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Aho Mitakuye Oyasin.We are all related
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (26.8.1919-5.9.1997); at a pro-life meeting in 1986 in Bonn, Germany (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
(by pio dal cin)
Easter Time, for those who believe in Jesus is a very special time; a time for meditation and renewal. I was lucky enough in my life to visit the Holy Land three times. The visit has touched me deeply, as the Land still holds a magical feeling, amidst all the problems, of the glorious past of Prophets and Patriarchs who walked on that Holy Land. Holy for the Christians, the Jews, the Muslims.
There will be a day, I believe, when all religions will focus more on Spirituality than on their own self proclamation. We are all children of the same Universe and religion should not be a matter of fight but a bond of union among men.
Till that day will come I will keep following the religious leader who sponsor this philosophy, not by their words, but by their actions, like Pope Francesco is doing with His wonderful, humble, simple ways that have captured the attention of many around the world, as with the Spirit of Saint Francis, is teaching us that Jesus’s teachings can be actual today more than ever, where solitude and emargination abound as real plagues of our times, where we die by obesity in the Western world while people die of starvation in the Third world and the simple need for water is not met by more than one billion people around the planet.
I will keep following the teaching of HH the +Dalai Lama who wrote yesterday in a +Google+
post:
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Dalai Lama
Mar 26, 2013 - Public
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Pope Francesco. The power of humility.Many fear for His life
(by pio dal cin)
Pope Francesco George Bergoglio has conquered the Hearts of the people. First with the choice of the name, taken from Saint Francis of Assisi,the greatest Saint in the history of Catholic Church, known around the world for his simple ways and love for the poor. When Pope Francesco was elected last week, the Dalai Lama made a short statement saying ” Although I am not familiar with all the Saints of Christianity, I know Saint Francis of Assisii very well as a man of simplicity and Love for all Creatures of the Universe”.
Personally I have detached myself from the Catholic Church in the last years. I could not understand what was happening. When I learned that the Vatican owns the most powerful bank in the world the IOR, I was disgusted, and even more when I red in the past weeks about a scandal that was rocking the Vatican’s owned bank involving a sum of ten million of Euros.
Wasn’t the Church supposed to be poor? Wasn’t the Church supposed to help the poor, the needy, the last ones? Why all this Love for richness and confort? Why was the Pope travelling around sporting a golden cross and ring that could have easily made the yearly budget of a couple of middle class families?
If that was the case, plus the pedophile’s scandals that we all heard about and the misterious Vatileaks files, it was enough to call myself out.
I travelled the world during my years as a young photojournalist, trying to discover the “Thruth”. As I grew up in a small town in Northern Italy, I always wanted to find out what was on the other side of the fence. I often asked myself it there was a Religion that could represent my need for the Immense, a Religion that could be considered the “Right One”.
I studied Islam, Ebraism, Buddhism, not in schools or in the books (even though I red about them whenever I found an interesting text) but through the people I met, because I felt that the best way to get to know a new way of thinking , was through understanding the people and how the Religion itself was perceived by them.
When I realized that all of these three major Religions have all some of “the Truth” but none of them have the “complete truth” I came in touch with the Native American philosophy and Spirituality. I like that very much and I believe that the natural way of worshipping the Creator is a very interesting and fulfilling way to live, in respect for all Creatures of the Universe.
That brought my thoughts back to Saint Francis of Assisi, a man who was the son of the richest person in town and decided to give up all he had to go help the poor and the needy. He loved each and every creature he met. He was the living testimony of the word of Jesus.
Pope John Paul I was a bishop in Vittorio Veneto Italy, when I met Him.
He was a very simple person, like Pope Francesco. He also wanted a poor Church but His papacy only lasted 33 days. Many books and articles have been written about Him and his death. Some say he was killed, but the conspiracy, if there was ever one, was never discovered.
In Italy we live the news of this Pope Francesco as a great blessing. Something we were all waiting for. A Simple Church that can show us through the Pope that simple ways can go a long way. George Bergoglio was living the New Testament even when He was a simple priest, then as a Cardinal, now as a Pope He is trying to tell the world that the world can be changed, that the Church itself can go back to the original.
“I Love this Pope, but I hope He will last” is the most common comment I have heard in the past week. It seems impossible that such a simple man, who love simple ways can really be leading the Catholic Church out of the muddy waters.
The fear for His life is a real feeling that I sensed talking to many people. Every comment as I said, ends with ” I hope He will last..”
This odd feeling comes from the fact that many know that there is corruption and evil inside the Vatican as there is inside any other Government in the world.
The Church is made by people and there is good an bad everywhere. If there was a right time for a “Saint Francis of Assisi” this is it, and by assuming His name, George Maria Bergoglio has taken a very heavy load on His back. That is probably why, on the night he was elected as the successor of Saint Peter, he kneeled before the two hundred thousand people who gathered under the rain to receive His first blessing as Pope Francesco, and with great humility, after greeting them with a “Brothers and Sisters, Buonasera”, he asked for a moment of silence and a prayer; the people’s prayer for the Pope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8IyCuTVXZ8
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Pope Francis will clean the Vatican like San Francesco
(by pio dal cin)March 15th 2013 00:18 a.m (Rome Time GMT+1) As Pope Francesco begins His Papacy with a visit to the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome to pay respect to Mary Mother of Jesus. known to the people of Rome as
Even the +Dalai Lama made a +Google+ post to acknowledge that He knows and Loves Saint Francis of Assisi for His discipline,simple ways, and Love for All Creatures.
Being the first Pope ever to choose such a Great Name puts Him on a very important spot. Not easy to manage.
The need for a simple Man that can embrace the Original Message of Jesus through the New Testament withnessed in person by Saint Francis of Assisi was strongly needed in a corrupted and evil world that hasn’t spared even the Vatican in the past decade.
1)Vatican Leaks
2)Pedophile Scandals in the Catholic Church
3)The IOR Vatican Bank Scandals
4)Vatican richness
He has a though job ahead of Him, but His simple ways (He greeted the crowd in St.Peter with a “Fratelli e Sorelle Buonasera”) have already conquered the world. He asked the people who gathered in the Square to Bless Him, before He would Bless them.
How many Wolves will this Pope with Italian Origins will have to encounter inside the Vatican, like
Saint Francis with the Gubbio’s Wolf (see video here)
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New Pope O’Malley Cardinal with “what it takes” (a plea to the Holy Spirit)
With the Conclave Extra Hommnes from the Latin word ”cum clavem” (with key) that comes from what happened in 1270 when the people of Viterbo locked the cardinals in the City’s Palace until they reached the election of Gregory X
The process to elect the new Head of the Catholic Church will begin on Tuesday March 12th.
As I stated in a previous post( A fool’s prediction), trying to make a prediction is like to be able to guess the lottery numbers. Anyone can be right or wrong.
I was brought up a Christian Catholic in a very strict way. My name comes from Padre Pio da Petrelcina whom my dad met many times when he was a “small friar” battered by the Church and confined without the permission to Celebrate the Mass as he was becoming popular among the crowds for His “miracles”.
(Mons. Albino Luciani-Pope John Paul the I with my father) I met two Popes personally in my life: Pope John Paul
the I and Pope John Paul the II. (foto copyright pio dal cin 2013)
During my travelling around the World, as a photojournalist I came in touch and I studied
Islam, Ebraism, Buddhism and the Religion of the Native Americans, out of my curiosity of understanding where, if there is one, lies the Truth.
I must admit that I wasn’t thrilled about Pope Benedict VXI; not much for His great personality and profound culture, but for the fact that he “sported” those huge golden crosses on His neck and the “fisherman ring” was big enough to buy a couple of apartments.
I kept repeating to myself that “This cannot be Sacred..” Isn’t the Church supposed to support the poverty as one of the three wows?”
Native Americans have a saying “If it is Sacred it must be Free..” I like this. But how many controversial, not free items are there in the Catholic Church today? Why is the Legacy of Saint Peter obliterated by scandals of the Vatican’s funds of million of Euros?
I learned that the IOR (the Vatican Bank)is the most powerful bank in the whole world.
This should change, in my humble opininion. Saint Francis of Assisi was called by Jesus
to “Repair the Church”“Vai Francesco, ripara la mia Chiesa” and was cited here by Benedict VXI.
Times are very hard and the sex scandals, Vatican Leaks and not so transparent transactions of the Church are “rocking the Boat” like never before.
Given my statement that “You have to be a Fool to make a prediction of choosing a Pope”, I will have another approach and “write a letter of plead to the Holy Spirit“, asking to pick the only one I saw that fits the description of Saint Francis of Assisi: Cardinal Sean O’Malley (read His blog)
LETTER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT: I will start with this Song to the Holy Spirit, that is sung by the Cardinals upon entering the Conclave, to ask for Divine Inspiration.
Dear Holy Spirit,
I am just a grain of sand in the Universe. I understand nothing about the Laws and the Forces that balance the Great Space.
Many Humans call upon Your Force and Greatness. Some call You Great Spirit, other call You Holy Spirit, other do not even believe in You.
During these days the Catholic Church is called to elect the Captain of the Ship.
It is been very hard for me in these past years to believe that Your Holy Presence is among those walls, given all the scandals that we heard about.
It is very hard to boftenelieve that the Spirit of Jesus and of Saint Peter, and Saint Francis of Assisi is behind the gold and richness ofnen shown by those who are called to be Your servants, while there are million of people who suffer in the World.
So here is my humble plea: If You are really among those walls, Shed a Great LIght upon those who are called to elect the new Pope so that His ways will be as Jesus requested of
simplicity and trasparency. a real Sheperd that can show the World that Jesus is still among us human beings in the way HE taught us.
My pick is Sean O’ Malley
(I know that You don’t need suggestions but at least I casted my vote)
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Gaza Strip photo story
These pictures were taken by me in 1991 in the Gaza Strip. It was very hard to go inside as a photojournalist because both sides (Israeli and Palestinian) looked at me with great suspect. I finally managed to make it inside and I encountered great poverty. The roads were all smashed up and covered with mud. Children were playing next to the trash. It looked to me like a very very poor place to live an “open sky sewer” I remember writing when I came back with my assignment. I do not know if things have changed now…I have not been back there ever since.
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Codognè- Meno male che c’è Roberto Bet
Oggi, leggendo un giornale locale ho avuto la conferma di quanto strisciante e meschina possa essere a volte la polemica, quando, fatta male, rende più danno a chi l’ha innescata che a colui al quale era rivolta.
La sinistra, con la maschera di lista civile, ha perso le elezioni amministrative a Codognè, provincia di Treviso, un paese di circa 5000 abitanti ovviamente Cristiani Cattolici. Un pesante 65% che ancor oggi brucia come mai e la prova del peso di tale sconfitta è data dagli interventi volti ad attaccare il neoeletto sindaco di Codognè il primo sindaco leghista nella storia del paese Bet avvocato Roberto.
La settimana scorsa una ordinanza che vuole tutelare la serenità e la tranquillità dei paesani nei confronti di chi dovesse girare a volto coperto per il paese, è stata attaccata come “propaganda elettorale”. Poi la Croce nel Parco della Mutera.
Un gruppo di cittadini chiede al sindaco di esporre una Croce (alta circa 4 metri) in un parco pubblico, fino a Pasqua.Il sindaco accetta ben volentieri, come ha fatto per il periodo Natalizio con il Presepe.
Due simboli cardine della nostra cultura Cristiana, Cattolica, Italiana, Veneta, Contadina, Trevigiana. La sinistra infuriata attacca Roberto Bet accusandolo di “strumentalizzare la Croce a fini elettorali”. Si parla di “Croce brutta”(ma come si fa a definire il simbolo della nostra fede “brutto”?) ed innesca la polemica.
Ieri, infine si arriva a definire la Croce “Falsa” poichè la Lega, organizzando uno spiedo durante il Venerdi’ di Quaresima si macchia di un grave peccato, in quanto, mangiar carne di venerdì, durante la quaresima è proibito.
Questa purtroppo è la sinistra di oggi. Priva di leader capaci di un’opposizione costruttiva, si abbassa a compromessi di ogni genere pur di attirare l’attenzione, solo che, attaccando queste “pietre miliari” della nostra cultura e tradizione Veneta, non si accorge del clamoroso autogol che infligge a se stessa.
Ergendosi a giudice dei presunti peccati altrui, non si accorge di svendere per pochi voti in più i pilastri della nostra cultura, cercando di minarne le radici più profonde quali i simboli religiosi che mai dovrebbero essere terreno di scontro tra Cristiani .
Ma cosa significa essere Cristiani al giorno d’oggi? Che significato ha una Croce, un Presepio, una Processione? Saremmo eventualmente disposti a difendere questi valori, queste tradizioni che se dipendessero dalla sinistra buonista verrebbero buttati letteralmente alle ortiche?
Come delle vecchie sagre paesane che sono scomparse negli anni vedremo sparire i simboli stessi della nostra fede.
Il Presepio? Turba la tranquillità tra le varie confessioni religiose(dicono) . Sembra però turbare di più i sonni tranquilli di chi vorrebbe cancellarli dalla “realtà” pubblica. Un presepe va bene in casa, ma in piazza no; quasi ci vergognassimo a sostenere l’origine della nostra fede.
La Croce? Togliamola dall’Europa, Togliamola dai luoghi pubblici, turba la sensibilità di chi non è Cristiano (e invece i fatti di questi giorni dimostrano che disturbano di più certi sedicenti cristiani)
Se questa è la linea politica della sinistra allora il 65% dei cittadini di Codognè che hanno appoggiato la Lega, ed il Pdl durante le ultime amministrative, dormano pure sonni tranquilli. Abbiamo eletto un sindaco che si batterà per tenere alti i nostri valori, quelli nei quali crediamo più di ogni altra cosa; le nostre radici, gli insegnamenti che arrivano dai nostri antenati e che sono sempre stati ben piantate nel nostro territorio come i tralci delle viti che coltiviamo.
Agli altri che hanno creduto ai leader della sinistra generosa e buonista, suggeriamo un ripensamento, in attesa che nascano dei nuovi leader più capaci di quelli attuali . Ma ci vorranno molti, molti anni ancora. Meno male che a Codognè c’è Roberto Bet con la sua squadra che subito dopo essere eletto ha dato una mano ai due asili di Codognè e Cimetta, sta ogni giorno combattendo la dura battaglia per avere una sanità che funzioni meglio sul territorio; l’ADSL per essere al passo con i tempi; che con iniziative nuove cerca di dare un nuovo volto al paese forse troppo spesso dimenticato da una sinistra disattenta ai problemi reali ma pronta a puntare un dito accusatore sui presunti “peccati” dell’attuale amministrazione.
Forse la carne mangiata di venerdì non è il peggiore dei peccati.
Sarebbe meglio astenersi dall’ipocrisia, dalla cattiveria, dal continuo scontro con l’avversario. Alla fine facciamo tutti parte della stessa comunità e vogliamo tutti il bene per il nostro paese , dove finalmente,all’inizio di un millennio si respira un’aria più buona e ci si proietta verso un futuro migliore per noi ed i nostri figli, senza dimenticare chi siamo e da dove veniamo. (pio dal cin)
Google thanks Zaia (Italian Minister of Agriculture) for his words in China
COMUNICATO STAMPA
GOOGLE DICE BRAVO A ZAIA PER LA SUA POSIZIONE SULLA LIBERTÀ DELLA RETE
“Mi ha fatto molto piacere ricevere oggi una lettera di ringraziamento da parte di Google per la posizione che ho preso, di ritorno dal mio viaggio in Cina, in favore della libertà d’espressione in rete.”
Così il Ministro delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali Luca Zaia commenta la lettera di apprezzamento che ha ricevuto oggi da Google in merito alla situazione che si è creata in queste ultime settimane sul web cinese.
“Ribadisco che il web è ormai la più grande infrastruttura del pianeta e che la libertà dei navigatori coincide sempre di più con la libertà dei cittadini di tutti i Paesi del mondo moderno. Per questo sostengo che è un patrimonio dell’umanità e che va tutelato in nome della libertà individuale e collettiva. Sto studiando le modalità attraverso le quali il governo possa sostenere questa intuizione a livello internazionale.”
Google Lawyer “Google will be accessible in China”
“We operate globally…”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/google_lawyer_we_operate_a_glo.html
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