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Festivity of All Saints:
vision of Paradise


Our calendar reminds us every single day the name of one saint, which is equivalent to our name, "Feast Day". The Church gives very much importance to the feast of  All Saints that celebrates every year on the first day of November. This festivity reminds us the stupendous reality of the vision of paradise when the crowds of saints together with myriads of Angels live in the eternal vision the beatitude of God.
 
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We catholics have a certain familiarity of the early earthly church accomplished in our daily life with the parish - the minister of God- the good and the charitable deeds.

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When we hear to speck about the heavenly church we are perplexed because we do not have referable points to find with our understanding.

St. Augustin said "We can not separate the earthly church from the heavenly church".

Infact the liturgy calls the day of death "Dies Natalis" which is the moment we wíl) be borne to the eternal beatidude,because as St. Gregory the Great says "The Holy church has two lives : one earthly life and another eternal life."

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The pagans that dici not have the concept of eternal life they had as a base of their existence the "Carpe Diem" that is "try to enjoy in every way this earthely life because after death everything will be over".

How sublime is our faith that reminds us the words of Jesus Christ who before returning definitively to God our Father said "I will prepare a piace for each one of you".



Let us conquere it with a honest and correct life with acceptance of daily problems; only in this way we wili be one day together with the saints in the eternal beatitude.



Lord help us to understand that the true realization is the one we become Saints; that we may be sustained on our way towards the heavenly City and help me to overcome the difficultys of daily life.


Translation by
Institute Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Chest

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AS VIAS DO ESPIRITO

Solenidade de Pentecostes

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Solenidade de Pentecostes
8 Junho 2014
Uma reflexão


Tema do Domingo de Pentecostes O tema desse domingo é, evidentemente, o Espirito Santo. Dom de Deus a todos os crentes, o Espirito dá vida, renova, transforma, constroe comunidades e faz nascer o Homem Novo. O Evangelho apresenta-nos a comunidade cristã reunida à volta de Jesus ressuscitado.  Para João essa comunidade passa a ser uma comunidade viva, recriada, nova, a partir do dom do Espirito. É o Espirito que permite aos crentes superar o medo e as limitações e dar tesetemunho no mundo desse amor que Jesus viveu até as ultimas consequências.



Codice shinistaT

THE WAYS OF THE SPIRIT

Song of Love

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Mary of Nazareth

You were there in silence,
Maybe in prayer;
With thoughts facing the future
And with the spring of life in the heart.
Poor house, rough walls, too narrow to accommodate
the expectations of better.
And Gabriel, the angel of light, said to You:
"Rejoice, your God wrapped you with love
and asks to turn your womb to the sky".

 

LOS CAMINOS DEL ESPIRITU

PENTECOSTÉS

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PENTECOSTÉS

“Entró Jesús, se puso en medio y les dijo: Paz”.
Estamos solos y tú, Espíritu Santo, orientas nuestra mirada hacia Jesús, que pone en medio de nosotros su gratuidad amorosa. Somos distintos y, a menudo distantes, pero tú haces que nos abrace a todos la paz de Jesús y surja, embellecida, la Iglesia como un signo de compasión y de ternura.
 Estamos decaídos y tú, Espíritu Santo, nos levantas, nos sacas fuera, a la calle, y nos empujas con tu viento a crear una nueva humanidad.
Tú nos regalas gestos sencillos y palabras de verdad para el camino. Te inventas caminos samaritanos para curar las heridas de los que sufren. Cuando todo parece perdido, tú abres caminos de esperanza. ¡Ven, Espíritu Santo!


WEGE DES GEISTES

I malati del Vangelo

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I malati del Vangelo

Gesù taumaturgo e amico dei malati che incontrò sul Suo cammino. Questi infelici abbondavano nei villaggi e nelle strade sulle quali transitò! Fra di essi, primeggiavano i lebbrosi, cioè i colpiti da un terribile mordo, di cui a noi moderni resta solo una debole eco, pur sapendo che in qualche parte del terzo mondo ancora imperversa (come sa benissimo il noto "Padre Lardo"). Dunque, sotto il nome di lebbra va detto che venivano indicate molte altre malattie che non avevano nulla a che fare con la lebbra ma che conosciamo noi: ad es. la tubercolosi ossea, l’elefantiasi e altre gravi affezioni della pelle che rendevano la persona particolarmente ripugnante.