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Lent yet arrived ...
It's easy to choose when to arrive, set in the timetable and so give our borders: in Brazil are even more pronounced, as the lively carnival celebrations of Easter and the frame, removing the taste a bit 'bitter that generally the features.
ritual journey of Lent is inner listening, in a climate of austere desert.
We need it, affects our lives with a new rhythm, which slows down a bit 'travel time crowding the mind and heart.
But the true Lent, the most practical, written in the flesh of the people, is very different: a time of hunger, emptiness, the dark drama of a life suddenly, when they catch a glimpse evacuation routes and long for resurezzione the light.
For example, this first Sunday of Lent (Feb. 21) is also the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death (crocefissi!) Zeatzan of farmers, victims of persecution in Guatemala.
In this period, then, we experience even more harsh effects of the crisis, on the outskirts of Brazil: contributions are finite and the unemployed no longer have any input!
Nature itself is going through a time of Lent, devoted to the cause of humanity eager to penance, which has already been sentenced to death.
These (and many others) the true deserts of life that leave us without answers, frightened, waiting for a resurrection of urgent difficult.
HOWEVER able to accommodate these stages of life, because the Word assures us that have a time limit, a limit beyond which we will review again the light. Meanwhile, in this dark way God takes us by the hand, Father pays attention to small and fragile.
is possible, even today, pass from death to life, from violence to a renewed balance between all creatures.
this Sunday's Gospel tells us how NOT do. It is for the rest of Lent, then, show us effective ways to rebuild hope.
not how come we have to prepare the Passover? Style anointed by the powerful (the devil himself is defined by the Gospel as the master of power).
Some tools have always deceived the masses; Jesus rejects them permanently:
- turn stones into bread .
is an undertaking by a few. We dedicate this verse to his company, which makes us the good and the bad weather, iron, copper, bauxite and precious stones extracted and sold at prices of exception. Vale do Rio Doce proclaims its mission to spur wrought miracle, which he says will make people revive the Amazonian and Northeastern. Too bad that the stones extracted from our land become almost exclusively for bread azionisiti and administrators of the higher levels.
There is plenty of food, but a few: this is not Easter.
- gain power in carnival of political farce today.
In Brazil, federal and state election year: how to revive the policy, while many 'devils' still aspire to higher positions, bow down and sold to any condition? More
who within the party, we must urgently prepare for Easter by social control, popular organization and responsible participation: honesty rise again!
- Making religion a stage of miracles.
Even the church can 'satanizzarsi', if it falls into the temptation to look for the signs and visibility, deceiving people and conquering the masses with external rites and event reminder. Here in Brazil is now the temptation easier.
That's nice, however, prepare the Passover each year through demanding and challenging of the routes from Campanha Fraternidad : courses of study, socio-ecclesial and efforts on urgent topics to be addressed ecumenically (this year's theme, dictated by the crisis and the urgency of new models, and "Economics and Life").
The challenge for the community, and do these pathways is central to all kind of commitment, for all year: in catechesis, in social work, celebrations ...
The whole world is going through a difficult and Lent global economic crisis, ecological and ethical.
The forty days of prayer, reflection and commitment to help us start to seek, with God and men and women of good will, way out to the resurrection.
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