Dedication of the Basilic of Saint John Lateran

This day is the feast of the dedication of basilic Saint John Lateran, remember that Basilic is a title give to an important Churches, there are four in Rome for his connection with the Pope, called major Basilicas, Saint Peter Basilic, built in the 16 Century over the place where Peter was murder. Basilica of St. Mary Major, the largest Marian Church in Rome. Basilic of St. Paul Outside Walls, built over the tomb of St. Paul the Apostle, and the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran the Cathedral of the Dioceses of Rome, where the Bishop of Rome Presides.

Most Catholic believe that Saint Peter is the Church of the Pope but not, the proper seat of the Bishop of Rome is in Saint John Lateran, is the Cathedral of Pope.

When Cristian were allowed to build churches, I the land donated by imperator Constantine the great, the Pope built this big Church dedicated to Christ Savior and honor to John the Baptist the and John the Evangelist, but the center is Christ.

In this day that we celebrated his consecration is important to recall us this true, originally the temple Church it was a place where God has an especial presence, it was God dwellings with us, but with the incarnation Jesus is the living temple of God, and when we are united to God by the sacraments, we are stones of this budling.

So, Jesus in the Gospel purifies the temple, he is anger because they use their place of worship for other proposes, and take a wipe to purify this building. But then the say destroy this temple and I will be rebuilt in three days, they of curse did not understand Jesus was speaking about his body who was destroyed and was rebuilt again after tree days. When he takes the wipe was announced the ubication of our body a soul by his sufferings.

First recall two trues this a true temple of God because was consecrated to God and because Jesus is present in the tabernacle, that is why we conduct with a lot of respect in that place.

But we are also a living temple of God by the grace of baptism God dwell in our soul ,if we destroy this temple God will destroy us.

How we destroy this temple, when we dedicated this for a different propose, we make a spiritual destroy of the temple of the Holy Spirit.

But it could be also a physical destroy our body blessed Clemente Marchisio explain how the Evil try to find all the means to destroy our body.

The way of transfiguring oneself, that is, physically deforming oneself, is found everywhere where Christianity does not reign.

What spirit suggested to man that he is not well-made as God created him? From where does this compulsive mania to distort the work of the Creator in his own person come?

Regarding Australian women, a missionary writes that their desire for personal adornment is less than the idea of a religious sacrifice that leads them to mutilate themselves and dye parts of their faces. And we ourselves have seen in the Arab entourage that stayed in Turin for fifteen days in September 1892, children of a few months old, and much more the girls, tattooed on their faces and arms, to make their Allah favorable to them, as a mother responded when asked about it.

And if deformation and tattooing were not religious satanic rites, how do we explain that the Hebrew people never practiced either deformation or tattooing? How do we explain that the more nations move away from Christianity, the more the tendency toward deformation generalizes, and, on the contrary, the more Christian they become, the more it diminishes? Speaking of the inhabitants of Colombia, Mr. Doflot de Mofras points out in his work Gossethat where Catholicism has been introduced, deformation has disappeared.

If we do not want to settle for mere words and get to the bottom of such a deplorable custom, we must remember two things that are equally true: first, that man has been created in body and soul in the image of the Incarnate Word; and second, that the goal of all Satan's efforts is to kill and damn all men, if he could, and in those he cannot destroy, at least to make them lose the image of the Incarnate Word.

Therefore, we can consider it certain that deformation and tattooing are the effects of a satanic maneuver. In villages, and even more so in uncivilized cities, if deformation has decreased in some places, tattooing has increased significantly. Not long ago, we read in the newspapers that a German prince had been fully tattooed, except for his face and hands.

Thus, the assertion remains that Satanism, not always able to destroy man, deforms him in his outward image.