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

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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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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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].

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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

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.Laconi, 9 December 2020

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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

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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.

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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.

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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:

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"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].

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…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:

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

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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:

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"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].

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Clarifies so Origen:

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"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].

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…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.

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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].

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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:

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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].

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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:

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…It deserves to always have a good dictionary

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

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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":

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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:

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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.

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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?

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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.

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…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.

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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.

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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 …

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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 !

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the Island of Patmos, 16 November 2018

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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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An explanation to "lead us not into temptation," the Dominican theologian Joseph Barzaghi [to open the video click on the image]

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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

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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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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?”.

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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.

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

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«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].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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"?

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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.

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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.

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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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.the Island of Patmos, 7 November 2020

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"THE HOLY SPIRIT AND US". THERE ARE NO MORE BISHOPS AND CATHOLICS ONCE

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[…] the time has also come for the faithful to choose what is necessary, crossing the burning coals of modernity and absolute rights assumed to fanaticism against the Church. These rights, even in times of pandemics, they never constitute a remedy for evil, they self-destruct immediately and become secularized and legalized, becoming positive rights that affect the flesh of the weakest and most defenseless and attack that sacramental and liturgical component which has in the Eucharist its apex of necessary faith, celebrated daily.

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Note from the director in charge of The Island of Patmos published at hours 19.45

the article by Father Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp. which follows was published at hours 17,45 the 4 November. A couple of hours after the drafting of Avvenire.it he deleted the piece to which our editor referred. That article now it is no longer visible. Traces of it remain in the newspaper of the Diocese of Senigallia which I have reported almost entirely [see WHO] Good, all in all, one less amenity on those columns. I regret the fall of the Soviet Union, because if it remained standing, today the director in charge of Future could be loudly claimed by the Duma as director of the Truth.

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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A newspaper that calls itself Catholic, what it should do is first of all to support and accompany the faith of Christians in daily life, preserving the simple ones from stumbling.

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Without many frills and the inevitable sacristy bigotry, use a charismatic journalistic style capable of instilling trust, so as to read the world in a prophetic way, according to that Kingdom of God which is already present among us (cf.. LC 17,20) and which a believer should recognize from afar.

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In all probability I am wrong, i am as usual too vintage and too naive for this century, in which being an adult Christian means reforming the unreformable and proposing an alternative God wisely glittering that overlaps the God of Jesus Christ. However, a cost of being repetitive and obnoxious I have to insist on a fact: I always find an evident lack of that beautiful cardinal virtue which is prudence. Virtue that must be asked of the Holy Spirit on a daily basis and that is required not only for a consecrated person in the episcopate and in the priesthood but also for a simple baptized faithful who plays a role within the Church, especially if that role involves information and training.

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Why do I say this? I come straight to the point. I learn from Avvenire [cf.. articles WHO] of an investigation conducted by the Institute IPSOS according to which two thirds of believers would have deemed it necessary to suspend the celebrations with people during the lockdown national between March and May. Apparently, 88% of Christians in our communities have promoted anti-Covid measures in the church.

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Possible? It would seem so! So according to these data and according to the reading given by Future, the Scream: «Give us back to S. Mass ”is the work of a certain vulgate of kissing fanatics. The stop of the "open door" celebrations sees the full promotion of Popolo of the Parishes. I don't know about you, but I, to read certain things, i'm really bad. In fact, if the solution seemed successful the first time, it will also be in the case of a second lockdown Christmas, as well as rumors rumored these days.

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And I say this with the deepest concern Why, after almost a year of living with Covid, this position can no longer be justified by emotion or surprise. It is clear that it assumes the connotations of a real reasoned choice of field, a precise decision between faith and necessity as I wrote in these columns a few months ago, a choice supported by an interpreted “do-good” right that sees in public safety the suprema lex.

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To all Catholics who are passionate about law and Cicero, I remember the first for a Catholic Christian suprema lex And, and will always remain, Jesus Christ, foundation and way to reach the salvation of souls. In this regard, I quote and share what Cardinal Sarah thinks:

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"Earthly existence is important, but much more important is life everlasting: sharing the same life with God for eternity is our goal, our vocation " (cf.. Letter to the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences on the celebration of the liturgy during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, Let us return with joy to the Eucharist!).

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For this reason this survey appeared in the newspaper of the bishops, it pains me in the double role of priest and Christian, revealing a very specific flaw among Italian Catholic believers that should be cured rather than sponsored.

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I can only identify myself as a parish priest in the care of souls to the numerous brother priests who have not yet finished explaining to their Pastoral Councils the splendid letter from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments which invites us to resume Christian life by starting from the Eucharist celebrated as a community in Dies Domini.

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How priests will be able to educate their faithful to feed on Jesus the Eucharist and to transmit the truths of the Catholic faith in Sunday ecclesial communion, if these faithful prefer a Creed Smart Working, easily lived from home?

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How to justify to catechists and families of children and of the boys on a journey of faith that a new one lockdown liturgical / catechetical is not only good and just but it is even desirable, when the National Catechetical Office issued clear guidelines for catechesis in Italy at the time of Covid? Responsible guidelines, prudent and sure but who cannot repudiate and undermine the dutiful kerygmatic announcement that he has in the Gospel of St. Matthew [cf.. Mt 28,19-20] the binding seal of the Savior to the Apostolic College.

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You will understand well that we are facing a crossroads and between the two, one is true and the other false. Or the Catholics in Italy have conquered in 2020 the Nietzsche trophy and have come to the death of God seen as an unbearable burden in times of pandemic, and then it is good that they officially communicate it to their bishops, beautiful souls of hospitality, so that they take note. Or, if not, bishops should prevent such positions from circulating in their newspaper, which have no other consequence than increasing the consternation and unease of 12% of Catholics who still consider the Holy Mass indispensable.

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Because the Holy Mass belongs to Christ, not of any "Franceschiello" who with his edict galvanizes sailors to the cry of "Make Ammuina» (get confused).

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And of ammuina - confusion - in this historical period there is too much of it, inside and outside the Church so much that it needed prudent and wise pastors like the good Bishop Emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, Giovanni D'Ercole [cf.. My previous article, WHO] who had the audacity to affirm that "The Church is not the place of contagion", thus demonstrating a rare balance between pastoral prudence and love of neighbor, all combined with that primacy of obedience to Christ before Caesar.

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They tell us to obey? Well we will do it and with joy, as reported by the Blessed Evangelist Luke in the book of the Acts of the Apostles. Obey by listening to that apostolic voice that tells us in our days:

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"We decided, the Holy Spirit and us, not to impose any obligations on you other than these necessary things ... " (At. 15,28)

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This is what we want to hear, dear fathers bishops. Impose the yoke of necessity on us, we will gladly turn our necks and our backs to the sweet yoke of the Eucharist celebrated as a community on the Lord's day, the only Lord necessary in a Church of fake indispensable.

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In the same way, the time has also come for the faithful to choose the necessary, crossing the burning coals of modernity and absolute rights, taken to fanaticism against the Church. These rights, even in times of pandemics, they never constitute a remedy for evil, they self-destruct immediately and become secularized and legalized, becoming positive rights that affect the flesh of the weakest and most defenseless and attack that sacramental and liturgical component which has in the Eucharist its apex of necessary faith, celebrated daily.

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Laconi, 4 November 2020

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THE BISHOP OF ASCOLI PICENO GIOVANNI D'ERCOLE HAS A CHOICE THE BENEDICT OPTION, THE SAME THAT SOON MANY OF US WILL FOLLOW, TOGETHER WITH THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY UNDERTAKEN IT FOR A FEW YEARS

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One could say that it is an escape, but not as the world of gods can understand it adult Catholics who see God as a militant and the Gospel as a political manifesto to strike in the face of those who do not think like them. The escape of Giovanni D'Ercole is the same escape of Pope Benedict XVI, to be understood and read first of all as the flight of Benedict from Nursia who dares to separate from the Empire now corrupt and upset by the invading barbarians in order to rediscover his origins, their roots and the Christian identity that today in the world sounds like an unpronounceable blasphemy.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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S. AND. Mons. Giovanni D'Ercole, Bishop emeritus of Ascoli Piceno

The Bishop of Ascoli Piceno S.E. Mons. Giovanni D'Ercole, Orionine religious, at the threshold of 73 years of age - two years ahead of the expected withdrawal of the bishops from the episcopal chair a 75 years - he decided to present to the Supreme Pontiff the letter of resignation from the pastoral care of his diocese and to enter the monastery to live a life of silence and prayer.

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Thus he motivated his decision:

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“Loving the Church also means having the courage to make difficult choices, suffered, always having in front of the good of the Church and not oneself ".

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Words that recall those of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI and which weigh like boulders in this historical moment of disorder and loss of leadership inside and outside the Church. The situation, we understand it well, it includes the responsibility of many, not just a single.

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Among the battlefields bloodied by the sacrifice of the martyrs, there is a strong fight for the safeguarding of doctrine, of the morality and freedom of the Church. Let's ask ourselves: in this scenario, perhaps a bishop flees?

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One could say that it is an escape, but not as the world of gods can understand it adult Catholics who see God as a militant and the Gospel as a political manifesto to strike in the face of those who do not think like them. The escape of Giovanni D'Ercole is the same escape of Pope Benedict XVI, to be understood and read first of all as the flight of Benedict from Nursia who dares to separate from the Empire now corrupt and upset by the invading barbarians in order to rediscover his origins, their roots and the Christian identity that today in the world sounds like an unpronounceable blasphemy.

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Yet, we men of the Church, we did not understand that to convert others it is necessary to convert ourselves first, the goodness of the Gospel and of the person of Jesus Christ is not embraced by hybridizing politics [cf.. WHO] which by its nature is secular and the century is the historical space and time of man fallen and punished because he rebelled against God. Like this, as the Gospel is not the pauperistic ideal of those who claim to remove poverty with a sort of Roussian optimism, who sees the perfect watch in man, the demiurge who has denied God and creates order in disorder and salvation in despair.

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Being a Church without compromise is possible if Christ is the privileged option of believers and pastors, option that Giovanni D'Ercole has reiterated in these months of health emergency, reminding the top of the government the truths of the faith and diverting the People of God from that safe anesthetized blanket that shakes off all responsibility and involvement with God in the name of an unidentified common good that kills all hope.

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The world now does not understand the choice of the bishop emeritus of Ascoli Piceno, but he will understand it when he realizes that the cisterns are now dry and the granaries empty and full of rats.

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Maybe some bishop, priest or simple faithful will consider this decision hasty, because a bishop who enters monastic cloister looks so much like a Ferrari hidden in the garage, all alone, parked there to rust.

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But no, my dear! In that silent solitude the granaries are being prepared, the grain of Christ's Word is piling up, the good seed that feeds and that will be sown in the future is being preserved. Before long we will all be hungry, the cry of Jeremiah according to which

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"The prophet and the priest wander around the country and don't know what" [Gives 14,18],

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of this impotence we are more than witnesses in many realities. But not all the prophets of our time and priests are unaware and indecisive, some, like Giovanni D'Ercole, as well as Benedict XVI in front of the spiritual desert, they choose the desert of the cloister. They do

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«[…] what the farmer does when the river overwhelms the banks and invades the fields: the seed must be saved. When the river has returned to its bed, the earth will re-emerge and the sun will dry it. If the farmer will have saved the seed, he will be able to throw it on the earth made even more fertile by the silt of the river, and the seed will bear fruit, and the turgid and golden ears will give men bread, life and hope. The seed must be saved: faith […] we must help those who still have the faith and keep it intact. The spiritual desert stretches every day, every day new souls wither because they are abandoned by faith " [1].

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All this will pass and pass for everyone, hungry and starving. The way out is to immediately look for whoever keeps the good seed in the barn, even with difficult and painful choices that involve one's own person.

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Giovanni D'Ercole, presbyter and bishop, did this, and it is a duty and, above all Christian, express a blessing thank you to God for giving it to us. Which I express not only in a personal capacity, but also in the name of all the Fathers de The Island of Patmos.

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Laconi, 30 October 2020

NOTE

^[1] See. Giovannino Guareschi, Don Camillo and Don Chichì, in all Don Camillo. Small world, (II), BUR, Milan, 2008, pp. 3114-3115.

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