WHEN DURING THE HOLY MASS FATHER ARIEL Smashed A GUITAR ON THE COLUMN OF THE NAVE OF A PARISH CHURCH

When he goes to places he doesn't know, he prefers to have a policeman nearby who can possibly block him, "privilege" this granted of motu proprio a me, poor wretch that I am! Simple reason: holding a Bengal tiger is easier and less dangerous than holding him.

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Jorge Facio Lynx
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I'm 12 year old that I live and work closely with him, are therefore a living archive of the deeds of Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo. Naturally, when you are meek, one does not narrate one's most beautiful deeds, for matters of meekness. I fear that one day I will have to give an account to God for having prevented the performance of various not beautiful feats, but beautiful. And who knows what punishment I will have to suffer for this, when I stand before the judgment of God, having prevented the realization of certain strokes of genius.

Characteristic of Father Ariel is to surprise you with things you would never expect. Because of this, when he begins with certain performance, always and strictly sudden and unexpected, people can't even react in the moment, because they need to get into the order of ideas that what happened is true, which just really happened.

May 2010, a brother of Father Ariel, Colombian, while he was doing his doctorate in sacred liturgy in a pontifical university in Rome he carried out the ministry of second assistant pastor in a parish that I won't name, in a suburbicarian diocese of Rome which I will not name. Having decided to make a pilgrimage to Fatima and stay in Portugal for a few days, calls Father Ariel and asks him if he can replace him for the evening Mass on Saturday and for that of Sunday morning. He accepts right away, also for the deep fraternal and emotional bond he nurtures towards that priest, who was master of ceremonies at his priestly ordination.

As it usually does, he asks me if I can accompany him and carry out the service of acolyte, not being able to admit that when he goes to places he doesn't know, he prefers to have a policeman nearby who can possibly block him, "privilege" this granted of motu proprio a me, poor wretch that I am! Simple reason: holding a Bengal tiger is easier and less dangerous than holding him.

Against guitars Father Ariel has nothing, why the guitar, if played well, by professionals and musicians, it can be a splendid liturgical instrument. Time and again we have heard guitarists play arias by J.S. Bach, on other occasions even accompany Gregorian chants in the background. An authentic marvel.

But when he hears about sixty-year-old post-sixty-eight-year-olds play the guitars they can't play, if anything on the melody of When the Saints Go Marching In, Father Ariel might even make you regret not meeting Jack the Ripper instead, with which all in all could go better.

I admit: Sunday morning that coretto hit rock bottom. During Communion they began to sing a song taken from the famous opera Jesus Christ Superstar. And here it must be stated: Father Ariel greatly appreciates both that work and the ballet of Martha Graham Dance Company, which he considers one of his greatest works rock in the twentieth century. But, at the same time, he is a presbyter and a theologian of solid doctrine and knows that that work and the lyrics of his songs strongly deny the divinity of Christ. That's when the chorus begins to sing on the words translated into Italian of the Magdalene in love with Christ: "… it's a man, he's just a man". Father Ariel ceases to distribute Communion, goes up to the altar, he places the pyx on it, he kneels reverently, descends under the presbytery, he takes the guitar from the guitarist's hand and smashes it on the column of a nave. He leaves the guitar in pieces on the floor and says: “At the end of real concerts rock that's how it's done".

A grave silence fell in the church. And as if nothing happened, composed and frozen like a piece of ice, the Eucharistic celebration continued and ended.

The pastor didn't dare say anything, I assume fearing ending up with a bronze candlestick stamped on my back. But the next day he was the first to support the protest of those choristers to the Bishop, saying he didn't know that priest and blaming the second assistant pastor who had called him to replace him. Obviously Father Ariel had already taken care to call his Bishop, who at the time was Msgr. Luigi Negri, and tell him the story.

No later than Monday afternoon the Bishop of that Diocese calls Mons. Luigi Negri, which basically was perhaps even more indisposed of the Father Ariel himself in the face of certain liturgical antics, and that so calms him down: «I reassure you and please also reassure the guitarist that all in all it went really well for him, rather thank God, because for the type that is, I'm amazed that he smashed the guitar on the column and not on his head».

Spent a year, while the Colombian priest was about to leave Rome at the end of his studies and return to his diocese, a few days before taking the plane he confided to Father Ariel that he had invited him on purpose to replace him, imagining that in the face of similar things he would have reacted, after he had had to put up with that choir and that ignorant parish priest for two years in matters of doctrine and faith, that he didn't even realize the heresies that those people sang during Mass.

But I repeat: being Father Ariel meek, deeply tame, avoid narrating some of his finest deeds, certainly for a speech of profound humility.

the Island of Patmos, 9 January 2023

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COMMUNION BY GIORGIA MELONI AND THAT CLERICAL IDEOLOGISM ON COMMUNION IN HANDS EVEN IN HIGH RISK SITUATIONS WHICH EXCEEDS THE VERY VALUE OF PROTECTING THE BODY OF CHRIST

It is necessary in certain great pontifical celebrations and beyond, Holy Communion is administered to thousands of people, more on the hands, where exercising control is impossible and where real sacrileges can occur, which punctually occurred and continue to occur?

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Among many, during the funeral celebration of Benedict XVI, the photo of our Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni receiving Holy Communion from the hands of a priest did not go unnoticed. Someone maliciously pointed out that political sympathies risk overshadowing the Catechism of the Catholic Church, but we, up here The Island of Patmos we have no political sympathies because we care about people and their souls and we know that for God there are no serial souls “a” or serial “b”, much less souls of the right or of the left but all are called to salvation in Jesus Christ, because this is why God called the Church and a priest should be concerned daily and primarily with the salvation and health of the souls entrusted to him, not of "other", and it is better to spread a pitiful veil and not add anything else on the nature and modality of this "other".

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the sacrilegious visible results of Communion given in unchecked hands to please clerical ideology

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Given the public case of Communion at Meloni, there would be so much to say and to object from the point of view of the doctrine and teaching of the Catholic Church but I believe that the point now is not this, if not to ignite sterile controversies that are completely useless and to be avoided. In my personal opinion it would certainly be appropriate to give a nice tug of the ear to the national Giorgia - a pastorally dutiful thing for the good of her soul and for the protection of many Christians who voted for her in the last elections - who did not have the slightest hesitation to receive the Eucharist although not being able to do it because still today linked through a cohabitation with Andrea Giambruno. Let us remember that coexistence is an emotional bond not recognized by the Church for two baptized persons, whose only valid bond of union is the sacramental one of marriage, in which Christ Himself unites spouses into one. Unfortunately, a significant aggravating circumstance is added to the specific case of our Prime Minister: either, her and her partner, are totally free from previous constraints. None of them has previously contracted a marriage which would constitute an impediment to their union. Therefore there is precisely the manifest will not to marry and to live in a state of coexistence. A situation that deserves all due respect for the free and unquestionable choices of others, but which however has nothing to do with those of the many people animated by deep Christian sentiments, divorced and later married civilly, that although they want to experience a regular situation they are not able to do it, unless there are elements such as to allow the ecclesiastical court to declare it invalid, therefore null, their previous marriage.

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I hope some brother priest, maybe a friend of Meloni, made her understand the responsibility for her public act, not so much as a civil and lay representative of the Italian State present there to pay homage to a deceased Pontiff, but above all as a person who defines himself as a Catholic Christian and who on more than one occasion has wanted to present himself as a guardian of the traditional values ​​of the faith. Except for giving repeated guarantees during the electoral campaign that no one would touch the abortion law in any way, something further guaranteed by the Catholic Elisabetta Gardini to various television programs in the pre-election period [cf.. See WHO, WHO]

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In the recent past, we have had other politicians who have brandished rosaries and sacred images for propaganda purposes and we have always ended up with farce, with great detriment to the faith of the simple and the unprepared. This is not because a politician is prohibited from testifying his faith and religious affiliation in public, but because when one does so one must keep one's own role as an official of a secular State which has certain obligations as well as that of a person of faith which has others and perhaps more burdensome and binding because they are addressed to God and to the Church which are not they are certainly voters.

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So here is the crux of the matter: but is it ever possible that in the organization of the celebrations of the Holy See there is no provision for limiting these abuses and these outbursts of sentimental transport, especially in the section reserved for politicians and public authorities whose living condition is easy to trace and know their public thinking so as to evaluate whether or not these people should have access to the Sacraments? If this is possible to do it in smaller and less organized contexts, we should perhaps think that the organizational and diplomatic arm of the Holy See has become so short-sighted as to be short-sighted and not see certain situations? We do not want and cannot believe it.

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The most striking reality it is that of a fallacious and dissipated organization of ceremonial. If a reprimand is necessary, it must be done to His Holiness' master of ceremonies and to the other masters of ceremonies in charge of the order and decorum of the celebration, who have not organized themselves to prevent certain offenses that, although they are not to be used to make a derogatory or hurtful judgment about the person, must be absolutely and by all means avoided by virtue of their sacredness which can easily lead to scandal - in the sense of stumbling to the faith - and to the mortification of the mysteries celebrated.

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I remember very well than at the funeral of John Paul II, at the time of Communion, the notice was clearly given - due given the influx of people of different origins from all parts of the world - that the Eucharist was approached only by those who were in the conditions required by the Church to be able to receive it, so as to avoid the equivalence that the Body of the Lord has the same value and importance as a comforting embrace, of a gesture of solidarity in times of need or worse of a sentimental-passionate transport in which I "feel like taking Communion" for an unspecified reason.

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The problem has always been discussed it is also another: it is necessary that in certain great pontifical celebrations and beyond, Holy Communion is administered to thousands of people, more on the hands, where exercising control is impossible and where real sacrileges can occur, which punctually occurred and continue to occur? At certain large and crowded celebrations, would it not be better to select a small group of faithful who receive Holy Communion, for example by the Supreme Pontiff or the Bishop, while thousands more of the faithful join them in spiritual communion? Or do we want to forget when in the 2005, shortly after the death of John Paul II, was auctioned off EBay a Host received by a non-Catholic participant in a Holy Mass celebrated by him in 1988? The problem was solved by the US Diocese of Sioux City who managed to withdraw it. But there is much worse: the so-called Spanish “artist” Abel Azcona subtracted 242 Hosts presenting themselves to receive Holy Communion, obviously given on the hands, then using them to compose the word «pederastia» which in Spanish means paedophilia on the ground. Yet not even cases of this kind have ever dissuaded the clerical ideologues of Communion in hand at all costs, in any situation even at high risk. For intimate knowledge of the subject in question I add: it is reasonable to blame our confrere Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo who has always refused to give communion on the hands to anyone, after running into an attempted abduction during the celebration of his first Holy Mass? There is a video documenting it in which Father Ariel is seen chasing after a woman with the pyx in his hand and taking the Host away from the bag in which he had placed it. Does anyone have an idea of ​​the indelible trauma that it entails for a priest to have given the Eucharist to a person who has tried to take it away, moreover during the celebration of his first Holy Mass? We want to give Communion on the hands? Good, but that at least it imposes itself to check with extreme attention. It is not possible for many priests to place the Most Holy Eucharist in the hands of unknown people without exercising any control. How many people, instead of consuming it before the priest as it should, they turn their backs or leave in the total carelessness of the celebrant, or they consume it while walking through the church without anyone calling them back? These are ordinary scenes. However, it is known how much clerical ideology far exceeds the very value of the Body of Christ and the maximum protection that it should require.

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If these things don't remediate at the source, downstream there will hardly be someone who will keep and appreciate the value so as to enforce them. And between the political fevers that are waiting to catch the foot of the wrong adversary and the assaulting Puritan traditionalists who cry out to sin and threaten hell, there will always be in between the runaway from home which seraphically will remind us: "Who am I to judge?». Maybe we are nobody, but as priests and keepers of the mysteries of God entrusted to us with the laying on of hands, we want with all of ourselves to avoid that holy things are given to dogs, as well as pearls before swine [See. Mt 7,6]. It is not a question of spiritual racism but of pastoral charity which primarily wishes to protect those who still have to grow in the knowledge of God and in the proclamation of salvation within a gradual and mature journey of ecclesial faith. We cannot afford to waste the graces of God, and this also applies to those who are not yet able to appreciate them in order to grow in the right knowledge of Him and not to increase their own narcissistic and pathological religious sense. Perhaps we are wasting time but it is useful to recall the first letter to the Corinthians of the Blessed Apostle Paul [See. 1Color 11,17-34] in which the correct modality with which the faithful are called to approach the Body of the Lord is underlined, not only understood in its sacramental but ecclesial component, because it is the Eucharist that makes the Church, Body of the Lord. In a few lines «Paul educates us to have this look of responsibility on both of these "Bodies" by communicating to the rite established by Christ, ecclesial communion is also given shape and cohesion" [See. B. Standard, Letters of St. Paul, introduction, translation and commentary, St. Paul, 2021].

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We don't expect that in the Vatican understand this Pauline theological concept but at least it would not hurt to have a little respectful decency towards all those brothers who due to their irregular condition cannot yet fully receive Holy Communion and who respectfully observe fasting towards the sacred species of the Lord thus manifesting a heroic testimony of love for the Church, the Body of Christ.

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These Communions not made, more so than any done through deceit or the occasional sentimental carried away, today more than ever they are like a finger pointed at us priests who have long since abdicated the role of fathers in the faith to become friends who allow everything, they apologize and concede. We priests too, that we communicate at every Holy Mass, someone should make us think, know if we are truly in a state of grace to be able to receive that sacramental body that we consecrate daily when perhaps we are still totally unable to keep, to grow and defend that ecclesial body which is equally a sign of Christ in the world and communion with him.

Laconi, 8 January 2023

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THAT DISASTER OF THE "CITIZENSHIP INCOME" SEEN AND EXPERIENCED BY US PRIESTS IN DAILY CONTACT WITH THE REAL WORLD

It is conceivable and sustainable that a productive part of the country maintains a clearly parasitic part with its own contributions and tax revenues which, faced with forms of exaggerated welfare for the pure purpose of electoral reservoir, he doesn't even say thank you, because he acts and reacts as if it were his due, except complain that everything is never enough?

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It comes from Salerno Today the 15 October 2018 [see WHO]

Italy it is populated by a large number of cowards ready to applaud the powerful at the pinnacle of power, then to attack his corpse. And the Italian psychology of Piazzale LoretO, corner of Milan where the crowd attacked the body of Benito Mussolini, Clara Petacci, Nicola Bombacci, Alexander Pavolini. In front of that mess Sandro Pertini, socialist partisan and future President of the Republic declared: «With that gesture the insurrection dishonored itself» [cf.. WHO].

I fly over Carl Gustav Jung which defined the structure of the collective unconscious, because the discussion would be complex and I will limit myself to mentioning the obvious: each population is conditioned and animated by its own peculiar social psychology which derives from its history and experience. It is in this sense that we can speak of "social character" or "collective socio-psychology".

The Italian character has been depicted in a plastic and realistic way in the world of journalism and in that of cinematography by two great figures of the Italian twentieth century: the journalist Indro Montanelli and the actor Alberto Sordi that the vices of Italian translated them into cinematography. Among his works remains memorable Stardust, with the extraordinary Monica Vitti.

While everything was silent and no one dared to sigh before the powerful majority in power, for my part I did not hesitate to affirm, In the 2019 It is in the 2020, that the basic income was the most scandalous vote-buying ever in the history of the Italian Republic [see my article WHO]. It is a historical fact: all the old parties of the so-called first Republic took illicit loans from industries for years and years, companies and large enterprises. The old Italian Communist Party took even worse illicit loans, because the money came to him from the Soviet Union, which was an enemy country of the Atlantic Pact. No Party was immune from this funding. Yet none of them ever dreamed of buying their votes using public taxpayers' money, as did instead that movement of great moralizers known as the Five Stars, who immediately never spoke to the intelligence of the Italians, or what little is left of it, but to their emotionality and their belly. Votes clearly acquired with the citizen's income, as evidenced by the electoral preferences that have touched authentic Bulgarian majorities in those electoral districts of Southern Italy where the most numerous subsidies have been disbursed. Only two regions, Campania and Sicily, hold the 48% of citizenship incomes among those disbursed throughout Italy. The consequence was that in some constituencies the Five Star Movement exceeded the 70% of electoral preferences. They are not inferences, but statistical data that say so, although it is true that elections are won with majority numbers, or not? And the numbers speak.

I wrote all this years ago, in full power cinquestellino, unlike many, indeed of the too many who saw this reality only when the great moralizers of the country fell into a farcical re-edition of Animal Farm George Orwell. And this after having given us everything and more: from the scooters from which today we risk being overwhelmed on the sidewalks, to follow with wheelchairs that only a scientist of Lucia Azzolina's caliber could invent. On Luigi Di Maio, Minister for Foreign Affairs, let us instead directly spread a pitiful veil.

Let's clarify right away for the avoidance of any doubt: a country that is truly civil has a political duty, social and moral to support all those citizens who are unable to work or who cannot find work. As always, we try to clarify everything with some concrete examples: a worker who has carried out a strenuous job for twenty or thirty years, for example a bricklayer or a labourer, if at the age of fifty he finds himself out of work and moreover with some health problems, where does he find another job? If a worker of a similar age, but also a forty-year-old who was a truck driver for almost twenty years, can no longer sit for ten hours a day driving a truck due to physical problems that prevent him from doing so, but which at the same time cannot be considered invalid, because it isn't, another job where he finds it? For one and for the other, as for many others, finding a new job may also be possible, but it is certainly not easy and least of all they will be able to find it on the spot. It is obvious that supporting these people is a duty of civility. But the basic income, we are sure that it went to this kind of people and to all those who find themselves out of work for reasons completely beyond their control?

Given that we are talking about the Italians, not of the Germans or the French who, like it or not, they are peoples with a deep sense of nationhood and national identity, the citizen's income marked first of all, in the nefarious Italian psychology, an immediate rush to defraud the State and the entire national community of public taxpayers. Only dreamlike politicians like the Cinquestelle could cross the mind, in a country like ours, to disburse this subsidy basing everything on the truthfulness and good faith of the self-certification, without any kind of strict control, avoiding that everything ended up for the benefit of those smart ones of which Italy is the mother in constant labor. And the crafty crooks, according to the investigations that were made with enormous delay by the administrative and judicial bodies in charge, it wasn't "a few cases" at all, but tens and tens of thousands, many of which are truly sensational. Because as soon as they started doing the checks, they quickly discovered the incredible and the improbable. Unfortunately, the controls, they were triggered only when the government changed and after the previous government had been able to gain votes on income both in the general elections and in the administrative elections.

I talked for a long time and with numerous recipients of this devastating income, which is certainly not such as such but for the way in which it was designed. From their mouths I could only hear the word «I have the right to… I have the right to… I have the right to…». Faced with the question of whether they ever asked themselves the problem that receiving a subsidy implies that on the other side there are public taxpayers who pay them, the answer given ― and not once, but almost standard practice - it was nothing short of bleak: "Ah, but it is the state that pays for it...". Further clarification to follow: «…because the State must…». Every comment, faced with such beliefs, it would be superfluous to say the least.

An entrepreneur friend some time ago he told me that he had paid to the state, in his personal contributions to INPS, beyond 400.000 euro in 40 years of work, getting in return, once you reach retirement, a pension of 650 € monthly. Having said this, he declared himself scandalized - and I would like to see how to blame him - at the idea that twenty year olds physically able to work did not even bother to look for work and that they collected 780 monthly euros of basic income. While others collected income on the one hand and worked illegally on the other, putting in your pocket 1.500 / 1.600 € per month. Because these are the people who pay income to an army of do-nothings who would have no right to it and who, I repeat, they are by no means sporadic and isolated cases, always according to what emerged from the checks carried out after the stables had been opened and the oxen escaped into the wild.

The famous Italian journalist Bruno Vespa recently gave this testimony to a Mediaset television programme:

«I have a farm in Puglia. I found a girl who worked illegally in a club. Brava, motivated, he wanted to grow up: I offered her 1.300 euros to be a waitress. The young woman accepted but then returned home and her partner told her: "you're crazy, by adding undeclared work to your income, you are much freer and do what you want”. There is an infinite number of these situations in Italy» [cf.. WHO].

Soon said: we are faced with a large and disturbing number of ignorant selfish people who do not even have the faintest idea of ​​what a state is. But it gets worse: in a more or less plaintive or arrogant way, they always and only prefix the word "I have the right to ... I have the right to ... I have the right to ...", without ever being even remotely touched that the rights due or acquired are necessarily based on duties. Like this, every time I have reminded these subjects - many of whom unfortunately are socially unrecoverable in their way of thinking - that a State is based on the relationship between citizens' duties and rights and that the State benefits to the extent that the State is given, in response I heard: "Ah, but the salary of politicians …». And this is the other devastating element of Italian psychology: "the other is worse and does much worse than me". Or: "… Yes, I evade taxes and I do well to evade it because the director of the Bank of Italy takes 40.000 euros per month salary. Only the worst of the worst can arise from reasoning of this kind. Also in this case let's say it with examples: here then is the Neapolitan mother who in front of her son caught in the act while he was robbing a tobacconist, he takes it out on the judge who condemns him by stating: «There are politicians and industrialists who steal but do nothing to them». To follow with the mother of the two criminals that the 6 September 2020 they brutally killed the young man in Colleferro Willy Monteiro Duarte, Incidentally, they are also recipients of citizenship income granted upon self-certification, who reacted by mocking the poor young man killed and affirming: «They put it on the front page not even if the queen had died» [cf.. WHO].

The sad truth is that in Italy we have raised and raised generations of lazy spineless people over the last half century, for the most part spoiled only children of mum and dad, truly convinced that everything is due to them and that the word "right" is completely devoid of the suffix "duty". And then let's overlook the psychology that marks the even worst generation of only children born to mothers over forty, because there we are truly in tragedy …

For the kind of ministry I carry out I have daily contacts with confreres who live scattered throughout the dioceses of all of Italy, in contact day after day with human material. In particular those who live in Campania, Calabria and Sicily have told me episodes and situations of scams and robberies done brazenly in the public light of day. Several Neapolitan presbyters told me that they did not know a single recipient of basic income who did not work illegally. Some Sicilian presbyters told me that it was the employees of the various public administration offices themselves who suggested how to change residence or create fictitious residences in order to receive more citizenship income within the same family, after that, a few days after, Advertisements for Five Star candidates in that constituency reached them on WhatsApp.

More pastors of these regions I have been told of cases in which young people have gone to ask if they could get married in church without however having the documents sent to the Municipality because in this case they would have formed a family nucleus and lost their two respective citizenship incomes which would have been reduced to a single income per household. As they were individual income earners, they intended to continue to receive each his own income and to work quietly in the open in the dark. To my question addressed to these confreres: «They are sporadic cases?». I was answered both from Campania and from Sicily: “Sporadic? It is the widespread practice, but it gets worse: everything takes place in the light of the sun and under the eyes of the same administrators who not only avoid vigilance, but who favor precisely this system for their electoral interests. Everyone sees and knows, but for the political elections first and the administrative ones afterwards, no one would have thought of going against this appetizing electoral pool of income earners, behind which there are not only individual recipients, because behind it is the "due gratitude" of entire families and numerous friends».

But there is even worse: confreres who live in daily contact with social unease have repeatedly complained to me that they touch the reality of income distributed in rain to an army of clever people who had no right to it every day, while several really needy people had failed to get this subsidy. They told me, but I myself saw craftsmen with my own eyes, plumbers, electricians, aerialist, bricklayers who cash in on average 3.000/4.000 euros per month in total black money to which they added the perception of the citizen's income without any modesty or shame. And these are not sporadic isolated cases, because in certain areas of our country they appear to be the practice instead. The whole, I repeat, in public sunlight.

It is thinkable and sustainable that a productive part of the country maintains with its contribution and its own tax revenue a clearly parasitic part which, in the face of exaggerated forms of welfare for the pure purpose of electoral reservoir, he doesn't even say thank you, because he acts and reacts as if it were his due, except complain that everything is never enough? You can think, especially in the current geopolitical and economic situation, to be able to continue to keep this large portfolio of votes good and dear at the expense of the working country, produces and pays taxes? It is absolutely not true that certain things happen throughout Italy, fake! In various areas of Southern Italy I have seen people working illegally in bars and restaurants, where even the police forces go for coffee or dinner, the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza, labor inspectors. And when I pointed out to the latter that in no other part of Italy is it possible to see an average of eight out of ten people working illegally in certain places, in response they gave a melancholy half smile and said to me: "Better undeclared work than unemployment". To those who are not clear, I repeat: response given by inspectors of the Labor Office, I don't know if you know what I mean.

To some Palermo recipients of income, jobs were offered in other areas of the country, where there are labor shortages in many sectors. The best justifications given to the various talk show television did not wait: "I can't leave the family ... with the salary they would give me, half would go to pay the rent ...". Finally the most splendid pearl of the receiver that for more evenings, give one talk show television to the other he said: «Because entrepreneurs from the North don't come here to Palermo to create jobs?». And of talk show in talk show everyone was silent. Too bad among the guests in those parterre I wasn't there too, because I would instantly remind him that in the past, complete with incentives from the state and the European Union, more companies tried it and how, to go and create jobs. The problem was that as soon as they tried to establish companies, they ended up with three different realities: with appalling bureaucracy, with corrupt administrators who, if they didn't demand bribes in cash, demanded the hiring of their protégés, lastly and not least with the mafiosi who demanded protection money. Why in cities like Palermo and Catania, the lace, even those who sell panelle and bruscolini at the market pay it. But maybe, to this earner invited to talk nonsense by a talk show television to another, the possibility was given to present the complex and delicate reality of Palermo ― without any penalty of ridicule ― as if the capital of Sicily were a canton of the Swiss Confederation, inhabited, as is well known, by zealous and precise subjects like the Swiss. Or ignore maybe, this subject and especially those who invited him to pontificate, that when in Agrigento they finally decided to demolish some illegal villas built inside the Valley of the Temples for demonstration purposes, the demolitions were carried out by companies in the Triveneto controlled and escorted by the State Police, Army and Carabinieri? Who knows why none of the local companies showed up at the auctions that went deserted several times ... but who knows why?

The statistics confirm than with the citizen's income, unemployment, from the 2019 at the end of 2022 has increased and companies and small businesses, especially those operating in the Italian tourism sector, they had enormous difficulty finding staff. Friends who run hotels, restaurants and bathing establishments have reported to me and shown that in full season they have paid between 1.800 until 2.200 euros per month for Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan workers because they couldn't find any crying unemployed Italian willing to do the dishwasher. Especially from young people, the aspiration of many of which ranges between the desire to become influence full of followers to that of being able to enter a reality show. Why these, it's the generations of misfits we've created, granting them also the basic income, it was the icing put on the cream on top of the cake.

Then we want to talk about mothers, species of the hypertrophic-protective southern ones, that they really don't want, that their children do certain jobs, even if some of them would be willing to do them? I heard them say with my own ears: «… my son a dishwasher … my son a tomato picker …? No, my son doesn't have to!».

When I was ten years old ― so we're talking about five decades ago now ― I saw young twenty-year-olds work, mostly university students, in the tourist facilities of my maternal family members. In the following decades they became freelancers, senior officials in the state administration, specialist doctors, some became entrepreneurs themselves after learning the art of entrepreneurship from my uncles. One of these, later became a specialist doctor, he was particularly close to my father during his illness which led to his death at the age of just one 56 year old. During the course of his university studies in medicine, d’estate, throughout the season, he worked as a waiter to pay for his studies, because his family could not afford to support him much in studying away from home.

My friend Paolo Del Debbio, al talk show conducted by him he cut off a Tizio saying: "Look ..., that you are talking to a former waiter. Because when I was studying I supported myself by being a waiter». But if we give our young people a sofa, a playstation and a basic income, if anything, also making him believe that it can last for a lifetime and that the unspecified abstract entity called the State pays for it, we won't be able to get a specialist doctor or Paolo Del Debbio out of it, nor a good and ordinary citizen of the Italian Republic. All this while reaffirming that a truly democratic country, liberal and civil, it has the duty to help and support all the people who have no job or who have lost their job. But not those who don't want to find work or who work illegally to get a double salary, while those who have worked for a lifetime and contributed their income to our welfare state, today takes 680 euros per month of pension e, in addition to mockery, he must also hear quite a few people, that they have no desire to work and even less to find work, to click: «… I have the right to… I have the right to… I have the right to…».

From the island of Patmos, 18 December 2022

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COMMUNICATE OF THE BISHOP OF PADUA ABOUT THE PRESENCE OF MR. ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA IN THE TERRITORY OF HIS DIOCESE

This morning the schismatic heretic vomited poison against the Bishop of Padua [cf.. WHO] that by fulfilling his duties as a shepherd he has put on guard the clergy and the faithful from participating in its "shamanic-madonnolatrici rites"

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Repeatedly we demonstrated through his videos and speeches [cf.. WHO, WHO, WHO] that Mr. Minutella is an aggressive-violent narcissist, affected by pseudo-mystical exaltation, as well as dissociated from reality, which creates in people fragile relationships of profound dependence and just as much dissociation from reality. They are not our risky opinions, but analyzes done by multiple psychiatrists who examined his video materials. Especially Mr. Minutella incites people to hatred by turning them into machines which in turn spread hatred in an aggressive and violent way against «The false church of the false pope emissary of the Antichrist».

Phenomena of this kind they should never be taken lightly, because sooner or later there is the serious risk that some exalted person may commit an act of physical violence to the detriment of some bishop. An attempt that has already been made in the past, when if. Mons. Michele Pennisi Archbishop of Monreale disavowed the pseudo-mystical activities of the then Reverend Alessandro Minutella [see document HERE]. With the result that a group of his possessed people tried to attack him as he left the archbishop's palace [cf.. WHO]. precedents in this sense, also recent, unfortunately there are none, just remember the case of the attack to Cardinal Giuseppe Betori Metropolitan Archbishop of Florence.

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COMMUNICATE OF H.E. MONS. CLAUDIO CIPOLLA BISHOP OF PADUA

December, 2022

The Bishop of Padua, Mons. Claudio Cipolla, in the light of some information received through the social channels used by Mr. Alessandro Minutella, learned of his imminent presence in the Padua area - and therefore presumably in the territory of the Diocese of Padua - in the period 15 December 2022 ― 15 January 2023, also accompanied by Fra Celestino della Croce, born Pietro Follador, currently incardinated in the diocese of Patti (Messina).

In this regard the Bishop, Mons. Claudio Cipolla, report to presbyters, deacons, consecrated men and women and faithful all that Mr. Alessandro Minutella, former presbyter of the Archdiocese of Palermo, was excommunicated 18 August 2018 (with Decree 15 August 2018) for having committed the crime against the faith and the unity of the Church, as schismatic; and was dismissed from the clerical state (out of office and for the good of the church) in data 13 January 2022 (by decree issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith).

Furthermore, as regards fra Celestino della Croce, he communicates that he has received from his bishop the prohibition to carry out the priestly ministry in public due to his positions openly in line with those of Mr. A. Minutella.

Bishop Claudius as pertaining to him in the territory of the Diocese confirmation the measures taken against Fra Celestino by the Ordinary of Patti, to which he adds the revoke the faculty to hear Confessions and to impart Sacramental Absolution to the faithful, within the territory of the Diocese of Padua. forbids also to parish priests, to church rectors, to parish administrators and superiors of religious institutes, to grant the aforementioned Alessandro Minutella and fra Celestino della Croce places of worship and both internal and external spaces owned by ecclesiastical bodies.

Prohibition that assumes the value of a heartfelt invitation for any faithful Catholic who has ecclesial Communion at heart.

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