How human she is

A statue of first Israeli prime minister David Ben Gurion seen at the departure hall of Ben Gurion International Airport. October 05, 2016. Photo by Nati Shohat/FLASH90 *** Local Caption ***
Reporting of Federici Studies Center

In the state of Israel, which defines itself as “exclusively Jewish” (law passed in the Knesset on 19/7/2018), after much opposition and hesitation, non-Jews were granted a prayer space at Tel Aviv airport (albeit with discreet signage to avoid acts of vandalism by Orthodox Jews).
Prayer rooms for Christians and Muslims at Tel Aviv airport
In a new wing of the Terminal 3 At the Israeli international airport, two separate rooms have been opened for the prayer of non-Jews
Two hands open in the gesture of prayer, above a writing in Hebrew, in Arabic and English. In the new E wing of the Terminal 3 at Ben Gurion airport - Israel's international airport - a simple and non-denominational sign has been indicating the "prayer rooms" for a few weeks. Simple environments, opened without too much fuss, but which mark an important gesture: the debut of a public space designed for the spiritual life of non-Jews in one of the busiest environments in Israel.
There was obviously already a synagogue at Ben Gurion airport, as in all the most important Israeli meeting places. And it was already since 2006 that the airport authority had talked about the idea of ​​opening a space for non-Jewish prayer in the new Terminal, also due to the fact that Muslims and Christians together represent almost the 20% of the Israeli population and frequent the airport like everyone else. However, this project was lost in the maze of bureaucracy, until a singular accident relaunched the need for it: In the 2015 on the day of Simchat Torah – a Jewish holiday, during which religious Jews do not travel – a family of Muslim Turks in transit from the airport mistook the completely empty synagogue for a mosque and started praying there, even using tallits (the prayer cloaks of the Jewish tradition) like carpets. When some passerby noticed it and pointed it out to him, the family immediately interrupted their prayer and apologized, thus showing that he was in good faith and did not have any provocative intent. But the images were still too tasty not to circulate on social media.

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INDUCING AND ABANDONNING – Semantic gloss

The result of the image through the Our Fatherof the Prof. Luciano Pranzetti

It is not our intention to intervene, with biblical/theological arguments, on the announced and reiterated Bergoglian intention to modify, In the Our Father, the expression "Do not lead us into temptation” in favor of another less allusive one – according to the opinionated theologians of the Vatican-secondist neochurch – to a God who delights in wanting evil for his creatures. E, because of this, without waiting for a definitive decision by the Hierarchy, already in some French dioceses, as well as in many Italian churches, please with the new replacement formula "Don't abandon us to temptation”. Authoritative interventions have been produced on the subject which, without any shadow of a doubt, have demonstrated how inappropriate and incorrect such a new translation of the Greek text is "kai mè eisenègkes emàs éis peirasmòn “ (Mt. 6, 13) That, given to be authentic and unchangeable Word of Jesus (Mt. 24, 35), corresponds to the Latin "and do notlead into temptation”, as Saint Jerome well understood in the canonical version of the 'Vulgate'. We would like to demonstrate, Instead, like the new formula, far from the intention of making the figure of the Father distant from any connotation of malevolence and injustice but only designed with mercy, harden it and make it worse by handing over to Catholicism the idea of ​​an evil God, distant and disinterested in the events and fate of his creatures. Therefore, with the sole etymological/logical/semantic analysis of the two verbs INDURRE and ABANDONARE, it will be possible to realize a vision that, referring to the second, manifests itself to be stronger than the first e, really, blasphemous. We see, At that time, because the two verbs express opposite semantics.

1INDUCE: verb that, in the various and multiple circumstances in which it is flexed, it means a dynamism with which a subject pushes and/or is pushed to behave, to unbecoming attitudes, come: “mislead, lead to crime". Ora, if we carefully consider the etymology and semantics, you can see how, in the compound in-duce, there is an initial motion to which the subject is connected, he is not necessarily forced to give in, so much so that we can speak of an incitement to commit crime which did not materialize due to an opposing will. Scripture informs us that God tests, but this does not mean that man is required to respond to temptation, term this that, among other things, it configures a circumstance in which an attempt is made, operation, Meaning what, who tries to solicit something but not necessarily complete it. Read More

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The perfect Christian society is realized in the monastery

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The cloister is living proof that accepting without reservations to fully live the Gospel in this world is possible (and joyful)

Of Mother Ildegarde Cabitza

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There is a function of monastic life, within the company, which generally escapes superficial observers.
To those who ask us: “What do you do, Oh, closed in your monasteries, to cooperate in the affirmation and extension of the kingdom of Christ?” we usually reply that we give our prayer and our sacrifice to the world, to create a secret yet real compensation for the fearful spiritual deficiencies that dig an ever deeper abyss between man and God.
The answer is true, but it is not complete. Prayer and penance are the elements most easily perceived and understood by outsiders, but we should say with humble and ardent pride: “We are here to pray in the name of our brothers and to offer ourselves every day in union with the sacrifice of Christ, right, but also to give living testimony to Christ, to his doctrine of truth”.
Every monastery must be “as a sign”: the ideal type of the perfect Christian society, where the values ​​of the spirit have absolute precedence over any human interest, where the supreme law is charity, where individual members have, once and forever, believed in Love, and they have it together, with unreserved faith, accepted the risk of living the evangelical word to the full, renouncing the canons of “wisdom of the flesh”.
To whom, even among believers, even among the most sincere practitioners, the Gospel appears in its integral practice, utopia, and its needs irreconcilable with our human possibilities, we testify, living, that no doctrine can, May, more perfectly adhere to the deepest need of the spirit, of human coexistence itself. Read More

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