Spirituality

Details: Parent Categories: Spirituality; Published: January 12, 2012

by Giosy Cento

On the humble cave-house of Bethlehem descends, in the Holy Night, the divine song of the Choir and the celestial Orchestra: "Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth to men". Rebounded for centuries, in ears and hearts, this short hymn always lights up, before the eyes, the living image of the man-God who has become flesh and touchable tenderness.
it has become a Eucharistic hymn because, even in the bread and wine, we touch and embrace Christ in every moment of history, until the end of time, with infinite love. In this moment of the celebration, especially on Sundays and holidays, there is the song of "Thanks to You, Lord, who, from above, perform wonders of total peace, that is, of salvation, among all men". it is also the most beautiful and right prayer, but perhaps also a little forgotten by us children regarding the Trinity, from whose infinite love everything and all of us come. Jesus said thanks to the leper that he thanked him, because he read there a fragment of gratitude from the ten healed lepers.

of Mother Anna Maria Cánopi

“Everyone comes to you,” he sings again
the liturgy; but this “going”
it is always at the beginning, it is always in need
to be pushed again

On the threshold of the new year we find welcoming us, with a reassuring smile, She who the Council of Ephesus fully recognized as "Mother of God". As a humble and at the same time very high throne, she holds the Rex Pacificus on her knees. Happily, therefore, the Church has made the choice to celebrate the "day of peace" on January 1st.
Almost taken by the hand and guided by Mary, we set off, therefore, along the paths of this new space of time that the Lord gives us to return to him with all our hearts.
The liturgy makes us stop again at the Bethlehem cave, where we find the Virgin Mother who, after the visit of the shepherds, is meditating in her heart what is happening around her and what is being said about the Child she holds in her arms.

by Giosy Cento

"To worthily celebrate the holy mysteries, let us recognize our sins." I would translate it like this: "To live married life and family life with dignity and joy, we recognize our daily mistakes and our life mistakes." Truly this moment of the Eucharistic celebration is disruptive: it is not those who make mistakes that are wrong, but those who do not recognize their own errors and fragilities. Like Adam and Eve we go into hiding and cover ourselves with a fig leaf that leaves almost everything exposed. It means that we try to cover our mistakes with lies and excuses, which then, many times, are discovered in the end. We must know the beauty and value of recognizing our own sins: "If you accuse yourself, God excuses you, if you apologize, God accuses you", says St. Francis of Assisi. Thus he invites us to be a Priest in a brief moment of silence: at least to sincerely retrace the last period of life and place it before the sun of God with extreme truth, to have his embrace of forgiveness which, if we are sincerely repentant, it happens from heaven in a purifying and regenerating moment. In the family there are infinite, many more than in the Holy Mass, the moments in which one must recognize one's mistakes. “Anyone who doesn't want to forgive is better off not getting married or having children,” a mature mother told me.