A theological reflection on coronavirus: of correct information and hoaxes of dangerous idiots internetici, while the man is no longer able to read the signs of the earth and sky

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THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON CORONAVIRUS: TRA CORRECT INFORMATION AND DANGEROUS IDIOTS OF BUFFALO INTERNETICI, WHILE THE MAN IS NO LONGER ABLE TO READ THE SIGNS OF THE EARTH AND SKY

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What to say, in the Church today: poor and migrants ahead of everything and everyone, while a dangerous virus is spreading, but for the moment there are treatments and vaccines. From all this you know well that, the worst virus, It is that for some time it has spread within the Catholic Church. The serious thing is that we, to save us from pandemic, the vaccine We have it all right. But if you dare to indicate, or worse to ask for it to be used, risks being literally torn apart by the useful and dangerous idiots who praise the "epoch-making revolution" of the "Church of the new course".

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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the Prof tweet. Roberto Burioni, microbiologist and virologist at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele Hospital in Milan

When you go to a large audience, He rests always upon us the duty not to embark on analyzes that require very deep scientific expertise.

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Internet Brule subjects ranging from spin doctors to those who vent the worst of their idiocy, up to transcend the real tragedy that takes dangerous form at the time when the idiot who writes is taken seriously by a large number of many idiots who read. The consequences of this bidding market and purchase of idiocy, I was often complained of high scientific expertise and reputation as much distinguished Roman clinical, many of them old friends often, with the priest friend, cataracts have opened their private outbursts. One of the most common complaints is related to the field diagnostic. It is not uncommon that after thorough clinical examination and careful study of the case, these specialists say they feel with uncanny ease from patient, or who accompanies him: "... but I read on the internet that ...". Sometimes some of them asked to patients or their carers where they read like so anti-scientific news. Then, going below to verify they have established themselves in a way that people without the basic scientific criteria, dissertassero with dangerous ease on sensitive issues ranging from oncology to infectious diseases, not to mention the team of anti-vaccinisti.

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I know distinguished and excellent specialists Clinicians have reported very serious situations and triggered the judicial investigation, After their reunion before cases of unprecedented severity produced from the dangerous ignorance of idiots and idiots writers internetici internetici users. Several times it happened that oncologists have complained that they had found before cancer patients in terminal state that could have been saved if treated quickly, all for the son or daughter, naturists internetici convinced and practitioners, aimed at ... "medicine natural" alternative to the cry of "No, the multinational pharmaceutical companies that speculate on diseases with drugs that can do serious damage to the body '. To follow with pediatric specialists, who have alerted the Public Prosecutor's Office several times after finding themselves faced with children with serious problems caused by parents who are followers of the vegan sect, that fruitarian, and so to follow.

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Not so much to defuse, if anything, to frame in a spirit of solidarity participated this tragedy, I often responded to these friends that we priests and theologians share with clinical specialists in different way, but very similar, the same painful, frustrating and tragic fate. Not a few Catholics who after reading four idiotic pseudo-pseudo-theological and doctrinal internet, or after misunderstood complex documents of the Magisterium of the Church, extrapolating from them cleft sentences from contexts that require a very deep preparation, shameless manner in addressing an undoubted theologian preparation moving the haughty challenge: "No, is not as you say ... ". In such cases it is almost always useless to say and point out the right and obvious truth, because the "theologian" internetico is ready to respond with decisive and rare arrogance: "Look ..., she must document, indeed must study well its matter, because I've read that ... ". And in the face of all this one wonders even, from that holy woman of my mother, why sometimes I begin with the very worst swear words than those of a longshoreman, the series: "To learn to say all these bad words, It was it necessary for you to become a priest?».

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The Internet has given us the new age digital illiteracy and unreason, especially new forms of superstition that have nothing to do with the ancient or old forms of yore, the base of which was, however, a culture based on old traditions and folk beliefs. Otherwise, behind the new superstitions, there is no culture, or traditions or beliefs rooted but the irrational that feeds irrational, ignorance that feeds the worst arrogance that comes from non-knowledge that is transformed into a real pride of the non-philosophical knowledge, historical, scientific.

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Can, a clinical specialist a wrong diagnosis and giving ineffective treatment, perhaps even harmful? Yup, it can happen, Also, and just to human error completely involuntary, without that the specialist was in any way nor superficial or negligent. But what seems increasingly lacking in our society today, is the logic of common sense that should push this assessment: It produces more risks and damage an oncologist who missed diagnosis, or "clinical" internetico improvised persuades a family member to take care with the "medicine" natural alternative, inducing the sufferer to reach oncologist when tumor metastases are now spread throughout the body from head to foot in, with the result that the only possible treatment is hospitalization in the center for the terminally ill, where the only treatments are for pain resulting from cancer that struck him?

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In this kind of situation here it is that tragedy adds tragedy, why some idiots are never wrong. Messi fact before the reality of the dead, They are able to state that the consequence of death - far from being the result of their irresponsible idiocy - is due to chemtrails, nuclear testing, to drugs and vaccines that contain within itself so that the subject carcinogens develop cancer and multinational pharmaceutical companies in the future so they can get rich through medicines and chemotherapies.

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on emergency of the coronavirus that China has now spread to several other countries of the world and for which there is currently no vaccine, we must first listen to the experts and scientists, then follow scrupulously the advice of clinical. One and the other, they can make mistakes? Yup, They may be wrong, but their human errors never would reach, nor ever they would have the devastating consequences that penalty have "solutions" and "diagnosis" offered by internetici idiots, followed in turn, practices and rigor, by an ever-growing army of users idiots internetici.

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Our readers know well how often I have recourse to paradoxes more or less in effect, sometimes even shocking. With these results: on the one hand there are those who ride, but laughing understands the message, while on the other there are those who get angry, accusing rather vulgar and refusing categorically to understand. Well, addressing the first, not the latter enclosed in the sphere of unreasonable unrecoverable, I tell you: If you really want to use the Internet to harm you, if they really were required to choose the lesser evil, if so do the worst indigestion porn movies that you find available on the net, but do not pay heed to all the "experts" improvised who have already begun to sow news that have no scientific basis about the coronavirus.

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I want to thank my friend engraved Paolo Del Debbio, of which I was a guest several times in the program Network 4 Straight and Reverse, to have dedicated last night a very interesting episode in which it was done correctly, precise and above all valuable information. If you have not seen the program and wanted to see him, You can find it available on the Internet [see WHO].

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Very interesting among the many guests the presence of Prof. Alessandro Meluzzi, irreproachable scientist when performing the job of its close relevance: the clinical features of undoubted encyclopedic knowledge in medicine, which combines high skills related to its specialized branch, that is psychiatry. No one better than he could handle - and he did it very well -, The speech tied to the emergence of the problem by disclosing coronavirus viral infection perspective, then from that of the various forms of psychosis that it can come to life and develop socially. After having explained to scientific rigor the futility of protective masks; after realistically explained that trying to contain this virus would be "how to catch the air with his hands»; after saying that a vaccine is not there and you will not even be available in the near, with a smile concluded that part of the speech with a short joke: "Right now we just have to recommend us to the protection of the Virgin Mary, the only one at this time could do something '.

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After this speech he intended to be a premise, place that the word is made by scientists, to virologists and clinical specialists, up to what is my "job" as a priest and theologian, to give another kind of reading. What I will do starting from the beat of Prof. Meluzzi: "Right now, only the Virgin Mary could do anything '.

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Moving on to my area of ​​competence, I can say that on the other hand I fear another category no less virulent internetici idiots: that of the pseudo-Catholics who tend to live a "faith" dull and gloomy, made of views, revelations, disclosed or undisclosed secrets, message data from various Madonnas and so on, that almost always, and the penalty from them are misinterpreted, altered and manipulated in order to sow the terror - in truth not terrorize anyone, but that tends to make everyone laugh, by Catholics to secularists -, targeted in order first and last and above all to impose: I'm right!

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Knowing as they say my chickens, I say with all due advance that the most bad that some real or alleged Catholics more easily service these, They can do in a time of emergency like this, It is to announce more or less predicted catastrophes, more or less contained in messages and private revelations, I remember, You have never been established by the Church in the deposit of faith. Or to put it bluntly: our faith does not depend on secrets disclosed or undisclosed information to the three shepherd children from Our Lady of Fatima, Like it or not certain ones. Our faith does not depend on beautiful image of the so-called triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, but it depends on the whole of the Incarnation of God's Word in the womb of the Virgin Mary, his saving death, by his resurrection and ascension into heaven, therefore it depends on the certainty, as we say in the Creed, Christ God "one day come again in glory to judge the living and the dead".

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Also in these Catholics poor petty, I remember that there are three fundamental theological virtues: faith, hope and charity [cf.. The Cor 1, 13]. The terror, that they often try to use when they cry to the sins and sinners of this world fell into the abyss, always in “magica” e “fideistica” waiting for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, They do not need at all to shake the conscience, even to the sound of hellish visions or revelations of terrible punishments of this mystical or of this mystical. They serve only to produce effects totally opposed humans today and in today's modern society, through great effort and very uncertain outcomes successful, It needs to be re-evangelized, not terrified. And unfortunately today, we Catholics, we are being very badly, being terribly deficient evangelizers manly, credible and saints.

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Or maybe they think that the theological virtues, three who were, four have become today, with the addition of the fourth virtue of terror? Not only does, the terror, does not redeem and not convert anyone, but as a priest holding the precious ministry of confessor, I remind all of them that if a person, socket fear, He decides to repent of their sins, only because it fears sentences and punishments, or because some "kind soul" terrified him with Hell visions of this mystical person or that seer, I can also absolve ten times, But sacramental absolution is worthless and has no effect. In fact, God wants our repentance, not our fear; our fear, He does not know what to do.

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It is well known that certain revelations, including those recognized by the Church as authentic, but far from being as I explained were included in the deposit of faith, I have always viewed with suspicion, especially for very crazy theories that some faithful, but unfortunately also certain priests, they ended up creating especially about the messages of Our Lady of Fatima, prefixed in practice, by many, the Holy Gospel itself. They are therefore not in any way allergic to revelations itself recognized as authentic by the Church, be clear; if anything, they are opposed to the use that certain nefarious make. Similarly they are attacked by hives whenever certain subjects hailing the imminent triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary; and this not because I lack of devotion to the Blessed Virgin and to her Immaculate Heart, but always for the wrong use that certain subjects verges on fanaticism are the heart of the image Mater Dei.

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In common lexicon, the term apocalypse, apocalyptic He has assumed an entirely negative connotation, and it is linked to catastrophic events. Not only is everything is wrong, because it involves a radical alteration of the meaning that is formed through the Greek entries from (input) e cover (beef), which gives life a composite word revelation (apokálypsis) which literally means: reveal, reveal what is hidden.

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The Blessed Apostle John wrote the Book of Revelation during his exile on the Island of Patmos, which takes its name this magazine; island also known as the site of the last revelation. That said, we can now make it clear that if there is a message of hope, which for us is the certainty of faith, this is precisely embodied in the Book of Revelation, which tells the definitive victory of good over evil and the coming of the kingdom of Christ, which will never end; an advent also known as parusia, the greek presence, which literally means "presence" and indicating the return of Christ in glory, its presence endless.

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Having said that anyone can understand - with the exception of some "terrorists" Catholics that we hope not to see early work in this time of emergency given by the coronavirus -, that the heart of the Christian message and the entire mystery of the revelation, It is not terror, It not fears, but the central theological virtue of hope, which not coincidentally is in the middle and holding together the faith and charity. It's true, as taught by the Blessed Apostle Paul, and as we all teach with him, that "all three of the most important of these is love" [The Cor 1, 13], but hope, who is in the middle, repeat as is the virtue that binds and amalgamates together with other, including the most important: the charity.

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Proceeding towards the end of this discourse all that theological and eschatological, all aimed at creating alarmism on objectively serious problem of coronavirus, more than legitimate is only right to ask: one day, near or far, because nobody can not know when, catastrophic events will occur, after which we will see if anything decimated the world's population and whole nations disappear? Well, without giving rise to alarmism and without irritating the secularists - who then, to the proven proof of the facts, They are more tolerant and ready to discussion than they are certain Catholic "terrorists" to cry: to this prophecy, So-Secret, So-mystical or so mystical say! - I can confidently say that the provision of a disastrous event is written in the deposit of our faith, so it is for us revealed faith, it was Jesus Christ himself to turn these words:

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«[…] "When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be terrified;. These things must happen first, but it will not immediately be the end ". Then he said to them,: “People will rise against people and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be earthquakes from place to place, famines and pestilences; There will be terrors and great signs from heaven ' " [LC 21, 8-11].

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First of all, Jesus Christ, for he speaks in first person, invites us to not be terrified. Imagine then if inviting us to terrorize others with impending catastrophes and disastrous, or with visions of Hell enclosed in the revelations of this mystical, of this mystical or this or that Marian message, all so that "can finally triumph Immaculate Heart of Mary", as they go around saying with abusive Marianization some "terrorists" Catholics who have not first understand anything of Mariology same.

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Yup, one day will be something very catastrophic, Jesus Christ has told us, But anyone who has genuine and true faith, what a day will be devastating, should be read as of now with the eyes of hope, because everything that God permits, it is only for the good, health and human salvation.

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it coronavirus, It could then be read as one of the many signs that the man of today is no longer able to grasp and interpret. It could only be the prelude, followed by some kind and many other signs, for whatever long period of time, before the arrival of large and devastating sign told us about Jesus Christ.

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Of course, while scientists are making the most of their work, once again our poor Church, ravaged internally by far the worst Ebola virus, Work is not doing its. Unfortunately fact, sclerotic as of migrant and poor of the poor and immigrants that now characterize this pontificate in obsessive compulsive way, None, since our August Supreme Shepherd, He invited to pray in churches around the world to ask God the Father for the grace to save humanity from a possible, possibly can and even dangerous scourge. As was said Prof. Alessandro Meluzzi: "I'm not worried about China and its organizational and scientific capacities that people have in coping with such an emergency, I am, however, for Africa. What would happen, if such a virus would spread in that continent?».

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The Bishop of Rome, three years ago he invited all the priests of his diocese to take a family of immigrants by parish. Idea presumably taken from the script of some science fiction movie, if it considers that many pastors have contracted debts with the banks and they have serious problems to put together the money to pay the electricity bill and the heating of the parish church. Pity, that in the face of this situation given by the emergence of coronavirus, before which we can not at the time know what we risk to meet, He has not yet invited the pastors, at the present day, to pray in churches around the world. But on the other hand, our reigning, is a Pope totally focused on the idea of ​​a poor Church for the poor, mica on the hope that scientists will soon find a vaccine to save lives, indistinctly, is the poor that the rich.

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What to say, in the Church today: poor and migrants ahead of everything and everyone, while a dangerous virus is spreading, but for the moment there are treatments and vaccines. From all this you know well that, the worst virus, It is that for some time it has spread within the Catholic Church. The serious thing is that we, to save us from pandemic, the vaccine We have it all right. But if you dare to indicate, or worse to ask for it to be used, risks being literally torn apart by the useful and dangerous idiots who praise the "epoch-making revolution" of the "Church of the new course", as has just written days ago on these our columns Jorge Facio Lince in an article enlightened and enlightening [cf.. WHO].

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the Island of Patmos, 31 January 2020

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The false illusory hope that now comes before this new ecclesiology of meme It is to think or assume that tomorrow, in the next conclave, in the next pontificate or in a next possible council, everything returns as before by virtue of the refusal by the newly elected, surrounded by a large army of brave compact and coherent ecclesiastical, who will arrange everything in a flash, if anything, using the magic formula: hocus pocus …

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President of Editions The island of Patmos

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memes and sheep …

In the era of "epochal revolution" which started in recent years within the Church, He insists on the urgent need to open up and communicate with the world, almost as if we were to learn from the world what would the identity, the missio and the function of the Church. Like this, following the sequence of these "slogan" revolutionary, we just have to start looking at the Church also in terms of phenomena and movements of the "world", like the one belonging to the Internet, through the well-known and widespread "meme”.

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The "electronic" code meme It is assigned to any type of file generated in the infinity of imitations visual or audiovisual, derivations and adaptations of each original type unit that can also be unknown. The term meme [1] It is a neologism coined by science writer neo-Darwinist Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene [2] the 1976, and is a term with which you want to present as a thesis the analogy between genetic transmission and cultural transmission, all based on the assumption that every meme, similarly to the gene, It is the smallest unit and the necessary evolution: «I meme are small cultural units that are spread from person to person by copying or imitating ".

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Dawkins explains that the propagation of meme, that is, those ideas, songs, mode, slogan, principles, rules between brains and brains, It is realized by means of imitation, spreading like a "virus" from generation to generation until it becomes a fixed concept like that of the idea of ​​God, for example [3]:

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"God exists, only in the form of a meme with a high survival value, or infective power in the environment of human culture ' [4].

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In this meme-idea / concept of It gave, in accordance with the theory is apparent Dawkins in the first place that imitation is the means by which i meme, which following the same rules of natural evolution - but in this case by analogy following the rules of "cultural evolution" - survive only some of them leading a new life, and to follow the most important qualities to survive and spread of meme, for example longevity, fecundity and fidelity in imitation of its simplicity. For the last viable selective nature of this “social evolution”, is that of adaptation in response to the social environment in which it finds itself.

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"When it is sown a meme fertile in my mind, it literally parasitized my brain with the transformation of the new idea spread through the vehicle of meme in stretched form that would make it a virus in parasitize a genetic mechanism of a host cell " [5]”.

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Some scholars favor this neologism, introduced the meme in the study of human conduct developing it as "instructions for conduct that have been stored in the brain after they have been transmitted by imitation", so anything learned from childhood must identify themselves by imitation as meme. Other scholars have instead challenged because of its conceptual ambiguity: It is in fact not possible to define what exactly a meme, the analogy of nature and culture is too simplistic and ineffective for the description of complex human behavior, He does not add anything new to what already can do anthropological studies, cultural, linguistic and sociological.

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In the Internet culture, the term meme He began to be present by the end of the nineties of the last century, but still in the same parallels between biology and culture, between genes and meme before mentioned, even if the same natural selection of meme indicated by Dawkins has had a transformation on the Internet according to a not so implemented according to the natural speed separation but according to the alteration deliberately given by the same human creativity with the way of "hijacking” [6] between two parallel: the faithful imitation as a result of fascination, admiration and identification or the denigration and discrediting of people and ideas, to follow along with the replica of the original or the total transformation of the original same.

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Regardless of the obstacles present in academia about the theory of meme, it must be acknowledged that thanks to this increasingly affected era and defined by the communication on the Internet, this term has found, for its characteristics, exponential distribution, but mutarsi, from initial unit that propagates gradually through interpersonal contact of content transmitted simultaneously, in the phenomena of mass real, so overhanging the limits between the interpersonal communication and those of mass, those professional and amateur, those of the bottom upwards and vice versa.

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'Cultural units that are spread from person to person, i meme They were discussed long before the digital age. Yet the Internet has transformed the dissemination of meme in a highly visible practice and the term netizen It has become an integral part of newspeak, for vocabulary, own grammar and syntax man internetico " [7].

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In this communicative dynamics, the term meme the internet has become synonymous with a specific indicating the spread of a "particular idea" presented as written text, image, Linguistic move or other units of "things" cultural. Using that looks very similar to the academic world, but distinct between them, because the theory of "cultural evolution" primordial characteristic is the longevity of the transmitted idea. Instead, in the electronic world, i meme are the descriptions for recent trends characterized by short duration. If then in the academic sphere meme They are abstract conceptual units and often controversial, in net sphere i meme are concrete phenomena and partially accepted by all. For last: see i meme create at the level of the theoretical evolutionary distinctions, In this case turn into individual ideas or formulas that have spread well. Indeed the meme, digitally, are groups of elements and content created with mutual awareness and sharing tied into a widespread popular cultural unity, imitated and transformed by individual users of the Internet, up to create a shared cultural experience in the process in which the personal level or micro also manages to model the "macro-structure" of society.

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The reason became so popular the phenomenon of meme the network, It is given by the enjoyment and pleasure caused in the user and can repeat or transform an activity that draws him out of his daily routine, It realized almost always together with other people. For this group approach the meme end up having a social and political impact, because they acquire a communicative role of "continuous talk time", with a strong push for debate, while remaining within the public informal and spontaneous conversations that start from the bottom, with the ability to create links between the individual and the collective, among the staff with the res-publica.

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I meme they have become the consequential natural elements for the study of the Internet and digital culture. Behavior memetico however again, because its scope of global scope is unprecedented. In this era of hyper-memetic circulation of copies and derivatives they gave copies to a greater sense of '' original ', to become today the reason of being of digital communication [8].

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Going beyond the scope of sociology, of anthropology and the study of the Internet, you could add, or even wanting to create a third analogy between natural evolution, cultural evolution and "epoch-making revolution," where meme It becomes the natural element for the study "ecclesiological" and behavior in the same today ecclesiastical structure. The first feature would be imitation fashion pauperistic clumsy and devoid of substance in the sermons of many ecclesiastics. The second characteristic may be constituted by the thrust and the challenge continues to exceed the so-called "old patterns", even if it means a border on the ridiculous and doctrinal ignorance, and everything is repeated socio-political speeches, both in a care setting devoid of any reference to the spiritual sphere, of the sacrum or the sacramentary. We would finally a third characteristic, also typical and totally exclusive scope ecclesiastical, not present in other environments: approval uncritical imposed as a typical model of dictatorial regimes around the world. From these two characteristics - but especially the third - one can derive that the raison d'être of this "new ecclesiology" of meme, is a perfect reference to the principle of imitation described in the fable of the "naked king", which obviously no one can criticize, because everyone must dance and dance like before the "greatest show after big bang"Blinded voluntarily or involuntarily in a closed perception of reality, ready to magnify attired king, which as is well known, however, it was naked. Through these dynamics it is realized and embodied the analogy of meme as live phenomena and disseminated exponentially within digital, rather poorly represented in other areas of life. Once you are fallen and finished trapped in these mechanisms, here is that the representatives of the ecclesiastical world end up being convinced to live and operate in the right and have really a breakthrough through this much-vaunted "epochal revolution" but, outside the small "Ecclesio-sphere" is now mocked, ignored and especially frowned upon by the People of God, as it soon will be also the same story, that will end up giving on it a very unforgiving and harsh judgment.

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Analyzing these features and reasons to be, it only remains to wonder about the length of time at all. Here too the principle of analogy meme as a new proposal on the ecclesiological "epochal revolution" today can give you some ideas not indifferent: see i meme remain a fast phenomenon mutable and restricted to the form of hegemonic current ecclesial body communication, his life will be very conditional by the design conception, in these times of constant change rooms, falls and survives only in small groups of faithful fans.

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If this phenomenon of meme It is examined from an anthropological socially Dawkins, remaining anchored to the principle of analogy of genes, we are in front of a viral mutation always in transformation that will only escalate into an exaltation in thinking, In word and in action not only totally alien to its "original gene", namely that Christianity which remains little or nothing; He will tend to degenerate into "misericordismo" as the starting point of a new religious expression, that only history will tell us when she managed to survive and to establish itself.

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Taking a current rating, it must be said that between the idea of ​​God and the idea meme Dawkins and clerical uomocentrismo, it appears that the two expressions are the two sides of the same coin, or that the latter is the consequence of the first. Wanting to then do an analysis more boost, I dare say that this centrality of man has long exceeded the anthropological turn of Karl Rahner. The centrality of the Word as proclaimed in the post council, He has come to make us sink into a kind of nihilistic hermeneutics: man today that interprets and defines the "Word" as a message left by the man of the past updating it according to the pleasures of this as would a parrot who put in front of a mirror you look and repeats sounds heard earlier type: "Hello," "good" "Love", "I love you"…

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The false illusory hope which now it comes before this new ecclesiology of meme It is to think or assume that tomorrow, in the next conclave, in the next pontificate or in a next possible council, everything returns as before by virtue of the refusal by the newly elected, surrounded by a large army of brave compact and coherent ecclesiastical, who will arrange everything in a flash, if anything, using the magic formula: hocus pocus …

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The certainty of faith leads us instead to be firm on the principle that the Church, mystical body, It will never end. There will come a time when the test will come to life in the great apostasy and take new forms old and new heresies, There will be reforms and division, but the Church will always and only remain one. The certain hope is that this time will pass and, with it, They will also pass certain characters, that for active and effective charity they should be considered and treated as the sick in terminal state; the poor patients who do not want to accept that their life time is about to end and that soon they will be before God's Judgment, that to them will be severely merciful. While, survivors and their deeds and works, They will have to pay long and just as long to work, for groped to repair, even only partially, the serious damage produced by them.

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From the island of Patmos, 28 January 2020

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NOTE

[1] This term would be the Greek derivation of mimema (imitation).

[2] The Selfish Gene book centered on the hypothesis that it is not the group or individual but single gene that is transmitted in mechanical form and then forced evolution is not about how you transmit genes, but that genes are transmitted and spread regardless of factors and behaviors that can cause damage to the organism - just as man is necessarily selfish even though he considers himself to be altruistic in satisfying his own interests - so that he can maximize the transmission and diffusion of his genes.

[3] Richard Dawkins with his agnostic position explains the work the God Delusion It is that evolution demonstrates the possibility and the probability of evolving from simple to more complex beings without the intervention of any external cause or superior being or transcendental, It is that God as the source of everything explains nothing, and instead pushes to demonstrate an "infinite regress" in which this God is impassable and unlikely. Therefore the idea of ​​God as religions are only accepted beliefs without Children as useful for survival, is that then they are uncritically shared on a social level to the point of being the main cause of division, of wars and violence.

[4] Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 2006, p 193. [My free translation].

[5] Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 2006, p 192. [My free translation].

[6] cyber attack technique which consists in modifying protocol packets appropriately to redirect and take control of websites.

[7] CF.Limor Shifman,«memes in a digital world reconciling with a conceptual troublemaker»

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcc4.12013.

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BY THE LIGHT OF THE OLYMPICS eternal SAVING LIGHT OF CHRIST JESUS

"Day and night, a divine fire pushes us to open the way. come On! We look into the open, try something of their own, although it is still far ».

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Dear brothers and sisters,

lighting of the Olympic torch, Athens 2018

repeats itself every four years the sporting event of the Olympics. Next summer we will have the Olympic Games a Tokyo. I remember the first Olympics I saw on television, Atlanta 1996. I remember that during those four years of preparation for the Olympics is carried by a torchbearer the Olympic torch: in the ancient Olympics that fire indicates the continued presence of the chief god: for the Greeks Zeus. The torch is a symbol of warmth and light that illuminates and shows the presence of God. This invokes the sense of light, the light generated by the Triune God in whom we believe and know to be true and living God.

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The liturgy of this second Sunday of Ordinary Time (see text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO), In the first reading the Old Testament offers us this passage:

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"I make you a light of nations, so that my salvation to the ends of the earth " (Is 49,3.5-6).

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The prophet Isaiah hears the voice of the Lord, Adonai. And listen to himself a great promise: be a light for all nations. The call to end indicates that the message of God is a universal message and not enclosed only to Israel. But being light to the nations it means bringing revelation and life. A give birth in a spiritual way, It is to generate life in God.

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We too, as Isaiah We can slightly’ Do this: be bearers of divine light. Being cristofori the flame of divine love. Especially going to solve obscure personal questions: clearing with truth and charity those cores division to make them communion.

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We then draw the light Originating directly from its Source: Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of the Father. The first to notice this is just the Baptist, that is said in the Gospel:

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"The Baptist said," He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, it is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit ". And I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God " (GV 1,29-34).

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Giovanni, says the Gospel, saw Jesus coming toward Him. He sees a ray of sunshine different than what was usually seen in the sunny desert. That is seen in Jesus that special light, the divine explosion of the Holy Spirit. So the Baptist can see and recognize the divine sonship of Jesus. God then reveals himself in Christ: the light is the ultimate truth, eternal light that will never end in the dark.

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Let us try to remember it in moments of our darkness: to seek the divine Light, that illuminates and can give us consolation. Even when the darkness seems deep. Tapping into that light, means responding to a call, a mission which is eternally written in our hearts. The St. Paul explains:

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«Paolo, the Church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus " (1Color 1,1-3).

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There is an original holiness, a first ray of light in our lives: when we were conceived from the very beginning the Lord for us it has always had a bright and shiny project. The call to holiness, It is called to be a light to the world. This also happens in life in which we live. It takes place in the workplace and even in moments of relaxation. If we remain linked to the central light, who has sanctified us just designed, we continue to burn with His love, and to sanctify the world.

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Wrote the poet Friedrich Hölderlin:

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"Day and night, a divine fire pushes us to open the way. come On! We look into the open, try something of their own, although it is still far ».

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The Lord more and more gifts us His Light, to shine in all of our luster, throughout our uniqueness and sacredness: to know how to burn like embers and be that sacred fire which opens on Infinity.

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Rome, 19 January 2020

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Father Ariel was invited back by the friends of the Editorial Board of the program and Straight Backhand led by Paolo Del Debbio on Rete 4, from which it will be present at the direct transmitted by Mediaset Studies of Cologno Monzese in the second Thursday evening 16 January starting at 23.30 circa.

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We inform our readers tomorrow evening our Father Ariel back in the late evening to the program live Straight and Reverse led by Paulo Debbio on Rete 4, where he was already a guest in the past in the betting 31 October and 7 November 2019.

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[…] the territories of the kingdom are supercazzolaro Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, even all his social network, where the reigning smart pretend to pontificate in theology and sacred sciences without having to deal with any subject matter expert. The situation becomes serious when widely, the supercazzolaro, It wants to extend the territories of his kingdom beyond the virtual reality. That is when, once the computer is turned off and apostrophe have friends and family with "encyclicals" chemtrails, about the dangers of vaccines, on the evidence of the flat earth, and other similar nonsense, He decides to go to church and start to spread their word.

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"From Friar Cipolla Alexander Minutella". That is: when the satire of high literature Boccaccio is transformed instead into grotesque comedy and ruin of souls

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"FROM MONK TO ALEXANDER ONION Minutella". Ie: WHEN THE SATIRE OF HIGH LITERATURE BOCCACCESCA SUIT YOU RATHER IN COMEDY GROTESQUE AND RUIN OF SOULS

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… the priest excommunicated Alessandro Minutella, from Home “paesano phenomenon” that many believed was wrong, He has turned into a poisoner of souls, while with cynicism that often characterizes, our Church authorities seem to think that to solve the problem just will not give it importance. Then when someone asks them tomorrow: “you have not given importance to those who poisoned the sheep of my flock”, with which justificatory cynicism and “clerical diplomacy” They think they respond to the Divine Judge?

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If the Ecclesiastical Authority He had made wise treasure of great laceration produced in the Church by Martin Luther, in front of the priest excommunicated Alessandro Minutella tremble, because da meteor believed was, hath been turned into a poisoner of souls that drives many of our faithful to ruin. Yet there are those who think with blind cynicism that to solve the problem just does not give importance to him and to his followers, that more and more national and international level. I wonder: when tomorrow they will be reprimanded: “you have not given importance to those who poisoned the sheep of my flock”, how cynical justificatory think they respond to the Divine Judge?

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the priest excommunicated Alessandro Minutella

The Church is experiencing a severe crisis, our people are lost and disoriented and when they seek answers and guides, on one side are social priests who have embraced the world and lost its sense of the sacred, the other the Minutella riding the wave of unease and discontent claiming more and more victims. Those with blind cynicism are leaving these souls in the clutches of this heretic, schismatic, convinced that it is only a flash in the pan destined to fade, We are taking a serious responsibility, because in this climate of confusion and bewilderment, a Friar Cipolla is more dangerous than a Martin Luther, the time overlooked and considered only an angry Augustinian monk originally from a village in Saxony ranted in outlying areas, from which he could not harm proud Rome that was said above good and evil, then we saw how it ended. there, Today will end up worse …

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"They called Holiness": from the slap of Anagni to “paccheri Pope”. Use pleasant on the figure of the Supreme Pontiff, for a transversal reading of the facts

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"CALLED THE POPE": FROM THE SLAP OF ANAGNI "PACCHERI THE POPE". USES pleasant ON THE FIGURE OF POPE, FOR READING CROSS THE FACTS.

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However, given that for some time we follow a new catechism of atheists and secular leaders who are only a man of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary a rinses nothing part, now came the time to downsize and to pigeonhole well the august person of the Roman Pontiff. And so, as the laws of fame, satire and visibility prove merciless against Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron ... now it seems now the turn of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. And use the first name of the Supreme Pontiff just to emphasize the fact that these Advocates of lost causes, They intend to voluntarily view only and only as a man, not as the Successor of Saint Peter, chosen and placed by Christ at the head of the College of the Apostles.

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With the end of the year 2019 and the beginning of the new, There was given a curtain never before seen in St. Peter's Square. A faithful Christian, has made with enthusiasm the hand of Pope Francis I - perhaps annoyed by this act and its reasons - he has responded with equal enthusiasm to break free from the vigorous grasp of Asian lady, settling some "paccheri" well measured.

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As of January 1 2020, This gesture has surpassed in fame and the coveted traditional New Year's concert, much to the divulgarsi social network virally and clog posts WhatsApp many people - including us priests - and perhaps the majority of the lay faithful.

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As it happens in these cases, the good-natured irony whole Italian has been produced cartoons to this who approached the gesture of the Pope to that of famous movie characters: since Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, Chuck Norris to romanissimo Mario Brega, and others …

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When the Italian satire It is expressed as usual, in the version pizza and mandolin, we must be honest and explain that in it there is no evil, only good-natured desire to resize everything with a laugh. Unlike the speech instead tied to very serious cases, like the one that led to the reputation the French magazine Charlie Hebdo with his irreverent and blasphemous anti-religious satire.

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As it happens only in Italy, the gesture of the Holy Father has turned into yet another opportunity to pull the dresses pope to a line of thought that is cloaked in gooders and the politically correct, much due to the gesture several meanings, colorful and contrasting. So there have been many public defenders, also of a certain age and social caliber; the same as ever, at the time of Benedict XVI, John Paul II, John Paul I and Paul VI would have the audacity to speak and make Keyboard lions print and Web. Today instead, I wonder why, they felt invested with the sacred fire of the defense and papal repute and his gestures. Randomness? I do not think so. On the contrary, It is increasingly marked tendency to reduce the Pope to an authoritative representative of the world of the powerful, instead see and recognize in him the moral and spiritual authority that refers to the transcendent God.

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However, since for some time we follow a new catechism of atheists and secular leaders who are only a man of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary a rinses nothing part, now came the time to downsize and to pigeonhole well the august person of the Roman Pontiff. And so, as the laws of fame, satire and visibility prove merciless against Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron ... now it seems now the turn of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. And use the first name of the Supreme Pontiff just to emphasize the fact that these Advocates of lost causes, They intend to voluntarily view only and only as a man, not as the Successor of Saint Peter, chosen and placed by Christ at the head of the College of the Apostles.

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For these characters - some of which have been hybridized as Catholic Christians only in the last six years - the Pope is the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of Vatican City State, Servant of the servants of God, Head of the College of Bishops, ma, so more prosaic, he is the leader a current of thought and a political message that you can reshape a good needs.

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It is for this reason that, before the good-natured satire more genuine italianity, they felt compelled to exercise the defense motion. In the same way in which they behave coryphaei parties when touched their boss. E, as in the political tradition, It is trying to eliminate the opponent and the opponent of discrediting and damaging it with personal judgments on the morality and dignity, so those who have sketched a smile in front of funny cartoons about the Pope or have shared on social they are seen to point the finger and blame publicly.

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I quote some examples from the web some office defenses:

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"That is, let me know. One more man 80 years is pulled badly, He loses patience for a moment and slaps on the hand of one that was pulling him like a puppet to win Luna Park. Then he asks public apology (I repeat: Pope asks-the-excuse- dad) and you people treat it as if it were a monster? Could it be that this Pope whose only fault is to constantly remind, very effectively, what religion says that you claim to practice? Could it be that you hate because it puts you in front of the fact that most of you are no different from those that the Gospel calls "whited sepulchres"? The truth is that today, if Jesus Christ walked the Gospel among you, You would call "zekka feel-good", at best. And Pope Francis I will slam in your face every single day, why you hate him so much " (Facebook).

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There are no comments to make, at least on the part of Catholics well formed and therefore aware of who really is the Supreme Pontiff and are able to distinguish between what filial respect and reverence to his person and to his office and constructive criticism. Obviously there are plenty of references to hate, It has become like cholesterol, depending on which side or faction comes, it becomes good or bad.

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The second case appeared on my wall Twitter, I was groomed for sharing a very nice post that compared the Pope to the character western Of Trinity alias Terence Hill:

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"From her “bio” I read that it is a parish priest … so, well rooted in the Roman Catholic Church; given that promotes satire of his Bergoglio “chief”, does not it seem a little contradictory that his conduct? Abandon the cassock and lead a priestly life in Christ " (da Twitter).

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Even before this post There are very few words, for my part I answered out of politeness, because I never subtract to some criticism when it is done with education and with so. However, you can infer many things about the Christian formation of this social person and his way of seeing the Church, the papacy and the same figure of Priests. I'm sorry to disappoint this lion keyboard that is hiding behind a nickname, unlike myself that puts not only the name but also the face, knowing that they are not only faithful to the Roman Pontiff and in communion with him, but aware of the fact that I can be useful to the person of Peter's Successor to the extent that I act with a sense of Church, although with the affectionate irony. Wishing I can sum it all up with an example related to historical chronicles of two Saints: the great pedagogue, and much revered saint, Father Filippo Blacks, and his great "compar Brigadier", cappuccino mendicant friar St. Felix of Cantalice, which he was bound by affection and fraternal friendship, and each other often exchanged jokes and jokes. A day, between the laughter of all present, Father Philip showed how Fra Felice had a hard head, breaking his head on an empty wine flask, then, both, They began to laugh arm around people. What to say of the lines between the two? One in particular, precisely directed to the Pope at the time reigning, deserves to be remembered, because about who was sitting on the Chair of Peter, Father Philip said ironically: «Eh, er Pope Sixtus, er Pope Sixtus, nun forgives nemmanco to Christ!».

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… and alone and could miss the Romans following the Neapolitans cartoonists …

I will not let the habit cappuccino, because I am aware that the Church is not Parliament, that his head is not a leader political and that precisely because they are sinful and contradictory life I need the Holy Spirit to convert, just as it happened to the Apostles at Pentecost.

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For us priests, mention the name of the Pope and the Diocesan Bishop in the Canon of the Mass it means to confirm the communion of the Catholic world that it is not about personal human or sociological strategy, but the work of God through His Spirit. Citing the Eucharistic celebration "Our una cum Papa Francisco"I show my reverence to all those who have held the Petrine office. Moreover, a priest and consecrated reiterate my compliance to the Magisterium of the Church taught by the Supreme Pontiffs, by the apostle Peter to François I.

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If someone thinks of wanting to attract into temptation to draw up a hit parade of the Popes trendy he is very wrong, because I understand that certain distortions are not derived from bislaccherie of this or that Pope but by those who set themselves up as defenders and fellow snacks and perfectly embody the prophetic words of Psalm:

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"If he had insulted me an enemy, I could bear; if he had risen against me an opponent, I could hide from him. But are you, my partner, My friend and confidant; He bound us a sweet friendship, to the house of God we walked in celebration » (cf. Shall 54,13-15).

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Maybe it's time to listen less has come those who have always mouth the name of a Pope combined with concepts such as "revolutionary", "Rupture", the "turning point" … giving more attention to those in pain and suffering they try to save it by manipulators and flatterers, even at the risk of being discredited in public. Because for us "… PE’ Grazia her’ disgrace, and always we will be revered et Our beloved Lord Pope Successor of the Prince Pietro Apostol Beato», When he had to say in very difficult times San Filippo Blacks, When in Rome left in meal hunger and misery, after the terrifying lot perpetrated in Lanzichenecchi 1527 through violence, rapes and murders of all kinds, He ascended to the throne in the holy 1534 Alessandro Farnese Principles by the name of Paul III, that regardless of the hunger and poverty situation in which the population, This is in spite lived surrounded by the splendor of the great Renaissance courts. Yet he was called "amatissimo and veneratissima"Father Philip Blacks, come to be known with a very special title: "The saint of joy". And celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Father Filippo Blacks, devoutly recited: «… una cum Papa our Paulo» (each reference is purely coincidental … WHO).

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Rome. On the two sixteen year olds he died on the spot near the Ponte Milvio yet another crocodile tears of a civil society that is unable to wonder: where is that, we parents, we were wrong and then tragically failed?

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ROMA. DEATH ON TWO sixteen UP SHOT NEAR Ponte Milvio Yet another CROCODILE TEARS OF A CIVIL SOCIETY UNABLE TO WONDERING: DOVE, PARENTS OF US, WRONG AND THEN WE HAVE FAILED DESPERATELY?

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… every now and again, any of these immortal youth, hopefully dies, because very often instead kill others without them they do a scratch. And when any of these unpunished, invincible and immortal dies, We cry a couple of days, colored balloons are launched on coffins, as if death were a circus, They will lay flowers, signs and puppets at the scene. Then, if anything, is also assumed as a defender and talentata the famous criminal lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, because the parent who does not train disaster, does not care, no guards and gives no solid rules of life to their children, first of all essential to protect the children themselves, It must be always right, He does not fail, and can not fail. The whole world is in error, he and his son no, May!

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The death of two sixteen year olds run over by a car in Rome leads me to narrate a fact of which I was protagonist, since it useful to introduce a complex and difficult issue to be addressed.

Three years ago I passed by the square of a certain Italian cities, When adolescents, two boys who were the cockerels with four peers, BLOW me as I passed behind him with this phrase:

"These pedophile priests shit!».

I turn towards the two boys, and even if I had before me a mirror, I imagine that my look, in that moment, would create some sense of fear even a hungry hyena. I ask sternly to the two boys:

"By chance, you have it with me?».

With unspeakable arrogance one of the two, swelling before the four mignottelle in bloom - as these have already made, finished and finished, from skirts to make to follow with vamp hairstyles - replica:

"Yup. So what? what problems did you ... what the fuck you want?».

On the interrogative sound 'want?», part of my left hand a slap deliberately measured. In fact, if we had put strength, the head of the boy would have become detached from the neck. And if you had stuck, He would bring some permanent damage. Or to clarify: when I shake of the valves, or when I close the coffee machine, it happens sometimes that I am asked to unscrew the whole thing, Why, if inadvertently not I measure the force, it happens that others do not then be able to open the closures …

... After a few seconds of stunning for the measured received sberla, the would-be "tough boy" runs away from me cautiously and begins to scream:

"I denounce you ... I'll sue!».

With a calm whole seraphic - stuff to embarrass really Fra Angelico with the entire choir of Seraphim - answer:

"Meanwhile you've taken a slap, Now go ahead and denounce ".

In a completely lawful some might wonder if they are not I was a reckless fool authentic, to give a slap to a minor in a public square, around noon on Sunday morning, all in front of dozens of witnesses. Question more than understandable to which answer: no recklessness on impulse risky move: I did so studied, but above all for the greater good of that boy, humiliating him before his friend, Everyone mignottelle in bloom and a whole square that is not filled with looks of disappointment, but complacency. That characteristic complacency of the people these days have to suffer frequently little monsters and the like tyrants, lack of education and the minimum respect for adults, adult, seniors and elderly. And they have to suffer because these monsters are untouchable, as evidenced by the continuation of the story …

... Monday morning I called the commander of the local police station that, knowing me, tries at once to avoid a problem. After a few pleasantries I ask me if I can go at their offices to 15.30. and short answer Cutting:

"Captain, if by chance it is the slap given to the streets yesterday to guy, know that it's all true, Did I dumped it seriously. The rest of her story in person today, when I come to visit you ".

That's what had happened and why that invitation: the police had tried to restrain the boy's father, about to take 17 years the following month, who had gone with them with the intention to sue for assault and injury. In conciliatory way the police had tried to convince him that maybe, his son, She had addressed some provocation to a priest, up to make him lose his temper. And while not knowing what had happened, They reassured him that knew me for years and I was not the kind of person to do such a thing, if not before something very serious. In short: They had convinced him to talk to me, they think I would definitely explained, wondering if anything even apologize to the father and the son and, maybe, perhaps even to the Holy Spirit.

What it happened in the barracks between the boy's father and me, It was later defined by police as "a memorable lesson in pedagogy", of course, in private talks between them, but promptly disseminated - always privately -, colleagues from all neighboring stations. so I smile at the boy's father painting by an air mingled in the dark and angry and I invest with a question:

"She called me to apologize, vero? Know therefore right now that what the really are very grateful ".

Stunned he replies:

"You're kidding, or you out of your mind? She slaps my minor child and asks me if I have come to apologize?».

We are having already collected the day before all the most accurate information, I answer:

"And moreover, apologize, she should thank me, because with his son, undoubtedly a minor, but some time ago use of alcohol and soft drugs, who comes home late at night, that the guide scooter recklessly and so, I did what she should have done long ago for his own good, but unfortunately he never made ... ".

Unable to rage before police the father searches for words, while I take advantage of his silence to continue:

"... I have no idea what I would do my parents, or what would make any parent worth his salt, learning that his year-old son, a public square, He had insulted an ultra fifty serene and peaceful man who was passing? I tell him at once that I would have done what my father, who he never used physical violence on me: in that case it would change the connotations. Then, just medicate the wounds, would take me by the person offended by me to apologize. Mine was, however, a real parent, as she is a true parent failure, ready to legitimize a child of which you should be ashamed, because certain monsters do not just happen, They are manufactured by men and women like her as his wife '.

Then I inform him of what he had told me his son behind him, insulting me and the entire College of Priests of the Catholic Church, finally concluding:

"Said this, He intends to apologize to me and thank me for the salutary slap given to his son?».

Instead of grasping the gravity of the, He understands that his son had insulted a man unknown adult and an entire institution, the parent tries to justify himself:

"It is not the fault of my son, We know well what do priests, It is written all over the papers'.

Hearing this and fully understood where it came from the natural candidate to violence and crime that had revealed his son, We report:

"You know that in this world there are many women who do the whores? Well, if I met his mother and his wife, and I gave you the whores in the public square, then I think that I can justify saying "... well, you know what women do, It is written in all the newspapers that speak of prostitution ". As if women because these were all whores and rigor, of course, also included his mother and his wife, or not?».

At that point the parent had two solutions: or to rage, but as I said it would not be appropriate and conducive to its intolerable because inside a military base before four policemen, or sketch. So all he said:

"I should denounce the, but I want to be good and I will just tell you to never afford more ».

Two years later I learned that at that same barracks He was taken to the son of this great parent in detention, because at the age he had passed from the use of alcohol and hashish to the more adult and strong cocaine. The police had caught him red-handed as he pushed in a room a few meters from the front door of the barracks, however, cocaine diluted with substances anything but beneficial, the purpose of obtaining ten o'clock doses from a quantity of five. So what is obvious: one that holds and selling drugs a few meters from the entrance of the police station, or is a total lunatic, or a person who feels untouchable, invincible and then impunibile. Or to put it as far grotesque: it would be like if someone came in with swagger safe and absolute certainty of impunity in direct mosque frequented by a group of fundamentalist Islamists with a pig on a leash, He convinced to get away and be especially harder and more powerful than they.

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Roman Christmas was bloodied by the death of two girls sixteen [see chronicle WHO], overwhelmed by a twenty to a guide Suv. The image of two girls olds died on the spot is a fact that the majority of people takes away any incentive to exercise the little that remains of human reason in our decadent society, to leave space to the emotional and sentimental. All but a few days, on the street corner where today were deposed flowers, billboards and dolls, flowers wither soon, discolor the billboards will disappear and the puppets, without changing anything in the minds of some children and some parents. Without any emotional and sentimental consciousness is raised those questions that must not even touch the mind of our army of failed parents, as well as dangerous and deadly monsters manufacturers who feel untouchable, invincible, unpunished and finally immortal.

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From the statements of the Roman magistrate Bernadette Nicotra, judge for preliminary investigations, reported in quotation marks in the press, we learn that "In the blood of Peter Genovese [N.d.A the driver of the SUV] They were found traces of cocaine and opiates, but it is not possible to determine how long before the substances have been taken. Immediately after the accident the young man was upset, but it did not seem stunned, so that the municipal officers have noted in the minutes that he had only "a winey breath '. Although Camilla and Gaia [N.d.A. the two young men died on the spot] He had conducted a "reckless recklessly" and "prohibited" - have in fact gone through this dangerous road with the red, bypassing guard-rail ―, as specifies the judge for preliminary investigations. The responsibility for Genovese was heavy and aggravates his position there are several administrative precedents and the risk of recurrence ". Previously, indeed, the young investor driver's license had been suspended.

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While she is crying on the two sixteen year olds death and the young investor from this incident will surely marked for life, it is legitimate to ask: where were the respective parents of the girls and the young driver of the SUV? It is legitimate to ask what they were doing two girls of sixteen late night, Saturday night, around a city like Rome, where you can find everything and more, at all hours of the day and, above all, of the night? You might wonder why a twenty problematic, already made subject to strict administrative procedures and inclined to contemptuously violate the rules, It was equipped with a motor vehicle and the necessary money to take to the beautiful wild life? Expenses, I gave the money, if the parents?

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I understand that before the two white coffins when two sixteen year olds during the Christmas festivities were closed, to say the obvious and painful it is very difficult, indeed perhaps impossible, but almost always the truth is the one that no one wants to say, much less hear: to lead those two coffins to the cemetery were their parents, gravely responsible for having left two sixteen year olds walking around late at night on Saturday for a metropolis. Officers are parents to have grown daughters who wrapped that complex of invincibility and immortality that characterizes our youth, with rare imprudence have bypassed a guard-rail and crossed in the pouring rain a dangerous road, in the dark and through a red light [cf. WHO]. Officers are the parents of the driver, that despite having manifested all the more serious recklessness, designed to endanger their lives and those of others, He was left free to continue to do what he wanted and how he wanted more in total disregard of all rules of civilized life. And not justified, the parents, He is saying that their son is twenty years of age and is, because the money required for its conduct of disordered life certainly does not come from her work, but from the portfolios of the father and mother. Unless it can be demonstrated that this is an age manager that just twenty years earns handsomely, thus being able to allow the vices and the quirks that better prefers.

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No one dares to tell the truth, before the coffins of two sixteen year olds on Christmas Day, but behind the tragedy of these young death is the total failure of their parents now, to feel in place and to find somewhere else responsible for culprit, will launch a lawsuit entrusted to the best Italian lawyers. All this just to say: we have failed as parents, because he had failed to watch over our children or having given them the rules of life, we let them grow in the firm conviction that everything was permissible and granted beyond good and evil. Having said that I add: I hope never be regarded as established as true the hypothesis reported shortly after the fatal accident, about the fact that among the young seems in vogue dangerous game of red light. In fact, according to several testimonies it seems that among the young people who attend the local Ponte Milvio is in vogue the dangerous habit of rushing on the street through a red light while speeding cars at high speed [cf. WHO, WHO].

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Not long ago, also in Rome, a young sixteen year old died within a disused stable in the busy district of San Lorenzo, where investigators later found that it was gone - too late at night - to try drugs by the pusher African. This sixteen year later found dead with signs of him had sex with more people widely grown, He called Desiree. Africans, initially investigated for murder and gang rape, They were then cleared of these accusations. The young man is in fact died from a mixture of drugs, it was not a rape, but of sexual abuse of a minor of age at night, inside the stable, He had entered his willingness to try drugs to be consumed, there had been dragged with force and violence [see chronicle, WHO, WHO]. Even then we witnessed the deposition of bouquets, billboards and dolls before the gate of the building in which the poor girl was found dead. Again the question is, however, to say the least uncomfortable, and in a matter of whether they are placed in that of the emotional world and the sentimental soon forget the tragedies and then live other new tragedies: what was she doing a sixteen year Cisterna di Latina, distant location 70 kilometers from Rome, around late at night to the districts of the capital, after he said with a phone call to her grandmother, as if this was the most obvious thing in the world: "I'll be home tomorrow, Tonight I stay at a friend '?

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The poor Desiree died in a dilapidated stable seedy San Lorenzo, came from a dysfunctional family and was the daughter of two problematic parents. The two young people died in these days in Rome, They did not come at all from contexts affected by natural disasters, but two families of the so-called "high levels" of high society. Evidence that is something behind these families immediately went out the name of Giulia Bongiorno [cf. WHO], He inscribed as a woman in the pink of the greatest criminal lawyers in Italy, It equipped to the point of a really great and rare gift of being, who was very young at the time, defender Giulio Andreotti in one of the criminal cases of the most complex of the entire history of the Italian Republic.

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I cherish profound esteem for Giulia Bongiorno, But I doubt that even a very talented criminal lawyer as you can reassure parents of the two young people that those responsible are other, it is so difficult for some people, before the life and death, take responsibility and say to themselves: we have failed. A terrible failure ultimately paid with the burial of our daughters.

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I know the area of ​​Ponte Milvio, twenties because I lived for a time on the Foreign Ministry Hills. At the time the residential neighborhood was a far cry. Today it has become a place of the move for young hippies that they seem to come from the living room of the miserable and dangerous Maria De Filippi, that on the psychological and behavioral disasters that afflict children and young people today, It has its considerable responsibilities, thanks to his television programs imprinted on miseducation and hedonism. That said I conclude by telling you a few months ago, in the old neighborhood of yore, I saved an elderly physical aggression of a twenty year old suffering from megalomania, one among many, among the numerous …

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… I was on my way for a visit at the Clinica Villa del Rosario, which is located in Via Flaminia Vecchia, a few hundred meters from Ponte Milvio, in an area that today is teeming with cafes very trendy frequented by children and young people. Ahead of me, the senior who proceeded driving a subcompact, remains at the height of a historic building known to the Romans as The Castellaccio, because the right and the left were parked "Youth" Smart which prevented transit. I, who proceeded behind, stay stuck in my turn. At one point the old man starts to honk, as long as one of those spaces out a twenty year old, that followed for a while 'talking with friends. Then, calmly, so really mocking and provocative, go in front of their Smart. You might think it's gone up and ran away, never! He pulls out his phone and starts to send a message. Then the old man sticks out his head and screams calling him rude. In response, the young, furious like a beast, He rushes towards him and strillandogli "dickhead!»Shake their fists and intimate" come out ... come on out old shit!». Then I jump out of my car and I take a deluge of insults to be rushed to the defense of the elderly, that seriously risked falling taken to blows. Of course, if I followed my lower instincts would have gouged out crick the trunk and I crushed my knees, sending him for a couple of months at the orthopedic traumatology department to reflect on the meaninglessness of his life, to be converted and to repent of his sins. But as I am known for peace and love, in this society that can not punish because he has to recover what is structurally irrecoverable, can not complain because it must dialogue. A company accustomed to say poor murderess rather poor murdered, poor poor aggressor instead assaulted, poor poor thief instead robbed …

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… or perhaps you've forgotten the brave Marco Pannella which together with the "great Italian" Emma Bonino, in the eighties of lawsuits clogging the courts against those responsible for recovery for drug addicts, accusing them of mistreatment and kidnapping? And at the same time they wanted to free drugs, as before they had obtained the legalization of abortion calling it "great social achievement ', to follow up with the “marriage” between same-sex couples. Today Marco Pannella is dead, however, remains alive "great Italian" that, before also kick the bucket, He wants to see another "great social achievement ': euthanasia legalized. although she, Although ultra septuagenarian and suffering from cancer, He refrained from going to Switzerland to be suppress, Perhaps having planning many more damage yet to be bear in our poor country, before his departure happy to ... well, God the Father of mercies has really pity the poor soul, and like the good thief, this letami, can steal all heaven with his act of pure and sincere repentance expressed in his last two minutes of life!

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This young fricchettone it gives happy-hour pontemilviano that gave ferociously toward an elderly and then insulting so unspeakable a priest during his rescue to thwart the aggression of the poor, It is the real paradigm of the product that parents do not know ever say "no", who denounce the teacher for daring to address a rebuke to their son, if they do not go directly to the school to beat! Or that before a school rejection entirely deserved, subissano the Regional Administrative Court of Appeals. And when their children are stopped by the police because they found the drunken driving and drug addicts, they pick on the same intimating: "Blame the criminals, not with our children!». And down to no end lawsuits against police officers and police, penalty by parents accused of having abused their children while in police custody, well if you come out of the barracks and the police headquarters without even a scratch on him, such terror have the employees of the police to raise them only slightly’ the voice. And every now and then, any of these immortal youth, hopefully dies, Instead they often kill others without them you do a scratch. And when any of these unpunished, invincible and immortal dies, We cry a couple of days, colored balloons are launched on coffins, as if death were a circus, They will lay flowers, signs and puppets at the scene. Por if anything is also assumed as a defender and talentata the famous criminal lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, because the parent who does not train disaster, does not care, no guards and gives no solid rules of life to their children, first of all essential to protect the children themselves, must always ragione, He does not fail, and can not fail. The whole world is in error, he and his son no, May!

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From painful cross-dress hanging of political correctness, the saving mystery of the Word of God made man for the salvation of the world which now rushes toward the abyss

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BY HANG painful CROSS-DRESS THE POLITICALLY CORRECT, TO THE SALVIFIC MYSTERY OF THE VERB OF GOD MADE MAN FOR THE SALVATION OF THE WORLD THAT TODAY RETURNS TO THE ABYSS

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… and today, this terrible worldly vanity that aims to please the World, emptied the mystery of the Word of God made man, to fill it with another: of Boat Migrants, rescue donuts, or life jackets attached to the cross of Christ. It is the emblem of the worst sloppiness of contemporary visible Church: the reduced cross-dress to hang, before jubilant chorus of people who do not even enter our churches for Christmas and for Easter, but applaud revelers before our self-destruction, while the poor bride of Christ is drowning, not in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, He is drowning in ridicule, the grotesque of sloppiness, no one cares to throw even a miserable lifeline, perhaps because guilty of not being Muslim, so that it can also easily drown, under the applause of a world that hates more and more all that is truly and authentically Christian.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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The boy is born, Alleluia !

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For centuries, on the cross, the only thing that the Christian tradition has hung, it was only the shroud of Christ God

The light shines in the darkness. The light shines in the darkness, is the light of the Incarnate Word narrated in the poetics of this monumental prologue to the Gospel of John [see text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO]. We are wishing we could add: The light shines in darkness, especially in this world of ours in which we must be animated by the Christian and active hope, while we are subjected to the greatest, difficult and fearsome of all tests: the great test of faith.

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For several years we viewers silent and powerless protagonists of radical changes generated by a condition of great crisis that invests worldwide morals, ethics, politics, the economy, the ecclesiastical and ecclesial communities of the moral and ethical crisis is likely to be a paradigm. And in this situation of crisis and decay, we should welcome the light that breaks into the darkness through the incarnation of God's Word, welcome it as our principle and ultimate end.

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The Word has been announced in times of pain by words, love and hope of the prophets; by the voice of John the Baptist, the dawn of His intervention in human history raised his voice from the wilderness to break the human spirit deserts. The Word is living and enduring word, but it is also silent, because in our worldly noise that devours everything indifference to better swallow us in the Great Nothing, the Word is silent to the extent that man does not grant her eternal love no room to dwell among us, even a makeshift hotel; even a manger in which lie inside a barn.

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To prove the Word It needs that sweet spot that is silence, in order to manifest and communicate to the man who is the object of his love and loved his subject.

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The ancient Israelites They were so intimidated by the Hebrew tetragrammaton which composed the name of God, that no one should dare to pronounce it, only the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest, closed in Holy of Holies the Temple of Jerusalem, head bowed his head covered, after long purified pronounced it softly once a year for Yom Kippur, For the great day of atonement.

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We learn to regard Christmas as the ineffable name of God, because during this festival the Word of God incarnate in a man and comes to live among us in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, opening our horizons to the mystery of the true God and true man. So Let us flee from the great curse of Christmas profaned, the Word emptied and filled with another, in a proliferation of cribs constructed by Supreme Politically Correct on barges and rescue donuts, with the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Blessed Patriarch Joseph put on a lifebelt. Riappropriamoci the Mystery of Christmas, as the irruption of God in the flesh in human history, through this Jesus whom we adore in the manger in Bethlehem where all of humanity has been reborn and is called to be reborn, to reach its peak with the torn stone of the empty tomb of Christ, by which all mankind is resurrected and is called to rise again. Let us adore the Eucharist, his memorial holy and living, gift of his real presence among us, our support and our food of eternal life. Let us adore, because he alone is the beginning, the Centre and the ultimate goal of our entire humanism. Only then can we open the doors of the heart to express in a relevant and coherent: Merry Christmas ... Christmas of God who became like us to invite us to make us like Him, in Him and for Him.

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In moments of silence of this sacred liturgy, prostrating during the Eucharistic Prayer on the words of the Last Supper that will make the bread and wine the body and blood of Christ alive, we try to grasp the mystery and intimate become Parties, aware that silent incarnates the Word and silence the Word speaks. Prostrate on the ground with knees, because "in the name of Jesus every knee should bow" [Fil 2, 10]. We do not mourn as those before the Body and Blood of Christ alive have hip problems, but it works wonders to kneel with athletic shooting before the new "truth of faith", or the new "dogma of the migrant" to which rinse your feet before the regime journalists who applaud the "new church" of the "epoch-making revolution", imprinted on the "mercy" which grants the grace of the guillotine to anyone who dares to utter a legitimate, respectful and quiet sigh of disapproval of everything that can be objectively wrong and misleading.

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The Jesus of history, that with Christmas enters our human experience in the flesh, it is not even a tender symbol to use and human and commercial consumption of different traditions or family, is the supreme mystery of God made man in Jesus through the mystery begins his earthly path laid in the manger in a stable and laid terminating it on the wood of a cross, to explode shortly after as the Christ of faith spilling the stone from the tomb, making us all by vocation in his resurrection.

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To this we are called through the Christian experience: to incarnate, to live, to die and rise again in Christ, for God has come to be like us so that we, projected in the mystery of His grace, There we did like him.

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This is the deposit of our faith, the rest is just modern paganism, new idolatry targeted at will and please the world's increasingly anti-Christ-to which we should try in every way not to please. And we, called to serve and assist the people of God as priests, we have to fight both the new paganism is the world increasingly anti-Christic, bringing in a loving and decided the true ad through the gospel ministry true, which is certainly not the neurotic-obsessive ministry today poor or refugee real or perceived, but Christological reality of life lived. We can not postpone, nor worse justify certain deviations as expressions of faith, indeed we are supposed to call them by their real name: poison the faith.

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In any page of the Gospel is it written that you have to please the whims and vices of the world, or worse remain silent on the serious sins, because the Word of God became incarnate to become a sacrificial lamb then washing with the blood of his sacrifice on the cross the sin of the world, but especially after having notified:

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"If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you " [GV 15, 18-19].

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What terrible judgment and deserved punishment, many of us pastors in charge of souls will receive from the Divine Judge, to have left in the meal paganites the people that God has entrusted to us, to be gone hand in hand with Démoni, to have invited and welcomed the wolf into the sheepfold and beaten at the same time the sheep who dared shout: "Beware of the Wolf!». Because even in this we were advised:

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"Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter
the sheep of my pasture!!», says the Lord.
Therefore thus speaks the Lord, God of Israel,
concerning the shepherds who feed my people:
"You have scattered my flock, and you are driven them away,
and you have not visited them care;
there, I will punish, for the evil of your doings »,
says the Lord.
"I will gather the remnant of my flock
from all countries whither I have driven,
I will bring them back to their folds,
they shall be fruitful and multiply.
I will set up over them shepherds who shall feed the flock,
and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed,
I shall not lack any ", says the Lord [Gives 23, 1-4].

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It's still:

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"Prophet and priest are profane,
in my house I have found their wickedness ",
says the Lord .
"Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness;
they shall be driven and fall;
for I will bring upon them a calamity,
the year of their visitation ", says the Lord [Gives 23, 11-12].

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All it sealed by the words of Christ that God warns:

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"To whom much is given, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, It will ask the more " [LC 12, 48].

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Needless to remember, although the face: us his priests, God has entrusted what was most precious: He has entrusted us to care, custody and pastoral care of his flock, His Holy People.

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The Gospel of the Blessed Luca Evangelista proclaimed a few days ago at the Mass of the Holy Night, recounts in a few words with the event of the birth the way chosen by God to be the Jesus of history. Following the words of this passage we could speak of the divine modesty of God that comes to light and which manifests itself to men who were waiting for the Messiah, the Saviour, almost as if he wanted to hide in the very act in which manifested itself. It is an aspect that leads us to reflect on the increasingly open challenges of his divine intentions, of his divine pedagogy.

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Perhaps the Lord, in front of his visible revelation, physical body and, He wanted to invite people to not feel exempt from having to search for it, like the shepherds who come, like the Magi who follow the light of a star come to bring precious gifts, without any fear of offending the future “Idolatry of the poor”. Perhaps, the Sir, the Savior born in a stable, He wanted this our pursuit of his eternal being and his becoming among us, We oblige us to bend our self-centeredness on the way of humility, which it is certainly not a neck twisted pose, but the true dignity of being true Christians.

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To contemplate the humility of God Incarnate lying in bands inside the manger in a stable is an invitation to penetrate the true and profound sense of Christian virtue which is the authentic humility, Our road to fix the main obstacle that stands in the way to our true encounter with Christ the Savior: pride that keeps us from a relationship with him and a relationship with others. And pride can be cured only by starting from the divine humility of the baby Jesus in the stable in Bethlehem, to follow him along the Via Dolorosa to Golgotha, Finally rise with the Christ of faith that made him say in Sao Paulo: "It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me" [Gal 2, 20].

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God is born hidden and sometimes hides so that man can look through the free and liberating instinct to love that when it is perfect casts out all fear, as he taught by the Blessed John the Apostle in another passage of his Gospel [CF. GV 4, 18]. Because God never hides behind the great things that so often fascinate us, but behind the small details that often leave us totally indifferent; God do not find it and not meet him, in what the world like, but in all that the world hates and rejects.

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The way in which we can seek and find God hidden in a barn, reminds one of the greatest converts in the history, that with his experience he invites us all to conversion. This teacher is Aurelio Thagaste, better known as St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo, who later became a saint and Doctor of the Church: «Love petitur, love quaèritur, love pulsàtur, love revelàtur …"With love wonders, with love trying, with love knocks, with love is revealed.

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Only in this way we can get into real stable in Bethlehem, which it is the stable of the faith and the divine mystery; then understand something of Christmas; for living Christmas in faith in Jesus Christ our God, Lord and Savior. The rest - as he said back in the sixteenth century the great teacher of St. Philip Blacks taking inspiration from the Book of Ecclesiastes - it's just vanity, nothing but vanity of vanities [cf. q 1,2]. And today, this terrible worldly vanity that aims to please the World, emptied the mystery of the Word of God made man, to fill it with another: of Boat Migrants, rescue donuts, or life jackets attached to the cross of Christ. It is the emblem of the worst sloppiness of contemporary visible Church: the reduced cross-dress to hang, before jubilant chorus of people who do not even enter our churches for Christmas and for Easter, but applaud revelers to our self-destruction, while the poor bride of Christ is drowning, not in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, He is drowning in ridicule, the grotesque of sloppiness, no one cares to throw even a miserable lifeline, perhaps because guilty of not being Muslim, so that it can also easily drown, under the applause of a world that hates more and more all that is truly and authentically Christian. And we, unworthy priests, Today we are genuflecting to the world as miserable prostitutes before the customer, of this we are drowning makers. And what we will have to give an account to the Word of God that severe remind us:

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"To whom much is given, much will be asked for; to whom men have committed much, It will ask the more " [LC 12, 48].

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The man made, alleluia!

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the Island of Patmos, 25 December 2019

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Homiletics of the Fathers of The Island of Patmos

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CHRISTMAS IS THE FEAST OF TENDERNESS OF GOD MADE MAN COME TO LIVING AMONG US

Christmas is the feast of the Incarnation, the glory of each of us in the Lord. We are the dream that the baby Jesus is doing sleeping in the arms of Mary. Let's believe with firm faith and Trinitarian Crowned the dream of each of us: the Word was made flesh, Really, coming to dwell in our midst, truly, in the flesh, with his spirit and his divinity.

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Salvador Dali: Nativity, the Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe

Merry Christmas to all! And the Lord warm our hearts with his warmth and joy of children. The Liturgy of the Word of this Holy Night gives us a prophetic song, an Apostle Paul's Letter and one of Luke's Gospel passage that recounts the birth of the Word of God made man, the redeemer [texts of Liturgy of the Word: WHO].

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All in life we ​​waited and witnessed the birth a grandson, a cousin, of a child. Here then there is Christmas for this family celebration: the party of the tenderness of God who became man. But there is something more, as Jean-Paul Sartre wrote about love:

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"The lover wants to be" worldwide "for sweetheart means that arises side of the world".

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The small child in the manger It is our whole world, therefore,: the one who gives meaning and direction to our nights. Let's see why, first reading the prophetic words of Isaiah:

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"Because each shoe soldier marching booming / and every cloak drenched in blood / will be burned, Data feed the fire. / Because a child is born to us, /He has been given to a child. / On his shoulders is the power ".

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It is noted an obvious contrast built by Isaiah of the soldier who has power and defense in the rumble, into violence, in the blood, in fire, and announced that the baby is defenseless, vulnerable, tender and devoid of force. The announced is Jesus, who has the power of agape. And the child will show naked, as it is really: that man will show who really is the man. That is the living being created in God's image, in its physicality and fragility and awaiting the grace of God to be holy. The child announced by Isaiah is Jesus showing us that we live among the torment of vulnerability and divine grace. This is also announced by St. Paul in his Letter to Titus:

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"My son, It appeared the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men and teaches us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live in this world with sobriety, with righteousness and piety ".

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The story of Jesus' birth really squeeze the heart and gives us another big announcement. To better understand this we divide the text into three parts. From the first moment in which St. Luke tells us:

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"In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be of the whole earth. This first census was made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone went to be enrolled, respective cities'.

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The Evangelist Luke shows that God enters the world in Jesus, at a given moment in history, because God, which it is in History, It is made visible in its historic mission and visible, objectively verifiable and by testimonial to all. So God does not act in theory: It does not remain in heaven, but it draws near, concrete next to us. This brings us to the second moment:

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"While [Joseph and Mary] you were there, time came for her to be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, She wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because for them there was in its slot '.

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Really poignant. I wonder how it is possible to find a place to allow the birth of a mother, I do not know how it was possible for men of the time. Mary and Joseph, however, are not discouraged, and at the end of Jesus' birth, wrapped by human bands of Mary, wrapped by the love of Giuseppe. God lets himself be wrapped in our swaddling clothes. From this we pass the third time:

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"An angel of the Lord appeared to [of the shepherds] the glory of the Lord shone around them. [..] the angel said to them,: “Don't worry: there, you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people: today, the City of David, is born for you a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. This sign for you: You find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger ' ".

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Here at this point is a wonderful exchange: God had let enveloped by human; it's here, the shepherds, They allow themselves to be enveloped by the light of divine love transmitted by the Angel. So the man is stripped from its internal divisions, from its fragility, its divisions, from his sin nuclei and poured a greater love. Each of us at Christmas is wrapped by this Angel of Light. Every person of good will, Christmas Eve is part of this wonderful exchange and becomes God's masterpiece. Crediamoci all tonight: Christmas is the feast of the Incarnation, the glory of each of us in the Lord. We are the dream that the baby Jesus is doing sleeping in the arms of Mary. Let's believe with firm faith and Trinitarian Crowned the dream of each of us: the Word was made flesh, Really, coming to dwell in our midst, truly, in the flesh, with his spirit and his divinity.

Amen!

Rome, 24 December 2019

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