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The other bookseller - Draco Malfoy last part

That glance entered into the memory of Tom and remained there throughout its existence. In every moment of his later life, when he closed his eyes and went back to that day, see those blue eyes, wet with tears, compassionate look, a look frighteningly similar to what Dumbledore had given him in the afterlife, when he had received after the defeat of Hogwarts. Found he could not stand that look. He could endure the hatred that he had seen at the beginning, but not that. Hatred knew him, and he realized at that moment to try it for himself with the same intensity. But he could not feel sorry for himself, he could not forgive.
took the decision in a moment, instinctively. Made him a spell of memory, delete the meeting from the mind of the boy, and the other was left bewildered at the moment to look at anything, he sent the books on the shelves with a gesture, dissolved the seals at the entrance of the library and fled, the heart full of despair with no possibility of redemption. He returned to the hotel and had the luggage, materializing at the lighthouse, across the ocean in the middle of the night.
went on the highest terrace of the lighthouse, watching the sea. He stood in the cold all night, mind in turmoil, watching the sea rush on the rocks beneath him, his hands clutching the railing. Everything inside him was screaming, a desperate cry of horror. Breathing hard, panting, and every breath he called him into the abyss, to put an end to all that suffering with a flight to the rocks. And yet hang on to the railing, tense muscles in agony, unable to make the jump and unable to go back inside, the heat and his life, which now seemed absurdly meaningless. How could he have thought of a new life, how could he believe he could leave everything behind and start over? He had been killed, and was just like that, it was not fair that a man as he lived. He had the right.
came dawn to watch this little human being on the brink of the abyss. The sun rose indifferent to touch the face and Cletus he found his way to make the tour of inspection to the lamp, which still lay motionless, watching the sea, overwhelmed. The little elf called him a few times and received no answer, not realizing that had happened. Then he did the only thing that occurred to him to do, the only one who was able to do for men, since she was born.
took his hand, gently, smiled, looking at him and said, "Come in, Tom ... take cold. We make breakfast now. "
The magician felt the warmth of his hand and looked on without seeing the little elf. But he shook my hand, and finally something broke in him. He dropped sitting next to him, hugged him and for the first time in his adult life he abandoned himself to tears in the presence of another living being. She wept bitterly, sobbing, while the little elf, but without understanding, holding him and gave him pats pats on the back. Let him cry until he wanted, then when he heard the magician's body melt against his tired, depleted and exhausted, both materialized in the living room near the couch. He sat down next to the magician, that sank to the ground with eyes closed, and stood there holding his two hands between his own, leaned her head against his chest.
The magician fell asleep without realizing it, to wake up hours later on the couch, covered with a blanket, stripped of clothes for the trip. The little elf was beside him, reading a comic, and was placed on the table in front of a self-heating tray on which lay a carafe of hot chocolate and cookies Cletus.
Cletus was looking to give an explanation as to why he had not thrown in the air, the night before. He could not do it. Cletus knew exactly who it was, was raised in a family of dark wizards, was well aware its history. Yet she loved him anyway, for what it was now. That made sense or not, love that little elf had kept him anchored to the railing, preventing him to throw underneath. The magician, with a choked voice, told him what had happened, and the elf listened intently.
"But now you are no longer Voldemort. Are you Tom, that's all. Make peace with Voldemort, and be Tom. It is Tom that Cletus and all your friends love you. Voldemort is dead and you killed him, "he said, laying the long gnarled index on the heart. "Non-Harry Potter. He killed Voldemort's body, but do you have killed the rest, when I met you. You are Tom and you have a library and a lighthouse to deal with. " nodded, sure, and then fed him like a child, and when he was satisfied with what he had eaten ordered him to stay still. The magician, unable to argue, let rock, and shortly before sinking back into sleep, she heard him mutter a children's song. He smiled, just a moment before falling asleep. Whatever the reason was back in life, whatever were the horrors of his past, as it failed to address them, Cletus was right.
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The other bookseller - Draco Malfoy Part Two

"I do not believe you." Draco leaned against the bar, approaching the magician who withdrew. "You six him. Six V-Voldemort. "
" You're wrong. It is impossible. "He raised a hand in denial. "Voldemort is dead." He tried to smile, but there came a strange grimace.
"No, I can not go wrong. You are. "Draco was terrified, looked at each other wide-eyed, pale-faced, now clinging to the counter as if to swoon over. He was sure, could do no wrong. The look, the expressions, could not forget them. That face the monster that had terrorized for years, in his dreams, he had engraved in the memory, and despite the deformity with which she had known, certain features remained identical. And that voice ... he was, had no doubts. "How is it possible .. how did you do? "
" No, you're wrong, Draco ... "you cut off your breath in the throat as he realized he had made a name he would not have known. He stood still, watching the young Malfoy get up abruptly, puts his hands to his mouth and secure it in amazement. Retreated behind the counter, reaching the shelf behind him, and stood rooted to fix it. Tom reacted instinctively, quickly drew her wand from her sleeve and with one quick gesture sealed all entrances of the library. Had not entered anyone after him, the magical side, and they were alone. He did not know what he wanted to do, but could not afford to have other witnesses to this recognition.
"Draco, listen, I ..." she began, without knowing what he would say.
"Bastard ..." murmured the other. "Damn fucking bastard, murderess!" It ended almost a cry, dropping her arms. "What do you do now, kill me?"
"No Draco .. I will not kill you, I'm not the same person, you must believe. "he said, raising an open hand toward him. In the other still clutching his wand, and the slow down, to show that he had bad intentions.
"Why not? Do you think I could be wrong? You know how long dream to your voice, damn? "Attacked him. "I'm fifteen years that have devastated my life, YOU! I can not go wrong. I do not know you've done to the face, but your voice will not forget until the pitch! "
" I know, but they are not the same person more than once, Draco ... "He tried to explain.
"NO! You know nothing, damn! You know nothing! I do not give a fuck who you are, so it does not matter! You have ruined my life! The life of my parents! Anyone's life! "Shouted at him, pulling his wand from his jacket pocket. "Avada K. .." began to scream, but Tom got up very fast again and stopped him with a rod immobilizing spell.
He found himself staring at the boy, who looked at him despite the paralysis of blind hatred, knowing that if he finished the spell would have surely killed. Murderer was able to recognize the will in the eyes of an opponent, and the boy who had failed to kill Dumbledore to defend his family, had now become an adult in a position to kill him without hesitation. Tom gasped, shortness of breath, gasping for breath, watching the boy. He raised his wand at the ceiling, bewildered by so much hatred. Never before had he met his victim, and Draco could well be called a victim, even if he had survived. It was true, had devastated the existence, as to all those who dared to cross his path. He had thought to their actions, a thousand times, thinking about how bad his life was gone, but had never fully realized the effect they had on the lives of others. He reached out to take the baton from the hands of the boy, placed it on the counter in front of him and changed the spell to give him a chance to speak. The boy regained control of his face and closed his mouth, looking at him with hatred.
"What are you waiting to kill me? Or do you torture me first? Do not fear you, you bastard ... time has passed in which I did you know fear? "he said, and then spat in his face.
Tom did not have time to retreat, and took a jet of saliva in the face. It was as if it were poisonous. The rage and attacked him with a wave of fierce wand sent the other to beat violently against the wall, where he remained leaning, his face distorted by pain.
"That's all what you do?" Snarled.
"I do not want to hurt you, damn it! I'm not going to kill you, Draco! How can I tell you? I would have done if I wanted! I am no longer the Dark Lord! "She cried, wiping his face with his sleeve.
"Ah, no? And what would we feel, a bookseller? "The boy laughed, incredulous.
"Yes, I'm an ordinary bookseller. A stupid, anonymous bookseller! Do not pass me even more to the antechamber of the brain to conquer the wizarding world, I'm just trying to start a new life! "
" Oh, really? And with what right? And all that you have destroyed what they should do, applaud now, because you have become good? But those who want to believe you? "The young man laughed uncontrollably. "You know that almost none of us was able to rebuild their lives peacefully? You know you're still in the nightmare of all? Hermione, my wife, dreams of the battle all the time which is under stress, I wake up screaming, and I wake her, when I Risognanze the night he sent me to try to kill Dumbledore ... one of my best friends died on the night of the battle at Hogwarts, and the other has become almost mad, ended up at St. Mungo's for depression, thanks to you. My ... "the boy narrowed his eyes that were filling with tears. His father had died in Azkaban and his mother had died of grief a few years later. She had to roll up their sleeves from nothing, since all their possessions were confiscated, and only recently had found peace, when he found himself in front of Hermione Granger and fell in love and married, with another surprise. He believed that all was well, until that moment, when the worst nightmare of his life had materialized before his eyes, and had the courage to tell him that he was no longer the monster it once was. "What right have you to want you to remake a life, we feel?"
Tom let him throw up all that poison, without reacting. The application of Draco remained between them, a heavier sentence. He had placed himself, many times, but taking no satisfactory answers. And now the guy in front of any of the answers he had found the least partial meaning. He ran his hand over his face, looking down in front of the terrible pain that emanated from him. Legilimante be meant mainly to be able to perceive the emotions of people in front of him and only a well trained and prepared mind could not help become overwhelmed. But now was not ready to defend himself, his emotions betrayed him, leaving him open to be invaded by images from Draco. He left permeate, seeing and feeling all the pain he had brought in, all the anger, the hatred not only for him but also for himself, the sense of guilt for having joined the Death Eaters and doing horrible things. It was so similar to what Tom had heard the same in the years since his return that was destroyed. Without realizing what he was saying, without lifting his face on Draco, Tom whispered: "I forgive ... I ... I did not imagine. "
air inhaled heavily, immediately aware of being ridiculous to ask for forgiveness for something that was beyond any possibility of redemption. Did not deserve any forgiveness, his whole life had been just an endless failure, a long series of horrors, no reason apart from the pain he had felt himself. He had sought to avenge the wrongs they thought they had suffered, this was the real reason for all his ambition, all his hatred. And now, in front of Draco, was accurate, clear the proportions of the futility of his efforts. Deprived him of blocking the spell and the boy fell down on the chair behind the counter, the ankylosed and muscle fatigue. She stared at him, a long, incredulous, then began to laugh. Burst with laughter, unable to stop.
"Pardon? You're asking for forgiveness? "He shouted.
Tom nodded, wearily. He leaned against the counter with his hands, looking down in disbelief himself.
"You can not, I know ..." he murmured. "You can not forgive what I did. I thought it was just, I thought it was the best thing to do, and I did not realize how bad I was doing. I also think it's ridiculous, but I did not understand ... I did not know what I was doing, to you, the other Death Eaters, to myself, to those who fought me. I just thought it was right to do so. "
Draco looked at him a long time without saying anything, while the other spoke. In the end only one word came from his lips.
"Why?"
Tom, his eyes stinging strangely, as if something were fighting to get out, he found himself thinking about his childhood. She opened her mouth a few times, trying to explain, but whatever he said would be inappropriate to understand what he tried. He could not, could not make it clear as to what Draco's really sorry he did what he had done. So he decided to explain it in the only way possible. He looked up at him, a look that few had been able to sustain and survive, during the war magic. He entered the mind of the boy and instead of tackling the memories, for the first time in his life, opened fully to another human being and showed him who he was and why he did what he had done. Draco saw the long years at the orphanage, harassment, awareness of being different, the total lack of affect, the infinite loneliness, fear, hate, need for revenge ... Tom had seen all the pain of Draco, so now that Draco saw Tom. He closed his eyes, unable to support each other, and burst into tears.
"It's not fair ..." he murmured, with tears, and repeated a thousand times, and Tom did not know to which of them was telling him. He looked down on the counter and watched the moldings for an infinite time, waiting for the other to calm down.
Draco, too spoiled and loved the boy who had been in adolescence, for the first time in his life he saw Tom Marvolo Riddle as an orphan rejected by all, from the world and the muggle and magical world are included. As his life had been devastated by the encounter with the Dark Lord, Draco had been able to count on at least a mind strengthened by the love he received. He really could think of to rebuild a life, he had the capacity emotional, psychological. He could not be appointed, however, was a parody of man throughout his life. He had no idea how he came back to live, but there really was of repentance, a glimmer of humanity in the person that had awakened before. And he had to suffer horribly, now that he could see himself as others saw him. He lifted his gaze finally upon him and looked at him with sincere compassion. He could not fully forgive him, too had suffered because of him, but he could at least understand it.

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OF ADVENT Sunday, December 5, 2010 IV OF ADVENT

Gospel according to Matthew 21, 1-9

at that time. As they approached Jerusalem and came at Bethpage, to the Mount of Olives, the Lord Jesus sent two disciples, saying: "Go into the village in front of you and soon you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. And if someone tells you something, answer: "The Lord needs them, but they send back immediately". " Now this was because it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet: "Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your king comes to you, / meek, and sitting upon an ass / and on a colt, the son of a beast of burden. " The disciples went and did what he had ordered them Jesus took the donkey and the colt, they put on them their cloaks, and he sat down. The crowd, very numerous, spread their cloaks on the road, but others cut down branches from trees and spread them on the road. The crowd before him and those who followed him, shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! / Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! / Hosanna in the highest heaven. "

COMMENT

A modest buy popular acclaim, in the Gospel of Matthew, the charm of a
triumphal scene of Jesus in the holy city, with all the dignity and royal messianic evangelist
resumes, thinking the text of the prophet Zechariah .

However, the triumph, however, binds the passion. The quotation of Zechariah

be borne in mind, meekness and humility. In fact, from the above Zechariah are removed two adjectives:
"He is just and victorious" (Zech 9:9) as well as the words are replaced,
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem" with
"Tell the daughter of Zion "in Isaiah (62.11).

Matthew focuses on Jesus "meek" (humble). These, in fact, does not come up victorious
a fiery steed, but on a humble donkey, as a preacher of peace (Zech 9:10).
Jesus, ascends the temple was involved in an improvised triumph, which, to tell the truth, even
caused him, then take possession of the holy city and drive out the moneylenders (21.12 -
17).

The crowd stretched their clothes and shake the branches of trees as marks cheers. These
however, are dangerous because they refer to the royal dignity, acclaimed
so simple and naive.

Psalm 118.19 refers to the crowd in "Feast of Tabernacles" and "dedication of
were" a joyous procession, "in procession with leafy branches
up to the altar." The pilgrims, who will probably accompany Jesus or his fellow Galileans
, camped outside Jerusalem, remember this custom
and organize a party in a rough and low. The acclamation "Hosanna" means, initially,
"Ah, save us" but then it became a joyful cry, which is followed by the cheers
messianic, taken from Psalm 118.25-26.

The Lord is not like we least expect him. Do not show through our projects nor
our revenge. He annulled the victories. When it comes, brings a peace proposal and
news to which only the simple people, who believe in Him, confident answer.
He does not guarantee anything about what we expect. For his triumph borrows
us to the little things that we have: the donkeys, the party, the cloaks, the branches of trees, the shouts of acclamation
, confidence. He shows no need for power or fighting forces,
or desires of triumph.

He does not want anyone to win, and this should be clear in our world
sensitivity of the believer.

We like to think that Christ 'rule, winner, reigns. " Christ is to serve, to love
to death, to provide clarity and clarity on what really counts.
And these words should be read in the blood of the martyrs in the early twentieth century Mexico. But then the
desire to prove and win makes us easily when we want and
fundamentalists claim to prove and defend the power of God, but He gives us a way
freely to Him, the Lord who accompanies us discreet and invisible
welcomes us and communion with a hug. Welcomes us as humble witnesses to the will of the Father who loves and
does not win.

studied Christianity in dialogue with European culture

Christians all of a piece of Cardinal Kurt Koch

Secularization or secularism?
democracies of Western Europe are often characterized as materialistic and hedonistic. But is the notion of secularization that returns more often in the speeches of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. A look a bit 'close this proves to be too vague term to describe our Western societies. This is mainly for three reasons, we will examine one after another. In his ecclesiastical
the term 'secularism' is often used in the negative, and this justifies resistance of the Church in a modern world that is separated from it. One reason for this defensive position is to be found in some confusion between secularization and secularism as a cultural thing as political and economic process. Seen this way, secularization is not necessarily understood as a rejection of the Church and a progressive de-Christianization. Instead the Church should enjoy that Christianity in Europe also exists in a secularized form, proof that it sent the fruits of the gospel to the whole society: respect for freedom of conscience, the inviolable dignity of every person, the duty of the interference of others protection (Including and especially the lives of people with disabilities or injuries), compulsory education, to name but a few particularly significant. All of these are treasures secularized gospel. Some of them were in fact fully recognized as such only once secular! A Christian
mobilization against this kind of secularism is therefore the result of a serious misjudgment. If in fact the cultural secularization certainly implies the breaking of a bond with the Church, this does not amount to a de-Christianization.
This belief has been condensed from the Protestant theologian Trutz Rendtorff in a lapidary formula: "Secularization, having a cultural, not a concept that is opposed to Christianity. " On the other hand it is possible to reject another Rendtorff thesis that "secularization, as a movement that is opposed to Christianity, is only produced as a result of deliberate political pressure." If in fact the situation in former communist confirms this thesis, that 'only' is too much: not always so. To the east to the west as the secularization that it sometimes took the form of a process for becoming a dangerous anti-Christian secularism, but not necessarily always took this form. Thus we show the dark shadow of the recent situation in Western Europe, but that's only if properly perceived secularization was first seen in the positive light of the Christian faith.
This light is in turn accompanied by another shadow, and most disturbing, produced by Christianity itself. The sectarian divide in Europe, with its dire consequences of war, the tragic failure of churches to maintain religious peace, all that, historically, has led to the need to subtract the civil life, in important areas, religious contradictions, place in a secular context. Deplore the secularism of Europe or the forgetfulness of God, Martin Buber called 'eclipse of God' is equivalent to the Churches to do first self-criticism. For the churches of Europe a former Communist self-criticism that must lead to recognition on the one hand that the collapse of the totalitarian system is a huge opportunity for the community of faith, but on the other hand, it does not guarantee anything for the success of such communication. This does not mean that the Church must now take the place of the state and civil society to dictate its policies. Christianity has the vocation to remind the legislature needs the gospel, not replace it.

Secularization vaguely religious or postmodern?
Communication of the faith is thus not an alternative solution against secularisation. However, it is a way of overcoming secularism, which caused a tremendous lack of God in European culture. But modern societies are so much wicked as you would have us believe? This question leads us to consider a second reason why the concept of secularization seems ill-suited to characterize Western societies. In fact, this idea of \u200b\u200bsecularization is often linked, especially within the Church, to the following effect: in our modern societies, religion and Christianity have done more. A similar analysis has apparently by his predictions of sociologists of religion. Max Weber, for example, has characterized the secularization as a process of 'disenchantment' of the world. In it he saw the inevitable fate of industrial societies. In his later sociologists of religion have agreed that the secularization process was irreversible.
This 'dogma', however, is now largely abandoned, replaced by that of persistence (or return) of religion. According to this
do not have to wait for an unlimited development of secularization.
Modern societies of Western Europe by themselves create a need for meaning, through the void that secular culture is not able to overcome. In fact, religion is again very much present in our Western societies, whether through the esoteric or new age. Develop entirely new forms of religion, at the same time where the churches are emptying. According to Walter Kasper is a "mixture almost impossible to define, whether a so-called mysticism and Eastern meditation. Often of the feminist and environmental movements, where myths are very timely. " Redemption, as pointed out by the Catholic theologian, not without humor Tiemo Rainer Peters with a nod to Eugen Drewermann, is now nothing more than "the liberation of the soul distressed, ripped the complex whirl of society and dipped in the comfort of a religion Private. "
Expectations of Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud have proven false, as so many superstitions. But on the other hand, it would be illusory conclude that the Christian faith could replace these illusions!
In our society it is anti-religious superstition was replaced by a religious superstition. At this point in western Europe, the explosive issue for the Christian Churches is not the conflict between belief and disbelief, but that between faith and superstition, between worship and idolatry. The confusion between Christian faith and patriotic religion or 'civil religion' is a strong variant of idolatry. This is considered capable of ensuring social order, but as pointed out by the Catholic theologian Francis Fiorenza, civil religion in "the universality of religion is undermined by nationalist particularism." The great temptation then is the idolatry of nationalism. The Christian churches succumb to this temptation if, as noted by Eberhard Jüngel, enabling it to "offer their services as civil religion in Europe in the process of unification, instead of calling the right of all believers to be located in a constructive manner and critical of the city. " Secularization
cultural or political difference?
There is a third reason why the concept of secularization is not suitable to establish a new statement of faith in contemporary society. Certainly the churches have lost the privileged position of a time, but still fulfill an important role, especially at the margins of society, occur where the social needs to be answered. In this respect, modern society assigns two missions to the churches. First, the churches always have the right to influence the conduct of individuals.
But this mission is mainly seen as a compensation function. The churches share the fate of the institutions of free time in general. According to the analysis of Jürgen Habermas, free time is tied to its opposite, the working time. Serves to reconstitute the ability to work to compensate the hard work physically and mentally exhausting. It is therefore expected from the churches this relief, especially on Sundays, through a bit 'of blaze public holiday to compensate for the monotony of the week.
long as the churches respond to this expectation receive some consideration. But as soon as they strive to forge and to humanise the everyday world, that of the week, are perceived to be pursuing the intolerable interference in the fields of politics and business, religious and sent to the space allotted to them.
Secondly, the company relies on management Churches of the precariousness of life. It is assumed that the churches assume that is part of human finitude, especially the extreme situations of guilt, suffering, sickness and death. It is assumed that bring comfort (or anesthesia?) With the promise of a better life hereafter. Churches get it the status of "spiritual fire" or "sense of pharmacies." Until respond to this expectation in this case also receive some consideration. But do not just want to go beyond the help given to people crushed by the gears of society, and attempt to block these gears, you hear new allegations of interference in a prohibited area that is not theirs.
This dual destination of the Church in a religious context is clearly defined what is called privatization of religion.
A similar process of social disruption and retrocession of the Churches in the private sphere raises a crucial question to Churches. How to fall in this shattered society and to proclaim the Gospel in a credible way?
According to sociologist Franz-Xaver Kaufmann, you have only three options to meet that demand.
First, those who are wont to call the traditionalists captures well what is at stake, but does not offer any useful therapy.
They dream of restoring the situation in the Middle Ages. Since this is impossible, strive to maintain their place within the confessional, the signs of the ancient Christian societies. This view tends to be regressive of 'reserves' of religion.
Although there are still remaining, such a choice is outdated and does not offer any prospect to take place for a new evangelization.
Secondly there is a liberal view, widely held, that is for the Church in responding to inquiries, as part of compensation or the management of precariousness. The problem is not that the Church meets those expectations, which are certainly part of his mission, but only to respond to them. In this case not only in danger of becoming just a service provider which markets its products on the market for meaning in life, but would also be tempted, at this point, let's lay out its tasks and its mission from the expectations of society rather defined from the Evangelist.
Third, faced with these two drifts unpromising, is the missionary option. It aims at overcoming the boundaries of the meaning and religious, as determined by the company. Does not accept, as emphasized by the brothers and Gerhard Norbert Lohfink, "leave a bourgeois society and individualistic relegate the Church in the religious and the transcendent." He also wants to act as a criticism of society and the dominant currents of today. For her, the statement of faith is to spread the gospel, such as salt, in all areas of social life. It seems clear that this option only really makes a statement of faith in the European context. The Church must learn to accept without complex surrounding pluralism, relativized that his own existence. This does not relieve in any way challenge the Church from announcing to all and the absolute truth of the gospel, but it must make conscious that this announcement universal gospel, for it is an undoubted truth, that in modern society is not a 's statement in the midst of others. This will appear all the more easy as, first, will be convinced to derive its authority only from the 'authority of Christ pleading "and, on the other hand, will remember that it is precisely thanks to the sheer force of the Gospel and practice of charity, without recourse to arms century, which itself has historically prepared the pluralism of modern society, secularization does not guarantee sufficient degradation to a totalitarian secularism.


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COMMENT

Matthew

3.1 to 12 1 In those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea
2 saying
"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is
near. " 3 For he is the one of whom had
spoken by the prophet Isaiah when he said: "
Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of
Lord, make his paths straight."
4 And he, John, wore a dress
camel hair and a leather belt around hips
, his food was locusts and wild honey
. 5 Then Jerusalem, all the
Judea and the whole area along the Jordan
flocked to him 6 and were baptized by him
in the Jordan River, confessing their sins
. 7
Seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism
, said, "You brood of vipers! Who
did
believe they can escape the wrath to come? 8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of
conversion, 9 and
do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father. "
Why I say that from these stones God can raise up children to
Abraham. 10
Already the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree that does not
good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire
. 11
I baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier
me and I am not worthy to carry his sandals
he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire
. 12 He holds the shovel and clean
his floor and gather his wheat into his barn
, but will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire
.


John the Baptist is the forerunner of the Messiah. He is aware that
time of salvation is being made and calls for the conversion
people of Israel. The kingdom of God is coming and prepare
be converted from sin to live in justice.
Isaiah had already announced its report on the world stage with
this mission: to prepare people's hearts for the coming of the messiah
.
John is in the desert, far from the places of everyday life,
desert as a place where we rediscover the basics that allow you to live
: locusts and wild honey, which indicate the expectation
the Lord. The desert is the place where the Lord leads his people
to relive the bonds of love that binds him to himself (Hosea 2:16; Os
11.1-6), to make him experience the justice of God against him, so he can
he live it fully.
The essence of John's life was a sign of well-understood by his contemporaries
, who saw in him a man worthy of belief, one that has not
other interest that is to announce what he heard. For this
going to confess their sins to him.
Who is he strong in their faith and tradition, John
addressed a scathing word: do not let your shield of tradition, but also
you, like everyone else, be converted.
Time of Judgement is at hand in each and everything that is not wearing a
fruit of goodness and justice, will be cut down and thrown into the fire (Mark
9.42 ff).
John is aware that if he only baptized with water, ie
through an external symbol of inner reality, the Messiah
instead immerse people in the spirit of love of the Father, who
will burn all sins and let live the good seed, feed
love for all.
We welcome this purification of our sins that
realized through the fire of love that comes from God

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months was now working at the library with Richard, and Tom could not stop congratulating themselves for the idea. It was truly a blessing to deal with that place, I thought every morning when he raised the damper and came to tidy the magical trinkets that were in the habit of moving at night. It is fun, relaxed to deal with those objects and the hunt for books gave him enormous satisfaction. Spend hours rummaging through used bookstores in tiny, lost sense of time devoted to books at flea markets, buying huge private libraries without quality just to get my hands on a single book invaluable and totally unknown to the owners, often heirs with no taste or expertise, he did return to the days of school, when his only concern was the study and could forget about himself in the enormous library of Hogwarts. Even the repair work spells placed on objects selling magic used, a task now that Richard held in a hurried and harassed, put him in a good mood. He enjoyed trying to repair these items, sometimes literally needed parliamentary objects whose spells were so old to have them have a personality that did not want to know absolutely return to the original functions, protesting, expressing their views strongly and conviction, as the set of soldiers loyal to the bridge now and the minuet, quite reluctant to go back to simulate a small war time, who had unsuccessfully tried to repair the first week.
also had finally begun to travel. She was a gypsy, deep down, be adored around the world with the bag over his shoulder. The search for the magic Charity fairs took him far and wide in the new continent, neighborhoods magic of almost all large cities and I also like the fairs Muggles, if by chance there was news of the death of some famous magician no children near the place where it is held. It happened often, in fact, that the goods were auctioned by the magician Muggles, without knowing star selling magical items, so that with a little 'luck and care it was possible to discover small treasures. Tom had always been a bag ready in the house near the lighthouse, to be able to leave at any time on the trail of a fair or a flea market around the world, and now, thanks to this attitude, the business they were really going at full speed. So much so that when he learned of a market for books for a period of one week in Dublin, decided to leave the wizard.
had been in Dublin, a life before, and barely remembered it, but enough to find it transformed, at least in the more peripheral. It was only when he arrived at the center of the city that came to recognize the streets. The marketplace was looking for that turned out to be disappointing, a bunch of worthless junk, and any book that was worth bringing home, so Tom decided to spend the last two days to laze in the capital, enjoying the Indian summer, beer and Irish music before returning to Nantucket, hoping to find maybe something more interesting to Owl Lane, the neighborhood magic Dublin. It was magic in the office of tourism, just before, where he had procured a guide to magical places characteristic, with a detailed map of the neighborhood magic and a brief description of its history. Was willing to make a walk, but a strange laziness was the wrapping, like a blanket of tranquility, prompted by having nothing to do for the store. To this was joined in that pub, attracted by the music that came out and now was reluctant to leave, and decided to take it quiet, relax with a pint of dark beer, whose flavor was unbeatable at home, and listening three guys playing folk music in a corner of the room. The magician felt at peace with the world watching the world go by outside the windows of the pub and watching the sky changing scroll over their heads.
idly watched the road, on the other side when he saw a sign that the curious: Akasha. It was an esoteric library, written in what looked from the windows, and seemed strangely familiar. He took from the pocket of a sailor's jacket and the tourist brochures you traced the name of the library. It was apparently famous for being the first library open to the field with a magical Muggles, equipped with books approved by the Minister to do as little damage as possible in the hands of muggles. He did not say anything owner, but seemed to be one of the attractions of the place, and mages could use it to pass through access hidden magic in the district in the area devoted to books on astrology. Intrigued, he decided to move the magician, and finished the beer, crossed the street to enter the library.
The muggle side was fun and harmless, he decided. We were exposed to the books of some famous magicians, and other writings by muggles believe that they have found great spiritual and magical secrets, that Tom had read with a smile when he began to deal of Arcane Cabana, so after a quick glance at the shelves , went to the area decided to enter the other part of astrology.
back often to rethink then, in the following weeks, sometimes cursing that impulse ... but others said it might have been one of the most important experiences of his new life.
The library was half empty on both sides that day, and only a clerk presided over the Muggle side, while in the magical side there was nobody there when Tom stepped. He began to turn to the shelves, sliding or lesser-known titles by local authors, as always happened to him losing the sense of time and place, immersed in reading paragraphs from a book and another, sometimes taking a book to take in cash, ending the long way around. He had gleaned six, when he finally decided to get out of that small library before leave a legacy. It was actually stocked, was largely to its reputation of having just about everything, but could not bring back all those books, honestly, or would have had to abandon his baggage in favor of the volumes that would like to buy. He then went to the bar, where he had come to sit on a stool, a young blond with long hair loose over her shoulders and was reading a magazine, waiting for customers. The magician put the books near the cash register, smiling, and said: "I really have to congratulate you ... I too am a bookseller, but your library is stocked, much more than mine! "
The guy in front of him looked up shooting and the magician could see it was not so young as it appeared, but most realized of knowing, and very well. The steel-colored eyes were family, there could be confusing, as the habit of wearing his hair long and loose. The thin face was to Narcissa, but the look was that of Lucius. Draco Malfoy, about thirty or so, impossible to say thanks to all under Malfoy to look younger than their real age, was in front of him, and looked at him with a strange expression in his eyes.
Tom froze. He attended the Malfoy Manor for over a year, when he was alive again, waiting to be able to kill Potter, Draco and not only knew his face, he knew his voice very well. He could have found the nose and hair, her blue eyes had returned to the original, but his voice remained the same as the height, posture, shoulders. I stare, undecided, to study the young man who so reminded him of a painful part of his adult life and to establish a past that had stopped thinking. The silence began to be heavy, without which neither of them did a move, then Draco took the books without looking at them.
"Thanks," Draco said, without expression in his voice, "is a pleasure to meet a colleague ... where he opened his library? Maybe I Know. "
" N-Nantucket. " Answered, dry, dry mouth articulating words with difficulty.
"Nantucket? It is located in the States, right? But she does not have an American accent ... "
Tom scolded for leaving the basis nantuckettese just stepped down, and nodded, hoping that what he felt was not guilty blush on the cheeks. My stomach was in turmoil, he had never felt this way, even when he found himself in front of Potter and his wife to the lighthouse. Harry had never recognized, but in fact when they met they had thought to try to kill more than talking, so it was quite obvious that the other did not recognize him, but Draco had often spoken with, had lived in her house , you know. If Fenrir had recognized him by the smell, Draco could tell a thousand other details. Tom tried to calm down, thinking that it gave to all dead now, and that he looked too young, compared to its actual age, so no one but the boy's father before him could recognize him, but he could not to relax. He supported the inquiring gaze of the young Malfoy, not daring to look away.
"I traveled a lot." He said, smiling coldly.
"It reminds me of someone, you know? Maybe we met before? "
" No, impossible. This is the first time I come to Ireland. "
" Ah, but I do not I'm Irish. I am English. We may have seen elsewhere. "Draco folded his arms, his eyes narrowed, focused on the man's face. The put the chills and could not understand why. There was something about him that filled him with horror cold, but could not identify the reason. He was not ever try such an instinctive revulsion for one person, separate ... Voldemort. Young was enough to make his name in his mind, to open an empty feeling in my chest, like a fist. He opened his mouth, watching the magician in front of him. It was not possible that he was, he was sure. He was dead, she had seen him die with his eyes, attended his funeral. He had spent years trying to forget it, years struggling to regain dignity and a name, years to prove that he had changed and was no longer, it was never really a Death Eater. The man's voice haunted him in his dreams, he remembered clearly, and now ... Who was he?
"Who .. Who are you? "Churches, his voice choked in his throat.
Former Dark Lord he instinctively stepped back, realizing that he was recognized. He held his breath for a moment, then answered.
"Richard. My name is Richard Murray. "

..... follows.


/ / Before you continue to publish the story, I suggest you read this fanfic, I wrote some time ago, which explains how it is possible to have found Draco Malfoy to work on a book half magic and half-Muggle in Dublin ...

http://www.efpfanfic.net/viewstory.php?s id = 538040 & i = 1

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With Vigil in the Cathedral began

Bishop Alceste Catella has chaired this evening in the Cathedral, the traditional Advent Vigil. The homily of Bishop Bishop was focused on the theme of "time".

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Reading of the Gospel according to Matthew 11, 2-15

at that time. John, who was in prison, having heard about the works of Christ, through he sent his disciples to tell him, "Are you he that should come or look we for another?". Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor and proclaim the Gospel. And blessed is he who does not find me a source of scandal. " While they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the multitudes concerning John: "What did you go to see in the desert? A reed shaken by the wind? So, what did you go see? A man dressed in clothes of luxury? Here, those who wear luxury clothing are in kings' palaces! Well, what did you go see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, in fact, more than a prophet. This is he of whom it is written: "Behold, before thee I send my messenger before you, he will prepare your way." Verily I say unto you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist, but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. All the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And, if you want to understand, he is Elijah who was to come. Those who have ears, listen. "

Comment

John is a bit 'in crisis has been arrested and while in prison, his dark thoughts come to mind. And then there's Jesus that delays in bringing the purifying fire, as John had predicted.

Jesus said to him showing signs of the kingdom of God real signs, but mild, effective signs, but not sensational. The biggest will be the king of this kingdom, Jesus will have to cross the throne. And that John could not even conceive.

But the question of John gives the opportunity to really talk about Jesus to him

This is a true canonization in the field.

John is not a reed shaken by the wind.

Let us remember what is our word.

Think of how hard we try the truth.

Think of how hard we defend the truth and values \u200b\u200bin which we say we believe.

pale.

Then Jesus says that John is not as luxurious dress.

Think of what the facilities weaken our purposes

Think about the compromises that have to do.

Let us remember what we are selfless in our service to others.

flushed.

Finally, Jesus says he is a prophet.

Announces

not a word to which it obeys with his whole being.

Think of our weak or no listening to the Word of God

Think about the unwillingness of our commitment to proclaim Christ.

We think we prefer to stay in our suite (once called the broth!), Rather than bear witness to the faith.

pray for the gift to look like the Baptist

Deepening We dedicate this week to Cardinal John Henry Newman, an extraordinary personality recently beatified by Pope

seems to be far from Giovanni Battista, reality of the times was a Baptist modern.

I am attaching the speech made by Pope Benedict XVI during a prayer vigil that preceded the betatificazione.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

this is an evening of joy, of immense spiritual joy for us all. We are gathered here in this prayer vigil to prepare for tomorrow's Mass, during which a great son of this nation, Cardinal John Henry Newman, will be declared Blessed. How many people in Britain and around the world have been waiting for this moment! For me personally it is a great joy to share this experience with you. As you know, Newman has had a long time an important influence in my life and my thoughts, as it was for many people across these islands. The drama of the life of Newman invites us to examine our lives, to see them in the context of the vast horizon of God's plan, and to grow in communion with the Church of every time and everywhere: the Church of the Apostles, the Church of the Martyrs The Church of the saints, the Church which he loved and whose mission Newman devoted his entire life.

thank Archbishop Peter Smith for his kind words of welcome in your name, and are particularly pleased to see many young people present at this vigil. This evening, in the context of common prayer, I would like to reflect with you on some aspects of the life of Newman, which I consider important for our lives as believers and for the life of the Church today.

Let me begin by pointing out that Newman, in his own account, he retraced the path of his entire life in the light of a powerful conversion experience, which occurred when he was young. It was an immediate experience of the truth of the Word of God, of the objective reality of the Christian revelation which had been transmitted in the Church. This experience, both religious and intellectual, he inspired his vocation to become a minister of the Gospel, his discernment of the source of authoritative teaching in the Church of God and his zeal for the renewal of ecclesial life in fidelity to the apostolic tradition. At the end of life, Newman would have described his work as a fight against the growing tendency to treat religion as a purely private and subjective, a matter of personal opinion. Here is the first lesson we can learn from his life today, when an intellectual and moral relativism threatens to sap the very foundations of our society, Newman reminds us that, as men and women created in the image and likeness of God, we were created to know the truth, to find it in our ultimate freedom and the fulfillment of the deepest human aspirations. In a word, we were meant to know Christ, who is himself "the way, the truth and the life "(Jn 14.6). The existence of

Newman also teaches us that the passion for truth, intellectual honesty and genuine conversion fee for a great price to pay. The truth that makes us free can not be held for ourselves, requires the testimony, it needs to be heard, and at the bottom of its power to persuade is by itself and not by human eloquence or arguments which may be situated in . Not far from here, at Tyburn, a large number of our brothers and sisters died for the faith, the testimony of their loyalty to the end was far more powerful than the inspired words that many of them said the first leave it to the Lord. In our time, the price of fidelity to the Gospel is not so much to be hanged, drowned and quartered, but often involves being pointed out as irrelevant, ridiculed or made the sign of parody. Yet the Church can not be exempt from the duty to proclaim Christ and his Gospel as the saving truth, the source of our ultimate happiness as individuals and as a basis for a just and humane society.

Finally, Newman tells us that if we accepted the truth of Christ and we have committed our lives to him, there can be no separation between what we believe and how we live our lives. Our every thought, word and action must be directed to the glory of God and the spread of his Kingdom. Newman understood this and was the great champion of the laity's prophetic Christian. He saw clearly that we should not accept the truth so much as a purely intellectual, but rather receive it through a spiritual dynamic that penetrates down to the deepest fibers of our being. The truth is not transmitted simply through formal training, although that is important, but also through the witness of lives lived fully, faithfully and holiness of those who live in the truth and recognize instinctively what is false, because false is enemy of beauty and goodness that complements the splendor of truth, Veritatis Splendor .

The first reading this evening was the beautiful prayer with which St. Paul calls us to be given to know "the love of Christ which surpasses all understanding" (cf. Eph 3.14 to 21). The Apostle prays that Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith (cf. Eph 3.17), and because we come to "comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth" of love. Through faith we come to see the word of God as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (cf. Ps 119, 105). How many saints who preceded him on the path of Christian discipleship, Newman taught that the "kindly light" of faith leads us to realize the truth about ourselves, our dignity as children of God, and sublime destiny which awaits us in heaven . By allowing this light of faith shine in our hearts and abandoning its union with the Lord through daily prayer and participation in the sacraments of the Church, the giver of life, we become light for those around us, we exercise our "office prophetic, often without knowing it, we draw people closer to God and his truth. Without the life of prayer, without the inner transformation that happens through the grace of the sacraments, we can not - in the words of Newman - "radiate Christ" become just another "tinkling cymbal" (1 Cor 13.1) in a world already filled with growing noise and confusion, full of false paths that lead only to deep pain of heart and illusion.

One of the most popular meditations of Cardinal contains these words: "God created me to offer him a specific service. Has given me some work that he has not committed to another "( Meditations on Christian Doctrine ). We see here the precise realism Christian Newman, the point at which faith and life inevitably intersect. Faith is destined to bear fruit in the transformation of our world through the power of the Holy Spirit working in their life and work of believers. No one who looks realistically at our world today can think that Christians can continue to do things every day, ignoring the profound crisis of faith that is coming up in society, or simply trusting that the heritage of values \u200b\u200bpassed down through the centuries Christians can continue to inspire and shape the future of our society. We know that in times of crisis and rebellion God has raised great saints and prophets for the renewal of the Church and Christian society and we trust in His providence and pray for his continued leadership. But each of us, according to his state of life, is called to work to spread the Kingdom of God imbuing life time values \u200b\u200bof the Gospel. Each of us has a mission, everyone is called to change the world, to work towards a culture of life, a culture forged by the love and respect for the dignity of every human person. As the Lord teaches us in the Gospel just heard, our light must shine before all so that, seeing our good works can give glory to our heavenly Father (cf. Mt 5.16).

Here I wish to say a special word to many young people present. Dear young friends: Jesus alone known as "specific service" has in mind for you. Be open to his voice that resonates deep within your heart, even now his heart speaks to your heart. Christ needs of families who remind the world of human dignity and the beauty of family life. He needs men and women who devote their lives to the noble task of education, taking care of the young and educated to the ways of the Gospel. Needs of those who consecrate their lives to the pursuit of perfect charity, following in chastity, poverty and obedience, and serving Him in the least of our brothers and sisters. He needs the love of the powerful religious contemplatives who hold the testimony and the activity of the Church through their constant prayer. And he need priests, holy priests and good men willing to lose his life for his flock. Ask God what he has in mind for you! Ask the generosity to say yes! Do not be afraid to give yourselves totally to Jesus will give you the grace necessary to fulfill your vocation. Let me conclude these few words and invite you to join me next year in Madrid for the World Youth Day. This is always a wonderful opportunity to grow in love for Christ and be encouraged in your joyful life of faith with thousands of other young people. I hope to see many of you there!

And now, dear friends, we continue this vigil of prayer to prepare to meet Christ present among us in the Blessed Sacrament. Together, in the silence of our common worship, we open minds and hearts to his presence, his love, the persuasive power of its truth. In a special way, thank him for the continuing witness to the truth, offered by Cardinal John Henry Newman. Confident in his prayers, asking God to enlighten our feet and those of British society, with the gentle light of his truth, his love, his peace. Amen.

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FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Gospel: Mt 24.37-44

At that time, Jesus told his disciples:
"How were the days of Noah, so shall also the coming of the Son of man. For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and took her husband until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not know until the flood came and swept all: so shall also the coming of Son of Man. Then two men in the field: one will be taken away and the other left. Two women grinding at the mill: one will be taken away and the other left.
Watch therefore, for do not know on what day your Lord is coming. Understand this: if the householder had known at what hour of the night the thief, have watched and would not have let his house be broken. Therefore you also be ready for, hour you do not, is the Son of Man. "

is that God comes when you least expect it.
Maybe you are looking for a lifetime, or you think you're looking for, or you think you have found it and then rest on our laurels and in the meantime, life will pass him.
Or just do not think, as you are overwhelmed by things to do, from mortgage to pay, in this desperately floating ragged decline of civilization in which we live. Is that
God is clear and mysterious, hidden and accessible, and have not yet.
And our lives are over, with his desires and his disappointments, his findings and his pauses, his fears and his irony, his enthusiasm and his failures. Come and find it hard to hold it in one place, anywhere, around which everything else to run. Is that all gufano
around, but now and then. And also want to be optimistic and always see the glass half full there is to live in perpetual anxiety: political instability is through the roof, perhaps Europe fails after all the good dreams of unity, some of you (I !) find themselves without a job, all around, they seem to rabid dogs that snap when they graze.
short, for all these reasons we really need to stop, at least a few minutes to look at where we're going to find a thread to hang, like the clothes, all our events.
Today begins the coming at last.


public confession that we are four weeks preparing for Christmas, an ark is salvation given to us to carve out a space of awareness. A month to prepare a crib for God, was also in a stable. We are not here to pretend that Jesus was born then it is already born in history, will return in glory. But now asks to be born in me.
I want to prepare myself, I need to figure out how I can find God became accessible, without face, now meet them. I want to be able to see this God delivered, given up, blatant, hidden in the eyes and faces of many babies. Few
four weeks, I know. But I want to try again. Why do we celebrate one hundred
birth without ever once God is born in our hearts.
As Bonhoeffer says beautifully: "No one owns God so that you do not need to wait. Yet she can not wait for God who did not know that God has already waited a long time him. "

one taken, one left
started reading Matthew, now. The tax became a disciple, one who has done well the accounts in his pocket, he accompanies us and encourages us sull'impervia road conversion.
The Gospel passage is difficult and confusing and could be read in a grotesque.
Jesus, as usual, is extraordinary cites symbolic events of Noah, says that around him there was a lot of good people who were swept away by the flood without even realizing it. So he invites us to watch, stay awake, just as Paul writes to the Romans.
And he warns that one is taken, the other left.
one encounters God, the other not.
One is filled, the other does not find.
God is fair, modest, almost shy, does not require his presence, as the evening breeze is his coming. We are asked to throw open your heart, open your eyes, the desire to let emerge.
How? I do not know, friends. I try to carve out a space to do daily to pray, to meditate on the Word. Some of you can take a Sunday afternoon for a couple of hours of silence and prayer, others make a little detour to go to work to get into a church. If living in there, help the Christian symbols of Christmas: to prepare a crib, decorate a tree, to participate in the novena. Let's do something, a little thing, to ask if Christ is born in us, not to be overwhelmed by the deluge of words and things that everyone experiences.
But, to aggravate our situation, we must not only fight against forgetting. It also touches
fight the fake birth.

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do not understand why a wonderful feast, the feast celebrating the news dell'inaudito of God that breaks into the world, has been overwhelmed by the molasses doing good Christmas.
is a drama, Christmas is the story of a man of God present and absent.
There is nothing to celebrate, we have not done a very good figure, the first time.
Christmas is a punch in the stomach, a provocation, an event that forces you to take sides.
Christmas is the surrender of God that compels us to conversion.
Therefore: long live the gifts, the party alive. But it is true that we do, that this is the guest of honor, God, our calorie dinners, that children understand that it is his birthday, and we are the presents.

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In these years I have seen with dismay that Christmas, true for the poor, for those who have suffered neglect, trauma, bereavement, has become a party odious and unsustainable.
face of the stereotypical images of happy family around the tree and harmony and songs of the angels who propinano media, who, however, lives fragile emotions and loneliness, he is overcome by an unbearable pain.
And that makes me crazy with anger.
The God of the poor, the God who comes to the shepherds, the marginalized of the time, the God who is not born in the Temple of Jerusalem, but in the cave of Bethlehem, is replaced by the God of our little hypocritical gooders. If only the grandparents, if the people abandoned the wounded from life if not a leap of hope on Christmas Eve, it means that our ad is ambiguous, swept away and replaced by a generic message of peace useless.
I exaggerate? God grant that this is so.
In four weeks we will celebrate Christmas.
not play then to pretend that Jesus was born, Jesus is already born, died and rose again, lives next to me.
The problem is, if anything, if I was born.

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The memory of Bishop Germano Zaccheo the third anniversary of the disappearance

the eve of the Feast of Christ the King, Bishop Alceste Catella has chaired the Mass in which he was recalled Bishop Germano Zaccheo, in the third anniversary of his death.

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The Diocesan Youth Ministry has a new logo

was held in the morning, at l ' Institute Leardi the presentation of the new logo of the Diocesan Youth Ministry and the awarding of those who created it.
At the ceremony, introduced by Dean Carla Rondo, was attended by the Bishop of Casale M. Bishop Alceste Catella Mayor M. Casale Giorgio Demezzi, the Service Manager Don Marco Pivetta Diocesan Youth Ministry and the Head of the Department of Education and Pastoral Universitaria Don Samuel Battistella.

The winning logo was created by the Competition Oana Moraru and Irene Allara, students from the 3 A Leardi Charts Institute of Casale Monferrato, and consists of three symbols: a house, a semi-circle and a wave.

This is the meaning which the authors attribute to each element:

- The home represents security and tranquility, a haven in which to meet new people, work together and feel at home. The element is at the center of the composition because it constitutes the main part of the message we want to convey.
- The semicircle that encloses the house accentuates the idea of \u200b\u200bprotection and security. He manages to surround the house without oppress, without removing their freedom.
- L 'wave conveys an idea of \u200b\u200bleisure and happiness. It is the graphic that holds the composition, and participate to realize the full significance of the logo.

The Youth Ministry has decided to give its own interpretation of its new logo:

- The house in the center, which can also be seen as a church or oratory, is a place protecting young people but is also an arrow pointing one direction and invites us to point upwards, towards God
- The semicircle marks the way forward: it is open, a symbol of acceptance and respect of personal freedom that we always must be in an educational relationship.
- Finally ' wave that indicates its simplicity and joy of youth and represents the desire to achieve true joy.

Biorci Institute Leardi thank Charles for having made available the photos of the ceremony.

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November 21, 2010 Second Sunday of Advent, November 14

Sunday, November 21 Advent II


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Reading of the Gospel according to Luke 3, 1-18

In the fifteenth year the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of and Traconìtide, and tetrarch of Lysanias' Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the desert. He went through the whole of
Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it says in the book of oracles of the prophet Isaiah: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness / Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight make his paths / Every valley will be filled, / and every mountain and hill will be lowered; / winding roads become straight / and inaccessible, flattened. / Every man shall see the salvation of God. " To the crowds who came to be baptized by him, John said, "You brood of vipers, who has made you believe he can escape the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance and begin not to say to you: "We have Abraham as our father." Why I say that from these stones God can raise up children to Abraham. Indeed, already the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. " The people asked him, "What do we do?". He answered them, "Whoever has two tunics it gives to those who have none, and he who has food do likewise. " Also came to be baptized and asked, "Master, what shall we do?". And he said to them, "Collect no more than is appointed you." The Soldiers also asked: "And we, what shall we do?". He answered them, "Do not oppress and do not extort anything, be content with your wages." As the people were waiting and all, with regard to John, in their hearts if he were the Christ, John answered them all, saying, "I baptize you with water, but is he who is mightier than I, which I am not worthy to untie the laces of his sandals. He will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. He holds the shovel to clean up his threshing floor and gather the wheat into his barn, but will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire. " With many other exhortations John evangelize the people.

Comment

The Gospel of Luke, in the early chapters, presents John the Baptist, the dominant figure with Mary, which
precursors of Jesus John the Baptist dedicates his life to preparing for change open to all and then give all of himself
to be a witness to a presence that sees as big, but that does not fully understand
.

According to the concern of the evangelist who said in his Gospel: to make "careful research ...
and write an orderly account, "Luke begins by recalling the preaching of John the Baptist. It follows,
initially, the Lord's Day, on the end of the world (3:7-9), day of wrath and Feedback
to provide the reasons for a moral transformation and hence the commitment to the "fruits worthy of repentance".
Thus arises the immediate preaching ethics and social (3.10 to 14) and the messianic (3, 15-18) . He started,
above the path of Jesus and the Church, and then give them up.

Da Luca, with solemnity, the vocation of the precursor is inserted into the history of time, we are in year 28 AD
(fifteenth of Tiberius). References to the territory and power reflect a reality Jewish and pagan
the gospel has a universal vocation.

The Word of God not only is part of the story, but dominating and ruling over the story itself. Everything is placed under the sign of God's Word
This, however, does not choose the palace, but a marginal place: the desert, and one of which is John
priestly race, one that has no power, but who has the task of mediation between God and his people
. In all probability remained in contact with the community of Qumran near the Dead Sea, and there
is prepared for the coming of the Lord with a lifetime of study, prayer and coherence to the law.

John is an itinerant missionary and proclaims the baptism of repentance to fall from
absolutizations of passion, pride or dell'alterigia. The hills and high mountains should be lowered because
symbol of pride. John baptized: and his baptism is a change of mentality
. It 's the return to a life without moral evil, oriented to the coming of the Messiah.
"Every man shall see the salvation of God." Formerly meant liberation from exile with the intervention of
Cyrus the Great (c. 540 BC). But here Jesus is called as strength and hope for all peoples.
Jesus proclaims the year together of the Lord's, opened in his person.

A. The moral message is sketched in a few lines (3:10-18).
people respond to the sermon with a question: "What must we do?".
the question is important because it means that the message was perceived as essential to their lives and then
able to flip it. It was also made to Peter the same question on the day of Pentecost, when he took the
word about Jesus died and rose again and the new hope for the people of Israel. He said
"Conversion and baptism in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins" (Acts 2:37-38).
John paved the way to conversion: "Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance" (3.8).
not exclude the other hand, does anyone like Jesus, and accepts, in addition to ordinary people, public sinners (3:12):
collectors debt collectors taxes, greedy and sold, pagans (3.14) and soldiers.
John replies by drawing attention to specific social and daily reality so that the affected reports of acceptance and
communion. They are to be exercised:

sharing: "Whoever has two tunics / who has to eat, give ...". The first fruit of conversion is
charity: a share of its real substance, not a bland alms

justice:" Do not Demand more of the fair had "The second result is justice:
suggestion applies especially to collectors who, taking advantage of its role as tax collectors, they become greedy and lenders
;

non-violence:" Do not extort, not do violence, be content with your wages. "
The third result is the respect for others that the soldiers should refrain from using weapons to
not to abuse their position through violence and extortion.
These last two categories have some of the sympathy of the people, rather
are identified as the personification of betrayal and sin. Yet the conversion is not to change jobs,
but in a change of heart. This is possible for everyone, not just the privileged classes.

B. The identity of John. The preaching of John is not an end in itself but is geared to welcome the Lord who comes
. John brings to Christ and Christ often recalls John. The people counting.
But John is only a precursor and is proclaimed. Is first to prepare, but it is not even worthy of the gesture
slave loosen the thongs of the sandals.

"I am not the Christ, 'repeats to disappoint those fabled compare between the Messiah and his baptism of Christ and the purifying
regenerator. There will be a power so high that the Messiah finally
the time will come where you can judge what is good and what is bad.
The content is strong and demanding, yet the ad is for purification and innovation: it is an ad
of joyful surprise, a "good news" is the evangelization of John (v 18).

John is the one who falls for Jesus to grow (Gv.3, 30), is the one who will not say "Follow me"
because only Jesus can be Lord and Master. It 's just not the friend of the bride and groom. Like John, also
Church must give way to Jesus with freedom and spontaneity "in joy because he alone will grow" (Gv.3, 29).

's theme this week is deepening:

intimately know Jesus to follow him

Meditation that development consists of two parts, as indicated in the title: Learning to follow Jesus closely. We aim to reflect first on the following, starting with the word "listen." It 'a key word in the story of the Transfiguration and identically reported by the synoptic Gospels.
We have already heard in other parts of the gospel of Jesus. We heard, for example in the Sermon on the Mount, where we talked about the transformation of Christian ethics, which tends to transform mystical (identify with him, be like him) and the eschatological (it forever as he is). Also cherish in our hearts the word of institution is particularly strong and intense.
This does not exhaust the talk of Jesus, which is not only, say, general - in the Sermon on the Mount brings to the table precepts, counsels that all are called to follow (blessed are the poor, love your enemies, do not worry about tomorrow ). In addition to these words, very important because they give the picture of the baptismal life, it's a personal decision to seize and shake each one of us, words spoken to me and nobody else. Everyone, in fact, has a calling, a vocation, a mission, a specific task.
"Follow me!"
We then recall some words, which are summarized in the invitation "Follow me, 'and signal the existence, change people's lives in which they are addressed. * First
the text of Mk 1, 16-20: "Passing along the Sea of \u200b\u200bGalilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. Jesus said to them: "Follow me, I will make you fishers of men." And immediately they left their nets and followed him. Going a little further, also on the boat saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John, and mend their nets. He called them. And they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him. "
* Note that in Mark 2: 13-14 Jesus gives some general lessons: "He went out again by the sea, the whole crowd came to him and he taught them." But after listening to a specific word: "In the past, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and said," Follow me. " He got up and followed him. " * Calls
Personal Jesus' are not always accepted immediately. They may meet with resistance - like the Sermon on the Mount against resistance - and it is normal. For example, in Mt 8, 21-22 one of his disciples said to Jesus, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father" and was told: "Follow me and let the dead bury their dead. " It 's a very strong phrase and the disciple understands that his good intentions clash with the demands of discipleship.
Again, in Luke 9, 61-62: "Another said:" I will follow you, Lord, but first let me to leave people at home. " But Jesus answered, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."
So there are strengths, and sometimes it takes years to decide to accept the Lord's call. The rich young man



The "follow me" may even encounter a refusal, as is the story of the rich young man (Mk 10: 17-22 and parallels). He
asks the Master, kneel full of respect, a sincere first question that arises from a right view of faith: "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?". There is in him a willingness, an opening is very large. It is not an ordinary person, has a great righteousness, he feels the need to relate the human heart in a profound way with the truth of God
Jesus said to him to keep the commandments (cf. v. 19). And the young man replies, "All these I have observed from my youth" (v. 20). Jesus, then, "upon him, loved him ': she loved him before, but here expresses that love staff that reflects the infinite love of God for each us. This asks for a new mission: "One thing you lack: go, sell what you have and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me" (v. 2 1).
Young understands that he is given a task, which is not only asked to give what he has to the poor, but to share the fate of the Master, his life as an itinerant preacher, challenged and rejected. The call of Jesus upsets him and "went away sad, for he had great possessions" (v. 22). He could have said: "I'll think, reflect it," or, "Give me the strength to follow this thy word." Instead, it closes itself because it has many assets. Then the sadness invaded his heart, he realized that, despite the love that Jesus has set, he can not play out of fear, cowardice, laziness.
It 's a dramatic episode that makes us think. Each of us has many assets, even if you do not have a bank account: we would like to express their talents, we do projects, friendships, and, at bottom, our autonomy, the desire to freely dispose of ourselves. When Jesus asks us to obey his word, everything is at stake, not to be thrown overboard, but to be valued in obedience to the word of the Lord.
ask Jesus the grace to understand fully the seriousness of the word that challenges us.

The paradox of non-event

In the second part of this meditation we try to discover what is the secret that allows you to get involved in following Jesus
Ignatius writes in the second week of exercises before the start of the musings on various mysteries of life the Lord: "Get to know the Lord intimately, because you love him and follow him more" (No. 104).
It 's the "intimate knowledge" of Jesus that enables us to follow him, and that knowledge comes from long and loving contemplation of his life among us. Unfortunately we can not trace throughout its advancement. So I chose to stay with you on a time that seems to speak especially to our everyday life: the thirty years of Jesus' life in Nazareth.
place yet again our sphere of contemplation in the light of Tabor, which is the radiant center of our exercises - in relation to it have already read basic Gospel episodes, as the baptism of Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount - as well as we in subsequent meditations, watching Jesus in his passion (the third week of the year) and in its glory of the Risen One.
There are two events in Nazareth. The first is the incarnation of the Word, the event in which the Being makes history and gives meaning to all of human history. The second event of Nazareth is the non-event, ie the fact that for thirty years and nothing happens. If the former is certainly extraordinary, the second challenges us in a very strong, so closely affects our daily lives.
Often, at least until we have good health and work, we feel pressed by occupations and urgent that we believe are important. The time is never enough. But if we look at the life of Jesus of Nazareth searching out facts or actions of any significance, it may seem insignificant to us, a life where you do not know how to get to evening, where time never passes. So the question arises: how to harmonize the time in his dual role as' the time is never enough "and that" will never go "? Above all, what sense give the time "that never goes out", an experience that can happen to us live?
I propose then to contemplate the passing of the days in Nazareth, seeing, hearing, stirring to life, hearing the noises, sounds, smells, lights and colors, as taught by St. Ignatius.
Three moments of reflection: the characters, the biblical texts (with few but significant), our attitudes.
characters. Deal first with Mary and ask her in prayer: "Thou, O Mary, you lived the uneventful obscurity of Nazareth, help us understand how you lived day by day, hour after hour."
We see it as she looks with loving reverence the Son, and his secret not known by many, and you put out without expecting anything. As a mother rejoices in the growing child, she looks at her son, who is the bearer of the divine mystery. So Mary
serene contemplation, quietly, without tension, without haste, and waits, knowing that something will happen. Certainly please a lot, both in times dedicated to prayer and while working, pray that the kingdom of God, pray, repeating the words of the Magnificat and, although they have not seen the true, because it repeats the lives of faith.
Using psychological expression, we can say that there is this: he lives with this simplicity, neglect, unpretentious and without complaining. Do not even ask the Lord to when? Wait wait with loving, enjoying the small and large that has Jesus, her husband, her daily chores. His life is already so the kingdom of God, salvation in place. Mary contemplating
also evoking two texts of the Gospel. After the stories of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Luke noted, "But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart" (2, 19). Continues to observe, keep meditating. Luke 2.51 And he repeats that, after returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to Nazareth, Jesus' mother "kept all these things in her heart." He does not understand at all events, but accepts them.
The second figure to be contemplated is Joseph, a man right, to which the will of God was always the norm, and pious man. He prays several times a day according to the custom of every good jew, worked in Nazareth, and probably even out. We seem to see him going back and forth to build the city of Sepphoris, located six kilometers from Nazareth.
He makes short, simple actions: Please, Jesus teaches the work is tiring as all carpenters.
Even Jesus lived this way: to pray in the hours required by Jewish tradition, the synagogue on Saturdays and holidays, work, and his age does not seem wasted in meaningless activity pastoral and evangelizing, and obeys, no doubt, awaits a sign. We are horrified at the thought that it has not given any sign of age when they usually take important decisions. In fact it will take years before it reaches the sign of the preaching of John the Baptist. Until, at peace.
course is not completely monotonous life of the village of Nazareth. Jesus lived the experiences of everyday life: that of the day and night, with the variety of lights, jobs, meetings, the seasons, with differences in life involved; that of local events - births, marriages, friendships, illnesses, funerals -; that time with religious pilgrimages to Jerusalem.
lives in daily life in his own time and its space and accept it.
texts. I remember two texts of the Gospel of Luke: "The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom and grace of God was upon him" (2, 40), 'came to Nazareth and was obedient to them [... ]. And Jesus increased in wisdom and grace before God and man "(2, 51-52). Interesting this
growing very simple, very natural and spontaneous.
grew in wisdom among men. E 'reasonable to assume that Nazareth was estimated at more and more like an essay, that you could use for advice, since he knew the right words. Especially increased in wisdom of God in the sense that he learned to appreciate the presence of God in all events, even through regular reading of the Scriptures.
grew in age. Strange this record, because it is quite obvious. In my opinion, the evangelist wants to indicate that the day of Jesus made sense. He grew up before the men, who saw the value of her life, her beauty. his humility and simplicity. He grew up before God, as he walked towards the agreed time, to the fullness of time, waiting patiently.
grow in grace. Before men, whose eyes became more and more amiable for the good works that he worked for. Before God, because it was always his pleasure, then grew in grace and in love.
The text adds: "It was subdued," saying that he recognized human institutions, respected them and honored without claiming any privilege.
would be nice to interrogate Jesus, being with him in prayer on Mount Tabor: How do you read now these thirty years of experience so monotonous and lonely? Maybe reply: I am glad to have lived through those decades in which I have meditated extensively on religion and life.
In fact, many speeches made by him later are probably referring to his thoughts and experiences of young people, when contemplating nature, observing the social and family events. penetrating eye with loving and smart.
were therefore years of preparation, no downtime. Although no hurry to speak, evaluating everything in silence: excessive weight of outward observances, in compliance with formalities of the law, people's hard work, away from the people of the Pharisees, the value of mercy, fidelity, forgiveness, respect for religious practices outside.
Our attitudes. Finally, I emphasize four attitudes which, starting from his experience in Nazareth, Jesus seems to recommend us.
- The first is the presence in the present. We are often hearing the future, it will be. It is sometimes necessary, yet the anxiety about the future must not distract us from the present, then that can also be a place of serene programming. There is an imperative very wise and rich content in the imitation of Christ: "Age quod AGIS." Write, sing, read, eat, moan, pray, but it's' what you do. It 's a recipe for mental health, and we know that most neuroses stem from not knowing how to concentrate on the present, constantly mulling over what was and what will be.
Jesus urges us not anxious about tomorrow because every day has enough trouble her (cf. Mt 7, 34). In Nazareth he has had this attitude of total abandonment, hour after hour, minute after minute, stripping himself of all concern. It was indeed free from all anxiety about the future even if they could, at least outwardly, try: what ever you waiting for? Throw yourself being raised.
Jesus lives in the presence of this silence with fullness and not with regret.
- The second approach is the expectation serene. We are always looking for something, because our present is on the future of open, not closed in on itself. It will be events or changes that we desire for our life or we face the important thing is knowing how to wait in peace. St. Paul exhorts us to wait for the coming of Jesus with love and this is the expectation of our real life, of serenity that permeates every expectation.
- The third approach recommended by Jesus is the patience, the ability to withstand long periods without being weakened. It 's a little exalted virtue, but very valuable and should be asked as a favor to the Holy Spirit.
- Finally, we must realize that the gift of God is today, the gift of the brethren with whom we walk following the Lord. From this awareness springs gratitude, praise, gratitude often forget that all attitudes, reserved for egregious or unexpected events. Gratitude for the present that we live in is rather cultivated at all times.
Conclusion: the miracle of this
By way of conclusion we can read some excerpts from letters written by a young Dutch Jew, Hillesum Etty, who died at twenty-nine years in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. November 30, 1943. These Jews, non-practicing, gradually meets the mystery of God and so loves it as much more goes into the suffering of his people.
The letters are the years 1942-1943, when Etty was in the Westerbork camp in Poland before the transfer. Written with a detachment, a sense of humor, a warm glow from these amazing, show how this young woman lived in her present peace, patience, humility incomparable.
wrote, for example a friend: "Marietke, Etty write soon how are you? You're gay, you're sad, run here and there, you're safely at home? And that says Ernst, who says Amsterdam, which makes Han and dad, and Kate goes to bed early? I walk in the mud between wooden barracks, while walking through the corridors of what six years is my home now I'm sitting at a cluttered desk in a small noisy environment, but they are also sitting on my dear, messy desk. Many people tell me: "I do not want to remember nothing of life before, otherwise we would not be able to live here." While I can live so well here because I remember everything perfectly, "first '(for me it is not even a" before "), and while my life goes on."
Stops letter and resume in the afternoon, "My soul is at peace, Maria, now I have been assigned four cabins of the sick, one large and three small, there do I see if someone needs that are shipped food storage or from outside. The thing best part is that I now have free access to most of the hospital compound, and at almost any time of day.
"Take these few words as they come, my little Mary, here you can not write much, the letters that I send you my thoughts are much longer than this. I'm fine and I'm glad, after living here just like in Amsterdam, sometimes I do not even realize you are in a field. And you all are so close that I do not even miss me. Jopie is a dear friend. In the evening witness the setting sun, plunging the purple lupine behind barbed wire. And probably come back again for the next license. Write soon. Hello! (Etty Hillesum, Letters 1942-1943, Adelphi, Milano 2001, pp. 65-66).
His letters are really steeped in the serenity of this. This in itself is a terrible, tragic, and yet she lived with peace and courage that transpires from each line.
"Christine, are indescribably brave in this absolute hell. Early this morning, the line of freight cars has entered the field muddy. I was on the one hand, and a narrow opening at the top, a car, I discovered the crumpled hat and glasses to my father, my mother's hat and the thin face Mischa. And now accompany them in their way of the cross, I am grateful to be here and to alleviate their lives in so many little things at the moment although there is nothing to lighten. Here is a total disaster. In the last twenty-four hours the camp was engulfed by large waves of Jews. But I must say that dad, mom and Mischa also amazed me. It is true that my father is completely helpless, that in these hours his neck has become too, too wide and that his shaggy gray beard is so much trouble. But this morning has challenged his small Bible as we waited for hours in the rain, and found beautiful words in the book of Joshua. They are now in a large barracks, a warehouse crammed with more than human, where for every three people there are two narrow iron bunks, no mattresses for the men, no chance to put something somewhere, heavy air, screaming children, the worst poverty imaginable. I will do everything possible to help them overcome these difficulties, I personally feel very strong and courageous but sometimes everything gets dark and incomprehensible. [... ] I hope to find a bed tonight, every square millimeter is taken. Next time I'll write more. Pray a little for us "(ibid., pp. 68-69). At the same
Christine has addressed the last postcard that Etty was able to throw off the train that took her to Auschwitz, before leaving for ever the Netherlands, with a clear awareness of their own destiny, "Christine, I open the Bible at random and found this: "The Lord is my stronghold." I'm sitting on my backpack in the middle a crowded boxcar. Dad, Mom and Mischa are a few cars ahead. The departure came rather unexpectedly, in spite of everything. An order from The sudden mandate specifically for us. We left the camp singing, Father and Mother very strong and calm, and so Mischa. We will travel for three days. Thanks for all your good care. Some friends stayed at Westerbork writing again in Amsterdam, you may have news? Even my last long letter? Goodbye from the four of us. Etty "(ibid., p. 149).
E 'that miracle of grace that can make even in the limit of the absurd, and shows how the kingdom of God is just in the most unexpected circumstances.

Roman Rite


GOSPEL Luke 23.35-43
From the Gospel according to Luke
At that time, the people were to see, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others, save himself, he is the Messiah of God, the Chosen One. "
The soldiers also mocked him, and they drew near to offer, and said: "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself." There was also an inscription over him, "This is the king of the Jews.
One of the criminals hanging there abused him: "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us. " But the other rebuked him: "Do you not fear God, since you pay the same penalty? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong. " He added: "Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom."
replied, "Verily I say unto thee, Today thou shalt be with me in paradise."

With this feast is to celebrate Christ as Lord of history
and time. It was introduced by Pope Pius XI in the encyclical Quas Primas
11 December 1925.
This year's liturgy proposes to us to contemplate Jesus on the cross, which
King of the Jews, but most of all as the one who reigns from the cross.
The Gospel of Luke is the one who shows us the mercy of Jesus
also on the cross.
the derision of their leaders, who saw him on the cross do not believe
be able to save himself, after the many miracles in favor of another, Jesus
not answer anything.
The soldiers laugh at him because they see him as a king
helpless and unarmed.
are his fellow death those who challenge the true meaning of his kingship
death. The first
insults him with the question that has spanned the centuries: if you are the Christ
why not save all men save their death?
The second one recognizes the innocence of Jesus and his true royalty:
"remember me when you come into your kingdom." He does not know
know what I mean, but he knows that the kingdom of God announced by Jesus is a
kingdom of life, not death, and he wants to be part of this kingdom,
even when everything seems to contradict this fact.
This confidence of the second criminal receives a positive response from
Jesus, confirming his faith in Jesus Proclaims the Kingdom of God:
"today you will be with me in Paradise."
Jesus always gives abundantly, beyond the expectations of
men: the realization of the kingdom shall be in that Friday Easter
while celebrating the covenant between God and his people, a covenant that
now involves all the people of land to give to each
salvation in Jesus' name