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czwartek, 18 sierpień 2011 12:03

The church in ruins (Tue/9/I)

Jerusalem, Notre Dame, 5th June 2007

 

In the time of Saint Boniface the church was growing.
Every year the number of Christians was larger.
Every century a new nation decided to receive the baptism in the name of the Holy Trinity.
In that time, in that context perhaps was easier to believe that the truth wins and the truth belongs to the Church. 

Nowadays on the earth where saint Boniface founded the churches, the churches are going to be sold. This fact can be very sad, very upset. 
Quite every place where the apostles founded the community of Christians nowadays is in a state of ruin. It’s enough to think about Christianity in Turkey, Syria or even here, in the Holy Land. This fact can be very sad, very upset.

But despite all things and despite all circumstances we can not lose our spirit of faith, we cannot think, that believing in Christ we are going to lose our life. On the contrary.
We have only to remember, that faith is never given for ever, never linked with any place or with any nation. We have to do everything that my country, my city, my home will never change in the place where God has no bench to seat on it.

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piątek, 12 sierpień 2011 14:02

Baby, do not be afraid! (15.08)

New York, 15th August 2007

 

My brothers and sisters!
The world is our home.
The church is a cradle.
Mary is our mother.
We are the children and like children we afraid of many things in this world.
Today in this solemn day, the day of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, our Holy Mother comes to us and says: "Baby! Do not be afraid!"

The first fear is the fear of evil.
Sometimes we cry:
"Mum, I'm afraid of Satan. He appear in the sky of my life, like a huge red dragon in the first reading. He is very intelligent - he has seven heads. He is very strong - he has ten horns - the symbol of power. He seems to be a king with a coronet. He stops in front of my life and he want to destroy Jesus, who is  born in my heart by Holy Baptism, by sincere Confession, by His Holy Body in the Sacrament of Altar. He want to destroy my husband, my wife, my children, my neighbour. He laughs at the people because they say: "Satan? Impossible! That  is only fable!"
Mum, I'm afraid of Satan who destroys my world."
"Baby!" - says Mary - "do not be afraid of Satan!
God is stronger than Satan. In the first reading "the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had made a place of safety ready."
Do not be afraid of the devil, but only be closer to Jesus!"

The second fear is the fear of death. We cry again:
"Mum, I'm afraid of death. I'm afraid of dying! I'm not sure, what will be after the death. I'm not sure, will I meet my family yet? will I meet my friends yet? I'm weak and I don't want to suffer. Mum, I'm afraid of death."
"Baby!" - says Mary -  "do no be afraid of the death!
Death came through one man but in the same way the resurrection of the dead has come through one man. Just as all men die in Adam, so all men will be brought to life in Christ: Christ as the first-fruits and then those who belong to him, who belong to him!
Do no be afraid of the death, but only be closer to Jesus because he is "the resurrection and the life. He who believes in him will live, even though he dies". 

The third fear is the fear of people. We cry again:
"Mum! I'm afraid of people!
The world changes own face. The people become jealous, greedy, unfaithful, proud, arrogant, thinking only about money. I'm afraid of the people who I meet, with who I speak, with who I work!" 
"Baby!" - says Mary - "do not be afraid of the people!
Look at the Gospel. Perhaps not all people are so good as Elizabeth as Zechariah, but don't forget: You must be good! You should be good! You must love! You should forgive!
"God look upon the lowly and exalt their.
The hungry God fills with good things.
He has come to the help of Israel."
He will come to the help of you.
Your life may be is not easy but remember the word of the Lord:
"Do no be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul."

My brothers and sisters!
The world is our home.
The church is a cradle.
Mary is our Mother.
We are the children.
Today, when we are celebrating the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, our Lady, she says from heaven:
"Look at me! And do no be afraid.
My Son is with you always, to the end of time!"

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czwartek, 18 sierpień 2011 22:04

Where is the true Church? (21A)

Leicester, 25th August, 2002

 

My brothers and sisters.
Where is the true Church?

When we see a lot of Churches,
when everybody says: "our Church is true!",
when the people think: "it doesn't matter which Church",
we must ask: Where is the true Church?

You heard today's gospel.
Jesus put this question to his disciples: "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" And they said: "Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." "But you" - he said - "who do you say I am?" Then Simon Peter spoke up: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God".
There were a lot of answers, but only one was true - the Peter's answer and on this answer, on this faith in Christ, Jesus built the true Church.
We can't say: every Church is true.
We can't say: every faith is true.
Jesus is the Son of God, he is not John the Baptist.
Where there is the true faith in Christ, there is the true Church.

Sons of Peter's faith,
Where is the true Church?

You heard today's gospel.
Jesus said: "Simon of Jonah, you are a happy man! You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church."
'Petros' - this Greek word means 'a rock' and on this rock, on this man Jesus built the true Church. Jesus didn't build Church on John or on Andrew. He built the Church on Simon who called Peter.
How can there be the true Church without a Petrine ministry? It is so contrary to Scripture to lack a Peter. The Gospels and Acts are impregnated with the role of Peter as head of the Apostles and steward of the divine household. Like Hilkiah in Isaiah 22, the keyholder of the House of David.
We can't say: every Church is true.
We can't say: every faith is true.
Christians are saying since the second century:
Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia - Where there is Peter, there is the Church.

Sons of Peter's faith,
Where is the true Church?

You heard today's gospel.
Jesus said: Peter, I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, whatever you bind on earth, shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.
The people say often: Peter died and now we can decide what we want: the ordination of women, contraception, abortion. Now we can decide that there is no purgatory and hell doesn't exist, either.
No, my brothers and sisters. Not this way...
Jesus said once for all: I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, whatever you bind… whatever you loose…
Not anyone, not anybody, but you - Peter.
Did Jesus think only about Simon of Jonah? Did Jesus say it only to Simon of Jonah?
It is impossible! Because the Church lives after the Peter's death and the Church must answer to several question because the world is changing.
The Church has always believed that the bishop of Rome is Peter.
So in the name of the truth we must ask the other Churches:
Where have you got Peter?
Where is your Peter?
Where is the man who has got the keys of the kingdom of heaven?
We can't say: every Church is true.
Ubi Patrus, ibi ecclesia - Where there is the Pope, there is the true Church.

Sons of Peter's faith,
There are many Churches and maybe it is no so easy as I said,
but honestly speaking everybody can hear today's gospel.
Jesus said: Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! 
Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven.
The true faith of Peter was a grace. 
To be in the true Church is a grace. 
We believe in Jesus, the Son of God. 
We were born in Church which has got Peter. 
We can say: our Church is the true Church, but we can't forget this is a grace not a merit.
We must love the other people, we should pray for and with non-Catholics, we must be good to all.
But in the name of the truth, in the name of today's gospel we, who live in saint Peter's parish,
we must know and we have to say:
Ubi Patrus, ibi Ecclesia!
Where there is Peter, there is the true Church.

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