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I consider appropriate to share the island of Patmos readers friends, in conjunction with the Synod in progress, Father John Cavalcoli published articulated reflection recalling the bishops the responsibility for education in a Christian youth.
The text can be read at this link:
http://www.libertaepersona.org/wordpress/2018/10/sulla-formazione-cristiana-dei-giovani/
Hello Father Ariel,
I would like to ask: as a young man can have confidence in the church today when most of the clergy is apostate,hypocritical and false and following the prince of the world?
thank you
dear fabio,
as I imagine if you read my various writings, It will have noticed that I often use the term "visible Church". This term sottintendo the Church and ecclesiastical body, which it consists of more, since the apostolic, not just now, by people corrupted by the great poverty of sin.
Even and especially for this I was ordained a priest: to bring the poor that are devoid of Christ, the salvific richness of the Holy Gospel and so snatch poverty; so for another big fight poverty, which is the poverty caused by sin.
As for the clergy, I think I can be to acknowledge that through years and years of apostolate carried out through numerous writings publicistic, I certainly did not fail to indicate the serious wounds; and I have even failed to indicate, above all, the silence of the Bishops, or the way in which the Ecclesiastic Authorities do not have wielded the ax merciful on certain subjects, who went strictly dismissed from the clerical state.
What in the visible Church and its clergy meanders a moral crisis without precedent which then generated a doctrinal crisis, or conversely that the doctrinal crisis has generated moral, it is a fact. I think, as a modest student of dogmatic, history of dogma and thus the history of the Church and of the right, that what we are experiencing today, has no historical precedents. And even that I wrote and explained several times: at least, I historical precedent I found none.
With extreme fatigue, today we have to look for some good ear of corn in a field overgrown with weeds, taking this hopeful search, based on the theological virtue of hope, as a real test of faith.
If we talk instead of the Mystery of the Church, that is, the Mystical Body of Christ, of which he is head and we are living members, the question changes, because we're just talking about the Holy Bride of Christ, as he explains the Blessed Apostle Paul:
"Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, 26 might sanctify, cleansed her by the washing of water by the word, in order to present to himself a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and without blemish " [Ef 5, 26-27].
There are considered holy priests? And, surely a few, but they exist. Of course, You must know how to look, because the few saints who remain, They must be searched in the more peripheral areas, which I am not at all poetic 'peripheries existential', but the peripheries of loneliness and isolation product ostracism or forms of real internal persecution.
At this time of tribulation, before which only the henchmen of the evil one can say that "why things had gone so well and that the visible Church is in perfect health and pervaded by an extraordinary epochal revolution», our task – and with it the challenge that these times we turn day after day -, It is faith and confidence in the Body which is the Church Head: Christ, the Word of God.
"He is also the head of the body, the church:;
the principle, the firstborn
from the dead,
to have first place in all things " [With the 1, 18].
In short, dear Fabius, if my faith and with it the grace of my priestly ministry, depended on men, or worse by “worship of men” now so we developed, I can safely assure you that I gave my clothes cassocks some comedian of vaudeville theater, I did a one-way ticket for the Caribbean, and at this time, a 55 year old, I would be on the Caribbean beaches in the company of three beautiful maidens of seventy-five … and I say seventy-five years in the sense that, adding their respective twenty-five years, they would have reached, all three, the overall age of seventy-five.
Instead I remain more than ever in the field overgrown with weeds, Secure simple animated by faith I, devout priest of Christ and faithful spouse of the Church, I have my own some use in the mystery of the economy salvezza.Non I I became a priest to please men, least of all the powerful men and bullies, but to please Christ.
Indeed, when a High Priest, once, he said with genuine affection: "Be careful, because people like you, displease …».
I replied: "And what do I care, I became a priest to please Christ ".
there, This also applies to anyone, as all the lay faithful, participates in the common priesthood of the baptized.
As long as we remember that Nuremberg is a metaphor, and not too appropriate; Nuremberg was applied to the right of the winners, that some things remembered, but too many forgot about. We know that for two thousand years there will be a very different court and something else Findings (Toh, I became too benaltrista), to which cattoatei have long since ceased to believe.