Saturday, March 27, 2010

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St. Gabriel Holy Week in Rome

Rome March 19. Ore 17.15.
From the Basilica of Saints John and Paul to come Celio notes with songs and prayers.
the courtyard, a large group waiting in feverish passion and a few other people waiting. The most common phrase is: "Where are they?? They called? ". All waiting! Some people pacing nervously, who runs between the church and the churchyard. But he, with his usual youthful freshness and a bit 'to play at being conceited, you wait, like all the stars!
from someone standing in the way he feels now: "Here"!
The motion of the police before and then he comes on board the van, our guest of honor: Gabriele Addolorata. Yes! He, for a few days he leaves his sanctuary at the foot of Gran Sasso to make a trip to Rome. Must go visit the parishioners of the new church dedicated to him and, as he was in Rome's better to say hello to the house of the General and his brother - why not! - Say hello and best wishes for a Father's Day to our founder Paul of the Cross!
To welcome and many have come in from Rome and outside Rome. Some are religious, even if of different orders. All to celebrate! A religious silence accompanies
operations to remove the casket from the van and just off a round of applause welcomes the Holy of Smiles. An initial time of prayer and welcome, and Gabriel, preceded by the religious, miraculously all in dress, makes her entrance, brought back by students STIP, the Basilica of the Celio packed with faithful. Gabriel enters the Basilica to the joyful sound of bells, with the solemnity of the organ and choir but especially with the applause and the warmth of the people. Someone shouts a request for grace and blessing, someone else "Viva St. Gabriel"! Held
and moved for the Eucharistic celebration presided by Fr General and the words all around Gabriel, to submit their requests, to thank him, to greet him. At 20.30
begins vigil organized by students of youth with the participation Stip students of Minims, Rogationists, Scalabrini and Redemptorists. Each student has animated and characterized by its special charisma, a moment of sleep. The greatest miracle? The basilica still crowded with the faithful until the end of the vigil (h.23.00!) Has been closely following and sharing the moment of prayer.
But the emotions of the day is not over. At the close of the Basilica Gabriel at last, perhaps for the first time in history, he meets St. Paul. The casket was moved to the chapel of the founder. And it's there all morning on Saturday many people have visited our young. A "go away" uninterrupted from the early morning hours. Being there, in the chapel of the founder, with Gabriel, Paul, the other brothers, was a truly immersive experience. He breathed the intimate atmosphere of the family when the children gathered around the father, he heard words of encouragement and affection. And our Gabriel, who came before us in holiness, we smiled with one of his famous smiles basking too, of course, the pleasure of being in "family"!
After Gabriel greeted with another time of community prayer is the time to say goodbye to him which must continue her pilgrimage to Rome. Certainly remains the joy of a friend, a brother. A smile given to those who are sad, it was addressed to him. An encouragement to many young men that he can take a leaf in their vocational journey. And Gabriel looks happy and satisfied with us, smiles and blesses!!
comp. Antonio Coluccia, cp

Friday, March 26, 2010

Breast Size In Country




I thought earlier this week to propose a text by St. Don Tonino Bello! all the paschal mystery of suffering, death, burial and resurrection is the greatest sign of God's love for us and a clear sign of hope that if we live in love even death may not have the last word!

"In the old cathedral of Molfetta is a large crucifix Terracotta. He won a few years ago, a local sculptor. The pastor, waiting for the definitive system, he leans against the wall of the sacristy and you have placed a card with the words: provisional placement. The writing, which at first I mistook as a dedication of the work, I thought that was providentially inspired to the point that I asked the priest not be removed for any reason the crucifix there, from the bare wall, from that precarious position, yellowed with that card. Safe location. I think that there is no better formula to define the cross. My, your cross, not only that of Christ.

Courage, then, that you suffer nailed to a wheelchair. Mind, that you feel the pangs of loneliness. Have faith, you who drink the bitter cup of abandonment. Do not despair, gentle mother, who have given birth to a son phocomelic. Do not swear, sister, you see day after day to destroy a disease that does not forgive. Dry your tears, brother, you've been stabbed in the back by those who believed your friends. Do not distress yourself, you see that for a sudden collapse of your assets seized, broken your projects, your hard work destroyed. Do not pull on the oars, you who are tired of fighting and disappointments have accumulated to no end. Be not dismayed, poor brother, who is not calculated by anyone, who is not believed by the people and that, instead of bread, you're forced to swallow mouthful of bitterness. Delay not, hapless friend, in life after you've seen so many ships, and you've always been on the ground.

Courage. Your cross, even if it would last a lifetime, it is always temporary location. " Calvary, where it is planted, it is not a residential area. And the soil of this hill, where you consume your suffering, you never sell land as the structure built.

The Gospel invites us to consider the provisional nature of the cross.

There is a great phrase that sums up the tragedy at the time of creation of Christ's death. "From noon until three in the afternoon, there was darkness over all the earth." Perhaps the phrase is darker than the entire Bible. For me it is one of the brightest. Just in time for those reductions and strings, as two poles insurmountable, as long as it is allowed to punish him to Earth in the dark. From noon until three in the afternoon. Only then is permitted to park on Golgotha. Outside quell'orario, there is absolute prohibition of parking. After three hours, there will be the forced removal of all crosses. A longer stay will be considered unfair even by God

Courage, brother suffer. There is also a deposition from the cross for you. There is also a pity for you superhuman. That's already taken down by a hand holes that your wood. Here's a friendly face, soaked in blood, and crowned with thorns, with a kiss that touches your forehead fever. Here's a sweet woman's womb that surrounds you with tenderness. Among the maternal arms is unveiled, finally, all the mystery of pain that you now seem absurd.

Courage. In a few moments of your afternoon at three o'clock. Soon, darkness will give way to light, the earth will regain its virginal colors of Easter and the sun will break through the clouds in flight. "

Don Tonino Bello