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Kill Santa! Father Christmas, Santa Claus, christmas, coca cola and multinational

This article could very well be entitled SANTA VS JESUS \u200b\u200b'KID reading you will discover why. But what Occor re-affirm the cake lovers of god, the god father christmas, grinch of god, god's "spirit of Christmas," is that Jesus Christ is a historical event, as well as the Gospels tell us about it as well as demonstrated by the experience of faith. It is necessary to remember this Presence that is born for us, despite some tricksy business, despite many thinking of Dec. 25 it will spend only the panettone and the balances of hyper-mega super markets. E 'born, born and will continue to rise over the centuries the centuries. Meanwhile, we pray to Him to have mercy on us.

Francesco Mario Agnoli

Santa Klaus ... had already made his first appearance in the United States to serve the marketing department of Coca-Cola, which in 1931 had commissioned such a Haddon Sundblom. This Swedish-American painter, inspired by the face and figure to a trucker friend of his had met that year in the best way the needs of the buyer even replace the traditional green dress with the old and harmless Santa Claus, one white and Red: the color of Coca-Cola.
I discover a website which operates in Austria Verein pro Christuskind ( http://www.pro-christkind.org/ ), that is a league or club that aims to return to the center of Christmas family holiday, the Child Jesus, expelling that bearded fat man dressed in red, on suspicion of being drunk his cheeks ruddy, who, usurping the name of Santa Klaus, and in Latin countries, Christmas (Santa Claus, Pere Noel and the like), has downgraded to a feast of gifts. The command of the operations in Austria, but the battlefield has the same boundaries and at the opulent West Europe, because it is also to maintain (or regain) our Christmas traditions (Möchten Wir unsere Tradition des Christkinds erhalten, ohne dabei zu andere Traditionen verdrangen, reads the manifesto of the association) and, in fact, the first operations took place in those countries where the Child Jesus entrusted the task of parents to bring small gifts to children in the Holy Night: Austria, Switzerland and Germany (in this 'Finally, a priest in Frankfurt, Eckard Bieger, which I assume related to the Austrian company, took example from the posters against Atomic Energy Agency and released a large number of stickers with the words This is a Santa-free zone). When I was born
Santa Klaus (consumer version of that St. Nicholas of Bari, which in some parts of Europe linked to this tradition, from the northern extreme south, on the night of December 6 of each year traveled the countryside, leaving some candy in your shoes or clogs in the good children) had already made his first appearance in the United States to serve the marketing department of Coca-Cola, which in 1931 had commissioned such a Haddon Sundblom. This Swedish-American painter, inspired by the face and figure to a trucker friend of his had met that year in the best way the needs of the buyer even replace the traditional green dress with the old and harmless Santa Claus, one white and Red: the color of Coca-Cola.
In fact, even if they are not exactly the same age as that of a bearded clone, however innocent American truck driver close enough. The fact remains that the small difference in age and geographical distances and cultural, at the time, with globalization just in its infancy, much more important and decisive today, have saved my Christmas night, while waiting for charges to find the gifts in the morning before the crib, the bulky presence of fat red-dress.
unfortunately I must confess my ignorance about the ancient traditions and authentic Bolognese about gifts (I can only suppose, inspired by the still existing and vibrant show that bears his name, and Bologna, where I was born, the benefactor of good children was, on the occasion of his anniversary, Dec. 13, the young martyr Lucy of Syracuse). In the hills of Romagna Borgatello my mother's children were dependent in every way for gifts from our local, rustic Epiphany, which in the first decade of the twentieth century, not yet included in the authority of the Fascist Party, hung in the chimney filled socks (usually sparingly) with chocolates and sweets or (in the city, these refinements were unknown country), for the less good, with pieces of coal, a kind of gray, but after the first disappointment almost always turned out to be edible and made up of sugar in disguise. My father was orphaned of both parents at a very early age, had probably never known the Christmas traditions of his Liguria. As a result, the world of Christmas which is acknowledged, as a result of his studies and periods spent in Germany, although Germany was catholic corrected with a preference for the crib instead of the evergreen Tannenbaum. The fact is that the gifts had to take me, as for the children of the pro Christuskind Verein, the Infant Jesus, adequately stocked by shops and bakeries, where they worked hundreds of blonde angels (I still, as the Italian cuisine in the sky, a booklet describing in verse and pictures, the laborious work of angels confectioners, published in 1933 in Monaco from 'editor Joseph Mueller).
Moreover, whatever the local tradition, I was not alone in being in this situation. Most of the children of my acquaintance who shared with me the privilege of receiving gifts not only for the Epiphany (this is now happening to all or almost, because the Epiphany home had now added or replaced while those in the PNF, which appeared in the flesh at the local House of the beam) but even on Christmas Eve, waiting for them by the Child Jesus
It 's true that morality would be against this mixture of sacred and profane and find something simplistic and even dangerous to attribute to Jesus, even a child, a role that is not its responsibility and that in fact does not play, as the recipients of his gifts do not need to find fabulous fresh from the mists of early childhood. However I am not aware that anyone has lost faith in order to have discovered that it was not baby Jesus to leave their gifts before the crib or under the tree and the playful lie (the lie if you want to define) still had the advantage of placing the sole protagonist in the middle of the Christmas party without replacing it or accompany it with false -smiling servant of Mammon, master rigorous and unique, that can not be served together with God
With this background and with the ancient hatred of consumerism in general and especially at Christmas my participation to the initiative of Austria can not be total.
and then withdraw them half of this clone of a truck driver, this pseudo-saint of advertising, which, after all, to better perform its tasks has begun advertising for some time to reproduce in a wide array of doubles, some of them women, endowed with the alluring form of papers and letters ..
The easiest way to get rid of it and hurried to shoot a gun straight to the heart, make a bonfire of his sled and sent free to the tundra of Lapland or Finland birch forest reindeer forced to serve.
Unfortunately, this procedure is sloppily made impossible by the fact that despite the efforts of Walt Disney Santa Claus does not have a heart. It is therefore necessary to choose methods are slower, but, hopefully, be equally effective. Pricked with a thousand small shocks, as, indeed, the stickers, which brings it to the call, through that his ridiculous red dress to literally thousands of small holes from which can flow instead of blood, gas or anything which inflate and they do fly around the heavens like a zeppelin advertising.
Above all, we should be careful not to be moved by the tears of children. Remember that these are innocent deceived, small consumers who, thanks to the dark double of St. Nicholas, are bred and fattened to form the future are not cattle to be sacrificed on the market, but the induced needs, superfluous needs, the extravagant desires and insatiable. that just satisfied playing multiplied to make the so-called spin machine of progress, whose motion to the final inevitable destruction is accelerated by the day thanks to drivers like crazy and incompetent white bearded Santa Claus. Möchten
Wir, dass auch unsere Kinder die Chance haben, kennen zu lernen unsere Traditionen, write the members of the Austrian Verein, and, in fact, the disappearance of Father Christmas will not remove the anxiety of waiting festive from their eyes, nor smile from their lips, but on the contrary, will make them calmer, more real, more able to withstand the ravages of time and life, because it will merge into a single, complete and true two-dimensional universe the hours kept separate and opposed, and, for the purposes of this expectation and that smile, the more modest gifts will, thanks small hands bearers of love and peace which comes symbolically, exactly the same value as the largest.
We who are lucky enough to have tried it have a duty (I have tried to fulfill it with my kids, now, in turn, fathers and mothers) to free the parents of the generations that have followed us from the chains and their children apparently golden dell'omino that, despite the good-natured smile, instead of the heart has a calculating machine and a cash position permanently in operation.

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The crib is a sign of culture and faith

VATICAN - Pope: The crèche is a sign of culture and faith

December 2, 2004 - by www.asianews.it

in Italy in recent days has made headlines in the news that some schools do not prepare the crib out of respect for students of other religions, particularly Muslims. In the debate that has arisen, many Muslims have spoken out in favor of the crib, since Islam reveres Jesus as a prophet. Church figures have stated that whoever wants to remove the crib from the schools is really not moved by respect for Muslims but by secularist ideas that confuse tolerance with relativism of ideas.
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - Pope John Paul II reaffirms the value of the crib. Speaking before the Angelus, the pope called the representation of the birth of Jesus as "a part of our culture and art, but above all a sign of faith in God, who came to Bethlehem 'to dwell among us' (Jn 1:14)." In St Peter's Square boys and girls were present in Rome for the traditional blessing of the statue of the "Child", which will be placed in the crib.
in Italy in recent days has made headlines in the news that some schools do not prepare the crib out of respect for students of other religions, particularly Muslims. In the debate that has arisen, many Muslims have spoken out in favor of the crib, since Islam reveres Jesus as a prophet. Church figures have stated that those who want to cancel the crib is actually driven by schools not by respect for Muslims but by secularist ideas that confuse tolerance with relativism of ideas.
is what the pope said before the Marian prayer:
"the feast of Christmas is approaching and in many places is already in setting up the crib, like here in St. Peter's Square. Small or large, simple or elaborate, the Nativity scene is a familiar and expressive representation of Christmas. It is part of our culture and art, but also a sign of faith in God, who came to Bethlehem "and dwelt among us" (Jn 1:14).
As every year, soon I will bless the Baby Holy Night that will be placed in cribs, which are already found Joseph and Mary, silent witnesses of a sublime mystery. With their loving eyes, they invite us to watch and pray to welcome the divine Savior, who comes to bring the world the joy of Christmas. This same joy
exhorts us to a foretaste of today's third Sunday of Advent, called "Gaudete" Sunday. Ask the Virgin of expectation that he is alive among Christians and all people of good will desire to meet the Lord now at hand. "Copyright © 2003 AsiaNewsTutti rights reserved

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historical date is December 25

Tommaso Federici

taken from 30-day, year XVIII, November 2000, p. 63-68.

It was not an arbitrary choice to supplant the ancient pagan festivals. Recent findings corroborate the historical reliability of the date of Christmas. When the Church celebrates the birth of Jesus in the third decade of December, draws the continued memory of the first evangelical Christian community regarding the facts and the places that happened. Tommaso Federici, professor emeritus of biblical theology, takes stock of recent evidence and findings that confirm the historicity of the date of Christmas A preamble generally is hired and assumes without question the already old news that the celebration of Christmas in the first half of the fourth century was introduced by the Church of Rome for ideological reasons. It would have been paid to December 25 to counter a dangerous pagan celebration, Christmas invicti Solis (Mithra was, as is likely, or was a titration of a Roman emperor). This festival was set at the winter solstice (21-22 December), when the sun resumed its course toward its triumphant increasing shine. So in Christian circles, going up to nine months, it had set March 25 to celebrate the announcement to Mary of Nazareth Virgin and her Immaculate Conception of the Son and Savior. As a result, six months before the birth of the Lord had also put the memory of the birth of the prophet and his forerunner and John the baptist. On the other hand, the Christian West not celebrating the announcement of the birth of John the father, the priest Zaccaria. Instead, and very long time, is commemorated in the East Syrian on the first Sunday of the "Time of the Annunciation (Subari), which includes five other Sundays the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, the Visitation, the birth of John the Baptist, the 's announcement to Joseph, the genealogy of the Lord according to Matthew. The Byzantine East, from time immemorial and always, also celebrates the September 23 announcement to Zechariah. We have four dates in succession evangelical chasing intersect, namely i) the announcement to Zacharias and II) six months after the Annunciation to Mary, III), respectively nine three months after the first two dates, the birth of John the Baptist, and IV), respectively, six months after that date, and of course nine months after the Annunciation, the Birth of our Lord and Savior. The contact person for so-called "liturgical" of this would then Christmas, December 25th, on which, we assume, were placed the feast of the Annunciation nine months earlier, and the birth of John the Baptist first six months. Historians and liturgists different assumptions about this place more or less accepted. The problem is that over the centuries have II-IV had been made several dates, which took account of astronomical calculations, or theological ideas. A given "historical" external, that it was not biblical, patristic and liturgical, and that brings a confirmation to scholars, was not yet known. A reference: the announcement to Zacharias Luke has some of his care to situate the story. Thus, for example, cites "the decree of Caesar Augustus for the long census of Quirinius (about 7-6 BC), during which occurred the birth of the Lord (Lk 2, 1-2). Also refers fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar (about 27-28 AD), when John the Baptist began his preaching preparation of the Lord (Lk 3, 1). It notes: "And Jesus himself was starting [his ministry after Baptism, Luke 3, 21-22] almost 30 years" (Lk 3, 23), having done about 33 or 34 years. According to his evocative account of the Gospel, the same Angel of the Lord, Gabriel, six months before the Annunciation to Mary (Luke 1: 26-38), the conclusion of the solemn celebration of sacrificial shrine daily announced in the elderly priest Zechariah that his wife, barren and old, Elizabeth , would conceive a child, intended to prepare a people to Him who was to come (Luke 1: 5-25). Luke is concerned to situate this with a precision that refers to a given known by all. So that tells Zechariah belonged to the class [priestly, Ephemera] of Abijah "(Luke 1, 5), and while Gabriel is" exercised the priesthood in turn [taxis] of his order [ephemera] "(Lk 1, 8). Thus refers to a general fact without difficulty, and a specific and timely, which presents a problem. The first fact, we all know, was that in the sanctuary of Jerusalem, according to the narrative of the chronicler, David himself had ordered that the "sons of Aaron were distinct in 24 táxeis, Hebrew sebaot, the" shift "perennial (1 Cr 24 , 1-7.19). These "classes", in alternating order unchanging liturgical service had to pay for a week "from Saturday to Saturday," twice a year. The list of the priestly classes to the destruction of the temple (the year 70 AD) according to the text of the Septuagint was determined by drawing lots, like this: I) Iarib, II) Idei, III) Charim, IV) Seorim, V) Mecha , VI) Miamin, VII) Kos, VIII) Abia, IX) Joshua, X) Seneca, XI) Eliasib, XII) Iakim, XIII) Occhoffa, XIV) Isbaal, XV) Belgium, XVI) Emmer, XVII) Chez, XVIII) Afessi, XIX) Fetaia, XX) Ezekil, XXI) Jachin, XXII) Gamoul, XXIII) Dalaia, XXIV) Maasai (the list in 1 Chr 24, 7-18). The second fact is that Zechariah then belonged to the "round of Abia, the eighth. The problem that arises is that Luke wrote this when the weather is still active, and then everyone could learn about its functions, and notes "when" was operating in the "round of Abia." Also, do not say which of the two annual rotations Zechariah received the announcement of the Angel in the sanctuary. It seems that over the centuries no one has taken care to bring back the memory, or to do some research. The same common mother, the Church of Jerusalem, Judeo-Christian Aramaic language, which traditionally (at least for two centuries) was led by the blood relatives of Jesus, James and his successors do not seem to be cured of this particular, that contemporaries went without saying. The "round of Abia" by a certain date in 1953 the great French specialist Annie Jaubert, in "Le calendrier des Jubilees et de la secta de Qumran. Bibliques Ses origines, "in" Vetus Testamentum ", Suppl. 3 (1953) pp. 250-264, had studied the calendar of the Book of Jubilees, a Jewish apocryphal very important, which dates from the late sec. II BC Now many snippets of that calendar, found in the caves of Qumran, showed not only that it was taken up by the Essenes who lived there (about sec. BC-II century. I AD), but it was still in use. This calendar is solar, and gives names to the months, but called them with the number of succession. The researcher had also published several other important articles on this, see also his voice "calendar of Qumran," in "Encyclopedia of the Bible" 2 (1969) pp. 35 to 38. And in a famous monograph, "La date de la Cene, liturgies Calendrier Biblique et chrétienne," Bibliques Études, Paris 1957, had also reconstructed the sequence of events of Holy Week, identifying in a convincing way (unless someone's dissent) on Tuesday, Thursday and not the date of the Lord's Supper. For its part, also specializes Shemarjahu Talmon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, worked on the documents of Qumran and the calendar of Jubilees, and was able to clarify the order of 24 rounds take place weekly priests in the temple, then still in function. The results were delivered in "The Calendar Reckoning of the Sect from the Judean Desert. Aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls," in "Hierosolymitana Scripta, vol. IV, Jerusalem 1958, pp. 162-199; it comes from a thorough and important, but it must be said, passed almost unnoticed by the general circuit, but not Annie Jaubert. Now, the list indicates that Professor Talmon reconstructs the "round of Abia (Ab-Jah), prescribed for twice a year, occurred as follows: I) the first time, from 8 to 14 of the third month of the calendar and II) the second time from 24 to 30 of the eighth month of the calendar. Now according to the solar calendar (not the moon, as is the current Jewish calendar), this second time around is the last week of September. As also noted Ammassari Antonio, "Origins of the Christmas calendar," in "Euntes Docete" 45 (1992) pp. 11-16, Luke, with details on the "turn of Abia", dates back to a precious Judeo-Christian Jerusalem, which the narrator of accurate history (Luke 1, 1-4) has tracked, and offers the possibility of reconstructing some historical dates. Thus the Byzantine rite in the September 23 commemoration of the annunciation to Zechariah, and preserves a historic date certain, and almost precisely (perhaps with a decal of one or two days). Historical dates of the New Testament's main historical dating life of the Lord shall cover the main event: the resurrection in the unanimous report of the four Gospels (and the rest of the Apostolic Tradition of the New Testament, see 1 Cor 15, 3-7) came to ' dawn of Sunday, April 9 in the year 30 AD, some astronomical data, so that his death occurred at about 15 pm on Friday, April 7 of that year 30. According to the data obtained recent survey as mentioned above, is a network of other impressive historical dates. The cycle of John the Baptist has established the historical date (approximately) of 24 September in our Gregorian calendar year 7-6 a. C. for the divine message given to his father Zechariah. In the present task, it would fall by 1 a. C., but we know that from the sixth century there was an error of about six or five years on the actual date of the birth of the Lord. The birth of John the Baptist nine months later (Luke 1: 57-66) (approximately) June 24, is a historic day. But then, the cycle of Christ the Lord, that Luke puts in the form of a diptych with the mirror image of the Baptist, the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary of Nazareth "in the sixth month" after conception of Elizabeth (Luke 1, 28) appears to be another historic day. And accordingly, and finally, is a historic date to the birth of the Lord on Dec. 25, or 15 months after the announcement to Zacharias, nine months after the Annunciation to the Mother inviolate, six months after the birth of John the Baptist. The holy circumcision eight days after birth, according to the law of Moses (Lev 12, 1-3), is an historic day. And so, forty days after birth, Feb. 2, the "presentation" of the Lord to the temple again according to the law of Moses (Lev 12, 4-8), which marks the hypapantê, the meeting with his people, is an historic day. "Problems liturgical" The date of Christmas was around a cluster of problems. First is the fact that some churches are overlapping and sometimes confused with December 25 January 6, the day that the accumulated memory of the events surrounding the birth of the Savior. Then, most importantly, no clear distinction between memory of a fact, which can last for generations, about the devotion to this fact, which can be expressed with a non-liturgical worship, and the establishment of a party "liturgical" with its date and with a proper officiating, including the Liturgy of the Hours and the holy mysteries of the divine. Here goes the light, as it usually is neglected, the incredible memory of the Christian communities as to evangelical events, and places that saw their occurrence. The Annunciation, for example, was entered in the formulation of some "baptismal symbol" oldest already in the second century. It was performed in the same period in Christian primitive, as in the Catacombs of Priscilla. In Nazareth itself, as has been demonstrated beautifully the archeology, the site of the Annunciation was preserved and revered by the local community without interruption, and was visited by an uninterrupted flow of pilgrims, devotees, who down the centuries also left graffiti written and moving, to this day. When you start the worship liturgy "of the Mother of God, sent in the fifth century, there was the big party to liturgical dell'Euaggelismós, the annunciation to Mary. This acquired such an extraordinary resonance of the Fathers in the West ranks among the "dawn of our redemption" (with Christmas, the Magi and the wedding at Cana), and in the East was considered so solemn and almost overwhelming, that her date in the Byzantine rite abolishes even on Sundays and on Holy Thursday, Good Friday just gives, and if it falls on Sunday the celebration of the Resurrection divided so that half of the Canon celebrates Easter and half of the Canon of the Annunciation. In Bethlehem, even before the construction of the Basilica of Constantine (the first three decades of the fourth century), the Christian community had kept the memory and the veneration of the continuous rise of the birth of the Lord. In Egypt, the Coptic Church preserved with uninterrupted devotion the memory of places where the holy family stayed in his flight (Mt 2, 13-18), where churches were built even officiated. We can speak here of the holy places of Palestine, especially those of Jerusalem of the Anastasis, the Resurrection (so reductively called "holy tomb) and Golgotha, the Upper Room, the" Mount of Galilee "which is to Ascension of Gethsemane, Bethany, the Sheep's Pool (John 5, 1-9), where a church was built, the place of the "Dormition of the Mother of God in Kidron, and so on. On all these places there is a precious documentation, impressive and uninterrupted throughout the centuries to us, the pilgrims who visit us always with serious sacrifices and dangers, and left written accounts and descriptions of which were the object of veneration, of devotion and customs of the inhabitants and visitors. The problem of interest here is the choice of dates for the celebrations "liturgical" themselves. As for the celebration "liturgical" in the sense discussed above, the Lord, his ever-Virgin Mother of John the Baptist, the choices are not arbitrary, from ideologies or ingenious calculations? Do not think so. On September 23 and 24 June for the announcement and the birth of John the Baptist, and March 25 and December 25 for the Annunciation of the Lord and for his birth, were not arbitrary, and ideologies do not come from the carry-over . The churches had memories preserved unbroken, and when they decided to make him famous "liturgical" did nothing but punish the immemorial usage of popular devotion. It should be borne in mind also just noticed that the churches shall notify each "date" of their celebrations, and so for example the "testimony of the martyrs," they called the "birthplace of the martyrs" to the glory of heaven. For special occasions, such as the feasts of the Lord, the apostles, the martyrs, the holy bishops of local Churches, and also those from the fifth century of the Mother of God, the Church adopted welcomes suggestions from sister churches. In practice, almost all the great feasts of the Lord and the Mother of God come from the East Palestine, and were accepted with great enthusiasm from the churches of the Empire, and before the great schisms of the fifth century, Christians of the immense labor. Christmas, as it seems, came from Rome, and was accepted, albeit reluctantly, by all the Churches. With this, you want to say that the churches had the possibility of checks and verifications, and it must be said that our forefathers were not gullible, but often rightly suspicious, so as to reject any attempt of illegal and illegitimate cult "not proven" . The Evangelist Luke in all this no small part, when appropriate and skilled with hints refers to dates and places and events and people.

Can Hiv Rash Appear Alone

dominated culture. The ideologies of the '900 and their anti-Christian roots

cycle of meetings "Culture Dominated."

Friday, November 30, 21.00, at the hall of the church of St. Martin I Pope, via 37 Veii, near San Giovanni, Rome meeting on

ideologies of 900 and their roots anti-Christian

be speaking: - Adolfo Morganti , historian and essayist.

theme: "The history of the '900 has been largely the story of those ideologies, with the excuse to remove God have removed and imprisoned man and his nature. A story made of utopias and blood, and macabre Promethean dreams reality, which happens to be in his lucid and logical delirante.Per not forget. "

Link: http://www.identitaeuropea.org/iniziative/dominata08_02.html by:

- Ass Cult. "European Identity area Lazio ( http://www.identitaeuropea.org/ )

- Publishing House" The Circle "( http://www.ilcerchio.it/ )

- Library Coffee Literature "Aachen" (www.aquisgrana.org)

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Against Halloween: macabre celebration of gourds

few more days and the streets of our cities, the night of All Saints is be filled with devils, witches and skulls. In short there is to be quiet! Again here are some useful text for a proper discernment of what is actually Halloween. We have many reasons to reflect on this strange feast

1) The social liabilities that exists in the name of entertainment vendor. And the liability Christian also opposite to such events

2), the debasement of the solemnity of All Saints and the commemoration of the faithful departed. Halloween party turns solemn liturgical celebration of light and shadow to evoke magic. Like Santa Claus and the Assumption thus initiates a party reduced to pure ideological externality.

3) evocative symbol of spiritual poverty and danger.

4) Growth in a dramatic way of witchcraft, paganism and Satanism, especially among the younger classes.

5) Party addressed the imaginary child with sponsors ranging from Coca-Cola to McDonalds to Disney.

Faced with this answer in our parishes and dioceses with an invitation that made Father Gabriele Amorth:

1) celebrate the Mass to offer to the Lord in the Eucharist, a repair to this "horrible" party, and to approach all to take the Eucharist;

2) To recite the Rosary, preferably in the Family, in the parish, through listening to Radio Maria (for times go to the Rosary www.radiomaria.it). If you really are unable, recitatelo alone;

3) At the end of the Mass to recite the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, asking for forgiveness from the Lord.

defend our tradition of these perverse forms.

Federico Intini

Ass Studies Knighthood St. Joseph Lioness

Halloween party anti-Christian
by Don William Fichtner
HALLOWEEN: FESTIVAL ignorance and superstition
"NO" to the ridiculous ... PUMPKIN FESTIVAL EMPTY!

It is more just and more respectful of the Christian faith at least move the date of this Halloween, do not let that coincide with two major Christian holidays of All Saints and Souls? AN INTRODUCTION

not enough to say lightly: "It's just a way to have fun ... it's like another carnival", without properly evaluate its cultural roots, its implications esoteric, its climate and its resulting ambiguous opening more or less declared, the magical thinking.
1) Is it possible that you do not seem absurd to masks on the same level as those of Pulcinella, Arlecchino, Colombina, Dr. Balanzone, etc.. that behind a literature, a history of art and theater history significant and positive, with masks that are intended only to highlight a negative climate, a climate macabre fact of horror, of witchcraft, the occult, engaging and disseminating a dangerous and destructive culture magic?
2) Is it possible that all those symbols Horror (bats, witches, ghosts, vampires, the dead come back, etc..) Have aroused in you at least a fair concern?
3) Is it possible that the only way to have fun is to resurrect horror THE FAIR? Necessarily have to have fun (sic) only with devils, ghosts, witches, bats, and more that is eerie to propionate?
Halloween, for explicit admission of his supporters is a pagan festival to which were added elements from the esoteric culture, magic, witchcraft, all hypocritically masked (duplicity and studied) in the form of feasting, fun, the pleasure-eat and the frenzy of this group, so when someone, not "asleep", points the finger at the puzzling "aspects of horror and magic of this rite that was forced upon us, the fanatics of the party (who?) with a smile sarcastic and mischievous justify it by saying: "But it's just a bit 'of fun!" We We wonder and ask: what is the need to resurrect a pagan festival? What it seeks a return to paganism, which is not unique in our society? Why should tie a healthy entertainment to a deleterious horror at a party esoteric, magic, witchcraft, complete with costumes as devils, witches, ghosts, bats? When a company drops (or you fall) Christianity, the space occupied by the salt superstition!
A) We think that as it exists in normal culture, an "introduction to philosophy", an "introduction to sociology, etc.., These mass rituals, (not only Halloween, but also others in other ways and other areas ) are an attempt to introduce of the public sympathetic to the esoteric-magical thinking. So are leading the way for further handling. B) It is necessary to contextualize this pseudo-holiday. Halloween is not an attempt to "colonize" magic block. This pseudo-holiday is just one of several ways in which you try to introduce this esoteric mentality, alien and hostile to Christianity in our culture and our customs. To implement this strategy are several means, such as literature, movies and even publications that are sold now, even on sale. At the same time, society, teem "gurus" and "sensitive." C) Of course, all these variety of ways, including Halloween, are only a "net cast," with which we introduce opportunities, which may lend itself to subsequent involvement in magical thinking. We think that those who intend to spread this magic-esoteric mentality among the public, step by step and trial and error. We start with the joke, with the novel-fumettone that makes you dream, with the film entertaining and engaging. If you come across an authentic Christianity, SUPERVISION AND VIGOROUS, stop and refer to the next opportunity and means. But when we see a watering down CHRISTIANITY, secularized MODERNIST, CULTURAL AND FRAGILE COMPROMISE, then spread openly and very large, their forms "alternative" to Christianity and soon move on to more serious next step. Halloween, on the other, it has also become a huge business economy, with a huge round of money that enriches speculators and journeyman. For all these reasons together and recorded all the arguments in this leaflet, we say "NO!" in this celebration of ignorance and superstition.

CAUTION AGAINST DECEPTION
There is an attempt underway to introduce and spread in various ways, a counter-culture alternative based on the esoteric and magical thinking. It is therefore designed in various ways to create an atmosphere of sympathy around the magic to make her look good, useful, fun ... even to push to lower the guard and prevent natural and right that the public has in their regard. This so-called "Halloween" is just one way (certainly not the only) to achieve these goals. The mentality and practice magic or para-magic is the way superstitious, modernist and secular to replace the true religion. There are ongoing attempts to introduce taste, mind and spirit magic in various ways, trying not to arouse suspicion, and by tactical cunning tricks, if it were possible to deceive even those who have kept a healthy ... common sense. This tactic of "double game" is declared explicitly by their magazine out for the occasion: "The costumes are the most typical depicting dangerous magical creatures, or regarded as such by Muggles (Ed = Muggles are sensible people who stay away from magic = Ed) as vampires, wolves breast, ghosts, etc.. 1) If we frequent settlements completely magical, there are no limitations on the costumes. 2) If you plan to do a spin, maybe to a costume party Muggle, we observe some simple rules such as: A) The use of spells to create the costumes must be very low. B) Not too realistic fur or fangs, Muggles might get suspicious. Attrezziamoci then patiently and try to minimize the use of magic "(Journal of the Wizards and Witches, Year I, No. 10, 2004 - SPECIAL EDITION - HALLOWEEN - Spells and most mysterious secrets of the Night, p. 3).

before acting, known symbols and occult
On 31 October, is an important day not only in Celtic culture, but also in Satanism. And one of the four witches' sabbath. The first three seasons marked the time for "healing" the awakening of the earth after the winter, the time of sowing, time of harvest. The fourth Sabbath marks the arrival of winter and the "defeat" of the sun, cold, hunger and death. The Catholic feast of All Saints has nothing to do with that Halloween. It was established by Pope Gregory IV in the year 840. Originally it was celebrated in May and November 1. It was in 1048 that
Odilo de Cluny decided to move the Catholic celebration in early November in order to dethrone the worship of Samhain. Once, then, the pagan festivals were replaced in the same day by Christian holidays, today is the attempt contrary to coincide with the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls, we try to spread the culture and customs, a pagan festival alien and hostile to the climate and context of prayer and true faith of the two Christian holidays. It was not more just and more respectful at least move the date of this Halloween, do not let that coincide with these two major Christian holidays?

1. IL SIGNIFICANCE
Halloween is the contracted form of the English "All Hallows Eve" which literally means Halloween. Halloween, although not as it should be said, is a magical celebration. The world of the occult so defines it: "It's the most magical day of the year is New Year around the esoteric world, is the feast. The most important year for the followers of Satan."
last page we publish the ritual magic for Halloween, printed on letterhead, from a center of magic in Foggia.

2. WHY CELEBRATE THE NIGHT October 31?
The origins of Halloween date back to the ancients, therefore, Celtic Druids, and then about 2000 years ago. The Celts lived in a vast territory that is now occupied by France, England, Wales and Scotland, Ireland, and celebrated the New Year's Eve, October 31, in honor of Samhain, the prince of death. Since their main livelihood was agriculture, on the night of Oct. 31 (the night of late summer), the Celts celebrated Samhain, a dark gods mortals thanked for summer harvest. This was the "Trinox Samhain" or the Celtic New Year. So it's clear the pagan origin of the festival. Samhain was the lord of the underworld, with the arrival of winter, erased the power of the sun god, his eternal rival. Samhain was traditionally identified as the god of the dead, or simply with the moon, which appears often in the iconography of Halloween. Samain is also the Gaelic name of the month that corresponded pretty much in November. So on the day of Samhain marked the beginning of the winter half year, and was called to this day among the years.
Being "in the middle of the year" was considered a magic moment: the barriers between the world of the living and the spirits were tapered so as to enable them to return to earth to communicate with the living. The Celts believed that on this day the evil spirits of the dead returned to cause confusion and chaos among the living. The party had to appease Samhain and the spirits of the dead. At the beginning, on this day, all the dead are honored, including the first Christian saints, but with the passage of time, incredibly, these spirits took a diabolical and evil connotations. And so, during the celebrations for Halloween, appeared representations of ghosts, skeletons, symbols of death, the devil and other evil creatures as witches. Bats, cats blacks, the full moon, witches, ghosts, etc.. these symbols have little to do with the initial and Celtic Samhain Eve. Someone added them illegally. The ceremony was Celtic, however, already have a particular that was a trailblazer all'inglobamento of esoteric symbols: participants had to dress up in animal skins and heads, in order to acquire the force of the animal represented and scaring (sic) so that the evil spirits who were present.

3. THE LEGEND
The old Irish legend says that Jack, a blacksmith evil, wicked and stingy, a night of All Saints, after yet another drink is seized by a fatal attack of liver cirrhosis. The devil in claim his soul is tricked by Jack (sic) and is forced to satisfy some of his wishes, including leaving it to life by reaching an agreement which gave up the soul of the reprobate. Jack, unaware of the effect of the disease, died a year later. Rejected in Paradise, Jack has no place even in hell because of the pact with the devil. A poor way of the ritual carving of a large putting greens in the blazing fire, a place of eternal damnation. This lantern, Jack, ghost, come back into the world of the living. The Irish, the famine hit, immigrated to America around 1850. Landed in the New World, they found a huge pumpkin that, unlike the indigenous small turnips, were large enough to be carved. So the pumpkin replaced the turnip and became the Jack O Lantern, used the night of All Saints' Day because it was thought to ward off the restless spirits of the dead who were trying, like Jack, to go home. Children Today they dress up and make visits to families led by lantern-pumpkin and get sweets in return for their "kindness". "Trick - or - treat" is the custom of "trick or treat" [...], the original meaning is: "Curse or sacrifice." This festival, established itself and spread in the U.S. was imported from the United States in Europe and then in Italy.

4. HISTORICAL FACTS
few centuries before Christ, a secret he kept under his empire the Celtic world. Each year, October 31st, Halloween day, she celebrated in honor of their pagan gods, a festival of death. The elders of the sect went from house to house demanding deals for their "god" happened and that to require human sacrifice. In case of refusal, uttered the curse of death on the house, hence was born the "trick or treat".

5. WHY YOU PUT IN MASK?
Halloween is a holiday - the monsters, spirits, evil beings, and all those characters that traditionally, in the popular imagination, embodying the concept of evil, as opposed to the good heroes. So the more appropriate forms are those that meet this evil tendency: pirates, witches, vampires, devils, with all the modern variants extrapolated from cinema, cartoons, comic books (how many children this year, even disguised themselves as enemies of Spiderman ?). Celtic in Ireland it was believed that on this day the spirits came back in search of a body to possess. To defend (sic) us from this threat is masked in frightening ways, and paraded through the streets hoping to banish the ghosts wandering outside the city.


6. WHY APPLE IS THE STAR FRUIT?
For Halloween festivities during which they are distributed are different types of sweets such as caramel apple, sweet traditional Halloween night. In addition, we organize games such as apple, which is to try to bite an apple placed in a basin of water, holding her hands behind her back. But where it comes from the habit of using apples on Halloween? Popular tradition says that to worship Samhain, the terrible god of the night, practiced divination rituals that concerned weather, weddings and fortune for the coming year, and that all had starring the apple. In particular, there were two ceremonies: 1) the second dive of the apples) and the stripping of the apple. The first was a divination from a marriage: the first person to bite an apple would be married the following year. Instead, peel the apple was a divination on the duration of life was the longest piece of peeled apple without breaking it, the longer would be the life of the peel. Of course, not the candy apple - by itself - makes in ... Witches! How can we not have the bats, spiders and cats that blacks - by itself - make the magic. In these mass rituals, open the "windows", we introduce the opportunities that cast a favorable network that can pave the way to possible intrusions, by members of magical thinking.


7. WHY ANIMALS ARE THE ICONS BAT, OWL, BLACK CAT AND SPIDER?
All four of these animals have been associated, from the Middle Ages, the witches, which were believed to be demonic servants, called families. When the witches began to be linked to Halloween, even pets they became icons.
Bat. Very popular symbol of Halloween. The bat is connected with witchcraft and death in many different cultures: this association comes from the custom of flying at night and dwell in caves and ruins. The blood of a bat was also used (especially in black magic) for the preparation of magic potions and ointments.
Spider. Superstition has it that the spider is the bearer of bad vibrations, capable of doing harm to humans and animals even with the neighborhood.
Owl. Even today there are those who think hear an owl in the dark indicating death or bad omens. During the Middle Ages it was believed that on Halloween night demons in the form of owls traveled together to the witches and their cats aboard a broomstick to go to the witches' sabbath. Even it was feared they were witches in disguise, so that seeing or hearing an owl was a source of fear. Even in ancient Rome, the owl was a bird of ill omen: its presence indicates bad luck (that the owl was called by the Romans strinx, ie witch).
Cat. Finally, the black cat, how many of you are still three steps back when a black cat crosses the road? For some, even today, cats are creatures of blacks left the bearers of bad luck. And it is once again the medieval that the black cat became a symbol of the devil. Cats blacks are associated with the witch superstition: it was believed that witches could transfer their minds into a cat, and for this reason they always had one.

8. SOME CONSIDERATIONS
1) A party that is just ridiculous to think that there are spirits of the dead trying to get home! After his death, with Particular Judgement, the soul of every man goes to heaven or hell or in purgatory, and then is forever, only in God's hands It's just ridiculous to think that the soul may decide to be a walk, going to find a home to live for the future, to picnics or to spend an evening with friends! 2) The Legend of Jack is just shocking and absurd: A) when one dies, the rating takes place before God and before the devil B) the devil has the power to bring a person back to life after it dead: that power belongs only to God, C) if it makes a pact with the devil, Hell welcomes with open arms, the contractor, the little story, however, says that because of the absurdly pact with the devil even Jack has no place even to 'Hell, D) little story also develops and accredits beliefs and magical practices: Ask the devil the fulfillment of their desires, make a pact with the devil, and so on. E) It is really ridiculous to think these supposed to keep away the spirits of the dead, to frighten and chase away the ghosts, only with the lanterns. It is superstitious to think of removing spiritual realities, supernatural, only with a pumpkin, that is only natural means! F) It should be stressed strongly negative attitude toward death and to the dead that this "festaccia" causes, as if the dead were just something to be resisted hostile. To the dead we go to the cemetery to pray, we do offer Masses, however, must be designed and combined with affection and familiarity, not fear and mistrust. The worship and affection for the dead is a sign of civilization springs from. "It was Christianity to revolutionize the relationship with the dead: the pagans buried their dead away from the city because they were afraid and they felt somewhat contaminants, however, the Christians soon began to venerate the bodies of the saints, churches built over the and villages. They were the Jacobins officially down for "Toilet" (but actually neo-pagans), to restore the suburban cemeteries, Napoleon was anxious to export, infuriating, as we know from school, his admirer Foscolo (Rino Camilleri). We want exorcise death, making a caricature. But this is not a way to exorcise death, but to desecrate it, trivialize it, ridicule it, to make surface, as a consumer. This Halloween certainly throws a shadow on the unholy holiday of all Saints, also trains leaving on the day of the dead.

9. WARNING: It is ESSENTIAL MAGIC HALLOWEEN
Young or old, we must always be well realized not clinging to us from the esoteric world through rituals of mass, such as those in the festivities dedicated to Halloween, there are proposed. Halloween, when and where it is celebrated today in the sense given, among other ways, and similar stimuli (such as those in literature, cinema, etc..) Are all open minded about magic, the esoteric culture, in some cases - and where can be reached - even on the world of the paranormal.
The aim is to familiarize the public and having them become familiar with these esoteric and magical mentality, alien and hostile to Christian culture. Part of the film - for example - has contributed greatly to the harmful influence of Halloween, sponsorship and promoting style, content and costumes. Anyway, we must always ensure that through the gestures and symbols placed during this holiday does not fall or do not give access to harmful meanings to it - today - that underlie and vehicles. There is no doubt that the world of satanists, Halloween is a big party magic and that in some areas their most depraved nowadays it is known that on this night some of them even come to practice human sacrifices. Because of its roots and essence of his hidden Halloween can open a door hidden influence in people's lives. The emphasis of Halloween is about fear, death, the spirits, witchcraft, violence, demons.
retailers and consumers, we have the courage to say "NO" to promote articles which, under the guise of the masked, disseminate and create, esoteric mentality. Many items sold in the consumer products are amulets, or reproductions thereof, used in witchcraft.
not forget that the disastrous consequences of inhalation magic are not immediate but become apparent after many years in depression, crisis and violence. This calls for an adamant stance about everything that is served up by Halloween, from the world and magical thinking in general. Consider that the words we proclaim, the gestures we make, the mentality that we follow and symbols that say, are not really neutral or no meaning, but build and attract a world-minded, mean and introduce the spiritual realities they represent. Parents, we are careful to let our kids get used, or even worse, be educated in the occult. Teachers, informiamoci the truth behind this rite of mass. We may pass on to young people - and without their knowledge to us - coins and deleterious mentality openings magic-esoteric.

WITNESS IN THE FIRST PERSON
Foggia in a high school teacher of religion has spoken at length about this festival, its implications, its meaning, its pagan origins, its implications magical, esoteric, witch, etc.. During dialogue with the boys, two girls have asked to speak to testify that anything shown in this document is true and correct. The previous year it took part in one of these Halloween party, thinking it was just a little 'fun with bits of macabre, but at the end of the party some guys have asked them to take part in a seance.

"not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but report it Open" (Eph 5:11)
John Paul II: "Today, various kinds of esoteric rampant even among some believers who lack a critical sense" (Fides et Ratio, n . 37).
Many groups, movements, Catholic associations, the night October 31 will gather in prayer or Christian festivals organized with the participation of alternative groups, singers and songwriters in contemporary Christian music of various genres of music and particularly, on that occasion, a contemporary Praise and Worship.
The pumpkin festival has proved in reality, the party of those with little ... pumpkin. It is a celebration of those who have little knowledge of. its roots and its implications. It is the festival of gourds, but not those who carry in your hand! The pumpkin is made up of truly empty - in fact - from the pagan mentality, superficial and superstitious - alien and hostile to our Christianity - that the current spirit of this festival attracts and seeks to introduce.
Halloween anti-Christian celebration of Don Lorenzo
Biselx n.1 (49) of Catholic Tradition (new series - the year XIII - 2002), Halloween
undoubtedly entered the landscape of our "civilization" today. But I must confess that ten years ago I had never heard this strange word. I discovered during my first year of seminary in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain saw with surprise one night in a pumpkin with a candle, placed in front of the houses. Someone told me then that this was a new holiday: Halloween. I think it was more or less like for you all. On the other hand we can see that even the great encyclopedias like the Catholic Encyclopedia (1948-1954), the Great Encyclopedic Dictionary (1935), the Great Dictionary of the Italian language (1972) or the Great Universal Encyclopedia Atlantica (1982) have none at all this name. Encyclopedia Britannica devotes only one article. Internet obviously provides us with many details today about the history of this "party" legendary.


Origins
November 1 was the most solemn day of the year for the Celts who used to do their most important celebrations during the night from October 31 to November 1, called the night of Samhaim, who was the "Lord death, the Prince of Darkness. " The Druids believed that, the vigil of this feast, the dead return to earth in the previous year looking for new bodies to possess. While farmers extinguished the fire to ward off these spirits, the Druids would gather on a hill in the midst of the oak trees to make the big ceremony that night, including dances and songs, they offered sacrifices to scare the "evil spirits". The morning after the fire again, the Druids made the rounds of the houses carrying the embers of the fire from the families so that all could turn the family hearth. On this occasion asked to tender their god and utter curses in case of refusal. Hence the "trick or treat (an offer or curse), and the famous turnip (pumpkins today) in which the sacred fire burning. And the modern custom
to dress up for Halloween in the day?
is the three-day feast that happened the night of sacrifices during these days, the Celts used to dress the skins of animals killed, "to exorcise the spirits and frightening. Dressed in these grotesque masks, returned to the village light their way with carved lanterns made from onions were placed where the embers of the sacred fire. "
In modern times this ritual is interwoven with the Celtic legend of Jack O'Lantern. Jack was a man of evil and unrepentant alcoholic. When one night the devil came to look for his soul, he negotiated and achieved another year of life. After this year he managed to get the devil to never be sent to hell. So when he died, unable or enter into heaven because of his or impenitence in hell because of its trade with the devil, was condemned to wander the earth, lighting his way with a lantern made from a turnip (Americanized then pumpkin) contains a grill donated by the devil of hell.

Death and demons, of course, Halloween brings us back full paganism, a paganism disappeared and never took advantage of the religious upheaval of the Reformation to return to the "surface": October 31, the eve of All Saints Day (All Hallows' E'en in Old English), some used to celebrate the evil spirits, praising as opposed to the goodness and beauty of God, to eternal life ...
The Protestant Reformation, bringing with it the loss of Catholic faith and eliminating many parties (including the feast of All Saints), had diverted the pity, and then created conditions favorable for such sacrilegious ceremonies. Worse still, the night of October 31, the Celtic New Year, remained as the New Year the sorcerers, because it is the beginning of what is "cold, dark and dead ..." (Cold, dark and dead ...) and one of their main Sabbath (Black Sabbath) 7. Alas, can also be a special occasion for sacrifices, even human, and black masses. Halloween
followed the Anglo-Saxon settlers (most of all in Ireland) in their conquest of the Americas and developed in the New World where, in the last century, has made the happiness of some major retailers, which was missing from the summer holidays and Santa Claus, an opportunity to exploit the consumerist spirit of children. Of course, the Old Europe could not remain long without adopting the new "cult", so we see more and more of us spread Halloween with its procession of decorated items in a macabre (with pictures of teschi8, skeletons, witches, ...). I have before me a card "demon Journal 2000; the child is invited to sign the following declaration:" I'm one of the demons of Halloween 2000 and I am committed to do and say many things monstrous. " Then comes the answer: "Now that you are demon official, learn the language and reveals the horrors of the demon on your side!" Here is the demonopedagogia! Children are then invited to shoot in the city, "with monstrous and terrifying masks and costumes, knocking on doors asking for candy or coins. If people refuse, they can play some bad joke, "how to empty the bin in the garden." 10
So, cleverly, the children are invited to dress as a witch, ghost, undead or demon in a new carnival, much worse than the old one (because for a child to dress a bear or a princess could be a game innocent). Here it is aimed directly at the ugly, evil in order to participate, unwittingly, the celebration of a kind of neo-pagan liturgical celebration and even satanic. Children are thus rendered more vulnerable to the allure of dark satanic rock that may meet once teenagers. Noisy Mag magazine specializing in "extreme rock", consecrated in 2000 a dossier "Halloween Special" in which they were convicted of the attempts made in the USA by "powerful lobbies affiliated with the ultraconservative right" to ban the celebration of Halloween. Noisy May also stated that, in addition to the processions of children dressed up knocking on doors, Halloween continues to "have particular importance at the Satanists." So the article in this issue "hard rock" continued with a description of Luciferian rites of their "holiday" called by them "Samhain". According to the British
Encyclopodia, the Church attempted to eradicate Halloween in the Middle Ages: this was the purpose of the move, by Pope Gregory IV, nell'834, the feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. The introduction in the tenth century the feast of All Souls also had to help the disappearance of the "feast of the witches." We have seen that unfortunately was not fully achieved this goal and now requires particular vigilance because, for many Christians in name, Halloween intense competition is likely to make the beautiful and consoling Christian holidays of 1st and 2nd November. Enough of Halloween

Cecilia Gatto Trocchi taken from October 26, 2002
future of the last few years there has been widespread in Italy's fashion to celebrate Halloween, semi-carnival party, improperly linked to witches. The elementary teachers are racing to bring ghosts, wizards, vampires and monsters. But Samain Samuin or Gaelic is the name of a month which corresponds more or less in November, the feast is mentioned but not described for the first time in an Irish text prosaically called "The cow brains" of 1100. Other than pre-history! All Saints is a Christian holiday, brought in the United States by Irish and Scots. They remembered the martyrs on Halloween night, in a celebration that precedes the celebration of the November 2, when each family remembered their dead. Christianity revolutionized the relationship with the dead: while the pagans buried their dead outside the city, as they were afraid they heard and contaminants, the early Christians have venerated the bodies of saints, altars built on them and then the churches and villages. The memory of the deceased was placed by the Fathers of the Church in the autumn, when even nature seems weighed down by a mortal sleep and the days get shorter until the winter solstice.
Popular traditions linking the autumn rites. It is certain that within the Celtic and Gaelic are celebrated and the dead is a day consecrated to their recall, although there are no historical writings. The rituals related to the nature, the cosmos and the community the living and the dead. The children wore masks representing in the great cosmic drama and social continuity of life. That's because the spectral masks: one day for children personify the "poor, pale, dead," as an Irish ballad: In the name of the deceased asked that the candy in central and southern expressly called "dead bones" or " beans dead. " Pumpkins lit, used since Roman remote, symbolizing both fertility (because of the numerous seeds, which allude to the revival) is the light that will guide the dead in their return to the kingdom of Hades.
In Sicily is the tradition that the dead are to bring presents to children. During the "fair of the dead ", including rituals and celebrations, they sell sweets that children are at the foot of the bed on November 3. Why, then, today we celebrate Halloween in nightclubs fracassone, you conjure demons and witches, vampires and ghosts?
This is a actual process of "secularization" that the environment is forcing American consumerism and materialistic for many years. It should be noted that the neo-American Protestantism denies the cult of saints, the fights and demonize him. In the nineteenth century, forgotten the relationship with Saints forgotten the role of the masks related to the commemoration of the dead, remains a mess neo-witchcraft, ambiguous evocation of evil forces, a fashion horror, in the wake of the worst romance. All this for at least 10 years came on top of the revival of pagan magic, witchcraft New Age, occultism and Satanism. It then happened that has become a pagan Christian holiday and not vice versa. No accident that the founders of English and American neo-witchcraft have "hijacked" to Christianity, the feast of All Saints to make a recurrence of Sabbah. It is beautiful and good invention, as in any text are historically correct magic magic rituals carried out on 1 November.
According to the traditions of many primitive peoples, the dead are at peace and never mentioned to no avail. But some eager young teacher-leaders and condominium vying to conjure witches and ghosts. Now Sisal also invented a lottery-related Halloween. Not to mention the clubs that make profit on devils, witches, ghosts. No accident that the Satanists celebrate their rituals on Halloween. The party thus conceived is configured as a spell lay unconscious, a kind of ritual of necromancy mercantile kitsch. It is a folklore from fast food, served with sweet and spicy sauces and accompanied by a plastic monster.
is fair to ask: What will become of the digestive and mental health of our children? Would not it be better to eat the desserts homemade almond and recite "the Tomb" by Ugo Foscolo, permanent monument to the glories of Italian? Father Gabriele Amorth

The Exorcist THE HOLY SEE: Halloween and 'Hosanna to the A DEVIL
''I think the companies 'Italian is losing his mind, the meaning of life, and the use of reason is more and more' ill. Celebrate Halloween and 'making a hosanna to the devil. Which, if you love, even if only for one night, he plans to claim rights on the person. So do not be surprised if the world seems to be a topsy-turvy and there is evidence from psychologists and psychiatrists are full of restless children, vandals, restless, and boys obsessed and depressed, suicidal.'' The sentence and 'the exorcist of the Holy See, former' President of the International Association of Exorcists, Father Gabriele Amorth from Modena.
The macabre masks, the appeals would not be another seemingly innocuous, the exorcist, a tribute to the prince of this world, the devil. I'm very sorry''that Italy, like the rest of Europe are moving away from Jesus 'the Lord, and even set yourself up to pay homage to Satan,''says the' Exorcist''whereby Halloween and 'a kind of seance in the form of the game. The cunning of the devil is right here. If you notice everything is presented as a playful, innocent. The sin is not 'more' pity in the world today. But all is disguised in the form of need, freedom 'or personal pleasure. The man - he concludes - and 'became the god of himself, exactly what' that the devil wants.'' And remember that while in many cities' Italian, were organized the 'Festival of Light', a true counter to the celebrations of darkness, the Lord with songs and games for innocent children.

of Don Tullio Round
Dear friends, about the Halloween party I think is important riportarequanto follows, taken from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1960. Sintetizzoal up the text, but I point out info Ilnome more decisive, as it means that the eve of the Feast of All santi.Studiosi found in the folklore of Halloween traces of Druidism and beauty Roman festival of Pomona and this because of the use of nuts and apples and difigure of witches, cats and skeletons blacks. The link to druidismoè evident from that precisely the annoceltico ended October 31 was the eve of Samahain: For druids Samahain insiemela was late summer and the party of death the spirits of the departed siriteneva who visit their loved ones who sought caloreavvicinandosi winter. Sam. were practiced divination and gliauguri (magical practice) about the coming year. It was the occasionein where witches and other characters such lapopolazione terrorized. Fires were lit to guide spiriti.Questi fires remained in Scotland until 1800.Probabilmente the two Catholic feasts of All Saints and all the dead were attached to the 1st and 2nd November lapersistenza precisely to eradicate these pagan festivals. Note that initially all the festadi Saints was celebrated on May 13. The commemoration was introduced deifedeli departed significantly from here intutta Cluny and the church probably also to increase the cancellation dellefeste remained pagan. The satanic cult that survived allaintroduzione of faith was just a giornoparticolare on Halloween where you just celebrated a very important Sabbhats.
the late Middle Ages the Feast of All Saints was spread tuttaEuropa but with the Protestant Reformation and the non-important solemnity their riconoscimentodi including exactly all the saints, returned leantiche, pagan customs that remain tuttora.Dunque .... Judge for yourself which party is ....... A return of Satan consett other spirits more wicked than himself.

Please

Lord you know that these parties do not want, but we believe other toMember not clear all this, they need powerful signs: mandala Lord, according to Your holy will, so that people understand that Halloween chiaramenteche looks like it is a satanic holiday. Send what you want, but does everyone understand accettiamotutto, loud and clear, that Halloween is a festasatanica which is practiced magic and makes in Europe and America will leave this party. We ask for your sorrowful Passion. Let your will throughout Amen

3 Pater, Ave and Gloria will end with

St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle, be thou our difesacontro the malice and snares of the devil that God exercises his dominiosu him, we humbly pray you do, and do thou Prince of miliziecelesti with the power of God cast into hell Satan and altrispiriti evil that roam the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen

HALLOWEEN: THE gourds of Arrigo Muscio

SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN - October 31, is an important day not only in Celtic culture, but also in Satanism. And 'one of the four witches' sabbath. The first three seasons marked the time for "beneficial": the awakening of the earth after the winter, the time of sowing, time of harvest. The fourth Sabbath marks the arrival of winter and the "defeat" of the sun, cold, hunger, death. The Catholic feast of All Saints is not tied to Halloween, was instaurala by Pope Gregory IV in the year 840, was originally celebrated in May and November 1. It was in 1048 that Odilo de Cluny decided to move the Catholic celebration in early November in order to dethrone the worship of Samhain. In English the day before is called "All Hallowed Eve", which later became Halloween.
"Halloween is a matter of culture, is a form of economic colonization of our country (and everyone else), is a commercial gimmick, and want to have fun, is the night where anything goes, is a way to entertain children, so ... HAPPY HALLOWEEN! With these words, or who knows what else with this hope there is going to decorate shops, parties, teaching English to children in mododivertente, or improvise some disguised in school, or office. "Meanwhile," My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge "(Hosea 4:6), as is the case for magic and tuttoquanto the wheel around and including the next new age (pranotherapy, Bach flowers, pyramids, profumoterapia, music therapy, reiky courses, etc.): Most personeanche of the Catholic, do not know that violates the fundamental rules of the AB relationship with God: The 1st Commandment: "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." BEFORE YOU ACT, YOU KNOW, 1. THE MEANING - Halloween is the contracted form of the English "All Hallows'Eve day" that letteralmentesignifica Halloween .2. The applicant - Halloween, although not as it should be said, and a magical celebration (in fact, the magic and exercise power in a covert, against someone). The world of the occult so defines it: "It 's the most magical day of the year, and New Year around the esoteric world, is the most important holiday of the year for the followers of Satan."
contrast, the Bible says: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who change darkness into light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter "(Isaiah 5:20) .3. LEGEND - The ancient Irish legend says that Jack, a blacksmith wicked, perverse and stingy, a night of All Saints, after yet another drink, he was seized by a fatal attack of liver cirrhosis. The devil in claim his soul is tricked by Jack and is forced to satisfy some of his wishes, including leaving it in life, coming to an agreement to waive the soul of the reprobate. Jack, unaware of the effect of the disease, died a year later. Rejected in Paradise, Jack has no place even in hell because of the pact with the devil. A way of ritual the poor man carving a large putting greens in the flaming fire to the place of eternal damnation. This lantern, Jack, ghost, come back into the world of vivi.4. TRADITION - The Irish hit by famine, immigrated to America around 1850. Landed in the New World, they found a huge amount of sugar that, unlike native dellepiccole turnips were large enough to be carved. So the pumpkin replaced the turnip and became the Jack O'Lantern. Use the night of All Saints' Day because it was believed to ward off the restless spirits of the dead who were trying, like Jack, to go home. Children dress up as today's restless spirits, who can not find "peace" in the Paradise and visits to families are led by lantern pumpkin and get sweets exchange for their "kindness". "Trick-or-treat" is the custom of "trick or treat." Trick or treat literally means "trick or fun," "trick or pleasure," but that the original meaning of "curse or sacrifice" .5. HISTORICAL FACTS - The Legend of Jack dark hidden historical facts and, in a magical way, aims to evoke. Some centuries before Christ, a secret he kept under his empire the Celtic world. Each year, October 31st, Halloween day, this celebration in honor of their pagan gods, a festival of death. The elders of the sect went from house to house demanding deals for their god, and it happened that demanding human sacrifices. In case of refusal, uttered the curse of death on the house, hence was born the "trick or treat" 6. Considerations on the ... READ: This is mounted on the double lie that man can be more cunning of the devil and that the gates of Inferis close to someone. Also develops in satanic practices: Ask the devil the fulfillment of desires, unpatto do with the devil, Satan's mandate to make themselves known to mankind, esoterica.TRADIZI0NE ritual: the phenomenon of Halloween, the tradition, customs and trade, is a set rituals and the practice of witchcraft is for those who do so knowingly or no.STORIA: the story behind the phenomenon reveals that there have been Halloween satanic rituals and sacrifices. In our day sappiamoche the satanic practice of human sacrifice during this notte.7. Warning: Halloween is 'substantial MAGIA.S' requires un'irremovibile stance on all that is served up to Halloween and magic genere.Consideriamo that the words we proclaim, the gestures we make, the looks that we are not neutral, but signify the spiritual reality that they represent.
Parents, we are careful to let our children become accustomed, or even worse, be educated in the occult.
Teachers, informiamoci the truth hidden behind the macabre creativity, we might offend, to our knowledge and without their knowledge, the students that there are davanti.Certe nursery rhymes that children must learn are the evocations spirit of death.
Young and old, we realized not to cling to the esoteric world through mass rituals, feasts such as those dedicated to Halloween, there are proposed. Some dance groups have initiation rituals satanic.
retailers and consumers, we have the courage to say NO to promote articles which, under the guise of the masked, disseminate and create esoteric mentality. Many items sold in the consumer products are amulets, or reproductions thereof, used in witchcraft.
Christians, let us not be misled by apparent traditions and fashions, but we hold high the victory that overcomes the world, our faith (cf. 1 John 5:4). Do not forget that the disastrous consequences inhalation magic are not immediate but become apparent after many years in depression, crisis and violenze.8. SYMBOLS - Bats, cats blacks, the full moon, witches, ghosts ... these symbols have little to do with Samhain vigiliadi. However, these symbols used in the occult world who have found a place "natural" to "Halloween." The full moon is the perfect time to practice certain rituals occult. Cats blacks are associated with witches because of superstition, it was believed that witches could transfer their minds into a cat, and for this reason they always had one. Are attributed to the bats ability occulteperchè have characteristics of a bird (which are symbols hidden in the world soul) and the devil (because they live in darkness). In the Middle Ages it was believed that the devil is often transformed into a bat. Thus becomes clear why the bat has become part of Halloween. The origins of Halloween are closely related to magic, witchcraft and Satanism. The followers of Satanism and magic recognize the December 31 one of the most important days of the year: on the eve of a new year for witchcraft. Because of its roots and essence of the occult influence Halloween opens a door hidden in people's lives. The emphasis of Halloween is about fear, death, the spirits, witchcraft, violence, the demons. And children are very impressionable at this field. Many symbols are very clear in various products including food, in this period: swastikas, devils, etc..
The Word of God, the teachings of all the Catholic Tradition, by Christian primecomunità to date are very clear, 150 are the passages of Sacred Scripture from the leaf (never abolished by Jesus Christ) to the New Testament, prohibit the use of more or less oblivious to magical practices, esoteric, occult, spiritualist, and so on. For example, Deuteronomy, in chapter 18, verses 9-14 says: "When you enter the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, do not learn to commit the abominations of the nations that abitano.Non be found among you anyone who sacrifices, passing them off the fire, his son or his daughter, or who face spells, or who consults the spirits and soothsayers, nor who interrogate the dead, that whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord ... Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God, because the nations which you go in to occupy the country, listen to the soothsayers and magicians, but as for you, so do not you allowed the Lord your God. "In essence, the night of Halloween , those who participate in various "celebrations" in one way or another more or less unconsciously are actual rituals that make contact with spirits, which are nothing more than the fallen angels: the demons. The spiritual structure that surrounds man, comecreatura fact is very simple: there is God the only Son Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit (the Triune God), the Angels (in different hierarchies) and the fallen angels, that the demons with their boss: Lucifer, who became Satan. Then there are the souls of the Offences-Saints, Purgatory, and those damned to hell. The man and an embodied spirit, composed of three distinct components: soul, body and spirito.9. HOPE - Despite the harsh reality of phenomena such as Halloween, we must say of the great hope cheviene by Faith Christian Church, its also divided into many new and emerging reality, the Holy Spirit is also raising the birth, training and growth of Christian communities within the Catholic Church. Community who work with parishes, bringing new vitality evangelica.Sempre younger, although this news did not say, but you www.papaboys.it, are discovering and accepting Jesus, Messiah, Savior and Lord and want to dedicate their lives to Him. More and more families, after experience of the Holy Spirit want to live where to find food allafame experience of communion that today, the world complaint.
Faith is necessary to experience God's love but not enough, it takes the community, the Church and variety in his joints and anti-charging calls. "No fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, rather than report it openly." I want to do the will Papaboys of God and therefore make this work of information, proper, and we believe it useful, even for the Church's own structures, often unaware of the above. Also several Italian bishops in dioceses are spreading informazioniriportate.Molti groups, movements, Catholic associations, the night of October 31 will gather in prayer or Christian festivals organized with the participation of alternative groups, singers and songwriters of contemporary Christian music of various genres and particularly, on that occasion, a contemporary Praise and Worship.

Halloween as the EU constitution ( Mario Mauro Vice President of European Parliament )
Il Giornale, Liguria edition, 06 November 2005 p.2Nella his homily for the Solemnity of All Saints, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has wisely pointed out the exaggerated role that is given to the so-called Halloween. It is indeed regrettable that public institutions such as the Municipality of Genoa and the East Central District, have favored such an event, ephemeral and purely commercial. This gives us an important starting point for reflection on the tasks of the institutions and the importance of our roots. We look to the European Constitution. The problem is the cement of our continent on which to build European integration. The problem is setting up a daughter of a generation of politicians are afraid of everything and its opposite, because the logic of the folded consent and the exercise of power as an end in itself, devoid of high ideals. A clear sign that the biggest problem is the inability to restore the dignity of the peoples of Europe. For too long, everything was sacrificed to Europe bureaucracies much more widespread and pervasive that the only bureaucracy in Brussels. Hopelessly bureaucratic enemies of their people, much to tolerate the moral and cultural desertification. For institutions at all levels of government will be seeking an urgent duty to answer the question "What do you believe in Europe?". Europe is a continent not fully grasped in terms of geography, but a cultural and historical concept. The man must be aware on the ultimate meaning of things. This is a battle for freedom, the battle of our time to make our company a free society than the models fundamentalists and relativists towards which we are dangerously avvicinando.06/11/2005

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Conference in Rome Friday, Oct. 26: A form and face of the Italian Risorgimento

The resurgence is a milestone in the history of our country. But behind the facade of the celebrations and commemorations lies another story: a story of ambiguity, uncomfortable and a little-known history dominated by occult powers and ideologies.

spoke Gulisano Paolo (historian and essayist)

Friday, October 26

in the parish of St. Martin Pope

Via Veii, 37 (S. Giovanni) Rome

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DOMINATED CULTURE. THE MODERN 'is the current' THE LIGHT CHRISTIAN EVENT

cycle of meetings: " DOMINATED CULTURE ". Second year 0.2007-2008 " Modernity and its timeliness in light of the Christian event .

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For the second consecutive year, " Culture Dominated "Offers a percorsoattraverso the issues and the ongoing challenges and fascinating inun'otticarealmente alternative to the dominant culture." Place and time of meetings: - All meetings will be held at 21:00, at the church of St. Martin I Pope, Via Veio n.37 - (S. Giovanni area), Rome.

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Calendar of events: Friday, 26 October2007

: MASK AND THE FACE OF THE ITALIAN NATIONAL REVIVAL ( Paolo Gulisano, historical Wise ) -

Friday, November 30, 2007: ideologies of the twentieth century and their roots anti-Christian ( Adolfo Morganti, historical Wise ) -

Friday, January 25, 2008: THE OTHER SIDE OF MODERNITY: L 'HIDDEN BY THE NEW AGE MASONRY ( Giancarlo Marletta, essayist, historical ) -

Friday, February 29, 2008: DARWINISM: FROM FAILURE TO SUCCESS SCIENTIFIC IDEOLOGICAL ( Giovanni Monastra, Biologist ) -

Friday, March 28, 2008: each pulse 'RIGHT? The IDEOLOGIALIBERTINA BY THE MARQUIS DE SADE GAY PRIDE ( Adolfo Morganti, psychologist ) -

Friday, April 18: FUNDAMENTAL: PARODY OF MODERN RELIGION ( Louis Cupertino, journalist and essayist ) -

Friday 9Maggio: INFORMATION OR MANIPULATION? The mass media and mass consciousness ( Mauro Mazza, Director of TG2 )

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Catholic faith, secularism and secularism (Adversus G. Zagrebelsky)

Di Cosmo Intini

(Part Three)

The worst blasphemy of secularism is perhaps precisely this: to deny the Church to act in truth "name" and then "of faith" Christ Jesus! Here's how it is still critical: "If his people (the Church) are attributed to the full possession of so confusing it with the spirit world that they are, how can the Church not also apply to the inexorable law of all the institutions 'secular' to fouling is the corruption of their members and, ultimately, I'm overwhelmed? At the beginning of the third millennium, Pope John Paul II has deemed it necessary to ask God's forgiveness for an impressive string of misdeeds of the Catholic Church, all caused by admixture of faith and worldly power. It 'was an admission of guilt to the past but nothing prevents other admissions to assume that tomorrow will be repeated with regard to our present, when it also passed. "[I]
introduce reflections on the primary way by which to understand the "Day of Forgiveness", expressly desired by John Paul II celebrated March 12, 2000, we would be inappropriate and excessive digressions: therefore disclaim there! But we can not remain silent about the distortion and bias with which the subject is here introduced by Zagrebelsky. This request for forgiveness is in fact re-read instrumentally by secularism and taken as an excuse to justify their anti-clericalism, as clear evidence of both the "fallibility" of the Catholic Church as the "wickedness" of its hierarchy, generally prone to collusion of convenience with powerful politicians! "The Church of Christ reduced at the table of a game, "[II] will say elsewhere in the tone of an outraged right-thinking!
But things are not so, because forgiveness is not invoked by the Church as an institute for itself, but for all their children, nor to endorse a kind of "historical revisionism", but for the purification of memory, and even to judge individuals responsible, but to reiterate its general faith in God's mercy
Having thus tried in various ways to deny the Church the actual and lawful possession of His attributes of "unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolic, "just then throws Zagrebelsky finally the mask to reveal the real purpose of aggressive secularism against the Catholic hierarchy: the de-legitimization, through it, the Church in its entirety. He says immediately after: "... we can say that ... the reduction of Christianity is a sin in the Church (sic) against the spirit." [III]
We are still the usual opportunistic contradictions! Christianity can not be reduced to the Church, yet when it suits them, The one recognizes a certain credit related to that: "... (Christianity) over the centuries has caused moments of terrible oppression, now condemned by the Church itself! [IV ] So, with "liberal magnanimity" The sweetener is allowed at least: "What is it? So ... the Church recognize the full right to participate, together with others, the definition of our collective identity, but in moral equality with any other party without the Christian name would justify a claim of incontestable. "[V] Despite
" prudery "shown on several occasions by Zagrebelsky - for example in stating to worry about providing" a solid ground to establish the harmony between believers and nonbelievers that we seek, "[VI] or even later recognized where" open the scope of a broader partnership ... (whose) job are called, at the same time and with the same responsibility to the democratic coexistence, and lay believers "[VII] - if the claim is that it must speak with the secularism that longs to bring the Catholic Church to compromise in the name of a dialogue "which is actually only put partisanship on the basis of their relativism. Since there can never be any dialogue between two parties but only sterile monologue, unless you decide to donate at least advance the same meaning to the terminology to be used and to recognize the same value to the concepts that are put in place, well, a closer examination it is established as a secular democracy by nature a priori attitude "Anti-dialogue," because it allows everyone from the outset the "Babel" legitimacy of each based on their language! Get words to the Church to surrender their spiritual incontestable in the name of such a "distorted" dialogue is not only symbolic in its offensiveness and its arrogance, but it is also indicative of a conscious deception: what it is intended that, with the ' deception, to silence her forever submerged by the "noisy" chaos of relativism!
E 'in this context only, and not otherwise, that can and should be read in fact sharing Zagrebelsky shows that enthusiastic about the ideas of D. Bonhoeffer, Protestant theologian, when these "... the draft outlines of a theology 'without God' or, more precisely, a theology that leaves the God of religion, personified by the historic churches ...: a theology that makes it possible even if, indeed, precisely because the God of religion does not exist (anymore). In the 'age of majority of the world', a world that 'sufficient unto itself' and 'work without God', and no less well than before thanks to the extraordinary development of scientific, ethical and artistic they are even able to exorcise the ' extreme fear of death by treatment of the psyche (sic) - Bonhoeffer says - There is no place for the deus ex machina of religion because it has failed ... this God who proclaim the truth from the cross, the throne of the world, opens the time of faith in suffering God 'who allows himself to kick off the world '(sic) and we know that free and problematically purified by faith, and selfless' demythologizing.' "[VIII]
Given the fact that the" throne of Christ in the world "is the" throne of Peter, "Well "kick God out of this world" precisely equivalent to "undo the Catholic Church"! Words of such a "monstrosity" may not be short uttered only by those who intend to replace Jesus Christ with that famous "prince" who is master of "this world"!

smuggle everything behind a screen to presume what might be the "dialogue" between believers and nonbelievers means distorting the real and most correct meaning that is implied in that term! The question invites us to a words needed clarification in the light of the fact that it "dialogue", whose implementation is, however, still hoped for from his own Church, as is too often a misunderstanding of the topics on which to base its demagogic secularism claims. In this case
demagogy is to ride the incorrect assumption that the "dialogue", in accordance with the principle of egalitarianism and libertarianism "- passed off as" equality and freedom "- represents the democratistic" discussion process in which two opposites are developing a unit to be replaced by a higher time synthesis! However it should be objected that this definition lies in reality the term "dialectic" than that of "dialogue", which means but its etymology with a very different meaning and significance!
there is to say first that the claim of "non-believers secularists", mounted in the wake of statements by the council, having to use right to a dialogue with the Catholic Church on a par with any "dialogue" - an attitude that it is on the other hand more and more specifically accepted by the Church itself, precisely after Vatican II, as vital sign availability of duty to the Catholic faithful of other religions in the light of recognition in the latter the actual presence of "elements of truth and goodness" - in an unlawful postulates by overlapping each other quite different contexts (cultural systems and religions ) betrays, once again, the perpetration dell'inconfessata hoax, which has already mentioned above, made from a conception of democracy idolatrous. But apart from this, although it is true that "the right to freedom of conscience and especially religious freedom, proclaimed by the Declaration Dignitatis Humanae, is based on the ontological dignity of the human person and in no way on a non-existent equality among religions and between human cultural systems, "[ix] But neither the non-Catholic religious doctrines nor cultural ones, however erroneous, then the council have the same value. On the contrary, "the affirmation of freedom of conscience and religious freedom does not contradict the condemnation of indifference to and religious relativism by Catholic doctrine, is indeed fully consistent with it. "[X]
So what is the sense with which to understand the desire on the part of the Catholic Church to establish a" dialogue "with those to which nothing can give your teaching that could lead to the slightest renunciation is the centrality of Jesus Christ than himself, as his only true church? Perhaps never before in this case is illuminating to consider the etymology of the term according to it are issues that are more immediately!
Well, it derives from the greek dia-logos, "dialogue" literally means "through, through, because of the word. " Therefore, since in this case the word that is uttered by the Spirit of Truth through the Church of Christ, then it coincides precisely with what usually is expressed with the Greek word "Logos": namely, the Word, the word absolute, the Christ itself. This word is then given by the Catholic Church to be "dialectically" inserted in a debate, but much more precisely to be "announced" and that is what is really the "dialogue par excellence! After all the greek dialegomai verb, the noun from which it originates Dialogos, means precisely "Conversely, speak, reason, explain; while for its part the same noun Dialogos translates, in one of its most ancient meanings, even "hearing"! From this it follows that if ultimately the most proper concept of "dialogue" does not make any sense at all "imposition", however it does not even make any sense of "debatable"!
The Catechism states that the conviction of the Church can and must operate the dialogue with other religions and with non-believers, has its basis in the belief that human reason "can and should know God." [XI ] And also it is said: "The missionary activity (which can certainly also be added the pure and simple testimony, note) implies a respectful dialogue with those who do not yet accept the Gospel ... If it (the believers) proclaim the Good News to those who ignore it, is to consolidate, complement and elevate the true and good God has distributed among men and peoples, and to purify them from error and evil. "[xii]
When secularism (and through it the democratism) stands the principle of dialogue to his chief virtue, however, accusing the Church Catholic is a fault, does in fact a triple anti-Christian hoax: appropriates a value in an absolute sense belongs only to the Church of the Logos; subverts this value must be given a meaning quota that is not the real one, and the "return it to sender", so to speak, by availing themselves as an instrument of revenge and revolt. Behold, what do you think Zagrebelsky: "Democracy is the possibility of research must mobilize against those who reject dialogue, tolerance, denies, search only the power, believed to be always right. Criticism of democracy and goodness - as open-minded attitude of the common discourse, which seeks not to persuade but to win and is willing to be convinced - certainly is the cardinal virtue. But only the Son of God could be as gentle as a lamb. In politics, the gentleness, not to be as mocking stupidity, must be Under a mutual. If not, at some point before the end, we must break the silence and to cease to be. "[XIII]
derives from that observed in short all the 'unreliability" of the secularist-democratic constitution, with good availability, to have received a dialogue with the Catholic Church, and what precisely the nature Vistani apart, by his own admission, retention of each to make their case except in the light of resentment and rebellion! Beyond the apparent calmness of those words that praise the gentleness, the ambiguity in which it falls when you declare Zagrebelsky democratically "willing to be convinced," shows indeed a clear hypocrisy. First, because it is neither operable nor appropriate to a too easy equation of attitude that is "available to the change of opinion" - that is devoid of any real effort of abdication, operated by those who, like him, just think relativistically in the equal validity of different "opportunities" - with the ontological impossibility for the Church to "be convinced" to change their beliefs on issues that are contrary to the truth. And also because it establishes clearly that the difference is to be placed between the so-called "mild" from the vaunted secularism - However, he wrongly assumed the role of a "cardinal virtue", that it is actually more precisely one of the twelve fruits of the Holy Spirit (see Galatians 5:22-23 vulgar.) - And "gentleness" Christian that it is relativized (once again) from being able and wanting to exist only in reciprocity, this is absolute for its existence ever fin'anche in martyrdom! The fan
need and duty of the so-called "mild democratic" to finally stand up to "break the silence and to cease to be, with his proud conviction of never having to comply to avoid the danger of being nell'umiliante mistaken for "weakness" (which is really the true sense of the word "stupidity"), betrays a rather ill-concealed the existence of a vocation to want to impose on each other with the "strength". It does not matter the cross-specification that anything is true in a more specifically "political"! In fact, the irreverent and casual mention of the mildness of the "son of god" (written symbolically all lower case), in the irony that puts you on the edge of blasphemy confirms that Zagrebelsky, the much desired deference to the rules secularist must be implemented and also taken by those who persist in wanting to recognize Christ as their model: starting from the hierarchy then! And that this is an explicit reference to the Church, is also confirmed by his further statement, "The Church wants to be 'dialoguing'. Unfortunately, however, adopted a friendly attitude exterior, the interior does not seem changed. The parties continue to be considered not as different but as the lower the moral and rational. "[Xiv] For
Zagrebelsky therefore the Church" rejects dialogue, denies tolerance, the only real power, believes being right: "... the other party non-Catholic, the Church, is one who, in morality and rationality, is worth little or nothing, is that the circumstances lead to a bear (sic), but for which you'd rather avoid ... The dialogue is not a question of conviction but expediency dictated by force majeure or tactical reasons. "[xv] As a result, apart from the contradictory question whether or not the actual tolerance of the Church, those who are oppressed by it with arrogance, there is nothing legitimate that "rebellion"!
We observe in this regard and what one might read in the light of a full-blown case of nomen omen, that such a character prone to "revolt" against the hierarchy Catholic repeatedly revealed itself to be Zagrebelsky, nightspots curiously harmonious reflected in the fact that the decomposition of his name comes out the word "rebel-sky", which in English translates to "rebel to heaven! While "-zag", for its part, is significant relevance with the German "zach" which means "pointy thing" as well as with the English "Zaga", "rear, tail." Moreover, the "zig-zag" means "snake" and Russian "zagovor" translates "conspiracy" but also "exorcism"! We call this
perhaps some process, and then some also issue a verdict? Absolutely not, because it is not our intention to judge, but only express contingencies even singular objective. Moreover, because the positivist and materialist secularism could never condescend to consider such operations semantic nothing more than play games without any scientific sense, and then practice!
However, in a surprising way Zagrebelsky just let go a reflection of this kind: "It happens sometimes ... however, that the Catholic side, even upper class, is invoked today to allegations of collusion demonic, not just a manner of speaking (the reduction figures in the faith of symbols is doomed) waves, the writer This article may be an adept, at best irresponsible, of Satan. "[XVI]
The speech here is inserted in the larger context of the" moral issue "which should not ask for Zagrebelsky" ... in terms of a trivial list of merits and demerits. No one should venture to assert the primacy of this kind. There can be a competition like this, where all risk of leaving battered. "[Xviii] In other words, according Zagrebelsky the Catholic hierarchy (the Catholic" upper class "), already the victim of his eccepibilità a moral, not with arrogance to recognize the moral superiority of Christianity precisely - Let alone in its - on secularism, however, silenced him, in extreme cases, even explicit collusion with evil! And to substantiate its argument concludes, "postulates an external moral, provided by an authority, even as the divine father, means, in the great conversation about freedom that occupies a famous chapter (II, 5, 5) of the Karamazov, right and wrong to give the Inquisitor to Christ. "[XVIII]
not go into details an analysis of the highly praised here," famous chapter of Dostoevsky's novel, nor a contradiction with the numerous entries that secularist, riding content note "Legend of the Grand Inquisitor, which is alluded to here, they also endeavor to establish and then confirm (for them) whether there is a rift between Christ and His Church hierarchy (in this case personifies the Inquisitor), Church therefore charged with having just it, an identity "antichrist." For an instant refutation of these slanderous statements, that claims against any temptation to recognize and enact any truth content of the text in question all we need only observe that it is not, nor can it claim that it is more than what is his due be: a narrative and non-sacred, a representation made by human invention and certainly not a writing attributed to a divine revelation! A
Zagrebelsky But like almost convinced of the "sacred" authority of the text, much to mention it as a model in more than one occasion [XIX] and even the publication of devoting an entire essay, thus forging a "truth" ad hoc and demanding also that it will be accepted by Catholics themselves as the most suitable for them!
The confusion between truth and verisimilitude, the latter being the only quality that can be granted for a novel, although it is subject of philosophical and religious, goes hand in hand with confusion perpetrated repeatedly between "morality" individual and "moral law" to him outside! If the first is indicative of the freedom enjoyed by the human person as such, ie owner to act according to a review of consciousness may suggest that, by virtue of greater or lesser reason, acts of "good or bad", while the second is the "work of divine wisdom ... a father's teaching, a pedagogy of God, "[XX], which is ratified, that" issued by competent authority for the common good ... It presupposes the rational order established among creatures ... It 's declared and established by reason as a participation in the providence of the living God, Creator and Redeemer of all. The sort of reason (the Logos, note), here is what is called the law. "[Xxi] This repeats the word autonomy, freedom, but not the independence of morality to moral law, and the specification value of a response to all questions and doubts raised in a purely artistic and philosophical point of doctrine and theology, including the novel by Dostoyevsky, in which the investigator represents, but is certainly not the Church, and the prisoner is, but certainly is not Jesus!

Even the morality of human beings who make up the hierarchy can not circumvent the requirements of "addiction" the "moral law" is obvious! But the claim of legitimacy accuse them of speaking "on behalf" of the moral law and thus effectively ratify the principles, though moral imperfection of human nature, well, this means will, in a subtle, reject the divinity of Jesus Christ giving him only his humanity! But the mystery is this: Christ is God, he is a man! And according to both people, human and divine, will always be next to the church: "I am with you always, until the end of the world" (Mt 28:20)! It 's just the "great tempter" who can seduce a lie, it is only the "big mystifying" that can instill doubt, it is only the "great rebel" that can incite to revolt!
Certainly, at the end of all this discussion against the temptation, deception, rebellion secularist, we do not want to hide the crisis of morality and authority in recent times suffered from the hierarchy. But if your morals are in crisis, namely the ability to adhere to the moral law, and His authority, ie the ability to gain the popular view, however, can not be called into question his authority in dispensing really the moral law.
On the other hand this is not even have to worry that the faithful lay, in part because "... that servant who knew his master's will, and does not have according to the will of him, will be severely whipped, and he who does not know, but work to deserve the beating, shall receive a less. Much will be required of one who has received a lot, and the more you require from one to whom much has been entrusted "(Lk 12, 47-48). This represents a clear warning to the "shepherds" whose leadership has been "entrusted with the flock of Christ! Warning which, if not absolve the flock, at least release him from a lot of responsibility!
On the other hand, in a somewhat "mirror" well that deserves mention is made here that passage of Gaudium et Spes, which recognizes that "... the power of God often shows the strength in the weakness of the witnesses of the Gospel" (IV, 76)! Which is this time an "encouragement" at all the believers not to despair, while not exonerating them from their responsibilities.
As the only true believers and therefore "secular," because their desire not to be confused with the atheists "secularists," we can not and must not fall into the same trap to operate their "de-legitimizing" anti-Christian game: namely that there would be a problem would be attributable to the exclusive responsibility of the hierarchy. Apply rather than the repeated calls that are persistently (if not begging) come from a certain part of the hierarchy itself, because it remedies the lack of effective presence of a strong proposal and determined that it is in fact "purely and legitimately lay "and, therefore, aimed to" protect "the Church in the world and the world. This is indeed the primary function of the laity, the "ministry" that is relevant to them! Val
well to remember what precisely should write Attilio Mordini:
"Saying no intention of moving this process to the clergy. The problem concerns only the laity, and the causes are to be found in the affirmation of Guelphism. By the clergy, indeed, there have been many laudable attempts to change the situation for the better, but everything is useless unless you climb to the very root causes ... Responding to the needs of their time meant, in the era of Christianity and equestrian really militant , fight for ever and ever, and with the same tenacity, heresies typical of the moment, and then establish a civil system suitable for the defense of institutions and souls from the disease which in turn rushed to the Church. But in modern times, to live their time means, in practice, comply with the heresies of the century looking a modus vivendi with them, provided that it is prejudice to comply with the precepts of the Church. For a long time, organizations of the Catholic laity were no longer ongoing at the advent of the enemies of Christianity and civilization in a word, Catholics were no longer able to fight. "[Xxii]
We conclude, therefore, , summing up the thought: today lacks the Cavalry that could stand as a defensive bulwark against the wiles Antichrist who aim to dismantle the castrum of the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ aedificium; those pitfalls of which secularism is precisely democratistic the ram to break through and which Zagrebelsky has proven to be one of the most dangerous bearers!

September 29, 2007 (the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, patron of chivalry)

Cosmo Intini
Assoc. Studies of Chivalry "St. Joseph of the Lioness"




[I] Idem, pg.87.
[II] Idem, pg.159.
[III] Idem, pg.87.
[IV] Idem, pg.48.
[V] Idem, pg.87.
[VI] Idem, pg.17.
[VII] Idem, pg.23.
[VIII] Idem, pg.18.
[ix] Doctrinal Note of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of 24/11/2002.
[X] Ibid.
[XI] See Catechism of the CC, 39.
[XII] Idem, 856.
[XIII] G. Zagrebelsky, The Crucify and democracy, Einaudi, Torino 1995.
[xiv] The State and the Church, op.cit., Pg.146.
[XV] Idem, pg.148.
[XVI] Idem, pg.146.
[xviii] Ibid.
[XVIII] Idem, pg.147.
[xix] See idem, pgg.23, 118, 146, 147.
[XX] Catechism of the CC, 1950.
[XXI] Idem, 1951.
[XXII] A. Mordini, The temple of Christianity. For a rhetoric of history, The Circle, Rimini 2006, p.139.