the Bishop of Springfield denies Communion to politicians who voted for the abortion law, Why? Simple: because it followed two and two to make four.

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THE BISHOP OF SPRINGFIELD DENY COMMUNION TO POLITICIANS WHO VOTED FOR THE ABORTION LAW, WHY? SIMPLE: WHY DUE MORE TWO FOLLOWED TO MAKE FOUR.

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The fee n. 915 recital: "Excommunicated and interdict after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others who obstinately persevere in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion".

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the "great social achievement of abortion" explained by the godmother of the law 194 [click on image to open the movie]

In the United States of America, Catholic Illinois pulls out the attributes, to put it in a clear and concise. I realize this may seem absurd, but some whites and blacks have to put them, in color shades. I invite you to read the press of Bishop, published in today's day [readable text WHO].

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State serene. Despite your voices squinternato [cf. WHO], 2 + 2 continues to be increasingly 4, while the sky at this time, as I write, Rome center is serene; it's 19:10 and the leaves are green in summer:

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… the reality of the "great social achievement ' [click on image to open the video]

"The great march of intellectual destruction continue. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones of the street; will become a religious dogma to reaffirm. It is a rational argument that it takes all immersed in a dream; will be a sensible form of mysticism say that we are all awake. Fires will be stoked to witness that two plus two equals four. Swords will be drawn to show that the leaves are green in summer. We will find ourselves defending not only the incredible virtues and the incredible sense of human life, but something even more incredible, this immense, impossible universe staring at us in the face. We will fight for visible wonders as if they were invisible. We will look at the grass and the skies impossible with a strange courage. We will be among those who have seen and yet have believed " [G.K. Chesterton, in Relativism, reality and dogma, 1905].

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Fighiting Necroculture to say farewell abortion [to fight the culture of death we must say goodbye to abortion].

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Rome 6 June 2019

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"Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves!». To be executed by the Nazis we were prepared, to be executed by firing squads of the merciful Church no, we were not prepared.

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«WOE TO THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL WHO PASTURE THEMSELVES!». TO BE EXECUTED BY NAZI WE WERE PREPARED, TO BE EXECUTED BY EXECUTION PLATONS OF THE MERCIFUL CHURCH DO NOT, WE WERE NOT PREPARED.

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He said recently a bishop: «Let's be clear, the Church as we once knew it no longer exists". In fact, we noticed it, just examine the rubble…

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli … [item, WHO]

The letter of a young priest published on the blog The deep by the Vatican expert Aldo Maria Valli [see text, WHO] it brought to mind chapter XXXIV of the book of the prophet Ezekiel about the shepherds of Israel who abdicated their task as leaders of the people to think of their own interests [cf. This 34, 1-31, full text WHO].

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Reading this letter I immediately felt very close to this brother and - being perhaps greater than he as chronological age - a brotherly feeling of friendship has united me to him even spiritually.

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First of all, a clarification I consider very important: not always these letters-vent must be read through the lens of the controversy or disobedience. As well as, in the same way, It is done a disservice when these texts are challenged by Christians diehard to foment some kind of revolt against the King and his Court. In fact, it is good to remember that history teaches us how the Masaniellos always end up unpleasant.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

Behind these writings, often an authentic outburst is hidden which is the unexpressed groan of those who desire that the Kingdom of God be visibly fulfilled on earth and that, in a world torn by discord, may the Church shine as a prophetic sign of unity and peace [cf. Eucharistic Prayer V/d – The Church on the path towards unity].

We are approaching the solemnity of Pentecost, which is the womb in which the Church is born of Christ, that Church for two millennia brings good news: Christ rose from the dead, Alleluia! The Holy Spirit is unity and creates unity, Church enjoys this feature when you find cohesive with her Spouse and among its members and therein lies its unity and strength. But the freedom that the Holy Spirit gives to the Church, sometimes raises many dissident voices that, as the prophets of Israel often unheeded, they try to make men aware, and in particular the men responsible for exercising the so-called power, of what will be our natural return to God.

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Or to put it in other words: we often find ourselves faced with brothers who in the frankness of the Holy Spirit indicate to us that the King is naked and that the time has come to cover his pudenda to restore his lost dignity, which is the dignity of all of us, both as individuals and as the People of God.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

Widespread discomfort that this young priest presents in his letter he is palpable, not so much in relation to those who define themselves as non-practicing believers, but at those people who have the faith of the Church in their mission and their pride. Like this, this discomfort that turns into disturbance, It is the disease of many Christians of today and of many priests and religious. And note well: The trouble is that reality from which the Holy Mass, immediately after the recitation of the Our father, we ask for the grace to be freed from it together with sin:

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«Deliver us Lord from all evils, grant peace in our days, because with the help of your mercy we will always be free from sin and safe from every disturbance, while waiting for the blessed hope to be fulfilled and our Savior Jesus Christ to come"

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Disturbation is not a sign of the presence of God, there's little to go around, when I find myself in front of upset believers, as a pastor I must, out of duty of justice, respond by trying to instill that peace which is the most beautiful fruit of the Holy Spirit. The sign of disturbance, today widespread within the Church, is highlighted through a massive disconnect between the shepherds and the sheep, precisely within those themes where once there was clarity of vision and a certain uniformity.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

We then have to patch things up in justifications because that politician – whatever orientation he belongs to – is framed as the bad guy on duty and it messes up my plans? We don't need excuses at every turn to appear trustworthy, that Latin phrase that says is all too clear: «Excuse not claimed, clear accusation». Indeed, by dint of apologizing always and for everything, we will also end up apologizing because of the death of our Divine Redeemer. Other times we instead categorize our brothers into alignments: traditionalists versus progressives, haters versus lovatori, the enthusiasts supporter of this or that pontiff and his detractors.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

Venerable Fathers Bishops and Brother Priests, It's useless to play Ciccio mother touches me and then assign blame to others for our failures as men of God. If many brothers in the People of God perceive us as dysfunctional men, schizophrenics and neurotics, probably, there will be something true. Perhaps they are indicating to us that faint breeze of God's presence that Elijah distinctly perceived [cf. 1Re 19,1-16] and that we don't want to hear, much less indulge. We really want to achieve this type of revolution?

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I was told that a bishop, speaking to busy lay people, he literally said: «Let's be clear, the Church as we once knew it no longer exists". Well – I say – if this is already so clear, why not let us return to the Lord, He who is the true shepherd of his flock and probably from here by little we whisk off, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth? [cf. Mt 13,42]. And unfortunately, many of us, They are already out for some time from the mind and heart of God's people, ready for that place of eternal damnation where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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We mourn our confirmation candidates do not put the foot in church, that our engaged couples have already experienced everything that can be experienced and that the wedding rite is just an entertainment to escape from the monotony of a life lived together for a long time. Even our sick no longer call us to their bedside to administer the Holy Viaticum and the Anointing, because they see us interested in anything but their soul.

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The large basilicas and large squares are increasingly empty, we priests are desperate that our liturgical assemblies are now reduced to a minimum. And in the face of all this, the "wisest" thing we can think of - instead of being priests - is to give our churches out to ecclesiastical and lay movements in the hope of selling a few more tickets and being sold out the following Sunday.

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

Let's ask ourselves with seriousness: how could our faithful enter the temple of the Lord after it has been used as a refectory, political tribune, art Gallery, auditorium, flea market and so on? And all of this - what is more serious - without even having removed the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle, the red light turned off, left the door of the sacred reserve open, removed the tablecloth and candles from the altar. As it was once done with the express authorization of the local bishop, a consecrated church was occasionally used for non-liturgical activities. Request: who does this, he still believes in the real presence of Christ, the living and true God, present in the soul, body and divinity in the sacred Eucharistic species?

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The same holy sacrifice of the Mass risks being trivialized so that it is more friendly and – believe me – you don't need to be a devotee of Marcel Lefebvre or Gricigliano to improve things. Our homilies are steeped in atheist humanism which has among its dogmas the promotion of presumed rights incompatible with our faith, enough to make us abandon the sacred cassock or religious habit to wear the electrician's overalls, of the green activist, of the social worker, of the politician or the disk jockey.

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The film In the Name of the Pope King comes to mind shot by Luigi Magni del 1977, in which the character of Monsignor Colombo da Priverno – played by the great Nino Manfredi – says a sentence which in my opinion is decisive:

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

«Siblings, we are old… we were on borrowed time. We want ago’ good deed, the first to die? Just one: let's retire the executioner and end on a high note. Let's look for them as priests, to be priests, that we don't miss anything!».

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How beautiful, let's try to be priests, priests and pastors like this with our weaknesses, shortcomings, inconsistencies but priests. This is what simple people ask of us and what God expects, By doing this we won't miss anything, but there's more: at that point, the good People of God, still seeing our commitment, will forgive us with great magnanimity also all our human weaknesses, our faults and our faults.

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In calling the apostles Christ did not choose the best course of his time but he chose the most suitable for his purposes. This should get into the heads and hearts, we are here to further the purposes of the Savior that the feast of the Ascension reminds us:

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“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And here, I am with you always;, until the end of the world " [cf. Mt 28,19-20].

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A young priest writes to Aldo Maria Valli …

The alleged waves of new ecclesial, if they do not come from the Holy Spirit who gives peace, They know old, There is nothing new under the sun, also alleged novelties are already old, stink of mothballs, Christ alone is modern, because it is the living, One who was, which is, What will be, as acclaim during the Easter Vigil.

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Let us send retired the disturbance Executioner and he too modern Executioner's mercy. The one and the other their toll and cut so many innocent heads in our ecclesial communities performing their death sentences by order of the worst culprits. Via, that the Executioner, while she is dressing a luxurious and elegant red hood up at the foot, is constantly dripping with the blood of the innocent martyrs who, as in the time of Christ, pay their testimony to King Herod which claims to be revolutionary in his being the Messiah and Savior of the chosen people who never loved and who used to enrich themselves and to tighten connivance: via!

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Cagliari, 4 June 2019

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The mystery of joy: "He ascended into heaven;, seated at the right hand of the Father "

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THE MYSTERY OF JOY: «He ascended into heaven, Sitting at the right hand »

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Ascension It is therefore the liturgical feast of those who choose hope as a lighthouse of their lives. Contrary to a pessimism, typical of our time, After the great ideologies have fallen, The hope of ascension helps us to live faith day after day. And the most evident effect of those who are hopeful in the name of Jesus, It is the joy. Not a false mask of happiness, placed in the face to look happy when the heart is instead in darkness. No, Hope is the true joy of those who met the risen Jesus and then ascended.

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Dear brothers and sisters,

Salvador Dali: Ascension of Christ [1958]

With the proclamation of the Gospel of the Blessed Evangelist Luca Luca [cf. 24, 46-53] Today we celebrate the ascension to the sky of the Risen Christ [see Liturgy of the Word, WHO].

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In omitathic, to illustrate the paintings of the Holy Scriptures I sometimes refer to interesting cinematographic works …

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… Qa few years ago a nice film called The Theory of Everything. The film chronicled the life of physicist Stephen Hawking, quadriplegic scientist and his theories on the origin of the universe. Despite his terribly debilitated physical condition, Hawking never lost the will to live and research. At the end of the movie, the same scientist claims:

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"As bad as life may seem, there is always something one can do and successfully. Because as long as there is life, there is hope ".

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This example introduces the theme of the readings of the Holy Mass of Ascension that we celebrate together today. Ascension is the moment of the return of Jesus, Son of God, to the Eternal Father, God too. At the very moment in which Jesus ascends and is high at the top, leave an important message to his disciples. In the Acts of the Apostles:

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«You will receive the strength from the Holy Spirit who will descend on you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth " [At 1,8].

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This is the central nucleus ascent: the call of God to become his witnesses, the greek mixture [testimony: martyr, witness]. It is a call to testify Jesus and his person to the borders of the earth. The whole, By relating it to us, constitutes the call to testify Jesus in every place we attend, in family, in the workplace, with friends, or even during moments of relaxation.

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The letter to the Jews clarifies what it means to be witnesses:

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"We keep the profession of our hope without faltering" [EB 10, 23].

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Ascension it is therefore the moment in which Jesus leaves the mandate to continue his mission visible to the apostles and disciples, therefore to the Church. We too fall into this mandate. Our hope is not only human, but above all otherworldly hope: it is to nourish a feeling of confident expectation of being for Eternity with the Lord in Heaven. This expectation answers the most profound questions of meaning and therefore offers an existential answer. Indeed, it is an expectation built starting precisely from being active witnesses of the great love that we will be able to experience at the end of the centuries.

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On this to be witnesses of hope of eternal life, Jesus also speaks of it in the Gospel when he reiterates

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«The Christ will suffer and will rise from the dead on the third day. […] You are witnesses of this "" [LC 24, 46]

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Ascension It is therefore the liturgical feast of those who choose hope as a lighthouse of their lives. Contrary to a pessimism, typical of our time, After the great ideologies have fallen, The hope of ascension helps us to live faith day after day. And the most evident effect of those who are hopeful in the name of Jesus, It is the joy. Not a false mask of happiness, placed in the face to look happy when the heart is instead in darkness. No, Hope is the true joy of those who met the risen Jesus and then ascended.

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The joy of a meeting which happened for us, Every time we meet Jesus in the sacraments. In this Eucharist, Jesus will meet us, living our soul. His living in us has the purpose of allowing us already now to raise us with him, through the gaze of faith. With that look from above, It is possible to enjoy every day of our life in Christ, living in fullness and goodness.

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We ask the Lord The gift of being witnesses of hope, Fooding that feeling of elevation to the sky and reaching the eternal husband of our soul.

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Rome, 2 June 2019

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From Scandinavian neo-pagan nihilism that stands as a banner of the eco-gretina the call to faith of an explosive priest from Friuli mountaineer: to me the eyes, please!

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FROM Nihilism neopagan SCANDIVAVO THAT STANDS A banner GRETINA THE ECO-IN REFERENCE TO THE FAITH OF AN EXPLOSIVE PRIEST MONTANARO FRIULANO: TO ME THE EYES, PLEASE!

Greta, invested with a mystique from the Mother Earth Gaea, as news Priestess is the one who summons the little, i puer of contemporary society to a purification mission, pacification and total recapitulation of all that is not green. This reassuring semblance of innocence puer however, it has degenerated into a poverty of ideas and skills, giving life to new soteriological paradigms in which the poor - i pauper (of spirit?!) - coating the tattered clothes of the very dear to past ideologies Sixty and some left, they are destined to perish miserably.

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Friulian priest Alberto Zanier

We live in a world where the frankness and parresia seem to appreciate qualities only if you profess, and if you practice within a well-defined socio-political or ecclesial context. It appears that the requirement of the road One way It has also affected the logic and human reasoning or, better to say, some human, including ecclesiastical.

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Sincerity and honesty in speech or in proclaiming the Gospel is not always seen willingly by some intelligentsia, especially when they go to undermine and erode the false ideological myths and what to some seems pure vanguard for others it is just demagoguery, rhetoric and self-destruction mechanism.

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The free thought the young priest Alberto Zanier It is not bound by one-way streets. Pastor of the Val Resia communities in the Udine province, She relies on her church bulletin pastor thought of souls in opposition to the thought of green champion Greta Thunberg climate. He hin no doubt the advantage of being characterized by an authentic and profound zeal for God and for his people, although his youthful exuberance - that made him compare the findings of the thighs teens to Mass with prosciutto di San Daniele [cf. video, WHO] - you can sometimes find some raised eyebrows among the souls most chaste and puritanical of a Catholicism that has now forgotten the authenticity virtue and merit to call with their name things. Without ever forget that the House of God , where they celebrate the sacred mysteries, demands decorum, so, those who enter, It is obliged to enter in the appropriate manner and decent. As he noted by this young priest with clear and incisive example about the ostentation of prosciutto di San Daniele.

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Italians, people of saints, navigators, poets e … satyrs!

The text of the parish bulletin clearly she says:

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"Saturday Morning 18 May, TG Rai News. A member of the Greens says bluntly that we must do everything to change the fate of the climate because "it's what he wants Greta". Jolt chair. Thing? A political party takes orders from a girl 16 year old (which also has autism and is used by you and his parents) as if it were only you to save the world? As if she was the champion of humanity. But Greta Thunberg will save the world? I really do not think so. Also because we can not blindly believe in catastrophic climate change. Of course there are more seasons etc.. etc. .., but science tells us that all of this has already happened and that climates change from one decade to another. Era 30 years we had not so cold in May. Yes true, February was very hot but you can not say that we are boiling! The snow is all still in the mountains. In any case it will not be fighting for the weather to save the world, will not be fighting for the environment is not the problem worldwide. It will be Jesus Christ to save the world will faith in him. The Lord Jesus is the Creator of the world and of man: He will save humanity and the world. We should always remember. Everything is in God's hands, and when you want to escape from his hands the outcome can only be disastrous. And that creation is sustained by divine providence, it also highlighted by the Church, eg, with the pious practice Rogation in which he asks God, creator of the world, to save us from the scourges of storm, hail, of the earthquake, etc.. Faced with new diseases of crops, scientists try everything and in every way to solve problems, many times in vain. Try going in Apulia and to ask how long the olive trees suffer from Xylella annoying ... And a beautiful Rogation, no? Or it may be that we should all go to Sweden to take lessons on how to save the environment with the gears, the demonstrations, conferences, books? It takes prayer, and it takes faith because only Jesus Christ is the Lord of the world " [cf. WHO].

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Alberto Zanier warned his parishioners storyteller by the new climate and new environmental think it confuses the creature with the Creator, proposing an antithetical worship and parallel.

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Italians, people of saints, navigators, poets e … satyrs! [Page of Free, overwhelmed shortly after complaints]

The media image Greta Thunberg, as well as the character of Peter wink legendary showman and salesman impossible brought in by Gigi Proietti scene [cf. WHO], It proposes solutions to environmental problems often trivial in a mode other irrational times: all this in total silence of the true experts in climatology, physical and environmental sciences. This is the point that you can define everything as a real effect Pietro wink.

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One must be careful, however,: creating a problem is not the small Greta - fragile creature and suffering from a serious neurological disorder known as autism, as is well known that generates communication gap, narrowness of interests and repetitive behaviors -, but his character and ideology that accompanies it at every turn. At Greta Thunberg, that just lives the autism disorder, It must necessarily be protected, defense and kept their dignity and weakness. In the media mishmash that turns around this child turn out to be - in the hands of a well polished dominant thought - mystical connotations that very well remember the traits of that series of events, between the real and the legendary, known as the Crusade of the Children [please refer to this historical description, WHO]

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that gretini first learn consistency since teenagers and they really respect the environment. Everything depicted with a Alfio Krancic cartoon

Greta invested with a mystique from the Mother Earth Gaea, as novel priestess is the one who musters small, i boys of contemporary society to a purification mission, pacification and total recapitulation of all that is not green. And this reassuring semblance of innocence boys, however, it has degenerated into a poverty of ideas and skills, giving life to new soteriological paradigms in which the poor - i the poor (of spirit?!) - coating the tattered clothes of the very dear to past ideologies Sixty and some left, they are intended, as in Crusade of the Children, to perish miserably.

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Greta, in his admirable environmental activism, very reminiscent of the Hayao Miyazaki thought, animator and director of the long series of cartoons Future Boy Conan [cf. WHO] that has depopulated and delighted a generation of children born in the late seventies and the eighties of the last century. It is worth remembering that in fact the dynamics of ideological indoctrination are modulated through time and take on various channels and contextualization, and what we now define the term of gretino, It was once known under another name.

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… certain that "should not change the weather but our habits», then, to begin with we take away the people of gretini all the technological tools of last generation, from mobile phones to computers

But back to the good pastor Tree Zanier, that none other than - heard, hear! - the arrogance to declare the superiority of Jesus Christ as Savior of the world and call faith in Him true God and true man. Between the lines of the parish bulletin reads like the great catastrophe resides in refusing knowingly God and experience those pangs of suffering that creation suffers when man, so reckless and arbitrary, disfigures the work of God doing the sin.

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At this point he cites the pious practice Rogation which aims to ask God, creator of the world, to remove the scourge of the storm, hail, the earthquake and all the climatic changes that constitute a danger to human life and for his work ….

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… and here the rub. First of all because it refers to a liturgical practice of the past that is reminiscent of a traditionalist matrix and then because Alberto Zanier asks impunity to pray and beg God. The Latin verb rogo it means to pray with supplications, dun.

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So we are really fruit - would say the modern gurus of political correctness -, a priest who points to Jesus Christ and asked to pray with insistence, not proposing student strikes, demonstrations with revelers gretini enraptured in Via dei Fori Imperiali and Via del Corso, written with colored chalk and marches multicolor, in short, this seems like a priest today? Ah, non no more religion! Then, even dares to talk about Rogation …

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… the Rogations - distinct in major e minors - are known to the Church since the fifth and eighth centuries d.C saints and pastors who encouraged this practice intended to entrust the man and the Creation to God that, in his Providence, He exercises the role of guardian and protector of the work he accomplished.

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Specifically there are four main purposes for which the Church, across the function consacration, It accomplishes in seasonal times defined the procession of Rogations:

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  1. To profess to worship God, recognizing him as Lord, creator and administrator of human life;
  2. Thank God for all the benefits that bestows constantly to man;
  3. Recognition of sin and the sins committed against God with the firm intention to make a journey of conversion and repentance;
  4. Offer to God fervent and constant prayers, it is granted what is necessary and indispensable to sanctification and salvation, the triumph of the Church, for the return of the erring faith, for the conversion of distant and also implore those temporal things that are useful to the life of the body such as health, his blessing above harvests, protection against natural scourges, like lightning, earthquakes, them over, hailstorms, etc..

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These four purposes alone - if taken seriously - can convert an entire community, rebalance the priorities of civil society, restore freedom to the man who is still not the author of creation but God's collaborator in charge of his custody.

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right converrete that little Greta with his yellow rain, her braids and little face all sugar and cinnamon, breaks through the screen of a mountain priest invites the faithful to pray to God. In short, it would be nice to see the leaders the political and religious world stand in awe in front of a humble mountain shepherd who tells them the goodness and generosity of God towards man and creation, as long as you return to put God at the center of every heart, of each family, of all European insurers and repair the wound of original sin that creates suffering and slavery to a creation not exempt from the contagion of guilt [cf. CCC n° 4000]. To heal this wound is necessary for man to cooperate with the grace of Christ and being submerged in his redemptive Passover since the Father never abandons his work in the power of death and sin, but in His mercy reaches out to all who in truth and contrite heart. As God, He is the only good and the author and finisher of all life and gives origin to the universe as a manifestation of a love that extends to all creatures bright [cf. Eucharistic Prayer IV].

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This would be the talk that should gladden the hearts of many men, the true green style is that established by our Divine Savior on the cross and Easter Sunday. Would you like to view it? Your Welcome, approach … to me the eyes: please! "This is my body and this is my blood" [cf. Mt 26, 26-28; MC 14, 22-24; LC 22, 19-20; The Cor 11, 23-29] He says the Lord Christ giving us the ineffable grace of the Sacrament of His living presence: "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day" [GV 6, 54]. And when man turns his back to the mystery of redemption, the Body and Blood of Christ incarnate Lord, dead and risen, the minimum that can arise are the gretine. The problem of going from church, It is not so much desert the Church community and the sacramental life, that in itself is a grave matter; the real and serious problem, It is that the man and the woman "evolved", "Adult" and "free from taboos", out of the Church to enter the study of the fortuneteller, or to applaud Greta symbol, that embodies the new "priesthood" green and the "sacrament" of Mother Earth Gaea.

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Cagliari, 1 June 2019

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The Supreme Pontiff has lied? And, He lied and he is a liar. But no nasty: Simon called Peter, chosen by Christ himself and not by a conclave of cardinals, It was a liar of him

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF HAS LIED? AND, He LIED AND IS A LIAR. BUT NOT NASTY: SIMON PETER SAID, CHOSEN BY CHRIST HIMSELF AND NOT BY A CONCLAVE OF CARDINALS, WAS MORE OF HIM A LIAR.

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all those who are enjoying their ten minutes of power and glory today, know that this pontificate will not be eternal. So let them start thinking over which of the floating garbage islands they will want to retreat to, why tomorrow, for them — the great destroyers and defacers of the Church —, there will be no place, even if it cost having to celebrate a conclave made with stab wounds among the Cardinal Fathers, who will be careful not to let some element such as the evil dwarf, who lives on wickedness, revenge and cruelty, while finding nothing better to do than go around the world to proclaim the new blesseds, because these are the subjects to whom, man Jorge Mario Bergoglio, it opened the doors of the next conclave, with its fantastic "epochal turning points".

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Several Readers aficionados asked me where my «sharp and ironic vein» had gone. I have replied several times by saying that there is little irony in the face of a dying person hospitalized in the terminally ill ward. Today I can answer this question with even more seriousness: what is there to ironize inside a morgue, where the poor visible Church lies dead on the marble table, waiting to be composed inside the coffin by those of the funeral home?

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Since our very beginnings in October of 2014, I have always commented on certain facts concerning the Supreme Pontiff late, respect to others, including experienced journalists. Prudence on our part is de rigueur. What a priest expresses and writes has a completely different kind of value and weight, compared to what information professionals can write in an excellent and precise way. Indeed, a grave responsibility weighs upon us: the hands with which we write and the mouths with which we express ourselves are the same with which we celebrate the sacred mysteries, starting from the Eucharistic Sacrifice.

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In man Jorge Mario Bergoglio I have noticed a characteristic that has emerged over time in my relationships with various and illustrious members of the Society of Jesus, of those placed at the highest levels: the propensity to lie. In saying this I do not mean that the Jesuits are lying as such, I mean but claim to have had long relationships with the Jesuits, placed in various leadership roles in the Society of Jesus, that if necessary They lied shamelessly, feeling not only with a clear conscience, but also irritated if someone did not take seriously and true their lies. In its time, an eminent Jesuit, He even created problems of giving me a negative rating to the Ecclesiastical Authority, just because I refused to take at face value his blatant lies and leave with them manipulate. The Ecclesiastical Authority including so much good to say to me: "The problem with the Jesuits had finally been avoided, as long as the holy man of the Pope Pius VII - badly wrong - refounded in 1814 the Society of Jesus [cf. When the kindly solicitude for all the churches, 1814].

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The man Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a subject that in a manner similar to certain of his brothers mind knowing lie. Then, by his faithful killers, He does not hesitate to make you impallinare the hard way if you do not take good for his lies and if not lavish you to protect them and spread them as truth. Here's the reason why, one of the characteristics of this pontificate is the fact that this man has surrounded himself with mediocre people, bad, and above all immoral blackmail. Because he knows from first to last all their iniquities, why can handle them with the worst weapon: the blackmail. Instead, how he could handle men of faith from public life and private immaculate as Cardinal Carlo Caffara, or as the Cardinal Gerhard Müller? It is not by chance: the first, She died of a broken heart after being denied for over a year an application for a private audience, all while the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio received the worst furious of this world. For his part, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, as he himself has told, at the stroke of the five year term of office it was liquidated in the course of a minute and a half and replaced at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by a gay friendly. What I wrote the latter with knowledge of the facts and evidence in 2017, without ever having been neither denied nor any recalled title order [cf. WHO]. Or more simply: the individual concerned could call me or call me at his department and asked that account and reason for my writing. But he did not, because my answer would have been: "Why do you call me to ask me aware of what you know and what you have actually done, favoring in any way subject to very high risk, especially one that ended up giving then a worldwide scandal of enormous proportions?» [cf. WHO e WHO]. And everyone who has to escape the confrontation, these days and under this pontificate so wonderful, indeed "epochal", or rather "revolutionary", before the truth that instead of unspoken, They are only able to react affondandoti a knife in the back. And someone even called the "Church of mercy" (!?). In short … ‘ridatece Said Alexander VI Borgia. At least, under his pontificate, before proceeding to a conviction it was made a regular process ensuring best especially every right to defense of the accused, not like the present, ridiculous Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, where if you have received one of the worst injustices by a cardinal or a curial through abuse of authority that violates all the fundamental canon law, if unfortunately you turn to them, these before the powerful bully are scared to the point force you to run to the pharmacy to buy him - for good heart and Christian charity - a supply of absorbent for menstruation, as sudden it would reach the timeout cycle to that gang of …

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The good Marco Tosatti, the 29 May reports in his blog disturbing interview [cf. WHO]. In short: interviewed by journalist Valentina Alazraki, the Pope responds to a question by saying that the story about the serial sex offender and long unpunished, Cardinal Theodor McKarrick:

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«[…] I knew nothing, naturally, nothing. I've said it several times, I knew nothing, I had no idea".

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The Italian journalist, in reporting the shocking news comments between the lines postillando rightly:

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"This statement borders on immodesty. "Several times"? To who? When? Dove? He never said anything to the public, or even private later recorded in public. Such a statement is either pure lie, or it is the result of a disequlibrio ».

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I repeat to Marco Tosatti that this response with the serious statement contained in it, It is the result of one and the other thing: of man's propensity to lie and Jorge Mario Bergoglio of his obvious psychological imbalance.

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To own it is not clear I remember that the Church was not even precipitated the worst forms of Latin American dictatorships, but just in the typical forms of the dictatorship of young Korean dictator Kim Jong [the science WHO and recognize the popular methods today in Church of Mercy]. Suffice it to note how they reacted and acted journalists of modern Soviet Pravda Vatican: bringing the interview have deleted this phrase, as pointed out more and Marco Tosatti, only to reinstate later, after he reported in his blog a stylus assembly both the original text is the official text of the Holy See in which, this serious statement, however this was not [cf. WHO]. After that, of the capocomici justice Vaticana They have tried to believe that the phrase in question had escaped from the translation from Spanish into Italian.

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These poor people, convinced that the People of God is really made up of a cluster of Obtuse, it is worth remembering that they, acting in this way, They are like such and such a shopkeeper who sometimes, when customers they saw that the rest given to them was wrong, He was justified by saying: «Oh, excuse me, I was wrong!». Well I tell you and I show why these executives justice Vaticana I totally disingenuous like this shopkeeper: because the shopkeeper, to give change, coincidentally it is always wrong to your advantage, always giving less, ever more. Just as the leaders of justice Vaticana: among the many phrases that interview by mistake could blow, coincidentally they have jumped right one in which the Supreme Pontiff lied. In this unusual forgetfulness then we add that we are not talking of a translation from Chinese to Italian, but a translation from Spanish to Italian. From this we can deduce that the liars are among them as the hands that wash, the lava the other and both are washed together. All this with all due respect of affections from the complex of cunning, certain and sure to let us all those fools.

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This censorship, and the reintegration of the contested sentence, leads first to the fact itself much worse. Who has removed that phrase, She is mistaken as a dishonest merchant who always makes the mistake of giving less money and ever more, He did not take into account the slightest warning given by Christ the Lord in a passage of the Holy Gospel more and more into disuse in the Church of the "epoch-making revolution", but above all the "mercy":

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"No one tears a piece from a new cloak to attack an old one; otherwise he will rend the new, and the patch from the new will not match the old " [LC 5, 36].

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In truth, I confess that I do not know whether to get angry whether to laugh or fearful army of opportunists who are put - as they themselves say - "in a prudent waiting». And when they abuse this way the concept of prudence, that according to the wise definition of St. Thomas Aquinas is the charioteer virtues, I feel dismay and disgust. Because they, s of waiting patients, are assured that, as they say the Neapolitans: «He braces' night».

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Undoubtedly, the night will go, But, when it passed, such damage and such debris remain? And who, repair the damage, or who, will rebuild on the ruins? Perhaps the timid cowards always hopeful careers that await, or maybe they really believe that the next Pope will give them the coveted episcopate, or the long-awaited cardinal's hat that had not given the current reigning Pope? That man Jorge Mario Bergoglio has manifested itself lacking in prudence and sanity I wrote in March 2018 [cf. WHO], without excluding the possibility that he may equally be an instrument of God's grace, indeed a tool even privileged. It is not by chance, the reigning Pontiff, It has a very great merit: He has invited all the hidden mice uncovered. And these mice infected and infectious, They are at this point discovered, shrouded as they are by megalomania, as to make them completely impossible any attempt to change suddenly flag and recycle tomorrow, while it is of extraordinary chameleons, but most shameless, restraint and dignity.

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Currently, the real and serious problem, It is no longer the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio, but those that cut the pieces from his careless answers, that mystify, doctor and who insist on brand as "haters" and "enemies of the new course of Pope Francis Church" all those who show concern anything but hateful and disrespectful; but above all forgetting that the Church is not "of Pope Francis" to be modeled as such in man's image Jorge Mario Bergoglio, but it is of Christ, to model, and as such conform to the mystery of the cross of Christ the Lord. In short: I became a priest to bring my life to Christ, I would never become a priest to waste my life trying to conform to man's Jorge Mario Bergoglio. During the rite of my priestly consecration, Bishop told me solemnly: "Understand what you do, imitate what you celebrate, conform your life to the mystery of the cross of Christ the Lord ". Have they changed the ritual without my knowledge replacing it with this new formula: «[…] mimics the whims of the Pope on migrants, conform your life to the new course of man's Church Jorge Mario Bergoglio "?

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Because, the Secretary of State, it is repeatedly played face defending on several occasions the indefensible? Perhaps because it is a devoted servant? No, perhaps because it is only one that hopefully in the next conclave; and hopefully by himself, is intende. The true and faithful servants, were the Secretaries of State Rafael Merry del Val, or Pietro Gasparri, or Eugenio Pacelli, who without hesitation, in several delicate occasions, They have put their foot down and told the Popes, with all due reverence, that the decision that they wanted to take that speech or that they intended to pronounce, that would have been a grave mistake. Or perhaps he not said, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, Blood Pius XI, that if at any given moment very delicate and critical, he really wanted to say the prepared speech against the Italian fascist regime, in this case she asked him to accept, first, his resignation as Secretary of State?

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None of this is said and done, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, or in front of the sell-off of the Chinese martyrs who paid with a life of persecution their devout loyalty to Rome, or before the Cardinal electrician that with his improvident prank gave a million votes Catholics to Matteo Salvini [cf. WHO]. And nothing did, also, the Secretary of State, opposite the entrance of the unreal clergy and political correctness in about the last election campaign for the European elections, making in this way an interference before which no one has longed, by members of the radical left to the possessed Pannella brand&Bonino, who for decades have deafened with cries against "clerical meddling ', whenever John Paul II and Benedict XVI have spoken out on issues closely related to the life, to morality and bioethics. And if neither possessed nor radical leftists radical chic they shouted against "clerical meddling ', it is because of the pernicious subjects as Father Antonio Spadaro have turned directly to the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio in a leader of the international left.

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Not only has Vatican diplomacy failed, because what was once a school of diplomacy looked up to with great respect even by the Moscow Soviet of the Stalin era, today it fell into ridicule, not least because of all the pretty vain ladies in careers from which it has been filled; a real army of little priests who, Of fennel shop in fennel shop, in the apostolic nunciatures of the world even the diplomats of the Banana Republic make people laugh about the Holy See.

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The failure of Vatican diplomacy the president of that People's Republic of China with whom, the lascivious Secretariat of State, she literally prostituted herself by drawing up an agreement with the communist government that remains secret to this day (!?). I would note that the 21 March President Xi Jinping paid an official visit to Italy, however, being careful not to make even and only a private visit to the Supreme Pontiff.

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And after having reaped this success, after the Holy See was humiliated in this way by the Chinese government, with whom he had shortly before drawn up a very secret agreement, for case, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, he truly waits patiently for his well-deserved reward at the next conclave, after that …The night will be over?

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We started by saying that the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a liar, I continue concluding: this shouldn't scare you that much, beyond the understandable displeasure of the devoted faithful. In fact, I inform you that even the man Simon son of Jonah was rebaptized by Christ Peter, he was a liar, and besides being such he was also a coward and a traitor. Indeed, if together with that of the Our father not even a corrected and updated version of the Holy Gospels has come out, on their lines we continue to read:

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«While Peter was down in the courtyard, a servant of the high priest came and, seeing Peter who was warming himself up, he stared at him and told him: “You too were with the Nazarene, with Jesus». But he denied: "I don't know and I don't understand what you mean". He then went out of the courtyard and the rooster crowed. And the servant, seeing him, he began to tell those present again: “This is one of those”. But he denied again. After a while those present said again to Peter: “You are certain of those, because you are Galileo”. But he began to curse and swear: "I don't know the man you say". For the second time a rooster crowed […]» [cf. MC 14, 66-72].

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Anyhow, man Jorge Mario Bergoglio he combined them less big than the man Simon called Peter, who was not chosen by a conclave of cardinals, but by Christ himself. And Peter - I remind those who only speak of migrants and no longer read the Holy Gospels -, besides being chosen by Christ, he was formed for three years by Christ and was able to see several times, in all its glory, the Body of Christ raised from the dead appeared to the Apostles. And if Peter was chosen, perhaps it was because Christ knew well that two thousand years later a better and more merciful vicar of his on earth than the Divine Master would arrive from Argentina, surrounded by pimps coryphaeus ready to scream, to his every unhappy sortie, how wonderful, but above all "epochal" and "revolutionary" this pontificate.

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An unsolicited advice: all those who are enjoying their ten minutes of power and glory today, know that this pontificate is not eternal. So let them start thinking over which of the floating garbage islands they will want to retreat to [cf. WHO], why tomorrow, for them — the great destroyers and defacers of the Church —, there will be no place, even if it cost having to celebrate a conclave made with stab wounds among the Cardinal Fathers, who will be careful not to let some element such as the evil dwarf, who lives on wickedness, revenge and cruelty, while finding nothing better to do than go around the world to proclaim the new blesseds, because these are the people to whom the man Jorge Mario Bergoglio has opened the door of the next conclave, with its fantastic "epochal turning points".

Tell me if there's no crying …

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From the island of Patmos, 31 May 2019

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Beyond the utopia and disenchantment: Christian hope today

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BEYOND UTOPIA AND THE DISENCHANTMENT: HOPE CHRISTIAN TODAY

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The Christian hope, today must make his way with much effort and fatigue between the new experiences of millenarianism, between the political eschatology claims of American Protestantism, the apocalyptic narrative of Jihadism in the West, to the strange experiences of religiosity New Age he was born in Mayan calendar ended 21 December of 2012. From these extremes, as almost a touch of boredom bottom of immanence, we can move towards a completely different dimension, one that opens the door to the prospect of Christian hope.

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The Dominican theologian Daniel Aucone

Daniel Aucone, Dominican priest and theologian of the Roman province of St. Catherine of Siena [cf. see WHO], already author of The question of community between philosophy and theology [Ed. Nerbini, cf. WHO] It offers the public of scholars and researchers his latest book, Beyond the utopia and disenchantment - Christian hope today, also the result of the doctoral dissertation work in theology [Ed. Angelicum University Press, cf. WHO].

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The central theme of the text is the hope, as evidenced by the title; the author tries to outline and identify in it fruitful trajectories [cf. pag. 10] to reinvigorate the announcement of this theme very dear to Catholic theology. Hope for believers residing in the face and in the encounter of Jesus Christ.

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The text is divided into two parts: in the first part of the Father Daniele Aucone he pauses to scan the society and Western culture and the prospect of waiting, from different authors: Kojève and Zizek among others. In the second part, instead, he pauses to generate a theological-systematic perspective of hope, with assistance from various authors including Theobald, Durand and Mendoza - Alvarez.

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the last work of the Dominican theologian Daniel Aucone

The first part can be defined strict sense as a description of a "scream" of the post-modern society that, now waned worldly hopes, It is enclosed between resignation, disillusionment and new fears.

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Alexander Kojève, the interpreter as of the end of history in the Hegelian sense, opens the door to a search of earthly immortality. Slavko Žižek then conducts an analysis of the vicinity of the zero point, where it provides a apocalyptic classic type in which they live only an overview of panic scenarios. In this first part, There seems very interesting, also for the reader less expert in philosophical matters, accurate section that tells the new experiences of millenarianism: between the claims of political eschatology of American Protestantism, the apocalyptic narrative of Jihadism in the West, to the strange experiences of religiosity New Age and the Mayan Calendar ended 21/12/12. From these extremes, as almost a touch of boredom bottom of immanence, Finally the author can make a transition and move the prospect of Christian hope. He writes the Father Daniele Aucone:

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"In this context of contemporary West uncomfortable fact, but also of the search for meaning and direction, It is called upon to integrate the message of Christian hope that the encounter with the Risen waiting defined as end [N.d.R. telos, “purpose”, “fine”] e end [pears: “unlimited”, “Infinity”] of history". [cit. pag. 114].

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The hope is then a gift, a desire to create a all’man Desiring, over the claim of a liquid postmodern life, to establish firmly a dignified life in the time of the End. It hopes that finally allows you to escape from the tyranny of everything at once, a wait time based on the final memory of the resurrection; at last, very interesting idea that the author He takes the theologian Roberto Repole: hope understood as Humble Thought and opening the perspective of Revelation, over weak thought vattimiano, but without even claim to resolve it completely, over the unthinkable return to a strong thought: hope is the root of a humble thought [cit. pag. 116].

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In the analysis of the biblical section, it abundantly clarifies the meaning of the apocalyptic horizon exegetical current, showing how the analysis of the last book of the Bible, far from perspectives about the "end of the world ''s intention is to show that there are various purposes, that enclose different historical epochs; and at the same time the Apocalypse reveals narcissism of contemporary man down, that hides a deep existential instability [cit. pag. 126].

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The previous work of the Dominican theologian Daniel Aucone

Since the studies of Christoph Theobald, Father Daniele Aucone finally proposes Christianity as a lifestyle in which to live and give life to the world; This is possible because it creates bonds of fraternity beyond space and time, that exceed the current individualism. [cit. pag. 142]. In the theological section, he binds at the thought of the Dominican brother Emanuel Durand offering interesting reflections on the theology of Providence. For many believers it has in fact noticed that faith in God the Creator did not lead to a deep attention to his work of providence, even in the smallest daily. With the Father Emanuel Durand is the recovery of a theology of providence in which, man is founded by a continuous living relationship with God. The Lord of creation, He concludes our author with the Dominican theologian Emanuel Durand, It acts through purely natural phenomena, as well as those miraculous: Providence has thus action in necessary and contingent: nothing escapes the invisible hand, Maternal and at the same time collaborating with the man of the Triune God [cit. pag. 163].

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Very interesting are finally the final five ideas on current ecclesial missions, that make up the latest chapter: a new sense of mission of the Word [cit. pag. 267], an evangelization in the spirit breath [cit. pag. 270], a focus for an integral human ecology [cit. pag. 273], training to brotherhood and communion [cit. pag. 277] and finally a transfiguration of time through the liturgical celebration - sacramental [cit. pag. 281].

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The book is highly recommended the theology fans, as well as to professionals for a breath of fresh air about the theological speculation on hope and eschatology, able to get out of classic patterns and propose even in comparison with the current culture. Above all, the ideas about the church missions can be a source for a personal meditation, as well as speculative, Also to lay pastoral guidelines.

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Without peace of Christ, Europe will soon be dead and buried under the rubble of false peace in the world [in the appendix: The European Union flag Marian]

L'Angolo di Girolamo Savonarola: Catholic homiletics in lean times

WITHOUT THE PEACE OF CHRIST, EUROPE WILL SOON DEAD AND BURIED UNDER THE RUBBLE OF FALSE PEACE IN THE WORLD

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If I remember correctly, tomorrow we vote for the European elections, honestly I have not listened to the recommendations given by caucus the Italian Episcopal Conference nor that of the Secretariat of State, because I had better things to do, including praying for the fate of our old, glorious and beloved continent, about which he returned to mind a phrase lapidary launched by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi at the beginning of the Second Millennium: «L'Europe, or be a Christian again or it will be more ».

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have been numerous Catholic devotees through electronic media have sent this cartoon I, including many priests and religious, this thing that should give pause to those who do not live, like us, in real Patmos Island, But in the unreal Neverland

In this sixth Sunday of Easter, the Gospel offers us a song of John the Evangelist [Liturgy of the Word: WHO], the beloved disciple of the Lord. One who stood beneath the cross with the Blessed Virgin, while "all the disciples left him and fled" [Mt 26, 56; MC 14, 50]. Under this torture - on which the Christ in anguish in the body was not quite a saint iconography, Neither figure geometry depicted in paintings and sculptures -, It takes the extraordinary act of entrustment:

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"When Jesus, seeing his mother standing beside her the disciple whom he loved, He told his mother: “Donna, is your son!”. Then he said to the disciple: “Here is your mother!”. And from that hour the disciple took her into his home " [GV 19, 26-27].

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Shortly before, Christ, cornerstone [cf. Mt 21, 42; MC 12, 10; LC 20, 17], He had built the nascent Church on Peter with an expression often misconstrued, Perhaps now more than ever: «Pietro, you're stone, and upon this rock I will build my Church " [Mt 16, 18]. Phrase that can only be understood by understanding who refers Christ the Lord specifying 'on this rock'. For if you do not understand that the cornerstone is Christ God, on which Peter is leaning how to rock, you may run the risk of falling into petrifaction. That's what should be remembered that Peter, of Christ, is the vicar on hold, no successor. Anyone who had doubts about it, read the words of the Apostle Paul Blessed:

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« […] built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, and being the cornerstone, Christ Jesus himself " [Ef 12, 20].

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With young John and Peter with mature, we have two almost antithetical figures of Apostles: the first, under the cross with the Blessed Virgin and Santa with a former prostitute converted and redeemed, the second escaping first to ahead of the other Disciples and that shortly after denying Christ three times; and does so before swearing, then even cursing [cf. Mt 26, 74].

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The Gospel of Blessed John the Evangelist It is also known as the Gospel of joy and love, although in increasingly bizarre catechesis and sermons increasingly dull, not accurate - or perhaps, Alas, We just do not know! —, that this young, This was at the time, He has enjoyed the special spiritual care provided by our Divine Savior, later he lived much of his life to the Immaculate Conception, the Mater Dei, we also venerated as mother Church.

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Christ the Lord has entrusted the nascent Church driving the more limited the Apostles, perhaps so that Peter could also embody all those frailties, human weaknesses and miseries he does not hesitate to show, continuing to manifest even in old age, for example, when in Rome, under the persecution of Nero, He is giving himself to flee yet again. But, as we know, on the Via Appia appeared the Christ, to which Peter's question: «Whither goest thou, O?» [where are you going, man?»]. Meets Christ: «For Rome, I crucifixion» [I go to Rome to be crucified again]. At that point Peter came back, dying shortly after martyred on Vatican Hill, where it was both the place of execution, is the circus of Nero. In some ways a bit 'like today: because the Vatican is a place of executions “merciful” and at the same time a circus. And in that place of executions and circus games, Peter is sanctified by the martyrdom; and how he whosoever will may be sanctified today, including the Successors of Peter.

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Maybe two millennia ahead, under the cross Christ entrusts the Mother Church torn by pain to the young and beloved John, while the one who wanted her as the bride of the Lamb [cf. AP 19, 7-8], agonizes affixed to a pole with four nails and a crown of thorns on the head.

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Along with the early Church, Christ He left to the Apostles also something very precious: his peace, that is the central element of this Gospel passage prepared by Johannine eagle. In this regard, precise Christ:

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"Peace I leave with, I give you my peace. Not as the world gives, I give it to you. Do not be upset your heart and do not be afraid " [GV 14, 27].

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The duality between Christ and the world, returns to emerge between these lines, before which we should first ask ourselves: but what is truly the peace of Christ, that, than Lui tells, It seems totally antithetical, compared to world peace?

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World peace, or if you prefer the false peace, It is one that does not reject sin, and that it actually welcomes him turning into good, in precious diversity to be welcomed, in law and in supreme value. Wishing we can sum it all up with a banner that during the March for Life 23 May was posted in Rome by a group of feminists diabolical that read: "The law 194 do not touch, women are free to have an abortion in peace!».

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Here is the peace of the world: the "right" to kill innocent creatures, the “right” all’eutanasia, or the "right" womb for rent, so that two gay can fabricate their boy toy. Or maybe, the world, can be by-case basis so “cruel” take off in such a model of a couple so happy this “deserved” pace?

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The peace of Christ He resides in truth and justice, which arise from the deepest expressions of charity. But most of all, the pace, it is Christ himself who is the way, truth and life [cf. GV 14, 6], that peace is the source and giver [Ef 2,14].

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When bidding farewell by the Disciples before the Passion, Jesus leaves them his peace [GV 14,27], and thereafter, once he rose from the dead, back to offer the supreme gift of his peace greeting them: "Peace to you!» [LC 24,36; GV 20,19-21.26]. The peace of Christ is achieved through reconciliation with God the Father, from which then it comes the reconciliation with the brothers [cf. Mt 6,12], so this Christological peace can be extended to a world renewed by Christ, who through the grace of the Holy Spirit purifies and sanctifies us. So, every time we open our arms and say, priests'Peace be with you» [Peace be with you], at that time we are Christ who gives you His peace and you sent in His peace.

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If I remember correctly, tomorrow we vote for the European elections, honestly I have not listened to the recommendations given by caucus the Italian Episcopal Conference nor that of the Secretariat of State, because I had better things to do, including praying for the fate of our old, glorious and beloved continent, about whom it came back to mind a phrase lapidary launched by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi at the beginning of the Second Millennium: «L'Europe, or be a Christian again or it will be more ».

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So many other things I have come back to mind, I remind you briefly who seems devoid of historical memory. Also because it is not about going back centuries, but only a few decades …

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… in the archives of the former Holy Office and in those of many diocesan ecclesiastical courts of Italy, They are always stored acts in which several priests were also sanctioned canonically and only for suspected sympathy with the old Italian Communist Party. Well, in recent weeks we have had to witness the authentic disgrace of our bishops - but what is worse the Holy See -, who entered heavily in the campaign to support the Center-Left, very watered down heir of the old Italian Communist Party. Indeed, while the old Communists, as fierce as consistent, They spoke of the proletariat and the working class, pursuing many just demands for the protection of the weaker classes, their grandchildren piddini, - those supported by our bishops, to be clear -, instead we find them at cocktail hour in the upscale cafes of Parioli, super penthouse in the center and in Roman villas Olgiata.

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Since not everyone is deprived of historical memory, I remember that as a teenager, nell'affatto away 1978, I saw a crying elderly pastor who ended electrocuted by Bishop since accused of being too close to Communist circles. The indictment was presented to the bishop by some politicians and administrators finished Democrats on trial for corruption and then to jail twenty years later. Having said that I would be legitimate to ask, both al caucus the Italian Episcopal Conference and to the Secretariat of State, if it's me that I misunderstood, if it's me that I missed some step of our incredible historical and ecclesiastical political evolution, or: we own clerical the support given to the inconsistent bourgeoisie and viciously grandchildren of those who were old and consistent Italian Communists? Because I fear that some clergy politician, with the new Left, share a disturbing element: an idea of ​​ideological and dream people totally divorced from reality, if it considers that the people shall not meet or in the upscale Parioli coffee, nor in the super penthouse center, or in Roman villas Olgiata, but even in the palaces of curies, as now cloaked in great pauperism with their bishops who wear wooden crosses around his neck and moving in procession with the facts croziers not by the silversmiths craftsmen but by carpenters, all we are waiting for the wind changes and then presented, as if nothing had happened, seven meters magna hood.

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May Europe welcome the peace of Christ, because with the peace of the world, carried out by inconsistent grandchildren of the old communist consistent, He will soon be dead and buried, with the blessing of our Italian episcopate.

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HISTORICAL NOTE MARIANA FLAG POLICY ON EUROPEAN UNION

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The European Union flag is the veil and tiara of stars of the Blessed Virgin Mary

In the sky there appeared a great sign: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. [Revelation of St. John the Apostle: 12, 1]

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To the uninitiated remember what is the meaning of the flag of Europe: The blue color represents the mantle of the Virgin Mary, The twelve stars on her diadem. At the time,, when it was formed the nucleus of the European Union, Catholic politicians, unbeknownst to the Northern European Protestants, They put the nascent union under the protection Mater Dei.

If they take note of what secularists, Gay and lesbian hate mail that swarm in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, maybe they'll interpellation to change flag.

Still others did not then know that the polls will be in this month of May, which traditionally it is the month dedicated to the Virgin Mary, although in many churches, in this Marian month, several bishops and priests have been undertaken in the lavish greetings good Ramadan, rather than praise the Holy Virgin with the recitation of the Holy Rosary with which Europe won the Battle of Lepanto, avoiding that the flag with the crescent moon could fly over the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, all before you even create a union that has, as its emblem, the robe and the crown of Our Lady …

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«If you don't heal your brother who is sick, you are responsible for his blood ". The hospitality as identity of a community healing

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"IF you do not heal YOUR BROTHER IS ILL, You ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS BLOOD». THE HOSPITALITY OF IDENTITY AS A COMMUNITY healing.

[…] long before the phrase of Pope Francis on the image of the Church as field hospital, the first Christian communities were urged by the Holy Spirit to this form of care and assistance in the form of hospitality. The Church began as a friendly community - that is hospital - friendly place in which to recognize need of care, healing and reconciliation with God and the brothers: "Because of this, it is important to reach out to the sick, enabled them to experience the tenderness of God, integrate them into a community of faith and life in which they can feel welcomed, understood, incurred, worthy, in a word, to love and be loved.

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Photo: Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp. Easter Vigil, procession with the Lumen Christi Hospital in courses Brotzu Cagliari

The Apostle Paul, It invites us to be considerate in hospitality with these words: "Rejoice in hope, patient in tribulation, persevere in prayer, solicitous for the needs of the brothers, Practice hospitality " [R 12, 1]

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In the first century d.C at the entrance of some churches there was this warning:

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«If you don't heal your brother who is sick, you are responsible for his blood " [cf. Beppino Cò the 7 spiritual stages of physical healing, pg. 6 ed. Villadiseriane].

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I open this new article starting from this suggestion that I found in a small book which deals with the physical healing inserted into a spiritual healing path. While it can not verify the source of history more accurately, what struck me this sentence is not so much an invitation to healing the brother or the charism of healing itself, but the posting of such words re-entry of a church.

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Reflecting on this, I was struck by this certainty: the Church was born to be healing communities, via santa where rid of their infirmities and enjoy the health and salvation that God gives to his children eagerly. In this you can see the realization of the words of the prophecy of Isaiah:

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"Shall return the ransomed of the Lord

and come to Zion with jubilation;

everlasting joy upon their heads;

joy and happiness will follow them

and sorrow and sighing shall flee away " (cf. Is 35,10)

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It is all the more necessary a missionary journey that puts in crisis today certain choices that often - as a community of believers - we prefer. The papal teaching helps us to bring clarity to this effect:

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"In fact, the Church over the centuries has strongly felt service to the sick and suffering as an integral part of its mission and not only has it favored the flourishing of various works of mercy among Christians, but he also expressed from his bosom many religious institutions with the specific purpose of promoting, organize, improve and extend the assistance to the sick. missionaries, for their part, in conducting the work of evangelization, They have consistently associated with the preaching of the Good News with the assistance and care for the sick. " (cf. personal concern, 1)

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We must therefore take note how long before the phrase of Pope Francis on the image of the Church as field hospital, the first Christian communities were urged by the Holy Spirit to this form of care and assistance in the form of hospitality.

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The Church began as a friendly community - ie hospital - friendly place in which to recognize need of care, healing and reconciliation with God and the brothers:

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"Because of this, it is important to reach out to the sick, enabled them to experience the tenderness of God, integrate them into a community of faith and life in which they can feel welcomed, understood, incurred, worthy, in a word, to love and be loved. For them - as for each other - contemplating Christ and letting themselves be "looked at" by him is an experience that opens them to hope and pushes them to choose life (cf. Dt 30,19)» (cf. Tarcisio Mezzetti, Welcoming the weary and the oppressed, ed. Elledici, pag. 11].

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"In communion with the crucified and risen, with the one who has experienced pain and death significantly, the Church becomes hospitable inn, lap friendly where life, in its entirety, is respected, defense, loved and served, place of hope, where any weary pilgrim and sick, seeker of the meaning of what he is experiencing, You can live healthy and saving his suffering and his death, and writing a significant chapter in its history of alliance with others and with God " [cf. Luciano Sandrin, church, community healing, pg 77, Ed. St. Paul].

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The Church can not give up this essential feature of its identity, which represents a model is essentially therapeutic service through diaconia of ecclesial communion.

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Ecclesial communion - for the Church of all time - it is the biggest and most difficult challenge to generate a discipleship that conforms to the image of Christ [cf. RM 8,29]. Ecclesial communion is in fact certainty of the presence of Christ, not only a sign of his loving assistance [CF. Mt 18,20].

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To be in communion among us - and then enable the resources to be able to bring healing to others - it is essential to be in communion with Christ, pacificarmi with him.

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta, addressed to Cardinal Angelo Comastri, It was very clear in this regard: "My son, without God we are too poor to help the poor!», wanting to paraphrase these words in the orientation of our reflection we come to affirm as: without God we are too sick to help the sick!

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Jesus gives us a hint to heal and figure out if we got to be in full communion with him: mutual love [cf. GV 13,35]. We can also surprise us, but not a telltale sign of the presence of Christ in the disciple the number of communions received or made pilgrimages or alms bestowed, not because these things have no value, rather! In fact in human villainy, I can draw near to communion in a state of spiritual disorder, make a pilgrimage with dissipated soul, or bestow alms for personal gain.

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But I never, never am able to love each other and to feel respect for him if they are not in communion with Christ. I will readily smascherabile and prey of my weaknesses I do not live this communion in the authenticity.

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Jesus challenges us to a land where it is impossible to cheat. For this reason, ecclesial communion was the pride and the torment of the first Christians, the blessed Apostle Peter the recommended path in the hospitality: "Be hospitable to one another, without murmuring " [cf. 1PT 4,9], and Paul on the path of mutual esteem:

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"Love one another with brotherly affection, outdo one another " [cf. RM 12,10].

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The Church hospital, It becomes a place of welcome when Christ is received with all the kindness; place of esteem and respect, when we recognize beloved children of the Father [cf. MC 1,11].

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The therapeutic interventions of the Church is given by obedience to the Word, as I was able to say in another of my contributions, [cf. item, WHO], that while faith is proclaimed arouses, increases the hope, It invites to charity and produces therapeutic benefits. He says the evangelist Mark:

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"And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord acted together with them and confirmed the Word with the signs that accompanied it " [cf. MC 16,20].

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This statement which concludes the second Gospel it's a unique throughout the New Testament, Christ works together with the community of believers so that in the ecclesial communion ARISING OUT preaching fruitful with the gift of faith and healing.

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In the Christian community after Easter one of the most eloquent manifestations of the presence of the Risen was made right from the healings - as physical recovery - and the liberation - as a spiritual restoration -.

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Stay in the Church it means clearly perceiving the living presence of Jesus who restores us to health by entrusting us to a community that is made by the Holy Spirit capable of protecting us after being collected by the Lord.

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It is the evocative image of the Good Samaritan that St. Augustine sums:

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"This inn will be the home from which they will migrate until, fully redone in health, we will not come into the kingdom of heaven " [cf. St. Augustine, The word is, 131, 6, PL 38, 732].

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Following the example of the Good Shepherd that leaves the ninety-nine sheep to find the lost [cf. LC 15,6], it is necessary that the whole Church, in its lay and ministerial component, you find and go back to looking for the sick with the freshness and enthusiasm of apostolic times.

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A Church truly hospitable, dilates her womb so that the weak, the sick and malnourished can recover in the light of the Risen. The Church must respond to a divine imperative: take your hand and look after the sick waiting for Christ [cf. LC 10,35].

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The Church hospitable communities and healing, gathered around the Savior in ecclesial communion, acquires a pastoral style that intends to operate and interact in accordance with the dignity of the baptismal and ministerial priesthood because

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"In both cases,, the ministry is realized as a charism serviceable, implemented by the community: the richness of the gifts of the Spirit in the ecclesial body is such that not only the whole Church is to be characterized as a ministerial community, but the various personal or even communal forms of ministeriality never by themselves exhaust the charismatic possibilities that believers are invested with by those who blow where they want " [cf. Bruno Forte, The Trinity Church. Essay on the mystery of the Church, communion and mission, pag. 304, St. Paul, Cinisello Balsamo (Milan) 1995].

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Cardinal Elio Sgreccia It amplifies and better defines these words, referring them to the specific ministry of health:

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"It's certainly more ecclesial bring evangelization aid, of sacramental grace, of Christian charity, the fact redemptive to patients through priests, deacons, Religious / e, lay people who not only through the chaplain. To the point that, if the priests were not lacking, we should prefer this formula to the one that sees only the chaplains working in the hospital " [cf. Elio Sgreccia, The hospital chaplaincy, a draft pastoral community, in Together to serve, 3 (1990), pag. 43]».

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Come inside of of the Christian community nobody - but nobody - should feel entitled to exclude the suffering caregiving: since this exclusion would bring a mortal wound to communion, action of the Holy Spirit, the real presence of Christ among his, to the urgent longing of every man who - since the time of Abel - challenges faith about the reasons for suffering, innocent blood, the pain that has the right to find a warm heart and open arms.

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Cagliari, 25 May 2019

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Whores & paraculi, the correct etymology of words. When is instead the correct words become insults? Example: proselytism is not a dirty word, but a prerequisite of evangelization

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Mignotte & PARACULI, CORRECT ETYMOLOGY OF WORDS. When did INSTEAD THE CORRECT WORDS BECOME INSULT? EXAMPLE: PROSELITHISM NOT AND A WORD, BUT AN ASSUMPTION OF EVANGELIZATION

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[…] lemma whore, It comes from a popular Latin term disfigurement son of unknown mother, ie son of unknown mother. This is in fact called the babies born in hospitals and left there by their mothers, or more frequently left inside the churches or inside of of the wheels of the convents and monasteries of the cloistered nuns. In popular language, this Latin term was then crippled in stepmother, that below, further crippled, finally became whore.

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The masters of cinema and Italian theater: Alberto Sordi [Rome 1920 – Rome 2003] video WHO.

Let's try to imagine a group of three priests who find themselves together for a moment of fraternity and which are respectively: a dogmatic theologian sacramentary, a moral theologian and a canonist. When dinner, not yet late hour and wanting the three conclude with another moment of happy fraternity, they have this idea: "Why do not we go to women?», says the priest specializing in dogmatic theology, asking the opinion of the other two.

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The specialist in moral theology, great devotee to the holy bishop and doctor of the Church of San'Alfonso Maria de 'Liguori, He thinks for a moment and replies: "Yup, it would be an idea, But I'm thinking about how we could do that without violating our sacred promises ".

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By then he runs to the rescue the priest specializing in canon law, providing the solution: "Dear brothers, thinking about it, I do not think we would go to violate any sacred promise. In fact, when we received the sacred ordination, what the bishop asked of us? We asked if we promised to keep celibate, Mica asked us to promise to keep chaste. Well, are not we all three bachelors, so respectful of the promise made?».

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Exulted the two priests Sacramental theology specialists in dogmatic and moral theology: "You are right. We're not religious who professed vows of poverty, chastity and obedience! We have just solemnly promised to keep celibate, no one asked the solemn promise to keep chaste ". And so poco after the three met three wonderful escort and head for a place to end the evening with a flourish.

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The masters of cinema and Italian theater: Elena Fabrizi, aka Sora Lella [Rome 1915 – Rome 1993]: video WHO

No need to explain certain - but with the heads circulating free these days foot is good to do it -, that the priest, while not professing as the religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, expresses in each case two vows: remain unmarried, What this implicitly implies chastity; obey the Bishop and all his successors.

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In the doctrinal field and pastoral, the problem of language is crucial, because if the words, in particular to the words-concept, we attribute different meanings, emptying them of their true meaning and filling other, as obvious and inevitable consequence we will create genuine chaos situations.

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To explain this kind of problem, I have often used two typical terms of romanesco, which are respectively: whore e Paraculo. I always remember indelibly when now almost fifty years ago, by six seven year old child, I was brought occasionally walking by my grandfather and his sister in the Roman park of Villa Borghese. The highlight of the walk was made by visiting the monkeys in the zoo, which I enjoyed giving peanuts purchased in advance to stand a reseller. One day something happened fun: a lady somewhat commoner and for this particularly nice, He began to call the son, that as they say he did not care for the mother calls to tell him to go home. Call calling you, at one point the mother annoys and yelling at the child: «'Large fixed' na mignotta, I give you vόi sbrigà, dovemo who returns home?».

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INo impeccable Italian this sentence will sound so: "Very son of a whore, You want to attend, we have to go home?». Of the two things, the one excludes the other: or this beautiful commoner said in front of everyone in the park of Villa Borghese she, mother of that son, It was a whore, or simply, the expression Fixed mignotta it has lost its etymology and is used both as an expression to intersperse in speech, both times to indicate 'A nice person and gajiarda.

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The masters of cinema and Italian theater: Gigi Proietti [Rome 1940], video WHO

Let's move on to another example before the explanations that follow. Time ago, the parent of a young eighteen year old just told me that her son had purchased the branded sneakers, after that, saying that the color was not good with clothes, He asked his father if he wanted to buy, because he would have bought other more suitable color. His father gave him 120 euro with which the son, at a sporting goods store brand, He went to buy another pair of shoes. All with one small detail not exactly indifferent: the shoes sold her father were false, He had bought for 15 euro at Porta Portese, while him, with money from the sale made to his father, he went to acquire the originals. The father found out later and later, laughing with me told me the whole concluding: «… hai understood, my 'fixed, that which is grannissimo Paraculo?».

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INo impeccable Italian this sentence will sound exactly like this: "… did you understand, my child, that homosexual who is great?»

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No need for special explanation, you already know perfectly that today, the term whore and the term Paraculo, while having both a negative sense as etymological meaning, terms being born to indicate in a derogatory way certain people, facts or situations, in the current Romanesco lemmas they are used in sympathy tones, sometimes even to indicate a person, with its imaginative shrewdness, He gave it a resounding alone, ie rip-off, for it making you laugh and entertain.

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The masters of cinema and Italian theater: Anna Magnani [Rome 1908 – Rome 1973], video WHO

In short: whore, It comes from a popular Latin term disfigurement son of unknown mother, ie son of unknown mother. So they were called and brought forth children left in hospitals by mothers, or more frequently in churches or inside the wheels of convents and monasteries of nuns. In popular language, the Latin term son of unknown mother It is crippled in stepmother, then it was further becoming whore, used as a popular synonym for whore, but lost this meaning given below, as we have shown with the mother who calls her son in the park of Villa Borghese.

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In nineteenth-century papal Rome - where no one would ever think that in the future, the grotesque orgy of Gay Pride, He could slide through the town starting from the square of the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, St. John Lateran, to arrive in Piazza Esedra, Today the Republic Square, in front of the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and Martyrs, place where they were martyred by the Emperor Diocletian many Christians -, give of Paraculo a man, was an offense so grave and shameful, They could risk their lives in two different ways. If you said the Paraculo to populate a Trastevere, what you probably stabbed, then if anything, asking for help from a couple of friends from the nearby tavern, throwing your body into the Tiber; but if you gave the Paraculo an aristocrat, what he threw in the face glove and t'aspettava the morning to five outside Porta San Giovanni to challenge you to a duel, in the course of which, or the offended or the offender would inevitably dead.

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Paraculo, as etymological meaning He has in itself little cute, because its etymology disparagingly shows a man para, that is, offering his rear to another man to be sodomized. Therefore, the dictionaries of the Italian language that today suggest this term as a synonym for cunning or entity that is able to turn the situation to his own advantage, dating its birth to the period of the sixties of the twentieth century and connecting it to the literature of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Aldo Palazzeschi, they are wrong. To prove it is a study of Dr.. Luca Lorenzetti, researcher at the University of Tuscia, that in Casanatense Library of Rome spotted at the end of the nineties the term in a poem by 150 sonnets dating back to 1830, and used in the prose to indicate with Paraculo il homosexuals Passive [cf. WHO].

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During the celebration of the Second Vatican Council, We had many problems that have developed in para ... media council and then lasted often with disastrous results in the post-conciliar season. All these problems are mostly born of purely lexical items. Indeed, just where we talk so pounding and obsessive traits of "unity of the Church", if we look, those who have compromised and compromising this unit, have been and are precisely those who sow confusion and disunity through the flawed and arbitrary use of the words.

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The masters of cinema and Italian theater: Alberto Sordi:video WHO

The problem of the last council It is therefore in the language. For as I have repeatedly said over the years in these columns de The Island of Patmos, the fathers of the Church, for the first time they have abandoned the solid and precise metaphysical language born from speculation the real big school - not to be confused with the decadent neo-scholastic -, all expressed through specific terms and idioms of the Latin language. Soon after the Council Latin, but it remained the official language of the Church, it was abandoned, because even then, most of the extra European bishops, She did not know him most. But since the Second Vatican Council was literally monopolized by the German and North European trend, the expressive language style used is that of the decadent German Romanticism, that seeks first to unite the opposites and contraries, the thesis and the antithesis, the hot oil with cold water. E, you pay attention: we have fallen into this trap, involuntary and in good faith, Also all Orthodox theologians, including Popes John Paul II and, perhaps above all and most of all, Benedict XVI. It has been surreal and romantic spirit that the Church, instead of condemning the error, It began to converse with the error, all with this consequence: the error was not quite correct, fact finding to be the subject of dialogue has strengthened and rooted more, and in this way - convinced of being able to correct it with loving dialogue - it was instead made to penetrate inside the Church.

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The first document approved, the Holy Council, one on the liturgical reform, permits and possibly approve the liturgical abuses that today we can see in churches? With Neocatechumenal dangerous as more scempiano the Most Holy Eucharist, more screaming like a mantra the rhyme: "We approved, we approved ... the Popes have approved ... we have approved!»? [see my recent study, WHO].

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How can we, half a century of reform, find ourselves today in a state of total chaos that liturgical not infrequently borders on sacrilege of the Holy Eucharist? Simple answer: the Holy Council dictated the “romantic” general and very general lines, order to undertake a necessary liturgical reform; needed especially on the pastoral level, and of the new evangelization of peoples. but when, in certain very delicate materials, from the liturgy and from its Discipline of the Sacraments which rules, do not give strict instructions, mandatory, accurate and not subject to any different interpretation, will inevitably what today we can see: each has created his own liturgy, their Discipline of the Sacraments, its doctrine and, at last, their own laws. With that the Neocatechumenal, trumpeting a recognition of a purely administrative character granted to them by the Pontifical Council for the Laity [cf. WHO, WHO], certainly not by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, do not hesitate to lie deliberately lying declaring its adherents and to anyone that "their” liturgies are fully approved by the Holy See. If we then say to these people that this is not true and that they have no right to use and abuse the sacred liturgy, that the sacraments are not available assets of their property and that of the doctrine are not free interpreters or worse makers, they respond by reiterating that "in the Church there was a council" and you, reasoning that way, six "a poor nostalgic Tridentine". And thereby, is obvious that today, in the Church of the romantic and ambiguous vagueness, that with the error dialogue rather than condemn, give a person the "Tridentine", It goes something like … daije er fixed mignotta so funny at all, but because of what the expression means etymologically, not in the amiable and playful way as the sympathetic popolana referred narravo before.

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The masters of cinema and Italian theater: Alvaro Vitali [Rome 1950], video WHO

While the great Council of Trent, radically reformed the Church and that led her to an extraordinary missionary work, It is used today as a real insult, on the other hand, not the Second Vatican Council, but the para-council that perversion reaches its maximum in the post-conciliar, But it is considered and presented as a kind of dogma dogma by those who, paradoxically, de-construct half a century the whole dogmatic system of the Church (!?). And when the modern insult Fixed 'na mignotta, ie the "Tridentine", they also want to add insult to Paraculo, in the latter case they tell you: "You are an old dogmatist tied to obtuse and obsolete dogmatisms". So, if Tridentine equivalent today Fixed 'na mignotta, the term dogma and dogmatic, roughly equivalent to that of Paraculo.

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Without repeating myself unnecessarily, I refer readers to my old article 2014: 'Babel and newspeak: a Church without vocabulary for half a century " [see WHO], This was followed in 2016 one of my keynote Available in video [see WHO].

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Language is not a substantial element, but accidental. Example: celebrate Mass in local languages, it does not in any way affect the mystagogical substance of the Eucharistic Sacrifice. But, if you are doing external accidental use of the element, that language, are altered through incorrect translations the words that for two millennia and enclose the substance lindane, in that case we can say that, through the outer accidental element of the tongue, It is likely to strike and alter the substance seriously. Exactly as it is today: do not touch the substance of the doctrine, which remains as such, But it is trying to disregard the substantive precepts of the doctrine through a new pastoral practice.

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These days anyone - I do not remember exactly who, nor remember the name, but that does not matter - has returned to speak of proselytism so harsh and derogatory, giving to this term a negative connotation, just like some give a negative connotation today "Tridentine" and "dogmatic".

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Let's see what it means and as indicated by the vocabularies proselytizing term, starting greek dall'etimo composed to pros ed I am coming erchomai, which means "coming" or "going". The term literally means proselytizing: carry out an activity, in the case of evangelization Christianity, to convert and to win new faithful.

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The masters of cinema and Italian theater: Tomas Milian [Havana 1933- Rome 2017] and Franco Lechner aka Balloon [1931-Roma Roma 1987], video WHO

The invitation to proselytize It does not arise from the "bad guys" of the sixteenth century Dominican, that according to sensational false historians They came with swords and crosses to exterminate the Aztecs of that delicate man of Montezuma and forcibly convert them to Christianity. The "bad guys" of the sixteenth century Dominican, arrived in Mexico were shocked by the fact that the great indigenous people of the Aztecs, however, in a state of total decay, He performed more human sacrifices, together with various forms of ritualistic cannibalism, which were prevented by the "cruel" colonizers. That with respect to those who today accuses, both of them, It had destroyed the ancient and glorious civilization in the sixteenth century, arrival of the Spaniards, Instead they poured in their state of the deepest decline and human and moral degradation.

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A proselytizing, We invite us Our Lord Jesus Christ, turning to the Apostles a precise command, for more in the space-time that goes' from his resurrection to his ascension to heaven. It is the last command that Christ God turns to his disciples before returning to the Father's right hand:

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"Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons, speak with new tongues, they will take snakes in hand and, if they drink any deadly, it shall not hurt them harm, lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. The Lord Jesus, after talking with them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word with the prodigies that accompanied it " [cf. MC 16, 1-20].

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Christ is God who invites us to proselytize, because this is the purpose of and preaching: redemption. Needless to say, the mystery of redemption is very different from the concept of "one religion is the other ', or, "no matter who is Jesus Christ, Buddha or Mohammed ». For if this were the Redeemer, which is one, not many, It would place as element of uniqueness and absoluteness stating: «I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, also you know my Father: from now on you know him and have seen him " [cf. GV 14, 6-7].

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The masters of cinema and Italian theater: Nino Manfredi [Castro dei Volsci 1922 – Rome 2004], video, WHO

The proselytizing is not anything negative and frightening. Of course, Also most things good and holy, can be transformed into evil and harmful. Certain drugs or certain deadly poisons, when used in the right doses are essential ingredients for the preparation of certain medications - for example certain strong painkillers -, in the absence of which, affections from certain evils in the acute phase, They could be torn from physical pain. Similarly we can say for firearms, that if you give in use to soldiers fighting a just war of defense, are indispensable to defend from attack by a group of ferocious fundamentalist Islamists a village where women are collected, Children and the elderly are Christian and potential objects of their massacres. For those who do should be replicated in this example stating that there are no just wars, and that it is never licit to kill for no reason and motive, if anything, try asking: in many war zones did you come to live? Or: many bodies of children killed, mutilated, made in pieces or burnt, have you had occasion to see, O loving beautiful soul left radical chic dell'Europa pacifundist, where the last disastrous war ended seventy-four years ago, while residents of other regions and countries of the world are born, lived and reached the age of seventy years without ever having met in the course of their existence one day of peace, but going conflict in conflict, the dictator dictator, civil war into civil war? [cf. WHO].

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The Holy Eucharist, if you received in state of grace, It supports and comfort for eternal life. The same Holy Eucharist, But if received by a person who does not live in a state of grace, It wants to live well and in fact claims full recognition of its right to live outside of grace, It is nourishment for eternal life, but instead becomes poison for the soul, She is explained to the Blessed Apostle Paul:

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"Each, therefore, examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup; because whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord, eating and drinking his own condemnation " [cf. The Cor 23, 28-29].

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Even proselytism, It can be turned into something negative, if to do so are certain aggressive and coercive evangelical and Pentecostal sects that are used to playing on the fears and human frailty, in respect of which, that person can not remember the name, I, however, never heard words of reproach and condemnation, least of all for the forced conversions made by Islam, under threat of death or deprivation of civil rights, although today even presented as a religion of peace and love, which is equivalent to present Messalina like it was the martyr of purity Santa Maria Goretti.

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Giving proselytizing word a negative connotation, It is like giving a negative connotation to the word Eucharist. If anything, claiming that, the concept of transubstantiation and the real presence of Christ in the sacred species soul, body and divinity, could cause serious injury to the sensitivity of all members of the current heretical distaccatesi of the Catholic Christian nucleus, which consider the Eucharist only a purely symbolic memorial in remembrance of the Last Supper of Christ the Lord.

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Many are therefore the concepts and words that could cause offense to others, for instance: Incarnation of God's Word, Jesus Christ, true God and true man, The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Resurrection of Christ, her assumption into heaven and so on. Per now, just to please the world and not to offend the world, we started from proselytizing and various other things as it were minor, all waiting for the best of the worst comes after everything ...

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A prayer for our great Italian masters of the cinema and theater, for the dead and for the living: may God make merit for having built and supported by their deep seriousness.

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the Island of Patmos, 22 May 2019

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A WISE COMMENT ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS

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Dear Brother,

They do not usually comment on electronic sites, but this time your short essay, linguistically written with "the smell of the sheep" to boot township, He was quite intrigued and amused.

I welcome your approach: It is effective in capturing the interest of the player in the boater the vast sea the electronic network; It helps us not to give in to discouragement and gloom in considering the general confusion of St. Peter's ship and to react with Tuscan spirit, to St. Philip Blacks; It is an example of application preclaro aura maximum: "I do not take them seriously, take them for a ride " [N.d.R. see WHO] that I now practice in my small (while seeking to reject the temptation of complacency).

About "smell of the sheep": I think nothing but one of the many slogans, inconsistent and "imaginative" (in sessantottino sense), by which we are afflicted and led astray in this unfortunate ecclesial era. I know of no biblical and patristic basis for a pseudoteologia "cacosmetica" (κακὴ ὀσμή = stinks); even Jesus Christ, in chapter 10 the Gospel according to John, not even remotely dream of venturing into this language, given that the sheep - are enclosed when the fold - not exactly give off a pleasant smell; but apparently some "pastors" today have only seen the sheep odorless some Christmas crib. On the contrary, the blessed Apostle Paul writes: "For we are before God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to one a fragrance from death to death and the other a fragrance from life to life " (2Color 2, 15 – 16). At this rate, certain "imaginative" bishops will the "updated" packaging sacred chrism is not a pleasant balm (according to tradition), but with "Water sheep - black sheep = Mutton smell - black sheep ", to have new bishops, new priests and confirmed more and more "goats".

Rather than concionar of "smell of the sheep", They should care for many fragrant pretini, who waste good money on perfume for his dapper personalino always expensively dressed to secular fashion and leave in their wake a strong odor of Paraculo (in the original sense of the term), how spiritual edification of the Catholic flock you can imagine.

With regard to proselytism, a way of warning cry, sketch an observation that should be more detailed. I think just the blessed Apostle Paul is one of the main victims of the prevailing modernism. The mere reading of Acts illustrates the fact that he was dedicated nothing more than to "make disciples", "to teach", "Preach" that Jesus is the Christ and the only Savior of all, according to the mission entrusted by the Risen Lord to his Church (CF. Mt 28, 19 – 20; 16, 15. 20; LC 24 46 – 48). Entered into a City, He not impiantava no cafeteria or hospital, not waiting for quiet that his philanthropic activities arouse questions in the other and then presented as a Christian, but at once he preached in the synagogues and in the streets, explicitly calling to faith and paying in person for persecution unleashed against the Jews. Today, the Church leaders censurerebbero, accusing it of proselytism deplorable and divisive action! But how is this reconciled with the dogma of apostolic character of the Holy Church?

The rest, among innumerable heretical nonsense hitherto heard, lately we have also the following annoverarne (He trumpeted shamelessly on the banks of the Po in Turin, with the complicity of the Archbishop Metropolitan competent): if he had known homo-affective couples (?!), St. Paul would not have written Rom 1, 24 – 32; which is equivalent to denying that the Apostle is a Doctor inspired by the Holy Spirit, but rather a poor fool not updated! Be careful and those parts, because the Apostle of the Gentiles has the iconographic attribute a sword in his hand; saw the temper that distinguished him, If you decide to use it, some head buggy-priestly episcopal fall ...

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24 May 2019

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The intimate friendship of the shepherd with his sheep: "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me "

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The INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP OF SHEPHERD WITH HIS SHEEP: «MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME "

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Just like in a journey of transhumance, each of us is called to be sheep of the flock of Jesus, namely that we are called to live as believers in the Church of Jesus. As believers, First we hear His Voice: Jesus speaks to us in the Word of God and by the shepherds, in particular it does today through the Catholic official teaching of the Church expressed by the Successor of Peter and the College of the Apostles, called to guard intact and therefore spread the deposit of faith.

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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Dear brothers and sisters,

Shepherd Sardinian, by the painter Antonio Piras

probably all know poetry Pastors in G. D'Annunzio:

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"September, here we go. It is time to migrate / Now in the land of the Abruzzi my shepherds lascian the pens and go towards the sea / fall wild green Adriatic that is how the mountain pastures ".

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An image of pastoralism, transhumance, that is, the path to the wilderness and into the hills that give serenity, rest and sense of completeness.

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This image towards a much sought peace, maybe we lost: a powder’ because we live in town with lights and sounds that distract us, a powder’ because we do not understand the idea of ​​a journey that, After so many efforts, It may instead give us a lot of satisfaction. But, this sheep, You can make us delve into readings of this Sunday.

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In the Acts of the Apostles [cf. 13, 46] we read how Paul and Barnabas are turning to the Jews:

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"It was necessary that it was proclaimed first of all to you the word of God, Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, there: we turn to the Gentiles ".

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The two Apostles direct the proclamation of eternal life overcoming the Jewish presence and paying attention to the pagans, who were Romans and Greeks, with a culture steeped in Hellenistic philosophy. The message of Christ then comes out of the "fence" Judeo, showing how the Christian message is not related to a single people or nation. The message of Jesus is universal: all we are called to eternal life. This involves entering into a greater love, that of the Father, of the Son and the Holy Spirit, for eternity.

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The call to eternal life awaits a response from us. The Lord also leaves us free to refuse it, as did the Jews in the text of Acts we heard. But if we respond positively, We can now understand how to get to eternal life.

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The Gospel gives us a clear answer on along the path towards this goal. We read in Saint John:

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«My sheep hear my voice, and I know them and they follow me " [cf. 10, 27].

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Just like in a journey of transhumance, each of us is called to be sheep of the flock of Jesus, namely that we are called to live as believers in the Church of Jesus. As believers, First we hear His Voice: Jesus speaks to us in the Word of God and by the shepherds, in particular it does today through the Catholic official teaching of the Church expressed by the Successor of Peter and the College of the Apostles, called to guard intact and therefore spread the deposit of faith.

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We hear the voice of Jesus when we intimately our Catholic teaching: believe in the truths of faith, live the precepts of morality or engage in moments of prayer will become a listening experience that will open your heart to His Great Love. God comes into our soul and with Him every moment of daily life will become a joy.

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In second place, As believers we follow Jesus: especially we follow in hard moments of our lives, knowing that the first to have labored for us carrying the Cross on Golgotha. To follow Jesus is to know that even when the miseries of life seem to move deep on the shoulders, He will support us in.

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From listening and following Jesus, is that the fact that we know Him: This word in the original language indicates a profound intimacy, almost hand to hand with God. This body intimate contact to the body we experience whenever we live the Eucharist, which in fact it is a foretaste of eternal life, a great friendship with God. And just about the friendship screated Susanna Tammaro:

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"Friendship is one of the best feelings to live. Suddenly we see ourselves, you choose, it builds a kind of intimacy ".

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May the Lord grant us his friendship to enter into eternal life, in an intimacy that gives endless joy and ability to grasp the deep meaning of every day.

Amen.

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Rome, 12 May 2019

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