Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Does Ultimate Electronics Offer Layaway
Politics and Justice in my opinion and according to Labor & Lucia
The following post is an article published in Panorama long ago the alleged interview with Paolo Borsellino who accuse Berlusconi. This question-and- answer is the latest in a long series of discussions on facebook that I saw involved with my friend Lucia.
"THE TESTAMENT OF FAKE PURSE."
years is repeated in the last interview that the judge accused Berlusconi. It is not true. And that was not even the last interview.
There is a story that is told from a decade antimafia by professionals, in articles and books, and television broadcasts, such as in-depth.
It 's the story of the' last 'interview of Paolo Borsellino: before his death, torn by TNT in via D'Amelio under the mother's house, the court had handed over to a French journalist, a sort of testament, in which first, and two years before the descent into the field of Knight, denounced the relationship with the Mafia Silvio Berlusconi. The moral of the story is peaceful, if he said Paolo Borsellino, and his last words were, and long before the investigations and processes ...
What's true? Nothing. Other than the fact, well known long after, on 21 May 1992, two days before the massacre in Capaci, where Giovanni Falcone was killed and two months before the massacre in via D'Amelio, Borsellino had received at his home in Palermo , a Fabrizio Calvi, accompanied by a television operator, and had spoken with them for a couple of hours.
What they said on that occasion, the court and the journalist and the operator, and that the interview was obtained, and the investigation of that interview which should have been disqualified, had not heard anything. No way, nor two days later, when he was killed Falcone, or two months later, when he was killed Borsellino (and God knows if this was not the best time to reveal the alleged "last will" of the judge murdered), nor within two years. Until April 8, 1994, two years after the conversation between the judge and journalists, and coinciding with the announcement date by Mr Luciano Violante, the president of the Parliamentary Anti-mafia, a mafia investigation against Marcello Dell'Utri, Espresso suddenly appeared a "guide" the conversation. And they had to spend another seven years before, in April of 2001, the eve of the elections, an "assembly" of the movie was broadcast first by RAI News 24 and then by Michele Santoro in an episode of "green ray".
Only on the latter occasion it was learned from the voice of the author Fabrizio Calvi original movie that the interview lasted about half an hour, which had never been used, either in France or in Italy, nor was it ever been broadcast in TV never transcribed, in whole or in part, in books or newspapers, and eventually was lost, and the movie transmitted, which had a duration of ten minutes (almost only the third part of the original), it was only a "synthesis" (made with a system of arbitrarily cut and sew), and that this synthesis did not correspond perfectly to even guide , which is also partially released expressively.
But he says Paolo Borsellino, in this summary of the summary of the interview cut and sewn, so important in the relations with the Mafia Silvio Berlusconi, and Berlusconi, if not directly, at least Marcello Dell'Utri? Absolutely nothing. They insist that journalists with questions, starting from the usual "groom" Vittorio Mangano, and try something from his mouth, but the court obstinately refuses and escapes. Some examples of responses of Borsellino: "I am not aware of this incident," "probably is not the same interception", "Dell'Utri was not charged in the maxi trial, as far as I remember ...";" not know the details, "it's trial proceedings which I have not personally involved, and on which I could not reveal anything," "I do not need to ask these questions because I do not Dell'Utri because I personally am interested, from the point of view of my profession I know very little, therefore what I know is what can result from newspapers, however, is not a professional knowledge and point I have no memories, "" eating and Dell'Utri Palermo are both, is not a consideration that leads to any conclusion ... does not mean they knew, "" I know of the existence of Rapisarda, but I have never been personally involved ";" regarding Dell'Utri Rapisarda and I can not give specific details ..."; "I can not say about it, "" I do not personally deliver items to be ...", "The issue concerning the relationship with Berlusconi is a story that is not mine ... so I do not feel authorized to say anything. " But the false
the main point on which in recent years have more professionals antimafia insisted and still insist, that should affect most naive and ignorant, the most emotional and exciting for the false last interview, and that those on Berlusconi the mafia were "the last words" martyr's Purse, the further from the truth this is false, that the conversation with French journalists on 21 May of '92 is not the "last" interview Borsellino.
A month later, thirty days after the Capaci massacre and the death of his friend, Falcone, and a month before being killed in its turn, June 23, Borsellino receives in his home studio, in Cilea, another journalist, an Italian journalist, and it is said. This will truly be his last interview, broadcast last interview before his death in via D'Amelio. And it's really dramatic, and can be regarded as his testament, there is even a foretaste of what is to succeed him: "Since the death of my old friend and workmate of my life has changed ... I am a survivor ... I remember what I said Ninni Cassara where we were going together to the place where the doctor was killed Montana ... He said, 'Convinciamoci that we are walking corpses ...'. "And who
's last interview was given to those who gave this will Paolo Borsellino, shortly before he died? The Deputy Director of Canale 5, a television journalist Silvio Berlusconi. The martyr of the Mafia, the last time he spoke, he spoke with the "mafia". Lino Jannuzzi
article appeared in the weekly magazine Panorama in the usual Tazebao book, edited by the same Jannuzzi. 
The following post is an article published in Panorama long ago the alleged interview with Paolo Borsellino who accuse Berlusconi. This question-and- answer is the latest in a long series of discussions on facebook that I saw involved with my friend Lucia.
"THE TESTAMENT OF FAKE PURSE."
years is repeated in the last interview that the judge accused Berlusconi. It is not true. And that was not even the last interview.
There is a story that is told from a decade antimafia by professionals, in articles and books, and television broadcasts, such as in-depth.
It 's the story of the' last 'interview of Paolo Borsellino: before his death, torn by TNT in via D'Amelio under the mother's house, the court had handed over to a French journalist, a sort of testament, in which first, and two years before the descent into the field of Knight, denounced the relationship with the Mafia Silvio Berlusconi. The moral of the story is peaceful, if he said Paolo Borsellino, and his last words were, and long before the investigations and processes ...
What's true? Nothing. Other than the fact, well known long after, on 21 May 1992, two days before the massacre in Capaci, where Giovanni Falcone was killed and two months before the massacre in via D'Amelio, Borsellino had received at his home in Palermo , a Fabrizio Calvi, accompanied by a television operator, and had spoken with them for a couple of hours.
What they said on that occasion, the court and the journalist and the operator, and that the interview was obtained, and the investigation of that interview which should have been disqualified, had not heard anything. No way, nor two days later, when he was killed Falcone, or two months later, when he was killed Borsellino (and God knows if this was not the best time to reveal the alleged "last will" of the judge murdered), nor within two years. Until April 8, 1994, two years after the conversation between the judge and journalists, and coinciding with the announcement date by Mr Luciano Violante, the president of the Parliamentary Anti-mafia, a mafia investigation against Marcello Dell'Utri, Espresso suddenly appeared a "guide" the conversation. And they had to spend another seven years before, in April of 2001, the eve of the elections, an "assembly" of the movie was broadcast first by RAI News 24 and then by Michele Santoro in an episode of "green ray".
Only on the latter occasion it was learned from the voice of the author Fabrizio Calvi original movie that the interview lasted about half an hour, which had never been used, either in France or in Italy, nor was it ever been broadcast in TV never transcribed, in whole or in part, in books or newspapers, and eventually was lost, and the movie transmitted, which had a duration of ten minutes (almost only the third part of the original), it was only a "synthesis" (made with a system of arbitrarily cut and sew), and that this synthesis did not correspond perfectly to even guide , which is also partially released expressively.
But he says Paolo Borsellino, in this summary of the summary of the interview cut and sewn, so important in the relations with the Mafia Silvio Berlusconi, and Berlusconi, if not directly, at least Marcello Dell'Utri? Absolutely nothing. They insist that journalists with questions, starting from the usual "groom" Vittorio Mangano, and try something from his mouth, but the court obstinately refuses and escapes. Some examples of responses of Borsellino: "I am not aware of this incident," "probably is not the same interception", "Dell'Utri was not charged in the maxi trial, as far as I remember ...";" not know the details, "it's trial proceedings which I have not personally involved, and on which I could not reveal anything," "I do not need to ask these questions because I do not Dell'Utri because I personally am interested, from the point of view of my profession I know very little, therefore what I know is what can result from newspapers, however, is not a professional knowledge and point I have no memories, "" eating and Dell'Utri Palermo are both, is not a consideration that leads to any conclusion ... does not mean they knew, "" I know of the existence of Rapisarda, but I have never been personally involved ";" regarding Dell'Utri Rapisarda and I can not give specific details ..."; "I can not say about it, "" I do not personally deliver items to be ...", "The issue concerning the relationship with Berlusconi is a story that is not mine ... so I do not feel authorized to say anything. " But the false
the main point on which in recent years have more professionals antimafia insisted and still insist, that should affect most naive and ignorant, the most emotional and exciting for the false last interview, and that those on Berlusconi the mafia were "the last words" martyr's Purse, the further from the truth this is false, that the conversation with French journalists on 21 May of '92 is not the "last" interview Borsellino.
A month later, thirty days after the Capaci massacre and the death of his friend, Falcone, and a month before being killed in its turn, June 23, Borsellino receives in his home studio, in Cilea, another journalist, an Italian journalist, and it is said. This will truly be his last interview, broadcast last interview before his death in via D'Amelio. And it's really dramatic, and can be regarded as his testament, there is even a foretaste of what is to succeed him: "Since the death of my old friend and workmate of my life has changed ... I am a survivor ... I remember what I said Ninni Cassara where we were going together to the place where the doctor was killed Montana ... He said, 'Convinciamoci that we are walking corpses ...'. "And who
's last interview was given to those who gave this will Paolo Borsellino, shortly before he died? The Deputy Director of Canale 5, a television journalist Silvio Berlusconi. The martyr of the Mafia, the last time he spoke, he spoke with the "mafia". Lino Jannuzzi
article appeared in the weekly magazine Panorama in the usual Tazebao book, edited by the same Jannuzzi.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Symptoms Of Period - Wetness
Masses in EF Barletta
Every Sunday at 20:00
MASS
in the extraordinary form of the Rite Romano
Purgatory Church
Corso Garibaldi - Barletta
Every Sunday at 20:00
MASS
in the extraordinary form of the Rite Romano
Purgatory Church
Corso Garibaldi - Barletta
Monday, February 21, 2011
Difference Between Real Boobs And Fake Boobs
The modern churches that look like a god unknown
Hebe Gianotti
That the modern churches are bad is not a common place whatsoever. The assessment combines simple faithful for once, art critics, secular intellectuals until you get to Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi, in practice the minister of culture and heritage of the Vatican, which wanted to mention about this topic Turoldo father, "today the churches are like a garage where God is parked and the faithful are all lined up in front of him. "
Yet several of the churches new contemporary architects are delegated to the most popular, and the problem can not even lie in religious belief or not the designers of the past if a negative example is the church of S. Paul in Foligno, Massimiliano Fuksas by a new convert to the merits of Pope Benedict XVI as he said in an interview. In this particular case, we are faced with an object that in no way shows some kinship with the long tradition of Christian churches. A huge monolith of concrete, consisting of two boxes inserted into one another and connected by elements in the shape of a truncated pyramid, silent, unlike the real architecture that sing, as he said Enzo Paci.
It is these elements - the type of abstract composition, the result of simple transposition of schematic and non geometric forms of the difficult process that, in the apparent simplicity formal condensation complexity and articulation - reveal their lineage from unsorted temples of metaphysics as it was designed by architects revolutionary Enlightenment in France in 1700.
It begins with Blondel and the facade of the monastery church like a tomb, where an obelisk to support the cross, continues with his most famous pupil, whose Boullee cenotaphs are the obligatory reference for any architect who is preparing to build new churches and underground churches which designs (no dedication to the saints, the Virgin Mary, to Christ, all are gone) seem the model of the Capitol in Washington or Paris Opera. Then we arrive at Lequeu concludes that the parable, after Silence of the temples and shrines of Isis or Persians, with the Temple to the Unknown God.
And to an unknown god seem in fact belong to the modern churches. Buildings in icy, cold and bare those proposed by French architects, as well as contemporary, created from the gesture of the designer, then strongly quasi-divine and a little 'more glamorous today, which interrupts the historical link with the people behind the construction of each church .
environments naked , the lack of variety of materials, the minimum of interference and iconography, as a consequence, the almost total absence of skilled artists and craftsmen, we recall how, on the contrary, the relationship of the people building the house of God was manifested for centuries in a very concrete way. In the work of artisans, carpenters, masons, decorators, plasterers who took turns in generation after generation of those sites that were endless and the cathedrals in which encompassed the best of the ability "to do" typical man.
That particular mode that Pavel A. Florenskij defined with these words: a very special spirit of the constitution: experience and habits inherited and formed over the centuries ... probably the healthiest type of creative process, which flows within well-defined banks, without suffering, no worries, no romance, no tears and without ecstasy, with a quiet confidence in his own hand, saying that he already knows what to do ... this skill is very far from the spirit of our times, where everything is based on sincerity and piercing on the lapse, or the desire to produce something other than what has already been done by others, to see, to amaze, hitting, and terror can end up accidentally on a road already traveled somewhere else.
Today, no one enters in a modern church to admire a fresco, an altar, a bas-relief, to experience the beauty of the interior space and light that filters through the windows, yet the experience of beauty is one that more forcefully brings man closer to God, the Church has always known.
But page through the catalog of the international exhibition of architecture to the sacred space, held in Bologna in 1996 under the patronage of the CEI, wonder if perhaps he knows more and that the faults are not to be charged only to the architects for their projects, but also to religious commissions that approve them.
from plants is difficult to understand that these buildings for worship, Forget aisles, transepts and apses, chapels, crypts, overrides the central plan , changed and distorted in every possible way: ellipses, wedges, triangles, circles, squares.
And when the model is rectangular, not rank to nothing more than a classroom (of court, canteen, conference for theater?). Almost no bell, verticality is little or nothing and if you want the stress often is no other solution than the form of a stylized Christmas tree, with sloped down to the ground, in the manner of a hypothetical hut that does not even exist in the mountains.
The recent publications the results of competitions sponsored by the CEI for the new Italian churches, I speak of 2010, does not offer encouraging examples.
Yet each designer was supported by a priest, liturgist, precisely to avoid subjective ridiculous inventions by the architect. And to read the reports of the winning submission, or at least the second and third place, even before examining boards and renderings, often one can not but agree with the intentions. But then it is as if the words do not match the action and produced a disconnect exists between the two terms.
So here we are again with churches that seem to crematoria (St. George the Martyr, Dresden), churches aphasia, where the display of the crucifix is \u200b\u200bthe only concession to Christian iconography. Disappearing traces of the biblical narrative, pictorial want, want sculptural, minimalist spaces and remain deadly, forms or "organic", that since we are close to the sea (St. John the Baptist, Porto Recanati) are inspired by the waves, or even asked to alert to minimize energy requirements in order to classify the building Energy Class A (!).
Or projects churches "crumpled" (Our Lady of Mount Caramel, Racalmuto), inspired by the work of Frank Gehry, if they get an earthquake to destroy no one notices.
short, even with the liturgist that breathing down your neck, it seems that you do not know where to turn.
(from Renaissance sacred)
Thursday, February 17, 2011
My Results Cell Respiration Answers
"Dedicated to those who ask, but what am I doing here?" Joseph Indelicato
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Should I See A Doctor If Green Mucus
Reflections on transubstantiation
P. Cavalcoli John, OP
liturgical abuses, especially in the celebration of St. Mass, now often claimed by many Catholics eager to arrive at the same Supreme Pontiff, are of varying size and have many aspects, ranging from attitudes that affect small arbitrary or special secondary norms of the liturgical rite up to interventions that alter, suppress or distort the most important parts of the Mass not to say essential, or even risking invalidating the same Eucharistic celebration.
So in this case, it remains something of a certain external configuration of the Mass - gestures, vestments, place, altar objects, words, ministers - but as the Mass is emptied from turning into a ceremony or misleading in a superstitious act.
The celebration of the Mass is an act of divine worship that is done, as is known, first by the priest with the assistance of the faithful, on the basis of a conviction of faith on what Christ himself instituted at the Last Supper in preparation for the Sacrifice of the Cross that he would have taken the following day.
At Mass the celebrant does in the person of Christ the High Priest of the New Covenant, which Christ accomplished in that time in obedience to his command: "Do this in memory of me. "
the Church over the centuries, in addition to faithfully execute the command of the Lord in the celebration of Mass, the liturgical forms which, without betraying the essential, have been subject to some development and a plurality of different rites, then came to explain to the faithful what happens when the central mass, ie when the priest pronounces the words that Christ uttered in that situation: "This is my body, this is my blood. "
The Church has established as a dogma of faith as truth or occurs at this solemn moment: the so-called "transubstantiation", ie the conversion of the whole substance of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, remaining accidents or "species" of bread and wine. However, after the words of consecration of the offerings (bread and wine), bread is not bread but the body of the Lord, the wine is not wine but the blood of the Lord.
Note the difference between transubstantiation and the substantial transformation. In the latter changes the shape and remains the subject. For example, on a wood burning, lose the shape of the wood and takes the form of ash, but remains the same the same subject. Instead, in the transubstantiation is the conversion of not only the form but also of matter.
The word "this" (my body) (lat. hoc , gr. statute) does not mean "this bread", but it is a neutral name, which is the transition from the bread to the body: in fact transubstantiation. If it was meant "this bread", it would have the absurdity that the bread was at the same time the body, which makes no sense.
It was then that the Church calls "presence real and substantial presence "of Christ, body, blood, soul and divinity, in the Eucharistic mystery, which is under the species of bread and wine. Jesus, says St. Thomas Aquinas in his beautiful and famous anthem, as is "veiled" in the Eucharistic species. The Christian soul, in the words of Aquinas, in the consecrated "devoutly worship the deity and humanity that lie beneath these figures," defined as the Eucharistic species.
glorious Christ certainly is now in heaven, and yet, by way of substance, is present in all the altars of the world at the time of consecration by the priest to be offered to the Father to be the expiation for our sins and in all the tabernacles of the world by offering our worship and contemplation, Receiver and Time of our eyes, our prayers, our devotion, our effusions d ' love and total confidence.
We can therefore say that the Eucharist is Jesus on the altar is in the tabernacle. But we must remember that it is this presence, so real, but mystical and ineffable, that does not take place unless in reference to the Eucharistic species and not the substance of the body and blood of the Lord, as the substance itself is not the place except through the eucharistic accidents ( Latin accidentes : what falls under our eyes, that the species of bread and wine) . But the accidents of the body and blood of Christ are only in heaven. So from this point of view we can say that Christ is present in the Eucharist as He is now in heaven. In fact, Aquinas always in his hymn expresses the wish to one day see in heaven that Jesus openly now hidden in the ground he covers in the Eucharist and in the tabernacle.
So is the observation by some that God is present everywhere and therefore not important presence in the tabernacle. Not so: there is a real presence in the tabernacle, in the words I said, the Incarnate God and the Blessed Sacrament, which is more important and meaningful to us than the metaphysical presence, that ubiquity of the divine nature in every place, there which is enough to perceive the reason, while the Eucharistic presence is known only in the light of faith. Not to mention the more important the presence of the Eucharistic Jesus in our hearts after the S. Communion.
According to a doctrine theological degree, after the consecration the accidents do not adhere to the substance of the Eucharistic body and blood of the Lord, whose accidents are those which Christ has in heaven, but miraculously supported by the omnipotence of God, failed because the substance of bread and wine.
This separation of the accidents of their substance is something beyond the limits of our reason and our experience it is known to us only by faith. After the consecration of our eyes continue to see the color of the bread, the flavor continues to feel the taste of bread, feel the feel the reality of the bread, so we would be led to believe that such accidents still hiding, and indicate the substance of bread and yet faith tells us that behind those damn lies the very real very real substance of the body and blood of Christ.
And unfortunately at this point in the history of theology were many errors. It only hints at someone, because the risk of it falling today is not random. Famous in this regard was the conception of Luther at odds with that of Ulrich Zwingli, the famous Swiss reformer. Luther believed in the Real Presence, but not intended as transubstantiation, that is as substantial presence under the accidents of bread, but together with the bread. Ie Luther, after the words of consecration, the bread remains bread, but Christ is present in the bread or, as some still say, 'under the sign of bread. " This is why the Protestant conception does not transubstantiation, but the so-called "Fried." Luther also conceived the Eucharist only in relation to the communion, that is as food, but refused to worship, for which there is no use in the Protestant tradition of the store SS.mo Sacrament in the tabernacle or the monstrance for the present ' worship. As Zwingli, he denied any real presence arguing that the words of consecration, "This is my body," meaning "this means or symbolizes my body. " For this Zwingli spoke of a purely spiritual presence.
similar concept in our day was that of Edward Schillebeeckx, who proposed replacing the transubstantiation with the "transignification" or "transfinalization" arguing that such bread and wine remain, only changing the their meaning or purpose: whereas before they were referring to just physical nourishment, spiritual nourishment of the soul after they become.
These views have some truth, but as denying transubstantiation, are a heretical character, condemned by the Church. And today, unfortunately, not uncommon signs of this neglect of the truth of the SS. Eucharist. They are not given only by the spread of this heresy, but - a logical consequence - a certain liturgical practice tends to forget that, for example, Eucharistic adoration, thanksgiving after Holy After Mass or Communion, while it is not uncommon to see ministers distribute Communion like a bartender that takes a coffee to a customer, but rather what would be appropriate for the minister, before offering the sacred host, this at least for a while the adoration of the faithful! So, too, how little devotion is expressed in elevation with the priest who a snapping motion - up and down - as if they were pulling the rope of a bell, instead, as it should at least stop a moment to present his SS.mo Sacrament adoration and faithful!
fact, the SS. Sacramento is not only food but also Ostia is offering to the Father for the forgiveness of sins and the very presence of SS. Trinity under the humble appearance of bread and wine, to which the faithful to contemplate this most August mystery, it should be a foretaste of the joy of the beatific vision.
Finally I want to make one final observation. E 'known how this spread of heresy about the sacrament of the Eucharist (and therefore about the Mass and the power of the priest) occurred after Vatican II, while this problem did not exist before. Let me be clear on what the council does not matter at all , but we are facing one of the many blatant falsification of the renewal of the Council, who ended up throwing in so many good souls, but not sufficiently lit discredit the Council itself. It should be obvious to everyone that in order to remedy this heresy do not need to return to the Mass of St. Pius V - as it is respectable - but it is enough to celebrate with dignity and true faith, the Mass of Paul VI. In fact, it is simply two different ways of celebrating the one and the same Mass of the Catholic Church.
Our hope and our vote is that our pastors with spiritual discernment, evangelical parresia and paternal power, assisted by the Spirit of wisdom and courage, not merely ceremonial generic abuse convictions or ritualistic, but go to the fund in order to eradicate the root of evil, correcting and disciplining those theologians and liturgists that those in this important area of \u200b\u200bthe Eucharist, the Mass (it is the ancient rite or ritual again) and the priesthood, diverge from the true teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
A Games Where U Get Pregnant
A day with the elephant and underpants ... but alive!
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Christmas Thank You Cards John Deere
Interview with Cardinal. Mauro Piacenza, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
Armin Schwibach
 Rome (kath.net / hs) The priesthood should not be "normalized" according to claims of a "demystification", but must be rediscovered in its divine origin. So says the prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, S. Em R. Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, while stressing the importance of liturgy, "Christ-centered" to a new evangelization countries of the West. After the night of the decline in priestly vocations, Cardinal sees the dawn of a new time, but mainly need of prayer - and in particular of Eucharistic adoration - to achieve full light of day. exclusive interview, generously granted Kath.net, Cardinal Piacenza takes care of the priest as a "sign of contradiction" and highlights the particular mandate of sacred art as a way of prayer to God Kath. net: with his book "The seal - Christ, the source of the priest," published in 2010, she drew the memory the identity of the priesthood, saying that any talk of a "new evangelization", the main goal of the Church, is useless if not based on spiritual renewal of priests. Specifically, how could constitute a renewal of the priesthood? What does it mean that the priest is a "sign of contradiction" in society today, as you once said? From what has to leave the Church and, in particular, should act as leaders of the seminars? Cardinal Piacenza: who continually renews the Church, and it Priesthood is the Holy Spirit! Beyond a clear air and, therefore, the supernatural, it is impossible to even think of a renewal. I believe that this is precisely one of the main ways forward: that of the clear recovery of the vertical dimension, the spiritual ministry. In the past decades, too many "reductionism", inspired by the so-called theology of demystification, have resulted in the Priesthood simply to turn into a "super-ministry" of animation and coordination of the Church. The priest is also the one that animates the pastoral life of a community, but the Ministry exercise that power in a supernatural vocation and configuration to Christ, of which the sacrament of Holy Orders. Before any "ministerial service," he is Jesus the Good Shepherd in the heart of the Church and, specifically, in the community to which he is sent. consequence of this is that the renewal must necessarily pass through the primacy of prayer, long and intimate relationship with the Risen Christ, present in the Holy Scriptures spiritually, really in the Eucharist, and with it the priest she's always in connection with the effective exercise of all his ministerial activities. The primacy of prayer also means record of faith: the faith of the saints honest and sincere, the ability to deconstruct, due to its simplicity, all human calculation or reasoning. A priest, in a cultural context based on efficiency and activism, becomes necessarily a sign of contradiction, as the Lord Jesus was and still is a "sign of contradiction," so, in His own image, every priest is called to be, precisely in virtue of belonging to Christ and the Church, and "everlasting novelty" that the apostolic form vivendi for the world. In the secular context, a sign of contradiction are holy priests, faithful, devoted to his ministry, because consecrated to God and capable, therefore, to lead souls to a genuine encounter with the Lord. Only someone who is all of God may be all of the people. To all this must be essentially formed new generations of priests, carefully avoiding the temptation of those who want to "normalize" the priesthood, thinking, thus making it more acceptable to young people and men of our time. This, by contrast, would lead to "desertification" of vocations. The future of the priesthood, which is guaranteed, at supernatural, from God's faithfulness to His Church, is also, as we are concerned, motivated in promoting your real nature, that is - and the scriptures bear witness to the great ecclesial tradition and magisterial confirms it - of exquisitely divine. Kath.net: Pope Benedict XVI in his book-length interview with Peter Seewald, "Light of the World" says: 'It conceivable that the devil could not endure the year priest and then we face in the dirt was thrown. He wanted to show the world how much filth there is just one of the priests. " She considers it a coincidence that during the year for priests in many countries of the world is the scandal of sexual abuse? And then the devil has really lost? Cardinal Piacenza: She knows that the case does not exist! However, there are connections and, more often, human strategies, which are exposed to exploitation of malicious. must note first that the devil did not win during the Year of the Priest, when, as stated by the Holy Father: "We have dirt thrown in your face ' but when some Ministers of God, called by vocation to proclaim the Gospel and administer the sacraments, abusing their task, they mortally wounded young innocent lives. It is in this perversion of the true absolute victory of the evil, and the fact that these terrible and unspeakable behavior have emerged during the Year of the Priests, did not diminish the truth of the Priesthood, but allowing the dutiful penance and reparation for what has happened has fostered a deeper awareness of the extraordinary treasure, given by Christ to His Church, is contained in clay pots. This situation, which has dramatically disturbing, could become even hopeless, if we were not certain that the devil, who won many battles, unfortunately, has already lost much of its war since it was defeated by the redeeming death of our Lord Jesus Christ and His glorious resurrection. Often, especially in German-speaking countries, many priests are exposed to pressure from the laity and pastoral councils. He almost has the feeling that some want to get the lay of the altar to take off into space ministerial functions. In not a few dioceses German-speaking priests who want to be faithful to the church, often find themselves alone. At times even the diocesan bishops to their priests have the necessary support. As this problem is seen in Rome? How should and could defend the priests in this situation? Cardinal Piacenza: First of all I mean to say with absolute clarity and conviction that motivated the collaboration between clergy and laity is as necessary as sacramentally based. You must live within certain parameters is essential from the standpoint of theology, both from the ministry. It must be recalled that the ministry of witness are called all the baptized, not just those who have received some ministry. The lay faithful should be instructed to that effect permanently by the Apostle, living mainly in the world, in their concrete circumstances of life and family, working, professional, educational and public. The laity really "busy" are those who are committed to witness to Christ in the world, not those that address the potential shortage of clergy, claiming slices of visibility within the community. From this clarity on the universal vocation of the baptized, there is no reason that they can effectively collaborate with the Ministry of Priests, always remembering, however, that between the baptismal priesthood and the ministerial, there is, as taught by the Catechism of the Catholic Church, returning to the Vatican Council II, an essential difference, not only in degree. (Cf. CCC, n. 1547). Again, it is to rediscover faith in the Church, which is not a human organization, nor can be managed with criteria "business", which obey human laws, such as alleged or actual competence or efficiency and the necessary division of power, and are the most distant we may be from an authentic ecclesial service. I believe that this "reduction in business" way of thinking of the Church is a cause of both the so-called crisis in the number of responses to the vocation, the controversy is that, in successive waves, sometimes perhaps even orchestrated, are unleashed against the celibacy of priests. It's all part of that short-sighted strategy of normalization, which aims, ultimately, to expel God from the world, erasing those who, objectively, are the signs that more effectively, make reference to him, first of all the lives of those who , in faithfulness and joy, choose to live in the heart of virginity and in celibacy for the Kingdom of Heaven, thus witnessing that God exists, is present and that it is possible to live for Him! Kath.net: How do you explain the "vocation crisis" in contemporary Western societies? Cardinal Piacenza: The so-called vocations crisis, from which, in reality, is slowly coming out, is due basically to the crisis of faith in the West. Where is it must be admitted that, in reality, the crisis of vocations is a crisis of faith. God continues to call to answer but need to hear and feel you need the right climate and not the absolute uproar. In the same environment is in crisis sanctification the party, the confession is in crisis, a crisis in marriage etc ... Secularization and the consequent loss of the sense of the sacred, faith and its practice, and led to determine a significant decrease in the number of candidates for the priesthood. For these reasons, purely theological and ecclesiastical, are joined by some of sociology: first of all, the decrease is unique in the world, the birth rate, which could decrease the number of young people and thus also of young vocations. In this view are a notable exception, full of enthusiasm and hope, the Movements and new communities, where faith is lived out in a straightforward and immediate, and translated into real life and this opens the hearts of young people the opportunity to give themselves completely to God in the ministerial priesthood. Such a difference in the vitality of expression and methods, shall be the whole Church, each parish and each diocese, because only an authentic faith, significant for its life, the environment in which you can listen to the many calls that God addresses, even today, young people. The first and essential remedy to the decline of vocations, the suggested Jesus himself: "Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into his harvest" (Mt 9:38). This is the realism of the pastoral care of vocations. Prayer for Vocations, an intense, universal, expanded network of prayer and adoration that wrap around the world, is the only real answer to the crisis of the possible response to the call. But it takes faith! Where such an attitude of prayer is lived permanently, we can say that a real recovery is taking place and that, in a way, the night has passed and already dawn. I wish that every diocese has a center of Eucharistic adoration, perpetual possibility, just for these intentions: the sanctification of the clergy and vocations. This is the most effective and realistic pastoral plan that we can be! From then on it also unleashes an admirable strength of love in all areas. Try it! Kath.net: From 2003 until his appointment as secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007 she was president of the Pontifical Commission for Cultural Heritage of the Church, since 2004 President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology. What is the current status of the "Ars Sacra," which is often confused with the 'ars of religion "? Cardinal Piacenza: The subject is vast and deserves to be dealt with just the right size, as each artistic achievement speaks of the idea of \u200b\u200bman and God that we have, and any "house church" that speaks about the idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding the Church that we have, and, above all, the experience of the Church which we live. The Church is not a human sociological reality, not a gathering of people who believe the same thing! It is the Body of Christ, the new priestly people, the Divine Presence in the world. Every genuine expression of sacred art and each new church should first be recognized as such. Every man, every passer-by the child to the elderly, cultured from illiteracy, from the atheist believer should be able to immediately say, "That is a work of art! ... That is a church. " The latter must also be monumental, ie it must tell us about the greatness of God and must, therefore, be different, even for proportions, by any other building. A church, and sacred art as a whole, to be such, must obey both the original subject of the individual artist or architect, as the frank and sincere faith of the people who in it and pray through it. They are not "monuments" to the genius of individuals, but places and instruments of worship dedicated to God, in whom and through which to meet God and come together as his people. Kath.net: In your opinion, how important is the celebration of the liturgy for the essence of community life and the mission of a new evangelization of the countries of ancient Christian? Cardinal Piacenza: Most times, the Holy Father said, with the Liturgy, lives or dies, the faith of the Church. It is at the same time, a mirror, which reflects the faith, and food, which constantly nourishes, purifies it and support it. The old adage "lex orandi, lex credendi obviously still retains all its validity and effectiveness. In many cases, the attempt at demystification mentioned, also swept the Liturgy, producing, as a single, devastating effect, to reduce it again and, paradoxically, to "pre-Christian rites, a symbolic and interpretable then exposed to every possible result subjectivist and relativist. The liturgy is not primarily a human action, in which the individuals can freely express their subjective emotions, or to participate in what would be necessary to do or say anything, it is mainly the action of Christ, Who is alive and present in his Church, worships the Father, drawing in this divine action -human, we humans. Risen Christ is the true protagonist of the story and the liturgy, and every human action, which should be truly liturgical, must obey this policy imperative and must seek to guide the hearts of the faithful recognition of the absolute primacy of God have reduced or trivialized the liturgy is a very serious responsibility, not independent of the loss of the sense of the sacred, which the West is the victim, and that is, once again, resulting from radical demystification of which has promoted certain theology, believing that "scientific." The answer to everything is traceable, however, in the heart of man, who, despite everything, is made in God and is essentially religious, therefore, open to the transcendent and the sense of the sacred. A Christ-centered liturgy, properly celebrated, it is important ecclesial and the introduction of 'He [Christ] must increase, but I must decrease "(Jn 3:30) to John's memory, contributes certainly the new evangelization of Europe and the recovery of that sense of the sacred, without which even the duty to dialogue with other cultures and religious traditions would be impossible. |
White Snot In Hot Tub
why Assange revealed that Berlusconi is our interests ... Beautiful
In one of many "leaks" is revealed irritation to the U.S. designed and fruitful relations between Italy and Russia, and in particular the close friendship between Putin and Berlusconi.
some revelations in the Middle East (Yemen / USA, Egypt / al-Fatah-Israel military operation "Lead Time") can create serious repercussions. For the rest, as specifically as stated in the NYT and the sheet, many of those alleged revelations had already been presented in the magazines. The real difference was that they were accompanied by cmq alleged gossip ... I personally thank Assange because it made me realize that Silvio Berlusconi is really my interests, the interests of the Italian State.
I understand the irritation of those who always ideologically against the government, is unclear climb on alleged links between ENI and Gazprom. The friendship between SB and
VPutin has brought enormous benefits to Italy, especially in business.
This is the real hassle of Americans, because they usually want the NATO states that are in line with its policy and see it as potentially harmful to any relationship that does not meet their needs. The exchange
Russia / Italy from 1998 to 2008 has increased by 230% accurate by 2.7000000000 to 9.5000000000 dollars.
When Gazprom wanted to incorporate a small company ENI, Gazpromneft, in its assets, intervened SB that urged him to reconsider the terms of that seemed too burdensome for Italy.
VP and SB during the Georgian crisis has been felt on the phone every day and tells Spogli, the American ambassador.
The real reason for dissatisfaction on the part of Americans, is that Italy should participate in the Nabucco pipeline project, where the American presence in the share of the project is relevant. Too bad that Nabucco has to pass the border of Iran to supply gas to that fact: nice way to diversify in times of embargo!
The policy manuals energy, where the word for politics is geopolitics, we suggest that in fact Russia is not so omnipotent as it seems (to use your words).
fact, the pipeline, South Stream or Nabucco is not binding only buyers but also manufacturers because it generates a flow of movements going to impact on the balance of payments.
I therefore, beyond the sterile polemics on the role of the SB, that our action in this respect has been healthy since, focusing on gas, reduces the power of 'OPEC and countries like Iran and Venezuela.
And believe me, I'd trust more than a Europeanized Ukraine and destabilizing Iran under international embargo.
I do not think instead of the predominant role of SB in the Georgian conflict. Li 'did the bulk Sarkozy, the first real test of his term in the field of "international crisis" had all the desire to convince Putin and Sahashvili not to force the rope and succeeded (remember the short visit that France did in Russia).
Russia is flexing its muscle and Georgia is inadequate because he knew that at the end of Bush term (we were running out) would not ensure the necessary cover to some ill-advised shot.
When you claim that "I tend to think that having two competing gaseodotti can be a good solution in terms of competition," say the truth that implies another truth that underpins Berlusconi's thesis: Libya. Why having a "third source" and thus diversifying our supplies, we will be more "independent" and less "blackmailed" by his friend Putin to turn.
E 'plus really odd that we focus exclusively on the relationship when the real SB-VP is a Putin spokesman Gerard Shroeder who already at the time of Prime Minister described his relationship with Putin a "mannerfreundshaften, a friendship between gentlemen "and having even adopted a Russian girl, declared that" Vladimir Putin is a democrat to 100%. "
PS As to your note of sincere interest in SB for Italy, I answer by telling you I'd rather avoid having the emphasize one thing that should be obvious ... but if we are forced once again to emphasize this is obvious because the reformist press and the opposition do not recognize it as extremist.
So if they attribute it to him and acknowledge him individually, we would not need these unnecessary details about the genuine interest of SB for the energy issues.
exchange with Stefano Gatto, Jefe de Misión (Encargado de negocios) at Delegación de la Unión Europea en El Salvador. (Which translated is the delegate for business negotiations with El Salvador's diplomatic representative of the EU). 
In one of many "leaks" is revealed irritation to the U.S. designed and fruitful relations between Italy and Russia, and in particular the close friendship between Putin and Berlusconi.
some revelations in the Middle East (Yemen / USA, Egypt / al-Fatah-Israel military operation "Lead Time") can create serious repercussions. For the rest, as specifically as stated in the NYT and the sheet, many of those alleged revelations had already been presented in the magazines. The real difference was that they were accompanied by cmq alleged gossip ... I personally thank Assange because it made me realize that Silvio Berlusconi is really my interests, the interests of the Italian State.
I understand the irritation of those who always ideologically against the government, is unclear climb on alleged links between ENI and Gazprom. The friendship between SB and
VPutin has brought enormous benefits to Italy, especially in business.
This is the real hassle of Americans, because they usually want the NATO states that are in line with its policy and see it as potentially harmful to any relationship that does not meet their needs. The exchange
Russia / Italy from 1998 to 2008 has increased by 230% accurate by 2.7000000000 to 9.5000000000 dollars.
When Gazprom wanted to incorporate a small company ENI, Gazpromneft, in its assets, intervened SB that urged him to reconsider the terms of that seemed too burdensome for Italy.
VP and SB during the Georgian crisis has been felt on the phone every day and tells Spogli, the American ambassador.
The real reason for dissatisfaction on the part of Americans, is that Italy should participate in the Nabucco pipeline project, where the American presence in the share of the project is relevant. Too bad that Nabucco has to pass the border of Iran to supply gas to that fact: nice way to diversify in times of embargo!
The policy manuals energy, where the word for politics is geopolitics, we suggest that in fact Russia is not so omnipotent as it seems (to use your words).
fact, the pipeline, South Stream or Nabucco is not binding only buyers but also manufacturers because it generates a flow of movements going to impact on the balance of payments.
I therefore, beyond the sterile polemics on the role of the SB, that our action in this respect has been healthy since, focusing on gas, reduces the power of 'OPEC and countries like Iran and Venezuela.
And believe me, I'd trust more than a Europeanized Ukraine and destabilizing Iran under international embargo.
I do not think instead of the predominant role of SB in the Georgian conflict. Li 'did the bulk Sarkozy, the first real test of his term in the field of "international crisis" had all the desire to convince Putin and Sahashvili not to force the rope and succeeded (remember the short visit that France did in Russia).
Russia is flexing its muscle and Georgia is inadequate because he knew that at the end of Bush term (we were running out) would not ensure the necessary cover to some ill-advised shot.
When you claim that "I tend to think that having two competing gaseodotti can be a good solution in terms of competition," say the truth that implies another truth that underpins Berlusconi's thesis: Libya. Why having a "third source" and thus diversifying our supplies, we will be more "independent" and less "blackmailed" by his friend Putin to turn.
E 'plus really odd that we focus exclusively on the relationship when the real SB-VP is a Putin spokesman Gerard Shroeder who already at the time of Prime Minister described his relationship with Putin a "mannerfreundshaften, a friendship between gentlemen "and having even adopted a Russian girl, declared that" Vladimir Putin is a democrat to 100%. "
PS As to your note of sincere interest in SB for Italy, I answer by telling you I'd rather avoid having the emphasize one thing that should be obvious ... but if we are forced once again to emphasize this is obvious because the reformist press and the opposition do not recognize it as extremist.
So if they attribute it to him and acknowledge him individually, we would not need these unnecessary details about the genuine interest of SB for the energy issues.
exchange with Stefano Gatto, Jefe de Misión (Encargado de negocios) at Delegación de la Unión Europea en El Salvador. (Which translated is the delegate for business negotiations with El Salvador's diplomatic representative of the EU).
Thursday, February 10, 2011
3.6 Gpa Accepted Columbia University
Obama's speech
TUCSON, Ariz.. - This is the text of Obama's long speech in memory of the five victims of the republic senator Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona during his rally ended in a massacre by a deranged individual.
I tried to translate (as can be my faithful translation) the text, but I stopped when I came to less than half the speech! Too long ... but nice! Clicking on the title you can see the video from youtube.
"To the Families of Those we've lost; Who Called Them to all friends, to the students of this university, the public servants Gathered tonight, and the people of Tucson and Arizona: as I have here tonight as an American who , like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today, and tomorrow will stand by you.
the families of those we lost, to all those he had friends, students of this university, all the officials gathered here tonight, and the citizens of Tucson and Arizona: I came here tonight as an American who, Like all Americans, we kneel to pray with you today, and be with you tomorrow.
There is nothing I can say That will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts. But know this: the Hopes of a nation are here tonight. We mourn with you for the fallen. We join you in your grief. And we add yours to Our Faith That Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the other living victims of this tragedy pull through. There
nothing to say who will fill the sudden hole dug in your hearts. But know this: the hopes of the nation are here tonight. We mourn with you for the fallen. We join you in your grief. And add our faith that your Representative Gabrielle Giffords and other victims and survivors of this tragedy can make it.
As Scripture tells us: There Is a River
Whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy
Place where the Most High Dwells.
God Is Within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.
The Bible tells us
There is a river whose course makes glad the city of God,
a sacred place where the Most High dwells.
God is within you, you will not fall;
God will help at the dawn of day.
[...]
Our hearts are full of hope and thanks for the 13 Americans who SURVIVED the shooting, the congresswoman Including many of Them Went to see on Saturday. I have just as from the University Medical Center, just a mile from here, where, Our friend Gabby courageously fights to recover even as we speak. And I can tell you this - she knows we're here and she knows we love her and she knows That we will be rooting for her throughout what will be a Difficult Journey.
Our hearts are full of hope and thanks to the 13 Americans who survived the shooting including the parliament, many of them had gone to see it Saturday. I just
rtornato the University of Medical Center, a few miles from here, where our amca Gabby fight bravely, even when as we speak. I can tell you this-you know we're here and you know that we love and she knows that tiferemo for her through what will be a difficult journey.
And Our Hearts are full of Gratitude for Those Who saved others. We are grateful for Daniel Hernandez, a volunteer in Gabby's office who ran through the chaos to minister to His boss, Wounds tending to her to keep her alive. We are grateful for the men who tackled the gunman as he stopped to reload [...].
Our hearts are full of gratitude to those who saved others. We are grateful to Daniel Fernandez, a volunteer of the Cabinet of Gabby who rushed to help their boss by taking care of the wounds to keep it alive. We are grateful to the men who stopped the killer in the omentum that he stopped to reload. These men and women
remind us That heroism is found not only on the fields of battle. They remind us That heroism does not require special training or physical strength. Heroism is here, all around us, in the hearts of so many of Our Fellow Citizens, just waiting to be Summoned - as It Was on Saturday morning.
Their actions, Their selflessness, Also put a challenge to Each of Us. It raises the question of what, beyond the prayers and expressions of concern, is required of us going forward. How can we honor the fallen? How can we be true to their memory?
You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless. Already we've seen a national conversation commence, not only about the motivations behind these killings, but about everything from the merits of gun safety laws to the adequacy of our mental health systems. Much of this process, of debating what might be done to prevent such tragedies in the future, is an essential ingredient in our exercise of self-government.
But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.
Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. In the words of Job, "when I looked for light, then came darkness." Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.
For the truth is that none of us can know exactly what triggered this vicious attack. None of us can know with any certainty what might have stopped those shots from being fired, or what thoughts lurked in the inner recesses of a violent man's mind.
So yes, we must examine all the facts behind this tragedy. We cannot and will not be passive in the face of such violence. We should be willing to challenge old assumptions in order to lessen the prospects of violence in the future.
But what we can't do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another. As we discuss these issues, let each of us do so with a good dose of humility. Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together.
After all, that's what most of us do when we lose someone in our family - especially if the loss is unexpected. We're shaken from our routines, and forced to look inward. We reflect on the past. Did we spend enough time with an aging parent, we wonder. Did we express our gratitude for all the sacrifices they made for us? Did we tell a spouse just how desperately we loved them, not just once in awhile but every single day?
So sudden loss causes us to look backward - but it also forces us to look forward, to reflect on the present and the future, on the manner in which we live our lives and nurture our relationships with those who are still with us. We may ask ourselves if we've shown enough kindness and generosity and compassion to the people in our lives. Perhaps we question whether we are doing right by our children, or our community, and whether our priorities are in order. We recognize our own mortality, and are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame - but rather, how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in bettering the lives of others.
That process of reflection, of making sure we align our values with our actions - that, I believe, is what a tragedy like this requires. For those who were harmed, those who were killed - they are part of our family, an American family 300 million strong. We may not have known them personally, but we surely see ourselves in them. In George and Dot, in Dorwan and Mavy, we sense the abiding love we have for our own husbands, our own wives, our own life partners. Phyllis - she's our mom or grandma; Gabe our brother or son. In Judge Roll, we recognize not only a man who prized his family and doing his job well, but also a man who embodied America's fidelity to the law. In Gabby, we see a reflection of our public spiritedness, that desire to participate in that sometimes frustrating, sometimes contentious, but always necessary and never-ending process to form a more perfect union.
And in Christina...in Christina we see all of our children. So curious, so trusting, so energetic and full of magic.
So deserving of our love.
And so deserving of our good example. If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost. Let's make sure it's not on the usual plane of politics and point scoring and pettiness that drifts away with the next news cycle.
The loss of these wonderful people should make every one of us strive to be better in our private lives - to be better friends and neighbors, co-workers and parents. And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more civility in our public discourse, let's remember that it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy, but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation, in a way that would make them proud. It should be because we want to live up to the example of public servants like John Roll and Gabby Giffords, who knew first and foremost that we are all Americans, and that we can question each other's ideas without questioning each other's love of country, and that our task, working together, is to constantly widen the circle of our concern so that we bequeath the American dream to future generations.
I believe we can be better. Those who died here, those who saved lives here - they help me believe. We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.
That's what I believe, in part because that's what a child like Christina Taylor Green believed. Imagine: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation's future. She had been elected to her student council; she saw public service as something exciting, something hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted.
I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it. All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.
Christina was given to us on September 11th, 2001, one of 50 babies born that day to be pictured in a book called "Faces of Hope." On either side of her photo in that book were simple wishes for a child's life. "I hope you help those in need," read one. "I hope you know all of the words to the National Anthem and sing it with your hand over your heart. I hope you jump in rain puddles."
If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here on Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.
May God bless and keep those we've lost in restful and eternal peace. May He love and watch over the survivors. And May He bless the United States of America. " 
TUCSON, Ariz.. - This is the text of Obama's long speech in memory of the five victims of the republic senator Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona during his rally ended in a massacre by a deranged individual.
I tried to translate (as can be my faithful translation) the text, but I stopped when I came to less than half the speech! Too long ... but nice! Clicking on the title you can see the video from youtube.
"To the Families of Those we've lost; Who Called Them to all friends, to the students of this university, the public servants Gathered tonight, and the people of Tucson and Arizona: as I have here tonight as an American who , like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today, and tomorrow will stand by you.
the families of those we lost, to all those he had friends, students of this university, all the officials gathered here tonight, and the citizens of Tucson and Arizona: I came here tonight as an American who, Like all Americans, we kneel to pray with you today, and be with you tomorrow.
There is nothing I can say That will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts. But know this: the Hopes of a nation are here tonight. We mourn with you for the fallen. We join you in your grief. And we add yours to Our Faith That Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the other living victims of this tragedy pull through. There
nothing to say who will fill the sudden hole dug in your hearts. But know this: the hopes of the nation are here tonight. We mourn with you for the fallen. We join you in your grief. And add our faith that your Representative Gabrielle Giffords and other victims and survivors of this tragedy can make it.
As Scripture tells us: There Is a River
Whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy
Place where the Most High Dwells.
God Is Within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.
The Bible tells us
There is a river whose course makes glad the city of God,
a sacred place where the Most High dwells.
God is within you, you will not fall;
God will help at the dawn of day.
[...]
Our hearts are full of hope and thanks for the 13 Americans who SURVIVED the shooting, the congresswoman Including many of Them Went to see on Saturday. I have just as from the University Medical Center, just a mile from here, where, Our friend Gabby courageously fights to recover even as we speak. And I can tell you this - she knows we're here and she knows we love her and she knows That we will be rooting for her throughout what will be a Difficult Journey.
Our hearts are full of hope and thanks to the 13 Americans who survived the shooting including the parliament, many of them had gone to see it Saturday. I just
rtornato the University of Medical Center, a few miles from here, where our amca Gabby fight bravely, even when as we speak. I can tell you this-you know we're here and you know that we love and she knows that tiferemo for her through what will be a difficult journey.
And Our Hearts are full of Gratitude for Those Who saved others. We are grateful for Daniel Hernandez, a volunteer in Gabby's office who ran through the chaos to minister to His boss, Wounds tending to her to keep her alive. We are grateful for the men who tackled the gunman as he stopped to reload [...].
Our hearts are full of gratitude to those who saved others. We are grateful to Daniel Fernandez, a volunteer of the Cabinet of Gabby who rushed to help their boss by taking care of the wounds to keep it alive. We are grateful to the men who stopped the killer in the omentum that he stopped to reload. These men and women
remind us That heroism is found not only on the fields of battle. They remind us That heroism does not require special training or physical strength. Heroism is here, all around us, in the hearts of so many of Our Fellow Citizens, just waiting to be Summoned - as It Was on Saturday morning.
Their actions, Their selflessness, Also put a challenge to Each of Us. It raises the question of what, beyond the prayers and expressions of concern, is required of us going forward. How can we honor the fallen? How can we be true to their memory?
You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless. Already we've seen a national conversation commence, not only about the motivations behind these killings, but about everything from the merits of gun safety laws to the adequacy of our mental health systems. Much of this process, of debating what might be done to prevent such tragedies in the future, is an essential ingredient in our exercise of self-government.
But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.
Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. In the words of Job, "when I looked for light, then came darkness." Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.
For the truth is that none of us can know exactly what triggered this vicious attack. None of us can know with any certainty what might have stopped those shots from being fired, or what thoughts lurked in the inner recesses of a violent man's mind.
So yes, we must examine all the facts behind this tragedy. We cannot and will not be passive in the face of such violence. We should be willing to challenge old assumptions in order to lessen the prospects of violence in the future.
But what we can't do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another. As we discuss these issues, let each of us do so with a good dose of humility. Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together.
After all, that's what most of us do when we lose someone in our family - especially if the loss is unexpected. We're shaken from our routines, and forced to look inward. We reflect on the past. Did we spend enough time with an aging parent, we wonder. Did we express our gratitude for all the sacrifices they made for us? Did we tell a spouse just how desperately we loved them, not just once in awhile but every single day?
So sudden loss causes us to look backward - but it also forces us to look forward, to reflect on the present and the future, on the manner in which we live our lives and nurture our relationships with those who are still with us. We may ask ourselves if we've shown enough kindness and generosity and compassion to the people in our lives. Perhaps we question whether we are doing right by our children, or our community, and whether our priorities are in order. We recognize our own mortality, and are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame - but rather, how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in bettering the lives of others.
That process of reflection, of making sure we align our values with our actions - that, I believe, is what a tragedy like this requires. For those who were harmed, those who were killed - they are part of our family, an American family 300 million strong. We may not have known them personally, but we surely see ourselves in them. In George and Dot, in Dorwan and Mavy, we sense the abiding love we have for our own husbands, our own wives, our own life partners. Phyllis - she's our mom or grandma; Gabe our brother or son. In Judge Roll, we recognize not only a man who prized his family and doing his job well, but also a man who embodied America's fidelity to the law. In Gabby, we see a reflection of our public spiritedness, that desire to participate in that sometimes frustrating, sometimes contentious, but always necessary and never-ending process to form a more perfect union.
And in Christina...in Christina we see all of our children. So curious, so trusting, so energetic and full of magic.
So deserving of our love.
And so deserving of our good example. If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost. Let's make sure it's not on the usual plane of politics and point scoring and pettiness that drifts away with the next news cycle.
The loss of these wonderful people should make every one of us strive to be better in our private lives - to be better friends and neighbors, co-workers and parents. And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more civility in our public discourse, let's remember that it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy, but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation, in a way that would make them proud. It should be because we want to live up to the example of public servants like John Roll and Gabby Giffords, who knew first and foremost that we are all Americans, and that we can question each other's ideas without questioning each other's love of country, and that our task, working together, is to constantly widen the circle of our concern so that we bequeath the American dream to future generations.
I believe we can be better. Those who died here, those who saved lives here - they help me believe. We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.
That's what I believe, in part because that's what a child like Christina Taylor Green believed. Imagine: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation's future. She had been elected to her student council; she saw public service as something exciting, something hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted.
I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it. All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.
Christina was given to us on September 11th, 2001, one of 50 babies born that day to be pictured in a book called "Faces of Hope." On either side of her photo in that book were simple wishes for a child's life. "I hope you help those in need," read one. "I hope you know all of the words to the National Anthem and sing it with your hand over your heart. I hope you jump in rain puddles."
If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here on Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.
May God bless and keep those we've lost in restful and eternal peace. May He love and watch over the survivors. And May He bless the United States of America. "
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Cryptic Clues Place Names
estonia
The treasure, packed in a broken earthen pot, made up of 1,329 silver coins and nine other silver objects.
TALLINN - An Estonian citizen has found a treasure of over a thousand pieces of silverware to his government declared that the year yielded almost € 100,000.
"According to the Estonian law, a person who finds and declares an ancient treasure to the authorities is entitled to half of its value, "
The identity of the lucky treasure hunter has not been made public.
"Most of the coins are almost 1000 from Germany and the rest from England, Sweden, Denmark and Hungary An Italian silver coin seems," said Mauri Kiudsoo so, expert at the University of Tallinn.
The man made the discovery on August 16 last year while digging in a farmer's field near Tallinn. "According to the Estonian law, a person who finds and declares an ancient treasure to the authorities is entitled to half of its value, "
The identity of the lucky treasure hunter has not been made public.
"Most of the coins are almost 1000 from Germany and the rest from England, Sweden, Denmark and Hungary An Italian silver coin seems," said Mauri Kiudsoo so, expert at the University of Tallinn.
The treasure, packed in a broken earthen pot, made up of 1,329 silver coins and nine other silver objects.
Monday, February 7, 2011
What Is Know About Lugarics
Open doors between the church and the piazza San Francesco d'Assisi
Gianfranco Ravasi
"The world is like the eye: the sea is white, the earth is the iris, the pupil is Jerusalem, and the image reflected in it is the temple ". This ancient rabbinic aphorism explains in clear and symbolic function over time according to an intuition which is primordial and universal. There are two ideas underlying image. The first is the "center" cosmic sacred place must be, a matter on which the great scholar of religion Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) offered an extensive dossier documentary. The outer horizon, with its fragmentation and its tensions, and converge in an area that is appeased for its purity must embody a sense, the heart, the whole order of being.
In the temple, then, is "by concentrating" the multiplicity of reality that it is in peace and harmony: just think of the layout of some cities in radial stem from the sun "ideal represented by the cathedral in the mail central urban core (Milan, for example, "centered" on the cathedral is an obvious example, as New York is the testimony of a different view, more dispersed and Babel). From the temple, then, is "de-centering" a breath of life, of holiness, lighting that transforms the everyday and the daily unfolding of space. It is at this point that he enters the second theme underlying the above mentioned Jewish said.
The temple is the image that reflects and reveals the pupil. It is, therefore, a sign of light and beauty. In other words, we could say that the sacred space is the manifestation of cosmic and divine manifestation of divine radiance. In this sense sacred architecture who is unable to speak properly - indeed, "beautiful" - the language of light is not bearer of beauty and harmony is automatically invalidated by its function, it becomes "secular" and "profane." It is from the intersection of two elements, the centrality and beauty, blossoming what Le Corbusier called so dazzling "space indescribable", space truly holy and spiritual, sacred and mystical.
Of course, these two axes carrying with it many consequences: think of 'deafness', all'inospitalità, early, pull up the opacity of the many churches without regard to the voice and silence in the liturgy and assembly, watching and listening, all'ineffabilità and communion. Churches where you are lost as in a conference room, distracted as in a sports hall, rolled like a fronton, brutalized as a house pretentious and vulgar.
At this point we would like to propose a reflection of nature which has the most specific reference code exactly those Biblical Scriptures were indeed "the great code" of Western civilization itself art. It is indisputable that the relief they have a "theology" of space, even though - as you will - it is indeed a theology in higher education, the time and history (the Incarnation sums up these two dimensions put back in their hierarchy).
"For Your servants are expensive stones of Zion" (Psalm , 102, 15). This profession of love of the ancient psalmist could be the motto of the Christian tradition that the sacred space that has always reserved a special importance, since the "stone" of the Holy Sepulchre, a sign of Christ's resurrection, which is built around a emblematic of the temples of all Christianity. Among other things, it is curious that symbolically the three monotheistic religions is based on three keepers in Jerusalem sacred stones, the Western Wall (popularly called "the Tears "), a sign of the Solomonic temple for the Jews, the rock of the ascension to heaven of Mohammed Omar in the Mosque for Islam and, indeed, the stone rolled back to the Christianity of the Holy Sepulchre.
course is that without spirituality and Christian liturgy, the history of architecture would have been much more miserable: just think of the clarity of the early Christian basilicas, the refinement of Byzantine ones, the monumentality of the Romanesque, the mysticism of the Gothic churches of the radiance Renaissance, the opulence of the baroque, the harmony of the sacred buildings of eighteenth-century neo-classic to the nineteenth century, leading to the simple purity of some contemporary works (an example for all: the charming church of that Le Corbusier in Ronchamp).
Thus, there is in Christianity a constant celebration of space as a forum open to the divine, starting from that supreme temple that is the cosmos.
A great historian of theology Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895-1990), at the end of his life he regretted he had reserved too little space to both literary and figurative arts and architecture in its history of religious thought, because "They are not only aesthetic representations, but genuine theological subjects." Relegated to the anonymity in which the great cathedral builders just need to emerge, for example, an architectural and artistic genius Sugero as the abbot of Saint-Denis (XIII century).
That said, however, in the Christian concept is a very heavy component - as mentioned - the theological center of gravity moves from space to time. And it is this aspect that we now wish to fix our attention. Last page of the New Testament, when John the Seer overlooking the floor plan of the new Jerusalem of perfection and fullness, is faced with a given at first sight puzzling: "I saw no temple in it for the Lord God Almighty and the ' Lamb are its temple " (Revelation , 21, 22). Between God and man no longer need any mediation space, the meeting is now between people, you meet the divine life with human directly. From this discovery, we trace back through a sequence of scenes just as unexpected.
Imagine chasing this red wire to the head by grasping the opposite extreme. David decides to build a temple in the capital of newly created, Jerusalem, in order to have God as well as the citizen in his kingdom. But here's the surprising answer given by the prophet Nathan oracular negative: the king will not build any "home" to God but the Lord will give a "home" to David, "You the Lord will do great, because a house will make you the Lord "(ii Samuel, 7, 11). In Hebrew it plays on the ambivalence of the term Bayit," home "and" family. "God, therefore, to sacred space of a house-church prefers the presence in a house-house, is in the history of a people, the Davidic dynasty that will color the messianic tone.
course, space is not desecrated.'s son David, Solomon, will raise a temple that the Bible describes with admiration and emphasis. Yet when he is pronouncing his prayer of consecration, it must necessarily ask: "Is it really true that God can live on earth? Behold the heaven and heaven of heavens can not contain, much less this house that I built! "(1 Kings , 8, 27). The church, then, is just the context of a personal encounter and life (not for nothing in the Bible speaks of "the tent of meeting") that sees God bend "the place of his abode, from heaven" of his transcendence to the people who rushed into the sanctuary of Zion with the reality of his painful history of which lists the various dramas.
The prophets will come to the point of undermining the foundations of the temple and its religious worship if it is reduced to just be a magical and sacred space, dissociated from life the civic square, which is ethical and existential commitment, and given only to present a purely ritual and hypocritical.
Suffice it, among the many prophetic passages of similar content, read this section of the prophet Amos (eighth century before the Christian era): "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I do not like your meetings. Even if you offer me burnt offerings I do not accept your gifts. Victims of peace even look at them fat. Far from me the noise of your songs, the sound of your harps I can not stand it! Rather flows like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream! " (5, 21-24).
But let Christianity in a direct way. Christ, like any good jew, like the Temple of Jerusalem. Do not hesitate to challenge and to lead a whip blows against the merchants who desecrate with their businesses, he attended the liturgy in the various solemnity, as will his disciples that they will reserve a space for them even in the so-called "Portico Solomon. " Yet Christ himself in that sunny afternoon at Jacob's well, in front of Mount Gerizim, the sacred place of the community of Samaritans, not afraid to say that the woman is drawing water, "Believe me, woman is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father ... It is time, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth "(John , 4, 21-24).
There will be another turning point that will install the divine presence in the same" flesh " humanity through the person of Christ, as stated by the famous prologue of the Gospel of John: "The Word became flesh and pitched his tent among us" (1, 14), with obvious reference to the "tent" the temple of Zion. Among other things, the greek word eskénosen , "pitched tent" reflects the radical skn the word Hebrew which is called the "Presence" of God in the Temple of Zion, Shekinah. Jesus will be even more explicit: "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it."
The evangelist John writes: "He spoke of the temple of his body" (2, 19-21). Paul goes further and, writing to the Christians of Corinth, he would declare: "Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you ... Therefore honor God with your body!" (I, 6, 19-20).
"A temple of living stones," therefore, as St. Peter writes, "used to build a spiritual house" (I, 2, 5) a sanctuary not extrinsic, material and space, but an existential, a temple in time. The temple architecture will therefore always necessary, but must have within itself a function of the symbol is no longer an untouchable sacred and magical, but only a necessary sign of divine presence in history and life of humanity. The temple, therefore, does not exclude or exorcised the square of civilian life but fruitful, transforms, cleanses the existence, giving it a further meaning and transcendence. That is, once they reach full communion between the divine and human, the temple in the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of hope, will dissolve and "God will all in all "(1 Corinthians , 15, 28).
conclude our discussion with three examples. The first summarizes the steps of the speech made so far. It is a chant reminiscent of medieval Jewish Kabbalistic various steps to find the place where God is truly meets the chorus in Hebrew, assonant refrain that is repeated in each stanza: hu 'hammaqôm shel-maqôm / we'en hammaqôm meqomô. a play on words and intuition striking it says: "He, God, is the location of every place, / but this place does not take place."
The second witness is linked to the figure St. Francis and is derived from Chapter 37 of the second Life of Thomas of Celano, Abruzzo Franciscan. A monk said to Francis: "We have more money to the poor." Francis replied: "Rake the altar of the Virgin and Vendin furniture, if you can not otherwise meet the needs of those in need."
She added: "Believe me, the Virgin will be more expensive it is to observe the gospel of his Son and his bare altar, rather than see the ornate altar and despised son in the Son of Man" . We must, therefore, only remains of the temple and its beauty? No, because Francis is convinced that God will give us time again, with all the trappings: "The Lord will send people to return to the Mother as it gave us on loan for the Church."
The third and final consideration is offered to us by the Orthodox spirituality. A well-known Russian lay theologian of the twentieth century lived in Paris, Pavel Evdokimov, stated that between the square and the temple there should be a locked door, but open to a threshold where the scrolls of incense, chants, prayers of the faithful and the glitter of lights are reflected in the square ring where laughter and tears, and even the blasphemy and the cry of despair of the unhappy. In fact, the wind of the Spirit of God has to run between the sacred hall and the square where human activity takes place. It is found, so genuine and profound soul of the Incarnation that weaves itself in space and infinite, and eternal story, and absolute quota.
(© L'Osservatore Romano 17 to 18 January 2011)
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