Us and poverty
Follow poor Jesus
by Mario Sgarbossa
Poverty that educates and at the same time provokes and scandalizes as Brother Francis and the Holy Family of Nazareth experienced it. In the previous article (January 2013), speaking of the Poverello d'Assisi, it was said that the poor question the Church. Now let's listen to the answer that the Church gives to this question of the poor, today, with the example and words of its ministers, from the most titled to the last in the hierarchical ladder, the priests "in care of souls", precisely those who share local poverty and hopes of the people, so the shepherd smells, as Pope Francis says, the smell of his sheep.
The Church: home of the Spirit
- Parent Categories: Spirituality
"I believe in the Church, one, holy and apostolic"
by Gianni Gennari
Where are we at? A «I believe in the Holy Spirit». To summarize: God before us in eternity is the Father. God with us (Emanuel) in history, who after having lived our life in his, suffered our death and anticipated in the Resurrection what is promised and given to us in eternal life went to prepare for us a place "where He too is" (Jn. 14,3) is the Son, eternal Word and Jesus of Nazareth, also son of Mary, also our mother. The Spirit was still missing…
But the Spirit not only "is Lord", but also "gives life". It already in the prefiguration of the First Testament "hovered over the waters" of the initial chaos and was "ruàh", the vital breath of every living creature, but in the fullness of the Revelation which is a gift from God himself over the centuries, evoked for. example at the beginning of the Letter to the Hebrews, there is the definitive mysterious donation of this Spirit himself, total creator and animator. It appears as the presence of God who fertilizes Mary's womb and who then, once the Gospels tell us everything, is given by Jesus himself as an "advocate" and "consoler", that is, He who ensures that we do not we are never alone. Jesus promised it to those poor people, bewildered sinners, amazed at his story and the events that after that "Supper", the last one, they had turbulently followed in 43 days, until the moment their eyes saw him. vanish while a voice from above exhorted them not to "stare looking at the sky", but to go towards the world, towards their brothers...
Thanks for the past and hope for the future
100 years of the "Holy Crusade in honor of Saint Joseph"
by Mario Carrera
It may happen that when commemorating a distant event there is a lurking temptation to settle for complacency, as happened with the mythical Narcissus who loved to see himself reflected in a pool of water. In order not to be imprisoned by this temptation, it is necessary to look at the future while keeping an eye on the binary of values and the strength of passionate involvement, thus imitating those who have managed to build a beautiful past worthy of being commemorated with particular solemnity.The first element is to rediscover the genuine source of the values that began the publication of "The Holy Crusade in honor of Saint Joseph".
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