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The joy of love, “healthy self-criticism”

17 April 2016/11 Comments/in Actuality, All/by Drafting

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JOY OF LOVE, "HEALTHY SELF-CRITICISM"

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It is possible that, gradually the years pass, the post-synodal apostolic exhortations become increasingly lengthy? It is possible that it will not be possible to summarize the results of the Fathers' discussions in a few propositions? la cut, generally, goes well with effectiveness and incisiveness: when you go beyond what is necessary to convey a certain message, most of the time it meant the ideas weren't very clear.

John Scalese, CRSP *

Eros and psyche, work by Antonio Canova

I have been asked for an intervention on the apostolic exhortation The joy of love. The readers who follow me from the beginning [cf. WHO] they know that I don't really like commenting on pontifical documents. I wrote on another occasion: «The sentences are not discussed, apply ". In this circumstance, therefore, instead of going into the merits of the exhortation, I would prefer to focus mainly on some procedural aspects, even if it will be inevitable to make references to the contents.

The document invites us to be humble and realistic and to make a "healthy self-criticism" [n.36]. I believe that this attitude should not be directed only towards the Church of the past and its pastoral practice, ma, to be authentic, should extend to 360 ° and therefore also to the Church today. I would therefore like to ask a few questions, not with a polemical spirit, but as a simple invitation to reflection.

the post-synodal exhortation love joy

It is correct to return to questions which had already been addressed relatively recently (the previous Synod on the family dates back to 1980), without the situation having radically changed in the meantime? It is true that in these thirty-five years there have been quite a few new things, which had not been addressed at the time (p. it is., assisted fertilization, surrogate motherhood, the theory of gender, homosexual unions, the stepchild adoption, etc.); but it is equally true that these issues have not been at the center of the work of the last Synods and are touched upon only partially and in passing in the apostolic exhortation. The attention seemed to be focused exclusively on a question that had already been widely debated and defined: access to the sacraments by the divorced and civilly remarried. The question had been authoritatively resolved in the apostolic exhortation Family member company (n. 84); his teaching was then resumed from atechism of the Catholic Church (n. 1650) and confirmed by the Letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of 14 September 1994 and the Declaration of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts of 24 June 2000. I fully realize that The joy of love escapes this doctrinal-juridical logic, to place oneself on an exquisitely pastoral level; I just ask: it is correct to question a teaching which is now practically definitive?

the Holy Father Francis with Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, today Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, considered one of the greatest experts on family problems

The procedure followed is correct to address this issue? First the Extraordinary Consistory in February 2014; then the extraordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October of the same year; subsequently, the emanation of the two motu proprio on the causes of matrimonial nullity in August 2015; then the ordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops in the immediately following October; finally, the just published post-synodal apostolic exhortation. Never before has such a procedure been seen: a single synodal assembly was not enough, duly prepared? This two-year "hammering" was really necessary? Which fine? Not to mention the anomalies recorded along the way: the secrecy of the report to the consistory and of the synodal debate; the relationship after the discussion of the Synod 2014, which did not reflect the results of the debate; the final report of the same Synod, which took up themes that had not been approved by the Fathers; the confidential letter of the thirteen cardinals at the beginning of the Synod 2015, publicly denounced as a "conspiracy"; etc.: these are normal things?

a session of the Synod of Bishops on the family

It is correct to suggest certain pastoral solutions, which had not been accepted by the Synod Fathers (and therefore could not be included in the text of the exhortation), in the document notes? It is correct to question the teaching of a previous document in a magisterium document with the following formula: "Many ... detect" [note 329)] "Many" who? They "detect" in what capacity? Moreover, what kind of membership the note requires 351, which admits a possibility in open contrast with the teaching and uninterrupted practice of the Church, based on arguments that had already been taken into consideration and deemed insufficient to justify an exception to that teaching and practice [cf. the Letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of 14 September 1994, in particular n.5: «This practice of not admitting divorced and remarried people to the Eucharist], presented [it gives Family member company] as binding, it cannot be changed according to different situations "]?

assembly of the faithful

You shouldn't worry, when publishing a document, what will come to the faithful? In the gospel of joy stood, rightly, the problem of communicating the Gospel message [n.41)] in The joy of love warns against "avoiding the serious risk of wrong messages" [n.300]. The fact that conflicting comments were published in the days following the release of the exhortation should not make us think? It will not be that the language used was not clear enough? It is possible that on the same document there are those who say that nothing changes and those who consider it revolutionary? If a statement was clear, it should not be possible to give two opposite interpretations at the same time. The confusion caused should not be a wake-up call? In The joy of love the problem is not ignored: "I understand those who prefer a more rigid pastoral care that does not give rise to any confusion" [n.308], but then, with the gospel of joy [n.45)], the answer is that a Church that “does not renounce the possible good is preferable, although it runs the risk of getting dirty with mud of the road ". It is even tempting to think that confusion is intentionally sought, because in it the Spirit would act and in it God is to be sought. Personally I prefer to believe, with Saint Paul, that “God is not a God of disorder, but of peace " [1 Color 14:33].

the old ones, love and beautiful bookshelves …

It is possible that, gradually the years pass, the post-synodal apostolic exhortations become increasingly lengthy? It is possible that it will not be possible to summarize the results of the Fathers' discussions in a few propositions? la cut, generally, goes well with effectiveness and incisiveness: when you go beyond what is necessary to convey a certain message, most of the time it meant the ideas weren't very clear. Not to mention that, processing excessively long documents, there is the risk of discouraging even the most willing to undertake the reading and forcing them to settle for summaries, usually partial and biased, what the media do.

«… you begin to tell me about your childhood "

It is really necessary that the papal documents turn into psychology treatises, pedagogy, moral theology, pastoral, spirituality? This is the task of the Magisterium of the Church? First it is stated that “not all doctrinal discussions, moral or pastoral must be resolved with interventions of the magisterium " [n.3] then, de facto, we pronounce ourselves on every aspect and we even risk falling into that "unbearable casuistry", that as well, in words, it is said to deprecate [n.304]. The magisterium has the task of interpreting the word of God [God's word, # 10; Catechism of the Catholic Church, n.85], define the truths of the faith, keep and interpret the moral law, not just evangelical, but also natural [Human life, n.4]. The rest - the explanation, the in-depth study, practical applications, etc. - has always been left to theologians, confessors, to the masters of the spirit, to the well-formed conscience of the individual faithful. An apostolic exhortation, intended for all the faithful, He can not, in my opinion, become a manual for confessors.

the problem of abstractness …

It is right to insist on the abstractness of the doctrine [NN. 22; 36; 59; 201; 312], contrasting it with discernment and pastoral accompaniment, almost there was no possibility of coexistence between the two realities? That the doctrine is abstract, it does not take into account to underline it: it is by nature; like the practice, by itself, it is practical. But this does not mean that in human life there is no need for both: praxis always derives from a theory, just think that in The joy of love is repeated twice, nos. 3 e 261, a philosophical — and therefore abstract — principle that had already been stated in the gospel of joy nos. 222-225: "Time is greater than space". Which is why it is important that practice, to be good ("Orthopraxis"), is inspired by a true doctrine ("orthodoxy"); if not, an erroneous doctrine would inevitably generate bad practice. Disdaining the doctrine is of no use, it only serves to deprive praxis of its foundation, of the light that should guide it. You do not notice, Furthermore, that the talk of praxis is not identified with praxis itself, but it constitutes only one theory of practice? And the theory of praxis is still a theory, as abstract as the doctrine to which the praxis is to be opposed.

Bologna-church-of-Baraccano-50s giuseppe savini

Bologna, Baraccano Church, 1950s [photo by Giuseppe Savini]

Describe the Church of the past as a Church exclusively interested in the purity of doctrine and indifferent to the real problems of the people, it is perhaps not a caricature that does not correspond in any way to historical reality? Getting to the point of using certain expressions [n. 49: “Instead of offering the healing power of grace and the light of the Gospel, some want to "indoctrinate" the Gospel, transform it into "dead stones to be thrown at others" "; n. 305: "A pastor cannot feel satisfied just by applying moral laws to those who live in" irregular "situations, as if they were stones thrown at people's lives. This is the case with closed hearts, who often hide even behind the teachings of the Church “to sit on the chair of Moses and judge, sometimes with superiority and superficiality, difficult cases and wounded families ""] it's not only offensive, but false and ungenerous towards what the Church has done and continues to do, despite a thousand contradictions and infidelities, for the salvation of souls. In the Church discernment and pastoral accompaniment, maybe called by different names and without making too many theorizing, they have always been there; only that until now everyone was doing his job: the magisterium taught the doctrine, theologians deepened it, confessors and spiritual directors applied it to individual cases. Today, however, it would seem that no one is able to distinguish the specificity of their role anymore.

Transforming the demands of the Christian life into "ideals" [NN. 34; 36; 38; 119; 157; 230; 292; 298; 303; 307; 308] it does not mean - really in this case - transforming Christianity into something abstract, worse, in a philosophy, if not even in an ideology? It does not mean forgetting that the word of God is alive and effective [EB 4:12], that revealed truth is a "truth that saves" [God's word, n. 7; The joy and hope, n. 28], that the gospel "is the power of God for the salvation of whoever believes" [RM 1:16], that "God does not command the impossible; ma, when he commands, admonishes you to do what you can and ask for what you can't, and helps you so that you can do it " [Council of Trent, Justification Decree, (c). 11; cf Augustine, Of nature and grace, 43, 50]?

pastoral care cannot be separated from doctrine and vice versa …

We are sure that "pastoral conversion" [the gospel of joy, n. 25], which is required of the Church today, be good for it? I have the impression that there is a basic misunderstanding behind this conversion, already present at the time of the announcement of the Second Vatican Council and has come down to our days: to think that it is no longer necessary for the Church to take care of doctrine today, it already being sufficiently clear, known and accepted by all, and that we should only be concerned with pastoral practice. But we are really sure that the doctrine is so clear today, which does not require further investigation and to be protected from erroneous interpretations? We are sure that everyone, today, know the Christian doctrine? It is not enough to answer these questions by saying that there is Catechism of the Catholic Church: first, because it is not taken for granted that everyone knows him; second, Why, even when it was known, not necessarily shared by all. If it is true that “mercy does not exclude justice and truth, but first of all we must say that mercy is the fullness of justice and the brightest manifestation of God's truth " [The joy of love, n. 311], it is equally true that “do not in any way diminish the salutary doctrine of Christ, it is an eminent form of charity towards souls " [Human life, n. 29; cf Family member company, n. 33;Reconciliation and Penance, n. 34; The splendor of truth, n. 95]. And the service that the magisterium must offer to the Church is, first of all, the service of truth [Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 890]; precisely by teaching the truth that saves the magisterium it assumes a pastoral and "merciful" attitude towards souls. Only when the magisterium has fulfilled its primary task, pastoral workers will be able, in turn, forming consciences, make a work of discernment and accompany souls on their journey of Christian life.

* John Scalese [Rome, 1955] he is a priest and theologian of the Order of Regular Clerics of St. Paul (Barnabite Fathers).

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Free thoughts of a wandering Querciolino,

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Art in the service of faith: the mystery of the crucifixion

11 April 2016/2 Comments/in Actuality/by Licia Oddo

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ART AT THE SERVICE OF FAITH: THE MYSTERY OF THE CRUCIFIXION

The early Christians declined the iconography of the cross, It considered as capital punishment for the villains and evildoers; not by chance, the early Christian symbol of the origins was a stylized fish. Among other things, the Crucifix was something that the same St. Paul called "scandal and foolishness". Indeed, the cross, It was for a sign by which Christians were shamed and ridiculed.

Author
Licia Oddo *

Michelangelo, sketch of a crucifixion

The symbol par excellence of the Christian faith It is undoubtedly the mystery of Christ's death on the cross, that the same Christian detects whenever gathers in prayer. dramatic epilogue of the earthly mission of Jesus but also a new covenant with the men expressed in the sacrifice Christological, About of torture named Way of the cross contemplated in the Passion Gospels, Crucifixion becomes more representative and also the iconography speculative history, up to our days, and it is the Christian message of catechetical nature to the masses.

The cross which Christian peculiarities, is the combination of good and evil, on the one hand the symbol to which pushes human evil as a torture tool that comes to the death, symbolizing the blind violence that breaks into the heart of man, ma, on the other hand, It shows the strength and the power of good: on the cross, indeed, despite the unprecedented violence that is inflicted unjustly, Jesus does not respond to evil with evil. And, asking forgiveness for his executioners, overcomes evil, fine mettendovi: "Father forgive them for they know not what they do" [cf. LC 23,43]. St. Paul expresses this dual aspect of the cross in a topic sentence: "Where sin increased, abounded grace » [cf. RM 5,20]. And in divine justice effects, is truly a restorative justice and not vengeance; a justice that restores and, Furthermore, arrives to grace [cf. from the site of the diocese of Padua: "The art Cross" A. Fossion].

The early Christians however they declined the iconography of the cross, It considered as capital punishment for the villains and evildoers; not by chance, the early Christian symbol of the origins was a stylized fish. Among other things, the Crucifix was something that the same St. Paul called "scandal and foolishness" [cf. 1 Color 1,23]: In fact, the cross was for Christians a sign with which they were shamed and ridiculed.

Crucifixion of St. Peter by carlo giuseppe rats

Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Crucifixion of St. Peter

You also need to make an assessment of socio-legal. In the Roman criminal law, worth the crucifixion was considered a conviction for this shameful point that could not be inflicted on Roman citizens, even to those who were guilty of the most heinous and serious crimes. Everything is in its own way summarized in the death of the two Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. Peter the Galilean, who was resident of a Roman colony, He was put to death by crucifixion on the Vatican Hill; Paul, instead it was a Roman citizen, a native of Tarsus in present day Turkey, also martyred in Rome, It was executed by beheading Water Authority Salvie, on the Via Laurentina, where today stands the complex of the Abbey of the Three Fountains.

At the beginning of the life of church It shows the use of the symbol "Expenses–ro” [O Chrismon] already it is known to most as the two letters are the initials of the word 'Χριστός’ [Khristòs], the name of Jesus, which means in greek “unto” and translates the Hebrew “Messiah”.

marble bas-relief depicting the labarum Constantine

Only with the era of Constantine, after the Council of Nicaea in the year celebrated 325, appear the first explicit depictions of Christ, sometimes with the cross in his hand. But it is the monogram of Constantine the first public use of the cross. In 312, according to the historian Eusebius in Life of Constantine: the night before the battle against Maxentius, Emperor Constantine I had a vision of a luminous cross with the words “In this sign you will conquer”. The emperor did so print the Christological symbol, the so-called labarum Constantine, the cross on the shields of Roman soldiers, soon after, They won the battle of Ponte Milvio.

At the end of the fourth century we see the development of the cult of the Cross and relics. In the same period it proceeds to the iconographic representation of Etimasia, the empty throne with a jeweled cross, a cushion on which is placed the mantle of judge (reference to divine judgment), a closed book (the Book of the Law), and the instruments of the Passion symbol of the presence of Christ absent until it appears at the second coming of the Last Judgement. The fourth century marks the spread of the Christian message through the mosaic decoration of the paschal triumph of Christ in the apse of the nave zones and side walls of the great Roman basilicas such victory of Christianity over other polytheistic and therefore pagan religions (mosaic of the Holy Pudenziana 390).

Master William, Christ Triumphant, Cathedral of Sarzana

At this point deserving of consideration iconographic character whose iconological data can be summarized to the preliminary observation of the double meaning of the cross. I refer to the victorious character of the cross of good over evil note with the first appearance of the latter which sees Christ Triumphans. Christ is in the front position with the head erect and eyes open, I live on the cross and portrayed as victor over death, surrounded by scenes from the Passion, and it could also present the ends of the arms of the cross boundary figurines, then the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist in place of the late. Sometimes it can also see the symbols of the evangelists and, in the upper arm coping, a Christ in Majesty. Among the oldest examples of crocifisso triumph They include the Cross of Master William in the Cathedral of Sarzana, the Cross of San Damiano in the church of Santa Chiara in Assisi and the cross of an anonymous master of Pisa in the National Museum of San Matteo in Pisa. It is with the period of the Carolingian and Ottonian renascences, that occurs the beginning of a new iconography of the dead Christ said (Christus patient) in the tenth century.; this time the eyes are closed and the expression is suffering, indicating humanity cross of Christ. In Romanesque age first and foremost in the Gothic then, under the influence of "mystical" we see the anatomical increased attention. The spread of this iconography is done through the work of the mendicant orders Dominicans and Franciscans by which the Crucified takes center stage, which banner of Passio and then blood and pain. The iconography takes on a stronger tone or dramatic with Crucifixes by Cimabue and Giotto. The Cross inspired by the school of the Franciscan spirituality of suffering Christ highlights the theme of passion than of glory and why its colors are black, white and red, colors representing death, the pure innocence, the blood and, precisely, passion, through the intensification of the sores and blood from the crown of thorns, thus highlighting the evil aspect of the instrument of torture practiced by the Romans. In the side of the cross sections are narrated by images passion and resurrection.

In the frescoes may be judged the theme of the Crucifixion through the ostentation of the play to the crowds, the excruciating pain of Mary, the Magdalene, The Angels Cried etc ...

Fra Angelico, crucifixion

The Renaissance italiano as an expression of the anthropological naturalism highlights the production of large altarpieces and is highlighted with Christ, the virtuous man, perfect, also an ideal of Christian humanism [cf. Crucifixes Angelico]. This brings us to the celebration of Christ's hero, with the painters of the first half of the sixteenth century. The large Crucifixion by Fra Angelico, kept in the Chapter House of the Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence, It presents innovative iconography, because instead of the usual characters present at Calvary shows a whole series of holy, lived in the ages and in many different places, according to a complex allegorical system that overshadows the various meanings. It is a depiction of the mystic, instead of the usual narrative scene, comparable to works such as the Lament of the Cross at the Temple, always Angelico. What describes the image is the salvific significance of the event: the Redemption.

Antonello da Messina, Crucifixion

the Crucifixion [1475] Antonello da Messina It is an example of those anatomical and perspective elements typical of the period. The iconographic typology refers to Flemish examples, also in the treatment of the landscape, that fades gently into the distance in the bluish color of the hills shrouded in mist. The intense line of the lake island more the figure of Christ, with a circle formed by the Virgin and St. John.

The drama of the cross It is translated into an image in Michelangelo's drawings, and it will be adopted with a different iconography, that of the Pietà that sees the desperate Virgin holding her son's body as well as that of the deposition where significant is the Baglioni altarpiece by Raphael called Borghese Deposition. The iconography takes more theatrical tones and vibrant era Mannerist, with Pontormo.

The Council of Trent It will contribute in a clear manner to the Catholic revival of the art as a function of propaganda, proselytizer, and morality through religious orders. The churches are full of unparalleled scenic effects and stucco simulates painted frame, the great altars seem to be made of the ascending floors, as Mount Calvary, with the center Croce. In painting it will alternate the taste and preference to more artists linked to Caravaggio's realism or classicism, as the Spanish Rubens and Velazquez. We have to prepare crucified dying, very intense and moving, as Guido Reni pictorial art; crucifixes that seem to interpret the Gospel passage: "My God, My God, why have you forsaken?», Matthew puts the center of its apocalyptic presentation [Mt 27,46].

At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century is the tradition that trumps everything, if closed Francisco Goya, which ultimately enhance it in a beautiful radiant Christ emerging from a background gloomy totally dominated by darkness. The Body of Christ facility, SMOOTH wounds, complaint in a classical and academic style far away from the Goya sensitivity later: his Christ crucified It was in fact painted in 1780 as the entrance test at the Royal Academy of San Fernando to please academics cling to tradition.

Edgar Degas, Crucifixion

Other big news It occurs at the end of the nineteenth century with artists linked to Impressionism.

The iconography of the Passion and crucifixion allowed Impressionism Degas to experience her in religious terms, with copies of deceased artists. The result was a version in which the classical style of Mantegna hardness gives way to look fascinating and diluted, where color eliminates detail and substance to people and to leave only the energy, albeit tragic death, of pain. Involving a little retail folklore, which reports in ancient life and customs, Degas sees only color to merge the space with parties. Impressionist crucifixion becomes the more complete, and we can understand the universal drama, iconographic symbol of hope.

Paul Gauguin, Crucifixion

A few decades later expressionism seen in the work of Gauguin a unique representation: The Yellow Christ. Jesus is crucified, but with a transposition of place and time, Gauguin set in the private the fact his time and in his French soil of Brittany. The women wear the typical Breton costumes and the background you can see the houses with pointed roofs, also typically Breton. The picture is cut in two, the lines of Jesus are more angular and edgy and reminiscent of medieval paintings, while for the rest dominate curved lines. The work is composed of hard-edged and there is an absence of shade, It is two-dimensional with unreal colors. The figure of Jesus is lean and the landscape in the background stand out the red trees reminiscent of his blood, that does not put the other hand on her body. For the body of Christ and its particular color, Gauguin was inspired by a crucifix, still on site, exposed in the Chapel of Trémalo, not far from Pont-Aven, in Britain. This indicates that the Christian theme of martyrdom par excellence, as well as the artist transposes it in time and space remains and will always relevant.

Golgotha - 1956 oil on the table - cm. 80x120

Quirino IESO, the golgota (1956)

In the twentieth century art wriggles by ecclesiastical propaganda and it led into the mystery of the crucifixion of humanity over evil and the beginning of the century: the typical neurotic diseases of new technological and industrial progress, World Wars, the Nazi extermination. A big contribution to the iconography of the Cross is to Chagall with his biblical interpretation of the history, where Christ is the stereotype of the violent sacrifice. Among the other artists stand out authoritative creations by Picasso, Guttuso, and Dali.

«The mystery of the Crucifixion " that gives the title to his operas, He relives the sacred works of the master Quirino De Ieso, the fifties until the time today. Golgotha, work Cubist-reviewed by the Pablo Picasso in 1961, is a work in which the color of the oils and the line marked more than the human subject the symbolic value of the rich Christological sacrifice. Golgotha transmits the charged atmosphere of pain, evoked in the heat of the various shades of red faceted, representation of the last moments of Christ's Passion, preceding the most unfortunate time darkness, exalted in a three-dimensional perspective that strikes the viewer through the geometric shape. What stands out the eye of the beholder, however, the color difference of the two thieves, one who asked Jesus to remember him in the Kingdom of Heaven, why depicted in white like the Savior.

The cross in Manhattan - 2001 oil on canvas - cm. 60 x 100 Edited Cam Mondadori n. 51

Quirino IESO, The cross in Manhattan (2001)

But art is the most significant and manifest expression of society, especially the Church and what should be emphasized in this brief history of the iconography of the cross is a work of the master De Ieso, of which, yours is its curator, where the Calvary of Christ is repeated at the distance of fifty years in the opera "The Cross of Manathan license plate 2001. The parallels with the facts that have rewritten the history only fifteen years ago, relived in the martyrdom of Christ is far more current than ever to the events that took place up to a few days ago because of the new climate of terror that is invading the world. The drop of blood spilled on the cross two thousand years ago, It is renewed in the sacrifice of all the people who have been sacrificed in the place called "zero" point which like the Calvary is the place where you finished the martyrdom and he is on the confident hope in the future for a better world. The cross represents the pact with men in the four figures contemplating, personifications of Theology, literature, science, and art, to which they attack the children of the new demons was, while a bevy of doodles inexplicable, vibrant color, It evokes the mysterious waiting for salvation, as embryos related to new generations, to indicate that nothing is lost. In this hope, that artists of all times represented in the manner and in the most unusual places, lies the message of Christ, that through the torture of crucifixion because of the unconditional most badly received by man, returned good asking and obtaining from God the Father the forgiveness of humanity.

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School, creativity and culture of merit: “The school as a social value and compass orientation in life and in work”

5 April 2016/1 Comment/in Our videos/by father ariel

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SCHOOL, CREATIVITY AND CULTURE OF MERIT: "THE SCHOOL AS A SOCIAL VALUE COMPASS ORIENTATION IN THE LIFE AND WORK"

[…] "I know very well that many of these things you will not tell her, if anything, moved by good heart - then good heart is not - for that is to say: "Young people should not be stolen dreams". Well I tell you that young people should not be left in a world of dreams, They must be educated and encouraged to be creative and to fully express their creativity in the world of reality ".

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

Great Hall of the Institute Adelfio Insolera of Syracuse, event sponsored by the Lions Club

In this Lectio which was held on 2 April in the splendid setting of the ancient city of Syracuse at the assembly hall of the Institute Adelfio Insolera, I had the pleasure to confront an audience of over 300 young people aged between 17 ed i 18 years of junior high schools, covering topics related to school, in particular their working future, inviting them to reflect on the value and culture of merit both in relation to the study both at work and touching the sensitive issue of the many jobs available, but the young Italians do not want to do more. All with the probability that tomorrow, the son of the extra-Community, with much more spirit of sacrifice and animated by desire for redemption, can be their future employer.

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The idea to which I was inspired for reflection was the conclusion of the psalm 125: «Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing. in going, goes away and weeps, bearing the seed for sowing, but in return, It is jubilantly, carrying their sheaves ".

I am particularly happy to recall the blessed memory of my first trainer and then brother priest Vincenzo Maria Calvo [1937-2015], who she was his teacher at the time and caring educator of other generations of young, that many parents of children that a few days ago I spoke with this Lectio [cf. WHO].

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The problem of doctrinal language and the Newspeak of the new theologians: “They were not made to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge”

5 April 2016/in Our videos/by father ariel

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**THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE AND Doctrinal NEOLINGUA OF NEW THEOLOGIANS: «FACTS WERE NOT to live like brutes but to follow virtue and Knowledge»**

«The day will come, indeed, when they will not endure sound doctrine;, ma, having itching ears they, will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, refusing to listen to the truth to turn to fairy tales " [II Tm 4,3-4]

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

aerial view of Ortigia, the heart of the ancient Greek city of Syracuse

In this Lectio I was sent to keep by the Knights of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem and by the Members of the Lions Club in the ancient city of Syracuse on 1 April 2016, I have dealt with a theological subject a lot delicate: the loss of language for the correct transmission of the mysteries of faith and dogma, explaining how over the last half century of history, the accuracy of the metaphysical language, It will be replaced within the Church a Newspeak drenched sociologisms e theologians. The heart of Lectio focuses on the passage from the Gospel of Matthew where it is told of Jesus who feels tenderness towards men who "seemed like sheep without a shepherd", for this, "he began to teach them many things" [Mt 6,30-44].

image of Syracuse cathedral built over the ancient temple of Minerva [VII sec. a.C]. That of Syracuse is an ancient church founded by the will of the Apostle Peter by Bishop Martian and then visited by the Apostle Paul [cf. At 28, 11-16]

Finally the warning Pauline which today sounds more dramatic than ever topical and on which the whole is structured Lectio:

I am particularly happy to recall my teacher and brother priest Giovanni Cavalcoli, son of the Dominican and illustrious disciple of St. Thomas Aquinas, with which I share with many years worth, love but also with that theological hope that combines with faith and charity, the difficult ecclesial and theological situation we are living. Part of this Lectio it is also the result of long discussions and in-depth exchanges that have taken place between us over the past three years.

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To live the resurrection of Christ is necessary to abandon dreams, fables and idols, penetrate the real obedience of faith and do the Father's will

28 March 2016/3 Comments/in Homiletics/by father ariel

TO LIVE THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST YOU MUST LEAVE DREAMS, TALES AND IDOLS, ENTERING THE ROYAL in obedience OF FAITH AND DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER

On the upside stone of the risen Christ who has conquered death, it is up to all of us a great task: choose between dreams and fairy tales in which everything collapses, or get in the way along the Via Emmaus. Because only in this second case, God will meet us as a traveling companion, He will call us "friends", visit our vineyard and truly turn into his work, after the man will be able to give up their omocentrismo to enter the size of Christocentrism.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

Easter 2016, Easter Vigil [LC 24, 1-12] Easter Morning [GV 20, 1-9], homily at the Mass of the day Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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On the scene of the resurrection women are witnesses and protagonists, as recounted in the Gospel of Luke Blessed Apostle read during the Easter Vigil and the Gospel of the Apostle John proclaimed blessed in this day of Easter. Lapidary are the words that the angel to the women in Luke's Gospel: “Why look among the dead for one who is alive?”. These are words from which is built on the rock of the tomb an eternal truth, what prophets they sent to a people who sought the Lord in the places and spaces where he had left yesterday, The Almighty Creator is always on and always goes before, inviting us to an endless journey, as stated in the glorious praise Easter victims: «I hope, has risen / He goes into», Christ my hope is risen, and precedes her in Galilee.

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Easter Vigil

In the religious history the man often tends to move forward and backward to look backwards. While on the other hand God wants man he always looks forward, because starting from the meeting of the Risen Lord to the disciples on the road to Emmaus [cf. LC 24, 13-53], we were thrown forward to eternity. For who is afraid of this and becoming future, He ends up living caught between a past that does not pass and a present still often made of dreams and fantasies.

In certain situations of immobility We tend to live in their small paralyzed masked possessions behind imaginative untouchable traditions castles, oblivious to the warning given of the Lord Jesus warns: "Thus have ye made the commandment of God by your tradition. Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying: This people honors me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines that are precepts of men» [cf. Mt 15, 7-9].

Jesus Christ is not locked in the tomb of yesterday's truth, because the truth is alive and lives in Jesus Christ Risen One who always brings impressed upon him the indelible marks of passion. Christ is the one who always rises again, which always renews the mystery of his body and his blood I live through the Eucharistic Mystery.

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Easter Vigil

The Holy Spirit, which is divine gift given by the Risen at Pentecost, He pushes us forward, We just do not confuse the Holy Spirit with the spirit of their own; just do not have an imaginative Jesus to our size who happens to say and command certain men exactly what they want to hear, giving life thereby to one of the worst sins: closing the grace of God. Now you understand well that close and leading a neighbor to close the grace of God in the name of God, is terrible ungodliness.

Risen Christ full of grace and blessings their work, those he scrolls and inspired, while the works created by human hands for the glory of man - as the Psalmist says - die with man, just like the idols, He teaches the psalm 114 which recites: "Their idols are silver and gold, Work of human hands. They have mouths but can not speak, they have eyes and do not see, They have ears but can not hear, They have noses and smell not. They have hands and not palpate, they have feet and walk not; from the throat do not have sound. Are like them who make them and who trust in them ". And the works of God - as the Gospel states - are trees that do not recognize or fantasies or illusions in which they lived; God's works are recognized by the life and the fruits of life.

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Easter vigil

And if a dry and does not bear fruit trees, there is little to wonder where they went wrong others, but one wonders: where did we go wrong us? Above all we must ask ourselves to what extent we are closed to the grace of God and the mystery of his works to follow the works of man; works that eventually, even after many years, They prove unsuccessful because of the fruits that do not give, or for patients who produce fruits, thus giving us the death and not to that life which is eternal adoration and communion with the Risen. A communion that always passes through the devout obedience to the universal Church, to the particular Church and its pastors, the bishops; especially when it is not easy to pay their obedience. But when obedience is not easy, if anything because the pastors may be weak, distant, or simply unable to shoulder their responsibilities, it must be 'more than ever given, because otherwise it risks only to obey the whims of ourselves, our reasons and our grudges. And who does not instruct this docility and obedience to the Church and its Pastors, which these days can be very difficult and painful to put into practice; who creates his own world in World, its own church in the Church, It is not a pastor and not a teacher, but a blind guide. And as the Gospel teaches us: "When a blind guide the blind, both will fall into a ditch" [cf. Mt 15,14].

Ariel S. levi Gualdo, Easter Vigil

The mystery on which our faith is built, as he explains the Blessed Apostle Paul, it is not the stone sealed the tomb of Christ, because "if Christ has not been raised, then empty is our preaching is in vain and your faith " [cf. The Cor 15, 14]. The mystery of our faith is thus the inverted stone from the one who is no longer among the dead but among the living, and that we meet along the Way to Emmaus making recognize the breaking of bread [cf. LC 24,13-35], inviting us to the eternal journey and certainly not to a standstill before the idols which are the fruit of human hands.

Inviting the man to be pleased, "the law of the Lord" and "meditate on it day and night", the psalmist, Psalm n. 1, nell'ammonirci is very clear and precise words to tell you the right man, the one who really does the will of God: "It will be as a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither; succeed all his works ". And will, his works, because in truth they are works of the Lord, that man was and is only one faithful instrument.

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Easter Vigil

On Easter night It took place the resurrection of the body of the Word of God Incarnate, that his flesh was sullied on the tree and is now adored in heaven and on earth. It is no coincidence that Christ God is risen night, because with his resurrection has enlightened our darkness, as the Psalmist sings: "Enlighten my lamp, man; my God, enlighten my darkness " [Shall 17, 29].

Risen Christ calls us to life and it makes us part of life, inviting us to escape from death; He calls us to do the works of the Lord and bless his works before the Lord of life: "Bless the Lord, you all, his troops, his ministers, who do his will!. Bless the Lord, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless the Lord, my soul" [Shall 102].

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Easter Vigil

It is on this that we can accommodate and build our intimate participation in the resurrection of Christ, with which humanity is dead to sin and reborn to life, or hand deliver us to death in the worst way: We laid our human works in the name of God, but giving the inevitable fruits: a dry tree, the desolation, Finally, a death that will come sad after having spent his life in a dimension of possession and closing angry until the last breath of life. And all this in the name of "self" to run through "God's will", while around us everything collapses. And it all breaks down our fault that we do not want to see, not the fault of the other. Around everything collapses because we, locked in our illusory and immovable convictions, although having heard every day the Word of God, in truth we have not heard, because we were too busy to listen to the reasons of our "I" instead of the reasons of God through the Blessed Apostle Paul's voice warns us saying: «The day will come, indeed, in which […] having itching ears they, will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, refusing to listen to the truth to turn to fairy tales " [II Tm 4,3].

And acting in this way, or seeding tales that then, in the end, They fall to pieces along with the idols made by human hands, You do not reach certain communion of saints to enjoy the beatific vision of the mystery of God the Creator, Christ the Lord of the Incarnate Word, Holy Spirit Comforter.

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Easter Vigil

"Risen Christ has set us free" - warns the Blessed Apostle Paul [Gal, 1] - "free for freedom; so stand firm and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery ". Never and no one, we must allow ourselves to impose slavery, especially by men who would like to make others slaves to their whims and fancies of their own in the name of God, after brazenly proclaimed messengers and voice of God.

Since the Garden of Eden, the choice is up to us: deliver us to everlasting death or follow our natural calling: participate in the resurrection of Christ God who now sits at the right hand of the father and that one day - never forget - "will return in glory to judge the living and the dead". And Christ, place that "every tree is known by its fruit" [cf. LC 6,44], with those who have never given up even for a moment of their existence to themselves to be truly his, they have not really served Christ and his Church, but who used instead of Christ and his Church, It is very severe: leave them in meal to death. Suffice it to recall the parable of the barren fig tree: Jesus, seeing a fig tree along the road, He sought in it the fruits, ma, finding him rich only in leaves, He pronounced the sentence of that tree [cf. LC 13, 6-9]. The Lord Jesus did not say at all: poor thing, It does not bear fruit because of the other. Far from it, the divine Master said that the lack of fruit was whole fault of the barren fig tree.

Was Christ, before an act of perfect repentance, He has saved the good thief opening to him the gates of Paradise [cf. LC 23, 38-43], the same can do with us; the same can do with
those who are in a sterilized vineyard that in truth the Lord, that vineyard, He did not desired, It is the work of men's hands and not the work of God. In this case it is necessary and urgent to take note of reality, follow the wise admonition of the Apostle Paul Blessed, abandon the fairytales and fantasies [cf. II Tm 4,3] open to a truth - which is often bitter and therefore not easy to accept - and pray to the Lord with the words of Psalm 79 which recites: "Man, Look down from heaven and see and visit this vine ". And the Lord visited us, but first you need to be aware of our error and above all the absence of God in the vineyard man wanted for fundamental research of the glory, then pray that, despite our mistake, grace us succor and transform that land in God's vineyard. Otherwise you risk dying incattiviti as one of the two thieves, that instead of asking for grace and forgiveness, despite being battered and pained in her whole body affixed to the pole of the cross, instead manifested closure, I decline, anger and aggressive spirit to the last breath of life. Just as do those who, before the failure of their works, They do not return to where they started even before the destruction, to pain, to sickness and death.

In the Johannine Gospel There is the beautiful image of Mary suffering and lost before the tomb, that says: "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we know not where they have laid!» [CF Jn. 20,2].

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, Easter Vigil

In Luke's Gospel, women paralyzed by the pain before the empty tomb stone, two angels in shining garments say: "Why do you search among the dead for one who is alive?» [LC 24, 5]. With these words the angels tell the women to look beyond the size of the whole temporary grave that marks only a moment of transition. For Jesus it is no longer in the past, Jesus is not a collection of memories made all of real estate and related to days gone by; Jesus lives in the present and is projected into the future, Jesus is the '' Today 'eternal God who invites us to walk, and the Alpha the A Omega that "recapitulates in himself all things, those in heaven and things on earth " [CF. Ef 1,10], one whom the holy bishop and father Augustine called the Church Christ the whole, which is beginning, center and goal of our entire humanism.

On the upturned stone of Christ risen who has conquered death, it is up to all of us a great task: choose between dreams and fairy tales in which everything collapses, or get in the way along the Via Emmaus. Because only in this second case, God will meet us as a traveling companion, He will call us "friends", visit our vineyard and truly turn into his work, after the man will be able to give up their omocentrismo to enter the size of Christocentrism, why otherwise, you can easily do without acting: "Come your kingdom, your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth ", because it would only be words without any human sense, and Christian.

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“And no bomb or bomb we will arrive in Rome”: Nunzio Galantino conversation about God with Dario Fo

24 March 2016/1 Comment/in Actuality/by Father Giovanni

"And BOMB BOMB OR NOT WE WILL ARRIVE IN ROME» NUNCIO GALANTINO CONVERSA ABOUT GOD WITH DARIO FO

The Fo speech is absurd and blasphemous, and I do not see that this would be "great religion" that Nunzio Galantino, with obvious flattery, He attributes to Fo.

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John Cavalcoli OP

S. AND. Mons. Nunzio Galantine, General Secretary of the C.E.I.

S. AND. Mons. Nunzio Galantine, General Secretary of the C.E.I, He started in the newspaper Sole 24 Ore Sunday a column entitled Dwell in the words, which it aims to treat the meaning of some key words of modern culture on the I relationship with the world. He started with the word It gave referring to the thought of Dario Fo, the full article is legible WHO.

I extracted from the writings of Nunzio Galantino some statements, here shown in red, each of which would like to make a comment.

God is a word paradox. For some there is only the term and there is no corresponding subject, for others there is the subject, but has not be appointed and according to others the God of Moses could not bear to be represented.

And what do you think Galantino? It is not pronunciation.

God is the word of maximum creativity […] God is the main protagonist of visibility […] By the word God, and the reality to which it refers, we allow our minds to travel in large spaces and to experience extraordinarily loaded with life, both starting from the word and opening ourselves to the imagination, either starting from the image and then the words ricollegandoci.

I do not see what God has to do with the "creativity" and "visibility". They do not belong to theology, but to poetry, or literature or painting. He says he does not want to do theology. Ma, speaking of God, what does it want to do, At that time? St. Paul is very clear. Dice: "Since the creation of the world His perfections invisible They can be covered with the intellect by the things made him " [cf. RM 1,20]. God is not covered either by fantasy or imagination, but intellect. Otherwise, as the Scripture says, we have made an idol out of our hands.

A child would have difficulty following our discourse, because he knows that the word "mother" is a mom; But what's behind the word God? What to tell him? […] Explain to a child that can rain from invisible reality, but existing. With a child I would try to get along well.

Behind the word "God" is no God, because the mind of the child, as capable of thinking, You can know that God exists. Apart from the fact that in any case comes to us alone, We have to help him in the implementation of the principle of causality, as taught by the Book of Wisdom: "The Author is known by analogy from the beauty and grandeur of creatures" [cf. Sap 13,5].

Dice Fo: "God is not. Does not exist. I do not believe it ... But ... ". According to him God is a great forger who has invented for itself, a genius of History, because he was able to create his image. A skilled dealer. His anti-religious to me seemed very religious […] To God is never enough love of others, while Jesus founded his feelings on love to give and not to receive.

The Fo speech is absurd and blasphemous. God alone is infinite goodness and generosity, and the God of Jesus Christ. If Christ gives, and is not a selfish, this depends from the fact that it is God Himself. I do not see what would this "great religion", that Galantino, with obvious flattery, He attributes to Fo.

We humans need for transcendence and for us Christians the essence of human existence lies in coming to us, in going and feel projected beyond. What some call "self-transcendence" not only leads us towards God […] This situation also belongs to an atheist.

It is true that we need to transcendence, but we do not confusion. we distinguish first. It is one thing to come out of ourselves, which it is a sign of sociability, and a bill is the "feel projected beyond", which it is a psychological phenomenon, which may be normal as pathological. A bill is the metaphysical ulteriority, moral or theological, from which he feels attracted reasonable man, and an account is emotional ulteriority, irrational and fantastic, which attracts the mental alienated. It 'obvious that it is only the first type of ulteriority that stimulates the affirmation of God.

As all'autotrascendimento, even here we must distinguish. L'autotrascendimento, in general, It is a psychological act, with which the person intentionally and voluntarily surpasses himself or goes beyond himself. The spirit of salt, if it raises, It rises to a summit which is beyond its limit.

This elevation of the spirit, But, It is different in the case that the impulse is from below or above, that is, either by man or by God. Man can transcend or rise towards God or because they are attracted by Him, in submission to Him, and then we have the transcend yourself, of which St. Augustine speaks, or because it raises setting himself up against God, antagonistic to God. In the first case we have the humility, which bears fruit in religion; in the second case we pride, fruiting impiety and atheism. It is clear that only the first type of transcendence characterizes, not the Christian life as such, but the power or the power of his spirit, since the identity of being with the act is only in God.

The essence of human existence in the Christian view is not found in any "out to us, or in going and feel projected beyond "or what some call" self-transcendence ", but it is to be, as the Second Vatican Council says, 'Unity of soul and body "[1], created "in the image of God, capable of knowing and loving his Creator "[2] and not at all "in coming to us, in going and feel projected beyond. What someone called 'self-transcendence' '. If anything, these are powers or possible acts and not constitutive of human existence. I would like to know where Galantino has caught the definition of man. Certainly not in Scripture or in the Magisterium of the Church or St. Thomas.

Jesus asks, aims to, It loves hard, illogical, paradoxical.

Jesus' illogical does not claim any love », but perfectly consistent with reason. Love is illogical sinful, because it would conflict with our duty to act reasonably. Examples leading Galantino or are equivocal or you can easily fix, but here we do not have the space, then you can always consult any treatise on moral theology.

I only stop on the love for the enemy. There is nothing illogical in this love, of course, to understand it well, and not as if Christ command us to love the enmity of our enemies against us; which would be quite a shame on our part. It lies instead in this command profound wisdom, that gives comfort to the victim, It facilitates the reconciliation and the opponent has more merciful, making it willing to ask for forgiveness and be forgiven.

Varazze, 16 March 2016

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[1] The joy and hope, n. 14.

[2] Ibid., n. 12.

And BOMB BOMB OR NOT WE WILL ARRIVE IN ROME … AND UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE ARRIVED !

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The Society of Jesus in the Church today: rise and fall of a great Order

24 March 2016/4 Comments/in Actuality/by Father Giovanni

THE SOCIETY OF JESUS IN THE CHURCH TODAY: THE RISE AND FALL OF A LARGE ORDER

[…] in spring 1981 Saint John Paul II, tired of this situation exasperating and irresolvable, dragging himself from the end of the Council, He summoned to the Vatican a small group of cardinals, including the Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli, to discuss the opportunity to dissolve the Society of Jesus. Half of Cardinals and the Pope himself were in favor; but the Cardinal Casaroli convinced the Pope and the group to give up.

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An unhappy book by Bruno Forte: “Trinity as History”

10 March 2016/6 Comments/in Theologica/by Father Giovanni

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A BOOK OF UNHAPPY FORTE BRUNO: "TRINITY AS HISTORY»

Bruno Forte, in his imprudent admiration for Hegel, does not realize that Hegel, interpreting the mystery of the Trinity, It follows the same rationalistic method of Proclus, for which the Greek gods did not exist as real people, but it was only imaginary symbolic representations […]

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The exercises to the Roman Curia. By preachers to gravediggers: the funeral dell'omiletica

10 March 2016/3 Comments/in Actuality/by father ariel

EXERCISES TO THE ROMAN CURIA. BY PREACHERS the gravediggers: THE FUNERAL DELL'OMILETICA

[In the appendix: homily of Father Ariel adolescents]

It is very serious that to support its objective heterodoxies the Preacher abuse of overtime Christological paradigms such as the episode of the forgiven prostitute [CF. LC 7, 36-48] o dell'adultera [cf. GV 7,53-8,11], to mutate all in another, to free man now psyched from the complex of sin. Just as previously he had several times to make her famous brother David Maria Turoldo, distinguished and celebrated writer for the newspaper The Manifesto Communist Party, where for years he wrote editorials designed to please the radical communists and to confuse, except sometimes to humiliate, the sentiment of Catholics.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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It is said that the Angelic Doctor San Tommaso Aquino, when he found himself in his hands manuscripts containing philosophical or erroneous theological concepts, without wasting any comments, He drew aside the head of an ass.

the donkey is’ where he wants the master

In my native Tuscan Maremma, a saying of popular wisdom says, "The donkey goes 'where the boss wants', and again: "The donkey binds where it wants the master '.

The spiritual exercises to the Roman Curia in preaching the course by the Father Hermes Ronchi, distinguished member of turoldiano Order of the Servants of Mary, the evidence shows is an act of flattery to the owner ahead of tied - or legatosi - where the owner wants.

Needless to say, the Lord Jesus says: "I do not call you servants, because the servant does not know what his master; but I have friends called, because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you " [cf. GV 15,15]. This theme already discussed in one of my past articles [cf. WHO].

I'm not going to make a legitimate criticism thorough and all strictly theological paid to many of the bold statements Preacher, because there are so many, from the Old Testament up to the Gospels. “Commendable” the praises of Adam and Eve, who "believe" and "do not believe", just as if it were to be allegorical not only the story, but also the entire contents. Request: how we can Adam and Eve believe or not believe what they see, place God have it before my eyes? [cf. WHO]. Something else is in fact the basic problem of these first two creatures made in the image and likeness of God, that is to want to do like God, per “prescind” then by God. And by their free and determined rebellion it born perfect harmony rupture that corrupts the whole of humanity and that makes mortal man and corruptible. This is also known as original sin. And original sin is a reality which arises from an act and a real fact, teach it deserves to Preacher, since he does not just talk about it, perhaps because you do not know it. Original sin is not an invention of St Augustine, as claimed by many, nor a "fear that depicts the mythical and ancestral fears of man", as he used to say Karl Rahner. the Preacher says that Adam and Eve feel "fear", although to be accurate should be said that, rather than "fear", They feel fear and shame. But that's not the problem, but the fact that the preacher does not explain the origin of this fear and shame, but above all what this entails for them and for all humanity. And this is very serious, because it is the starting point of the idea totally wrong that the preacher of sin and that consequently emerges in all his preaching, that in fact, no easy worth denial, It is an unorthodox preaching, held before the Supreme Pontiff and to the members of the Roman Curia.

the winning smile donkey conqueror

Without falling into the most fearsome of the deadly sins, which it is the pride, throughout Christian honesty say that I, in the conduct of my ministry as a preacher, retreat to the Curia Rome would not have preached them better, but much better, starting first of all from the awareness that Jesus Christ calls me 'friend' [cf. GV 15, 9-17] and that he alone is my only "Master". A master who also do not want my complacent flattery, but my faith and my love. And the one and the other goes through the exercise of the gift of the freedom of God's children.

I will therefore confine myself to two examples, just to make the idea: first of all the fact that, the second day of retreat, the Preacher says: "Helps me a sentence Bonhoeffer". It then proceeds to rotate with its quote [cf. WHO].

So let us just the thing: that of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a highly heretical thought, already I explained in the past in my article detailing how this thinker was the basis of formation of the Bishop Secretary of the Italian Episcopal Conference [cf. WHO], another "donkey" - in a purely figurative sense, for the holy love of God! - "Tied where he wants the Master '. I could argue that even a heretic as Bonhoeffer, there may still be good; this thing that in itself is just and true. However, teaches us how our wise Dominican master Giovanni Cavalcoli through its criticism of theologians at Karl Rahner: "The most dangerous heresy is the one through which, true and right, end sprinkled with doctrinal error and larded with heterodoxies ".

the art of communication …

Wanting, I can clarify matters with one of those examples that literally send off the handle certain incurable clerical. The example is the following: Also in the famous porn actor Rocco Siffredi - famous not for his face but for other anatomical parts of his body - there is good. Several times we saw him moved tenderly on live television, while responding to the interviewer spoke of his beloved wife and their beloved children with the candor of a San Luigi Gonzaga, explaining that for him the family is not just important, but absolutely everything. Even despite, I never would propose, never will I would use as a model of paternal family love in the preaching of the spiritual exercises to the Discalced Carmelites. Although I still consider more seriously the use Bonhoeffer heretic as an example and paradigm to express concepts of "high spirituality" in the presence of the Pope and his Curia, more or less "sbracati" with the clergyman slovenly dressed, of those on which is applied a white plastic stamp in the middle of her blouse, in a display of pectoral crosses hanging on the iron bellies. And those who answer me: "But such trifles go to observe and try?», replicherei that soon, in the Gospel of the Passion, we will read the episode in which the Roman soldiers, finding himself in his hands the precious garment of Jesus, well they looked from doing it in pieces, and only use rags to clean their spears and armor, as they are usually made with the miserable garments of those sentenced to crucifixion. Since this is indeed a very valuable head, woven entirely from top to bottom in fine cloth, that piece of haute couture if you played dice [cf. Mt 27, 33-36]. This is to say that their clothes and sloppy discharged members of the Roman Curia, bound like donkeys where the Lord wants, They could instead be hardly sold in the flea market of Porta Portese.

in contemporary society it is important to have a catchy expression half sly smile and the world today is yours

Much worse It is contained in the fifth meditation, the Preacher, which expediently proceeds in a deep and severe adulteration of the Gospel message. every preacher, indeed, in the delicate ministry of the Word of God's Word, It must take into account the totality of the text in all its deep entirety. I cut and paste a different use and consumption operated on the Gospel by those who wish to give it another sense changing it thus in a completely different message, They should be left to the ultra-secularists or the 'Dear Brothers Freemasons' Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi [cf. WHO, WHO]. And the theological seriousness that comes upstream from a wrong capacity of exegesis and adulteration of a serious message, in the specific preaching is based on this: it is claimed - rightly - that "Jesus is not a moralist", as they they are the Pharisees. Nothing to say, if everything were not used to tell the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ, what the Word of God Incarnate never said, considering that Jesus, a moral, He has it all right, enough to explain clearly and unequivocally: "You do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill " [CF. Mt 5, 17-20].

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I find it disturbing that today, even within the Church, of the entries as "dogma", "dogmatic", "Moral" ... they are used in a negative sense. No priest, in fact, not even the most uneducated of manicured country than once - now comparable in preparation to a doctorate in sacred theology today -, to express dissent on a given thing, He would reply to the other party: "But because you are dogmatic ... ah, all these unnecessary dogmatism!».

It would therefore be good to clarify the Preacher that there be "moralists", nell'accezione negative or self-righteous of the term, does not mean, however, be deprived of the sense of sin or of the concept of good and evil, ie moral sense, drowning everything in the current and prevailing molasses of a confused mercy and an equally confused love. The way the preacher speaks of sin is to say the least - I dare say - creepy, but mostly non-Catholic.

It is very serious that to support its objective heterodoxies the Preacher abuse of overtime Christological paradigms such as the episode of the forgiven prostitute [CF. LC 7, 36-48] o dell'adultera [cf. GV 7,53-8,11], to mutate all in another, to free man now psyched by “complex of sin”. Just as previously he had several times to make her famous brother David Maria Turoldo, distinguished and celebrated writer for the newspaper The Manifesto Communist Party, where for years he wrote editorials designed to please the radical communists and to confuse, except sometimes to humiliate, the sentiment of Catholics. And mind you I said: of Catholics, not gods captive-Pharisees.

spiritual exercises to the Roman Curia, Lent 2016

Overflowing forms of unspecified tenderness, the Preacher does not dwelt an essential element which underpins the action of divine grace of Christ the Lord, namely the fact that the prostitute, first of all, and forward all, It repented. Before Christ God she kneels humble and penitent "wetting his feet with her tears and drying them with her hair then" [CF. LC 7, 36-48]. It was not fair, and proud of their profession and of its subsequent action, nor of his sin, nor of his life of sin or of his state of sin. This is the base on which is built the action of Christ who welcomes, It protects and forgives, dismissing her with the phrase: "Your faith has saved you; go in peace!». Which it is a real absolution of sins by Christ the Eternal High Priest of the universe. On the other hand however the adulteress, also forgiven because repentant, It is dismissed with a precise warning, but for which there is no trace in the Preacher empty talk that maybe, just like the owner of the ass, He has decided to be more “tender” e “merciful” of Christ himself. To this I say empty talk, each and rigor played sull'emotivo, dance on sentimental street band Argentina and, above all, the politically correct. And the loving warning, and at the same time severe of the Lord Jesus is as follows: "... Will’ and from now on sin no more " [Cf Gv 7,11]. The same admonition by which confessors can now dismiss the penitent after the holy sacramental absolution. And this commandment is the seal that complements the action of divine grace, in the absence of which, the message Christological, It ends up being changed into another. Therefore, removing the initial element of repentance from sin on which moves the action of Christ's forgiveness, and finally the crucial final seal, it will stage a perfect forgery of the Gospel. And if this occurs directly before the Supreme Pontiff and to the members of the Roman Curia, you understand well what all that means: it means that by the time we are now in "happy" march on the hearse.

[especially the previous photo] the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith during the exercises to the Roman Curia, with an expression that in itself says everything …

Now I understand why, sitting in the front row among those present, stands dejected face of that great Orthodox theologian Ratzinger and Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, that to tell the truth I think is one of the best prefects of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had by the Church over the past fifty years.

At this point, between heretics cited in glory and speeches built on sociologisms e theologians widespread as metastases from cancers spread around the body of the Church by certain authors New Theology, to preach to the moribund Roman Curia no longer call even preachers, but directly the undertakers, What genuinely entirely consistent with the "new course", sometimes bleak, or at least ambiguous and doctrinally confusing.

And while the illustrious gravedigger-preacher He gave as far synthesized the best of themselves, this morning, at the invitation of a senior pastor, I was receiving from God the grace to preach about 300 students of middle school, aged between 11 ed i 14 year old. And in doing so, Far from feeling a gravedigger, I was a specialist in the intensive care unit, animated by the purpose of keeping alive in some way the faith, or at least questions about faith, in those who tomorrow, on the bodies of all these poor dead today triumphal march on the hearse, may be the Christi faithfuls future. This is the reason why I leave willingly to the Father Hermes Ronchi preaching to the dead, while i, on my part, I have always been committed to preach to the living.

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LITURGY OF THE WORD OF THE DAY [see who] HOMILY FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

[…] learn to welcome God who communicates to you, and learn to communicate with the love and mercy of God, of the God who is "slow to anger, abounding in love". But although his love a fire that burns forever, that does not mean it is free of anger toward those who choose evil at all costs and whatever the cost, instead choose that His infinite mercy

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Praised be Jesus Christ!

the vestry, the silent antechamber of paradise …

Psalm we read is interrupted by a responsorial that together we repeated: "Merciful and gracious is the Lord". To truly understand, so to accommodate others and to convey ourselves for what we really are, ie to communicate with our fellow, it is necessary the use of the word. But this use requires, around you, the true and real knowledge of the words, therefore the appropriate and correct use of the same words.

As you well know, modern technology should be useful to better communicate among yourselves and with the world around you, whereas, unfortunately,, their technology will often take the ability to communicate your emotions and feelings. Try to think about it, but above question yourselves about why today, that we are well equipped with all the best media, young people have enormous difficulties in communicating their emotions, sensations, feelings?

the vestry, the silent antechamber of paradise …

Maybe people my age [I have 52 year old] in this respect they were the most advantaged of you. For instance, This is also the age of your first great loves. And believe me I know what this means, your age because I fell in love on average twice a month; and my parents were always Wild Grass, as they are usually to 12/13 year old. At that point it was created the natural problem of communication: I, teenager that I was, I had to find a way, facial expression, the right words to say to that girl at school that I was in love with her. And everything was played on communication, with an awareness: If you fail to communicate our feelings to the other person, our feelings can not be understood, therefore not be accepted; and who nourishes feelings of love wish to be accommodated, requited, so loved. Then what happened? More or less this: as one of the elements of communication are also so-called gimmicks intended as strokes of genius who make things in order to make it appear that everything happened by chance, so it happened by chance that the girl came out of the school gym to get back into the classroom and ... but it happens, I was around the corner of the hallways was coming, obviously randomly. And just randomly I had printed in his face an air of dreamy cupid, or if you prefer to cold fish. And with honey sprinkled voice I said: "Good morning, but look who's here ". How to say: eh, jokes that makes the case! And supposing I met her again - again by chance, means - after school. After that, He could possibly miss a call in the afternoon, due to an emergency situation due to unforeseeable circumstances, in this case to a forgetfulness of the type: "I find the diary and do not remember the pages that the history teacher has given us to study '. And from that pretext he was born a conversation than forty minutes. And finally my father could call home to ask my mom urgent question, blurting: "I tried twenty times to call but was always busy". And my mother retorted: "Be patient, your son has run madly in love again!».

the vestry, the silent antechamber of paradise …

Now you understand that among this natural, human and emotional "talk" of gestures, looks, words and even pretexts designed ingeniously, and a whatsapp or a sms on which is written at a distance: “TVB”, which I think it means I love you, there is a lot of difference. Dear children: we can not communicate in barrel “TVB” and of smilies smiling or sad, nor can we communicate by sending images of thumbs raised or lowered approval of disapproval, because human relationships are not made with three ungrammatical words shoot with wathsapp, or with the image of a heart sent by sms. Human relationships are our actual present reality and our real future perspective, in a life that must be alive and real, not virtual. For that your life has to be made of real relationship, no hearts sent a few meters away with a sms without looking even in the face the person who makes you the true heart beat. And these human relations are based on communication. So try to learn to watch the companion or partner in the eye and try to tell him "I love you", instead of sending him a little heart with their cell phone from ten meters away.

the vestry, the silent antechamber of paradise …

It gave, what once it was defined in the Catechism with a very brief but effective sentence: "God is the perfect being the creator of heaven and earth", It encloses the heart of their eternal being the perfection of communication; because in a very effective way God has revealed and communique to man since time began. Think of that original way God reveals himself to Moses: She had him drawing his attention through a burning bush that burned before his eyes, but that was not consumed [It is cf 3:1-4:17]. But if you think about it, the sign of the bush burning without being consumed also contains another meaning. Indeed, the fire burning but that never wears out, It is a sign of God's eternal and unquenchable.

At a certain point of human history, here is that the Creator of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible, get back to communicate and to make themselves alive and present in a way that surpasses all human imagination: God became man, presenting himself before us with a body, a face, a voice, that of Jesus Christ. A quel point, from the burning bush that burns and that is the unquenchable love of God for man, We go to Jesus Christ, the Word of God made man, that as a sacrificial lamb washes the world from sin by burning love for humanity on the cross, to redeem with live fire of his passion the whole of mankind from sin. And once again, to God great and merciful, is a fire of love that burns and is consumed than ever.

arrival of young schoolchildren to church

before teaching of a God that yes communicates so extraordinary man, can we send humanity, feeling, love, with a heart cold shipped via sms?

Quando il psalmist, singing of the mercy of God, He announces that "The Lord is close to everyone who invokes" [Shall 144, 3] with those words does this mean: the Sir, who communicates and reveals himself through numerous signs, He wants man to communicate with him.

arrival of young schoolchildren to church

And Christ the Lord, before dying and rising from the dead, before ascending to heaven where now sits at the right hand of the Father, He left us another great gift: l'Eucharist. And in the great mystery of the Eucharist, the Lord Jesus is truly alive and present among us through the signs of bread and wine become his body and his blood alive. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine, Christ himself, living and glorious, It is in fact present in a true, real and substantial, his Body and Blood, with his soul and divinity [cf. CCC, 1413].

All these gifts of God the Father that continues to communicate man are enclosed in a single word: Mercy. The "mercy of God" as the Psalmist sings' expands to all his creatures " [Shall 144, 1].

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but be careful, the psalmist, singing the Divine Mercy, also it tells us that God is "slow to anger, abounding in love". And you know well that being "slow", It does not mean being 'devoid of anger ". All you who have received the sacraments of grace, you have made First Communion, and many of you too Confirmation, When you recite the profession of faith - the I believe - Together with all the People's Assembly of God affirmed that Christ "day again in glory to judge the living and the dead".

We not therefore challenge the love of God and his infinite mercy, because God is divine judge, which one day all of us - I for one much more of you - we will have to give an account of our actions.

In the Gospel of the blessed apostle John that we have read [cf. 5, 17-30], Christ the Lord affirms: "Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me, It has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but it is passed from death to life. In truth, verily I tell you: It comes forward […] when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will, live ».

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For this I tell you: learn to welcome God who communicates to you, and learn to communicate with the love and mercy of God, of the God who is "slow to anger, abounding in love". But although his love a fire that burns forever, that does not mean it is free of anger toward those who choose evil at all costs and whatever the cost, instead choose that His infinite mercy that part of Moses from the burning bush burning and not consumed, to reach up to the Only Begotten Son of God, Christ the Lord, for the love of humanity burns and consumes his passion on the cross for the salvation of mankind. And the third day it rose again according to the Scriptures, in the mystery of the Passover that soon we will live in the memory of Christ the Lord, that for us and died for us and rose again. And the great mystery of the Risen Christ who conquers death, It rests the whole great mystery of our faith: Christ gave, the Lamb Victorious, that conquers death and who calls us all to life in his kingdom which has no end. These, Christian sentiments with which I urge you to live in a little while the great mystery of Easter.

Praised be Jesus Christ!

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Most Holy Father.

You are Peter and on this rock Christ builds His Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it [CF. Mt 16,18].

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The Lord instructed Your Holiness to shepherd his flock, to you it handed over the keys of the kingdom of heaven, result that the use of these keys has celestial effects, and the acts of his teaching and his government teach us, explain and interpret us the Word and the Will of God, give us the grace of Christ, show us the way of truth, of virtue, of justice, of mercy, of freedom, of salvation, of holiness, peace and heavenly bliss; guide us to the kingdom of heaven, and defend us from the power of darkness.

The Lord Jesus Christ, which Your Holiness, Bishop of Rome, It is the Vicar, "Sweet Christ on earth", as it calls the Holy Senese, The sent her to announce his victory over the powers of evil: "Now is come salvation, the strength and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, since it is the accuser of our brothers, the one who accused them before our God day and night " [AP 12,10].

The Lord Jesus, Conqueror of sin and death, The donated, indeed, his Spirit of Truth, of Love, Mercy and Power, What with and through Whom Your Holiness get from God for us faithful, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, "Every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variation or shadow due to change " [GC 1,17].

To her, Most Holy Father, "Friend of the bridegroom" [GV 3,29], Christ entrusted his beloved Bride, the church, "Woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars " [AP 12,1]. This messianic Woman, as Your Holiness knows well, who gives birth to "a son, to rule all the nations with an iron scepter " [AP 12, 5], It is constantly threatened and attacked on this earth by the "red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and ten crowns "heads, signs of "all the kingdoms of the earth" [LC 4,5], the glory and the powers of this world.

Her, Most Holy Father, with the power of the Holy Spirit, helped by the Archangel Michael, by His angels and by the successors of the apostles, He has a divine mandate to defend the bride against the Dragon, preparing them in the wilderness of this life a "haven" [AP 12,6], where it can be fed to the end of earthly history.

Her, Most Holy Father, supreme dispenser of the sacraments of salvation, He gives us his children, with the Most Holy Eucharist, the "Blood of the Lamb" [AP 12,11], washed and fortified by what, together with you, and under his leadership, we can make our witness and win the Dragon. We invoke and implore, so, Most Holy Father, his help and his rescue, in a difficult time in history, in order to achieve the final victory and attain salvation and eternal life.

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