Don Mazzi: 'The sacraments cannot be denying the different'

Reflections by Don Antonio Mazzi taken from the weekly People of 23 February 2010

Never as these days the things of the Church are exhibited, commented, emphasized, distorted. The period is intricate and difficult for everyone. Religion and faith for centuries have combined without contrasts and controversy.
The arrival of other religions, the effort of living what we proclaim, the banality reported at the top of everyday life and reinforced by the mass media, has placed situations on the table, they can be able to be kept and whispered in the courtyards of the farmhouses.

Transsexuals, lesbians, homosexuals, dishonest weddings, loves climbed by adventures or slightly virtuous impairments were not born yesterday. But until yesterday they did not appear in the newspapers, the bishops did not talk about it on TV and people did not have a problem.

Already other times we have dealt with such delicate themes and for which be careful, respect, without underestimating the consistency of the doctrine. The doctrines, however, in the face of the history of men, almost always become beds of locusts.
Christ, in the Gospel, when he said to his 'and Saturday at the service of man and not the man at the service of Saturday', wanted to make it clear how much the law could be more weight than wing.

Therefore the umpteenth case of a bishop who barred the road to the sacraments to the transsexuals adds only one page to the other numerous painful and difficult to solve pages. They concern homosexuals, divorceds, disabled people (let's not forget that some parish priests do not give communion to the so -called handicapped!).

Everything is not 'normality "opens up to objections and odd solutions. There is a church that pretepates, without any discussion, the truth to the law, to life and individual history.

We have a lot of way to make us who live in the institutional Church and the "atypical" faithful who make requests not always matured with humility and prayer.
Those who work at the border and on the suburbs of ecclesiastical institutions, obliged by pain to respect the stories that the laws are almost always helpless and run the risk of having to settle for "crying with those who cry".

I am the first to understand how "new" some requests are. The world has changed. The people come from a religious tradition more linked to formulas, ceremonies, sacraments.
New times, on the other hand, demand evangelical reflections more rooted in catechesis than to the sacraments and consciences most trained in the inner life than to the external religiosity.

The keywords are frightened that the latest situations of men force us to combine, perhaps for the first time. The words are: forgiveness, welcome, mercy, faith, consistency, truths, religious practices, commandments.

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