ABOUT POPULAR PIETY ...
I feel obliged to express to the people venosino (PZ), to which I belong, all necessary and indispensable work that the pietas religion has done over the centuries in our simple-vigliosa town of Venosa , the cradle of the Catholic faith from the first half of the third century AD
Because of this long tradition is natural to ask:
1) as it would be possible today to think of a ministry that does not take into account more of great pedagogical value due to the strong role during the history of popular piety?
2) As if to justify his omission from the Church's pastoral plan? 3) How to understand, now completely detached from the faith dimension "sentimental" typical of popular piety?
4) How can the community expect the clerical local change course radically and suddenly the Church's pastoral plan, which has distinguished itself for centuries?
5) How can the community expect the diocesan clergy, the people of God understand or accept all these changes overnight, without being "educated" and trained for the new course of the Magisterium of Church and without further explanation plausible? I think especially the older people and the "poor in spirit" who have always practiced "pietas" religious.
6) Can the Church fail to attract or involve all those people who have not practiced, "sail sight "and they hope to receive from God or the Church of specific answers, which never put any questions? Can the Church afford these errors?
1) as it would be possible today to think of a ministry that does not take into account more of great pedagogical value due to the strong role during the history of popular piety?
2) As if to justify his omission from the Church's pastoral plan? 3) How to understand, now completely detached from the faith dimension "sentimental" typical of popular piety?
4) How can the community expect the clerical local change course radically and suddenly the Church's pastoral plan, which has distinguished itself for centuries?
5) How can the community expect the diocesan clergy, the people of God understand or accept all these changes overnight, without being "educated" and trained for the new course of the Magisterium of Church and without further explanation plausible? I think especially the older people and the "poor in spirit" who have always practiced "pietas" religious.
6) Can the Church fail to attract or involve all those people who have not practiced, "sail sight "and they hope to receive from God or the Church of specific answers, which never put any questions? Can the Church afford these errors?
The current orientation of the Magisterium of the Church will strive to achieve the "new evangelization" and efforts are all focused towards this direction. The new evangelization does not rule out everything that is served in the past, including popular piety, the an-announcement of Jesus Christ. 's man now more than ever need to know the Son of God
And this is the real challenge! Humanity must necessarily feel the need of God and the presence of Jesus Christ in history.
Christians are aware that Christ is the only one capable of offering a chance to put the man in the awareness of a truth which points to the fullness of true freedom and an absolute that does not deceive him and did not flatter easy by allurements. Today's man must recover what had been lost because of a logic of thought prevailing at the same time deforming it away from the faith and sense of common sense, God has made of himself. And so began the process of death! The new evangelization
arises, therefore, the logic of knowledge on the one hand and the recovery for the other.
course is not easy to assume or take for granted the knowledge of God, as indeed, it is not easy to recover what has been lost. This is an extremely delicate and difficult-to, but the moral duty of every believer compels us.
primary task and the absolute is to announce new evangelization and catechesis and as stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church "catechesis is also the moment-to in which popular piety can be screened and educated" . is reasonable at this point in stating simply and clearly, what is meant by popular piety.
We do a little reflection: "Attitudes and behavior of the religious faithful and practicing. It is the totality of external religious practices (prayer, pilgrimages, novenas, rosaries, rosaries, penance, medals, prayers, etc.). That the mass of the faithful in the liturgy makes provided by the official calendar, but also in other wild parties, imposed by tradition, where it is easy to encroach into the magical or superstitious. We could say that popular piety with all its limitations should not be overlooked. may be taken as a "journey to ' evangelization '. "
religiosity and popular piety, thus understood in its multiple facets and all its contradictions, has brought many fruits, which produces, however you want to call it: faith, ie where it is capable of operating conversion processes in people's lives, wakes up when the "sensus fidelium" when calling for the presence of the Spirit in the lives of believers when fosters loyalty to Jesus Christ and the Church when it encourages the exercise of genuine love, when teaching the hope ...
are several values \u200b\u200bthat indicate popular piety to those who practice it.
These values \u200b\u200bbecome true wealth for the life of individuals and
Church.
We cite a few: They are: spontaneity, openness to Transcendence, the reality of life, wisdom, the retention of memory and solidarity "which is found more easily through the humble, the poor, simple people, who are precisely the subject of popular piety." are several values \u200b\u200bthat indicate popular piety to those who practice it.
These values \u200b\u200bbecome true wealth for the life of individuals and
Church. conclusion, would deny that a serious lack of popular piety has made good and helpful in the vast and varied range of culture of Revelation. Chia-ro and remains crucial, however, that the center of it is always the per-son of Jesus Christ, from which it is impossible to ignore. He is the center and everything revolves around.
Because the values \u200b\u200bof popular piety will be fruitful and necessary rio evangelize from within. This implies a degree of purifi-cation from the many facilities that prevent the emergence of true faith in the light of hope and charity.
Today venosina and diocesan ecclesial community can not ignore all the good received by the practices of popular piety. are sharp reminders that cross my mind. Remember certainly age-related child and adolescent youth. In the church of the Purgatorio, the people of Venosa has experienced moments of intense experience of faith com-posed due to the exercise of popular piety. These experiences have contributed to the spiritual and moral growth of each venosino.
With pleasure I remember the Christmas novena morning, pilgrimages to various shrines of the coronation of Foggia, San Michele Gargano, with the display of banners and the procession of "the geglje" votive (ie an altar composed of candles and candles with the icon of the saint or Madonna) made between the town's streets with prayers and songs, the representation of the Holy Family of Nazareth on the night of 24 December, the month of April and dedicated to Our Lady Crowned " Best of all is "sacred Repose on Holy Thursday in the chapel of SS. Sacramento adorned with orange and lemon trees and "s'bbolch," that the graves, which is made of wheat seeds germinate in the dark that reflects the garden of Gethsemane.
The church of San Filippo Blacks, or more commonly the Pur-interrogation, he epresentation venosino for the people, at least in the olive-thyme fifty years and thanks to the enthusiasm of some priests, the visual memory of a Christian community strongly attached to its traditions that find expression in the exercise of popular piety.
Popular piety, the less educated, that is, the humble and simple, the poor and the least, have drawn faith and devotion, Christian wisdom and human wisdom, obedience to the Church, faith and unconditional love in Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. Today, this is regarded as sublime teaching on God's knowledge of what the new generation, proud of a past so full of faith, may
benefit so much heritage submitted by our ancestors. Through a popular teaching full of noble sentiments and good you can approach a peaceful and friendly, peaceful and fruitful, for a constant confrontation with the Word of God, with the tradition of the Fathers, with the healing presence of the Church of Jesus Christ in history and his unparalleled teaching.
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