skies take Jesus, hide it - the cloud - to the stares of his friends spellbound. The Ascension "shows" hiding something and what human eye can not see. Ceases to be seen by Jesus, but does not fail to be present. Indeed, "the Ascension, the final point eternally permanent incarnation is the prelude to the gift of the Spirit" (E. Schillebeeckx).
before Jesus walked and taught, he met many people and all spoke of the Kingdom of God on a mission Before the disciples saw the Lord in the beauty of his risen life and drew strength and courage to be his witnesses "to the ends" (The Reading). The Ascension of Jesus inaugurates a new presence in the world. He who ascended is the same that had descended (Reading II), a gift of love for all.
Maria Teresa Magnabosco
PLEASE WITH THE GOSPEL
You, Lord, in the mystery of the Ascension stay with us forever: 'do that we recognize the sacramental signs you prepared to live in you and for you. Fa 'that we too, like the first disciples, we will meet and announce to our brethren.
You, Lord, in the mystery of the Ascension stay with us forever: 'do that we recognize the sacramental signs you prepared to live in you and for you. Fa 'that we too, like the first disciples, we will meet and announce to our brethren.
Tiberius Cantaboni
From: "Sunday" of May 24, 2009.
43 days WORLD COMMUNICATIONS "humanized NEW TECHNOLOGIES"
Today's Communication is strongly marked by rapid and continuous improvement cycle of technological innovation that, if a hand requires a continuous and strenuous effort to run the update, other communication offers new spaces and new ways of relating to others. Flickr, msn, avatars are the most recent time that we had to learn to learn to feel in tune with what's happening. Notwithstanding that, we have not yet fully assimilated words such as: Youtube, mp3, ipod, chat rooms, blogs, sms, mms, tag.
Personally I have always been very intrigued by the potential and dangers of the avatar. This term comes from the Hindu religion. In the world of the Net is simply to indicate the appearance and identity assumed in games or in chat graphics. More broadly the avatar is the alter ego of a virtual person. With this technique, for example, nearly seven million people have created a parallel life now on the Internet to the real one, that is living a second life social - that maybe you feel better reflects their potential never implemented in real life - in years shopping, cafes and streets and squares of virtual "Second Life".
But, as one can easily imagine, these new vehicles, while capable of activating multidirectional circuits of communication, as well as creating a gap between the technologically educated in the country and one that has no access to computer literacy, are not free from real dangers of social deviance as they are imported from the real world.
Hence the invitation of the Pope's message in today's day of social communications, the responsibility to ensure that we are all called upon to assume when we immerse ourselves in virtual worlds of new technologies. Among these there are some which concern us closely, as the phone, web, Youtube, blogs. The invitation is to use them as tools that promote positive man and life, encourage respect for ourselves and those around us, promote friendship and dialogue.
Tarcisio Cesarato, massmediology