Who was Maria pregnant with?? Joseph's dream. An appointment not to be missed with the Club Theologicum

WHOSE WAS MARIA PREGNANT? JOSEPH'S DREAM. APPOINTMENT NOT TO BE MISSED WITH THE CLUB THELOGICUM

Joseph wanted to leave Mary because he realized she was pregnant and thought she had cheated on him with someone else. As he was mulling over the situation and then secretly leaving her, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream

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What to do with Maria? Who is she pregnant with?? How to avoid scandal? In the middle of the night, an Angel breaks into his dream, so that Joseph enters the Dream of God:

«But while he was thinking about these things, behold, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said to him: «Giuseppe, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary with you, your bride, because what is generated in her comes from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son and you will name him Jesus: indeed he will save his people from their sins […]» [Mt 1, 20-23]

 

On this issue reflect together tonight, 15 December, our Dominican theologian Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci together with Sister Angelika.

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Statement from the Bishop of Padua regarding the presence of Mr. Alessandro Minutella in the territory of his Diocese

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

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

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

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

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

December, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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Note about the author of “Codice Katzinger” and the ridiculous saga of "no one answers the merits of my questions"

THE AUTHOR OF “CODICE KATZINGER” AND THE RIDICULOUS SAGA OF "NO ONE ANSWER THE MERITS OF MY QUESTIONS"

To be seriously concerned for all the souls of the fragile and confused that they drag along in the grave error, causing serious damage to individuals and entire families, turning them into hate machines against "the false satanic church of the false usurper and apostate pope Bergoglio", it is a duty which no pastor in the care of souls can shirk.

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That precious human doubt that transforms us into lights of the living God

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THAT PRECIOUS HUMAN DOUBT THAT TRANSFORMS US INTO LIGHTS OF THE LIVING GOD

Doubt assails John the Baptist during his imprisonment, when he has to experience the solitude of the night of the soul and of faith he begins to have doubts and to think that the announcement made about Jesus is not entirely true…

 

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Dear Readers and friends of The Island of Patmos,

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In our life it can happen that we see things so beautiful that we don't believe they are real. Perhaps we have forgotten how to be surprised. Children are true masters of this. Therefore, when something joyful and beautiful happens, we easily ask ourselves: «… it really happened? Or maybe it's all just a dream?». In that moment we are all a little’ like the philosopher Descartes who writes in a famous passage of the Metaphysical Meditations:

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«Thinking about it more carefully, so clearly I realize that it is never possible to distinguish waking from dreams with certain criteria, to be astonished; and it is precisely this amazement that almost brings me back to believe that I am dreaming even now".

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But then here is Jesus who comes to give us a nice wake-up call, inviting us on this Advent journey to dispel doubts because what is happening is not a dream. God takes human nature, he becomes a man, to be close to all of us. It's all true. So what is unthinkable and what seems like an unattainable dream is actually reality.

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This doubt after all, at a certain point John the Baptist also had it. In Gospel of this Third Sunday of Advent let's read:

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"During that time, Giovanni, who was in prison, having heard of the works of Christ, through his disciples he sent word to him: «Are you the one who must come or we must wait for someone else?».

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Doubt assails John the Baptist during his incarceration, when he has to experience the solitude of the night of the soul and of faith he begins to have doubts and to think that the announcement made about Jesus is not entirely true. In the hour of abandonment it is easy to think that everything is too good to be true, exactly like it happens to us too. Not because we were all actually incarcerated, but because we may have spent periods of isolation, of loneliness, of abandonment. We felt alone and thought that Jesus had not really come for us too, that he wasn't really there at that moment, in our suffering. This Advent let us try to remember these moments to reread them in the light of Christmas: Jesus was there in that existential night.

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Jesus in the Gospel in fact he reassures the Baptist that he is truly the Son of God, he who, by being born, came to illuminate the darkness of the world and of man and make it shine. To make us shine like him on Christmas night is the light of the world. And let the light of our lives shine.

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May Advent also be the journey of understanding and rereading with the gaze of that faith which in the light of the Bethlehem cave transforms us all into little lights of the Lord. We can all become witnesses to the message that that little child is the son of God, who is true God and true man.

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God guide us and accompany us in this season of Advent, because with his grace and his gifts, let us become in the Lord his Christmas Gift for the suffering world.

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Santa Maria Novella in Florence, 11 December 2022

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The Education “Sacramentum” and liturgical abuses: tell it to the Bishops, don't tell Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk

EDUCATION THE SACRAMENT OF REDEMPTION AND THE LITURGICAL ABUSE: TELL IT TO THE BISHOPS, DON'T TELL MARK ZUCKERBERG AND ELON MUSK

In conclusion, thinking about it, every community of the faithful always ends up having the priest it deserves, exactly like us priests, that we often end up "condemned" to a just and deserved punishment to have the bishops we deserve.

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Iour brother Ivano Liguori he dealt with the problem of liturgical abuses, even if in the specific case the abuse had the connotations of sacrilege perpetrated during the celebration of the Holy Mass [cf.. WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO].

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in liturgical language it is customary to speak of the Canon of the Holy Mass. The word stock canon it is the precise norm to be followed to celebrate divine worship. The fee is by its nature fixed and rigid. Unfortunately, when certain terms are used, today many tend to turn up their noses because they do not know the true meaning of words and end up confusing "fixed" with fixism and "rigid" with rigidity. Nothing more wrong. The celebrant is a faithful and scrupulous instrument of the sacred liturgy, non-master or arbitrary master, worse than ever: free creator. The sacred liturgy invests the life of the entire universal Church, of which it is an expression and common prayer of praise to God. Creatively abusing the sacred liturgy means making it unstable and taking away that univocal dimension, common and universal prayer. This is why the liturgical abuse, whether small or big, gives rise to a double fracture: with the communion of the Church and with its dimension of universality. We recall that the etymology of the word "Catholic", dal greco throughout, it means universal and thus indicates its universality.

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The 25 March 2004, Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, “by disposition of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, drawn up by the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in agreement with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith” the Instruction was issued Sacramentum. Subtitle: «On some things that are to be observed and avoided concerning the Most Holy Eucharist».

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The final closing of this Document, with the subjects involved, immediately makes us understand that we are not dealing with a series of pious recommendations but with a text that is binding on both conscience and practice, and whoever does not comply commits a real abuse, the gravity of which can reach the point of actual sacrilege, as unfortunately we have also seen recently.

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Someone will object that in this way the wings of initiative and creativity are clipped. Generally these types of objections come from the mouth of those who have made relativism - a truly great corrosive disease of the contemporary Church - a sort of norma normans non normata, forgetting that the Church, of a treasure that is so absolute, because it was left as a gift by the Divine Redeemer, is keeper, no mistress. In the Eucharistic liturgy the Church celebrates the perennial actualization of the saving action of the Lord Jesus in her life, in his passion, in his crucifixion, in his death and resurrection [cf.. n. 40], for this after the consecration of the sacred species, the People of God acclaim the living body and blood of Christ present in soul, spirit and divinity:

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"We announce your death, Lord, we proclaim your resurrection, waiting for your coming".

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There is a basic question which runs through the entire education: it is really necessary to pay attention to liturgical abuses? It is not enough to reaffirm the importance and the need to follow the liturgical norms according to the spirit of the Second Vatican Council which affirms:

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«the integral public cult is exercised by the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, that is, from the Head and its members. As a result, every liturgical celebration, as the work of Christ the priest and of his Body which is the Church, it is sacred action par excellence» [Holy Council, n. 7].

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On the columns of this magazine It has been explained several times over the years that if, after six decades since the closing of a great ecumenical council, the Church has found itself forced to publish two very specific corrective documents - these are the Lord Jesus (c)he reaffirms the salvific uniqueness of Christ and his Church, to follow with the Sacramentum in which he refers to the basic foundations of art celebration - something went wrong. That said, it is good to clarify that it was not the Council that malfunctioned, element of necessary pastoral renewal which the Church needed, exactly as it was four centuries ago another great Council, that of Trent. To malfunction, indeed sometimes very badly, it was the post-council interpreters of the so-called spirit of the Council who often ended up generating an idea of ​​the Council all their own. this is what didn't work and generated the problems we sadly have to deal with today. Who takes advantage of certain objective data, from doctrinal bewilderment to often almost institutionalized liturgical abuses, to impute the blame to the last Council of the Church, one of two: or sin of profound ignorance, or, out of pure ideology, consciously lies.

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In the Encyclical Letter Church of the Eucharist preceding education by one year Sacramentum the Holy Pontiff John Paul II recalls that the liturgical norms

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“they are a concrete expression of the authentic ecclesiality of the Eucharist; this is their deepest sense. The liturgy is never anyone's private property, nor of the celebrant, nor of the community in which the Mysteries are celebrated. The priest who faithfully celebrates the Mass according to the liturgical norms and the community which conforms to them demonstrate, in a silent but eloquent way, their love for the Church" [cf.. n. 52].

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Obviously that's not enough only one external participation, because celebrating the Eucharist requires faith, hope and charity. In this regard, the Instruction states Sacramentum:

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“A purely external observance of the rules, as is evident, would conflict with the essence of the sacred liturgy, in which Christ the Lord wants to gather his Church, why it is, with him, “one body and one spirit”. The external act must be, therefore, enlightened by the faith and charity which unite us to Christ and to one another and generate love for the poor and afflicted".

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Abuses have always existed, also in the so-called "Everlasting Mass", neologism invented by whose mind, playing with Latin, it ignores not only the history of the liturgy, but the same history of the Church. However it is good to remember that as far as the Eucharistic celebration is concerned, not all abuses have the same weight. If in fact it can happen to inadvertently get the color of a sacred vestment wrong, to mistakenly use an ordinary preface when the liturgy provides for one of its own, or to use unsuitable songs, in this case we are in the realm of human error. Other abuses threaten instead: or to invalidate what is being celebrated, or to manifest an absolute lack of Eucharistic faith, producing devastating effects on the People of God, in an ever higher and more disturbing decay of the Eucharistic cult and of the perception of its sacredness which supports the very structure of the Church, which is in itself a Eucharistic mystery, because it is founded on the body and blood of the Word of God made man. Other abuses, on the other hand, risk generating confusion among the people of God, or even to desecrate the celebration itself. That is why abuse cannot be taken lightly, as if they were … excesses of creativity.

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One thing is certain: all members of the Church need liturgical formation, which is sadly missing today. The Second Vatican Council specifies that it is absolutely necessary to give first place to the liturgical formation of the clergy [cf.. Holy Council, n. 14]. But it is also true that they exist in one or another ecclesial context, abuses that contribute to obscuring the right faith and the Catholic doctrine on this wonderful Sacrament [cf.. Church of the Eucharist, n. 10]. The Sacramentum specifies that "Abuses are often rooted in a false concept of freedom" [cf.. n. 7]. “Arbitrary acts, indeed, do not contribute to an effective renewal" [cf.. n. 11]. It is good to clarify what has been reaffirmed in several acts and documents of the magisterium: "Such abuses have nothing to do with the authentic spirit of the Council and must be corrected by the Pastors with an attitude of prudent firmness" [cf.. John Paul II, 40 anniversary of the conciliar Constitution on the Liturgy, Apostolic letter Spirit and bride, n. 15]. The Instruction clarifies the same Sacramentum:

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“To those who modify the liturgical texts on their own authority, it is important to point out that the sacred liturgy is intimately connected with the principles of doctrine, and the use of unapproved texts and rites consequently causes it to weaken, or get lost altogether, the necessary link between the the law of prayer the A law of belief» [cf.. n. 10], (known Latin expression which in the language of the sacred liturgy means: the law of prayer is the law of believing).

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For Catholic believers reading this Instruction would indeed be very instructive, it is no coincidence that it is called Education. Surely it will be much more instructive than looking for unlikely answers about social media, if not worse, improvise liturgists and give answers that often one is not really able to give, contributing in this way only to generate confusion and sterile controversy, but above all to increase the lack of knowledge of the many who, in increasing numbers, but they assume they know. In fact, if the Church makes certain texts and documents available to the faithful, it is precisely to instruct them also on how it is good and proper to react to the liturgical abuses of certain celebrants. Therefore it is of little use to blame the priest forge of liturgical abuses on a page Facebook. The Church indicates precisely which are the errors and abuses that no celebrant must commit, after which it indicates to the faithful how to act and who to contact. He does not exhort them to go looking for improbable answers where it is impossible to find them, or worse to argue where the controversy will end up being something solely an end in itself.

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Many would be examples, let's pick one at random: several times it happened to us priests to collect the discomfort of the faithful who complained about the unjustified use of extraordinary ministers of Communion, if anything, while the celebrant was seated at the headquarters and a couple of lay people were distributing the Most Holy Eucharist. We are undoubtedly dealing with a serious abuse, the Instruction itself specifies it by clarifying:

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«It is reprehensible the practice of those Priests who, although present at the celebration, however, they abstain from distributing Communion, entrusting the laity with this task" [cf.. n. 157].

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This rule was in turn preceded twenty years earlier by a reply of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments [11 July 1984: AAS 76 (1984) p. 746]. This delicate task entrusted to the laity is in itself an altogether extraordinary ministry, in fact, it pertains to ordained ministers, to the presbyter and the deacon, distribute Holy Communion to the faithful. Only in cases where the ordained ministers are not sufficient for the large number of people, appeal can be made to the ministers of Communion, who exercise a wholly extraordinary ministry.

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Faced with abuses of this kind and to the numerous others described in this Instruction, on which it would not be possible to dwell, the Catholic faithful are required to contact their bishop, certainly not a Facebook e Twitter, because our dioceses are not governed by either Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk, who among other things cannot exercise any power over priests or admonish them for any reason.

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Before the objective responsibilities of our clergy, defective and sinful, we don't back down, indeed we are the first to admit the obvious mistakes of the few or many of our confreres who unfortunately seem to celebrate at times almost with their feet. However, the responsibilities of those faithful are no less serious, or presumed such, that instead of informing the bishop, as they should do, they think they can complain with the rag of their clothes on social media, even better if behind a fantasy name, because in that case they will become extremely aggressive and severe, rather than act as God commands and assume all their responsibilities as Catholic believers, simply informing the bishop.

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In conclusion, thinking about it, every community of the faithful always ends up having the priest it deserves, exactly like us priests, that we often end up "condemned" to a just and deserved punishment to have the bishops we deserve.

Florence, 10 December 2022

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With the figure of John the Baptist we rediscover humility in the precious desert of Advent

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WITH THE FIGURE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST WE REDISCOVER HUMILITY IN THE PRECIOUS DESERT OF ADVENT

The Forerunner, the Baptist, he is the one who speaks in the desert. Wear very sparse clothing, it fed on plants and locusts. This is the typical condition of someone who is in a purification phase of their life.

 

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Dear friends and readers of The Island of Patmos,

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anyone who has played a sport, for example football, swimming, horse riding…reminds you of an instructor, an educator, or someone who coached and accompanied him until he became a good footballer, swimmer or jockey …

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In today's Gospel the figure of John the Baptist enters the scene. He who acts as a bridge between the Old and New Testaments and who is similar to the coach we met on the football pitch, in the swimming pool or at the riding stables, prepares us for the way. In this case the way of God. He is introduced to us immediately at the beginning of the pericope:

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«In those days John the Baptist appeared to preach in the Judean desert, saying: «Be converted, because the kingdom of heaven is near!». He is the one who was announced by the prophet Isaiah when he said: The voice of one crying in the wilderness:/ Prepare the way of the Lord, / his paths straight!».

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The Baptist tells us many things, including that the ancient Jewish pact will be modified for an epochal and definitive change. Who, Matthew himself, reports the words of the Baptist who announces a conversion for the coming of the kingdom of heaven, which is close. What does he mean by kingdom of heaven? There is no doubt that for us and the time in which we live the Baptist announces the presence of God and the coming of Christ in history. But before this there is an important detail: the same Isaiah quoted in the Gospel text announces the arrival of an announcer, of a precursor in the desert who will accompany the awareness of the coming of God into our lives. Here then is that Jesus is announced in the desert by someone who prepares his way so that all members of the people can welcome him.

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There is a big announcement for us too of the community of believers. Here Battista is in the person of the church, we theologians will say it represents the whole Church that, despite his defections and ours, that we compose it and that we are all sinners born with original sin, she is the one who helps us get to Jesus. God through the whole Church helps us to straighten our crooked paths to get back on the correct path towards God.

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Now the precursor, the Baptist, he is the one who speaks in the desert. He wears very shabby clothing, it fed on plants and locusts. This is the typical condition of someone who is in a purification phase of their life. The Baptist probably lived a form of life similar to that of the Essenes who had their community at Qumran, a Jewish sect, we would say today, strictly observed. He prepares the way in that desert which can be a physical place but also an interior attitude. In the desert you can travel routes in the sand that you didn't know about. All you need is a wise and attentive guide who knows the desert first. Expert as John was for those he wanted to help convert and he did so through the baptism of conversion that he administered. It was certainly not the sacramental baptism that we know today, but a purification rite that took place through the immersion in the waters of the Jordan of those who had decided to confess and recognize their sins. A penitential practice that washed away sins, from faults and imperfections.

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After passing through the desert sand, you really need refreshing water. Even in the life of faith that we live now in this Advent. Let us rediscover what the sacrament of washing and cleansing our soul is for us, that is, confession. In which after having examined the desertifications of all mortal sins, we can receive the outpouring and washing of reconciliation.

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We ask the Lord to rediscover humility as the basis for daily conversion, to travel through our existential deserts and drink from the always thirst-quenching water of God's love.

Amen!

Santa Maria Novella in Florence, 3 December 2022

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The Author of the Katzinger Code has chosen a target that he does not forget and against which no one has ever won in history

THE AUTHOR OF CODICE KATZINGER WE HAVE CHOSEN A TARGET THAT WE NEVER FORGET AND AGAINST WHICH NO ONE IN HISTORY HAS EVER WON

With the Church, divine and human institution, with which certain characters in history have not won, the Author of the really thinks he can do it Codice Katzinger? In that case, all that remains is to send him all the most sincere wishes.

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Give her “space bales” on the Code of Canon Law to Benedict XVI indicated as a great Latinist who cannot make mistakes

GIVE HER “SPACE BALES” ON THE CODE OF CANON LAW BENEDICT XVI INDICATED AS A GREAT LATINIST WHO CANNOT COMMIT ERRORS

If the theories of certain conspiracy circles were true, we will be faced with a vile liar of such magnitude that after his death the coffin of Benedict XVI would deserve to be thrown into the Tiber instead of buried in the Vatican Grottoes next to most of his Supreme Predecessors.

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Benedict XVI announces his act of resignation. Video with Italian translation (click on image to open the video)

I would never use this magazine than at the end of the current year 2022 is about to reach over twenty million visits totaled in 11 months ― and the month of December is still missing ― to give visibility to subjects who rant «… these numbers of ours make us tremble!», all in front of a few thousand people listening to a raving video on YouTube to have a laugh at the nonsense enunciated by some lunatic. If you did, as well as harming the seriousness of the work we have been carrying out since 2014 I would be disrespectful to my fellow theologians and editors, which I consider as precious as the pupils of my eyes.

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As known for i social media subjects who have built their own go crazy “telematic ghetto” stating to groups of debauched - or worse demonstrating irrefutably, to them to say - that the act of renunciation of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI is invalid due to a lack of form and that therefore he would not have made a formal and valid act of renunciation, not having complied with the dictation of the Code of Canon Law which it reads:

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«In the event that the Roman Pontiff renounces his office, it is required for validity that the renunciation be made freely and duly manifested, instead it is not required that someone accept it " [cf.. canon 332 §2].

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The exotic characters in question they always avoid reading the entire text of this canon which fits integrally and inseparably into the canons 330-367 dedicated to «The Supreme Authority of the Church». Not only, they do worse: they only mention two words: "duly manifested". Then, to hit the army of functional illiterates and digital illiterates who believe in their nonsense like the peasants of the countryside believed in the amazing relics exhibited by the Boccaccio Friar Cipolla [cf.. WHO], they pronounce as a abracadabra the same two words in Latin to produce a mysterious effect: «duly manifested». They follow all their theories comparable to sci-fi comedy film Spaceballs in which they confuse the concepts of with crass ignorance gift e ministry legally and theologically, bringing up codes to be deciphered with which Benedict XVI would cryptically speak through … amphibology (!?). Our Florentine brother Simone Pifizzi would bring up the very Tuscan saga My friends: «The premature supercazzola with right unchapping». Supercazzola to which our Dominican theologian Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci has dedicated several articles to explaining that this term has been taken from the current philosophical language to define a statement totally devoid of rationality and logical sense [cf.. WHO].

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The crass ignorance of the manipulators of ecclesiastical laws has always played on the concept of gift e ministry: «… and why Benedict XVI has renounced the ministry and not at gift?». Therefore, «… this renders his waiver invalid.". And so, an army of fragile functional and digital illiterates, slipping into the role of talking parrots they begin to rant about social media: «Benedict XVI has not renounced the gift», unless you know what they are, mean and behave gift e ministry. After which they turn into sowers of confusion and above all of hatred towards the "false anti-Christ church of the usurper anti-pope Bergoglio emissary of Satan". We try to explain everything as simply as possible: the gift And a “gift received” deriving from Sacramento, the ministry it is instead the exercise of this ministry linked to the gift, i.e. the Sacrament. Example: with the Sacrament of Holy Orders I received the “gift“, or rather i three gifts (three “want”) which consist of: teach, sanctify and lead/govern the People of God. These three gifts are then realized through the ministry, which is the exercise of the sacred priestly ministry. Now pay attention: for various reasons and reasons related to serious health problems or equally serious personal problems, I could ask to waive the exercise of the ministry. I could also ask to be dispensed from all the duties and obligations that the priestly ministry entails and that the Church could grant me up to the canonical dispensation from the obligations of celibacy allowing me to marry and have a family. But I could never ask to give up the gift, because it would be like asking to cancel the sacrament of Holy Orders, impossible, because the Sacrament is indelible and indelible. Not only, the Sacrament has given me a new character that has ontologically transformed me, which would continue to remain even if I were dispensed from all the duties and obligations deriving from the ministry.

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Another thing instead the Papacy, which is neither the eighth sacrament nor the highest degree of the sacrament of Holy Orders divided internally into three degrees: diaconate, presbytery, episcopate. The office of the Successor of Peter is not conferred through a sacramental way but through a purely juridical way. It is no coincidence that the Roman Pontiff does not receive a sacramental consecration, he comes “enthroned”, or as they say today “the Petrine ministry begins”. If at the time of his election the one elected was not vested with the episcopal character, in this case he must be consecrated bishop:

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"The Roman Pontiff obtains full and supreme power over the Church by legitimate election, accepted by him, together with the episcopal consecration" [cf.. Canon 332 – § 1].

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The transmission of the Petrine succession it is therefore solely juridical and therefore confers on the juridical level, not sacramental, the ministry of the fullness of the supreme jurisdiction over the universal Church. The Bishop of Rome is the Successor of Peter and only the Successor of Peter can be Bishop of Rome. Therefore, if the Roman Pontiff makes an act of renunciation, in this case he will renounce the ministry legally received, but it will continue to remain in him gift episcopal received through the sacramental way. The renunciation of the Petrine office, that is to say ministry, entails the loss of pontifical jurisdiction which was conferred by juridical means and which can be renounced by juridical means. Also for this reason it would be very problematic to define a renouncing pope as "Bishop emeritus of Rome", not being able to apply to the Petrine seat, precisely because of its particularity, the principles of the emeritus of diocesan bishops, because as mentioned above: the Bishop of Rome is the Successor of Peter and only the Successor of Peter can be Bishop of Rome. But this would be a further discourse that cannot be dealt with here now.

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Let us further clarify how certain subjects make enormous confusion by asserting in an absurd and obtuse way that Benedict XVI would have renounced the office of Roman Pontiff (ministry) but not to be Roman Pontiff (gift). Among the various documents cited inappropriately to support their absurd theses is Lumen Gentiles. Also in this case it is good to clarify: within this document of the Second Vatican Council [cf.. Chapter III] yes a distinction is made between gift and exercise of power, but referred to the exercise of the episcopal ministry based on the dual transmission of power, which is sacramental with regard to sacred orders and episcopal consecration supported on gift, of a juridical nature as regards instead the canonical mission conferred on the episcopal, namely the ministry understood as power. It is on this distinction between power order e power jurisdiction which was established by the Holy Pontiff Paul VI the figure of bishop emeritus who came to 75 years he renounced the government of the diocese entrusted to him, thus losing the power jurisdiction, but always keeping the gift episcopal ministry transmitted to him sacramentally through the conferral of the fullness of the apostolic priesthood. All as proof of how certain characters manipulate Church documents and extract what is not written in them. The novelty introduced by Benedict XVI consists in the title and in the status of "pope emeritus" created by him in a happy or unhappy way, with results that only history can evaluate, assuming this title in the same way as it is assumed by diocesan bishops who renounce the ministry legally acquired but maintaining the gift acquired sacramentally. As already explained above, if Benedict XVI had assumed the title of "Bishop emeritus of Rome" it would have been not a little problematic on a juridical and theological level.

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Having clarified all, I hope at least some people, among the various functional and digital illiterates who in a superficial and totally uncritical way have followed certain charlatans, can understand how and to what extent these dangerous manipulators and counterfeiters are dragging them into the world of the irrational for purposes that are anything but clean, because we are faced with people who lie knowing they are lying, not before subjects affected by simple unavoidable or invincible ignorance. We are faced with dangerous subjects who have imprisoned themselves in lies that they must support and keep standing in every way, even denying the most logical and obvious reality of the facts.

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Before commenting with scientific rigour certain canons used and abused for what they do not contain within them, it is necessary to clarify that ecclesiastical laws are human laws based on Revelation, obviously it is. But they are and remain human laws created by men to give a juridical and administrative order to the Church understood as company. Canon Law is not a dogma of faith and is not the foundation of the deposit of the Catholic faith. Therefore insisting that Benedict XVI did not make a valid act because his resignation would not have been "duly manifested" (duly manifested), it is objective and blatant idiocy. It would be enough to read the canon well 332 which recites:

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«The Bishop of the Church of Rome, in which the office granted by the Lord individually to Peter remains, first of the Apostles, and which must be passed on to his successors, he is head of the College of Bishops, Vicar of Christ and Shepherd here on earth of the universal Church; he therefore, under his office, has supreme ordinary power, milk, immediate and universal on the Church, power that he can always exercise freely".

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It should be read next the Canon 333 §3 which is the logical-juridical continuation of the previous one and which reads:

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"There is no appeal or recourse against the sentence or decree of the Roman Pontiff".

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This canon makes it clear that the Roman Pontiff is not subject to human law because he is above any human law, this for a simple fact: because he is the supreme legislator [cf.. Canon 331]. Logical-juridical prerequisite, this, which precedes the Canon 332 manipulated and then transformed into a workhorse by certain lunatics, which is then followed, with the same logical-legal criterion, the aforementioned canon 333. A legal system in its entirety follows a logical and coherent order based on principles of logic and non-contradiction, only petty minds can extrapolate and manipulate a fragment to make the canonical laws say something that contradicts their own backbone.

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The confused minds that carry out such theories sowing confusion and bewilderment in the simple and the frail, they are mistaking the Roman Pontiff for the President of a democratic republic or for the Sovereign of a constitutional monarchy, who, in addition to being custodians and guarantors of the Law, are the first to be subjected to it. However, this is not exactly the case for the Roman Pontiff, who with the use of an improper political term we could define the greatest absolute monarch in the world, because the authority and power he received through the ministry it comes to him from God and by God alone it can be judged, since there is no human authority superior to him in the world that can do so. The Roman Pontiff cannot even be judged by the canonical laws themselves because he is above them, he being the supreme legislator, nor does the Code of Canon Law provide for and regulate the exercise of that institution which in the juridical systems governed by the Common law is defined as impeachment, while our Italian legal system provides in art. 90 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic, the indictment of the Head of State for high treason or attack on the Constitution. A head of state, who is guarantor and guardian of the laws, and to which he is subjected first before all, he cannot repeal or modify them on his own initiative, because it is up to Parliament to do it, the Roman Pontiff in the exercise of his powers can instead do so:

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«[…] he has the right to determine, according to the needs of the Church, the way, both personal and collegiate, to exercise this office" [cf.. Canon 333 §2].

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Sand the Roman Pontiff wanted tomorrow morning could get up and replace di motu proprio all the royalties he wants with others, without having to account to anyone or being in any way required to provide explanations, least of all justifications. No Head of State could ever tell a court to suspend the trial of an accused and order the immediate closure of the trial, the Roman Pontiff yes, he could do it with any ecclesiastical court, without even having to explain to anyone. Then this doesn't do it, it's another matter, however it could do it in a completely legitimate and above all indisputable and unquestionable way. It would suffice only to add that he could even reject a proposal made by a unanimous ecumenical council, because the council itself, maximum expression of the authority and collegiality of the Bishops of the Church, he has no authority superior to that of the Roman Pontiff. Nevertheless we must see the sowing of confusion by tragic and ridiculous subjects who insist on confusing the simple by questioning its valid act of renunciation, because according to them, Benedict XVI would not have recited a perfect little formula, or because he made some Latin grammar mistakes in his declaration. Well let it be known that in itself it would be enough for the renunciation to be made at least in front of two witnesses, in writing or orally, according to the provisions of the Canon 189, § 1. As regards that of Benedict XVI, the resignation was publicly made in the Consistory of Cardinals convened by him on 11 February 2013. We really want to continue playing and trying to pass off the stratospheric nonsense about the formula as credible, or worse on the fact that "even if he had made a free act of renunciation it would not be valid in any case"? It is truly humiliating and degrading to have to explain such obvious things to those who do not want to understand a priori, but for the salvation of souls, intellectual humiliation is welcome, which in itself entails replying to the nonsense of emeritus idiots who, as such, would not deserve a reply from any educated person with a legal and theological culture.

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Sui social media they go crazy however these subjects who sticking to the little word of "free renunciation" split from their pluri-quoted Canon 332, they state with disturbing lightness that «Benedict XVI was not free» but that «he was forced to give up» (!?) Let's clarify: in order to declare and demonstrate such a thing, the authors of such a demented assertion would need to have the power to read the most intimate and profound conscience of the renouncing Pontiff. And here we pass from canon law to dogmatic theology. Only God can scrutinize and read the deepest and most intimate spheres of human conscience:

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“Conscience is the most secret nucleus and shrine of man, There he is alone with God, whose voice echoes in his depths " [cf.. Vatican Council II, Cost. past. The joy and hope, 16: AAS 58 (1966) 1037].

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Also in this case the answer is soon given, because one of these subjects does not hesitate to affirm that it was Our Lady who revealed to him what was contained in Benedict XVI's conscience, who allegedly entrusted him with the mission of fighting against "the false church and the false usurping pope" (!?).

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However, it is known how much idiocy takes pleasure in itself: «… since Benedict XVI cannot declare that he was forced to renounce, then he transmits messages in cryptic code after having self-exiled in an impeded location».

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As mentioned earlier: you don't even imagine how humiliating it is for a presbyter and a theologian having to write on certain topics to respond to such nonsense. But I repeat: before the souls entrusted to us pushed by others into grave error, the good shepherd in the care of souls also accepts intellectual humiliation, which of all could also be one of the worst. So if we go to read the royalties 412-415 in which cases and situations are set out which determine the impeded episcopal see, anyone should understand instantly that they cannot appeal in the case of Benedict XVI, barring total distortion and grotesque manipulations of what is enclosed within these canons. In fact, I remember that the law is interpreted, it is not manipulated. The manipulation and distortion of texts has nothing to do with interpretation, even with the so-called extensive one. We recall incidentally that the Law can be interpreted or applied in a restrictive or extensive way.

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Another point to insist on is that «in declaration of resignation there are formal errors which make it invalid in any case regardless of whether Benedict XVI has also made a free act of resignation". And with this assertion one declares and publicly repeats - as an obscure character has been doing for some time - that the form is superior to the substantial intention. Thus mere form is elevated above will and deliberate consent. A blatant idiocy! Any person who had a single glimmer of reason should instantly understand that we are dealing with expressions that range between madness and magic, where what only matters is not the substantial will, but the correct formal pronunciation of a “magic formula”. Because certain subjects come to this: to the magic of formulas.

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Let's move on to the last point: the Latin errors. These subjects affirm that to render the waiver irrefutably invalid would be «the presence of numerous errors of Latin syntax, why the declaration it must be “duly manifested”» (duly manifested) pursuant to the pluri-cited Canon 332. After affirming this, they continue by saying that «Benedict XVI has always been a fine and great Latinist and that as such and as such he could not make these mistakes, some even crass. If, however, he did so, it was to deliberately render the renunciation invalid and withdraw to an impeded location". We reflect: if Benedict XVI had done such a thing we would be facing the most cowardly and lying Supreme Pontiff in the entire history of the Papacy.

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Latin is an insidious language, in many respects more than ancient Greek. First of all, it is a dead language that hasn't been spoken for centuries. Then we should bear in mind that there are various Latins: the Latin of Marcus Tullius Cicero or Titus Lucretius Carus, that of Seneca or Catullus is not the one in which Saint Augustine, bishop of Hippo, wrote and expressed himself between the fourth and fifth centuries, nor the one in which Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta wrote and expressed himself between the 11th and 12th centuries. Still another one in which St. Thomas Aquinas expressed and wrote in the thirteenth century, in turn completely different from that of the sixteenth century, a Latin now relegated to specific circles of educated people, having developed and spread at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, between the School of Frederick II of Swabia in Palermo and Dante Alighieri in Florence the so-called vernacular language, which had not a little bastardized Latin itself for the following centuries, bringing together neologisms that had nothing to do with the ancient classical Latin. The Latin of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was now a lot of Latin “bastardized”. Finally, the one used in science, juridical and ecclesiastical between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, more than a Latin he was a Latin. It is no coincidence that the precise term "ecclesiastical Latin" exists.

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Some remember that the language used to hold lectures in ecclesiastical universities until the early 1970s was Latin. Let me smile and narrate that former student, who then became renowned theologians of the Roman School and full professors in those same ecclesiastical universities, last in order of series Brunero Gherardini and Antonio Livi, they told me in an amused way many tasty anecdotes, explaining what it was, more than Latin, of macaronic Latin. Or as Antonio Livi told me, that he was a lover of Latin: «I might as well have used Italian, or any other modern national languages, stopping with the antics of that pseudo-Latin that made grammatical nonsense come out of the mouths of the teachers and causing the students to understand even less than what they could have understood». I remember that Antonio Livi was dean of philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University, after having previously contributed to the establishment of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.

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It's one thing to read, understand and translate this dead language, one thing to write it or worse to speak it. Stating that the young Joseph Ratzinger who perished at the council «spoke in Latin, him like the other participants» is a colossal hoax, a pure urban legend put into circulation by whom, not knowing the history of the Church, it finds nothing better to do than invent stories and facts after the fact than in the recent past, ancient and remote have never existed. I was a pupil of two masters who were both perished at the council, one of whom died on the threshold of the 100 years a few weeks ago. During the various phases of the council, one of his tasks was also to summarize in English, Spanish and French ― the three languages ​​he knew best in addition to his native German ― the various reports written in the official language of the Church: Latin. Because in the early 1960s many bishops were unable to understand and translate Latin, especially those coming from the so-called Third World countries and from the various mission lands of the Latin American continent.

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Benedict XVI has never been and is not a "refined Latin scholar" but only as good a connoisseur of Latin as many of us are, and it is for this reason more than understandable that he made mistakes in drafting his declaration of renunciation. Any good connoisseur of Latin would have made them. I will try to clarify better with a personal example: I once translated a one-page letter of mine from Italian into Latin. After that I sent it to not one or even two, but to five Latinist experts, two of whom are involved in the translation of the official Latin texts at the Holy See. All five told me that the text was almost right, making me various grammar corrections. Well, each made me different corrections, all strictly correct, but one unlike the other. Because this is Latin: a dead language where, in addition to grammar, both interpretation and the construction of the structure of the text play a lot, which may be correct for one Latinist but incorrect for another, although both are right.

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The declaration of resignation of Benedict XVI it is a very intimate and personal text that the person concerned has written by himself after long reflection and prayer, dealing with one's conscience, with his own soul and also with the future history of the Church to which he would have handed it over for the centuries to come as an entirely extraordinary event. He did not submit the text of his declaration to those good and expert Latin scholars available to the Holy See precisely because of the delicate and intimate nature of that very personal act which is such and which remains and must remain so. Act in which Benedict XVI made several grammatical errors, erring in the lexical form as any good connoisseur would have done that Latin is able to read it, translate it and use it privately, but composing in Latin is something that only the most expert Latinists can do, sometimes making some mistakes too. Benedict XVI is by no means "a fine and great Latinist", as can those scholars who have dedicated their entire lives to the study of this difficult dead language. And it is precisely the best Latin scholars who affirm that making mistakes in a Latin editorial office is easy for all those who know Latin well, without detracting from their knowledge of Latin. Therefore, with all due respect to the follies and urban legends spread by certain plotters, I repeat that writing and composing in Latin is difficult even for expert Latinists, while speaking it correctly borders on the impossible. Unless you want to confuse Latin with the Latin of the clerics of the early twentieth century or with the Latin juridical brocardi, that we remember are brief maxims derived from the laws and for this reason also indicated as general principles.

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I leave it to all reasonable people to evaluate if errors in Latin grammar could invalidate - in the name of the «duly manifested» extrapolated from a canon 332 and quoted in an obsessive-compulsive way - a free and very personal act of renunciation like the one expressed by Benedict XVI before the College of Cardinals, who subsequently reiterated in all the speeches given publicly before the convening of the new conclave how thoughtful and free his decision was.

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If the theories of certain conspiracy circles were true, we would be faced with a vile liar of such magnitude that after his death the coffin of Benedict XVI would deserve to be thrown into the Tiber instead of buried in the Vatican Grottoes next to most of his Supreme Predecessors.

 

From the island of Patmos, 30 November 2022

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Ms. Capalbio, black is not synonymous with good and without spot or sin, but simply synonymous with human being

MRS CAPALBIO, NEGRO IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH GOOD AND A VICTIM WITHOUT SPOT AND SIN, BUT SIMPLY SYNONYMOUS WITH HUMAN BEING

The victory of the Honorable Aboubakar Soumahoro, who today finds himself involved in events related to cooperatives in which his wife and mother-in-law are involved, it is not related to the negro, but to something closely connected to thehomo, regardless of niger or fromalbus.

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The Honorable Aboubakar Soumahoro, elected deputy on the Democratic Party list

In estate the spring, When stay in the Ortigia of Syracuse, where before becoming a priest I bought a house in the heart of the ancient Greek city, I go shopping at the market and take the opportunity to dispense mine show, obviously free, imbued with immodest jokes over which the locals laugh in amusement, because teasing Sicilians is a civic duty. Then there are mine “scientific theories” on the possessive and protective mothers of boys, in which regard I argue that if a Sicilian mother gives birth to a girl, no problem. But, if she gives birth to a boy, in that case it should be suppressed as soon as breastfeeding is finished, thus avoiding that he spoils his son for life by continuing to treat him as a tender creature even as a fifty-year-old. And when I return to the site after a few months or weeks, they even tell me that they have missed my teasing.

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Once such a he had a basket full of snails on the stall, which I began to look at with ostentatious attention, until the question I had been waiting for came: "Dad, she likes them?». I replied: “Never eat in my life. But I am sure that these snails will be of great consolation for the Sicilians, because you have finally found someone who has more horns on his head than you". I was later told that he had gone around the whole market laughing and telling all the sellers of the other stalls about the priest's tirade. Another time I was walking in the middle of the market with the midday sun shining on my face, even dark glasses are of little use in that case. I didn't see a fruit crate and tripped over it and fell to the ground, among other things, I was wearing a white cassock, which thank God I didn't damage. Two meters away from me a fishmonger jumped forward making the kind gesture of helping me up by saying: "Dad, pull yourself up and lying on the ground you feel bad». But I'd argue: “He's right, lying on his wife would be much better". And as soon as he got home the first person to whom he told the story was his wife.

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Finally my trusted negro where do i buy vegetables: "Dad, returned from Rome?». I greet him: "I'm so glad to see my gorgeous nigger again". And it really is beautiful, He has such a high-pitched funny laugh that if I were a psychiatrist I would prescribe it as therapy instead of anti-depressants. Unfortunately, the classic was at the stall pussy ― as we now say in our spoken Italian jargon ― Signora Capalbio style with left license plate radical chic, with short white hair in great vogue in the penthouses of Parioli and in the villas of Olgiata. He winces and blurts out: «I am amazed at her that she should be an educated person, they say … black man». I totally ignore her and turn to my little negro: "Senti un po ', Ousman, tell me one thing: you are black or colored? Because your compatriots called me "white" in African countries, not "man without color"». And he, with a deafening laugh with his treble answers: "I'm very black!».

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Going through the politically correct thus we come to the negro, such as black and certainly not because "black man". At least for me who am a lover of my mother tongue of Latin derivation: homo niger it means black man. While homo albus it means white man, i.e. the undersigned. The term "negro" comes from the Latin black, which means black. We priests, with the exception of white used at high temperatures, we usually dress in nigris, of black, we don't dress … “of color”. Always to the African confreres with whom I have lived in Rome since my formation for the priesthood, then as a presbyter, I always pointed to and called them niggers. Example: "We are late, give a voice to our black brothers to hurry up, otherwise we arrive late at San Paolo Fuori le Mura». I would have felt at least ridiculous to begin: « … our black brothers». They call us white, they don't call us "bleached men" or "colorless". And still today in many countries of that continent they recall with gratitude the meritorious work of evangelization carried out by the so-called White Fathers, certainly not from the Fathers without color.

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The politically correct it's not just linguistic, but it is social and by now ideological. So much so that many have not only feelings of guilt towards the Negro, but worse: they have formed the belief that black equals good, a candid victim, to persecuted. At least until they find themselves dealing with some band of Nigerians, the violence of which would make the executors in the pay of the 'Ndrangheta pale, which among the mafias present in our country is the most violent. Nevertheless, faced with the cruelty of a Nigerian, i killers of the 'Ndrangheta they would make the figure of the compassionate lady of charity of the San Vincenzo de' Paoli. Likewise the Cameroonians, Country where crime is widespread at uncontrollable levels and where for a foreigner being kidnapped by one of their gangs is not like being kidnapped by those who were the kidnappers of Anonima Sarda Sequestri, why these seconds, unless they are cherubs, compared to them they can appear as soft hearts.

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So let's start with a basic principle that escapes the "candid beautiful souls": whether it is a homo niger or of a homo albus, what characterizes one and the other, regardless of color, it is being homo. Is this homo it is not good or bad, victim or perpetrator on the basis of its particularity of niger O albus, but as a man.

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The case of Honorable Aboubakar Soumahoro, who is involved today in events linked to cooperatives in which his wife and mother-in-law are involved, it is not related to the negro, but to something closely connected to thehomo, regardless of niger or fromalbus. Case on the merits of which I will not enter. That's not just because I don't want to, but just because I can't. The competence lies with the Italian judiciary which is responsible for investigating, judge and, if necessary, finally condemn, while it is up to politics to evaluate and decide on the merits of the question, being a parliamentarian of the Italian Republic.

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To the "candid beautiful souls" I would like to reiterate that negro is far from being synonymous with good as a negro and only because it is negro, the reality is quite different: the corruption that exists in the various countries of the African continent is many and such, but above all at such serious and gangrenous levels, that in comparison those European countries usually indicated as particularly corrupt are inhabited by a group of San Luigi Gonzaga and Santa Maria Goretti. Among the countries indicated as particularly corrupt is Italy, that is, we Italians, also called “scam masters”. Which can be expressed and supported without any problems whatsoever, especially from the chaste and candid mouths of the French and Germans, capable, however, of self-censoring their critical sense and of lowering their pants with their asshole in the wind only when they find themselves in front of the black, the French in a very special way, having regard to the services they have rendered over the last two centuries to various countries of the Black Continent. Italians are white instead, therefore they can be accused as such of being corrupt and notorious scammers on the front pages of their newspapers.

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Smell, at the end of his priestly formation and to follow for a while as a priest, I lived in an international house for priests located on the Aventine Hill. A short distance on Viale Aventino, at the corner with Viale delle Terme di Caracalla is the large FAO headquarters, we remember is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. For me yes, passing through those areas, I happened to see black men and women from various countries of the African continent, if anything, by the poorest and most devastated of all, get on Mercedes that provide rental service with driver to be taken to do shopping in Via Condotti and in Via Vittorio Veneto. It is also known and well known, as well as confirmable by the owners of extra luxury shops, than to spend more, without measure and restraint, they were the black men and women, known for searching for the most expensive superfluous goods ever and for their bivouac in the most luxurious hotels in the capital. FAO African officials.

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So I leave Mrs. Capalbio horrified by the word "nigger" and with it all the other "candid beautiful souls" who gloat in surreal fantasies about the poor good nigger and victim of the variously dirty white and unscrupulous colonizer. For me there is instead the man born with the corruption of original sin, which spared neither whites nor blacks. And contrary to beautiful souls I know, as politicians know, historians, sociologists and also clergymen who, one of the worst endemic evils of Africa is corruption unmatched in the world, not to mention the unscrupulous and limitless delinquency that rages in some of their cities. Also for this reason our Congregation of Propaganda Fide is careful not to send money blindly, even to our own Negro-run local church institutions. They prefer to carefully manage certain flows of money so that they really end up in religious works, charitable and sanitary. Thus avoiding, as happened several times in the past, that the money left for the construction of a hospital ended up being confiscated by corrupt politicians and invested in the arms market for the worst tribal wars, where people are able to ruthlessly butcher women and children with Chinese-made machetes.

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But, for Mrs. Capalbio, black equals good and victim. Above all, one must not say black, but black man. Well let Mrs. Capalbio know that my enlightened vegetable seller, black Ghanaian as a coal, he doesn't think like her, he knows perfectly well that he is black, he is happy about it and, if necessary, boasts about it, even taking away the depression with a laugh to all the depressed Capalbio ladies of the left radical chic, today more than ever depressed after having favored in every way, with all their upper-class snobbery, a female Prime Minister of the right, who is the daughter of the people and who comes from the ultra-popular neighborhoods of Rome. Those where once, the old and also glorious Italian Communist Party, it achieved electoral majorities that rivaled Bulgaria's elections. Maybe that's why, meeting in restaurants gourmet of Capalbio, the gotha of the left radical chic tries to drown political depression in expensive glasses of vintage Sassicaia and Brunello di Montalcino.

 

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The case of “Sister Cristina”. Remember dear Christina, when you sing, put Christ in the notes otherwise your renunciation will have taught you nothing

THE CASE OF "SISTER CRISTINA". REMEMBER DEAR CRISTINA, WHEN YOU SING, PUT CHRIST IN THE NOTES OTHERWISE YOUR RENUNCIATION WILL NOT HAVE TEACHED YOU ANYTHING

Now her former sisters, the dear Ursulines of the Holy Family, they still have a chance to help Cristina, show closeness to her and also provide for her dutiful material help. Without skimping on a few healthy slaps, are next to her, just as Christ did with that rich young man who did not want to follow him.

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Interview with Sr. Cristina

Sister Cristina Scuccia, the singing nun of the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Holy Family, he left the consecrated life to perhaps follow his own (vera?) vocation in the singing world [see: who, who, who e who]. It's news from a few days ago.

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To this recent news, Father Ariel has already dedicated a short article that I fully agree with as regards realism and balance [see: who]. However, as a religious priest of the Capuchin Order I too would like to make some considerations on the matter, which in some ways will sound like real provocations, perhaps displeasing someone, but which will have the merit of highlighting some of the more common hypocrisies of consecrated life disguised as feelings of piety.

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First of all there is something to inform the many beautiful souls ― those who in these hours in real life o sui social are playing pigeon shooting with the poor ex Ursuline ― that every year the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life manages many requests from religious who ask to leave their order, your institute or congregation to which you belong. Whose fault is it? Why does this happen? I can't always give myself a convincing answer, according to the enlightened opinion of some beautiful souls, the fault lies undoubtedly with the Jesuit Pope or perhaps with those religious who made us cry Madonna with sins against the sixth commandment or perhaps of those who cannot resign themselves to living according to a grotesque religious style typical of the monks in the film The Name of The rose by Jean-Jacques Annaud or the unlikely nuns in the film Sister Act. Because for some beautiful souls and expert cat-bloggers, all tradition and of the Latins, the religious is a grotesque mask between the psychiatric and the farcical, a mixture of mortification and hair shirt, mood disturbances and itchy novel-like desires Bramble birds, in short, a real madman.

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Therefore, when it occurs that some consecrated man hangs up his habit, immediately we start looking for the reasons – real or presumed – and we proceed with the delicacy and tact of a steamroller inside a Swarovski crystal shop. But we here, from the pleasant Patmos Island we don't want to be a steamroller, we know well, in fact, that some abandonments are certainly right because they lack the minimal awareness and freedom necessary to live as consecrated persons and constitute themselves in the world as torches of light, prophetic signs for the Church. More abandonments, instead, they constitute real injustices let slip too lightly and most often arise from desperation, from loneliness, from human misery and insipidness paraculaggine of some superiors who exchange the gift of the government with the privilege of its own impeccability in which personal error never exists and if there is it is normally always and only of the "problematic religious" who decides to leave.

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Honestly, after more than twenty years of religious life ― I entered the Capuchin Friars Minor a 21 years of age during university studies in pharmacy - I am no longer in a position to be scandalized by these defections, as exits or abandonments are called in cold technical language. On the contrary, I tell the truth, in the face of a confrere who not only suspends all judgment but deliberately chooses to spend a few words, knowing that it is urgent to demonstrate the love of a grandmother who, in front of her most reckless and rebellious grandson, still has the concern to ask: "How are you? Have you eaten?». And God only knows how expressive the eyes and gaze of a religious who has made the painful decision to leave can be. Ask how are you, it means sharing much more than a sentimental wave. In my humble opinion it means pouring balm on the last act of mercy towards a man in crisis. And isn't this perhaps the way to interpret the old Luke's parable of the Merciful Father which everyone boasts of appreciating but which very few practice especially if they are religious, priests or Catholics doc?

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Maybe the little one (sweat) Cristina, catapulted into that wretched world of entertainment, devouring and devouring, she just needed to hear her grandmother's question more often: "How are you? Have you eaten?», which then translates into "You're happy? Jesus and the Church are truly filling your life? You are dissipating, you are upset? You are praying? Your heart, your soul, your desire are perhaps bad in some way?». Because these are the questions that help prevent personal crises, spiritual diseases, the bilges of vices that the devil unleashes to divert the religious from his path of perfection as Bishop San Macario said.

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In my religious life I have met several times superiors and directors of students who were more concerned about the presence of their brothers in the choir than their real happiness. Scrupulous in supervising if the friars recited the breviary in its entirety but not equally diligent in noticing if their friars opened up to smile and joy inside the convent. Concern about regular observance, of the use of the money but not at all interested in whether the friar had managed to sleep well or not, perhaps distressed by some ghost of the soul. I have met as many superiors and directors of students who have made religious life a revival of Instagram e Tick Tock. One reality where the religious sings, balla, do it show man, does everything and its opposite, and where the only way to perfection consists in the observance of the 1968 motto "forbidden to forbid" because Jesus is the ace taker who is good above all things, from the Sanremo stage to the Grande Chartreuse.

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But now a 45 years of age I'm starting to go vintage, remembering that a time to leave the convent, one had to knock on the guardian father's door (the local superior) and ask for permission: «Bless father, I can go to…» and after running errands outside the convent, return to the guardian and say again: "Bless father I'm back". These things are no longer used today, young novices and students often have many freedoms right from the novitiate (I got my first cell phone as a deacon at the age of 33 year old) and what twenty years ago could be considered as formalities today I understand that they were ways to experience sonship and spiritual fatherhood, together with that evangelical fraternity which unites and protects all religious.

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The case of (sweat) Cristina it is emblematic of that truth which tells us that even religious are leaving the scene. Together with the couples that explode (see Albano and Romina, Totti and Ilary), i preti che si deftly, the brothers that yes they evict and the nuns who are… well you get the idea. This is the naked truth of our «outgoing Church», certainly not a recent truth, these things have always happened and will happen again, just remember some illustrious precedents such as Sister Smile o From Joseph Cionfoli. Perhaps uncomfortable truths to which it is necessary to find an answer but above all a way to prevent them. Because I'm sure it's Sister Smile, just as Fra Giuseppe Cionfoli and now Sister Cristina had certainly been chosen and loved by God in their choice of religious life, but they didn't have the grace to meet teachers capable of accepting them as they were, accompanying their talents towards a mature purification that limits temptations and nostalgia. Such defections in religious life are never easy and one needs to have a much more compassionate and complex look at all the various conspiracies that people normally follow in these cases.

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The dimension of fragility of the Church it also implies the possibility of an abandonment of the state of consecrated life, but there are few who want to recognize it and very few who want to love and support these brothers in need in a free and selfless way. Because the essence of baptismal life, of which religious life is the full maturity, it is nothing but love to the end. It's there, in love as martyrdom-witness that the credibility and holiness of the Church and of us Christians reside: "The way you love each other they will recognize that you are my disciples" [cf.. GV 13,35]. And instead you only read the comments of vilified virgins who are dismayed that Cristina Scuccia is no longer a nun, crying out to the betrayal of Judas and cowardice. In the face of these utterances I keep silent because otherwise I would end up saying uncharitable things.

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Let's try to understand once and for all that Christian love is what is despised by most, a love that loves what is broken, which creates scandal, a love that walks on crooked and sunken roads of a decadent humanity. The rest, this is not what the Lord Jesus did with each of us? “When we were still weak, in due time Christ died for the wicked" [cf.. RM 5,6]. This still holds true today, Christ continues to die for us every day, huddled people, which binds to itself with the bond of a special consecration, baptismal, religious or priestly, and which necessarily calls for a conversion that makes us move from the abandonment of darkness to the splendor of light.

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Christ loves us, baptized, religious and priests, not because we are perfect but precisely because we are imperfect, indeed impious, not yet entered into that pietas of Easter day which is certainly not obtainable with an effort of will but how grace freely given to ask the Holy Spirit every day with tears. Religious life is a path of perfection that is realized only when the image of Christ, new man, is born in us. And this delivery certainly takes time, of spiritual fatherhood and motherhood, of affectionate and suffered accompaniment, very rare commodity among the religious superiors of an "outgoing Church", increasingly manager as it is for many bishops.

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I consider the case of (sweat) Cristina Scuccia not an exceptionality but the expression of a trend well known by those who live and work in the real world of consecrated life. If we then go to examine the cases of abandonment, we note that it is not religious men and women with human and spiritual limitations who are leaving but exactly the opposite. We often find ourselves in front of really talented personalities, endowed with charisma, lively intelligence and who have a respectable cultural background, enough to make him achieve important academic qualifications. They are like big-engined cars that have been entrusted to people with no driving experience. E (sweat) Cristina has qualities that have undoubtedly been mischanneled. Qualities that could support and help her in her vocation and which instead were used to overlap the religious vocation by creating an alternative that would meet the temporal needs of a young religious congregation, that from the singing work of the sister would perhaps have also benefited from large sums of money? This shouldn't be scandalous because even the nuns have to eat and maintain their structures, but perhaps there is a need for careful reflection that takes into account some priorities to be reconsidered.

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cases of abandonment in the vast majority of times they don't even concern celibacy - just as the many beautiful souls, all Heart of Jesus and Mary, would expect - and this means that one does not go out because one wants to get married or because one is no longer able to respect the vow of chastity. The reason for the failure lies in something else entirely: much deeper, much more complex, much more concrete. Because of this, every abandonment remains mysterious, known only for some aspects but always injudgable by men so ready to judge and pigeonhole everything into reassuring categories. Only God who is Father can deeply know the heart of man, also of the one who decides in his freedom to abandon the vocation that has been offered to him but which cannot escape the common vocation of every baptized person which is the common call to holiness that goes beyond the state of life (it doesn't matter if consecrated, married or single).

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For this reason, let's stop playing pigeon with the ex (sweat) Cristina, with her as well as with the other former religious. This is not a media case to be flaunted in tabloid magazines or Catholic blogs. In this moment of fragility, although the appearance and the makeup say the opposite, this girl needs sincere help to rebuild her life but above all she needs to learn not to indulge the mirages of the ruthless world of entertainment that see the religious or the ex religious as an animal to be exhibited to make audience. Remember the case of Don Alberto Ravagnani first used by Fedez and then bullied and cursed at? Good, these are the real prospects.

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First there was Sister Cristina, now there is Cristina Scuccia maid in Spain, tomorrow maybe it will be an anonymous woman with a failed marriage behind her and dependent children who sings in Spanish clubs to be able to make ends meet. So the glory of the world, the glory of men, as well as stage glory.

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Now her former sisters, the dear Ursulines of the Holy Family, they still have a chance to help Cristina, show closeness to her and also provide for her dutiful material help. Without skimping on a few healthy slaps, are next to her, just as Christ did with that rich young man who did not want to follow him. Let's be sure, the proposal passes, the love of Christ remains, albeit veiled in that sad nostalgia that only the eyes can express, like that rich young man who left because he had many possessions, but among the many goods he had, he needed the only one necessary that would give value to all the rest.

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Cristina, remember when you sing, put Christ in the notes otherwise your renunciation will have taught you nothing.

Laconi, 25 November 2022

 

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