Teachings from the Church's Magisterium

Overeating foments vices and inclinations which degrade man. 

• Illness - Disability - Handicap
• Sin
• Vice
• Words of wisdom

A son of the people of God must be able to control himself, perfecting himself through obedience and prudence, bearing in mind his origin and his end: God and Heaven.

• Caution
• Continence
• God
• Heaven - Paradiso
• Obedience
• Sanctification
• Words of wisdom

The natural reason is not to stimulate the blood by means of food that causes a heat unbecoming of man, who is not forbidden also carnal love, but must always moderate it with the freshness of his soul tending to Heaven. Man must therefore make sure that the sentiment that joins him to his wife, in whom he must see a fellow creature like himself, not a female, is love, not sensuality.

• Heaven - Paradiso
• Husband and wife - Husband and wife
• Indignity
• Love
• Reason
• Words of wisdom

• Damnation - Perdition - Hell and the damned
• Demonic possession
• Demons
• Jesus Christ - Son of God
• Legion (demon)

«I wish to go onto the infinite sea… towards other lands beyond it. I wish to go and speak of You. I am dreaming… of going towards Rome, towards Greece, towards dark places to take the Light there… so that those living in darkness may get in touch with You and may live in communion with You, Light of the world… I am dreaming of a better world… to be bettered through the knowledge of You, that is, through the knowledge of the Love that makes people good, pure, heroic, of the Love that makes the world love and raise Your Name, Your Faith, Your Doctrine above hatred, sin, flesh, above the vices of the mind, above gold, above everything… and I dream of going with my brothers on the sea of God, on the road of light to take You… as Your Mother once brought You down to us from Heaven… I dream that I am a child, who knowing nothing but love, is happy also when facing trouble… and sings to comfort the adults who ponder too much, and moves forward… facing death smiling… towards glory with the humility of one who does not know what he is doing, but knows only that he is coming to You, Love…»

• Apostolate - Evangelism
• Chair
• Comfort - Relief
• Death
• Doctrine
• Faith
• Gold
• Heroism
• Humility
• Incarnation
• Kindness
• Knowledge
• Light of the world
• Locations - Greece
• Love
• Purity
• Serenity
• Sin
• To be like a little child - To have the soul of a child
• Vice

It is a poor village, as Jesus said. The houses cling to the slopes which, beyond the village become steeper. Poor people live in them. Most of them must be shepherds who pasture their flocks on the sides of the mountain and in the woods of old oak-trees. There are a few small fields of barley, or similar fodder grains, in favourable sites and some apple and fig-trees. There are only a few vines around the houses, decorating the walls, which are dark because the place is obviously a damp one.

• Animals
• Creation - Flore
• Ewes - Lambs - Sheep

«We will now ask where the place of the necromancer was» says Jesus. And He stops a woman who is coming back from the fountain with pitchers.

She looks at Him curiously, then replies impolitely: «I don’t know. I have much more important things to worry about than such nonsense!» and she goes away.

Jesus turns to an old man who is carving a bit of wood.

«The necromancer?… Saul?… Who bothers about them now? But, wait… There is one here who has studied and perhaps he knows… Come with me.»

And the old man climbs laboriously up a stony lane to a very poor and shabby looking house. «He lives here. I will go in and call him.»

Peter, pointing at some poultry scratching about in a dirty yard, says: «This fellow is not an Israelite.» But he says no more because the old man comes back followed by a man blind in one eye, who is as dirty and untidy as everything around his house.

• Animals
• Habits and customs at EMV
• Roosters and hens

«(...) Without love the world is hell, and You the Messiah want to make a paradise of it.»

«A paradise in every heart.»

• Damnation - Perdition - Hell and the damned
• Heaven - Paradiso
• Love
• World

You are not wicked… Your only trouble is that you have a large open wound, which nobody is curing… Your goodness runs out of it as blood from a wound. But if someone would cure your wound and heal it, My dear brother, goodness would increase in you, because it would no longer vanish as it forms…

• Grudge - Rancor
• Kindness
• Malice - Maliciousness
• Pain and suffering
• Tears - Crying
• The wicked man

The man does not say anything and remains where he was, while Jesus with His apostles, passing over large stones which must have been part of very strong walls, upsetting green lizards and other ugly looking insects, enters a large smoky grotto, on the walls of which there are still graffiti signs of the zodiac and similar things. In a corner blackened by smoke there is a niche and under it a hole which looks like a gully-hole for water. Bats hanging in disgusting bunches decorate the ceiling and an owl, upset by the light of a branch which James has lit to ensure they do not tread on scorpions or asps, complains by flapping its wadded wings and closing its ugly eyes which cannot bear the light. It is perched in the niche, and the foul smell of dead mice, of weasels and birds in decomposition at its feet is mixed with the stench of dung and of the damp soil.

«It is really a lovely place!» says Peter. «Your Tabor and your sea were much better, my boy!» And then addressing Jesus: «Master, satisfy Judas at once because this is not… Antipa’s royal hall!»

«Certainly. What is it that you want to know?» He asks Judas of Kerioth.

• Animals
• Bats
• Herod Antipas
• John of Zebedee (apostle)
• Locations - Mont Thabor
• Owls
• Simon-Pierre - Simon de Jonas (apostle)