Riflessioni ad alta voce

The good Samaritan Lk 10:25-37 Lord, what must I do to have eternal life? Interesting question, a question which many of us may have asked, maybe with different words like: “what is sin and what is not?” or “What makes me good or bad?”, or even: “until when can I carry on doing this before it becomes a sin?”. Actually speaking it is written that the one asking the question was an expert in law, he knew already the answer but he asked only to test Jesus, to see if he would make a mistake, but of course Jesus was even more clever than him. At least he asked. Today the problem is that many people do not ask any more, they just follow their instincts, their feeling or desires withour asking if it is correct or not. This is the biggest problem today, we do not bother to see if something is correct or not, if it pleases God or not, but only if it pleases me. And the consequences are very clear in front of your eyes, the bad thing happening everywhere, they find their reason...

From attraction to intimacy When a person reaches the teenage, he experiences a strong attraction for people of the other sex. This is natural and has the important task to push him towards relationship. Usually this attraction is strongly "erotic". The person feels the desire of seeing, touching etc. ... At the beginning the attraction is generic (for all girls), but little by little it gets oriented towards one of them which more than the others fulfills what he unconsciously feels he lacks. At this stage he is fully into eros. Usually he is afraid to talk to her for fear of being rejected or made fun of. This first stage is called attraction . When we have the courage to talk to the girl, we start discovering even more things which are attractive. Furthermore we discover that she is available, she somehow likes me. At this point the emotions go full speed, while the intelligence seems unable to work. The girl is seen as whole perfect, she becomes the centre of ...

Love and sexuality. Love is the most used and misunderstood word. Everybody likes to speak about love, but what they all mean is different. To love cricket means to enjoy, to love a girl means to feel attraction, to "make love" means to have a sexual relationship, to love our parents means respect and veneration, to love children means care and protection, to love your country means dedication, to love the enemy means to be like God. Are there different kinds of love? Pope Benedict XVI wrote an encyclical letter called “Deus Charitas est” (God is love). In this letter he says that there are not different kinds of love, but different stages. Love is the nature of God. We human beings participate to the nature of God, (we are at his image), but we are also ruined by sin and by nature we are limited. So the more we grow in the image of God, the more our love is perfect. The more distant we are from God, the worst our love is. The three stages of Love. EROS: it means ba...