The "blood of the martyrs becomes the world" then as now, and this transformation is accomplished in new ways, even at this moment, in which Christ, the only Son of God, the world must come with the fall of the gods, with the pain, the martyrdom of witnesses. " Benedict XVI said yesterday in his meditation, boom, at the opening of the first day of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East.
"We think - said the Pope - to the great powers of history today, we think of the anonymous who enslave the human capital, which are no longer human thing, but an anonymous power which are men, which are plagued by men and even murdered. I am a destructive power that threatens the world. "
The Pope then pointed the finger at "the power of terrorist ideologies." "Apparently in the name of God is carried out violence, but it is not God, are false gods, that must be exposed, not God, and then drugs, this power that, like a voracious beast, extends his hands on all parts of the earth and destroy: is a deity, but a false god, that must fall. Or even the way we live propagated by the public: now you do this, the marriage no longer matters, chastity is no longer a virtue, and so on. " These ideologies that dominate, he added, "they are gods. And in the sorrow of the saints, in the pain of believers, the Mother Church of which we are part, must fall "so as to fulfill what St. Paul writes in the Letters to the Colossians and Ephesians, the dominations, the powers they fall and become subjects of ' one Lord Jesus Christ. " "Otherwise the shaky foundations of the earth." We see this today with climate change. "Shaky foundation exterior - he warns - because the shaky foundations of inner, moral and religious foundations, the faith from which it follows the right way to live."
The Pope recalled that in addition to the testimony, there is the "communion" between the various Christian churches, Catholic traditions, spirituality, liturgy and disciplines (in addition to Latin America, there are the Coptic Church, the Syrian, Greek-Melkite , Maronite, Chaldean and Armenian), indicated as a great treasure to be preserved throughout the universal Church.
Unfortunately we live in a time when many "gods" are not only still standing in the world, which is their kingdom, but also within the Church. We think:
- obscuring of the fundamental truths of Faith Apostolic
- generalized to hero of careerism;
- to slavery by the dominant ideologies;
- the 'social' put first instead of the true worship of God which is the primary function of the Church and from which the personal and collective history of life that animates it innervates healthy and constructive relations;
- the trivialization of the sacred;
- enslavement to a theology that does not have Christ at the center, but the man and affect of "views" the Catholic truth
remember that the "martyrs" not only those who shed blood, which is 'seed' of believers, but also those who are 'witnesses', with all their lives, lived in faith and offer, in real life the Lord has placed them, those who love Truth and preserve with a sincere heart, those who suffer the agony of the Church and of our time in the darkness that continues to shine the light of Christ that no darkness can ever charm. Recall that the center of human affairs is the incarnation of Christ, presented by the Pope through the motherhood of Mary was proclaimed "mother of God" (Theotokos ) from the Council of Ephesus, with a title remained dear to popular devotion of Eastern Christians , the whose traditions are likely heavily polluted by a "new evangelization" so new as to be "other," shaping generations of "differently-Catholics" . Recall that the Kingdom is already here, is among us and with us:
... From his fullness we all received, grace upon grace
. Because the law
was given through Moses, grace and truth
came through Jesus Christ.
God no one has ever seen
only Son, that
is in the bosom of the Father,
has revealed him. ( from the prologue of John)
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