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Padre Pio - At the door of heaven - Thirty appointment

Back an appointment with an original biography that portrays "the history of Padre Pio told his friends:" On the Threshold of Paradise "by Saverio Gaeta. Today we discover the devotions in Padre Pio, and we see His loving care in teaching every spiritual devotion to the children, in addition, we also see the incredible love of the friar from Pietrelcina for the Vicar of Christ:

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In the pages of Journal of July 1929, Padre Pio listed the daily devotions that had undertaken to practice: "Not less than four hours of meditation, and those on the ordinary life of our Lord's birth, passion and death. Novenas: Our Lady of Pompeii, St. Joseph, St. Michael, St. Anthony, the father St. Francis, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Saint Rita, Saint Teresa of Jesus. "

long as his strength allowed, the superiors he had reserved for the evening services of the Visit to the Blessed Sacrament and Eucharistic Benediction. It was a moment dear to her spiritual children, that Padre Pio also proposed other penitents with these words: "Jesus awaits you a prisoner in case ... is' \u200b\u200bto find him and let him company. " Also on Friday evening, while the other brothers went to dinner, he went to church and held the devotion of the Via Crucis.

In Pompeii, where he is venerated the Virgin of the Rosary, so dear to him, Padre Pio went three times: in 1901, with some friends at school, in November 1911, parent company of the Evangelist, Superior of the convent Venafro, the January 3, 1917, on a permit from military service. EA by novenas to Our Lady of Pompei, Father Pio cried the most because he cared about, including three solo, only two of which were answered.

First, the return to the convent, during his long illness in Pietrelcina, "God and the dear Mother of Pompeii, which have occurred at the novenas novenas, now there are more than three years, they know that what I did to be heard by a test yes. They only understand and witness the pain that shakes my heart and that oppresses me, "he wrote January 24, 1915 to Father Benedict. Then the exemption from military service, for soliciting the cooperation of Father Augustine

"I come to ask you, father, a favor that would be me you used the charity to begin as soon as the three novenas to Our Lady of Pompeii the daily recitation, during this period, dell'intiero Rosario. "

not listen to the request received instead of dying at a young age, as he confided to a colleague in 1960: "I played for 35 years, the novena Our Lady of Pompeii, asking for the grace to take me with him in Paradise. But then I stopped. " And the brother who expressed surprise at the fact that he had stopped praying, he who so loved the Virgin, said: "My son, I asked Our Lady for the grace to let me die, but did not listen. And when a mother who does not listen there is not nothing more to do. "

Another Marian devotion every night practice was the recitation of the Visit to the Blessed Virgin Mary, composed by St. Alphonsus Maria de 'Liguori: "Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mother Mary, you who are the mother of my Lord, Queen of the world, the Advocate, the Hope, Refuge of sinners, have recourse Today I, who am the most miserable of all. I worship you, O great Queen, and thank you for all the graces I have done so far, especially for having delivered me from hell, which I have so often deserved. " At these last words his voice cracked ever to tears, prompting the emotion the faithful in the church.

contemplating Mary, Padre Pio thought immediately turned to her husband, St. Joseph, whom he tenderly venerated for his sweet presence next to the Christ Child. The brothers saw him often remain ecstatic before the painting of the saint, who was hung in the verandah on the first floor. Once, his father called from Onorato to hurry to get to church, he replied: "How è bello san Giuseppe, lasciatemi stare qui ancora un poco...».

Tutti i figli spirituali venivano catechizzati a compiere bene le loro devozioni, che scandivano l'intero anno. Un quadro completo ce l'offre la testimonianza della signorina Rachelina Russo:

«Una delle devozioni che ci inculcava era quella all'angelo custode, perché è il nostro compagno indivisibile, colui che ci è sempre vicino dalla nascita alla morte. Un'altra delle devozioni maggiormente raccomandate era quella del mese di san Giuseppe, che tutti gli anni, sia in chiesa che in privato a casa, non mancavamo mai di praticare. E poi il mese di maggio, con novena e supplica alla Vergine di Pompei; il mese di giugno, con la coroncina al Sacro Cuore tutti i giorni; la devozione alla Madonna del Carmine, a sant'Anna, all'Assunta, la Quaresima di san Michele che comincia la vigilia dell'Assunta e finisce il 28 settembre; il mese di ottobre dedicato alla Vergine del Rosario e agli angeli custodi; il mese dei morti, e infine tutte le devozioni del mese di dicembre, dall'Immacolata sino al Natale e all'Epifania, con la recita delle 40 Ave Maria che cominciano il giorno di santa Caterina».

Anche l'amore alla Chiesa era intenso in Padre Pio e si incarnava nella devozione al Vicario di Cristo, in favore del quale elevava ogni mattina la sua prima preghiera. Durante la notte voleva che nella sua stanza fosse sempre illuminata - insieme con il quadro della Madonna della Libera, patron saint of Pietrelcina, and photographs of the parents - the image of the Pope

Father Tarcisio Zullo, during the Marian Year of 1954, joked: "Spiritual Father, if you were there St. Peter's Square and the Pope, I would curious to see if people - seeing you take two different routes - running over the back of the Pope or Father Pio ...». He said, "they should all be behind the Pope, because the first running back to the Vicar of Christ would be Padre Pio." And when the Pope's trip, which he normally did not care about the news Funicelli Pellegrino asked his father if he had listened to the radio news program, fearing some danger for the Pope, which he regarded as a family member.

In particular, he most loved Pope was Pius XII, who, moreover, did not hide his opinion: "Padre Pio is a saint, but we can not say, if no canonized him alive," he confided to journalist John Gigliozzi . At the beginning of the serious illness of 1954, the sister of Pope Pacelli asked Padre Pio, the Capuchin Superior through, "to formulate a prayer to the Supreme Pastor of the Church and the Church itself."

Padre Pio answered the call immediately:

"Of her who is the sister of the Holy Father, we understand the torment, but the agony of children below that you would not believe her sister. I offered my all to the Lord and my offer more ... Please, immoliamoci and trust. " Needless to say, as revealed in the press of the time Father Virginio Rotondi, the miraculous healing took place immediately!

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General Audience Pope Benedict XVI - March 9, 2011 Ash Wednesday

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE




Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Ash Wednesday

Dear brothers and sisters,

today, marked by the austere symbol of ashes, we enter the Season of Lent, beginning a spiritual journey that prepares us to celebrate the Easter mysteries. The blessed ashes on our head tax is a sign that reminds us of our condition as creatures, invites us to repentance and conversion to step up efforts to follow the Lord more and more.

Lent is a journey, that rises to accompany Jesus to Jerusalem, site of the fulfillment of the mystery of his passion, death and resurrection reminds us that the Christian life is a "way" to go, consisting not so much a law observe, but in the person of Christ, to meet, to be accepted, to be followed. Jesus, in fact, tells us: "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Lk 9:23). It tells us, that is, that to come with him to the light and joy of the resurrection, the victory of life, love and goodness, that we ought to take up the cross each day, as calls us a nice page of the Imitation of Christ: "Take, then, your cross and follow Jesus, so you will enter into eternal life. We preceded himself, carrying his cross (Jn 19:17) and died for you, so that you to bring your cross and I wanted to be crucified too. In fact, if you die with him, with him and like him live. If you have been companion in suffering, you will be a companion in glory "(L. 2, c. 12, n. 2). In the Mass of the First Sunday of Lent we will pray: "O God our Father, with the celebration of this Lent, the sacramental sign of our conversion, grant to your faithful to grow in knowledge of the mystery of Christ and to bear witness to a worthy way of life "(Prayer). E 'invocation that turn to God because we know that only He can change our heart. And it is especially in the liturgy, participation in the sacred mysteries, we are led to take this journey with the Lord, is a teaching from Jesus, to retrace the events that have brought salvation, but not as a simple commemoration, a remembrance of past events. In liturgical celebrations, Christ is made present through the Holy Spirit, those saving events become current. There is a key word that occurs frequently in the liturgy to indicate this: the word "today" and it must be understood in the original sense and practical, not metaphorical. Today, God reveals His law and has given us today to choose between good and evil, between life and death (cf. Deut 30:19) and today "the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the Gospel "(Mk 1:15); today that Jesus Christ died on Calvary and rose from the dead and ascended into heaven and is seated at the right the Father, today we are given the Holy Spirit today is a favorable time. Participating in the Liturgy, then, means immerse their lives in the mystery of Christ, in his permanent presence, take a journey in which we enter into His death and resurrection to have life.

On Sundays of Lent, in a special way this year liturgical cycle A, we are introduced to live a baptismal journey, as if to retrace the journey of the catechumens, those preparing to receive Baptism, to revive in and to us this gift so that our life recovery needs and commitments of this sacrament, which is the basis of our Christian life. In the message I sent to this Quaresima, ho voluto richiamare il nesso particolare che lega il Tempo quaresimale al Battesimo. Da sempre la Chiesa associa la Veglia Pasquale alla celebrazione del Battesimo, passo per passo: in esso si realizza quel grande mistero per cui l’uomo, morto al peccato, è reso partecipe della vita nuova in Cristo Risorto e riceve lo Spirito di Dio che ha risuscitato Gesù dai morti (cfr Rm 8,11). Le Letture che ascolteremo nelle prossime domeniche e alle quali vi invito a prestare speciale attenzione, sono riprese proprio dalla tradizione antica, che accompagnava il catecumeno nella scoperta del Battesimo: sono il grande annuncio di ciò che Dio opera in questo Sacramento, una stupenda catechesi battesimale rivolta a ciascuno di noi. La Prima Domenica, Sunday call of temptation, because it presents the temptations of Jesus in the desert, invites us to renew our final decision to God and to courageously face the fight ahead to stay faithful. There is always a need for this new decision, to resist evil, to follow Jesus in the Church this Sunday, after hearing the testimony of godparents and catechists, celebrates the election of those who are admitted to the Easter Sacraments. The Second Sunday is that of Abraham and the Transfiguration. Baptism is the sacrament of faith and of divine, like Abraham, the father of believers, we too are invited to leave, to go out from our land, to leave the security that we built to put our trust in God, the goal can be seen in the transfiguration of Christ, the beloved Son, in whom we become "sons of God." Is presented in the following Sunday Baptism in the images of water, light and life. The Third Sunday lets us meet the Samaritan woman (cf. Jn 4.5 to 42). Like Israel in the Exodus, we have received in Baptism that saves water, Jesus tells the Samaritan woman as he water of life, extinguishing every thirst, and this water is its own spirit. The Church celebrates this Sunday in the first round of the catechumens during the week and gives them the Symbol: The Profession of Faith, I think. The Fourth Sunday makes us reflect on the experience of "blind man" (cf. Jn 9.1 to 41). In Baptism we are freed from the darkness of evil and receive the light of Christ to live as children of light. We too must learn to see the presence of God in the face of Christ and thus the light. In the journey of the catechumens is celebrated on the second ballot. Finally, the Fifth Sunday presents the resurrection of Lazarus (cf. Jn 11.1 to 45). In Baptism we have passed from death to life and we are enabled to please God, to kill the old man to live by the Spirit of the Risen One. For catechumens is celebrated on the third ballot lasted a week and is delivered to them the Lord's Prayer: Our Father. "

Questo itinerario della Quaresima che siamo invitati a percorre nella Quaresima è caratterizzato, nella tradizione della Chiesa, da alcune pratiche: il digiuno, l’elemosina e la preghiera. Il digiuno significa l’astinenza dal cibo, ma comprende altre forme di privazione per una vita più sobria. Tutto questo però non è ancora la realtà piena del digiuno: è il segno esterno di una realtà interiore, del nostro impegno, con l’aiuto di Dio, di astenerci dal male e di vivere del Vangelo. Non digiuna veramente chi non sa nutrirsi della Parola di Dio.

Il digiuno, nella tradizione cristiana, è legato poi strettamente all’elemosina. San Leone Magno insegnava in uno dei suoi discourses on Lent: "As every Christian is obliged to do at all times, must now practice with greater zeal and devotion, because it fulfills the norm of the apostolic Lenten fasting consistent not only abstinence from food, but also from their sins. These obligations and holy fasting, then, no work can be more usefully associate of almsgiving, which, under the single name of 'mercy' embraces many good works. A vast field of works of mercy. Not only the rich and the wealthy can benefit others through charity, but even those of modest and poor. Thus, unequal in fortune, they can all be equal in feelings of pity the soul "(Sermon on Lent 6, 2: PL 54, 286). San Gregorio Magno recalled, in his Pastoral Rule, that fasting is made holy by the virtues that accompany it, especially by the charity, every gesture of generosity, giving to the poor and needy the result of our deprivation (cf. 19, 10-11).

Lent is also a special time for prayer. St. Augustine says that fasting and almsgiving are "two wings of a prayer," which allow it to more easily take its momentum and reach up to God, he says: "In this way our prayer of humility in and charity nell'elemosina in fasting and in moderation and forgiveness of injuries, giving good things and not returning the bad and away from evil and doing good, seek peace and follows. With the wings of these flies under our prayer is safer and more easily reach up to heaven, where Christ is our peace came before us "(Sermon 206, 3 on Lent: PL 38.1042). The Church knows that, for our weakness, it's hard to get to be silent before God, and become aware of our condition as creatures that depend on Him, and sinners in need of his love for this, Lent invites us to a prayer most loyal and intense and prolonged meditation on the Word of God St. John Chrysostom says: "Decorate your home with modesty and humility with the practice of prayer. Make your home beautiful with the light of justice, its walls adorned with good works as a layer of pure gold, and instead of the walls of precious stones and places the supernatural faith and magnanimity, putting above all else, above on the pediment, the pattern of prayer to the entire complex. So prepare a worthy dwelling place for God, so welcome him in a splendid palace. He will only allow you to transform your soul in the temple of his presence "(Homily on Prayer 6: PG 64.466).

Dear friends, in this Lenten journey we are careful to take the call of Christ to follow a more determined and consistent, the grace and renewing our baptismal commitments, to abandon the old man that is in us and put on Christ, to achieve renewed at Easter and can say with Saint Paul "I no longer live but Christ lives in me "(Gal 2:20). Good Lenten journey to you all! Thanks!

[ Greetings: Je vous salue avec joie, chers Pèlerins de langue française et plus particulièrement les jeunes presents! Je vous invite à prendre très au sérieux ce Carême pour vivre dans un esprit de foi et faire en temps d'authentique a conversion. En participant aux saints Mysteries, vous vous à désaltérez la source d'eau vive qui est en Dieu! Avec bénédiction!

I welcome all the English-speaking visitors present at today's Audience, especially those from Ireland, Japan, South Korea and the United States. My special greeting goes to the priests and semi-Arians of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. With prayerful good wishes for a spiritually fruitful Lent, I cordially invoke upon you and your families God's blessings of joy and peace! I cordially greet

the German-speaking pilgrims and visitors, especially the diocesan committee of the diocese of Regensburg and the priesthood of Eichstätt Seminary, of course, the Surberg and Traunstein. Very sincerely thank ich der Allgäuer Blaskapelle für ihre wunderbare Musik. Gehen wir mit Fasten, Almosengeben und Gebet den Weg der Erneuerung in Christus, so daß auch wir mit dem heiligen Apostel Paulus sagen können: »Nicht mehr ich lebe, sondern Christus lebt in mir« (Gal 2,20). Euch allen wünsche ich eine gesegnete Fastenzeit!

Saludo cordialmente a los peregrinos de lengua española, en particular a los grupos provenientes de España, México, Chile y otros países latinoamericanos. Queridos amigos, en este camino cuaresmal, os invito a acoger la invitación de Cristo a seguirlo de un modo más decidido y coherente, renovando la gracia y los compromisos bautismales, para que revistiéndoos de Cristo, Claw llegar a la Pascua renovated y decir con San Pablo "yo vivo, pero no soy yo, quien es live en mí Christ" (Gal 2, 20). Deseo un holy to all Cuaresma.

I cordially greet the faithful of the parishes of Calhariz Brandoa and Benfica Lisbon at the Patriarchate, the teachers and students of the school communities of the diocese of Coimbra and Porto and the group of pilgrims, doctors and teachers, in Guimarães. To you and all the gifts of Portuguese want a blessed Lenten journey, that allows you to find, accept and follow Jesus more closely, and so ye can say with St. Paul, "no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me '. Thanks Voss pela presença. Ide com Deus.

Saluto in lingua polacca:

cordial greetings to the Poles. Lent is a time sposobnym to strengthen our relationship with Christ and to imitate Him in sacrificial love. Resuming our baptismal commitment, Leave the old man, who is in us, and put on Christ, we live Passover renewed and ready to repeat St. Paul: "This is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me." God bless you! Traduzione italiana

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Un cordiale Saluto rivolgo polacchi ai. È la quaresima opportuno il tempo per il nostro consolidare getting along with colleagues con Cristo e per seguire sulle vie dell'amore disposto al sacrificio. Accogliendo nuovamente gli impegni del nostro Battesimo, abbandoniamo vecchio l'uomo che è in noi e rivestiamoci di Cristo, per vivere la Pasqua Rinnovati e pronti a ripetere con S. Paolo: "non vivo piu 'io, ma Cristo vive in me." Part VI Benedico!

Saluto lingua in Italiano:

Croatian cordially greet all the pilgrims, and especially those from the parish of St. Anthony of Padua from Sesvetskih Sela.
As we begin the Lenten journey, I urge you, dear friends, to take advantage of this grace, a time of fasting and prayer for personal conversion and of charity. Praised Isus i Marija!

Traduzione italiana:

Cordialmente salute tutti i Pellegrini Croata particolarmente della parrocchia i Fedeli di Sant'Antonio di Padova in Sesvetska Sela. Il camino Cominciando quaresimale, vi esorto, Cari Amici, ad approfittare di questo tempo di favorevole digiuno preghiera per la conversione e di personale e per opera di Caritat off. Sian Lodato Gesù e Maria!

ungherese Salute in lingua:

Welcome to the Hungarian parishioners, especially those who arrived in Budapest and Bodajkról. We greet you all.
period of Lent begins today. Forty days, the liturgy helps us to újra átélhessük megváltásunk titkát. A böjt és és az imádság egyesít bennünket Krisztussal, Aki az Atya akaratát teljesítve Önmagát ADTA to keresztfán.
Szívesen adom áldásomat Kedves Mindannyiotokra apostles.
Dicsértessék to Krisztus Jezus!

Italian translation:

greet with affection the Hungarian-speaking pilgrims, especially the groups that came from Budapest and Bodajk.
Today we begin Lent - forty days during which the liturgy will help us relive the mystery of our redemption. Through the sacrifice and prayer, we unite with Christ who does the will of the Father e dona with nell'offerta stesso della Croce. Volentieri la vi imparto Benedizione Apostolica.
Sia Lodato Gesu Cristo!

Salute in lingua inglese:

greet pilgrims from Slovakia.
brothers and sister, the apostle Paul calls "In the name of Christ, you pray to God be reconciled with one another." At the beginning of Lent počujme this invitation, which is addressed to each of us happy and it nasledujme.
bless you with love.
Praised be Jesus Christ!

Traduzione italiana:

Salute di cuore i Pellegrini provenienti dalla Slovacchia.
Fratelli e Sorelle, l'Apostolo Paul asks: "We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God" We feel the beginning of Lent this appeal addressed personally to each one of us and let's put it into practice with generosity. I bless you with affection.
Praised be Jesus Christ! ] * * *



extend a cordial welcome to the Italian-speaking pilgrims. In particular, I greet you, Montecalvo Irpino faithful gathered here in memory of San Pompilio Maria Pirrotta, and I urge you to make a generous Christian witness everywhere, following in the footsteps of your patron and supported by the maternal intercession of Mary, whom you venerate the title of Our Lady of Abundance. Greeting you with affection, pilgrims from the parish of St Matthew in Asiago, and encourage you to faithfully follow Jesus and his Gospel, to be authentic Christians in the family and in any other environment. I greet the members of the "United World" and invite them to continue their generous commitment to projects of solidarity and peace.

I offer, finally, my greetings to the young, the sick and newlyweds. The Lenten season, which begins today, will lead each to a more intimate knowledge of Christ, for you in different situations where you are, have his own feelings and do everything in communion with him

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Jewel Denyle Interview

depart from our normal programming today to celebrate the beginning of Lent. The beginning of Lent coincides with the imposition of ashes and this is a very special rite of penance which leads us to acknowledge our own poverty before God participate in this event through the brief history of the Ashes (taken from the site Saints & Blessed ), followed by the homily of Father Gian Franco Scarpitta that makes us understand the core, the heart of Lent:

The origin of Ash Wednesday is to be found in the ancient penitential practice. Originally, the sacrament of penance was not celebrated in accordance with current procedures. The liturgist Pelagius Visentin stresses that the development of penitential discipline is threefold: "to be a public celebration at a private celebration, a reconciliation with the Church, once granted, a frequent celebration of the sacrament, understood as an aid in remedy- life of the penitent, a sin, after the acquittal, prolonged and rigorous, with satisfaction, following the acquittal. "

The celebration of the ashes arises because of the public celebration of penance, it was the rite that began the process of penance the faithful who were absolved of their sins on the morning of Holy Thursday. Over time the gesture of the imposition of ashes is extended to all the faithful and the liturgical reform has decided to retain the importance of this sign.

Biblical theology reveals a dual meaning of the use of ashes.

1 - First of all, are a sign of weak and fragile human condition. Abraham turned to God says: "It is presumptuous to speak to my Lord, I who am dust and ashes ..." (Gen 18.27). Job recognizes the profound limits of its existence, with extreme prostration, said: "I was thrown in the mud: I have become dust and ashes" (Job 30:19). In many other biblical passages can be found this dimension symbolized by the precarious human ashes (Wis 2.3; Sir 10:9; Sir 17:27).

2 - But the ash is also the outward sign of one who repents of his evil act and decides to make a renewed way to the Lord. Particularly well known is the biblical text of the conversion of the inhabitants of Nineveh because of the preaching of Jonah, "the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast, put on sackcloth, from largest to smallest. When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes "(John 3.5 to 9). Judith also calls on all calls on the people to do penance for God to intervene to free him: "Every Israelite man or woman and the children lived in Jerusalem fell down in front of the temple and sprinkled ashes on their heads and dressed in sackcloth, raised their hands before the Lord "(Judith 4:11).

The simple but addictive liturgy of Ash Wednesday retains this double meaning that is explained in the formulas of taxation: "You are dust and to dust you shall return" and "Repent and believe the Gospel." Adrien Nocent stresses that the old formula (Remember you are dust ...) is closely related to the act of paying the ashes, while the new formula (Convertitevi. ..) better expresses the positive aspect of Lent with the celebration that has its beginning. The same ritual liturgy proposes a solution very significant: "If that does not is too long, we could join together the old and the new formula, which together express certain to better the meaning of the celebration:" Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return, then converted and believe the Gospel " .

The Rite of Ashes, even celebrated after the homily, replaces the penitential rite of the Mass; also can be accomplished without putting this scheme through the celebratory: entrance song, collection, proper readings, homily, imposition of ashes, a prayer of the faithful, solemn blessing of Lent, leave.

Ashes may be imposed in all the Eucharistic celebrations on Wednesday but it will be appropriate to indicate a community celebration "privileged" in which is placed further emphasis on the ecclesial dimension of the process of conversion that is beginning.

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Humility, repentance and renewal

Horror, death and destruction is affecting so many weeks from now many people of North Africa, which are given to discontent and revolution to reclaim their rights to a decent and dignified life without oppression, injustice and abuse. And 'the staggering arrogance and cruelty of those who react with bloody reprisals, fueling tension, hatred and further violence instead of questioning their actions and their responsibilities towards the people with appropriate remedies for peace, justice and promoting the common good. It will never be enough
any appeal that comes from many sides to cease the immense cruelty that is exercised over who has the inviolable right to protest, but what you should be asked in such cases is common sense and uprightness of conscience by of who has control of the situation and by each and every one, so that situations do not occur in general degeneration. This means we need a radical, profound renewal of the human spirit, a transformation of our staff balked approach to life, a personal repentance that is orientated towards the consideration of the dignity and rights of others.
This reversal of views is always welcome when it carried out gradually, but steadily and decision, but will never have her success until it is interpreted by us with the categories of conversion, that is careful and resolute response to God's call in Christ, and professed that we have chosen as the Savior. In Christ, God reconciles himself to all mankind, gathering all peoples into one man missing and realizes the identity of all overcoming barriers and putting an end to division and aberrant scenarios of hatred and violence. All this in condizione che noi si volga realmente lo sguardo a Cristo e che il cuore non cessi di cercare in lui Colui che per primo si è fatto trovare.
Dio ci chiama e ci convoca nel suo Figlio Gesù Cristo; noi aderiamo alla chiamata e ci incamminiamo verso di lui. Questo significa conversione e penitenza, radici profonde di ogni rinnovamento umano in vista del progresso generale.
Ritornare continuamente a Cristo comporta la presa di coscienza del Suo amore nei nostri riguardi e del primato della misericordia di Dio sulle nostre debolezze, il riconoscimento dell'insufficienza dei nostri ambiti circoscritti di verità immediata e passeggera, la rinuncia alla vanità illusa di felicità passeggere e deleterie e la predisposizione a procacciare l'unione and intimacy with him. In other words it is to shun what is evil to attack the good (Rom. 12: 9), to "avoid sin because the sun goes down on our anger and we do not give place to the devil" (Eph 4: 26-27) and as the Apostle Paul says, to avoid the perverse and amoral behavior typical of the pagans, not at all accustomed to the benefits of the spirit (Eph 4, 17 - 20), monitoring of the dangers and seductions of the world has the power to distract us from 'orientation towards God
But the main condition for that to happen such a fruitful route is humility.
From what begins in fact the admission of our sins and the necessity of returning to God in the communion Christ the Way, the Truth and the Life but from the recognition of our nothingness, our own littleness and sinfulness? Where to start if not from admission of our imperfections nothing in front of all of that absolute perfection is God? Only humility leads to find the reason for a true conversion that is not ostentatious or hypocritical practice outward manifestations, but that stands out and is expressive of our desire to rise towards God and be humble and to revive the condition is discharged in ourselves also that inner peace for which no objections are raised to love God and willingly surrender ourselves to celebrate and advocate. Humility opens the curtain for the first act of conversion. La liturgia di oggi ce la descrive per mezzo del segno delle Ceneri cosparse sul capo di ciascuno, che attestano alla consapevolezza che noi siamo nulla perché Dio possa essere tutto in noi e perché a partire dal nostro nulla, privi di ogni peso e di ogni vano fardello, possiamo incamminarci nel nostro itinerario verso Dio.
Se le Ceneri significano la nostra umiltà, anche il digiuno ne consolida il significato.
Astenersi da un intero pasto secondo le necessità fisiche di ciascuno, privarsi della carne nei periodi indicati dalla nostra liturgia, realizzare altre privazioni aggiuntive secondo le nostre abitudini o le ispirazioni del momento è di ausilio al fervore interiore con cui operiamo la nostra elevazione verso il Signore e significa momentum conversion in exteriority which we tend to communion with God Fasting (as is my personal experience) is already an advantage for the physical, because freeing and purifying the body from excess weight and gives us relief and peace of mind lightness, and also from the standpoint of spiritual renunciation and mortification physics help ensure our liberation from the bay and breaks down unnecessary barriers increasingly asceticism that leads us to God
As always, it was stated and proven, the However, fasting is sterile and meaningless when it is associated to prayer and works of mercy, because it is the reality of goodness and love of neighbor by testing the consistency dell'avvenuto itinerario di conversione spirituale, rendendone testimonianza effettiva: la carità sincera è una componente stessa del digiuno e ometterla dai nostri atteggiamenti equivale a smentire la stessa rinuncia ai cibi e alle voluttà. E' quindi necessario, già nella pratica stessa della rinuncia ai cibi, che venga destinato l'equivalente in denaro a favore di chi ha bisogno e che vengano realizzate, singolarmente e nelle comunità ecclesiali di appartenenza, iniziative concrete di vera solidarietà nei confronti dei bisognosi, tutto ovviamente secondo le nostre possibilità obiettive e tuttavia senza retoriche e negligenze su questo importante aspetto della vita cristiana in generale e della Quaresima in modo speciale.
Risvegliando in us the desire to be humble and giving the same humility as an initial condition of any spiritual purpose, Ash Wednesday, there is an incentive to opt for self renewal in order to transform the world according to the universal will of God in Christ calls us all to new life. The stages of Lent, with all the instruments of grace in this liturgical season can not fail to give us confidence that the good, even if not at hand, it is possible goal.

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Rediscovering the Saints - St. Clare of Assisi

Back to the weekly, aimed at the discovery of our beloved saints! Today, the day dedicated to women, rediscover the story of a holy woman who has stood out for his strong faith that has made it similar to Blessed Francis of Assisi with whom he shared the path of love and faith, she is known as St. Clare of Assisi .
Following the usual biographical section, we reflect his will:

the evening of Palm Sunday (1211 or 1212) a beautiful eighteen year old girl runs away from his home in Assisi and runs to the Porziuncola, where Francis and expect the group children of his brothers. Make them wear a robe of a penitent, to cut their hair and then hospitalized in the next two Benedictine monasteries in Bastia and Sant'Angelo.
finally declared his dwelling in the small outhouse the church of San Damiano, which was restored by Francis. Here is Clare's sister Agnes was reached, then the other, Beatrice, and groups of girls and women will soon be fifty.
So begins, under the influence of Francis of Assisi, the adventure of Clare, daughter of nobles who oppose by force its way of life, but in vain. Indeed, after a few years she will go with her mother, Ortolan. However, not clear-and-run by the nuns to go, "or to enter into a community known and established. Fascinated by the preaching and example of Francis, the girl wants to create a family of poor cloistered radically as individual and as a monastery, living in their work and some help the Friars Minor, immersed in prayer for himself and for others, for everyone, for all concerned. Popularly known as "Damian" and Francis "Poor Women", will then be forever known as "Clarisse."
From Francis, she gets a first rule based on poverty. Francis advised, inspired Francis always, even unto death (1226), but she is a hero for his part, although it will make them hard to accept the post of abbess. In a way, it promises to be the strong woman that her initiative and the next century will develop in the Church.
Cardinal Ugolino, Bishop of Ostia, and protector of the Child, gives a new rule that reduces poverty, but she does not accept discounts as Ugolino, who became Pope Gregory IX (1227-41) grants the "privilege of poverty", later confirmed by Innocent IV with a solemn bull of 1253, presented to Clare a few days before death. Austerity
forever. But "we do not have a body made of bronze, nor is the robustness of our Granite". So says one of the letters (in modern translation here) to Agnes of Prague, the daughter of the King of Bohemia, severe abbess of a Franciscan monastery inspired ideal. Chiara
sends her affectionate advice and explicit: "I beg you to moderate with wise discretion in austerity and almost impossible to exaggerate, in which I learned that you've started. "Chiara Agnese should know how to make sick sister services also the most humble and unpleasant, without losing his smile and do not lose. Just two years after death, Pope Alexander IV proclaims a saint.
Clare was known for devotion to the Eucharist. Twice Assisi was threatened by the army of Emperor Frederick II, who counted among his soldiers, even the Saracens. Clare, in that sick time, was brought to the city walls holding the ciborium containing the Blessed Sacrament: his biographers say that the army, at the sight, they said to flee.


Author: Dominic Agassi


TESTAMENT

[2823] 1 In the name of the Lord (Col 3:17). Amen.

2 Among other benefits, we have received and every day we receive from our benefactor, the Father of mercies (2 Cor 1:3), for which we are required to make him glorious live offerings, 3 is great of our vocation. And the more it is great and perfect, so we are more obliged to him. 4 Therefore, the Apostle warns: "Know your calling (1 Cor 1:26)" \\ rref Know your vocation.

[2824] 5 The Son of God made our way (cf. Jn 14 , 16), and this by word and example (cf. 1 Tim 4:12) and taught us our blessed father Francis, a true lover and follower of him.

[2825] 6 We must, therefore, dear sisters, meditate the immense benefits that God has filled, 7 especially those whom he deigned to work with us through His beloved servant, our blessed father Francis, 8, and not only after our conversion, but since we were still between the vanities of the century.

[2826] 9 While in fact, the same saint, who had neither brothers nor his companions, almost immediately after his conversion, 10 was intent on repairing the church of San Damiano, where receiving the visit of the Lord in which he was intoxicated heavenly consolation, 11 felt the final push to abandon the whole world, in a transport of great joy and enlightened by the Holy Spirit, prophesied concerning us that after the Lord has made.

[2827] 12 climbed over the wall of that church, so it then shouted, aloud and in French, pointing to some poor people who were below them: 13 "Come and help me in this work of the monastery San Damiano, 14 to live there because soon there will be women, and for fame and sanctity of their lives give glory to our heavenly Father (cf. Mt 5.16) in all its holy Church "\\ rref Come and help me in this work of the monastery of San Damiano, 14 to live there because soon there will be women, and for fame and sanctity of their lives give glory to our heavenly Father in all his holy Church.

[2828] 15 We can thus see that in fact the great goodness of God towards us: 16 He has deigned, in his abundant mercy and love, to inspire such words to her about our Holy calling and election (cf. 2 Pt 1:10). 17 Not only us, however, our most holy father foretold these things, but all the others that would follow this holy vocation, to which the Lord has called us.

18 By how much and how availability urges application of mind and body so we have to perform the commandments of God and our Father Francis, because, with God's help, we can give back to him multiplied, the talents (cf. Mt 25.15-23) received!

[2829] 19 In fact, even the Lord has placed us as a model, for example and not only for other men, but also for our sisters, the ones that the Lord Himself called to follow our vocation, 20 so that they too will shine like a mirror and example to all who live in the world.

[2830] 21 Avendoci So he selected for a task so high, what is this, that they can mirror us in all those calls to be example and others, 22 we are extremely obliged to bless and praise the Lord and to grow every day more for the good. 23 Therefore, if we live according to the aforementioned form of life, we will leave a noble example to the other (see 2Mac 6,28.31), and through a labor of very short duration, we gain the pallium (Phil. 3:14) of eternal happiness .

[2831] 24 After the top was heavenly Father saw fit, for his mercy and grace, to enlighten my heart because they begin to do penance, following the example and instruction of our most blessed father Francis , 25 poco tempo dopo la sua conversione, io, assieme alle poche sorelle che il Signore mi aveva donate poco tempo dopo la mia conversione, liberamente gli promisi obbedienza, 26 conforme alla ispirazione che il Signore ci aveva comunicata attraverso la lodevole vita e l'insegnamento di lui. 

[2832] 27 Il beato Francesco poi, costatando che, nonostante la debolezza e fragilità del nostro corpo, non avevamo indietreggiato davanti a nessuna penuria, povertà, fatica e tribolazione, né ignominia o disprezzo del mondo, 28 che, anzi, sull'esempio dei santi e dei suoi frati, tutto ciò stimavamo sommo diletto - cosa questa che lui stesso ed i suoi frati avevano potuto verificare più volte -, molto se ne rallegrò in the Lord.

[2833] 29 Therefore, moved by a sense of fatherly love toward us, forced himself and his religion have always diligent care and special care of us, so that his brothers .

[2834] 30 And so, for the Lord's will and our most blessed father Francis, came to live next to the church of San Damiano. 31 Here, in a short time the Lord for His mercy and grace, we multiplied greatly, it might be fulfilled what he had foretold by the mouth of his Holy. 32 Before, in fact, we had stayed, but only briefly, in another place.

[2835] 33 Later he wrote for us a way of life, and principally who persevere in the holy poverty. 34 Neither contented himself during his earthly life, to stimulate with many exhortations and example to love and observance of holy poverty, but also left us many teachings written so that, after his death, we do not turn away any to it, 35 because even the Son of God, while living on earth, never wanted to get away from this holy poverty.

[2836] 34 Neither contented himself during his earthly life, to stimulate with many exhortations (See . Acts 20:2) and by his example to love and observance of holy poverty, but also left us many teachings written so that, after his death, not in any way we left it, 35 because even the Son of God, while living on earth, never wanted to get away from this holy poverty.

[ 2837] 36 And our most blessed father Francis, following in his footsteps (cf. 1 Pt 2:21), he chose for himself and his brothers this holy poverty of the Son of God, nor ever, while he lived, he withdrew into any way, neither by word nor with life.

[2838] 37 And I, Clare, I am, though unworthy, the servant of Christ and of the Poor Clares of the Monastery of San Damiano and seedling del padre santo, poiché meditavo, assieme alle mie sorelle, la nostra altissima professione e la volontà di un tale padre, 38 ed anche la fragilità delle altre che sarebbero venute dopo di noi, temendone già per noi stesse dopo la morte del santo padre nostro Francesco - che ci era colonna e nostra unica consolazione dopo Dio e sostegno (Cfr. 1Tm 3,15) -, 39 perciò più e più volte liberamente ci siamo obbligate alla signora nostra, la santissima povertà, perché, dopo la mia morte, le sorelle che sono con noi e quelle che verranno in seguito abbiano la forza di non allontanarsi mai da essa in nessuna maniera. 

[2839] 40 E come io sono stata sempre diligente e sollecita nell'osservare I myself, and do observe the holy poverty, we promise to the Lord and our holy father Francis, 41 so the sisters who happen to me in this office, are obliged to respect and observe it from the other until the end.

[2840] 42 But again, for safety reasons, I bother to appeal to Mr. Innocent, during the reign of which started the Order, and to his successors, because they confirm and corroborate with the papal privileges, Our occupation of holy poverty, which promises to our blessed father, 43 May they never, at any time we walked away from it.

[2841] 44 Which, by bending your knees and bowing deeply, body and soul, in the charge of the holy mother the Roman Church, the Supreme Pontiff, and especially to Cardinal will be deputy to the Religion of Friars Minor and ours, all my sisters, present and those to come, 45 because, for the sake of that Lord, that poor man at his birth he was placed in a manger (Luke 2:12), lived in poverty on the ground and stood naked on the cross, 46 care should be taken to enforce that his little flock (cf. Lk 12:32) - why the high Father, by word and example of our blessed father Francis, the father of his Church, to imitate his poverty and humility of his beloved Son and his glorious Virgin Mother -, 47 holy poverty, that God and our blessed Father Francis we promise, and still worthy of fervor and keep the sisters in such poverty.

[2842] 48 Furthermore, as the Lord gave us our most blessed father Francis as the founder, and support our planter in the service of Christ and the things we promised to God and that our father, 49, and he lived until , was always considerate care to farm and grow us, its plant, by word and deed of his; 50 so I commend my sisters, present and the future successor of our blessed Father Francis and all the friars of his Order, 51 because there are helpful to move increasingly into the well in the service of God and especially to observe the holy poverty better.

[2843] 52 And if it were to happen at some time, that those sisters leave the monastery of San Damiano and moved elsewhere, are nevertheless required, wherever they lived after my death, to observe the same form of poverty, we promise to God and our most blessed father Francis.

[2844] 53 However, the one who will be in the office [ Abbess of] what the other sisters, they always care and precaution to avoid buying or accepting land around the monastery aforesaid, if not in the quantity demanded that the extreme need of a garden for growing of vegetables. 54 If we were to take some time, for a proper isolation of the monastery, to have some 'of land outside the fence of the garden, do not permit purchase of more than require the extreme necessity, and 55 then that land is not worked or sown, but will always remain uncultivated and Inara.

[2845] 56 I admonish and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ all the sisters, present and future, that they strive always to imitate the way of holy simplicity, humility and poverty, and even the honesty of this holy life, 57 which we were taught by our blessed Father Francis from the beginning of our conversion to Christ.

[2846] Using 58 of these virtues, and not for our merits, but only for the mercy and grace of the Father, Giver of Mercy (see 2 Corinthians 1:3); always pour forth the aroma (see 2 Cor 2:15) of their good reputation on those that are far, how about those who are close.

[2847] 59 And loving each other in Christ's love, love you have in your hearts be shown outside the works (cf. James 2:18), 60 so that the sisters, by such an example, continues to grow in the love of God and in charity.

[2848] 61 Still I pray that she will the Government of the sisters, who studies other than to preside over the virtues and the sanctity of life, for dignity, for 62, inspired by her example, her sisters pay obedience, not so much for the office he occupies, but for love. 63 Whether it is also fair to provident and her sisters, as a good mother to her daughters, 64 and especially studies is to provide for each in its needs with those alms which the Lord will send. 65 is still so friendly and affordable for all, that the sisters can express their needs confidently 66 and use her at any time with confidence, as they believe best for themselves or for the benefit of the sisters.

[2849] 67 The sisters then, that subject, remember that it is love for the Lord who have renounced their own will. 68 So I want to obey their mother, as voluntarily promised to God, 69 that their mother, looking at the charity, I'umiltà and the union that reigns among them, are lighter weight which supports Office 70 and, on their holy lives, what is troublesome and turned bitter for her sweetness.

[2850] However, since 71 is the narrow way and the path and narrow is the gate through which one walks and enter into life, few are those who travel and there (cf. Mt 7:14) entering, 72, and if Yet there are those who for a little while you walk, few persist in it. 73 Blessed are those, however, are allowed to walk this way and persevere to the end (cf. Ps 118.1 and Mt 10:22)!

[2851] 74 And so we, who are in the way of revenue Lord, let us not give up ever, to our fault or negligence or ignorance. 75 will go to insult so great Sir, to his Virgin Mother, to our Blessed Father Francis, to the whole Church triumphant, and also to the Church here on earth. 76 It is written, in fact: Damn those who stray from your commands (Psalm 118.21).

[2852] 77 For this reason, io piego le mie ginocchia davanti al Padre del Signore nostro Gesù Cristo (Ef 3,14), affinché, per i meriti della gloriosa santa Vergine Maria sua Madre, del beatissimo padre nostro Francesco e di tutti i santi, 78 lo stesso Signore, che ci ha donato di bene incominciare (Cfr. 2Cor 8,6.11), ci doni ancora di crescere (Cfr. 1Cor 3,6.7) nel bene e di perseverarvi fino alla fine. Amen. 

[2853] 79 Questo scritto, perché sia meglio osservato, io lascio a voi, sorelle mie amatissime e carissime, presenti e future, in segno della benedizione del Signore, del beatissimo padre nostro Francesco e della benedizione della vostra madre e serva.

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Angelus Pope Benedict XVI - March 6, 2011

BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS




St. Peter's Square Sunday, March 6, 2011

Dear brothers and sisters!

The Gospel of this Sunday presents the conclusion of the "Sermon on the Mount, where the Lord Jesus, through the parable of two houses built on a rock and the other on the sand, invites the disciples to listen to his words and put them into practice (cf. Mt 7:24). In this way he places the disciple and his journey of faith in the horizon, constituted by the relationship with the man that God weaves through the gift of his Word, and enter into dialogue with us. The Second Vatican Council states: "the invisible God in his love speaks to men as friends and moves among them, and to invite them into fellowship with Him." (Dogmatic Constitution. On Divine Revelation Dei Verbum, 2). "In this view, every man seems to be the recipient of the Word, called and asked to enter the dialogue of love with an essay" (Apostolic Exhortation. Postsin. Verbum Domini, 22). Jesus is the living Word of God when they taught, the people recognized in his words the same divine authority, he felt the closeness of the Lord, il suo amore misericordioso, e rendeva lode a Dio. In ogni epoca e in ogni luogo, chi ha la grazia di conoscere Gesù, specialmente attraverso la lettura del santo Vangelo, ne rimane affascinato, riconoscendo che nella sua predicazione, nei suoi gesti, nella sua Persona Egli ci rivela il vero volto di Dio, e al tempo stesso rivela noi a noi stessi, ci fa sentire la gioia di essere figli del Padre che è nei cieli, indicandoci la base solida su cui edificare la nostra vita.

Ma spesso l’uomo non costruisce il suo agire, la sua esistenza, su questa identità, e preferisce le sabbie delle ideologie, del potere, del successo e del denaro, pensando di trovarvi stabilità e la risposta alla insopprimibile domanda di felicità e di pienezza che porta nella propria anima. E noi, su che cosa vogliamo costruire la nostra vita? Chi può rispondere veramente all’inquietudine del nostro cuore? Cristo è la roccia della nostra vita! Egli è la Parola eterna e definitiva che non fa temere ogni sorta di avversità, ogni difficoltà, ogni disagio (cfr Verbum Domini, 10). Possa la Parola di Dio permeare tutta la nostra vita, pensiero e azione, così come proclama la prima lettura della Liturgia odierna tratta dal Libro del Deuteronomio: “Porrete dunque nel cuore e nell’anima queste mie parole; ve le legherete alla mano come un segno e le terrete come un pendaglio tra gli occhi” (11,18). Cari fratelli, vi esorto a fare spazio, ogni giorno, alla Parola di Dio, a nutrirvi di essa, a meditarla continuamente. È un prezioso aiuto anche per mettersi al riparo da un attivismo superficiale, che può soddisfare per un momento l’orgoglio, ma che, alla fine, lascia vuoti e insoddisfatti.

Invochiamo l’aiuto della Vergine Maria la cui esistenza è stata segnata dalla fedeltà alla Parola di Dio. La contempliamo nell’Annunciazione, ai piedi della Croce e, ora, partecipe della gloria del Cristo Risorto. Come Lei, vogliamo rinnovare il nostro “sì” e affidare con fiducia a Dio il nostro cammino.

APPELLO

Seguo continuamente e con grande apprensione le tensioni che, in questi giorni, si registrano in diversi African and Asian countries.

ask the Lord Jesus that the emotional life of the sacrifice of Pakistani Minister Shahbaz Bhatti wake up consciences the courage and commitment to protecting the religious freedom of all men and, in doing so to promote their equal dignity.

My heartfelt thoughts go then to Libya, where recent fighting has caused many deaths and a growing humanitarian crisis. To all the victims and those who find themselves in distressing situations assure you of my prayers and my neighborhood, I invoke assistance and relief to those affected.



* * * After the Angelus:

[greetings in various languages: Cres speaking pilgrims, Christ urges us to build our house upon the rock of faith in God and His Word. Fidelity to his commandments us to do good and to abandon the choices that lead to death. On the day of our Baptism, we began a joyous and exciting adventure! While we will enter Wednesday in Lent, I invite you to deepen the gift of grace that we are done. Following Jesus, let us be guided by the Spirit in the way of life! To all, I wish a good Sunday and a good Lent! I am happy

to greet All the Français-speaking Pilgrims and Visitors for this this Angelus. In today's Gospel, Jesus invites us to go beyond a superficial acceptance our Christian calling, by living in faithful allegiance to his words. May we build up our future upon the solid foundation of the Gospel of Jesus, and find fulfillment and happiness and eternal salvation. I wish all of you a pleasant stay in Rome, and a blessed Sunday!

A warm "Hello" I say to pilgrims and visitors from German-speaking countries. Hallelujaruf to the Church now sings the word of Christ: "I am the vine, ye are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit "(Jn 15:5). The picture of the vine and the vine lights the wonderful community Jesus mit auf, zu der wir sind Christen gerufen. Im Hören von Gottes Wort, im regelmäßigen Sakran Empfang der persönlichen und im Gebet wir haben Anteil an seinem Leben. Als Zeugen Durfo dieses Lebens und können wir für unsere Welt sein fruchtbar. Dazu Begleiter seiner Gnade euch mit Gott.

I greet the English-speaking pilgrims, especially the faithful of the parishes of St. Francis of Assisi, Murcia, and San Francisco Javier, Los Barreros-Cartagena. Jesus tells us in the Gospel of this Sunday that anyone who listens to their words and put them into practice is like a man who builds his house on rock. The bedrock on which we build our life is faith in the Word de Dios. Nuestros ojos Fijando en la Virgen María, learn of the complicity ella en la voluntad del every moment heavenly Father so that, con la ayuda de la gracia divina, seam processed image of Christ en un testimonio y demos effective life y su enseñanza. Happy Sunday.

I cordially greet the faithful from parishes and Brandoa Calhariz of Benfica, the Patriarchate of Lisbon and other Portuguese-speaking pilgrims, on whose steps and commitments Christians pray for the intercession of the Virgin Mother, the greatest blessings. Let Christ take possession of your life, to be increasingly more life and presence of Christ! Go with God.

Serdeczne pozdrowienie kieruję to all Poles. In today's Gospel we hear the warning of Christ: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven" (Mt 7, 21). Father's will meet the one who explores the content of God's Word, an open heart the Gospel message of love and peace, making them the principle of his life and conduct. Let us remember to take our daily duty. I cordially bless you.

[Un cordiale Saluto rivolgo a tutti and Polacchi. Nel Vangelo odierno sentiamo l'avvertimento di Cristo: “Non chiunque mi dice «Signore, Signore», entrerà nel regno dei cieli, ma colui che fa la volontà del Padre mio che è nei cieli” (Mt 7, 21). Compie la volontà del Padre colui che approfondisce il contenuto della Parola di Dio e con il cuore aperto accoglie il messaggio evangelico dell’amore e della pace, facendo di esso il principio della propria vita e del proprio agire. Ricordiamo ciò, assumendo i nostri doveri quotidiani. Vi benedico di cuore.]

Infine, saluto con affetto i pellegrini di lingua italiana, in particolare i ragazzi di Mattarello, Galzignano Terme, Sottomarina, Thiene, Arzignano e Altavilla Vicentina, e quelli di varie città della Campania, con tanti wishes for their journey of growth in faith. I greet the students and family members of the School "St. Dorothy" Montecchio Emilia, young Lipomo, the faithful from Como, Carmignano di Brenta, Povegliano Veronese, Anzio and snipers. I wish everyone a good Sunday and a good start, next Wednesday, the holy Lent. Good Sunday!

© Copyright 2011 - Libreria Vaticana Editric

Boating Diagram Of Accident

Between saying and doing ... only the sea?

ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Dt 11.18, Rom 3.21-25; Mt 7, 21-27)

Wire conductor on Sunday: two-way. First reading: Moses presents to the people or a blessing or a curse: choice, as always! Because, as always, the man remains free to choose good or evil. But if he chooses the good will in the blessing, and if he chooses evil is the curse.

• 1 / Which way?

We are always, no way out, in front of our freedom. What an effort to always have something to do with this double-cut. But the effort is the only way to happiness. Even the vocabulary is the first effort and then comes happiness ... And the Lord is careful not to remove this freedom that makes us breaking into a sweat, because it is the practical exercises that we run our "image and likeness." And then, after so much effort, we will get the crown of glory. Here is a parable
very effective in this regard. There once was a great sage who had the gift of cardiognosia (knowledge of the heart) and no one had ever managed to deceive him. One day a guy who thought a smart aleck, but it was really a fool, he studied a ruse, according to him infallible, to catch him, the great sage. He thought, I come before him with his hands behind his back with a bird in his hands and ask him: "The bird in my hand dead or alive? "If he replies that he's dead I will fly and if I say that it is alive shake hands and show him dead. It appears, therefore, the great sage and makes the fateful question: the bird that I have at hand is dead or alive? The great sage replied: "It will be what you want." That's big business: the bird is our destiny depends on our freedom: If we stifle the evil, if we do good we fly ...

• 2 / Between saying and doing ...

Even in the Gospel There is two ways, or rather, an alternative: to say or do. "There are those who say Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father." More that only half of the sea, between saying and doing, here's even half of our eternal salvation.
say and do, even here no way out: either we do what He tells us ("everyone who hears these words of mine and does them ...), or, at the slightest breath of wind, collapse to the ground (and underground ), with the house built on sand.
But how do you build a house on the rock? Or rather: who is the rock? Here comes to rescue the Responsorial Psalm in the chorus reminds us that "You, Lord, the rock that saves me" (Psalm 30). Let us therefore all our trust and our hope on the drive that there will never fail: it may even miss the ground under my feet, but God is always above our heads and then will never disappear.

• 3 / As a point of support?

We must become the acrobats of the high jump: to have our foothold in the ceiling and not on the floor. The saints are those who no longer have the floor as a base, but the ceiling. So they may also be at the rug under his feet, but not collapse because they were firmly supported the ceiling. "Only God never disappoints," said Sister Amata my fifth grade teacher (and I never forget it!). Here's a piece on which I built the house ... And you? Where did you go to take the building blocks of rock, not brittle, based on which your home?

Wilma Chasseur

Blueprints For Rabbit Hutch

In Defense of Life - Evangelium Vitae - IV

Back appointment with the Encyclical Letter Evangelium vitae, "in defense of life. Today we see how John Paul II made his gaze to the paradox of our society while protecting the inviolable rights of the person, who trample havoc tolerates the inviolable right par excellence, namely the right to life:

THE VOICE OF THE BLOOD YOUR BROTHER CRIES TO ME FROM THE GROUND

" Am I my brother's keeper? "(Gen 4:9):

perverse idea of \u200b\u200bfreedom

18. The panorama described needs to be understood not only in the phenomena of death which characterize it, but in many cases which determine it. The Lord's question "What have you done?" (Gen. 4, 10) seems almost like an invitation addressed to Cain to go beyond the material of his murderous gesture, in order to grasp the gravity of the motives which are all ' origin and the consequences resulting therefrom. Decisions that go against life sometimes arise from difficult or even tragic situations of profound suffering, loneliness, lack of economic prospects, of depression and anxiety for the future. Such circumstances can mitigate even to a notable degree subjective responsibility and the consequent culpability of those who make these choices in themselves are evil. But today the problem goes far beyond the necessary recognition of these personal situations. It stands at the cultural, social and political level, where its most sinister and disturbing in the trend, more and more widely shared, to interpret the above crimes against life as legitimate expressions of individual freedom, be recognized and protected as actual and their rights. In this way, reaching a turning tragic consequences, a long historical process, after discovering that the idea "human rights" - rights inherent in every person and prior to any Constitution and State legislation - now incurs a surprising contradiction: just in time when we are solemnly proclaimed the inviolable rights of the person and is publicly affirmed the value of life, the same right to life is being denied and trampled upon, especially in the most emblematic of existence, the moment of birth and death. On the one hand, the various declarations of human rights and to the many initiatives that they say they are inspired by the emergence of a global moral sensitivity, more alert to recognize the value and dignity of every human being as such, without no distinction race, nationality, religion, political opinion or social class. On the other hand, these noble proclamations are unfortunately contradicted by the facts, their tragic denial. This is even more distressing, indeed more scandalous, precisely because in a society that makes the affirmation and protection of human rights its primary objective and its boast. How can these repeated affirmations of principle with the continual increase and widespread justification of attacks on human life? How can we reconcile these declarations with the refusal of the weak and needy, elderly, or designed? These attacks go directly against respect della vita e rappresentano una minaccia frontale a tutta la cultura dei diritti dell'uomo. È una minaccia capace, al limite, di mettere a repentaglio lo stesso significato della convivenza democratica: da società di "conviventi", le nostre città rischiano di diventare società di esclusi, di emarginati, di rimossi e soppressi. Se poi lo sguardo si allarga ad un orizzonte planetario, come non pensare che la stessa affermazione dei diritti delle persone e dei popoli, quale avviene in alti consessi internazionali, si riduce a sterile esercizio retorico, se non si smaschera l'egoismo dei Paesi ricchi che chiudono l'accesso allo sviluppo dei Paesi poveri o lo condizionano ad assurdi divieti di procreazione, contrapponendo lo sviluppo all'uomo? Should we not call into question the very economic models often adopted by States for pressures and constraints of an international character, cause and aggravate situations of injustice and violence in which the life of whole peoples is degraded and trampled upon?

19. What are the roots of a contradiction? We can find them in an overall assessment of a cultural and moral nature, beginning with the mentality that extreme and even distorts the concept of subjectivity, recognizes as a subject of rights only the person who enjoys full or at least incipient autonomy and who emerges from a state of total dependence from others. But how to reconcile this approach with the exaltation man as being "unavailable"? The theory of human rights is based precisely on the fact that humans, unlike animals and things, can not be subjected to domination by others. We must also mention the mentality which tends to equate personal dignity with the capacity for verbal and explicit, in any case, experimentation. Clearly, with this in mind, there is no room in the world for those who, like the unborn or the dying, a subject is structurally weak, appears completely at the mercy of others and radically dependent on them and can only communicate through the silent language of profound sharing of affection. It is, therefore, the force a farsi criterio di scelta e di azione nei rapporti interpersonali e nella convivenza sociale. Ma questo è l'esatto contrario di quanto ha voluto storicamente affermare lo Stato di diritto, come comunità nella quale alle "ragioni della forza" si sostituisce la "forza della ragione". Ad un altro livello, le radici della contraddizione che intercorre tra la solenne affermazione dei diritti dell'uomo e la loro tragica negazione nella pratica risiedono in una concezione della libertà che esalta in modo assoluto il singolo individuo, e non lo dispone alla solidarietà, alla piena accoglienza e al servizio dell'altro. Se è vero che talvolta la soppressione della vita nascente o terminale si colora anche di un malinteso senso di altruismo e di umana pietà, non si può negare che una tale cultura di morte, nel suo insieme, tradisce una concezione della libertà del tutto individualistica che finisce per essere la libertà dei "più forti" contro i deboli destinati a soccombere.

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XII
Novene e devozioni

a poor friar who prays

One biographer wrote of the time that St. Francis of Assisi, the more a man of prayer, was the "prayer personified." For many brothers who have lived in the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo, in addition to many others who have had the opportunity to attend, Padre Pio has been the living replica of the founder of the Franciscan family. Moreover, with the utmost humility, he said: "What you want from me all these people? I am only a poor friar who prays. "

Father Pellegrino Funicello, who was also a personal assistant to Padre Pio, told him a long time "spied" by day and night, a bit 'all over, until his death: "Well, I never caught loafing: not only prayed always, but when he thought he only prayed with a concentration that seemed in direct contact with the Divinity. In public, however, not to stand, shall conform to the style and pace of the community. " And what

considered vital prayer for his spiritual children documenting the testimony of Miss Clementina Belloni, "In a confession, Padre Pio accused me of stealing. Surprise, I denied. The father continued: "You stole the time our Lord." In fact, the day before I had failed the duty of prayer. " With Father Giacomo Piccirillo, who lingered to photograph it from different angles, he snapped: "Are you with this" Mastrillo "[referring to the camera, nda.1 in hand for more than a 'now and have not even said a Hail Mary."

Nothing could detract from Padre Pio a constant attitude of prayer. "As soon as I place myself to pray", he reveals himself in a letter dated 1913, "now I feel that the soul begins to gather in peace and quiet that they can not express with words. The senses are suspended, except for hearing, which sometimes is not suspended, but this effect usually does not bother me and I must confess that, even if I did it around the great noise, this can not harass the least. "

His prayer was actually a perennial, total immersion in the mystery of God Archbishop of Manfredonia, Andrea Cesarano, he had the chance to personally experience during a week of spiritual exercises spent in the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo. For eight nights in a row he got in several hours and went to look in the chapel: at any moment you will always Padre Pio in prayer and could not find out what hours sleep a little.

But even in the days of the novitiate, when they had not yet manifested its particular spiritual gifts, the fellow I admired the observed behavior. Father Leo from San Giovanni Rotondo testified that "at school he always knew the lesson, although the conviction that we had studied little. For I, janitor of the study, now with an excuse, now with another, often I entered his cell and found him almost always to pray, kneeling with her eyes red from crying. I could tell that he was a student of continuous prayer made of tears, because my eyes just look to see that the tears were ordinary thing. "

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General Audience Pope Benedict XVI - March 2, 2011

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE




Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, March 2, 2011

St. Francis de Sales

Dear brothers and sisters,

"Dieu est le Dieu du coeur humain" [God is the God of the human heart] (Treaty of Love God, I, XV): in these seemingly simple words we take the mark of a great master of spirituality, of which I speak today, St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. Born in 1567 in a border region of France, was the son of Lord Boisy, an ancient and noble family of Savoy. Lived at the turn of two centuries, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, picked up in himself the best lessons and cultural achievements of the century ended, reconciling the legacy of humanism with the push toward the absolute of its mystical currents. His training was very thorough, in Paris did high school, he also devoted himself to theology, and those of Law at the University of Padova, as he wished his father, concluded in a brilliant way, with a doctorate in utroque iure, canon law and the law civil. In his youth, harmonious, reflecting on the thought of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, had a deep crisis that led him to question his eternal salvation and predestination of God towards him, suffering as a true spiritual drama of the main issues theologians of his time. She prayed hard, but doubt tormented him so strong that for a few weeks almost completely failed to eat and sleep. At the height of the test, went to the Dominican church in Paris, opened his heart and prayed, "Whatever happens, Lord, you who keep it all in your hand, and whose ways are justice and truth, whatever you established about me ..., you're always just judge and merciful Father, I love you, Lord [...] I will love you here, oh my God, and always will I hope in your mercy, and always repeat the praise you O Lord Jesus ... , you'll always be my hope and my salvation in the land of the living "(The Canon Proc., vol I, Article 4). The twenty-year old Francis found peace in the radical and liberating reality of God's love: love without asking anything in return and trust in God's love, do not ask God what to do with me: I simply love him, no matter how much it gives me or does not give me. Thus, he found peace, and the question of predestination - on which we discussed at that time - it was resolved, because he did not seek any more than he could have from God just loved him, he abandoned his goodness. This will be the secret of his life, which trasparirà in his main work: the Treaty of love God

overcome the resistance of his father, Francis followed the call of the Lord, December 18, 1593, was ordained a priest. In 1602 he became Bishop of Geneva, at a time when the city was a stronghold of Calvinism, so that the bishop's seat was "in exile" at Annecy. Pastor of a poor and troubled diocese, in a landscape of mountains of which he knew so well as the hardness of the beauty, he writes: "[God] I met him full of tenderness and sweetness between our highest and most rugged mountains, where many simple souls loved and adored in all truth and sincerity, and roe deer and chamois were running here and there among the ice scary to announce his praises " (Letter to Mother de Chantal, in October 1606, in Oeuvres, ed. Mackey, t. XIII, p. 223). Yet the influence of his life and his teaching on Europe of the period and the following centuries is immense. E 'apostle, preacher, writer, man of action and prayer, committed to achieving the ideals of the Council of Trent; involved in the dispute and dialogue with Protestants, and experimenting more, beyond the necessary theological confrontation, the' effectiveness of the personal relationship and love, in charge of diplomatic missions in Europe, and social tasks of mediation and reconciliation. But above all, St. Francis de Sales is the guide of souls: encounter with a young woman, Madame Charmoisy, will draw inspiration to write one of the most widely read books in the modern age, the Introduction to the Devout Life, from his deep spiritual communion with an exceptional personality, St. Jane Frances Chantal, there emerged a new religious family, the Order of the Visitation, characterized - as would the Holy One - a total consecration to God, lived in simplicity and humility in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well: "... I want my daughters - he write - have no other ideal than to glorify [Our Lord] with their humility "(Letter Msgr. de Marquemond, June 1615). He died in 1622, fifty-five years after a life marked by hard times and apostolic work.

that of St. Francis de Sales was relatively short-lived, but lived with great intensity. From the figure of this Saint radiates a rare fullness, as demonstrated in the serenity of his intellectual pursuits, but also the wealth of his affections, the "sweetness" of his teachings have had a great influence on the Christian conscience. The word "humanity" that he has embodied different meanings, past and present, this term can take: culture reigns, freedom and tenderness, nobility and solidarity. Appearance had something of the majesty of the landscape in which he lived, preserving the simplicity and naturalness. The ancient words and images which expressed unexpectedly sound, the ears of people today, as a native language and family.

Philothea A, the ideal object of his Introduction to the Devout Life (1607), Francis de Sales makes an invitation that could appear at the time revolutionary. E 'invitation to be fully God, fully living presence in the world and the tasks of the state. "My intention is to educate those who live in cities, in stato coniugale, a corte […]” (Prefazione alla Introduzione alla vita devota). Il Documento con cui Papa Pio IX, più di due secoli dopo, lo proclamerà Dottore della Chiesa insisterà su questo allargamento della chiamata alla perfezione, alla santità. Vi è scritto:“[la vera pietà] è penetrata fino al trono dei re, nella tenda dei capi degli eserciti, nel pretorio dei giudici, negli uffici, nelle botteghe e addirittura nelle capanne dei pastori […]” (Breve Dives in misericordia, 16 novembre 1877). Nasceva così quell’appello ai laici, quella cura per la consacrazione delle cose temporali e per la santificazione del quotidiano su cui insisteranno il Concilio Vaticano II and the spirituality of our time. He expressed the ideal of a reconciled humanity, in harmony between prayer and action in the world, including secular condition and search for perfection, with the help of the Grace of God that permeates the human being, without destroying it, purifies it, raising to divine heights. A Theotimus, the Christian adult, spiritually mature, who directs a few years after his Treatise on the Love of God (1616), St. Francis de Sales offers a lesson more complex. It supposes the beginning, a clear vision of the human anthropology: the "reason" of man, or rather the 'rational soul', there is vista come un’architettura armonica, un tempio, articolato in più spazi, intorno ad un centro, che egli chiama, insieme con i grandi mistici, “cima”, “punta” dello spirito, o “fondo” dell’anima. E’ il punto in cui la ragione, percorsi tutti i suoi gradi, “chiude gli occhi” e la conoscenza diventa tutt’uno con l’amore (cfr libro I, cap. XII). Che l’amore, nella sua dimensione teologale, divina, sia la ragion d’essere di tutte le cose, in una scala ascendente che non sembra conoscere fratture e abissi, san Francesco di Sales lo ha riassunto in una celebre frase: “L’uomo è la perfezione dell’universo; the spirit is the perfection of human love is that of the spirit, that of love and charity "(ibid., Book X, chap. I).

In a season of intense mystical flowering, the Treaty of God's love is a real sum, and with a fascinating literary work. His description of the route starts from the recognition of God's "natural inclination" (ibid., Book I, chap. XVI), inscribed on human hearts but sinners to love God above all things. According to the model of the Holy Scripture, St. Francis de Sales speaks of the union between God and man developing a whole series of images of interpersonal relationship. Il suo Dio è padre e signore, sposo e amico, ha caratteristiche materne e di nutrice, è il sole di cui persino la notte è misteriosa rivelazione. Un tale Dio trae a sé l’uomo con vincoli di amore, cioè di vera libertà: “poiché l’amore non ha forzati né schiavi, ma riduce ogni cosa sotto la propria obbedienza con una forza così deliziosa che, se nulla è forte come l’amore, nulla è amabile come la sua forza” (ibid., libro I, cap. VI). Troviamo nel trattato del nostro Santo una meditazione profonda sulla volontà umana e la descrizione del suo fluire, passare, morire, per vivere (cfr ibid., libro IX, cap. XIII) nel completo abbandono non solo alla volontà of God, but what pleases Him, to his "bon plaisir" to his good pleasure (cf. ibid., book IX, chap. I). At the peak of union with God, as well as the kidnappings of the ecstasy of contemplation, places that reflux of practical charity, which is attentive to all needs of others and what he calls "the ecstasy of life and work" (ibid. , Book VII, chap. VI).

There is good, reading a book about the love of God and even more the many letters of direction and spiritual friendship, which knows the human heart was St. Francis de Sales. A St. Jeanne de Chantal, who writes: "[...] Here is the rule of our obedience that I am writing to large print: DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE, ANYTHING UNDER - love more than fear OBEDIENCE disobedience. I leave you the spirit of liberty, not one that excludes obedience, this is the freedom of the world, but one that excludes violence, anxiety and scruples "(Letter of 14 October 1604). Not surprisingly, the source of many ways of teaching and spirituality of our own time we find the trace of this teacher, without which there would be no St. John Bosco nor the heroic "little way" of St. Therese of Lisieux.

Dear brothers and sisters, in a season like ours, which seeks freedom, even with violence and unrest, should not miss the significance of this great master of spirituality and peace, which he gives to his disciples the "spirit of freedom," the real one, the culmination of a fascinating and comprehensive instruction on the reality of love. St. Francis de Sales is an exemplary witness of Christian humanism, with its family-style, with dishes that have sometimes hit the wing of the poem, remember that man has placed himself in the deep longing for God and that only in Him is the true joy and its fuller realization.

[various languages \u200b\u200bGreetings: Je salue les cordialement Pèlerins de langue française! À l'école St. Francis de Sales, may you learn that true freedom includes obedience and culminates in the reality of love. Do not be afraid to love God above all! You will find in Him alone true joy and fulfillment in your life! With my blessing! I am happy

to greet The Pilgrims from Saint Mary's University College, Twickenham, I vividly recall my Düring Their warm welcome recent Apostolic Visit to England. I greet aussi The group from St. Norbert's Catholic School in Denmark. To the choirs I express my gratitude for Their praise of God in song. Upon All the Français-speaking Visitors present at today's hearing, Especially Those from Ireland, Finland, Singapore and the United States, I cordially invoke God's abundant blessings.

a cordial greeting to all guests and now the German language course, especially to the pilgrims Pentling. In particular, I thank the South Tyrol for the beautiful music. As St. Francis de Sales, we want to confide in God's hands and let us mark of his love more and more. The Lord bless you all.

Saludo Cordialement a los de lengua española peregrinos, en particular a los grupos provenientes de España, Argentina, México y otros países Latinoamericanos. Os invito a que, Siguiendo el ejemplo de San Francisco de Sales, sepáis encontrar la verdadera libertad en el unconditional love a Dios, nuestra verdadera alegría y nuestra realización full.

Dear friends from the Portuguese-speaking countries, be welcome! St. Francis de Sales reminds us that every human being bears inscribed deep within himself a longing for God. May you all to tell you about her and her guide your lives, because only in God you will find true joy and fulfillment. To this end, I give you my blessing. Go in peace!

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obecnych you Polakow. Franciszek Swiety Salezy nauczał, że każdy odczuwa Człowiek w swojej za duszy tęsknotę Bogie. Only in Him can find true joy and fulfillment of self. He urged everyone to unite with God, persevere in prayer, even among the most numerous responsibilities. Let this be an encouragement for us an important reminder. Praised be Jesus Christ. Traduzione italiana

:

Saluto cordialmente and Polacchi qui presenti. San Francesco di Sales affermava essere umano che fireworks nella sua anima Sente la nostalgia di Dio. Solo in Lui può trovare le vera gioia e la propria realizzazione. Esortava all'unione tutti con Dio e ad essere nella perseveranti Preghiera perfino tra molteplici impegni. Questo sia anche per noi un importante richiamo. Sia lodato Gesù Cristo.

Saluto lingua in Italiano:

joyful greetings to the Croatian pilgrims, and especially those from the parish of St. Leopold Mandic from Orehovica and the Parish of the Resurrection of Christ from Sesvetski Kraljevac.
praying at the tomb of the Apostle Peter, Imitate his testimony of faith, recognizing in Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God and Savior. May God bless you!

Traduzione italiana:

Saluto con gioia tuttiipellegriniCroati and federal particolarmente della Parrocchia di San Leopoldo Mandićin Orehovica e della della Parrocchia Risurrezione di Cristo in Keting. Pregando presso la tomba dell'apostolo Pietro, segue la sua witness of faith, and recognize Jesus of Nazareth the Son of God and your Savior. Praised be Jesus and Mary!

greet in czech language:

Srdečně vitam in upřímně zdravím z České poutníky farností Mladá Vožice, Pacov to Pelhřimov.
Rad žehnám Vám the Vasim nejdražším! Chvála Kristu!

Italian translation:

A warm welcome and a warm greeting to the pilgrims of the Czech Mlada Vožice parishes, Pacov to Pelhřimov.
gladly bless you and all your loved ones. Praised be Jesus Christ!

greet in Slovakian:

warmly welcome the Slovak faithful pilgrimage especially teachers of Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of Košice, led by Mr. Bishop Stanislav Stolarik, pilgrims from Sabin, Stropkova the group of Greek Catholics Saris hawk.
brothers and sisters, that our meeting today at the tomb of St. Peter the Apostle may strengthen each of you in the spirit of communion with the universal Church. With these sentiments of the heart I bless you all and your loved ones.
Praised be Jesus Christ!

Traduzione italiana:

I greet with affection the Slovak faithful, particularly the pilgrimage of Teachers of Catholic Schools Archdiocese of Košice, led by Bishop Stanislav Stolarik, pilgrims from Sabinov, Stropkov as well as the group of greek-Catholics Šarišské Jastrabie.
brothers and sisters, our meeting today at the tomb of St. Peter the Apostle confirms each of you in the spirit of communion with the universal Church. With these sentiments I cordially bless you all and your loved ones. Praised be Jesus Christ!]

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extend a cordial welcome to the Italian-speaking pilgrims. In particular, I greet the Sisters of Daughters San Camillo, che in questo anno ricordano il centenario di morte della loro fondatrice, la Beata Giuseppina Vannini, e le esorto a servire con rinnovata generosità il Vangelo della vita, seguendo Cristo Buon Samaritano. Saluto i fedeli della parrocchia di Maria Ausiliatrice, in Massa Quercioli, e il gruppo delle Fraternità Francescane Secolari, di Scandiano e Pavullo nel Frignano. Saluto altresì il Movimento Pastori Sardi, con l’Arcivescovo di Sassari, Mons. Paolo Atzei. A tutti assicuro la mia preghiera perché si rafforzi in ciascuno il desiderio di testimoniare Gesù Cristo, unico Salvatore del mondo.

Saluto, infine, i giovani, i malati e gli sposi novelli. Cari giovani, preparatevi ad affrontare le importanti tappe spiritual life with commitment, and build your project on the strong foundation of loyalty to God Dear sick, always be aware that in some mysterious way contribute to building the Kingdom of God, offering your sufferings to the heavenly Father in union with Christ. And you, dear newlyweds, daily build your family know in listening to God, faithful in their mutual love and acceptance of the neediest.

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The Summa Theologica - Tenth part

Back to delve in the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, a work which gave a scientific foundation, philosophy and theology to Christian doctrine.

Part
The sacred doctrine

Part
Issue 1
Article 10

If the same text of Scripture has more meaning

seem that the same text of Scripture does not enclose more than one sense, that is the historical or literal, the allegorical, the moral or tropological, and anagogical. And indeed:
1. The multiplicity of meaning in the same text is confusing and misleading and takes away any strength to the argument: and indeed the multiplicity of propositions does not allow a correct argument, but it gives rise to some fallacies (as exhibited in Logic). Now, the Scripture must be effective in showing us the truth without any fallacy. Therefore it does not give more meaning devon in a single text.
2. Says S. Augustine: "Scripture, called the Old Testament is presented in four aspects: ie, according to history, etiology, analogy and allegory." Now, this division seems quite different from the previous year. It is therefore fitting that the same text of Scripture is exposed according to these four directions.

3. He added that over the four senses assigned c'è quello parabolico, che non è computato in quei quattro.


IN CONTRARIO : Dice S. Gregorio: "La sacra Scrittura per il modo stesso di esprimersi sorpassa tutte le altre scienze: poiché in uno stesso e identico discorso mentre racconta un fatto enuncia un mistero".


RISPONDO: L'autore della sacra Scrittura è Dio. Ora, Dio può non solo adattare parole per esprimere una verità, ciò che può anche l'uomo; ma anche le cose stesse. Quindi, se nelle altre scienze le parole hanno un significato, la sacra Scrittura ha questo in proprio: che le cose stesse indicate dalla parola, alla loro volta ne significano un'altra. L'accezione ovvia dei termini, secondo cui le parole indicano la realtà, corrisponde al primo senso che è il senso storico o letterale. Usare invece le cose stesse espresse dalle parole per significare altre cose si chiama senso spirituale, il quale è fondato sopra quello letterale e lo presuppone.
Il senso spirituale poi ha una triplice suddivisione. Dice infatti l'Apostolo che la Legge Antica è figura della Nuova; e la Legge Nuova, come dice Dionigi, è figura della gloria futura; così pure nella Legge Nuova le cose compiutesi nel Capo stanno a significare quelle che dobbiamo fare noi. Secondoché dunque le cose dell'Antico Testamento significano quelle del Nuovo, si ha il senso allegorico: secondoché poi le cose compiutesi in Cristo o significanti Cristo, sono sign of what we do ourselves, we have the moral sense at last because they signify things pertaining to eternal glory, there is a sense anagogical.
But because the literal meaning is what the author intends, and besides, the author of Sacred Scripture is God who simultaneously embraces all things with his intellect, there is no difficulty in admitting, with S. Augustine, who also according to the literal sense in the same scriptural text there are several ways.


Reply to À : 1. The multiplicity of these senses does not lead to misunderstanding or other anfibologie, since, as we said, these senses are multiplied by the fact that the same word means many things, but simply because the things signified by the words may be a sign of other things. And so it's no fear of confusion in the Holy Scripture, because all the other senses are based on a single sense, the literal, from which only legitimate argument, and not from the allegorical sense, as noted by S. Augustine. Not for this is lacking something in the Sacred Scripture, because nothing needed to faith is contained in a spiritual sense, that the Scripture clearly does not express literally in some other text.


2. Those three ways to explain the Scripture history, etiology, analogy belong to the one literally. History, as explained by the same S. Augustine, is when you expose a simple thing, etiology, when you assign the cause to what is said, like when the Lord told why Moses allowed the Jews to divorce his wife, that is the hardness of their hearts analogy , when you see that the truth of a passage of Scripture is not inconsistent with the truth of another step. In the division to four members (made by St. Augustine) the allegory itself corresponds to the three spiritual senses. So Hugh S. Victor places under the name of allegory the sense anagogic, ranks in the third book of his Sentences only three ways, historical, allegorical, and tropological.


3. Il senso parabolico è incluso nel letterale; infatti con la parola si esprime qualche cosa in senso proprio, e qualche cosa in senso figurato; ma il senso letterale non è già la figura, ma il figurato. Quando, p. es., la Scrittura parla del braccio di Dio, il senso letterale non è che in Dio vi sia questo membro corporale; ma ciò che tale membro simboleggia, cioè la potenza operativa. Di qui appare chiaro che nel senso letterale della Scrittura mai può esservi errore.