APOSTOLICITY, TRUTH AND TENDERNESS FOR SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD
However, they are apostles,alongside but in a distinct way compared to the priests, religious and lay people as well. They too in the vocation to the consecrated life and in marriage, they undertake to bring the caress of Jesus to their neighbor in need. This is why Jesus tells everyone: "You received, freely give ".
Author: Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.
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Dear Readers of The Island of Patmos,
in this summer time let us try to take the Bible more and more and read it; especially the Gospels can become a road companion for hot and muggy days. Indeed, in the Gospel, Jesus walks with us, he offers us so much tenderness and affection and thus asks us to give freely what we have received from him. Jesus chooses tenderness because as the German writer Rudolf Leonard said «Tenderness is the secret language of the soul».
"During that time, Jesus, seeing the crowds, he felt sorry for it, because they were tired and exhausted like sheep that have no shepherd".
Jesus walks with the crowds and realizes that they feel lost and without a point of reference. The existential difficulties and the political disagreement between Jews and Romans must have brought them much suffering also from an emotional and moral point of view. Jesus decides to treat them with compassion, in Greek splanchne, which indicates the tenderness of the mother who welcomes her children with visceral love. So let's imagine a mother who welcomes her children who are crying and feeling desperate.
The same thing Jesus does with us today.In our existential solitudes he gives us his tenderness and compassion, makes us feel that despite the general instability, the many spiritual difficulties, material and economic we can find He is with us. Every time we communicate, he offers us a caress and an intense embrace, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
This caress is offered to us in a concrete way.In a certain sense it is an apostolic caress. Indeed, Jesus himself called the twelve apostles by name and set them up to continue his mission over the centuries. The twelve apostles then set up their successors, and therefore the bishops and with them Jesus wanted priests for a large harvest of people in need of God. For this that the bishop and the priest, despite their personal limitations, tend to give us the Eucharistic caress of the Lord. Their presence and response to this priestly vocation is important.
However, they are apostles, alongside but in a distinct way compared to the priests, religious and lay people as well. They too in the vocation to the consecrated life and in marriage, they undertake to bring the caress of Jesus to their neighbor in need. This is why Jesus tells everyone:
"You received, freely give ".
The way we all clergy believers, religious and laity we are sent by the Lord is the dimension of self-giving. Just like without any rights, we have received the gift of love and tenderness from the Lord, so we can bring it to everyone else. So when we meet our neighbor who doesn't feel loved by anyone, and indeed perhaps he feels abandoned and isolated from everyone, then in that moment we will be able to give him the gift of the Lord's tenderness and charity. That is, a love that is not dull and worthless, but which precisely communicates to those who feel desperate that God loves them and is doing something concrete for them.
We ask the Lord to enter ever more strongly into his Trinitarian heart to bring the whole world into God's embrace, and offer meaning and joy even to those abandoned and isolated from the culture of the world.
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FRIAR ONION, THAT CHARACTER CREATED BY GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO WHO INSPIRED A FIRE SERMON IN SAN BERNARDINO IN THAT MIDDLE AGES WHICH WAS GREAT LIGHT AND CERTAINLY NOT DARK
[…]once the waiters arrived early to warn the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XIV that during the night a fire had broken out in Rome in the Monti district. To which he blurted out: "Shit! And there have been deaths?». Monsignor Teodoro Boccapaduli tugged him discreetly. After the waiters had detailed the seriousness of the fact, the Supreme Pontiff replied bursting: "Shit!». And Monsignor tugs him again. At that point Benedict XIV, saddened by that grave report, he turns towards the prelate bursting out: "Boccapaduli.", you broke my balls: dick, dick, dick! Ah, I want to sanctify this word. Indeed I want to promulgate one fucking bubble, to grant plenary indulgence to those who pronounce this word ten times a day ".
More than making a hypothesis,I dare to attribute a little discovery to myself: in his fiery sermon San Bernardino of Siena [Massa Marittima 1380 - L'Aquila 1444] he was inspired by, or was in any case influenced by the short story of Friar Cipollaenclosed in the work Decameron, composed by Giovanni Boccaccio between the 1349 and the 1351.
The fratacchione Boccaccio he used to travel the countries of the countryside showing the most improbable relics to the bifolchi, including the little finger of the Holy Spirit, one of the ribs of the «Dear Verbum made at the window» [crippling of the Latin: andWord was made flesh], the rays of the star that appeared to the three Magi in the East, an ampoule containing the sweat of Archangel Michael that fell from his forehead when he fought with the Devil, the jaw of the Death of San Lazzaro and so on.
Being in that of Certaldo,he had promised the villagers that the following day he would exhibit an extraordinary relic to the people: a pen that fell to Archangel Gabriel during the Annunciation. Senonché, at night, two local pranksters stole the precious angelic pen from inside the box in which it was kept, replacing it with coals. When Friar Cipolla opened the box to show the precious relic to the Boeotians, He was not dismayed when he discovered some coals inside, he apologized to those present saying that on his departure he had mistakenly taken the wrong container, identical to the one in which the precious pen was kept. Like this, after an apology, he provided the people with the coals on which the Holy Martyr Lorenzo was roasted.
A few decades later, Bernardino degli Albizzeschi,son of a powerful family from the upper Tuscan Maremma, today universally known as San Bernardino of Siena [Massa Marittima 1380 - L'Aquila 1444], in one of his sermons he launched himself against popular superstitions, particularly taking it out on the false relics and the profitable market that revolved around it. The subject of that sermon with an evident Boccaccio style was the relic of the milk of the Blessed Virgin Mary preserved in the collegiate church of Montevarchi, in which Friar Bernardino thundered:
"It is who you want, I say you do not like these things to God these. Like milk from the Virgin Mary. Or women, where you are? And likewise you, able men, vedestene mai? You know you should be showing for relics: v'aviate not faith […] Maybe she was a cow the Virgin Mary, she had her milk lassato, how loose the beasts, you lassano mugnare? I have this opinion: that is, she had so much milk, neither more nor less, enough that Bochina Jesu Christ blessed " [San Bernardino of Siena – Hypocrite devotions. in: Baldi. Novels and moral examples of S. Bernardino of Siena,Florence, 1916].
Period painting of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XIV [Bologna 1675 - Rome 1758], who with scurrilous elegance threatened some members of the curia scandalized by his colorful words, to promulgate a "Bull of the cock"
As is known to true and serious scholars,the middle Ages, the true one, divided into the space of almost a thousand years in three different eras that have followed throughout history, it was not the era of the "dark ages" at all, but of the centuries of light. In the Middle Ages there was the highest development of the light of speculative reason, combined with a critical sense and a spirit of unceasing research in the various areas of scientific knowledge. If the history books used in schools were not written by ideologists, it would be clear to everyone that the legendsBlack on the Middle Ages they were built at the table at the end of the eighteenth century by enlightened poisoners of hatred towards everything that was Catholic. They were in fact these, animated by destructive ideology, to relegate the Middle Ages to the "dark ages" in the name of their alleged "lights of reason" lit under the French guillotines, where heads fell one after the other following accusations based on mere inferences, often out of pure social envy, or after farcical summary trials in which the defendants were not granted the right to defense, nor that to the word [see my work Nada s security]. This is in contrast to the terrifying inquisitorial process, fruit this yes, of the most absurd and false black legends. Oh, what gross ignorance! The inquisitorial process, in addition to establishing the legal right to defend the defendant, it just couldn't be celebrated without defense and the right to speak. It was the inquisitorial process that gave rise to the custom that after the reading of the sentence the condemned person was granted the last right to speak. It would be enough to read the legal works and related documents of the Bolognese glossers, that between the eleventh and twelfth centuries, in the "dark" Middle Ages they gave life to all those that would later become the modern legal institutes, after recovering the Body of Civil Lawby Justinian and reinterpreted all the classical texts.
but yet, to the present day, also the last of the gay illiterates ideologically poisoned towards Catholicism, but rose to television honors with some sequels talk showwhere it is unthinkable that there could be no lack of cheerful quotas, from the height of his victimized and desolating ignorance he does not fail to make pseudo-historical-intellectual references to the Middle Ages, or at medieval spirit, to create an effect and put something retro or superstitious in a bad and ridiculous light, as well as everything that is Catholic and linked to the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, the cheerful TV activist or from social network, however, he ignores that the Middle Ages are the era of rediscovery, of the study and preservation of all classical philosophy and literature. If today we can read the most critical works written by Greek and Roman authors against the nascent Christianity, o i carmimore lustful and pornographic written by Valerio Gaio Catullo, it is certainly not thanks to the Enlightenment inventors of black legends and false historians, nor for the activism of today's fierce LGBT lobbies, but why these works have been saved, transcribed and handed down to the present day by the Benedictine amanuensis monks, born in the 6th century from monasticism founded by San Benedetto da Norcia. E, in the context of Benedictine monasticism, among various things, both the name and the socio-political concept of Europe itself developed, the same one that today denies an incontrovertible historical fact: the Christian roots of our ancient European continent. So, always with all due respect to the cheerful activist who from the prodigious means of television or from social networkoften addresses millions of listeners, it is easy to say that the Middle Ages are Pier Damiani, Peter Abelard, Anselm of Aosta and the great masters of scholasticism. The Middle Ages is Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, Duns Scotus. The Middle Ages are the great engineers, architects, mathematicians, astronomers and alchemists, most of them belonging to the Carthusian Order and the Cistercian Order. The Middle Ages marked the season of the great literati: the Sicilian literary school of Frederick II of Swabia, Guido Cavalcanti, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio …
The man of the Middle Ages he also had an extraordinary taste for satire which, the more pungent it was the more it made popes laugh, emperors and rulers, none of whom gave up delighting on the most pungent satirical works, not only those of Boccaccio, but also those of the most scurrilous Peter the Aretino. We had to reach the present day to end up in the courts thanks to some crybaby activist to argue for, even in a polemical way, in essence this means: “I have the right to destroy your Catholic culture and morality piece by piece, because I am the sacred immaculate LGBT victim, but you have no right of reply, except for a dispute”. Other times were the medieval ones, where when someone wanted to delight the Supreme Pontiff Pius II [Weather in Corsignano di Pienza 1405 – Ancona 1464], all he had to do was hire a talented storyteller to perform the rhymes of his Sienese fellow citizen Cecco Angiolieri [Siena 1260 – Siena 1311 c.a], who used to joke in taverns amidst laughter, wine and very cheerful women:
S’i’ were focus, combustion’ the world; s’i’ was wind, the tempestarei; s’i’ was water, i’ to drown; s’i’ was God, send it deep;
s’i’ was Pope, I would be happy then, for I would embrace all Christians; s’i’ was ‘emperor’, to’ what would I do? to all cut off the head in the round.
Not that Silvio Enea of the Piccolomini accounts,then he ascended the sacred throne with the name of Pius II, was outdone in cutting sarcasm, as when he ironically condemned the request and the hope of obtaining favors from him by motteggiando:
I was Enea,
nobody knew me,
but now that I am Pio,
everyone calls me uncle.
An elderly theologian,talking about the Middle Ages defined as the era of the so-called "dark ages" by many today's activists of that methodical destruction of European societies passed off as "claiming rights", with scientific wisdom he ironized saying: "Maybe, today's man had the speculative reason and the critical and analytical sense of that of the Middle Ages! Unfortunately today, man, so to speak, evolved, which claims every right but rejects any duty, his presumed reason is exercised by reasoning with his dick". I pointed out to the elderly brother: "You are right, but don't forget those who think with the subjective emotions of the ass!». All this genre gives rise to a culture of death which, through the annihilation of reason, has plunged us into new forms of illiteracy, much more devastating than those of the past, but above all in a new form of dictatorship: The dictatorships of minorities. Without going backwards over the centuries, just take a step backwards of just a century, at the beginning of the twentieth century, at the time of Vigils of Neri, work of the Tuscan writer Renato Fucini [Monterotondo Marittimo 1843 - Empoli 1921]. Let's start from the element of memory: elderly peasants who barely knew how to read and write, quite a few of whom were in conditions of total illiteracy, they were authentic itinerant literature libraries. During the evening vigils, in times when there was no cinema, let alone the TV, they entertained by narrating works learned by heart: from the Jerusalem Liberatedby Torquato Tasso a Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. I myself can testify to this, when I am just ten years old, in the lower Tuscan Maremma, on the border with Lazio, for the first time I knew the existence of Dante Alighieri's work, to be exact Hell, thanks to an elderly farmer, at the age of eighty - we are therefore talking about a man born in the late nineteenth century - who began to narrate, to us children, by Count Ugolino and Archbishop Ruggieri by reciting from memory:
The mouth lifted from the proud meal quel sinner, shaking her hair of the chief who had a retro fault.
Then it began: "You want me to renew desperate pain that my heart presses me already thinking, before I do it.
Ma se le mie word esser dien seme that bears fruit to the traitor I eat, talk and weep you will see together […]
Present my cousin,at the time just graduated in classical letters, amazed she then said to the other family members present: «He didn't make a mistake, I don't say a sentence, but not even a word!». That man had memorized entire literature books, that he hadn't read: he had learned them since he was a child during the vigils. I knew, afterwards, who had done the second grade of elementary school, the time strictly necessary to learn the basic rudiments of writing and reading, acquired which had followed parents and family in the fields of agricultural work.
Manyof our super technological teenagers, already at the end of elementary school they have entire collections of pornographic films recorded in theirs Smartphone; while the girls, already at eleven or twelve, they post their photos on social media in clothes and positions that would make the prostitutes who worked in the old brothels pale, before it in 1952 the Merlin Law decreed its closure, thanks to a bill proposed by Senator Angelina Merlin, of the Socialist Party, presented in 1948. but yet, these modern hyper-technological "monsters", unlike the man of the Middle Ages and the man of yesterday, that of The vigils of Neri, They have such poor memory that they can't even remember their parents' cell phone number. Well: you know what happens if human intelligence, especially through reasoning and memory, it is not exercised? Roughly what we have under our eyes can happen: a generation of apathetic and ignorant idiots. Just so: we regressed to forms of frightening illiteracy, it would be enough to read the texts written by recent graduates, to be disconcerted in the face of such a deficit syntax enriched by gross grammatical errors. But ... we have evolved. So much to allow us with unheard of arrogance to make irony on the Middle Ages, we who are no longer able to exercise reason and objective critical judgment, because now we only think: either with the dick or with subjective emotions, or worse, with the ass from which the worst of our egocentrism and our blind pathological narcissism comes out, what leads us to claim rights and reject duties, until the attempt, thank God shipwrecked in Italy for now, to use the law to combat as a crime the legitimate opinion of those who do not think like you - I am referring to the happy and blessed shipwreck of the Zan Bill, about which Father Ivano Liguori and I wrote the book From Prozan to Prozac —, therefore prosecuting those who dare to say and maintain that a child can only be born from a man and a woman who are father and mother, that two homosexuals cannot buy a child from a rented womb or that two lesbian women cannot selfishly plan the birth of an orphan by resorting to artificial insemination, claiming to be both recognized by the law as legitimate parents. It is early said that this generation, degenerate daughter of digital illiteracy, devoid of historical memory and of that same cerebral memory exercised, useful to make us remember at least the phone number of our parents, should never be allowed, not even as a joke or as a joke to paradoxes, to make fun of the glorious Middle Ages, marking it as an era of the "dark ages".
In this narrative I have used the word four times “dick”, almost as if I could not express myself without certain splashes of color, which I can do very well. What to say: in these moments of desolation, leave a splash of bright color to this poor priest on the threshold of sixty years old, so that everyone can enjoy their fun. The lemma "dick" is also joined by that other beautiful idiomatic phrase of ... "notorious dickheads", that is, the boundless army of those who don't understand a damn thing about what you wrote, or the deep way, also wanting scientifically relevant in which you wrote it, to consider that now, reached the bottom of the barrel, all we have left is the provocation. So, the idiomatic and homonymous cock heads, they fossilize only on this word, after that bigots, pinchers and self-styled Catholics are indignant towards the vulgar priest, all accompanied by lessons of style given with a moralism that would make the American Calvinists of the seventeenth century envious by those gay characters who were scandalized with profound indignation at the poetic and provocative reference to the word “dick”, except, however, to take it cheerfully and legitimately in the ass and claim it shortly after “sacred right” to the purchase of a child bought from a rented womb. And this what it means? By chance it means that through anal coitus and sodomy one of the two men cannot get pregnant, to the point of needing a paid uterus? But how ungrateful and bad nature has been, so let's correct it with the help of the LGBT lobby.
This noble termit was much loved and used by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XIV [Bologna 1675 - Rome 1758], nee Prospero Lambertini, bolognese. With usual frequency the Augustus Pontiff indulged in very colorful expressions, starting from his first appearance before the crowd exulted after his election to the sacred throne. It was in fact on that occasion that, seeing that large crowd gathered in the square of the papal arcibasilica of San Pietro, he said in a low voice to the prelate next to him: "And all these people, as a campa?». The prelate, that he was no less and that he had deep knowledge of the newly elected, He answered: «... Campania by pulling it in the ass with each other». The Pontiff replies: "... yes! Then there is us, that instead we pull it in the ass at all!». Afterwards, within the Roman curia, several times aroused amazement and perplexity that he used to intercalate saying "shit!». Until the August Pontiff appointed an assistant to his room, Monsignor Teodoro Boccapaduli, to discreetly pull it for the robe, if he started with certain colorful phrasebooks. Until once the waiters arrived early to warn the Supreme Pontiff that a fire had broken out in Rome in the Monti district during the night. To which he blurted out: "Shit! And there have been deaths?». Monsignor tugged him discreetly. After the waiters had detailed the seriousness of the fact, the Supreme Pontiff replied bursting: "Shit!». And Monsignor tugs him again. At that point Benedict XIV, saddened by that grave report, he turns towards the prelate bursting out: "Boccapaduli.", you broke my balls: dick, dick, dick! Ah, I want to sanctify this word. Indeed I want to promulgate one fucking bubble, to grant plenary indulgence to those who pronounce this word ten times a day ".
There would be much to tell about this great figure, but we limit ourselves to briefly saying that the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XIV was a careful administrator in favor of the needs of the people and charitable activities, at the same time he was a great promoter of the arts and sciences. With acute political ability, but at the same time with a great pastoral spirit, he was tireless guardian of the faith, promoter of the missions for the new evangelization and at the same time a man of profound culture and open-mindedness, enough to maintain intense correspondence with figures very distant from the Catholic world, from Protestant rulers to the father himself of modern anti-clericalism: François-Marie Arouet, known under the pseudonym of Voltaire.
Today the children of this great dark century I am not able, at the height of their digital illiteracy, to laugh about Novel of Friar Cipolla, as did the illiterate wit of the medieval countryside. Nor am I able to understand a great man of faith, so free from any form of internal and external vulgarity, to be able to affirm with true candor: «… if you don't stop pissing me off, I promulgate a fucking bubble, complete with plenary indulgence for those who pronounce this word ten times a day".
Let's ask ourselves: but who they are, the real vulgar ones? I'll explain it right away: are certain Catholics who send images created with photoshop, depicting a Jesus Christ on the cross sacrilegiously gayzzato, with an androgynous face and a languid expression that does not recall the mystery of passion at all, rather a girl awaiting coitus. And in front of these blasphemous images, I who have an eye accustomed to Cimabue, to Fra Angelico, to Filippino Lippi from Prato, to Titian, Giotto and Michelangelo, to follow with Guido Reni and Cararavaggio, until the most recent wonderful crucifixion by Salvador Dalì, maybe I shouldn't blurt: pseudo-fucking Catholics, you broke my balls, breed of digital blasphemers! Christ the Lord was not a languid child since photoshopwith the androgynous air affixed to the cross, he was true God and true man, for this he made the cross terribly true, as true as God and true man was.
Ichildren of the modern digital age of this dark century,after reading half a page and reading the entire text in two minutes, then identified the little word about which to argue, in this case the mythical word "fuck", have already sent outraged messages, almost as if they cared, above all else, to fully demonstrate how much they have not really understood a fucking emeritus. And while totally indifferent I let them get busy, place that for years and years, at this point, they can't even break my balls anymore, I turn to the few who can laugh at all the modern Onion Friars who have a prerogative, however: to get more money out of your pocket than a snake charmer can stun an Indian cobra. Indeed, just tell the Boeotian people, that of pseudo-Catholicism built on the contempt of reason and erected on subjective sentimental emotions, that on such and such a day in such and such a place Our Lady appeared to me and gave me a message. Then, if this is said it will also be added that the Madonna revealed to me a terrifying secret that will shock humanity... here are the wallets opening like accordions. What Our Lady said to me appearing? Suffice it to say: “… Our Lady told me to tell you that she loves you and that she invites you to be good and to pray …”. At that point the accordions will expand even more, if the great morbid itch of the terrifying secret joins the silly banality of the message, because at that point the accordions will explode, until the real rain of money. And we want to talk, at least briefly, of the army of self-styled spiritual sons and daughters of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, ultra specialized in making money pour out, several of them in their early sixties?
The truth will set us free, as stated in our motto taken from the Gospel of the Blessed Apostle John [cf. GV 8,32], but at the same time we know how much the truth has never paid anyone, in particular when we say those truths that nobody wants to be told, nor when it refers to reality, escape from emotions and fatuous sentimentality. Truth does not pay off when one insists on it I can only believe that faith moves on reason and requires reasoning and a deep critical and analytical sense, because in this era of digital illiteracy acting in this way is a truly suicidal policy, to well consider that today, people who say they are Catholic, want irrational emotions, sensational elements, so much sterile controversy and so futile gossip. And who offers these products, will always be paid in any way. While who, before all this, he blurts out saying “fuck it!”, it's just vulgar, not to say: a priest's shame.
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FROM GOD'S FRIENDSHIP WITH ABRAHAM TO JESUS WHO WELCOMES US CALLING US FRIENDS
This famous biblical story tells us that being friends is definitely not a diminution or a subtraction from the relationship of faith, because it calls for condescension, complicity and waiting when, for instance, a friend is in trouble. It is not by chance, long after the story of Abraham in Genesis, one of the most beautiful expressions we find in Scripture regarding the relationship between God's messenger, Jesus, and who followed him was: "I called you friends".
It seems that the term friendcannot exist without its specific qualification. We have different types declined, in the various arts, which from time to time offer the image of a fragile friend, rediscovered or ingenious. We could talk about it endlessly. A friend can be true or false, always be there or disappear, you can trust him or her unconditionally or in the worst case scenario be betrayed by them.
The Bible which is literatureformed over a very long period, as well as talking about the main protagonist, who is God, presents a diverse set of human situations. Not by chance the poet Byron he called it "the great code of art", expression later taken up by the critic N. Fryewho made a book of it[1]. In this roundup of disparate humanity, the interest in friends could not be missing. This is how the code of the Bible was able to arouse symbols that have remained in everyone's imagination (Frye called them imagery), even of non-students of the biblical book.
The character of Judas is famous(c)he embodies the betrayed friendship: «Amico, that's why you're here" (Mt 26,50), these are the words that Jesus addresses to the traitor after receiving his kiss. Remaining with the Gospels, one cannot forget Jesus' friendship for the family of Bethany: March, Maria and Lazzaro. When he dies Jesus will say: «Lazarus, our friend, he fell asleep; but I'm going to wake him up" (GV 11,11). As well as the reputation of a friend of tax collectors and sinners which led Jesus to be disliked by the authorities.
There are many biblical expressions referring to friendship, especially in the wisdom books. Here are two mentions among many:
“A faithful friend is medicine that gives life: those who fear the Lord will find him." (Sir 6, 16).
“A faithful friend is a safe haven: who finds it, find a treasure" (Sir 6,14).
A saying that has become famousthe one that reads «whoever finds a friend finds a treasure». But the first biblical character to be referred to as a friend, none other than God, it was Abraham. The prophet Isaiah called him that: "But you, Israel, my servant, you Jacob, I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, my friend" (Is 41,8). The book of Daniel echoes this: «Do not withdraw your mercy from us, for Abraham's sake, your friend, of Isaac, your servant, of Israel, your saint" (3,35) and the second book of Chronicles: “You didn't drive away, our God, the inhabitants of this land in front of your people Israel and you have not given it forever to the descendants of your friend Abraham?» (20,7). Until the second testament where we find in the letter of James: «And the Scripture was fulfilled which says: Abramo believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called a friend of God" (2,23).
And if the Author of the letter of James he insisted on Abraham's actions as qualifying his faith, on the other Paul of Tarsus reversed the medal, in Romans, putting Abraham's faith before his works and by this and by this alone was he justified.
Here we do not want to addressthe arduous and complex subject of justification and grace pertaining to theology. But we simply want to decline how the biblical story speaks to us of the relationship between God and Abraham. What kind of friendship it was? Abraham deserved this particular relationship? He always corresponded to you? It seems an interesting topic given that it has become the vestment of the gift of divine life to the man of faith and of the grace that saves. Without neglecting the fact that Abraham is considered the father of the three great monotheistic religions, even if some find it difficult to define Christianity as a monotheism.
Because the Bible prefers to narratethan to set forth theories, we will try to trace the stories of Abraham's events to understand this friendship relationship and to understand in the end that Abraham was not so distant from us, from our expectations and emotions, from our points of view which appear unshakeable and which are put to the test by divine requests and promises which are not immediately revealed.
There is an episode in the story of Abraham narrated in the book of Genesis (18, 25-32) which seems to highlight more than others, more than the same call, the special friendship relationship between him and God, and it is the story of the negotiation about the destruction of the city of Sodom. To God who had already decided the fate of the city, Abraham points out the possible presence of righteous people in it. And from ten to ten to go down he manages to snatch a piece of God's benevolence. This episode highlights a characteristic of the patriarch that recurs several times in the stories, or his indisputable ability to negotiate. It's a well, of territorial division, of earth for the grave of his wife Sara, of how to find a wife for Isaac his son or of God himself, as in the above case, Abraham is unbeatable.
A little less, a lot less,when it comes to having faith in the divine words and this seems incredible for all that is normally thought of him. But God doesn't seem to care. Just like true friends do.
Even rabbinic exegesishe looked favorably upon the Abrahamic ability to deal, when it comes to saving people. The teachers of the Torah, indeed, they have not accorded equal benevolence to another famous patriarch, Noah, who received the command to build an ark because of the impending flood. These, unlike Abraham, he did nothing to thwart the destructive purpose.[2] Noah was an obedient man who asked no questions, "walked with God" (Gen 6,9) but he did not establish any relationship with him, perhaps because of the end of everything that was to come. With Abraham who "walked ahead of God" (Gen 17, 1) it was required, instead an active relationship, patient and friendly.
And patience with Abraham must have a lot.A modern reader of the biblical text would be surprised to find some embarrassing features in the life of the patriarch. These act as a counterbalance to the obvious mediation skills already mentioned, to his being an expert in weapons and guerrilla warfare (Gen 14, 14-16), of men and alliances (Gen 17, 17-24) and capable entrepreneur of the ancient world (Gen 24, 34-35).
Yet Abraham's first ever words in the Bible, immediately after God's call, they speak a lie, letting Sarah pass, in the eyes of the Egyptian pharaoh, like a sister instead of a wife[3]. An episode that will be repeated later with another king (cap. 20). Despite the repeated divine promise that he will surely have offspring, will agree, further on, about Sarah's intention to have a child with the slave Hagar; but when the two women come into conflict he will drive her out into the desert, reluctantly, with only a loaf of bread and a skin of water. When with his son Isaac will go up to Mount Moriah, place of his sacrifice, he will load the wood on his son's shoulders. Which father would have done this knowing what fate he was going to meet?
But Abraham, rightly, he is remembered above all for his faith:“He believed the Lord, who credited it to him as justice" (Gen 15, 6). But this faith evidently had to grow and mature, passing through important evidence, in addition to the fact that it was a word and a divine promise that aroused it, remembered over and over again.
In the Book of Genesis(cf.. 12) God first spoke to Abraham. The expression used in Hebrew, psychoanalysts liked it a lot: Go (play play) “Go for you” or “Go towards you”[4]. A new word, personal, addressed to Abraham son of Terak, invited him to leave his father and go to a land to become a blessed nation. Set off, but as often happens, the enthusiasm was lost along the way. The journey was tiring, in stages, hostile people e, above all, what progeny could he have had if a son did not come? That is how, you want for the difficulties, you want for the advancing age, he satisfied. After all, the slave's son, Ishmael, it was already something. So at one point Abraham blurted out before God: «If at least Ishmael could live in front of you!» (Gen 17, 18). Until the umpteenth promise of a child of theirs, Abraham and Sarah burst out laughing. Abraham even doubled over with laughter (Gen 17, 17).
But here's the twist.Sarah did indeed bear a son to Abraham: Isaac, the promised. But which friend gives you such a gift: Isaac, from Hebrew Isaac literally “the laughing son, which elicits laughter, that you can make fun of and ridicule[5]? Which for this very reason became the cause of the removal of the other son, Ishmael, which had no flaws?
Abraham was speechless at the birth of his son,since the text contains only the words of Sarah, who spoke of laughter and laughter. Who is this son that his friend God has sent?? We must accept this gift? Because Isaac, among all the biblical patriarchs and Sui generis. He never had the role of the protagonist and immediately appeared devoid of his own personality. He couldn't even find his wife by himself and this one, Rebecca, when she finally saw him up close, fell off the camel. Not surprisingly, several commentators, both Jews and Christians, they pointed out that Isaac may not have been a perfect son, disabled, autistic son of an aging father[6]. Let's imagine Abraham's feelings if this was to be the fulfillment of the promise. How to accept all this?
It is at this point that the biblical narrativepresents us with one of the most fascinating and dramatic episodes of all his literature. The story of the sacrifice or rather of the Akda (aqedàh, about the connection) of Isaac in chapter 22. An episode that has inspired artists and commentators from antiquity to the present day. It is not possible to account for it here, but we can propose an interpretation that is well linked with what has been said so far about the relationship between God and Abraham.
First of all it was a new beginning.Let's go back to the verse 2 the same "play play” (goes for you, towards you) the chapter 12. Again a going towards oneself. But this time the promise came true, unexpectedly. Where should Abraham go? The ascent to Mount Morìa, with only dialogue about a ram to find, it's heartbreaking. Despite the outcome in the end happy, the episode will retain its tragedy: in the silence that falls during the return home of the two, in the lack of exultation or joy, in the subsequent physical separation between the father and the son and in the death of Sara that a Midrash (midrash)[7] it follows from the fact that she came to know what was about to happen on the mountain.
So what had happened?That Abraham was called to accept God's promise, in the person of Isaac, imperfect son. Because of this, her faith was tested and she was strengthened. The friend had finally understood what had been asked of him from the beginning, even if unexpected and far from its prerogatives and psychological characteristics. But Abraham went towards him, to open up to a new self and to the you of the son finally dissolved and left free to go.
Someone, many centuries later he would say:"God chooses what is weak in the world" (1Color 1,27). This is probably what Abraham's faith had to dramatically understand: welcome the promise in the fragile person of Isaac. Only when he understands will he choose for Isaac a woman with whom to console himself for the death of his mother, he will bestow on him all his good, he will protect him from possible competitors and die "satiated with days" buried by his sons Isaac and Ishmael finally reunited (Gen 25,9).
The story of Abraham and Godcan be read in many ways. The Bible beyond the implications that refer to faith and that passing through St. Paul and James mentioned above have arrived up to today, the Law as a story of friendship. With all its tones and variations, since Abraham remains a man with his personality made up of limits and greatness. This famous biblical story tells us that being friends is definitely not a diminution or a subtraction from the relationship of faith, because it calls for condescension, complicity and waiting when, for instance, a friend is in trouble. It is not by chance, long after the story of Abraham in Genesis, one of the most beautiful expressions we find in Scripture regarding the relationship between God's messenger, Jesus, and who followed him was: "I called you friends" (GV 15, 15).
from the Hermitage, 17 June 2023
Notes
[1] N. Frye, Great code, Bible and literature, 1981 (Trad.. it.: Einaudi, 1986)
[2] The parallel between the flood and the destruction of Sodom has been grasped by many. This is total destruction. Only one family is saved in both cases. The presence of incestuous relationships in the two stories, from which non-Jewish tribes arose (Canaanites from Cam, son of Noah and Moabites and Ammonites from the daughters of Lot).
[3] Even if it's true, for they were sons of the same father, but from different mothers.
[4] Likewise Noah is commanded to make an ark of cypress “for you” (Gen 6, 14)
[5] the root of the name (zade/chet/qof) with these senses, compare 179 times in the Bible mentioned 112 times referred to Isaac in Genesis
[6] Marmorini G., Isaac, the imperfect son, claudian 2018; Baharier H., Genesis explained by my daughter, Milan 2015
[7] Nd.R. Midrash, from Hebrew Midrash, term that indicates a method of biblical exegesis of the Jewish tradition
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GREAT HOMILY BY THE METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP OF MILAN: «WHO WAS SILVIO BERLUSCONI? A MAN"
«Silvio Berlusconi was certainly a politician, he was certainly a businessman, he was certainly a character in the limelight of notoriety. But in this moment of leave and prayer, what can we say about Silvio Berlusconi? It was a man: a desire for life, a desire for love, a desire for joy. And now we celebrate the mystery of fulfillment. Here's what I can say about Silvio Berlusconi. He is a man and now he meets God".
We pastors in the care of souls get used to going up to the pulpits and preaching, we know that there are moments and particular situations in which it is not easy to give an appropriate homily, as in the case of the funeral of Silvio Berlusconi celebrated today in the Cathedral of Milan. Someone might think that the delicacy could be given by the complex personality of the deceased, a man who for several decades rode the national and international political scene. To follow with the presence of the highest state authorities, from the President of the Republic to the Prime Minister. Situations in which it is not allowed, I don't say a word, but not even a wrong sigh. However, this is not the difficulty, even if in more or less similar circumstances several bishops and priests have solved the problem by saying more or less everything without saying anything, thus avoiding any possible problems.
The Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan, S. AND. Mons. Mario Delpini, instead he was able to give a truly grandiose homily that brought everyone back down to earth in this aria of beatification of the late Knight, whose figure is part of the history of Italy and for this reason will be the subject of in-depth studies by historians and geopolitical experts for decades and decades. The Ambrosian Archbishop focused on something else: about the man Silvio Berlusconi who was undoubtedly a successful businessman, a politician who presided over the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic for four terms, a histrionic character gifted with a rare and extraordinary sense of self-irony, so much so that he repeatedly declared: «Many are tired of making fun of me, forgetting that I fool myself and that no one can do it as well as me".
Before this complex and even controversial figure, the Ambrosian Archbishop did not hide behind the “say nothing”, but he said it all by building his entire speech on this rhetorical question: «What can we say about Silvio Berlusconi?». Giving the answer right away: "It was a man". And the Ambrosian Archbishop spoke of the man with a Christian poetics that can be applied both to a celebrity like Silvio Berlusconi, or to the last of the elderly who died forgotten in a geriatric ward: a man.
Full text of the homily of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan
Live
Live. Live and love life. Live and desire a full life. To live and wish that life was good, beautiful for yourself and for loved ones. Living and understanding life as an opportunity to put the talents received to good use. Living and accepting the challenges of life. Living and going through difficult moments in life. Live and resist and don't let defeats bring you down and believe that there is always a hope of victory, of ransom, of life. To live and desire a life that never ends and have courage and trust and believe that there is always a way out even from the darkest valley. Live and not shirk the challenges, to contrasts, to insults, to criticism, and keep smiling, to challenge, to counter, to laugh at insults. To live and feel the forces run out, live and suffer the decline and keep smiling, to try, to try a way to live again. That's what can be said about a man: a desire for life, which finds its judgment and fulfillment in God.
To love and be loved
Loving and wanting to be loved. Loving and looking for love, like a promise of life, like a complicated story, like a compromised fidelity. Desiring to be loved and fearing that love can only be a concession, a condescension, a stormy and precarious passion. To love and to want to be loved forever and to experience the disappointments of love and to hope that there might be a way to a higher love, harder, bigger. Loving and walking the paths of dedication. To love and to hope. Loving and trusting. Love and surrender. This is what can be said of man: a desire for love, which finds its judgment and fulfillment in God.
To be happy
Be happy and love the holidays. Enjoy the beauty of life. Being happy without too many thoughts and without too many anxieties. To be happy with lifelong friends. Be happy with companies that give satisfaction. Being happy and wanting others to be happy too. Being happy with yourself and being surprised that others are not happy. Be happy with good things, some beautiful moments, of the applause of the people, praise from supporters. Enjoy the company. Be happy with the smallest things that make you smile, of the nice gesture, of the rewarding result. Being happy and experiencing that joy is precarious. Being happy and feeling the insinuation of a dark threat that covers the things that make you happy with greyness. Being happy and feeling lost in the face of the irremediable exhaustion of joy. This is what can be said of man: a desire for joy, which finds its judgment and fulfillment in God
I'm looking for the man
When a man is a businessman, then try to do business. It therefore has customers and competitors. It has moments of success and moments of failure. He ventures into reckless enterprises. Look at the numbers not the criteria. He has to do business. He cannot trust others too much and knows that others don't trust him too much. He is a businessman and must do business. When a man is a politician, then try to win. It has supporters and opponents. There are those who exalt it and those who cannot bear it. A politician is always a partisan. When a man is a character, then it is always on stage. It has admirers and detractors. It has those who applaud it and those who hate it. Silvio Berlusconi was certainly a politician, he was certainly a businessman, he was certainly a character in the limelight of notoriety. But in this moment of leave and prayer, what can we say about Silvio Berlusconi? It was a man: a desire for life, a desire for love, a desire for joy. And now we celebrate the mystery of fulfillment. Here's what I can say about Silvio Berlusconi. He is a man and now he meets God.
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HAPPY AND EVEN HONORED TO WORK FOR FREE, BUT WE TRY NOT TO EXAGERATE …
“Do you not know that those who perform sacred service eat what is offered in the temple? And that those who wait at the altar have a part in the altar? Similarly, the Lord has ordered that those who proclaim the Gospel live from the Gospel" [The Cor 9, 13-14].
The magazine The Island of Patmos will complete 10 years of journalistic and editorial activity in October of 2024. When we started our business, there were several who gave us less than a year to live. The result was that we moved forward with an ever-increasing number, surpassing in 2022 the two hundred million visitors in 8 year old.
In 2018 we also opened the Edizioni The Island of Patmos, whose books continue to sell well in a market made up of a niche audience, certainly not from those much more numerous "Catholics" who become cultured by jumping from one blog to another where they feed on “prophecies” e “revelations”, or whatever Facebookthey ask you to explain to them in four lines the Prologue of the Gospel of John and the incarnation of the Word of God, because on a ufology site run by an anonymous person they read that Jesus Christ was an alien.
We never asked for anything, we just limited ourselves to inserting the link to the convenient and secure account PayPal and the number of our current account at BPM in Rome, certain that those who wanted to support our work would do so without needing to be solicited to do so.
At the end of summer we have to pay the dedicated-serverand the various annual subscriptions for a total amount of 5.800 Euro. What we currently have in our account PayPaland in the current account it is however a laughable sum:
I consulted with the brothers and we decided to remember the Apostle's warning:
“Do you not know that those who perform sacred service eat what is offered in the temple? And that those who wait at the altar have a part in the altar? Similarly, the Lord has ordered that those who proclaim the Gospel live from the Gospel" [The Cor 9, 13-14].
Why hide the bitterness,especially when you have a generous temperament by nature? For this reason, I believe it is necessary to add some clarifications in the form of a question: some, or maybe many, they think that priests are lemons to be squeezed? Because the logic of the unspecified “Catholic” is the following: when he falls into need he turns to good priests, that he finds, because they are still there, perhaps less and less, but there are. But, if he has to put his hands in his pockets and contribute to the pastoral work of good priests, in this case start publishing on social media posts and photos of the worst that can be found among priests and that no one has ever denied exists and is there. Strange logic, you don't think so? When you have to take it from good priests, it is taken with both hands, but when the work of good priests needs to be supported, then you seal your wallet and go look for the worst that can be in the clergy, like everywhere, publishing cries and laments about social media in order to justify one's selfishness and greed.
For years I have dedicated myself to the apostolate with priestsand from this privileged observatory I know and see first-hand cases of elderly and sick priests who, after a life dedicated to assisting and caring for the People of God, today find themselves in conditions of loneliness and abandonment, experiencing first of all the ingratitude of the numerous people to whom they have done good as long as they had the physical strength to do it. However, if you call the Catholic-so-calledto his responsibilities towards priests, in response he publishes you on social media the photo of the priest celebrating the Holy Mass at the seaside in a bathing suit on the mattress, inserting the caption if anything: «… we should also finance these people?». He doesn't tell you, But, of the old and holy parish priest, today forgotten in a retirement home with the catheter attached to him, who saved his marriage and who convinced his wife not to abort a child who was then born and who grew up and became an adult and gave him the joy of becoming a grandfather. Some things aren't, those are not told either with photos or captions social media.
Among the various forms of ingratitude I confess that I was particularly struck by those people who, in addition to only having hands to take, believe that one should even demand from the priest, at the head of all those who have ended up in the circles of the various holy men and the various self-styled visionaries in close contact with the many speaking or crying Madonnas who reveal trembling catastrophic secrets to the various charlatans who go crazy in the square. And today, the people who fall into these networks, there are more and more. Until many of these deceived and plucked like chickens end up turning to us, than doing our duty, that is, the priests, shepherds care of souls, over the years we have helped and supported desperate people, deceived and betrayed, looking for appropriate and prudent solutions, not limiting ourselves to mere spiritual comfort but often trying to help them also through specialists or legal consultants we trust and know, who often helped them even for free, considering that the crying idiots had been reduced to chicken legs stripped of their flesh by the most voracious of the worst barkers.
Some of them happened to have sensitivity to pour 5 O 10 euros into our account to support our work, if anything after having given money to certain people for years? Of course not, the money is given without hesitation to those who say they talk to the Madonna, who boast psychic gifts, of foresight or healing, or that at a distance of 55 years after his death they present themselves as spiritual children of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, to whom the Holy Capuchin, needless to say, revealed sensational things that they, in turn, they reveal only to a select few, obviously paying, of course!
I have always had a bad relationship with numbers,But, despite not knowing how to divide without a calculator, I also get to some elementary calculations: how they can, a man or woman not even sixty years old to have been the favorite spiritual children of this Holy Friar who died in 1968 and having received extraordinary confidences from him? Padre Pio of Pietrelcina perhaps went to take his spiritual children from nursery or nursery school to make them privileged custodians of his secrets?
My speaking is naked and raw? Yup, because this must be the case with all the bitterness of the case on the part of a priest who, together with his fellow editors, has spent time, energy, human and spiritual resources for many people, including those who, after having even had their underwear taken off by the worst charlatans, came to us crying for help. And they had help, immediate and without sparing any of ourselves, that we often stayed up late at night responding and taking care of their problems. But, in exchange, they didn't even offer us a coffee, this is what hurts, quite a lot of.
More than asking – something we have never done – I confide bitterness to you, which I believe has its own reason for being, let those who have benefited and continue to benefit from our hard work do the rest, while forgetting that "those who proclaim the Gospel live by the Gospel".
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NEW DESTINATION AND MINISTRY FOR OUR EDITOR FATHER IVAN LIGUORI
The Provincial Minister of the Capuchins of Sardinia has asked Father Ivano to accept a new assignment, however very delicate, as formator at the Convent of Sanluri where the house is located where aspirants to religious life are welcomed for their vocational discernment.
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Our Capuchin editor Ivano Liguoriis a cornerstone of our magazine, his precious collaboration began six years ago, at the time in which he carried out the ministry of chaplain at the Brotzu Hospital, large hospital in Cagliari, where years later he is always remembered together with his brother Giancarlo Pinna by the medical and paramedical staff, by former patients and their families who occasionally continue to send messages of esteem and gratitude to our editorial staff in his memory.
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Great expert in health pastoral care and young man endowed with a rare humanity based on a solid faith and equally solid doctrine, Father Ivano knew how to see, in nine years of delicate hospital service, the suffering Christ in the sick (cf.. Mt 25, 35-44).
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In September 2019 is sent to Laconi, in the province of Oristano, as guardian and parish priest at the convent with adjoining parish cared for by the Capuchin Friars Minor in the town of origin of Ignatius of Laconi, in a situation that is not exactly easy and with several problems to heal. From the beginning he dedicated himself with great dedication to the care of souls, taking care of the decorum of the sacred liturgy, always available with the confreres for confessions and spiritual directions, offering important formation meetings and cycles of catechesis, several of which are also published in video on these columns in the column Breakfast with Cappuccino, including a series of catecheses dedicated to the Sacrament of Penance, the confession. In the meantime he dedicated himself to his publicist activity on our magazine, that without him it would not be what it is today, signing over 100 articles of great breadth and profound pastoral and doctrinal depth, while giving the press two books: From the From Prozan to Prozac(2021) e The sign of Cain (2021).
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Before leaving Laconi administered Holy Baptism to a beautiful little girl from 10 year old, visible sign of the fruits produced by his four years of pastoral activity carried out in that town.
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The Provincial Minister of the Capuchins of Sardinia asked Father Ivanoto accept a new assignment, however very delicate, as formator at the Convent of Sanluri where the house is located where aspirants to religious life are welcomed for their vocational discernment.
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Also Father Giancarlo Pinna,with whom he shared many years of ministry at the large hospital in Cagliari and that in September 2019 it was also transferred to Laconi, leave that location, but not alone. In fact, the two brothers arrived in Laconi, taking with them the new convent Tac, the cat who for years lived in the chaplains' lodgings and who today lives serenely and happily in that religious house. This time Father Giancarlo will bring to his new destination a dachshund as affectionate as pimp.
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In charge of taking care of the retirement home of Oristano where the sick Franciscan Tertiaries live, Father Giancarlo will arrive with the most therapeutic that can exist in that context for elderly and sick people: a ruffian dachshund. Ancient and pure Franciscan pedagogy.
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THE THE BODY OF THE LORD. A FESTIVAL TO BE REDISCOVERED IN A TIME WHEN EUCHARISTIC CULT SEEMS "OUT OF FASHION" IN THE STREETS DESERTED BY SHEPHERDS AND OCCUPIED BY "SACRED PROCESSIONS" OF THE "POLITICALLY CORRECT"
We are sorry to note - as evidenced by numerous messages from priests who arrived on our Island of Patmos in the past days - that in many of our cities by now the procession of The body of the Lord it has become a memory. Even the Diocese of Rome did not have its procession this year: on the other hand, on the eve of The body of the Lord however, it was used to carry out the meeting conference on human fraternity entitled Not Alone, which also included the presence of the Holy Father, did not materialize due to the last surgery.
In recent times we really saw more or less everything. Holy Masses celebrated on inflatable mattresses [cf.. WHO, WHO, WHO], on motorcycles or anything else used for altars; with sacred ministers in bathing suits or with clothes that to judge inappropriate for the Holy Eucharistic Sacrifice would be a mere understatement. Holy Thursday reposition altars that, from places that should express love and prayer towards the most precious treasure left to us by Our Lord Jesus Christ, which have become a place of outlet for the most extravagant priestly paturnies [cf.. WHO].
The body of the Lord June 2020, Eucharistic blessing from the cathedral square imparted by Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, Metropolitan Archbishop of Florence
It then comes as dew on the fleece in the desert the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, commonly said The body of the Lord, which the Church celebrates on the first Thursday after the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, or the following Sunday. Was written:
“How the Most Holy Eucharist represents the center and summit of all our religious life, as well as the fulcrum of the liturgy, the highest moment of Christian life and the holiest of sacraments, so the holiday of The body of the Lord, apart from Easter and Christmas, it is the most radiant of the liturgical year, because it marks the triumph of the Eucharistic King, and its institution is the most eloquent expression of the religious and ecclesial life of the Middle Ages" (Bernhard Ridder, Ecclesiastical history textbook, Pauline, p. 368).
The origin of this holiday it is traced back historically in the year 1247 in the diocese of Liège, where the bishop introduced this celebration in reaction to the theses of Berengar of Tours (998-1088), according to which the presence of Christ in the Eucharist was not real but only symbolic. The Bishop was inspired by the mystic Saint Juliana of Cornillon (1192-1258), Augustinian nun of Mount Cornillon Convent, who had a vision of the Church as a young man, appeared to her under the guise of a full moon, marked by a dark spot, to indicate the absence of a holiday. Later she had the vision of Christ himself who entrusted her with the task of working to ensure that the feast of the Blessed Sacrament was established, to revive the faith of Christians in the real presence in the Eucharist and to expiate the sins committed against the Eucharistic Sacrament. Become in 1222 prioress of her convent sought advice from the leading theologians of her time (tra cui Jacques Pantaleon, future Pope Urban IV) to request the establishment of the party. This brought the bishop of Liège, Robert of Thourotte (+1246) to call in 1246 a local synod ― because at the time the synods dealt with serious things ... ― which established that from the following year the feast of the The body of the Lordin the diocese of Liège. Incidentally: at the time the bishops had the right to establish liturgical feasts within their own diocese.
In 1264 Pope Urban IV who had already contributed and supported the party of The body of the Lordin Liège, also following the recognition of the Eucharistic Miracle of Orvieto-Bolsena del 1263, with the bubble Pass out of this world, established the solemnity of The body of the Lordfor the whole universal Church, raising it to a feast of obligation and fixing its celebration for the Thursday after the Octave of Pentecost. On the Eucharistic miracle of Bolsena-Orvieto, however, we leave the floor to our confrere from Orvieto Marco Nunzi, who is an expert connoisseur [cf.. WHO]. I am interested in underlining some liturgical particularities of this feast:
Eucharistic liturgy.The texts of the readings of the three Masses corresponding to the festive liturgical cycles A, B e C, first of all they present the symbolic figures of the Old Testament concerning the Eucharist such as the mannagiven as food to Israel in the wilderness, the burnt offerings e i sacrifices of fellowship with the Lord, the blood of the covenant, the bread and wine offered by Melchizedek to Abraham. In the second reading of the same three Masses, the Apostle Paul states that communion with the Body of Christ is an eloquent sign of unity, of intimate friendship and "incorporation" in Christ, as well as faith and complete self-giving to him. The text of the Letter to the Hebrews (B) presents Jesus offering himself to purify our conscience from the works of death in order to serve the living God. In the Gospel passages it comes part of Discourse on the Bread of Life held by Jesus in Capernaum (cf.. GV 6), the last supper of Jesus and the institution of the Eucharist (cf.. MC 14, 12-6. 22-26) and the multiplication of the loaves (cf.. LC 9, 11-17). In particular, the stupendous sequence should be underlined Lauda Sion who sings of Christ the true Bread of Life who “feeds us, it defends us and leads us to eternal goods in the land of the living".
Liturgy of the hours.Beyond the hymns of Put lingua, the Sacred festivals he was born in The word coming from above, unsurpassed in content and musical melody, the psalms of the Office of Readings, of Lauds and Vespers summarize all the sentiments that a believing and loving soul can express to the Lord, who in the Eucharist gives us the eloquent sign of his infinite love for us. The two readings present the Eucharist as the center of the whole history of salvation, which has its preparation in the Old Testament and its full implementation in the New Testament. San Tommaso Aquino, in the second reading, don't hesitate to say
"the Only Begotten Son of God, wanting to make us partakers of his divinity […] became man to lift us to the heights of God […] in fact, he offered his body to God the Father as a victim on the altar of the cross for our reconciliation. He shed his blood making it count as a price and as a lavage because, redeemed from humiliating slavery, we were cleansed of all sins. Because, at last, remain in us a constant reminder of so great a benefit, he left his Body as food and his Blood as drink to his faithful, under the species of bread and wine. Oh, wonderful banquet! What can be more valuable? No sacrament is healthier than this. The Eucharist is the memorial of Christ's passion, it is the greatest of all the wonders he wrought, it is the admirable document of his immense love for men» (Opusc. 57, on the Feast of the Body of the Lord, lect. 1-4).
Eucharistic Procession.As we have already said, In order to encourage devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, Pope Urban IV extended the feast of The body of the Lord to the whole Church. While making no mention in the Bull of a Eucharistic procession, he immediately got into the habit of showing the faithful the Eucharistic Species during a solemn procession with the Blessed Sacrament, which evidently has always stood out for its special importance and significance in the pastoral life of Christian communities. It therefore agrees that, where current circumstances allow it and where the procession can truly be a sign of faith and adoration, it is preserved. In this case it is good that the procession with the Blessed Sacrament takes place immediately after Mass, in which the Host is consecrated and then carried in procession. The songs and prayers that are made along the way, lead everyone to manifest their faith in Christ, solely intent on the light of the Lord (cf.. Rite of Communion outside Mass and Eucharistic Worship, NN. 102 – 104).
Sorry to see - as attested by numerous messages from priests who arrived on our Island of Patmos in the past days - that in many of our cities by now the procession of The body of the Lord it has become a memory. Even the Diocese of Rome did not have its procession this year: on the other hand, on the eve of The body of the Lordhowever, it was used to carry out the meetingconference on human fraternity entitled Not Alone, which also included the presence of the Holy Father, did not materialize due to the last surgery.
That of Rome is just one example of an elegant episcopal "apology".― with lots of shrugs to those who instead point out the importance of such a gesture ― to leave our streets and squares to others, most of the time transformed into large open-air trattorias, in this sense it would be enough to take a tour of Piazza del Duomo in Florence to realize it …
Perhaps on this trend of throwing away all our traditionsto be "politically correct" it would be better to make a serene but urgent reflection, even if the discomfort and suffering that the priests and consequently the faithful are experiencing in an ever greater form, it would seem to matter little or nothing.
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THE EUCHARISTIC MIRACLE THAT HAPPENED BETWEEN THE CITIES OF ORVIETO AND BOLSENA AND THE INSTITUTION OF THE SOLEMNITY OF THE BODY OF THE LORD
Witness of the miracle of Bolsena, the Corporal of Orvieto is the "signature" of Jesus alive and true in the Eucharistic Bread, which sweeps away doubt and lets us penetrate those sacred mysteries which are reached through the reason of faith: Faith and Reason (faith and reason). Or as Saint Anselm of Aosta teaches: Faith seeking understanding (faith requires the intellect) which takes shape from the saying of Saint Augustine I believe in order to understand (I believe to understand).
The Solemnity of The body of the Lordsee the cities of Orvieto e Bolsena united in a profound inseparable combination. Because it's true, the prodigious sign took place in Bolsena, but the "cradle" of the Solemnity from which it was then established for the whole Church remains and is Orvieto. Just as Jerusalem cannot do without Bethlehem, in fact, there would be no resurrection without first the nativity, in the same way the Feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord would not have been proclaimed without the prodigious event that gave rise to it.
Marco Nunzi and Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Chapel of the Sacred Corporal, Orvieto Cathedral
The history of factswe can summarize it like this: in the distant XIII century Peter, boemo priest, he was tormented by a doubt. He couldn't explain himself like during Holy Mass, through the transubstantiation, the bread and the wine could really change into the Body and Blood of Christ. Thus he undertook a long pilgrimage to Rome to pray at the tomb of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the hope of finding an answer to his excruciating torment. Once in Bolsena he decided to celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice on the tomb of the martyr Christine. During the Eucharistic canon, on the words of the consecration of the sacred species, in her trembling hands the Host visibly became true flesh that, dripping copiously alive blood, he implored the corporal and some stones from the altar.
For a mysterious design of Providence, in those times the Supreme Pontiff resided in Orvieto Urban IV, present in his residence in Orvieto during that miraculous event. As soon as the Pope learned of the miraculous event, he instructed the Bishop to go to nearby Bolsena to examine what had happened and bring the signs of the miracle to Orvieto. Went down to the foot of the Orvieto cliff to go to meet the Bishop, on seeing the sacred Corporal the Pope knelt down moved and, taken into his hands with great veneration this Holy linen, he returned in procession to the Church of Orvieto among the songs of the people in celebration.
Urban IV, many years before the Bolsena events and of his election as Supreme Pontiff, met in Liège, in Belgium, Juliana of Cornillon. The humble religious shared with him some revelations she had received from the Lord. These concerned the need to establish a new liturgical solemnity in honor of the Holy Eucharist, Admirable Sacrament of the Love of God and His Presence. Dad, mindful of Giuliana's confidences and with the eyes of the heart still fixed on the Precious Blood imprinted on the Corporal, it was decided to establish by the City of Orvieto, with the bubble Pass out of this world of 11 August 1264 the feast of Corpus Domini extended to the whole Universal Church.
The Pope also asked Thomas Aquinas,well-known Dominican theologian, he was also then resident in Orvieto, to draw up the Divine Office of the new Solemnity. Thus were born the texts of the five wonderful Eucharistic hymns: the Put linguawhich ends with the well-known Only then, the lodge Sacred Solemnities, the Bread of Angels, the You will find the word from above e O saving victim, which are still part of the Liturgy of the Church today.
Concerning the writing of hymns,tradition hands down a particular episode: Thomas Aquinas, before presenting himself before Urban IV to propose the hymn Put lingua, he went to the church of the convent of Orvieto to pray in front of the Crucifix. Thomas asked the Lord to let him know his "opinion" on what had been written. The Crucifix answered simply: «You wrote well about me or Tommaso, what reward do you want? The great theologian replied: “Nothing but yourself, o Lord”».
What it means for us today to celebrate this great Solemnity? The immediate reminder is to go back to what Jesus did and said at that last supper. We contemplate his gesture: He took some bread and said “this is me, take and eat."
A sign, the bread, which represents his life, what was his whole life: Donated bread, life given, not even a crumb of this life, not even an instant of his time did Jesus keep for himself, it was all a gift to the brothers. What does Jesus say to us when he declares “this is me, take and eat” that is, assimilate this life proposal that was mine. Eating that bread means "you welcome me into your life and by welcoming me you welcome the logic of Love that leads to the construction of a new world." Because every disciple who eats this Bread is willing to be completely bread of life for others as Jesus was and continues to be through us.
Witness of the miracle of Bolsena, the Corporal of Orvietoit is the "signature" of Jesus alive and true in the Eucharistic Bread, which sweeps away doubt and lets us penetrate those sacred mysteries which are reached through the reason of faith: Faith and Reason (faith and reason). Or as it teaches Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta: Faith seeking understanding (faith requires the intellect) which takes shape from the saying of St. AugustineI believe in order to understand(I believe to understand).
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* Mons. Marco Nunzi (01.06.1964) he is presbyter of the Diocese of Orvieto-Todi and canon of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta
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THE BODY OF THE LORD. THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE PRESENCE AND COMMUNION
"In truth, verily I tell you: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day"
in the great feast of The body of the Lord Jesus definitively offers himself to us in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. The Liturgy of the Word tells us that in those days, while the inhabitants of Capernaum listen to his words, they are knocked out by a big announcement: «I am the living bread, came down from heaven" (GV 6, 51). Words that initially cause some confusion in them, to the point of raising protests. They almost seem to expect a God who is a bit’ more understandable, compared to those words in which Jesus expounds what is the great mystery of the Eucharist. With words that at first can only stun, outlining a great and tremendous mystery. Jesus, the incarnate son of God, choose to become that piece of bread and that sip of wine. In the Eucharistic species, Christ in body is present at every Holy Mass celebrated, blood, soul and divinity. Those Eucharistic species become for us the bread and wine for the path of eternity. They become the new hidden manna, the food that allows us to obtain the lifeblood of grace to walk in holiness and justice every day of our lives.
As we more or less know from the Catechism, the real presence of Jesus is possible because during the Holy Mass, at the time of consecration, through the words of the priest recited on the Eucharistic species the miracle of transubstantiation. The substances of bread and wine, while maintaining the same look, they are converted into the substance of the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Before the announcement of this mystery the Capernaites are scandalized, because they don't understand it, partly because you lack the tools to understand, partly because they have a somewhat hard heart locked up in pharisaic formalisms and memorized formulas which, however, do not have a concrete development in charity. So here Jesus offers them two explanations:
"In truth, verily I tell you: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day" (GV 6, 53).
Jesus explains that assimilate his body it means that the Father has sent him as a new and eternal manna from heaven that completes the manna that was given to the Jews in the desert. So Jesus is the one who in that manna, in that bread, he makes himself present because God the Father makes him present through a miracle, this is in synthesis the discourse that he presents to the listeners; and makes it present because through his bread Jesus arrives in full and strong intimacy with those who welcome him. The body of the one who receives the new and eternal manna becomes the temple, the new home for the Lord.
This shows on the one hand the real presence, as we said at the beginning, in which the believer is purified and transformed by God to be in imitation of Christ. In a sense, as the Greek Fathers say, the assumption of the Body of Christ makes him similar to us: because the Eucharist is the Sacrament that offers all of us the grace of the presence and imitation of Jesus in our concrete daily life.
Like this, imitating Jesus,all of us can fellowship with others and climb a path of holiness. To be holy means to operate the charity and love of God, therefore to let our neighbor enter a path of eternity. Jesus himself tells us so: the love of Christ in the Eucharist leads us to eternal life and the resurrection of the body.
As well as then,as I read these eternal words I wonder: the great mystery of love truly present in the Eucharist, scandalizes perhaps even today? Perhaps our sanctification also passes through this. Be Eucharistic witnesses, because first of all we are the first to be eucharistized, that is, we are poured out by the grace of the real presence, and its effects of joy and satisfaction can be authentic witnesses of the beauty of its presence. Show the joy of being in communion with Him, thus it leads us to make communion with the whole Church and witnesses with all humanity.
We can draw from this joy every time we approach the embrace of Eucharistic adoration. We lay our hearts, our existential wounds on the Eucharistic heart of Jesus and we will be poured out by a great love.
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