Hypocrite: Modern

It has been quite a long time I stopped writing on my blog. However, a new inspiration came and I force myself to write something though I have something else to do. But it is always a pleasure to share love, kindness and everything you have with your friends. one would feel happier if your share is accepted and appreciated. 
          In my mind I am quietly asking myself if it is quite logical to say someone is peacful and yet holding arms? Is it not like a fox saying that it is vegetarian? Or like a lawyer saying that all comes out from his mouth is of all sincerity? however these examples are weak symbols which i intend to have a comparison. You know it for sure that UNITED NATIONS is doing as a intermediator for peace. Their projects are always highlighted in the news, in the journals and everywhere. Let's ask a question has UN achieved its goal as it is intended to have? Why? Is it doing its work right?
        Okay let's go to another one, let suppose that the reader has saw that there are two people quarelling at the top of their voices and they has charged themself for a physical fight. You would like to calm them down, and yet these people are picking up some objects to hurt each other. Would you grab out of their hand these objects or would you bring another objects or arms? Or would you arm yourself to involve in the fight with them in order to stop them?
          Now this is what UN does, sending their troops with arms in the the middle of the fight, lets say palestine and Isreal. If a person wants peace then he has to leave the arms. He has to be open to others, in my opinion. Arms and ammunitions will never bring peace rather it will only make people feel insecure.  Modern day philosophers have thought many great ideas about peace, how would this world embrace a peaceful situation. But they have failed.
Peace will be achieved when there are no more arms, 
                                      when there are no more insecurities, 
                                      when is no more hatred,
                                      when there  is no more jealousy,
                                      when there is no bias,
                                      when there is no more pride,
                                      when there is no more hunger for power,
                                      when there is no more greed( properties, etc)
                                      when there is no more ideas of superiority,
                                      when there is no one who is selfish.

Peace Will be there when there is contentment of one prosperity, physical appeareance, etc.
                        when everyone accepts that we all are equal,
                        when everyone loves his/her neighbour as him/herself.
                        when everyone does what is beneficial to him/herself and for others.
                        when everyone understands his/herself, interiority( what he/she really longs  
                         for).
                        when everyone love peace.
                        when everyone love nature and protects it.
                        when everyone thinks for others, even at the point of losing him/herself.
                        when everyone has respect for those who are older and younger or same 
                         age.
                        when everyone accepts the limitedness of our human nature.
                        when everyone does what he/she has to do.
                       
So, unless we get rid of arms, insecurities and thirst for power we will never achieve peace. 
If we still arm ourselves and yet claiming to achieve peace in the world is acting the hipocrite. May the Lord Jesus Give us strength.Amen.
                        

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Daily Gospel Sunday, 14 September 2014

Sunday, 14 September 2014

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross - Feast
The exaltation of the Holy Cross, feast

St. Maternus, Bishop of Cologne († c. 325)

Commentary of the day
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein] : "That the world might be saved through him"

Jn 3:13-17.

Jesus said to Nicodemus : "No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

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Commentary of the day :

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein] (1891-1942), Carmelite, martyr, co-patron of Europe
Poem « Signum Crucis », 16/11/1937

"That the world might be saved through him"

…Made man for love of men
He made a gift to the souls he has chosen
Of his human life in its fullness.
He who formed each human heart
Desires to make known one day
The secret meaning of each one’s being
By means of a new name that only the one who receives it understands (Rv 2,17).
He has united each chosen soul
In a mysterious and unique way.
Drawing from the fullness of his human life,
He makes a gift to us
Of the cross.

What is the cross ?
It is the sign of greatest shame.
Whoever comes into contact with it
Is rejected from among men.
People who acclaimed him before
Turn away from him with dread and know him no longer.
He has been handed over, defenceless, to his enemies.
Nothing remains for him on earth any more
Except suffering, anguish and death.

What is the cross ?
The sign pointing to heaven.
Far above the dust and mists here below
It reaches up high into pure light.
Therefore abandon what men may take away,
Open your hands, lean against the cross:
Then it will carry you
Into eternal light.

Raise your eyes to the cross :
It stretches out its wooden beams
Like a man opening wide his arms
To receive the whole world.
Come, all you who toil beneath the weight of the burden (Mt 11,28)
And you who have nothing but a cry, on the cross with him.
It is the image of the God who, being crucified, becomes pale.
It rises up from earth to heaven
Like the One who rose heavenward
And desires to bear all of us there together with himself.

Only embrace the cross and you possess him
Who is the Way, the Truth, the Life (Jn 14,6).
If you carry your cross, it will carry you;
It will be your bliss.

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Daily Gospel, Sunday, 06 July 2014

Sunday, 06 July 2014

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A

St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr (1890-1902), St. Palladius, Bishop and Apostle of the Scots, (+ c. 450)

Commentary of the day
Saint Gregory of Nyssa : "Although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike"

Mt 11:25-30.

At that time Jesus exclaimed, "I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him."

"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."

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Commentary of the day :

Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-395), monk and Bishop
Catechetical Discourse 23-26 ; SC 453

"Although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike"

The fact that the all-powerful God has been able to humble himself even to the humility of the human condition constitutes a greater proof than the impact and supernatural character of miracles. Indeed, when divine power effects something of great sublimity this is, after a fashion, in conformity with and appropriate to God’s nature… On the other hand, that God descended even to our lowliness is, in a certain way, the expression of an overwhelming power that is not in the least restrained by what is contrary to its nature…

Neither the expanse of the heavens, the brightness of the stars, the governing of the universe, nor the harmony of created things reveal the splendid power of God so much as his indulgence, which leads him to lower himself to the weakness of our nature… God’s goodness, wisdom, justice and power are revealed in his plans on our behalf: goodness in his will to “save that which was lost” (Lk 19,10); wisdom and justice in his manner of saving us; power in the fact that Christ became “in the likeness of men” (Phil 2,7-8) and made himself conformable to the humility of our nature.

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Daily Gospel, The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

Sunday, 22 June 2014

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) - Solemnity - Year A

St. Thomas More, Martyr (1478-1535), St. John Fisher, Bishop and Martyr (1459-1535)

Commentary of the day
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein] : "Whoever eats this bread will live forever"

Jn 6:51-58.

Jesus said to the Jewish crowds:
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?"
Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."

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Commentary of the day :

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein] (1891-1942), Carmelite, martyr, co-patron of Europe
Poem « I will remain with you », 1938 (trans. ©Washington Province of Discalced Carmelites, 1992)

"Whoever eats this bread will live forever"

This Heart of the Trinity,
beats for us in a small tabernacle
Where it remains mysteriously hidden
In that still, white host.

That is your royal throne on earth, 0 Lord,
Which visibly you have erected for us,
And you are pleased when I approach it.

Full of love, you sink your gaze into mine
And bend your ear to my quiet words
And deeply fill my heart with peace.

Yet your love is not satisfied
With this exchange that could still lead to separation:
Your heart requires more.

You come to me as early morning's meal each daybreak.
Your flesh and blood become food and drink for me
And something wonderful happens.

Your body mysteriously permeates mine
And your soul unites with mine: .
I am no longer what once I was.

You come and go, but the seed
That you sowed for future glory, remains behind (Mk 4,26; Jn 12,24),
Buried in this body of dust.

A luster of heaven remains in the soul,
A deep glow remains in the eyes,
A soaring in the tone of voice.

There remains the bond that binds heart to heart,
The stream of life that springs from yours
And animates each limb (1Co 12,27).

How wonderful are your gracious wonders!
All we can do is be amazed and stammer and fall silent
Because intellect and words fail.

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Daily Gospel reading Sunday, 15 June 2014

Sunday, 15 June 2014

The Most Holy Trinity - Solemnity - Year A
The Most Holy Trinity - Solemnity - Year C

Sts. Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia, Martyrs, St. Aurelian

Commentary of the day
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein] : « Then the angel showed me the river of Life…flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb » (Rv 22,1)

Jn 3:16-18.

God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB



Commentary of the day :

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein] (1891-1942), Carmelite, martyr, co-patron of Europe
Poem « I will remain with you », 1938 (trans. ©Washington Province of Discalced Carmelites, 1992)

« Then the angel showed me the river of Life…flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb » (Rv 22,1)

You reign at the Father's right hand (Ps 109 (110),1)
In the kingdom of his eternal glory
As God's Word from the beginning. (Jn 1,1)

You reign on the Almighty's throne
Also in transfigured human form,
Ever since the completion of your work on earth (Jn 17,4; 19,30).
I believe this because your word teaches me so,
And because I believe, I know it gives me joy,
And blessed hope blooms forth from it.

For where you are, there also are your own, (Jn 17,24)
Heaven is my glorious homeland,
I share with you the Father's throne. (Ap 3,21)

The Eternal who made all creatures,
Who, thrice holy, encompasses all being,
In addition has a silent, special kingdom of his own.

The innermost chamber of the human soul
Is the Trinity's favorite place to be,
His heavenly throne on earth.

To deliver this heavenly kingdom from the hand of the enemy,
The Son of God has come as Son of Man,
He gave his blood as the price of deliverance.
In the heart of Jesus, which was pierced, (Jn 19,34)
The kingdom of heaven and the land of earth are bound together.
Here is for us the source of life. (Jn 7,38)

This heart is the heart of the triune Divinity,
And the center of all human hearts
That bestows on us the life of God.

It draws us to itself with secret power, (Jn 12,32)
It conceals us in itself in the Father's bosom
And floods us with the Holy Spirit.

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Cogito

a thought:    ;P
Knowing not-knowing is knowing unknown!!!

In italian,

it goes,  Conoscere non-conoscere è conoscere sconosciuto!!!

Un filosofo privo di pensiero non è un filosofo ma un storico...

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