Catholicism

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, who promises salvation to anyone who becomes "his"
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Image results for The Virgin of CarmelOf Cristina Siccardi

Il 16 July a very important Marian feast occurs in the Tradition of the Church: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, one of the oldest and most loved devotions in Christianity, linked to the history and spiritual values ​​of the Order of Friars of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Carmelites). The liturgical feast was established to commemorate the apparition of 16 July 1251 a san Simone Stock, at the time prior general of the Carmelite order, during which Our Lady gave him a scapular (from Latin scapula, shoulder) in fabric, revealing to him notable privileges connected to his cult.
In the First Book of Kings of the Old Testament it is said that the prophet Elijah, who gathered a community of men right on Mount Carmel (in Aramaic «garden»), he worked in defense of the purity of faith in God, winning a challenge against the priests of the god Baal. Who, afterwards, Christian monastic communities were established. The Crusaders, in the 11th century, they found some religious people in this place, probably of Maronite rite, who called themselves heirs of the disciples of the prophet Elijah and followed the rule of Saint Basil. In the 1154 the French nobleman Bertoldo retreated to the mountain around this time, arrived in Palestine with his cousin Aimerio from Limoges, patriarch of Antioch, and it was decided to reunite the hermits for cenobitic life. The religious built a small church in the middle of their cells, dedicating it to the Virgin and took the name of Brothers of Santa Maria del Monte Carmelo. Carmel acquired, in this way, its two characterizing elements: the reference to Elijah and the link to the Holy Mary. Read More

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Actuality | events

And they won't stay.
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Of Raffaele Pengue
And they won't stay.
Source: byebyeunclesam
A lot happens in this strange country. Maybe it will be the heat that makes everyone a little nervous, but we are all focused, with anger, anguish, curiosity and cheering. And the point is not the fear of a return to fascism (a colossal nonsense) and to racism and other concepts typical of heat and the absence of a thought. They're not even the red shirts (now the colors are starting to run out...), they are already bored. They are not the fasters. The bourgeois from the historic center, the “radical chic with the Rolex and the penthouse in New York”. The 200th "meeting" of the PD in Ergife. Yet another scoop on Raggi: “He who wounds from the hole dies from the hole: Virginia Raggi stumbles and risks falling". The end of the era of Emilio Fede and meteorites, because the season of quality TV is finally starting and therefore, plot twist: Matteo Renzi on TV. No. The problem of Italy's problems, It's a fact that a world is now out of the picture. A world that, in order not to dissolve completely, relies on discord and thus separate the yellows from the greens. Become, in recent months, the lightning rod and the main culprits of all international inhumanity. Read More

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

Fake News and induced truths
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Of Enrica Perucchietti
Fake News and induced truths
Source: Italicum
Interview with Enrica Perucchietti, author of the book “Fake News”, Arianna Publishing 2018, edited by Luigi Tedeschi

  1. According to the thoughts of Walter Lippmann, our perception of reality is conditioned by images, concepts, moral values ​​not directly acquired, but transmitted to us by others. Therefore, the narration of facts is necessarily subjective, a representation of reality formed through stereotypes, assumed as interpretative canons of reality itself. In the fluidity of today's telematic communication, therefore, new stereotypes replace old forms of manipulation of reality. It is therefore necessary to conclude that the perception of reality is always mediated by the uninterrupted succession of cultural stereotypes over time, every truth arises from selective parameters of interpretation of reality itself. In this case the post-virtual truths of media technology, they do not end up being equated with the metaphysical conceptions of philosophical knowledge and/or with the transcendent truths of religious faiths?

The risk exists. Yet the truth is one, with its infinite nuances, beyond the stereotypes or cultural archetypes that each of us has inherited or been indoctrinated into. I agree with the philosopher Alain De Benoist according to which the intent of post-truth would be to discredit the truth by presenting it as a "great story" which can no longer be believed precisely because everyone has constructed their own subjective truth. It would be the triumph of relativism: everything becomes “relative”, virtual and therefore chaotic. At this point of collective disorientation, Power guarantees the existence of its own truth through the supervisory action of the mainstream media and the laws introduced to guarantee order. That is, we want each of us to be increasingly wary of the news we can find on the web even if it is documented and true and, more generally, of alternative information to make exclusive reference to "certified" news.: we must only rely on what the Party says and has decided for everyone. The others will be conspiracy theorists, webeti and well poisoners. Read More

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