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Merciful Samaritan

When I want to friend with someone I need to know him and meet him. But I have to know what I like what he likes, what he wants from me. If I’m going to do something to get angry, what would that be a ca mar ship? We already know about Jesus quite a lot We know who his father is, who is his mother. We know how miracles proved to be God. And we know that he became man to be able to be friends. But it’s time to learn what’s waiting for us. How to behave when we want to be his friends. Jesus did many miracles, but he  talked little about it. And although he spoke to the adult people, you know that they often talked about the fairy tale. Those fairy tales, these were such stories that Jesus invented, so that people could better understand it. They are called parables. The invented story resembles something real. As if we talked about the building and thought we were on the whole world. Or when we talked about a good person from a mysterious house, we wanted to explain something about God. Jesus told the people of all sorts of stories, and we now know what God likes and what we do not. One such story will tell you today. When Jesus lived, neither cars nor trains were there. He was the person who was traveling to the camel and with a great escort. Or went riding. The poorer had a donkey. Most of them were those who walked walking. Who didn’t have to travel, stayed at home. So many people have not been on the road. Not even the roads were no such thing today. It often walked through the forest, or after narrow walkways. And it was quite dangerous because in the woods they were the robbers who had attacked passengers. Once a man went through the forest one way he was  total alone. And he just him chose the bandit. They attacked him, beat him up, they took everything from  him  and eventually let him lie on the  road. And he would perish, without food, without the dresses full of wound. He walked around  him  priest, he saw him, but was afraid he was dirty. If Injured had not died from hunger, he would have invaded  from the animals. Then he went around that levitate he  thought the injured he was already possibly dead, barely he can help him. And he was in a hurry. The happiness went around him and the third. It was Samaritan, hence the stranger. The Samaritans and Israelites lived in hostility. But this Samaritan about it didn’t care .He did not interest in what nationality is injured. He saw that the injured needs help and therefore did not hesitate. He tied his wounds, wrapped him in his mantle, sat on his donkey and slowly, cautiously transporting him to the nearest hostel. He paid in advance for him to take care of him and only then  he left. He didn’t think of himself, on the exertion, time, money. But only to be need help. Do you know why Jesus spoke this parable? What does this parables mean? Jesus wanted us to tell you how we behave. Not like the priest or Levita, but as the Samaritan. If Jesus talked about this parable today, perhaps he would have talked about how the road was crashed car, as it was necessary to stand and help. And who went on because he feared the view of blood and wounds because he did not want to take the wounded to his car, so that he did not smudge his new covers, or somewhere he  rushed and thought what me is after him. Well, he did so, he had to go cautiously. Today, they become such cases. Jesus gave us these similarities to say that we have no mindfulness to pass around people who need our help. It doesn’t stand up our excuses.

Pope Francis sees the root cause in the clericalism. Pope Benedict   thinks that the crisis hit the church  at the time when after the Second Vatican Council, when a large part of priests and theologians have confused the word aggiornamento opening up to the world take likeness  the world. However,, Georg Weigl points out, that even Benedict’s explanation does  not explain everything. So, where is  the cause? We can’t answer  with the sentence. The Church is a community of  Christians. A Christian is a  person, who has been filled with the Spirit  of God and  as  a result his life has reached a  whole new level. Christian is the man who  fully enjoys new  life and even external  obstacles  cannot take it  away  from  the  joy of  the  new  life. Romans 8 , 35-37. The pagans watch in amazement at the  lives of early Christians and longed live  to like them. Compare Acts  5,12-14.Can we say   that  today the life  of Christians is fundamentally  different from that of  no- Christians? The new life  of Christians begins  with  his  conversion, that is  by changing his  mind by  complete transforming  his personality that  turns his view of God into the world   into life.In short everything. Religion is then an instrument of  growth in this new  spiritual  life. It has no value in itself, as St. Paul explains./ Galatians  6,15/. Somewhere deep in  the past, the  church  has  been  internally divided. The priest and the religious became spirituel, and they are  called to  spiritual life, and  others- laity to spirituel life have neither the ability the means nor the time. Christianity is  no  more about turning a new life into receiving the  Holy  Spirit. But if  the layman and increasingly the  priest and  religious are  longer expected to be  converted  what in  the  identity of the  Christian. Spirituality  was  replaced  by  religion Christianity was  replaced by  religion. From now on a Christian  is  a person who performs religious acts. Living spiritually means  engaging in religious activities. The church was then transformed into an  Institution. The Church has Always been an Institution. But this was  just the  skeleton on which  the spirituel was fixed. But now  institutionally has become is foundation. It has become like a ,,machine” that processes lay  people into good  Catholics. Baptism after birth, first holy  communion at  the  age of  eight, confirmation at  14 years, churchly married, churchly  buried. Everything is OK. Everything  is  fulfilled. Today there are many people who were received in the  holy communion. On confirmation, but  they don’t have  God’s  life  in them. Have not turned. Many baptized and  confirmed  live  outside the Church. However,  statistics only  show  the  number.  And then, in a parish  that has  6,000 baptized Catholics, About  100 People, mostly  advanced  ages, come  to  church on Sunday. Whereas  these  so-called Christians do not  attend  church, do not  meet, of Course they  do not form  a  community. And  the church  is  a community  of  believers. If the  believers do not  meet, there will  be  no church. This is evidenced  by several extinct parishes  in the  Netherlands, Germany. Which parishes seem but only because they have turned  into leisure Centers. Parishes organize Various mini Football tournaments tours, meets, lecture, worship. Much of it is good and excellent, though. Activity however there is  no life the church is not an organization that organizes activities. If  we replace the parish life with them, we resemble the  legendary Potemkin. We  construct  the  attractive and quasi Living facade, but  there is only a big void  behind it. Spiritual life cannot be  replaced by t heather or sport. As I said, we do not lead people to  spiritual life to conversion. All we do is Focus on form. Young  people need special catechism, depicted by special  characters. In the church they need audible guitar and drums. We are looking for  new ways of new forms. Format prevails over content  and  result. It does not work. Anywhere else to have  had a church in a large  Institution of Events if literature, magazines, on  television  all, and result. Decline and fall. Why? Because ours problem is not in cover but in content. The form will not help if the content is missing and the gospel. The parishes  just don’t work. They are no longer the place of God’s Family. The parish is no longer  a place where it leads to the  holiness  and  the divine of live. We are not  able to show People the way to  Christ and  go on this journey with them. The parish is no  longer a place  where we with others walk towards holiness. If the parish is an assembly of formal unconverted not very religious people. These people will not conform to the priest and his preaching. Just as teenager ignores his parents and adapts to his peers, so the parishioner does not conform to the priest and sermons, but to the other parishioners and becomes as normal  a Catholic as everyone else. Recovery  is not possible through  mass preaching, but only through relationships and  personal guidance in small communities. But since with small communities we are as we are. The  result is what  it is. The  second  problem is that we are replacing God’s life by  keeping the  commandments and norms. Thus, conversion  understood not as a change of thought, but we’re confusing it with  reform. We moralize  we urge  people to her  better and  star to  live  according  to the  commandments. But that is impossible. That’s wanting a beggar  to behave like a millionaire. A beggar must first become a millionaire and  then without a problem  he will live as a millionaire. The Gospel is the lifestyle of God’s sons  and daughters.For them,m this is natural.light and self-evident, but for the   unconverted man this lifestyle is alien, crazy unreasonable and to live virtually impossible according to him. This stone  is of great value  for  you  that  believe but for those who not  believe. The stone, which the builders  rejected as  worthless turned  out to be  the  most important  of  all. And another scripture  says. This is  the  stone  that will make them fall. He stumbled   because they did  not  believe in the  word, such was God’s will  for them. 1Peter 2,7-8. Seeing the crisis in the  church we  priest alienate them  from God. We don’t  trust  God’s power. As we could . We haven’t  seen her. So, we don’t rely on it  either. We rely on our forces. We must ask if a conviction in the church the result of our laziness. The  crisis in the  church stops when Christian start   to live   according  the  gospel.

Jesus did  many miracles so much that are  not even described in the  Holy  Scripture. Because Jesus  did so many miracles and besides, he  also spoke as Beautiful as no one  before. Because he was very good and Kind to everyone. Wherever he came Right now many people gathered around him. Once there were a lot of people around Jesus. So that everyone  can see him  and hear Jesus go  with  them out  of the city  to  the  hill. Jesus spoke so interestingly that peope did not take his eyes off him,It never occured to me that it was over  lunch and they should have been eat.After all,you know if when there  is  an interesting movie on TV so  you Forget About food. So these  People forgot About  food. They took Nothing with  them. No one thought they’d be  out  all day. They started  asking  each other if anyone  had  something to  eat. There  was  one  boy, who  had  Five loaves  breed  and  some  fish. The tops  were enough for him and Maybe a   few people. They were all hungry and  everyone  would  like  him  to  get  at  least a little  from  the  boy. Someone  told  him  that Jesus was calling him. He immediately knew  it  was  for  food. Jesus asked  him if he  would give him the breads  and fish. Jesus gave bread and fish to  his  apostles  and  they  were to give them to the people. The  apostles  began to  give away,  each taking what he needed  and  the  bread  and  fish and nothing lost.Everyone was full of  food and  still had  about  giving away. And there were  a lot of baskets. People were excited. They wanted to make Jesus king. It would live. No one  would have to work  and everyone would eat. Jesus did not come into the world so that people do  not  have to work. By this miracle he  wanted to prove that  he was  the son of God. You know, God put the power in the  grain that  to  grow  from it cob  with many grains. Only God  can  multiply seeds. The field is  sown  a bag of  potatoes and  there are  so many  potatoes that  enough for  a hundred people. Jesus did not anything  new  with  this  miracle. The only difference was that it  was  fast. There  was  no need to wait as  it the  grain put  into  the  ground. But Jesus did not  multiply grains but bread. But from the bread  is? The  bread  is  make  of  flour, and  the flour  is  of  grain. When God  can multiply grain, why  could  he  not  multiply  bread? If you put   a grain Flower  in the pot   and  you  turned around. The Flower would both grow and blossom. It  would  be  miracle. And yet it would do the same power as when it happened in a few months . It would only act faster and not more commonly.When Jesus miraculously proved them to be God,that was not difficult for him.To reproduce is bread or cereal grains is for God’s sake the same .But Jesus did it suddenly so everyone had to notice. Even those who walked around other miracles of God every day but didn’t notice them.

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Surely you are wondering what  new  you will  learn about Jesus. You might be interested  in  something  from his  childhood. But very  Little is written About this  in Holy Scripture. Except for Jesus’mother and  her  husband Joseph no one knew that Jesus war  more  than an ordinary boy. Jesus  did not show anything that  Joseph was not  his real Father, but  he was God the Father. It is mentioned that Jesus was very wise. When Jesus was  12 years old  he  was  in the temple in Jerusalem through  the  Holidays. There he spoke  to the old  learned  priests. And  they all listened to him in astonishment, he said so  wisely. When Jesus was About Thirty years old he left  the house. He began walking in the villages and telling  People  about God About  his Father. You know that  because  of that  has become  human. But  he had it  difficult. For Thirty  years he lived  like an ordinary man. Surely he was  Always very  good and  Kind. But  somehow  he did  not manifest  his deity. Then how  could he  begin to speak  of  himself  as the  son of God? No one  would  believe  him. They would  surely  have  considered  him a fool. He had no legitimacy About  who he was so  that  everyone  could be  convinced  of it. And  yet somehow  he has to prove  that he  wasn’t an ordinary  person, that  he had  the  right  to talk  About   what  God  was and  what he  asked  of  us. Jesus proved he was God  by doing miracles. But do you know what  a miracle is? Is it something like wizards do? You’ve already seen a magician pulling a live Rabbit out of his  hat. Or he tears  a Banknote into  small pieces and then  suddenly  shows it  all up. Are magicians who  guess, who’s got something in his  pocket. But this is  only  magic is not Miracle.The magician  learned it. Anyone who’s clever can learn it too. But the word Miracle certainly heard many times. Possible this but it’s a Miracle that  you got a unit in school today. Who has Always  the units in school About it, no one  would say it is  a Miracle. So here the  world Miracle  means something rare  has happened. That someone unexpectedly  gets  a unit is not  a  miracle, but  a bit like  him By the fact that a Miracle does not often happen we  can say  that rarely. The  real  Miracle there is something much more. Something that no man can do only God. Listen carefully to the  story of Jane. This  story help you  understand  what a Miracle is. Jane likes to help your  mom at work  in the  garden. He was  there when  mother  planted  the Peas  in the garden. He wanted  that  mum  puts  a lot  of   Peas  into the  hole   but  mum told  her  it wasn’t necessary. Because  a lot of new Peas  grow from one pea. It didn’t seem like it,  but  in  the summer  she found out. Then she got a great idea. She buried the glass balls into  Ground. She enjoyed in advance how many of them  she  would  have. But for  Nothing she enjoyed  the balls Nothing grew. Her mother  explained  that  Nothing  could grow out of  the  balls, because there wasn’t as  much  strength in  them  as  in peas. Then, once the doll fell out  of her hand her  leg  broke. Jane  also had a broken leg  a year ago. Uncle the doctor put her foot in the gyps. She  had  to  lie in bed. And her leg grew together. Jana put the doll in her cot and  wrapped her leg around  her. And waited, but in vain.  The Dolls leg didn’t grow. Jane went to see the  doctor and asked him to do it. He  told her she didn’t  care  that  doll  foot, because  it will never  grow. Jane  asked who could do it. The Doctor  told  her  that  only God. Since then Jane become  more  Aware  of  everything  around her. And  she  still had something  to admire. How is it possible that from  one  seed  grows  a flower   and  another   carrot. From one  egg  hatch chick, How is it  possible that one  raspberry cherry stone  grows  into a tree that can be  turned into a  big basked every year. And  when  they  plant I basket of potatoes in the  garden so much  that  they have  enough for the  whole  winter, How can a torn blouse  does not grow together, but when  you cut your finger it grows in a few days. How is it possible  that a Tiny child grows into  a big  person. But the doll remains the  same. But you may not know who The Treat a Miracle  is only  God  can do. What no man  can do. Try  to  pay  more  Attention  to  the  world  around  you.and  you  will see many  miracles.