Tuesday, February 23, 2016

The happy war of Catholicism against the unhappy in Italy

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he forgetteth not the cry of the humble: the "Cetib", or writing of the text, is עניים, "afflicted"; the "Keri", or marginal reading, is ענוים, "humble"; so the Masorah and Targum read: both may be taken into the sense: afflicted persons are generally humble, afflictions make them humble; God's people are an afflicted people; afflicted with sin, with Satan, with the world, with antichrist and his followers: and they are an humble people; grace makes them humble, and a sense of their sin and unworthiness keeps them so: and this is a proper character of the followers of Jesus. These in their distress cry to the Lord, as the Israelites did in Egypt under their bondage and, pressures: yea, their blood cries after death, as Abel's did, and as the blood of the martyrs of Christ does, whose souls under the altar cry for vengeance, Revelation 6:9; and God is not unmindful of their cry; however he may seem to be, he takes notice of it, and wilt in his own time avenge his elect, which cry unto him day and night. 

Excerpt quoted by C. Stiliyanov in his:


понеделник, 22 февруари 2016 г.
Gill on Psalm 9
http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.it/2016/02/gill-on-psalm-9.html


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"...Benigni: this book is like having your pocket Pope 
The artist affirms that at the presentation of the book-interview "The name of God is mercy" of Tornielli with [pope] Francis.   
The Pope "is ferrying the Church in a forgotten place, Christianity." With director, Parolin, Lombardi and an inmate named in the Padua prisondomenico Agasso jr 
ROME - January 12, 2016
http://www.lastampa.it/2016/01/12/vaticaninsider/ita/vaticano/benigni-questo-libro-del-papa-come-avere-il-papa-tascabile-z9ToAx7NXTiTA7aCCG3sIJ/pagina.html
 


"It's a beautiful book that [makes] " mercy " [to us] ». A book to "carry in your pocket," by "reading in 5 minutes, while the train is late." So Roberto Benigni at the presentation of the book "The name of God is Mercy - a conversation with Andrea Tornielli of Pope Francis". The Tuscan comedian said he was excited to be present "in the smallest country in the world with the greatest man in the world." "One can not speak of the Pope moderately. It is a revolutionary, it is wonderful. I did everything to see him, "said Francis, who during the last sermon of 2014, quoted Roberto Benigni, at the time busy with" The Ten Commandments "on television, without naming him, but calling it" a great Italian artist. "

The intervention of Benigni is volcanic and entertaining, as his style. "Only a Pope Francis could think of presenting a book with a Venetian cardinal, a Chinese prisoner and a Tuscan comedian ...," he said, referring to the people before him have intervened, the Augustinian Patristic Institute in Rome: Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, and the Chinese prisoner Zhang Jianqing Augustine. Moderator of the meeting is Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office.


"When kid I wanted to be a priest - he told Benigni -. When at school asked me "what do you want to be?", I answered "the Pope." All they began to laugh, and then I knew I had to do the comic ..., "he added, among the laughter of the audience in the hall. 


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"Joy is the gigantic secret of Christianity - he continues - is the basic building. [note: no repentance: do what do you want, just be happy, cheers].  Anyone who has suffered without losing Christian joy is very close to the Lord. " The artist warns: "We must be wary of the unfortunate [*]. Love happy people who are humble, joyful and close to God "and citing the first miracle of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, the healing of Peter's mother-in-law, adds: "He healed her because then the mother-in-law cooked for them. Jesus tasted the joys of life .... " "It is the revenge of all mothers-in-law  - [Beningni] jokes - this is the first miracle of the Gospel of Mark. And Peter did not stop Jesus telling him to leave alone because now she was sick. " He concluded: "But Jesus heals her, because then she started to serve them, in practice [He] wanted to make a nice lunch".

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Mercy "is the cornerstone of the mission of Pope Francis". Just look at the Pontiff to understand that for him "life is compassion, love, and forgiveness is the basis of his pontificate." Benigni noted that "mercy is the greatest justice, does not delete it, not the corrupt, not abolished." So mercy is the "cornerstone" of the mission of Pope Francis: "The Miserere mei Deus Secundum misericordiam tuam Psalm 50 of David that always moves me." "A sin as great as that of David, if [He] has forgiven him, [He] can forgive all of us," he adds." 

[*] = unhappy, wretched - see Luke 6:22
[End excerpt from the article]
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16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms, 109:16

25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Luke, 6:25

26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke, 14:26

For Benigni, an Italian comic actor with some international echo:


"Benigni was born in Manciano La Misericordia (a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino), the son of Isolina Papini, a fabric maker, and Remigio Benigni, a bricklayer, carpenter, and farmer.[3] He was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy;[4][5] he still considers himself a believer.[6] 
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 Benigni became famous in Italy in the 1970s for a television series called Onda Libera, on RAI2, produced by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted the satirical piece The Hymn of the Body Purged (L'inno del corpo sciolto, a scatological song about the joys of defecation).[7] A great scandal for the time, the series was suspended due to censorship. His first film was 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You (Berlinguer ti voglio bene), also by Bertolucci.
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In June 1983 he appeared during a public political demonstration by the Italian Communist Party, with which he was a sympathiser, and on this occasion he lifted and cradled the party's national leader Enrico Berlinguer. It was an unprecedented act, given that until that moment Italian politicians were proverbially serious and formal. Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show ("Wojtylaccio", meaning "Bad Wojtyla" in Italian, but with a friendly meaning in Tuscan dialect).
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On 2 February 2007, he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. On 22 April 2008, the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa was conferred on him by the University of Malta, celebrated by a Settimana Dantesca including Benigni's first stage appearance at a university and the premiere of his performing with Dante scholar Robert Hollander.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Benigni


"Communitarians wish to place community and individual on a collision course,"


Monday, February 15, 2016
Italy: Matteo Renzi's Jobs Act and Jesuitical Catholic communitarianism
http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.it/2016/02/matteo-renzis-jobs-act-and-jesuitical.html
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8 comments:

  1. "You can never go wrong with positive thinking..."

    Proverbs 14:9
    Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

    136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. Ps 119

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    1. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
      10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up

      James 4

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    2. " The artist warns: "We must be wary of the unfortunate [*]. Love happy people who are humble, joyful and close to God "

      Yes, such will be the character of society not only in Italy but everywhere, where the cathorthodox plight will have spread. It is even a warning from Jesus himself in the gospel the condition of the world (at that time the roman world, not the entire) before our deliverance. They will have peace and joy, this is certainly the last laugh of Satan, before his agents are done with.


      10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. Rev 11

      20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. John 16

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    3. Sorry, meant *NOW the entire world, then the Roman

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    4. The Pope and his minions testify in yet another way that they have no need and no communion with the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.

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    5. He knows he is an anti-Christ:

      The Pope spoke at a prayer service concluding the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

      After walking across the threshold of the Holy Door of the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls with an Orthodox metropolitan and an Anglican archbishop, Pope Francis invoked God’s mercy upon divided Christians and apologised for times that Catholics may have hurt members of other denominations.

      “As bishop of Rome and pastor of the Catholic Church, I want to beg for mercy and forgiveness for un-Gospel-like behaviour on the part of Catholics against Christians of other churches,” the Pope said on Monday at a prayer service concluding the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

      http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/01/26/pope-francis-asks-protestants-to-forgive-catholics-for-persecution/
      “We ask most of all for forgiveness for the sin of our divisions, which are an open wound on the body of Christ,” Pope Francis said.

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    6. ''which are an open wound on the body of Christ,” Pope Francis said.''.

      If it has wounds from inner wars, it is not the body of Christ, but of Satan.

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