We are all in danger of living as if God did not exist,
but God has a thousand ways, each has his to be present in our soul,
to show that he knows us and loves us
and wants to make us attentive to those signs with which God touches us.
Benedict XVI
Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Mark 12.13 to 17.
but they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to trap him in speech.
And they came and said unto him, Master, we know that you are true and do not care for anyone as it does not look in the faces of men, but in truth you teach the way of God 'or not lawful to pay taxes Caesar? Should we pay or not? ".
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said, "Why tempt ye me? Bring me a denarius that I may see. "
And they brought. Then he said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?". They answered, "Caesar's."
Jesus said unto them, Render to Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's. " And they were amazed at him.
COMMENT
taxes. Money. The question is always the same, and relates to our pockets. Just remember what the real clincher in election campaigns. And if we read the Gospel today without fear, letting interceptions really our life, and maybe that upsets us humble and in truth? The portfolio has replaced the heart, it is widely acknowledged, accepted even by psychologists and a maitre d'pensée each color.
but they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to trap him in speech.
And they came and said unto him, Master, we know that you are true and do not care for anyone as it does not look in the faces of men, but in truth you teach the way of God 'or not lawful to pay taxes Caesar? Should we pay or not? ".
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said, "Why tempt ye me? Bring me a denarius that I may see. "
And they brought. Then he said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?". They answered, "Caesar's."
Jesus said unto them, Render to Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's. " And they were amazed at him.
COMMENT
taxes. Money. The question is always the same, and relates to our pockets. Just remember what the real clincher in election campaigns. And if we read the Gospel today without fear, letting interceptions really our life, and maybe that upsets us humble and in truth? The portfolio has replaced the heart, it is widely acknowledged, accepted even by psychologists and a maitre d'pensée each color.
Jesus now moves the issue. Hypocrites! Yes, the hypocrisy of sociological analysis that we describe as material, flattened only on worldly values, incapable of true happiness. And down happy tips and ready-to-door, DIY spirituality, images ecosolidali for a healthy life and realized. More time for the body and for others, leisure and freedom, new religions Apart from new content to the traditional ones. Money is not everything I am, what the heck we all understand .... Yet the question underlying the prevailing gooders, the politically and ethically correct, summarized in the Gospel that stands in the mouth of the Pharisees and Herodians - "we must give to Caesar or not the contribution" - it tastes rancid hypocrisy.
The relationship with money is the most faithful picture of the relationship we have with God our Creator. It is no coincidence that in this time and launched a bloody frontal assault and the very idea of \u200b\u200bcreation. And, consequently, that of a Creator. A father. (I invite you to read a short article that can help us to understand: The father lost . And also, the relationship with money: A thought that denies the root of the novelty of Christianity ). The bottom line is not money, but the Father. If we have a sick relationship with money is because we have one bad with our Father, when we did not own. Money is a fetish that there is power, strength, power, prestige and authority. Money means independence, certainty, and freedom. Money is a simulacrum of affection, and often love. With Danè we can buy, direct or indirect, and is almost the same. Not knowing what to do, and longed for exorcise it when it is not enough, when it fails in its alleged powers, and become the most implacable detractors, moored to the ideologies of left or wagon of new eras sweet rainbow vomit but what is well anchored in our guts that manifests intermittently suffers our development. A report uncertain and ill with the money we discovered naughty children, adults unspoken.
Today's Gospel exposes our deep hypocrisy, which is not simply a morally negative emphasis. Hypocrite is the one who lives a duplicity of the fund, which is what is not, who walks disguised in life. Just like the Pharisees who thought have Abraham and God the Father, while their works they denounced the complete ignorance. We, like them, orphans who do not know the Father, the illusion of being children, and adults too. We live against nature - and all the achievements civil heralded by this generation are the unmistakable proof against all nature as God created it ... - Inscribed within us the image of the heavenly Father and live as if there were. I do not know, and we are remotely controlled from the world, the flesh and the devil on the streets of the most anti-human there is. Even when everything seems so spiritually reassuring, this is only the final attempt to bring back on track this natural humanity gone mad.
We live the fatal capsizing of the truth, that a disorder in itself morally neutral, like homosexuality, and flapping can proudly claim citizenship and rights. To legitimize the destruction of man, by unmistakable liar, murderer, the devil. For the Church, in its wisdom, has never despised money, but has constantly denounced the use unhealthy relationships that the wise direction of the occult and the devil was able to induce in humans. So much so that the Church has gone to call the money "excrement of Satan." Because the truth is that not only the money has taken up residence in the heart of man, each di noi, ma il suo feroce maneggiatore. Il demonio. Di lui siamo figli dirà infatti il Signore. Orfani del vero Padre siamo caduti tra le braccia di quello falso, il nostro vero nemico. Quella moneta tra le mani di Gesù diventa il segno di tutti noi schiavi della menzogna. Figli del demonio ci appelliamo a Cesare per uccidere Dio. Esattamente come è avvenuto durante il processo a Gesù .
Ma non finisce qui. Quella moneta immagine di Cristo recante paradossalmente l'immagine di Cesare è stata consegnata a Cesare, ed è stato inchiodato alla Croce. Nel suo blood was removed so the false image of the world and Satan, in each of us was superimposed on the original. His blood has washed the dirt and sin and has restored luster to what seemed lost in us. He re-created as children of the one true Father. Yes, in Christ we can live as children, it is Christ that we dig in the image that has called us to life. crucified with Him, we can now give to God what belongs to him, our lives. All . Other than money, taxes, other than talk. We are children of one Father of Christ, we can make his own works, or rather larger. We can use the money freely, to live without glued. We are free from slavery Money, the root of all evil. No more orphans become adults, able to enter in events with the power of the Cross of Christ and his victory, we do not need to buy anything from others, our economy is based on the total gift of ourselves. The accounts of a life in red "lost" for the love here, but with an infinite active there, the gain of a life that never dies. Children in the child all of us is given to God in truth and nature, and every moment of our existence is a sign of beauty in which every person is created, the beauty will save the world.
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Moses wrote in the Law:" God created man in His own image and likeness "(Gen. 1, 26). Consider, please, the magnitude of this phrase. God almighty, invisible, incomprehensible, ineffable, inestimable, formed man from the mud of the earth and ennobled the dignity of his image. What can there be in common between man and God, between the mud and the spirit? "For God is spirit "(Jn 4, 24). What a great condescension was this, that God has given man the image of His eternity and the similarity of his divine work! Dignity is derived from this likeness of God to man, as long as they preserve
... If a man will use the line of those faculties which God has bestowed upon his soul, then it will be like God Let us remember that we must return all those gifts that He has deposited in us when we were in the original condition. There he taught the way to his commandments. The first of them is to love our Lord with all your heart "because he first loved us" (1 Jn 4, 19) since the beginning of time, even before we came to the light of this world. The love of God is the renewal of his image. Those who truly love God keep His commandments ...
We then return to our God and Father your image is not distorted, but remain intact through the sanctity of life, for he is holy. For this he was told: "Be holy, for I am holy" (Lev 11, 45). We must give in charity, because charity is, as John says: "God is love" (1 Jn 4, 16). We need to return it in the goodness and truth, for He is good and true. We are therefore not painters of a different image Why not this ... it is that we paint pictures in our mind tyrannical, Christ himself intervenes in our spirit and trace the precise outlines of God
St. Athanasius (295-373), bishop of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church teaching that
delVerbo, 13, SC 199, 311
Christ is the image of the invisible God, the work of him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins (Col 1,15.14)
Since the men had become unreasonable and deception of the demons cast its shadow on every side, hiding the true knowledge of God, God what to do? Be silent Faced with this situation? Accept that people are bewildered and not know God? ... Maybe God will spare his creatures to stray away from him and not be subjected to, especially if this loss becomes the reason for their downfall and loss and the beings who participated in the image of God (Gen 1.26 ) should not perish? What it was necessary for God to do? What to do if not to renew its image in them, so that people could recognize him again?
How could this happen, except by the presence of the image of God (Col 1:15), our Savior Jesus Christ? This was not achievable by men, because they are not the image but were created in the image, not even the angels could be made that are not images. For this person came to the Word of God, who is the image of the Father, to be able to restore the image of being in the bottom of men. On the other hand, this could not happen until the death and corruption that goes with it had not been annihilated. For this he took a mortal body, in order to destroy death and restore the men made in the image of God the Father's image, then, his most holy Son, came to us to renew the man-made its resemblance to find it again, while he was lost, by the remission of sins, as he himself says, "I came to seek and to save what was lost "(Luke 19:10).
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Moses wrote in the Law:" God created man in His own image and likeness "(Gen. 1, 26). Consider, please, the magnitude of this phrase. God almighty, invisible, incomprehensible, ineffable, inestimable, formed man from the mud of the earth and ennobled the dignity of his image. What can there be in common between man and God, between the mud and the spirit? "For God is spirit "(Jn 4, 24). What a great condescension was this, that God has given man the image of His eternity and the similarity of his divine work! Dignity is derived from this likeness of God to man, as long as they preserve
... If a man will use the line of those faculties which God has bestowed upon his soul, then it will be like God Let us remember that we must return all those gifts that He has deposited in us when we were in the original condition. There he taught the way to his commandments. The first of them is to love our Lord with all your heart "because he first loved us" (1 Jn 4, 19) since the beginning of time, even before we came to the light of this world. The love of God is the renewal of his image. Those who truly love God keep His commandments ...
We then return to our God and Father your image is not distorted, but remain intact through the sanctity of life, for he is holy. For this he was told: "Be holy, for I am holy" (Lev 11, 45). We must give in charity, because charity is, as John says: "God is love" (1 Jn 4, 16). We need to return it in the goodness and truth, for He is good and true. We are therefore not painters of a different image Why not this ... it is that we paint pictures in our mind tyrannical, Christ himself intervenes in our spirit and trace the precise outlines of God
St. Athanasius (295-373), bishop of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church teaching that
delVerbo, 13, SC 199, 311
Since the men had become unreasonable and deception of the demons cast its shadow on every side, hiding the true knowledge of God, God what to do? Be silent Faced with this situation? Accept that people are bewildered and not know God? ... Maybe God will spare his creatures to stray away from him and not be subjected to, especially if this loss becomes the reason for their downfall and loss and the beings who participated in the image of God (Gen 1.26 ) should not perish? What it was necessary for God to do? What to do if not to renew its image in them, so that people could recognize him again?
How could this happen, except by the presence of the image of God (Col 1:15), our Savior Jesus Christ? This was not achievable by men, because they are not the image but were created in the image, not even the angels could be made that are not images. For this person came to the Word of God, who is the image of the Father, to be able to restore the image of being in the bottom of men. On the other hand, this could not happen until the death and corruption that goes with it had not been annihilated. For this he took a mortal body, in order to destroy death and restore the men made in the image of God the Father's image, then, his most holy Son, came to us to renew the man-made its resemblance to find it again, while he was lost, by the remission of sins, as he himself says, "I came to seek and to save what was lost "(Luke 19:10).
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