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Devotion
 to hte faithful
departed


November is the month dedicated to the faithful departed.

Non of the convinced catholic doubts of the legitimacy of the power of prayers and good dids addressed to God for the Souls of the faithful departed.
Sometimes also we catholics are doubtful about the value of the prayers and good dids.We need to make it clear and try to remember what was said about the etymological meaning of the ward " SUFRAGE " In our days it has the unmistaka ble meaning of prayers for the dead ones. Really the latin meaning of " Sufrage "means simply " HELP " In recent times we have the real meaning when we talk about electoral suffrage for candidates,a support for a vote.

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What kind of help do we talk about when we apply it to the fathful departed ? certenly not to material help, for example a medicine, a cup of coffee and so on .

The only help we can give to the faithful departed is to accelerate the achiviement of the vision to the Beatitude of God.


Is the ward " Accelerate " exact ? We know very well that after life there is no more time or acceleraretion of times . We should remember that we are unable to go beyond with our physical body.

Unfortunally when we talk about the supernatural subject there is nothing we can imagine With our fantasy and neather with our human understanding.

After ali this preamble it is more easy to proclame with the Church Doctrin that our help or sufrage is very important for the faithful departed as it is important for us. Infact as have said that the Church is a Church of the living in God with Christ in three levels : EARTHLY PILGRIMAGE, FINAL PURIFICATION and ETERNAL GLORY . Three levels but the living reality is only one.

What happens in one of these levels resounds in the other two levels. With this we will be able to understand what we can do with our prayers and good dids for the dead and a consolation for our brothers and sisters already enjoing the peace of the heavenly presence of GODS GLORY.

It is easy for us to understand that eather the Saints or our dead ones are helpful to us with the same supernatural meaning.

To reasume ali we have said , we believe by our catholic faith to the validity of our prayers to advantage of our dead ones.

Better stili we must conclude and underline that ali of our spiritual life, good dids, sufferings and also joys elevated to God go to their advantage, even when we do not say it expressely: It is the comunion of the Saints , the more consouling virtue that can happen to the Cristian faith.
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You wept as I did


Once I heard hymns of excessive joy during a funeral, a mother was weeping her son died in a car accident.  Words were repeated over and over again, inviting to bless God to have called the boy to Him so young Your behaviour was different: You cried in front of Your friend Lazarus’s tomb, even if You knew that in a while You would have resuscitated him; You were touched by the widow of Nain, who followed her son’s body and You had already decided to give him back to her arms.    Only once You were seen tearless. It was in front of Giaro’s daughter. Those paid to deride You where prevented to take advantage from their actions and were took away

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La Semana Santa comienza con la entrada triunfal de Cristo en Jerusalén.
Entra montado en un pollino y el pueblo llano le aclama como Mesías y alfombra el suelo con sus mantos y con ramas cortadas en el campo. La escena la conocemos bien los cristianos y seguramente muchos de nosotros hemos participado ya en muchas procesiones, este Domingo de Ramos, llevando nuestro ramo de olivo o de palmera en la mano. Es bueno que reflexiones ahora nosotros sobre la actitud del pueblo llano. ¿Qué veían en Jesús de Nazaret las personas que lo aclamaban? Seguramente, a un profeta que venía a liberarles. Liberarles, ¿de qué?


WEGE DES GEISTES

4 de Octubre, San Francisco de Asís

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4 de Octubre, San Francisco de Asís

«Fundador de los franciscanos. Con el radicalismo evangélico que signó su vida, su pobreza y alegría, continúa interpelando al hombre de hoy. Es una de las figuras gigantescas de la Iglesia y de la historia»
La prodigalidad con los pobres y su compasión hacia ellos comenzaron a adueñarse de él. Su oración vivificaba un amor que iba in crescendo. Rogó a Dios su ayuda, y Él le exigió la total donación de sí; debía elegir lo que más le costase. Una vez se vio frente a un leproso, y superó su repugnancia besándolo; lo tomó como un don del cielo. A continuación, experimentó un intenso aborrecimiento de su vida pasada y se dispuso a iniciar un camino sin retorno. Se puso al servicio de estos enfermos y compartió con ellos su vida.

 

Preghiere

La preghiera, mio Signore, è Tua,

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La preghiera, mio Signore, è Tua,

perché tua è la voce delle genti
quando si rinnovano nell’ultima vita,
a te donano l’ultimo fiato e gli occhi.
Nulla di quanto è scritto vale quanto detto
ricordato con amore e tramandato
nel sudore della terra dalle voci basse,
preghiera dell’alba, del vespro, della notte.