"Mom I missed the plane". The Holy Family on the road to glory on the story of the Lucan Gospel

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"MOM I MISSED THE PLANE". THE HOLY FAMILY IN JOURNEY TO GLORY THE STORY OF GOSPEL LUCANO

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«Because you were looking for me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father?"This is a lost opportunity for Jesus to show his personality. The episode reminds me of an old Christmas movies, Mom I missed the plane the 1990. A young Macaulay Culkin plays the little Kevin, accidentally left at home by parents before a trip to Paris […]

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Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci, o.p.

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the then small Macaulay Culkin

In these days who led us in the mystery of Christmas to that of Epiphany, we can stop some’ on historical narratives that Luke's Gospel offers us the Holy Family.

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The parents of Jesus They went every year to Jerusalem for the Passover feast. When he was twelve years, they went up according to the custom of the feast. Ma, elapsed days, as they resumed their way back, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Believing that he was in the company, they journeyed for a day, then they sought him among their relatives and acquaintances; I did not find, They came back looking for him in Jerusalem [cf. LC 2, 41 – 45].

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After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the masters, He is listening to them and asking them questions;. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers [ cf. LC 2, 47]. When they saw him they were amazed, and his mother said:

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""Son, why have you done this? there, Your father and I, distressed, We are looking for you ". And he answered them: “Because you were looking for me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father "? But they did not understand what he had told them. He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient. His mother kept all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom, age and grace before God and man " [cf. LC 2, 48-52].

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So let us clarify this trip: honoring Jewish traditions, holy family goes to journey to Jerusalem. Jesus was twelve years old. The Holy Family, then made two trips: from Nazareth to Jerusalem. From Jerusalem Nazareth. Here is a feature also applies to the family today.

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The two travel show us how the family is a dynamic reality. It is not fixed in its sights, in his habits, in its arid certainties. The family is the place of the dynamism: a dynamism in the tradition, according to our faith. This link between tradition and family, It allows us to see how the conjugal nucleus is a place where it is possible to feed the amazement of the faith: a faith to a time so ancient and so new. Where traditions are the place to be rooted and start to build their own identity.

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For this Jesus, It can respond calmly: «Because you were looking for me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father?» [LC 2, 49]. This is a lost opportunity for Jesus to show his personality. The episode reminds me of an old Christmas movies, Mom I missed the plane the 1990. A young Macaulay Culkin plays the little Kevin, accidentally left at home by parents before a trip to Paris. between laughter, unexpected and gag comic, Kevin will defend with tooth and nail their homes by the attempted theft of two bumbling thieves. Kevin has therefore realized that in his small had an important role: defend his affections and his most intimate memories to those who wanted sottrarglieli and put violence on them.

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Jesus, It is among the teachers and the teachers of the Law, in a full questioned and discussed with them with a keen intelligence and the clarity of the answers. I would dare to say, Jesus can give succinct answers to questions of the doctors and their questions about the Torah and the Talmud. Synthetic implies brevity and conciseness capacity, but at the same time is not superficial: The short answer is intelligent when it is able to express all in a fragment. He can say the depth of the divine mysteries in a few clear words. Jesus answers, then, that takes care of things of his Father: takes care of its mission bearer of God's truth and thus prepares the equivalent mission of redemption will happen years later.

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Inside of of his family, Jesus has gained its identity and mission. That's why his journey with the Holy Family was a trip to glory. From Christmas Eve recently celebrated, until the Passion and Resurrection which we celebrate at Easter, Jesus walks always with the family community in a growing age, wisdom and grace.

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That's why for us, our families I am the first cell of our human and personal development: that place where we discover our identity, our faults and virtues. Where we learn to honor the Holy Scriptures, Tradition and the Magisterium of the Church as the development aid of our staff sacred turmoil: ie of ourselves in the discovery of our vocation, priestly, religious or double.

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These days between Christmas and Epiphany in which we also celebrated the feast of the Holy Family, Thank the Lord for the gifts they wanted us to bear by our parents; and by all those who have made the pedagogues in the existential service development, human and spiritual of our vocations.

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Rome, 6 January 2019

Epiphany of the Lord Jesus

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«sweet Jesus, Jesus love» [St. Caterina da Siena]

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Preparation of ’ island of Patmos

We point out to the readers from The Island of Patmos an interesting article of our Dominican author Gabriele Giordano M. Scardocci published these days of celebration on the site of the Dominican Roman Province of St. Catherine of Siena and dedicated to "The prophets: sowers of God's mysteries " [see text, WHO]

 

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"Where there is God's house!"The Epiphany makes the world a home where the Infant God expects each of us

The angle dell'omiletica of the Fathers of The Island of Patmos

"WHERE C'AND ME, (C)'You HOUSE!"THE EPIPHANY MAKES THE WORLD A HOME WHERE THE CHILD GOD AWAITS EACH OF US

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But who really were the Magi? "They were wise, They represented the dynamic of going beyond self, intrinsic to religion - a dynamic search of the truth, search for the true God and therefore also philosophy in the original sense of the word. So the healing wisdom also the message of science: the rationality of this message does not stop with just knowing, but he sought the understanding of the whole, thus set reason to its highest possibilities " [cf. Benedict XVI, The Childhood of Jesus]

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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The Christmas festivities have the great merit of invite the man to give up their comforts and to verify the work of God which is realized in the world.

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Often recurring verbs in the Gospels Christmas time, resonate as imperatives and forcefully invite the reader to heal from their indifference and take an active part in God's actions. The Incarnation of the Word, It heals us from the paralysis of the heart that is expressed in the inability - or perhaps fear - to meet God, leading us to take their first tentative steps toward a safe house.

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This dwelling is Bethlehem - from Hebrew Home bread verbatim: House of Bread - a place where the Word of God makes itself known and which in its glorification will become true food of salvation and medicine for the sins of humanity.

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I like now approach the Christmas time, Jesus' words said to the paralytic, when is healed: "Arise, take up thy bed and go’ in your house" [cf. Mt 9,6]. The invitation of Jesus to this poor sick shrunken, It enables us to understand how the man was healed when has the ability to accept Jesus the strength to recover from his illness and return to being a household of God.

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"Arise!'He is told, that participates in my will to sanarti; but then he adds "goes’ in your house", ie get a move, returns to the place where there is your true identity [cf. LC 15,18].

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The paralysis that grips the heart of modern man, often it pushes us out by God, But Jesus with his birth brings us inside to a cozy house in which he himself becomes nourishment and sustenance. Then, as for the paralytic, we are called to listen to Jesus. Knowing that the weak gather our forces and stand up from our couch, It hides the sign of a promise to go that does not disappoint:

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"This sign for you: You find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, placed in a manger " [cf. LC 2,12].

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Certainly the most famous strategy of the Christmas season - after the shepherds - are the Magi. But who really were the Magi?

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"They were wise, They represented the dynamic of going beyond self, intrinsic to religion - a dynamic search of the truth, search for the true God and therefore also philosophy in the original sense of the word. So the healing wisdom also the message of science: the rationality of this message does not stop with just knowing, but he sought the understanding of the whole, thus set reason to its highest possibilities " [cf. Benedict XVI, The Childhood of Jesus, Rizzoli, 2012, pp 111-112].

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The Magi with their lives dedicated to the research and knowledge of the truth, help us to understand the danger of a paralysis that makes God a distant relic vintage. They push themselves beyond their means, because the truth must be sought with passion, effort and perseverance. They want to make the holy journey [cf. Shall 84,6], moving away from their country, to finally get to worship the Lord [cf Sal 72,11; Mt 2,2].

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Of these wise Oriental We appreciate the strong sensitivity to scrutinize the tracks that God disseminates in the lives of men and - as well as the wise Daniel [cf. Dn 2,22] - try to interpret the mystery in the everyday of their lives and their work. In them they realize the messianic prophecies that proclaimed the homage of nations to the God of Israel [cf. Nm 24,17; Is 49,23; 60,5s; Shall 72,10-15]. But it is especially in the footsteps of the Magi we can see the simple feeling of joy [CF. Mt 2,9-11] that is the thread of their deepest desire: see God and worship him piously at his home [cf. Shall 5,8].

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Back home after a long time - especially after a long and tiring journey - is undoubtedly a source of joy but at the same time of thanksgiving. Therefore, the man who is able to give thanks, It is the true devotee, the true worshiper, one who intends to devote himself readily to the service of God.

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This attitude is underlined, Once again, the invitation to go, to act. Unfortunately, Nowadays, They see a few devotees, few worshipers but many devozionisti. Devotionism is the counterfeiting of devotion and authentic worship. It is a style of the heart that expects everything from God without the capacity for a possible collaboration with him. The miracle is expected to be served on a silver platter by virtue of the mere aseptic execution of some religious practices. On the contrary, the Magi express their adoring devotion through thanksgiving, presenting the total availability of their person to Jesus, together with the recognition of being in the presence of the divine sovereign redeemer of the world [CF. Mt 2,2].

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Parrot, frankincense and myrrh, it's not just the signs that symbolize royalty, the divinity and passion of Christ but also offerings of thanksgiving - eucharistic - for the theophany of God in Jesus. A Betlemme, the Magi are clothed with a mission: to be - in the house where God becomes a child - apostles to those far from home. They are the first heralds who reveal to the people the splendid light of God's presence in the world. With the joy with which they return to their country, they testify to the truthfulness of Nathan's prophecy to David: "The Lord announces that he will make a house for you" [cf. II Sam 7,11].

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Epiphany, makes the world a home where the child God awaits each of us. So: let's get started and welcome the Lord with true devotion and hymns of thanksgiving, so that we can bow down to him and sing:

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“They will love you, man, all peoples of the earth ".

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Cagliari, 6 January 2019

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The mystery of the Epiphany and the rich gifts of the Magi: "With God is the great offers, the maximum, not the differences'

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

THE MYSTERY OF THE EPIPHANY THE RICH AND GIFTS OF THE MAGI: "GOD IS OFFERING THE PERFECT, THE MAXIMUM, DO NOT WASTE ".

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When Mary and Joseph, the Magi offered gold, they did not answer: "Do Not, thank you, l'oro you for data burdens ". They said this because they were aware that God always provides the excellent, the maximum. The scraps, to God, Cain offered them, as we are told in the Book of Genesis. While in the Holy Gospels false love for the poor we are given to us through the figure of Judas, that when Mary of Bethany anointed the Lord Jesus with precious ointment of spikenard, he showed himself falsely outraged at the waste and said that precious oil could be sold for three hundred denarii and the proceeds given to the poor.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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Jesus Christ be praised !

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… Unfortunately, in major liturgical solemnities of the year, it is now almost impossible not to lay all the sacred mysteries in the politically correct molasses

The liturgy of the Solemnity of the Epiphany It is characterized by a strong light [text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO] that reaches all men: "Word was the true light, the one that enlightens every man" [cf. GV 1,9].

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This party, which is celebrated 12 days after Christmas, named after the greek reveal themselves [epiphany] what does it mean “I understand poster”. Word from which it derives surface [epiphany] which means appearance, came, divine presence. Knowing the meaning of words, how often I explain in my homilies and catechesis in my, it is essential to be able to penetrate the mysteries of faith, which have their own vocabulary, precise and specific; and if there is no language, no one can convey the message of truth, indeed there is a risk to distort. The mysteries of faith have indeed their own precise language that is born and grows over the centuries through the wisdom of the Holy Fathers and the great dogmatic councils of the Church.

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With Epiphany It is celebrated the first manifestation of the divinity of Jesus to all humanity. This happens through the formal visit, the supply of highly meaningful gifts and adoration of the Magi, which are of the high dignitaries of a stranger to the Jewish people and the Mediterranean world. The commemoration of Epiphany, which begins in the third century, It includes the divine manifestations of Jesus. In particular: Adoration of the Magi, Jesus' baptism [cf. MC 1,9-11], and the first “sign” in Cana of Galilee through the miracle of the wine [cf. GV 2,1-12], anticipation in his own way the great miracle and sacrifice of the Blood of Christ the Bridegroom of the Church.

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In time, the popular tradition, It decorated with special meanings figures of the Magi: first changing these magicians - term negative today - in magi. It was also stated their number, They were then transformed into King, and they were given a name - Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar -, along with several physical configurations, so one is the Western world, one Arab and one that the African.

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These hide, from the description that there is made, It seems to be the astronomers, perhaps they are of the Zoroastrian priests from Persia. However, what remains certain is that before the People of Israel are of “foreigners” who do not know the Scriptures, and the Mosaic Law. Yet are these foreigners to other culture and religion “they reveal” Israel and its priests and dignitaries, and they knew what they were waiting, but who had hidden in their underwear. The manifestation of the Messiah to those who were waiting for him was therefore possible for the unexpected intervention of foreign elements. The religious and political world of the time was “illuminated” by the knowledge and wisdom of foreigners held by the Jewish world of Nations [goijm] those in evangelical literature and in that Pauline are referred to as kind, term that primarily indicates the pagans.

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The story of the Epiphany of the Lord and of the three Magi, It can only lead us to a reflection on today's world that seems increasingly invaded by “others”, but with a big difference: yesterday, these foreigners, these "other", ie the magi, following the light of a star they came to show us the coming of the Messiah, and once I had found fell down before him and worshiped him. Today, many of the "other" who often welcome at no prudent common sense, are not at all to worship the Word of God he made man nor to let us know, but to replace the light of God Christ - which for us is the beginning of the center and the goal of our entire humanism [cf. you. Lord Jesus] - With their false star, affinch'essa be lifted up on what little remains of the Christian faith in our Europe was now in advanced de-Christianization. Or in other words: It would be like to throw open the doors of a daycare Herod said it great to make things easier for the massacre of the innocents [cf. Mt 2,1-16]. It might be objected that the Word of God, inviting reception, It admonishes us: "I was a stranger and you welcomed me" [cf. Mt 25, 31-46], expression that requires to be understood, however,, not upset. Indeed, to the suffix of this expression and all others that follow, there is theI am of the Word of God, so that in total, exclusive and absolute presents itself as a path, Truth and the Life [cf. GV 14,16]. Because it is in this light that goes Christological understanding the final sentence: "Every time you did it to the least of these my brethren, you did it to me". Taking into account fact that Christ God speaks among other things of "brothers", not about invaders eager to replace and destroy the very root of His Divine Being unique, sole and absolute, Truth and the Life.

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A speech all apart deserve the gifts brought by the Magi, that in addition to their great preciousness have a precise meaning, starting from gold, an excellent conductor of heat symbolizing as such the work of Jesus, who has faithfully transmitted to us the warmth of the Father. Parrot, considered the noble metal by definition, has the characteristic of not oxidize and does not corrode. The gold is then from the first apostolic times the incorruptibility of faith. This is the reason why our Bishops, teachers and guardians of the faith, They were donated gold crosses, sign about the incorruptibility of faith, certainly not about glitz and princely opulence. This is why, the precious species of the Body and Blood of Christ, in the tradition of the Church has always been placed in precious metals. And in this regard know that St. Francis of Assisi, the true one, his brothers sent them around even barefoot, It could even happen that they did not do one meal a day, but when his brother priests sent them to bring Communion to the sick, this li Mandava con le pissidi d'oro, because - said the poor man of Assisi - "Poverty must end below the altar steps».

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Other precious gift is the incense, which when burned form white clouds that rise to the top and that is our prayers and hymns of praise rising to heaven to God the Father.

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Finally, the Mirra, which it is in the form of reddish round grain with a pleasant aromatic odor. These reddish grains remind us of the drops of blood that covered the face of Jesus in Gethsemane, then his head crowned with thorns and finally his whole body whipped and tortured by crucifixion. This Bitter herb [swell, feverfew] in its symbolism reminds us of the sufferings of Christ, whose life has been marked by persecution from childhood, since the flight into Egypt, to follow with misunderstandings, treachery, abandonment, until the climax: His death on the cross.

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When Mary and Joseph, the Magi offered gold, they did not answer: "Do Not, thank you, l'oro you for data burdens ". They said this because they were aware that God always provides the excellent, the maximum. The scraps, to God, Cain offered them, as we are told in the Book of Genesis. While in the Holy Gospels false love for the poor we are given to us through the figure of Judas, that when Mary of Bethany anointed the Lord Jesus with precious ointment of spikenard, he showed himself falsely outraged at the waste and said that precious oil could be sold for three hundred Sklim [shekel, plur. shape, currency of Judea, Latinized in shekel, Sicli] and the proceeds given to the poor. Blessed John the Evangelist, narrating this episode, It notes that the Iscariot did not say this because he loved the poor, but because he was a thief. But most of all, in memory, we should always bring alive the answer given by Jesus: "Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial. For the poor you have always with you, but you do not always have me " [cf. GV 12, 1-8].

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A God always provides the excellent, the maximum. And incidentally: to understand how much of that oil nard that Iscariot had estimated three hundred shekels was really valuable, suffice it to say that at the time the pay of a Roman soldier was a penny. The value of that oil then corresponded to almost one year's pay of a soldier.

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Saw the star, the Magi were overjoyed. No matter the astral event itself. What interests us is the sense: "I see it, but not now, io lo behold, but not near: a check star from Jacob " [cf. Nm 24,17]. The star is Christ Himself [cf. AP 22,16], so it is not visible from the palaces of Jerusalem, because human powers have lack of light [cf. Mt 20,25] and the religious powers of ancient Jewish with all their rules have changed religion into slavery, up to burden people beyond measure: "Load the men of unbearable burdens, and those weights you do not touch with a finger!» [LC 11, 46].

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The Star is moving forward and guides the Magi. Blessed Evangelist Matthew describes the joy of the Magi saw the star in the: the light of the Messiah there lights the way, guides us, It is reflected in our lives so as to cover it with the joy that is changed into that gift of grace that transforms the man to return it to his image and likeness of God. The light of Christ illuminates every aspect of life, or as the prophet Isaiah says: “I was found by those who weren't looking for me, I have shown myself to those who did not ask me " [cf. RM 10,20].

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Just lift your eyes to the sky to see the star and then follow, without ever get off the darkness; and the light of Christ we will seize the shadows to envelop us in the mystery of the light of God's Word made flesh.

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In this festival of light, echo the words of the Prologue to the Gospel of John the Blessed Apostle who speaks of the mystery of the Word made flesh: “Light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it " [cf. GV 1,5]. Although yesterday, as unfortunately, many light "has not overcome it", or worse: they try in every way to turn it off, in a world in which, al christocentrism, It has been long since replaced the’man-centrism.

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We pray that before this divine light that manifests and reveals the mystery of the incarnate Word of God, can resonate and then take root in our hearts the desire Pauline:

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"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. This life in the flesh, I live it in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me " [Gal 2, 20].

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the Island of Patmos, 6 January 2019

Epiphany of the Lord Jesus

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In this terrible dark night, for the New Year 2019 the work program has been dictated to the Island of Patmos from the Blessed Apostle Peter: “Your enemy, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, looking for someone to devour. Resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that your brothers around the world suffer the same sufferings as you "

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IN THIS TERRIBLE NIGHT BUIA, FOR THE NEW YEAR 2019 THE WORK PROGRAM HAS BEEN INSPIRED TO THE ISLAND OF THE BLESSED APOSTLE PETER PATMOS: "YOUR ENEMY, THE DEVIL, AS A ROARING LION GOES ON TOUR, LOOKING WHO EAT. Resist him, firm in the Faith, KNOWING THAT YOUR BROTHERS SCATTERED TO THE WORLD SUFFER THE SAME SUFFERING OF YOU '

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"The church, this spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, she is drunk with shrewd enemies who fill her with bitterness and who lay their sacrilegious hands on all her most desirable things. Where is the seat of the Blessed Peter mail to the chair of truth to enlighten the people, there have established the throne of their abominable impiety, so hitting the shepherd, dispersing the flock " [S.S. Leone XIII, AGAINST SATAN AND ANGELS]

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

The period that marks the end and the beginning of a new year, more than time budgets and programs is a special occasion more to rely on God and the Blessed Virgin Mary Mater Dei, especially in these times not happy, before which occurs to my mind the tender memory of the late Cardinal Carlo Caffara, that in one of our last conversations, when the 19 August 2017 He was kind enough to call me to greet me for my 54th birthday, in the turn of the speech he said:

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"What the Church to live a dramatic moment that has no historical precedent, only blind and irrational can deny, if anything remains passive waiting for all steps and to come as for better times charm ".

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And just with the Cardinal Carlo Caffara I faced many times complex and painful conversations related to those passages of Holy Scripture used today by many exegetes, sure you can use them as if they were homeopathic pills with which to treat a degenerated cancer in its terminal phase irreversible. Let me be clear: "Homeopathic pills" are certainly not the Holy Scriptures, or certain steps in particular, it is the way in which some presume reassuringly surreal use those passages of God's Word that encloses to the tragedy of our own rules in mind. This is combined with an operation in itself worse: use the Holy Scriptures monche, extrapolating a piece of sentence out of context and use them to tell them what to them is not really written. Simply it said that using this way, the Word of God to impose or to seal with the supernatural its human opinions, in some respects it could be worse than heresy to state. Perhaps it was this way of acting he did say to Karl Marx - which was invented not the concept but the extrapolated by Titus Lucretius Carus - that "Religion is the opium of the Peoples'. And he was right, If this definition he meant the kind of religion that God uses in preposterous way, or so to say opiate, in order first and last to impose the subjective ideas and totally objectionable man. There has always been a fact much worse classical atheism atheism which denies God: atheism of those who use God to deify their own opinions and interpretations, , changing their in divine truths not subject to discussion and disproved. Forever, the worst atheism, It is not to deny God, but the place of God; It is not to deny his word, but the twisting of his Word. And today, Unfortunately, teem in the visible Church bishops and priests who are the perfect atheists devotees practitioners.

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Incidentally remember that Lucretius [Campania 94 a.C. - Rome 54 a.C], In his work Nature, It says how they are evident the dire consequences of religion, citing as an example the case of Iphigenia, below explaining that the myth is a false representation of reality, the so-called euhemerism, Named after prosperity [Evemero from Messina, who lived between the fourth and third centuries B.C.. in Ancient Greece] from which develops the idea that the origin of the gods, else there would be that of human personality, marked by special skills and talents, and finally folded due to divine nature and consequent worship of worship by populations. The religion, according to the classic Roman Author, that's what the main cause of ignorance and unhappiness of men. Now, as Lucretius was born about a century and died half a century before the birth of Christ, It is obvious that he does not turn to Christianity, but the negative religious spirit that runs through the entire history of humanity. Long would be the anthropological and historical discourse to explain and demonstrate with scientific rigor that in the history of humanity, the decline, sometimes the disappearance of many ancient civilizations, It has always been preceded by religious decadence, which reached its peak produced the collapse of the political systems and government, Finally, the total decay resulting in disappearance of those same civilization.

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Eschatological THE PROBLEM OF THE GREAT APOSTASY IN THE CHURCH VISIBLE

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From everything narrated so far We, however, we feel immune to a presumption without limits, Why, doing cut and paste on the Holy Scriptures, extrapolate from them the type of homeopathic pills: "Christ the Lord has ensured that the gates of hell shall not prevail!». It's true, he said it. But, we want to ask about what the gates of hell shall not prevail? For when Christ the Lord says to Peter:

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"You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" [Mt 16, 18]

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It is nothing short of a must wonder: in which the Church was referring? Obvious: to his, or better: the Church of God's Word, since the mystical and soteriological definition of the Church there gives the Blessed Apostle Paul pointing to Christ as "the head of the body which is the Church" [With the 1, 18]. It is therefore natural that the gates of hell shall not prevail against Christ, to the same extent in which Satan, trying the man Jesus in the desert [cf. Mt 4, 1-11], certainly he could not topple the Word of God incarnate. I fear, however, that meanders - perhaps now even more than ever - some confusion before which the question arises: is not that the religious animal, or if you prefer the theological animal, It has come to confuse the Church, the mystical body of Christ, of which the glorified Christ is the head and we are living members, with that blatant sin of this structure is the actual visible Church, structured on a human hierarchy is composed of men, many of whom have been living beyond good and evil, after having long since lost the meaning same, of good and evil? Because in case certain they had not understood, it is referring to this kind of structure that Lord Christ says with a terrible question: "But the Son of Man, when will, find faith on earth?» [LC 18, 8]. What reason would ever have, the Word of God, to launch this question that weighs more than they can weigh the boulders of an entire mountain, if the Church is Christ and is governed by the Holy Spirit and therefore "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it"? [Mt 16, 18]. Perhaps, to Christ the Lord on faith, by chance an inconvenient question that needs to be corrected on the metaphysical plane and dogmatic plan? It can also be, because basically, Christ the Lord, It was at this well-intentioned, as such devoid of all those instruments of scholastic metaphysics and that will only centuries later. In short: in his "divine ignorance" he did not know and did not apply the logic of Aristotle.

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did what, we must also continue to change the Catechism of the Catholic Church, many articles which are made every day a dead letter, or emptied of their meaning, thanks to today's pastoral practice that we naturally believe that it is strictly inspired by the Holy Spirit, indeed dictated word for word, interview interview directly from the Third Person of the Holy Trinity. And if they are really things, then it would be good to correct all the texts of the Sacred Scriptures that refer for example to the great apostasy in the Church:

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"Before the coming of Christ, the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers [cf. Ii Ts 2,4-12; I Ts 5,2-3; 2 GV 7; 1 GV 2,18.22]. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth [cf. LC 21,12; GV 15,19-20] He will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems, the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, that is, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh [cf. Ii Ts 2,4-12; I Ts 5,2-3; 2 GV 7; The Gv 2,18.22]. This Antichrist is already delineated in the world whenever it wants to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be accomplished if not beyond it, through the eschatological judgment; also under its mitigated form, The Church has rejected this falsification of the kingdom under the name of millenarianism [cf. Sant'Offizio, The Decree on millenarismo (19 July 1944): DS 3839] especially in the political form of a secular messianism "intrinsically perverse" [Pio XI, Became. enc. The Redeemer (19 March 1937): AAS 29 (1937) 65-106, condemning the "false mysticism" of this "counterfeit of the redemption of the lowly" (p. 69); Vatican Council II, Cost. past. The joy and hope, 20-21: AAS 58 (1966) 1040-1042]. The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and resurrection [cf. AP 19,1-9]. The kingdom will be fulfilled, then through a historic triumph of the Church [cf. AP 13] according to an ascending progress, but through God's victory over the final unleashing of evil [cf. AP 20,7-10] who will make his Bride come down from heaven [cf. AP 21,2-4]. God's triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment [cf. AP 20,12] after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world " [Catechism of the Catholic Church, NN. 675-677].

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If the Catechism all ’ today in force, as it dominated and in fact set aside by the new pastoral "do-goodism", supportandosi on the Apocalypse of Blessed John the Apostle and other Apostolic Letters, over and above all that the Holy Gospel itself, he claims:

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"The kingdom will be fulfilled, then through a historic triumph of the Church a progressive ascendancy, but through God's victory over the final unleashing of evil " [Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 677]

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how correct and very unimaginative, We should read and interpret that "will not prevail"? Because if someone thinks that the powers of hell will never prevail on today visibly reduced visible Church to a structure of sin that produces internally sin and that spreads outside, in this case better to abandon the metaphysical and dogmatic and give to the far more healthy and satisfying art of gastronomy and oenology.

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OUR CONTEMPORARY You AS WRITTEN IN A CHRONICLE OF CURRENT EVENTS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION

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Lately I have been thinking more and more often on different themes linked together by a common thread, from Revelation structure prepared by the Apostle John Beato on an Aegean island known as Patmos Island, also called the place of the last revelation, which takes its name not by chance that our magazine. As we know, Revelation speaks of the Antichrist and his final defeat, However, before which he will sow bad that at present perhaps we can even imagine in his devastating significance. Obviously, the apocalyptic is an allegorical language that shows beyond the images something very real; and this is something that today we might reasonably define in its advanced stage. He writes the Blessed Apostle:

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"Come, I'll see the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters. With whom they have committed fornication the kings of the earth and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication " [AP 17, 2]

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It just goes ahead:

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"Fell, fell
Babylon the Great
and it has become den of demons,
cage for every unclean spirit,
prison of every unclean and hated bird
and a cage for every unclean and hated beast.
For all nations have drunk of the wine
of her fornication,
The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her
and the merchants of the earth grew rich
of her delicacies " [AP 18, 2-3].

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For a long time it was thought - and the commentators have explained with great wealth - that the Blessed Apostle, using allegorical language, in these lines he had hidden the image of Rome and the Roman Empire. About that, in my previous writing I tried to explain:

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"... making use of an old testamentary image Blessed Apostle John addresses the Roman Empire, then Rome hidden behind "Babylon the Great", all for reasons that anyone can understand. Reasons related in part to security and partly to the spread of the text, in order to prevent their destruction by the Romans at the time about a strong suspicion towards gesuano movement and its spread of his message. After two thousand years now, it comes from saying that never as today has that reference to ancient Rome hidden behind the image of Babylon current, place that has long Roma "has made all nations drink of the wrath of her fornication with wine" [see article, WHO].

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Once you have painted these pictures, the Blessed Apostle followed by saying that the Chosen People must escape from Babylon:

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«Exit, my people, from Babylon
be not partakers of her sins,
and ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven
and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Pagatela with his own coin,
retribuitele twice his misdeeds.
Pour double measure in the cup which mingled.
All he has spent his glory and his
luxury, restituiteglielo so much torment and sorrow.
As he said in his heart: I sit a queen,
and I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see;
because of this, in one day,
We will of her plagues:
death, mourning and famine;
It will be burned,
for strong is the Lord God
who judges " [AP 18, 4-8]

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What does it mean to say with the dramatic invitation:

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«Exit, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and receive not of her plagues "? [AP 18, 4].

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The significance of this dramatic invitation I tried to represent him in an article of mine in which I explain in what way the visible church, after Shoah the Catholic world, It will reach the dock at the new Nuremberg trial, where we will hear an army of clerics say: “But I only obeyed orders from above!» [the article is readable, WHO].

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NOBLE SALVIFIC VALUE OF ESCAPE BEFORE THE COMPLICI ACTIVE AND PASSIVE TO COMPLICI

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There are times when you need to escape, or move away decisively, which it is also synonymous with escape, by virtue of the fact that within a structure of sin, then a gear structure which produces sin internally and which diffuses the outside its borders, there are two different kinds of grave responsibilities: the active complicity of those who generate the evil and spread the, to follow along with the passive complicity, no less serious for this, of all those who rather than lose their little place in the sun they are silent and pretend not to see, He is forgetting how the Lord made his escape faithful few survivors from the City of Sodom and Gomorrah before they were destroyed, urging them not to look back while his wrath would be unleashed, except finish mutated, as it happened to Lot's wife, into a pillar of salt [cf. Gen 19, 1-29].

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In a Church in which the ecclesiastical law has been replaced by the arbitrary whims of subjects able to hit the innocent with unprecedented destructive wickedness worthy of Joseph Goebbels, all good officers who are powerless and segretarietti, except complain to their intimate inside closed rooms, They are equally responsible and complicit in sin; and will end one day destroyed along with all the other inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. When the interior of a structure of sin can not do anything, then you need to escape from the passive accomplice impotence, give up without hesitation to their little place in the sun, turning pleading with the diocesan bishop to ask for the grace to be sent to the priest in the most remote of rural parishes or high mountain. It is indeed good clarify that the reason "I could not do anything", or that even worse given by Nazi leaders in Nuremberg: "I obeyed the orders from above ', He can not save the guilty from the right fork of men, still less by far more severe punishment given by justice and mercy of God, that we remember: "He punishes and shows mercy ' [Tb 13, 1].

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The truth is that unfortunately the sin and with it the structures of sin, They are convenient to all: who gives birth to sin, who commits, who covers him and who before that assists silent and helpless, in the inner desire no less perverse can derive anything from sin. It is the truth, that's not in the active sinners like to taxable sinners; why they are trying in every way, by recourse to falsehood and coercive and violent means, to destroy the truth together with the good that proceeds from it.

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PETER EXERCISE THEIR TEACHINGS infallible ONLY OPEN TO THE GRACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, OTHERWISE THE GRACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT IN HIM AND DOES NOT THROUGH HIM

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Christ the Lord reminds the danger and pitfalls of Satan very precisely to Peter himself, within a discourse from which many like to extrapolate and give only one piece of sentence: "Strengthen your brethren" [LC 22, 32], to give so much to a non-life Super Peter, but at a Super Pontiff. This sentence, But, It is preceded by a tragic "before", and is followed by a dramatic "after". Let us try to analyze it all, eliminating the need to say to Christ the Lord what the Word of God did not say, considering that He is seriously warned Peter telling him:

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«Simone, Simone, behold Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat; but I prayed for you, that your faith may not fail ".

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Let's stop this first part and try to ask: but where is Christ the Lord - then Peter, to whom he said, "And I tell you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it " [Mt 16, 18] - affirms and reassures that his faith will never be any less? Christ the Lord did not even alleged, He reassures Peter that he will pray that his faith "may not fail ', does not say and does not guarantee at all that Peter's faith will never and in no way less. What also amply demonstrated by the continuation of the sentence, when Christ the Lord, Peter boldly states that all:

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"Man, with you I am ready to go to prison and to death " [LC 22, 33]

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unhesitatingly answers:

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«Pietro, I'm telling you: the cock shall not crow before you thrice deny that you know " [LC 22, 34].

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The sequence is therefore this: Christ the Lord puts Peter on guard against Satan, assuring him that he will pray that his faith may not fail;, but in the event that it is even less, It gave, as the facts show, It will do nothing to prevent it, because otherwise it would deny a suffix of man's creation, that is freedom and free will; and God can not contradict himself. In fact Pietro, which it is the first great master of doctrine and faith, finds nothing better to do than deny three times shortly after the Word of God made man, and everything after that Christ the Lord, at the Last Supper, He had instituted a priest and head of the College of the Apostles, namely the Supreme Pontiff [Cf Lc 22, 7-19]. Had he not received Pietro, viepiù by Christ, God himself, a special grace and just as completely Holy Spirit's special assistance, it should be remembered, do not “It is born” only later, to Pentecost, as already it hovered over the waters in the days of the creation of the world? [Gen 1, 1-2].

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We also know that Peter's story does not end here, because the same Blessed Apostle Paul tells us that in Antioch shooting and publicly rebuked the Prince of Apostles in matters of doctrine and faith [cf. Gal 2, 11-14]; because if Peter had continued and led the believers of Christ in that error, today we would not be Christians, would have only a seven heretical of Jewish matrix, because of Peter who showed at that moment not to understand, or have misunderstood some of the fundamentals of the mystery of revelation and redemption. Even in this case, perhaps you need to understand that only eighteen centuries later will be defined the dogma of papal infallibility which makes the Roman Pontiff not subject to wandering in matters of doctrine and faith, whereas Pietro, chosen by Christ, God himself, apparently he could easily err in matters of doctrine and faith, evidently because the dogma of papal infallibility had not yet been proclaimed?

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Let us see what was the error of Peter and that tells us about the Blessed Apostle Paul:

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"But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. Indeed, before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles:; but after their coming, he withdrew and separated himself, for fear of the circumcision. And the other Jews did the same in the simulation, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, said to Peter before all: “Be yourself, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not in the manner of the Jews, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews”?» [cf. Gal 2, 11-14]

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Many do not know what it all, then we try to briefly summarize: Pietro, before this episode narrated by Paul, He took his meals with pagans and had been taught that salvation comes through faith, place that is not conceivable a Christian observance of the law for its own sake without faith from which are born the works [cf. Powered 2, 14-26]. But, when some Jews joined the community, for fear of giving them sorrow to take meals with pagans, he withdrew to eat on the sidelines observing all the meticulous provisions of the rabbinic law - the so-called cosher kasherùt —, because the Jews were forbidden to take food with the Gentiles, considered unclean; and thereby he gave ambiguously to understand that salvation is achieved by compliance with the rabbinical laws, then those enclosed in Talmud Talmud, where, starting from the third century, these norms were drawn up and were in force long before the time of the Jesuits; standards later codified in the sixteenth century, in the legal text Table set Shulkhan ark. This behavior was considered to be very dangerous Paul on what today we would call strictly doctrinal. Indeed, This way of acting, He would cause the Gentiles to be their church, or to submit to what were the requirements of Rule halakha, rabbinic law interpretation of the rabbis themselves erected on the dictates of the Book of Leviticus and the Book of Deuteronomy; or, i pagani, they would have to submit to Hlcot Hlkhot [laws of the Jews], from circumcision. By acting in this way Peter put at serious risk the unity of the Church, to the point that Paul resumes publicly and in a severe manner, giving hypocrite and telling him in substance: how you can evangelize if it's you the first to be ambiguous and lacking in clarity in proclaiming the mystery of Revelation and Redemption?

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Here's the thing, and so the events took place: Pietro, chosen and appointed by Christ the Lord, He erred in matters of doctrine and faith at the risk of compromising the unity of the Church, a documented fact and then passed down through the historicity of the sacred texts from the Pauline Letters. For the rest, those who have read and understood, face on its behalf its assessments. While stating that for my part, regardless of the ancient apostolic Antiochene theological disputes and regardless of the ironies that I have spent on those who consider the infallibility of the Roman Pontiff in matters of doctrine and faith as a kind of magic that the Holy Spirit would act even beyond the will itself the Successor of Peter, in the dogmapapal fallibility remains out of the question and its application is explicated in the Dogmatic Constitution The eternal shepherd of Blessed Pope Pius IX and then in To protect the faith of the Holy Pontiff John Paul II. The exercise of infallible teaching, however, it involves specific features and requirements that can not be separated from freedom and the free will of those who practice it this infallible teaching. These characteristics are summarized by the refined theologian Cardinal Charles Journet [1891-1975] than in his work Church of the Incarnate Word explains:

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"The axiom" where the Pope is, there is the Church ", so where the Pope acts as Pope and Head of the Church; if not, or The Church is in him, neither he is in the Church ".

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Exactly as it happened in Antioch and exactly how it could be repeated throughout history, without the dogma of papal infallibility and is minimally affected in any way, quite the opposite: recognize the freedom and free will, with its ability to accept or to refuse the grace of state, it means protecting, and in my opinion even in the best way, the dogma of the infallibility of the same. This is the reason why recently, a question we might call mere academic speculation, my interrogai: "Can a Roman Pontiff legitimately elected and legitimate Successor of the Blessed Apostle Peter to be deprived of the grace of state?» [see article, WHO]. Following the logic of the Holy Scriptures, from the mystery of creation itself and the Book of Genesis, it looks to be, enough to consider that He did not prevent Adam and Eve committing the original sin because of which was handed over a corrupt and deadly nature to all mankind that descended from them; a poor humanity that sin not committed it, but because of them he has inherited through corruption of this nature because of their sin of rebellion to God the Father. Now, because God, If not for those two wretches, but at least for the poor humanity that they would be followed, unsprung their freedom and preventing their free will to make that sin? From this we can deduce logically and theologically that all men, including Catholic faithful, presbyters, bishops and the Roman Pontiff, They may be closed to the sanctifying grace or reject the sanctifying grace, why never, It gave, He has turned against the freedom of man, nor ever he has suspended for one minute man the exercise of this right, and he never acted on it beyond his will, no he did with Adam and Eve, no he did so with Cain, He has not done so with Judas Iscariot, did not do it with the Blessed Apostle Peter, who after being ordained high priest and chosen as Vicar of Christ on earth, It initiates to own ministry denying Christ, giving himself to flee, deviating from the straight doctrine, trying to escape again even in old age in Rome, if Christ himself, as tradition tells, he had not appeared on the Via Appia, or the so-called Via quo Vadis? Incidentally: according to the account of the text of the apocryphal Acts of Peter, in old age, the Prince of the Apostles, He had returned to flee, this time in Rome, during the anti-Christian persecutions of Nero. As he walked down the Via Appia, Risen Christ appeared to him. Peter asked: «Quo vadis, Dominated?» [Where are you going, man?]. Christ the Lord answered: «For Rome, I crucifixion» [I am going to Rome to be crucified again]. Only then, in old age, Peter ceased to escape, he returned to Rome and accepted the sanctifying grace of martyrdom.

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At the conclusion of this speech is worth mentioning always with regard to freedom and free will -, God Father, to realize the mystery of the Word, He waited for the answer of the Blessed Virgin Mary, stuffed with grace, after having knocked on the doors of his freedom and his free will. Because Maria, The Immaculate Conception, was so, predestined, but it was by no means preordained. And Mary, Archangel Gabriel, he might say no, in the full and legitimate exercise of that freedom of the children of God which is a structural part of the very mystery of creation.

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THE IMAGE OF THE CHURCH AS THE STRUCTURE OF SIN THAT MUCH DIFFERENT POPES SCARE FROM THE END OF THE NINETEENTH TO START OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM

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About then my statement about the reduced visible Church in structure of sin which it produces sin within itself and releases it outside, I would like to call me at three different Popes of the twentieth century, from Pope Leo XIII that after a vision he wrote a prayer to St. Michael the Archangel by requiring the recitation in 1886 after each Mass in all the churches of Orbe catholica. The original prayer is very long and few know the full original text, while the one that was recited at the end of the Mass was its reduction. In the original wheel of’ AGAINST SATAN AND ANGELS, The Pope Leo XIII wrote:

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«Church, Spotless lamb Bride, faverrimi enemies have filled with bitterness;, inebriated with wormwood; impious hands on all her treasures;. When the seat blessed Peter and the Chair of the peoples to the light of truth, of his own there, a throne of their abominable impiety, and the; Pastor struck the, they can disperse the flock» [Italian translation: "The church, this spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, she is drunk with shrewd enemies who fill her with bitterness and who lay their sacrilegious hands on all her most desirable things. Where is the seat of the Blessed Peter mail to the chair of truth to enlighten the people, there have established the throne of their abominable impiety, so hitting the shepherd, dispersing the flock ".

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Request: What he saw in this terrible vision of the Pope Leo XIII, to be reached to write and prophesy that Satan and his cronies take control "of Peter," and from one point to follow the "Chair of the Truth", namely the papacy, without being able to prevail at the end of it? Or perhaps the Pope Leo XIII was not aware that the Roman Pontiff, supreme guardian of truth, He can never err in matters of doctrine and faith, enjoying a very special way of the Holy Spirit, which - I repeat - it can not act against the will and man's free, except for dropping God contradicts himself? I believe that Pope Leo XIII the prerogative of the Roman Pontiff knew them all very well, also because he was one of the Fathers who composed the session of the First Vatican Council, in which the dogma of papal infallibility in matters of doctrine and faith was solemnly sealed.

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THE THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY AND THE CHURCH AS SIN SIN PRODUCING STRUCTURE TO YOUR INSIDE AND OUTSIDE SPREAD

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Since Pope Leo XIII proceed with a jump to the sixties of the twentieth century, when the young theologian Joseph Ratzinger, fifty years ago, he wrote:

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"If we do not want to hide anything, we are certainly tempted to say that the Church is neither holy, neither Catholic: the Second Vatican Council could even speak not only of the Holy Church, but the sinful Church; though here, Member was reprimanded something, It is mostly that he was still too shy, We are so deep in the consciousness of all of us feel the sinfulness of the Church " [Introduction to Christianity, 1968].

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In a situation like this, what can we do? Species considering that sixteen years after these analyzes of the young Joseph Ratzinger, the Holy Pontiff John Paul II, that while they had called him to head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, back in October 1984, during his second apostolic visit to Germany, stated, "The world is experiencing the twelfth book of Revelation»? [see my old article, WHO]

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Analyzing and developing certain themes, almost two years ago I wrote a long article in which I talked about certain issues under the title: "The fall: those ugly stories of the Vatican II that nobody tells to not damage the superdogma ... " [see WHO]. Three months ago, in another article, Instead I explained how we can and should we react before a visible Church suffers from a doctrinal and moral decay irreversible [see WHO]. Today, earlier this year 2019, after so write, After using in the past very strict tones, then move on to the irony and even mockery to say goodbye, sadly I have to take place in a way that not even erodes the severity of certain ecclesiastical smear that are now beyond being mere sinners, because they now constitute an entrenched group of untouchable power formed by diabolical figures festering living in sin. And their grave and shameful sin manifest publicly proud, because their sinful abominations go hand in hand with the power that they manage; a power that has made them become drunk and delirious omnipotence, just like the great whore narrated in the Apocalypse of Blessed John the Apostle [cf. AP 18, 2-3]. Before this Hell's antechamber the question which give adequate response is very simple, I dare say a truism, and it is the following: in practice, What we can and must do to imperative of conscience, motivated by the theological virtues of faith, of hope and charity? Because if we do not give an answer, while poor that either, then the talk is likely to be a talking's sake, speculation for its own sake, an end in itself analysis, Finally a sterile critical end in itself. And criticism sterile ends in themselves, Who does not ennoble the formula, and do not help those who collects, especially those who collect them it is a people of God more and more lost in search of answers, points of reference and reliable and safe guides.

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In four years of a publicist The Island of Patmos [2015-2018], I have several dozen articles where I talk about the irreversible decline, explaining that it, once the threshold of no return, no going back, because it is impossible. However, certain themes already spoke in my book written between 2008 and the 2009 and published at the end of 2010, When certain facts now exploded in all their scandalous devastation they were still far from coming, just remember my analysis on omosessualizzazione the visible Church, which I came to compare to the outbreak of a real one universal nubifrossing. And God knows how many enemies I conquered through those lines, although today, the problems anticipated by me yesterday, They are then exploded through very serious moral scandals and global proportions, making turn upon my enemies more sick, in case some pious soul naive to think that some Ecclesiastical Authority has admitted: “Unfortunately, you were right and you had seen us right, it will mean that we will impose your tormentors to leave you alone”. Above all, a decade ago, about the inevitable scandals that would eventually explode, I explained how, exceeded the so-called threshold of no return, even by the Holy Spirit, the route would most could reverse, because the Third Person of the Holy Trinity can not subvert the laws of physics. It is indeed a “physical law”, as is that of the force of gravity, the fact that a process of decadence, once she entered its irreversible phase, It is no longer stoppable. About that, in my writing than three months ago, Critically bitter tone I took the example of the parachute:

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"Certain subjects they would not hesitate to revolutionize the laws of physics in the name of their subjective truth and their equally subjective logic, but the question that they should ask themselves is very practical and very simple background: for a dreadful error which may also have competition both much criticized modernist both much criticized rahneriani, or even only for a negligent to say the least absurd, it happened that a parachutist would have stepped off the plane without having donned the parachute, because this is the current situation of the Church: launch a plane without a parachute. Well, the great masters of Aristotelian logic, the school and metaphysics, at this point should bring the best arguments to explain that this paratrooper, precipitating towards the ground by two thousand meters of height, It can still stop, go back, cater to wear a parachute and jump again. And if these pundits metaphysical answer that he has launched without a parachute because of the Modernists and Karl Rahner, I will say that this, It was also true, now it is irrelevant, because the cause was found and destroyed before he will branch out. If then, even worse, before the paratrooper who rushes without a parachute, those who can never be free of a "logical" answer for everything, They are attacked to say that is the Holy Spirit, at that point, I will say that the Holy Spirit is not Merlin, then invite them to explain how the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, before a free individual or collective act of the will which involves precise consequences, He will cancel its freedom and its free will to bring it back on the plane, let him wear the parachute and then let it run again, after meanwhile he disavowed the modernists and rahneriani, on account of which he has launched without a parachute […]» [the entire article is contained WHO].

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A Pseudo Thomism CRITICAL AND AGGRESSIVE FROM WHICH THEN GOES TO ALLEGATIONS OF HERESY ANYONE TO ANALYZE PROBLEMS IN OTHER WAY, NOT USED TO NOTHING, It disperses EVEN MORE THE FLOCK AND IS ONLY DESTRUCTIVE

 

My poor experience and the results of work done over the last few years, they finally taught me, as I mentioned earlier, that the severe criticism, the battles against immoral clergymen proud of their immorality and especially placed up to the chief leaders of the Church, no longer serve any good. Not even the wise ironies and healthy jeers, longer they serve to stir a similar situation gangrenous, or if you prefer this fall without a parachute. I must say that I have come to this conclusion through prayer and meditation on sacred texts, among whom I was especially helpful the wisdom book of Ecclesiastes:

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To everything there is a season, its time for every purpose under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot the plants.
A time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build.
A time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;.
A time to search and a time to lose,
A time to keep and a time to cast away;.
A time to tear and a time to sew,
a time to keep silence and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace [Ec 3, 1-8].

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Let me be clear: I have neither thrown in the towel on ring Boxing, nor do I have raised the white flag before the enemy, least of all by roaring lion have become a castrato of the eighteenth century Baroque singing with the voice of a soprano unvoiced. quite simply, in tracing a work plan for the new year, I reflected on the fact that

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"There is a time to tear and a time to sew, there is a time to be silent and a time to speak ... ".

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And today we have to measure well, talk about what, to prevent the talk, but above all to denounce and criticize, it's just an end in itself, the only result of not the slightest dent in the acolytes of Satan, but at the same time, however disorienting ancòra more God's people very ill and lost, that needs to be sustained in the great test. And I doubt the People of God, in this huge debacle, It can be sustained by offering great lessons against the heresies of the Modernists and against the theology of Karl Rahner, explaining how important start from school and St. Thomas Aquinas, in conclusion: water the daisies in the garden to prevent them from wilting with the heat of the burning house, because what only counts, while everything burns, It is to save the good memories of when in the past the daisies were blooming around the house.

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For this I ceased to argue with the methods lovers, useful to speculate on the truths of the faith and to achieve fully the same truths of faith, but not always effective in all historical and social situations. But mostly I ceased to argue with those who end up deifying the method, which is always and only a means to get to the truth; and it is said that this method, even if effective for centuries, it is always up to the return of Christ the Lord to the end of time. I refer to the school and St. Thomas Aquinas, and those who before the fall without a parachute from the plane so stubbornly insist that you must stop the fall, return the paratrooper plane, let him wear the parachute of the school and the double safety parachute of St. Thomas Aquinas, then do it again to launch, so that the launch and down to earth to be successful. Am I an anti-academic and anti-Thomistic? Never! I am a philosophical-theological authentic product and an authentic lover of the school and of Thomism. What I have to be logically and rationally aware of - as I have repeatedly and in vain for many explained in my writings - is that both scholasticism and Thomism require a precise language and precise speculative techniques which have now been lost for over half a century.. Only to give new life to their necessary and natural language - even before being able to think about the recovery of scholasticism and Thomism -, It takes decades of hard work, to play so do not know how profitable, whereas in the building while the whole house burns faster, that while there are, objectively and logically, priority lot more and more urgent. Concrete example and not subject to easy refutation: if today we talk about a school and metaphysical language of Thomistic system, the first not to understand are the bishops, many of which border on the theological illiteracy, formats such as are, most of them, on emotional facts sociologisms go through theology that have invaded the whole Church in the season of post-Vatican II. And as I wrote in another previous article: if in a library containing unique copies of precious books a fire breaks out and only a few lyrics can be removed from the flames, I sincerely believe that I have a duty and a moral obligation to rescue the texts of the Holy Gospels, Apostolic Letters and the Acts of the Apostles, certainly not the logic of Aristotle, the work of Saint Anselm of Aosta and St. Thomas Aquinas, because neither Aristotle, nor Aosta nor Aquinas there would be of no use without the Holy Gospels, Apostolic Letters and the Acts of the Apostles. And if someone tries to replicate the Aosta and Aquinas serve precisely to be able to read and understand the Word of God's Word, In this case, it should answer that for over a millennium, the heritage of faith of Revelation, was transmitted and all in all understood even before they were born Saint Anselm of Aosta and St. Thomas Aquinas, preceded by many and great Fathers and Doctors of the Church.

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OUR DUTY AND PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND STARTING SEEDS EXCEPT THE HOLY GOSPEL AND THEY KEEP THE the senses IN THE PEOPLE OF GOD

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On our Patmos Island he must therefore bear this dramatic and happy task: to rescue the foundations of the Holy Catholic Faith - the so-called "seed bank" [cf. WHO] - and with them the sense of faith the Holy People of God more and more lost and dispersed. It is therefore necessary to experience and live out God's people that authentic emotion Christological on which it is written:

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"Landing, He saw a large crowd and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things " [MC 6, 34].

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Our task is to save what the Word of God taught, protecting his word against counterfeiting, from adulteration and from misinformation, aware that you can not live in Sodom and Gomorrah, even passive witnessing the abomination of sin, because it is in these situations that God the Father encourages us and stimulates us to the great value that the flight to safety, as opposed to those cynical and impotent remains immersed nell'abominio waiting for better times, or waiting for things to change. Father gave, escape from Egypt until the escape from Sodom and Gomorrah, their children and encourages them to flee to safety dall'abominio of desolation.

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Much more complex, terrible and painful is the dramatic situation of us priests, if we think that maybe one day we may find ourselves even in the position to say no to those same Ecclesiastical Authority to which we promise filial and devout obedience, if the pilot were they there, or trying to impose anything contrary to the Holy Gospel; and that goes against the Holy Gospel, only the sophists unrepentant can groped to interpret it in a good part climbing above the oil sprinkled mirrors. E, an eventuality, for any priest is a painful tragedy which is difficult and only think, because it would be given rise to an agonizing conflict with the very nature of the priestly character, which is itself the result of communion and obedience Apostolic Authority. Even to this painful and agonizing question but no answer: when in fact we have been consecrated in the Holy Order, The ordaining bishop does not put us in his hands the petition of his personal subjective will or its pseudo theologies emotional, nor we asked us to stick to the content of his statements more or less correct and happy; in our hands it was placed the sacred book of the Holy Gospel. And when after the prayer of consecration and the laying on of hands, Bishop handed the paten with the bread and the chalice with wine, He told us:

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«Receive the offerings of the Holy People for the Eucharistic Sacrifice. Understand what you will do, imitate what you celebrate, conform your life to the mystery of the cross of Christ the Lord ".

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And the source of awareness which leads us to realize that we do and to imitate what we celebrate, so that our life is in accordance with the mystery of the cross of Christ the Lord, is the whole enclosed in the Holy Gospels, certainly not in worldly political-sociological courses now campaigning by many bishops who have decided to please the children of this world, up to mitigate or water down the Holy Gospel and the Apostolic Letters, in the event that these texts did not like and would not welcome the children of this world, entering and leaving the now hallowed halls in their capacity as devout atheists or perverts unrepentant who applaud shouting “long live the revolution!”, while at the same time the faithful devotees, as a veritable hemorrhage, deserting our increasingly becoming more and more numerous churches : "I am ashamed of this Church … I am ashamed to be Catholic ".

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In the dark night, and in the confusion, It will be our support and aid the word of the Blessed Apostle Paul admonishes us:

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"Well, But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel other than what we have preached to you, is anathema! We have already said it and now I repeat it: if any man preach any other gospel to you than what you accepted, is anathema! Indeed, It is perhaps the favor of men that I intend to earn, or rather that of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, do not be a servant of Christ!» [Gal 1, 8-10]

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Because of this Today resonates in us the heartfelt invitation of the Blessed Apostle Peter:

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"Keep sober, watch. Your enemy, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, looking for someone to devour. Resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that your brothers around the world suffer the same sufferings as you " [The Pt 5, 8-9].

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Maybe soon we will make the end they did many Jews during the Second World War. And we will do different but similar end for the devilish work of those ecclesiastical Goebbels and complacent laymen who are now attached as polyps of the Chair of Peter, just like tells the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel of Pope Leo XIII. However, one thing is certain: in the future Nuremberg Celeste, to be bound hand and foot and cast into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth [cf. Mt 22, 13], will be some current, devastating and deadly Goebbels, clergy and laity, not sure we devoted servants of Christ and his Church until the end, for the sincere belief in the life of the world to come and in the full knowledge that "many are called, but few are chosen " [CF. Mt 22, 14].

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the Island of Patmos, 1 January 2019

On the Solemnity of the Holy Mother

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Thanking all dear readers who have supported us, I remember, as we are now well aware of our many loyal, that our work is based entirely on your financial support [cf. WHO], and in this regard we recall:

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"Do not you know that those celebrating the cult, from the cult get their food, and those who serve at the altar, receive their share from the altar? So also the Lord has commanded that those who proclaim the Gospel should live by the Gospel " [The Cor 9, 13-14].

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The Holy League Felina in defense of the tradition of the crib by the ideology of political correctness and … “line strano”!

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SANTA FELINA THE LEAGUE IN DEFENSE OF THE TRADITION OF THE NATIVITY FROM IDEOLOGY OF THE POLITICALLY CORRECT AND OF ... line STRANO !

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Through the Way to Emmaus of the hospital wards: Chaplain as a disciple and companion in the disease

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THROUGH THE WAY OF EMMAUS LANES OF HOSPITAL: THE CHAPLAIN AS DISCIPLE AND TRAVELING COMPANION IN DISEASE

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... in the parable of the Good Samaritan, is a clear reference to Jesus as the one who cares for man beaten by robbers and pours oil on his wounds and wine symbols of sacramental grace that comes from Christ with abundance and power. The man mistreated by robbers is taken over by Jesus to walk from the condition of dying to that of the resurrected.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp. on a visit to the hospital pediatric ward Brotzu of Cagliari with the elves and Santa Claus

The fact that "just die" guides us to understand, through the daily experience, that in life we ​​all need someone to support us and share with us their carefree moments and test. Divine finding of Genesis 2,18 "It is not good that the man should be alone", in my opinion it should not only read as a reference of the spousal relationship between man and woman, but as imperative to sociability and fellowship. Man is called to experience God only in communion with his brother. The mystery of the Trinity, It is a mystery of communion, It does not exist in God alone.

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In times of trial and illness the being dynamic with is essential to experience a true accompaniment that both support and stimulus not to feel alone and to enjoy as well the providence of God that puts our side someone who loves us. Already the wisdom of the Psalmist makes us sing: "There, how good and how pleasant it is when brothers live together " [cf Sal 133,1].

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There are two episodes of the Gospel that better than others embody the duty of the vicinity of the Christian toward the sufferer in body and soul: the parable of the Good Samaritan [cf. LC 10,23-37] and the story of the disciples of Emmaus [cf. LC 24,13-35]. In these Gospel passages the evangelist Luke, Master of tenderness and compassion, reveals the preferential love of Christ for the sick man. Hence the urge to dare not pass.

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souvenir photo after the Christmas Mass in the pediatric ward

In the parable of the Good Samaritan the reference to Jesus as the one who takes care of the man beaten by brigands and pours on his wounds oil and wine symbols of sacramental grace is clear, that Christ comes with abundance and power. The man mistreated by robbers is taken over by Jesus to walk from the condition of dying to that of the resurrected. The figure of the man beaten on the road, expresses vividly:

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"The incurable wound from which we were hit […] and that only the Lord could heal. That's why he came in person, because none of the elderly, nor the Law, i born profeti, They were capable of remedy. Only him, coming, He cured this incurable wound in the soul " [cf. Macarius the Great, Homilies, (Coll. (II)), XXX, 8].

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Jesus the Good Samaritan It makes a change of state in the life of every man: dall'orizzontalismo infirmity to the verticality of the new life [cf. LC 4,38-39]. Jesus is the one who heals and heals because it is the Lord. The power of the Risen Lord and his lordship is manifested through a new creation that takes place in humans through a passage from the condition of sickness to health condition that becomes proof of salvation and then resurrection.

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Christmas in the pediatric ward

In front of Jesus healing action, there is a need to be employees of a cure that is expressed in time and which is brought forward thanks to the work of the master of the inn to which is entrusted with the task to preserve and continue the work of restoration started by Christ. Like this, in the care and assistance of the sick, the figure of the hospital chaplain embodies the one to whom Jesus entrusted the care of the dying, obeying the mandate to take care of him, mutandolo Minister in the Easter announcement that Jesus is risen and He is the Lord [cf. At 3,1-16], this announcement comes the healing power.

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In the ministry of consolation and care which is done in the hospital, the chaplain is called to imitate the attitudes of Good Samaritan who sees the sick but does not pass over. At the same time, the chaplain is also minister of diakonia insofar as he is capable of assuming and planning concrete realities of assistance in the time of illness of many poor and disadvantaged men.

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We can say then that the hospital ministry for the sick is a missionary service, that in the ad, in the care and nell'accudimento builds the face of the suffering of Christ Church. Here then is the task of care and compassion is combined in the accompaniment of discouraged, Man hopelessly, therefore infirm soul.

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Christmas in the pediatric ward

In the light of the proximity and the impulse to common path, l'Episode from the Gospel of Luke, the disciples of Emmaus shows us Jesus who makes companion of man's journey that has lost hope and joy. In fact the disease, the fear of death and loneliness, destroy the humans joy, as well as put a strain on the faith. Questions like: "why me?"And" where is God in all this?»Prove the patient and his family and they require a response that can never be taken for granted or easy come. Then, at the same time take care of the sick, no need for a walk with him, open his heart to the joyous message of Easter: God is victorious over death, of the disease, the loneliness of man.

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Christmas along the Via Emmaus hospital …

The announcement of the Word of God, human proximity to the chaplain and Christian communities who frequently visit the sick, realize that miracle of inclusion and accompaniment which then predisposes the patient to dispose of the sad face of disappointment and sadness to dress the joy and gratitude in the living Jesus. This is why the walk close to the patient within the hospital really means to implement consistently and missionary spirit of the daily visit to the wards, the meeting with the families of the sick, sacramental care of the sick souls.

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The chaplain was called to duty of justice to meet the sick, not only to obey the command of Christ [cf. Mt 25,36], but to be traveling with him in the disease, friend who dries her tears and fills a void, prophet who announces that God is faithful and realizes its promises.

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the disciples on the Way to Emmaus [see text Lucan WHO].

Christ the Lord, through human and sacramental mediation of the priest chaplain, breaks considered the bread of the Word and the Eucharist that the blind regain sight, the lame to walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf come back to hear, the dead are called to life, the poor are immersed in the gospel of the kingdom [cf. LC 7,22].

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A ministry of this kind is no doubt exhausting, slow and meticulous and lends itself to sharing the same divine patience, so that the sick man in body and spirit is, day by day, cared for and loved so that it can achieve health and salvation that are normal conditions for every child of God.

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Cagliari, 28 December 2018

Christmas its Eighth

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"When you have eliminated the impossible, what remains, however unlikely, It must be the truth "… And the Word became flesh

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"WHEN YOU HAVE ELIMINATED THE IMPOSSIBLE, WHAT REMAINS, EVEN IF UNLIKELY, MUST BE THE TRUTH "... AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH

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Sherlock Holmes, acute investigator, solves the most intricate and mysterious cases of murder, discovering the murderer with witty wisdom. This character, It is thus able to reveal something hidden, bringing to light that is not immediately visible. He has as its motto: "When you have eliminated the impossible, what remains, however unlikely, It must be the truth " … And the Word became flesh.

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Merry Christmas to you all!

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Shelock Holmes, vintage vignette

Even this year we have the joy of living together this Solemnity of the Lord. The birth of Jesus, Son of God, It is one of the central mysteries of our faith, summarized in John's Gospel just proclaimed [see text, WHO]. Let's get into that great mystery from a literary work.

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We all know the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, born from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the last century in the novel A Study in Red. Holmes, London-based private investigator, He is accompanied by his doctor, Dr. Watson. Holmes, acute investigator, solves the most intricate and mysterious cases of murder, discovering the murderer with witty wisdom. This character, so it is able to reveal something hidden, bringing to light that is not immediately visible. He has as its motto: "When you have eliminated the impossible, what remains, however unlikely, It must be the truth ".

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With his birth and came into the world, Baby Jesus helps all of us to enter into the light of the mystery of God; with this mission, that theology is visible mission called the Trinity, it helps eliminate the impossible and find the truth that, at first sight, It may even seem unlikely.

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The Gospel of John that we heard So just now it helps us to understand the great mystery. To understand it, We must start from the end of the song:

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"It gave, no one has seen him: the only Son, who is God and is at the Father, it is he who has made him known " [cf. v. 18].

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The strong desire that makes us men in a higher state it consists in seeing, learn and discover. Hence the desire to learn and discover God is the highest ever. It is a spark of humanity that wants to become Fire. This permits it the only Son, Jesus, that is God with the Father although distinct from Him. Jesus fulfills our deepest desire to open ourselves to the truth and greatest love. This is possible because it has given us, this Christmas all over himself: "From his fullness we have all received: grace upon grace " [cf. v. 16].

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By becoming man, Jesus accepts all mankind and all the men without exception and without conditions: this is his fullness. The greeted us unconditionally allowed a cascade of love and acceptance: This waterfall is His grace that, first of all, we receive in the sacraments.

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Through the grace that opens our deep knowledge of God, we can rest assured that beings

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"The Word became flesh, and he dwelt among us; and we beheld his glory […]» [cf. v. 16].

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In contemporary culture, this seems very unlikely and unacceptable. Because the Word that is God, spiritual and invisible, become flesh [from greek σάρξ, sarx]? Because God is love and wants to call to intimacy and deep tenderness with Him, up to allow the miracle to assume the human nature and a real body, real, physical. Exactly how a droplet of water is taken in a wider part of the wine, so human and divine nature exist together in Jesus. Soon you will see this mystery of the dual nature, shown in the liturgy when I myself, fulfilling my deacon function, I will mix into the cup with the wine with a few drops of water, followed by soft words:

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"The water combined with wine is a sign of our union, the divinity of Him who humbled himself to share our human nature ".

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So now that we know that Jesus revealed God, He has opened the doors of grace and allows us to contemplate the glory of his dual nature beautiful, with sparkling eyes of happiness and serenity can say with faith: «In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God " [cf. v. 1].

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The Verb, dal greco reason, logos [Word] God Himself: It is the second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ and is intimately united to the Father, and he wants to transport us to the intimate union with the Trinity itself and therefore to be small Trinity we too.

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This mystery, from the top of its inviolability, now it falls in the reality of everyday life: Now that you will return home to gather you together with those most popular for Christmas dinner, We ask the Lord for strength and determination to be a witness in front of our relatives and friends of the love of Jesus who is born today. For ourselves, once you received Jesus in the Eucharistic communion and united in Him, We can also conduct the farthest to the cave of Bethlehem. So that we hand down the purity, the beauty and the truth with which we live the Catholic faith.

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Rome, 25 December 2018

Nativity of the Lord

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Some clarification so that our Christmas is less poor and less ideological: in truth, Bethlehem was just sold out, Jesus Christ was not born of two immigrants …

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

SOME CLARIFICATION SO THAT OUR CHRISTMAS IS LESS POOR AND LESS IDEOLOGICAL: IN TRUTH, BETHLEHEM WAS ALL JUST OUT, JESUS ​​CHRIST IS BORN OF TWO IMMIGRANTS …

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Between 25 and the 26 December we will have to put up with the news reports trickling political correctness that c'informeranno how many glorious cathedrals and basilicas, during Holy Mass on Christmas Night, reference was made to Jesus, poor and refugee. And as the cathedral or the basilica will be prestigious, as the homilist will have raised the bar …

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The boy is born, alleluia !

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there was a place, a Bethlehem …

We will devote the homily on the Gospel of this Holy Night the link between the Incarnation of the Word of God made man in the mystery of the Holy Eucharist [see text of the Liturgy of the Word, LC 2, 1-14, WHO].

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In the days before this Holy Christmas, and in those that follow, the divine mystery of this birth has been defined in many ways by the world increasingly worldly and secular, just some examples: Christmas referred to as "party of peace", "Feast of solidarity", "Feast of love between the peoples of diversity and acceptance", of course "feast of the poor" and "party of immigrants'. Let me be clear: I'm not troubled either by the poor or by immigrants, but I believe both our human and Christian duty to help the poor out of their poverty, and the real refugees fleeing from wars and famine to a homeland: "I was a stranger and you welcomed me" [cf. Mt 25, 31-46].

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A disturb, it is therefore not the tragedy of poverty, nor the problem of immigration; for five years now to disturb me is another, and especially when on the occasion of Christmas and Easter, now these two ideological categories - poor and real or would-be migrants -, take the place of the Word of God incarnate and the Risen Christ.

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Between 25 and the 26 December so we will have to put up with The newspaper reports that political correctness dripping c'informeranno how many glorious cathedrals and basilicas, during Holy Mass on Christmas Night, reference was made to Jesus, poor and refugee. And as the cathedral or the basilica will be prestigious, as the homilist will have raised the bar. And so, as every January 1, we will have the traditional account given by newspapers and television news on New Year's incidents in Naples, the same will happen in our church ever crashed worldliness, and the 26 December we celebrate the memory of St. Stephen the Martyr with the most detailed reports on lunches that were held in our churches on Christmas Eve and the homilies based on the poor and refugees in the same took place between the night of 24 and the day 25 December, between cribs which have become a monotonous and conformist riot of barges and rescue donuts used to Arrange above the Bambinello Divine just landed on the island of Lampedusa.

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In this Holy Night I would like to recall that at Christmas, the Orbe catholica, celebrates the mystery of the Word of God made man [cf. GV 1, 1-18], not celebrate an unspecified "feast of" solidarity emptied of the divine mystery and filled with worldly secularism. And words are important, because the more diabolical way to destroy the faith, It is emptying the mysteries of the faith of their true meaning and then fill them with another. This means no more memory of the great mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God who became man by assuming our human nature as illustrated by the Blessed Apostle Paul in his famous Christological hymn [cf. In II 2, 6-11 text WHO], but "party of peace", "Feast of solidarity", "Feast of love between people and acceptance of diversity" ... all with improbable and untruthful references to Jesus, poor and refugee.

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Let us see what to narrate the historical chronicles of the Holy Gospels: the Blessed Virgin Mary, after answering freely with their own "fiat"The messenger of the Lord [cf. LC 1, 26-38], It gives birth months later the only Son of God, It wraps Him in swaddling clothes and lays him in a manger. This birth and this deposition in a manger did not happen narrated in ways that Joseph was poor and refugee, but because the two, It tells us how the Holy Gospel we have just proclaimed [LC 2, 1-14], They were traveling from Nazareth to Bethlehem to fulfill the obligation of the census ordered by Caesar Augustus [cf. LC 2, 1-14]. Joseph was a craftsman who played the noble and profitable trade of cabinetmaker, while Mary came from a family perhaps even more wealthy than that of Joseph, just think that the husband of her cousin Elizabeth was a priest of the ancient caste of Abijah [cf. LC 1, 57-80]. Therefore, if Jesus was born in a makeshift place is because, as narrated in the Gospels Saints, there was not an empty seat in any hotel [cf. LC 2, 1-6]; not because Joseph had nothing to pay for the accommodation when the Blessed Virgin was seized by labor pains on that trip, undertaken not by voluntary choice, but for a legal duty imposed obligation to be enrolled [cf. LC 2,1].

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The biggest event in history, the incarnation of God's Word, It is described through the sequence of some basic keywords: give birth, wrap in swaddling, put in a manger. With these plain words it tells of the birth of the Only Begotten Son of God the Father, Jesus, the Light of the World. Because "Christ, while it is of divine nature, He did not consider it robbery to be equal with God; but he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in human likeness. He appeared in human form, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death on a cross " [Fil 2, 6-11]. His, who is God from God, Light from Light, True God from true God, begotten not made of the same substance as the Father [Nicea-Constantinople Symbol], He sees the light through the eyes of a real man born from the womb of a woman, the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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The only begotten Son of God laid in the manger, It constitutes for us a great value mystagogical. In the manger it is in fact lays the food for animals: hay and straw, keeping them high off the ground so you do not dirty. Jesus, placing itself in the manger, He reveals to the world since the birth of what is its true essence: the Word of God made man is to be real nourishment of men.

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Even today Christ is laid in the manger altar or the tabernacle so that everyone can come to Him to worship him as shepherds worshiped the revelers flocked [cf. LC 2, 15-20] and Wizards astronomers said Magi [cf. Mt 2, 1-12], so that everyone can feed on Him in the Holy Eucharist, which it is the mystery of his body and his blood shed. And in the Eucharist Christ is present not symbolically or metaphorically, but really; He is living and real in body soul and divinity.

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Christ redeems and saves mankind through the sacrifice of the cross, immolating himself as the Lamb of God who washes the sin of the world [cf. GV 1, 29-34], making real food, man's true nourishment. The Holy Eucharist is the mystery of mutual transformation: God became man like us, so that we, washed from sin by the blood, through Christ, the bread of life we ​​can transform ourselves into Him, with Him and for Him. Remember what the celebrant recites what makes memory of the dead in the Holy Mass of suffrage? We priests, acting at that moment in persona Christi - certainly not as mere "presidents-playful joyful assembly" -, We recite this beautiful prayer: "He will transform our mortal body in the image of his glorious body" [cf. Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer III]. This, It meant by the mystery of mutual transformation.

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But what is the real Christ the Lord great joy and eternal humanity deposed in swaddling clothes in the manger? The joy of man is Christ received and heard that becomes our food of eternal life: "I am the living bread, down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world " [cf. GV 6, 51]. If Christ does not become our food and live our real lives, man can never know the truth that will set us free [cf. GV 8, 32]. They will never be the words for their own sake to give the man the joy that pervades the Gospel of Blessed John the Evangelist; They never will be unless those empty words instead lead to the mysteries of faith and salvation, empty these mysteries and fill them with another, often mundane and modern paganism.

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As long as man does not eat in a spirit of faith and truth Christ in his flesh sacrificed for our salvation, No real joy will come for him. And the flesh and throbbing of Christ God, yes it takes life in a tender manger, but then she ends up sacrificed on the cross for our redemption. In the end, the glorious body of Christ, He rises from the dead. Because the final epilogue of the Nativity is the resurrection. He tells us the Blessed Apostle Paul: "If Christ had not risen indeed, in vain would our faith, empty is our hope " [cf. The Cor 15,14].

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Our faith is born with the Incarnation of the Word of God deposited in a manger, but it is sealed from the overturned stone of an empty tomb, before which the angel said to the women: "Do not look among the dead for one who lives" [cf. LC 24,5]. The tender manger is just the beginning of the big announcement Christological, while the risen Christ is the eternal, one who affiancandoci in the journey along the Way to Emmaus [cf. LC 24, 13-53], will guide us through the centuries to his kingdom will have no end, towards the eternal.

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From the island of Patmos, 24 December 2018

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The Word of God made flesh for our health: Christmas as a therapeutic approach in the light of the Fathers of the Church

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THE WORD OF GOD FLESH FOR OUR HEALTH: CHRISTMAS JOURNEY AS THERAPY IN THE LIGHT OF THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH

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It seems clear, as the mystery of the coming of Christ on earth, presents a new therapeutic strategy that divine providence makes available to every man. The incarnation leads to a profound affinity between the Savior and man. Christ's affinity for man is constituted by putting on a fragile nature and marked by sin without assuming the original guilt.

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp.

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the Word of God became man to become a heavenly physician on earth

The birth of Christ constitutes the largest event in the entire human history: in this coming, God clothes himself in the nature of man by making himself in solidarity with him. Such a serene immersion of the Almighty in our fragility, carries out the project of redemption expected by all the prophets.

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In accordance with this will of God "The Fathers and the whole ecclesial tradition see him as a doctor sent by the Father to heal sick men from the consequences of original sin and to restore human nature to its original health" [cf. Jean-Claude Larchet, Therapy of spiritual diseases, ed. St. Paul, 2003, pg 2699].

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In this divine action, we must see clearly what constitutes the core of our dignity which cannot be tarnished by any person and anything, a very eloquent sign of the intrinsic value of each person, even if sick.

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To be made worthy - by grace - of the divine nature of the Son of God, constitutes in man the true personal identity that the Holy Pontiff Leo the Great explains precisely starting from the mystery of the nativity:

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"Know, cristiano, your dignity e, made partakers of the divine nature, not wanting to return to the abjection of the past with unworthy conduct " [cf. Leo the Great, Speeches, Homily I for Christmas, 1-3; PL 54, 190-193].

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The incarnation of Christ thus determines a profound liberation of the whole man who becomes the paradigm of sympatheia Divina [cf. Peter Crisologo, sermons, 50; PL 52, 340], an attitude that combines within itself the ability that God has to take on human suffering together with the ability to heal it.

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This concept we find it clearly expressed in various healings performed by Jesus and testified by the evangelists. We are faced with the paradigm of wounded healer, the one who is capable of healing because he makes himself sick with the sick.

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It seems clear, as the mystery of the coming of Christ on earth, presents a new therapeutic strategy that divine providence makes available to every man. The incarnation leads to a profound affinity between the Savior and man. Christ's affinity for man is constituted by putting on a fragile nature and marked by sin without assuming the original guilt, says the Council:

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«Following the holy Fathers, unanimously we teach to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, true God and true man, [composed] of rational soul and body, consubstantial with the Father for divinity, and consubstantial with us for humanity, “similar in everything to us, except in sin”…» [cf. Concilio of Chalcedon, Symbol: DS 301-302].

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The principle of affinity between Christ and man, joins the gap between the divine and the human and this allows the divine nature to heal human nature in depth through a radical and entirely new compromise, indeed: "A healthy person can only cure those who are not healthy if they are also sick with the sick. It is the ancient cure that the centaur Chiron offered to wounded people who went to visit him, to be caring because he is in turn wounded " [cf. Pike Coco, edited: I will heal you, ed. Praglia Abbey, 2013].

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Christ truly fulfills the hope of total healing that the ancients represented in the myth of the centaur healer Chiron, like this

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“Everything that Christ had placed in the human body of a heavenly nature, seeing that it was consumed by a corrosive wickedness and that the sinuous serpent was lord of mortals, since he wanted to raise his share, did not leave the disease to other doctors - in fact a small remedy is sufficient for serious diseases -, but emptying himself of his glory, being heavenly and immutable image of the divine, as a man and against mortal laws, in the holy womb of a virgin woman he became incarnate, or incredible miracle for exhausted men " [cf. Gregory of Nazianzo, Moral trees: 1,2,38 vv. 140-148; PG 37, 533].

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The condition of man, towards the heavenly physician, it needs a daily trust which is the human sentiment which - illuminated by grace - leads to the theological virtue of faith.

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Like this, how the sick person heals only if he puts his trust in those who care for him, trust in God is necessary to understand how the entire Christian life is a path of healing in which we are led into the arms of the Lord to regain health. Without this trust, we can never be completely safe from any infirmity.

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Trust in God is necessary so as not to presume about ourselves and not to fall into pathological complaining discontent, which is the daughter of vanity and worldly distress. Saint Augustine explores the theme of the advent of Christ, in relation to the trust and availability that man shows towards God, stating:

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«Our great physician came to the aid of mankind lying sick in the great bed of the world. A good doctor observes and studies the course of the disease, makes a prognosis on its development e, when the suffering of the patient is still slight, he calls in his helpers; in the same way our doctor first sent the Prophets to visit us who brought us their word, their preaching, and he healed some through them. They announced an aggravation of the disease nearing the final stage, which would have required the intervention of the physician in person to whom the patient could directly refer. It had been announced that he would console and heal anyone who had faith in him: "I strike and heal" [cf. Dt 32,39]: and so it happened. He has come, he became man by assuming our condition as mortal men so that we can share his immortality. But men are still troubled by the disease and, parched from fever, with labored breathing, they complain that since the doctor arrived, the fevers became more violent, more severe the torment, the sufferings are unsustainable. Wherever the doctor came from, they do not seem to have welcomed his coming. These are the laments of those who are still immersed in the disease of worldly vanities, having refused to receive from the doctor, the medicine of sobriety " [cf. St. Augustine, sermons: 346/A,8; NBA 34, pg 101].

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Each year, Christmas is preceded by a suitable time of preparation so that our Christian life becomes sober from so many distractions and intoxications that distract us from trust in God. The coming of Christ into the world is a cause for great joy [cf. LC 2,10], precisely because the Father

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"Over time it has convinced our nature of its own powerlessness in obtaining life; now he has shown us the Savior who has the power to save even what could not be: through this double means, he wanted us to have faith in his goodness and to see in him […] a doctor" [cf. Letter to Diognetus, IX, 6].

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Reassured by this certainty, we welcome the birth of the Lord as the visit of the heavenly doctor and put aside the fear and shame of being examined, presenting even those most hidden and infected sores that horrify us. Our eyes like that, like those of the holy old Simeon, they will contemplate salvation and with the psalmist we will be happy to sing «Lord, my God, I shouted at you and you healed me " [cf. Shall 30,3].

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Cagliari, 24 December 2018

Christmas' Eve

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This is the Christian mystic: the soul of the Virgin Mary is magnificent in the Lord and that reminds us that in the Name of Christ the Redeemer every knee should bow

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

THIS IS THE CHRISTIAN MYSTIC: THE SOUL OF THE VIRGIN MARY IN THE LORD AND THAT IS AMAZING THAT WE REMEMBER THAT IN THE NAME OF CHRIST REDEEMER every knee should bow

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Certain excesses of popular devotion to one side, old excesses of ecclesiastical caution from the opposite side, They led to forget for a long time another extraordinary figure as that of Mary: that of Joseph. Cautiously he depicted as an old man more or less put in a corner on the sidelines, or variously called in ejaculations with the title of "most chaste spouse". Joseph did not become a saint because he was "chaste", but because he has welcomed and made her the freedom of Mary. Supporting and protecting his own free choice of faith is Mary. The Word was able to embody because this man of great faith - that he was a young man, not that old decrepit place next to the manger, almost as if the stable of Bethlehem was for him the branch of a geriatric unit - protected Mary and the mystery. If not, the end of this young pregnant without a husband, without faith and the love of Joseph it would have been stoning.

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Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth. Work of Domenico Ghirlandaio, fifteenth century, of stolen goods kept at the famous art French House of Art Robberies also known as the Louvre Museum in Paris

The amiable figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary proposed by the Holy Gospel of this Fourth Sunday of Advent [see text of the Liturgy of the Word, WHO] has been read is interpreted in every way over the centuries, the popular literature to the learned literature. Think of the monumental ode with which Dante opens the XXXIII canto of Paradise with the prayer of St Bernard to the Virgin:

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Virgin mother, daughter of thy Son,
Humble and high beyond,
Fixed term of the eternal counsel.

Tu’ the one that the human nature
nobility yes, that his Factor
Do not disdain to make himself its.

In thy womb rekindled love
For whose warmth in the eternal peace
So this flower has germinated […]

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In theological world attention to the Blessed Virgin He has formed a research discipline and study: mariology, Also created to fix and restore within the ranks of the Catholic faith an issue that has always pervaded certain pockets of faithful, We mainly Mediterranean and the various peoples of Latin America, often animated by the so-called more or less popular faith that often has mutated forms of the Marian cult in Mariolatry; deviation from authentic faith that is our pastoral and priestly duty to correct, always, even when around certain phenomena is big money, rather, especially if around certain phenomena begins to circulate too much money …

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To preach a Gospel passage that speaks of Mary there will be spoiled for choice: We can start the discussion starting from a thousand different ways, and as many say a thousand different things, but the synthesis of Maria are two, He enclosed in a beginning and an ending that will mark the triumph and the beginning of Christological mystery. The beginning of Mary's journey is a yes [cf. LC 1, 26-38]; the end of Mary's projected path first in the mystery of the great start, is the cross that will take us right in front of torn stone of the empty tomb of the Risen.

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The faith and love of the Virgin Mary allow God the Father to realize the mystery. God is knocking at the doors of freedom of this young girl, little more than a teenager, with a request that exceeds all human imagination: God wants to become man. How freely the ancient Eve disobeyed God with the old Adam, with equal freedom Maria says yes, becoming in its way the new Eve humanity. Without many words, without any philosophical and theological discourse, This is the young girl changed the history of humanity; and with that yes «the Word became flesh and came to live among us [GV 1, 14].

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Certain excesses of popular devotion to one side, old excesses of ecclesiastical caution from the opposite side, They led to forget for a long time another extraordinary figure as that of Mary: that of Joseph. Cautiously he depicted as an old man more or less put in a corner on the sidelines, or variously called in ejaculations with the title of "most chaste spouse". Joseph did not become a saint because he was "chaste", but because he has welcomed and made her the freedom of Mary. Supporting and protecting his own free choice of faith is Mary. The Word was able to embody because this man of great faith - that he was a young man, not that old decrepit place next to the manger, almost as if the stable of Bethlehem was for him the branch of a geriatric unit - protected Mary and the mystery. If not, the end of this young pregnant without a husband, without faith and the love of Joseph it would have been stoning. It is not by chance, Giuseppe, before receiving the divine illumination, to be just and good man who was, She had thought of her away secretly, thus saving her life [cf. Mt 1,16.18-21.24]

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I said at the beginning that Mary can be accessed starting from a thousand different paths, saying many thousand different things. I would choose the path of the mystic …

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... in the liturgy prior to the Second Vatican Council, the Eucharistic Prayer was recited by the priest in a low voice, and the people kept his head bowed as a sign of humility, hardly daring to look at the great mystery of the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ, His true and living presence in the Church. Before the mystery and the ineffable gift of the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ, the least we can do is kneel, a sign of humility and adoration. What this should be remembered that our faithful, especially those men who believe they potersene be strutting head-on with his hands crossed on the crotch, perhaps because it afflicted by serious prostate problems? Cheer up, dear men, urology has made great strides, your problem is solved then!

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The value, humble and adoring dell'inginocchiarsi, We would not last even remembered some of our ceremonies, who against all tradition and ecclesial pedagogy sometimes give godly example to the People of God preaching to young deacons, acolytes, seminarians and altar in full possession of all their best forces and physical functions to sit standing around the altar; everything - note well - in a society where man, perhaps the bishop and the priest even more than many secular, He kneels more and more and more often before the most diabolical human idols, except the mystery of God made man incarnate in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, He died and rose from the dead, after having left the ineffable gift of his presence in the Eucharist Mystery, kneel before which is really minimal "trade union" that can be done.

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What a pain, entering certain churches and find instead of benches with the pews of the rows of chairs or nice movie theater-style chairs, however, cost him much of the old benches!

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The mystique gets on his knees, just as the liturgy makes its knees, because the liturgy is not aesthetic but fatuous creative center and the communion of the divine mystery. The liturgy is not a show of actor priest or of director priest, because of the sacred mystery of the liturgy that realizes we are faithful and devoted servants tools, not creators, not masters. And before the divine mystery we prostrate, and if necessary the good People of God - often much more sensitive and intelligent than they are some of his priests - should also remember certain masters of ceremony, ie that there kneels by custom or old tradition, but for obvious, sensible, adoring and Christian common sense before the ineffable the mystery of faith.

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While no Christian mysticism tends to be individualistic, to ask themselves before the mystery of God head-on and to extol individualism in all its forms, Christian mystical dimension that comes from communion and communitarianism, It rejects all forms of individualism and always has a social aspect and ecclesial, an adoring and liberating dimension that kneel to show even with the body, living temple of the Holy Spirit of God, that dimension of love which the Apostle invites us in his own words: «In the name of Jesus every knee bow in heaven, on earth and under the earth; and let every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father " [I Phil 2, 6-11].

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The act of contemplation and especially adoration, It is not restricted to private relationship, subjective and personal with God; contemplation and especially the worship, It has a profound inter subjective momentum on the Church and the whole of humanity.

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Mysticism as a mystery: every Christian not only lives in mystery, but it is called to live in communion with the mystery, as he himself mystery and live the mystery of creation. And soon, After the singing of Holy, All we enter into communion with the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ.

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Think of the mystical and the mystics as people who lived more or less in the clouds or so prodigious lievitavano in floor ecstasy, partly wrong and partly it is simplistic. Indeed, while certain Oriental forms of non-Christian mysticism seek detachment with the body and with the material, Christian mysticism is closely tied to the land, the body and the matter, because in the plans of God the two spheres of heaven and earth are not foreign but unite; and unite in the body and spirit. The mystical elements that realize the sacred mystery and that make the same Christ present among us, are elements of the earth earthbound. Maybe that's why it would be good not to overlap songs and music to important words that often offertory, our faithful, between a tambourine and a schitarrata risk not remember more: "... Through your goodness we have this bread, which earth has given and human hands, we present it to you, become for us the food of eternal life ". Segue, immediately below, just as prayer over wine, while the people should respond - if guitars and tambourines not prevented - "Blessed be God forever".

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The Blessed Virgin Mary that marks the words of Magnificat is a prime example of our mystical based on matter, on the body and on the Earth's size, because thanks to her marks the largest and mystical mystery: The Word became flesh to come to live in the flesh among us. An Incarnate Word with this girl who kneels with the soul and heart, saying: "There, I am the servant of the Lord, be done to me according to his word » [cf. LC 1, 26-38].

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Among the many things Mary teaches us to live with the heart to heaven and down to earth, because in God's mysteries, Jerusalem earthly and heavenly Jerusalem blend together; and melt over the stone of the empty tomb of the Savior, who died physically and that is just as physically rose again for the salvation of the world.

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All this has been possible thanks to the yes of a young girl whose soul is magnified and kneeling in the Lord, thanks to his spirit exulted in God our Savior. So thanks to the yes of a holy man of God, Giuseppe, that first of all, and forward all was and remains for us a wonderful example of true and determined man, who lovingly protected the will of Mary, saying in turn the mystery of God, teaching us to be real men and decided, and to make us love, with him and with Mary the Mother of God, faithful servants of the Lord, so that our souls may be glorified in Him.

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the Island of Patmos, 23 December 2018

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