“On behalf of Christ, be
reconciled to God” (2 Cor 5:20).
FIFTY YEARS AGO THE
MAJORITY OF CHRISTIANS WERE IN AGREEMENT that
sin is determined according to divine revelation for all human beings
created by God, and not according to human sentiments, or feelings,
or subjectivism, or relativism of each person. How can one “be
reconciled to God” when we do not know and we do not want to know
what is a sin according to God?
SIN HAS ATTACKED THE
“HIERARCHY OF VALUES”. Man wants to be God. Man’s body
revolts against his soul, and the soul capitulates and rejects the
primacy of the spirit. Thus bodily feelings dominate the mind, and
both dominate the spirit. Morality become topsy-turvy, confused and
relativistic. The natural law of God is rejected. Unnatural
relationships become fashionable and claim the same rights as natural
relationships. Divine revelation and law are rejected; our
civilization declines and falls.
RELATIVISM,
according to Pope Benedict XVI, is "the most profound difficulty
of our time."
(http://popebenedictxviblog.blogspot.it/2005_05_01_archive.html).
In his homily at the Mass preceding the conclave
that quickly elected him Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Ratzinger
said: “Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church
is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is,
letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by
every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope
with modern times. WE ARE BUILDING A DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM that
does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal
consists solely of one's own ego and desires.”
(http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/homily-pro-eligendo-pontifice_20050418_en.html;
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/colson_relativism_may05.asp).
WHEN SOME PRIESTS CRITICIZE ME because
I have “a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church”, they
never say to me that I have made a mistake according to some document
of the Church; I would be very happy if they did so! And when I
presented to them what some of the documents of the Church or
writings of the Popes indicated to explain my position, I do not
recall even one time that one of these priest ever saying to me that
he would like to read this document so as to seek the truth together,
but instead, a priori, they criticize me, judge me and condemn me
without even looking at these documents!?! Spoiled children say:
“It’s not true, it’s not right” without offering an
explanation accompanied by documents. Instead adults, mature people
say “it’s not right”, but they offer an explanation accompanied
by documents. If what I say is not totally in agreement with the
personal relativism of these priests, that which I offer is
criticized and refused immediately a priori. These same priests,
instead, accused me of selecting the documents that I like and
throwing out the rest, which is their way of projecting their
relativism on me, of indicating that I too am a relativist like
everyone else and so let us all be happy in relativism! This seems to
me somewhat similar to a child who says to his parents to shut up
because they too are sinners.
EVEN THE MAJORITY OF THE PRIESTS AND
BISHOPS ARE NO LONGER IN AGREEMENT THAT THERE EXISTS THE ABSOLUTE
TRUTH outside of ourselves upon which to base a dialogue in order to
arrive at a conclusion. Everyone happily has their own opinion about
fundamental truths, of what is good and evil, just as Adam and Eve
after the Original Sin (Gen 3:4-5). But this leads us to the
“DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM” because the laws
will no longer be based on divine revelation in which the strong help
the weak, but on who is the strongest and can impose his laws on all
the rest. Might makes right, as in hell!
Today a great number
of Catholics want, with the blessing (at least tacitly) of the
priests and bishops, A CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT THE CROSS AND WITHOUT
THESE “GUILT COMPLEXES” THAT WERE CALLED SIN. And thus very few
Catholics today go to confession and many go to the psychiatrists
which costs much more than to confess ones sins to a priest, who
often, unfortunately, is not found in the confessional in the
churches.
But many who still
go to confession , do not understand anymore what is a sin according
to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a great gift the Pope John
Paul II gave to us in 1992! The secretary of the Congregation
for Clergy, Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, has lamented that many
faithful no longer confess their sins. Archbishop Piacenza told
Vatican Radio (June 5, 2009) the sacrament of penance has been
experiencing a "deep crisis" for decades. Piacenza, an
official for the Vatican office on clergy, says FEWER PEOPLE
DISTINGUISH BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, and as a result do not go to
confession. The archbishop said in an interview that if faithful do
not have a sense of sin, they might "CONFUSE" CONFESSION
WITH "THE COUCH OF A PSYCHOLOGIST OR A PSYCHIATRIST." He
says the Vatican plans to publish this year (2009) a “vademecum for
confessors and spiritual directors”.
(http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=14231).
I added to the last
“Spiritual Food” the following paragraphs:
“Regarding the
wild proposals
of Cardinal Kasper made
before the last Consistory of Cardinals regarding legitimizing by way
of Eucharistic communion the "remarriage" of divorced
couples (we could call the Kasper
Doctrine of "mariages
sauvages"), Cardinal Carlo
Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna, had the firmest possible words in an
interview to Matteo Matzuzzi published this Saturday in Il
Foglio: …”
(http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/03/cardinal-caffarra-firm-stance-on.html;
http://catholicism.org/cardinal-caffarra-gives-strong-warning-against-kaspers-rovings-on-divorcees-and-communion.html).
Our Lady of Akita,
Japan (1973): “The work of the devil will
infiltrate even the Church in such a way that one will see CARDINALS
OPPOSING CARDINALS, bishops against
other bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and
opposed by their conferees… churches and altars sacked, the Church
will be full of those who accept compromise …”
(http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/akita.htm).
DEAR BROTHERS AND
SISTERS, “On behalf of Christ, be
reconciled to God”, but according to God’s criteria and NOT MAN’S
CRITERIA!
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An Experience of Life:
We have 3 children,
who we love very much. When David and Irene were born, like all
babies they required of us a lot of energy in
order to find a new equilibrium in our family. But with Alessia, the
third child, it was a special adventure. She was born apparently
sound and beautiful, but after a few days, from the first
examinations of the chromosomal map we knew that she had Down
syndrome. There were difficult moments and unconsciously we were
hoping in an error in the diagnosis. It was like an unexpected
earthquake, as if the rug was pulled out from under our feet… But
we wanted to believe that every child is a gift of God and – even
in sorrow – we felt that this situation was part of His design of
love. After a few days, a geneticist doctor confirmed the diagnosis
but she did not tell us much about the gravity of the handicap, but
rather that the love that we could give to Alessia would be the most
efficacious therapy. It was that which we realized in the depth of
our hearts: we were the protagonists in this event, we the parents,
with the other two children, with our families and our friends…
Together we helped Alessia to grow in every way. Today we can say
without hesitation that Alessia is a gift for us and for those who
are near. She is a source of joy, of serenity. She has helped to make
grow the love between us two above all, and then with the children a
more mature love developed, a greater love. They themselves compete
to kiss her when they come back from school and they tell us that we
are fortunate to have had a special child such as Alessia!
Aurelia and
Giorgio
