"When you have eliminated the impossible, what remains, however unlikely, It must be the truth "… And the Word became flesh

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"WHEN YOU HAVE ELIMINATED THE IMPOSSIBLE, WHAT REMAINS, EVEN IF UNLIKELY, MUST BE THE TRUTH "... AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH

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Sherlock Holmes, acute investigator, solves the most intricate and mysterious cases of murder, discovering the murderer with witty wisdom. This character, It is thus able to reveal something hidden, bringing to light that is not immediately visible. He has as its motto: "When you have eliminated the impossible, what remains, however unlikely, It must be the truth " … And the Word became flesh.

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Gabriele Giordano Scardocci, o.p.

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Merry Christmas to you all!

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Shelock Holmes, vintage vignette

Even this year we have the joy of living together this Solemnity of the Lord. The birth of Jesus, Son of God, It is one of the central mysteries of our faith, summarized in John's Gospel just proclaimed [see text, WHO]. Let's get into that great mystery from a literary work.

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We all know the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, born from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the last century in the novel A Study in Red. Holmes, London-based private investigator, He is accompanied by his doctor, Dr. Watson. Holmes, acute investigator, solves the most intricate and mysterious cases of murder, discovering the murderer with witty wisdom. This character, so it is able to reveal something hidden, bringing to light that is not immediately visible. He has as its motto: "When you have eliminated the impossible, what remains, however unlikely, It must be the truth ".

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With his birth and came into the world, Baby Jesus helps all of us to enter into the light of the mystery of God; with this mission, that theology is visible mission called the Trinity, it helps eliminate the impossible and find the truth that, at first sight, It may even seem unlikely.

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The Gospel of John that we heard So just now it helps us to understand the great mystery. To understand it, We must start from the end of the song:

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"It gave, no one has seen him: the only Son, who is God and is at the Father, it is he who has made him known " [cf. v. 18].

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The strong desire that makes us men in a higher state it consists in seeing, learn and discover. Hence the desire to learn and discover God is the highest ever. It is a spark of humanity that wants to become Fire. This permits it the only Son, Jesus, that is God with the Father although distinct from Him. Jesus fulfills our deepest desire to open ourselves to the truth and greatest love. This is possible because it has given us, this Christmas all over himself: "From his fullness we have all received: grace upon grace " [cf. v. 16].

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By becoming man, Jesus accepts all mankind and all the men without exception and without conditions: this is his fullness. The greeted us unconditionally allowed a cascade of love and acceptance: This waterfall is His grace that, first of all, we receive in the sacraments.

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Through the grace that opens our deep knowledge of God, we can rest assured that beings

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"The Word became flesh, and he dwelt among us; and we beheld his glory […]» [cf. v. 16].

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In contemporary culture, this seems very unlikely and unacceptable. Because the Word that is God, spiritual and invisible, become flesh [from greek σάρξ, sarx]? Because God is love and wants to call to intimacy and deep tenderness with Him, up to allow the miracle to assume the human nature and a real body, real, physical. Exactly how a droplet of water is taken in a wider part of the wine, so human and divine nature exist together in Jesus. Soon you will see this mystery of the dual nature, shown in the liturgy when I myself, fulfilling my deacon function, I will mix into the cup with the wine with a few drops of water, followed by soft words:

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"The water combined with wine is a sign of our union, the divinity of Him who humbled himself to share our human nature ".

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So now that we know that Jesus revealed God, He has opened the doors of grace and allows us to contemplate the glory of his dual nature beautiful, with sparkling eyes of happiness and serenity can say with faith: «In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God " [cf. v. 1].

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The Verb, dal greco reason, logos [Word] God Himself: It is the second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ and is intimately united to the Father, and he wants to transport us to the intimate union with the Trinity itself and therefore to be small Trinity we too.

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This mystery, from the top of its inviolability, now it falls in the reality of everyday life: Now that you will return home to gather you together with those most popular for Christmas dinner, We ask the Lord for strength and determination to be a witness in front of our relatives and friends of the love of Jesus who is born today. For ourselves, once you received Jesus in the Eucharistic communion and united in Him, We can also conduct the farthest to the cave of Bethlehem. So that we hand down the purity, the beauty and the truth with which we live the Catholic faith.

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Amen.

 

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Rome, 25 December 2018

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Dear Readers, help real refugees: those who live on the Isle of Patmos, John's last place of revelation, where the truth will set us free

DEAR READERS, THE REAL HELP REFUGEES: THOSE WHO LIVE ON THE ISLAND OF PATMOS, John's PLACE LAST REVELATION, WHERE THE TRUTH THERE WILL FREE

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If once a month, a good number of players decided to offer us a pizza, a cappuccino and a croissant, or even just a coffee and, our work could proceed peacefully without having to live with the anxiety of the often … "We hope to do it!».

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Dear Readers,

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Father Ariel snow, that sooner or later "unsealed" …

our faith teaches us that appeared in the dark night a star that guided the shepherds to the mystery of the Incarnate Word [cf. Mt 2, 9]. We also know that the snow is likely to melt in the sun, before which the frost gives way to the warmth. He writes Dante Alighieri in Canto XXXIII of Paradise opens with the prayer of St Bernard to the Blessed Virgin Mary:

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So the snow is in the sun unsealed;
so in the wind the leaves rise
It perdea of ​​the Sibyl.

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In the language of Dante, that while in fabling “the vernacular” It remains adherent to the Latin etymology, The term "unsealing" does not mean dissolving, but it means: lose its shape.

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Following the star of God like the shepherds, in this cold, dark night enveloping the Church, we walk towards that bright sun which is Christ, before which this snow will finally disigillata and its unnatural and harmful form dispersed.

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With the new year The Island of Patmos He enters its fifth year of life, which will be fulfilled 20 October 2019. Taking stock, we can say that the results have been nothing short of amazing: over the past three years we totaled nearly thirty million visits. Our average oscillates between 800.000 and the 900.000 visits per month to an average of about 30.000 daily visits. We have never known a time of downturn, the graph only marks a progressive increase. If we could call the whole thing happened, But we like to call it the grace of God.

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At the beginning of the new year, after the holidays some modifications will be made to the home-page and inserted a page bearing the words 'legal and administrative notes', within which will contain all the relevant data. Indeed, the 30 November 2018 we have constituted the Editions The island of Patmos through the legal form of pious association. At the same time The Island of Patmos has become a magazine with regular registration with the Order of Journalists and the press register of the Court.

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This has led to considerable expenses which implied the dues of the notary and the commercial adviser, plus a whole series of related fees paid to the Revenue, Order of Journalists, the Court, etc …

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Not having the means, all these expenses were incurred by my mother and my brother, who wanted to contribute to this our apostolic work, I remember that there is certainly not for their benefit, but all of you that more and more we followed and that you can benefit from the fruits of our labor, or if you prefer: of our life we ​​spent entirely for the People of God and for the dissemination of the Catholic faith.

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Repeatedly, numerous people, in front of some of our writings we have asked: "Who gives you the courage?». Not a few others have asked us: "Do not fear that you will pay the?». Well, courage is nothing but help that comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth [cf. Shall 120], while, regarding the tribute that has often been made amply pay, perhaps it is better to draw a veil over and proceed …

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The Island of Patmos It can express themselves with complete freedom and the legitimate freedom of God's children, inviting those who follow us to know the truth, in the full knowledge that the truth will set us free [cf. GV 8, 32], simply because it is not employed by any potentate, but only employed by Christ and His Holy Church. And the freedom of God's children, in order to be truly exercised, undertakes not to be entered on pay book of any overbearing censorship. Indeed, we do not take money or Knights of Columbus, nor by the Prince of Liechtenstein, lovingly encouraged by the State Secretariat to pour generous amounts of money to people who are not reputed loyal servants of the truth, but only reputed welcome humorally, if not rewarded for the way hidden or adulterate the truth. O, said in other words: could ever, St. John the Baptist protect the conduct of Herod Antipas life, in exchange for its generous subsidies lavished on his preaching work? In conclusion, This tyrant was just living with the wife of his brother and had a totally unhealthy erotic passion for her granddaughter Salomé. If you wish you could make it do, merciful spirit of love and joy, also a bland path penitential then readmitting to the sacraments together with its concubine and its delicious granddaughter, as they would not hesitate to affirm those blindside money from the Knights of Columbus and the Prince of Liechtenstein behind loving urging of Secretary of State, to which they are industrious the arrotini sharpening the blade required to cut the head of the Baptist.

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But we know what the Baptist does not think so, He ended with the severed head placed on a tray, because his sense of mercy was holding everything on truth and justice.

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This is why we have always walked a tightrope, with all the economic hardships of the case, while avendocela sin made today, albeit always for the so-called Broken headphone, benefiting only the offerings of readers and offers the same to me dates for celebration of the Mass in suffrage for the dead, entirely used for the expenses of The Island of Patmos, always with rigorous public indication of the tenders received and the financial statements prepared on what was received at the end of each year [cf. WHO].

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We used this account: if only they were paying fifty players at the beginning of the year 2019 the amount of 120 Euro, corresponding to 10 € per month, the costs would be entirely covered by about 6.000 EUR necessary to maintaining the site hosting this magazine. Unfortunately instead, those who in 2018 have made this subscription are only 12 Readers, for a total amount raised totaled 2.520 Euro, of which 1.200 paid by a single Reader that predispose a monthly payment of 100 Euro.

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At the gates of this Holy Christmas, We invite especially those who write to us to show appreciation for our work and our loyalty to the Church of Christ and the the Catholic faith, to make this real appreciation by offering their financial support. Indeed, if only those who contact us to thank us, to show appreciation and stimulate, They were paying only a few Euros, we should not rush, and sometimes even with some fear, on the razor's edge, nor should I have recourse to the generosity of my family to have the money necessary to work free the amor Dei for the benefit of the many who tell us and write us «good!». Because with a thousand "good" does not pay the site's subscription services and other expenses - which amounted to repeat 6.000 euro a year -, while, with one euro gave a thousand people, something instead you pay, If the thousands who tell us' good!"There would send only a euro offer in support of our work.

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We invite the most loyal and willing to want to have a monthly payment according to one's generous possibilities through the effective and safe system PayPal which is located in the bottom of the page, Those who prefer can also do so via bank account. For if once a month, a good number of players decided to offer us a pizza, a cappuccino and a croissant, or even just a coffee and, our work could proceed peacefully without having to live with the anxiety of the often … "We hope to do it!».

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All while John the Baptist screams in the desert, while the erotic Salomé dance for obscuring the tyrant and while the waiters Herod shine tray on which to lay his head, already abundantly cut with generous financial support of the Prince of Liechtenstein and the Knights of Columbus, all the praise and glory of Christ God!

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May God have mercy for all who, on the basis of money and power-sharing, assist, or worse, actively participate in promoting the degradation of the Holy Bride of Christ thrown on the sidewalk.

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"He says the sinner: "God's mercy". This is a common trick of the devil to sinners, why many are likely to be damned. He writes a learned author: “It sends the Hell God's mercy, that its not justice”. Indeed, these miserable, recklessly trusting in the mercy not cease from sin, so you lose. God is mercy, who denies? And, it is merciful, But it is also fair, for that punishes those who continue to offend. He shows mercy, But for those who fear ' [Sant'Alfonso Maria’ Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, in Alphonsian Pages on Mercy, n. 105: The paradox of mercy].

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To all of you, a happy Christmas.

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Isle of Partmos, 21 December 2018

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The painful crib weekly Slush Christian: and for the Italian families who sleep in the car, that place is? Reduced wastage by eliminating bidet from the papal apartments

- the cogitatorio of Hypatia -

PENOSO THE NATIVITY OF THE WEEK slush CHRISTIAN: AND FOR FAMILIES OF SLEEPING IN ITALIAN MACHINE, WHAT A PLACE IS? REDUCED WASTE WITH THE ELIMINATION OF BIDET BY PAPAL ACCOMMODATIONS

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To reduce everything to the essentials and avoid unnecessary waste, seems the bidet have been abolished with Own motion Popes the papal apartments […] of artrone, as if some ', na 'to poor church pe’ trust me, wastes’ precious water pe’ lavasse is culo, quanno ner Monaghan esisteno children moiono de pe thirst’ water shortage?

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Rhapsody of faith. A meditation on music, corner and theology: the human being as glorious reverb

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RAPSODY OF FAITH. A MEDITATION ON MUSIC, CORNER AND THEOLOGY: THE HUMAN BEING AS A SOUND OF GLORY.

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As the beautiful Platonic image in the dialogue teaches Ione : cultivating the liturgical musical tradition means being the rhapsodies of divine love incarnated and alive on earth. It means becoming more and more the voice of God for man.

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Gabriele Giordano Scardocci, o.p.

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the Gradual Triplex, Week of Advent

Singing and music they are a spontaneously human and natural expression. From the simple daily experience we notice how our days are enlivened by the presence of songs that become soundtracks of the daily routine. The radio, televisions, mp3 music players and even cell phones Samsung ed Iphone, today they are vehicles of this music that accompanies us; that expresses our feelings, our joys, fears and even desires. The French scholar Marcel Proust wrote:

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"Music is the only example of what could have been said - had it not been for the invention of language, the formation of words, the analysis of ideas - the communication of souls " [The prisoner].

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I frankly admit that I have never learned the art of music except when I entered the convent, because since I started the convent life, there was a new experience that I had never experienced in my life. We know and practice many ways of praying, yet for me, the whole new way of praying, entering the Order of Preachers, it was the prayer expressed in the song, especially in Gregorian chant. Not that I had never sung before. On the contrary, when I was in my parish I would rehearse the chants of the mass between guitars, bongos, cymbals and also wanting a little’ organ. But there, my voice, it thinned to hide behind the "professional" singers.

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A mid-winter Saturday, we postulants were in church. Silence, loneliness and a lot of concentration. After the rehearsals of the various antiphons and some sequences, the voice begins to fade. We are a bit tired. At this point, however,, before leaving, we approach the statue of the Madonna del Rosario, who with her serene and maternal gaze welcomes pilgrims from the weary daily gait. At that point one of us proposed:

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“Why don't we greet you properly?».

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Gabriele Giordano Scardocci, o.p. with the tuning fork

That was how they hugged each other, lonely heart and lonely soul, looking at Mary with such affection we sang the ode Hail the queen of the heavens. And I think it was the first time inside me that I was not afraid to be out of tune. It was the first time that I thought like Bach inside myself: Glory to God alone! Until someone commented on someone else smiling:

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«He will have appreciated!»

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Singing and music, they are therefore a purely human phenomenon; a beautiful and fascinating phenomenon. The Lord, having redeemed all humanity and raised it to a state of grace, he also elevated man's song and music to be a vehicle for prayer; they then become a very special instrument of relationship and intimacy with God. Let's see how …

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Since the liturgies of Ancient Israel, the Jewish people celebrate their covenant with God through inspired songs and hymns, an example above all:

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"Here are those to whom David entrusted the direction of the chanting in the temple after the ark had found a place. They exercised the office of singers before the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting until Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem. In the service they followed the rule set for them " [1].

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The first biblical datum is the presence of song also in the Jewish people. This passage emphasizes the presence of official cantors wanted by God while waiting for Solomon to finish the temple in Jerusalem. And from this we therefore propose a first source of reflection: the role of singers fulfills not only a typical instance of man as a thinking and romantic living being. Being a "cantor" is part of the same Ancient Covenant of the Lord in which a circle of good performers of liturgical pieces is foreseen. The celebration of the mystery of God requires, so, an elevation of the soul that burns with the mysterious presence of God. This elevation, it is possible thanks to the medium of music and singing. Here is the first role of singing: to be a vehicle of elevation in the presence of God.

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the Gradual Triplex

Already by now we are sure that singing it is that transcendent glider that allows us to unite with God in an outburst of pure love. This is an analysis on which a speech given by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI in July seems to agree 2015:

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"What is music actually? Where does it come from and what it tends towards? I think we can locate three "places" from which the music originates. One of its first sources is the experience of love. When men were seized by love, another dimension of being opened to them, a new magnitude and breadth of reality. And it also prompted us to express ourselves in a new way. Poetry, singing and music in general were born from this being affected, from this opening up of a new dimension of life " [CF. text, WHO].

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Let us now consider two New Testament biblical concordances. At the end of the Last Supper, two evangelists focus on a not secondary detail:

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"And after singing the hymn, they went out towards the Mount of Olives " [2].

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The song that the Apostles and Jesus perform - a typical hymn of the Jewish tradition - here is the prelude to the dramatic events of the Passion of Jesus Christ. But at the same time, the hymn cited by the synoptic Gospels is inserted within the New and Eternal Eucharistic Covenant that God works through the glorious work of Christ, with humanity. The music link, suffering and glory of God, it gets so strong: right in the moment of deep suffering, Jesus sings with the apostles.

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We will notice again together with the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI:

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"A second origin of music is the experience of sadness, being touched by death, from the pain and from the abysses of existence. Again they hatch, in the opposite direction, new dimensions of reality that can no longer find an answer in speeches alone ". [CF. text, WHO]

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Dominican friars in the convent choir

The song performed here it is thus a special sign that he wants to show, with its language composed of sounds, harmonies and melodies, the glory of the God Christ who, suffering, he offers his life for redemption [3].

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Here is the second role of singing: it is therefore a means of showing glory to God, tell him a joyful thank you for giving us redemption. It is in this sense that the Supreme Pontiff Francis also recently underlined this role in his recent one Address to the participants in the III international meeting of choirs in the Vatican the 24 November 2018, proposing the theme in a Eucharistic nuance:

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"Your music and your song are a true instrument of evangelization to the extent that you are witnesses to the depth of the Word of God that touches people's hearts, and allow a celebration of the sacraments, in particular of the Holy Eucharist, that makes you perceive the beauty of Paradise " [CF. text, WHO].

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One last thought that I propose, instead he pushes himself to focus not only on the moment and the redemptive place in which the hymn is performed, but also on who performs it. We said: Jesus together with the apostles. Each apostle performed that hymn with its own key and melody, and at the same time he performed it with all of himself, giving his best to God and thus uniting himself with God. So, with post-Pentecostal language, we will say that the apostles sanctified themselves through singing. And so do we, when we do the same.

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The third role of singing, that of being a sign of our sanctification and union with God, leads us to conclude with these words of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI :

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"In the end, the third place of origin of music is the encounter with the divine, which from the beginning is part of what defines the human. Even more so that is where there is the totally different and totally great that arouses man new ways to express themselves. Perhaps you can say that actually in the other two areas - love and death - touches us and the divine mystery, in this sense, It is being touched by God that altogether constitute the origin of music ' [CF. text, WHO].

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a group of Dominican friars in the Roman basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva

In our Dominican tradition we must never devalue or forget the importance of choral singing. Suffice it to recall the reason why the song of the Hi Regina - and the contemporary procession - by Blessed Jordan of Saxony, who succeeded the leadership of the Order of Preachers after St. Dominic of Guzmàn. Indeed, the Devil continued to torment the friars, and then they joined in the chorus Marian par excellence for themselves under the protective mantle of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is why today more than ever necessary to resume our musical and liturgical tradition. That our hearts like those who cherish the Holy Father Dominic and, from future preachers, we might as well burn the whole world with the Word of God, Celestial Harmony of parallel scenes that form the choir of the Catholic Church.

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The singing is stronger and vivid expression of the soul strings, than like a masterfully strummed guitar, he raises his agreements of love to the Lord. The symphony has its key in the Yes we say at the beginning of each of our vocational choices, while the rest of the pentagram suggests it to us Jesus himself. We, which we do instead, for our part we are out of tune instruments and out of tune voices, we do nothing but let ourselves be harpened by him. The elevation of the song then brings us to Heights of Love that until now we had never even thought of touching. When we then go back to earth, we have thus received an inestimable treasure. The higher we go with the singing voice towards God, the more we can penetrate the hearts of men with the preaching voice. It is now that we realize, with our operational charity, the mystery of the Congregating Church. The reverb, which is created when we cross the voices with two different chords as in a song for parallel fifths, it generates a sound effect that literally makes the hearts of those present at Holy Mass explode. It is the reverberation of Glory, the reverberation as a profusion of very strong affection. With the Holy Father Francis I feel instead of concluding:

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"The music, so, be an instrument of unity to make the Gospel effective in today's world, through the beauty that still fascinates and makes it possible to believe by trusting in the love of the Father " [CF. text, WHO].

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Therefore, as the beautiful Platonic image teaches present in the dialogue Ione : cultivating the liturgical musical tradition means being the rhapsodies of divine love incarnated and alive on earth. It means becoming more and more the voice of God for man.

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«sweet Jesus, Jesus love» [St. Caterina da Siena]

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Rome, 18 December 2018

III Week of Advent

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[1] Cr: 6, 16-17

[2] Mt 26:30; MC 14: 26.

[3] Catechism of the Catholic Church 1156 "The musical tradition of the universal Church is a treasure of inestimable value, that excels among other art expressions, especially the fact that the sacred song, united to the words, It is necessary and integral part of the solemn liturgy " [Conc. ecum. Vat. (II), Holy Council, 112]. The composition and singing of inspired psalms, often accompanied by musical instruments, They are already closely linked to the liturgical celebrations of the Alliance. The Church continues and develops this tradition: Spend some time "to one another in psalms, inside, spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart " (Ef 5,19) [Cf Col 3,16-17]. "He who sings prays twice" [CF. St. Augustine, Commentary on Psalm, 72, 1]. We recall two other documents of the papal magisterium on the subject of music: Musicae Sacred Discipline, Pius XII - encyclical 25 December 1955. Holy music St Paul VI - Education 5 March 1967

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"I am the Lord, who heals you ". The Christian life is a therapeutic process in the light of obedience to the Word

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"I AM THE LORD, WHO HEALS YOU ". THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS A JOURNEY IN THE LIGHT OF THERAPEUTIC'OBEDIENCE TO THE WORD.

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In veneration of the name of God it is expressed the will of man to experience his saving and healing. That's why both in Ancient Testament it is in the work of Jesus in the Gospel healing is consequent to an obedient listening to the Word that saves

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Miracle of healing of the blind man, narrated in the Gospel of John: 9, 1-41

Today there is much talk about healing and methods that lead to the recovery of several evils. It is not uncommon to come across turlupinatori that vaunted skills as healers at the expense of poor patients struggling with serious illnesses and disabling. Then there is also a certain pseudo spiritual world which has a vast arsenal of energy and spirit entities who are summoned to engage in healing and renovations. Those who submit to their influence and authority, ending in a dense tangle that presents a whole series of alternative therapies that are, however, disconnected from the principle of causality and lead with great safety toward a technical system which flows in the magical mentality and superstitious [cf. Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, 1954; The technical system, 1977].

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GOD HAS A NAME THAT HEALS

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miracle of the healing of the paralytic at the pool of Bethsaida, narrated in the Gospel of John: 5, 1-18.

For the faithful Christian the situation is very different. Indeed, talk about healing and restoration is nothing but recognize the power of God over the world, then the natural laws that govern it, and express his authority as creator freely exercised for the benefit of all its children:

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"Thus says the Lord God: I am the Alpha and the Omega, One who is, who it was and who is, the Almighty!» [cf. AP 1,8]

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About this, I want to quote a passage from the book of Exodus that says:

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"If you give unto the voice of the Lord, your god, and do what is right in his eyes, and you wilt give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I do not t'infliggerò any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you!» [cf. Is 15,26].

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The thing that strikes more in this verse is the name of God that is presented on the basis of a clear therapeutic action of reorganization: "I am the one who heals you!»

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The therapeutic interventions of the divine name implies careful listening which leads to a clear path to sanctity. The reference to the diseases attests the consequence of an unhealthy life he repudiated God and broke away from him. God is not only the transcendent, the numinous, the almighty, the existing, but it is he who makes knowable and communicable own broadcasting its name. For he saith to Moses in the burning bush:

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"I am who I am!» [cf. Is 3,14].

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which is not only the expression indicating a mystery - in the theological sense of the word - but first of all it guarantees a presence that accompanies the People of Israel and that protects from every calamity, and free from all evil [cf. Shall 20,2; Pr 18,8]. It gave, communicating his name, He realizes salvation [cf. Shall 124,8], thus ensuring the health of those who are clothed with this name:

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"And he brought forth his people […], among the tribes there was not one feeble " [cf. Shall 105, 37].

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But we shy away decisively We need to use the magic of God's name! In the language of Scripture the name has an intimate relationship with reality signified, not only it is used to designate the person but expresses the personality, so we can say that the name manifests the heart, the fate that person is called to accomplish: the name realizes the vocation.

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The person of God is inextricably linked to the Alliance sanctioned by the Fathers of the People of Israel. God is above all the god of a people, of a nation that binds him with deep bonds of love and loyalty:

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"Say to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever; this is the title with which I will be remembered from generation to generation " [ cf. Is. 3,15].

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The covenant with the People of Israel that found in Abram, Isaac and Jacob, the privileged interlocutors of a relationship of love and fidelity drive us to understand that only in obedience to God - and thus active in listening to his Word - the Alliance celebrates, salvation materialize and health event becomes a journey of grace that recreates man starting a new relationship with his Lord.

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Obedience to the Word and listening to the same - in the fullness of time - they are specified in the incarnation of Jesus Christ, Word made flesh [cf. GV 1,3]. God through the work of the Son, recreates the restoring man in his heart a new covenant [cf. Gives 31,33], no longer based on the weakness of the Fathers of Israel but docile on the will of the Son who becomes obedient and determined the will of the Father unto death, even death on a cross [cf. Fil 2,8].

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OBEDIENCE TO THE WORD MADE FLESH is PRINCIPLE OF ANY IMPROVEMENT IN THE SPIRIT

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miracle of the resurrection of Lazarus, narrated in the Gospel of John: 11, 1-45

In the worship of God's name it expresses the will of man to experience his saving and healing. That's why both the Old Testament is the work of Jesus in the Gospel the healing is resulting in an obedient listening to the Word that saves [cf. Shall 81, 12-16].

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In his public ministry Jesus proclaims the Kingdom of God, this becomes the favorable moment when the proclaimed Word becomes drug. In fact many of the healings that Jesus did take place in the frame of preaching [cf. MC 1, 29-32; MC 1, 40-45; MC 2,1-12; MC 3, 1-6; Mt 9, 14-31; LC 13, 10-17]. The Word of God - as well as the origin of creation - is generating an order and health condition where the chaos of sin and disobedience have caused human illness and death. In the same way, in the Christian community after Easter, obedience to the Word is underscored by ordering presence of the Holy Spirit that descends with plenty on the apostles at Pentecost and gives them authority in preaching and power of physical and spiritual healing. He says in this regard Cabasilas:

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"Who has the gift of […] heal the sick […] it has received from myron " [cf. Nicola Cabasilas, Life in Christ, 3, 2].

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Namely: from the sacred oil Chrismal a liturgical sign vehicle and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit conferred the sacred ministers. By virtue of sacred ordination and intimate conformity with Christ, Pastors of the Church not only consist of authoritative teachers of the faith but also medical experts with the duty to care for the sick sheep of his flock [cf. This 34,4].

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The post Easter apostolic community is charismatic community in the full sense of the word as proclaimed in preaching God works salvation in the risen Christ [cf. At 3] confirmation with the charisma of healing the new ecclesial community mission illuminated by grace, obedient to the Word and always renewed by the action of the Holy Spirit vivifying [cf At 2, 42 ss]. The church, therefore, Mindful of this history of salvation is called every day to preach and to heal.

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This speech we find faced by the Fathers of the Church with the theological concept of recast ontological, that is, of that transformation of the whole man through the action of divine grace which takes place - as with the Virgin Mary - in a heart obedient and available to the action of the Holy Spirit.

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The theological virtues that the Spirit of God instills in us in baptism, perform a continuous and progressive recovery of our humanity: Faith heals us because it frees man from the anguish of existence becoming confident [cf. John Chrysostom, Homily in 1 TM. 1,2,3; and Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, 118,18,3]; hope heals us the anxiety of death and anticipates a destiny of immortality in view of the resurrection of the body at work within us in the sacramental signs; charity is the great medicine offered by Christ, who heals all evil and all pain [cf. Barsanufio in Gaza, Letter 62].

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WANT TO BE HEALED?

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miracle of healing the only son of a widow, narrated in the Gospel of Luke: 7, 11-17.

The question that opens this paragraph III appears almost obvious, but it is not so. First, since being a question present in the Gospel we can not dismiss it as simple and banal. It is pronounced, almost like whipped, by Jesus himself in regard to the sick man at the Pool of Bethesda [cf. GV 5,6]. Finally, because this application is intended to check the actual desire to heal the sick, leaving to work in his person the grace of the Holy Spirit.

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In the Gospel we see how many times Jesus asks the sick on the desire of wanting to be a collaborator with God in his recovery. This question basically seeks faith: "Do you think this?» [cf. GV 11,25]; "Your faith has healed you saved ..." [cf. Mt 9,22; Mt 15,28; MC 5,34; MC 10,52; LC 18,42]. Having faith in the biblical man basically means believing in God's faithfulness. The very advent of the Messiah is preceded by promises in which God demonstrates his credibility by definitively realizing what he had announced in different ways through the times through the prophets.

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The therapeutic healing journey, we see narrated by the evangelists, and that is still valid for us today, It is possible through three steps: the first, It is the acceptance of one's personal situation - infirmity or sin - in the light of God's saving plan [cf. LC 7,36-50; LC 18,13; LC 18,39]. The second one, is the unlimited confidence in divine grace and the will to cooperate with it [cf. Mt 8,5-13; Mt 15,21-28]. The third, It is the real desire of conversion and final break with sin in all areas of their lives [cf. GV 4,16-19.29; 5,14; 8,11].

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The path that leads to healing can then be slower or faster, instant or in stages [cf. MC 8,22-26; LC 17,11-19] but what defines it is always the invalid obedience to the Word proclaimed and taught that becomes fertile ground into which arises a new existence healed. Since man is a complex being, its recovery is always twofold: Jesus healing the body heals the soul and forgiving sin restores vigor to the body [cf. MC 2,1-12].

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THE END OF HEALING IS FOLLOWING CHRISTI.

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miracle the healing of the centurion's servant, narrated in the Gospel of Luke: 7, 1-10

The man became obedient to the Word and that was it restored it is ready to be an apostle of the Kingdom, that the works of God to be proclaimed to the whole world. Take for example this Gospel passage:

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"Then he made his way through towns and villages, preaching and proclaiming the good news of God's kingdom. With him went the Twelve and some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities,: Maria, called Magdalene, out of whom went seven demons; Giovanna, wife of Cuza, Director of Herod; Susanna and many other, who served them with their property [cf. LC 8, 1-3].

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Healing restores man because it will become the witness of the Kingdom and for humanity it realizes that there is a God who keeps promises. Consapevolizzarsi in this context is crucial, because the Christological event assumes all the concreteness of real life. It is one thing to follow a beautiful and captivating philosophical doctrine, Another is to give themselves an ideology that is considered successful, more is to witness with their own lives and their own wounds that Christ broke into my daily life has turned me touching my physical and spiritual fragility.

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As we have seen with the help of the Fathers of the Church, We are witnessing a transformation of being human that has no equal. The sequel of Jesus - also including the apostolic community - is substantially composed of disciples healed, by injured people who have been made grace and who have found the strength to proclaim the joy of healing: "We’ in your home, from yours, tells them what the Lord has done to you and the mercy he had for you " [cf. Mc 5,19ss]. Only the generosity of the Word and the teaching of Christ can enable the gratitude that is expressed in the gift of self to the Lord.

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The man given to God, as well as he understands well the Blessed Apostle Peter, He is able to love even with weakness, imperfection and infirmity [cf. Gv 21,15ss], and if some seemingly appear as partial healings, they refer to the great eschatological healing that will come at the end of time, because only there, in Paradiso, Health and holiness coincide in the mystery of Christ crucified and risen.

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Cagliari, 17 December 2018

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CAN A Roman Pontiff LEGALLY ELECTED AND LEGITIMATE SUCCESSOR OF BLESSED APOSTLE PETER BE FREE OF STATE OF GRACE ?

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Dear Readers and numerous: I will never mock you, because "God has entrusted you to me ', and a father can not and should never make fun of the children who demand comfort, help and support in trial, so as not to face the ghosts of the Demons that there circling around, and that scare us a lot in this dark night.

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Right now we should treasure of the words of Cardinal Charles Journet [1891-1975] than in his work Church of the Incarnate Word explains:

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"The axiom “where the Pope is, there is the Church”, so where the Pope acts as Pope and Head of the Church; if not, or The Church is in him, neither he is in the Church ".

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I'm tired to debate unnecessarily with those who decisively and absolutely deny taking only into vague consideration the hypothesis that a Supreme Pontiff can be closed to the actions of grace of the Holy Spirit, poured on him with undoubted abundance, but that in him and through him can operate only if he accepts the gifts of grace and puts them to good use. Here, then, that these subjects scrambles their total rejection, and they react to this problem as confirming and supporting of juke box coin the chant ... 'It, But the Pope can never err when judges in the matter of doctrine and faith, it is dogma, dogma, dogma!».

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Very Serious question: but it is the grace of God that speaks and acts through him, or it is instead he acts irrespective of grace, since it is magically not defeasible in matters of doctrine and faith, It can speak infallibly although closed to the grace and out of the sanctifying grace of God? Because if we are neither before the metaphysical or before the dogmatic, But before the magic. It is in fact the magic that in itself and in itself is totally irrational, while the dogma and dogma are not irrational, They are built on rational principles, for as sure as that the Word became flesh, It has not done thinking vaporous, It became physically and rationally meat.

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Faced with these closed forms of reasoning which are the consequence of escape from reality by all those who pretend to always have a strong logical answer for everything, unless retreat into four protective formulas when the answers to be given when there are none, I repeat that we are not within either of metaphysics nor in that of the dogmatic, But part of the magic, if not worse Gnosticism. For how can the Holy Spirit, through its thanksgivings, cancel the will or no will of man, that is, his freedom and his free will, for sdoppiarlo to your liking and make it totally necessary unfailing, if its nature was not freely open to God's grace? Because if that happens, in that case God would be in contradiction with the mystery of creation and thus with himself through the Holy Spirit, and in this case our God is a magical God, a Gnostic god. Everything always to return to the great speculative minds that face problems until a few years previously unimaginable, but unfortunately real today, instead of really they close themselves up mirror in the cage of their four dogmatic formulas reiterating firm and immovable before the tragic evidence of the facts: "... it is unfailing, cannot err, it is dogma, dogma, dogma!» …

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… and here it is worth remembering that the dogmas are not cages for men claiming at one point the right not to reason, but they are as deeply reasoned heart of the mystery of faith, at least according to a great teacher of school, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, which he states the extent to which "faith requires the intellect and understanding the faith" [Faith seeking understanding. In Prosl., Foreword], and again: "I think to understand, I understand to believe » [I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust]. And these two are the main foundations of scholastic philosophy, which never, at its foundation, He has placed the magic.

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Well I confess that these arguments are tired. I'm tired of those who before a fire in a library of sacred texts destined to be lost forever, they would rush to save the book Iota Romano Amerio and the Holy Gospel burns. Like the rest are a bit 'tired in general, much to ask with some frequency: deserves continue to speculate, analyze and write, or would it be better to shut themselves up for life I have left in a Carthusian monastery with absolute silence vote, dedicating myself to prayer and penance until death? In August, a few days after the completion of my 55th birthday, as time rushes I proposed more than ever to work to good use throughout the life of this time that separates me from death, I intend to waste it or to defend the indefensible or to save the unsalvageable, least of all to expose my human and priestly dignity to public ridicule just to look in the documents of the Supreme Pontiff Francis I that he has never said and written, pulling out all the costs they have the good that if anything there, through interpretative devices that have indeed pathetic, because you can not put your mouth on the good things he did not say after doing the process to its deepest intentions …

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… and before the solutions are three all'indifendibile: reproaches and complaints of St. John the Baptist, which as we know He lost his head; the speculative analysis of the situation for what it is, however not for what we would like it; the complete withdrawal from the world and total silence vote for life. There are three different ways, but all effective to operate at its best in this disastrous situation and irreversible. For now I have chosen the first solution, the model Giovanni Battista, but I could also decide to choose the third, with perhaps even more effectively.

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The problem, It is not in fact slight: how can we, we, interpret the one who should be the guardian and authentic interpreter of the faith? Or just hurts a lot to some minds have to accept and admit that the keeper of the "magical infallibility", for five years now he has shown with its deliberate and unintentional ambiguity about nothing, It blew up in the Church, the theological and moral relativism, together with the confusion and division, as never before he had been seen in the visible Church? Is it possible that among the pundits of the great theology, not only there is one that poses a question, if anything, likely to remain unanswered, namely this: there may be a case in which a Pope, closed to the actions of the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit, ends up be deprived of the grace of state that is typical of his high office, if anything, with all the consequences that today we have before, all regardless of his legitimate election and the role he equally legitimately busy?

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And with this it is obvious, loved ones and many readers: I will never mock you, because "God has entrusted you to me ', and a father can not and should never make fun of the children who demand comfort, help and support in trial, so as not to face the ghosts of the Demons that there circling around, and that scare us a lot in this dark night.

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Right now our salvation is contained in the theological virtue of hope, on which I wrote abundantly in 2014 [see WHO]. Hope is the great virtue median that binds together faith and charity. And since I have been set up in the service of the People of God and entered the priesthood in the universal fatherhood, this Holy People intend to offer the way of hope, but never the way of illusion, because I am a priest of Christ, not a drug dealer of hallucinogens acids, but mainly because I consider that a Holy People of God, not a people ox which give a pat and aspirin while a terminal cancer corrodes by the time our ecclesial and ecclesiastical body, while the visible Church is already in the antechamber of a morgue reduced for the occasion to a circus of clowns, dancers and dwarfs.

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You want to know what has always saved my priesthood? Perhaps the school, I have studied and deepened; perhaps metaphysics, I have studied and deepened; perhaps St. Thomas Aquinas, I studied in depth? Well, my priesthood is not saved by these “means” effective, but still means. It was saved from my deep love for the Church, the Mystical Body, of which Christ is the Head and we are living members; It was saved by love for the Church that is born of love divine work of the Divine Heart. It is with this awareness that every day I raise the Body and Blood of Christ on the altar cheering:

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By itself, And with the, and in him

it's you, God the Father Almighty,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

All glory and honor

forever and ever.

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Or someone might think I would have given one day of my precious life to this poor whore the visible Church that today we have before, devastating whole operates purely human dwarf, dancers and jesters in the career Court of Miracles big Re Nudo ?

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the Island of Patmos, 16 December 2018

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This article is the last part of a revised much more articulate article published 10 September 2018 and you can find in our archives under the title: "Faced with a visible Church suffers from a doctrinal and moral decay irreversible, you must open as soon as the seed bank " [the text is readable WHO]

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A.A.A. CHAPLAIN HOSPITAL WANTED, PLEASE REFRAIN: Unable to work, UNEMPLOYED IN SEARCH OF IMPEGO PROBLEM AND MADE OF VARIOUS

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and so we chose to go around the hospital keeping our religious habit in order to be immediately recognized, among many white coats, as Friars Minor Capuchin. E, I must say: it worked. After some time, in the hospital, they realized that the two men in brown clothes, with girdle around the hips, sandals and beards, were the new chaplains.

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Let me try to shed light on identity of the hospital chaplain, as strange as it may seem, I realized that in fact the evidence shows, between the various pastoral figures within the Church, It is a being almost mythological.

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First, it is necessary to clarify the canonical and pastoral appearance: the chaplain is a priest chosen by the bishop for the pastoral care of that portion of the People of God which is living the time of disease at a health facility, for example a hospital, a clinic, or in an assisted geriatric nursing home.

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Already this first definition It allows you to do some special considerations: the place of action of the chaplain is not the parish or monastic church, but a care place where he performs a specialized operator function along with other figures. Understanding this is crucial because, within the healthcare facility, the chaplain is not the master, even the legal representative, as it happens instead in the case of the pastor. In facts, It is therefore one of the many. Understanding this aspect, What is crucial.

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Often, the spirit of vanity of us belonging to the clergy, It does not digest this nuance that is ill-suited to the priest, nor what certainly it helps to create opportunities in which God can reveal in a ministry as sensitive as the hospital, there is no doubt that the priest is a man, but never forget that he is - and it is called to be - a man given to God, that the chaplain and through the chaplain and through a dynamic of ordinariness and concealment that I like to approach the biblical period of the youth of Jesus in Nazareth.

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Cagliari: Church of Saint Lucia: The martyrs of Arras killed in hatred of the faith during the French Revolution [by Aurelio Galeppini]

The place where the work is the hospital chaplain, clinic, l’hospice, assisted nursing home. All non-places consecrated by the scented oil of Chrism that the bishop used to consecrate to God a place for the worship. That is why today, the chaplain, It operates within a health resort that takes on highly secular connotations. Therefore, we can also forget the old black and white films of the fifties of the twentieth century, in which they could see the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de 'Paoli with their starched white hats, intent to ring the bell on the wards to announce the arrival of the priest carrying the Blessed Sacrament. None of this is happening today in these structures, within which the chaplain is silent presence, often confused between the various professionals in the health world.

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Having said that I open a small digression now: I arrived at the hospital Brotzu Cagliari, In the 2013, sbrigate hiring practices was offered us the use of white coat: that common to all healthcare professionals. After a few moments of reflection, I and my brother, We decided to reject the proposal, not simply to increase the gap of anonymity and uniformity that the white coat gives. Like this, We chose to go around the hospital keeping our religious habit, especially in order to be immediately recognized among many white coats as Friars Minor Capuchin. E, I must say: it worked. After some time, the hospital realized that the two men in brown clothes, with girdle around the hips, sandals and beards, were the new chaplains.

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Now I wish to share with the readers of The Island of Patmos some other interesting consideration: in health facilities, the chaplain, day after day has the task of earning a right of citizenship. Or to clarify: if the role of the chaplain - to date - is still recognized by the Law, The person filling this role needs to be known, therefore it must necessarily implement a sociability in the healthcare community in which it operates.

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The Daughters of Charity before yesterday – image of the Blessed Giuseppina Nicoli [1863-1924]

It is not my intention to make sermons, However I must say that the identity of the chaplain is inherent in his being priest. Only the priest can be chaplain [cf. can. 564 of the Code of Canon Law]. A good reason, the chaplain is for this required a style suited to its identity, social relations, expressing his devotion to God. And this I have to specify it clearly, because it often happens that the chaplain is instead identified as a kind of social worker, as a psychologist or as a confidant friend to all. And if from a certain point of view this is the consequence of a type of secularism increasingly rampant that tends to reshape what is alien, on the other hand it is necessary to ensure that the priest does not exercise his identity, distorting, up to assume other more attractive identity that are well accepted to modernity on the one hand, the spirit of secularism on the other hand.

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In health resorts, the priest chaplain is a prophet speaking on behalf of God because it is able to listen. It is the angel of Gethsemane who comforts the dying and reconciles with God [cf. LC 22, 43]. It is the guardian of mercy and justice for the Kingdom of God is realized between the platforms of many sick and weak, and father and teacher to guide and instruct men to the Gospel which is good news for all.

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the Daughters of Charity yesterday – image of Mother Suzanne Guillemin, Superior General from 1962 al 1968

Before this priestly identity It fits the varied work of God, creating every man, It gives to each characteristic personal gifts, thus enriching the ministerial priesthood with their charisms at the service of God's people and of the Church.

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Finally, I wish to highlight a critical note concerning the figure of the hospital chaplain and a certain style of doing Health Pastoral. From what little I have written on the figure of the priest appointed to the position of chaplain in a health facility, it is clear how these should be a good quality element or, at least, unproblematic. Unfortunately, the objective data derived from the facts as from the experiences, however this is not always. Indeed, in a historical moment in which the Church is suffering from a growing shortage of priests in the face of a lot of work to be done, the pastoral area of ​​health care is often discriminated. Our pastors prefer to employ their best priests in parishes, in family ministry, in the catechetical formation of young people, in welcoming the marginalized and so. It is a choice that one can also understand, does not share.

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Christ never made a hit parade in their ministry, but all the men who came to him were worthy of your attention and all received help and salvation.

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the Daughters of Charity today – formation meeting for religious

Some examples pastoral bad health implies that the figure of the chaplain. Let's start with the first case: appoint a chaplain elderly priest and sick because no longer able to sustain the parish pace that in itself calls for dynamism, equivalent to thinking that the hospital can provide prompt assistance for his injuries. To follow with the second case: appoint a chaplain priest without a parish in keeping placement is forced out of obedience to his bishop to stay in the hospital, but what with the risk that this person will end soon to be intolerant to disease and death, until not stand the smell of disinfectant or the sight of blood, and soon it became a fugitive difficult to reach, except for the day 27 of the month, when he picks up the salary Ente Hospital. The third case, Perhaps the saddest, Hospital is seen by some bishops as a place of exile, a kind of new Saint Helena Island for priests disobedient and unruly that ultimately this placed among the sick, as a kind of punishment.

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In these three cases, how is it possible to live and practice in the priestly ministry, health ministry through the concreteness of the loving invitation from Christ the Lord who calls us: "I was sick and you visited me" [cf. Mt 25, 36], in the full knowledge that "every time you did it to the least of these my brethren, you did it to me" ? [cf. Mt 25, 40].

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Cagliari, 8 December 2018

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Jesus Christ in the suffering. Pastoral health theology narrated by those who live the dimension of disease and disability in the daily experience of priestly life

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JESUS ​​CHRIST IN SUFFERING. HEALTH PASTORAL THEOLOGY TOLD BY THOSE WHO LIVE THE DIMENSION OF DISEASE AND DISABILITY IN THE DAILY EXPERIENCE OF PRIESTLY LIFE

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The disease has the advantage of scale the pride of man and physical weakness causes to be supported by others in corporal practices, even the most intimate. Unfortunately, there is the remote possibility that the sick priest - just as Christ in the Garden of Olives - Know the abandonment of the brothers and their families fleeing the desolation that the disease involves.

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San Leopoldo Mandic, recognized by the Italian Episcopal Conference as the protector of suffering from cancer [cf. WHO]

I start collaborating with The Island of Patmos with a reflection on the ministry of the most beautiful and delicate in the life of a priest: the pastoral care of the sick. This article is adapted from a meeting with the seminarians of the Pontifical Regional Seminary Sardo, where I spoke with a group of future priests in a time of dialogue, eschewing the temptation to conduct a pastoral theology lesson.

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I want to clarify immediately what 'it only works well if you believe good ", a concept of extreme importance that concerns each type of pastoral. Often and erroneously, the ministry is identified with the only practice; as if it were a practical reality called to carry alone “operating”. Seen in these terms, Pastoral seems almost natural antagonist of dogmatic theology, seen as the static reality of truth. In reality, is it necessary to make a logical effort and understand that in order to “work well” you need to "think well". The same thing is experienced in the field of Divine Liturgy, we celebrate rites and signs that we firmly believe in the heart [cf. RM 10,10]. Under this, I can not expect to make a good pastoral - whatever it is - not from the strength of the data of Revelation and the Magisterium of the Church. It is necessary to combine the truth to do, faith works, being the practice, so that pastoral theology becomes:

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'Presence and action of the Church aimed evangelization of the world […] by discounting the liberating presence, healing, and savior of Christ, in the power of the Spirit " [cf. Brusco - Painter, In the footsteps of Christ doctor, EDB, Bologna 1999, p.37].

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The ministry thus properly understood, He is turning me into a seeker of God, of that God who always enters into dialogue with the men to be known intimately and in the fullness of time you communicate fully through the Son the Word of Truth [cf. EB 1,1-2]. The ministry is the joyful message that God dwells man's time and in this context, in free and permanently, It works salvation. And in this time of grace in which man seeks God, We'll be guided by the Holy Spirit to communicate to the wells of salvation, which are the Sacraments; to live transfiguring relationships within the church community of believers; to testify and proclaim that every man from baptism belongs to the risen Christ as to be assimilated by him, according to the beautiful words that we find in confessions Sant’ Augustine:

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"You will be you who assimilate me to you, but I who assimilerò you to me ' [cf. S. Augustine, "Confessions", VII, 10].

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Poste be in these considerations, pastoral theology is the purest taking action consciousness of God in the identity of faith - as expressed by dogmatic theology - that the Church proposes to the man who wants to meet God. The ministry is not the container engaging strategies to proclaim Christ or earn disciples, but communication deposit of credit in the heart of humanity that the example of the blessed Apostle Peter proclaims:

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"Man, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life and we believe and know that you are the Holy One of God " [cf. GV 6,68-69].

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For this we say that the ministry is a journey of faith and of the knowledge of Christ.

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PASTORAL CARE OF SUFFERING TO MEET THE "SUFFERING"

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Clarified broadly the discourse on pastoral in its relationship to the truth revealed, Now let us analyze the pastoral care of the sick and suffering brothers. Forever, this is a type of typically Christian activity, because Christ has identified his person with the sick [cf. Mt 25,36ss] and at the time of his passion he is in charge not only of sins, but of all physical suffering [cf. Is 53,4]. His most holy body and his most precious blood which we adore in bread and wine constitutes sacrament ie sacred sign, veil of a real presence; similarly in the suffering body of Christ it is sick veiled but present in the name of the one who suffers for his sickness. About this, Pascal is said that at the end of his life, not being able to receive the holy sacrament because of a bad stomach which would involve the danger of profaning the Eucharist, he asked to receive the Lord through the sign-presence of the sick poor of the hospital for the incurable.

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For us priests and future priests, the pastoral care of the sick is a natural continuation of the Eucharistic celebration where we had the chance to meet and make us listeners and worshipers of Christ the example of Mary of Bethany, only to become his servants myths like Martha. This is why I feel like stating - without fear of contradiction - that the priest who does not visit and serve the sick in his day, seriously it demeans the Eucharistic Sacrifice that celebrates. Unfortunately in fraternal dialogue with several fellow priests and pastors, I gained the feeling of like visiting the sick is becoming one of the most overlooked and forgotten priestly duties. And what I have just said is solid evidence in the experience of the saints. Blessed St. Francis of Assisi made sacramental experience of Christ the Redeemer precisely in the sign of leprosy sufferer who meets along the way:

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"The Lord gave me, Brother Francis, to begin doing penance in this way: When I was in sin, it seemed too bitter to see lepers; And the Lord Himself led me among them and I showed mercy to them. And when I left them, what had seemed bitter to me was turned into sweetness of soul and body. And then, I delayed a little and left the world " [cf. S. Francis of Assisi, "Will" 1-3, FF. 110].

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Before that encounter and dialogue with the Crucifix of San Damiano, Francis of Assisi is dazzled by Christ through the sign of his brother's illness leper [cf. 1Cel17, FF. 348; 3Comp11, FF. 1407-1408]. Like this, following the example of its founder, the first Franciscan fraternity chose to stay with leprosy patients and serve as identification for those in illness, Because of marginality, I'm image of Christ.

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Even before the pauperism choice, St. Francis chose as a way of rapprochement to Christ the category of the scariest sick of his time: the lepers [cf. Arms, SLewis Francis, Ed. St. Paul, pp. 109-110].

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Through the example of St. Francis meeting the leper converts, I now want to underline how this type of ministry is conducted not only in view of a dynamic welfare Ministerial towards the sufferers, but as an occasion of grace and personal conversion to the person of the priest.

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Visiting the sick, proposes the inescapable certainty of the condition of fragility of our human nature contracted with original sin. I have to bear in mind that, the passage of time and the seasons, tomorrow the condition of sickness is also my. In the experience as a hospital chaplain, I have dealt with several times the assistance of inmates sick brothers who have experienced in their own flesh what is in the time of their youth lived only indirectly through the pastoral practice. In such a state of weakness and infirmity, outward priestly insignia and ceremonial trappings that often nourish the vain glory remain mute and are less. In the sick priest, It becomes present in all the crudeness of stripping a necessary realism that makes brilliant empathy to Christ Priest and Victim [cf. Fil 2,7; Mt 27,35]. Depending on the severity of the disease and personal caregiving conditions, the sick priest reflects its image into that of the Suffering Servant of YHWH:

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"He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, no beauty that we should desire him " [cf. Is 53,2].

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The disease has the advantage of scale the pride of man and physical weakness induces to be supported by the other in corporal practices, even the most intimate. Unfortunately, there is the remote possibility that the sick priest - just as Christ in the Garden of Olives - Know the abandonment of the brothers and their families fleeing the desolation that the disease involves. This eventuality that It could relate to each patient. But it is the priest who takes on a particular value of identity with Christ by virtue of sacred ordination. About this, just remember episodes of illness that have touched the long life of John Paul II to understand the role conforming to Christ of the disease in the person of the sick priest.

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The sick priest, sometimes it is no longer able to offer the bread and wine but only himself to the Father. God accepts this sacrifice in union with that of Christ with a view to personal purification and for the redemption of the world. Not already so how bloody reality that seeks pain for pain as well as quench of the cup of divinity [cf. Rene Girard, The Scapegoat].

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I remember very well the words of a senior priest after having administered the Sacrament of the Sick:

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"Tell the bishop that I offer all this for the priests and the Church's needs!».

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Already St. Paul had expressed this with words: "I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in Christ's afflictions, in favor of his body which is the Church " [cf. With the 1,24]. Here's how the disease calls to conversion, to review their priorities and personal positions, to verify their lives as well as gold is purified and refined in the crucible [cf. Sir 2,4-5].

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Looking at our weakness God's ministers, when we suffer with Christ is not the time to put our hands into those of the bishop as the day of priestly ordination but those same Father as a sign of obedience union of the Son on the cross. And repeating with St. Bernard say:

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It was the death of Christ, who pleased God the Father, but his willingness to die spontaneously for us " [cf. St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Letter 90, De Error Abelardi, 8,21-22 PL 182, 1070, «not jaws, yet decided on her own that dies»].

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This reflection on the disease in the person of the priest, not only it produces the purpose of a real and concrete conversion, as it sharpens the desire to be well prepared to deal with the illness and death with the weapons of faith. But it also makes present as the disease of those who serve as ministers, acquires meaning only through the wisdom of faith that we find expressed in the scriptures:

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"Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, for they suffered such things? No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish equally. Or those eighteen, above which Siloam fell tower fell, You believe that they were worse offenders than all the inhabitants of Jerusalem? No, I tell you, but unless you repent, all perish in the same way » [cf. LC 13 2-5].

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HEALTH messianic TASK DELIVERY IN CHRIST PRIEST.

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The priest in charge of the pastoral care of the sick He embarks on a journey of healing with the suffering brother, that is the Messianic person to whom Jesus addressed the beginning of his public ministry:

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"Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news preached " [cf. LC 7,22].

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We are facing a new kind of pastoral, Jesus works a therapeutic ministry, capable of involving men in a journey of healing and rapprochement with God precisely because it requires conversion [cf. MC 1,14-15]. This type of ministry takes a step that is not only methodological, but ontological: switching from a pastoral centered only on a pastoral health condition that requires care for the sick. And Jesus is not perhaps the Savior, one who would care salus and realizes? San Pietro Crisologo expresses this thought so:

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"Christ came to take our infirmities and to bestow its virtues, to take charge of the human and to give us the divine, to accept the insults and make about, to endure the hassle and restore health. The fact that no doctor is in charge of disease knows no cure, and one who is not sick with the sick can not give health. [cf. S. Peter Crisologo, sermons, PL 52, 50].

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When Christianity speaks of salvation, uses the Latin word salus. Every Sunday in the Creed we say for our salvation;, that is, for our salvation. The Christian Health, what we see in the Gospels is that when Christ tears me infirmity wanted by the devil - origin and cause of every sin and evil - and introduces me into the Paschal healing at the price of his blood. Inside this logic every healing and liberation that Christ as the author becomes Easter time where the work of the devil is defeated and the man returned their health according to God's saving plan.

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The therapeutic action that Christ does in his public ministry is an anticipation of the final ministry of salvation and health come true with his passion, Death and Resurrection. Popular piety comes to us in this reasoning with the beautiful prayer attributed to St. Ignatius of Loyola: Anima Christi. At one point of the prayerful prayer puts it this way:

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"Blood of Christ, inebriate. Water from the side of Christ, thoroughly ».

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We put before Jesus crucified on Golgotha, Soldiers control the bodies of the condemned and in the manner of Roman crucifixion break your legs to prevent convicted of a slow death, and anticipate death, but Jesus this fate is not up because it is already dead, so that for security it was inflicted a wound to the chest pouring blood and water [cf. GV 19,31-36]. The bath that heals me and tears me from the power of the devil is certainly that figure baptismal water that flows from the side of the redeemer. But there is a second washing, the blood of Christ that the priest administers whenever absolves sins.

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The blood and water are so the two streams where man can cleanse away all his life, and buy with salvation also healing. Interestingly, the blood of Christ in prayer Anima Christi is said that intoxicates. What the author alludes? I do not think of making a mistake if we interpret these words in reference to the Holy Spirit, discreet presence that intoxicates the life of believers with the same love that unites the Father and the Son. The blood that Christ shed is a sign of obedience to the Father, a sign of the highest fidelity that a child can manifest its parent. The moment in which the blood of Christ cleanses me from sin, I wash the sins, I am also reached by the same love which the Son has the Father. I'm filled with the Holy Spirit who gives me the intoxicating sweetness of her vital presence that makes my life [cf. This 37,9]. Not for nothing did the apostle Matthew says that Jesus at the time of his death gave up the spirit [cf. Mt 27,50]. To returns? To the Father as a total surrender of his person and man as a demonstration and teaching a love which goes to the end [cf. GV 13,1]. When Christ saves me with his blood, also it gives me the deposit of its intoxicating love which is the Holy Spirit, making me enjoy salvation and the good that God wants me. The priest is made by Jesus instrument of this grace for the brothers, to the total gift of his person, of his time and his ministry.

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Last Rites, Today Sacrament of the Sick [dipinto di Rogier van der Weyden, 1445]

I conclude by quoting the sacrament of healing that the Church gives to the sick brothers. This sacrament is the wonderful synthesis of the Passion of Christ and of his love offered to each patient. In ministering to the sick, the priest is called to administer promptly the sacrament of anointing of the sick. Sacramento combining the therapeutic character and salvific action of Christ on the bodies and the souls of the suffering. The therapeutic efficacy and remissoria of this sacrament on the evils of body and spirit involves a spiritual bath which always acts in virtue of that blood flowed from the open side of the redeemer. The imposition of the priest's hands on the head of the patient before the anointing is the explicit reference to the gift of the Holy Spirit who is poured out at that time as a liniment man oppressed by suffering.

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Fidelity of the priest to perform these saving acts in his ministry, This healthy and make the saving action of Christ among brothers. The duty-duty of the priest to give salvation is identical to that of Christ. And when Jesus came to give us life in abundance [cf. GV 10,10], the same is called to perform the priest: give life, not possess; work for a healing of men, not to increase the wounds.

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Cagliari, 4 December 2018

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Self-defense confirmed by the Union of idiots and Recognized (U.C.C.R.)

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LEGITIMATE DEFENSE FROM THE UNION OF RECOGNIZED AND CONFIRMED CRETIN (U.C.C.R).

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In this electronic jungle also the last of the ignorant, putting his hand on the keyboard of a computer behind the anonymity of the network, becomes an arrogant expert in those disciplines to which we, even though we have dedicated them life and long years of study, we continue to have an ever-based approach and awe the humble modesty, so we feel small, limited and deeply inadequate before the great mysteries of faith.

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U.C.C.R. Union of Confirmed and Recognized Cretins

Never the Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo He hath has been irritated with those who have criticized. Lto criticize, that he sometimes practiced severely, subject to the exercise of the freedoms guaranteed [Cost. art. 21]. It falls outside the constitutional rights the right to falsehood, as in the case of homemade blog called U.C.C.R, which would indicate the acronym Union Catholic Christians Rational, where in one written strictly unsigned [cf. WHO] it states:

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«The worrying phenomenon of media priests who find their outlet in social networks. We know well the "progressive" priests who bitterly fought Benedict XVI from their blogs, like Don Giorgio De Capitani, Don Paolo Farinella, Don Aldo Antonelli, Don Franco Barbero. Even Pope Francis has his enemies among the priest-blogger, this time linked to the heresy of "traditionalism": Don Curzio Nitoglia, don Minutella (recently excommunicated), Don Levi Ariel Gualdo and the various members of the Society of St. Pius X. An exception in the midst of so many good pastors, but a big problem because of their visibility donated by the web ' [cf. WHO].

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This rant, which also implicitly includes the Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo among the bad shepherds effectively excluding it from the "many good shepherds", is inserted in the delicate context of the Jewish-Christian relationship to discourse on which are necessary high and deep biblical skills, historical and theological, not a group that is defined:

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"OCCF is just a website, not based, no statute, It has no organic, not impersonating cards and not beating case. The 2 February 2011 as a hobby of a group of university students [cf. WHO] to whom, in no time, join other friends met on the net '.

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Incidentally, jokers of this homemade blog who call nothing less than "Rational", flying on the fact that to exercise the the task of teaching and the function consacration Sacramento shall grace the bad shepherds as Father Ariel, they should explain in a rational way precisely in which matters the "many good shepherds" they know are busy, to well consider that the turnout to our churches is in free fall, that the Holy Bride of Christ is now marred by a moral and doctrinal crisis without historical precedent, that baptisms are sharp fall together at weddings and the Sacraments of Christian Initiation, while on the surviving confessionals - that is, those that the "many good shepherds" have not yet put in stock or sold to antique dealers -, abounds dust and grow above the cobwebs. And they know, these rational, what is the Diocese who holds the absolute national record of empty churches? Well: is Rome.

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The small group of university students and various friends united in the network, ignore the Father Ariel S. Levi said to prints of Gualdo 12 years ago the book Herbs Amare, the century of Zionism, on the market for six years, several thousand copies sold and considered by scholars of national and international reputation a "milestone on the Jewish phenomenology". In this book 360 pages with 520 historical and scientific notes, the middle section, equal to 120 pages, It is entirely dedicated to the figure of Pius XII, that about the author debunks with irrefutable historical data ideological controversy mounted against this Supreme Pontiff by certain Jewish circles that, as amply demonstrated, all of them were related to various Marxist movements and various international Masonic lodges. The book is currently being reprinted.

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Unite the Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo to members of the Fraternity of St. Pius X or so-called Lefebvrians, What is indeed grotesque. Indeed, This priest and theologian, Lefebvre has repeatedly indicated as schismatics, accordingly as heretics, repeatedly explaining their mistakes, besides urging on several occasions the Catholic faithful not to participate in their sacred celebrations and not to receive from them the Sacraments, except in the case of life threatening, because in this case even a priest excommunicated and dismissed from the clerical state can administer the sacraments validly [cann. 976; 986 §2; can. 883 n. 3].

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Marrucine Donkeys, not use your left hand, you use the … [U.C.C.R. Union of Confirmed and Recognized Cretins]

Regarding the priest Alessandro Minutella, in a sorrowful article signed by Fathers de The Island of Patmos Ariel S. Levi Gualdo and Father John Cavalcoli [cf. WHO], the two theologians have begged him to backtrack. Soon after, father ariel, not having obtained no effect, he bitterly referred to as a model not to follow, inviting him to renew his profession of obedience to the bishop in communion with the Bishop of Rome [cf. WHO].

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then indicate the Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo as' Papa Francesco enemy " and it tied to the "heresy of traditionalism", denotes two different forms of folly: first of all do not know the devotion that this priest feeds to the Successor of Peter, therefore confuse the legitimate criticism of certain expressions or certain pastoral choices of the Roman Pontiff with those that are its acts of teaching, before which repeatedly, in four years a publicist on the online magazine The Island of Patmos, He called on the due obedience, because "If the Supreme Pontiff gives off a motu proprio, the matter is closed and there is nothing to argue about, It just has to obey ".

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Marrucine Donkeys, not use your left hand, you use the … [U.C.C.R. Union of Confirmed and Recognized Cretins]

These university goliardic that are revealed theologians, ecclesiologists and canonists hobby, they are therefore qualified and disqualified with the expression "heresy of conservatism", ignoring that the Holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the Catholic tradition They have spread and defense, some until the shedding of their blood. Indeed, changing the word "tradition" and "traditionalism" in the negative sense until even use it as a synonym for heresy, It is to affirm authentic nonsense, such as those in the negative sense they use the words "dogma" and "dogmatic". It would be enough to know it only superficially and also the documents of the Second Vatican Council to know how many times the Fathers of the Church assembled in this assizes reflect and recall the tradition and respect for tradition, variously defined as "holy", as "sacred" and as a "perennial".

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Given these premises, the boys of U.C.C.R blog They are likely to be counted in the Union of idiots and confirmed Recognized, Please take for what they are, especially as intellectually they prove to be worth, in this electronic jungle where even the last of the ignorant, putting his hand on the keyboard of a computer behind the anonymity of the network, becomes an arrogant expert in those disciplines to which we, even though we have dedicated them life and long years of study, we continue to have an increasingly approach based on the humble awe and modesty, so we feel small, limited and deeply inadequate before the great mysteries of faith.

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the Island of Patmos, 29 November 2018

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Finally invite “scientists” del blog U.C.C.R. to deny this Lectio on a purely and strictly theological level, or otherwise declare that the Gospels Saints and the Blessed Evangelists were wrong

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The splendid interview with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller and the squalid indifferent silence of the press “Cattolica” Reduced regime now the drummers of the Soviet Pravda and TeleKabul

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THE WONDERFUL INTERVIEW OF CARDINAL GERHARD LUDWIG MÜLLER AND THE SHADOW INDIFFERENT SILENCE OF THE PRESS “CATHOLIC” OF SYSTEM NOW REDUCED TO PRAVDA TAMBURINI OF SOVIET AND TELEKABUL

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"The primacy of the Pope is weakened by the courtiers and careerists at the papal court - the same spoken of in the sixteenth century, the noted theologian Melchior Cano - and not by those who advised the Pope with competence and responsibility".

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By analyzing to what extent printing “Cattolica” regime now resembles that of the former Soviet bloc regimes in the flood period cold War, one gets the impression of having made a sad leap backwards. Indeed, a sensational interview as the one issued by the prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard L. Müller, may be passed over in silence only by adopting the same indifference with which the spoiled children revolutionar-communists of '68 were indifferent when during the famous Spring Soviet tanks invaded Prague.

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For many of these people, although registered for many years in the register of professional journalists, there is no longer even have the right and duty to chronicle. E, if they really must exercise it to launch some’ smoke and mirrors, simply hold forth on human bones found under the floor of the house adjoining the goalkeeper to the apostolic nunciature in Italy [cf. WHO], well guarding against quibble about all the skeletons that lockers Domus Sanctae Martha and can no longer even contain. While that august house they continue to prowl the likes Mons. Giovanni Battista Ricca, since the master It is so humble, but so humble, that even if wrong recklessly and coarse in choosing people, never admit a mistake, the whole, obviously, for deep humility issues.

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We offer our readers the interview the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a LifeSite [original text WHO], courtesy translation in Italian journalist Marco Tosatti on his personal blog a stylus assembly.

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LifeSiteThe American bishops have just closed their fall meeting in Baltimore, during which they were prevented to vote on a resolution on a strategy for the involvement of bishops in cases of sexual abuse - those who have committed the abuses and those who have failed to take any measures or has covered up -, because the Vatican has told them to do so. The new guidelines would have predicted a code of conduct and the establishment of an organism to direct supervision by the laity and bishops appointed to investigate the accused of inappropriate conduct. Many Catholics in America were waiting for concrete steps, and now they are outraged. Do you think the decision was wise or believes instead that the bishops would have allowed Americans to adopt their national strategies and set up the commission, as well as they could do the French bishops the past month?

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Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller — You must make a clear distinction, on the one hand the crimes relating to sexuality and investigations conducted by the secular justice - before which all citizens are equal, therefore a valid law for the Catholic Church would be a contradiction in legal systems of modern democratic states - the other canonical procedures for clergy with which the ecclesiastical authority shall determine the sanctions to be imposed in the event of conduct that contradict diametrically l ' ethic consecrated. The Bishop exercises over all religious of his diocese within a canonical jurisdiction in some special cases it is shared with the Congregation for the Faith in Rome, which in turn operates in papal authority force. If a bishop is not fulfilling its responsibilities, It can be held to account before the Pope. Episcopal Conferences can then establish guidelines that become valuable tools in the hands of the bishops, when in their respective dioceses are to prevent or prosecute. In the midst of this American crisis we must remain lucid. Not sure we will come out by adopting rules that allow the lynching and foster a climate of suspicion spread to the entire episcopate “romano”. I do not think a solution to leave the control of the laity with the explanation that the bishops - as some believe - are not able to provide with its own strengths. Not overcome the deficiencies overthrowing the constitution hierarchical and sacramental Church. Catherine of Siena spoke with candor and tirelessly to the consciences of the Popes and Bishops, but he took his place. That's the difference with Luther, because of which we are still suffering the division of Christianity. It would be important if the US bishops' conference is to assume their responsibilities with independence and autonomy. The bishops are not employees subject to the directives of the Pope and are not even, otherwise the army, General called to absolute obedience to the supreme command. Rather they are called to take charge, together with the successor of Peter, as pastors appointed by Christ Himself, the responsibilities of the Universal Church. But they expect that Rome is at the service of unity in faith and communion of the Sacraments. This is the time to join forces to overcome the crisis, rather than to promote compromise and polarizations, so that in Rome there is no grudge against the American bishops and America people are not angry with Rome.

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An important part of the discussion during the meeting of the Episcopal Conference of the United States was still dedicated to McCarrick scandal; how was it possible that someone like McCarrick was able to climb the summits of the American Catholic Church and be able to influence at this point Rome. What is your opinion on the case McCarrick and what the Church should learn from the existence of this web of secrecy that has surrounded a man who, practicing homosexuality, seducing seminarians who depended upon her causing authorities then in sin and, above all, abusing minors, He led a life consistently opposed to the laws of the Church?

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I don't know him so I want to refrain from judging. I hope there will soon be a canonical trial to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that sheds light on sexual crimes committed by young seminarians. When I was Prefect of this Congregation [2012-2017] no one ever told me about this issue, probably for fear of a reaction too “rigid” on my part. The fact that McCarrick, along with his entourage and a homosexual network, He was able to wreak havoc in the church with methods analogous to those mafia, It is connected to the underestimation of the degree of moral depravity that homosexual acts between adults cause. If someone had heard in Rome to report even suspicion, He would have to investigate and assess the merits of the allegations, preventing McCarrick he was promoted to the episcopate of a diocese as important as Washington, also avoiding naming him a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. And they were also sums were paid under the table [to prevent scandals n.d.t.] - thus admitting responsibility for crimes with young men - any reasonable person wonders how such a person could have been the Pope's adviser in the appointment of bishops. I do not know if this is true?, sure it would be necessary to clarify. A mercenary who helps to look good shepherds to the church of the Lord - this is incomprehensible. In this case, the Church should publicly report on the facts and the links between those involved, as well as on the degree of awareness on the part of the ecclesiastical authorities; We could think of at the same time an admission of responsibility for having evaluated inadequately people and situations.

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Over the past five years have you ever heard of cases in which the then Cardinal McCarrick had been widely confidence and tasks in specific missions by the Pope or the Vatican?

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As I said, I was not aware of anything. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was only responsible for cases of child abuse, not for adults, as if the offenses relating to sexuality committed by the clergy with another consecrated or a layman were not too serious violations of the Faith and the sanctity of the Sacraments. I have always stressed that even homosexual acts committed by religious can never be tolerated; the sexual morality of the Church can not be relativized secular acceptance of homosexuality. It must then distinguish between the conduct occasional sinful, the offense and a life spent in a perpetual state of sin.

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One of the problematic aspects of the case McCarrick is already in 2005 It is in the 2007 there were legal agreements with some victims, but the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark - then under Archbishop John J. Myers - did not inform the public and even their own priests. It held so essential information for those who are still working with McCarrick and trusted him. So did Cardinal Joseph Tobin when, In the 2017, He became archbishop of Newark. As far as I neither Myers nor Tobin apologized for the omissions and for betraying the trust of their priests. He thinks that the archdiocese would have to make public legal agreements, especially after 2002 when the Chart in Dallas had called for greater transparency?

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In other times, it was believed to be able to resolve complex cases quietly and discreetly. In this way the head was put in a position to continue to abuse the trust of his bishop. In today's situation, Catholics and the public have a moral right to know these facts. This is not making any accusations, but to learn from those mistakes.

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a problem of this magnitude can be solved by adopting new guidelines or is necessary in the Church a profound conversion of hearts?

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The origin of this crisis must be identified in the secularization of the Church and in the reduction of the priest to the role of an official. Ultimately it is atheism that has spread in the Church. This evil spirit says that Revelation regarding faith and morals must be adapted to the world, independent of God, so that He can not interfere in a life lived according to their own desires and their needs. Only the 5% managers were assessed as pathological pedophiles. Most of them, because of its immorality, He has deliberately stepped on the sixth commandment refusing so blasphemous to the Holy Will of God.

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What do you think of the idea of ​​establishing new canonical norms that provide for the excommunication of priests guilty of abuse?

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Excommunication is a coercive sanction that is removed as soon as the responsible repents. In the case of serious violations and offenses against the faith and unity of the Church, It should be decided on the permanent defrocking, namely the permanent prohibition to exercise the priesthood.

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The old Code of Canon Law of the 1917 provided clear penalties against priests involved in abuse and even active homosexual priests. These concrete sanctions are largely removed from the code in 1983, which it is now less accurate and does not even mention explicitly homosexual acts. In light of the serious crisis arising from abuse, He thinks that the Church should return to a more rigorous system of penalties for such cases?

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It was a disastrous mistake. sexual contacts between persons of the same sex contradict directly and fully the meaning and purpose of sexuality as established since the creation. They are the sign of inordinate desires and instincts, the broken relationship between man and his Creator with the fall in original sin. The celibate priest, and the priest married in the Eastern rite must be models for the flock, at the same time instance of redemption which also involves the body and the physical passions. Self-giving, agape, physical and spiritual to a person of the opposite sex, and not wild desire to satisfy, are the sense and purpose of sexuality. This leads to responsibility to the family and the children God gives us.

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During the recent meeting in Baltimore, Cardinal Blase Cupich stated that we must "distinguish" between consensual acts between adults and the abuse of minors, thus implying that homosexual priests with other adults would not be a major problem. How do you respond to this kind of setting?

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One can distinguish everything – even considering oneself a great intellectual – but not a grave sin that excludes the person from the Kingdom of God, at least he can not distinguish a bishop who is bound to the duty of defending the truth of the Gospel and not to exhibit the spirit of the times. It seems to be high time "that will not endure sound doctrine, ma, having itching ears they, will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, refusing to listen to the truth to turn to fairy tales " [cf. 2 Tim 4, 3].

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In his job as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith he has had the opportunity to see numerous cases of abuse by religious. It is true that the majority of the victims in these cases are male teenagers?

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Over 80% of the victims of these crimes are male teenagers. It can not be concluded that the majority of priests are prone to homosexual fornication, rather than the majority of the perpetrators have tried, deep disorder of their passions, male victims. The crime statistics tell us that most of those responsible in cases of sexual abuse are the same victims' relatives, even parents with their children. From this we can deduce that most fathers are likely to commit these crimes. We must always be careful not to generalize from specific cases, not to fall into the temptation of the slogan of the anti-clerical prejudice or.

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If this is the situation - and the study on sexual abuse conducted in Germany or John Jay Report, report similar numbers - the Church should not directly address the issue of the presence of homosexual priests?

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From my point of view, there are no men or homosexual priests. God created the human being male and female. But there may be male and female with disordered passions. Sexual union has a place only in marriage between a man and a woman. Outside there is only fornication and abuse of sexuality, and with people of the opposite sex in unnatural exacerbation of sin with the same sex. Only those who have learned to control himself meets the requirements for ordination [cf. I Tim 3, 1-7].

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At the moment there seems to be a problem in the Church, within which lacks even the consensus that active homosexual priests have a large part of responsibility in the crisis linked to abuse. Even some Vatican documents speak of "pedophilia", or 'clericalism "as the major problems. The Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli came to say that McCarrick had homosexual relations, but he exercised its power over others. Meanwhile, we who, Father James Martin eats, S.J, travels the world - also called on the world meeting of families in Ireland - to promote the idea of ​​"Catholics-LGBT"Even pretending to theorising homosexuality of some saints. This is to say that there is a strong push in the Church leading to minimize the sinful character of relations between persons of the same sex. She shares, and if shares, how do you think you could - and should - be remedied?

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This is the part of the crisis whose cause nobody wants to see, hiding with the help of rhetoric propagated by the homosexual lobby. Fornication with adolescents and adults is a mortal sin, and no human power on earth can declare it morally neutral. This is the work of the devil - against which often Papa Francesco warns - declare good sin. "Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of devils, lies in hypocrisy impostors, already seared into their consciousness " [cf. I Tim 4,1]. It is indeed absurd that suddenly ecclesiastical authorities use traditional anti-clerical slogans Jacobins, Nazis and Communists to attack priests ordained in Sacramento. The priests are invested with the authority to proclaim the Gospel and administer the sacraments of Grace. If someone is abusing its jurisdiction to achieve selfish goals, that someone is not overly clerical, on the contrary, Christ is anti-clerical because it denies the possibility of working through him. Sexual abuse by clergy must therefore be called haters in the highest degree. But it is obvious - and could be denied only by those who want to be blind - that the sin against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue originate from disordered inclinations so are sins of fornication that exclude from the Kingdom of God, at least until there is repentance and atonement, and there is a firm intention to avoid such sins in the future. The attempt to obfuscate these things is a negative sign of the Church's secularization. It is thought that the world, not according to the will of God.

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At the recent Synod of youth in Rome they were able to hear voices with the same content. It instrument of Labor It used for the first time the term LGBT, while the final document stressed the need to accommodate the Church refusing to them all forms of discrimination against them. This kind of statements would not undermine the constant practice of the Church to deny permission to employ active homosexuals, for example in the role of teachers in Catholic churches?

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L'ideology LGBT It is based on a false anthropology which denies God as Creator. Because it is essentially atheistic or at most barely touches the Christian concept of God, He can have no place in Church documents. This is an example of the influence creeping atheism in the Church, responsible for over half a century of crisis. Unfortunately it continues to operate in the thinking of some shepherds which, in their naive conviction of being modern, They do not notice the poison that they themselves take each day and end with the offer to others.

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We can say today that in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church there is a powerful gay lobby ?

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I do not know because these people with me not expose. But may be you have felt complacent in the know myself away from the congregation and cases of sexual crimes, especially with young teenage boys.

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You recently revealed that during his tenure at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Pope had set up a commission which was to provide advice to the Congregation on possible sanctions against priests involved in abuse. The Commission, But, It was prone to a softer attitude towards priests involved, otherwise she would have wanted to impose, in severe cases, the defrocking, for example the case of Rev. Mauro Inzoli. Last year - when she was removed from office at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the magazine of the Jesuits America He revealed that "a number of cardinals had asked Francis to lift the Cardinal Müller from office because on numerous occasions had expressed disagreement, or he had detached, the position of the Pope and they saw in this office and a weakening of the papal Magisterium ". He sees a possible link between the strict criteria which she adopted in dealing with cases of abuse by religious and the cardinal group close to the Pope who would want a softer approach? If this is not the case, still he would claim that he was removed because of his firm defense of orthodoxy?

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The primacy of the Pope is weakened by the courtiers in the papal court of careerists - the same spoken of in the sixteenth century, the noted theologian Melchior Cano - and not by those who advised the Pope with competence and responsibility. While a group of cardinals accused me before the Pope on the basis of my different ideas, then the Church is not in a good situation. If they were brave and upright, They would speak with me directly; then they would have known that as bishop and cardinal, I am called to present the teaching of the Catholic Faith, not to justify the various private opinions of a Pope. His authority extends on the Faith of the Catholic Church revealed and does not include personal theological opinion or his advisers. Maybe you can accuse me of interpreting love joy Orthodox Key, but they can not say that I have strayed from the Catholic doctrine. It added the irritation you feel when you see people with no theological training to high-ranking bishops, which he felt obliged to express their gratitude to the Pope manifested a kind of childish submission. Maybe they could scroll through the pages of my book Dad, mission and mandate, whose translation in Italian and English is work in progress. Then you could discuss at an appropriate level. The teachings of the bishops and the Pope is subject to the Word of God as found in the Holy Scriptures and Tradition, and must be in His service. It is not a Catholic to believe that the Pope is a person who receives revelation directly from the Holy Spirit, and can interpret it in accordance with their wishes and the rest of the faithful should follow him blindly and silently. love joy It must absolutely agree with Revelation, we should not be the ones to have to agree with love joy, at least not in the heretical interpretations that contradict the Word of God. Sanction those who insist on an interpretation of the encyclical orthodox as any other magisterial document of Pope, it would be an abuse of power.” Only those who are in a state of grace can receive Holy Communion fruitfully. This revealed truth cannot be subverted by any earthly power and no Catholic will ever be able to believe otherwise or be forced to accept otherwise.

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In retrospect, in his role as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to which of the innovations offered to the Church he has opposed more strongly? As part of his testimony he has contributed most to its removal and the way in which it took place, not that that would offer an alternative location within the Vatican?

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I would not have opposed to any innovation or reform. Why reform means renewal in Christ, no adaptation to the world. The reasons for the non-renewal of my mandate I have never been communicated. This is unusual because normally the Pope confirms all the prefects in their positions. I do not know the possible reasons that might be envisaged without ridicule. After all you can not believe, contrary to what he believed Pope Benedict, Müller that lacks sufficient theological training, that is not Orthodox, or is negligent in prosecuting crimes against faith in cases of sexual abuse. For this it prefers to remain silent and allow the media to liberal and progressive approach the task of commenting spitefully.

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Currently some observers comparing its removal from the important position in the Vatican - certainly also due to his respectful regard to resistance love joy with the condescending treatment received from others such as the Cardinal and McCarrick. Even today it has not been defrocked, Despite his criminal conduct. So it seems that those who have attempted to preserve the Catholic teaching on family and marriage as it has been transmitted are set aside, while those who are in favor of innovations in the field of morality, They are treated with mild or even promoted, Cupich think of the Cardinal and Father James Martin. It has a comment on this?

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Anyone can form an idea about the criteria according to which some are promoted e protetti, while others are combated and eliminated.

 

 

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Again on the merits of this apparent suppression of Orthodox religious people and the promotion of progressive representatives, Padre Ansgar Wucherpfennig S.J. just he received from the Vatican for permission to return to the position of rector of the Jesuit faculty in Frankfurt, although he supports and promotes the ordination of women and the blessing for same-sex couples. He was even asked to publish his articles about it. How do you assess this further development?

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This is an example of how the authorities of the Church of Rome are hurting themselves and how the clear competence and experience of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is sidelined. If this priest believes that the blessing of same-sex relationships is the result of the development of doctrine, and continues its work in this direction, we are faced with nothing but the presence of an atheist thought in Christianity. He does not deny the existence of God in theory, but it denies him as a source of morality, presenting the same way as a blessing rather what in the eyes of God is sin. The fact that the sacrament of Holy Orders can be reserved only for males is not the result of cultural circumstances or a positive Church law so editable. It is based in the nature of divine institution Sacramento, as well as the nature of the sacrament of marriage requires the difference between the sexes.

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From his point of view, He believes that the Catholic Church is close to reaching the control of the issue related to the proper and consistent abuse, and we have found the right solutions? If not, what do you think has been the greatest obstacle to the substantial improvement of the situation? How can the Church again become credible institution in the eyes of Catholic families?

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The entire Church, with his priests and bishops, must please God more than man. Our salvation is obedience in Faith.

 

Posted by The Island of Patmos, 24 November 2018

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