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The Pope's Angelus: to fight against sin and the sinner saved



the Pope at the Angelus in St. Peter's Square today, recalling the first Sunday of Lent today, invited to seek True freedom, rediscovering the sense of sin, "a root cause of all evil." The real fight is against the spirit of evil must be opposed to sin, then, and save the sinner. The service Sergio Centofanti .

Lent in the Church is a spiritual journey of preparation for Easter. "This is - Said the Pope - to follow Jesus that goes straight to the Cross, the culmination of his mission of salvation ":

" If we ask ourselves: Why Lent? for the Cross', the answer in radical terms, is this: why is there evil, in fact, sin, which according to the Scriptures is the root cause of all evil. "

"But this statement - he continued - is not at all obvious, and the same word 'sin' is not accepted by many, because it assumes a religious vision of the world and of man":

"In fact it is true: If you remove God from the horizon of the world, one can not speak of sin. Like when you hide the sun, the shadows disappear, the shadow only appears if it's sunny, so the eclipse of God necessarily involves the eclipse of sin. So the sense of sin - which is something different from the 'guilt' as understood by psychology - you buy rediscovering the sense of God. "

"In the face of moral evil - said Benedict XVI - God's attitude is to oppose the sin and save the sinner"

"God does not tolerate evil because it is love, justice, loyalty, and for this reason does not want the death of the sinner, but that he be converted and live. To save humanity, God says to them: we see throughout the history of the Jewish liberation from Egypt. God is determined to free his children from bondage and lead them to freedom. And slavery more severe and deeper than it is sin. "

why God sent his Son into the world "to free men from the dominion of Satan, 'origin and cause of all sin'. He sent in our mortal flesh - the Pope said - that he might become an expiatory victim, dying on the cross for us, "

" Against this definitive and universal plan of salvation, the Devil has opposed with all his strength, as evidenced in particular the Gospel of temptations of Jesus in the desert, which is proclaimed every year in the First Sunday of Lent. In fact, entering this liturgical season means every time stand with Christ against sin, deal with - both as individuals and as a Church - the spiritual battle against the spirit of evil. "

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Lent: Awareness of the personal journey of holiness

Second day of Lenten spiritual exercises in the Vatican. The interview with the preacher, father Léthel



Benedict XVI and the Roman Curia are currently engaged in second day of the Lenten spiritual exercises. A day marked by Marian themes, but not limited to, compared to John Paul II. The title of the first of the three ideas proposed by the preacher - the Discalced Carmelite Father François-Marie Léthel - so says "The big science of the saints" (St. Louis Marie de Montfort) in Heaven as on Earth: Scientia blessed scientia fidei scientia amoris (from Fides et Ratio to Novo Millennium Ineunte). The cover the second meditation Totus Tuus Christocentric and Marian Karol Wojtyla, as a common thread throughout his life (Jn 19, 25-27, and Letter to the men and women religious of the Montfort Family of 8 December 2003), while the third meditation will be the glory of love, faith and hope experienced by John Paul II with Mary. During the week of spiritual exercises, which will end next Saturday, are suspended all the proceedings of the Pope, including the Wednesday general audience. Amedeo Lomonaco Léthel father asked the spirit in which it is prepared for this retreat:

R. - I was deep in prayer, I said yes. The great event was the beatification of John Paul II, so I had to set the course of spiritual exercises as a preparation for the beatification of John Paul II. For me, then, this is a mission, something that comes from God I feel very little before this, but I trust the Lord and Lady.

D. - Why did you choose the theme of the exercises: "The light of Christ in the heart of the Church, Pope John Paul II and the Theology of the Saints"?

R. - For many years the study of saints. This theme of holiness has always been the center of all my theological research. The saints are the great witnesses of the holiness of the Church and therefore, through their testimony, their thinking, experience, shines the light of Christ. John Paul II is the Pope's holiness and his Beatification is the official recognition of his holiness. And 'that the Pope has proclaimed more saints and blessed. And 'the Pope who brought the Saints not only as examples of Christian perfection, as well as theologians in the highest sense, as connoisseurs of God presented them as porters, in today's world, this light of Christ.

D. - How to develop his meditations?

R. - Already the Vatican Publishing House has prepared for the participants, a very nice booklet and put on the cover a painting by Fra Angelico, which represents the circle of Saints. The saints of heaven shake hands with one another. For me, this picture is the icon of these exercises. We start then by Pope John Paul II: it is he who, in the grace of his beatification, this guide provides an immediate circle and the hand to the two Saints more attached to him. First St. Louis de Montfort, who inspired his "Totus Tuus". Immediately after giving a hand to St. Therese of Lisieux, whom John Paul II had proclaimed "Doctor", expert of science love. St. Therese of Lisieux shake hands with the two great Doctors of the science of faith, which Anselm and Thomas, who cited John Paul II in Fides et Ratio ". I also wanted to integrate the two Saints, the late Middle Ages: St. Catherine of Siena and St. Joan of Arc who lived a very dramatic moment for the world and the Church. There were so many problems, so many wounds. There will then lay two: the venerable Conchita Cabrera de Armida, a great mystic, and Beata Chiara Luce Badano, who died in 1990, which is also the first blessed of the Focolare Movement. We will end with the Feast of St. Joseph, March 19. The final meditation is really dedicated to St. Joseph, the patron of the Baptism of the Pope circle will end with him.

D. - How important is this experience for the community of Discalced Carmelites?

R. - This choice of the Pope certainly touched me personally, but was also a great joy for my brother. E 'therefore something that we live in the community. All the Order of Caramel, the Caramel, pray for the Pope, but also for the Carmelite preacher. It 'something that truly involves the whole Carmelite family.

D. - It involves the whole Carmelite family and involves the whole community of believers. What wishes to the faithful for this Lent 2011?

R. - I wish to take a deeper awareness of their vocation to holiness . Too often the faithful believe that the Saints are a bit 'as aliens, meaning people without faults, but is not so. Saints were people like us , with their limitations, their wounds had committed in their sins, but at some point they decided to follow Jesus completely. This is what I wish all the people of God, even to prepare for this great event that will really be something great for everyone: the beatification of John Paul II. Preparations must be made more aware of taking personal vocation to holiness and making progress in prayer, Christian life, in charity toward others. (Vv)

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March 5, 2011

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Bhatti, Pakistani bishops call for recognition
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The Catholic Bishops Conference of Pakistan, which will meet for its General Assembly in Multan, in Punjab, 20 to 25 March, will examine the proposal to formally submit the request to the Holy See to declare a "martyr" the Catholic Minister Shahbaz Bhatti. The Archbishop told Fides. Andrew Francis, Bishop of Multan and president of the Episcopal Commission for Interreligious Dialogue in Pakistan.

According to the bishop, writer of the proposal to be voted on by the Episcopal Conference, "Bhatti is a man who gave his life for the crystalline faith in Jesus Christ. It is the responsibility of us bishops to report his story and his experience in the Church Rome to demand official recognition of his martyrdom. "

LOMBARDI: It's A LAW TO BE BLASPHEMY BLASPHEMY
A Catholic, the Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bbhatti Pakistani and a Muslim, the Governor of the State of Punjab, Salman Taseer: "Both were killed for the same reason: because they were opposed to the blasphemy law, a law which in itself is truly blasphemous, because in the name of God is the cause of injustice and death." reminds us in his editorial Octava Dies, the weekly information of the Vatican Television Center, the spokesman of the Vatican press office, Father Federico Lombardi
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"We both knew it risked life, because they had been explicitly threatened with death. Still have not given up their struggle for religious freedom, against the violent fanaticism, and have paid the ultimate price with their blood, "says Lombardi, for whom the figure of Bhatti" already grandeggia like a brave witness of faith and justice. "

The two of them dead," inspire us, paradoxically, also a leap of hope, because it associates a Muslim and a Christian in the blood shed for the same cause. There is only dialogue of mutual understanding and dialogue in the common commitments for the good of people. From the dialog box is passed to the life of the testimony in death, at the price of his own blood, because the name of God is not upset in the instrument of injustice. "

" In memory of Taseer and Bhatti, the deep sense of gratitude for how they lived and how they died - said Father Lombardi -, the true worshipers of God will continue to fight - and die if necessary - for religious freedom, justice and peace. What greater encouragement to walk together towards Assisi? ".

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Frattini: a martyr. The cowardly Europe

"Now the cowards of Europe which seeks to escape the condemnation of religious fundamentalism will pay their crocodile tears, allies of those cowards who know only in Pakistan the blood of the attacks' . He did not use the language of diplomacy plush Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, express the strongest condemnation for the killing of Shahbaz Bhatti. "A symbol of religious freedom and paid with his life, defines the Minister, who personally knew the Pakistani colleague.

Minister, to whom he refers when he speaks of cowards of Europe?
I think people always very careful to <+corsivo> <+tondo> politically correct, to the point of never use, in an official document, the words "Christian persecution". I consider it a political cowardice that now, faced with a new martyr, is even more scandalous.

What do you remember the minister Bhatti?
was a courageous person, whom I met in a particularly difficult time for the life of his country. I met him in Rome last September and then I saw him in Islamabad in November, when we were all anxious to the death sentence that hangs over the head of Asia Bibi. In his office, a small and modest, introduced me to the leaders of various religious minorities, not only of Christianity to which he belonged. It gave me a confidence that I can now reveal.

What was it?
He said that his opponents were trying to remove the funds to the ministry for religious minorities, a way to reduce it to insignificance, and thus the closure. And he asked me to help him to publicize his work in the international community. Only way he could save his ministry.

In statement issued by the Ministry immediately after the killing of the minister Bhatti, asking the Pakistani authorities to shed light on the assassination and to confirm its commitment to defending the Christian minority. So far a reasonably low, is not it?
The fact that Pakistan's President Zardari had Bhatti confirmed in the recent cabinet reshuffle was an important signal. Now he must take a step further, going all the way in pursuing the perpetrators of a crime so heinous.

The blasphemy law was not changed ... The same minister
Bhatti was aware that this law, the internal political situation, it can not be repealed. He proposed changes that would prevent arbitrary application and absurd. The international community must continue to press for the blasphemy law is no longer a weapon of blackmail against minorities, a tool to condemn to death Christians as Asia Bibi. In his case the sentence was frozen, but we ask that his final acquittal.

The European Union has finally adopted a text in defense of religious freedom in the world, but the document makes no mention of concrete steps against those countries where religious minorities are persecuted ...
There was that political courage. But we have asked the High Representative for EU foreign policy, Mrs. Ashton, to report promptly to the Council on an action plan for the protection of religious freedom. And I am very attentive to his report. Europe can and must do more. As we did for Sakineh and Asia Bibi, I believe that the photo of Shahbaz Bhatti should camp on the front of some building of our institutions, to remember a great battle for freedom with its heroes and its martyrs.

Minister, the Libyan crisis there is at the forefront. Do not try a little 'embarrassment in order now that a character like Gaddafi has always been a privileged partner, received with full honors by the Italian government?
Look, is should experience the same embarrassment that so many world leaders. By the British who have returned to Tripoli, the terrorist massacre of Lockerbie, which hosted the French President Gaddafi to Paris for five days, to all those who voted in favor of Libya as a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights. What matters now is that Italy, together with the vast majority of countries in the world, does not have anything to do with Gaddafi.

What will our government?
We decided two important humanitarian missions. The first, at the request of Egypt and Tunisia, provides aid to about 60 thousand Egyptians working in Libya and have now fled to Tunisia. We have been asked to assist and ensure that they can return home safely. The second humanitarian mission will head to Cyrenaica bringing food and medical supplies to a population exhausted.

What do you think of a possible military intervention from outside?
is a hypothesis that has already raised the concerns of the Arab League. Categorically exclude the possibility that Italy could take part in military action in Libya, for obvious reasons linked to our colonial past. At most, we could give the availability of our logistics bases, but in this case, a clear international mandate of the UN. And, anyway, any type of action must take into account the delicate political and cultural context of the Arab world.

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Father Lombardi: Pakistani Christians affected by hatred, religious freedom is dramatic urgency



"The assassination of Pakistan's minister for minorities, Shabbaz Bhatti, is a new fact of terrible violence of gravity. It shows just how persistent intervention of the Pope about the violence against Christians and against religious freedom in general "is what the director said of the Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, in response to questions from journalists. "Bhatti - said the Vatican spokesman - was the first Catholic to hold such a post. Recall that it was received by the Pope last September, had given testimony of its commitment to peaceful coexistence between religious communities in his country. To pray for the victim, the condemnation of the unspeakable acts of violence, the proximity to the Pakistani Christians hate so impressed - he concludes Father Lombardi - joined the appeal because everyone recognizes the urgency of the dramatic defense of religious freedom and Christians subjected to violence and persecution. "

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Awe in Pakistan killed the Catholic minister Bhatti. Against the blasphemy law had defended Asia Bibi



The Church and the international community have learned with sorrow and dismay the news of the assassination of Pakistani Minister for Minorities, the Catholic Shahbaz Bhatti, killed by a commando fundamentalists in Islamabad. The minister has always championed the cause of religious freedom and defending the aspirations of Christians and other minorities. He has repeatedly denounced the abuses of the blasphemy law, has called for justice for Asia Bibi. His commitment to the protection of minorities has cost him his life. The service Amedeo Lomonaco :

42 years, son of Christian missionaries and member of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Shahbaz Bhatti was a staunch defender of religious freedom, driven by a profound faith. "I just want a place at the feet of Jesus I want my life, my character, my actions - the minister said Bhatti - speak to me and say that I am following Jesus." The minister was shot and killed by fire in Islamabad. According to local sources, gunmen have opened fire on his car. It was the only Christian in the new government led by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Said. Last month he was re-elected guidance of the Ministry of Religious Minorities, and his appointment had been opposed to Islamic religious groups have also issued against him a fatwa, an Islamic legal ruling . He was a brave man at the side of minorities and vulnerable people. He has repeatedly called for the reform of the blasphemy law in Pakistan that provides for life imprisonment in cases of desecration of the Koran and the death penalty for offenses against Muhammad. Has launched several appeals calling for the liberation of Asia Bibi, the mother of five Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy and held in prison in the province of Punjab. Because of his constant efforts, was in the crosshairs of the fundamentalists, who have more times threatened with death. After the killing, on 4 January, the governor of Punjab Salman Taseer, who had requested a pardon for Asia Bibi and the abolition of the blasphemy law, Bhatti was told to be on the "blacklist" of extremist groups. But who told him that it would be appropriate to leave the country, the Minister replied that he could not abandon Pakistan. He was convinced of having to continue the battle against the fanaticism of extremist groups, increasingly influential in Pakistan. Above all, he was convinced he had to continue their efforts in favor of minorities and particularly the Christian community. The Church remembers today the Pakistani minister Batthi expressing their deep sorrow and stressing that it is a day "sad and bitter," not only for Christians but for the whole country. The Archbishop of Lahore and chairman of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops' Conference, Msgr. Lawrence Saldanha, the murder of Minister Bhatti defines a "tragic example unsustainable climate of intolerance that we are living in Pakistan." The bishop of Faisalabad, Msgr. Joseph Coutts, adding that the assassination "is a great tragedy not only for Christians in Pakistan but throughout the country." "Fanaticism - says the prelate - indiscriminately affects all those involved in the defense of truth, justice and peace." The Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Mgr. Anthony Rufin, remember that the minister was "a devout Catholic and lover from an early age." At the microphone Chris Altieri, Mgr. Anthony Rufin Bhatti adds that the minister was living "under constant threat"

"I was ...
I was visiting a village when I received the news of the death of the minister Bhatti: I broke my visit and now I'm returning to Islamabad. This news saddens us very much; saddened the entire country. He almost expected it because it was the truth. The threats were there, but he was very courageous. He knew that telling the truth would be exposed to the risk, knowing that sooner or later could happen to him. "

On 12 September last year Benedict XVI at Castel Gandolfo had received the Minister Shahbaz Bhatti , during his visit to Rome. We hear a few words of the minister in an interview granted to Stephen Leszczynski on that occasion:

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change the minds and hearts of the people is the most important thing and we have launched a campaign Inter just to achieve this goal. We are doing everything possible to ensure that people - who are misled by terrorists - would devote themselves instead to harmony and peace. "

the site of the leaflets were found in Pakistani Punjab extremists claiming the murder and remember the strong position of Minister Bhatti against the blasphemy law. On 5 January, Vatican Radio had broadcast an interview with Bhatti immediately after the death of Governor Punjab Salman Taseer, who was killed by an extremist for having adhered to the front to the abolition of the blasphemy law. The interview is Wessels Kelsea Brennan:

"I Think That It Is Difficult ...
I think it's difficult, but the misuse of the blasphemy law that makes sure that I hope people can realize that this murder happened as a result of incitement by fanatics who use the blasphemy law to instigate the people to violence. So, I think this law should be revisited and reviewed to prevent their misuse. However, on the other hand, religious extremists are saying clearly that they will tolerate no amendment to this law. "(P)

" Bhatti Minister - said the Bishop of Faisalabad - he always spoke in a loud voice to defend the truth. This is why the fanatics wanted to silence him. "

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Killed Catholic Bhatti:
was Minister for Minorities

Pakistani Minister for Minorities was shot and killed by fire this morning. The local media reported. According to preliminary information, gunmen have opened fire on his car. In the past he had received threats from extremists. He was interested in the story of Asia and Bibi had declared in favor of an amendment of the blasphemy law.
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reasonableness: STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENT OF 'MEN ...
Providence leads us to follow Jesus against the fearless leader Power and the prevailing mentality.
E 'an ascent to extreme testimony to reveal that the Great Game in the world is dominated by the will to power starting from the closest collaborators.
Then it takes this last impulse toward martyrdom for his claim that instead of Love and the Presence of the Father of Life gives meaning to all.
But we remain with his words because he is so reasonable, because protecting our freedom throughout the raising of a comparison with every moment of our lives to open their eyes to what is happening to her, the father, signs ... to his Providence to complete our openness.
Life becomes more and more reasonably mysterious and beautiful!

	10.32 to 45 Mc we are going up in Jerusalem and the Son of Man will be delivered.
	+ From the Gospel according to Mark At that time, while they were on the way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walked to his disciples and they were dismayed; those who followed were afraid. took the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them what was going to happen to him: "Behold, we go to Jerusalem and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, condemn him to death and deliver him to the Gentiles, mocked, and spit upon him, scourge him and kill him, and after three days rise again. " The approached James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us what we ask of you." He said, 'What do you want me to do for you? ". They said, 'Grant us to sit in your glory, one to your right and one on your left. " Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what you ask. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized? ". They answered: "We can." And Jesus said to them: "The cup that I drink you shall drink, and in baptism that I am baptized you will be baptized also. But to sit at my right or my left is not mine to give, is for those for whom it is prepared. " the ten having heard, they began to be indignant with James and John. So Jesus called them to him and said, 'You know that those who are considered the leaders of nations rule over them and their rulers oppress them. But not so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be slave of all. The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many. " Word of the Lord