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dim aMenu(20)
dim aSez(20)
cLingua = "EN"
cTitolo = "Sunday Vigil"
cIcona = "pieta.jpg"
cAlleluia1 = "Whoever lives and believes in me
will never die.
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cAlleluia2 = "If you believe, you will see the glory of God,
thus says the Lord.
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aMenu(2) = Array("Reading of the Word of God","")
aMenu(3) = Array("Invocations","")
aMenu(4) = Array("Trisagion","")
aMenu(5) = Array("Our Father","")
aMenu(6) = Array("Final Hymn","")
aMenu(7) = Array("The Prayer","../index.htm")
aMenu(8) = Array("Home page","../../index.html")
aSez(1) = Array("la_tomba_di_lazzaro")
aSez(2) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura", "=GetCommento")
aSez(3) = Array("nella_certezza")
aSez(4) = Array("trisaghion")
aSez(5) = Array("pater")
aSez(6) = Array("=GetCantoFinale")
nVociMenu = 8
cTempo = "ORDINARIO"
cPreghiera = "vigilia"
cSalmo = ""
cVersetti1 = ""
cVersetti2 = ""
cVersettiV = "Psalm 84, 1-12"
cLettura1 = ""
cLettura2 = ""
cLetturaV = "How lovely are your dwelling-places, Yahweh Sabaoth.
My whole being yearns and pines for Yahweh's courts, My heart and my body cry out for joy to the living God.
Even the sparrow has found a home, the swallow a nest to place its young: your altars, Yahweh Sabaoth, my King and my God.
How blessed are those who live in your house; they shall praise you continually. Pause
Blessed those who find their strength in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
As they pass through the Valley of the Balsam, they make there a water-hole, and -- a further blessing -- early rain fills it.
They make their way from height to height, God shows himself to them in Zion.
Yahweh, God Sabaoth, hear my prayer, listen, God of Jacob.
God, our shield, look, and see the face of your anointed.
Better one day in your courts than a thousand at my own devices, to stand on the threshold of God's house than to live in the tents of the wicked.
For Yahweh God is a rampart and shield, he gives grace and glory; Yahweh refuses nothing good to those whose life is blameless.
Yahweh Sabaoth, blessed is he who trusts in you. For the choirmaster Of the sons of Korah Psalm
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cMemoria = "Memory of Sant’Egidio, a monk from the East who came to the West. He lived in France and became the father of many monks. The Community of Sant’Egidio took its name from the church dedicated to him in Rome. We remember the beginning of the Second World War and pray for the end to all wars. The Orthodox Church begins its liturgical year."
cOmelia = "The Temple was the dream of every pious Israelite. It was there that the Lord lived. And everyone longed to stand among its courts. The splendor of its construction was a path to “feeling” and “tasting” the sweetness and the strength of living with God. The beginning of this psalm is full of an irresistible desire for God. “Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself” (v.3): this is how the believer wants to live in the Lord’s house. The psalmist underscores this longing: “My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the Lord” (v.2), but he also declares, “my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God” (v.3). The true object of the believer’s longing is not the external house, the temple, but the beloved, the Lord himself. The believer knows that God’s companionship is not only decisive for his life but also the most valuable thing there is. That is why he can tell his Lord, “For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere” (v. 10). The desire for God and the search for his face fill the heart and life of the believer. The believer’s love for the Temple and the long and wearisome pilgrimage he has undertaken to reach it are only a sign of his love for the Lord and the commitment that this love demands. It is quite realistic for the believer to feel jealous towards those who always live in the Temple, such as the priests and Levites: “Happy are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise”(v. 4). The physicality of being present in places of prayer should always be emphasized and supported, as should the beautiful tradition of traveling to holy places and sanctuaries in order to feel the presence of God’s love more closely. Whoever does these things can experience the beatitude of standing in the “house” of the Lord. It is here, in the “house of the Lord” that is first of all found in the “community of believers,” that we can enjoy the other two beatitudes mentioned in the psalm: “Happy are those whose strength is in you” (v. 5) and “Happy is everyone who trusts in you” (v. 12). All of these beatitudes put the Lord at the center. The psalmist knows that his only certainty is the Lord, and so he declares, “For the Lord is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor” (v. 11)."
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