Faith and needs: an emergency such as that of the coronavirus, at the end of emergency can not change the future freedom of the Church and its faithful

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FAITH AND NEEDS: AN EMERGENCY AS THAT OF CORONAVIRUS, AT THE END OF EMERGENCY CAN NOT CHANGE THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM CHURCH AND ITS FAITHFUL.

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[…] We can cite other examples, but this is enough to realize that we can not live by bread alone, but you need to give access to other resources, among which is so imminent faith. And we speak of faith we invent and intimate perspective, sentimental and palliative from beauty farm soul, but as a gift of God that intelligence work and gives wisdom to discern the world and grasp its presence savior. Faith is a human right, It regards the freedom of personal self-determination and is (still) guaranteed by the Constitution of the Italian Republic [art. 19].

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"Open Church" (VIII and IX episode) - We explain how it works during the pandemic coronavirus general absolution given by the confessors in this time of severe social and health crisis

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"CHURCH OPEN» (VIII and IX episode) - VI EXPLAIN HOW IT WORKS DURING THE PANDEMIC OF THE ACQUITTAL CORONAVIRUS GENERAL GIVEN BY CONFESSORS IN THIS TIME OF GRAVE CRISIS OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH

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We offer our readers this third precious videos of our esteemed brother John Zanchi, priest of the Diocese of Arezzo, so that it can also serve as an effective and wise antidote to all those who unfortunately, at this time of extraordinary crisis and emergency, They have nothing better to do than argue, often in harsh and aggressive tone, against decisions taken by our bishops for safety reasons to protect public health: suspend the sacred celebrations and in many cases close the churches. Recall that the Church, during crises and emergencies, It has never been saved by the controversy of those who stand for all time the most faithful among the faithful or to the purest of the pure, but the unit. Someone has written these days that "the bishops are committing suicide the Italian Church". Unfortunately he did not understand anything of the essence of the Catholic faith: the church “if suicidal” attacking the bishops, instead follow them and support them in a moment of so severe test.

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John Zanchi

Welcome to the eighth installment of Open Church!

In this time of a pandemic the churches of stone and bricks remain open, without public celebrations, as a sign of Open Church that remains opened to the glory of God and for the salvation of mankind.

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The ecclesiastical and civil authorities They have adopted exceptional measures to contain the pandemic and making it difficult to receive Holy Communion and other sacraments, including Confession; difficult, but not impossible. The Church also remains open to sinners in ensuring the sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation with God.

First of all, for those who are not sick it is not impossible to confession, putting into practice the recently Rules issued by the Bishops according to the criteria of prudence: that is, to meet with the priest in ventilated places, keeping the safety distance but still guaranteeing the confidentiality of the accusation of sins and also wearing disposable gloves and an airway protection mask. No shortage of priests implementing those prudential rules with great pastoral creativity (as seen in this image - Ed on audio-video).

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Different is unfortunately the situation of those infected hospitalized in Hospitals, especially in intensive care units; Priests often fail to achieve them, not because they like it, but because they are hampered by a lack of safeguards against contagion (tute, gloves, masks) and therapies protocols. So the Pope, through the Apostolic Penitentiary, the 20 last March issued precise and multiple provisions, to reach even the seriously ill the gift of the sacramental forgiveness of sins [cf WHO]. For example, to ensure the necessary spiritual assistance to the sick and dying, the Pope suggested to the Bishops, If necessary, to form groups of "extraordinary hospital chaplains" even on a voluntary basis, according to the health authorities and in compliance with the rules for protection from infection. This is certainly the best way to guarantee spiritual assistance to hospitalized and especially the sacrament of Confession.

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In this regard, allow me to state the Pope and the Bishops They should invoke state laws that already exist to obtain that priests have free access to the sick, with the same caution they use doctors. Many hospital chaplains are also state employees, so they must be enabled to carry out its mission. If doctors entering and leaving the wards with due caution, just as it must be possible to Chaplains. In many places are the same doctors to apply for this work, first of all for himself same. Moreover, the Pope reminded the bishops that, in this emergency situation, they may use a particular form of the sacrament of Confession namely the collective absolution of penitents; the latter are exempt from the charge on time staff of one's sins to a priest, but they must emit an act of perfect contrition, which necessarily includes the vote to accuse one's sins to a priest earliest possible.

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The Apostolic Penitentiary It acknowledged that "Reconciliation of several penitents with general confession and absolution" is now to be implemented especially in places most affected by the pandemic infection and until it will not cease. The Bishop of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, S. AND: Mons. Riccardo Fontana (Ed Diocese to which belongs the author of the audio-video), He was the first in Italy to impart in this form the Sacrament of Reconciliation; the morning of 19 March went at the San Donato of Arezzo, where are also hospitalized patients of coronavirus; the patients had been previously warned and were able to follow the course of the ritual through the diocesan broadcaster Telesandomenico, spiritually uniting himself to the Bishop who absolved them.

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In the end, in the present situation There can be quarantined sick and dying quite unable to receive sacramental absolution; then, The pope recently reminded that they can receive God's forgiveness of their sins by issuing an act of perfect contrition, including the firm purpose of confessing if and as soon as it will be possible for them.

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Most of the mass media He has devoted only a few superficial mention of these measures taken by the Church to facilitate as much as possible the use of sacramental Reconciliation, with the risk that steps in the minds of this type of message: "Then I can also confess to me only, no need for a priest!"and: "The Church of changing many things; now well on the way to confess!». In reality it is not so. Holy Mother Church has always celebrated in various forms the sacrament of Confession, depending on the circumstances and the possibilities, true to its fundamental principle: the salvation of souls is the supreme law.

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Furthermore, the Holy Mother Church He has always taught that God forgives the sins of those who are sincerely repentant of them committed, not only because they fear eternal damnation, but because they have offended God and therefore firmly resolve to sin no more. This is what we say in 'Pain act: «My God, I regret it and I regret with all my heart for my sins, because sinning I deserved your punishment, and much more because I offended you, infinitely good and worthy of being loved above all else. I propose, with your holy aid, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of sin. man, mercy, forgive me!».

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That contrition of the penitent is the heart of the sacrament of Confession is also demonstrated by the fact that the priest can not absolve a penitent not properly repented and received God's grace through sacramental absolution helping us to mature the perfect contrition, then to be converted from sin because we love God, not only because we fear. At the same time it is always true that contrition for sins committed is perfect because it necessarily includes the accusing vote for their sins before the Confessor, earliest possible.

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In this episode of Open Church We hinted at a complex and sensitive subject, looking in the little time available to be clear and concise. Sacramental Confession is a topical, because our spiritual preparation for Easter continues in this Lenten time in quarantine; "Confession at least once a year and Communion at least at Easter," it remains one of the General Precepts of the Church, the bare minimum to do to say that Catholic Christians.

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Reflecting on the importance of the sacrament of Penance We remind us of our duties in normal time: always live in God's grace, always take advantage of opportunities for confession, know the truths of faith and the norms of Christian conduct, pray often for the grace of a happy death (ie comforted by the Sacraments). So we will always be spiritually ready, although the emergency sopraggiungerà! Anyhow, Now it is important to realize that the Open Church, also to give to men in every way possible the forgiveness of sins and thus to ensure the eternal salvation of souls, which remains the most important thing of all.

A resent the next episode of Open Church.

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Welcome to a new edition of Open Church!

The topic of this episode IX It is a continuation of the previous one: the Church even in time of a pandemic remains opened to ensure the reconciliation of sinners with God. After pointing out how it is possible in this time of social emergency administer the sacrament of Confession, We mention now to the practice of Indulgences, because in recent days there have been promulgated new.

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We start from a basic premise: the sinner freed from the guilt of sin through the sacrament of Confession, still it has to serve the punishment due for sin; In fact, God is merciful to the same time but also fair. Because of this, with sacramental absolution, the confessor priest also assigns a penance to be done. Who does not fully atoned for in this mortal life the due punishment for their sins, I will have to do necessarily in the Hereafter, if he dies in the grace of God; then we might as well do penance as much as possible now.

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The sacraments of Baptism and Confession, Holy Mother Church frees us from the guilt of sin; with the indulgences then it helps us to atone for the punishment due for sins.

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Deepen now this topic: a church that was never closed and will remain open for eternity is that of Paradise. The Madonna in body and soul, the Angels, Saints and other souls of the saved already enjoy the vision of God and intercede for us at the same time still journey towards the common homeland of heaven. During their earthly life, Mary and the Saints have gained by the grace of God supernatural merits; acquistatici joined the infinite merits of Christ the Redeemer with his sacrifice on the cross, these supernatural merits of the saints are the "treasure" of satisfaction to divine justice, "Treasure" that the Church puts at our disposal to help us to repent of our sins and to better attain the eternal bliss.

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Duly prepared faithful (confessed and communicated) and who meet certain conditions established (exclusion of any affection for sin, fulfillment of prescribed work, recitation of the Our Father and the Creed, prayer for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff), get the gift of abbreviation (A partial indulgence) or even the cancellation (plenary indulgence) the due punishment for their sins, satisfying divine justice by drawing on the supernatural "treasure" of the merits of the Saints. Said "in a nutshell": it is as if a debtor extinguished its debt because a benefactor gives you free of charge the necessary money he does not have. It should be noted that some indulgences can also be applied to the soul of a deceased, by way of suffrage.

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Anyone wishing to explore the doctrine and practice regarding the indulgences can read the following document: Apostolic Penitentiary, Manual of Indulgences, Vatican Publishing House, 20084.

In this Lenten time in quarantine, the Pope has issued precise instructions, not only because the faithful are helped to continue to receive the sacrament of Confession, but also to help the faithful to continue to do penance for their sins and come spiritually renewed at the next Easter. The popular media do not pay attention to the new Indulgences newly promulgated; for this you need to talk about it, so that the faithful are aware of and can enjoy them.

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The decree issued by the Apostolic Penitentiary in data 20 last March is easily available via the Internet [cf WHO]. Here let me summarize the main points of the papal decree: the "faithful affections Coronavirus, undergo regime for the disposal of sanitary quarantine in hospitals or in their homes, "get the plenary indulgence" if, with a spirit detached from any sin, They will join spiritually through the media to the celebration of Holy Mass, the recitation of the Holy Rosary, the devotion of the Via Crucis or other forms of devotion, or if at least recite the Creed, the Our Father and a pious invocation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, providing this evidence in a spirit of faith in God and charity towards our brothers, with the intention of fulfilling the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father), as soon as they can ". "Under the same conditions" may obtain a Plenary Indulgence 'caregivers, family members and how many, example of the Good Samaritan, exposing themselves to the risk of contagion, Coronavirus assist the sick ". Even the faithful that "offer a visit to the Blessed Sacrament, or Eucharistic adoration, or reading the Holy Scriptures for at least half an hour, or reciting of the Holy Rosary, or pious exercise of the Via Crucis, or recitation of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, to implore from God the Almighty epidemic termination, relief for those who are afflicted and the eternal salvation of those whom the Lord called to himself can also benefit from the Plenary Indulgence. The plenary indulgence can also be achieved by the faithful that on his deathbed he was unable to receive the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick and Viaticum: In this case we recommend the use of the crucifix or the cross ".

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The ordinary way of expiating the punishment due for sins is first to perform their duties and endure the hardships of life, raising the soul with humble trust to God (cf Manual of Indulgences, cit., p. 37); so, put themselves or their goods at the service of the brothers who are in need and do so in a spirit of faith and merciful mood (In the same place, p. 40). The two works just mentioned are extremely relevant and urgent in the present calamity and are also within everyone's reach. The Holy Church in fact has now indulgenced such works, thus helping us to enhance a supernatural spirit what is happening to us.

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"All things work together for good to them that love God" (RM 8, 28), He reveals the apostle St. Paul; "The sins", chiosava St. Augustine of Hippo; Also the pandemic, we add. Praying God and doing good to get the next new Indulgences, we can transform this time sacrifices in a powerful supernatural opportunity to do good to ourselves, as well as to our next.

A resent the next episode of Open Church.

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Sansepolcro (Arezzo), 24 March 2020

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"Open Church" (VII episode) How to escape the coronavirus? Certainly not with the rainbows and the inscription “we'll make it”, implied: with our own strength. But asking God: «Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened " [Mt 7, 7]

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"CHURCH OPEN» (VII episode) - HOW SAVED FROM CORONAVIRUS? CERTAINLY NOT WITH RAINBOWS AND THE WORDS “WE'LL MAKE IT”, IMPLIED: SUN WITH OUR FORCES. BUT ASKING GOD: "ASK AND YOU WILL BE GIVEN; SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND, Knock and it shall be open " [Mt 7, 7]

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We offer our readers this third precious videos of our esteemed brother John Zanchi, priest of the Diocese of Arezzo, so that it can also serve as an effective and wise antidote to all those who unfortunately, at this time of extraordinary crisis and emergency, They have nothing better to do than argue, often in harsh and aggressive tone, against decisions taken by our bishops for safety reasons to protect public health: suspend the sacred celebrations and in many cases close the churches. Recall that the Church, during crises and emergencies, It has never been saved by the controversy of those who stand for all time the most faithful among the faithful or to the purest of the pure, but the unit. Someone has written these days that "the bishops are committing suicide the Italian Church". Unfortunately he did not understand anything of the essence of the Catholic faith: the church “if suicidal” attacking the bishops, instead follow them and support them in a moment of so severe test.

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VIDEO SHOOTING AND ASSEMBLY BY THE ISSUER TELESANDOMENICO (AREZZO)

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The texts of Father John Zanchi, director of the Pastoral Center Divine Worship of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, They are not meant as articles but as audio-narrative texts. We proceeded to transcribe audio text for our Readers.

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John Zanchi

Welcome to the VII episode of Chiesa Aperta!

In this time of a pandemic, a priest at the door of his church hung the following written: "Thus says the Lord: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it shall be opened!” (Mt 7, 7)», to bring home to his faithful that the priest remains available to them, prejudice course due prudence and the necessary confidentiality (cf The deep, 18 March 2020). So even in the time of a pandemic churches remain open, without public celebrations, as a sign of the Church that remains open glory of God and the salvation of men.

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In this emergency situation our Bishops have excused from duty to attend Sunday Mass, which is one of the general precepts of the Church. But it remains the obligation to sanctify Sunday, it is a divine commandment: "Remember to keep holy the Sabbath" (It is cf 20, 8 – 10).

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We note that the ecclesiastical law already covers cases in which "the absence of a sacred minister or for other grave cause can not participate in the Eucharistic celebration"; in such a situation, "It is strongly recommended that the faithful ... to spend an appropriate amount of time personally or family prayer" (Code of Canon Law, 1248 §2).

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In this Sunday and more to follow, the Church remains open then anyway for the sanctification of the Lord's Day, Memorial of Christ's Resurrection: in churches of stone and brick Clergy continues to celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice and Christian families, "Small domestic churches" (cf The light 11) and Christians who live alone, They will unite spiritually, as well through direct television or radio, by which it is guaranteed in a certain way at least the participation in the Liturgy of the Sunday Word (readings, homily, profession of faith, universal prayer); unfortunately currently the Eucharist can hardly be received in the holy communion, but at least the spiritual communion always remains possible, especially on Sunday. Also do not forget that the Sunday Liturgy is not reduced to Mass, but also contemplates the Liturgy of the Hours, articulated in well 7 moments spread throughout the day, especially Lauds and Vespers; are prayers that can easily be celebrated with family or alone, especially in Sunday.

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Even in normal times, the sanctification of Sunday is not reduced to participation in Holy Mass and the Sunday obligation also includes the duty of the rest, that is the refrain "from those jobs and those matters which impede the worship of God and disturb their daily joy of the Lord, or the relaxation of mind and body" (In the same place, 1247). This time a pandemic is characterized unfortunately by the forced cessation of so many daily activities, but Sunday rest is not simply take time off work, but to live the Sunday devoting more time to God, to themselves and to the next.

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We recall here it teaches us Catechism of the Catholic Church to the number 2186:

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"It is a duty for Christians who have leisure should be mindful of their brethren who have the same needs and the same rights, yet can not rest from work because of poverty and misery. By Christian piety Sunday is traditionally consecrated to good works and humble service of the sick they need, the infirm, seniors. Christians will also sanctify Sunday by giving to their family and their relatives the time and attention that you can hardly accord them the other days of the week » (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2186).

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In this exceptional situation, every Christian must discern how to apply these standards of conduct Sunday. Rest does not mean simply do plenty of entertainment and distraction; Sunday rest should also be a time dedicated to the training of their faith through information and the study of religious and spiritual topics; for instance, the reading of the Pastoral Note of the Italian Bishops entitled The Day of the Lord, published way back in 1984 but always present and available easily on the internet WHO. For too long we have neglected on Sunday as the Lord's Day, reducing wearily only to participation in Holy Mass or, even worse, occasion to give us our own convenience, defrauding happily the day of God that belongs in a special way and that he gives us for free for our spiritual health. Now is the time to rediscover Sunday at its true value and in all its aspects; the painful deprivation of Sunday Mass paradoxically helps us in this rediscovery.

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I conclude by recalling that on Sunday It is simultaneously both "the first day of the week", one in which Christ rose from the dead, is "the eighth day", advance and waiting for the "day without evening" in which the people of the saved will enter definitively into "God's rest" (cf. Preface for Sundays in Ordinary Time X, Roman missal). This is why the Catechism of the Catholic Church the numbers 2185 e 2188 remember that Sunday is characterized by the "joy proper to the Lord's Day" and must be "lived as the day of our liberation, that makes us participate in the festive assembly and assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven " (EB 12, 22 – 23)».

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The Sunday gladness especially striking every year on this Fourth Sunday of Lent, in which the Holy Church sings at the beginning of the Mass:

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"Rallégrati, Jerusalem, and all ye that love her, regroup. Exult and rejoice, you who mourned for her: eat your fill of the abundance of your consolation " (cf Is 66, 10 – 11).

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These prophetic words They remain true even in time of distress, because the risen Christ dispels the darkness of death. Until there is a Sunday to celebrate, the Church remains open.

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Sansepolcro (Arezzo), 22 March 2020

 

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Risk viral coronavirus: it is right to close the churches? One thing is certain: it is not fair or that certain Christian faithful up attacking so mocking bishops and priests, standing up as supreme judges of their pastors in this moment of tragic emergency

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RISK VIRAL CORONAVIRUS: It's OK CLOSE THE CHURCHES? ONE THING IS CERTAIN: NOT RIGHT OR THAT SOME CHRISTIAN FAITHFUL up attacking SO mocking BISHOPS AND PRIESTS, Standing at SUPREME JUDGES OF THEIR CHARACTERS IN THIS TRAGIC MOMENT OF EMERGENCY

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[…] let me quote mocking attitude of some Christians faithful to their bishops. At this time the Church does not need divisions, If it is serious, the situation we are experiencing is even more serious foment infighting. Dates provisions are certainly not perfect, indeed they would have needed more judiciousness, but this does not authorize anyone to break them and to stand as a judge of the bishops and their priests of us, who by grace or disgrace still represent the guides we recognized the People of God. As children free, we also express our pain and our disagreement without falling But in rebellion, What it would do more like ravenous wolves in sheep tame.

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Drafting: funny but very effective spot Luca De Matteis who invite recalcitrant to remain isolated in homes for the safety of all

I have to acknowledge which at first glance, such a question is likely to leave much space emotionality. I confess that I too, I was led to more emotional than rational considerations, accusing the blow, if only for my dual role as a Christian and a priest, as well as an Italian citizen. The same applies to my confreres de The Island of Patmos, with whom we exchanged opinions and views, consultandoci each other and often looking for answers in each other. All we indeed felt touched in the deepest essence of the exercise of the sacred priesthood, in a situation that is unprecedented, in Church history, which also it has known moments of persecution or emergencies dates from various epidemics or pandemics.

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It comes so sudden and unexpected for the majority of the faithful, the news released by the Italian Bishops' Conference on 8 March, that demanded by Catholics compliance with the Decree of the Prime Minister's Office, which required - among other things - the suspension as a preventive measure, until the next 3 April, the entire national of all the civil and religious ceremonies territory, including those funeral. After this news, regional episcopal conferences have begun to issue decrees which essentially reiterated the orientation of the text C.E.I. with some minimal adjustment to the specific situations of the diocesan territory of belonging.

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We must say that the Decree the Presidency of the Council of Ministers does not speak explicitly of physical closure of places of worship, but public year suspension of civil and religious functions. So in fact the churches are open but without faithful, Masses are still celebrated by priests but behind closed doors and someone could still go to church to pray, respecting the rules of hygiene and prevention of infection, but without creating the typical gathering of a mass.

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A few days later, President Joseph Conte, declare a national emergency and extends the stringent measures of the regions most affected by the epidemic to the whole Italian territory. The result is that you can not leave the house except for urgent and proven business needs commissions, under penalty of fine or more severe sanctions.

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With the update of the provisions, the majority of the churches remains open but without the ability to see a faithful among its aisles. Yet, Last Thursday, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, vicar general of His Holiness for the Diocese of Rome, established by decree a ban on access to parochial and non-parochial churches extended to all the faithful dell'Urbe. The next day De Donatis backtracks and issues a new decree that corrects the previous and stops the lockout: "They remain closed to public access" - reads the decree - "non-parish churches and more generally the places of worship of any kind, the parish churches remain open instead ».

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Others see as the cause of this abrupt reversal “U” the cardinal of the Holy Father's words, during the morning mass at the Martha's House Sacthae: 'Drastic measures are not always good ".

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great starter, great confusion, great fear ... but the faithful what they think, what do they do? The pleas of the battle rages communication, attach the bishops, the priests are accused of being fearful and novel Don Abbondio, the conflicting opinions expressed by some Catholic intellectuals are wasted on social and blogs, Then there are not a few comments that go beyond the bounds of decency, in short, a great mishmash that does not bring any benefit to the Church.

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I have taken my idea about it, of which I spoke at length with my brothers de The Island of Patmos and now I would share with you: first of all, I believe that in this matter the stakes are twofold. On the one hand the public health of citizens must be guaranteed by the state. Across the health of the soul that the Church has also a duty to safeguard respect for the divine mandate received from Christ, and that is the most valuable asset of every baptized. I say this because in such situations you need to be united despite the allocation of functions and separation areas of expertise. Otherwise we come to dislike interference and misunderstandings.

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It is clear that the state can not regulate in spiritual matters, since it enjoys no authority in the matter and no divine mandate. In contrast, the Church can not deal with issues that affect temporal situations, except in the case in which it can manifest, as a moral authority, his opinions about some serious matters and vital.

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The emergency situation that the epidemic has resulted, the need for the rapid adoption of useful decisions to stem the contagion, It has prevented a serious reflection and a healthy dialogue, as to protect the priorities of a secular state without damaging the spiritual goods of the Church.

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It does much to think that in a time like ours, attentive to the rights of all, guarantor of minorities, enemy of those who foment hatred, an emergency situation like send everything up, revealing the flaws of a state system unprepared and a Church whose concern is skewed more toward the body to the soul. Leveling everything, It appeared to be the best choice to solve the problem in a quick and almost painless.

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by Luca De Mattei

In this way, there is serious risk to throw out with the bathwater the baby, Whereas Italy, the number of Catholic Christians still represents the majority and, Although Christianity is no longer the state religion, like in the past, it still holds an important civil weight. I personally think that the Holy Church, through her pastors would have to immediately start an open dialogue with the state that would be guaranteed to the faithful the right to exercise faith and to the priests the exercise of the ministry albeit with due caution before the ongoing situation.

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In a health emergency situation like this, faith is still a strong hope for so many people, an internal tool that allows active resources and the resilience that can go forward. Faith does not pertain only to the religious but binds to the virtue of hope, and the man without hope dies. That's why, a restrictive measure of this kind, despite the good intentions, is likely to bring along the side effects that we see with clarity only danger ceased, including in the near future the kind of precedent that was created.

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My thoughts go to the many elderly who are not accustomed to using new technologies and who can not follow the Mass live Facebook. For them the comfort not only passes through the Mass broadcast TV or radio, but above all through the visit of the priest and the reception of Holy Communion. This my thinking is reflected in the words of these days the Pope saying: "Pastors not only let the people of God, speechless, sacraments and prayer ". Good, but how can I priest hearing confession unless I approach, How can I administer the anointing oil if you do not touch with the sick and dying body. Difficult decisions that impose almost a choice between body and spirit? Days and days later, The Italian Episcopal Conference issued a document in which they enter into the merits of this speech giving directives [see document, WHO].

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by Luca De Mattei

The body is a gift from God and it is only right to treat him and protect it from danger and disease, but that our body is limited not immortal. When you can not do anything, you can still act on the soul, you can cure and save his soul from eternal death, and in so doing also recover the body in expectation of his glorious resurrection, as we recite in the Creed Sunday. Unfortunately, there have been cases where the sick faithful were unable to receive the Eucharist, penitents could not be reconciled and the priests impeded by various factors in accomplishing their ministry. I say this not for God or groped to convey a superstitious religious sentimentalism, I say this because my experience of many years as a chaplain in the hospital brought me to this conclusion, and health workers themselves have recognized the meritorious value of spiritual assistance during illness.

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When the emergency is over, we should all respond to our conscience in reference to some deficiencies that challenge the common good, which also passes through respect for the faith of my neighbor.

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To end, let me mention that attitude mocking of some Christian faithful to their bishops. At this time the Church does not need divisions, If it is serious, the situation we are experiencing is even more serious foment infighting. Dates provisions are certainly not perfect, indeed they would have needed more judiciousness, but this does not authorize anyone to break them and to stand as a judge of the bishops and their priests of us, who by grace or disgrace still represent the guides we recognized the People of God. As children free, we also express our pain and our disagreement without falling But in rebellion, What it would do more like ravenous wolves in sheep tame.

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Laconi, 20 March 2020

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Set&surroundings: because of the Neocatechumenal San Kiko Arguello and Carmen Hernandez Santa eminent doctors of the Church, four villages of the Campania end up in quarantine for coronavirus

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BECAUSE OF SAN Neocatechumenal ARGUELLO KIKO AND CARMEN SANTA HERNANDEZ FAMOUS DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH, FOUR CITIES OF CAMPANIA FINISH IN QUARANTINE FOR CORONAVIRUS

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The true nature of the Neocatechumenal, always falsely obsequious to the Church and its authority, It has come to light in this time of grave emergency. In fact it happened that because of them, four villages of the Campania, They were put under quarantine in the province of Salerno, it is the town of Sala Consilina, Caggiano, Cock, Athena Lucana.

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Who are the Neocatechumenal, founded by painter bohemien Spaniard Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hernandez? I explained in a book whose reading back: They are one of the worst seven intra-ecclesial heretical that it is facing in the Church scene in the entire history of modernity. In this book of mine, published a few months ago, I'll explain the story, but above all with their damage within the Church, where since the time of the Holy Pontiff Paul VI broke the great intoxication of lay movements, that followed under the pontificate of the Holy Father John Paul II, some saw in their way as a kind of future of the Church, this would seriously wrong in, alas Pontiffs included.

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The true nature of the Neocatechumenal, always falsely obsequious to the Church and its authority to do except always, of practice and rigor, what they want and how they want, It has come to light in this time of grave emergency. In fact that happened because of them, with a decree signed by the Governor of Campania [cf. WHO], four municipalities have been placed under quarantine in the province of Salerno, it is the town of Sala Consilina, Caggiano, Cock, Athena Lucana [see in the news WHO, WHO, WHO, etc …].
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Violating all rules as is the practice, the Neocatechumenate are wont to do always in their closed lounges, only to attack with sectarian and lying spirit anyone publicly unmasked them over time - including myself held for months of insults around the entire computer network -, in full emergency coronavirus held a liturgical celebration kikiana. The result was as follows: as a result of meticulous reconstructions of the chain of infection, the infected are today 22 in total, including the celebrant. Among the participants of a man 76 Belizzi year has already passed away 10 March, while his wife tested positive for coronavirus it is currently in quarantine. The "close contacts" occurred during the Rito kikiano They have until now produced as a result 45 contagions in Sala Consilina, 20 Caggiano, 10 Polla, 8 Atena Lucana, 5 Teggiano, 5 Montesano, 3 Buonabitacolo, 3 to Auletta, 2 and in Sant'Arsenio 3 a Padula, for a total of 104 infected [please refer to chronicle, WHO, WHO, etc …].
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Coronavirus between truth and collective psychosis. The absurd story of one of the Fathers of The Island of Patmos accused of being "medieval" to simply prayed

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[…] the procession do not want to draw any outside gathering, will not contravene any rule or challenge anyone's authority. The procession is an act of worship to God and I, as a priest, I can not deny what they have been called either betraying the Christian people. It is therefore appropriate to say that faith - in the words of Saint Anselm of Aosta - requires the reason, whereas, faith, does not include psychosis.

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… They have passed less than twenty four hours from the post publication of Facebook on the official page of the parish that I administer, to hear me give the "medieval" and other adjectives ... well it is better to omit them.

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In addition to the fun adjectives to me, It has not failed those who have seen fit to even threaten complaint. But to the point: as parish priest decided to organize, with my Capuchin brothers, a Lenten procession in the country parish of Laconi, which is located in the area of ​​Sardinia Sarcidano.

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The motivation that led to the genesis of this procession It was suggested by the course of Lent that we are living. liturgical period in which it asks God the Father the forgiveness and cleansing for their sins and the sins of the Church. This practice uses, among other things, the recitation of the Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany of the Saints.

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Laconi, the charming silence of a green oasis. Click on the image to open the video

This year Lent It is marked by the emergence Coronavirus, abnormal health situation that is causing concern in the heart you so many people, Christians included. How do you then? From Capuchin friar, priest and pastor who are, I felt the pastoral duty, with my brothers, to characterize this procession with the intention of asking God the Father to avert the emergence of the Coronavirus within our small community of Laconi which currently has about 1.764 inhabitants. Obviously, pray for the village of Laconi, He implied the intention of praying throughout Italy and the world. Obviously, the Church does not forbid to raise prayers to God explicit regarding the intentions of a particular community. I think it's a matter of course, deal in a Christian way and through faith an important test like this ongoing health emergency.

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Faith not unaware of the sanitary hygiene standards, It does not demonize the medical care and does not deny the usefulness of science and technology. And that I think I can say with some knowledge of the facts, I am having spent years of my sacred ministry to carry chaplain at a large public hospital.

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Faith It is not opposed to any rule of common sense useful in cases like these but cannot give up giving hope to believers of Christ and fulfill the ministry of comfort that can come only through the grace of the Lord.

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I want to clarify that, nowadays, the media tell us that in Sardinia, only five cases of infection have been reported, so much so that were immediately isolated and treated according to the protocols.

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Thank God, it is appropriate to say, Sardinia does not share the primacy of other Italian regions far more hassled by the virus. In particular, the village of which the parish priest and where is our monastery, It is located in the hinterland Sardinian, away from the metropolitan hectic chaos, so as to ensure peace and adequate amenities and not comparable to other towns with more frequent human exchanges. Said this, in the Press Release of the Italian Episcopal Conference 5 May No. 10/2020 states that:

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"In non-hazardous areas, ensuring respect for these indications in all pastoral and educational activities, The Italian Episcopal Conference reaffirms the possibility of celebrating the Holy Mass, how to promote prayer appointments that characterize the time of Lent ".

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For this reason, Supported by the words of Episcopal Conference, Interior living in a country that guarantees a very low risk for all, trusting in God's Providence carry on the spiritual good of the faithful and those who see in God not a competitor of science but the one who is the creator of all things, including science.

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The initiative of the procession do not want to draw any outside gathering, will not contravene any rule or challenge anyone's authority. The procession is an act of worship to God and I, as a priest, I can not deny what they have been called either betraying the Christian people. It is therefore appropriate to say that faith - in the words of Saint Anselm of Aosta - requires the reason, whereas, faith, does not include psychosis.

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The disturbing phenomenon of Medjugorje and the director of Radio Maria Father Livio Fanzaga: a gosparo fanatizzante he thinks of converting with fears that are the very negation of the Holy Gospel

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The DISTURBING of Medjugorje PHENOMENON AND THE DIRECTOR OF RADIO MARIA FATHER LIVIO Fanzaga: A gOSPAR FANATIZZANTE THINKING TO CONVERT WITH FEARS THAT ARE NEGATIVE OF THE SAME HOLY GOSPEL

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Tell us, father Livio, enlighten us and make it clear to all of us: but what makes cash speak with the "Madonna postman" of Medjugorje? Never in fact I would have imagined to find myself a front sorrowful day Mater Dei turned into a cross between a profitable company and a successful multinational company. I believe that a priest should not give credit to the pseudo prophets who on the venerable name of the Blessed Virgin have built their wealth, living lives of luxury and expenditure dell'ostentato. And for this you will have to give an account to God, every last dime, He asks you to giustificargli even the few Euros that the good old lady has stolen every month to his small pension to send to Radio Maria, while the pseudo seers through which your company lives and works, They bivouacked in villas, swimming pool, sale fitness luxury cars and fruitful hotel properties, except talk every day at 18 with the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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one of the four corners of the villa of the pseudo visionary Ivan Dragicevic, with park, pool and lounge fitness. These and other images should be shown to the grannies every month fleeing from his meager pension a bit’ the euro to be sent to Radio Maria that spreads daily data messages from Our Lady of Medjugorje seers to pseudo.

Sand doctrine, the magisterium and Mariology, were those common to Radio Maria Father Livio Fanzaga, I would have left the priesthood idiot for giving me the error. Then I would go in the pleasant city of San Salvador de Bahia, where young girls would have made me recall the time lived in chastity through the free choice of priestly celibacy, the result of a mistake made in good faith Total. This would have done, If the Church's magisterium, his doctrine and his Mariology were those published by this medjugoriana radio. Paradoxes aside, because what they teach the magisterium, doctrine and Mariology know, I shall never cease to be in love faithful and chaste spouse of the Holy Church of Christ until the last breath of life, then remained priest, indelibly, for eternity.

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So it is not a light heart It accuses the brother Livio Fanzaga not to be a proclaimer of faith, but a diffuser that fideism that proceeds through forms of disturbing Mariolatry-medjugoriana. Forms and expressions that have nothing to do with the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Word of God incarnate, that in the mystery of revelation and in the economy of salvation has its own specific role. Tear the Blessed Virgin to the role assigned to it, means to turn it into an idol.

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There are thousands of hours of radio recordings where Father Livio attributed to the Blessed Virgin salvation, stating ambiguously that Madonna saves and that we must ask you to save us. We clarify certain ambiguities: though in some cases it can be recognized to simple ignorance beneficial move to the root of good faith, similar to the priests the benefit can not be recognized, because in this second case one must speak of deviations from straight doctrine and adulteration of the mystery of salvation, mostly supported by continuous obsessive references to daily data from posts Madam the self-styled seers of Medjugorje. The Virgin Mary can participate in valuable way, determinant, also wanting entirely unique to our salvation, but attention: interceding for us with her Divine Son. The Virgin Mary can intercede - and intercedes - for our sins, but she can not forgive our sins, this is quite clear, because this is the Catholic faith. So that, when they throw ambiguous phrases referring to the fact that the Virgin Mary saved, or it is very clear the doctrinal and catechetical, or better to remain silent and avoid confusing the people of God.

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Father Livio went so far as to state that "his" Madonna has opposed necessary Ecclesiastical Authority, substituting to it and carrying out motu proprio functions performed by the Church, that the mandate to teach, sanctifying and governing the People of God has received him - it should be remembered - by Christ, God himself. The Father Livio blunders came at times to grotesque levels, for example, when ignoring that it is the Church to proceed with the canonization of Saints, upon recognition of their heroic virtues, He said that a monk had been canonized by the Lady herself, stating among other things: «[…] watch, is the Madonna says no, there is no bishop who takes, there is no pope who takes […]». Just listen to a video a few years ago to see what levels is able to reach Father Livio [see WHO], grossly ignorant than ever, the Mater Dei, It would replace the Authority of the Church, She is herself the first to revere, if necessary even to obey the Church of Christ, thereby giving example to the whole People of God, not least because she, of always, It is also a great educator.

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To obey the Church it means to obey Christ's God who has also set up as a visible hierarchical structure based on the primacy of Peter and the apostolic authority given to him at [cf.. Mt 16, 18]. Christ, God has not built the Church on Madonna, even though the Church is a mother. The chief prosecutor of the keys, together with the power to bind and loose, He has granted to Peter and to his successors [cf.. Mt 16, 19]. And that although Peter was born not only with the stain of original sin - as opposed to the Immaculate Conception preserved from all stain of sin -, but although he denied Christ lying, imprecations [cf.. Mt 26, 74] giving himself and then fled the scene. O to be clear to the bottom: Holy Church of God in Christ-is totally pure essence of his absoluteness, It is not madonnocentrica. When at the Last Supper Christ God he instituted the ministerial priesthood and the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary was not present with the Apostles in the Upper Room [cf.. Mt 26, 26-28; MC 14, 22-24; LC 22, 19-20; 1Color 11, 23-25]. Present with them it was at Pentecost, When the Apostles already priests, ministry, custodians and stewards of the Holy Eucharist and the sacraments of grace was sent down the Holy Spirit [At 2, 1-41].

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Salvation, in all its uniqueness and absoluteness, resides in the mystery of God's Word made flesh in the womb of a virgin, died for our redemption, resurrected and ascended to heaven, where today sits at the right hand of God the Father [cf.. Declaration Lord Jesus, 2000]. The being and existence of eternal Mater Dei It is contained in the mystery of Christ God, as we learn from the Holy Doctor of the Church Bernard of Clairvaux, that sums up this mystery with a few short words: "Virgin Mother daughter of thy Son […]"Continuing a little further"[…] thou 'one who such nobility To human nature, ensure that 'its Creator Did not disdain to your invoice ". In these few words it is contained the essence of Mariology: the Immaculate Conception exists and lives according to the Divine Son. No one gave change ambiguously God in Christ "accessory" of the Blessed Virgin, from which it was given to the world the generated Divine Son not made of the same substance of God the Father.

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Although to date I subtracted from expressing any opinion on the phenomenon of Medjugorje, today I feel in good conscience say that I never believed in these data messages in a continuous stream, but above all I consider alas, the self-styled seers, charlatans in the etymological sense of the term, not according to the derogatory meaning of spoken vocabulary.

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To clarify the concept of redemption, especially to clarify who is the source of salvation, enough that the devotees of the Blessed Virgin Mary thought the history and significance of the litany Lauretane, instead recite a nursery rhyme as more or less not including. These litanies born around the twelfth century, but are rooted in very old traditions, they have all the trappings of the highest official, was in fact the Holy Pontiff Pius V in the sixteenth century, after the victory of the Army Santa Muslim League at the Battle of Lepanto, He added them at the end of the recitation of the Holy Rosary, inserting in the sequence of the litany of the invocation help Christians. A few years later, In the 1587, the Pope Sisto V the he approved with the bubble reddituri.

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I fear that many naive believers, so in good faith how little prepared the catechetical plan, while also acting as rosaries a day, are unfortunately not able to understand the theological structure of this litany that begins with a trinitarian invocation through which God Father, the begotten Son not made of the same substance as the Father and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, we turn concluding each prayer with the invocation: «Have mercy on us» [have mercy on us]. After this supplication, begin intercessory prayers to the Blessed Virgin, ending each with the invocation "Pray for us» [pray for us]. This is the role of the Blessed Virgin in the economy of salvation: pray and intercede for us. It is not by chance, in praise Hi Regina, invoking her intercession we ask her how 'Advocate». It is therefore with his prayers and his precious intercession, that the Blessed Virgin work for our salvation. Here then is another hymn of praise in which we invoke her protection:

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«Fly to your patronage, holy Mother of God; despise not our prayers in our necessities, But from ever deliver us, O glorious and blessed».

[Under your protection we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God: despise not our petitions of us who are in trial, and deliver us from all danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin].

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Someone wondered because we ask God to deliver us from evil, and in prayer Our father It is synonymous with sin and thus purification from sin, while we ask the Blessed Virgin to assist in testing and free us from the danger that can lead us to a logical consequence of sin? Simple answer: it is God who forgives our sins, not the Madonna. According to at least sacramental absolution formula in which sins are forgiven in the name of the Father, of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Or perhaps it is that the Holy Trinity is also added the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary?

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Question asked not so much to Father Livio, but to ginners rosaries medjugoriani, since many of them fear that they may not know what to pray and how to pray. This is the question: because the triune God is begging mercy and forgiveness, while the Blessed Virgin asks to pray and intercede for us, for the remission of our sins and our salvation? Simply because it is not the Madonna that purifies souls from sin, She intercedes with great effectiveness for the forgiveness and salvation of souls. And among all the Angels and Saints, certainly it is the creature who can intercede for us as effectively as, being the one who was born without any stain of original sin gave birth in this world the Word of God incarnate, becoming privileged abode and only the Holy Spirit in the history of humanity. But, as you should understand, saved by the remission of sins and interceding for the forgiveness of sins are two different things, but not in pure form, but precisely in the deepest substance. To this was added that God loves, while the Blessed Virgin is venerated. And the difference that runs between worship and veneration, It is no small thing, least of all it is a "small" semantic nuance.

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Terminate the litany in which every call or title invokes the Blessed Virgin with the phrase "pray for us», this prayer ends with the invocation to 'Lamb of God, addressed to Christ Redeemer God becoming man who has turned into a lamb without blemish who with his sacrifice he washed the sin of the world [cf.. GV 1, 29]. At that point no longer responds: «Pray for us», but back to beseech Christ invoking God: "Forgive us Lord ... Hear ... Lord have mercy on us". Why we are addressed not to the begging Madonna to forgive us and have mercy on us, where the litany these invocations are all related to the forgiveness of sins addressed to the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world?

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Because these basic elements of faith They are not explained by the good people of devotees on Radio Maria? Simple and sad the answer: for the Father Livio and his member gOSPAR they do not want a devout people, but a people devotional, fed through the emotional element of the worst Mariolatry medjugoriana. Needless to say: the whole thing has gone on for years and years under the eyes powerless Ecclesiastical Authority and under the deaf ears of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that if it could be sponsored as a department, it would not exist for better advertising than that of Amplifon, agency leader in the production and sale of equipment for people with serious hearing problems.

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To lock people fideist it is necessary to resort to sensationalism and especially the fear. Educating people to the true faith is complex and difficult, because despite the best will and the most strenuous effort by the evangelizer, the results are more than ever uncertain. A certain combinations fideistic the ignorant are always comfortable, since the days of the legendary Friar Cipolla narrated by Giovanni Boccaccio in his memorable novel. Without the ignorant fideists certain people could not survive, nor could their existence. For this we avoid explaining to enchanted by Friar Cipolla and its relics, so amazing and improbable, that true faith is that illustrated by the Author of Hebrews: "Faith is the foundation of the things that are hoped for and the proof of those that are not seen" [EB 11, 1]. Affirmation this not exactly easy and smooth to explain, why say that to understand what it takes a long journey and an authentic evangelization, It could almost sound like a euphemism. Also because most people, if you put before really difficult paths, They turn their backs and run away even before you try to move a single step. It is written:

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"Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life! And few there be that find!» [Mt 7, 13-14].

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Which path offers the director of Radio Maria? The easiest one: emotional fideism played on the hidden and intimate contempt of reason, indicated by doctors Saints of Anselm and Thomas Aquinas Church as an element necessary to bring the faith. Indeed, without reason, which then it is synonymous with the exercise of more mature and wise freedom, you can not arrive at the true experience of faith, only the worst of its surrogates: fideism built on irrational emotionality. And to stand, fideism, over emotionalism illogical and irrational high true, It needs another indispensable element: fear. Here is a picture of a Madonna that more or less openly, speaking from the mouth of the pseudo-visionaries of Medjugorje, It contains in its messages of non-explicit content, but that its interpreters change in announcements of catastrophic events, the cry of "the time is at hand", "The end is coming" … Then there is the magic of secrets, because the hidden secret, psychologically feeds the army of fideists, that is stimulated by fear change themselves in fanatizzanti fanatics who sow fear. By implementing these mechanisms as banal as evident, forget the poor, pace of the river data messages from Madam of Medjugorje, that the Holy Gospel it is written:

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"In love there is no fear, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and he who fears is not made perfect in love " [The Gv 4, 18].

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What theological significance, mystagogical and eschatological have, for the Director of Radio Maria, these words? Or are they words that invite somehow stimulate fear among the faithful, because "the time is near" and why incumbent upon humanity the elusive "secret data from nine Lady" to the pseudo-seers?

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In the radio transmission 26 February Father Livio said various things on the Coronavirus, first bringing what for him, probably, It is a kind of irrefutable evidence: The message that would be given by the Blessed Virgin in one of the pseudo seers of Medjugorje, in this case Ivan:

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"Nature is now hostile to us and with this coronavirus have opened the eyes, because it came at a propitious moment, just listen to the message of the Madonna of Medjugorje given to Ivan the 17 September, which states that it is implementing the period of Satan ".

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If Father Livio knew the content of the revelation foundations in the Scriptures, It should know that nature has become hostile to man not by God but by the will of free choice made by our first parents, Adam and Eve, They are rebelling against his Creator altered the perfection of the original nature of man and the universe created, so by sending a corrupt nature by original sin [cf.. GN 3, 1-24].

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Of the Book of Genesis, allegorical is only the structure of the narrative style, not the fact represented with this allegory, similar in style to the pedagogical parables used by Christ the Lord in his preaching. Original sin is therefore a fact, not an allegory, or clarify: depicted is a real fact and narrated through an allegory. In this allegorical literary language also includes expressions such as 'cursed', "condemned", "Punished", "You will suffer ' … In truth, to curse, punish and condemn himself was the man who is excluded by choice free from the state of holiness and perfect communion of grace with God. Hence the same hostility of nature created is a logical consequence that is born of a vindictive God's punishment, but from a free choice. And every free choice always has consequences, positive o negative.

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As for the realization of the 'period of Satan " which alludes Father Livio referring to the "sacred word" the talkative Ivan, It remembers that the evil is present in human experience ever since man rebelled against God. Or maybe forget, the valiant director of Radio Maria that Satan, in its total arrogance and conceit, dared even groped the Word of God made man? And to tempt he started the speech and repeated several times defiantly: "If you are the Son of God ..." [Mt 4, 3-6].

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To assert, imply or terrorize with the announcement of imminent divine punishment and trembling secrets, means groped desperately to sow the fear from which he can never rise to the true faith, but, as we said before, fideism. Faith, as we learn from the aforementioned Blessed Apostle John, It is in fact the negation of fear:

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"In love there is no fear, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and he who fears is not made perfect in love " [The Gv 4, 18].

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By identifying faith with love, these words are equivalent to saying that those who are motivated by fear and who have "faith" because they fear punishment, faith does not have one at all, nor can they have it, because the assumption of the faith is the absence of fear. Other than to terrorize the people and children-fideist with veiled threat of trembling nine secrets jealously kept by the pseudo-visionaries who soon will be realized, and which will shake the whole of humanity, in virtue of the fact that their logorroica Madonna said that ...

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Among the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit is that of awe of God. As we shall soon see, know the true meaning of the words is essential. Therefore fear, which is part of these precious gifts, it has nothing to do with fear, indeed is its total negation. Lest it means deep filial devotion to the mystery of God. The fear is based on love and steady throughout the son who worships his father, not on fear or terror.

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The people in general, but to them our faithful, that because of us priests today I am suffering from abnormal ignorance on the fundamentals of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it is our duty to explain first what the words mean, indicating what they really mean in the biblical vocabulary, evangelical and theological. With the passage of time and changes etymological, In fact, certain terms have been cleaved from their original root and today are used with entirely different connotations, one of these is the word punishment. This consequence: if any person in the street express the concept of "punishment" or "punish", she deemed something punitive and severe, if anything, by connecting it to a punitive-vindictive action, other word that has also lost, as we shall soon see, its true meaning.

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In the Christian lexicon, the word "punishment" It is another matter. The term comes from the Latin pure act and does not mean severely punish, quite the opposite: literally it means to purify, make me clean, restore a state of lost purity. So if we do not start first by explaining the meaning of words, the other party, including the educated and cultured, deemed quite another, with the consequent and inevitable burst of unpleasant controversies that come to life because of who uses words from the Catholic side that you do not know the meaning, the other secularists who take up certain words according to what they mean in today's spoken vocabulary. In this regard, I suggest reading the article my wise brother, our author cappuccino Ivano Liguori, published on these our columns and in which he explains how, in human history, after great and tragic events, as the great bubonic plague of 1347 that he killed more than half of the European population, shortly after there was a great revival of the old European continent, because the fruit of that event terrible and catastrophic, a few decades later it was the Renaissance [see WHO].

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Many other examples would, think of revenge, from Latin revenge, derived from the term avenge, whose real meaning would: free an innocent unjustly suffered an injustice. From this correct etymological meaning comes the expression linked to the concept of "God's vengeance" or "holy vengeance of God". Example: in the texts of the Church's social doctrine inaugurated in the late nineteenth century by Pope Leo XIII [cf.. Of the new things, 1891] not paying a fair wage to the worker is referred to as a "sin that cries out to God for justice". Today though, though without explaining the etymology of certain words or expressions Biblical, We were to say that in front of a grave injustice is a Christian moral duty to invoke the vengeance of God, It will definitely happen that most of the people, if not all of those who have heard - including among them bishops and priests -, They remain so much scandalized by the judge advocate as a violent forcaiolo. Little would be worth groped to defend against such accusations, saying that, if they no longer know the meaning of words, the problem is all theirs. Unfortunately not, because if people no longer knows the meaning of certain words or expressions Biblical, giving them different meanings from their original etymology and literary significance, those who use them for what they really mean is in danger of falling into the lack of communication, if it does not explain precisely what they mean certain words and literary expressions.

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The so-called medjugoriani, Father Livio Fanzaga head, event to support the authenticity of Medjugorje in its entirety, then the reported messages from these self-styled seers who would daily apparitions of the Blessed Virgin, immediately put forward the many conversions that took place at this location. Similar evidence from them reputed irrefutable, in truth it is not a test, if anything, it is proof that the phenomenon in question is mostly holds on irrational emotionalism and an immature faith, not to mention the enormous damage caused often by various translated or assumed, behind the fiercest of which are hidden and dangerous self-taught authentic faith do it yourself. So let us explain to medjugoriano-type boasting amazing conversions presented as irrefutable evidence magical, the essence of the mystery of grace. In the Saints Church history and experience life themselves, conversions have also occurred in situations and really most unimaginable places. There are stories of people who have converted after taking part in a satanic ritual, or coming out of a brothel where they had had a sexual relationship with a younger underage prostitute their daughter, or while waiting on the street corner with a charged shot in the barrel to cool the victim with a gun. No one, however, has never told or taught that to really convert you must participate in satanic rituals, attend underage prostitutes in brothels, or kill people on commission as killer professionals. Now, If in extreme situations of this kind they took place the great conversions, how could they not be conversions in a place like Medjugorje, where people pray, they confess, receive the Sacred Body of Christ and express their sincere devotion to Mater Dei?

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Of course, if at Medjugorie occurred conversions, sincere and authentic, but these conversions are not proof of the authenticity of the event and above all of the messages in daily continuous stream of pseudo-clairvoyants who say they see everyday Madam. And in this committee it was clear, denying the authenticity of these daily messages. Like it or not to gentlemen and Father Livio who spreads them by Radio Maria, these messages, the Committee called them "not authentic" and in a very good-natured also "repetitive" and "trivial". Therefore, that many people are going to be converted in Medjugorje, or listening to daily posts "repetitive" and "trivial" data from self-styled seers who claim to speak every day with the Blessed Virgin, He is not evidence in itself and of itself nothing, including fruits presented as irrefutable evidence, because these are not. That said overflight then on the damage caused by Medjugorianism of entire groups of laity, of new priestly fraternity and new experiences of religious life recognized by several diocesan bishops unwise, from which they were born problematic priests often results in later clinical psychiatric cases even serious. In this story you can not open a theme into the theme, therefore supersedes. But, of all this, they know something the ministry of the Holy See in charge of institutes of consecrated life, if we consider that many of these new realities medjugoriana impression with medjugoriane vocations and priests and religious, born from the so-called "charism of Medjugorje", over and over again they have to suppress due to serious doctrinal problems, balance sheet and, sometimes, even for unpleasant questions of moral character. And these are facts and acts, no assumptions driven by malice.

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In conclusion I want to explain why I used the term "pseudo-seers of Medjugorje", clarifying that the commission, albeit with languages ​​and very sweetened ways, He has judged the first seven apparitions as credible in that town in the early eighties. Anyone who today cries approval, We have to remember and explain that at the time the Church has not given any official recognition to the phenomenon. Not only, He has not acknowledged the veracity Day messages, because so cleverly caustic reigning Pope even made explicit allusion to "Madonna postman", [See. see WHO]. Even more so I am free to say that the director of Radio Maria sells fake widespread Marian messages from as many false seers, all in serious damage of the Catholic faithful, in particular of the simplest and psychologically vulnerable.

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Then pay attention: as he says in an ambiguous way the Director of Radio Maria, The study of Medjugorje commission established by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 and he completed in 2014 their work, He does not have any attested authenticity, it is limited only to express an opinion as a result of investigations and studies carried out. The reigning Pope, responding in May 2017 reporters, He explained that the Commission has studied the phenomenon of dividing it into two parts: The first concerns the seven initial appearances, that seemed credible. The other one, that of appearances that still seguiterebbero, Instead he left very puzzled the Commission. A work of the commission concluded, every decision now falls to the Supreme Pontiff, that for now he has not failed to prove all his skepticism alluding to this "Madonna chief telegraph office" that sends messages continuously, who talks too much and that would appear at scheduled times. This is the truth, namely a somewhat bitter pill that the Director of Radio Maria, between ambiguity and smoky and unclear expressions, trying in every way to sweeten sugar sprinkling. Simple reason: Radio Maria is a company on the pseudo messages of Medjugorje seers live there over the past three decades, with all the consequential implications for economic and financial.

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To make these self-styled seers unreliable, I think it's their way of life marked by the luxury and the accumulation of material goods. The same committee that for years has studied this phenomenon, could not omit, with all the embarrassment of the case, to say that the relationship with them money and material goods arouses considerable misgivings. It is known that it ranges from villas with pool at hotel properties to luxury cars donated to his daughter for twenty years and so to follow.

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The Director of Radio Maria He never clarified whether Ivan, Madonna, He appears and speaks to the pool in the garden of his mega-villa while he sips a drink, or while he is in his private gym, time is devoted to the painstaking care of their bodies and of their physical appearance, not to mention the refinement of his clothing, to the point of being dubbed by different organs of the international press as "the seer playboy». It would do well to clarify these things, the good Father Livio. It should clarify, these things, especially to the poor grandmother who with simple generosity and faith subtracts each month tens of euro from his meager pension to send them to grande gOSPAR Business Radio Maria. Company to which the devout Catholics should not send instead a penny.

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Given the complexity of the long speech, I prefer to stop here and remind Father Livio, diffuser made of the new religion medjugoriana, that the mother of the most tender Maria Goretti, He died following an attempted rape in 1902, saying in his last breath before dying words of forgiveness for his murderess - then he converted and later present in 1950 the canonization of the Blessed Maria Goretti nell'arcibasilica St. Peter - when he died in old age, his burial and his grave provident Holy Church. Indeed, mom Goretti, He was poor and died poor peasant of the Pontine Marshes. Different story, than that of the rich pseudo seers of Medjugorje that, between Pharaonic villas, the edges of the pool, la sala fitness private, luxury cars and hotel properties, every day at 18 speak with Madonna.

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Tell us, father Livio, enlighten us and make it clear to all of us: but what makes cash speak with the "Madonna postman" of Medjugorje? Never in fact I would have imagined to find myself a front sorrowful day Mater Dei turned into a cross between a profitable company and a successful multinational company. I believe that a priest should not give credit to the pseudo prophets who on the venerable name of the Blessed Virgin have built their wealth, living lives of luxury and expenditure dell'ostentato. And for this you will have to give an account to God, every last dime, He asks you to giustificargli even the few Euros that the good old lady has stolen every month to his small pension to send to Radio Maria, while the pseudo seers through which your company lives and works, They bivouacked in villas, swimming pool, sale fitness luxury cars and fruitful hotel properties, except talk every day at 18 with the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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father Livio, if you do not have anyone told, In this case, I tell you: hai 79 year old, you're always on time, take a step back, withdrawn from profitable azienda gentleman, shut yourself in a monastery and try to save your soul, because they are thirty years that poison the true devotion to the Blessed Virgin on which they have written memorable pages Sant'Agostino, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, San Tommaso Aquino, St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Blessed Duns Scotus, Sant'Alfonso Maria de 'Liguori, St. Louis Marie de Montfort ... saved the soul! And you, faithful worshipers, do your part and your duty: do not send longer even a penny bid to Radio Maria. What Father Livio and his clan, the money to prop up this azienda gentleman, if they do not give them to those of pseudo prophets who got rich with Madonna ...

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I conclude by clarifying that if tomorrow, the Roman Pontiff, close to ongoing discussions acknowledging with all the trappings of officialdom the first seven appearances deemed "credible" by the commission he appointed to study the phenomenon, or even if it decides to recognize authentic all data messages daily in a continuous stream to the current pseudo seers, per me, from that moment to follow, the Medjugorje phenomenon will be authentic without any penalty can thread. For me it is indeed true that what is said by the Holy Church and the Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter, the mandate of which comes to it by Christ, God himself. So does anyone serving the Church with faith and reason, unlike those who use the Church to give vent to their emotional and irrational dimensions.

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S.O.S. Who takes care of Catholics migrants seeking pastors the Church as the boat sinks?

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S.O.S. WHO TAKES CARE OF MIGRANTS IN SEARCH OF CATHOLIC PASTORS WHILE THE BOAT SINKING OF THE CHURCH?

Save our souls! Take good care of us, poor migrants from this world to the Father, we cross the stormy sea of ​​this life into Peter's boat, do not leave us drowning in the waves of the world and its ideologies poor.

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S.O.S is a signal to call for help in major emergencies adopted in Berlin at the international conference of the radio telegraph 1806 and entered into force from 1908. easy to communicate in Morse code and reinterpreted in various ways, among which prevails Save Our Souls: save our souls! Sign made famous by the Titanic disaster, because on that occasion it was launched the first S.O.S.

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This S.O.S we would like to direct it agonizing scream as the Catholic Church and its pastors: Save our souls!

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We certainly know that it is God, through the Paschal Mystery of Christ, in the Spirit, to save souls. However, He himself wanted to engage deeply into this mystery of redemption, his Mystical Body, that is, the Church, providing it with the ordinary means for the salvation of mankind. Means which do not exclude the extraordinary means, but these latter are, however, in the hands of God and in his drawings to us totally inscrutable.

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If the church forgets, minimizes, neglects, or even shelve the means given by the Lord, It does not make a good work, indeed betrays their specific mission, making itself present as any mundane reality, therefore subject to the laws of any society of this world, with all the consequences. And as purely mundane reality can hardly claim to have or to exercise gift infallible, for example in politics, in the economy, in technique and so on. This gift the Church possesses the hand itself, regarding the Doctrine of the Faith.

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AND curious that the right principle: "The Church does not have technical solutions to offer", solemnly announced the Second Vatican Council and confirmed by the papal magisterium in Eightieth of Paul VI, to follow with the Centennial year John Paul II and the Charity in truth by Benedict XVI, It is often used against the "bad" Church of the past that you interfered in political matters, Today is instead ignored by a certain way of being of many pastors of our times. It seems, effectively, attitude of many revolutionaries, which I am definitely side with indignation against "police state", But not until gain power, discovering at that point that the police is quite comfortable!

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No Council, suddenly it comes out of nowhere in Church history. Therefore, the reform carried out by the Council of Trent, with large advances in the previous period, It had as its ideal and goal is the care of souls, as well summarized in the motto salvation of souls supreme law.

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It was the shooting in an organic and systematic form of attention that had very ancient roots; at the bottom of some moral decay apparatus ecclesiastical pre-Tridentine it was caused by removal of the cure of souls, to pursue other. In facts the reformer Council knew then, rightly, redirect the Church towards her primary. Recite the Canon I of the XXIII Session, the Sacrament of Orders:

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«Because with divine precept it has been commanded to all those who have been entrusted with the care of souls, to know their sheep, to provide for them the Sacrifice, pascerle with the preaching of God's Word, with the administration of the sacraments and example of all good works; It had a paternal care for the poor and others in need and wait for all the other pastoral duties - all things that can not be made and carried out by those who do not watch over their flock and not assisting him, but they leave as mercenaries - the sacred synod warns them and urges them, Why, Mindful of the divine precepts and become examples to the flock, I graze and direct it in the wisdom and truth ".

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Words that keep an unaltered current. It is certainly not sterile regrets of a mythical past - no past has been error-free, sins, deformation and so on - but to grasp what is good and important has been processed and has borne fruit, visible and those invisible.

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Today the cure It seems completely disappeared spiritual horizon, cultural and pastoral thought and action of the Church today. The term treatment, into Latin, It has a wide semantic value, may in fact correspond to care, solicitude, hurry, Attention, regard, diligence, alacrity, restlessness, breathlessness, thought, worry, government, custody, surveillance, cultivation, breeding, treatment, treatment of disease, remedy, healing, curiosity, interest, protection, up to go even to love, pain of love.

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It would be nice to see the shepherds that manifest, I say not all, but at least one of the aforementioned meanings. Find a pastor who even arrive at a sentence of love for the souls entrusted to him is certainly a great joy. Today, however, this seems not reserved to the souls, but mottos, slogans, of current ideologies.

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The salvation of souls It is still the supreme criterion that guides the action of the Church today? The eternal salvation of men still regard this ecclesiastical society? The tough but merciful call of the Lord: "Fool, this night you will be prompted for your soul " (Luca 12,20) still it has some echo in the current church facilities, given that this is the true mercy of who's experiencing a mortal danger?

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If we look at what appears from official structures, the answer appears negative. Certainly the grace of Christ continues to spill over men through the work often hidden but many conscientious priests, religious and lay Christians who remain faithful generosity with the mandate of Jesus.

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Care of souls It does not mean a Christianity intimate, spiritualistic, detached from real life, attentive only to the perfections of a select few, Forget the great human issues; indeed it is the care of the soul that truth, force, strength and meaning for a real commitment to the world, not, however, according to ideological mode but according to evangelical mode, ie the living Christ, Savior of mankind. The cure It is not the estrangement from human problems, but is the assumption of every authentically human problem in soteriological perspective. The concept of the soul has no values ​​from mystery cult, o of ectoplasm of spiritisti; There simply redo our doctrine that finds synthesis in the Catechism of the Catholic Church [See. NN. it gives 362 a 368, text WHO].

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Precisely in this perspective it includes the express command of Christ:

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“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. there, I am with you always;, until the end of the world " [Mt 28,19-20].

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It does not take a cure of souls without the necessary and constant announcement of Christ. A Church that is reduced to repeating slogans which no one paid attention, as the poor Don Abbondio of Manzoni, It is likely to be formed by pastors who do not evangelize …

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It is the paradigmatic case of migration: How many pastors of the church feel called to proclaim Christ to the many foreigners who come to live in Italy? An ad that also goes certainly in the works of justice and material assistance, but that may not stop there, almost that foreigners have no soul to save.

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The increasingly marked absence a real cure of souls leads to devastating results, both within the ecclesial body, both in society. The lack of attention to the spiritual dimension, transcendental leads to disastrous results. Here, then, that many, quell'insopprimibile driven by desire for interior life, They are turning to other realities, that seem to offer more attention to the spiritual needs.

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Here is the renewed attention the various religious oriental type, or the use of wizards and fortune tellers, or the attendance of those spiritualist groups or para-Catholic, with the entire apparatus of visions, locutions, appearances DIY way to follow. While pastors lose the very perception that, without the care of souls, They will produce very serious damage.

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He walked long ago a joke among priests: "How many souls have your parish?"He asked a pastor to another. And the answer was: "Two thousand bodies, of which some, every now and again, remember having a soul ". Today this has been spilled on the same ecclesiastical structure.

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We can only repeat the initial appeal: S.O.S. Save our souls! Take good care of us, poor migrants from this world to the Father, we cross the stormy sea of ​​this life into Peter's boat, do not leave us drowning in the waves of the world and its ideologies poor.

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Dear pastors, take care of our souls: S.O.S! S.O.S! S.O.S! While I, He retired in my hermitage, and silent seclusion, I pray for you, because this mission I have dedicated the whole of earthly life that God the Father will grant me.

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From the cell of the hermit monaco, 24 February 2020

 

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I understand the Communist China and its fear of Catholicism, however I do not understand why the agreement Phantom of the Holy See with the Beijing Government … An old article to understand even better the problem coronavirus

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Christianity has become an element of aggregation and unity, but did not prevent, as perhaps he thought the Emperor Constantine, the disintegration of the Empire, indeed in some respects favoring. So that, the political power that tried to strengthen itself using Christianity as an element of unity and unification, believing that they can in this respect and to this end absorb Christianity, It has instead been absorbed by Christianity, who survived Empire Roman keeping inside traditions, uses and totally Christianized Roman costumes. This is what frightens the Communist government of China, and they are right, on the political level, to be scared, then to act accordingly. It is the Holy See that maybe did not understand the reason for these fears..

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The Mediaset TV studios are the "Monte" from above which, as a priest and theologian, I'm happy to render shine the light of a single lit match, so shine for … forehand and backhand

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If in this time of great crisis and ecclesial and ecclesiastical decadence I try to also turn on a single match, perhaps I deserve the support from those Catholics who do not know what he's like a mountain, how we rise above and, above all, as it turns a simple but valuable match from the television studio of a network of Mediaset. Often God just very little, because even through the light of a match, soul may decide to be saved, through the mysterious gift of freedom and the free will given to man by the Eternal Creator.

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It should reply for those having never found before the red light of a camera that sends live, They have written to me to give me advice. To respond is however necessary premise that narrates the "behind the scenes". Reading some tips they understand that they are given by people who ignore what is the complex structure of the drafting of a television program designed and conducted to fine-class professionals. Example: in an already-planned day program changes can occur due to unforeseen circumstances that require you to mount a service in a few minutes, revolutionizing the entire lineup studied in previous days of painstaking work.

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The screen viewers see Paolo Del Debbio that leads, assisted in the study of transmission by journalist Giorgio Tosi who gave the floor to any member of the "public speaking" for comments or questions. We often see on the screen the connecting services of Henri Kociu, Another good professional that along with the good Ilaria Mura and their colleagues treat the exteriors from various parts of Italy. Few know, however, that for these professionals, realize connections implies displacements, often long journeys, if anything, to broadcast live the answers to two questions addressed to an individual party, or to document, in fifteen seconds, images that serve to support what is being debated in the studio.

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Always behind the scenes I witnessed a change dictated by sudden emergency: during the episode of 17 January Paolo Del Debbio was seized by an illness due to a leg problem, replaced on the spot by Marcello Vinonuovo, responsible for directing and producing the program, who brought forward the entire live television with all the professionalism to him their.

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I saw the young journalist Edward Dallari quickly maneuver in achieving in a few minutes a link from the study of Milan Spallanzani Hospital in Rome to allow the conductor to put questions to a distinguished virologist, after he received news of a new case of coronavirus infection. Needless to say: among the spectators who followed from home, no one can know or imagine that working brings to improvise at any moment that lasted three minutes and then link, not to say how many people worked for those three minutes live link in the interiors and exteriors.

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Also in the episode of 6 February the program underwent changes: it was necessary to include in prime time news of the train derailed Frecciarossa in Lodi. Even in that case they were marked by services and connections in a short space of time, searched and then picked up and taken to some witnesses studio. Even at that time I was in preparation to participate in the program and I could watch live how everything went and how fast and professional skill has been achieved. This is to explain to the readers, in my capacity as a witness and a participant, that behind this program is a job that few imagine; job that requires excellent professional skills, place an incompetent could cause enormous damage similar contexts, especially at a company like Mediaset, who do not benefit from any compulsory television license fee, to be clear that the same as saying: you like it or not, I'll put it ... the electricity bill, so you have to pay it by force.

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Mediaset lives of plays, of advertising. And to produce advertising that produces money, Listens are indeed necessary. This complex set of things in which market information and merge together of necessity, It involves precise rules which also extend to those who will participate as guests or commentators to these programs.

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People my age remember how I was born the three television networks RAI and as years went on. Rai has always been a politicized company in which the first channel was the Christian Democrats, the second channel of the Socialist Party, the third channel of the Communist Party and its friends minority parties. As a result, subject to various professionals of undoubted excellence, This state company has always brulicato an army of inept and parasitic figures that had the sole merit of being friends of friends of that powerful politician who had placed them at the Rai. All of this, a large private company is not if you can afford. Of course, Also the largest private company assumes the friend of the friend of the powerful political, but provided it is capable, because paying with your own money and not with public, enter within itself unable or-nothing parasites in the good graces of politicians, it would not be a simple damage, but a danger that could lead to real failure.

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One of the criticisms addressed to me it was: "Why do not you talk high and theological way as you do in your other writings or different your video-conferences?». another critical: "You must animarti and raise your voice". Finally the drastic and decisive advice: "No, do not go there anymore, it is useless, It's all useless" …

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We leave for order with the answers: first of all, I note that in a "high" and "theological" no longer even speak our existing Italian bishops, sad emblem of a precipitate episcopate in a bleak mediocrity, whereas the Italian Church in particular, the concept of "friend of the powerful friend" - which in our case is not "politically powerful" but far more damaging powerful bishop or cardinal -, It is applied in the worst way as applying the old Christian Democrats, Socialists and Communists with their men or their-nothing parasites placed at the Rai. Indeed, Angle of the chairs of their cathedrals, our supreme masters of faith and doctrine - in case some of my critics they have not grasped -, Far from speaking of the great Fathers and Doctors of the Church and their wise theological teaching, now speak only of migrants and a watered-down and adulterated charity that has nothing to do with what the Bible teaches the Blessed Apostle Paul [cf.. The Cor 13, 13]. Sad and bitter truth: episcopal pulpits most renowned is now also marketed mostly a social concept that has nothing to do with the theological virtue of charity, lot instead with the suicide philanthropy blood volume b'bene.

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Clarified that do good It does not imply exercise the supreme virtue of Christian charity, it should be recalled that following Christ God, those who practiced doing good in ancient Judaea two thousand years ago, He said clearly: "Do not even the Gentiles?» [cf.. Mt 5, 47]. And he added: "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect" [cf.. Mt 5, 48]. Namely: charity is not in emotional quirks of the world, or what is the world like, resides in the Father's thanksgivings, of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Faith, as he learns from the author of the Letter to the Hebrews, far from being emotional impulse "[…] is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen " [EB 11, 1]. So why, in a television studio, I should make those teacher's lessons high theology that our bishops, in their conformist and low art homiletics, do from the pulpits of their churches cathedrals during the great liturgical solemnities of the year, place that Holy Christmas and Easter, for years now, instead of being their celebrations of the Word of God incarnate and risen Christ who defeats death, seem to become emotional obsessive-theater of the most fashionable and philanthropic migrantopoli?

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In the episode of 6 February I was very clear in explaining in a few words that it was necessary to turn in a simple and understandable to an audience who in increasing numbers, Catholics included, no longer he knows even the basics of the Catechism. An objective and sad problem before which, think you can do "high theology" from a TV studio, really it means to live outside of the real world, or at least have with it a bad relationship.

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My critics have not caught that in contrast to some of my brethren radical chic, I granted in the areas I have never failed to make reference to the doctrine, morals and teachings of the Church, with simple words and short phrases that are not allowed to me, but anyone involved. On the contrary, complain that "they did not give you room to explore that theme», as some have written, What it is unjust and false. It is true in fact the exact opposite: They have always given me ample space, along with a sincere respect paid to my figure of a priest, both live and behind the scenes populated by beautiful human beings, with several of them have established a sincere friendship, including people who for many years not exchanged a word with a priest. Said this is taken into account that the program is divided into four blocks whose duration is approximately 40 minutes each. In parterre There are usually four to six guests, each of which must speak at least once. At this time there are presentations to the theme through introductory films, there are almost always several external links, some people who comment or address questions from the public and some commercial breaks. Any mind with common sense and minimum spirit of analysis, should be understood that if one of the guests of parterre unable to speak for a total of three minutes, really he had a great space, to me which are always granted, for which I am grateful to Paul Del Debbio and Drafting.

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With regard to the invitation I addressed to me "not to yell", I want to clarify what are the mechanisms of fast communication targeted to the essential requirements. First of all, alive and raise your voice as I did on a few occasions, it was not an excess but a necessity. It may be that before certain sensitive topics, one or more parties attempt to deviate from the subject in order not to make you talk, preventing you from putting forward a message, for example by clarifying what they teach in this regard the Catholic doctrine and morals, or what really happened in history. In a similar situation, if I did not take the right to conclude a speech or a brief reply saying what is true and what is false, I would do the figure of the subject not only yielding, ometterei but just to clarify what the Church is wrong. Having said that it takes into account that in this delicate context, for those who are listening to me from home, I'm not the freelancer's own personal opinion, but a member of the Catholic Church and her Priests College. I ask then to my critics so sensitive before a priest who in case of need comes alive during a speech: for you, it is more important to say and make clear what is right or wrong, what it is true or false, or, to a distorted view of clerical etiquette, silence while one or more interlocutors say things historically misleading or incorrect? Having said that I add: how to live a priest in a Church that is going through a terrible decline in the ecclesial and ecclesiastical plan. A Church in which I have seen too many priests from, bishops and cardinals implement genuine injustices and abominations which cry before God, all with diaphanous smiles etched on the faces, Voci yeast, tones content and persuasive words. Maybe this is it, the kind of clergy "measured" and "stiff" that appeals to some of my critics, or that some of my critics wish the Church of Christ to be able to have or continue to have?

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People who invited me to "go no", because they say 'no use', are the same as they then complain of the figures of certain media priests of the past and present that, Of pleasure in pleasure go hand in hand with the world, to which always show acquiescence, it cost well say, as it has often happened in front of millions of viewers: "… it's true, the Church says this, But I think otherwise, I have another opinion ». Well, There is perhaps that before the television audience I have also issued a single sigh contrary to the doctrine, morals and teachings of the Church? So some critics should understand that if I do not participate, You are saying that you can tell by the times and rules of the slots, the so-called scene will only be trodden by those priests in sweater and sneakers that give the public an image of a priest secularized and not terribly uplifting, which often he does not transmit to the teaching of the Church, but what he thinks from the egocentrism, often, unfortunately, from the top of his ignorance on the fundamentals of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, so widespread today, even among our clergy. What good, then shut himself, how does the Catholic depressed, in the ghetto made madonnas and self-styled seers announcing impending disasters, while outside everything collapses around us? Rather it needs instead to reflect on the profound affection that Christ God proved to the crowd of people who appeared in his eyes like sheep without a shepherd:

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«[…] and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things " [cf.. MC 6, 34].

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Now more than ever, how many are these "sheep without a shepherd" that we expect, indeed often implore, just a simple word of good comfort?

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Christ the Lord invites us in clear words to be "the light of the world", and in this regard explains:

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«[…] It can not be hidden a city set on a mountain, nor is a lamp lit to put it under a bushel, but on a stand where it shines for all who are in the house. So let your light shine before men, they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven " [Mt 5, 14-16].

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I do not get how some Catholics read the Holy Gospel, which it is not a closed ghetto phenomenon excluded from the world, is the light of the Incarnate Word, as explained by the Blessed Apostle John in the Prologue to his Gospel, where light is used as a metaphor for the "light from light" who is Christ the incarnate Word of God [cf.. GV 1, 1-18]. And that Christ is not a light that lights up "and put it under a bushel", search depressed Catholics ghetto, that among madonnas and self-styled visionaries who will excite you with listings of upcoming disasters, forget - or perhaps you do not know - that the Book of Revelation of John the Apostle Blessed encloses the greatest message of hope. It would be enough to know the simple meaning of the words: the word of Greek origin, apocalypse, means "discover", "Uncover" what is hidden. The apocalyptic message reassures us that the good has already won over evil, Christ God has already triumphed. The Apocalypse is the message of the joy of faith, not the gloomy excitations use of chronic pessimists irredeemable that abound in the Holy People of God.

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What in gifts of grace was given to me in light of Christ's God which it is "Light from Light", I must make it shine in every way, as it is written in the stern warning which is the Parable of the Talents [cf.. Mt 25, 14-30]. If necessary, going quietly with my lamp on the "mountain" of Mediaset and also trying to light a match just inside the studio number 11 from which it is transmitted by direct Straight and Reverse conducted by Paolo Del Debbio and organized by a team of excellent professionals. Because, with the times we live, able to render the world see the light of only one match, It is a genuine grace of God, for people like me try Christological tenderness for all of you, It always seemed more like "sheep without a shepherd".

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For this I am grateful to the friends of preparation of the program Straight and Reverse for giving me the opportunity to be myself, ie a priest, if necessary we can go against the trends of this world, to exercise the right to the political incorrectness that it is written and shown the whole word for word in the Holy Gospel, of which I am a teacher and preacher for the sacred mandate through priestly consecration. All this in a society in which, the priest and the Catholic faith, it now tends to give an image grotesque and distorted. It is indeed notorious that we, to deserve to be treated grotesquely, We worked long, often giving the world the best of the worst of the image of the Church and clergy who could give. And today, the world, It is paying off upsetting the best of ridicule on our worst miseries.

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If in this time of crisis and ecclesial and ecclesiastical decadence I try to also turn on a single match, perhaps I deserve the support from those Catholics who do not know what he's like a mountain, how we rise above and, above all, as it turns a simple but valuable match from the television studio of a network of Mediaset. Often God just very little, because even through the light of a match, soul may decide to be saved, through the mysterious gift of freedom and the free will given to man by the Eternal Creator.

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the Island of Patmos, 17 February 2020

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