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dim aMenu(20)
dim aSez(20)
cLingua = "EN"
cTitolo = "Memory of the Poor"
cIcona = "poveri.jpg"
cAlleluia1 = "This is the Gospel of the poor,
liberation for the imprisoned,
sight for the blind,
freedom for the oppressed.
"
cAlleluia2 = "The Son of Man came to serve,
whoever wants to be great
should become servant of all.
"
aMenu(1) = Array("Invitatory","")
aMenu(2) = Array("Psalmody","")
aMenu(3) = Array("Reading of the Word of God","")
aMenu(4) = Array("Prayer of Intercession","")
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("invitatorio")
aSez(2) = Array("=GetSalmo")
aSez(3) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura", "=GetCommento")
aSez(4) = Array("hai_ascoltato_il_lamento")
aSez(5) = Array("pater")
aSez(6) = Array("=GetCantoFinale")
nVociMenu = 8
cTempo = "ORDINARIO"
cPreghiera = "poveri"
cSalmo = "007"
cVersetti1 = ""
cVersetti2 = ""
cVersettiV = "2 Corinthians 11, 1-15"
cLettura1 = ""
cLettura2 = ""
cLetturaV = "I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me -- not that you don't do this already.
The jealousy that I feel for you is, you see, God's own jealousy: I gave you all in marriage to a single husband, a virgin pure for presentation to Christ.
But I am afraid that, just as the snake with his cunning seduced Eve, your minds may be led astray from single-minded devotion to Christ.
Because any chance comer has only to preach a Jesus other than the one we preached, or you have only to receive a spirit different from the one you received, or a gospel different from the one you accepted -- and you put up with that only too willingly.
Now, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to the super-apostles.
Even if there is something lacking in my public speaking, this is not the case with my knowledge, as we have openly shown to you at all times and before everyone.
Have I done wrong, then, humbling myself so that you might be raised up, by preaching the gospel of God to you for nothing?
I was robbing other churches, taking wages from them in order to work for you.
When I was with you and needed money, I was no burden to anybody, for the brothers from Macedonia brought me as much as I needed when they came; I have always been careful not to let myself be a burden to you in any way, and I shall continue to be so.
And as Christ's truth is in me, this boast of mine is not going to be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
Why should it be? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.
I will go on acting as I do at present, to cut the ground from under the feet of those who are looking for a chance to be proved my equals in grounds for boasting.
These people are counterfeit apostles, dishonest workers disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
There is nothing astonishing in this; even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
It is nothing extraordinary, then, when his servants disguise themselves as the servants of uprightness. They will come to the end appropriate to what they have done.
"
cMemoria = ""
cOmelia = "Probably the "super-apostles" who wanted to discredit Paul and his mission were some of the Judeo-Christians who presented themselves with assured tones claiming to be legitimate interpreters of the original message of the community of Jerusalem. Furthermore, they denigrated Paul’s lack of eloquence. In his defence, the apostle, first of all, lays claim to his love for the Corinthians. For them he feels a love so passionate that he is even jealous of them. With the image of the community like the spouse of Christ, the apostle presents himself as a father who watches over her and keeps her in order to present her to the bridegroom blameless. It is an effective way to express the intensity of his pastoral responsibility. He watches carefully as he sees the repetition of the scene of the earthen paradise when Eve let herself be seduced by the snake. There are some who let themselves be seduced by the snake, by those "super-apostles," as Paul ironically calls his opponents who preach a Gospel different from what he preached. The bitter surprise for the apostle is that the community stands them, "readily" accepted them (v. 4). Maybe they are more eloquent than Paul in speaking, but the apostle immediately counters: "I may be untrained in speech, but not in knowledge" (v. 6). To him indeed, as he will write later to the Romans, it was manifested the "mystery that was kept secret for long ages" (Rom16:25). Regardless, the apostle did not trust dialectic speeches; His goal was to touch the hearts of his listeners to gain them to Christ. This was his true reward, the only thing he cared about. This is why he did not want anything from the Corinthians. He received help from other communities ("I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.") Generally, the communities supported the apostles and the itinerant missionaries. Even Paul knew this rule, but he explicitly never wanted to take advantage of it in that city. In fact, for him, freely preaching the Gospel to Corinth was a source of pride as well as strength. It was also a sign of his care and love for that particular community. Paul’s words palpitate his immense love for the Gospel and for the community of Corinth, for which he spent so much energy and total gratuitousness to show fully paternal love. He writes that he is so strong in love that he will not change his attitude in anything. The passionate love of the apostle is a call for all of us to renew our love for the Gospel so that the Church, the community. may be the first of all our concerns. It is a precious treasure that we have received free: let us love it, let us enjoy its beauty and let us offer it free to all who need it."
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