who loses his life for my sake shall find it (Matt. 10:39).
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Here Jesus puts himself and his relationship with him as a reference and absolute criterion for the choices in life. In order to "be" truly bear fruit, we must be united to him, on another occasion says, "Without Me ye can do nothing" (Jn 15:5). These are words to be taken literally, as when he says: "Whoever does not gather with me scatters" (Mt 12.30, Lk 11:23). Being with him and put him at the first place it is necessary as air to breathe, otherwise it would just faded image, a metaphor for our being children of God, while "so we are" (1 Jn 3:1) .
Like Jesus, even the smallest gesture that expressed his person was "divine", so we also give a glass of cool water to the younger brother, has a scope that knows eternity. Water quality depends on the source and the source is divine in us!
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Experience Life: A
Brancaccio district of Palermo forgotten by men, but not the mafia that it considers its territory "natural", was killed on the day of his 56th birthday, Father Giuseppe Puglisi (1938-1994). Not a "priest-cons", but a priest, "normal", who took the Gospel seriously the past, the destitute, and died for it. As a young man had completed his apprenticeship in a church Palermo Godrano device to a small mountain village of peasants, workers and students who brings his passion for truth and freedom, the seed of hope that spreads unstintingly animating debates, for study and prayer. And the Gospel message aimed especially pleased to those who have reasons to rejoice humanly reasonable. And the Gospel in its "normal" becomes radical and martyrdom, when the context in which it operates and the speaker is too far away from God's plan
In high school Vittorio Emanuele in Palermo, in the center of Diocesan Vocations, the young are the interlocutors privileged and educates them, them "leads" in the message and in the plan of God, soul vocations of others, and deepens its own, which coincides with the increasingly awaken consciences. The "church" of Don Pugliese was among the people, the young, the elderly, the dispossessed. The "confrontation" of the priest "uncomfortable" as the enemy had, silent and omnipresent, the mafia, which allows protection in exchange for silence. Don Puglisi insists on bearing witness to the Gospel, not only with the complaint from the pulpit, but with the action of "his" people, which teaches the value of the human person, his dignity, his freedom.
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