the face of tragic events ordinary as a political murder in a country with a high voltage terrorist reactions can be basically of two types: either you let the emotion of a moment slip away in a bitter addictive or you accept that the story of many common places scramble we think and interpret the situations around us and in the wider world. An element many consider common ground for a country of ancient Christianity like ours is, for example, the fact that Christianity, in its declination Catholic, has a dimension of "popular" is an almost innate sense of Italy. A penetration time was measured on a number of 'practitioners' and the percentage of baptisms and marriages in church and now is the latest in the number of parameters "avvalentisi' teaching of the Catholic religion, the signatories of eight per thousand in favor of the Catholic Church or the willingness to follow the teachings of the Magisterium on ethically sensitive issues.
This, we are told, Christianity is real, concrete, everyday, well balanced with respect to common sense, so little different from the majority opinion, so calm in taking behaviors and traditions have become the most discounted. Who was not reflected in this sense of the popularity of Christianity and even notes the disappearance of a "Christian difference", the loss of flavor " salt of the earth," the confusion between their behavior rooted in the gospel and appeal to the roots of trees have stopped bearing fruit matching is easily accused of elitism, pointing to him as a supporter of a mythical group of "pure and hard " as a dreamer of a utopian reality of people in line: reaction symptomatic of an implicit tendency to oppose the rarest of convenience " heroic virtue" in the Christian matrix in widespread habits a bit 'faded. But sometimes events lead us to get to know the extraordinary story of someone who took seriously their Christian faith and to discover that this is the 'heroic' is in fact a man, a normal woman, like many of his contemporaries, a person of the people, one of those "little ones" to whom Jesus said to have been revealed things hidden from the wise and intellectual.
We have seen each other in very human the monks in Algeria Tibhirine: simple men, mostly of humble extraction, tied to a people in daily life as simple, we find him in his letters and writings from prison by Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian peasant who accepts the death sentence for not serving Hitler's army and remains steadfast in its spontaneous, natural rejection despite many, even among the pastors of his church, seek to dissuade him from an act so bold, we discover in the words of calm Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian minister in the Pakistan Muslim brutally murdered - like a fellow Muslim guidance "lay" - for failing to desist from defending the defenseless, that is, from doing his duty Minister (which means "servant") of religious minorities. They are not exceptions, are quite visible to the emergence of a multitude of obscure witnesses to hope that no one remembers, are bearing the authentic reality ' people of God "which the Vatican has given awareness and responsibility, putting them in his hands the word of God, as the rain falls from the sky without watering, and fertilize the soil to germinate.
"I want to serve Jesus common man": so begins a witness Bhatti dating a few years ago and should be reinterpreted in its entirety to grasp it all the extraordinary everyday life of a Christian for this very simple and so unique to our world. One World, a company and sometimes even a church that increasingly difficult to combine the Christian life and prophecy, to understand what the theologian von Balthasar called "the serious case 'means the ability to bear witness to Christ in a newspaper' existence, even if it means losing your life.
" I do not want positions of power, I just want a place at the feet of Jesus .. When I see the poor and needy, I think Jesus is in their appearance to meet me . The fact that they sound similar expressions are unusual to our ears, almost had visions of a mystic out of this world - but instead come from a Christian born in a simple family in a country where Christians are not even one percent of the inhabitants, a man became a minister because of his desire to defend that " the needy, the hungry, thirsty " - speaks volumes on the idea that we dominated, here and now, Christians in history.
If we could ask people like Bhatti, where they found the strength and courage to move forward in the midst of such risks and hostility, who did make it to him to expose himself to the point, how could defy even death love of life and the next, perhaps we would see them remain a moment silent, amazed to our question, then answer with disarming simplicity: "Why , what would you do? . Yeah, what would we do if we were really convinced of our faith? Perhaps words like those of stutter Bhatti who did seem to tune into our world yet so imbued with Christian references:
" I want my life, my character, my actions speak for me and say I'm following Jesus Christ. "
Yes, to follow Jesus Christ with their lives: after all, the mere popularity of Christianity, the faith of children it's all here ....
Enzo Bianchi - from The Stampa.it
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