;: announce that today the law of Sinai?
Don Fabio Rosini
lately are coming back into fashion the Ten Commandments. Newspaper articles, books, thoughts and anything else, give space to this issue. This is an amazing phenomenon when you consider how strong was the momentum in the recent history of Western thought, to get rid of any imposition of any law. We come to ask whether it is even appropriate to revisit the Ten Commandments and use them as a means of advertisement about the recipient that are specific to young people. There are crossroads of history that make this or that specific arguments or out of place. This is the time to "keep in mind the law on Mount Horeb, the servant of God, Moses? (Cf. Mal 3:22)
We must become aware of certain things. The history of the last century has enjoyed the first story in a comprehensive way, for some time now what is important happens, I know, in Mexico, is universally known in a few hours. We know what the media do know, and we are subjected to a waterfall, a flood of information. This information is actually selected, domesticated, but that's another topic.
Alongside there is another closely related phenomenon: the disappearance, in developed societies, like ours, illiteracy. It was yesterday that a small portion of people were not able to read, even if it seems distant in time. So people "know" more, young people in the first place.
But do they know? Knowing little knowledge may mean well, know a lot (in the field of popular we are talking about) knowledge is often wrong, superficially. Quality and quantity have their differences. The people of this millennium and they know very badly. There is also a further effect "fork" between two cultural phenomena is not small. On the one hand the long process of destruction of the father-authority, began in the Enlightenment and arrived today. The dislike for authority develops and grows, on down to the slogans of 1968 and the modern culture of individualism, anti-father, and then non-fraternal. On the other hand we have the evolution of science, that while it is still viewed epidermal positivistically as "certainty", was in the principles of relativity, uncertainty and indecisiveness (respectively, Einstein, Heisenberg and Goedel) when a devastating restructuring and study. The axioms of a positivist view, "some" of science are obsolete.
We pull the money: I, young people today, I know many things, very contradictory and opposing received from many sources. Sociologically not accept the authority, I do not think in the fathers, of any kind. At the cultural level professed relativism evanescent, a vision of the world-wide gas, everything is true and everything is false, nothing is certain. Clearly, this analysis is cut with an ax, in a few lines, a generalization that would require one thousand distinctions. But we try to get somewhere and do not fall in the drain depth of tailings.
What is the result of the picture just drawn? A desperate lack of certainty. This lack is almost never conscious, has a draft of anguish in the depths of the hearts of people today. The law of universal gravitation, which means that my body into the chair that supports me, stable and to stay there is also a law of existence. "To be" I need a support, a base, a foundation. If someone tells me that the chair that I'm serving often falls apart at once, my relaxation is experiencing a crisis. So if my livelihood, certain things are necessary to deal in some way my self, by definition, are doubted, for, unreliable, as I am?
The culture of talk shows, the debate, eight of the outside of opposing points of view, freedom for freedom, especially that of opinion, written in the conscience in the making, such as youth, a far more devastating confusion than you think. It would be considered in greater depth, and this is not the time, what it could mean an act of faith for people trained in that context. Perhaps requires a form of extraction from the almost physical today.
And the Ten Commandments? After 200 years of devastation we know as a man who does not know anything. We have an illiteracy existential, every choice is uncertain, and lives at random. We lost the instructions for use. We use the life, body, affection, friendship, time, unknown as a household appliance, push buttons at random. Happiness seems to be a fortuitous accident, apparently ineffable alchemy of life. Sheep without a shepherd; who rejected the pastor culturally, existentially, scientifically.
"At that time there was no king in Israel: every man did what he thought best" (Judges 21:25). But history is providential. None of this is pure destruction, but the occasion, this is a great starting point. Also because the truth is not so far away and unreachable, is a man, the only Son of the Father. The King that we're missing. We reject it, forget it, but we do not, without him we do not know what to do, by trial and error, there seems to be better at the beginning and then discover that we live in the dark. There comes a time when we scaled beneficial, we badly done, we are finally disillusioned by the lies. And we begin to be eligible recipients of a word, that of those who said that blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is announced to the poor.
Life has its own instructions for use, it has the watermark of authenticity. We, the announcers, we know (if you know) that the Holy Father's will is our peace, our certainty, and that there is a good use of things. Precisely this is the 10 Commandments: the path of peace, the path of wisdom. If it is true that we must pass from the Law to Grace, it is true that the man who does not even know the law is a blind man with no points reference.
The announcement of the 10 commandments good game (especially as x-ray of Christ, his way of thinking, her obedience to the Father and his love for us) finds its strength in the dull pain of this generation.
There is a "but." God save us from clerical tone. This is where you jam the mechanism of Providence, because it is the part that concerns us, who depend on us. If the message is the Wisdom of the Father, revealed to the Sinai and meant for every person of every age, is this sheep and the recipient of the third millennium in pain, who is the issuer? A moralizing? An emitter of references to the "duties"? A sputum of references to the "values"? An apodictic speaker of Kantian categorical imperatives? A champion of ethics? For God's sake, no!
These years have seen a proliferation, even in Church circles, studies on the Ten Commandments, and hence the growing interest around the assumption that pastoral indent the Decalogue. But the risk is that you get to play a new instrument with the same old music. The first people to hear the content of what they say, listen to the music of words. And if the music is boring, or worse, demanding, morality, listen. Very often when you have occasion to listen to many preachers today, you sound off and think their own business.
To be heard we must first listen to what draft of anxiety within us, able to speak to the poor by the poor and not theoretical. And maybe talk to love. Because you do not know. Because it is. A pastoral plan formulated in theory easily becomes a sterile operation algebra Church. We should fear a neo-moralism. Christianity is not an ethic. Christianity is a person, Christ. The Ten Commandments were used by God the Father, above all, to himself, and we've seen in the crucified body of his only begotten Son. The Ten Commandments are God's way of life
FRIDAY March 18, 2011 21.00 O INIZIERANN the catechesis on the TEN COMMANDMENTS IN THE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF HOPE-VIA DON DARIO PASQUINI-ELM-PERUGIA.
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