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«God revealed the secrets of others ALTIUS»
(in higher than the others, John has left the Church, the arcane mysteries of God)
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MANUELA LUZZARDI
I understand more and more how it was possible that the “Neocatechumenal way” has taken hold in the world. With the fugitive Bishops, what the priests could do on their own, without a guide, without help.
These adult faith pushers, they replaced San Pietro with the Domus Galilee, the churches with parish halls, all important liturgies with private meetings in hotel rooms, of the monastery with the Mother of the Redeemer, the priests with the catechists, the Pope with Kiko Arguello. All under the eyes of a Church that pretends not to see. But how can you see when those who pay the price are priests who demand answers and positions.
Dear priests, if we don't do like Jesus who, entering the temple, threw away everything that shouldn't have been there, the church will be replaced by the first deceiver who will be able to deceive us better than the others....
But what does it have to do with it?
Caro father, but what he says at the end does not resemble the complaints that the 'good' brother utters in the parable of the prodigal son?
Said this, let alone, Don Ariel's blog is extraordinary because it highlights the frustrations, the pains, the anxieties and, above all, the loneliness of a part of today's clergy. And not always just the older ones. The reigning Pope does not concern himself with it because he is intent on another battle which he leads with the few down-at-heel troops he has.. Moreover, even our pontiff seems to suffer from that loneliness and sees the Church of Christ as a minority in a cynical world. For this reason he also appeals to other 'faiths', even to those sad Lutherans who risk disappearing (and with them the Christianity of the rich regions of Europe). In short, the situation is terrible, Bergoglio's South American culture complicates things. Let the muttering of certain parish priests come to light. As long as it does not produce conflict with the Pope and the bishops.
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I thought it was just me, poor laywoman in a strong crisis of faith, to feel abandoned and neglected by the shepherds, instead I hear the voices of priests who suffer more than me. E’ a dramatic but also embarrassing situation. Every time I tried to approach my parish priest to share my spiritual concerns, their backs were turned on me. However, when the catechumens of our parish were presented, e’ was invited to the altar (I was going to say “stage” because now many people are going up “recite”!!) the “wife” of a woman!!! Someone explain to me what kind of message it would be? There is not’ There was a need for words about welcoming those who are different and blah blah blah.
E’ this direct was enough, very simple gesture to explain everything. E a me, I was overcome by desperation due to my daughter's illness and subsequent crisis of faith, that one would have been enough “I will pray for her”, not even a pat on the back. Understand that it really takes faith and perseverance to continue to be Catholic!!
The problem, in my opinion, is to relate to your bishop, as if this should be what it should be, i.e. father, pastore, etc.
E’ from the seminar times that I totally disillusioned and subsequent experience 23 years of priesthood has done nothing but confirm this bitterness and this cross-loathing.
Think of having help or comfort from their bishop or even more so a guide is utterly unrealistic. We priests are alone in the most radical sense of the term; We must go on, Following each have their own conscience (obviously informed and formed).
Of course, if the contrast becomes inevitable, as in the case of a priest who would not give his church inopportune events, there are two cases: or it is made open resistance, forcing the bishop, if he has the courage, to seek assistance from law enforcement to get rid of the pastor (and there is also a little fun ', con i mass media) or you go to the parish churches with your head held high.
But I don't think it's appropriate to enter into conflict in other cases, because it is of no use, as the other priest was able to experience.
Dear Priests,
don't be discouraged because… if you give up, for us lay people it's over and we remind you that a falling forest makes more noise, of the undergrowth that grows and this undergrowth is there.
As the mother of the family, marries from 35 years old and almost a grandmother, catechist from 33 years and Dominican tertiary, things aren't easier for us, we too suffer isolation, accuse, various ostracisms, We can't even approach the bishops and we often hold out for you too, we talk about it with Father Ariel, we support each other, we help each other, Please… Why, at the end of the fair, the only thing that matters is that we all keep our prayers and the certainty that everything will end sooner or later, the important thing is to remain faithful to the One who alone can give us true peace and eternal life.
Let us remember that hundredfold but also that cry of love from Saint Magdalene: «Love is not loved; love is not loved; love is not loved…».
Let us think of Him and we will be able to do everything with certain victory.
Courage, I hug you one by one, and you give us your blessing.
Dorotea Lancellotti
Cara “mother”,
I already responded to Don Davide a little while ago, can read, if he wants.
When 57 years ago I became a priest from the archiepiscopal seminary of Milan (the seminar that was), the ordaining bishop, Card. Giovanni Battista Montini (a year later he became Pope Paul VI), he made a whole speech addressed to the bishops and senior presbyters, on the importance of caring for priests in general, of young priests in particular.
Maybe something, it must not have worked, Why, just a few years later, starting from our great diocese, the requests for dispensation from priests who asked to leave the priesthood were quite high; those who asked for it, Why, then, there were those who just left.
When the beatification process of Paul VI was started, I sent a report to the causes of the saints, and I also asked to be heard; no one answered me, and no one ever listened to me. Nothing much, I just wanted to make some calm clarifications and that's it.
Just completed 75 year old, I was retired.
I confess many priests, e, often, I also happen to listen to mothers and fathers like her.
What to tell her, way “mother”: se in me, priest, there is a slice of church, for the slice of church that is in me, I ask Don Davide for forgiveness (above), to his children, and to her, way “mother”.
The worst evil, it is what is done in a spirit of total indifference.
This schizophrenic church today, it is like a father who neglects his children, to go and shower care and attention on other people's children, convinced that he has more obligations and duties towards the latter, not towards the first.
It does not cease to bless God for the fact that I made 82 year old, for so (Dio is always blessing) from time to reach my deserved Purgatory, where those who have loved me certainly will pray for me, and I do not cease to pray for the young priests in particular and for priests in general, for you too, dearest David.
I hope that your bishop, God can grant pardons from purgatory, I hope for him …
Reverend Father Ivano,
little it's worth, please accept my thanks for his writing. From his photographs I see is young, I have 74 years and I could be his mother. I am the mother of 4 children, two of which became priests.
One left the priesthood, the other was able to overcome the crisis, after the dear Father Ariel took care of him years ago (Father Ariel knows who is writing this comment to you and can tell you how bad and suffering my priest son was “survived”). Crisis overcome, but he's not doing well, of these times of great love, welcome and mercy towards all that is “migrant” e “not Catholic”.
What they complained about, my sons priests, what he left, and what, with enormous difficulties, it remained? The suit, total, absolute abandonment of the bishops who don't want problems, they get bored listening, and they don't give answers to these priests.
You know what the bishop dared to say, to my son, the one who then asked for dispensation and dismissal from the clerical state, when he went to explain to him that he was experiencing a moment of crisis, and that for this reason he needed help? He dared to answer, the bishop, that he was not a psychologist, and gave him the name of a psychologist friend of hers, yes a woman, that it should have … treat a priest in crisis !?
This bishop, today, it's all about welcoming migrants. Of course, the important thing is not to welcome and guard your priests!
The man we know, that is, the man of mercy, and his men around, the pain they have given to so many priests, to many of their parents, to their family and friends, they are very deep.
But only one thing matters: tear down walls and throw bridges at migrants!
Don't believe it Father, me too, to keep the faith, I had to work so hard, so much, so much.
Mom of two priests (Letter Signed)
First of all congratulations to Father Ivano for his fine article, where pictures already and final movie speak just as if.
Said this …
Dear brother and companion of fortune (or misfortune?),
They have given three remotest parishes in rural areas with less than a thousand souls in total?
You went well, so to speak, Anyway, after all, “less worse”.
That's all: assembly of the clergy, the bishop says to stick to the pastoral provisions dictated by love joy, also called Sadness of Love.
Everyone is silent.
Three of us, from me, ask: “which means to comply?”.
And Bishop (indeed archbishop and cardinal until yesterday Woytilian and then Ratzingerian): “I've been clear, you must stick to the text”.
Another of us asks: “for us parish priests one of the main questions is this and it is simple: we must or must not give Communion to divorced and remarried people who live in a state of adultery?”.
I'm precise: “already, that says love joy, we must or we must not, is permitted or prohibited? We need answers and certain directives”.
… listen to what the bishop says (indeed archbishop and cardinal until yesterday Woytilian and then Ratzingerian): “I'm not saying you should or shouldn't, I say you have to be welcoming and merciful”.
Will I wrong, perhaps, but at that point an air of courage and say: “Eminence, until the Church does not tell me you can / have to give Communion to remarried divorcees, I will not and I will stick to the discipline by St. John Paul II, and if that discipline is outdated, you have to tell me in writing, and with a clear document, not with an ambiguous little note at bottom of page”.
In total silence, the other two say: “we too, and, we too”.
Three months after they are relieved from pastor. It was not possible to have a lodging property of the diocese, I live at home with my elderly parents, I celebrate Mass in an institute of nuns and in a nursing home.
In my diocese, the clergy is on in ages, and the two previous bishops have been buying up African priests, Latin American, Indians, All parish administrators, those who still are not Italian citizens, or parishes, those who had citizenship. 15 years ago it was received a fake Romanian priest, and only after almost a year it was discovered that the papers and presentation documents were false and that he was not a priest but a former seminarian, and there had to intervene with healing canon etc.. etc..
I forgot! A few days ago the Pope went to Romania where he asked for forgiveness for Roma.
But you know what? Don Sebastian said the Marchese del Grillo “if I turn even doing my bishop”, Instead I make my gypsy, so if anything to me asks for forgiveness!
don Davide (priest of mom and dad)
In the 2013 on the occasion of Andrea Gallo's funeral father Ariel wrote and explained that Andrea Gallo, Luigi Ciotti and Paolo Farinella were disgraces to the Catholic priesthood, and explained the reasons, starting with the prostitutes personally accompanied by Gallo to the abortion clinic, etc…
Father Ariel had problems because of that article, because it was judged as an attack of lèse-majesté on the card. Bagnasco who celebrated the “funeral porcini” of the Rooster, leaving the CEI assembly on purpose to return to Genoa, celebrate the funeral and return to Rome.
Many of our brothers (and I repeat many), They are competing to invite Luigi Ciotti in their churches for some comizietto, and I tell dear Zamax, no one dares to give thanks in an envelope with less than 1.000 Euro …
«how could our faithful enter the temple of the Lord after it has been used as a refectory, political tribune, art Gallery, auditorium, flea market and so on? And all of this - what is more serious - without even having removed the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle, the red light turned off, left the door of the sacred reserve open, removed the tablecloth and candles from the altar. As it was once done with the express authorization of the local bishop, a consecrated church was occasionally used for non-liturgical activities. Request: who does this, he still believes in the real presence of Christ, the living and true God, present in the soul, body and divinity in the sacred Eucharistic species?»
Well done Father Ivano!
You must know that with different words but the same substance is what I said to the bishop.
In fact, being the parish priest of a parish in the historic center, close to the municipality, to the prefecture, to the headquarters of the espiscopal “party friend” (to clarify the PD), Christmas in the church entrusted to me was to be turned into a media showcase with lunch for poor and migrant. The bishop was in fact show that they are perfectly in line with His Holiness Kim Jong.
I said to the bishop that I never changed a '700 Church in a tavern, and that if he wanted to do it he had to come in person to arrange everything.
When he told me that we had to be in line with His Holiness Kim Jong I answered that I had not become a priest to do the restaurants manager.
I made him jump “communion media” that was pleasing to Kim Jong PD.
Just past the eighth Christmas I received a polite letter …
Today I am pastor of three rural parishes that all three together have less than 1000 inhabitants.
At Easter in my former parish we ate, it was a party, it was played, performed African tribal dances … then in May he has invited an imam to say four words from the pulpit and to receive good wishes for Ramadan.
You know why I do not sign?
Mica because they are coward (if I had been I would have acted in any other way with the bishop), but because of the various prohibitions I got to write anything without first public has been given the script and performed.
I remember more or less liturgical chant saying … "I am, mercy"
Dear Father Ivano,
first of all those assembled in your writing this article with these photos and the final movie, anyone who is a genius.
Reading the article I thought that very often most of us priests, We afflicted the priest who accompanies Don Pietro Pappagallo in front of the firing squad, She comforts him and then walks away while he is shot.
Instead, we should ask all of the chairs and sit around Don Pietro Pappagallo for shooting.
But if we live the situation that we live this is due to the lack of courage of us priests, and above all to the almost total lack of courage of the bishops.
Well … you Fathers of the Island of Patmos sat on the chair with your back turned to the firing squad, and await all his mercy …
We shouldn't limit ourselves, to pray just for you.
Writes Father Ivano:
«Our homilies are steeped in atheist humanism which has among its dogmas the promotion of presumed rights incompatible with our faith, enough to make us abandon the sacred cassock or religious habit to wear the electrician's overalls, of the green activist, of the social worker, of the politician or the disk jockey."
And Don Luigi Ciotti claims it too:
https://www.repubblica.it/dossier/la-repubblica-delle-idee-2019/2019/06/02/news/don_ciotti-227800515/
I'll take just one idea, confine the minimum wage, the administration of the Sacraments. Baptismo, First Communion, Confirmation, Wedding, Ordering, obsequies, They were contracted in toto to the organizers of events Companies, tailors, restaurants, locations ecc. The sacramental moment is just a moment, a parenthesis fleeting, useful subject for photographs and filming.
Yet it would be enough to make clear a simple consideration: the Sacrament is FREE (grace,ae), They pay the LUSSI.
The Confession escapes a bit ', both in the sense that it does not arouse great tours Business, both in the sense that escapes its, very few priests who administer, very few times when they do, and very few believers who ask, but then Semel to year make a nice collective liturgy in which all cows are black.