We fill our neighbors with caresses

Theresia and Raya

The holidays are also used to take up the most obvious actions of life: look sincere and love towards those around us, a handshake, a caresses, a hug, a kiss or a loving relationship.

One thing is certain, not let them become simple gestures, repetitive, empty of meaning, but let us ourselves, with all the passion and energy that sets us apart, so as to make those simple gestures, extraordinary moments.
We fill our neighbors with caresses.
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Holy Saturday: silence and the tomb

Holy Saturday: silence and the tomb

Holy Saturday is the day when each of us stop in front of the tomb and also remembers all the love ones who lie like him in the same place; is a day of silence and absence.

Jesus and I miss my love ones; there is no Eucharist : the empty tabernacle is a blow to the heart.

And for a little, but enough to make me understand what my life would be if it was not always so.

So I like to say, we are now paused.

Jesus rested in the tomb, each type of task is finished is dead, it seems there is nothing more to do.

As the silence surrounds the meaning of the word, so the break preserves the meaning of the action. 

The act without pausing to action devalues ​​himself; to any kind of act : even the Church to action.

If you stop working when you do not know what to do and you get the fear of emptiness and nothing you seem so interesting and 'full' as they work, it means that you are already poisoned.

So it is with the Church; when to close the oratory, do not meet , do not pray, do not celebrate just seems empty, then it means that the Church already lost the meaning of what he does.

If life is music, music is rhythm and pauses.

Holy Saturday teaches us to take breaks: break in relations with others, break with his own anxieties, fun and rest break in, break even in prayer.

On the seventh day God created the rest and pause.

For our lives and for our faith this teaching of Holy Saturday is not trivial.

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Holy Friday: Jesus dies on the Cross

Holy Friday

And here we come to the  Holy Friday the day of the Testament of Jesus dying addressed to the Mother says: "Behold your son and turned to John the apostle who loved her: Behold thy Mother". We want to go with you these sad and dark and you want to meditate, understand and adore the Holy Cross.

It's three o'clock in the afternoon, he hears a scream and then all is quiet.

Day of the Triumph of the Cross and even the sky seems to remind us that , day of sorrow , day of the great priest , a day of blood , the day when the promise of the Last Supper becomes reality , here is the perfect Sacrifice, "this is my body , this is my blood", I have just says Jesus today , look at me, I am!

Let us embrace one another in the sign of the Cross, and let's get to console the afflicted, clothe the poor, feed the hungry, visit the imprisoned, stroking the sick, to bring all the hope that never dies and does not disappoint, in all run to say: the Cross and the Saints will be your righteousness!

This love we disarm because it responds to blows with caresses, scratch with benevolence and harsh words Crucify! Let him be crucified! 

With sweet words of salvation, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
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Ready to love

Ready to love

Our daily thoughts have to talk about love and be supported by actions aiming only to the good. 

In fact, if we do good and we love each other like brothers, and one day we will be rewarded if we are the first to love, this love will be reciprocated.
We must not be afraid to love even though sometimes we will find those who take advantage of it or do not want our love, our hearts must always be ready to love, to broaden their horizons, not to stop.
Our thoughts and our actions can really do so much because silently, if incurred by the warmth of love, can turn anyone around us.

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The Easter and Christmas

Toraja: the dead are alive

Every year we celebrate Christmas and tells everyone that is born in our hearts the love that God comes into our lives and our world history, then comes the Easter gives us a God mocked, crucified, who calls us to live the love, sharing and conquering death and deaths due to the many inner darkness that often surround our lives and rise again with Him in the blessed life.
Each of us believer and non-believer should find in these festivals of opportunities for joint reflection on the world to come, about the world that we will deliver the new generations who call us the right to return to their enthusiasm for life.
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The courage to restart

The courage to restart

Many times we believe that the courage it is taking actions that challenge the limit and then we jump off a bridge for bungee jumping or we run into a waterfall of 200 meters high.

But it is not so that proves to have a courageous spirit.

The courage when you see it in front of an extremely painful situation you are able to get up, to restart living again and sometimes even shoot a smile.

Is brave who sacrificed his life for others struggling every day to those who have no voice, who after a story he considered the most beautiful of his life is left, but manages to pull out the power that's inside and the courage to the point of stop suffering, who makes breakfast in the morning with his mother, but at night crying over his dead body and has the desire to continue on his way to not throw away the lessons that she has given him , who is recommended by the son: "go up and come home soon!", but in the middle of the night gets a call that will never forget and has the courage to recognize the body's own beloved, who is expecting a baby around the building upon his arrival their own future but it has a miscarriage and must find the strength to start to think about life without him, who must find the courage to reorganize their own life and that of her daughter because coming home unexpectedly one evening finds her husband with another girl, who ended up in jail by mistake, but do not have the money to prove it and has the power to serve a sentence that does not deserve, but that will mark him for the rest of his life, too long for those who suffer abuse and decides to fight this injustice while knowing that the consequences could ruin him, who discovers he has cancer but can not do anything to stop the process and decided to make the most of every moment of his life because any moment might be the last , who by an ultrasound will discover that your children has a birth and the difficult choice whether to keep it or to deprive him of a different existence decides to take care of him for a lifetime .

The way of the heart is the way of courage: it means to accept to live in insecurity, love, hope, and always to head into the unknown.

Having courage does not mean not being afraid.

It simply means to challenge it and not allow it to direct our lives, to paralyze our imagination, to block our outbursts of love.

The way of courage leads to set out on dangerous paths, because life has always been and will always be dangerous.

Accept everything that life gives us, the risks, difficulties , in pain, without flinching , this is courage.

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De facto couples and family

De facto couples and family: Children?

In these last times there is nothing to discuss de facto couples, equality, divorce, but no one tal about love, of growth, of respect, of education.

Perhaps it's to recover these dimensions to be credible to the younger generation, do not increase the break-up and make the whole reason for controversy and argument for newspapers and television.

True love has a heart who is smaller, who is helpless, who should really be protected, stop accusing us with one another, saying okay so it has always been so and instead begin to look in the eyes and tell us what can I do for the younger generation? What am I doing right now?

Let us not put the love for the children ones tomorrow may be too late.

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Tables and chairs in the square

Tables and chairs in the square

Increase in the world the news of riots , violence against women and children and the people who lead a normal life.

Violence that is consumed in their house and in the streets that does not stop in front of anyone, who no longer ashamed to be seen.

But there is an answer to all this? Can you stop?

Of course the mentality of I want everything now that you feel safe in our environment is not good and the isolate, the no longer tolerate their neighbors and brothers and only use the weapon of the complaint and not the lissen, of love one another, to be eating together and inviting us to each other.

Unfortunately, the desire to dominate others, to put others at their service is growing in every area of ​​public and private life.

Violence is also the result of the mentality which honors and reserve than the "stronger", the "smarter", in essence, the most violent in the new generation comes forward mentality of boredom, disinterest and disrespect for life, distrust of the family, society and the state.

Let us pause, reflect and begin to act in our small communities in our areas and our parishes we increase the moments together, conviviality and diminish all those bureaucratic rules that are breaking the sense of togetherness and closeness.

We carry tables and chairs in the square we share what we have prepared and eat together and if someone stops to public policy or because we do not respect the dietary table.

We also offer lunch to him with a smile and let's understand that being together is the solution to many problems and violence that can be felt in the world.

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The house in the heart

The house in the heart

Our emotions, our passions all starts from our hearts and from where we want them to leave. 

Our true house is in fact where you will find our heart.
We may be close to any people, but if our heart is somewhere else near each becomes far.
The board is to decide our course and face the sea of ​​life that is not always calm and quiet, treasuring the advice of friends and not abandoning the people who really love us and leave us alone.

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Greetings to all women

Greetings to all women

Today each of us pause to comment on International Women's Day, we make use of the words, thoughts and appeals to respect and equality. 

I would add only that every woman is a great gift, but avoided to expire in card with a simple mimosa, but give her a sincere kiss, a kiss given with heart, a kiss that thanks you for all you do every day for you.
Let them feel your warmth, your neighborhood, today and every day.
A woman should be loved, respected and constantly thanked.

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Happy Sunday

Happy Sunday

I wish you all a Sunday simple, made ​​of small things.
A happy Sunday to spend with our family and have the time to look at them with eyes with wonder and amazement, as if it were the first time.
Caress the face of those we love, we embrace who we have in our hearts and if we live in time for lunch in the company and together with all our love ones.
I still remember the polenta at my grandparent's house and lunch together with family and friends, with the usual motto: add a place at the table.
Let's hope a Sunday extraordinary ordinary things made ​​up of many small, where each of us should not go in search of the meaning of things, but they are things to find their way.
Let's hope that one Sunday, opening the windows of our house and breathing the morning air, we can feel in our heart a great sense of gratitude for life and all that surrounds us.
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The memories

The memories

Let's stop for a moment, remembering how many wonderful moments we have lived and will live. 

Of course, the memories can sometimes hurt so many times and you continue to ride this pain without wanting to change destination. 

You can go far, but nothing of what you have in mind and heart can never leave far enough. 

Memories that are made of photos, names, letters, tickets to concerts, ball games, trains, airplanes, subways Europe. 

Gifts of past love and diaries when I was a child and first boy then. 

Everything is kept jealously in his heart, and every day we add new things, new experiences. 

Will my heart to keep my memories alive with the passing of years and every time I think about it, I will remember all the emotions at one time. 

Often between a good and a bad day just passes the distance from a memories.

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The eyes: gli occhi

Novel (The eyes)

How beautiful it is to watch people and especially look them in the eyes, in fact the soul of a person is hidden in her eyes and that is why we have so often afraid to look us in the eyes.

I like it, more and more, draw near to anyone looking into his eyes and really finding out what the other wants to tell me. 

We learn to look deeply and lovingly, without judgment or prejudice, only with the eyes that want to help, who want to love, they want to freely discuss and find a solution to everything.

Quanto e’ bello osservare le persone e soprattutto guardarle negli occhi, infatti l'anima di una persona è nascosta dentro il suo sguardo ed e’ per questo che tante volte abbiamo paura di farci guardare negli occhi.

A me piace, sempre di piu’, accostarmi a chiunque guardandolo negli occhi e scoprendo veramente che cosa l’altro vuole dirmi. 

Impariamo a guardare profondamente e con amore, senza giudizi o pregiudizi, solo con degli occhi che vogliono aiutare, che vogliono amare, che vogliono liberamente confrontarsi e trovare la soluzione a tutto.

The power: il potere

Moutong (Indonesia)

Tante volte in questi anni ho fatto senza volerlo parecchie guerre. 

Volevo conquistare il successo, i soldi, il potere, la gloria e questo potere ero arrivato persino a giustificarlo come fosse il volere di Dio quando invece stavo violando tutte le sue leggi.
Ho predicato anche tanto amore, ma non mi sono mai battuto fino in fondo perche’ l’amore trionfasse e oggi piu’ che mai dico che lottare perche’ trionfi l’ amore abbia molto più senso che combattere per tutto il resto.

So many times over the years I have unwittingly several wars. 

I wanted to gain success, money, power, glory, and power that I had come so far as to justify it as if it were the will of God when it was violating all his laws. 

I have preached so much love, but I have never beaten until the end because the love triumphed and today more than ever because I say fight trumps love makes much more sense than to fight for everything.

Observes the thoughts

Observes the thoughts (Malaysya)

When your words are spoken with kindness creates confidence.
The kindness in your thoughts then, creates depth and when you are able to use your kindness in giving, creates love.
For most people nothing creates more problems of the effort of thinking.
Buddha says: The thoughts manifests itself through the words, and the words occurs with the purpose, and the purpose it develops the habit and the habit is strengthened in character.
Then observe the thoughts and its ways with care, and let it rise from the love that arises from the consideration for all beings.

Wait or move

Wait or move

Today I sat and watched the sea and immediately my thoughts went to all the people in the world are: wait.
But those who wait? Wait what?
Maybe a miracle that may never come, but you can also create, start now.
Wait for true love, sincere, authentic, that lasts a lifetime, but then they are useful move, busy, look for him everywhere.
You can lose every train because it is not the right one, but if you at least know the direction, take the first that happens, if it is destiny and if you have a bit of luck, you will find what you are looking for along the way.

The loneliness

The loneliness

The loneliness you feel bigger when we are alone, but when we are with other people. 

People look at us, but without seeing each other, that we feel, but without hearing or even worse, that judge us, but without knowing.

Oscar Wilde says:
Everyone says that love hurts, but that's not true.
Loneliness hurts. The rejection hurts.
Losing someone hurts.
All these things confused with love, but in reality, love is the only thing in this world covering all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again.

Two jumps like children

Two jumps like children

Nobody is prfect, but each one is unique: this makes precious the gift of life, because no one can give to the world what we bring.

Each year the spring back as far as the winter has been long and hard.

There is a perfection in the world, absolute, just as there is within us.

Do not you knock at the door, open by themselves if the energy that is committed is the one that allows the harvest!

Whenever you find yourself walking down the street, even if you're dressed in a suit and tie or have high heels, try to jump as children do for a few steps.

Already the idea you ashamed? You must have been well hidden your inner child for a judge immediately with: "This should not be done".

Youth sells the baby is inside of you, and devotes two hops: you'll find yourself smiling and your innocence will smile with you.

Express yourself freely in your hearing, do not be afraid of what you feel, in fact, anything that can become not express resentment towards yourself, others and the world.

Love your life, smile and do what that you like to feel happy.

Spread love

Madre Teresa di Calcutta: spread love

Read this beautiful reflection on love of Madre Teresa di Calcutta, are words full of feeling and enthusiasm:

Spread love everywhere you go:

First of all in your own house.

Give love to your children,

To your wife or husband,

To a next door neighbor . . .

Let no one ever come to you

Without leaving better and happier.

Be the living expression of God's kindness;

Kindness in your face,

Kindness in your eyes,

Kindness in your smile,

Kindness in your warm greeting.

Good, peace and love

 The Pope Francesco

 The preacher was late.

In the chapel of the convent, the nuns waiting had come to the fifteenth mystery of the Rosary, when the doorbell rang the reception.

Breathless, the preacher apologized to the superior embarrassed saying that awaited her: "I'm sorry, Mother, but I could not prepare myself".

"No matter", replied politely superior.

"You talk nonsense as well".

The most spoken language in the world is "nonsense". 

Billions of words, every day, we invest, pierce us, suffocate us.

Being able to speak is a great gift, but it should not be wasted by continuing to pronounce words.

The best word is the silence and the silence is nourished by clear words, true, essential that come from the heart and speak only of good, peace and love.