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[ IIIª REFLECTION: Lack of forgiveness ]

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Let's start with a trivial finding: because we feel resentment and fail to forgive? Simply because we internally relive the evil that has been done to us, mulling it over in our hearts. The memory of the offense caused - in this case - no longer works to reach a resolution but works to reiterate the offense, which over time becomes chronic and remains calcified as an obsession in our soul.

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The third pathology spiritual which I will discuss is related to the tendency not to grant forgiveness easily, and it is very widespread. It does not spare the lay faithful like consecrated persons. Like this, as a priest dedicated to the ministry of confessor,I often find myself probing this aspect within the life of penitents who approach the precious sacrament of reconciliation.

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I assist like this most of the time to a kind of spiritual schizophrenia, indeed, if on the one hand one wants to obtain God's forgiveness at any cost - given the proliferation of trends merciful - this desire, however, does not correspond to an equally desired grant of forgiveness towards others. The search for forgiveness and the rigidity in granting it certainly constitutes a paradox in the life of many men and women who live the faith..

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As a confessor, I must admit that the most painful reality consists in taking note of how the lack of forgiveness is hardly perceived as a sin to confess, and sometimes it is not even understood as condition not which conforms to the image of Christ [cf. 1PT 2,23]. Every day reciting the prayer of the Our Father, we are faced with a clause of ascetic perfection that asks God to remit our shortcomings, to the extent that we make ourselves bearers of forgiveness towards those who have offended us. So let's try to be careful about what we ask in prayer, in fact, God takes seriously these words which are not of man but of Christ, this is what the version of the Our Father in the Gospel of St. Matthew that says so teaches us: "Forgive us our debts, as we also remit them to our debtors " [cf. Mt 6,12], that of the Gospel of Saint Luke instead: "Forgive us our sins, in fact we too forgive all our debtors " [cf. Lk 11,4]. The differences are minimal, but the substance does not change: the Christian is recognized by how he forgives, that is, by the way in which he exercises his own justice not according to the logic of the world but according to the logic of the Gospel [cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church n. 2838; Compendium n. 594].

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The Our Father has always been a problematic prayer - this was the case for Sant’Agostino - but this problematic nature is not synonymous with the impossibility of achieving what he asks, if anything, of resistance to grace, that is, an indication of a sick human heart.

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There are so many people who say: "I don't forgive" or "I forgive but I don't forget". They are sentences extrapolated from their context and from the emotional charge with which they are pronounced, but which really contain a profound truth. And with this reflection of mine I want to try to answer precisely these two objections.

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I. DIO FORGIVES, NOT ME: A GOAL THAT EXCEEDS L'MAN.

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That man was a disaster in forgiving the Blessed Apostle Peter understood this well [cf. Mt 18,21-22], when turning to Jesus he asks how many times it is lawful to forgive one's offender. Peter questions Jesus about the legitimacy of a moral act foreseen by the law, but the master responds by overturning the figure of Lamec's revenge in the positive [cf. GN 4,23-24]: “I don't tell you up to seven times, but seventy times seven ". With this unsettling answer, Jesus - bearing in mind all the symbolic value of the numbers seven and seventy - wants to make Peter understand that forgiveness is not a moral act that touches on legal obligation but on grace. The next parable of the merciless servant, illustrates very well the overrun problem and the correct hermeneutics of the thought of Jesus expressed to Peter [cf. Mt 18,23-35].

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Forgiveness taught by Christ to the disciples reaches its summit on Calvary and lives on the mystique of the encounter with the Father, author of grace and therefore of pardon [cf. LC 23,34]. Forgiveness means returning to God, allow him to make us new. The holy King David, aware of this need for conversion and renewal in the spirit that directs towards forgiveness, in the Miserere he becomes the bearer of a precise request «Create in me, hate, a pure heart renews a steadfast spirit in me " [cf. Shall 51,12].

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The use of conversion, necessary to be docile to grace and to soften the heart, it allows us to be forgiven and to forgive in turn. He who forgives, indeed, he is pardoned and is aware of having to live in a perennial desire for conversion. A generous will with a Pelagian flavor is not enough to fully implement forgiveness. Daily experience teaches that, in most cases, I can try to isolate the offender and the offender, perhaps even groped to forget, but that still does not mean forgiving.

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I usually say to penitents that to forgive is to have, towards those who have offended us, the same gaze that God the Father has towards us when we kneel before the priest confessor. It means having the authentic experience of Luke's Merciful Father [cf. LC 15,11-32], who grants forgiveness, seen almost as impossible by the younger son, without dwelling on the reasons for the return and without the constraint of a stable return to the paternal home. This is precisely the correct way to exercise Christian forgiveness, so much so as to strengthen the credibility of our faith and of the proposal that Jesus makes to every disciple [cf. (C). Theobald, Christianity as a style. A way of doing theology in postmodernity, I-II, Bologna, EDB, 2009]. I can only share, at this point, the excellent thought of Alessio Rocchi, when it states that:

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“Having a guts of mercy does not mean being spineless, but rather have an extra strength (or of grace, ed). In this sense, forgiveness is redemption, not negation or reduction of evil but his own revision. It is no miracle, no effortless action performed by a mighty magician or an almighty god, but a severe test of earthly existence, through looks that (King)they fit into a relationship, by words that (King)integrate into a story " [cf. A. Rocchi, The time of forgiveness, Aporias of forgiveness between philosophy and theology, p. 97, Just - Studies and research, 2015].

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Precisely because forgiveness is a redemptive moment which leads back to an intimate and new relationship, it is a theological place where it is possible to experience the newness promised by God through the mouth of the prophet Isaiah [cf. Is 43,19]; that is to see the birth of a road in the desert in which it is possible to follow new situations, and in which man can move in full communion with the Father without the fear of feeling vulnerable or naked [cf. GN 3,11].

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Forgiveness means building new ways, therefore the relationship that is created between the offender and the offender has nothing to do with the relationship preceding the wrong, but it is a transfigured relationship in which God reveals himself. By studying the dynamics of forgiveness to which God invites man, we are thus led back to the reflection on the eschatological dynamics of life beyond life.

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In my ministry as a hospital chaplain it is common practice to assist the dying and their families. The most painful knot that the dying patient has to cut before the definitive leave is that of granting forgiveness or accepting forgiveness. A similar test must also be faced by the patient's family. Leaving aside here, the reasons and causes for the debts to be forgiven before death, it is necessary to dwell on the need that the dying person has to die reconciled. Reconciled with God and therefore reconciled with the brothers he has offended or who have been a cause of suffering for him.

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The episode of the Good Thief dictates our in-depth analysis. The Gospels testify how Jesus was crucified between two thieves [cf. MC 15,27]: we know how the Greek term λήστοι [history] identify a political criminal - today we will say a terrorist - rather than a thief or a general criminal. The situation that arises on Calvary in the eyes of the Romans is clear: the execution of two political prisoners together with Jesus seen as a troublemaker and subversion of the people of Israel. But here we are in the midst of agony, one of these enemies of Rome, now nearing the end, he turns to Jesus and - recognizing him as the Lord and at the same time in need of conversion and reconciliation for a life of crime, hatred and grudges - he exclaims: "Jesus, remember me when you enter your kingdom " [cf. LC 23,42].

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These words that allow us to understand how

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«Forgiveness is - once again - both requested and offered. To read and reread them they sound like three graces. Thank you, of I ask thank you, I ask your forgiveness because my life hasn't been that great. Thank you, of I do thank you, I forgive you for your impotence, for your not coming down from the cross, for your don't let me go down with you. I thank you and accept you for who you are, putting aside my disappointment with you. I grant you the grace not to ask you for a miracle, not to swear - and I would have many reasons - about mine and your fate. This crucified evildoer asks to be forgiven through the question of a memory, it seems forgive through the recognition of one's punishment, decide to to forgive silencing their legitimate curses and silencing the miraculous claims of the condemned comrade " [cf. A. Rocchi, The time of forgiveness, Aporias of forgiveness between philosophy and theology, p. 95, Just - Studies and research, 2015].

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The dialogue of the repentant thief with Jesus it is placed on the horizon of life that never sets, of a very clear eschatological hope, we all need. The desire that this condemned man has to live is very evident, and it is equally evident in him the awareness that dying without asking and granting forgiveness, it affects the future life with the aggravating circumstance of the conclusion of an earthly life in an unnecessary tragedy. The only hope not to die eternally - in oblivion, among the ghosts of a personal story that speaks of violence, destruction and hatred - is the blessing that comes with forgiveness. Although death poses as a lady - as the singer-songwriter Branduardi recalls in one of his famous ballads [cf. video WHO] - forgiveness before farewell wins over death, and it can already be a deposit of eternity, redemption of a ruined existence, guarantee of healing towards oneself and towards others. Moreover, it would be paradoxical for the Christian to begin his new life in Paradise with various slopes following it. A full life [cf. GV 10,10] it is synonymous with a fully reconciled life, a half-life is on the contrary the expression of a slowdown that deprives us of communion with God and with our brothers, a friction that will have to be recomposed or atoned in some other way.

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(II). GOOD MEMORY TO FORGIVE

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We are sincere, after receiving an offense it's hard to put a stone on it. Many would like to put a stone on the offender, but this is not civilly and Christianly acceptable. Then there are people who invite us to forget and pretend nothing has happened. They end up being inopportune comforters like the three friends of wise Job [cf. Gb 3,ss], and they do us no good service. For this reason - as mentioned earlier - we need God's grace along with a constant and explicit prayer request, so that the Lord heals our wound and gives us the time necessary to be converted to forgiveness. But achieving forgiveness includes the ability to have a good memory, in fact, completely forgetting the offense - an unlikely option - would deprive us of the possibility of granting forgiveness and therefore of achieving peace and that blessing which is a guarantee for a new beginning of life.

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Let's start with a trivial finding: because we feel resentment and fail to forgive? Simply because we internally relive the evil that has been done to us, mulling it over in our hearts. The memory of the offense caused - in this case - no longer works to reach a resolution but works to reiterate the offense, which over time becomes chronic and remains calcified as an obsession in our soul.

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One of the symptoms of those who do not experience forgiveness it is the feeling of having a weight in the heart, and that feeling often carries on for years. The philosopher Paul Ricoeur said:

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"Authentic forgiveness does not imply the oblivion of the events themselves, but a different way of signifying a debt […] which paralyzes the memory and consequently the ability to recreate ourselves in a new future " [cf. R. Kearney M. Dooley, Issues of ethics: contemporary debates in philosophers, Armando Publishers, 2005, p. 40; to complete the thought cf. also P. Ricoeur, To remember, forget, to forgive. The enigma of the past, The Mill, Bologna 2004].

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This fixation of memory on the offense it is deleterious, when memory needs to concentrate on the offense it is only to initiate a liberation process that you condone, piece by piece, the wrong suffered.

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Sometimes, to overcome the obsession together with the anxiety of forgiveness not granted, there is a tendency to replace resentment with indifference, but this is a false remedy. The medicine of "the eye does not see, heart doesn't hurt ", not only is it not Christian but it becomes a subtle and terrible way to lead the brother to death by exiling him from his own existence.

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The set of processes just described they help us understand the sentence as a whole: "I can't forgive!». Really the person is unable to forgive, because this offense has hardened, sclerotizzata, traditional medicines are no longer enough but surgery is urgent. The urgent intervention consists in associating memory with the presence of God. A word that recurs a lot in the Old Testament is "remember", the verb that connects directly to people's memory, of things and events. But for the biblical hagiographer, remembering translates into memorial. Simply said, the memorial is remembering together with God.

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Remember those situations and of those events in which God revealed himself - and still reveals himself - in his power, enough to work wonders for the benefit of man. The memorial is therefore more than just a memory, it is remembering through faith, restore a well-defined theological identity, who sees in God the redeemer and in man a creature to be redeemed and redeemed.

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To forgive as a Christian I have to memorialize, that is, remembering together with God, see clearly the offenses and wounds, so that a providential gaze is formed within which the Spirit of God - living memory of the Church [cf. GV 15,26] - work so that every offense and wound is translated into an occasion for praise. As a memorial, I see the person who hurt me, the positives, the good intentions realized, the shipwrecked good intentions, the inevitable contradictions and inconsistencies. I can see in the offender no longer an enemy to fight but a person in need of help because he too is wounded and thirsty for redemption. In the memorial I also perceive my responsibilities well, I take the awareness that perhaps I have facilitated certain behaviors in the other and reduce the tendency to see myself as a scapegoat.

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The memorial is an examination of conscience with which, as for Abraham, God allows me to become an intercessor towards those who have made themselves hostile [cf. GN 18,20-32], without closing one's eyes to the evil inflicted and received and with the tendency to make God's merciful justice triumph.

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IF THE DEMON who dared GROPED EVEN CHRIST THE LORD CAN take ambition AND THE VANITY, IT CAN DO WITH US WHAT IT WANTS

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If the devil manages to catch us in the weak point of ambition and vanity, he can do with us what he wants and get what he has wanted since the dawn of time.: to prostrate ourselves before him and worshiping him call him Lord, if anything, after saying, before the evil that sometimes seems almost suffocate the Church itself: "... but who am I doing this to me against the powerful and domineering acolytes of the Devil? What good is getting life bitter, when to live in peace, within the Church today, I just do not see, Not to mention, and above all make your business more rigor and its?».

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Jericho, Mount of the Quarantine or the Mount of Temptation of Christ

In the Gospel passage This Iª Sunday of Lent [see text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO] we are faced with a paradox: really it happened that the devil has tempted God Incarnate, the Word was made flesh? It may be that the devil attempted to play God in his humanity, pretending to be unaware of what Jesus was divine in his humanity and his divinity in human?

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The blinded by pride and megalomania always start overestimating the most of themselves and underestimating others, why they are doomed to defeat. It may be that they do not fall in the near, but inevitably fall at the first change of season, with the wilting of wildflowers.

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In the Gospel of the temptations, one would think that the Devil overestimate himself and underestimate God. In the early centuries of the Church, with the reason we were able to grasp and define the revealed mystery of the Person of Christ: two natures in one person, the human and the divine. Thanks to the minds and the wisdom of the heart of the great Fathers of the Church in the first eight centuries of the history of Christianity he came to define the mystery of the Person of Christ, which first called for the establishment of appropriate terminology, taken through entries drawn from philosophy and greek lexicon, modulated and applied to our first great theological speculation: before being able to perceive and then to define what was meant primarily, with the words "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God ..." [GV 1,1]. Introduced by the intellect of the mystery of Christ, true God and true man, the reason must give way to faith [CF. S.S. John Paul II, Encyclical Faith and Reason], because the problem is no longer either the lexical or philosophical. When you open the portal of faith that goes beyond the human logic, the reason must give way to other categories, for example the gift of perception laid in every man by the gifts of grace of the Holy Spirit. With human reason we have to read the lines of this Gospel, with faith, fruit of our freedom blessed by the grace of God, we must penetrate, because word after word we first introduced and then taken to feel as real and was the perfect human nature of Jesus.

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Part of this ineffable mystery It is also enclosed in another reality: As in Jesus - true God and true Man - divine perfection could coexist with human frailty; because it is quite clear that the Devil does not attempt the Christ of God, but the Jesus-Man, trying to hit the fragility of his perfect humanity. The devil tries to corrupt the divine perfection of humanity as it used bribed our originally created mankind as perfect by God.

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Then the devil aimed at those tender and human frailties Jesus himself will show one by one during its entire existence, during which weeps [cf. GV 11, 35] and deeply moved [cf. GV 11, 33], It is emotionally troubled [cf. Gv11, 33], She suffers and feels scared to death: "Dad, if you want, away this cup from me. Nevertheless not my, but your will» [LC 22, 41-42]. Jesus chose to remain silent when questioned authority [cf. Mt 27, 12] and while he is accused, instead replicate starts writing with his finger on the ground [cf. GV 8,6], so to say the least provocative. He rebels repeatedly injustice perpetrated in the name of God by the religious rulers of the time and does so even with harsh words, at times deliberately offensive, for example calling "brood of vipers" zealously religious observant [cf. Mt 12, 34], devoted more to the tradition that the Word of God; and the apostrophe repeatedly "hypocrites" [Mt 23, 13-29]. I don't pay for this, place in the language of Jesus called "race" or "tribe" of vipers was offensive not only to the individual concerned but also for her entire family tree, It considers it appropriate to add to the burden dose also calling "snakes" [Mt 23, 33], knowing full well that era in Jewish culture - and not only in the Jewish one - the snake was a symbol of evil. It ignites passion and gravely says, and accuses it on Moses sat hypocrites who are not what they preach [Mt 23, 1-3], equates many church zealous era to "whited sepulchres", take care to point out what these tombs are beautiful outside but full of putrid rot inside [cf. Mt 23, 27]. Do not hesitate to get angry and to lead hands, or accuracy ropes [cf. Mt 21, 12-13. MC: 11, 11-15. LC 19, 45-46]. Jesus is filled with pain and perhaps intimate disappointment when he turns to his apostle with a dramatic question: "Down from, with a kiss you betray the Son of Man?» [LC 22, 48]. Regarding the latter two sentences would be the things to which we should pay attention, first of all the question posed as a question which is also found in the original Greek version, just to say than it is a formulation or a random translation: Jesus addressed a question to the traitor listening for an answer, but never come, because in practice the traitors do not respond, because they are inherently evil nature cowards; because the strength from God, the weakness of the Devil. That's why the man of God is intelligent, while the man of the Demon is just smart. And while today we continue to review the episode and the figure of Judas, We do not always say the true dramatic query: As the man Jesus suffered before the betrayal by Judas? Or maybe, even more than the betrayal, for the failure to reply on his part? there, we try to think only those who today, even in the most senior echelons of the Holy Church, They refuse to respond to Christ the Lord who continues to question them through the voice, often deep pain, of devotees believers of Christ Priests and faithful.

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In these deeds, actions and words is enclosed and manifests the humanity of Jesus, who continues to call all of us when necessary, its modern priests, doctors of the law and religious zealous folded into the idolatry of human forms and traditions, with the titles of our legitimate right: race of vipers … hypocrites … snakes … whitewashed sepulchres … Current words yesterday, but perhaps even more so today. Because of this, when the Liturgy of the Word obliges us to preach some of these evangelical passages, we always do it in the past tense, as if the breed of vipers, the hypocrites, the serpents and the whitewashed sepulchres weren't us, but only the members of some religious currents of Judaism of the Jesuit era, now dead and buried in history.

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These words lit with passion, sometimes even pedagogically aggressive, they sum up the historical mystery of concrete humanity and the virile floor gesuano, which if not collected and penetrated will make it impossible to reach perfect communion with the Christ of faith: the incarnate God, dead and risen.

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The man Jesus cannot be changed into a de-virilized holy hybrid with feet off the ground and eyes rolled up to heaven, because that is offensive, rather: this is a blasphemy against his humanity and his divinity. To read this passage on temptations it is therefore necessary to start from the fact of faith that everything really happened, that it is not a parable or an allegory; then focus on concrete historical humanity, physical and palpable of the Divine Word: the man Jesus.

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The first temptation that the devil addresses is the invitation to change stones into bread, to which Jesus replies with a phrase taken from the book of Deuteronomy: «Man shall not live by bread alone» whose continuation is «... but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God» [Dt 8,3]. We are faced with the temptation of the immediate, completely and immediately in a concrete and superficial way, while instead our concreteness is what comes out of the mouth of God, because that alone is a bread of life that bears fruit and eternal nourishment, it cost even to suffer a whole life, given that before eternal bliss human life is only a breath, and in this breath also salvific pain deserves to live [cf. S.S. John Paul II, Saving pain], to thus pay the price of our redemption.

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The second temptation is perhaps the most terrible: "I will give you all this power and the glory of these kingdoms". It is the temptation that encompasses ambition and the desire to dominate others. It is the desire for command, of government understood not as a service to the brothers and members of the People of God, but as power for power's sake leading to the perfect diabolical reversal: using the Church for evil purposes in the lust of being someone, or to "become an important figure through the priesthood" [Homily of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI for the ordination of 15 deacons, Vatican Basilica IV Sunday of Easter, 7 May 2006], better through the episcopate, even better through the cardinalate; instead of serving the Church with love and always seeing in her the palpitating Body of Christ, our mystical bride towards whom we run towards with the passion of the couple in love on their wedding day, as depicted by the Evangelist John through the poetics of his pages.

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If the devil manages to catch us in the weak spot of ambition and with vanity he can do with us what he wants and get what he has longed for since the dawn of time: to prostrate ourselves before him and worshiping him call him Lord, if anything, after saying, before the evil that sometimes seems almost suffocate the Church itself: "... but who am I doing this to me against the powerful and domineering acolytes of the Devil? What good is getting life bitter, when to live in peace, within the Church today, I just do not see, Not to mention, and above all make your business more rigor and its?».

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To address to man Jesus the last desperate temptation Satan becomes theologian, perhaps even an ecumenist, maybe even politically correct progressive, if anything speaking in German and Dutch rather than in Aramaic. Satan begins to speak with biblical mastery as if he had just graduated from a doctorate in sacred theology from our pontifical universities: "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; indeed it is written: “His angels will give order for you, because they keep you”» [LC 4, 9-10].The Devil, as St. Jerome said: «He apes God and wants to create another reality» [The exact phrase then also taken up by St. Augustine is: The devil is the ape of God, the devil is the monkey of God], because he is the master of reversal; also of the reversal of the Word of God used in a deviant way to do evil deeds. The man Jesus, who thank God had never studied in our pontifical universities and who by nature was politically incorrect, he knew the Torah better than the devil, then he replies without hesitation with another Bible quotation: "Thou shalt not test the Lord your God" [Dt 6,16]. And a warning clearly emerges from this sentence: the man Jesus reminds the Devil that he is indeed a true man, but also true God.

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Finally "The devil departed from him..." we read at the end of this page of the Gospel, ending with the sentence: «… to return to the appointed time», that is, to return to us and among us.

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Satan exists today more than yesterday. It is not a symbolic image, it is not — as some theologians of the 1970s defined it, whose theories are sadly still used today to train our future priests — "a mythical and allegorical depiction of man's ancient ancestral fears". Satan exists, it is real and wants to rob us more than ever of our image and likeness to God; he wants to rob us of our amazement and our love in front of God incarnate dead and risen, who in his one person contains the perfect human nature and the perfect divine nature, teaching us to be real men to be real children of God in the way God intended us, created and loved before the beginning of time.

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FROM THE SODOM SPINELLO UP TO RETREAT TO THE ROMAN CURIA, WHILE NO ONE IN THE WORLD IS unreal MAKES STATEMENT THAT LIFE MONASTIC IS DEAD AND THAT THAT REMAINS IS A PARODY: "You call them IF YOU WANT, EMOTIONS "

The preacher Abbot will speak to the Roman Curia about the dreamer Giorgio La Pira and the poet Mario Luzi, as if it was a dream spirituality and theology poetry, as if the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, loudly proclaimed a saint had never written the encyclical Faith and Reason, the base of which there is the thought of a great Benedictine Abbot, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, who did not live the relationship with faith in dreams and poetry, but explaining that faith seeking understanding [faith requires reason] and in need: «I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust» [I think to understand, I understand to believe]. Unfortunately the famous Italian singer Lucio Battisti has been dead for years, otherwise, for the next retreat, perhaps Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi would have proposed the thoughtful lyrics of his famous song Emotions …

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Next the Council of Trent who attempted to curb the drifts of the clergy, Many abbeys poured in disastrous moral conditions. Recently he's talked in an essay dedicated to religious life [cf. WHO]. The state of men's abbeys, towards the end of the fifteenth century it was not unlike that of many female monasteries bleak, especially in those with rich heritages.

The Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, 14th century, erected in the Crete Senesi area

One example among many: in the architecture of many historic abbeys we can observe the standing buildings, detached from the monastery at least a hundred meters. If we ask the monks who continue to live in those abbeys and monasteries - because many of these facilities are no longer abbeys and monasteries, others are not inhabited by monks -, the answers that we shall receive will be varied, and equally disparate will not be the real answer, because often the truth burns, especially it can be really unedifying.

the ancient bachelor pad abbots more or less renaissance

Since we will speak of the frescoes of the cloister Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, erected in the fourteenth century in the countryside of the Crete Senesi, as an example we will take one of these stable detached from the monastery and today referred to as entrance door. Nothing to say that architectural styles change in the course of the centuries, but that function had a detached tower of the abbey and not visible from the abbey, which it is spread over four levels and incorporates a structure that, starting from the ground floor is dominated by two upper levels, all on an area of ​​over one thousand square meters? Do we have to believe that this gift of God architecture was really created only as a gateway to the abbey, or perhaps as a fortress? But a fort that would be if there were solid and high walls, that in that property, however, never existed, so?

So the structure was the residence of some revelers abbots, become such good offices of powerful families or for questions related to specific political arrangements, that being accustomed to lead monastic lifestyle at all, in those places they had their own small courts, They were devoted to hunting, at parties and so on. Then sometimes down in the monastery, necessary to fulfill their offices.

the ancient garçonnière of the more or less Renaissance abbots

The era the late fifteenth century He marked a doctrinal crisis, morality and customs preceded about three centuries earlier by an equally unfortunate epoch, when in the thirteenth century, Pope Eugenius III called for the Fourth Lateran Council that enacted strict rules against the immorality of the clergy and religious. It was in this jolly Renaissance that comes from Vercelli at the rich and powerful Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore a gay character: Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom [1477-1549].

About Sodom, subsequent historiography penned by religious pious attempt to clarify how mischievous connect the nickname by which the famous artist went to art history with those who would be his homosexual tastes. He even tried to resort to a pathetic sophistry arguing that the nickname Sodom It had nothing to do with the practice of sodomy but was linked to an expression that the artist in his local dialect used to say 'his, 'nduma», meaning "to go". Unlike what later tried to say critics pious to save the honor of not Bazzi, but that of the monastic structures that this bugger if contending with each other, the famous painter and architect Giorgio Vasari from Arezzo [1511-1574], who was his contemporary and connoisseur of his deeds, states that the source of such a nickname derived from his own homosexuality. The precise than that of Vasari Sodom It was also a hidden homosexuality at all, quite the opposite: He was performed in ostentatious and brazen way.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma: Christ bound to the column for the scourging

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom he married in his youth, but very soon he separated from his wife. Who knows if even in this regard some pious art critic - convinced that no one knows canon law and the discipline of the sacraments -, It can say that this separation was due to pure temperamental incompatibility. As if the end of the fifteenth separation from his wife and cut and run what would be more obvious could happen?

The Gay search for beauty which in this artist transcends nell'omoerotico, It is a feature of the painting Sodom, suffice to analyze the really striking figure of Christ tied to the column located in a corner of the central cloister Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore before the internal entrance door to the Abbey cathedral. Picture this sufficient to assess whether Christ bound to the column can look so sexy boy by winking. But for divine charity, you look carefully air and shameless position of the Christ at the Column portrait Sodom: there may remember certain images of the famous film Midnight Cowboy, with the then young Jon Voight in the provincial role Texan who arrived in New York full of dreams he ends up leaning against a street pole to hustle?

the historic poster of the famous film The Man on the Sidewalk, with the young Jon Voight leaning against the pole in the role of the hustler

Sodom, in that place of apparent quiet, as well as even more apparent religiosity, Perhaps the sign left him not only in the frescoes, but also in the air, and through the centuries! Indeed, the beautiful nature that surrounds equally stunning that abbey with all the architectural and artistic works of art, including homoerotic paintings, suppliscono for centuries the poor lack of religiosity; this thing that I do not say, because to prove it is the story. It would be enough just ask yourself this question: from the 1313 to date, how many monks of the Benedictine Congregation Olivetan that in the following seven hundred years of life we ​​have been beatified and canonized? Note that this Congregation, albeit reached between the end of the fifteenth and the end of the seventeenth century to count up to 1200 Monks distributed in several tens of Italian monasteries, seven centuries of existence has given the Church a unique blessed, its founder Maria Bernardo Tolomei [Siena 1272 — †Siena 1348], beatified three centuries after his death. Then, elapsed 661 year old, Blessed Bernardo Tolomei Maria was eventually canonized 20 August 2009.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said

Concerning the canonization of Maria Bernardo Tolomei would be interesting to see how the distinguished biographer Belgian Benedictine Dom Réginald Grégoire [1935 — †2013], postulator of the cause, has finally retrieved documents to carry on this historical cause at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, if it considers that for centuries has been complained precisely the impossibility of proceeding with a process of canonization for the lack of necessary historical documentation, which it seems to have finally compensated for the hagiography (!?). However, since this congregation with a rich heritage and being counted among the great Tuscan companies that possess the largest land plots, it may be that he had the means to finally find the historiography which for centuries did not exist?

particularly large fresco

Di Maria Bernardo Tolomei There were perhaps handed memorable sermons and wonderful spiritual lessons to its monks or as many of his lyrics lofty theological stature? To be honest, the collection of his letters [cf. WHO] more than the spiritual have the flavor of the writings of an administrator who organizes, directs, issuing directives and requires a papal legates and bishops concessions and privileges to their monasteries. As for the texts on his life, from one of the oldest [cf. WHO], they are an obvious jumble of ordinary gold legends with whom they were infiorettate the middle of the seventeenth century the lives of Saints or the candidates for canonization, all through precise and repetitive styles, thanks to writers who often gathered together episodes, visions and tests virtue that emerged as such in the lives of dozens of other saints or candidates for canonization. And even working in hagiography hagiography but apografia in apografia, the distinguished Belgian Benedictine biographer has finally changed over the centuries in a stratified apografie Position on life, virtues and reputation of holiness. So today, narrate the holy deeds of Bernardo Maria Tolomei, of which there are no written and original works but only posthumous biographies, It is like telling the struggle of St George and the dragon, canonizing finally biographers and hagiographers. That said it is good to clarify, to those to whom it was not clear if necessary, that the speeches have just made they do not rely on more or less stringent opinions or even ungenerous, but strictly on scientific data and not easy to disprove.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma

By way of historical inquiry, we want to check how many blesseds and saints were instead donated, including also some Doctors of the Church, from other religious congregations, in a life span far below the Congregation of Benedictine monks Olivetani? Can a monastic congregation not donate to the Church and Blessed Saints in seven hundred years? Yup, it's possible, As a gay character like Giovanni Antonio Bazzi said Sodom He does not just leave their mark only of ancient frescoes, but also in the air that permeates the walls, from the entrance building that was the bachelor pad connoisseurs of Renaissance abbots until the stable monastic populated by several other monks no less revelers. If the saying is true that "the barrel the wine that ', shortages blessed, santi, mystical and spiritual fathers, however, it was compensated with other talents, from that of Dom Francis Ringhieri [1721-1787], devoted to theatrical works in the Baroque era and defined by critics as "More heretical than any other tragedy friar in that century" [can be consulted WHO, WHO, WHO].

Speaking on asset plan: no Abbot of Monte Oliveto Maggiore has never had problems accommodating between those rich spiritual walls of an aesthetic but often empty Anima Christi, a large army of children of Sodom roughly similar to the poor sensual and winking Christ tied to the column. But when the abbot Dom Maurizio Maria Outlines [1986-1992], previously already economer general of the congregation, nell'avallo he was involved in financial transactions which led to the loss of several billion old lire, the children of Sodom They did not hesitate to remove him, because you can defer the morale of flickering monks tied to the column, but on the money deposited with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena can not however compromise. Everything although a Abate remain in office until 75 years of age, though re-elected by the general chapter every six years. A document everything is cronotassi of the abbots of the twentieth century, that until 1970 They remained in office for life, only from the successor of Dom Romualdo Maria Zilianti [1928-1946], with his successor Dom Angelo Maria Sabatini [1970-1986] takes over the practice of giving up the chair at the abbey they are 75 years of age.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma, between the sacred, profane and scenes of Bacchanalian … to the right are depicted the family Abbot era

If today we can call ourselves Christians we owe it to the children of St. Benedict of Norcia through monasticism have first saved, then spread Christianity in the West. The same lemma Europe, of which St. Benedict is the patron, It was born as an idea and concept in the great Benedictine abbeys circuit, because they were the sons of St. Benedict in creating Europe. And if today we can read and study Greek philosophy, Latin classical literature or know the works of the great Fathers of the Church, if we have so many secular works from the contents anything but Christians, Gaius Valerius Catullus, including, we owe it to the Benedictine monks, born children of St. Benedict, and then it is reduced centuries after the children of Sodom.

To those who have always nurtured great veneration historical and theological towards the Benedictine Order, heart-wrenching to see today reduced monasticism in a similar decline. Unfortunately in this world in which even the most scandalous news today are born to die tomorrow and make room for other scandals, I fear that few have realized that to Montecassino, mother of all Western abbeys, gangrenous a homosexual in their unbridled vices has decreed the death of monasticism; and today, what's left, It is an empty shell, fact of historical abbeys - those that today have survived - rich in works of art and beautiful scenery,, but empty of the substance of the faith and of that glorious monasticism from the sixth century faith saved her and then spread. In short: attention to be seduced by the historical frames of the beautiful and the aesthetic that, however, conceals the emptiness of the spirit and of the Christian virtues, because the Devil, in addition to having extraordinary aesthetic sense, wonderfully sung in Gregorian chant and “celebrates pontifical abbey” with great stylish exterior, He is having trained at the monastic life by jumping from a “another particular friendship”. And today, all the “special friends” of yesterday, are abbots in the various abbeys, not to mention the monks that “special friendships” they sealed them with their vow in the monastic chapters and in the general chapter, ie how much it would be enough to pray God's mercy throughout their lives so that it can preserve them from Hellfire.

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: self-portrait by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Il Sodoma.

The funeral march on monasticism, after so many scandals in the abbeys and monasteries of Europe has finally played Dom Pietro Vittorelli, 191Th successor of St. Benedict of Norcia, who delighted to lead a life of luxury around Europe, to stay in expensive hotels and pay a high price the company of young gay with Abbey money [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO, etc …]. To this is then also added the use of drugs, for which has had consequent health problems cost the Abbey of Montecassino very high amounts when for a period of time the Abbot took refuge in a Swiss clinic to detox and to try to cure his cocaine addiction. The most tragic thing though is that he was not subjected to canonical penalties and has not been dismissed from the clerical state, so as to be still in the cronotassi Arciabati of Monte Cassino and in the yearbooks of the Italian Episcopal Conference as "Abbot Emeritus Professor ' [cf. WHO] rather than as "destitute".

the homoerotic figures for nothing hidden in painting “sacred” by Giovanni Bazzi known as Sodoma

(C)On the abbot of Montecassino the funeral march of monasticism has only come to an end, because the execution was carried out previously with moral scandals scattered abbeys spread across Europe. Of course, other cases it was able to treat them with confidentiality, from the Abbey of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Finally, the private status territorial prelature, to follow with the Abbey of Grottaferrata, where he was deposed Abbot Dom Emiliano maker, even in that case this happened especially for the nocturnal comings and goings of the inevitable paid young men who went to amuse some vicious monks, so much so that the Holy See - a rare thing indeed - proceeded to declare invalid certain priestly ordinations of young monks. We could follow with the St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum, academic structure of the Benedictine Confederation, to which Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski several times, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education [1999-2015], between 2007 and the 2008 intimated that if not cleaned up their internal college from various pleasantries and numerous fact coppiette, the Holy See would have shut him. To limit ourselves only ever scope Roman: what happened to the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, where he was elected abbot a former Milanese designer, also very gay, He rose from the fashion world to monasticism and become in a few years monaco, a priest and then abbot aesthetic? but yet, near the Aventine Hill, It is the General Curia of the Cistercian Monks, where a decade ago, at the time of certain facts, He lays the Abbot General Dom Mauro Esteva i Alsina [1933 — †2014], the concern of which was to impart obsessive etiquette lessons to young monks and verify that the dining hall was set with forks and knives positioned at the right distance to the right and left of the plate, or that the bows were made according to the proper angle, as if they had depended survival and the historic honor of the Cistercian Order. May today this man rest in peace in the crypt of the Abbey of Poblet Catalan and may the mercy of God forgive him with a mild purgatory all serious and irreparable damage to him went the entire Cistercian Order during its general mandate carried out between 1995 and the 2010.

particular: efebo winking

To retreat at the Roman Curia this year a member of the Congregation of Olivetan Benedictine Monks was chosen by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi and presented to the Pope, Dom Bernardo Gianni, Abbot of the Abbey of San Miniato al Monte in Florence. If nell'Archicenobio of Monte Oliveto Maggiore stands Sodom, San Miniato the most valuable frescoes are those of Spinello Aretino. The substance, however, remains the same, while ranging from the art of Sodom to that of the Spinel. And this - the Joint -, It would be particularly appreciated dall'Arciabate Montecassino Dom Pietro Vittorelli, that the drug was a great expert and consumer.

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The abbot of the Abbey of San Miniato in Florence He is one who can speak to this world. He speaks to the world language that appeals to the world. Indeed, the spiritual exercises, They will be marked on dreams and poetry: the dream of political Giorgio La Pira and the poetry of Mario Luzi, whose poetry, Christian speaking, it is certainly not that of the writer and

the homoerotic figures for nothing hidden in painting “sacred” by Giovanni Bazzi known as Sodoma

The abbot preacher, son of the noble Order of St. Benedict which we owe the survival of Christianity and the preservation of historical heritage, philosophical and literary, He will speak to the Roman Curia of a dreamer and a poet, as if it was a dream spirituality and theology poetry, as if the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, loudly proclaimed saint, had never written the Encyclical Faith and Reason, the base of which there is the thought of a great Benedictine Abbot, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Sant'Anselmo d'Aosta, who did not live the relationship with faith in dreams and poetry, but explaining that faith seeking understanding [faith requires reason] and in need: «I believe in order to understand, I understand that you can trust» [I think to understand, I understand to believe]. Unfortunately the famous Italian singer Lucio Battisti has been dead for years, otherwise, for the next retreat, perhaps Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi would have proposed the thoughtful lyrics of his famous song Emotions :

particular: ephebus winking that shows the rear

“And close your eyes to stop
something that's inside me
but in your mind it is not
You cannot understand
you call them if you want
emotions " [Mogol-Battisti, 1970]

We know that after the tragedy comes the increasingly grotesque farce precisely that ranges between Sodom and Spinello. All the more reason to pray and to cleanse us during this Holy Lent, in the course of which, the largest of the mortifications, It remains the awareness of not being credible in the world, but instead of being laughed at by the world, especially when the world to please try to speak the language of the world, after having emptied of Christ and of the mystery of the Cross, to fill us with dreams and poems … "you call them if you want emotions".

Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore: Sodom's insistent obsession with depicting the male posterior which “if offer” and in which we read the prophecy about the posthumous decadent monasticism …

One thing is certain: art leaves no sign simply on the walls, especially if certain pictorial images are the most realistic representation of who certain walls inhabits. Obviously, the question as to why seven hundred years of life the monks of the Benedictine Congregation Olivetan have given the Church blessed, santi, mystics, theology, doctors and spirituality fathers, It is a purely rhetorical question, the answer is in fact all contained in homoerotic images that stand in the frescoes realized by Sodom in the cloister; and the cloister is reached after entering the abbey territory passing through the building once used as bachelor pad abbots Renaissance revelers. In Paradise, instead, it comes only after converting, repented and cleansed of sins, no one comes or with Giorgio La Pira dreams, nor with poems by Mario Luzi. Lent begins with the imposition of ashes followed by the admonition "converted and believe in the Gospel", it does not begin with an invitation to believe in dreams and live poems …

 

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From the theatrical mask of the Greek hypocrite to the beam and straw in the eye narrated by the Holy Gospel

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THE MASK THEATER hypocrite GREEK TO BEAM AND THE HOLY GOSPEL narrated by splinter in

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Unlike Greece, the hypocrite is not the actor who plays a role in the ancient theater, but becomes one who has no heart and sincerity towards God only has a formal relationship and built on mechanical habits. In Jesus', the Pharisees tended to be hypocrites in this sense: they did not really know God, mnemonic simply performed the precepts of rabbinical law without really understand them and without that they could help them live better the faith.

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This Sunday VIIª Ordinary Time we are given a popularized from the Gospel passage of the beam and the splinter in [cf. text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO]. In ancient Greece many men lent themselves in the role of hypocrite [hypocrisies] ie actors, bringing a mask, and pretended they staged a tragedy or a comedy. For the ancient Greeks it was important to talk and tell stories that would help viewers to experience a deep and intimate relationship with their gods. In today's readings the Lord offers us food to have a deep and sincere relationship, a faith that is true and sincere at the same time.

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First we read in Sirach: "The result shows that the tree has grown, so the word reveals the thoughts of the heart " [27, 5]. In this author's proverb, the jew wise Ben Sirach, We want to draw attention to the consistency of words. They arise primarily from the thoughts of the heart: in the heart of Jewish culture is the intimate place of encounter with God. Therefore, if each of us has this experience and intimate personal encounter with the Lord, through prayer, certainly we will have words of joy and hope. We will help others also to have a fruitful and intense encounter with God.

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In this research a basic coherence between thoughts and words, the Lord always helps. St. Paul writes:

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"My dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, progressing more and more in the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord " [1 Color 5,58].

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The apostle calls every Christian the perseverance, to be patient even in times of difficulty and crisis, and then, when you need more stability. The work of the Lord is the continuous victory over death: In this compound, this should be understood today as replicate all fashions deadly as for example drugs, prostitution, promotion of abortion, dell'eutanasia, the “marriage” between couples of the same sex and the opportunity given to them to adopt children … At the same time we are also called to win with the Lord their dead, that fears, wounds and existential dramas. Indeed, lin consistency and perseverance, They have these beautiful fruits in all of us.

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In this journey, in the footsteps of the Lord it is very strong and clear: Jesus, Luke's Gospel in the thunders: "Hypocritical! First remove the beam from your eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye " [Luca 6,42b]. Who, unlike Greece, the hypocrite is not the actor who plays a role in the ancient theater, but becomes one who has no heart and sincerity towards God only has a formal relationship and built on mechanical habits. In Jesus', the Pharisees tended to be hypocrites in this sense: they did not really know God, mnemonic simply performed the precepts of rabbinical law without really understand them and without that they could help them live better the faith. So, in the journey of faith and fight to the death, God banishes hypocrisy. At the same time, God asks us a continuous exercise of humility, get in more open discussion to stress that he himself presents us, especially in the concrete circumstances in life. When will we know to be humble, we will be a little’ come humus, ready to be fertilized and produce fruit according to the word of God. Only then we will be ready to fraternal correction.

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"No man is an island, complete in itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the whole '.

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Each of us will live that whole like a big brotherhood, ready to be all brothers in baptism. So also able to accept the correction that can annoy. Then it will be the end of the pride and the beginning of the indwelling of the whole Trinity in our hearts, ithe Lord will make us strong and persevering to exit from the island of our selfishness, looking very different islands, including not least the Isle of Patmos, greek archipelago, island also known as The site of the last revelation, in which St. John the Apostle, during his exile, He wrote the great message of hope that is the Apocalypse, which he tells of the woman clothed with the sun and the victory of Christ over evil prince.

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“Be merciful, as your Father is merciful, which is in heaven ", not as pleasing to the world, but as God

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«BE MERCIFUL, MISERICORDIOSO HOW IS YOUR FATHER, WHO IS IN HEAVEN ", HOW NOT LIKE THE WORLD, BUT HOW LIKE A GOD

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For the world is mercy, and what highly merciful grant through euthanasia death to a person seriously ill, or a senior who is simply tired of living, if anything it alone and abandoned. But this is not mercy but terrible abomination, just as it is an abortion, ie kill a poor innocent, after the ultrasound or amniocentesis was found that Down syndrome is suffering the unborn child and therefore is not perfect according to the standards of an increasingly unclean world.

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The passage in Luke this seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time [cf. LC 6,27-38, see text of the liturgy, WHO] It could suggest that there are times when you end up with the fear that not only the Holy Gospel we tend to get what you want in the way you want, because having made a further leap forward, it is reasonable to fear that it is faced with the authentic forgery of God's Word, doing it to say that Christ God has never said. Many would be examples, Let us take just one among many: "Do not judge lest you be judged" [Mt 7, 1]. Let us see how he was often literally falsified this warning, enough to hear certain sermons built on improntanti sociologisms the desire to please the world, Then to hear from certain pulpits rants like this:

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"The Church has finally realized that it could not continue to judge and condemn how long did, but that it was necessary to understand, to understand, receive, be merciful ... ".

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Comments of this kind are authentic blasphemies uttered in the Father's house from where he proclaims the Word of God. Indeed, warning "Do not judge lest you be judged", Christ the Lord probably refers to His apostles and to the Church of the future? Who I am, the subjects and objects of this warning? They are the ones - as explained a little later in this Gospel passage -, who used to watch "the mote in your brother, but you do not notice the plank in your own eye " [Mt 7, 3]. The warning is therefore addressed to the human hypocrites and hypocrisy exercised in its various forms, What this explained by divine magistralità by Christ the Lord in the discourse that follows [cf. Mt 7, 1-29]. As regards instead the Holy Church of Christ, It is aware and is clearly indicating what is right and wrong thing, what is lawful and what is unlawful, what is holy and what's evil, it is a duty and an obligation to which the Church can not and must not shirk. Or to put it with the Word of God: the church, unless otherwise betraying its mission, has an obligation to tell and teach how the believers of Christ should enter "through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat " [Mt 7, 13]. The Church therefore cannot fail to judge and condemn evil in a severe way where necessary, place that sin is not a different way of understanding and living the life, but the negation of the gift of life in Christ and the consequent and probable chance of being eternally damned.

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The Church can not derogate from that obligation that it comes from its divine Founder who wanted it as a means and instrument of salvation, or as will be defined by Vatican II and then by the Catechism: "The Church, the universal sacrament of salvation" [Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 774]. And here it is well noted that the concept of universality, together with the totality implies exclusivity. God has never contemplated the many instruments of salvation, as he never contemplated the many different churches or religions, His Church is one and only one, the one entrusted to Peter and to the College of the Apostles, all within a criterion of uniqueness that does not contemplate the multiplicity. It is different to the speech related ordinary means of salvation, that the Church of Christ and the sacraments of grace of which it is a dispenser, ed i extraordinary means of salvation, which are enclosed in the mystery of God's heart that in more ways than one, through the most disparate means so-called overtime, It can lead single men to salvation. Means overtime that they belong only to God, and of which no man can avail, for example by claiming that Christ's Church is just one of many means is means of salvation. No, the Church and the sacraments of grace of which it is a dispenser is not just another media, but the only way that Christ the Lord has given to man and mankind to be redeemed through the blood of his cross.

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The phrase on which structure the pace of Luke's Gospel: “Be merciful, as your Father is merciful, which is in heaven ", harmonizes with another Old Testament phrase that warns us and calls us to be "holy because I, the Lord your God, I'm Holy " [Lv 19, 2]. The assumption is therefore the sanctity of mercy, no worldliness. It was not compassionate or charitable when you love the world, but just when you do not like the world. The Holy Gospel and the apostolic letters teach us that in fact the measure by which we can measure our true love and our true mercy, is when we are not at all welcome the children of this world:

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

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And for our world charity and love means allowing two men to be able to crown their own “dream” with a wedding and then buy a baby from a surrogate mother, while the exact opposite, for charity and for the love that makes us worthy sons of our Father who is in Heaven, those who perform such monstrosities and thereby compromise the life of these innocent creatures, perhaps "it would be better for him to have hung a millstone around his neck, and to be drowned in the depths of the sea " [Mt 18, 6].

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For the world is mercy, and what highly charitable grant through euthanasia death to a person seriously ill, or a senior who is simply tired of living, if anything it alone and abandoned. But this is not mercy but terrible abomination, just as it is an abortion, ie kill a poor innocent, after the ultrasound or amniocentesis was found that Down syndrome is suffering the unborn child and therefore is not perfect according to the standards of an increasingly unclean world.

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Think about how many things the world does and continues to do in the name of a concept of mercy now completely subverted by the great reverser of good and evil, from the one who turns evil into good and good into evil, that Satan. Think about it well: the modern era comes to life under the stage of guillotines where the cry for freedom, equality and fraternity, people were being fed to the Executioner without trial, or of the summary trials which were farces, or because of jealousy and envy denounced social. but yet, freedom, It is a high Christian principle, instead it is a precondition for the creation of man, which it was created by God's free and endowed with free [Genesis, capp. 2-3]. Not to mention equality and fraternity, whose natural home is located within the Gospel message where these truths are explained and communicated much better than they have been circulated by Robespierre during the regime of terror at the sound of decapitated heads in the name of equality and emptied a fraternity of Christ and filled with neo-paganism.

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Even the world with his fearsome Principe, long has appropriated words that are fundamental terms the Christian message, before emptying them of their meaning and turning then into another. Even more so, Today more than ever, We have to understand first of all that what true mercy, after being "merciful, as your Father is merciful, which is in heaven ", not as the children of the Principe of this world.

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The priest excommunicated Alessandro Minutella is not in communion with Pope Benedict XVI who made free act of renunciation but it is a subject that confuses the people of God already too lost and confused

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THE EXCOMMUNICATED PRIEST ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA IS NOT IN COMMUNION WITH BENEDICT XVI WHO HAS DONE FREE ACT OF RENUNCIATION BUT IS A SUBJECT THAT CONFUSES THE PEOPLE OF GOD ALREADY LOST LOST AND CONFUSED

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To the many readers who come to us They inquire about this priest excommunicated it is our priestly duty to answer that anyone who participates in his sacred celebrations and receives the sacraments from him falls into a state of mortal sin, and must seek absolution to the confessor, after having acknowledged his guilt and doing way not to repeat the same sin. But most of all, beyond lies of this heretic, schismatic, know that the first to pay tribute "unconditional obedience" to his successor was Benedict XVI himself.

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Many Readers they ask for information on Alessandro Minutella, Palermo, a priest who barks on social network on the illegitimacy of the Supreme Pontiff Francis, which recognizes only the title of Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Buenos Aires, but mostly he is turning to the sacred person of the Holiness of Our Lord unacceptable insults. At this priest, after repeated and unnecessary calls the Ecclesiastical Authority has imposed excommunication, although it would be more correct to say that he simply notified that following his heretical and schismatic positions, and its refusal to correct, he is automatically incurred the so-called excommunication automatic.

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Although until now the Reverend Alexander Minutella he was not dismissed from the clerical state, after being suspended before peep, then later incurred excommunication, It can not legitimately exercise the sacred ministry. They know therefore that the faithful the sacred celebrations he officiated and the sacraments administered by him are valid but illicit and that no faithful Catholic can and must take part.

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Faced with many requests arrived to our editorial staff, especially after recently this subject has much more exasperated his aggressive tone, it is our priestly duty to inform the large public of Readers who follow us that anyone who participates in sacred celebrations and receives the Sacraments from this excommunicated priest, It falls in a state of mortal sin, and must seek absolution to the confessor, after having acknowledged his guilt and doing way not to repeat the same sin.

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We must clarify that as every priest excommunicated him do not cease to be a priest, because no one can revoke the Sacrament of Orders. And as a heretic and schismatic priest will always remain, without being able to exercise any ministry until it will be publicly repented and reinstated by the Ecclesiastical Authority in the exercise of the sacred ministry.

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The Sacrament of Orders fits those who receive it in sacrament ontologically transforming been supernaturally in his very being constituting "sacred minister" and describing it to act in person Christi [can. 1009 §3], then inserting it into the so-called clerical state from which it derives a legal condition resulting sacred ordination; condition that leads to the cleric rights and obligations established and dictated Ordinamento ecclesiastical. And since what the Order is a sacrament that imprints a character "permanent and eternal", it follows that no one can be deprived of the order power [can. 1338 §2]. The clerical state is a consequence of the Sacrament of Orders, although the two elements - the Sacramento and the clerical state that results - are distinct, even though between them are connected. A cleric can indeed decay from the clerical state, or be deprived of the clerical state, but it will never decay from sacred and to be deprived of Holy Orders, because the sacrament he has received is indeed “indelible and eternal”.

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Ecclesiastical law split up into three cases in which the cleric can lose the clerical state: the nullity of sacred ordination declared by the sentence or administrative decree [can. 290 n. 1]; discharge legitimately be required due to a crime that provides for a specific sanction [can. 290 n. 2]; rescript of the Apostolic See in which relief is granted to the priest for the gravest reasons [can. 290 n. 3]. In some cases, the maximum penalty for the cleric is dismissal from the clerical state [can. 1336 §1 n. 5], before which we must point out that it will never involve the deprivation of the power of order, because this power is closely related to the sacramental character, an indelible character.

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of elders Left the Clerical State it's forbidden exercising legitimately and lawfully the power of order [can. 1338 §2], because in forfeiture from the clerical state, besides the loss of rights, of the duties and the state itself, It is inherent in the peremptory prohibition to exercise the power of order [can. 292]. From this it follows that the presbyters discharged from the clerical state for their request or to measure Ecclesiastical Authority, They may not exercise any legitimate authority of sacramental order [can. 1336 § 1, n. 3].

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The priest Alessandro Minutella he has not yet been dismissed from the clerical state, but it was first suspended peep and then excommunicated. The suspension first, excommunication later, fee for the priest suspended from his duties and especially for the priest excommunicated the absolute prohibition of celebrating the Eucharistic Sacrifice and administering the Sacraments. If subjected to this equally exercised the sacred ministry, the celebration of the Holy Mass and the sacraments administered would be valid but illicit, with the result that those who celebrates Mass and those who participate, those who administer the sacraments, and those who receive them, They fall in a state of mortal sin. Unless, by the faithful, does not take over the lack of knowledge or ignorance of the so-called inevitable. Only in one case can an excommunicated priest licitly administer a sacrament - indeed, in this specific case it is required to do so - he can grant absolution to a penitent real case of danger of death [can. 976].

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Visionando his last videos added to this article [see video, WHO], anyone can hear and determine under what terms and with what aggressive charge and insulting this presbyter is the Roman Pontiff, members of the College of Cardinals and members of the College of Bishops, in addition to openly accuse us of cowardice all his confreres priests, guilty in his opinion not to be disobedient to "Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio usurper of the See of Peter" to be obstinate and to celebrate Mass in communion with him [cf. video, minute 19,50 WHO]. Indeed, his wicked say, Mass celebrated in communion with "the usurper Bergoglio", he defined as "false Pontiff", It would not be valid, lacking in it - continues to rant - "the action of sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit", so those who go to Mass one such [N.d.r. celebrated in communion with the reigning Pope] go to Mass with the Devil " [cf. video, minute 5,02 WHO] because "in all that it is in union with Jesus Christ there Bergoglio, there is the Holy Spirit, There Satan " [cf. video, minute 6,38 WHO].

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The figures attached this excommunicated, by the Pope to the bishops, to follow us priests, constitute an ecclesial body of imperfect people, as imperfect sinners, are always those who by the mystery of grace are called to fill certain roles and perform certain functions sacramental. Anyone can argue about the pastoral abilities of the Roman Pontiff, of individual bishops and all priests; anyone can show their flaws and their moral deficiencies for which will then be called to account before the judgment of God, that with all of us pastors in charge of souls will be particularly severe. Anyone, however, call into question the legitimate authority of the Roman Pontiff and the Bishops, seriously and dangerously attentive to that which is the carrier hierarchical structure of the Holy Church of Christ, and commit a serious crime against the Holy Faith.

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From video-catechesis by Alessandro Minutella anthology and serious doctrinal contradictions emerge, theological blunders and inaccuracies of all kinds, starting from a very embarrassing Mariology. As examples would indeed many, This makes it impossible to make a strictly scientific theological discourse to indicate certain absurdities and remove them one by one, because to do so would require a book. So we are only limited to some clear examples, knowing first of all that you are dealing with a Priest who holds two doctorates, as he likes to repeat frequently, while expressing crass ignorance not so much on sacramental theology, but just on the fundamentals of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. And since diversi readers have written to us pointing out that this priest is twice doctor of theology and as such can not say incorrect things like those uttered by members of the so-called "false church" which he condemned, is first of all should be clear that the theological doctorates do not constitute any guarantee of wisdom, place no one receives through a doctoral the gifts of grace of the Holy Spirit that will mark the distinguished doctor with a permanent and eternal character. Indeed, the priestly character, It does not confer with doctorates, but through the consecration of the priest with the sacrament of Holy Orders. If doctorates constituted a guarantee of safe, solid and orthodox doctrine infused with the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, we should not adopt minimal questioning what they said and wrote Hans Küng, Giovanni Franzoni, Leonardo Boff and so to follow. And remember, incidentally, that the first two mentioned, In addition to being titrated pluri, They were respectively all'assise expert and member of Vatican II. The award titled Giovanni Franzoni, at the Council, He played with the equivalent episcopal dignity, Ordinary time being Abbot of St. Paul Outside the Walls, which until a decade ago it was a territorial prelature of ancient City.

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In this moment of confusion many believers have lost, but look for safe driving in a heretic who said that the Holy Mass celebrated in communion with the reigning Pope is invalid, It is to be avoided; and it weighs on us a moral obligation to prevent the faithful from following this ungodly pastor, poisoning and theologically confused, although he offered as a guarantee of being doubly Ph.D..

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Clarify people the figure of this presbyter, all in all it is easier than it seems, just enough that people lend us listen and then they were asked to the person concerned: with whom she is in communion Bishop? Which bishop gave a mandate to exercise the sacred ministry, in addition to the special powers she claims to have received from the Blessed Virgin Mary in person? Or maybe he does not know, or man made wise by a double Ph.D., that none of us can exercise the sacred ministry in communion with himself, because the validity of the Eucharist celebrated by us depends on the validity of the Eucharist celebrated by the Bishop in full communion with the Bishop of Rome? A quel point, the individual concerned, replicate what has long has been saying and how reiterated in the called video here, that means:

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"I celebrate in communion with the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, who is the rightful pope, while the Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a usurper placed on the Chair of Peter by the satanic powers and the international Freemasonry ".

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The doubters and those who believe in what this says, They pose this question: you can ignore that Benedict XVI, before moving to Castel Gandolfo to keep away from the Vatican City during the conclave, He declared "unconditional obedience" to his successor even before the latter was chosen and elected? With that statement, perhaps he said that he would obey the Successor that soon would be elected, regardless of who was? And how can, Such wicked spreading poison among the People of God, ignore that the night after the election, when the newly elected called his predecessor a living, these greets him: "Holiness, even now I promise you my total obedience and my prayer "? Does this not mean that Benedict XVI said before the conclave that he would obey whoever was elected and after their election offered his obedience to his legitimate successor?

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Lately, the columns of this magazine it was written that while all are wondering more or less fanciful issues, advancing hypotheses mostly surreal, none captures the solemn lesson to all of us given by Pope Benedict XVI, which is this: He has moved away from the Vatican before the conclave, already saying before his election his "unconditional obedience" to his successor. Soon after, his successor elected who called him to announce him in person his election, he said: "Holiness, even now I promise you my total obedience and my prayer ". And if the Venerable Pope Benedict XVI, whose ministry, Exceptionally, instead cease with his death ceased with his free act of renunciation, He professed with such faith and all their obedience to His Successor, we, perhaps we should follow his example and do the same? [see section V "There is no other way except obedience to Peter ', WHO]

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The followers This excommunicated they ask themselves: if Benedict XVI was the first to recognize the Successor to the sacred throne, The priest in question is said charge in the "holy battle" by the Blessed Virgin Mary in person, with those who are in communion? Because if he had not understood, the first bishop who pleaded in communion with the reigning Pope Benedict XVI was, who freely made a waiver to the Petrine ministry, reiterating again what freedom was his renunciation, reiterating before the election and after the election his "unconditional obedience" to his successor.

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The followers of this unwise priest out of any theological balance, to wonder and then ask themselves: But this priest furious, with those who are in communion? In whose name speaks? Perhaps as he says speaks "to the authority that Our Lady gives me ' [cf. video, minute 10,50 WHO], then on behalf of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who would tell him to rebel against the Roman Pontiff, "to which she has already declared war" [cf. video, minute 23,00 WHO]? And when the Maria, our revered Mother of the Church, instigates to disobey Peter and the College of the Apostles, asking for that purpose under its protection a devilish priest who says all the time, "Madonna told me", "Our Lady has revealed to me"? Until finally announce that "Our Lady [already] consecrated the Shepherd with the attributes " (!?) [cf. video, minute 30,38 WHO].

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The answer to the questions put by the Fathers of Readers The island of Patmos It is therefore as follows: those who follow this heretic and excommunicated all participants in celebrations, unless it is not aware of its objective status to excommunicate, or unless it is not burdened with authentic inevitable ignorance that prevents him from also exercise the most elementary critical sense, It must be considered in all respects in a state of mortal sin.

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the Island of Patmos, 20 February 2019

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De facto, Reverend Alexander Minutella is not the exorcist but just the demoniac …

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Top The Charlemagne Island of Patmos with a question of Christ the Lord: "Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, Who do you say I am?»

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BACK ON THE ISLAND OF PATMOS CHARLEMAGNE WITH A QUESTION OF CHRIST THE LORD: «SAY ABOUT MEN, CROWDS THAT I AM? AND YOU, WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?»

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The Christian hope is not an imaginative and mind-numbing "Sol of 'Avvenire' nor the 'glorious future' preached by all the dictators of all time. Nor is it a new world forged by the culture of dialogue between fake and hucksters. Nor it is, at last, misericordiante the kingdom prophets of falsehood call, at will and more often inappropriately, the terrible tragedies of history and immutable filth of the world. The Christian Hope instead - as taught by St. Augustine of Hippo - still has only one name and one certainly be announced: Christ!

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the Charlemagne, known as Charles the Great, universally known as Charlemagne, baptized in faith in Christ Jesus in the Holy Mother Catholic Church in the City of Aachen, in a day of many years ago, running at the time the Year of the Lord 742; I, therefore, with a good and legitimate title, write as part of that Mystical and Historical Body which alone belongs to Christ, and of which I consider myself with conviction "of the less honorable members of it" but that for this very humbly believe that, as the Apostle writes, "God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to that which lacked, so that there was no disunity in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another " [The Corinthians 12, 24-25].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The Gospels do not tell us the results of a Gallup poll or an extemporaneous focus group of Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples, first, and the Apostles, then.

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Jesus, on the contrary, challenges men [people, Marco 8, 27 e Matteo 16, 13] and the crowds [the mobs, Luca 9, 18] with the message itself, essential, radical and, not at least, disturbing and dramatic of Logos cristiano.

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He wrote Romano Guardini:

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"Christianity is in fact not a theory of Truth, or interpretation of life. It is also this, but it not in this consists its essential nucleus. This consists of Jesus of Nazareth, from his concrete existence, from his work, by fate, that is, from a historical personality. […] Non l’humanityat O l’Human thus become important case, ma this person. It determines everything else, and the more deeply and universally the more intense the relationship ' [The essence of Christianity, 1984, p. 23].

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The essence of the Christian faith lies, in truth, in response that man both individually and collectively, provides this essential question with which Jesus of Nazareth challenge here, today and always [cf.. Letter to the Hebrews 13, 8] the individual and society.

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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Faith, Hope and Christian Charity have neither their foundation or their first and last name to neutral values ​​of tolerance, cohabitation, solidarity, acceptance and universal harmony of men and peoples.

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The Christian faith is not a changing content, according to fashion and the needs of the time, but one, unchangeable, vital and saving encounter.

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"You have gone, you washed, you come to the altar, you began to see what previously were not able to see. That is, via the source of the Lord and the announcement of his passion, Your eyes are open at that time. You, that before you seemed blinded in the heart, you began to see the light of the sacraments " [Sant'Ambrogio, the Sacraments I, 3,15].

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The Christian Hope, then, is an imaginative and mind-numbing "Sol of 'Avvenire' nor the 'glorious future' preached by all the dictators of all time. Nor is it a new world forged by the culture of dialogue between fake and hucksters. Nor it is, at last, misericordiante the kingdom prophets of falsehood call, at will and more often inappropriately, the terrible tragedies of history and immutable filth of the world. The Christian Hope instead - as taught by St. Augustine of Hippo - still has only one name and one certainly be announced: Christ!

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"And as it has become our hope? Why he was tempted, He suffered and rose again. So it became our hope. In it you can see your toil and your reward: your labor in the passion, your reward in the resurrection. That's how it became our hope. Because we have two lives: one is that we, the other is that we hope. The one where we are known, one in which we hope is unknown […]. With his labors, temptations, and patents, the death, Christ has made you see your life in which you are; with the resurrection did you see life in which you will be. We knew only that the man is born and dies, but we did not know who rises and lives forever. This is why Christ has become our hope in afflictions and temptations, and now we are heading towards hope ' [Enarrationes in Psalmos, 60, IV].

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The Christian Charity, then, It is not a vacuous amalgam of good intentions or the content of an illusory undifferentiated cosmic fraternity and, not even, The fundamental precept of a mundane world order, amoreggiante pleasantly and happily soaked with alleged good works as.

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Yet, once, It is always and only the recognition of Person of Christ, which he founded and rooted in human affairs the only possible and essential Love: "If you do not believe, indeed, non friend. Like this, beginning from the end and going back to the principle, So said the apostle: Pace's Charityat, united to faith. Let us: Faith, charity and peace. Believe, but, rain. In fact, if you believe you do not love, you have not yet diversified your faith from the faith of those who trembled and said,: We know who you are, the Son of God. You, therefore, but; because charity joined to faith itself leads you to peace. What peace? True peace, full peace, real peace, secure peace; where there is no calamity, any enemy. This peace is the goal of every good desire. Caritat united to faith; and six you mean well, say well. Faith coupled with the charity " [St. Augustine, sermons 168, (II), 2, 9].

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Faith, Hope and Charity, so, sun and open only in Christ's humanity and history the only possible horizon of Salvation: "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and you will believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved " [Romans 10, 9].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The question posed by Jesus of Nazareth is not only essential but also radical and, by its very nature, exceedingly divisive. It is neither an open question or a question at multiple choices. On the contrary, demands a 'radical option!

"Christianity says that for the incarnation of God's Son, for his death and his resurrection, for the mystery of faith and grace, in all creation you are asked to renounce his - apparent - autonomy and put themselves under the rule of a specific person, that is, Jesus Christ, and doing what their decisive rule ' [Romano Guardini, In the same place, p. 26].

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The only root and source of Christian proclamation does not lie in an ostentatious piety and in a grotesque and well-publicized jumble of good intentions for Humanity e the human.

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The Person of Christ - yes, let's face it once and for all and healthy intellectual rigor, even before Christian! - it is divisive in its radical truth about God and man!

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"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; who will deny me before men, I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; have not come to bring peace, but a sword. I have come to set a man against his father, daughter against mother, in-law from mother-in-law: and a man's enemies will be those of his household " [Matteo 10, 32-36].

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The original root and the exclusive source of Logos Christian is, indeed, the Word made flesh, and did the same blood for eternal life and for the final resurrection.

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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In the Gospels of Mark and Matthew, the question followed by the story of the loaves, which is directly evoked listeners: "I do not remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments you brought forth?» [Marco 8, 19]; "I do not yet understand? Have you forgotten the five loaves that were enough for the five thousand men and baskets that you gathered?» [Matteo 16, 9].

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In Luke, the account of the same event immediately precedes the question of Jesus: "Then Jesus, I took the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to the sky, li blessed, He broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the crowd. They all ate their fill and their advanced pieces took up twelve baskets " [Luca 9, 16-17].

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In John, at last, there is no explicit demand of Jesus, but the reaction of "many of the disciples" to the announcement that: "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, It has eternal life and I will raise him on the last day. My meat is real food and my blood is drink indeed " [Giovanni 6, 54-55]. «From that moment ', indeed, "Many of the disciples went back, and walked no more with him" [Giovanni 6, 66]. It becomes, pure, an open challenge to the remaining: "Will you well as you leave?» [Giovanni 6, 67].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The answer to this question solves the disturbing drama of every human time, troubled by the Absolute Evil and evil are.

The answer to this question solves the shocking tragedy that in every time and place gush and always will flow from the very limits of human nature, decayed and decaying, always exposed to the lure of intellectual and moral corruption, and perpetually at the mercy "of the murderer from the beginning", "The liar and the father of lies" [Giovanni 8, 44] and the "prince of this world" [Giovanni 14, 30].

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Jesus the Christ puts himself and actually donated in his Body and his Blood poured out - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity - far beyond and above any physical law, the only real food subsistence for man and mankind and the only true drink of liberation and salvation.

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This true and only Nourishment, Jesus invites his disciples to call: "In our daily bread", the bread of us ultra-substantial, "Give us this day", you by us daily.

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'So all we have in Christ […]"- writes Sant’Ambrogio -" and Christ is everything for us. If you want to heal a wound, he is a doctor; if you burn with fever, he is the source; if you are oppressed by, he is justice; if you need help, he is the force; if you fear death, he is life; if you desire heaven, he is the way; if you flee the darkness, he is the light; if you seek food, he is the food " [Virginia, 99].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The question of Jesus is placed, then, in the most dramatic moment of Divine Revelation. AND the question of the true man and Only God that "while were fulfilled the days when it was lifted up, It makes hard his face walking towards Jerusalem " [Luca 9, 51].

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The answer to your question, indeed, become the talk of the high priest the same dramatic and terrible indictment leading to the death sentence and the ruthless execution on the gallows of the Cross: "Are you the Christ, the Son of God? Jesus answered: It's me! Then the high priest, rent his garments, he said: You have heard the blasphemy, what do you think? All they judged him guilty of death '[Marco 14, 61-64].

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In the Mystery of the Passion, Cross and Death of the Person of Christ, (c)he is annihilating "He was God» [Filip Breeding 2, 6] — although it was not but while it is God — indeed, "Body which is annihilated by taking the form of a servant is not already embodied the Christ, but the one who is above the world, found in the form of God " [Hans Urs From Bathasar, Theology the three days, 1969, p. 37].

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"Jesus the Christ", St. Athanasius explained, "has hired, being God, the form of a servant, under this assumption is not so raised, but he lowered. The man, on the contrary, He needed to be raised because of the lowness of the flesh and death. He suffered as a man in his flesh the death for us, to present themselves well to the Father in death on our behalf and lift us up with him at that competes eternity " [.Antioch I, 40-41].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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this question with his answer is the heart of the Gospel, in its dramatic actuality: "The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the Gospel " [Marco 1,15]. AND this question with his answer and the only legitimate exegesis by reading a "mystery that was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit: that is, the Gentiles are called, in Christ Jesus, to participate in the same heritage, to form the same body, and to be partakers of the promise through the gospel " [Ephesians, 3, 5-6]. AND this question with his answer the founding act of the Christian Mystery and also its dramatic distinction: "He who is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me, scatters " [Matteo 12, 30]. AND this question with his reply the only way of salvation can: "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain and you are still in your sins. And even those who have died in Christ have perished. If our hope in Christ for this life only, we are to be pitied more than all men. Now, instead, Christ rose from the dead, firstfruits of those who have died. For as by a man came death, because a man has come also the resurrection of the dead; Just as all die in Adam, so all will receive life in Christ " [The Corinthians 15, 17-22].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The answer to this existential question leaves no way! Here, today and always. The Christian does not believe absurd neither Because it is absurd! The Christian believes responding, "You are the Christ, the Messiah " [Marco 8, 29] because Jesus Christ has met, known and therefore believed in Him and in Him alone can find the infinite and inexhaustible dignity of his to be in ed be-di Christ.

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"Know, the cristiano, your dignity, e, that they share in the divine nature, do not return to your former base condition by sinning. Remember who is your head and of whose body you are a member. Think back that, freed from the power of darkness, you have been brought into the light and the kingdom of God " [St. Leo the Great, The word is 21, 3].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The Christian does not profess a vague theism intellectual, whose divinity is an unknown be supreme or an ethereal transcendent value.

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The Christian "believes firmly and openly admits that there is only one true God, eternal and immense, Almighty, unchangeable, incomprehensible and ineffable, Dad, Son and Holy Spirit: three people, but one essence, substance, that is absolutely simple nature " [Fourth Lateran Council, Catholic Faith, 1].

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The Christian recognizes in him who revealed himself to Israel as "I am who I am!» [Exodus 3, 14], the only true God, that is God of the Fathers and, together, It tightens generations alliance, establishing a "throne of love and fidelity" and is "a people to walk in the light of his countenance" [Salmo 89].

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Professing "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!» [Matteo 16, 16] Christian recognizes "a fundamental truth: "We have a Master. More than a Maestro, a Emmanuele, that is, a God with us; we Jesus Christ! It's impossible, indeed, apart from Him, if we know something for sure, full, of God revealed; or better, if we want to have a living relationship, direct and authentic relationship with God " [Paul VI, General Audience, 18 December 1968].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The Christian does not adhere to an unspecified creationist doctrine that confuses the image and likeness with God the Creator and Father with a universal equality. Professa, instead, that only Son-Logos is the perfect image of the Father and our

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"It's an imperfect resemblance, the one for which the man is said a image and adds our because the man was image of the Trinity; not equal to the Trinity, as the Son of the Father, but accostandosene for a certain resemblance in the way of distant beings are not neighbors for spatial contact, but by imitation. That's what they signified the following words: “Be transformed by the renewal of your spirit“ and to its recipients the Apostle also says: “Be ye therefore followers of God, as beloved children“. It is in fact the new man which is said: “It is renewed in proportion to the knowledge of God, conforming to the image of him that created him "» [St. Augustine, The Trinity, VII, 6.12].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The Christian is not such because it adheres to an unknown and changing code of pious intentions and honest behavior: "We believe the love of God, the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life. Being Christian is not an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, with a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction " [Benedict XVI, Emër, 1].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The Christian does not base his Faith, his hope and his charity on a hypothetical great and universal brotherhood, capable of generating tolerance, truth and peace in an indistinct molasses of religions and cults where it is not a question of abandoning one's faith - as the theorists of the New Universal Religion profess - to be part of this new and universal institution and where one believes without belonging [cf.. Grace Davie, Believing without Belonging, in: Social Compass 37(4), 1990, 455-469].

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The Christian is such precisely because he confesses "You are the Holy One of God" [Giovanni 6, 69] recognizing that we belong intimately and essentially to the very Body of Christ «not only because it made us Christians, but why did he become Christ himself. Which made us God's grace, giving us Christ as Head? Rejoice, gioite, we become Christ. If he is the Head, we are the members: We are a complete man, he and we. […] The fullness of Christ: the head and members. What is the Head, and what are the limbs? Christ and the Church " (St. Augustine, In Evangelium Tractatus, 21, 8].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The answer to this question makes it essential and radical Christian being the disturbing drama, that is, to belong to Christ! That is His Church, of the Church of Christ! And not the Church of someone else!

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Faced with the execrable misdeeds of so many, and too many of his, even the most distinguished and honored sons, the horrendous perjury many and too many of those they claim to serve, the complicit silence and abominable falsehoods many and too many of the acclaimed prophets e Masters New time, those of Christ and the Church still find grace to exclaim in his heart: "What a wonderful mystery! There is only one Father, a single Logos the universe, and also one Holy Spirit, same everywhere; there is also one virgin become mother, and I should like to call the Church " [Clement of Alexandria, The tutor, 1, 6, 42].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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Faith, Hope and Charity, They are for the Christian existential its reply to the Revelation of the Divine Person and the name for which "there is no other name under heaven in which it is established that we can be saved" [Acts 4, 12] and to which - as the Sacrosanct Council Vatican II dogmatically writes - "the obedience of faith is due, with which the man his whole self freely making the full submission of intellect and will, and freely assenting to the revelation that he does " [God's word, 5].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The answer to that question reveals the essential, radical, disturbing and dramatic choice between believing and not believing, between the profess or not profess, between faith in Christ and his betrayal of Christ.

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From it depends, indeed, that διχάζω - split in two, to separate, and disunity - αφορίζω - Muslim, expel, Banish - verbs that are frequently used by Jesus in his daily train men and crowds, especially in the Parables of the Kingdom, to indicate the tragic fate of the demanding, and nothing to good price, answer this question requires.

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Halve, to separate, disunite, to distinguish, expel, ban: verbs the final decision on who refuses to answer the question of Christ.

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Verbs that the Gospels put on the lips of the Bridegroom not expected by the foolish virgins [Matteo 25, 1-13]; Groom of refusing the invitation [Luca 14, 16-24] or that the guests disappoint due to the negligence of clothing [Matteo 22, 1-14]; Man disillusioned by the ability of his servants to make money from its assets [Matteo 25, 14-30] ; the owner of the field who patiently waits for the good wheat grow with the tares, before it is thrown into the fire that devours [Matteo 13, 24-30]; Fisherman in whose network entangled bad fish that will be divided by the good "to be thrown into the fiery furnace, There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth " [Matteo 13, 47-50]; and the Eternal Judge, whose implacable judgment concludes with two separated and separating verdicts: "And they will go, to eternal punishment, and the righteous to eternal life " [Matteo 25, 46].

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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The answer to this question does not raise nor fatuous joy nor un'ammorbante laetitia! The meeting with the Christ of God is always just a Grace dearly! The high price of single sanctifying Truth!

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The answer to this question requires answer to dear price for a grace, as written by the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoefer, "Grace is never a cheap '.

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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Apostasy increasingly widespread grabbing like a pestilential disease the Catholic Church by its hierarchical summit as among an increasing number of his ministers, you forget that you have only been constituted which ones co-workers of the truth and not as Curiously, the Truth this question of God's Son, the Jesus of Nazareth of History and the Gospels demands, Today more than ever, only one answer and unambiguous, without hesitation and vacillation in front of the increasingly tragic "conformed to the mentality of this world" that makes it urgent for the whole Church the need to "renew your mind, in order to discern the will of God, What is good, and acceptable and perfect " [Romans 12, 2]. It deals with, in truth, to face a Grace dearly, which alone, however, It can be liberating and salvific.

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Who do men say, the crowds that I am? And you, who do you say that I am?

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Resound in Rome these days – We hope and pray – prophetic words when Bonhoefer unnecessarily warned his Lutheran Church, but with it the whole of Christendom, the risk of deadly silence this existential, radical, disturbing and dramatic truth of "Christ, Son of the living God " [Matteo 16, 16].

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The entire and true Body of which Christ is the Living Head will only be admonished: without a courageous and decisive answer - at great cost - To the question of Jesus wears the same Logos of our faith, our Hope, our Charity.

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"A people had become Christian, Luterno, but sacrificing the desire to follow Jesus; it had become cheaply. Grace cheap won. But we know that this cheap grace has been extremely merciless towards us? The price we have to pay today with the ruin of the institutional churches is perhaps not the necessary consequence of the grace acquired too cheaply? Preaching and sacraments were granted at a price too low; He is baptized, you cresimava, It gave absolution to all people without asking questions and without putting conditions; Human love for sacred things were dispensed to men scornful and incredulous; They were distributed rivers of grace without end, while the invitation to follow Jesus with commitment was very rarely heard. […] When was the world ever Christianized in a more hideous and fatal way? What are the three killed thousands of Saxons by Charlemagne physically in front of millions of souls killed today? The admonition is fulfilled upon us that the sins of the fathers shall be punished upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. Cheap grace has proved quite merciless to our evangelical church. And cheap grace has been merciless to most of us personally as well. He has opened us the way to Christ, but rather he has blocked. He has invited us to follow him, but he has hardened us to disobedience. Or was it not cruel and hard if, after having heard the invitation to follow Jesus as an invitation of grace, after, perhaps, once dared to take the first steps on the path that led us to follow the discipline of obedience to his commandments, We were caught by word of cheap grace? […] The smoking flax was off ruthlessly. It was ruthless talk like that to a man, why he, upset by such a cheap offer, he necessarily left the path to which he was called by Jesus, for now he wanted to seize the cheap pardon which forever barred him from recognizing the cheap pardon. It could not be otherwise; the weak man, deceived, possessing the grace at a price had to suddenly feel strong, while, in reality, He had lost the strength to obey, to follow Jesus. The word of cheap grace has ruined more men than any commandment of good works." [Dietrich Bonhöfer, succession, 2007, p. 51-55].

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DECLINE&SURROUNDING: "US ARMY (CLERICAL) THE selfies' AMONG MIGRANTS AND SPILLINE …

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The 16 February on the site of Future appears the following news: "Migrants. The selfie Pope with the pin "We open ports!”». Faced with this announcement and to those images someone has rightly pointed out that today, among many things to open, the gospel has priority, especially in certain curie, convents, monasteries and seminaries …

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The army of the selfie – a stage on which the priests should not be comfortable [Click on the image to open]

As a priest I always find it difficult to apply a passage from the Gospel of Matthew:

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"Be careful not to practice your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, otherwise there is no reward for you with your Father who is in heaven. So, When you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, they may be praised by people. Verily I say unto you: They have already received their reward. Instead, while you give alms, do not let your left hand know what thy right hand doeth, so that your alms in secret remains; and your Father, who sees in secret, It will reward you " [Mt 6,1-3].

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And to: man is vainglorious and as such is always very difficult to work for free. And the priest remains, until the contrary is proved not easy, a man with all his faults. Doing something good there is always the temptation of personal gain, even when there is no monetary reward, the gain you can always make money in fame, in prestige, in visibility and, naturally, in like.

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Can we waste so much good things? Of course not. So today, we priests, we do not seek more souls to save it like to collect. Soon said: We performed an action of charity? Here is the photo ready Instagram! A politician who hate issued an opinion? Do not delay to punish going down hard Twitter! Individual photos of a priest in the planet and handpiece? Here is ready contemptuous and sarcastic comments of Facebook or on duty Blog!

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Rome, 25 January 2019: Ivano Liguori and Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, images where the priests feel quite natural ease …

Examples could be multiplied, but the bottom substance always remains the same: We are delighted to have been practicing our righteousness, the one you like so much in the world. And as I grieve to say, by acting in this way we priests are no longer fishers of men, as the Blessed Apostle Peter [cf. Mt 4, 19], but fishermen of followers. We are saturated with Internet users priests seeking visibility: James Martin - known apostle of the rainbow world and the outgoing Church - Alex Zanotelli, Giorgio De Capitani, Mauro Leonardi and others that climb the ascent of fame, if anything, to achieve the fame of real star: Antonio Mazzi and Luigi Ciotti.

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Far from the envious or resent these confreres, that arouse in me only dejection, having chosen to walk one priestly style does not conform but very common nowadays; a style that Jesus does not share absolutely, because the blatant does not fall between the characteristics of the disciple. Indeed, the talk about himself, It is never a wise choice [cf. LC 6,26]. The priest, must be exercised in a transparent behind which must manifest Christ; and this kind of way of perfection, It requires a lifetime.

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The old anthologies of holiness which they were read during meals in convents of Lent, guarding a beautiful expression: "Also insensitive to praise and scorn". Because this is the man enlightened by God, which it proves transparent and insensitive to what can be a merit or demerit. This does not mean to despise the gifts or personal gifts, indeed, it is more than ever necessary to recognize that what I possess does not belong to me but is God's grace, so I can not brag; everything is written and explained in the famous parable of the talents [cf. Mt 25, 14-30]. The same criticisms are not the final word of God on my life, then they are irrelevant.

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I share the thoughts of Cardinal. Robert Sarah when he says:

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"The more we are clothed with glory and honor, most are raised in dignity, the more we are entrusted with public responsibilities, of prestige and positions in the world, how to lay, priests or bishops, and we must move forward in humility and carefully cultivate the sacred dimension of our inner life constantly trying to see the face of God in prayer, oration, in contemplation and asceticism. It can happen that a good and pious priest, a high time to episcopal dignity, rapidly falling into mediocrity and concern to succeed in world affairs. […] Manifesta in his being and in his works a desire for promotion, a desire for prestige and spiritual degradation. He ends up harming himself and the flock of which the Holy Spirit established him guardian to feed the church of God, which it was purchased with the blood of his own Son. We all run the risk of being monopolized by business and the cares of the world if we neglect the inner life, prayer, the prayer, I feel every day face to face with God, asceticism required every contemplative and to every person who wants to see the Lord and live with Him " [cf. Robert Sarah, The power of silence, Cantagalli, 2017, pp. 35-36].

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Rome, 25 January 2019: Ivano Liguori and Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, images where the priests feel quite natural ease …

The 16 February on the site of Future appears this news: "Migrants. The selfie Pope with the pin "We open ports!”» [see WHO]. Ad images before which someone has rightly pointed out that today, among many things to open, the gospel has priority, especially in certain curie, convents, monasteries and seminaries …

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The news, however, is a Clickbait very successful, the web goes crazy for certain things and chef executive officer It is king, in conclusion: coup Avvenire! Aside from the title to great effect, The following news reports that Don Nandino Capovilla has approached the Supreme Pontiff during the meeting on Migration in Sacrofano and, including greetings and kisses, the Holy Father noted the pin «Let's open the doors!"In the hands of the priest and, liking it, It has lent itself to make a selfie with him [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO].

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I apologize to all: I'm afraid I have definitely needs a lot of conversion, perhaps even a good eye drops for the eyes, because I just can not catch a gospel message in everything. Or better: the message is, and it is evident that there is, But it is the political and social. The beginning of human justice that you want to accomplish through the logic of the world.

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The priest commented on selfie on his profile Facebook:

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We climb on the roofs! Bravely Pope Francis never fails, cut short with discounted exhortations. It gives a picture that raises quell'apriamo ports that is uniting citizens from the north to the south of the country and that evangelical Christians is required to be free from fear. From the title of the national meeting of the Italian Church Francesco she started to denounce and relaunch: “Fear is the source of all bondage and every dictatorship. The fear of the people growing violence of dictators. We renounce the encounter with each other to erect barriers: this is not human. Who has had the power to overcome the fear today is invited to climb on the roofs and invite others to do the same”.

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It's true: you have to climb on the roofs, I'm with you don Nandino, but on the rooftops I will go up to preach the Gospel, God's Word. And having said that, I can inform you that I have not seen many pins in the hospital where I am chaplain with the words "no abortion!», "Long live the conscientious objection!». Even I saw in parishes pins praising the traditional family, marital fidelity, fidelity to the priestly celibacy, the defense of prostitutes, the protection of the terminally ill and bedridden elderly and so on … but the list goes on. And when such events happen, They are always at the hands of lay people who are immediately accused of traditionalism, fascism and bigotry. Perhaps, unlike us priests, they still have something open … the heart.

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Rome, 25 January 2019: Ivano Liguori and Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, images where the priests feel quite natural ease

We priests we need more of selfie and find the courage to act, because now the Gospel we no longer nags and is a dead letter. If by mistake we quote, it often happens that it is just the second edition revised interpretation of The Manifesto Marx and Engels or the summary of Thesis at Martin Lutero.

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Caro don Nandino, I am sure that you carry in your community a commendable service, but next time avoids selfie and advertising, because they are not needed. Your priesthood is already so compelling, without these things, because it is based on exousia [authority, authority] of Christ. You then remember that when San Giuseppe Cafasso passed among the masons, prisoners, sentenced to death and poor people of his time, I doubt I researched it visibility, the less he let yourself be intoxicated by the sacred fire of enthusiasm that can burn badly.

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Your priestly service is valuable, It should be done thus proclaiming Christ, if you do find that people will seek you out because you are not a fair according to the thinking of the world, but because they have met a minister of God who welcomes, reconciles, feeds with the Eucharist, He teaches to pray and to bend the knees in front of an upper Majesty to that of social network: the Blessed Sacrament.

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Cagliari, 18 February 2019

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ARMY OF selfies
[ Tagagi & Ketra ]
You know the moon on Saturday night
I mean the real one, I mean the real one
You know the stars, Twin Towers
Those that no longer exist ,those that no longer exist
And if I talk to you about football
And if I play the banjo for you a little
You say you are depressed, I'm not in the context, what a rotten smell
But if I take you to the woods
You tell me take me downtown
Why is not there the field, then go out of your mind like the last time
We are the selfie army
Of those who tan with the iPhone
But we have no more contacts
Just like another post
But I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you in flesh and blood
I miss you on the list
Of the things that I did not, That I do not have, That I do not have
You know the night of Saturday night
I mean the black one, I mean the black one
You know people running around in their underwear
You say they no longer exist, you say they no longer exist
And if I talk to you about sex
Rock or scissor paper
You say you are depressed, I'm not in the context, what a rotten smell
But if I take you to the park
You tell me take me downtown
Why is not there the field, then go out of your mind like the last time
We are the selfie army
Of those who tan with the iPhone
But we have no more contacts
Just like another post
But I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you in flesh and blood (I miss you in flesh and blood)
I miss you on the list (I miss you on the list)
Of the things that I did not, That I do not have, That I do not have (That I do not have)
We are the selfie army
Of those who tan with the iPhone
But we have no more contacts
Just like another post
But I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you in flesh and blood (I miss you in flesh and blood)
I miss you on the list (I miss you on the list)
Of the things that I did not, That I do not have, That I do not have (That I do not have)
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Christ's invitation to welcome the gift of happiness that becomes eternal bliss

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THE CALL OF CHRIST TO WELCOME THE GIFT OF HAPPINESS THAT THAT BECOMES ETERNAL BLISS

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The words of the French philosopher Blaise Pascal seem suited to our being witnesses of bliss: "Happiness is neither of us, nor out of us: It is in God, that is, outside and inside us ".

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Salvador Dali, The announcement, work carried out on the occasion of the opening of Vatican II

in this VIª Sunday in Ordinary Time the Liturgy of the Word gives us the Lucan text of the Gospel of the Beatitudes [see text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO].

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There are evangelical pages that they are eternal and that's why we know by heart, but yet, whenever we listen, excite us and we always give something new and often unexpected. God sees our reality according to a vision of eternal present simultaneously: therefore, every time that speaks to us in His inspired Word, in our now daily, in our time it seems insignificant fills his tender love and eternally true and present.

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The passage of the Beatitudes Lucan It first remembers what constitutes one of the greatest human research: the pursuit of happiness.

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Salvador Dali, The Temptations of St. Anthony

In the statement the United States of America's founding fathers, with Thomas Jefferson, the 15 September 1787 They declared that the pursuit of happiness is a truth in itself obvious. With the philosophical language we would say that the pursuit of happiness is an axiom, something so obvious that it can not be refuted. This text has also inspired a great movie, I recommend everyone to see, just called The pursuit of happiness, Gabriele Muccino Will Smith and the little Jaden Smith. The film is the story of the broker American Chris Gardner, it reduced to poverty because of a series of existential contingencies and working, finds the strength along with his young son Christopher to roll up their sleeves and rebuild everything. Together the two Gardner begin their path to happiness. One of the most beautiful phrases of the film is that dad Chris says to the little Christopher:

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"Do not ever let anyone tell you you can not do something. Me neither. Ok? If you have a dream you must protect. When people do not know how to do something they tell you that you do not. If you want something, and will inseguila. Point".

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With these beatitudes the Lord wants us to show what is the path that has prepared for us, so that we can achieve happiness is not simply a job, as it happened in Gardner in this film. Happiness is not money: is not only materiality yet is not even abstractness. The Lord teaches us that happiness is bliss.

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Salvador Dali, the vision of Hell granted by the Virgin Mary to the little shepherds of Fatima

Jesus' invitation to bliss It has a spiritual and human foundation at the same time: primarily because it is the Lord who helps every man to live the individual beatitudes. Secondly because, all bliss, It consists of a real condition of insecurity from which flows an act of concrete love given by God to His believers.

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From the material and spiritual poverty, by grace you get the kingdom of God, that is, being in intimate contact with him at all times as baptized persons and children of God. From famine Trinitarian Love, the Lord gives us the fullness of the Holy Spirit when we are confirmed members. From the desperate cry of those who have sinned, the Lord gives the smile of one who has been forgiven in sacramental confession. And finally, Jesus, also we remember those who are in tear, division and deeper persecution for the sake of His Holy Name. Here Jesus turns to the martyrs: both those who today still lose their lives because they killed in hatred of faith, as recently happened in France on the altar with the murder of his father Jacques Hamel, both for those who live a white martyrdom because isolated from relatives, friends and brothers, until almost the removal of more family relationship for the sake of the gospel of Jesus Christ and for the love of the Church.

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To the martyrs a great reward is prepared: the immediate vision of God's Love in Paradise, without having to further purify, for the martyrs in the Blood. The ability to have an authentic look on the love of God who becomes Eucharistic Bread, white for martyrs.

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On the contrary, the three "woes" that Jesus gives to the rich, satiated and color reflect laughing like a false happiness can take root in man: a happiness that is not of God, but by money, from sexual satiation excessive and disorderly or the exercise of a power that mocks the authority of God and his commandments. Those troubles are warning today. You should be educated to stay away from these attitudes and behaviors that fill us with fleeting svuotandoci the one true treasure: God's presence.

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Salvador Dali, Last dinner

The pursuit of happiness nellc happiness Jesus is described as an attainable goal every day. in the Sacraments, like I said. But also because we know to be those who proclaim the faith that is not passive stasis, but continuous journey towards that which gives us a sense of deep happiness.

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The words of the French philosopher Blaise Pascal they look really suited to our being witnesses of bliss: "Happiness is neither of us, nor out of us: It is in God, that is, outside and inside us ".

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So together, dear brothers and sisters, We ask the Lord to assimilate more and more these eternal words. Every day we can be at the Bliss School. With a contemplative look, We ask you to find the ray of sunshine that illuminates our window, the sign that the Lord wants to make us eternally happy because blessed.

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