

Evangelium Luc 12:32-34
In illo témpore: Dixit Iesus discípulis suis: Nolíte timére, pusíllus grex, quia complácuit Patri vestro dare vobis regnum. Véndite quæ possidétis, et date eleemósynam. Fácite vobis sácculos, qui non veteráscunt, thesáurum non deficiéntem in cœlis: quo fur non apprópiat, neque tínea corrúmpit. Ubi enim thesáurus vester est, ibi et cor vestrum erit.
Gospel Luke 12:32-34
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples, Do not be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom. Sell what you have and give alms. Make for yourselves purses that do not grow old, a treasure unfailing in heaven, where neither thief draws near nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
OMELIA DI Do not be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.Do not be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.
Dice il Signore: Non temere piccolo gregge!
Un esempio del Piccolo Gregge?
San Filippo Benizi, fiorentino (Firenze 15 agosto 1233, Todi 22 agosto 1285). Rinuncia alla carriera e interrompe gli studi (Universita’ di Parigi) per aderire all’ordine religioso dei fratelli conversi (Ordine dei Servi di Maria), ora abolito. Al tempo (nel 1200) erano laici dedicati ai lavori piu’ umili, al servizio degli altri ordini religiosi.
Ma i suoi superiori hanno fiducia in lui e viene eletto Superiore generale dell’Ordine dei Servi di Maria. E’ apprezzato al punto di giungere essere candidato come papa.
Ma lui rinuncia volendosi dedicare alla preghiera a Dio e alla contemplazione monastica. Muore abbracciando il crocifisso che lui chiama “il libro“.
Sia lodato Gesu’ Cristo!
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The Lord says: Do not fear little flock!
An example of the Little Flock?
San Filippo Benizi, Florentine (Florence 15 August 1233, Todi 22 August 1285). He gives up his career and interrupts his studies (University of Paris) to join the religious order of lay brothers (Order of the Servants of Mary), now abolished.
At the time (in 1200) they were lay people dedicated to the humblest jobs, at the service of other religious orders.
But his superiors trusted him and he was elected Superior General of the Order of Servants of Mary. He is appreciated to the point of being a candidate for pope. But he renounces wanting to devote himself to prayer to God and monastic contemplation.
He dies embracing the crucifix that he calls “the book”.
Praised be Jesus Christ!
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La festa odierna del Cuore Immacolato di Maria e’ stata indetta nel 1944 da Pio XII. L’8 dicembre 1942 PIo XII aveva consacrato il mondo intero al Cuore Immacolato di Maria.
Questo per riparare alle tante offese dei nostri peccati, per la purezza dei cuori, la pace delle famiglie e la liberta della Chiesa dalle dittature che impediscono ai cristiani di manifestare liberamente la loro fede.
Viviamo ora nuovamente questa crisi. Tanti vescovi si sono allineati con la falsa chiesa e con il potere del Nuovo Ordine Mondiale.
Gesu dalla croce si rivolge a Giovanni dicendogli che Maria e’ sua Madre. Questo e’ l’inizio della devozione. Maria e’ diventata la madre di tutti i cristiani e quindi madre nostra. Maria vuole dire amore. Giovanni la prese con se nella sua casa. La Madre di Dio deve entrare nel nostro cuore per purificarlo, per riversare le sue grazie e le sue virtu’ su di noi.
Maria e’ la Benedetta fra le donne ed intercede per noi presso Dio. A Fatima ha chiesto, i rosari, la comunione riparatrice al primo venerdi’ del mese e le penitenze (prima quelle ordinarie di ogni giorno, poi quelle che ci imponiamo per crescere nella fede).
Accogliamo quindi il Cuore Immacolato di Maria nella nostra casa, che vuol dire nei nostri cuori.
Sia lodato Gesu’ Cristo!
Today’s feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was announced in 1944 by Pius XII. On December 8, 1942, Pius XII had consecrated the whole world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
This is to make amends for the many offenses of our sins, for the purity of hearts, the peace of families and the freedom of the Church from the dictatorships that prevented Christians from manifesting their faith. We are now experiencing this crisis again.
So many bishops have aligned themselves with the false church and with the power of the New World Order. Jesus from the cross turns to John telling him that Mary is his Mother. This is the beginning of devotion.
Mary became the mother of all Christians and therefore our mother. Maria means love. Giovanni took her with him to his home. The Mother of God must enter our heart to purify it, to pour out her graces and virtues on us. Mary is the Blessed One among women and pours out God’s grace on us.
At Fatima she asked for rosaries, reparative communion on the first Friday of the month and penances (first the ordinary ones of each day, then those that we we impose to grow in faith).
Let us therefore welcome the Immaculate Heart of Mary into our home, which means in our hearts.
Praised be Jesus Christ!
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(1) ved. l’articolo di A. Cionci “Sede impedita: nuovo messaggio di papa Ratzinger nel suo libro. La scoperta di Mirko Ciminiello“, 21/08/2021:
dove viene citato il giornalista Mirko Ciminiello del quotidiano online RomaIT.
(3) NUOVA SENSAZIONALE INTERPRETAZIONE DELLA PROFEZIA DI SAN MALACHIA, by Max Tex 15 settembre 2020
Evangelium Matt 13:44-52
In illo témpore: Dixit Iesus discípulis suis parábolam hanc: Símile est regnum cœlórum thesáuro abscóndito in agro: quem qui invénit homo, abscóndit, et præ gáudio illíus vadit, et vendit univérsa, quæ habet, et emit agrum illum. Iterum símile est regnum cœlórum homini negotiatóri, quærénti bonas margarítas. Invénta autem una pretiósa margaríta, ábiit, et véndidit ómnia, quæ hábuit, et emit eam. Iterum símile est regnum cœlórum sagénæ, missæ in mare et ex omni génere píscium cóngreganti. Quam, cum impléta esset educéntes, et secus litus sedéntes, elegérunt bonos in vasa, malos autem foras misérunt. Sic erit in consummatióne sǽculi: exíbunt Angeli, et separábunt malos de médio iustórum, et mittent eos in camínum ignis: ibi erit fletus et stridor déntium. Intellexístis hæc ómnia? Dicunt ei: Etiam. Ait illis: Ideo omnis scriba doctus in regno cœlórum símilis est hómini patrifamílias, qui profert de thesáuro suo nova et vétera.
Gospel Matt 13:44-52
At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to His disciples: The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field; he who finds it hides it, and in his joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls. When he finds a single pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea that gathered in fish of every kind. When it was filled, they hauled it out, and sitting down on the beach, they gathered the good fish into vessels, but threw away the bad. So will it be at the end of the world. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from among the just, and will cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth. Have you understood all these things? They said to Him, Yes. And He said to them, So then, every Scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings forth from his storeroom things new and old.
Ricorre oggi Santa Giovanna Francesca Frémiot de Chantal.
Con sei figli, rimasta vedova e sotto la guida di San Francesco di Sales si dedico’ totalmente al Dio.
Essendo rimasta vedova, lascio’ tutti i suoi beni e persino i suoi figli. Poi entro’ in Monastero e diede inizio all’Ordine della Visitazione di Santa Maria, che diresse pure con saggezza. Come motto aveva la frase: “Ama il Signore con tutto il cuore e il prossimo come te stesso, per amore di Gesu“.
Aveva trovato il tesoro nel Signore. Cosi’ dobbiamo fare anche noi: trovare in Dio la nostra ricchezza!
Sia lodato Gesu’ Cristo.
Today is the festivity of Santa Giovanna Francesca Frémiot de Chantal. With six children, widowed and under the guidance of St. Francis de Sales, she dedicated herself totally to God.
Having remained a widow, she left all her possessions and even her children.
Then she entered the monastery and started the Order of the Visitation of Saint Mary, which she also directed with wisdom.
As a motto she had the phrase: “Love the Lord with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself, for the love of Jesus“.
She had found the treasure in the Lord.
This is what we too must do: find our wealth in God!
Praised be Jesus Christ!
Primo mistero della gloria: Gesù è risorto e vivo.Dal Vangelo secondo Luca (24, 1-6a.9)Il primo giorno della settimana, al mattino presto le donne si recarono al sepolcro. Trovarono che la pietra era stata rimossa dal sepolcro e, entrate, non trovarono il corpo del Signore Gesù. Le donne, impaurite, tenevano il volto chinato a terra, ma quelli dissero loro: «Perché cercate tra i morti colui che è vivo? Non è qui, è risorto». Ed esse annunciarono tutto questo agli Undici e a tutti gli altri.Padre Nostro, 10 Ave Maria (meditando il mistero), Gloria al Padre. |
Secondo mistero della gloria: Gesù ascende al cielo.Dal Vangelo secondo Marco (16,19-20)Il Signore Gesù, dopo aver parlato con loro, fu elevato in cielo e sedette alla destra di Dio. Allora essi partirono e predicarono dappertutto, mentre il Signore agiva insieme con loro e confermava la Parola con i segni che la accompagnavano.Padre Nostro, 10 Ave Maria (meditando il mistero), Gloria al Padre. |
Terzo mistero della gloria: Lo Spirito Santo scende su Maria e gli apostoli.Dal Vangelo secondo Giovanni (20,19.22)La sera di quel giorno, il primo della settimana, mentre erano chiuse le porte del luogo dove si trovavano i discepoli per timore dei Giudei, venne Gesù, stette in mezzo e disse loro: «Pace a voi!». Detto questo, soffiò e disse loro: «Ricevete lo Spirito Santo». Padre Nostro, 10 Ave Maria (meditando il mistero), Gloria al Padre. |
Quarto mistero della gloria: Maria è assunta in cielo.Dal Vangelo secondo Luca (1,46-50)Allora Maria disse: «L’anima mia magnifica il Signore e il mio spirito esulta in Dio, mio salvatore, perché ha guardato l’umiltà della sua serva. D’ora in poi tutte le generazioni mi chiameranno beata. Grandi cose ha fatto per me l’Onnipotente e Santo è il suo nome; di generazione in generazione la sua misericordia per quelli che lo temono».Padre Nostro, 10 Ave Maria (meditando il mistero), Gloria al Padre. |
Quinto mistero della gloria: Maria è nostra madre e regina del cielo e della terra.Dal libro dell’Apocalisse (12, 1-2.5)Un segno grandioso apparve nel cielo: una donna vestita di sole, con la luna sotto i suoi piedi e, sul capo, una corona di dodici stelle. Era incinta, e gridava per le doglie e il travaglio del parto. Essa partorì un figlio maschio, destinato a governare tutte le nazioni.Padre Nostro, 10 Ave Maria (meditando il mistero), Gloria al Padre. |
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00502-4
In the wake of the World Health Organization’s investigation, there are still key questions about when, where and how the pandemic began.
Following a month-long fact-finding mission in China, a World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic concluded that the virus probably originated in bats and passed to people through an intermediate animal. But fundamental questions remain about when, where and how SARS-CoV-2 first infected people.
As the international WHO team finalizes a report of its findings, which is expected next week, Nature speaks to four of the investigators about what they still want to know.
To trace the virus’s origin, it’s crucial to pin down exactly when the first cases occurred in people. The WHO team established that the first person known to have COVID-19 was an office worker in Wuhan with no recent travel history, who began showing symptoms on 8 December 2019, says Peter Ben Embarek, a food-safety scientist at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, who led the investigation. But the virus was probably spreading in the city before that, because it was well-established by later that month, he says.
Yet evidence of earlier spread has proved elusive. Researchers in China conducted an extensive survey of patient reports from hospitals in Wuhan made between October and December 2019, and identified fewer than 100 people who had symptoms of COVID-19. They then tested the blood of 67 of those people for antibodies generated by past infection with SARS-CoV-2, but found none. This suggests there wasn’t a large cluster of infections before December, or an unusual spike in deaths in the surrounding province of Hubei.
But Ben Embarek says the analysis should be repeated using less restrictive symptom criteria, to make sure that researchers spot all potential COVID-19 cases.
Scientists in China should also search for evidence of past infection in some 200,000 archived samples currently held at the Wuhan Blood Center and in other regions across China, says team member Dominic Dwyer, a medical virologist at New South Wales Health Pathology in Sydney, Australia. This would show whether the virus was spreading in the general population in China — not just among people who went to health facilities — before December 2019.
Some scientists not involved in the WHO investigation have already looked at blood-bank samples taken up to a year before the pandemic, in Guangzhou, southern China. (Close relatives of SARS-CoV-2 have been found in bats and pangolins in southern China.) Some of the samples tested positive for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, but Ian Lipkin, an infectious-diseases researcher at Columbia University in New York City, who worked on the analysis, says the test was not specific enough to say for sure that the antibodies weren’t caused by infection with other viruses. “There is a lot of laboratory work that needs to be done that hasn’t been done,” says Lipkin, who also wants to know whether there are autopsy samples from before December 2019 that could be studied for traces of viral genetic material.
Answering this question is also key to establishing the timeline of the first COVID-19 cases. Previously, researchers in Europe have reported1,2,3 finding antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in samples taken at blood banks from November 2019 onwards.
Ben Embarek says this doesn’t necessarily suggest the virus originated in Europe, but supports the idea that it was spreading in Wuhan before the first known cases. “Wuhan at that time was a very well-connected international city with direct flights to the entire planet on a daily basis. So if it was circulating in Wuhan, it could easily have been brought to other parts of the world through travellers, and circulating again, undetected, in different regions,” he says.
Still, he recommends that the blood samples from Europe be retested to confirm that they indicate cases of COVID-19. Some of them, from Italy and France, are already being
reanalysed, he says.
The intermediate animal that passed the virus from bats to people has not been identified, but researchers think it might be a wild species that is sold as food in ‘wet markets’, which typically sell live animals. Early in the pandemic, investigators homed in on the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, because it sold fresh and frozen animals and many of the earliest infections were in people who had visited it. But the lead went cold when other early cases were found that were not associated with the market. Viral material was identified in drains and sewage at the market, but none was found on any animal carcasses.
Still, the market is the only place where a large number of the people infected at the start of the outbreak were exposed to meat and animals. It’s important to establish how the virus got into the market and whether it was on an animal, says WHO team member Hung Nguyen-Viet, an environment and food-safety researcher at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi.
Nguyen-Viet says the team identified ten stalls selling wildlife, either wild or farmed, that could have carried the virus into the market from farms in southern China. Some wild animals sold for meat, such as rabbits and ferret-badgers, are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 or the related virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
WHO team member Peter Daszak, president of the non-profit research organization Ecohealth Alliance in New York City, says the farms should be investigated to see whether
there were infections in the animals or among workers. He also wants to know what animals were sold in other Wuhan markets. When the team interviewed the first person known to have COVID-19, he mentioned that his parents had visited a local community wet market, says Daszak.
The WHO team concluded that it’s most likely the virus jumped from live animals to people, but Ben Embarek says it is possible the virus entered the Huanan market through infected frozen wild animals from farms in southern China, and then sparked an outbreak. Daszak wonders whether frozen ferret-badgers sold at the market could have carried the virus. “These were carcasses skinned at the market, not just cubes of meat in a plastic packet,” he says.
Although researchers in China have also isolated viral RNA from the packaging of imported frozen fish4, Ben Embarek says the WHO team concluded that these goods were not likely to be the route of the virus’s first arrival in Wuhan.
Lipkin says there is no evidence that the virus entered the market through infected frozen wild animals. It could have just as easily been brought in by infected people who handled wild animals, he says.
To establish which animal passed the virus to people, researchers need to find evidence of the virus in that species. Researchers in China tested some 30,000 wild, farmed and domestic animals in 2019 and 2020 but found no evidence of active or past SARS-CoV-2 infection, except in some cats in Wuhan in March 20205.
However, Ben Embarek says these surveys were not representative of China’s overall animal population, and that many more animals need to be tested for traces of infection, particularly on wildlife farms. “The amount of testing that’s been done is not sufficient to say, in any way, that wildlife farms were not carrying the virus,” says Daszak.
The explosive way in which the outbreak took off in Wuhan in December suggests that the virus was probably introduced once, through the wildlife trade, says Daszak. He says future testing should focus on farmed wild animals.
Nature 591, 188-189 (2021)