"Repetita iuvant" - Because the Virgin Mary did not ask for the euthanasia of Jesus Christ on the cross?
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She turns me to her, father ariel, and to father Ivano in whose article the comments are closed.
I am a practicing Catholic, I have always been involved in charitable activities, and I followed the boys for years in preparation for confirmation, and no one can stop me from being in favor of euthanasia in truly extreme cases, when a painless death is the only remedy for humanly unbearable pain.
In your articles on the subject, unlike the much softer father Gabriele, I notice a hardness, I don't mean ruthless, I mean a lot of hardness.
Maybe you've never seen a grandfather's for months 91 years infirm on a bed reduced to 37 kilograms of weight, as I have seen.
I think that would have you a little’ softened, said, the whole, with true and sincere respect for your opinions.
Luca Mingacci
Dear Luca,
when the experience of two presbyters is unknown, there is the risk of resorting to unfortunate examples, for example this:
“Perhaps you have never seen a grandfather of for months 91 years infirm on a bed reduced to 37 kilograms of weight, as I have seen. I think that would have softened you up a bit, said, the whole, with true and sincere respect for your opinions ".
A statement that deserves this answer: his grandfather, a 91 year old, it was not torn from the loving breast of the nurse who nursed it, because having lived up to that age is already in itself a grace of God. Grace that was not reserved for my father, died from an undiagnosed tumor in time a 56 year old, nor to the uncles of my Roman paternal family, dead among the 55 e i 58 year old. And once the parents are dead, their four children were not spared, of which only one survived, the others died between the ages of i 42 e i 52 year old.
This is for my paternal family, which in fact I no longer have, unlike my Tuscan maternal family, formed by particularly long-lived subjects.
Incidentally – and without violating its confidentiality – I can tell you that my brother Father Ivano lost his mother and then his father before they could reach the threshold of seniority. But since she caters to both of them, it will be my brother's concern to answer the questions you have asked, I can't do it for him.
Our ideas are not harsh, but I'm a simple one, faithful and truthful announcement of what the Magisterium of the Church is in terms of euthanasia, practice definitely condemned without appeal and possible recourse to borderline cases by Catholic doctrine and morals, because life is not an available good and man is not its master.
While she, with ideas in profound contrast with Catholic doctrine he taught catechism to young people who were preparing for confirmation, Father Ivano lived day and night in the wards of a large hospital where for years he carried out the precious ministry of hospital chaplain. While, as far as I'm concerned, I have always dedicated a lot of time and pastoral care to the elderly, cancer patients of all ages and dying, administering hundreds of anointings of the sick during my years of sacred ministry. None of them, young or old, did he ever tell me he wished for death, they asked me for comfort and help to accept it, knowing that I must die. My book Nada s security, theological meditation on martyrdom written in the form of a historical novel, was dedicated to the memory of a young mother who died in her forties leaving a little girl of 10 years and a husband in love, I administered the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick to her twice. He died smiling, without ever having invoked death, because she is now terminally ill.
It is therefore not us, men of faith, to have to soften in our sacred respect for life, Mr. Marco Cappato should soften up, asking for signatures for death at banquets set up all over Italy, where unfortunately they rush to sign the “Catholics” as she.
He treasures the warning contained in the Apocalypse of the Blessed Apostle John:
“You are neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot! But because you are lukewarm, that is, you are neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth " (AP 3, 15-16)
P.S.
If he was unable to comment under Father Ivano's article, it is only because later 10 days comments on articles are closed.
Gentile Luca Mingacci,
I respond with pleasure to your request since I have been called into question.
You define yourself as a practicing Catholic, active in charity and tells us that for years he followed young people in preparation for confirmation. but yet, like so many Catholics and catechists of today, he does not hesitate to say things that are against Catholic feeling and that should not dwell in the heart of a believer, disciple of Christ God of life. And believe me, I say this without the slightest judgment about her person but only based on what she is, as a mature and responsible man, stated as a "believer in favor of euthanasia".
I can tell you right away that I see a strong dissociation in your thinking as it is exposed, as catholicity is given by respect for and by the observance of an obedience which is that of a professed faith, prayed and lived and that by the teaching of Christ, it is transmitted to the Apostles up to the last Pontiff. This clarification is essential to understand that the Christian faithful are obliged to always keep, even in their way of acting, communion with the Church (See. Can. 209 CIC) so that we can observe with Christian obedience what the sacred Pastors, as representatives of Christ, they declare as teachers of the faith or dispose as heads of the Church (See. Can. 212 CIC).
And just as a teacher of faith that, on euthanasia, the Church has expressed itself very clearly and explicitly with very precise documents that I will mention expressly in my next article and which are easy to find on the official website of the Holy See.
This reasoning of mine is aimed at making you understand that expressions such as "no one can prevent me from being in favor of euthanasia" are not only not Christian and Catholic but not even human. They are just the fruit of a person confused in faith or who has probably suffered a lot from the loss of a loved one, yielding to the illusion that euthanasia is the last resort on which to leave all pain.
The harshness you accuse in my articles is not mine but the same harshness reproached to Jesus by those who claimed to be his disciples: “This language is harsh; who can understand it?» (See. GV 6,60. And we know that Christ's language becomes harsh whenever we turn away from him, so it is with the Church that it becomes hard when we actually put ourselves outside of it.
Finally, allow me a personal reference. I am an only child and have lost both parents (65 e 68 year old) for inoperable tumors within four years (2013 e 2017). I lived through the hospital ordeal with them, dell 'hospice, of agony, of the loss of consciousness when they no longer recognized me, cause of evil, like their son. As a priest I assisted them spiritually and made them die in a Christian way and with health workers I collaborated to ensure that their dignity was maintained until the end, until they were there when their soul left this world. In those moments I was able to touch firsthand the presence of the Father who by remaining silent was present as in Golgotha next to his Son and never, ever I could have thought that euthanasia could have been a more just and merciful remedy for those who had me. gave their lives and had consumed theirs for me.
The greeting, sincerely.
“I am a practicing Catholic, I have always been involved in charitable activities, and I followed the boys for years in preparation for confirmation […]».
So, who better than you would be able to explain the meaning of the words to us in depth: “If anyone wants to come after me, take your Cross and follow me "?
In your considerations, Luca, pur se “veiled”, one senses the possibility that everyone can choose or even refuse their own “Croce”. Silent relief in so many centuries of reading and learning of Christian history or, perhaps, it's another story?
Anna
Agony is the last chance that the Father's Love offers us to free us from the fire of hell, to shorten or even cancel our stay in Purgatory and immediately welcome us with Him in Paradise.
Satan unleashed his acolytes to nullify this last possibility that the Father's Love gives us at the end of our life on earth and thus let as many souls as possible into hell.
He didn't ask (N.d.R euthanasia) because Christ freely offered himself to his passion. As the liturgy points out. E’ that is the added value. There was no legal obligation.
Roberto Gheminga
Thank you Father Ariel for this article which I fully agree with.
What you have written are my thoughts for some time and, only a great love for Jesus made sure that I did not stray from the faith.
Miranda Baccini
Dear Father Ariel,
what I have always found terrible are not the terrible things you write sometimes, I find that some terrible (and I speak of our good clergy) find it terrible that someone, Comets, dare you say such terrible truths that one used to keep silent from the first days of the seminary …
Memento!
Don Savio
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Rita Parsi