegnano le parabole della misericordia che leggiamo nel Vangelo. Tanto che Gesù stesso ci chiede di imitarlo nel perdono del prossimo e di convertirci.

Cedere alla tentazione ed accettare passivamente il peccato non appare solo come un atto grave di irresponsabilità e immoralità; direi anche che è un atto contro la bellezza e il valore della dignità e libertà che Dio stesso ci ha donato. La sua grazia ed il suo amore, che ci ha rivelato nel corso della storia della salvezza e sommamente nel Cristo Signore nostro ci spingono a liberarci dai lacci della tentazione per vivere abitualmente nella virtù.

In una prossima puntata potremo analizzare meglio l’equipaggiamento dell’uomo virtuoso e quali armi abbiamo da Dio per combattere gli assalti demoniaci. In the meantime, per smorzare un po’ i toni seriosi, vi lascio con un consiglio di lettura, il bel libro di C.S. Lewis, Le lettere di berlicche. Questo libro è un racconto satirico in forma epistolare in cui un diavolo anziano, «sua potente Abissale Sublimità il Sottosegretario Berlicche», istruisce suo nipote Malacoda, un giovane diavolo apprendista tentatore. Berlicche consiglia Malacoda su come assicurare la dannazione dell’anima di un giovane essere umano a lui assegnato, indicato come il «paziente», mentre Dio è il «Nemico». Così afferma saggiamente, nella premessa, il Lewis:

«Ci sono due errori uguali ed opposti nei quali la nostra razza può cadere a riguardo dei diavoli. Uno è non credere alla loro esistenza. L’altro è crederci, e nutrire un eccessivo e insano interesse in essi. Loro stessi sono ugualmente compiaciuti da ambedue gli errori e salutano un materialista o un mago con lo stesso piacere».

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Aldo Moro at the seaside in a jacket and tie, bishops and priests in their underwear, we “rigid priests” called “Pharisees” e “formalist” if we dare to appeal to priestly dignity

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ALDO MORO AT THE SEA IN A JACKET AND TIE, BISHOPS AND PRIESTS IN UNDERWEAR, WE “STIFF PRIESTS” CALLED “PHARISEES” E “FORMALISTS” IF WE DARE TO MAKE CALLS TO PRIESTLY DIGNITY

«When we went to the beach, dad always wore a jacket and when I asked him for an explanation he replied that being a representative of the Italian people he always had to be dignified and presentable".

 

 

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In these days of summer heat I came across a photo of one of our twentieth-century Italian statesmen, Aldo Moro, portrayed with his daughter while walking on the beach in a jacket and tie. Daughter Agnese remembers:

«When we went to the beach, dad always wore a jacket and when I asked him for an explanation he replied that being a representative of the Italian people he always had to be dignified and presentable" (cf.. WHO, WHO).

Photo 1963: Aldo Moro (1916-1978) with his daughter Agnese (1952) walking on the beach in the height of summer

To those brothers who, not finding anything better, turn to me as a spiritual director or confessor, I often repeat:

«Each of us, perhaps without even realizing it, has as its models those priests known in the delicate years of childhood".

There are facts and situations in which we have the clear perception that we have not aged that much, but that we are considered old by those who have transformed the visible Church into a theater of the burlesque.

When I was a child I went for two weeks to a summer camp organized by the parish and run by the nuns. I wouldn't have needed to go to the colony to go to the seaside, where my family had summer homes. I also went several times with my maternal grandmother to the French coast for a summer stay with her sister. My parents sent me to those seaside colonies, then following the mountain ones above L'Aquila, so that I could spend periods of time with my peers.

In August, at the beginning of the marine colony, between 10 and the 11 in the morning the bishop of the diocese arrived on the inaugural visit accompanied by the parish priest and his secretary. Ten year old child that I was - so we are talking about fifty years ago - I still remember the bishop with his cassock threaded in purplish red and the other two presbyters with the black one. At the time in Italy, the use of white cassocks, it was only allowed from Naples downwards. After the greeting addressed to us children - as he used at the time and as he continues to use for many of us today -, one by one we went to kiss the bishop's right hand. When it was my turn, after kissing the bishop's hand, I looked at him and the other two priests and asked them if they weren't hot. The bishop smiled together with the other two and answered me:

«Yes we are hot, very much! However, if one day you happen to see a shepherd among his flock of sheep, you will notice that he is always dressed as a shepherd, in summer and winter. The sheep also recognize their shepherd by how he is dressed. Even the wolf that tries to attack the sheep, if he recognizes the shepherd he stays away and doesn't come closer".

Exactly half a century has passed since then, yet I always remember, not just the words, but even the tone of voice of that bishop, dead now for thirty-five years at the age of ninety. Today instead, some bishops and priests new generation, they smile when faced with stories of this kind, they give you a look mixed with tenderness and pain, then, as they say to the nostalgic poor, they respond: «But what are you thinking and going over again, were other times!». We are sure that priestly dignity and decorum are things of the past?

In the days before, Rome was dying of heat, between Borgo Santo Spirito, Borgo Pio and Via della Conciliazione was mostly a bustle of priests with shirts with short sleeves undone, not to mention the nuns with the t-shirt white that reveal the transparent bra laces, and to whom one might ask why they wear the veil on their heads, in those estates it would be better to go without. Wanting, with the heat, they could even do without a bra, if his breasts didn't reach his navel. Then there are the inevitable bishops with the low-cut shirt with short sleeves and the pectoral cross inside the breast pocket, so that the piece of chain left visible gives the image of "power" through what was once called the "pectoral cross", today it is instead called "panzoral cross", because it is no longer on the chest but hanging on the belly, or “tascoral cross”, because it is placed inside the shirt pocket.

Walking along Borgo Pio, in the direction of a crossroad that is located just before the end, three groups of people stopped me, the “stiff priest” with the cassock on, despite the heat; and some Latin Americans asked me for my blessing, two other small groups of people if I could bless them with the religious objects they had just purchased. As usual I blessed the people and objects. Among these, a young man asked me if I wasn't hot. I replied that I have always suffered a lot from the heat and that I was going to the laundry to pick up my two white light linen cassocks that I had brought to be washed and that I would wear if that heat continued or worse increased. Having said that, I clarified:

«Priestly decorum and dignity can be manifested both dressed and half-naked with two dirty rags on. Our martyr bishops and priests, died in Nazi concentration camps or in Gulag Communists, were they not perhaps also clothed with great dignity? But since we are neither inside the concentration camps nor inside the Gulag, It's a good idea to stay dressed from neck to ankles, even when it's hot".

I used other words, compared to those that bishop used with me half a century ago, but the substance was the same and I think the effect produced was the same. Like a good priest “stiff” no one has ever seen me walking around in shorts, let alone entering churches to celebrate Holy Mass in those conditions. No one has ever seen me at the beach in a swimsuit among people, the very few times that I go there during the summer, approximately three or four times, I go to isolated and depopulated places where I don't know anyone and where no one knows me. Matters of … rigidity.

Or as some dear detractors say who I particularly like and who wander around calmly in canvas trousers after having undergone six or seven years of fantastic training in the most holy seminary:

«Pay no attention to him, he doesn't text, he didn't even attend the seminar, he's a stiff!».

Empirical evidence shows it's worth saying: «Thank God!», if anything, reminding these of the gaps in the history of the Church, as well as in Catholic doctrine, that not even John Paul II did the seminary, Paul VI and before them not even Pius XII, the latter passed off as a student of the Almo Collegio Capranica, where, however, he only stayed two or three months, just to be able to say that he had passed through the corridor of a Roman seminary before being ordained a priest and catapulted the following day to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. The privilege of not having attended the seminary will certainly not allow me to become the Supreme Pontiff, I hope, however, that he can allow me to sanctify myself.

Definitely, the most holy seminary, the Bishop of Vallo della Lucania did it, photographed smiling in his underwear and put on the page social of his Diocese complete with a playful 8X1000 t-shirt (cf.. WHO), about which some people also wonder: like never in years, this revenue intended for us by Italian taxpayers, it's not even decreasing anymore, but in free fall? It may be that it depends on a lack of rigidity and on the excellent training given in our most holy seminaries to our bishops and priests new generation?

Since according to the best of the worst of the clericalese - exactly what you learn in the most holy seminaries -, the consolidated technique is to overturn the facts and then attack those who have made completely legitimate criticisms, Knowing certain priestly psychology, I would like to point out that the prompt reply regarding the fact that the photo was stolen by someone and then published, it doesn't hold up; especially since it was first published on the page social of the Diocese complete with an official message and shortly afterwards removed. The question is in fact upstream and goes far beyond the photo itself: a sixty-year-old bishop in a physical condition that is anything but toned and sporty, with plenty of belly and superfluous fat on him, it is appropriate for him to be a youngster by taking to the football field? This pertinent question is then followed by a second one: today's young and old, increasingly poor in Christ and illiterate in matters of doctrine and faith, the bishop, they prefer him in the classroom to teach and transmit those now lost truths of faith, or playing football matches in a sort of pathetic re-edition of the old and fun matches between bachelors and married men?

 

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Shames of the priesthood grow and multiply

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VERGOGNE DEL SACERDOZIO CRESCONO E SI MOLTIPLICANO

Le spiegazioni a questa vignetta che con due pennellate irride Gesù Cristo e gli Apostoli, the Veronese presbyter Giovanni Berti should not provide them, ma chi ha l’obbligo di vigilare sulla corretta ortodossia dei preti.

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Dinanzi a questa irridente vignetta, vorremo che quanti sono preposti a vigilare sulla retta dottrina dei preti — e pare che questi preposti si chiamino vescovi, termine derivante dal greco bishop, che significa vigilante / colui che sorveglia — ci illuminassero su come dobbiamo interpretare certi passi del Beato Apostolo Paolo. Nell’eventualità, è opportuno cancellarli dalle Sacre Scritture? O potrebbe essere sufficiente evitare di dire «Parola di Dio» al termine della proclamazione di certi passi, spiegando ai Believers in Christ che l’Apostolo era in grave errore? Scrive infatti Paolo:

«Perciò Dio li ha abbandonati a passioni infami: infatti le loro donne hanno cambiato l’uso naturale in quello che è contro natura; similmente anche gli uomini, lasciando il rapporto naturale con la donna, si sono infiammati nella loro libidine gli uni per gli altri commettendo uomini con uomini atti infami, ricevendo in loro stessi la meritata ricompensa del proprio traviamento» (RM 1, 24-27).

It's still:

«O non sapete che gli ingiusti non erediteranno il regno di Dio? Non illudetevi: neither fornicators, born idolatry, nor adulterers, ne prostitutes, born sodomiti, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, not cursed, né rapaci erediteranno il regno di Dio» (The Cor 6, 9-10).

Sarà inoltre opportuno, sempre alla luce della illuminante vignetta di Giovanni Berti in arte Gioba, cancellare anche questo passo dal Catechismo della Chiesa Cattolica:

«Homosexuality refers to relationships between men or women who experience sexual attraction, exclusive or predominant, towards people of the same sex. It manifests itself in very varied forms over the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychic genesis remains largely unexplained. Relying on the Holy Scripture, which presents homosexual relationships as serious depravities (cf.. GN 19,1-29; RM 1,24-27; 1 Color 6,9-10; 1 TM 1,10), la Tradizione ha sempre dichiarato che “gli atti di omosessualità sono intrinsecamente disordinati” (Sacra Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, You. Human person, 8: AAS 68 (1976) 85). They are against natural law. They preclude the gift of life from the sexual act. They are not the fruit of true emotional and sexual complementarity. In nessun caso possono essere approvati […] A significant number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies. This inclination, objectively disordered, constitutes a test for most of them. Therefore they must be welcomed with respect, compassion, delicacy. In their regard, any sign of unfair discrimination will be avoided. Such people are called to carry out God's will in their life, e, if they are Christian, to unite the difficulties they may encounter as a result of their condition to the sacrifice of the Lord's cross " (NN. 2357-2358)

Siamo sicuri that Jesus Christ, a quelli che praticavano «l’altra sponda» abbia detto «… ma va bene così, eh, eh …» e che un presbitero possa diffondere questo messaggio irridente nella totale indifferente di chi dovrebbe vigilare sull’ortodossia dottrinale e morale dei preti?

 

the Island of Patmos, 24 June 2024

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The logic of Alessandro Minutella: "Others do worse". Maybe yes, but they are clever and keep quiet

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THE LOGIC OF ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA: «THE OTHERS DO WORSE». MAYBE YES, BUT THEY ARE SMART AND THEY SHUT UP

If an opponent suffers a defeat, rejoicing over it is not Christian, sinking a blow is not human. Even making moral judgments is not appropriate, it's not up to us to do it, while definitive sentences are the responsibility of the courts, not of the moods of social media or anyone. Minutella deserves human respect precisely because she suffered a solemn defeat, but equally humane respect would also be deserved by those simple and naive people who followed him and who for days he has been reassuring with surreal stories, presenting them with another reality.

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The structure of Little Nazareth founded by Alessandro Minutella, the presbyter of Panormita incurred excommunication for heresy and schism, then resigned by the clerical state, after two sentences from the Regional Administrative Court of Sicily for building irregularities, one of the 2023 (see WHO) and one of 2024 (see WHO), it was acquired by the assets of the Municipality of Carini as required by the executive decree (see WHO).

«They are attacking us for two arches that have been closed, just stuff 20 square meters" (Alessandro Minutella from “Saints and Coffee” the 21.06.2024, hours 9:15, Channel YouTube Of Radio Domina Nostra). In the picture: "just." 20 square meters" taken with satellite in May 2024.

If an opponent suffers a defeat rejoicing in it is not Christian, sinking a blow is not human. Even making moral judgments is not appropriate, it's not up to us to do it, while definitive sentences are the responsibility of the courts, not of the moods of social media or anyone. Minutella deserves human respect precisely because she suffered a solemn defeat, but equally humane respect would also be deserved by those simple and naive people who followed him and who for days he has been reassuring with surreal stories, presenting them with another reality. Reason why, based strictly on objective facts and actions, not on subjective interpretations, we believe it is our duty to offer a faithful summary of what happened, in total adherence to what is narrated by the reasoned sentences issued by the Regional Administrative Court of Sicily.

On land in the municipality of Carini (Palermo) is licensed in 2007 to build a small rural building for agricultural use. As soon as the work began, Minutella ordered the workers to modify the project and what should have been a small building for agricultural use became a chapel of approximately 180 square meters. When, following a report, the traffic police go to check whether he was building in compliance with the building permit granted, they discover a whole series of irregularities and an initial concreting process carried out. At that point an order is issued ordering him to proceed with the immediate restoration of the original state in accordance with the approved project and the building permit granted.. In this photoshoot of 2013 the process of overbuilding of the rural area is documented.

The first ruling of the TAR the 2017 (see WHO), followed by that of 2018 (see WHO), photograph and detail this situation in every detail. Instead of appealing, however, Minutella changes the cards on the table and suddenly the land is no longer his but belongs to another property.. Thus we return again to the TAR, which rules that it is certainly not the change of owners that will cure everything. Meanwhile, to the old discrepancies already contested, the "miraculous" water well was added, the swimming pool of the “aspiring Sicilian Lourdes”, a further pouring of concrete to create the so-called chapel of the Holy Face of Manoppello on the outside, walls and concrete structures scattered everywhere visible and documented by images taken via satellite before and after the construction of the concrete structures. All these works have been declared abusive, although the interested party tries to deny the evidence of the facts in his videos, presenting himself as a persecuted victim.

Minutella has been saying this for weeks in his public videos that this "persecutory fury" unleashed towards him and towards "a work desired by the Madonna" is based on "very small discrepancies", now pointing to a window, now a couple of closed arches. He has specified several times that the buildings built in this area are made of wood and as such can be dismantled (see his videos WHO, WHO, WHO, etc..), however, failing to specify that they were erected on agricultural land on cemented bases with a screed of 20 cm. subsequently tiled, with related electrical and water systems that are anything but regular and compliant with safety regulations. According to him, these would be small, insignificant things carried out in areas where - he ironically - illegal construction triumphs everywhere, that means: others do worse things (see his videos WHO, WHO, WHO, etc..).

The urban discrepancy it does not depend on "two closed arches" but on the fact that in the master plan this land for agricultural use was not intended for a place of worship. Moreover, to be able to build a church - be it a chapel or a building used for worship in any case -, dealing with the administrative authorities cannot be a priest resigned from the clerical state declared by sentence of the supreme ecclesiastical authority no longer a member of the clergy and of the Catholic Church, but only the diocesan ordinary of the particular place, according to the laws that regulate relations between State and Church in accordance with the Concordat of 1929 revised in 1984. Therefore, any individual who overnight deemed it appropriate to declare that the current one is a "false Catholic Church governed by a false Pope" and that they, called "small remainder", they are instead the true Catholic Church, has no legal right to request and negotiate with the competent administrative bodies the erection of places of worship, as he and his associates do not constitute either a religious body under public law or a religious association recognized by the State. This is the reason why H.E. Mons. Michele Pennisi, Archbishop of Monreale, within whose canonical jurisdiction the town of Carini fell, with a public decree of 17 September 2015 defined Minutella's activities as "illicit" and "suspected of manipulating the consciences of ordinary people", as well as «the construction of the so-called is illegitimate “cappella” on privately owned land, because it lacks the necessary ecclesiastical license" (see text of the decree WHO).

Affirm and complain: «They give space to everyone, to the Jews, of Protestants, to the Mormons, to Buddhists... but not to us!» is an irrational victim pose. These religious associations that he mentions from time to time are all recognized cults, starting fromKILL (Union of Jewish Communities of Italy), equally the various non-Catholic Christian aggregations such as the FCEI (Federation of Italian Evangelical Churches) o la Sacred Orthodox Diocese of Italy, to follow with non-Christian aggregations such as theUBI (Italian Buddhist Union) and various others who have stipulated specific agreements with the State obtaining related recognition and protection as cults and religious bodies under public law.

The facts prove that Minutella has repeatedly attempted to obtain concessions that are impossible to grant under the law - such as for example the erection of places of worship - by acting in an aggressive and mocking manner towards the public administrators and ecclesiastical authorities of the place. This is what happened when in 2022, finding himself passing through Trebaseleghe (Padova), canonical territory of the Diocese of Treviso, struck by inspiration he decided to found the Little Tabor, purchasing on the spot for 200.000 euro the building of a former gym that needed to be completely renovated. And after making the purchase he realized that this building which had been unsold on the market for eight years was entirely covered with an asbestos roof., the disposal of which cost - by his public and repeated admission - 60.000 Euro (see video WHO).

A few days after his arrival in Trebaseleghe he was already posting on his channel YouTube daily videos where he insulted all the Bishops of the Triveneto (see video WHO), starting from the Patriarch of Venice, to follow up with the administrators of the local municipality, who could not grant the change of use of a building from a gym to a place of worship, for the legal reasons already explained above (see video WHO). Not to mention opportunity and prudence, as well as knowledge of the history and society of areas which between the 1980s and 1990s always constituted the great stronghold of the old Northern League, imbued with all his prejudices - whether acceptable or unacceptable - towards Southern Italy; and where perhaps they were not anxiously awaiting the arrival of an exuberant Sicilian who would mock the bishops of the region and the local public administrators.

Seeing the glass half empty and half full we must take into consideration when Minutella complains that on the neighboring land there are houses that have not been abused, but which are precisely entirely illegal constructions (see video WHO). Then he later becomes ironic: «Elsewhere there are no abuses and irregularities... no, everything is fine, especially here in Sicily!». He also narrated several times that when the traffic police went to carry out various inspections, they stood with their backs turned towards the neighboring buildings burdened by the same ones, if not worse building abuses (see video WHO).

Anyone who has known and visited Sicily he could see, especially in certain coastal areas, of construction irregularities and abuses than in other parts of our country, they're not just impossible to make, but they are just impossible to think about. The difference between certain subjects and Minutella is that they, knowing that he had committed irregularities and abuses, they are silent, they don't go and attack everything and everyone around the globe. This is how things work - certainly in the wrong way - within a country like ours, who knows how to be corrupt and corrupting when necessary from Trieste to Porto Palo di Capo Passero, a location also known as the "last Sicilian stone in Italy", much closer to Malta than to Rome.

 

the Island of Patmos, 21 June 2024

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One note from Padre Ariel I cannot be silent: «As annoying as a sea urchin inside your underwear»

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A NOTE FROM FATHER ARIEL ON THE SITE I CAN'T BE SILENT: «AS ANNOYING AS A SEA URCHIN INSIDE YOUR UNDERPANTS»

This person wrote pages and pages and distributed dozens of videos about social media in which he desperately tries to legitimize what can never be legitimized in the Catholic Church: homosexual tendencies and the practice of homosexuality within the clergy, to the point of repeatedly stating that sexual tendencies and their implied practice concern only the private lives of clerics (!?). A completely illogical and aberrant statement on a canonical jurisprudence level, if we want to talk about that Canon Law so dear to him.

 

 

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It's not irony, least of all teasing, but authentic understanding and true Christian charity. Even though this site can be as annoying as a sea urchin in your underwear, we Fathers of the magazine The Island of Patmos understand his comedian - or perhaps tragicomic - feeling Christian tenderness towards him, because we are pastors who care for souls and theologians who do theology, history of the Church, Catholic morality and law by praying.

 

I cannot be silent, link to the article WHO

This subject wrote pages and pages and distributed dozens of videos about social media in which he desperately tries to legitimize what can never be legitimized in the Catholic Church: homosexual tendencies and the practice of homosexuality within the clergy, to the point of repeatedly stating that sexual tendencies and their implied practice concern only the private lives of clerics (!?). A completely illogical statement, as well as aberrant on a jus-canonical level, if we want to talk about that Canon Law so dear to him (see our article from yesterday, WHO).

We understand how frustrating this is even being kicked out of the Caritas hostel and seeing others at the same time, who are like you, become priests, make a career, decorate oneself with bows and continue to exercise completely legitimate tastes and activities in the secular world, but which can never be legitimate and compatible with the priesthood and the exercise of the sacred priestly ministry in the ecclesial world.

Marco Felipe Perfetti is an envious blind man and believes that his envy is justice, while instead it is one of the most serious deadly sins. Let's hope one day he realizes this, possibly when it is not too late. If he then wants to correct himself and embark on a serious path of spiritual growth, my Brothers and I are right now at your complete disposal.

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