THE HUNDRED, THE SIXTY, The thirty in the sacred seed of God
Faith in fact "is a personal act: It is the free response of man to the initiative of God who reveals himself ". Therefore it is an answer that we give to God and that some days can be more certain and others more insecure.
Summer time is time when many of us often go on vacation, especially in sea destinations. We are unconsciously making an evangelical choice. Indeed, The sea is described in the evangelical passage of This XV Sunday of ordinary time what place where Jesus exposes and explains the parable of the sower. A parable that is a small map for all of us: A small key to reading the life of faith. The sea, so, It is the place where Jesus offers clarity for our path of believers. We could say with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke:
“When my thoughts are anxious, restless and bad, I go by the sea, and the sea drowns them and sends them away with its great wide sounds, purifies them with its noise, And it imposes a rhythm on everything that is disoriented and confused in me ".
The song of the Gospel of today it is mostly composed of a parable, One of the few that Jesus decides to explain directly to the disciples while instead he remains in the form of a narrative for all the others who listen to him by the sea. Jesus uses parables. The disciples ask him why, He replies:
«Because you are given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, But they are not given to them. […] For this I speak to them with parables: because looking at they don't see, By hearing they do not listen and do not understand ".
It looks like a sibylline response. Instead the Lord wants to make it clear the importance of the parable.
I would like to dwell a moment on why.Effectively, The purpose of the parables consists in lighting about the nature of the kingdom and to open up to the understanding of new things, for example on how God acts. The parable is a story based on the rapprochement and comparison of two realities, a real and a fictitious that refer but do not coincide. It contains metaphors that refer to a situation “different "compared to that narrated. In this way the parables push the listeners to an exercise that requires intelligence, fantasy, mental elasticity and reflective ability. In short: It requires everyone to ideally move to the fictitious story to return to reality with a new acquisition. Therefore the parables select daily realities as an element of comparison, and at the same time manifesting their limit to bring out the “ledge” O “surplus” of the reality to which they refer. In this way they operate a passage towards what exceeds the human mind and allow the auditors to expose themselves personally to "the unpublished" and "to the unudied" of God. Thus they become "atmosphere" revelations loving and tender of God and make it in some way more accessible, knowable and attractive for anyone who listens to them[1]
That's why in the parable of the sower We find our life of faith by light. Jesus explains well in detail and offers a phenomenology of the different believers. The seed sown along the road, We could say that it is the non -practicing believer. The seed sown on the stony ground is the believer who is easily prey to easy enthusiasm, inconstant in the time that often goes into crisis, without a definitive choice in faith. The seed sown among the brambles is the distracted believer between the thousand voices of the world and the current culture, moved by good feelings and a good practice of faith, but that then does not easily recognize the sins and vices of the time and thus indulged them. In the end, The seed sown on the good ground that produces one hundred, Sixty and thirty is the believer who believes with strong conviction and strives to be consistent in the practice of faith, but given his fragility he does not always manage to give his best. However, Jesus also accepts those small gestures of faith and charity implemented with tenderness and love.
We can all be one of these believers,from the least fervent to the most fervent. I would also say that each of us can have phases in which he passes from being infonctive seed on the seed road planted on the good ground. These four seeds described by Jesus can also represent a moment of our life of faith, in which we are more arid or more convinced.
Faith in fact "is a personal act: It is the free response of man to the initiative of God who reveals himself " [cf.. CCC 166] Therefore it is an answer that we give to God and that some days can be more certain and others more insecure. To us to always be ready to receive grace for an increasingly firm act of faith.
We ask the Lord to grow in faith, To become a seed of eternal life, A sacred ferment for the whole world, so that we can donate our thirty, sixty, One hundred in the world increasingly orphan than God.
[1]Cfr R. Manes Gospel according to Matteo, Yet, 2019, 197 – 198.
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THE GOSPEL NARRATES THAT THE SOWER WENT OUT TO SOW, HOWEVER HE DOES NOT TELL US THAT HE RETURNED
An Italian missionarykilled in 1985 in Brazil he used to say: «The sower went out to sow, but he does not say that he then returned". And it went on: "The fate of the seed will be no different from the fate of the sower".
An Italian missionary[1] killed in 1985 in Brazil he used to say: «The sower went out to sow, but he does not say that he then returned". And it went on: "The fate of the seed will be no different from the fate of the sower".
Sower at sunset, Vincent Willem van Gogh
This very concise sentence condenses the heart of the evangelical message of this XV Sunday of Ordinary Time. The Gospel (Mt 13, 1-23) which will be proclaimed in the Liturgy of the Word opens, indeed, with one of the beginsbest known of all the Gospels: «The sower went out to sow». At this link you can find it the text in the longer version[2].
The passage begins the discourse in parables[3] third of the five great speeches that Matthew puts in the mouth of Jesus and is structured in four parts. A brief introduction (vv. 1-3a), the parable of the sower (vv. 3b-9) and his explanation (vv. 18-23). In the middle (vv. 10-17) there is a short pericope that addresses the methodological question: because Jesus speaks to the crowds in parables?
The parable is the genre that Jesus preferred when he wanted to present, in the form of a story, a hidden truth starting from situations, examples and realities that his listeners could immediately understand. It has thus become a pedagogical model which, transcending time, retains its value even today, when we live in an era of disenchantment.. An era, our, in which the symbolic has a strong impact and this is precisely what Jesus' speaking in parables tends to do: grasp the new and unexpected meaning of reality, presented symbolically. Putting farmers and winemakers on stage, kings and servants, fishermen or shepherds, a housewife or a woman who has lost a coin, all realities familiar to listeners, Jesus spoke in this way about the Kingdom of God, without even mentioning God.
But the immediacy and simplicity of the parable they must not deceive, since it also has a paradoxical value. Everyone knows the paradoxes of the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea[4] – the famous one of Achilles and the tortoise – which had the aim of refuting multiplicity and movement. Jesus instead, with parables, it creates paradoxical realities to invite listeners and readers to grasp a further meaning, other, compared to what is normally seen, believes and lives. The unexpected inhabits daily life with Jesus.
In fact, no one throws precious seed everywhere if not in the prepared furrows, no one, after having sown wheat, no longer cares about the soil and only waits for the harvest. Who would leave an entire flock to go and find just one lost sheep? How does a very small grain become very large? Who gives the same pay to everyone without looking at the hours of work per day? Only God and it can be seen in the actions of Jesus as he announces his Kingdom. Ultimately, parables have this as their purpose: surprise and displace to help reshape reality, looking at it otherwise, according to a new logic, the paradoxical one of the Gospel, that Jesus embodies. He is in fact the living parable of God o, as Maximus the Confessor said: «He is a symbol of himself»[5].
In this Sunday's parable the seed is a symbol,according to the explanation that Jesus gives, of the Word of God, theological reality that must be listened to and understood. The paradoxical story is that it ends up on various terrains generating a whole series of reactions. The divine Word, indeed, as the prophet Isaiah says in today's first reading «it will not return to me without effect" in the same way as rain or snow that comes from the sky. Now God “makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and makes it rain on the just and the unjust" Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount (cf.. Mt 5, 45). The Word of God, so, it is not a mysterious reality aimed at initiates, but it compromises itself with human situations, also accepting failure, in the parable, it's big, since on four plots three will not produce fruit. In the explanation that Jesus gives, taking up the serious words of the book of Isaiah[6], people who will not listen to the Word will only become rigid in their situation, that is, they will not be able to change their reality or open up to the newness of the Kingdom. They are the ones who have a lack of interiority, the superficial ones who let the seed of the Word be taken away by the first thing that arrives, as if it were a fluttering sparrow. They are those who lack perseverance because for them life is like a stone that perhaps defends them from external assaults, but neither does it allow good and beautiful things to take root. The Gospel calls the men of the moment (temporary, proskairosv. 21) that catch fire at the moment. They certainly listen to the Word, but if it has to last everything becomes tiring. Having no roots, faced with the first difficulty they abandon. Then there are those who, despite having listened, then prefer the sirens of life behind riches and worldliness and therefore worries and anxieties envelop them like brambles and thorns that do not let the light filter through which would allow the Word to emerge and allow them to look and live life differently.
Finally there are those who, to use the image of the parable, they are the minority of the good soil that bears fruit according to its possibilities. They are those who not only know how to listen, but they also know how to understand the Word. That is, they know how to put it together (companions, synieisv. 23) composing them Word and life constantly. They have a profound understanding of the Word, spiritual and vital. But it is not easy, because the ground could become hard and refractory for them too, stony or filled with infesting thorns and brambles. Here then is the need for constant vigilance and spiritual work because as simple "hearers of the Word"[7] it becomes a reality that grows with them. As in the very happy expression of Gregory the Great: «The text grows with the reader»[8] (The text grows with the one who reads it).
At this point we can ask ourselves two questions,who gives the strength so that the Word grows and where do I find this strength? The first question can be answered by remembering another parable of the seed that we find this time in the fourth Gospel: «If the grain of wheat, fell to the ground, it doesn't die, it remains only; but if it dies, it produces much fruit ». (GV 12, 24). Jesus is talking about his death on the cross. The editor of the Gospel, indeed, reacting to Jesus' statement: «And me when I am raised from the ground, I will attract everyone to me" he comments: «He said this to indicate the death he was going to die» (GV 12, 32-33).
Jesus therefore compares himself to a seed sent by the Father in the heart of the earth - "For God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son" (GV 3, 16a) — and all this love that Jesus revealed during his existence will condense and bear its maximum fruit precisely at the moment of his death, on the cross. According to John, the first fruit of Jesus' death is the Spirit[9] who like water flows from his dead body towards believers: the mother and the beloved disciple.
This Spirit not only resurrected Jesus from the dead[10] but it is the hermeneutic who reveals the meaning of the Word of truth which is Jesus. Her words, indeed, I am spirit and life (GV 6, 63). It is therefore now the Spirit of Christ who helps believers to be that fertile ground that knows how to welcome the Word and makes it understood so that it bears good fruit..
In this sense, according to the words of the missionaryreported at the beginning of this text, Jesus, who became a seed of love until the cross, through his Spirit he does not stop sowing the Word and will never return. This constant action is expressed by the words of the responsorial psalm of the Liturgy which it announces:
«You visit the earth and quench its thirst,
fill it with riches.
The river of God is full of waters;
you prepare wheat for men.
This is how you prepare the land:
you irrigate the furrows, wipe out the clods,
bathe it with rain and bless its buds" (Shall 64).
In the time of difficult gestationthat the entire created work suffers, as Paul recalls in today's second reading. E, at last, to answer the second question, It is in the Eucharistic liturgy that the Church experiences this action of Jesus and the Spirit to the highest degree. When He states in this Sunday's Gospel passage: «But blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear» (v. 16) it is not privileging some while excluding others. It's true, the direct and concrete experience that the disciples had of encountering the humanity of Jesus was unique and unrepeatable, so much so that John stated in his first letter: «What we heard, what we saw with our own eyes, what we contemplated and what our hands touched of the Word of life" (1GV 1,1).
But this humanity, now glorifiedof the Word we can still "touch" it today when during the sacramental action, thanks to the same Spirit[11] which acts on the word and on the Eucharistic offerings, let us listen to that Word again and nourish ourselves with Christ. This grace descends abundantly, today, here and now, on the ground which is our vital situation, whatever condition it is in at the moment, in the hope that all this gift, which is the love of the Father in Jesus through the Spirit should not be lost, but bear fruit in turn.
Happy Sunday everyone!
from the Hermitage, 15 July 2023
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NOTE
[1] Father Ezekiel Ramin, Comboni missionary in Brazil, was killed 24 July 1985 while he defended small farmers and Indians in Mato Grosso. Saint John Paul II defined him as "a witness to the charity of Christ" during a Angelus.
[4]Zeno of Elea (489 a.C. – 431 a.C.) was a pre-Socratic Ancient Greek philosopher of Magna Graecia and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle defines him as the inventor of dialectics.
[5]"The Sir […] he became his own precursor; he has become a type and symbol of himself. Symbolically he makes himself known through himself. That is, he leads all creation, starting from itself as it manifests itself, but to lead her to himself as it is unfathomably hidden" (Cantarella R., Mystagogy and other writings, 1931).
[8] Bori P. C., The infinite interpretation, Ancient Christian hermeneutics and its transformations, 1988.
[9] «E, bowed his head, handed over the spirit" (GV 19, 30).
[10] «And if the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you " (Rom 8, 15).
[11] The eastern bishop Mons. Neofito Edelby, the 5 October 1964, during the work of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council he left an important mark by pronouncing these words: «The Holy Scripture is not just a written norm, rather, almost a consecration of the History of salvation under the guise of the human word, however, it is inseparable from the Eucharistic consecration in which the whole Body of Christ is summarized […] The mission of the Holy Spirit cannot be separated from the mission of the Incarnate Word. This is the first theological principle of any interpretation of Holy Scripture. And you can't forget that, as well as auxiliary sciences of all kinds, the ultimate goal of Christian exegesis is the spiritual understanding of Sacred Scripture in the light of the resurrected Christ".
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“MISS UNIVERSE”. THE ISLAND OF PATMOS DEALS WITH BEAUTY BECAUSE IT IS A MANIFEST EXPRESSION OF GOD AND HIS GIFTS IN THE HISTORY OF MAN
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In addition to the undoubted and extraordinary beauty,this award ceremony was also a crowning moment for the European culture of diversity inclusion. Awards ceremony before which only the diehard homotransphobics, representatives of the pro-fascist right-wing and fundamentalist Catholics will be able to raise objections.
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ANOTHER “RUNNER FROM HOME” RUNNING WITH THE SCHIMATIC HERETIC EXCOMMUNICATED AND RESIGNED FROM THE CLERICAL STATE ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA
Anyone despite the sentence given on them by the Church, listen to Mass and receive the sacraments from Mr. Minutella and by the priests who followed him, falling into the crime of heresy and schism, falls into sin and sins grievously, because the Church has hit them with a sentence.
Members of ancient historical orders they have always lived with discomfort and suffering for deviations and betrayals of the doctrine of the faith of some of their members, especially when they slip into heresy and schism.
Just looking at recent times: the Benedictines had the case of Giovanni Franzoni, the Franciscans the case of Leonard Boff, the Jesuits the striking case of Alighiero Tondi. All historical orders and congregations have had some of their members who have caused problems by deviating from the doctrine of the faith or generated public scandals. All regret and pain, undoubtedly, but at the same time it shouldn't even arouse excessive amazement, just think of the betrayal of Judas Iscariot.
As in the best families,it may happen that some children are endowed with the best human and moral capacities, while one, albeit born of the same parents and educated like everyone else, instead take the wrong paths, sometimes even bad.
This is the case of the Dominican priest Vincenzo Avvinti,who after various problems generated within the Order of Preachers was hit by the extreme measure of dismissal - read expulsion - from our Religious Family. I won't dwell on the reasons, not because he can't, but just because I don't want to. In fact, I would like it to be clear that for me it is an enormous pain that a priest whom I personally met years ago and whom I respected so much for his human and intellectual caliber, have now taken this step.
Unfortunately, this former confrere of ours he has decided to add damage to damage and evil to evil by following the schismatic heretic excommunicated e dismissed from the clerical stateAlessandro Minutella.
I think it is right to inform about itboth our Readers and members of the Dominican Secular Third Order, making present to one and the other what St. Thomas Aquinas said in the question n. 82 which for years has been distorted and manipulated by Mr. Minutella:
«And therefore whoever hears their Mass or receives the Sacraments from them commits a sin. (And therefore anyone who hears their Mass or receives the Sacraments from them sinsi) [see Latin and Italian text WHO].
Because I say that he has been twisting and manipulating this for years question?For the simple fact that, as usual, he cuts pieces out of their context and presents them making them say what they don't say. Indeed, this passage he quoted as a mantra, is preceded by the part where it says:
«It differs, however, between the aforesaid sects. For the heretics and schismatics were excommunicated by the decision of the Church by the execution of consecration to private persons» (However, there are some differences between these categories. Indeed the heretics, the schismatics and the excommunicated are deprived of the exercise of their powers by a sentence of the Church).
This is precisely the question.Mr. Minutella, with him also the former member of the Order of Preachers Vincenzo Avvinti, they are schismatic heretics who, as such, the Church has deprived with a sentence of the power to exercise the sacred priestly ministry. Therefore: «And therefore whoever hears their Mass or receives the sacraments from them commits a sin» (And therefore anyone who hears their Mass or receives the Sacraments from them sins).
Exactly like that:whoever, despite the sentence given on them by the Church, listen to Mass and receive the sacraments from Mr. Minutella and the priests who followed him, also falling into the crime of heresy and schism, falls into sin and sins grievously, because the Church has hit them with a sentence.
Staying in respectwhich is required of us by the Dominican Constitutions, but even more respectful of the salvation of souls ― which is the primary goal of our Order ― I offer this notice to our Readers praying for the conversion of this former brother of ours.
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FROM THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT CROSSES IN THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PEAKS AND HEIGHTS OF THE WORD OF GOD
«Venite a me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, that I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your life. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Like a storm in a glass of water last week the controversy over the summit crosses erupted [see, WHO], among other things, it arose from statements never made, which held the spotlight for a few days in national newspapers. Once again, at the end of the speeches, there was a risk of trivializing and passing off as an imposition what is the symbol par excellence of Christianity, the cross of Jesus visual representation of love until the end [cf.. GV 1, 3] offered to us by the Lord.
Piccola Legazuoi summit cross [image of Stefano Zardini cf.WHO]
Because of this, just like that fresh water that you sometimes find in the mountains after a steep climb, welcome the sequence of readings of this one XIV Sunday of time for a year. It is not always the case that in a single Liturgy of the Word we find a series of writings where every single phrase is so beautiful in itself that it should be preserved and remedied over the course of the week.. At the climax of it we read the evangelical pericope [Mt 11, 25-30] which is so precious, how rare, because it offers us a glimpse of what was the profound conscience of Jesus, his filial conscience. It is no coincidence that this passage from Matthew has been defined as the most Johannine of all the Synoptic Gospels. Usually, indeed, it is in the fourth Gospel that we find similar heights and depths, often, as here in Matthew, in a context of prayer in which Jesus addresses the Father, as in the well-known pericope, that so-called of his hour: "Dad, The time has come: glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you" [GV 17, 1]. Here is the passage from next Sunday's Gospel:
«At that time Jesus said: “I give you praise, Dad, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned and have revealed them to little ones. Yup, or Father, because so you have decided in your benevolence. Everything was given to me by my Father; no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. Venite a me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, that I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your life. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.".
The opening line of the passage in the Greek text specifies: "During that time, answering[1], Jesus said". What is Jesus responding to and why at this crucial moment [2]? To previous events that were not happy. First the question of John the Baptist through the disciples, for he was imprisoned: «Are you the one who must come or we must wait for someone else?» [11,3] and then the lack of response to the preaching and action of Jesus from the three towns of Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernao, where he experienced failure or at least limited success [11, 21-24].
Who can say they haven't felt discouraged faced with a situation of impasse, of failure or lack of understanding on the part of others of who we really are? Jesus integrates these unpleasant situations into prayer. He puts everything, even failure, before the Father and renews his "Yes" [v. 26] since he understands that everything is part of his benevolence project. The "no" he received becomes a "Yes" free from success in view of a more radical adhesion.
With prayer that opens to thanksgiving - "I give you praise" - even failure, or what we judge as such, like pastoral failure, the absence of fruits of the ministry, the sterility of preaching, the rejection or disinterest of others, becomes not a cause of discouragement or abandonment, but a moment of paradoxical confirmation of the following of the Lord.
It is at this point that Jesus takes us into the depths of his relationship with the Father, as his Son. St. John would say that this is where we should “remain” as beloved disciples. But this speech, But, it would take us too far. Matteo, instead, da by suo[3] presents Jesus as the one who reveals[4] the profound intention of the Father that only he knows because everything has been handed over to him alone.
«Everything was given to me by my Father; no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him ".
Everything was given to Jesus because he is the Son of the Father, he whom the Father alone knows, until we can say about him: «You are my Son, the beloved" [Mt 3,17; 17,5]. But even Jesus alone fully knows the Father, It gave, because from him came into the world, and only Jesus can make God known to his disciple, because no one goes to the Father except through him [GV 14,6]. Here is the revelation of the identity of Jesus, of his relationship with God and of the disciple's knowledge of God. We are at the summit of the divine revelation of Jesus according to the first Gospel. This mystery is now handed over to the disciple: mystery to be adored, to be welcomed in silence, to be lived daily in the faithful following of Jesus who leads us to the Father.
The Gospel also tells us to whom this revelation is addressed and who can understand it. They are the little ones (babies), who as such are voiceless. They are those who testify to John the Baptist that the kingdom is here and there is no need to wait for anything else: «the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are purified, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the Gospel is proclaimed to the poor" [11, 5]. And the little one according to Jesus is blessed because «he finds no reason to scandalize me!» [11, 6].
Instead, revelation is closed to the wise – «The wisdom of the wise will perish and the intelligence of the intellectuals will be eclipsed» [Is 29,14] - Why, despite having seen and heard, they were not able to open themselves to the good news of the Gospel and welcome it.
To return to the initial example,I don't know if you have had the experience of climbing the mountains. When you reach the summit, together with the satisfaction of having arrived there and enjoying the splendid view of what is around, the best thing is being able to rest, leave your backpack and poles on the ground, eat and drink, regain your strength.
Likewise Jesus after having led us to the summitof his intimate and profound relationship with the Father now invites us to rest:
«Venite a me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, that I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your life. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." [vv 28-30].
Only he knew the path, in fact he himself walked away [GV 14, 6], that could take us up there. Now here we rest and recuperate, in intimacy with him who embodies the bliss of those to whom the earth has been given, who are children of God, children in the Son[5]. A land taken not with violence and war because its distinctive feature is peace, justice and mercy[6].
Thus Zechariah prefigured the Messiah in today's first reading: «He will make the war chariot disappear from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, the war arc will be broken, will announce peace to the nations" [Zac 9, 10]. And the psalm answers him: «The Lord is merciful and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in love. The Lord is good to all, his tenderness expands on all creatures" [Shall 144].
And finally the yoke. What did Jesus want to say?? Allow me to refer again to the mountain. If there is one of the most inadvisable things to do when walking along the paths, it is to go outside, to do their own thing despite the danger and against the guide's instructions. Especially on certain terrains, don't follow the trail, it means putting yourself and the group at risk. In a positive way: it is advisable to stay in a group so as not to miss anyone, proceed on the marked route, listen to what the guide suggests.
Likewise in the Christian life. A yoke remains a yoke and seems like a burden and an imposition. But following the line that the Gospel has traced up to this point, in the words of Jesus it appears more like a bond that keeps us united without subjugating us. We are not dumb oxen for him. He makes the journey with us and if it happens, "he supports those who falter and raises anyone who has fallen" (today's psalm).
[3]Some commentators have seen a similarity in the tripartite structure of Matthew's passage with the wisdom text of Sir 51. A hymn of thanks (vv. 25-26), a monologue on the relationship between Jesus and the Father (v. 27) and the invitation to learn from Jesus and take on his yoke (vv. 28-30). in Sir 51 we have a song of thanksgiving (vv. 1-12), a monologue on the search for wisdom (vv. 13-22), an invitation to go to the school of wisdom and take its yoke upon oneself (vv. 23-30). It is no coincidence that in Mt 11,19 we speak of the works of Wisdom referring to the works of the Messiah (cf.. Mt 11,2-6): Christ is the Wisdom of God.
[4]“There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known” (10, 26)
[5]"Beati and miti, because they will inherit the land... Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called children of God" (Mt 5, 5-9)
[6]“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice… Blessed are the merciful… Blessed are the peacemakers” (Mt 5, 6-9)
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"WOE TO YOU RICH BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED YOUR CONSOLATION". ITALY HOLDS THE EUROPEAN RECORD OF THE SCORE OF SOCIAL ENVY
It's not the first time, in ten years of pontificate, that we start from man to arrive by reflection at Jesus Christ or that we start from Jesus Christ to put not even man at the center, but a figure of a privileged man: the poor. This style was used by Bishop Tonino Bello, of which the imprudent Bishops of Puglia opened the diocesan phase of the beatification process, arrived today at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
Over the past years I have had several times, while everyone was silent, to point out that certain calls of the Supreme Pontiff Francis on the poor bordered in part on obsessive neurosis and in part on the meandering ideology. Today this fact is publicly complained of by the same people who yesterday told me "be careful", or "you are not opportune and prudent", or worse that they scolded me: “How dare you criticize the Holy Father?». I point out that these seconds then suddenly woke up years later, on the threshold of seventy, when they had to come to terms with the reality that the coveted episcopal nomination had not come and would never come. Like this, by magic spell, they discovered that even a Supreme Pontiff can be the object of criticism and that in this sense, the history of the Church, even the recent one, teaches us how, sometimes even harsh and severe, many predecessors of the August Pontiff have been criticized more inside than outside the Church. Expenses, like myself, he has always been a student of the dogmatic councils of the Church and knows something about them.
The 23 June 2023 the Holy Father received in audience a large group of artists to whom he recalled:
«I would like to ask you not to forget the poor, who are Christ's favorites, in all the ways in which one is poor today. Even the poor need art and beauty. Some experience very harsh forms of deprivation of life; because of this, they need it more. They usually have no voice to make themselves heard. You can interpret their silent cry" [full speech, WHO].
This exhortationit is clear in its construction and structure: the central element is the “ideological poor”, while the accessory that serves to enhance the dreamlike and surreal figure is Jesus Christ. So the poor are at the center, sideways to follow Jesus Christ who prefers the poor elect to a privileged category compared to all the other children of God.
Among those artists present,most were people who consider abortion a great social achievement and an intangible right, euthanasia is a gesture of great humanity towards a terminally ill person, which claim the "right" to marry between same-sex couples and the consequent "right" of the adoption of children by same-sex couples and the use of surrogacy, or so-called surrogate uterus. Most of them are subjects who jump from one cohabitation to another, or that after collecting two divorces they finally decided to live together avoiding further problems of legal separations, then going around the televisions to boast the wonder of theirs “extended families” … Well, I'm not saying that they should be given a lesson in Catholic morality, it would have been inappropriate and extremely counterproductive, But, it cost so much to tell them: "Dear artists, do not forget Jesus Christ, that is the beginning, the Centre and the ultimate goal of our entire humanism, as art itself reminds us in its highest and most noble expressions». Maybe it cost a lot, also because several of these artists, who also live in the ostentation of unbridled luxury, they sure walked out happy saying: "Finally, a Pope who speaks of the poor!». It is in fact known and known that the Church, of the poor, he only started dealing with it ten years ago, certainly not since the first apostolic age. Therefore, all of our institutions, foundations and works of the great men and women saints of charity who have assisted poor families for centuries, children, orphans, disabled, lonely and abandoned old people, they are just optical illusions. In truth, inside the Cottolengo in Turin, there is a beauty farm run by nuns, a five-star spa, not a care center for people with severe physical and mental disabilities. Our Caritas, for those who don't know, are born after February of 2013, because they didn't exist before. In truth, the very word Caritas was invented under this pontificate. If the Blessed Apostle Paul had known it at the time, who knows how many beautiful reflections he would have written on it, perhaps he would even say that of all the virtues, the most important, it was just charity [The Cor 13, 13]. But unfortunately, at the time, the concept of charity was unknown and the Blessed Apostle Paul missed that beautiful opportunity.
It's not the first time,in ten years of pontificate, that we start from man to arrive by reflection at Jesus Christ or that we start from Jesus Christ to put not even man at the center, but a figure of a privileged man: the poor. This style used by the Bishop Tonino Bello, of which the imprudent Bishops of Puglia they opened the diocesan phase of the beatification process, arrived today at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
A dutiful aside to correct the obvious ignorance that even winds its way through certain ecclesial and ecclesiastical circles: the ongoing one of Tonino Bello is not a cause for canonization, as indicated by the official website of the Diocese of Molfetta but a cause for beatification. In fact, by canonization we mean the opening of a process to achieve the canonization of a blessed, that is, to proclaim a saint a blessed. And with this everything is soon said about the times that are running and that unfortunately we have to suffer and live [cf.. WHO].
Is the first time - or at least I have no historical memory in this sense - that a process of beatification is opened for a Bishop who in the course of his entire life has shown a disturbing ignorance in matters of doctrine, advocate and promoter of an embarrassing but above all non-Catholic Christology, to follow with a Mariology sometimes bordering on completely involuntary blasphemy. Tonino Bello, in fact heterodox, he was the forerunner of the social bishops with the wooden cross around his neck and the carpentry crozier in his hand produced in the workshop of Mastro Geppetto, after this famous carpenter from Collodi's famous novella had built not a single Pinocchio, but many little episcopal pinocchios made in series.
Some reply:«But Tonino Bello was good!». I do not doubt it. Or that maybe, Arius and Pelagius, they were bad? There are reports to that effect? St. Augustine, who at Pelagius opposed him severely [cf.. WHO], questioned his heretical thinking, he didn't say it was bad.
The Fourth Lateran Council the 1215 who condemned the millenarian heresy of Gioacchino da Fiore - with all due respect to those who today want to attribute those thoughts to others and not to him - did not claim that the Florentine was bad, quite the opposite! While on the one hand this Council condemned the errors of his thinking, at the same time, the fathers, they reaffirmed his undoubted virtues and his holiness of life. To be good, or be sensitive to the poor, it does not mean being men of solid and orthodox doctrine, least of all be saints. A good subject is not as such automatically in line with the doctrine, the thought and perennial magisterium of the Church. Tonino Bello's is a thought that abounds in numerous and gross heresies, His writings and public speeches prove it. However, it may be that the Bishops of Puglia have identified a patronage that until now had remained uncovered. In fact, there is even the patronage of repentant prostitutes, of which she is the patron saint Margherita of Cortona, however, there was still no Patron Saint of heretics. It may be that the Bishops of Puglia have thought of promoting their countryman Tonino Bello in this sense, from which then comes to life that insidious thought that many of us call theologians toninobellismo.
In the Sermon on the Mount, also known as the Beatitudes, Jesus Christ says: « But woe to you, rich, because you have already received your consolation" [LC 6,17-20.26].
It is perhaps a primordial manifesto of the future class struggle?No, in truth it is primarily a translation error, of those that abound above all in the versions of the Italian Episcopal Conference, as our author Monaco Eremita recently pointed out in one of his articles [see WHO]. This opening «But woe to you, rich», in our spoken lexicon it sounds like a threat. Indeed, in the Italian vocabulary, the word "woe" is indicated as a threatening exclamation. The literature confirms this, just think of the figure of Charon, the boatman who leads the damned to the place of eternal perdition, than in Dante's work, in Canto III of the Inferno, there:
«And behold, an old man is coming towards us by ship, white for ancient hair, shouting: “Woe to you, they make anime! Never hope to see the sky: i’ I come to take you to the other side in eternal darkness, in heat and in frost. What if you’ there, living soul, departed from these who are dead”».
In its etymological meaning and according to the best literature, the word "trouble" constitutes a serious and very specific threat.
Forget the irony:I who at the time did not do the Blessed seminar― because as an adult consecrated priest forty years old I had another kind of adequate training ― I studied Greek and I know it, unlike those who escaped from the moderns holy seminarsin which instead of Greek English is studied and instead of Latin the sociologisms transmitted by the various educators who offer the disciples the tender thoughts written on the Baci Perugina maps, instead of the solid bread of the great Holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church. In the Greek text of this Lucan Gospel the expression is used Oὐαι (yeah), which is by no means a menacing curse, but an expression equivalent to alas, or to use an archaism of', all to tenderly express a sense of regret. Expression in which wealth is used as a paradigm to express something else: selfishness, the lack of altruism and generosity, attachment to material things, that I'm not just the money, because attachment to certain lifestyles or thoughts can be far more harmful than the morbid relationship with material wealth. So praise follows "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" [LC 6,17-20.26]. Praise certainly not referring to the fact that being poor is a note of merit to the point of deserving eternal salvation for this. By poor in spirit are meant those, whether rich or poor in money, who have won the freedom of God's children through that truth which, once known, will set us free [cf.. GV 8,28].
What items like this underestimated them an obvious incomplete theological as Tonino Bello, it is undoubtedly a serious matter, because a bishop is high priest and teacher. But, if these items, ignores them and underestimates the teacher and supreme guardian of the doctrine of the Catholic faith, it is disturbing to say the least. This is why we are in disarray in the way we are now sadly and tragically reduced.
Let's move on to the second and last partof this speech. For some weeks now, the television networks and newspapers have been talking about the large flow of tourists to Italy, emphasizing the fact that hotels and i resortthat offer extra luxury services are all full, to such an extent that it is not possible to find a place. The Rai and Mediaset television editorial offices have unleashed their journalists to film and broadcast interviews made to the directors of these structures who, when asked to them, replied that the costs of certain suitesranged from five, may be, up to the beauty of 15.000 Euro per day. A few minutes later reports were broadcast to various families of the proletarian people explaining how they could not take their holidays, given the increase in prices, or that they could have done them in a climate of tight economy by basing them on the most careful savings.
The worst thing you can do on a journalistic and media level it is to foment the instinct of social envy, which in Italy does not need to be fomented, because if it were a sport, we Italians will hold the absolute primacy at the European level.
Although not an economist and less than ever inclined to be a know-it-all who launches himself into professions that are not mine that pertain, applying the basic logic of common sense, I regret the presence of such biased services that instigate de facto social class hatred. If in fact in our country, centers that offer such extra-luxury services, they have no vacancies and are booked throughout the summer, above all, this should rejoice precisely the children of the proletarian people. Simple reason: how much work staff is needed to offer hotel services at similar stratospheric costs? For each suitewe need four permanent waiters who continuously cover a service of two by two 18 hours, not to mention the relative staff necessary to offer as many similar services for breakfast, for second breakfasts and dinners, for pool services and all the others comfortoffered. Therefore, i priest, mothers, the children and grandchildren of the proletarian people should be the first to rejoice, because all this is called: jobs. Unless you prefer parasitic citizenship income to the workplace, what for some years went not to the needy not able to work or out of work, who had such a sacred right to it and who must be helped and supported, but to the smart ones, the highest percentage of which were found to be present, whore, in the city of Naples, the bad racist anti-southernists didn't say it, but the data of the various state agencies. Because this is what extra-luxury tourism produces: jobs. Or someone thinks that the cheap pension of Rimini for the cheap holidays of the proletarian people, at the cost of 70 euro per day room and breakfast, can produce as many jobs, in addition to the turnover that this type of clientele can create around these structures for the benefit of restaurants, luxury shops or jewelers where there is not even a brooch below the minimum cost of 10.000 Euro?
I remember a few decades ago,when I was a kid, the protests of certain activists of the proletarian population to the cry "the beaches and cliffs belong to everyone" and that "everyone has the right to sea and sun". The class struggle in question was linked to the fact that in the exclusive and expensive area of Monte Argentario, in the lower Tuscan Maremma, the owners of the villas on the cliffs had prevented access to the sea to the proletarian population. Various associations, all and strictly of a specific colour, they began to file complaints, until the magistrates, maybe the same color, they ordered the opening of the gates and fences of certain properties, or in any case the creation of passageways so that the proletarian people could exercise their right to the sea and the sun.
These are the results: within a season many cliffs became a destination for large groups of noisy people who then left garbage and bottles of soft drinks among the rocks, screaming and listening to portable stereos blaring at full volume. A considerable damage to the environment and to that delicate ecosystem, which is one of the most beautiful and uncontaminated in Italy. The dirty rich people thus began to desert the area and go to Sardinia or to the Côte d'Azur. Neither the magistrates were affected by this, whose salary was guaranteed, nor the children of the working people, also with the guaranteed factory salary including thirteenth and fourteenth salaries, but the restaurateurs, the owners of the bathing establishments, the shopkeepers and the various merchants of the area. And if the managers of all these businesses could not have a certain round of work, at the same time they could not hire staff and create and give jobs, because none of them cashed in on the children of the proletarian people, who limited themselves to looking at the windows of certain shops or reading the menus of restaurants where a dinner for four people would cost half the monthly salary of a worker who is the son of the proletarian people. Ideology prevailed at the time, the proletarian people had the right to sun and sea in coastal areas that cannot and must not be stormed by the great masses, except ruin them. The consequence was that the economic damage was enormous. And so, in areas where the old Communist Party won elections with majorities greater than 60%, course was soon reversed. The cliffs were closed again and the mandatory steps eliminated. A quel point, the dirty rich people who produced work and wealth returned, while the proletarian people, to which no one has ever denied sea and sun, it was diverted to locations and beaches suitable for welcoming the great mass of people.
Today, in the areas of nearby Capalbio,all the richest hippies of the Left Democrats go on holiday, all spoiled and degenerate grandchildren of the old and glorious Communist Party. And them too, Poors, including migrants landed clandestinely on Lampedusa, they don't want them in the balls - to use courtly Frenchism - not even at a distance from the fences of their villas.
Poor does not equal good, there are poor people who are endowed with an out of the ordinary wickedness, which to watch out for, keep your distance and keep them away. How there are rich people who in absolute confidentiality do good to numerous families and entire charitable institutions that operate at the service of the various social hardships. Man is not good or bad on the basis of class or class to which he belongs, but according to one's own nature and human sensitivity.
Our country should focus on luxury tourism,because both the Italian cities of art and some of our coastal areas, they are very fragile and delicate environments and territories to conserve and maintain. And they cannot be stormed by masses of often barbaric hordes nor destroyed in the name of ideology, with peasant tourists who damage the monuments of Rome or who bathe in the monumental fountains.
Every now and then someone clamors that the Italian Church put up entrance tickets to visit several historic cathedrals and monumental churches. Well they did, long before we should have done it. In fact, there are numerous places of worship that are monuments of extraordinary beauty and equally extraordinary delicacy. Imposing a ticket, preferably also expensive, will avoid that in cities like Siena, Pisa, Venice … certain places are overrun by people who enter just to get there, not infrequently also to cause you serious and irreparable damage, as can be confirmed by the various Superintendencies of the fine arts which ran for cover several times with long, delicate and expensive restoration of artwork damaged by idiots who had climbed somewhere to get themselves, eg, witty photographs, to be sent to as many idiot friends scattered around the world.
Pure and simple economics of common sense, applied to a country like ours, where artistic and environmental riches abound that require extreme care and are as beautiful as they are fragile, as well as easy to damage by modern barbarian hordes. Italy is a delicate and fragile jewel that is not and will never be made for mass tourism, pace of ideologies on the proletarian people.
the Island of Patmos, 29 June 2023
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"THERE DO NOT BE AFRAID: YOU ARE WORTH MORE THAN MANY SPARROWS»
… there is fear that blocks, which makes one lose the courage of proclaiming and bearing witness, the fear you feel of losing face, a privilege or not to be on page. And we become lazy and little by little we lose strength and we end up no longer recognizing Jesus, the teacher.
Every morning, just woke up,I proceed to pour a generous glass of puffed rice grains into a container placed on a tree in the garden. As soon as I get home I enjoy the show. Dozens and dozens of sparrows first fluttering around, in trees or hedges, they begin to glide, fighting or chasing each other, on the bowl of rice and eat some of it, they throw more around, or they take it away, probably to feed the newborns that hatch from the eggs at this time of year.
In the Gospel of this XII Sunday of ordinary time,right in the center of Jesus' short speech he talks about sparrows. He reassures the disciples: “You are worth more than many sparrows”. Here is the Gospel passage:
"During that time, Jesus said to his apostles: “Do not be afraid of men, for there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. What I tell you in the darkness you say in the light, and what you hear in your ears you announce from the terraces. And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but they have no power to kill the soul; rather be afraid of him who has the power to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. Two sparrows are perhaps not sold for a penny? Yet not even one of them will fall to the ground without the will of your Father. Even the hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid: you are worth more than many sparrows! Therefore anyone will recognize me before men, I will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; who will deny me before men, I too will deny him before my Father who is in heaven." [Mt 10, 26-33].
We are inside the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, where it tells of the sending of the twelve apostles on a mission. But it is also a discourse that is addressed to disciples of every time and place, therefore also to us who hear a page proclaimed today which comes to us from afar and which was probably already affected by those difficulties which not only encountered the very first disciples of the Lord sent to the territories of Israel and only to those, but also the roughness of the path that subsequent generations of disciples found who were inspired by the tradition of Matthew's writing.
Jesus, right in last Sunday's Gospel,he had warned his disciples that the same fate as their master would befall them:
«A disciple is not greater than the master, nor is a servant greater than his lord; it is enough for the disciple to become like his master and for the servant like his lord. If they called the master of the house Beelzebul, much more those of his family!» (Mt 10,24-25).
That is to say, what Jesus experienced, it will also be experienced by his envoys,who will be called devils, in the service of the leader of the demons, Beelzebub, and they will be persecuted to the point of being killed by those who believe they are giving glory to God in this way (GV 16,2). For this reason in today's Gospel Jesus feels the need, not to sugarcoat the pill, but to cheer up the disciples and three times (vv. 26. 28.31) he invites them not to fear: "Do not be afraid!».
I would like to say the same thing to my sparrowsthat, if I make a sudden or involuntary movement, they run away scared. Fear is an early instinct thatimprintinghas fixed in different species, in ours too. There is a good fear that allows us not to fall into danger and to be cautious. In the same speech Jesus had in fact said:
"There: I send you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise as serpents and harmless as doves ". (10, 16).
And then there is the fear that blocks,which makes one lose the courage of proclaiming and bearing witness, the fear you feel of losing face, a privilege or not to be on page. And we become lazy and little by little we lose strength and we end up no longer recognizing Jesus, the teacher.
Like Peter on the night of his passion: «Who will deny me before men, I too will deny him before my Father who is in heaven." (v. 33). But «Two sparrows are perhaps not sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father."¹.
I feel sorry for the translators of the Italian Episcopal Conference, but there is no "want" in Greek. And instead we need to give back, verbatim: «… without your Father». That is to say, not even a sparrow, falling to the ground, he is abandoned by the Father! Even more so the disciples and even Peter who is their head. In the same way, even the hair on our head (v. 30), that we lose every day without realizing it: they are all counted, all under the gaze of the Father. From such contemplation comes the confidence that dispels fear: God sees as a father sees us, who always looks at us with love and never abandons us, not even when we fall.
When we think we are alone as disciples,left at the mercy of the trials that life presents us or of adversaries who give no respite, Let's think back to the prophet Jeremiah from this Sunday's first reading: «I felt the slander of many. Terror all around... We will take our revenge" (Gives 20,10). Jeremiah lets go of a moment of angerfor the situation that has arisen: "may I see your vengeance upon them" (v. 12). Who wouldn't understand it? But then the man of faith called from the mother's womb prevails: "Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord, because he freed the life of the poor" (v. 13). The psalmist of today's responsory echoes this:
«Let the poor see and rejoice; you who seek God, take courage, because the Lord listens to the miserable, he does not despise his own who are prisoners. May heaven and earth sing praise to him, the seas and everything that teems in them" (Shall 68).
Now tell me if there is a protagonist of Scriptureto whom the Lord God has not given the encouragement that Jesus says in triple form to the disciples: do not be afraid and do not fear. Not even one, from Abraham to Joseph of Nazareth. Do you think the Virgin Mary didn't hear that?? She too: "Do not fear, Maria, because you have found favor with God" (LC 1,30). Then we can discuss until tomorrow morning about the difference between Mary's fear and that of her relative Zechariah, between that of Jeremiah or Saint Peter while Jesus was being questioned in the Sanhedrin. The important thing that today's Gospel reveals to us is this invitation to let go of fear, not to allow this primary emotion to take over, because of God's special protection, the Father that Jesus reveals to us, who does not abandon us like garbage², which is what the adversary par excellence does instead.
Because Jesus after sending his, including us today, invites you not to be afraid of anything or anyone? Because this is the time of revelation (v. 26) or as someone said "the time of the end"³ inaugurated by Jesus. The time of mission is a time of apocalypse, not in the catastrophic sense usually attributed to this term, but in the etymological sense of re-velation, of lifting the veil. The announcement of the Gospel, indeed, requires that what Jesus said in private be proclaimed in broad daylight, let what has been said in the ear be shouted from the housetops.
«Nothing is hidden from you (verb cover, calypto) which will not be re-veiled (verb disclose, apocalypto) nor secret (cryptic, crypto) which will not be known (verb know, Ginosko)» (v. 26).
The things hidden since the foundation of the world (Mt 13,35; Shall 78,2) they are revealed by Jesus and then by the disciples in history. E, hidden in the heart of this inexhaustible message, lies the announcement of God as Father, which is that "much more" as the Apostle Paul calls it in the second reading this Sunday (RM 5, 12), that is, the abundance of his saving grace, redeem and love.
Happy Sunday everyone!
from the Hermitage, 25 June 2023
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NOTE
1Mt 10, 29b “and one of them will not fall on the earth without your father”. CEI translation: «Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without the will of your Father».
2Gehenna (Mt 10,28) it was the valley that collected the garbage of Jerusalem
3G. Gaeta, The time of the end, proximity and distance of the figure of Jesus, Any2020
San Giovanni all'Orfento. Abruzzo, Mount Maiella, it was a hermitage inhabited by Pietro da Morrone, called in 1294 to the Chair of Peter on which he ascended with the name of Celestine V (29 August – 13 December 1294)
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WHAT IS A KISS? THE APPARENT HOMOPHOBIA IN THE LAND OF CESENA IS NOT AS SERIOUS AS THE CROSS HISTORICAL IGNORANCE OF THE MAYOR DEM WHO USE THE TERM INCORRECTLY “MIDDLE AGES”
In the face of historical hoaxes such as those uttered by the Mayor of Cesena, the average listener of our century has very few weapons of defense. The rest, as Don Camillo said to Peppone: “If they believed in Carlo Marx, whatever dance you tell him will do!». And we're still here telling each other the lies that LGBT people, the Democrats of the Left and the various compagnucci bloggersthey come to tell us, including perfect Catholics who flirt with LGBT circles and who would like to introduce the "rainbow trojan horse" into the Catholic Church
It's the news these days of a parish priest of the Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina who communicated to a young collaborator of his at Grest (Catholic Summer Group) the inappropriateness of continuing his role as educator of the parish summer center since on Instagramwould appear in a photo that showed him in the act of kissing a boy.
Definitely the newsit will have offended the sensibilities of more beautiful souls belonging to that group of perfect and democratic Christians who cannot remain silent, of those who are more good and merciful than Our Lord Jesus Christ himself and who tirelessly live to seek and affirm the well round Truth, whose iridescent heart could candidly borrow the poetics of Edmond Rostand that he says:
«And what is a kiss? A pink apostrophe between the words I love you, a secret told from his mouth».
A kiss, in conclusion, what is a kiss?Maybe nothing but in this situation the kiss is not the problem. Under the tip oficebergthere is much more than the kiss. And it is precisely this other thing that needs to be investigated and which is not convincing to me, for this I would like to briefly discuss the fact with our readers to try to give a transversal reading of the whole story which in my opinion raises many doubts and questions many consciences.
The first thing that doesn't convince me is that the young animator has not had the slightest hesitation to post on Instagrama photo in which he is portrayed kissing his boyfriend. And that's because? His homosexuality was known or this was just meant to be a provocative gesture? And if his homosexuality had in fact been known - which would have crossed not only the private and family aspect but also the social and therefore parish one -, why the surprise for a normal show of affection? Mind you, everyone is free to use i socialas it sees fit, albeit within the limits prescribed by law, as well as expressing one's feelings towards another person. However, one would expect a different style in the use of gods from a Christian socialas well as in the affective approach towards another person. And I say this by taking into account the normal contradictions and fragilities that constitute the struggle towards Christian perfection. Let's also admit that the boy didn't want to be a provocateur and thought it right to do so coming out instead of remaining in privacy and living his life in serenity. I wonder and I ask the Readers: this was the most appropriate thing to do, to post a photo on Instagramof a convict kiss which for obvious reasons would have been read or considered problematic? Since it is then a parish animator, of a person who, we hope, he followed a Christian path within an ecclesial community, this choice had no other alternative? I make a guess: Wouldn't it have been better for him to talk about it with his confessor or spiritual director and address the matter privately, in that internal forum that allows Christian conscience to grow and direct towards human and spiritual maturation? Today, many people assume that they are Christians without the help of any guidance, but in doing so, situations of embarrassment and confusion multiply, which are not the exclusive prerogative of homosexuals but of all men, because the root of this mentality does not lie in sexual orientation but in that lust which wounds our decision-making and makes us stubborn and often refractory to the spiritual docility which leads to an encounter with God.
That the young man then showed resentment and gave flat rateat Grest makes me think even more, just as his words in the Whatsapp chat are not clear to me:
"Good morning. I ask you personally to avoid any kind of incriminating or accusatory messages. This matter concerns my private life and must not affect the joy and happiness of the children in participating in the summer camp" (you see WHO).
I see myself as scepticalto believe that the boy was unaware that his choice would not lead to any reaction, both good and bad. I say this because it is not a discriminatory event against the homosexual world and gays but simply an event that affects all men in the world: every choice and position can be shared or not; endorsed or blamed.
After all, we know of cases in which- in front of the will of a boy to enter a seminary or convent - the parents, relatives or friends often delivered the teasing joke: "better dead than a priest or a friar". As far as we know, no one has ever been silent about clericophobia these people, on the contrary, they have often seen themselves strengthened in this teasing behavior, believing that becoming a priest or friar was really the greatest misfortune in this world. Faced with these assumptions, aspirants to a priestly life or one of special consecration have simply gone their own way, not caring about the judgment of others and pursuing their own intent, even when this would have led to a certain difficulty in managing family and friendship relationships.
You have no idea, we priests and friars,the insults that we sometimes hear thrown at us in the streets and public squares, if anything, even by teenage brats, when we cross them with the cassock of the secular clergy or with the habit of one's own religious order? Insults sometimes even very serious and defamatory. But we are not gay activists, because in that case lawsuits would be triggered and the powerful LGBT associations would also form a civil party in the process. Seriously insulting a priest or a friar on the street, on the other hand, seems to constitute a free and democratic expression of thought, the crime is triggered only if you make an ironic joke about the Gay Pride or on a tall transvestite 1.60 per 120 kg of weight that, ugly brother style of Lino Banfi, walks down the street in a platinum blonde wig, fishnet stockings and stiletto heels, perhaps just in spasmodic waiting for someone to shout "freak freak" at him, so that he can go cry of talk showin talk showagainst homotransphobia with all the LGBT activists screaming.
I consider the majority of homosexuals serene and intellectually free and devoid of any ideologization, do not worry in the least about what the Catholic Church thinks. They simply live the expression of their affectivity and of their being in a peaceful and reserved way, accepting the pros and cons of their own status, at the same time taking care to stay well away from the allegorical and blasphemous floats of the various Pridedisseminated in the month of June of every single year.
If, on the other hand, we refer to homosexuals who have a faith and seek the Lord, the situation changes, above all they are called to love the Church and do not smear it with viperish insults, accusing ― even by means of sociale blog - dad, the bishops and priests to be homophobic, as the custom of certain perfect Catholics who cannot keep silent. The Catholic homosexual is aware of the fact that it is necessary to carry on a journey of conversion - which begins in baptism and ends at the moment of death and is the same for all the disciples of Jesus who have certainly not been chosen among the best (cf.. Mt 9,36-10,8) ― which is made of prayer and spiritual accompaniment; of victories and falls; of temptation and grace; of torment and ecstasy. And how spiritual battles exist for the management and harmonization of one's genitals for a Catholic homosexual, so this is true for a Catholic heterosexual.
If, however, the paradigm of spiritual direction and accompaniment of homosexual people is embodied in the wretch- that is, devoid of grace - American Jesuit James Martin and not in the Magisterium of the Church and in Christ the Word of the Father, here we fall into the paradox of the Cesena affair whose results of an ideological colonization and lobbying are certainly not veiled, so much so that he can make the claim and the luxury of shouting scandal and becoming the injured party.
When I read about such piqued positions who cry foul in the face of alleged cases of homophobia, most of the time they seem comfortable positions to me. Often the same paladins gods Rightshave little interest in homosexual people, if not on the basis of a functional use of them that tends towards the achievement of an objective, which requires a wise policy of symbiosis, so as to achieve victory and annihilate the imaginary enemy, so much to have - to put it with a Romagna proverb - the egg, the hen and the hot ass.
Thus we will find ourselves in ecclesial contexts full of LGBT activists and sympathizers who consider the Church a political majority to be opposed by democratically dismissing the things they don't like and going to occupy positions of power in order to be able to affirm omoeresia [on the subject I refer to the work of Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo: And Satan became triuneand to my work and his From Prozan to Prozac]. But the Church, know this dear fellow Readers, it is not a democracy and absolutely does not need to rainbow suffragettesthat go crazy on social media and on the videos of YouTube as perfect Catholics who cannot be silent, to which the epigraph written by Paolo Giovio on Pietro l'Aretino can be applied: «He spoke ill of everyone except Christ, apologizing by saying I don't know him".
It is worth remembering that there is a homosexual world, perhaps the most numerous, who manages to use reason and who knows how to recognize, with an uncommon sense of objectivity, the Church a welcome that very few places can boast, Houses of the People included. In fact, ask a gay man if in the seventies or eighties of the twentieth century he could even just set foot in a Casa del Popolo, when a certain left defended the traditional family with lots of party posters on display and stigmatized Pierpaolo Pasolini for his lifestyles resulting from the "typical pederasty of the upper middle class". In fact, this is what L'Unità wrote, official organ of the Italian Communist Party, in the edition of 29 October 1949:
«Let's take a cue from the facts that led to a serious disciplinary measure against the poet Pasolini to denounce once again the deleterious influences of certain ideological and philosophical currents of the various Gide, Sartre and equally praised poets and writers, who want to pose as progressives but who in reality gather the most harmful aspects of bourgeois degeneration».
While about André Gide,well-known French man of letters and homosexual, Palmiro Togliatti signing in 1950 a piece up Rebirthhe wrote:
«To hear Gide, faced with the problem of relations between parties and classes, give everything as resolved by identifying the absence of opposition parties, in a classless society, with tyranny and related terrorism, I feel like inviting him to deal with pederasty, where is he a specialist, but leave these things, where he doesn't understand anything at all".
But let's go back to the young animatorwhom as Fathers we love, who has decided to express his freedom and his vision of affectivity together with the firm decision to pursue and defend it. For this he is worthy of our respect and we can only recognize his courage. But in the same way, the parish priest and the Diocese of Cesena Sarsina have the same freedom and the same right to decide to discipline their animators, trainers and catechists demanding a certain fidelity to the Church and to the magisterium regarding moral and faith questions.
In fact, it is not homosexual orientationwho has been discriminated against here but the fact of living and publicly defending a dangerous LGBT activism within a context of the Catholic Church. Yup, because according to the Courier of Romagna (you see WHO) we learn of fractures within the parish following discontent brought forward by some parish activists(?!) to whom the magisterial thought of the Catholic Church on homosexuality is still not sufficiently clear. In that parish there is undoubtedly a basic educational emergency, a situation of confusion that in the future will have to be recovered and informed with a correct catechetical formation and with a charitable vigilance. Well done the parish priest who thought it best to discuss with the Diocese and ask for its support to reach a synthesis on the matter. At least for once there was a Bishop who knew how to exercise paternity by demonstrating that he kept the bar straight, at the same time demonstrating closeness to the young man for a situation that has become unfortunate since it was deliberately staged as a tabloid case. Behind it there is only the umpteenth attempt to affirm the LGBT ideology within the Church with the usual suspects who shot balls and chains on the obscurantist and retrograde priest, resorting to the by now worn commonplace of the Middle Ages: the Arcigay, the honorable Zan and the mayor of the Democrats of the Left of Cesena Enzo Lattucca.
From this whole thing, we reiterate it once again: the young man was not deprived of the possibility of organizing the Grest and of participating generously for the good of the little participants, he was only pointed out the inappropriateness of continuing as an animator and educator in the context of a summer oratory that is not sponsored by the Democratic Party, by Arcigay or the LGBT lobby, but by the Catholic Church which has the sacrosanct duty and right to consider what is right or wrong for anyone preparing to carry out an educational function which coincides with the proclamation of a creed of faith.
To conclude, i like to statethat the apparent episode of homophobia in Cesena is nothing compared to the crass historical ignorance of its Primo Cittadino who uses a hackneyed argument borrowed from Black legend with the pretension of hurting the Catholic Church. You don't necessarily have to have the curriculum of studies by Franco Cardini or Alessandro Barbero to understand that what the Mayor of Cesena declared about the Middle Ages is clearly and profoundly false and intellectually unjust. In the Middle Ages to which the politician refers, the uncultured and illiterate people knew Dante Alighieri's rhymes by heart. A young merchant from the city of Assisi, he too came from the people and then rose to the rich merchant bourgeoisie, he composed the first poetic text in the Italian vernacular. The same people of the Middle Ages had mnemonic and speculative and reasoning skills that are completely unknown to the desolating masses of young and very young activists who follow the idiocies of Fedez, of Ferragni and the various influence, youtubere TikToker and that the only verse committed to memory is Love is love. The people of the Middle Ages went willingly to listen for hours to preachers of the caliber of Anthony of Padua, Bernardino of Siena, Giovanni da Capestrano and Giacomo della Marca. That simple people but willing to admire and visually study Giotto's frescoes inside the ancient basilicas and which constituted the The Bible of the poor which not only educated to the faith but to social life, which exalted virtues and stigmatized error and vice. If there was today a minimal historical high school culture, it should be hoped that our populations affected by functional illiteracy and digital illiteracy can return to the Middle Ages as soon as possible, a long season that marked a great development of culture, of the arts and sciences, in addition to the recovery and conservation of all the classical philosophy and literature that has come down to us thanks to the men of the Middle Ages.
In front of historical hoaxes like those uttered by the Mayor of Cesena, the average listener of our century has very few weapons of defense. The rest, as Don Camillo said to Peppone:
“If they believed in Carlo Marx, whatever dance you tell him will do!».
And we're still here telling each other the lies that LGBT people, the Democrats of the Left and the various compagnucci bloggersthey come to tell us, including perfect Catholics who flirt with LGBT circles and who would like to introduce the "rainbow trojan horse" into the Catholic Church (See. Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, WHO).
Laconi, 23 June 2023
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THE YELLOW SUBMARINE AND THE TRAGEDY. TO WHAT EXTENT ARE YOU REQUIRED TO SAVE HUMAN LIFE IN ALL WAYS?
It takes a lot of mercy, out of the question, because even snooty imbeciles deserve Christian and human mercy in any case, perhaps even more so than intelligent people, wise and prudent.
Man receives life on loan for use,he is not the arbitrary owner of it and cannot dispose of it as he sees fit, nor by taking life, as in the case of abortion, nor by taking his own life, as in the case of euthanasia, even if today it is difficult to talk about the salvific value of human suffering, theme to which the Holy Pontiff John Paul II dedicated his own encyclical: saving Passion. Human life crosses the same subjective reality of man who does not give himself life, but who receives it as a gift. So it can't be him who decides to self-suppress himself. It is true that life is in the hands of man, but at the same time it remains a gift that goes far beyond his hands. Because of this, that of life, it is a sacred gift that can be disposed of up to a certain point and within certain limits.
Here is an academic exampleextreme and terrible that can make the idea: a large group of SS. is about to cross a bridge, once it has been crossed, he will make a massacre of civilians in that country, just as it was at Sant'Anna di Stazzema. In fact, they suspect that partisans are hidden in that country, whose generality and identity they are ignorant of, for this they decided to solve the root problem by killing all the inhabitants, without sparing the elderly, women and children. The only access road to that town is a tens of meters high viaduct built between the wall of a mountain and that of the other mountain. Members of the resistance undermined it, ready to blow it up if necessary. While the soldiers of the S.S. they are about to cross it a completely unaware mother is crossing it with her child by the hand. Request: the bridge must be blown up or not?
To say that the lives of the innocentthey can never and under no circumstances be sacrificed, it is a categorical affirmation based on illogical and surreal emotions, especially when the "no at all costs to the sacrifice of human beings" is pronounced in countries where babies are aborted every day, after having decided that in that case, however, we are not dealing with innocent victims, because abortion is a real right, indeed more: "A Great Social Achievement".
About thirty years agoit happened in the areas of my Tuscany that an eccentric young man with thehobbyto keep very poisonous snakes in your home, while cleaning one of their cages he was bitten. In Italy, where the only poisonous snakes present in our area are vipers, no drug center had an antidote, which could only be found in Switzerland at a pharmaceutical company specialized in storing very rare drugs. In the hospital they only managed to slow down the effect of the poison that entered the circulation. In the meantime, an F104 plane was sent off from the Grosseto Air Force center which reached Switzerland in half an hour where a company employee gave the pilot the antidote without even getting off the powerful aircraft., then back to basics, all in just over an hour. This case was followed by controversy when it became known how much it cost to start an F104 and above all that at the time, the cost of that antidote, fu pari a 15 million of the old lire, obviously paid for by the state, equivalent to what they might be today in approximately current monetary value 25.000/30.000 Euro.
Some cynics asked the question if it was the case to spend all the money that was spent to save a person who in violation of the laws which already at the time forbade the purchase, conserve and breed certain reptiles, he had gone looking for trouble like that. But they were just cynics, with the aggravating circumstance of inhumanity, because life must always be saved at all costs, for example not by blowing up a bridge in the middle of which is a mother with a child. Then, the hundreds of people who shortly after will be slaughtered by the SS. just passed that pass, in any case they will die happy together with their children, for saving two lives.
Since few daystelevision and the international press they're about a group of three multi-millionaires, plus a quarter who is the son of one of them, who wanted to take away the whim of going down to the depth of 3.800 meters to reach the steamer Titanic sunk off Terranova in 1912 after hitting a icebergof ice. Tragedy in which they died 1.527 people on 2.232 passenger, solo 705 of which survived.
It's about the whims of the rich?No, the real rich, those who have been such for generations, those who know the delicacy and volatility of money and how difficult it is to keep and increase it; the truly wealthy who owe their wealth to their own particular entrepreneurial or financial genius, they don't do these braggart things, they are typical deeds of the rich. Why only capricious riches, sure you can afford anything, they could pay each 250.000 U.S.. $ to descend to the depth of almost 4 kilometers where the wreck of the Titanic is located, which is a shrine, a cemetery, which as such should be respected. Those depths cannot be the destination of stunts pushed to the extreme aboard a mini-submarine similar to a supposed underwater one in which the patrons could not even stand up, not even kneel, therefore unable to move, but only sitting in the space of 5 meters long for 1.60 of height [cf.. WHO]. A terrible death in the darkest depths of the sea, occurred due to suffocation in a narrow space where it is good not even to think what could have happened in the moments of panic that occurred in a claustrophobic space while oxygen was missing and the four multimillionaires, with the driver of the vehicle, they died of suffocation. It details it a The Print Paul Narcisi, resuscitation specialist, not failing to add:
“This tragedy, while respecting the people involved, forced a mobilization in the relief efforts that did not even take place for i 600 shipwrecked from a few days ago".
As for the guy bitten by the pet snake,also in this case air and sea means were used, sophisticated technological tools, personal, specialists and so on. Fair Enough, to save human life one must try everything. Without forgetting, however, that the four, before boarding, after paying 250.000 $ each signed a contract with a precise release for the company that organizedtheir eccentric stunt, in which it is specified that the undertaking could also have involved the possibility of dying, all specified three times in the text signed and signed by the four rich men.
Say they went looking for it, it is neither lack of pity nor respect towards these dead in a very tragic way. It is a reality, not of lack of mercy: it was they themselves who signed up and declared that they were aware that they could also have met their death, which is to say, black on white, than if that happened, it was because they themselves had gone looking for it, after having been notified to this effect and having also signed it in a contract.
It takes a lot of mercy, out of the question, because even snooty imbeciles deserve Christian and human mercy in any case, perhaps even more so than intelligent people, wise and prudent.
Florence, 22 June 2023
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WHY LGBT LOBBYISTS DON'T LET HOMOSEXUALS TALK? IT WOULD BE AS IF THE FRANCISCAN ORDER DENIED ITS FRIARS TO SPEAK ABOUT SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
We Fathers of the Island of Patmos who frequent homosexuals and who have always had excellent relationships with them, we can agree with the histrionic Donatella Rettore, famous gay icon, feeling a certain discomfort with her hysterical faggots, without being accused of "homophobia"?
Every Gay Pride, which from today is no longer called that but only Pride, ends up being the subject of controversy, Maybe because certain parades are an ostentatious search for provocation, especially towards everything that is Catholic, and because the controversy is researched and studied [see also my previous article WHO].
It is obvious that the patronage has been withdrawn by the Lazio Regionat this event, something done with a specific reason:
«[…] the institutional signature of the Lazio Region cannot, nor will it ever be able to, be used to support demonstrations aimed at promoting illegal behavior, with specific reference to the practice of the so-called rented womb" [cf.. WHO].
Faced with this motivation,It's of little use shouting “at the fascist government!” whatever the government. Perhaps the same thing would have happened even under a Left government: a public body cannot promote as a "claimed right" what is prohibited and condemned by law, i.e. the so-called “rented womb”, which is illegal in Italy. To be against the barbarity of the rented womb you don't need to be a centre-right militant at all, you don't even have to be Catholic, it would be enough to remember that the General Secretary of the Communist Party Marco Rizzo defined the rented uterus as «worthy of Doctor Mengele, something very close to Nazism" specifying that "desires cannot become rights" [cf.. WHO], declaring to this effect:
«The rented womb is a barbarism typical of globalized capitalist society. The wishes of couples or individuals are granted and they are exchanged for the primary rights of newborns and their mothers, forced by poverty to act as incubators" [cf.. WHO].
The question, however, is more complex:we are sure that homosexuals feel represented by certain objectively grotesque parades and practices that are almost irreverent towards Catholicism? [My previous article, WHO].
We, the Fathers, Editors of this magazine,not only are we individually in close friendships with various homosexuals, several of them prominent figures in the world of the arts, of culture and sciences, because there's more. We have published with our Edizioni L'Isola di Patmos a book by Francesco Mangiacapra, young man of rare intelligence, declared and ex homosexual escort gay, brilliant and honest analyst who at the time brought to light a group of priests frequenting certain circles who, superfluous to say, priests should never frequent. A priest also wrote the preface to this book: the undersigned.
Francesco Mangiacapra writes in his book which constitutes an authentic monument to intellectual honesty and which for this reason alone should be read:
«A homosexual who does not identify with the powerful LGBT Lobby ends up ostracized by lobbyists and receives applause from that audience mainstreamso abhorred by them. Today the lead hood of the politically correctit weighs on a society indifferent to real violence, but ready to expose to the pillory, for a joke or a harmless satire, who dares to oppose the single thought. The lobbyists of the gay rainbow freedom they now practice the technique that characterized the communist and fascist dictatorships: “Hit one to educate a hundred”».
And here we are going to touch on another problem that Father Ivano Liguoriand I summarized in the introduction to a book co-written in 2021, From Prozan to Prozac, dedicated to the late memory of the very homosexual and unforgettable Paolo Poli, my dear friend, of which we propose this passage again:
"We who are two priests and theologians have never pulled back - our publications show -, when the respect for the truth required direct public and severe criticisms of the ecclesial and ecclesiastical world. And if sometimes, for only telling the truth, we have paid the consequences, it was a more than acceptable tribute. We are indeed heralds and faithful servants of the truth, with all that that can entail. Now let's try to immerse ourselves in reality: have you ever heard in the various talk showtelevision - which could not be such in the absence of gay quotas -, an LGBT representative who publicly and severely criticizes his world? It is possible that the LGBT world is made up only of great people and above all the lines? It is possible that the LGBT world is inhabited only by poor victims and by no perpetrators? It is possible that for an unworthy priest suffering from psychic disorders, guilty of molesting teenagers, the entire Catholic Church is exposed to the public pillory, while the same investigative journalists and television presenters would never dare - and do not dare out of fear - to go and check what happens with minors in search of money in certain gay circles? In the LGBT world, everything is fine, everything's perfect? The one that the Holy Doctor Augustine indicates as the Celestial Jerusalem, perhaps it has its own angelic natural home in certain gay circles? This is what makes certain ideologized and radicalized LGBT fringes surreal and not credible. And someone, to groups so folded into irrational emotions, he also intended to give a law to shut up and prosecute those who do not think like them? Asking certain questions does not constitute an incitement to hatred of gays, lesbians and transsexuals. It is simply a matter of considering them for what they are: human beings like everyone else, for better or for worse. But if they lobby and pretend to present themselves as people without a shadow of a blemish, or worse as a corporation of untouchables, in that case it will be appropriate not to give them certain laws and let them wallow in the pool of their dreamlike perfection, where everything is good and idyllic, because all the bad guys and the persecutors are only on the other hetero-side. We do not hesitate to highlight the defects of our visible Church and its clergy, always looking at man as such, to whom we have never asked for licenses of heterosexuality or homosexuality, accepting it and loving it for what it is, how Jesus Christ welcomed and loved him. Because we live in the world of reality, aware that faith is born of reason, not from the irrational emotions of a certain rainbow world ".
In our Catholic languagethis is called political intellectual honesty. And I say politics because in any case these are political battles and as such they are carried out by activists, to which we will never respond with blows of Catholic morality. Any political language is responded to with appropriate political language, because both to communicate and to legitimately oppose something, the appropriate language is used, it is not really the case to go and talk to certain activists about the foundations of morality according to the school of Sant'Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, worse than ever Free Gomorrhianus of San Pier Damiani.
We conclude with a gay icon,singer Donatella Rector, the one who happily tormented our teenage summers, now distant in time, with famous songs like The cobra is not a snakeO Beautiful shining. Here is an excerpt from his interview [cf.. WHO] made by the dear and excellent Francesca Fagnani — and I affectionately say dear because she was the first journalist who in 2012 he put me in front of a camera for an interview on the program Public Serviceby Michele Santoro — :
«Gays like me, girls don't like me queers, while Raffaella Carrà and Patty Pravo are icons of vintage fagots […] For me, gays and women exist queers, there are gays who know they have balls and there are hysterics who talk and tear their hair out, they spread gossip... and I don't even want those on my doorstep" [cf.. WHO, WHO].
We Fathers of the Island of Patmosthat we hang out with homosexuals and that we have always had excellent relationships with them, we can agree with the histrionic Donatella Rettore, famous gay icon, feeling a certain discomfort with her hysterical faggots, without being accused of "homophobia" for this reason?
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