Jesus among the doctors in the Temple: “Son, why have you done this?”

JESUS ​​AMONG THE DOCTORS IN THE TEMPLE: "SON, WHY WE HAVE MADE THIS?»

.

One question that we can ask is how to interpret more precisely, also from a psychological point of view, This stopping of Jesus among the doctors in the temple. What can be exactly happened? And why?

.

.

Author John Cavalcoli OP

Author
John Cavalcoli OP

.

.

[…] 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. When they saw him they were amazed, and his mother said: «Son, why have you done this? there, Your father and I, distressed, We are looking for you» [CF. LC 2, 41-52. Full text WHO].

.

.

Albrecht Dürer, Jesus among the doctors (1506)

Albrecht Dürer, Jesus among the doctors (1506)

One of the episodes from the life of Christ more difficult to interpret, but rich in teachings, is that of his conversation with the doctors in the Temple of Jerusalem, after being suddenly taken away for three days, without advance notice, to the custody of Mary and Joseph [CF. LC 2, 41-51]. Jesus disappeared, the first thing that comes to mind to Mary and to Joseph is to look for Jesus among "the relatives and acquaintances" [v.48]: idea of ​​common sense human, but that is not up to figure out where he might be really Jesus: in Jerusalem, in the temple! And in fact, here is that this idea comes, and Jesus is found. Where in fact more Christ can live if not in the temple? In the Tabernacle of the Most Holy Eucharist? There are sure to find it. If, then disappears, there we go looking for him.

Milan - S. Ambrogio - treasure - Bergognone school

Jesus Trai doctors. Milan, Sant'Ambrogio, treasure. Bergognone school

The first question we can ask in this troublesome episode about the seemingly strange conduct and disturbing of Jesus, It is how come he did not think to warn parents that would have stopped a long time - three days - to the temple to talk with the doctors. We can not assume in Jesus voluntary misconduct or raising the head towards parents, how could any undisciplined and reckless boy. The other part, the words of the Mother, "Anguished", They know of reproach: "Son, why have you done this?» [v.48]. However, it will be better to interpret this question as - say Saint Catherine of Siena - a simple albeit "ansietata" request for clarification. The question, the rest, It is born of outrage, but precisely from anguish, feeling very natural, trying a normal mother for the extended absence of his son who died suddenly without warning. Her, knowing him as a good son, caring and obedient, not think of a reckless act of irreverence towards parents, but it is brought to the fear that has been an accident. You can not be excluded, moreover, in parents, an element of anxiety for fear that the child might have happened some misfortune.

Uffizi Gallery - Jesus' dispute with the doctors of the Temple

Uffizi Gallery – Jesus' dispute with the doctors of the Temple

The interpretative key, illuminating the sense of the mysterious episode, as it is to be expected, It is given by the response of Jesus himself in the form of counter-questions: «Because you were looking for me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father?». Even these words at first they know of reproach. But it is unthinkable that Jesus reproaches her parents. Simply refers to their memory things which in all probability had already told them and that they could remember at the time of his death and during his prolonged absence. Things of which, however, evidently had forgotten. Which things? Probably precisely the warning that could have happened then what actually happened to the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. It is therefore as if Jesus had told them: "You had to find me. I would have to remind you that I must be about my Father. I am not only the son of man, but also of the Most High. Indeed, I had warned you that it would have happened a thing. You had to wait quietly for me to go back alone, on my own". Instead, with the words "your father and I have sought thee" [v.48], it is clear that Mary does not have in mind the heavenly fatherhood of the Son. Warns at this time herself as mother and wife. Clearly here for her now, "your father," is Joseph. But Jesus at this time ignore this human fatherhood and invokes another: the one that most interests him: "My Father", bones Heavenly Father. Mary and Joseph, that, finding Jesus, they were "amazed" (v.48), Now they remain banned. They do not understand.

Pintoricchio. Spello, Santa Maria Maggiore child Jesus in the temple dispute with the doctors

Pintoricchio. Spello, Santa Maria Maggiore. Child Jesus in the temple dispute with the doctors

This episode clearly shows that Mary and Joseph made a journey of faith, for which, knowing that Jesus was the Son, only gradually they learned to uncover the mystery of their son. Although Mary had had the revelation by the angel that she would be the Mother of the Most High, here it does not seem to rise to the occasion. Thus Mary is beside us in our faltering steps, wavering, weak and doubtful; Her, He takes us by the hand and guides us maternally where she has now arrived.

From the words of Mary We can understand, then, that parents do not understand the explanation given by Jesus: "But they did not understand his words" [v.50]. We are careful that this "does not understand" does not mean "we did not understand anything", how could it happen to me if someone spoke to me in Chinese or tell me nonsense, where there is nothing to understand. These words refer instead to the mystery of the divine sonship of Jesus: a truth certainly dark, because it transcends the limits of human reason; but yet, while, saving light of reason. So that "they did not understand" is not the sorry attitude, skeptical and annoyed, if not offended, Typical of parents in front of flimsy excuses given by a wayward son, who embarks on an escapade from home without notice or reasonable cause. Athe contrary - and this is explicitly stated in the behavior of Mary - Ella, as has become his custom was before the mysterious and precious facts of the Son [2,19], "She kept all these things in her heart" [v.51]. Mary is the model of the Church, that, along the story, faithfully preserves the treasure of truth and grace, who entrusted the Bridegroom.

Gaspare Landi - Jesus dispute with the doctors in the Temple. Palazzo Farnese

Gaspare Landi – Jesus dispute with the doctors in the Temple. Palazzo Farnese

As noted by St. Edith Stein, big inquisitive and teacher of the qualities of the woman, It is typically feminine virtues of things and custody of their secrets of man who loves. When she is fertilized, contains within it the germ received, until it becomes that human being, that one day will give birth. Similarly to Mary, The Church guards in the history and explains always better to men the treasures of God's Word. Here is the dogmatic progress.

In this treasure in our hearts and meditate on the Word of God, Mary is also the model of the theologian and contemplative soul, which is consolidated in its faith convictions, deepens, It draws new conclusions, formulating new proposals and at the same time remains open, as the Holy Father Francis says, the "surprises of God", which you can be at first collide with our limitations, but then, in front of our trustful openness, manifest their infinite wisdom.

Dispute of Jesus among the Doctors of the Temple, Jacopo Robusti known as Tintoretto

Dispute of Jesus among the Doctors of the Temple, Jacopo Robusti known as Tintoretto

A question that we can ask ourselves It is how to interpret more precisely, also from a psychological point of view, This stopping of Jesus among the doctors in the temple. What could have happened exactly? And why? Let's read: "They found him in the temple, sitting among the doctors, He is listening to them and asking them questions;. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers " [vv. 46-47].

As it happens in mystical phenomena High intensity, Jesus in the temple was probably kidnapped by the beauty of his Father's mysteries and forgot even her parents and who passed not only the hours, but the days. That estimates of Jesus for lawyers!! those same, although probably not the same people, that one day will pronounce his sentence. In the same way, the divine charm of this mysterious boy must have struck and deeply impressed those good, honest and wise doctors, so the mutual contact between these holy souls and love of God, He shot him, if I may say, a divine spark, that gave off a mystical fire of divine love. Thus he unleashed an overwhelming and irresistible dialectic, a spiritual circularity, for which Jesus and the doctors were going to race in mutually stimulate themselves in the heavenly elevations. Who could no longer look after the time and the surrounding reality?

Jesus among the doctors in the temple - Giovanni Battista Beinaschi

Jesus among the doctors in the temple – Giovanni Battista Beinaschi. Racconigi Castle.

Jesus showed signs of extraordinary intelligence and you can well understand. We do however find it hard to understand how he could ask questions to doctors, They, incarnate Wisdom. Perhaps even then he put them to the test, as he would in adulthood? Or maybe that just was eager to know their opinion? Or he was delighted to see in those minds elected a reflection of divine wisdom? Or maybe he intended to urge them to recognize the Messiah? One thing seems certain there: that in this sacred conversation does not show anything controversial as it will appear the clashes of the adult Jesus with the Pharisees and teachers of the law.

"Nativity of Filippino Lippi from Prato (XV sec.)

Nativity by Filippino Lippi from Prato (XV sec.)

In the language of sobriety the Lucan account, what a wonderful example are reduced to the essential spiritual dialogue: the question and the answer! Would that also in our theological and religious debates were breathed this atmosphere of profound communion and a free time in the atmosphere differentiation enriching, soothing, thrilling, pacifying and enriching the truth! L'mysterious episode, who challenged Mary and Joseph, It is culminating in everyday normality: Jesus "went forth with them, He came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them " [LC 2,51]. Like any good obedient boy in the making, "Increased in wisdom, age and grace before God and before men " [ibid.].

The deity back to hide behind humanity, after mankind has disappeared before the deity, in a continuous alternation of moments infinitely distant between them, so it seems contradictory and incompatible, a unique phenomenon in the whole of humanity, characteristic instead of the person and of the earthly life of Christ. Even in our Christian life that Christ happens suddenly and inexplicably absconding and you seem to disappear, without that we can understand or imagine where he might be and then how to look and how to achieve it, nor know when, how and where to reappear.

.

Varazze, 27 December 2015

Feast of the Holy Family

.

___________________________________.

Dear Readers.

With the article published 5 January [see WHO] We asked for your support, in which we trust and which we unfortunately really need.

Thank you!

.

.

.

From late vocations to the collection …

THE ADULT VOCATIONS to the collection …

.

The Island of Patmos has always walked a tightrope, until now never cut, let's pray, we hope and trust that our dear readers help us not to cut us …

.

.

Author Father Ariel

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

.

.

Adult vocations to the priesthood they bring wealth and usefulness to the interior of the Church. All my confreres who came to the Holy Order in adulthood, they have often shown themselves to be very attentive in pastoral practice, having had a past life and all the experiences that sometimes ensue. Adults who become priests, or they are excellent presbyters motivated in faith, or they are huge disasters. Personally, I have never known middle ground nor have I ever had the opportunity to find the element of serene mediocrity in adult vocations: or they are eagles, or are they chickens.

adult vocations 1

In the 2015 are ordered in Turin 5 new deacons aged between i 37 ed i 50 year old. In the photo on the left Riccardo Florio [see service WHO, WHO, WHO]

Numerous saints were born from adult vocations, it is enough to mention two great teachers of the sixteenth century: San Filippo Neri and San Ignazio di Loyola, respectively consecrated priests a 37 years the first and a 46 years the second.

From adult vocations another feature also emerges: the lack of eagerness to achieve prestigious positions in the Church or to make a career in the ecclesiastical or academic world. The adult who became a priest had in fact a life already started and, after all, not a few would have had various enticing opportunities - some even remarkable - to make brilliant careers in the world; not a few had even started them successfully, before leaving everything and following Christ through a radical choice of life.

adult vocations 2

a group of men candidates for the priesthood in adulthood [see service WHO]

How many come from similar experiences, they will hardly go to annoy their Bishop to be sent to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, it is equally unlikely that they will compete, or to make war on other priests to be appointed rectors of the cathedral church, or vicars general. Unless some wicked Bishop hungry for priests does not start accepting as candidates for the sacred orders of the forty-year-olds who after a life of human failures, professional and sentimental, not knowing where to beat their heads, they choose the priesthood as a last resort. Usually, But, not even a wise and prudent subject like the Pre-Eastern bishop S.E. Mons. Domenico Sigalini, known for having given diocesan canonical recognition even to ghostly congregations that seem to have come out of the Simpson family cartoons, would never welcome such subjects, because by their very nature they are not formable and above all they are not manageable, given that training and managing an adult is something quite difficult than always requiring very particular trainers, not to mention the saints.

I always remember with deep affection one of my first trainers, also an adult vocation to the priesthood, that despite having never done a single day of seminary - having had another kind of formation outside the seminary for his age -, as soon as he became a priest he was appointed rector of the archiepiscopal seminary of his diocese, where for twenty years he carried out a splendid ministry of which an entire particular Church still preserves devoted memories today [cf. WHO].

adult vocations 3

Pino Conforti, receives the Holy Order in Rome from the Holy Father Francis a 44 year old [service WHO, WHO, WHO]

One of the limits that I was able to find in adult vocations it is the inability to ask for money. And I, too, who have never blushed in my life, I miss the most embarrassing things, of those that could have led my other brothers to states of shock, I felt trembling instead when at the beginning of the sacred ministry I heard some faithful questions of the type asked: «How much do I have to leave for the celebration of Mass for my dead?». And I: "Anything!». And having said that, I ran away embarrassed.

Anyone who has lived a shorter or longer period of his life producing through his work or benefiting from his or her family's assets, he is not used to asking what is in fact almsgiving. To learn the art of begging you must have entered a seminary as a young person, having eaten at the table and watered at the springs of clericalism; you must have learned to carry i jeans and sneakers to give the illusion - no one knows who! - not to be clerical. And this contrary to the undersigned who instead wears his cassock every day, not least to show his visceral anticlericalism towards the worst of the new clericals, which are precisely i pretini trendy in jeans and sneakers, also called “quick change” O “Camaleonti”.

adult vocations 3

Luigi D'Arco (To the right) and Gino Calamai (to the left), ordained priests in Prato at the respective ages of 62 e 47 year old [service, WHO]

When my mother asked me what could give me useful I replied: beautiful fabrics to have a good tailor make new cassocks for me. I didn't tell her: “I'd like some nice fabrics, But take that money and give it to the poor ", because for a Catholic mother a priest son is a unique and unrepeatable gift, and I, who also live in contact with the poor, know as well as the poor themselves, unlike Eugenio Scalfari and the whole caste of the gods radical-chic ultra-laicisti, who so much crave a sloppy church with patches to the ass, the priest always want to see him well placed and decent, because he is their priest; because the priest is their common wealth. And I say a priest, imagine therefore the decorum that the poor would always like to see imprinted on a Bishop, or even in the Roman Pontiff, especially in these times tense towards pauperistic sloppiness.

lorenzo marazzani

Lorenzo Marazzani, ordained priest in Perugia at the age of 46 year old [services WHO, WHO]

The truth is, a scruffy church, on pretexts of presumed simplicity and unspecified evangelical poverty, i want it hippies who live in the most futile glitzy luxuries, the poor do not want it. Because the poor are the same as always: those who were capable yesterday and who are still able today to bring as a gift the only piece of gold they have to contribute to the fusion of a precious chalice; because the poor do not want the Blood of Christ to be placed inside an earthenware pot, who want it are those who do not believe in the Blood of Christ and who have improvised themselves as false friends of the Church. It is not by chance, Our Lord Jesus Christ, as an example to follow he offers us the poor widow's mite [cf. MC 12, 41-44. LC 21, 1-4], while as an example to be avoided he offers us the false philanthropism for the poor of Judas Iscariot [cf. GV 12, 1-11]. This is what is written in the Gospel, like: and that's.

As you will have understood, the fathers of’Patmos Island they are too ecclesial to be clerical. For this reason Father Giovanni Cavalcoli always wears the noble ancient habit of the sons of San Domenico and I the black cassock of the secular clergy., replaced by the white one in summer when it is very hot, because it is a way to show that we are world in the world, not gods “professional priests” more or less camouflaged in the world to please the world and not to disturb the world, that if necessary it is our task not only to shake but also to disturb.

ord sac 197

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, ordained priest in Rome at the age of 45 year old

The impediment explained “anthropological” given upstream bymy inability to ask for money, I go on to tell you that for the second time we have reached “columns of Hercules” and we need for the 2016 of the money needed to get ahead in our work, that as we have always told you and repeated it is as free as it is burdensome, and in the face of our work we only ask you to give us the means to be able to work for all of you for free.

We come to the painful expense report: reiterating that nothing on the internet is free but everything is paid, if you want to make use of the necessary cutting-edge tools. This is why we run into unavoidable expenses at every so-called street corner.

Server business

the business server and monthly / annual costs [WHO]

Let's start from server, about which a reader wrote to me: “How would you say you need money for the server? I only pay for my blog 50 euro per year!». I replied: "I do not doubt it. But your blog, daily, how many visits do you have, in addition to that of your mother, of your sister, your grandfather who dabbles with the internet and some of your friends?». The almost offended expert replies: "Look, that I have also come to 100 visits a day!». And since the principle seems to apply “we are all great experts”, I explained that The Island of Patmos has long since passed the 10.000 daily visits and that on the date of 31 January the total number of visitors for the year 2015 was equal to 4.321.800. But if anyone knows a server provider willing to grant us a service a 50 euro per year that allows the site of our online magazine to hold up such a large amount of access - that is, a service for unlimited access with an equally unlimited data archive - let us know, because after subscribing instantly, the fathers of’Patmos Island they will visit him to give him a kiss on the tip of the nose as a sign of gratitude for having avoided spending 1.000 euro per year for Server-business on which we are necessarily supported, in exchange for unlimited access for visitors and other valuable and indispensable user services.

logo_fastweb

ADSL business [WHO]

For the work we do we need speed both in “ticket” both in “exit“, which is to say: a line is indispensable that allows to acquire and transmit gods “heavy data”. And this implies a completely different internet subscription from that of a normal home ADSL, for this we use one of those services provided to professional firms and companies, the cost of which, I our case, is equal to 115 € per month (VAT included) for an annual total of 1.380 Euro. And having said that we are a 2.380 euro only for the subscription fees to server and subscription to the internet line, while remaining naturally open to the advice of the “great experts” or anyone who can suggest - but more than anything else show us - that with a simple external internet key to be recharged every now and then with 10 Euro, it is possible to do the kind of work we do.

Free no

to work a certain way, nothing on the internet is free

Of necessity we have to receive and transmit data from computers that offer the best technology; and how do those who know certain services know, professional programs are expensive. Indeed, between graphics programs, editorial, editing movies, security and system protection, etc.. every year we leave there “modica” figure of 1.600 Euro; and this is only because we have chosen to purchase for one year of use, because the definitive purchase of certain individual programs also costs a few thousand euros, etc …

To be brief: our annual management costs amount to 5.150 to work on an internet where in the opinion of some everything would be free.

Who knows about graphics and layout, he immediately understands that the articles of’Patmos Island could be printed in a paper magazine, because if they want to do it they would be ready for printing.

pirate programs

crack the programs is a crime [WHO, WHO]

And reiterating how much ours is a world of “great experts”, finally, there was no lack of soul “practice” who suggested us: "There is no need to pay all this money, just get yourself crack i programs!». I answered: "Stupendous! And if it happens, the Guardia di Finanza or whoever is competent finds programs cracked, that means “stolen”, on the computers of a priest and his aide - or the Veterinary Police found on Hypatia's computer Roman cat pirate programs -, used to run a Catholic online magazine where, when necessary, whips are not lacking for those who claim the right to immorality and contempt for the laws of God and men, explain to me what a good impression we make? I tell you: the figure of those who preach well and scratch very badly ".

John Cavalcoli breviary

Dominican theologian John Cavalcoli

As you can understand what we need is not the advice given by “experts” to whom the advice, especially those of foreigners, they cost nothing: what we need is your help to carry out our work, because neither Father Giovanni Cavalcoli, who as a Dominican friar has no personal income, depending entirely on its community; nor am I as a member of the secular clergy that I live with 800 euro per month of salary of the Clergy Support Body, some offerings for Holy Masses and the precious help of my family, we can incur similar costs out of our own pocket to offer a free service to all.

For the 2015 Providence has come to meet us through you, we are therefore certain that also for the 2016 Providence will support us, if as we believe The Island of Patmos, John's last place of revelation, it is a service to the Church and its faithful at a time of delicate ecclesial crisis and of so much confusion among the increasingly disoriented living members of the People of God.

providence

we try to understand each other even with a smile …

In concreto: every time you send us messages like “What great articles … ah, what courage you have! … how much benefit I have found in your words … thanks to your catecheses I understood the nature of the problem and the possible solution …». Well: together with these words that cost nothing, also send us an offer, even small, because even the little added together is very precious. Why to be honest and to the end, we do not hide the understandable fright for the management costs that we will have to bear by the end of January 2016; costs that we are currently unable to bear, having currently in the cashier of our Paypal account 1.100 euros donated at the end 2015 by one of our loyal Piedmontese readers, by an Etruscan-Lazio reader, by a young Roman research doctor living in Dublin, from a dear Milanese reader who, together with his wife, asked me to celebrate some Masses of suffrage for his dead and sending me two offerings that I paid into the account of the’Patmos Island.

During 2015, when we found ourselves without means of support, a dear Piedmontese reader sent us 2.000 euros to cover all the necessary expenses; and thanks to her we were able to continue our service, which we hope to continue throughout the 2016.

If you want you can send us an offer for the sustenance of’Patmos Island using the convenient and safe service PayPal which you can find on the bottom right of the home-page.

.

.

____________________________________

.

I take this opportunity to address a special wish to the Brother Priests whose public images I have used to accompany this article which speaks in the first part of adult vocations to the priesthood. I don't have the pleasure of meeting any of these Brothers, some of them recently consecrated in the Sacred Priestly Order. To all of them I renew my best wishes for every grace and blessing from Christ the Lord at the beginning of this new year.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

In memory of Father Tomas Tyn, a modern giant of faith

IN MEMORY OF FATHER TOMAS TYN, A MODERN GIANT OF THE FAITH

.

[…] to Father Tomas Tyn was a message of truth as a theologian and preacher, as well as of freedom as a Christian, all arising from a heart burning with love, which it is the bond of perfection. And a saint theologian is rare today, in which teem with the ambitious, alls and impostors.

.

.

Author John Cavalcoli OP

Author
Giovanni Cavalcoli, ON

.

.

tomas tyn ok

Image of Tomas Tyn

January 1st 2016 marks the 26th anniversary of the death of Servant of God Father Tomas Tyn, Dominican theologian of Czech as source, but he lived in Italy in the Dominican convent of Bologna from 1972 al 1989, At its end year, suffering from an incurable disease, He went to finish his earthly journey in his parents' house in Germany, a Neckargemünd, where he is buried and where they live her mother Ludmila and her brother Paul.

Father Tomas He left us an exemplary Christian witness that, in the early 2000, thanks to the work of Father Svatos, He led the Czech Province of the Order Dominican to become a promoter of the Cause for Beatification of Father Tyn, opened in Bologna in 2006 by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, at the time Metropolitan Archbishop of the City felsinea. That testimony, in his heroic summit, It consisted in the holocaust that the Servant of God made of his life for the freedom of the Church in the then Czechoslovakia by a tyrannical regime inspired by Marxism. As is known, the Servant of God died in the days in which President Havel inaugurated the new political regime that instaurava religious freedom and an end to the persecution of the Church was.

Caffara and Cavalcoli

Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, at the time of Archbishop of Bologna, during an exchange of greetings with the Father John Cavalcoli and some of his Dominican brothers at the end of the opening of the beatification process

The sacrifice of Father Tomas was the ripe fruit of a religious life spent in an untiring, fecund, convinced and joyful industriousness as a religious, priest, preacher, anime guide, scholar, professor of philosophy and theology at the Theological Dominican Bologna. Father Tomas has left us a splendid example of 'greater love: "To give one's life for his friends" [GV 15,13].

We find in Father Tomas another of the signs of holiness: his concentration and unification in God, of whom all rests, in Whom all is experienced, Cui everything you receive, to Whom everything is constantly and consistently ordered and finalized [1]. Even Tomas could repeat with St. Teresa of Avila: God suffices.

The life of Tomas gives the impression not of a journey, but of one corsa towards God, such was the clarity with which he could see the way forward and the momentum of his strong will sustained by grace [2]. And because he saw clearly the goal, He could show it to others. Teach others.

Cardinal Carlo Caffarra during the opening of the beatification process of Tomas Tyn

It is known the firmness of his faith convictions and the acuteness of his critical eye, for which not only does not let himself be confused by errors and heresies, but he knew them find and vigorously refute. This did not fail to drawn him hostility and derision on the part of the enemies of truth, humiliations and sufferings that he endured forgiving all, bastandogli consolation of his clear and innocent conscience, and the gratitude of the good. Free from any form of human respect and only mindful of its mission as a theologian and priest, He was not afraid to oppose the fashions of the day, even if followed by vast spaces of time.

The life of every saint It has the incomparable advantage of being, in the most different forms and degrees, so unified, simplified, consistent, collection, concentrated and synthesized around a single high, Ideal charming and divine, that it can almost be summarized in a single message, doing fine, the strength and usefulness of the feature Santo, for the salvation of souls and the good of the Church, message that provides the underlying reason and the cause of his beatification. What was the message of Father Tomas? A message of truth as a theologian and preacher, as well as of freedom as a Christian, all arising from a heart burning with love [3], which it is the bond of perfection. A holy theologian is rare today, in which teem with the ambitious, alls and impostors.

Tomas Tyn 6

some Tyn Tomas images distributed by the office of postulation

We talk canonically and legally "cause" for beatification, because for beatifying or Holy man of God, The Church rightly calls a "cause", a "why" sufficiently convincing or conclusive. The devotee of the saint, who supports it, l ' "advocate", let's say so, his cause, It must be able to demonstrate in front of the Church and the people of God Why, for what reason, for what purpose and for what benefit or what advantage do Santo. Well, this "cause" is given by the message of the holy. We say, completing the already mentioned, that what he has created, as stated in the canon law, the the reputation of holiness Father Tomas was the extraordinary consistency in him between thought and action, between faith and charity, the intellect and the will, the moment of truth and that of freedom, the moment of conscience and that of the law, that of grace and the free will.

Book of tyn Cavalcoli

the book of Tomas Tyn John Cavalcoli

One thing of which we desperately need today and the truthful foundation of virtue, The metaphysical basis of morality, the intellectual foundation, doctrinal and dogmatic of holiness and the Christian life. The solution of all other problems, of the relationship between reason and faith, between God and man, between religion and science, between body and soul, between man and nature, between the person and society, between authority and freedom, art and morality, tradition and progress, State and Church, Justice and mercy, and so on.

In thought and in the life of Father Tomas, enlightened by the mystery of the Trinity, the unity and harmony of the mind functions, starting from the single person, Unified by the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, spread out to Community-scale, ecclesial and cosmic, according to the principle of analogy and participation, under the primacy of Christ, "Head of the body, the church:, beginning and the firstborn from the dead, to have first place in all things, because it pleased God to dwell in Him all the fullness, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, having made peace through the blood of his cross, that through Him, all things, whether on earth or of heaven " [With the 1, 18-20].

tomb tyn

Tomas Tyn's grave

From this vision of cosmic synthesis, under the primacy of Christ, founded on the metaphysics of St. Thomas, is the virtue of reconciling and reconciling spirituality Tyniana, in the sign of Mary Queen of Peace and winner of heresies, in full filial submission to the Successor of Peter. Thus it appears this magnanimous spirituality, impregnated universality of Catholicism, It can be of benefit in bringing today and reconcile with each other factions still a struggle, inside the church, modernists and lefevriani.

We therefore ask the intercession of the Servant of God, Get as soon as possible by the Heavenly Father to his devotees around the world and particularly in his beloved Dominican Family, joy to see him raised to the honor of the altars.

.

Varazze, 01 January 2016
Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God

.

__________________

NOTE

[1] I am splendid her school courses on the ultimate goal and the blessedness

[2] theological masterpieces are his courses on grace.

[3] Also admirable school courses on charity.

.

News about the cause of beatification WHO

.

.

tomas tyn postulation

.

.

.

.

Ariel S-video meditations. Levi Gualdo on Advent

— I video dell’Patmos Island

ARIEL S-VIDEO MEDITATION. LEVI of GUALDO on Advent

.

After two o'clock lessons held in Rome from Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo at the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, several readers have asked to provide other video-materials of the Fathers’Patmos Island. We begin by offering these Advent meditations dedicated to two readings from the Gospel and from a biblical reading from the Book of Genesis, in which are shown mainly three key concepts: the will of the Father, the is Mary, the compassion for Christ.

.

.

Author drafting of the island of Patmos

Author
Drafting
of the island of Patmos

.

.

Dear Readers.

As soon as the Father Ariel and his collaborator will go to the convent in which he lives the Father Giovanni Cavalcoli old per un po’ together and record of lessons illustrious academic Dominican to be published in video on Channel You Tube Dell’Patmos Island.

.

.

THE CHANNEL YOU TUBE DELL’ISLE OF PATMOS

To open the video click on the images

.

FIRST MEDITATION: The Father's will

Video 1

.

SECOND MEDITATION: Mary's yes

Video 3

.

THIRD MEDITATION: Compassion of Christ

Video 2

.

.

.

.

.

Opening of the Jubilee to the animals on the day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

— I video dell’Patmos Island

OPENING OF THE JUBILEE DAY OF ANIMALS IN THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

.

By virtue of my skills Catholic animals I wanted to contribute to the offering of Readers’Patmos Island a video on the opening of the Jubilee. The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary the festivities for the opening of the Holy Door in fact have concluded with a series of nighttime screenings on the facade of St. Peter's Papal Archbasilica transformed for the occasion in a zoo.

.

..

Author Hypatia cat Roman

Author
Hypatia Roman cat

.

.

.

hypatia below deck

… the professional devastating blankets for beds

I thank the Vatican Television Center from which I took pictures of this movie. I thank Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, My spiritual director, who has agreed to appear with me on video. A devotee thanks all'insigne Dominican John Cavalcoli, academic pontifical, that opened my mind on Thomistic principles of metaphysics feline; the young Thomist philosopher and theologian Jorge Facio Lince that helped me to learn the lessons taught to me by the distinguished Dominican theologian.

I promise to Father Ariel and Jorge, as my personal penance in this jubilee year, avvoltolarmi no longer covered in woolen winter beds of their rooms facendoglieli then find promptly undone when they return home.

Through this act penitential I hope to gain the indulgence offering daily, as cat Catholic consecrated secular, my prayers for sinners of the class of cats Aristocats, because contrary to their cats of existential suburbs They are poor and, as poor, are all good, saints and sound; because the Church of Christ is no longer the Church of all men of good will, but the Church of the Poor.

hypatia covered

… the professional devastating blankets for beds

Alas, I can not sleep a family of refugees cats Mohammedans as I wished, for the Father Ariel told me he threw me out of the house and sent to live in the hotel who had made up his mind to me certain ideas rather unrealistic.

At that point I thought about that “threat” and I remembered that I, when I was little - think: I weighed only four ounces! - I was torn to certain death by the Father Ariel and his collaborator, that when the celebration of the Holy Mass in the Catacombs of Priscilla were intent on returning home, When they found me abandoned, taken to scream in Via Nemorense. As you can see they have not collected in a periphery existential, but in a Roman residential area of ​​wages district, where they could live many more poor than they dwell in neighborhoods ultra-popular, Why, as he has always taught me my good Father: anyone who is deprived of Christ is a poor. It is in this fact that we measure real poverty: be deprived of the grace of the Father Creator, Son of the Redeemer, Holy Spirit comforter who proceeds from the Father and the Son.

.

THE CHANNEL YOU TUBE DELL’ISLE OF PATMOS

To open the video made by Hypatia Roman cat click on the photo

.

Hypatia for the Jubilee

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

At the threshold of Christmas: the remarks on atheism John Cavalcoli

− Theologica —

AT THE GATES OF CHRISTMAS: COMMENTS atheism JOHN Cavalcoli

.

[…] Blessed Paul VI gave to the Society of Jesus as a special task the struggle against atheism; but unfortunately the company not only did not produce anything significant in this field, but it was conniving with communist guerrillas in Latin America and has given full freedom to act as a theologian Karl Rahner, which it supports the possibility of an atheist in good faith, therefore it is not guilty.

..

..

Author drafting of the island of Patmos

Author
Drafting
of the island of Patmos

.

.

At the threshold of Christmas celebrating the Mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God made Man, the pontifical academic John Cavalcoli offers of readers’Patmos Island This short essay on atheism.

Compatibly with the technical times and numerous pastoral commitments that have burdened the Fathers of’Patmos Island in this last glimpse of Advent, we plan to charge as soon as possible on the Canal You Tube Dell’Patmos Island the three videos with meditation on Advent of the Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, we are currently converting the heavy HD format to a format suitable for uploading to internet.

.

To open the short-essay of Father John Cavalcoli click below

20.12.2015 John Cavalcoli OP – atheism COMMENTS

.

.

.

.

.

Open, rather: wide the legs to cosmetic gynecology!

– Letters Readers of’Patmos Island

OPEN, RATHER: WIDE OPEN THE LEGS TO COSMETIC Gynecology!

.

[…] even a person sexually incattivito, famously irreverent and aggressive toward the Catholic Church and Catholicism, this has always been known to be the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, he could give life, through his perverse fantasies, to a grotesque image as The dialogues on the vagina in the Vatican.

.

.

Author Father Ariel

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

..

.

.

Dear Father Ariel.

They no longer a nun nurse on duty. I played my last years of work, or better than Christian mission, in a hospital, where for 10 years I was the head nurse. Do not hide the fact that at first, reading the material that I send, I thought it was a joke, but the news was authentic. The around the poster and brochure that advertises this conference on Gynecological cosmetic surgeryto be held at an academic institution of the Holy See. More than to know his thinking (that reading it for a few years I can well imagine) the wonder: but what is happening?

Letter signed

.

.

gynecology 1

Dialogues on the vagina the shadow of the Tomb of the Prince of the Apostles

We all still in the ears and the heart's loving admonition of St. Giovanni Paolo II than in 1978 He said beginning his pontificate with the famous words: "Open, rather: open wide the doors to Christ and his saving power "Cf. WHO, WHO].

That decline is bad There is known from an anthropological point of view, philosophical, historical and even theological; and we are also conscious of living a moment of crisis of faith and intra-ecclesial decline that has no historical precedent. In its twenty centuries of life the Holy Church of Christ went through moments of great crisis, but as today is done without prior. It never in fact had happened - even in the most inauspicious time - that the Church favored the crisis of faith within itself. Never before it had happened today that internally the good become bad, evil good, the virtue of vice and virtue vice, sound doctrine heresy and heresy sound doctrine. Never had happened that priests deeply mediocre, weak in faith, gaps in the doctrine and taken at will to the fashions of this world and to conform to them, They were promoted to the episcopate glory, and all with severe damage done to many particular Churches, damage that soon will become irreversible, considering that these bishops will enter into the Sacred Order of Priests new facts priests in his own image; in the image of the world to enjoy the world, not in the image of Christ to please Christ and, if necessary, sorrow for the world.

gynecology 2

letter of invitation of the President of the Society of Cosmetic Gynecology, Dr.. Alexandros Bader

So it is natural to ask: What would you say to this San Giovanni Paolo II, viewing transformed into grotesque way, almost burlesque-circus, his loving admonition? Because today, the warning of the Holy Pontiff, for more full Holy Year, It was changed to ... "Open wide the legs to the specialists of cosmetic gynecological" !?

But we come to the fact: the 20 e 21 April 2016 at L 'Augustian Patristic Institute [cf. WHO] - Papal institution located in front of San Pietro, dependent on the Holy See and aggregated to the Pontifical Lateran University -, will be held the first World Congress of Gynecological cosmetic. The present clinical specialists are all renowned and most of them are the most distant from the Catholic world can exist, but also by the more generic Christian world, made up of many combinations born mainly from the heresy produced schism of Luther; heresy that, today as today, for how things are going really likely to include a small thing in comparison of our reality.

In the shadow of St. Peter's Dome on which recently were already projected monkeys and chimpanzees on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Vergine Maria [cf. Video of Hypatia Roman cat, WHO] in a few months we will finally be enlightened on a big secret: how to stimulate the mysterious so-called "G point”, that the system may generate a more creative and exciting sex life?

Augustinian gynecology 3

some of vaginal rejuvenation techniques

Many horizons will open in this conference, for example with regard to vaginal reconstruction techniques, or through which plastic-surgical technique to increase the lips of the female genital sex, or how to reduce those too "chipped" due to an excessive use which has understandable wear product. It will then be clarified and explained how to proceed surgically vaginal rejuvenation. In the program of the conference it is ample space dedicated to the scientific explanation of the new techniques of lifting the clitoris, to follow up with the latest techniques on cosmetic vaginoplasty.

In short, a Church which has become now aware of how outdated the message "open the doors to Christ and his saving power», It seems to invite to "open your legs to the surgeon who specializes in cosmetic gynecology". What we thank God is that unlike monkeys projected onto St. Peter on the day of the Immaculate Conception, This new idea will not take place at least in the solemnity of the Annunciation of the Angel to the Blessed Vergine Maria.

Augustinian gynecology 6

the conference venue: Augustinian Patristic Institute, Vatican City State (Rome)

Such a massive presence of luminaries of gynecology to the Holy See it is still well and good, but especially understandable. There is in fact known that within the leonine walls are ever less prelates at risk of prostate diseases, missing, not a few of them, of the raw material necessary and essential in order to ill: the male attributes.

It is therefore possible that several prelates greet with joy this conference, thereby seizing the happy chance to learn how and with what prodigious techniques is surgically possible to proceed to the "restoration" of many worn orifices; these orifices that led some of them to the episcopate, in the seats of various apostolic nunciatures around the world, on the chairs of various dioceses, to the dignity of cardinals … everything always being faithful to what is shown by the disgraceful events of recent years, It not infrequently resulted in judicial proceedings and criminal cases that have seriously harmed the dignity of the Church, mainly because of all ecclesiastical authority, even knowing, for years they have remained silent instead of acting, thus sinking deeper into tremendous cardinal sin of sloth …
... as it is known, and well known by now for several decades: an ecclesiastical charge val well a worn orifice, especially if the aesthetic gynecology then you run to the aid directly into your home to share what has become the lifting and eliminate signs of wear due to reasons of ecclesiastical career by those prelates who, the mouth, all have used it but prayers.

gynecology 3

all surgical aesthetic specialties, up to the aesthetic treatment of the clitoris, reported in large bottom of page

We have to take note, in a serious and objective, that even a person sexually incattivito, famously irreverent and aggressive toward the Catholic Church and Catholicism, this has always been the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, he could give life, through his perverse fantasies, to a grotesque image as The dialogues on the vagina in the Vatican.

The next conference will perhaps be promoted by the Society of Urologists to discuss the techniques of stretching the penis and increasing its circumference in patients with congenital micro-penis? In the event to, This possible new conference, It could be organized at the St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum, with guest speaker emeritus Archabbot of Montecassino, former member of the Italian Episcopal Conference, who could speak to those present of his rich experience with escort ed i marchettari paid professionals barrel of money centimeter behind centimeter, night after night, with the money coming from the nineteenth revenue per thousand and intended to Caritas of the Diocese he ruled? And even in the latter case not a few, within the hallowed halls, they should ask themselves: how old the ecclesiastical authorities were aware of the dissolute life of this prelate, including the use of hard drugs? Why they did not act in time, waiting with helplessness that omission to take the obligatory initiatives was the criminal law of the state before various embezzlement against which were then detected either offenses? What it is happening in many abbeys and Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries scattered across Europe, many of which are similar to real brothel, governed by abbots that seem languid ladies incipriate, to which must be ascribed the merit of having recruited among its monks a veritable army of homosexuals in search of quiet refuge and safe rein? Even so, will expect to act are the penal laws of the Member, when some of these vices and malvezzi will become offenses?

Augustinian gynecology 4

date and place of the conference …

Expressed suffering with these facts, I hope some red robe does not dare to take it with myself Reverend Lord, because it is precisely the factual data; and in a few months will be acts of a conference on vagina celebrated in the shadow of the Tomb of the Prince of the Apostles, with invitations to specialists around the world printed in the background of the Papal Archbasilica of St. Peter and with the assurance already given to all participants could also benefit from a hearing reserved for them by the Roman Pontiff, always indicates how the program. Now, I always pray God to save me from any form of inappropriate vulgarity, but before this I made me came back to mind the title of a little film pleasant in the early eighties, of which I know only the title, never having seen, and the title would seem to do so fall as they say brush: «long live the seal … and that God benedoca» [cf. WHO]. Think: at the time the movie - that this could be screened in cinemas parish for its contents modest today - it was confiscated by two magistrates behind ecclesiastical reporting because of its title, and the director risked arrest. But here we are finally served the bill after three decades away, after all this moralizing clerical against which it was enough that a monsignorotto telephoned to copings Democrat duty to delete a program on state television. And a result of the logical and inevitable results of moralism clerical-Democrat remains, What horrid paradigm, that poor soul emeritus-Abbot of Montecassino, that is not the only, but only one of several that he took by megalomania and blinded by the certainty of being untouchable, then above good and evil, He has exceeded all human and moral measure.

Augustinian gynecology 7

the European Society of Gynecology logo Estestica

This is unfortunately the present state of the poor bride of Christ I intend to defend, certainly not lay on the sidewalk, as they are making many "cautious” ed “appropriate"Eminent and Excellent Signori, in their dissociation real human and Christian, I fear irreversible, They may even have the audacity to scold me for daring to say nothing but the blatant and solar horrible truth: The dialogues on the vagina the shadow of the Tomb of the Prince of the Apostles, complete with a blessing hearing of the Pope at the end of the conference. And anyone to refute, Father Federico Lombardi in the head, Official spokesman of the Press Office of the Holy See, come forward; but the face, however, with solid and clear arguments, why now, climbing on slippery mirrors, able to smell them from afar even naive, no longer willing to believe all are in effect for “adult Catholics”, that aim to de-Christianize and ridicule the Church from within, making the eyes of the comic world, grotesque and caricatural. And all this is skilled and devastating work of the devil. Therefore, It faces the war against Satan, instead of showing anger toward me, “guilty” only to say that "the king is naked” e che "Regina language".

.

.

.
To examine all of the entire program The vagina dialogues printed in the background of the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter, which will be held at the Pontifical Augustian Patristic Institute click WHO e WHO

.

Augustinian gynecology 0

.

________________________________________________

NOTE OF 19 DECEMBER 2015, hours 12.00

.

A friend Vatican journalist has been good enough to send me a note of denial of the Holy See by the Father Federico Lombardi, S.J. A note that we publish immediately and also with extreme pleasure.

see WHO

According things like informs the official spokesman of the Holy See, we note that an association recognized by the international scientific society would involve the Holy See and its academic institution in a convention to which 'no one had been informed'.

We therefore hope that those who have involved the Holy See without his knowledge, printing invitations and brochure with the background image of the Archbasilica Papale di San Pietro, however, at the beginning of the Holy Year and Holy Christmas doors, they meet at the appropriate locations. The aim is not to have talked about that noble organ of the vagina to which we owe the virgin birth of the Son of God's only begotten, but to have spread news with all the trappings of officialdom and sowing understandable confusion among the Catholic faithful who, with the times they are racing, day after day are now ready to be prepared for anything.

But one thing I remain perplexed: can the organizers of this event have been so foolish as to come up with a conference on’aesthetics of the vagina the Pontifical Institute Augustinian, pointing official invitation for some time printed on paper and sent to numerous specialists, as well as reproduced in electronic and diffused on the telematic network? So that I wonder: it would be better to clarify that at the Pontifical Institute, some of the many incompetent that now populate our ecclesiastical structures, He has made available a room-conferences without having bothered to check before and carefully what it was about this clinical conference? Because maybe, the whole, It depends again by the superficiality of the wrong person put in the wrong place. And in this case, blame, would be “our”, not the organizers of the conference on’aesthetics of the vagina in the Vatican.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

 

 

Jubilee: “Mercy and the mystery of salvation”

JUBILEE: “MERCY AND THE MYSTERY OF SALVATION”

.

In this Jubilee of Mercy we are called to identify with the blind man of Jericho, asking in faith healing from blindness originated from our sin, to be told by the living and eternal source of the Mercy of God: "Receive your sight! Your faith has saved you ". And we will praise God, "Because his mercy is everlasting"

.

.

Author Father Ariel

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

.

.

Holy Door Paul VI

Blessed Paul VI opened the Holy Door

Mercy runs through the whole mystery of salvation, and it has also sung as a hymn by the Psalmist in a famous psalm of praise and glory, Psalm 135, also said הַלֵּל (Grande Hallel) that every high praise of thanksgiving to God repeats 25 times: for his steadfast love endures forever (his mercy is everlasting).

The Mercy of God is the manifestation of his eternal love the creatures and to the same created. Mercy is the manifestation of force and open to God's goodness; a demonstration that through the mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God becomes physical and corporeal, therefore visible. For as St. Paul writes in the prologue of his letter to the inhabitants of the city of Ephesus, generated in the Son not made of the same substance as the Father's mercy is recapitulates, according to this happy and profound definition contained in the Apostle 'expression: "Design unite all things, those in heaven and things on earth ". A recapitulation which is in itself and of itself an act of mercy of God the Father who gives his only Son who became sacrificial lamb without stain that the blood of his own sacrifice wash the sin of the world.

Porta Santa Paul VI 2

Elder Paul VI on his knees at the entrance of the Holy Door

The Dominican theologian Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange He stresses that "Thanks to Mercy the Creator raises the creature from nothing. He also does something more: It brings forth good from evil ". This is the reason why in the praise of the Paschal candle that is sung at Easter, we express our praise to God singing: "O happy fault, He did to deserve such a great Redeemer ". And the work Christological redemptive work of Christ is the heart of the eternal, life and bustle of his Mercy.

Mercy is therefore is a real attribute of God's nature that manifests itself in all its external action. God becomes merciful after man, breaking the harmony of creation, It introduces the world's death through the mystery of original sin; merciful God has always, not only before the fall of man, but before the creation of man, because even in this lies the mystery: he chose us and loved even before the creation of the world, He destined us to be his sons [cf. Ef 1, 1, 4-5].

Porta Santa Giovanni Paolo II 2

Saint John Paul II opened the Holy Door

The Mercy of God consists, so, not only in lifting the man from the misery of sin, but also in admitting participation in the nature of God through grace. That is why the act of man's creation and the put at the feet of the same harmony created, the giving to it the friendship, is a manifestation of mercy by God the Father who, through the son announces to call "friends" [GV 15,15] after having redeemed us from the condition of "servants" [Gal 3, 13].

In his encyclical Dives in misericordia, dedicated to the mystery of God's mercy [cf. WHO] In the 1980 the Holy Father John Paul II leads us to think that in Christ and through Christ, God the Father becomes especially visible in His mercy; and all emphasized that attribute of the divinity which the Old Testament called "Mercy", or as the Psalmist repeats "Because His mercy is everlasting".

Porta Santa St John Paul II

The old and sick John Paul II on his knees before the Holy Door

Christ confers on the whole tradition Old Testament of the Divine Mercy a definitive meaning. Not just talk about it and explain it by the use of comparisons and parables, but above all he himself embodies and personifies. He himself is, in a sense, Mercy. For those who see in him - and he is - God becomes particularly "visible" as the Father "rich in mercy" [Ef 2, 4], [CF. Dives in Misericordia, 2].

The words of the Apostle John: «Who sees me, sees the Father " [cf. GV 14,9], refers to Christ who earlier had proclaimed himself away, Truth and the Life [cf. GV 14,6], It implies his divine heart and visible of Mercy of the Father. Christ gives us so Mercy as food and source of living water: "I am the bread of life; He who comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst ". All this also with reference to the sacraments of grace, who are the 'greatest expression of God's mercy, everyone. Although in this Jubilee of Mercy there is one in particular which approach, the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, the confession.

The Holy Father Francis opened the Holy Door

Through his gifts of grace, God always opens the heart of his eternal mercy to us, as long as we accept, We accept and, if necessary, or let go to meet his Mercy. To be greeted in the heart of his mercy in fact just one, sincere and profound: "Lord have mercy on me". Like the blind man of Jericho that he heard that Jesus was passing by and he cried out, "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me!». The people in front scolded him him to be silent; but he shouted even louder: "Son of David, have mercy on me!». Jesus stopped and ordered him to be fetched. As he, she asked him: "What do you want me to do for you?». He replied,: "Man, I want to see again ". And Jesus said to him: "Receive your sight! Your faith has saved you ". Immediately his sight returned and he followed him, glorifying God [cf. LC 18,35-43].

Francis Pope Holy Door-001

Pope Francis bows at the entrance of the Holy Door

In this Jubilee of Mercy we are called to identify ourselves with the blind man of Jericho, asking in faith healing from blindness originated from our sin, to be told by the eternal and living source of Mercy who is God: "Receive your sight, your faith has saved you ". And we will praise God prostrate on their knees, "Because His mercy is everlasting", because our faith has saved us. And we begin to follow him and to glorify Him, free from that sin makes us blind and closed to the actions of the grace of the Father Creator, Son of the Redeemer, Holy Spirit Comforter.

.

.

..

.

.

______________________________

Dear Readers,

sometimes we appeal to your good heart to advance The Island of Patmos, for which, as you know, we face different costs, and sometimes the means are scarce, especially when at the end of year we have to renew your subscription to Internet services for the various programs for a fee of which we use, for the server-business and so on. For this we rely on your human … Mercy!

You can offer a donation through the convenient and safe system PayPal you can find in the home page. Thanks to you we have been able to support the running costs, something that we thank you very, because you are for us a concrete sign of Divine Providence.

.

.

.

The Church and philosophy. The reason is capable of truth

— Theologica —

THE CHURCH AND PHILOSOPHY.
THE REASON IS ABLE OF TRUTH

.

[…] from here we see how foolish it fideism Lutheran, that under the pretext of exalting the truth of God's Word, reduced to mere opinion, if not in fallacies and errors that philosophy of Aristotle, that for centuries the Church used, with the mediation of St. Thomas, for the interpretation of the data of faith.

.

.

Author John Cavalcoli OP

Author
John Cavalcoli OP

.

.

To open the ’ article click below

05.12.2015 Giovanni Cavalcoli, ON – THE CHURCH AND PHILOSOPHY

.

.

.

 

An article by Roberto de Mattei on “Sack of Rome”

- Letters from readers of 'Patmos Island

AN ARTICLE OF ROBERTO de Mattei ABOUT LOTS OF ROME

Not knowing the history means not knowing who we are, where we come from and from what we projected. Not knowing the history means not to know our being, with the serious risk of prejudice so our becoming future. This is the warning contained in Roberto de Mattei

.

Author Father Ariel

Author
Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

.

.

 

Dear Father Ariel.

I want to alert you an article by Prof. Roberto de Mattei on Correspondence Romana, because it is an article that I was deeply impressed and would like to know what do you think. In the past, you have also debated so on with this Professor, but I do not think that affects much his judgment.

Adriana Sampieri

.

Dear Reader.

.

roberto mattei 2

historian Roberto de Mattei, Director of the Agency Print Correspondence Romana

I never ceased to estimate the Prof. Roberto de Mattei, What I have said many times especially when I moved towards him all of the criticism focused on purely doctrinal, historical-pastoral or ecclesial. Then know that as long as he struggles to say that it is always alive in the deepest sense of the word and Christian. I believe in fact that they belong, together with the Dominican John Cavalcoli, the tradition of “warriors”, of the “wrestlers”. War e lotte, Our le, certainly not inspired by the gladiatorial arenas, but the genuine tradition of the Church Fathers; War e lotte that took place in those centers of philosophical and theological debate, in which often the fathers came to the use of hands, sometimes even to the use of sticks, or to blunt instruments of various shapes. It is in fact happened several times throughout history and in the Assizes of the great dogmatic councils intervene soldiers set at the head outside the great hall, promptly rushed to divide the bishops who animated in their discussions eventually unleash furious fights between them.

Times were really beautiful, those! Ancòra not prevailed today's clerical-correct I had to say and not to say, for suggesting so “wisely” ambiguous … let alone if the Fathers of the Church assembled in council to define the great dogmas had principiato by saying that the Son could be also one being with the Father, ma … a powder’ yes and a little’ no, according to the various circumstances. Or imagine if they would ever have coined a hybrid and ambiguous formula to bring the Arians into agreement with the Fathers of the Church who accused Arius of heresy by throwing thunderbolts and thunderbolts at him.

Together with dogmatic theology I always practiced the history of dogma, because in my opinion, without a solid historical dogma is likely to remain suspended between heaven and earth, or worse than change into something ethereal, in mere metaphysical intellectualism, while metaphysics must stand with my heart raised to the sky towards the heavenly Jerusalem but at the same time with his feet firmly on the ground in the Terrestrial Jerusalem.

The dogma is born by a precise history rooted in the Gospels that narrate an extraordinary event: the irruption of God in human history through the Mystery of the Word made man. And from this event narrated in the Gospels that is the beating heart of the deposit of our faith, part of our history.

Often known, instead, from many brother priests and many theologians a propensity to forget, or worse to not know their history. And those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it, When he had to say George Santayana [Madrid 1863 - Rome 1952], one of the masters of critical realism: "Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" [cf. Reason in Common Sense].

The synthesis of Roberto de Mattei I think underlying this; a synthesis that arises, however, from his job, which is that of the historian.

The 2 of May, during a conference held in Rome at the Franciscans of the Immaculate [cf. WHO], during those talks very articulate had to lament that today "the story progresses so fast that sometimes it almost seems not to have ever had".

Not knowing the history it means not knowing who we are, where we come from and from what we projected. Not knowing the history means not to know our being, with the serious risk of prejudice so our becoming future. This is the warning contained in Roberto de Mattei, that follows a precise scientific rigor.

A nice article and shareable thank you for letting us know that and gladly point out to our readers in time’Patmos Island.

.

.

To read the article by Roberto de Mattei click WHO

.

.

.