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Mother pelican

I thought of the words who shall lose his life for me - the Message I bring - shall gain it. real Life. He came to do His Father`s business establishing that network of Love that potentially binds whole humanity in one Body - through the Eucharist - but also in what we do following that sense that we are members of one body that are called to help each other. She is like the mother pelican who feeds out off her own chest to feed the little ones.

By: Alessandra Parrini
Category: The Widow`s Offering

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Why David`s son?

Is it the promise of the multitude of spiritual children? but wasn`t Abraham to whom God said your children will be as numerous as the stars? at the beginning of one of the Gospels we have the precise reference to the whole geneaology. So why David? the Psalms come to mind - Psalm 23 - and the asking of forgiveness of David for the committed by him sin of adultery. The whole Psalms are a crucifixion of the soul. With a joyous ending that pervades them all too in his longing for and glorifying God whom he sees in the whole universe. Does he anticipate Jesus in that? or better as Jesus was sinless he is all of us in potential - provided we walk in Jesus footsteps accepting our crosses and in our cases aknowledging our sins - like David - and humbly seeking for the Father`s forgivness which keeps SHINING throughout the Psalms a model for the contrition of the soul. And like him keeping our eyse open to take in the glimpsing everywhere Love of the Father.

By: Alessandra Parrini
Category: Whose Son Is the Christ?

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Earthly bounds

Marriage is an earthly although spiritually based, binding contract that regulates human `cravings` and is the called to be pure pillar of society by placing the pillar of the family based on `pure` blood relations - no sexually sinful. Like blood relations --however pure - the spiritual family we become part of when becoming true followers of Jesus overrides all eartly physical relationships. The Kingdom of Heaven trascends flesh completely. It`s a totally different Realm. By looking at it as a model we can celebrate and keep ''God made us so'' holy that fleshy existence God gifted us with. God - pure spirit - became flesh through a human Mary. Raising us thus to that spiritual status - the status of spiritual Children and through the crucifixion and also Jesus great example we were not only purified by our sins but also taught how to keep this God made temples so.

By: Alessandra Parrini
Category: The Resurrection and Marriage

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