Antonio Livi died together with the Holy Pontiff John Paul II, author of the Encyclical Fides et Ratio

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AND DEAD ANTONIO LIVI TOGETHER WITH THE HOLY PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLIC FAITH AND REASON

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This morning died Antonio Livi, Roman priest and theologian of the last Roman Theological School. The Fathers de The Island of Patmos leave a comment in his memory to Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo.

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Antonio Love, Academic of the Pontifical Lateran University

Rest in peace our brother Antonio Livi, Tuscan-born Prato, roman presbyter, philosopher and theologian, last great exponent of the Roman Theological School, He returned to the Father's House this morning.

Our brother, 82 year old, He had long been ill with brain tumor. His death is not in any way ricollegabile the ongoing pandemic.

One of the founders This magazine was born in October 2014, Antonio Livi was the author of the subtitle that accompanies The Island of Patmos: "The site of the last revelation". It was in fact this island in the Aegean that the Blessed Apostle, also known as the Eagle, wrote the Book of Revelation.

Those who knew Antonio Livi thoroughly, He knows that the worst thing that you could do is the apology of Dear Extinct. Or when he had to tell me himself on one occasion with his typical Tuscan cynicism:

"When a priest dies, you crying two days, pretending, obviously. Then, from the third day, we rejoice because he is out of the way ".

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Useless to remember His curriculum academic, because once said Antonio Livi was the last member of the Roman Theological School, with what has been said.

Antonio Livi with the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI visited the Pontifical Lateran University

Amabile as a person and yet nature sometimes impossible. With him talk meant the end fight. So much so that when I said: "When you have finished arguing with everyone, then you begin to fight with yourself ". And when once, in complaints tone told me: «... sai, They say about me that I am touchy ". Replicandogli said in mocking way: "Do not tell me! Lies, horrible slander. You touchy so, so to speak ... ordinary? No, you are more touchy of a capuchin monkey!».

He loved me and I to him, we loved each quarreling. Once there “we skinned” for the classic misunderstanding: I wrote that without historical support the dogma would remain unsubstantiated, It is the dogma also the result of a precise history, sometimes even of a specific policy that helps to understand how it has come to its solemn definition. He decided to figure whistles for flasks - because at that moment he needed psychophysical to quarrel with somebody - and gave me the historicist and the crypto-modernist. To which I took to tease his logic aletica, his forte; and this went on for weeks. Then the elderly Brunero Gherardini intervened and said to one and the other: “You look like two dogs biting the same bone!». This was Antonio Livi, why I say that today beatify him on the day of his death, He would be to bring him really insult.

Antonio Love

The ever silent death comes, But, in his own way, sometimes he speaks: Antonio Livi died 2 April, on the same day he died on Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, under which collaborated in the drafting of the famous Encyclical Faith and Reason, It has brought into the heart throughout his life. We knew of his valuable contribution to the drafting of this Encyclical, but he did not say, and he's never boasted. So not only quarrelsome and touchy, but also humble and discreet servant of the Church and the papacy.

At random we do not believe, indeed imagine who his soul was met. And maybe, John Paul II, accepting it with a smile typically sly its own and with the irony of his character, it may be that told him: «Antonio, Now you can finally relax, because you've finished arguing, after having experimented on your skin, in the course of your illness, Also the essence of another celebrated my Apostolic Letter: the saving Passion».

And maybe, the pain he has suffered in recent years, He purified him as a new Baptism, opening the doors to the reward of eternal bliss.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

From the island of Patmos, 2 April 2020

in memory of Antonio Livi

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Pastors Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: you can dismiss from service to the People of God already suffering from stubborn Old Testament times?

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PRIESTS ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN: YOU can dismiss SERVICE AT THAT GOD'S PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM CERVICAL HARD TIMES ALREADY FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT?

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How childish conceit pretend to raise the situation in many parishes that have now become a nightmare? It is certainly not the first appaltandole ecclesial movement that passes, with the result of raising that fact, the parish a personale prelature some super secular or some seer with settarista clan following. So then you have to ban anti-Pelagian saving attitude that insists on things, on strategies and people to return to the center the grace of God that returns to God what is his.

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painting by Giovanni Segantini entitled "A Mass before" the 1885

I want to comment with you a letter from a fellow priest - appeared Sunday 29 on the well-known blog Vatican correspondent Marco Tosatti [See full text, WHO] - I thought was useful to address some issues in matters of faith, since this brother announces that it has made the painful decision to resign from the office of pastor. A gesture like that is not very common in the clergy: no priest leaves willingly she parish entrusted to him by the diocesan bishop if not for serious reasons. For this reason, analyzing point after point letter, I will focus on a few elements that I consider interesting, trying to clarify and respond to those suggestions that may arise in the heart of a believer player, avoiding the temptation to fall into easy judgments at the same time without hiding a healthy criticism of the facts as they were presented.

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"I have resigned my resignation as pastor to my Bishop: I do not feel more in tune with a service that does not feel respectful of what, as a parish priest, I should ensure: the spiritual life of the community ".

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Although it may seem strange those who do not know the laws of the Church, a parish priest can leave his pastoral office and return the parish in the hands of the diocesan bishop in accordance with canon 1740 of the Code of Canon Law. This canon states that: "When the ministry of any parish priest has for some reason, even through no gross negligence, becomes harmful or at least ineffective, the pastor can be removed from the parish by the diocesan bishop ". Among the possible causes - as we learn from the letter - you can also include those related to a crisis of conscience, also imply that the internal bore nonsacramental. This causes a problem not only in the legal but also moral. Faced with a crisis of conscience of the priest there may be reasonable doubt of seeing compromising the correct pastoral work so as to disturb the serenity of the faithful.

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The waiver from his pastoral pastor, But, does not mean abdicating to the mandate received from Christ with sacred ordination, one is always priests to serve the Church, But covering other offices. The acceptance of renunciation belongs to the diocesan bishop and, although it constitutes not an easy choice for a pastor, It is always ordered by common sense and the preservation of the spiritual health of the faithful and of the priest being removed.

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"I am convinced that today, the appeal to certain values ​​that are taught by the Gospel, in most cases it is widely disregarded: often overlooked by the shepherds themselves, which are no longer the desire, nor the urge to try a different method of announcement; rejected by the vast majority of the population, while Christian declaring, It seems to have adapted to a life often devoid of any commitment to the community and the Church; and even rejected by the Church itself (priests, bishops, pastoral workers), because no one seems to seek some solution to give a new face to this our tired Christianity that now seems a shadow of that intended by Jesus Christ: people believe in what he wants, the Gospel is no longer the center of people's lives'.

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To state the inconsistency of the Church Militant It is to reinvent the wheel. Inconsistent and surface we are a bit 'all, I was first of all the Apostles and Peter - the first pope - who was not only a denier but a fearful turncoat, according to the striking apocryphal tradition of storytelling quo Vadis. Therefore the observation of the inconsistency of the Christian community is not a new thing, rather it is due parabolic episode of the Gospel which speaks of good wheat and weeds [cf. Mt 13,24-30; 36-43]. In this parable we see good, as well as St. Augustine taught, that the Church is a mixed corporation of believers - a his body was mixed - that welcomes in itself just and sinners, consistent and inconsistent. The intentions which may occur through acts of holiness or iniquity, and this always under the guise of a professed faith in the light of the sun. This aspect of holiness and sin leads us back to the so-called the mystery of iniquity, that mystery of iniquity, we know through the original disobedience and that manifests itself through so much misery that we find it hard to list the community of believers. This can be for a reason for discouragement priest and suffering but can not be reason enough to throw in the towel and retire. I can not find a purely human reality that does not know the fragility and inconsistency, and I think of the many brothers who experience inconsistent this weakness not only in private and family life but also in the conduct of their daily work. The Church is so sinful but what matters most is holy because of the presence of the One who makes that. The holiness of the Church consists in adhering to the fidelity of Christ, her spouse, and in the desire to achieve all to bring salvation to all.

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When the priest reached the limit of endurance and he has exhausted its patience, seeing that his work carries a few fruits [cf. LC 5,5], he is called to move forward, conscious that the Church - hence the parish - is in the hands of Christ, remains his body and forms with him a single entity, participant in the mediation of grace which acts despite weak, evil and sin. You should always remember this mediation of Christ's grace on the Church otherwise you may succumb to evil and falling victim to a sort of Pelagianism that shifts the focus from God to facilities, by God to pastoral planning, by God to the person of the priest. And on the practical pelagianism risk can make other clarifications precisely from that part of the letter, which states that no longer exists in pastors the desire to proclaim the Gospel through proper methodology and pastoral strategy.

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It's true, There is a certain spiritual indolence in the clergy, but that is no different from that which we find also in the lay faithful. In this mediocrity there are no winners, alas we are all tied, but above all we are all losers. This laziness is prompted by the fact that we have deliberately lowered the bar of kerygma presenting it not as a salvific action of God through His Son but as a universal brotherhood in which the Church is identified in a large common hippy all peace and love and where the sacraments are rites of passage that accompany newcomers to the Liberal maturity that can easily do without the salvation and her savior. To this effect we are responsible priests for fear of seeing the empty churches - those that remained - and to be more digestible to the world we recycled and we have allowed our faithful to go over all, even on the most sacred things. But after that pearls have been trampled by the pigs and the dogs have devoured the holy things [cf. Mt 7,6] what can you do more? Nothing, only contemplate the rubble.

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How childish conceit we expect to raise the situation in many parishes that have now become a nightmare? It is certainly not the first appaltandole ecclesial movement that passes, with the result of raising that fact, the parish a personale prelature some super secular or some seer with settarista clan following. So then you have to ban anti-Pelagian saving attitude that insists on things, on strategies and people to return to the center the grace of God that returns to God what is his. Because exclusively reaffirming kerygma native to, the apostolic, without gloss it is possible to apportion, making this announcement, the only means of salvation authentic, through which is predicated, and educate, it teaches, It acts and raises the welcome prayer to God.

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Another important thing to know It is that the apostolic work proceeds in stages, as well as a relay race: I reap what others have sown earlier [cf. GV 4,37-38] or I sow what others after me will be called to pick up. As a priest I can not claim to lead all by himself, both sowing the crop. Wisdom wants me to recognize my place, doing in the parish what is right to do in the time that I was given by the Lord. If I do my share knowledge and belief I will not have nothing to reproach myself. The vineyard is not mine but the Lord, and he whom the faithful must feel, or perhaps think that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit have not come to see - from the origin of the world today - with hard heads and rebels, perhaps even worse than those who now crowd our community? According to the facts, I am not aware that the Church is still missing or that priests are left to despair so much to desert en masse this stiff-necked people.

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Sometimes a subtle narcissism which it is expressed through the ecclesiastical personalism leads to corruption of the figure of the priest causing it to become the owner of the vineyard rather than the humble workers. As a result frustrations reveal how the man - including a priest - is not omnipotent and that what was assumed to be able to know the reality of defeat.

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"Religiosity is changed, It is plain for all, but we continue with the same patterns of the past and we are not aware of not being able to affect the consciences: there is little room for God, if not a vague God up there in the high, to keep good with a mass and the end of it ...!».

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Religiosity has not changed but it is missing because it changed the perception of the sacred that there was underlying. And thanks to that narcissistic tendency, present even among churchmen, who have stopped worshiping God finally to worship his own person and live like a outsider without duties, as eternal adolescents. So that, retracing the outdated cliché is a deceptive way to get busy, that leads nowhere, because it continues to be idolatry to his own person, their ideas, their schemes, to their stubbornness.

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I'm not saying anything new when I say that many liturgies have become idolatrous exaltation of the celebrated priest or the parish community. When the place of God puts man, the faithful are no longer able to believe, worship and pray and all becomes logical pursuit of immediate well-being and personal irenicism widespread that it does not touch the conscience but embraces the sentiment. So we end up having so many emotional child in the faith who claim to follow Father Tom or dad Caio because they feel something or because they feel a certain comfort.

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"Our society is characterized by a giant form of individualism locked up on itself, even in the pastoral field: You do not feel the need to live the commitments "in the community": someone does and strives, but does so alone! And the Church, The Christian community, where? Church means assembly, family: But where? The life of a community that embodies the Gospel is all and only in the Mass? The Christian commitment is exhausted in those 45/50 minutes per week ... and then everyone at home?».

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Today, many are unaware that what the Church and what it means to be Church and to live in the Church. The very idea of ​​ecclesiology is being questioned and the different models are in crisis revealing those well-known contradictions that pastors know and which give rise to those pitiful representations of Church and parliamentary partitocratica. The Church is fine as long as you are small, as adults we can alienate and make all the decisions necessary, even those that contradict a faith journey lasted years, without anyone being able to say anything. The Church is a bride from which divorce unless it meets and follows the desires, It is to blame when a mother does not allow me to implement my truth. In short, the Church is the synthesis of all evil, so much so that people turn away from it, if they live a faith to live apart from a church community, proclaiming the modern mantra: "God yes, Church no ". Like this, at best, ecclesiology in vogue today is the one that sees the Church as a parallel state where you can buy the goods better defined and where you can obtain the certificates and documents relevant.

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"The pastoral work of our Western Church is what I call a pastoral" kangaroo ": big jumps from one to another sacrament, without anything in between that gives momentum and continuity to a serious commitment ».

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Let's start off by a truth: there is no good without a good pastoral dogmatic, or in our specific speech the sacramentary dogmatic that is the basis of the discipline of the sacraments. It can not be properly act without believing correctly. Under the guise of ministry we priests have justified the unjustifiable, we have accepted the unacceptable, We sacrificed what we hold most sacred. For pastoral reasons we celebrated the wedding without validity, granted to godparenthood declared atheists, given the sacraments to people who did not have the minimum required in order to view them, invented new liturgical gestures without having the slightest men authorities. For pastoral reasons we have left to do many things that at the time we repent. But no one ever, bishops in the first place, It was able to enter into the merits of these choices reckless statement and asking reason to pastors. We kid ourselves that bring the faithful to do would have also led to believe, but it did not happen. We wanted l believer and we ended up with l Gonzato. Instead of faithful we had a community maintainer for the church, the maid to clean the parish house, of village animators holiday for the oratory, Of baby-sitter for catechism and the list could go on and on. When we complain that the ecclesial style resembles that of an NGO ... remember the pastoral grounds.

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The pastoral true is another matter. It goes through the revelation and faith education; feeds on the Catechism and life in common; It is exercised through listening carefully to the shepherds and the confrontation with them so that they learn, and learning is believed. In faith there are no jumps, you can not go too fast or accelerate progress, the knowledge of God takes time, indeed a lifetime.

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"It gives baptism to small, with some meeting with parents before, but after, For years, there is absolutely nothing; shooting for the preparation for First Communion, often without any family involvement. End the Communion and often attends almost total abandonment of all religious practice by the child (that of the family many times already occurred several years before, with the most unimaginable excuses!)».

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When a couple asks Baptism for their child is good to realize that the subject of the sacrament is not the baptizing but the family ie mother, Pope, brothers etc. Since the sacrament of Baptism supposes a strong desire and a journey of faith, You need to ensure the good one and the other, not be shocked if you were to find flaws or shortcomings. It would be an excellent thing then proceed to a Christian accompaniment of the family in view of Baptism, explaining well the seriousness of the gesture that you want to establish, relocating the catechesis from the parish to the child's home and built in that place a house church as a nucleus of the faith and in order to arouse the desire to meet the Lord.

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When parents have a living faith and witnessed, Accompanying this strategy serves as a reminder to consolidate and strengthen the Christian life. But when it does not, you have to take time and remember the ancient practice of baptism whose preparation involved a journey of at least three years, in which was expected to The study of faith, that is, a faith occurred denoting a real change of life and a serious conversion to Christ. In fact the faith discriminated to receive the sacraments, if no priest may differ quietly receiving sacraments waiting for a more mature response, conscious and generous.

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A speech like the previous It can also be done in preparation for the First Communion. Involve the family in preparing the party is also to take it up with the family catechesis on the Body of Christ and the Day of the Lord and go to heal and recover those cracks that occur during the time. I believe that children are used by the Lord as a means of grace for the rapprochement of their parents, because unlike the large, the little they still have the ability to do things seriously and be guided by grace.

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"Starting over again to prepare for Confirmation and, once received, we are witnessing an effective and practically definitive detachment from everything. If it goes well then discussed again at the wedding, normally at a distance of more than 10/15 year old. And we celebrate marriages, They spread a veil: They are hardly a sign of the "faith" of the couple who are the ministers, but simply an opportunity for a beautiful and photogenic party. The last big jump, what the final takes place on the occasion of death!».

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Even for Confirmation follow the advice cited for Baptism and First Communion, if there is no faith in the young it is better to wait. The decision to defer the sacraments of Christian initiation must be evaluated very well with the bishop that he should talk to his priest, endorsing it and defending it in this responsible choice. The sacraments are not a right, and no one can expect to receive them by force or against the will of the Church who sees in function consacration one of the most delicate and precious mandates.

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As for marriage, having ascertained from the time a crisis within the family, it is necessary to give a rule and start a serious discernment string that the meshes of that sacrament of conjugal consecration which must be prepared with the same seriousness with which we are preparing to sacred ordination. There is no point pushing uncritically young to contract hastily religious marriage because of tradition, of habit or fear of living together. Even with them we need a The study of faith, when marriage is not the end of a process but the completion of a stage in the knowledge of Christ.

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It is good that young people arrive a marriage sacrament only after knowing the love of Christ, which it is the only love can explain and give meaning to the love of the spouses. Otherwise knowledge only of themselves will live marriage as closed, selfish and alien to any otherness. Consumed between two individualities that will never be completely united because they can give themselves totally. This is one of the graces of the sacrament of marriage: the willingness to be unite to Jesus and learn to die one another as Christ died for the Church his bride.

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"These our times are proving too detached from what is a minimal responsiveness to the Gospel, it would be necessary ".

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Our Western society It is a fluid society, a large primordial soup where everything and its opposite. If we leave distrare this liquid modernity and not vigilant we risk our faith mistaken for gospel what it is not; and the Good News for ideology. Today the good word of Christ has to deal with the mantra of “in my opinion”, must come up against the ethical individualism that does not allow competitors and that evens everything under the same aspect, eliminating the differences and leveling hierarchies.

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"That's why I knew I continue to be a parish priest would be a wrong choice: I do not feel more to give baptism to small, I do not feel more to ensure that children are ready to make their First Communion, simply because I think, almost always, they are not at all. A survey carried out (I believe in America) He gave dramatic results: beyond the 70% Catholics do not even know what it means to "Christ's real presence" in the Eucharist. I do not feel more than preparing for Confirmation, when I know that for the boys more often, is the last act of what appears to be a farce, orchestrated for them by adults since baptism ".

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This is perhaps the most delicate part of the letter, which highlights the fragility of the feel of this dear brother but which at the same time reveals the mistake of attributing to itself the misuse of the freedom of. I'll explain. I can set an example in my priestly ministry and in spite of this see my parishioners to do the opposite of what I say or what I do. This wrong attitude in the use of free will does not invalidate my intentions as pastor, from which will emerge my pastoral action.

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A pastor is not defined based on the success He elicited among his parishioners or within his community, because sometimes it is not so. If this were true, the well -kept saint of Ars should have considered a failure after a few months from his entry into that village of the Rhone region which was defined by Giovanni Maria Vianney himself as an outpost of hell. It is therefore necessary to change the point of view, and admit that I'm not to the success of the faith of my parishioners. dissatisfaction, exhaustion and defeat in the ministry practice are elements that cut across a human discomfort that not a forgery guilty for their actions Ministerial.

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"This is not to judge anyone, because everyone has his conscience and must answer for it before God. But since I have my, I do not feel to be complicit in this "game" which I think has become the life of Christians and of the community ".

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The duty to answer before God with his conscience it is sacrosanct, and it is true that the intimate consciousness can know and judge only God, it is also true that that certainty does not remove the duty to groped alternative solutions, ask for help to the bishops, confreres, the holy people of God and search through the use of those remedies grace that God suggests. All this before the malaise turns into drama, the drama in depression, The evolves depression burnout with the distinctive signs of emotional exhaustion, cynicism and declining staff performance. All things that are going poor parish on the verge of a nervous breakdown and perhaps beyond.

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"The Gospel, we must admit, It is no longer the center of our lives. Our churches are increasingly empty desolately and always will be more: in a few years there will be only the tourists who come to see how beautiful! We must have the courage to ask ourselves a very serious question: the gospel we still interested? He says something to our hearts? Because, if it does not say anything, then we can close all our churches; if he says something, then it is necessary that we roll up our sleeves!».

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They are legitimate questions that I share, However, I wonder: their applications should be primarily placed in us priests in such a way as to arouse a healthy crisis and repentance. The gospel to me is Christ, or is the pretext for the sustenance clergy? I celebrate Mass more and because the world needs Christ or because I have to give a service to the patrons who paid me? I love going to church and waiting to welcome the faithful or make me wish I prefer staying at home to do my own? After the closure of the church, my heart stays open at night, or entrenched behind me working hours where I do not have to be bothered? I believe it is the first priest to have to make a public profession of faith in front of a world deprived of God, without fear of misunderstanding, the sneer and persecution. Only later did the parishioners will follow me, after looking at my faith and how I live it. I can not ask others what I do, and I can not pretend holiness on the other hand if we do not do anything for my.

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As pastor that I must be convinced of Christ, others exercising their freedom in the baptismal offspring they will follow in due course, according to its own path, according as the Lord will have disposed. This is the attitude that convinced the inhabitants of Ars to see in their parish priest a man of God and a holy pastor, which he allowed them a slow but steady conversion.

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"It's not a matter of inventing a" different evangelization ", changing some content; giving a few small tweaks here and there: a riverniciatina that might bring up something new, while underneath it all remains the same, encrusted with ... nothing! Instead, it must realize that the Christian practice, as well as it decreased in recent years, has come to an end and you have to start everything from scratch. Just the Gospel tells us to not put new patches on old dress: is useless, indeed ripping everything, the illusion that the fabric can still serve it as it is, patched!».

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I take advantage of this outburst to say that in the Church we have lost the habit of praying the Holy Spirit so that both he silent animator of our communities. Too often charismatic omit this element which formed the core of the First Apostolic Church and allowed the proclamation of the Gospel to all peoples with the sole availability of twelve men. The Holy Spirit is still the novelty of God which allows you to start from scratch, is the new wine which revives those without life and reinvigorates who is debased. Of course we must constantly ask, and just the pastor should be the man of the Holy Spirit, It should invoke it often and do it often invoked by believers. Without the power of the Spirit is nothing in man, nothing is free from the contagion of guilt that makes all things vain.

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"But why this new journey can be successful, necessary that all are convinced and ready to start ".

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In front of this statement I would urge caution, indeed, It does not need a granite conviction if it remains only a human belief. It is serving a conviction resulting from the Holy Spirit. Sacred Scripture teaches us how this is possible according to what Jesus tells us of the Paraclete: "When he comes, show the guilt of the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. With regard to sin, because they believe in me; from righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see me no more; in reference to judgment, because the prince of this world is already condemned " [cf. GV 16,8-11]. The Christian walk can be a convincing way only when I'm convinced of the ugliness of sin that alienates from Christ; only when I take conscience of justification obtained through the Paschal Mystery of Jesus; only when I can show the victory of good over evil through the cross that still much fear.

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"It's really like this?»

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Not for us to prepare a final answer, but it is up to us to prepare the ground so that the Lord operates.

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Laconi, 31 March 2020

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To stay as close as possible to the faithful in this time of crisis and emergency, the editorial staff of The Island of Patmos informs readers that our author Father Ivano LIGUORI, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Care on Facebook the heading 'THE WORD NETWORK ", offering of three times a week meditations. You can access the page prepared by our Father clicking on the logo.

 

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"Open Church" (twelfth episode) - The valuable work of catechists and catechists during emergency coronavirus

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"CHURCH OPEN» (twelfth episode) - the valuable work of catechists and CATECHISTIC DURING EMERGENCY coronavirus

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We offer our readers this valuable new video of our esteemed brother John Zanchi, priest of the Diocese of Arezzo, so that it can also serve as an effective and wise antidote to all those who unfortunately, at this time of extraordinary crisis and emergency, They have nothing better to do than argue, often in harsh and aggressive tone, against decisions taken by our bishops for safety reasons to protect public health: suspend the sacred celebrations and in many cases close the churches. Recall that the Church, during crises and emergencies, It has never been saved by the controversy of those who stand for all time the most faithful among the faithful or to the purest of the pure, but the unit. Someone has written these days that "the bishops are committing suicide the Italian Church". Unfortunately he did not understand anything of the essence of the Catholic faith: the church “if suicidal” attacking the bishops, instead follow them and support them in a moment of so severe test.

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VIDEO SHOOTING AND ASSEMBLY BY THE ISSUER TELESANDOMENICO (AREZZO)

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The texts of Father John Zanchi, director of the Pastoral Center Divine Worship of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, They are not meant as articles but as audio-narrative texts. We proceeded to transcribe audio text for our Readers.

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John Zanchi

Welcome to the twelfth episode of Open Church.

The purpose of this modest book It is always the same: help you understand that The church remains opened and operating, as well as possible, even during the emergency of pandemic; the churches of stone and brick remained open although with difficulty frequented by individual believers, are the sign.

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Today I will simply mention to another sector of the Church which continues to operate with creativity to the glory of God and the sanctification of souls; I speak of catechists, which persist throughout Italy to collaborate with the bishops, pastors and parents in the catechetical ministry, devising new ways of working with children, the boys, young people and adults in their care and continue for them and with them the catechetical formation of faith.

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Nobody talks about it almost and actually vacuous today's common mentality does not give importance to education in the faith; but considering that the activity of the Holy Church is expressed in the three major dimensions of catechesis, the liturgy and charity, one understands what is in fact essential that even in the emergency caused by the pandemic catechetical work is not interrupted and continues as possible.

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In this time in which students can not go to school, rightly we are concerned to continue in some way the study and many teachers, not only of the University, They shall endeavor to ensure the continuity of teaching, imparting lessons to students through the means of social communication. In this period in which the catechism students can not go to Parish, also many catechists seek to achieve their catechized otherwise. We know that the catechetical method not simply mirrors that of school learning, but there are however some similarities between the two, in this situation united by the use of distance learning.

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Let's take some examples: First, we note that from Monday to Saturday TV2000, the television channel ever published by the Italian bishops, broadcasts in 2 several times the book Dear Jesus. With the children: a daily catechism strip dedicated to the age group from 8 to the 12 year old. Then point out the Internet portal that the Italian Bishops' Conference has opened to inform on the initiatives of the Church in the time of a pandemic and called Who shall separate us? [cf WHO]; There are some "best practices" started to distance from many dioceses and Christian communities to meet emergency catechetical. There is something for everyone: ranging from proposals designed primarily for catechesis in the family as a whole, the classical catechesis with children, boys, adolescents and young, including people with disabilities, experiences celebratory family, up to the comments to the Word of God for adults. Finally, remember the simple parish catechists everywhere, not rise to the headlines, endeavor to spread videos and texts.

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Who wants to continue to catechism then he spoiled for choice and we hope you take advantage of it as many people as possible, profitably using the time of forced domestic confinement. With the catechetical creativity of these days, the Open Church and continues to be close to Christian parents who, never forget, They are the original, and their first catechists of their children.

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Finally we need to remember a particular category of catechized, ie catechumens, ie the non-baptized adults who are preparing to become Christians; among them, There are many foreigners living in our country and this reminds us that the most important form of social integration is the religious.

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Lent is an important liturgical time for all Christians and particularly for catechumens, which the First Sunday of Lent were elected to receive the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist at the next Easter Vigil. During Lent were then to receive the great preparatory catechesis, exorcisms, deliveries of the Our Father and the Creed, the pre-baptismal anointing.

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Unfortunately in this situation this is not possible and also their Christian initiation through the sacraments is postponed until better times, hopefully no later than the next Pentecost. But in the meantime the church remained opened for them, and every diocese continues to ensure its spiritual formation as possible, according to the information disseminated by the National Catechetical and conveniently be consulted on the internet [cf WHO].

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With this television program So we want to help to signal the commitment of families, of the parish priests and catechists who, under the guidance of Bishops, in this time of great difficulty, continue with dedication and creativity in keeping the Open Church well as in the field of catechesis. These zealous ministers of Holy Church are a sign of hope in the present and an essential resource for the challenging future that awaits us as a Christian community.

A resent the next episode of Open Church.

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Sansepolcro (Arezzo), 31 March 2020

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"Fideism idiot in power" … God save us from the hypocrites Catholics virus, Children of Cain and Judas Iscariot

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"Fideism IDIOT IN POWER" … GOD SAVE THE VIRUS OF CATHOLICS Hypocrites, SONS OF CAIN AND JUDAS ISCARIOT

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The pandemic coronavirus did come out all the fake bad Catholics educated and uneducated, such as not educated, untrained, so why ignore that the Church, company divinely instituted, not from the base. The term "basic church" is theologically wrong and misleading. The Church is by nature a "top" structure, where everything goes from above with cascading effect. If so, the bishops give provisions for the Masses and pastoral liturgy decreeing a ban on publicly celebrate with the people, you just obey, starting from the faithful. This is the hierarchical Church instituted by Christ that puts Peter at the head of the college of the apostles, then Peter and the apostles to guide the People of God. And whoever denies - and has full right and freedom to deny it - is not, however, Catholic, is more ... is the Catholic of himself and of his emotional and subjective idea of ​​the Church ...

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I offer our readers a reflection of my videos 25 minutes in which I illustrate a genre perhaps not widely known but very present virus: the pandemic exploded in a busy army of hypocritical Catholics, fallen like leaves at the first gust of wind before a test of faith and that some weeks are giving the best of the worst of themselves on social network.

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The coronavirus during Lent World. While in, spin doctors and demented insult bishops and priests on social: "Atheists without faith, You have deprived of Jesus!»

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[…] open to the public worship of the churches can not be considered a safe place, therefore it went immediately limited, if not closed, how then actually happened. The whole, thanks to a wide slice of people who, from small up to big things, now seems a long time specialized in not listening to the shepherds, rather: if anything, even doing the opposite of what the pastors teach and ask, the whole, not rarely, even with smug attitudes of defiance on the part of many of the faithful.

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"CHURCH OPEN» (XI episode) - MAY EXCEED the worthy POLICE IN ZEAL UP TO COME TO DISCONTINUE THE SACRED CELEBRATIONS IN THE CHURCHES?

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We offer our readers this valuable new video of our esteemed brother John Zanchi, priest of the Diocese of Arezzo, so that it can also serve as an effective and wise antidote to all those who unfortunately, at this time of extraordinary crisis and emergency, They have nothing better to do than argue, often in harsh and aggressive tone, against decisions taken by our bishops for safety reasons to protect public health: suspend the sacred celebrations and in many cases close the churches. Recall that the Church, during crises and emergencies, It has never been saved by the controversy of those who stand for all time the most faithful among the faithful or to the purest of the pure, but the unit. Someone has written these days that "the bishops are committing suicide the Italian Church". Unfortunately he did not understand anything of the essence of the Catholic faith: the church “if suicidal” attacking the bishops, instead follow them and support them in a moment of so severe test.

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Welcome to the eleventh episode of Open Church.

The stone and brick churches are open, well no public celebrations, as a sign of The church that remains opened and working for the glory of God and the sanctification of souls, although in exceptional shapes. We had two wonderful examples last Friday 27 March: thanks to the means of social communication, Catholics around the world have united spiritually to the Holy Father the Pope in a historic supplication to God for the end of the pandemic. In the same day, every single Italian bishop has visited a cemetery in suffrage for the souls of the many victims of the pandemic, buried with funeral in the form very small, because emergency health.

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Now we come to today's. In the previous episode I helped to reflect on some of the underlying prudential reasons for the suspension of public liturgies in the time of a pandemic. In the short time available, I will now mention a complementary aspect of the same issue: in open churches are not held public celebrations, but the faithful have the right to go to church for personal prayer and to receive the sacraments in individual form, especially Confession and Holy Communion; obviously respecting the preventive health rules we all now know well. On the website of the Italian Government [cf WHO] clicking in the section F.A.Q. and clicking on "Ceremonies", It is written as follows: "Question: You can go to church or other houses of worship?" Reply: "They are allowed to open and access to places of worship, as long as you avoid gatherings and make sure the distance between the goers not less than one meter ".

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The Lombardy Region It issued on even more detailed rules; In fact, the Regional Ordinance No.. 514 the 21 March 2020 to the point 22 reads textually: "The access to places of worship is allowed in quota and in observance of the necessary measures to ensure the safety of interpersonal distance of one meter". Therefore you can go to pray individually in any church in the local council area, fitted with the necessary self-certification and avoiding gatherings. No one can prevent it; it would be an abuse of power. An advice: as when going for food shopping is good to keep your sales slip, to show that actually has gone into this shop, so it is appropriate photographing themselves inside the church, as evidence to be shown to the Authority responsible for the control.

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We have to address this topic, because they are increasing reports about faithful censored by the Police (however meritorious) just because they were on their way to church to pray alone. More seriously: in various parts of Italy the Police disrupted Masses that were taking place in full respect of the rules of prophylaxis against the pandemic; remember that the current Italian laws strictly forbid: If a church is doing is an act of worship, Police and Carabinieri can enter to perform their duties only after having previously informed the bishop of the place and in any case can not stop the act of worship.

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To guard against any arbitrariness or forced removal from a sacred place or complaints or fines imposed for such reasons, you can turn to a lawyer, to assert their rights. But it would be better not to have to go that far! By the grace of God, these days many public administrators have officially gone into churches to entrust to divine protection their fellow citizens. Well done! They fulfilled their duty! But it is absurd that the joints of Giulianova Carabinieri, in Abruzzo, They reported to the Public Prosecutor, the Mayor of the City, others 3 administrators, 5 priests and 3 journalists, which, in the large sanctuary of the Madonna of Splendor, They had entrusted their Common to Mary Most Holy, with a lot of deposition of the tricolor sash at the foot of the statue. 12 People spaced well over a meter from one another inside a spacious building, They were considered the most dangerous of the dozens of people present simultaneously in any supermarket!

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Did I mention that our police forces are praiseworthy, especially in this emergency, and they must go to all our gratitude; indeed, in the case of Giulianova they have simply made a duty, following specious arguments raised by third parties, driven by malice towards Christians. The fact remains that some have tried to besmirch an act of devotion as if it were a crime; we also have reports of priests who have received written threats simply because very large churches have celebrated Mass with the assistance of a few people at a safe distance! It seems that some anti-Christian satanised want to use the opportunity of the pandemic to discredit and attack the Catholic faithful. We can not allow these abuses!

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The Italian Church is giving great test of prudence and love for the common good with the painful suspension of celebrations with the people, while ensuring the daily opening of the churches, even agreeing to celebrate in the form emergency next Easter, but it is not acceptable that it is forbidden to the individual exercising the right of worship (cf Constitution of the Italian Republic, item 19), exercised in currently possible forms. Accepting such a thing would be a dangerous precedent for the protection of the freedom of all Italian citizens. There is a danger that, once the emergency has passed, enter a church to pray to become a concession by the State, no longer a human right. Our bishops and the government must immediately take steps to ensure clear rules and strict waves are issued to guarantee the exercise of the constitutional right to freedom of worship even in these calamitous times.

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Finally point out a very important practical aspect: a prudent individual frequency of churches also allows their custody during the opening hours; most of our historic and artistic heritage is made by the churches and their furnishings: leave them open and empty for many hours throughout the day is the best way to ensure the preservation? We remember that, even in normal times, They are frequent theft and vandalism in our churches! Faithful prevented from attending churches individually, reported while they perform acts of devotion with all due attention ... sad Signs, which show the degree of de-Christianization which has plunged our society and the social devaluation of the necessity of the interior life and the value of supernatural reality; but Italy can not become the country where the pandemic in time you can safely go out to buy a pack of cigarettes (and this is said with all due respect to tobacconists), but you can not bear to church to pray, even in solitude!

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The churches of stone and brick even in the time of a pandemic remain open, to remind us that Christians are committed to pray for the good of all, both in their homes and in public places, because - as we are reminded in Psalm 126, 1: "Unless the Lord builds the house, in vain do its builders labor;. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain ".

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Sansepolcro (Arezzo), 29 March 2020

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Where is God? It is also useless to think of an answer that is based solely on the reasonableness or that such difficulties with the rational theology, in order to familiarize us with a reality like death which is so natural but never totally accepted. Nand time of the loss of a loved one, the reason is fragile.

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We offer our readers this valuable new video of our esteemed brother John Zanchi, priest of the Diocese of Arezzo, so that it can also serve as an effective and wise antidote to all those who unfortunately, at this time of extraordinary crisis and emergency, They have nothing better to do than argue, often in harsh and aggressive tone, against decisions taken by our bishops for safety reasons to protect public health: suspend the sacred celebrations and in many cases close the churches. Recall that the Church, during crises and emergencies, It has never been saved by the controversy of those who stand for all time the most faithful among the faithful or to the purest of the pure, but the unit. Someone has written these days that "the bishops are committing suicide the Italian Church". Unfortunately he did not understand anything of the essence of the Catholic faith: the church “if suicidal” attacking the bishops, instead follow them and support them in a moment of so severe test.

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Welcome to X episode Open Church.

The churches, understood as buildings, remain open during the pandemic, well if you do not perform public celebrations and the faithful can not easily attend. In the present situation, Priests are giving proof of great inventiveness to help the faithful also in going to church, as well as possible.

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Many faithful appreciate the sacrifice made by so many priests to fulfill their ministry, even with severe limitations. Others manifest their discontent, especially for the temporary suspension of the Mass with the people and call for the immediate resumption of public celebrations. In here, we want to say a word that helps to understand the terms of the issue and to avoid counterproductive controversy.

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In the tragic situation of recent days are at stake two fundamental aspects: one part, the Church must continue his divine mission to serve the salvation of souls, with all the necessary self-denial, without jeopardizing public health and then operating the necessary sacrifices and taking painful limitations in behavior, But without flattening the logic of the world; on the other side, the Church does not even give the most distant impression of abandoning true to yourself, neglecting their spiritual needs and risking to be considered fugitive or, worse, insignificant, as if he had decided not to affirm the primacy of the supernatural. Let's take a step forward …

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... the authentic moral theology It teaches us that it is not enough to state the broad principles, but must then implement them in a particular situation, by means of a prudent discernment, and then, more it descends from the general principle to a concrete situation, especially perilous, most operating decisions can become all the more difficult to detect. The high moral principle is: "Do good and avoid evil"; but in a tragic emergency situation like this, It is not immediately easy to determine how to implement the good and avoid evil.

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To those who, bitter about the suspension of Masses with the people, calling for greater courage on the part of bishops and priests, respectfully remember three facts, to keep absolutely present to formulate a practical judgment consistent with the reality of the present situation.

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First fact: Emergencies are not programmed, suddenly they arrive and are sometimes even exceptional and ever faced by this generation, as it is currently. Even our bishops were surprised by the spread of the epidemic and quickly had to take difficult decisions for the protection of all. To help secure the celebration of Holy Mass with the people it would be necessary to organize a regular service order to ensure at least the entry and exit of the participants (each duly principals of defense against infection), their spacing within the church, the sanitization of the same. All things not easy to achieve and practice management. Considering that often only one priest has to cater to more parishes and churches, even the allegation of rarefare attendance of the faithful increasing the number of Masses to be practicable in Italy.

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second fact: The toll of victims that the Italian clergy is already paying for a pandemic: while there are plenty of infected bishops and finished in isolation, al 22 March were well 50 priests decimated, most of them fall in the line of ministry. Even the clergy aside for old age is not spared: a Parma, in the house of the Xaverian Missionaries, immediately subjected to strict isolation, They died in solitude 13 priests in 15 days, giungesse without anyone from the outside to assist. If Holy Mass with the people they were regularly celebrated everywhere, the number of deceased priests would certainly be even bigger, then taking into account that the Italian Clergy, due to the high average age of almost 68 year old, It is fully included in the category of older and older, then the people to be protected from further danger of contagion. A similar argument about old age needs to be done about the same faithful who regularly frequent our churches.

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Third fact: as there are concerns that the medical staff is not decimated by the pandemic and the sick remain without assistance, so you need to worry that the Italian Church is not reduced drastically without more priests for the pastoral care of the faithful. From this point of view, the data are merciless: in Italy the clergy is not only very elderly, but even now numerically small. Let's just one example: Archdiocese of Turin in 1950 there was 1 priest (middle age 43 year old) per 561 baptized; In the 2017 again in Turin there was 1 priest (middle age 68 years and 6 months) per 2065 baptized! After the plague in the sixteenth century it killed most of the Milanese, St. Charles Borromeo had no trouble in parts of the fallen priests to assist lepers; today, Behind our few priests and elders, unfortunately there are not crowds of seminarians ready to replace them. After termination of the emergency, how many of the churches that now they are supposed to keep working unwisely should then be closed, perhaps forever, to a serious lack of priests?

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Reasoning as well, someone will accuse me of lacking faith in God's power. Ma, apart from that we should not groped the Lord (cf. Lk 4, 12), in the current tragedy the teaching of St. John Paul II should be aware of: that we must combine faith and reason; why should not exclude faith and faith has to accept the service of reason (then it is often common sense).

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Only in this way it is possible to avoid two opposite extremes: The proponents of the celebration to the bitter end of the Mass with the people likely to commit the sin of fideism; the advocates of indiscriminate closure of churches in danger of committing the sin of rationalism. Faith attests that during the Mass God works already the great miracle of transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ; but God is not obliged simultaneously to preserve the viral contagion individual participants.

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We conclude by recalling two great principles of theology: against rationalism say: "Who makes what can, God does not deny the grace »; against fideism say: "God does not bind the grace of the Sacraments," and can also donate to out of them, under certain circumstances. The suspension of the Mass with the people is a painful loss for the souls of the faithful; beseech God to grant as soon as possible to his Church the grace and joy to gather again to celebrate the Eucharist and also implore God for the grace to keep our few priests and elders, giving the eternal reward to those fallen victims of duty during the pandemic.

A resent tomorrow for a new installment of Open Church.

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Sansepolcro (Arezzo), 27 March 2020

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Sitting on communist motorcycle Vauro I had a revelation that changed my life and my beliefs: and now I will explain why Jesus Christ never rose from the dead …

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To announce such an event Christ, if it had truly risen, he should announce his resurrection to far more credible people, for example by appearing to the High Priest and the members of the Great Sanhedrin. We are realistic and concrete: if I risorgessi from the dead, I would try to appear Faithful Confaloneri and Pier Silvio Berlusconi, Chiambretti to Peter and Barbara d'Urso, the President of Rai and Bruno Vespa ... certainly not to a former Nigerian prostitute who lives in a suburb of Milan.

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The Island of Patmos yesterday awarded the prize Johannine Golden Eagle Roberto Burioni and Alessandro Cattelan [cf WHO]. Today I am announcing that this Lent marked by epidemic coronavirus, in me something happened that shook my beliefs of faith, coming to acknowledge that Jesus Christ never rose from the dead.

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The spark that triggered in me this awareness, I was given one of the many scholars who populate the pages of Facebook, that manages to be simultaneously both the International Academy of Sciences is the Supreme Criminal Court established by the people of the wise network.

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At times, beliefs even more entrenched, end up collapsing before things apparently banal, however, able to trigger a spark from which everything ends up being questioned. It is at that point that, well what one is firmly believed, eventually crumble like a sand castle built on the banks of the incoming tide. AndI have to thank one of the wise men of Facebook, I do not know personally, but I can mention without any violation of privacy, since it came into my public page by writing a comment with your name, name and link to his profile, so it's all the public and anyone may raise questions in this regard. The wise is some Fulgenzio Nicola Di Liberto.

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But we come to the fact: to announce to my Profile Facebook that in the evening of Thursday, 26 March I participated as almost usual to the episode of the program Straight and Reverse on Network 4, I have included a photo taken in early February in which they captured with three friends: the cartoonist Vauro Senesi, the journalist and radio host Giuseppe Cruciani and one of the young employees of the editorial staff. Not only is this three friends, but three people who enjoy of my highest consideration.

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It happens, however, that the aforementioned member the International Academy of Sciences, under that my post, the afternoon of 27 March, He wrote this comment: "With these people I would not take even a coffee". This wise commentator perhaps did not imagine that with this short sentence would end up disrupting the life of a priest, as well as small and modest dogmatic theologian and equally modest little history of dogma. Yup, by that phrase as pithy as wise, This commentator has opened my horizon on all the contradictions contained in the Gospels, but above all in the life of Jesus Christ, forcing me to take note of how the Nazarene has been put to the test a bad teacher. It is written in the Gospels and documented by themselves, but unfortunately I, for blindness and stupidity, just I had not ever noticed.

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Jesus Christ was in this imprudent step to have dangerous relationships and especially inopportune, It is documented by one of the Evangelists who narrates:

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"As Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples. The Pharisees, saw it, He said to his disciples: "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”» [Mt 9, 10-11].

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Giuseppe Cruciani and Father Ariel exit from the study of transmission of Mediaset Cologno Monzese (Milan)

Not to justify myself, but I can guarantee that the levels of Jesus Christ I'm not there come. Indeed, when one evening, at the end of the direct of this program, Vauro Senesi, Giuseppe Cruciani and I, We went in front of the citadel of Mediaset Cologno Monzese to eat a pizza in the only place open, the kitchen was closed. So we could just drink something: Vauro her vodka smooth - because a true communist Soviets only drink liquor -, Giuseppe Cruciani took a cheeky beer, while i, I do not drink alcohol "out of service", because the only alcohol I drink is the wine used for the Sacrifice of the Mass, I took a pineapple juice. In any case, I must say to my justification that my act was less serious than that of Jesus Christ, that with certain people did banquets. Empirical evidence shows, I drank it with just a pineapple juice.

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At what levels Jesus Christ was unwise as demonstrated by the Gospel of St. John telling his meeting and conversation with a Canaanite woman in the water well, the so-called Tale of the Samaritan. Taking apart the serious inappropriateness of this dialogue, because no Jew has good tone He would never have started talking alone with a woman, especially with such a, which at one point Jesus Christ questions:

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«[…] "Go, call your husband and come here". The woman answered: "I have no husband". Jesus told her: "You said well, I have not husband; for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; What you have said is true "". The woman said: "Man, I see that you are a prophet ' " [GV 4, 16-18].

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We analyze the gravity of what: Jesus Christ addressed word, alone, at the edges of a well, emerita a slut who after being jumped by a man other, at that time he was living with another man ancòra, which obviously he was not her husband. But I tell: are perhaps people and situations in which a decent man you go to hunt? I bet if you were right the learned scribes and Pharisees of Facebook era, to accuse him to spend time with prostitutes, and sinners varies made.

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It is said that Jesus Christ, after his death, is risen from the tomb. The mystery of His resurrection is the main foundation of the Christian faith, He is telling the Blessed Apostle Paul stating:

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«[…] if Christ has not been raised, then empty is our preaching is in vain and your faith " [The Cor 15, 14].

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Father Ariel in the Mediaset del Celio studios in Rome next to Vauro's legendary motorcycle with red star and Soviet plate

This I understood after years of priesthood, of theological studies and profession of faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, namely that Christ can not be resurrected. That's why: who announced the alleged resurrection of Jesus Christ? Hear, listen ... a former prostitute! Now you tell me, in a society like that of the Jewish era, where women had no say, where they could not be heard as witnesses in court, where they could be repudiated on the word of her husband and even stoned, if the wife accused of adultery, this alleged Risen uses not only as a woman announcer, but even a former prostitute? I can well imagine that the apostles, called the empty tomb, They responded by not believing this woman and his wives:

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«E, returned from the tomb, They told all these things to the eleven and to all other. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Mary of James. Even the others with them who told this to the apostles. Those words seemed to them like nonsense and they did not believe in them " [LC 24, 1-11].

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To announce such an event Christ, if it had truly risen, he should announce his resurrection to far more credible people, for example by appearing to the High Priest and the members of the Great Sanhedrin. We are realistic and concrete: if I risorgessi from the dead, I would try to appear Faithful Confaloneri and Pier Silvio Berlusconi, Chiambretti to Peter and Barbara d'Urso, the President of Rai and Bruno Vespa ... certainly not to a former Nigerian prostitute who lives in a suburb of Milan.

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For a sentence written on my page an adept of the international Catholic Academy of Sciences Facebook, who he said that with people like Vauro and Giuseppe Cruciani not even take a coffee, I have acquired knowledge and proof that Jesus Christ never resurrected, because with certain subjects did not just have a coffee, but to do banquets and to have dangerous liaisons, inopportune and imprudent, something I've never done in my life.

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the Island of Patmos, 27 March 2020

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Faith and needs: an emergency such as that of the coronavirus, at the end of emergency can not change the future freedom of the Church and its faithful

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FAITH AND NEEDS: AN EMERGENCY AS THAT OF CORONAVIRUS, AT THE END OF EMERGENCY CAN NOT CHANGE THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM CHURCH AND ITS FAITHFUL.

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[…] We can cite other examples, but this is enough to realize that we can not live by bread alone, but you need to give access to other resources, among which is so imminent faith. And we speak of faith we invent and intimate perspective, sentimental and palliative from beauty farm soul, but as a gift of God that intelligence work and gives wisdom to discern the world and grasp its presence savior. Faith is a human right, It regards the freedom of personal self-determination and is (still) guaranteed by the Constitution of the Italian Republic [art. 19].

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