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In St. Peter's Square an inhuman nativity scene completely consistent with an increasingly dehumanized society

23 December 2020/2 Comments/in Actuality/by Licia Oddo

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IN PIAZZA SAN PIETRO AN INHUMAN CRIB THAT IS COMPLETELY COHERENT WITH AN INCREASINGLY INHUMANIZED SOCIETY

This crib seems to have wanted to prophesy what remains of our society, now devoid of any "human form" frozen in technology, in cold selfishness, in the absence of affection and in the total upheaval of the family which at present is dispersed in the ether.

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Nativity scene 2020 – square of the Papal Archbasilica of San Pietro

In this period of resilience and restrictions, the question is soon asked. What is expected of such an atypical Christmas whose spirit of Christian tradition seems to have been affected by the torpor of pandemic distancing? One wonders how the Church reacts and what it plans to attract and involve its faithful in the Mystery of the Nativity?

The answer comes from tradition centuries-old boasted by the majolica of Castelli, small town in Abruzzo, in the province of Teramo, cataloged in the eponymous Museum, located at the Convent of the Friars Minor Observant of the sixteenth century. which has become of current interest for the crib exhibition of the Monumental Greppia, in the Vatican. The invoice was made in a period of time between 1965 e 1975 by the young students of the F.A.. Crane [1], who dedicated the teaching activity to the Christmas theme, to establish itself on the art scene of the time, for the monumentality of the larger than life-sized ceramic figures.

All too free and rather bizarre interpretation in the representation of the Christmas icon par excellence, which inspired the creators and executors of ceramists, seems to have upset the Christian symbols of the nativity scene by aggregating them with a mixture of radically different elements and characters, which affected the whole of humanity in that decade, such as the "landing on the moon", so foreign to the traditional Christian representation of Advent, to offer a global vision of the latter which is purely nonconformist.

Croissants (Skirts of Anavyssos), 550-520 a.C. that. Marble, height 1,94 m. Athens, National archeologic museum.

Although the Castellana ceramic tradition, is perfectly in line with the lively colors of all the major Italian majolica, however, it is not enough by itself, to make it equally alive, the entire "sacred" ceramic installation wanted this year to celebrate Christmas in St. Peter's Square is intelligible and welcoming.

The sculptural-ceramic group made following a modular ring type, that, superimposed, they form cylindrical busts, it appears admittedly rigid, immobile, cold and expressionless, so that the same will of those who wanted to praise the invoice, comparing it to ancient Greek art, with greater reference to the Templar architecture of the Doric columns made of rocchi, certainly, it cannot be understood positively, when compared to completely inert elements, devoid of human form because they are structural and belong precisely to the field of architecture, therefore unable to convey any emotion that is inherent in human gestures. If in fact it is the human figures who are the protagonists, the term of comparison should in any case refer to the sculptural field and certainly not to the architectural one. But even here the most fitting example concerning the Greek sculptural world is not as commendable in the transmission of the "Good News" of Christmas, full of a sense of human warmth and family values.

In the technical execution, the period considered could only be the orientalizing-archaic one (from VII to VI a.C) the lot (Kouros) (2) by Anavyssos, locality of Attica in Greece, whose peculiar characteristics are, the absolute stasis or absence of movement, rigidity, the front position, but that since they are sculptures depicting man, obviously, they differ from the castellan crib ceramics, precisely because the latter are devoid of human form, almost frozen blocks devoid of energy, and if we can talk about something in common, it is relative to the monumental dimensions. From the iconological point of view of the symbolic message, then, the forcing is even more evident i lots (black) harbingers of grandeur and totally inexpressive, they were the custodians of a heroic commemorative memory.

Koùros by Lentini is a work that dates back to the 6th-5th century BC., it is historically placed in the late Archaic period, 530-490 a.C. and is kept in the Paolo Orsi Museum in Syracuse.

At this point we tried to identify positive peculiarities in the very specific symbolic meanings in some of the characters, taking into consideration the angel, whose wings deliberately spread to protect the Holy Family, it seems to have the claim, Today more than ever, to represent the coveted protection invoked by all humanity against the terrible pandemic event. The latter would seem to praise, given the size, at the opening of the arms covered by the majestic and wide cloak of the monumental Virgin of Mercy by Piero della Francesca, to protect his children (citizens), but still fails to convey that warm hope, precisely because of its rigid inexpressiveness. And how to still be able to exempt oneself from the totally sterile vision of a child Jesus, almost mummified, which has nothing to do with the celebration of the Nativity. And so in the modest opinion of the vast majority of professionals and the public, the "castellano" ceramic group, beyond a non-existent harmonious, delicate and gestural aesthetic, precisely in the absence of the bodily form, and dynamism, affectionate gestures such as genuflection, a hug, a caress, a simple handshake, the same colloquial contact between the characters, typical of domestic familiarity, it certainly doesn't convey that familiar warmth, the feeling of universal salvation typical of the crib tradition.

Said this, what in this brief analysis is to be understood and more distinct than any other criticism of the work in and of itself, which in its substance is still a work of art, whether you like it or not, fruit of a culture and society that gave it its birth; rather, it is the nature of the message of humility, charity and strength of spirit of those who do not give up, which embody all the values of the Christian family, that should be grasped, to be passed on to the people, sole protagonist and recipient of sacred propaganda, on the occasion of Holy Christmas.

The bold choice of the Holy See that falls right on this unusual work, to break tradition, seems to support that primitivist line followed by the beginnings of the pontificate of Francis I, who, if we remember well, he chose as the logo for the celebration of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, the work depicting the Good Shepherd of the Jesuit Father Marco I. Rupnik, in a totally more than avant-garde way, but that has little to do with the canonical iconographic tradition [see WHO]. If the choice of the work as a manifesto of the jubilee year fell exclusively on the genuineness of the iconological message that replaces the lost sheep with man, loading humanity upon itself, to date in the desire to encourage hope in the transmission of family values, of human warmth, of gladness, there is undoubtedly a certain reluctance to accept the installation of a ceramic nativity scene with a predominantly pagan totemic aspect as a bulwark of Christianity.

The Koùros di Milo is a marble sculpture datable to 540 a.C. about and kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens

It has been known since ancient times that the spread of epidemics has upset the entire corporate structure, undermining the political balance, cheap, also insinuating strong fragility in the religious management of the countries. The preference of Pope Francis placed on the Castelli crib, for many it is incomprehensible and even more paradoxical, especially if you think that the Bishop of Rome chose the name of Francis, to lead the Church, the Saint who was the first to elaborate the crib composition known all over the world, as a catechetical and pedagogical tool to make everyone understand, down to the simplest, the mystery and then dogma of the birth of Jesus man and son of God.

Once again it is art to be the interpreter of historical identity, but this time more than attracting the usual jubilation it seems to split public opinion all the way to scandalize it. And the message that could be forcibly grasped can be with some difficulty and with a look of benevolence, a warning to the reconstruction of lost values, because observing the work one becomes more and more convinced that beyond what the Church and the Roman Pontiff wanted to transmit to us, even if the installation of the monumental Greppia, it was conceived over forty years ago, in its entirety, in reality, it seems he wanted to prophesy what remains of our society, now devoid of any "human form" frozen in technology, in cold selfishness, in the absence of affection and in the total upheaval of the family which at present is dispersed in the ether.

Syracuse, 23 December 2020

* Historian and art critic. Already a critical signpost of the Catalog of modern art (C.A.M.) Editorial Giorgio Mondadori - Cairo

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[1] Founded in 1906 by the will of two illustrious castellans, Beniamino Olivieri and Felice Barnabei, then respectively Mayor of the country and first Director General of Fine Arts. Today it is the art school, housed in a modern structure built next to the ancient former convent which has become the seat of the museum.

[2] The κοῦρος is a large sculpture that depicts a young naked man(think for example of the famous Riace bronzes) standing position and represents, indifferently, a deity or hero with a devotional or funeral destination.

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The supercazzolari internet theologians attack at Christmas: “Vaccines produced with aborted fetuses. The Church opens the way for the recognition of abortion "

23 December 2020/33 Comments/in Actuality/by Father Gabriele

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SUPERCZZULAR INTERNET THEOLOGIES IN THE ATTACK UNDER CHRISTMAS: «VACCINES PRODUCED WITH ABORTED FETUS. THE CHURCH OPENS THE WAY FOR THE RECOGNITION OF ABORTION "

If he Internet theologian graduated in moral theology and bioethics at the paleoastronautics university had read the document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, instead of proceeding with the timely sowing of supercazzole, he would have acknowledged that the Church neither expresses nor grants this at all, on the contrary, he declares the opposite and explains it with a clarity that is not liable to any misunderstanding.

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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The document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith just released about the lawfulness of the use of some anticovid-19 vaccines has generated a heated debate on social media, where along with right questions, questions, willingness to understand the text, completely impertinent considerations were also mixed with the subject matter.

The interventions of the bar theologians could be missing, graduates from the paleoastronautics university, who ruled with ineffable supercazzolismo that in this way would open up to the lawfulness of abortion in itself? Nothing more false could they spread, but they did. And in these days we Fathers de The Island of Patmos we have been overwhelmed by messages containing, not so much requests for clarification, that we are always happy to give, because this constitutes the very essence of our apostolate as priests and theologians, but condemnations without appeal directed to the … "New satanic" and "antichristic" Church.

The document issued by the Congregation for the doctrine of the faith it is very clear and takes up the previous documents on the same theme, published under the pontificates of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI. But as is well known, there is no worse deaf than someone who does not want to hear, or to take up the concept expressed in our recent book: there is no worse supercazzolaro than those who do not want to stop believing themselves an expert in Bioethics and Sacred Sciences without having even read a line of those documents, having limited himself only to jumping from one blog to another or drawing knowledge from the famous Facebook academy of sciences.

The issue of abortion, on the other hand, is central to our morality: absolutely not to be forgotten or put in the attic. However, the fear of offending people who have had a voluntary abortion, if not worse, those who believe they have done so by taking a just and completely legitimate action, today the important work of denouncing and condemning this terrible act also seems to dominate. An act that the reigning Pontiff branded with severe words and terms that St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI would never have used: "Abortion is like hiring a hitman to kill a person" [cf.. Future, 18.10.2018, WHO].

The person who has an abortion is not condemned, always welcomed with great delicacy and kindness by us confessors, but the act itself and all the ideological and philosophical dynamics that favor abortion are condemned as “inalienable right”. This is why I have received with great joy the recent publication of the book: A defense of life without compromise - To undermine the pro-death ideology at its foundations [cf.. WHO] written by the Universitari per la Vita, Fabio Fuiano, Chiara Chiessi and Florio Scifo, a text given to the press by courageous young people who for some years have been working to fight the throwaway culture, which promotes abortion and euthanasia.

Abortion is an evil act in itself that must always be condemned because it is the violent suppression of an innocent in the womb of the mother. Yup, even if you are afraid to say it is a murder, the most serious of all murders. The reason is simple and logical: if we try to kill an adult, he may try to react in some way, it might even escape death or, in an attempt to defend themselves, kill him the aggressor who attacks his life, but a creature in the womb of the mother is not, cannot defend himself in any way. This is why the act is so serious that people who cooperate directly and formally in this act fall into excommunication automatic. Yet it is precisely for these people that we need to pray a lot, so that they convert and understand their sin. Who has sinned the most, he needs more mercy. For this reason Catholic morality does not condemn the person, that must be recovered and to whom the love of God must be shown, explaining that the abortion act, it remains in itself completely and for everything radically evil.

To this I would also like to add my considerations. Abortion, like euthanasia, they have a solid ideological basis behind them: a culture of death, as Saint John Paul II called it, which I will summarily call necroculture. Playing with words until their meaning is emptied and relying on non-scientific evidence, necroculture has laid the foundation for the idea that abortion is a right, whose denial would constitute an affront to the freedom of women and of society. And here I open an aside, in fact I still don't understand what the difference is between one voluntary termination of pregnancy it's a voluntary abortion, which for many today is an absolutely acceptable distinction (!?). De facto, these words indicate the exact same reality: the killing of a fetus in the womb of the mother. The necroculture has therefore generated a system of silence: if you try to touch on the subject of abortion, telling an abortionist that you are not in favor, most of the time it is filled with insults, without there being a healthy comparison. The necroculture wants to impose that when it comes to abortion, it must necessarily be considered a right, otherwise it is legitimate to verbally attack anyone who does not share this idea. The necroculture built on an idealist anthropology and without foundation with reality, claiming to free man from the reins of devotional Catholic morality, it has then in fact generated another indisputable dogma which proclaims that abortion is a freedom, a right, an unassailable conquest of civilization.

I believe that the necroculture has within it the seeds of its destruction. Indeed, relying only on the mass media, only on the personal ideas of its ideologues, in some time it will collapse before the evidence.

Christmas, in this sense, it is a universal holiday, also because it emphasizes the beauty and sacredness of women and motherhood: welcoming a child is written in a woman's biological chords, that so it becomes, in her being a mother, model of true welcome towards all. Just as a mother was Mary who welcomes the tenderness of her child, Jesus. And later he learned from this son the welcome of his son's friends, disciples, women and apostles. Like this, a pregnancy, a motherhood becomes a cradle and an opening for the whole world: for the poor, abandoned, forgotten, stigmatized.

Necroculture denies all of this and in doing so he denies the whole man in all his sociality and giving to the world.

In these days, those Catholics who educate themselves on the Internet, or "Catholics as a hobby", as they are called instead by Fathers Ivano Liguori and Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, drawing pearls of wisdom from the gurus of ignorance and limiting himself to reading the title, or perhaps to better understand even the subtitle of the newspapers, but no more than this, having to frantically jump to nibble from one blog to another, they began to inveigh against the "apostatic" and "anti-Christ" Church which allegedly declared the use of aborted fetuses to prepare anti-covid vaccines lawful, something that - they say in delirium - "will soon open the recognition of abortion by the heretical Church". If the internet theologian with a degree in moral theology and bioethics at the paleoastronautics university had read the document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, instead of proceeding with the timely sowing of supercazzole, he would have acknowledged that the Church neither expresses nor grants this at all, on the contrary, he declares the exact opposite and explains it with a clarity that cannot be misunderstood:

"The fundamental reason for considering the use of these vaccines morally legitimate is that the type of cooperation is evil (passive material cooperation) procured abortion from which the same cell lines come, by those who use the resulting vaccines, And remote. The moral duty to avoid such passive material cooperation is not binding if there is a grave danger, like diffusion, otherwise irrepressible, of a serious pathogen: in this case, the pandemic spread of the virus SARS-DONE-2 which causes Covid-19. it is therefore to be assumed that in this case all vaccinations recognized as clinically safe and effective can be used certain awareness that the use of such vaccines does not mean formal cooperation in abortion from which the cells with which the vaccines were produced derive. However, it should be emphasized that the morally lawful use of these types of vaccines, for the particular conditions that make it so, it cannot in itself constitute legitimacy, even indirect, of the practice of abortion, and presupposes the opposition to this practice by those who make use of it " [the complete official document of the Holy See can be found WHO].

Christmas is the feast of the Incarnation, the victory over sin and the culture of abortion and death, The triumph of man with God, this is also written between the lines on the document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which we invite you to read, avoiding drinking from the dangerous supercazzole of the internet theologians who work at the Academy of Social Media Sciences, alias: the dangerous supercazzolari.

Rome, 23 December 2020

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CHRISTMAS BOOKS - Two new novels in the fiction series of The Island of Patmos: "The new land" and "Nonna did not tell fairy tales"

22 December 2020/in Actuality, Books and Reviews/by Jorge Facio Lynx

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CHRISTMAS BOOKS - TWO NEW NOVELS IN THE NARRATIVA DE NARRATIVE NECKLACE THE ISLAND OF PATMOS: "THE NEW EARTH" AND "GRANDMA DID NOT TELL THE TALES"

At the gates of Christmas, the Editions The Island of Patmos offer readers two valuable and uplifting works of fiction by Emilio Biagini and Maria Antonietta Novara.

Author:
Jorge Facio Lynx
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Emilio Biagini (Genoa 1941), former professor of geography at the Faculty of Languages of the University of Cagliari, he is the author of numerous non-fiction works and over one hundred scientific articles. He spent long periods of study in the United States, in India, in South Africa, in Great Britain and Ireland. But his vocation has always been the literary one. He has published three novels: The light (2006), Dark labyrinth (2008), The rain of fire (2012, with his wife Marie Antoinette co-author), The high lawn. Fictional history of Austria (2019-2020, also with his wife Marie Antoinette co-author), two volumes of short stories The man listeningO (2008), Montallegro and other stories (2013) and various volumes of rooms satirical theatricals.

At the threshold of Christmas the Editions The island of Patmos they offer readers two valuable works of fiction.

The New Earth, novel by Emilio Biagini, is a journey full of charm that begins in South Africa and takes shape with the masterful narration of the life and history of the two key characters, moving from the ancient African continent to the old and not always welcoming European continent.

Between these lines the drama of’apartheid it is not narrated by an essayist or a socio-political scientist, but from the lived life and faith of two figures destined to leave a tender indelible mark on the Reader.

… Beyond time, true reality exists, where the ridiculous and cursed prince of this world, that the better he is able to operate the more fools believe that he does not exist, it no longer has any power. Since all the things of the past no longer exist, where the new earth begins. There all the tears are dried and all doubts and miseries erased forever.

Grandma didn't tell fairy tales, novel by Maria Antonietta Novara Biagini, it starts from late nineteenth and early twentieth century scenarios and then leads the reader into the contemporary world. The Author, with simple and direct language, with compelling storytelling skills, traces in the memory a detailed and articulated succession of family paintings lived in old Genoa and in the nearby coastal towns, to the point of making them grasp their lively atmospheres, its old alleys and the feelings of its people. A century of memories, in fact, of occasional encounters, of happy circumstances and tragic episodes that have affected the numerous members of the family over the years - joys, sufferings and pains of which the grandmother was the protagonist and witness -- personal and family vicissitudes that are strongly intertwined with the Italian historical events of the twentieth century.

Maria Antonietta Novara Biagini, genovese, after graduating from classical high school at the Institute of the Assumption Sisters, she enrolled in the Faculty of Law, without achieving the degree, preferring to take care of his family, instead of leaving it in the hands of "mercenary troops". This allowed her to be able to devote herself to many cultural interests, traveling to various parts of the world and at the same time deepening a solid and counter-current Catholic formation. She is married to Prof. Emilio Biagini, author of several publications. He has published the volume of short stories The sacred tree (2010), together with her husband the novel The rain of fire (2012) and a volume of clerical satire (2014), made up of stories and one-off acts and illustrated by the painter Elena Pongiglione [Cover: oil on canvas, Roman work of painter Anna Boschini – Vitarte Studio].

A grandmother, the one narrated by the Author, who did not tell fairy tales, as one might believe.

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Being born and reborn on a special Christmas, we who are no longer used to the unexpected of the specialty

12 December 2020/1 Comment/in Actuality/by Father Gabriele

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BORN AND REBORN IN A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS, WE WHO ARE NO LONGER USED TO THE UNEXPECTED SPECIALTIES

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

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In the Gospel of the Evangelist Luke is written:

“She gave birth to her firstborn son, She wrapped in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the hotel ".

I will try to enter on this holy Christmas day [cf.. my reflections, WHO], to imagine the nativity scene with you. So let's try to put ourselves in the place of one of those pastors. We can feel the freezing cold of the Israeli night, to be out of breath for the ride we did, after being warned by the Angels of this wonder. If we were really there we will observe a very tender scene: a child, with his dad and mom. With the Angels singing Glory to Dio while this baby is pampered by his parents. If we were really there, we will realize that we have a miracle before us. And, because on Christmas night, at least for us, two births occurred. It seems strange to say such a thing, whereas for us Catholics there is no reincarnation.

So let's see in what sense, there is a double birth. But to do this, let's try to read the wonderful words of St. Leo the Great, the small man in stature, but gigantic in temper, enough to stop Attila at the gates of Rome. So wrote this Holy Pontiff the Great in one of his dogmatic letters:

«The Son is coeternal with the Father, […] Jesus Christ is God of God, omnipotent from omnipotent, who was born coeternal from eternity; […]. The only begotten Son of the eternal Father, even eternal, was born by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary. Such a birth, occurred over time, he took nothing away from the divine and eternal birth (that he has from the Father), nothing has added to him, but it is all aimed at making man again, who had been deceived ".

Let's now try to focus on these words: Jesus was born in eternity and was born in time. The Swiss theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar writes: They, in Eternity, he received life from the Father, the knowledge, the spirit, the word, action and doctrine For us, little witnesses of the evangelical page, this eternal birth is completely dark.

Indeed the state of Eternity in which there is the one God in three Persons does not coincide with our being rooted in time. Our corporeality, together with the soul and spirit, dictates and marks the moments of our life, our knowing, intuit and also be happy and joyful. In this division enters a subdivision in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, year old, centuries, hundreds, millennia. We enter the world at a certain time and die at another time. This is very special but radically linked to our identity.

So we really know very little, given to us by faith, of the eternal birth of Logos. But precisely because we are temporary, instead we can enjoy birth over time. Why the Logos Christ took human nature and human flesh. He has entered time, together with us, at a very specific time. From this doctrinal fact we are aware of a great joy. In his Eternity, Greatness and Majesty God decided to be born as a small child eager for care. Because first of all he wanted to be very close to us. God therefore takes human nature, so that we can have full communion with him. Jesus was true God and true man in a portion of time together closely with us.

According to the Russian writer A. Chekov:

«In birth certificates it is written where and when a man comes into the world, but the reason and purpose are not specified ".

Jesus, on the other hand, is clear right away: He was born with the purpose of hugging us and getting close to us. E, after this event, Christmas, every day men have a purpose too: convey this embrace, this affectionate closeness to all those who feel abandoned and alone. A hug in the Truth: this is what he asks us to give the Child God.

This Christmas is special because we will not have the dinner like all the other years. With relatives and friends, relegated to the various colored areas of Italy. So let's try not to forget this: it is God that we must put at the center. In him the distances are reduced, they almost disappear, in a spiritual communion. The real dinner we will have this year is the Good par excellence, not to be forgotten for all future dinners, even when the pandemic is over. The dinners exist to generate communion between us, but above all to remember that it is God who continues to make himself communion with the world. Let's make this evening very special in a special year: because the celebrated is very special!

Have a good Advent journey towards the mystery of Christmas.

"Sweet Jesus, Jesus 'love' [St. Caterina da Siena]

Rome, 12 December 2020

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A sad Christmas carol among the police cars: perspectives and analysis of today

10 December 2020/1 Comment/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

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A SAD CHRISTMAS CAROL AMONG THE CARABINIERI WHEELS: PERSPECTIVES AND ANALYSIS TODAY

We can understand and perhaps charitably justify this deferential behavior of the ecclesiastics towards the government, since for a long time there has been the risk of seeing phantasms the support of the clergy, which will lead to the merciless closure of many small dioceses and parishes, finally realizing the project of a poor Church, not for the poor, but of the poor. So in summary it is better to keep the housekeeper good, even if satanasso, as long as it allows us to live.

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The last chapter present in the book The Church and the coronavirus - published by us fathers of the island of Patmos in October of this year - is called this: A Christmas Carol: a tragic Christmas song.

The fundamental reference from whom I drew the inspiration is Charles Dickens, English novelist of the Victorian age known above all for his novels of a social nature which have the merit of describing English society with all its hypocrisies and contradictions, far from the vulgar regime propaganda that usually glorifies the successes of the ruling class, while minimizing its flaws.

In the novel A Christmas Carol Dickens introduces the protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge, a cheap old man worried about his wealth in a maniacal way, enough to trample on the most sacred rights of his humble accountant Bob Cratchit - family, faith, salute, work - and have a poorly concealed tolerance for all humanity.

Not even the arrival of Christmas it seems to soften Ebenezer's heart, on the contrary, this holiday seems to exacerbate even more personal dissatisfaction and concern for a lower profit, given the attenuation of the profitable days for the gain. Only a supernatural intervention will be able to overturn the fortunes and lead the old stingy old man's life back to milder advice, obtaining justice where justice and mercy have been violated and despised and bringing back a light of humanity and understanding in the old sinner.

Between the lines of the novel, an attentive reader can well glimpse the human and psychological essence of the old Scrooge: he is a poor wounded and unhappy man, he is aged in evil as the prophet Daniel would utter [cf. Dn 13].

His passion for money it has distorted and perverted it, away from the noblest sentiments of man such as charity, The pity, solidarity and empathy. Scrooge is - at the time of Dickens - the representation of that modern anti-human cynicism present in many areas of our society which, claiming the right at any cost, ends up trampling and denying the most sacred rights of others.

I chose to be inspired by Dickens because in October, inside the sacred palaces of worldly and religious power, the idea of a possible new was cherished lockdown Christmas. A well-oriented partnership between throne and altar that would have dealt a definitive blow not only to the whole country but above all to that Catholic faith which in Italy no longer has a defined identity but which lives a dualism of pauperistic sentimentality in an immigrationist sauce and backdated traditionalism, salottiero and zitellesco.

Expenses, so, better than Dickens it could have summarized the embezzlement of civil and religious society in which we are living, proposing again with the novel Christmas carol, the bogey of a visitor ghost, not of the past, not of the present or even of the future but of the confinement of the human who dehumanizes, in defiance of the slogan everything will be fine?

With the Covid-19 contagion of the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Gualtiero Bassetti and his consequent hospitalization, our pastors did not consider that the proposal to suspend Masses at Christmas time in agreement with the Viminale was more viable, that the newspaper Il Messaggero - in the edition of 10 October 2020 - he promptly pointed out [see article, WHO].

A risky step certainly, that perhaps in order not to bypass the sick Cardinal President of the CEI he was no longer prosecuted. But maybe, more likely, the path of chameleon-like transformation was chosen ecclesial-chic in which the truths are never objective but functional and are understood according to opportunity and need.

We can understand - and perhaps charitably justify - this deferential behavior of the ecclesiastics towards the government, since for a long time there has been the risk of seeing phantasms the support of the clergy, which will lead to the merciless closure of many small dioceses and parishes, finally realizing the project of a poor Church, not for the poor, but made up of poor people. So in summary it is better to keep the housekeeper good, even if satanasso, as long as it allows us to live.

This speech is more understandable today in which, completed the turning point of Advent with the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, still debates on how to celebrate Christmas consistent with the curfew of DCPM. There is no lack of suggestions for caution, in which the ranks of the observers, dissidents and divergents will compete for the battlefield this Christmas 2020.

However everything is already prepared, to respect the DPCM we opted for the Fantozzian model in which the new Count Cobram has already instructed Maestro Canello to play midnight of the new year in advance and to some choirmaster of Villa Nazareth to anticipate the Glory to God in the highest announcing the birth of the Savior.

However, we are calm, as we have already been able to experiment with the post recovery lockdown in June there will be those who, while not celebrating Christmas since 1980, they will feel gravely defrauded and offended by the absence of the Midnight Mass, in which they have not participated for some decades. Just as there will be those who from the height of their ecclesial maturity will say that all these things are preconceived conventions, that one can very well celebrate the birth of the Redeemer from one's own living room and that at the end of the time of the shepherds there were no recorders and Gopro and therefore in all probability there was never a Christian Christmas and a Virgin betrothed to a man of the house of David named Maria. But above all there has never been a redemption because, above all, there is the consciousness that is there suprema lex to which everyone must obey because it is so convenient… as long as it is convenient, but above all as long as freedom of conscience does not express different or contrary things towards those who manipulate consciences, in the name of freedom of conscience, obviously!

To all of you, my most sincere wishes for a Merry Christmas ... dickensianamente speaking.

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The unbearable lightness of being. An unmissable comic article on “The New Compass Daily” about the birth of Jesus Christ the 25 December

9 December 2020/37 Comments/in Actuality/by father ariel

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THE UNBEATABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING. AN UNMISSABLE COMIC ARTICLE ABOUT THE NEW DAILY COMPASS ABOUT THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST THE 25 DECEMBER

On this journey of Advent, the Fathers of the Island of Patmos wish they could reach the mystery of a profoundly meditative Christmas, in this very difficult historical-social moment, leaving to others all the limitations that could instead lead to a political-polemic birth. The problem is that unfortunately - and it's not the first time - The New Compass Daily risks confusing the Holy Sepulcher of Christ with the tomb of Giulio Andreotti, this is their real underlying problem!

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From the Jesus Christ Superstar the 1973 here we are at the androgynous Jesus Christ Photoshop the 2020, with blue eye, luscious full lips, feminine traits and so on. Jesus Christ was "the most beautiful of the children of man" (Shall 44, 3), not the most effeminate among the children of man, as some blasphemous fideists and certain languid pinzochere exalted portray him today.

As it happens cyclically, our editorial team was busy working on the new books coming out a few days before Christmas, to offer our readers three works of valuable fiction. After a period of silence, today we resume our full advertising activity starting from something "light", so to speak! To follow in the coming days with articles of a very different caliber, already written by the Fathers de The Island of Patmos.

The fact: an editorialist from The New Compass Daily today he tries to explain that the date of the birth of the Word of God fixed at 25 December is real [see article, WHO]. Unfortunately losing sight of that for us Catholics, the historical datum combined with the datum of faith, it does not consist of a “traditional date” but from the incarnation of the Word of God made Man: «And the Word became flesh and came to live among us " [GV 1, 14].

Let's expect a second episode in which it is explained, in the light of the popular-iconographic tradition, that Jesus was six feet tall, blond with blue eyes and that his mother, the ever virgin Mary, she had the features of a girl from Hanover, just as if it was born in the far north of Europe. But above all that at the age of just 16 about years old - so many more or less she was at the time of giving birth - a man stands by her side, the venerated Patriarch Joseph, who was more or less years old 80, as iconography and popular tradition have documented for centuries. Without postponing another irrefutable historical fact: in that area of ancient Judea, when Jesus Christ was born from heaven, snow fell, in a scenario similar to what we can find in December in Madonna di Campiglio or in Courmayeur. It is in fact known that the shepherds came on sleds pulled by husky dogs and that a few days later the Magi, who were well-known and experienced cross-country skiers, they arrived precisely by skiing at the snow-covered nativity grotto. What to say: not even that obsessed novelist of Maria Valtorta manages to write such nonsense - which is saying something! - when it narrates the real presence of the ox and the donkey in the cave, with Jesus placed in the manger on hay and straw. In short: try placing a newborn on hay and straw, then we'll talk about it shortly, how the flesh of that poor newborn creature will end up reduced.

The date set at 25 December it is partly linked to popular tradition and partly to fideism. We have always known that the calendar that starts from the time after Christ is busted for several years due to various calculation errors. The undeniable fact supported by history is the birth of Jesus Christ, that no one can deny, because it is widely documented by the sources, as are his trial and his death sentence, imprinted in the Jewish and Roman chronicles. And in this second case, yes, that we have a certain historical date of his passion and death, because everything coincides with Passover, Passover, and it is documented by the most authoritative historical sources: and Santi Vangeli.

The exact date of the birth of Christ God is completely irrelevant: that child was truly born and is the Word of God made Man who died, risen from the dead and ascended to heaven. If his life and death are certainly proven by history, the same certain proof obviously cannot be provided for the great mystery of his resurrection and ascension to heaven, the author of the Letter to the Hebrews explains it to us coherently: "Faith is the foundation of the things that are hoped for and the proof of those that are not seen" (EB 11, 1-3).

To these explanations, a person so dear and rich in praiseworthy faith answers me: «I blindly believe what the Saints themselves received on the matter from Jesus in person and from Mary in person, also confirming that this date of 25 December was not only symbolic ". I replied that if the subject is complex in one way, it is simple with regards to the discourse of the Saints, of their visions or phrases, that we remember are not part of the deposit of faith and above all do not bind the faithful to adhere to faith. Like this, to better clarify, I gave the example of the stigmata. The stigmatized had the stigmata imprinted in the center of the palm of the hand, although to Christ the nails were not driven in that place but on the wrists. And our Capuchin theologian Ivano Liguori in his capacity as a Franciscan would have a lot to tell us about this, since it was the Seraphic Father Francis of Assisi the first to receive this painful divine gift of the stigmata. Because, so, on the palms of the hands? Simple, because God is the supreme and divine pedagogue. For centuries the crucifix was depicted with nails driven into the palms of the hands and God, donating the stigmata of your son to some chosen souls, he kept to that image known by the faithful people.

… the Christmas we are risking in 2020

Speaking seriously to each other, our Dominican theologian Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci pointed out that there are historical studies, of hypothetical-speculative value, however carried out with scientific rigor. Starting from some ancient scrolls it has been studied, during the sixties, than by calculating the class of Abia in which Zacharias, husband of Elizabeth and father of John the Baptist, exercises and officiates worship, it could also be assumed that Jesus Christ was born in the last ten days of December. But, contrary to the article published on The New Compass Daily, where things are historically taken for granted, these scholars use a hypothetical formulary, stating that starting from these data it could be possible to hypothesize this date of 25 December. This is much more honest on a scientific level [See. The Calendar Reckoning of the Sect from the Judean Desert. Aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls, in written Jerusalem, vol. IV, Jerusalem 1958, pp. 162-199].

On this journey of Advent, Fathers de The Island of Patmos they wish they could reach the mystery of a profoundly meditative Christmas, in this very difficult historical-social moment, leaving to others all the limitations that could instead lead to a political-polemic birth. The problem is that unfortunately - and it's not the first time - The New Compass Daily risks confusing the Holy Sepulcher of Christ with the tomb of Giulio Andreotti, this is their real underlying problem!

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Change the “Our father” at the behest of the Supreme Pontiff, while there are those who pray that the Lord's Prayer changes the ruling of the Supreme Pontiff style

25 November 2020/27 Comments/in Actuality/by father ariel

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CHANGE OUR FATHER FOR WANT OF POPE, WHILE THERE IS WHO PRAY THAT OUR FATHER CHANGE THE STYLE OF GOVERNMENT OF POPE

Faced with a moral decline and unprecedented doctrinal like the one we are experiencing, Apparently someone has found something better to do than use a word of Our father and the opening of Gloria as of of weapons of deterrence …

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…It deserves to always have a good dictionary

The Italian Episcopal Conference It established - obviously in full, total, collegial and synodal freedom of God's children -, modification of Prayer Our father in the new edition of the Roman Missal [cf.. WHO], where the phrase "lead us not into temptation" becomes "not into temptation". Wanting, they could use the expression "and lead us not into temptation", But, at the “exposure” used by the Waldensian Evangelical Community, They have preferred an expression of “abandonment”, perhaps considering that ever, as in this modern age, we have abandoned ourselves. The substance, however, remains the same: the Catholics, like the Protestants, They have altered expression that is rooted in the most ancient texts, as we shall soon see. E and receive, as the seconds, both they have claimed: the return to the true origins of the texts.

The Church Father Tertullian [Carthage 155 - Carthage 227], explains that the Our father, Prayer that the Word of God Himself taught us [cf.. Mt 11, 1] "It is the synthesis of the whole Gospel". This statement should lead at least to the use of the total caution when even touch a single sigh of this.

As for the phrase "offending" which recites: «And lead us not into temptation» [and lead us not into temptation], in speech n. 57 dedicated to the Passo del Beato Matteo Evangelista [cf.. Mt 6, 9-13], the Holy Doctor of Bishop Augustine of Hippo Church is very clear and thorough in explaining that God can not do evil, however, it allows that it operates through Satan and the fallen angels with him which implement. Of course, God does not tempt anyone to sin, however, it allows the forces of evil induce Christians to fall into it. All of this, It is contained in the beginning of creation, fundamental assumption of which are the freedom and free will of man. Equally enlightening comment Our father and the sentence “offending” it is given to us by the Holy Doctor of the Church Thomas Aquinas, that tracing largely the Ipponate says:

"God perhaps leads to evil, When do we say “Do not take us in tentation”? Reply it says that God causes evil in the sense that He permits, since because of its many previous sins subtracts the man to grace, failed which falls into sin ' [cf.. San Tommaso Aquino, Comment on the Our Father, 6].

…It deserves to always have a good dictionary

Before the Hipponate e dell’Aquinate, another Father of the Church, The holy bishop Cyprian of Carthage [Carthage 210 - Carthage 258], He explains that God can give power to the Devil in two ways: for our punishment, If we have sinned, or for our glorification, but if we accept the evidence. Is this, says the holy Bishop and Doctor [cf.. Latin patrology of the Migne – Vol. IV (C)yprianus carthaginensis The Lord's Prayer], It was for example the case of Job: "There, everything belongs to me I will deliver; just do not keep your hand on him " [Gb 12, 1]. The Lord Himself, at the time of his passion, dice: "You would have no power over me if it had not been given you from above" [cf.. GV 19, 11]. So when we pray for not enter into temptation, we remember our weakness, lest anyone consider complacently, no one become proud insolently, no one attribute the glory of his loyalty or his passion, when the Lord himself teaches us humility when he says:

«Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit is burning, but the flesh is weak " [MC 14, 38].

Another great Father of the Church, Origene [Alexandria 185 - Threw 254], to comment on the "And lead us not into temptation"Part of the Blessed Apostle Paul writing to the people of Corinth says:

"No temptation has overtaken you that is not human; God is faithful and will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also make the way out and the strength to bear it " [The Cor 10, 13].

Clarifies so Origen:

"What, then, does the command of the Savior to pray to lead us not into temptation, since God himself almost tempts us? He says Judith, addressing not only to the elders of his people, but to all who would read these words: "Remember what worked with Abraham, and how he tried Isaac, and all that happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria who was tending the flock of Laban, his mother's brother; because not as cleansed them to try their hearts, He - the Lord - that plagues amend it to those who approach him, punish us too ". Even David, when he says: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous", It confirms that this is true for all the right. The Apostle, around you, He says in Acts "so that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God" [cf.. At 14, 22]» [Origene, Commentary on the Our Father].

…It deserves to always have a good dictionary

However it is not excluded that in the near future, a team exegetes See to it as soon as possible also to change the page of the Gospel of the Blessed Evangelist Matthew tells of the devil that tempts man Jesus in the desert [cf.. Mt 4, 1-11], where the divine Son did not approach the Divine Father wondering: "And do not forsake the temptation», place that the Creator allowed Satan to induce him into temptation.

They will then intervene biblical scholars to rewrite and update also various biblical passages in accordance with the Directive new management e according to the "epoch-making revolution" underway, seen that God tests us and strengthens us by allowing us to be tempted. We can not forget that man is immersed in temptations since its fall triggering the entry into the scene of the world and of humanity's original sin. We read in the Old texts testamentary: "Son, If you come to serve the Lord, prepared the temptation » [Sir 2,1]. But above all remember that the Church, in hardly suspect documents, since it is one of the constitutions of Vatican II, many thought the council of councils, Remember that the temptation is tied to the value of the freedom that man is the "sign of the divine image" [The joy and hope, 8].

Another text to be corrected is surely that of the Letter to the Hebrews where the Author, taking literature of Psalms, It explains how the same men dared to groped God:

do not harden your hearts
as in the rebellion,
the day of temptation in the wilderness,
I tried putting myself where your fathers tested,
though I had seen my works for forty years [EB 3, 8-9].

So let's go to the oldest sources, because for half a century now we have been spectators and victims of the deeds and the various "revolutions" of those who want “go back to basics”. Several times I have explained in my writings that certain theologians, under the pretext of origins that actually never existed in ancient history, Instead they want to impose their modern thought. But if we want to talk of origins, then it suffices to say that the Prayer Our father, in the ancient and original Aramaic text, recital:

…It deserves to always have a good dictionary

The phrase "offending" proclaims the exact words letter: "And lead us not into temptation".

When the original text Our father it was translated from Aramaic to greek, to avoid loading the phrase with a long circumlocution is used only a verb meaning "lead" or "let":

And if the greek is not an opinion, the "offending" phrase literally translated reads just: "Do not take us in tentation". (D)these two texts arises the third translation, the Latin, altogether fitting and true to the original greek text:

Our father who art in heaven:

Hallowed be thy name;

Thy kingdom come;

Thy will be done,

As in the sky, and in the ground.

Give us this day our daily bread;

And forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us;

And lead us not into temptation,

but free nos a malo.

…It deserves to always have a good dictionary

To lovers of “back to the origins” it should be remembered that the phrase "indicted" "Do not lead us into temptation", comes from the Greek εἰσενέγκῃς, from which the faithful Latin translation induce, that the Italian language is just as faithfully translated induce. That said it is a must and ask rigor: realize the fans back to the very origins, that, these circumstances, this “mistake” Today finally corrected, It dates back to the times of the first apostolic times?

If the patristic texts known for centuries are those currently known, If the ancient languages and their faithful translations are those that are, this is when each, without being induced to any temptation, He can draw from itself its own conclusions, given that in the name of an unspecified return to basics has altered that original is such that since the Aramaic and Greek remotest origins, and that before the Latin and well before the current modern languages.

…It deserves to always have a good dictionary

The problem perhaps lies behind this latest quarrel, I'm afraid it has little theological and much sociopolitical, all with more or less clear strategies. Or to better explain the problem: the Catholic Church is experiencing a period perhaps most tragic of its entire history. We are in a climate of great doctrinal decay from which came to life a deep moral crisis, because the moral crisis, the Church always comes from a doctrinal crisis. It goes without saying that not a day goes by now, without some bishop or priest you do not jump to the headlines almost always very serious scandals. The decadence and moral crisis, Priests from the College ended up infecting the College of Bishops, and below the College of Cardinals. Our credibility crisis now ranges between the tragic and the comic-grotesque. It is therefore strange that at a time without historical precedents as what we are experiencing, you do not find something better to do than remodel the words of Our father he was born in Gloria.

This story recalls the story of the dictator Saddam Hussein accused of hiding arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. Those weapons were never found, But, with all the political and economic implications that followed, there have been two wars in the Gulf that have destabilized the political and economic structures. Like this, soon after, there was talk of … of weapons of deterrence.

Faced with a moral and doctrinal decline Without precedents like the one we are experiencing, it seems that some have found nothing better to do than use a word of Our father and the opening of Gloria as of of weapons of deterrence, convinced and sure that nobody would have understood and discovered their game …

and non eisenegkῃs us into temptation

And lead us not into temptation, but free nos a malo.

And don't lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen !

the Island of Patmos, 16 November 2018

Article published on 16 November 2018 and proposed again the 24 November 2020 on the occasion of the publication of the new typical edition of the Roman Missal

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Fare “experience of Christ” In the Eucharist is not clerical self -centeredness, like Cardinal Mario Grech and the Jesuit Antonio Spadaro would like us to understand, but it is to feed on that Christian hope which became flesh

8 November 2020/5 Comments/in Actuality/by Father Ivano

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FARE “EXPERIENCE OF CHRIST " IN THE EUCHARIST, CLERICAL EGOCENTRISM IS NOT, HOW CARDINAL MARIO GRECH AND THE JESUITE ANTONIO SPADARO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE US UNDERSTAND, BUT IT IS TO FEED ON THAT CHRISTIAN HOPE THAT HAS BECOME FLESH.

[…] Following the plot of the film Dogma, let's find out how the figure of the Christ Compagnone it was conceived by a man of the Church, from a renovator we would say today, a certain Cardinal Glick - played by George Carlin - as part of a campaign called “Catholicism Wow!” which aims to renew the image of the Catholic Church by making it more "output", starting precisely with the reform of the image of Christ.

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it is no longer the future, now it is the present …

From our columns de The Island of Patmos I have reiterated over and over that, the current pandemic time, it should lead the Church to take up a serious theological reflection on the virtue of Christian hope. This reflection appears more necessary than ever because hope is that virtue that teaches us to live in the world as believers, leading us - according to the teaching of Blessed Duns Scotus - to desire God in every situation of life, be it favorable or adverse, He who is our supreme good, from which we receive all the goods necessary for our sanctification [cf.. A. Tanquerey, Compendium of Ascetic and Mystical Theology, S. Paul 2018, p 581].

When in life we are touched from events that cause our fragility it is particularly sad to live without the virtue of hope but it is even sadder to live with a hope deprived of its theological foundation, especially if this empty hope takes root in the heart of those who should be believers.

Benedict XVI says: «When the First Letter of Peter exhorts Christians to always be ready to give an answer about the logos - the meaning and the reason - of their hope (cf. 3,15), "Hope" is the equivalent of "faith" " [cf.. Benedict XVI, Encyclical Letter, Spe Salvi, n.2]. So the speech is clear: the reason we hope lies in the fact that in the fullness of time [Gal 4,4], the Logos of the Father is incarnated and, in assuming a human body, it heals all those who find themselves afflicted by the pain of despair [cf.. 1Ts 4,13] or because of a false hope.

Such hope is embodied - which is Christ - arouses the faith in our hearts which he has in the exclamation of the apostle Thomas: «My Lord and my God!» [GV 20,28] the most beautiful synthesis of rediscovered hope informed by faith.

Starting from this observation we must report how in the consequent health emergency, we are going through a very specific crisis of hope which is the natural course of a crisis of faith towards the person of Christ seen not as the Logos of God incarnate but as a palliative without a salvific foundation.

Here we are at the conclusion of our reasoning, if we struggle to live the virtue of hope it is only because we struggle to stay within faith, worshiping a Christ emptied of his divinity, which proposes a hope equally emptied of logos divine. He is no longer the Risen bearer of hope, as the ancient Sequence of the Easter liturgy says: «Cristo, my hope, It has risen!», but assumes the features of Christ Compagnone of the film Dogma the 1999, in which Jesus is characterized by a cheerful and cordial aspect, broad smile and winking eye, right index finger pointing and left thumb raised as a sign of approval. In short, a grotesque mask of that Savior who while presenting himself to the world in such a way "inclusive" however, it remains unable to save men precisely because it is too busy giving warm pats on the back towards a relativized and relativizing modernity. Incidentally: the book that we Fathers de The Island of Patmos we have recently given to the press, "The Church and the coronavirus", it opens with a chapter of our Dominican confrere Father Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci that makes a pertinent reference to this film [visit our book shop, WHO].

Following the plot of the film Dogma, let's find out how the figure of the Christ Compagnone it was conceived by a man of the Church, from a renovator we would say today, a certain Cardinal Glick - played by George Carlin - as part of a campaign called “Catholicism Wow!” which aims to renew the image of the Catholic Church by making it more "output", starting precisely with the reform of the image of Christ.

Unfortunately, from cinematic fiction we move on to the tragic reality in which we find ourselves interacting no longer with fictional characters - such as Cardinal Glick in the film Dogma - but with others that are much more concrete, like the Jesuit Antonio Spadaro and Cardinal Mario Grech. Real people, corifei of Yves Congar's thought, who have long been engaged in the race to restyling clergyman who desires a new way of being for the Church, to speak, to act and commit. Like this, through a nice off-the-cuff interview, of those that in these times are so fashionable to prepare souls for change, they give us to understand that “a certain clericalism emerged during the pandemic, even away social"And that the impossibility of not being able to celebrate the Eucharist before the people highlighted that "degree of exhibitionism and pietism that knows more of magic than of expression of mature faith" [See. La Civiltà Cattolica, WHO]. In other words, they are telling us that behind the effort of numerous priests who celebrated the Holy Mass without the people - but always for the people - through the new forms of communication a sinister clericalism and an ego centered and exhibitionist pastoralism are hidden, which takes on the features of an elegant voyeurism liturgical for those few irreducible priests “messaioli ”. In short, in addition to the damage, even the joke.

We realize the extravagance and the absurdity of these statements only if we compare them in the light of the more radical pastoral inclusiveness that we experienced a year ago. Inclusiveness that put all common sense to the test - in the facts related to the apotheosis of Pachamama during the Pan-Amazon Synod, with the consequent mortification of various liturgical-ecclesial contexts not at all distant from the See of Peter.

In short, in the name of the update, even a pandemic can be the case for innovators, if this actually succeeds in undermining the dominion of the old ordained sacred ministers and promoting the new lay ministry towards a frontier in which the common priesthood and immediate soteriology trace the new image of the Church. For this reason it is useful to remember how the Spe Salvi it highlighted the danger of hope understood as faith in human progress alone, founded on human reason and freedom, but released from the grace of Christ.

We understand this reasoning much more clearly if we follow the continuation of the interview:

"In the situation that prevented the celebration of the sacraments, we did not realize that there were other ways through which we could experience God". Among the services mentioned, the health service appears, which has "transformed hospital wards into other cathedrals".

These words seem sensible but in the complexity of the interview they hide a subtle pitfall, in fact, Cardinal Mario Grech does not have in mind to mention - and he is careful not to do so - the numerous hospital chaplains who have assisted the sick of Covid-19 with the grace of the Sacraments, giving the acquittal in article died and representing a present Church at that juncture, caring mother, who remains under the cross of sickness and watches over there, where all the others flee. For the prelate, only the humanitarian service of health workers stands out in which reason and freedom rise to the absolute values of the new priesthood, much closer to Masonic ethics than to evangelical ones.

Although the service of the health service is highly meritorious, necessary and decisive in pandemic contexts, however, it always remains a service bound by immanence, who cannot in any way go beyond the transcendence of bodily death when it presents itself as the natural outcome of an important disease, what is Covid-19. Nor can this humanitarian service give that deposit of eternal life that only Christ grants through the ministry and work of his priests in the Church.

Man in suffering he is in dire need of clearly perceiving that certain hope that makes him say:

«Neither death nor life, born angeli born principati, neither present nor future, nor powers, neither height nor depth, nor can any other creature ever separate us from God's love, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord " [RM 8, 38-39].

This sure and faith-rich hope contemplates himself in the crucified Christ who gives himself to the mysterious contemplation of the sick and suffering brothers through the daily sacrifice of the altar. In every Holy Mass offered and celebrated, the "For you and for many" it opens men to the certain hope of redemption through love, in which the bloodless sacrifice of the altar makes us participate in that "blessed hope" [cf.. Tt 2,13] that awaits the whole Church every time it obeys the command of its Lord: "Do this in memory of me".

For this reason it is necessary in every time of tribulation to resort to the Holy Mass as a divine remedy, because in its faithful celebration, "By the rituals and prayers" [Holy Council, n. 48], men are constantly accompanied by the divine hope that never abandons man and gives new strength to go forward and hope against all hope [cf.. RM 4,18].

The interviewer from Civiltà Cattolica asks the new cardinal: "So what is the challenge for today?». The Cardinal answers:

«When the temple of Jerusalem, where Jesus prayed, was destroyed, Jews and Gentiles, not having the temple, they gathered around the family table and offered sacrifices with their lips and the prayer of praise. When they could no longer follow the tradition, both Jews and Christians took the Law and the Prophets into their hands and reinterpreted it in a new way [cf.. T. Kiss, "This is the time to set sail", in Future, 5 April 2020, 28] This is the challenge for today too ".

I honestly can't understand the sentence: «[…] both Jews and Christians took over the Law and the Prophets and reinterpreted them in a new way ". Maybe I don't understand this sentence because, not only, it is neither correct nor true, but because Our Lord Jesus Christ admonishes:

' Verily I say: until heaven and earth have passed, not a jot or a sign from the law will pass, without everything being accomplished. Who then will transgress one of these precepts, even minimal, and he will teach men to do likewise, it will be considered minimal in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever will observe them and teach them to men, will be considered great in the kingdom of heaven " [Mt 5, 18-19].

The Blessed Apostle Paul echoes these words:

«[…] there are some who upset you and want to subvert the Gospel of Christ. Well, But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel other than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed! We have already said it and now I repeat it: if any man preach a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be accursed!» [Gal 1, 7-9].

Someone, he really intends… to reinvent the Church? Perhaps as in the past another Jesuit scholar declared, Federico Lombardi, that from the Press Office of the Holy See, the 3 May 2013, stated: "Enzo Bianchi helps us reinvent the Church"? [cf.. WHO]

Laconi, 8 November 2020

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The Scalfarotto-Zan law on transomophobia? Puritan clerics speak a bogus language that society no longer understands, I instead say bad words because I am a priest who evangelizes

7 November 2020/16 Comments/in Actuality/by father ariel

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THE SCALFAROTTO-ZAN LAW ON TRANSOMOPHOBIA? PURITAN CLERICALS SPEAK A BOGGY LANGUAGE THAT SOCIETY NO LONGER UNDERSTANDS, I SAY WORDS INSTEAD BECAUSE I AM A PRIEST WHO EVANGELIZES

My dear Readers, if after the approval has already taken place in the Chamber, this bill will also pass to the Senate of the Republic, I inform you that finally "we will" be free to take it up the ass in accordance with the law. As if in the past, the Italian law, had prevented, to anyone who wanted and desired it, to take it quietly in the ass.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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the cartoons by Alfio Krancic, 2015

Today we find ourselves in this situation of disrepair because an army of priests with falsetto voices and lay Catholics-Puritans neurotically attentive to the word - in case someone had forgotten the typical attitudes of the old Pharisees -, instead of saying shit they say poop, or rather pupù. Then when they find themselves faced with the full-blown idiot, made dangerous by the fact that he does not think, the pretini with the falsetto voice and the lay Cat-Puritans wave their little fingers with the mystical eye turned towards the sky and with a honeyed voice they say: "I beg you, silly Billy, do not say these things, otherwise the Madonna cries!”. Or maybe you think that the priest with the falsetto voice and the old Catholic Puritans following him, they say to the idiot with a menacing baritone voice: “You want to stop being an asshole?”.

And between a "poo" and a "silly", today we risk being screwed by the fierce army of rainbow fag who do not want a law against transomophobia, but to shut the mouth of anyone who dares to disagree with “dogmas” imposed by the gaystapo, which does not aim to protect the "pick me up"By the"somewhere»- neologisms by Leonardo Sciascia, The Day of the Owl ―, because what they crave is to pursue the crime of opinion. In short: crucify others while they declare themselves poor persecuted victims.

8 October, live from the Mediaset studios in Milan, speaking with the Hon. Alessandro Zan connected from Rome, I asked a very specific question:

«I give a very concrete example: in the letter to the Corinthians the Blessed Apostle Paul admonishes, saying that neither adulterers, nor covetous, ne prostitutes, born sodomiti […] they will enter the kingdom of heaven (cf.. The Cor 6, 9-11). At the end of this epistle, in churches we do not say "word of Father Ariel" or "word of the Bishops" but "Word of God". Well I want to know: tomorrow, if I read and explain this Epistle, it's not like the carabinieri arrive?» [see video, WHO by the minute 02:07:20 following].

fairy tales for children for school use for indoctrination gender

As you can see from the movie, our parliamentarian did not answer. Meanwhile Vlady Guadagno, aka Luxuria, he yelled in the background "not even pedophiles ... not even pedophiles ..." will enter the kingdom of heaven. This is to imply that pedophilia is a matter that concerns only the Church and priests, not the many rich and ricchioni over fifty who go hunting for teenagers who arrive in gay circles as little hustlers in bloom to get out with the money for the new Iphon? No, that is good and right, after all, they only introduce them to the wonders of homosexual love, you seem? Pedophilia, or rather that ephebophilia improperly called pedophilia, it concerns only the Church and the priests, little i rich and ricchioni hunting for teenagers.

If my reminiscences of criminal law - stuff that I have abandoned for over two decades - they are not totally rusty, I understand that the legislator intervenes with the laws to fill a regulatory vacuum. Let's ask ourselves: provided that all those who have assaulted homosexuals or lesbians, were convicted by the judges of the Italian criminal courts, who with meritorious and commendable zeal have always and rightly applied the aggravating circumstance; given that the Catholic Church strongly and severely condemns any form of discrimination against homosexuals, well: can you explain to me what regulatory gap this law would fill? I tell you: None.

fairy tales for children for school use for indoctrination gender

The Scalfarotto-Zan law it aims at two essential things, both dangerous: to give life within the schools to a real indoctrination on gender and to prosecute the crimes of opinion of anyone who dares to oppose the "culture of death" of gaystapo. Just so, because this is exactly what they intend to protect those who claim the right to same-sex marriage or to purchase babies from rented wombs or from surrogate mothers: the culture of death to be instilled in an already pouring civil society, like the European one, in an advanced state of forfeiture.

And here we return to my example from earlier: no one will ask us to censor the Pauline Epistle addressed to the Corinthians or to delete it from the Holy Gospels. Because they are not stupid, but very intelligent. So they will blame us as we will preach it and explain it, that Epistle. And I'll explain how this will happen: that Sunday there will be the inevitable in church catto-fennel who will declare himself hit, vilified, outraged and excluded by the words of the priest who took it out on "effeminate" and "sodomites". Soon said: we will also be able to read that Pauline Epistle, but only to explain how the Blessed Apostle was unwelcoming and inclusive, because he was a penalty taker from different times. For this we, give his, we will take the necessary distance with the heart beating rainbows.

My dear Readers, if after the approval has already taken place in the Chamber, this bill will also pass to the Senate of the Republic, I inform you that finally "we will" be free to take it up the ass in accordance with the law. As if in the past, the Italian law, had prevented, to anyone who wanted and desired it, to take it quietly in the ass.

fairy tales for children for school use for indoctrination gender

But this being the case, then what does this law actually aim at?? To the simple fact that tomorrow, anyone will express any form of dissent and human disgust towards the practice of sodomy, in one way or another it will cause offense to those who have always been free to practice it, therefore it will be criminally liable.

I used bad trucker language or as a longshoreman without inhibitory brakes? Can be, but one thing remains certain: while small groups of welcoming and inclusive priests who blush like girls at their first menstruation if someone dares to say only "poop"; while ours bishops, in front of everything, they'll just shyly say "silly", if this law also passes to the Senate we will find ourselves with our hands tied and a muzzle to our mouth by those who claim the sacrosanct right, however, never denied to anyone, to give it and take it how and where they want.

Dear Bishops, do not tear your clothes in the face of my foul language which has a very specific logic. Above all: don't fall into my trap, tearing your clothes on the form, just to escape from the horrid substance that you have neither the skills nor the courage to face. Rather think of what you are going towards with rare and unconscious timidity. Think about what really is vulgar as it is inhumane: tomorrow, when the teaching of gender in private-approved Catholic schools, unless otherwise you take away the state funding, then making them close, what are you going to do? Maybe you will shyly shake your little finger with your mystical eye in the sky sighing "silly"?

fairy tales for children for school use for indoctrination gender

Between one foul language and another I conclude with impeccable theology: if God the Father did not prevent Adam and Eve from committing original sin, despite all the consequences that have resulted for humanity, since he could never have put himself against the freedom and free will that he himself had given at the time of their creation, I can perhaps prevent two boys with hormones that work in reverse from playing kickback? Never! If they take it and give it to each other where and how much they want, but do not dare to shout if someone publicly affirms that they can choose, he would rather be slaughtered by ISIS than being sodomized by another man. Do not dare to scream "discrimination" whether Catholic or non-Catholic teachers, in Catholic or secular schools, they will refuse, in conscience and in conscience, to instill the mysteries of satanic in the hearts of children gaycentric church of the rainbow gay lobby.

Of course, contrary to the confused Church of “new course” animated by an army of clergymen gay friendly, as a Catholic, priest and theologian I am very clear about the substantial difference between the freedom that man has to commit sins and what many today claim as the sacrosanct right to sin. Everyone can sin freely, but no one can claim the right to sin, much less drag it and insert it within the Church as a "precious diversity to welcome", because the Church welcomes and always will welcome the sinner, it is the foundation of its mission, but it cannot and never will be able to welcome sin and call good evil and evil good.

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there, I gave to the man in the street and to man in general, fag friends included whom I have always loved so much, that effective evangelical clarity that between “pupù” and “sciocchini”, some of our priests and many of us bishops unfortunately I am no longer able to give you. This is why the Italian Church risks being gagged by the gaystapo arcobalenista. But they will understand this only tomorrow, when the carabinieri will arrive in churches or when they will have to teach the theory of gender, if they do not want to close Catholic schools.

And now tell me: I'm vulgar, or, before God, to the Holy Gospel and to our saving mission on earth entrusted to us by Jesus Christ, the vulgar are those who just shake their little finger, with the mystical eye turned to the sky, sighing at the maximum ... "silly"?

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Islam is violent in its structure and cannot dialogue with Christianity, nor assimilate the principles of democracy and the secularism of states, incompatible with its very essence. The new Muslim colonizers have discovered a more effective system than the sword and war to achieve the conquest of the populations of the infidels: make use of democracy and those intangible principles of secularism of states which they also reject, but which they make extensive use of to establish themselves in Western countries. In an identityless Europe that despises its Christian roots out of self-hatred, which has erected the right to abortion and euthanasia to intangible values, same-sex marriage and the possibility that two men may adopt children or purchase them from a rented womb, the Muslims have already won. Because they know who they are and what roots they come from, because they possess that pride of belonging that we Europeans do, drunk on secular dogmas, we destroyed.

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