Questo week end abbiamo partecipato al matrimonio di una parente. Nell’insieme classico e – triste dirlo – piuttosto noioso, mi ha colpito il prete: uno spagnolo sui sessant’anni, magro, sanguigno, che ha detto poche cose, come pietre.
Ha riassunto in pochi semplici concetti il senso di essere sposi, le cose che fondano and keep a marriage alive over the years: the friendship between the spouses, one thing that I discover every day with my wife when I confess that she is certainly my best friend, transparency, as a practice of sharing and regeneration of the daily trust and mutual aid, and humility, to accept what life brings without expecting to dominate.
things said simply and firmly, watching the couple with deep eyes, like a father who gave the final recommendations to the children on the doorstep. I saw him intent, with a bat, to plant the stakes surrounding this young couple to give them a solid foundation, to defend it: from the edge of life, from its weaknesses, by illusions. I've heard - I have to say "for once" - a priest who has taken the responsibility to guard the truth and people, saying things too uncomfortable. Like when he said "and I commend the families they stay out. I have seen marriages fail for the mothers-in-law and that problems between the spouses. "
Oooh, you said it! Finally, a priest who says what is written in the Gospel (for this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother) without indulgences, bluntly, pointing to the side clearly uncomfortable to say but it is there and if not that acts. He has taken his responsibility and he - now that's been said - if you take even their parents. And to give the meters, said his latest meeting with the octogenarian mother, who in the doorway as he greeted her, apparently for the last time, seeing him cry he said: "The children that I have of God, not me: go! "
But the thing that I liked and I hit was the last. "When you have problems - he said - do not go by their parents or friends or psychologist or by others. Go there, in front of the cross, together. " Together, in the face of Christ crucified. There you will find the answers you need. Not by others, not by specialists, not advisers. You too, especially you, take your responsibility, when shaken, not going to look for ways out, "break into" together, and through the storm with your loyalty in the heart. To your spouse (your husband) to God as
Each of us is the guardian.
guess some specialist advice would have to say about this priest: If you have a problem go to a psychologist, not before the cross! But I think the feeling was a little 'less literal and a bit' deeper. Go where you want, but do not forget to go in front of yourself. Do not forget to do it with your wife. And do not try to circumvent the test, because that is yours, there's nothing to do. Have faith in yourself and in life, not addressed as a disease to be cured but with the courage to live it. You are the guardian of life that has been given you, you're the only one who can bring it to complete, to discover the mystery, revealing the unexpected implication behind the apparent defeat. You're the only one who can rise from your death!
I recall the final scene of "The Last Samurai" in which the samurai, who is dying in his battle seemingly absurd, to answer the question he was placed "as are the cherry blossoms," he says smiling, "are all perfect. "
Ha riassunto in pochi semplici concetti il senso di essere sposi, le cose che fondano and keep a marriage alive over the years: the friendship between the spouses, one thing that I discover every day with my wife when I confess that she is certainly my best friend, transparency, as a practice of sharing and regeneration of the daily trust and mutual aid, and humility, to accept what life brings without expecting to dominate.
things said simply and firmly, watching the couple with deep eyes, like a father who gave the final recommendations to the children on the doorstep. I saw him intent, with a bat, to plant the stakes surrounding this young couple to give them a solid foundation, to defend it: from the edge of life, from its weaknesses, by illusions. I've heard - I have to say "for once" - a priest who has taken the responsibility to guard the truth and people, saying things too uncomfortable. Like when he said "and I commend the families they stay out. I have seen marriages fail for the mothers-in-law and that problems between the spouses. "
Oooh, you said it! Finally, a priest who says what is written in the Gospel (for this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother) without indulgences, bluntly, pointing to the side clearly uncomfortable to say but it is there and if not that acts. He has taken his responsibility and he - now that's been said - if you take even their parents. And to give the meters, said his latest meeting with the octogenarian mother, who in the doorway as he greeted her, apparently for the last time, seeing him cry he said: "The children that I have of God, not me: go! "
But the thing that I liked and I hit was the last. "When you have problems - he said - do not go by their parents or friends or psychologist or by others. Go there, in front of the cross, together. " Together, in the face of Christ crucified. There you will find the answers you need. Not by others, not by specialists, not advisers. You too, especially you, take your responsibility, when shaken, not going to look for ways out, "break into" together, and through the storm with your loyalty in the heart. To your spouse (your husband) to God as
Each of us is the guardian.
guess some specialist advice would have to say about this priest: If you have a problem go to a psychologist, not before the cross! But I think the feeling was a little 'less literal and a bit' deeper. Go where you want, but do not forget to go in front of yourself. Do not forget to do it with your wife. And do not try to circumvent the test, because that is yours, there's nothing to do. Have faith in yourself and in life, not addressed as a disease to be cured but with the courage to live it. You are the guardian of life that has been given you, you're the only one who can bring it to complete, to discover the mystery, revealing the unexpected implication behind the apparent defeat. You're the only one who can rise from your death!
I recall the final scene of "The Last Samurai" in which the samurai, who is dying in his battle seemingly absurd, to answer the question he was placed "as are the cherry blossoms," he says smiling, "are all perfect. "
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