Visualizzazione post con etichetta inspirational. Mostra tutti i post
Visualizzazione post con etichetta inspirational. Mostra tutti i post

sabato 20 novembre 2021

Pain... Gratitude... Life

Pain is different from a person to another one. You could be sure to understand my pain. And I could be sure to understand your pain. But my pain is my pain & your pain is yours. What people can do it's just to listen to & love to each others. Many suggestions (good suggestions  too) could be only more painful. 

I believe in God & I use to go to Church. I am sure I am beloved God's child. I also know atheist people who are bringing God's blessings to other people lives even if they are sure God doesn't exist. 

During my life I often receive more encouragement from atheist people than people who consider themselves believers & then they don't like refugees, LGBT people, who are sure we don't need medical care because we already have God's healing, sex & erotic relationships are evil.. This is not religion because God is Love. And Love is effortful and inclusive. 

mercoledì 16 dicembre 2020

A Young Adult Prayer

A Young Adult Prayer 

In the noise of the city, bring us peace.
When things don’t make sense, 
  give us meaning.
When we’ve lost our way, 
  point us in the right direction.
When it’s tough to be Christian, 
  shine your light in our lives.
When we’re alone, 
  give us courage to make friends.
When careers take over, 
  help bring perspective to our lives.
When we meet injustice, 
  inspire us to do what we should.
When life is full, 
  help us focus on what’s important.
When love is difficult, 
  break our hearts of stone.
When we ask, 
  give us hearts for love alone.  Amen

giovedì 3 dicembre 2020

Meekness

In  the  words  of  an anonymous  fourteenth-century British  monk  and  spiritual  teacher,  "Meekness  in  itself  is  nothing  else  than  a  true  knowing  and  feeling  of  a  man's  self  as  he is.  Any  man  who  truly  sees  and  feels  himself  as  he  is  must surely  be  meek  indeed." 
(In The Road Less Traveled,M Scott Peck quoted this inspirational quote about meekness)

mercoledì 18 marzo 2020

Dedicated to María Esther & Ivette

I love Maria and I want she is always happy and healthy. I never wanted to change her or to decide for her life. Why did she write friendly and lovely words and then bad things? Everybody does mistakes, I do my mistakes too. And everyone learns from these mistakes. Me too. The fact is that Maria easily misunderstand. Speaking clear about something is just speaking clear about it, not judging anyone. E.g. If you tell me that you have eaten pizza and with pizza you took 2 alcoholic beers (Exist the beer without alcohol too) and then you have stomach cramps and I tell you that it's better don't drink alcoholic beverages because alcohol is too dangerous for human health : I am not judging you but just saying what the science says about alcoholic drinks. And Maria felt judged by me instead. This is only one of the examples I could write. Another problem is Telegram. She felt I wanted to change her life just because I posted the reportage about Telegram. The journalists did a great job and they found out that ISIS, Narcos , Pedophiles, criminals organisation and many others criminals, scammers, cyber criminals, are using Telegram. So, I just ask her why she was so much enthusiastic about Telegram but she never answered why she is too happy about Telegram if she has something with Telegram... The fact is this: She is pro democracy and she has left Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and so she uses Telegram. What's the point? Each app we are using has his problems. We all know what Facebook did with data. But Telegram is dangerous and more dangerous. We know what Facebook did but we also can denounce it and Facebook has closed many Facebook pages e.g. the pages of the nazi skin organisation, new fascism. We can denounce and police can close Facebook pages,profiles,Instagram profiles,WhatsApp profiles, etc... E.g. here in Italy the police had closed a WhatsApp group with children abused pictures. We report something that isn't good on Instagram and Instagram will respond even closing that account. People have reported the Telegram criminals profiles and that criminals are still using Telegram. So, if we have to or if we want to use Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and others app for our communications,for things we are interested in, we can use any of that apps. We can continue to use. But being proud, enthusiastic, happy, about these apps isn't good because we all know the dark side of these apps. Maria doesn't want understand this about Telegram. She has misunderstood. She doesn't want to know and she doesn't want to understand. And she has changed the point, thinking I was writing and posting against her. But I was just posting news about the dark side of Telegram instead. Maria has written me very bad message. Maria has blocked me. What I still don't understand is why she wrote friendly messages and then she wrote hate messages... Maria is worldwide known for her kindness. She has been kind with the entire world except me. People know I am kind with everyone. The difference is that I am kind with Maria. And I love Maria and I forgive her. She has wasted everything. She has wasted all the beautiful things and conversations we have had. Maria needs a person that could help her understand that she doesn't have to have the same behaviour she had with me. She has to understand that differences are richness. If we are different is better. It is almost impossible that all the person have the same points of view, like the same things, but we all in our differences can be kind and love each others. The only thing that matter is LOVE. Ivette has to take care of Maria and I think she is already doing this. They have been blessed by the life for have finding each others and being married. I forgive Maria as I forgive everyone had bad behaviour with me. God is merciful and He wants us all living in the Jurusalem Eternal City. God wants that the hell is without any person there. God wants everybody in the Jerusalem Eternal City. Maria can block me on the social networks, but she won't be able to block me when in the future we will be all together with God.

lunedì 14 ottobre 2019

Saint John Henry Newman

[1] John Henry Newman nacque a Londra, il 21 febbraio 1801; la sua vita abbracciò quasi l’intero diciannovesimo secolo. Cresciuto in una famiglia anglicana, sperimentò la conversione religiosa nel 1816 quando, sotto l’influenza di un ministro evangelico, scoprì la realtà di un Dio personale e la centralità della propria coscienza. Dopo gli studi a Oxford, a 21 anni divenne membro dell’Oriel College e rimase legato all’Università di Oxford per più di 20 anni, come accademico e come ministro della Chiesa d’Inghilterra. Il suo ambito di studi era in particolare la Chiesa dei primi secoli.

A seguito di un viaggio in Italia, dove rischiò di morire per una grave malattia contratta in Sicilia, al suo ritorno in Inghilterra divenne famoso come scrittore, predicatore e leader del Movimento di Oxford, che si proponeva di ricondurre la Comunione anglicana a una maggiore armonia con le antiche tradizioni spirituali e sacramentali. A poco a poco, il suo studio della storia della Chiesa e della teologia fece nascere in lui alcuni dubbi sulla validità della «via media», in forza della quale l’anglicanesimo si considerava un saggio compromesso tra le posizioni «estreme» del cattolicesimo romano e quelle del protestantesimo. Il 9 ottobre 1845, dopo anni di discernimento, Newman chiese di essere accolto nella Chiesa cattolica. Dopo un anno di studi teologici al Collegio di Propaganda in Roma, fu ordinato sacerdote, entrò a far parte della congregazione dell’Oratorio e tornò in patria per fondare un Oratorio a Birmingham, che rimase la sua residenza per il resto della vita. All’inizio degli anni Cinquanta, fu invitato a diventare rettore di una nuova Università cattolica a Dublino, dove tenne alcune celebri conferenze sulla natura di un’università. Tuttavia la nuova istituzione non ebbe successo ed egli diede le dimissioni nel 1858. Benché non mettesse mai in discussione la sua decisione di diventare cattolico, Newman visse alcuni anni difficili, sentendosi inutile e venendo criticato per alcuni suoi scritti. Poi, nel 1863, trovò nuova energia nel difendersi contro l’accusa di disonestà nella Apologia pro vita sua, un libro che riscosse un enorme successo e ristabilì la sua reputazione sia tra gli anglicani sia tra i cattolici. Nel 1870 Newman pubblicò il suo libro più importante in difesa della certezza della fede: Un saggio in sostegno di una grammatica dell’Assenso. La sua ortodossia fu in parte messa in dubbio poiché aveva manifestato una certa esitazione sui tempi e sul pro- cedimento della definizione dell’infallibilità pontificia durante il Concilio Vaticano I (egli non aveva alcun dubbio sul contenuto del dogma). Ma nel 1879 la sua lunga vita di servizio alla Chiesa venne riconosciuta quando papa Leone XIII lo nominò cardinale. Visse un altro de- cennio di serena vecchiaia, in contatto con molte persone, e morì l’11 agosto 1890.

Fonte https://www.laciviltacattolica.it/articolo/newman-defensor-fidei/?fbclid=IwAR3NGgYvAakAhluNVMGQf0BsChewIDNcHwmqBPeGXGmjXvW-HAi80o-LRlM

venerdì 5 aprile 2019

Fasting from sin

https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/1114128047270170625?s=19

Pope Francis:
"Fasting from sin gives hope to creation too, which will be “set free from slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God” (Rom 8:21)."
Lent

C’è un sistema economico che saccheggia la natura...

“C’è un sistema economico che saccheggia la natura. Il creato non è una proprietà di cui possiamo disporre a nostro piacere, e ancor meno è una proprietà solo di pochi. Il creato, è un dono meraviglioso che Dio ci ha dato perché ce ne prendiamo cura e lo utilizziamo a beneficio di tutti, con rispetto” (Papa Francesco)

domenica 3 marzo 2019

Essere felici

“Essere felici non è una fatalità del destino, ma un risultato per coloro che possono viaggiare dentro se stessi. Essere felici è smettere di sentirsi una vittima e diventare autore del proprio destino. È attraversare i deserti, ma essere in grado di trovare un'oasi nel profondo dell'anima. È ringraziare Dio ogni mattina per il miracolo della vita” (Papa Francesco)

giovedì 28 febbraio 2019

Un mese fa/ One month ago... São Jorge

Un mese fa ero al cinema King di Catania dove ho potuto vedere il film São Jorge con Nuno Lopes,regia di Marco Martins. A #Venezia73 Nuno Lopes ha vinto il premio come #migliorattore nel #concorso #Orizzonti.
One month ago I was in Catania,at the Cinema King: I could watch the #film #SãoJorge with #NunoLopes,director #MarcoMartins. Nuno Lopes was the #OrizzontiCompetition best actor winner in Venezia73.
#tbt #throwbackthursday #cinemaportoghese #cinemakingcatania #LUSO #lusocine #igerscinema #instafilm #igerslisboa #igerslisbon #igerssicilia #igerscatania #igersportugal #favouritefilm #bestactor #bestdirector #nunolopesiswonderful

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bua7iDEATtN/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=17vbpeujsuuqv

mercoledì 13 febbraio 2019

venerdì 8 febbraio 2019

Confession by Ill Niño

#Confession by @illninoofficial is a wonderful album. After many years I cannot stop to listen to this album. It helps me. I remember my school diary with the lyrics of "this time for real" and picture of #ChristianMachado to survive to the hell that was the school. "How can I live" that in these recent years has become the song to reflect about the death of my beloved grand-mother Maria. And each song means something important to me... I'm very #grateful.
Confession inspired me and continue to inspire. Thank you Ill  Niño.
#metal #latinmetal #illniño #inspirational #music #igersmusic #wonderfulmusic #illnino #YouAreNotAlone https://www.instagram.com/p/BtnfmBYgb4d/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=eoe2e93duy14

giovedì 7 febbraio 2019

Amnesty International has toxic working culture, report finds

"Amnesty International has toxic working culture, report finds"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/06/amnesty-international-has-toxic-working-culture-report-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copia_negli_appunti



Before giving money to Amnesty International , each person should know what Peter Benenson founded and what Amnesty International is today instead.
Where is the Amnesty? Why are they  doing campaign to regulate sex works and don't  help to stop human trafficking instead? Why are they doing campaign to promote abortion and sexist campaign against pregnancy and babies?
And what is happening to the people who are working in the Amnesty International 's offices?
I was an activist with Amnesty International but they only used my money to kill innocent children inside the womb and to help the human traffickers who are trafficking women, children and LGBT people for sex work . I can affirm that Amnesty International is the worst international charity of the world.
Reading this article on The Guardian you find out what Amnesty International is today instead of the charity that was founded by Peter Benenson.

"Amnesty International has toxic working culture, report finds"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/06/amnesty-international-has-toxic-working-culture-report-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copia_negli_appunti