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La morte di Maria e quel segreto che cambia tutto
Maria, la prima dei credenti, è la prima dei risorti. Dopo il Calvario e la presenza nel cenacolo Gerusalemme, non sappiamo più nulla di lei nei testi neotestamentari. La tradizione la vuole accanto a Giovanni, il discepolo a cui Gesù l’affidò come madre dalla croce....
Descent into hell passage (removed) of resurrection
It is a sign that life is born where all seems lost. The abyss (evil stubbornly desired and good stubbornly rejected) is debated in Catholic theology; it exists as a possibility of freedom. To avert it, the revelation of God's love Descent of...
Turning to see the Risen One: a new existence that attracts us
The experience of Jesus showing up with a body very different from the one they had known upsets the apostles. But it has the power to imprint the turning point of conversion on their (and our) lives Correggio, “Noli me tangere” (1525). Madrid, Museo del Prado...
Resurrection is not new life, but full realization of this
Faced with the promise of eternal existence, the question is not whether we will continue to touch each other, look at each other, feel each other, but how we will touch each other, look at each other, feel each other Sunrise over the Roman Castles/ SICILIANS Is it even possible to “peek” inside Heaven? What do you mean.
È sulla compassione per i poveri che si gioca tutto il “giudizio finale”
The decisive confrontation, the “face-to-face” with God, does not take place in a setting of heroic and extraordinary gestures, but in the everydayness and banality of encounters with those who are weak and poor The Pantocrator Christ of Cefalù Cathedral In death we present ourselves...
Getting back together to talk about death can make us less lonely
Removing the perspective of the decisive passage of life, which spans the whole of existence, impoverishes us and makes us less human. A theme that needs to be shared / ICP Death is a decisive passage: that of the threshold that opens to “eternal life.” It is not...
Eternity, a wedding banquet to which everyone was invited
Between hedonism and the eternal present of modern societies, the desire to re-propose the utopia of Christianity to recall the ultimate destination: not survival, but fullness of life The Stone of Anointing in the Holy Sepulcher. On this stone it is believed that...
We can learn every day how to stand by those who die
It is good to get used to being close to each other already in life, especially to the frail and weak At certain times more than norms we need love, warmth, tenderness, to be there A home visit to an elderly person/ SICILIANS The...
Sister death: hostile experience that unites us before the limit
St. Francis invited us to welcome it because only in this way can it be prevented from taking away our hope and love. Becoming a point of maximum closeness of man with God. Not an end, but the passage to the Eternal St. Francis and Death, panel dated 1310 /Alamy «Mortals, do not...
Because without a beyond-human, life does not fulfill its promises
If contemporary culture marked by narcissism has led to a loss of desire about eternal life, Christianity must take up this challenge and meet it with creativity and courageWe are all mortal, but not because of death. Or, as Hannah Arendt liked to say:...
A dignified old age for all is also staying at home
Law 33, which reorganizes the form of care by looking at the local area and the homes of the elderly, is beginning to be implemented. A health and cultural challenge beyond RSAs Elderly couple in their home/ SICILIANS There is a need for new thinking,...
Even in old age, the spirit can turn to the future
Joy is still possible by approaching fullness. For if the physical declines, we can gain in wisdom and spirituality. Without nostalgia for the past «Old age is a time of embers, not ashes.» Thus, Saint-John Perse, a French poet, liked to define...