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Memory of the Saints and the Prophets
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Memory of the Saints and the Prophets

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Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of the Saints and the Prophets
Wednesday, June 3

Litany of the Saints

O Lord, have mercy on us all

O Lord, have mercy on us all

O Christ, have mercy on us all

O Christ, have mercy on us all

O Lord, have mercy on us all

O Lord, have mercy on us all

Holy Mary, Mother of God

pray with us

Holy Mary of Mercy

pray with us

All you holy Prophets

pray with us

Saint John the Baptist

pray with us

All you holy Evangelists and Apostles

pray with us

Holy disciples of the Lord

pray with us

Saints Peter and Paul

pray with us

Saint Andrew

pray with us

Saint James

pray with us

Saint Bartholomew

pray with us

Saint Mary of Magdala

pray with us

Saint Callistus

pray with us

Saint Cecilia

pray with us

Saint Anthony

pray with us

Saints Cosmas and Damian

pray with us

Saint Basil

pray with us

Saint John Chrysostom

pray with us

Saint Augustine

pray with us

Saint Benedict

pray with us

Saint Scholastica

pray with us

Saint Gregory

pray with us

Saint Giles

pray with us

Saints Cyril and Methodius

pray with us

Saint Adalbert

pray with us

Saint Francis

pray with us

Saint Clare

pray with us

Saint Frances of Rome

pray with us

Saint Philip Neri

pray with us

Saint John XXIII

pray with us

Saint John Paul II

pray with us

Blessed Oscar Arnulfo Romero

pray with us

Holy Bishops and Pastors

pray with us

Holy Monks and Hermits

pray with us

Holy Martyrs

pray with us

Holy Virgins and Widows

pray with us

All you who are poor in spirit

pray with us

All you who are weary and oppressed

pray with us

All you who thirst for justice

pray with us

All you people of goodwill

pray with us

All you saints of this city

pray with us

Brothers and sisters, wherever you may be

pray with us

Free us from sin and death

O Lord, hear our prayer

Free us from violence and injustice

O Lord, hear our prayer

Free us from loneliness and fear

O Lord, hear our prayer

Free us from all anxiety

O Lord, hear our prayer

Free us from every evil

O Lord, hear our prayer

Give us fullness of life

O Lord, hear our prayer

Give freedom to prisoners

O Lord, hear our prayer

Give healing to the sick

O Lord, hear our prayer

Give peace to those who hinder us

O Lord, hear our prayer

Show us your holy face,

and we shall be saved.

Prayer is the heart of the life of the Community of Sant'Egidio and is its absolute priority. At the end of the day, every the Community of Sant'Egidio, large or small, gathers around the Lord to listen to his Word. The Word of God and the prayer are, in fact, the very basis of the whole life of the Community. The disciples cannot do other than remain at the feet of Jesus, as did Mary of Bethany, to receive his love and learn his ways (Phil. 2:5).
So every evening, when the Community returns to the feet of the Lord, it repeats the words of the anonymous disciple: " Lord, teach us how to pray". Jesus, Master of prayer, continues to answer: "When you pray, say: Abba, Father". It is not a simple exhortation, it is much more. With these words Jesus lets the disciples participate in his own relationship with the Father. Therefore in prayer, the fact of being children of the Father who is in heaven, comes before the words we may say. So praying is above all a way of being! That is to say we are children who turn with faith to the Father, certain that they will be heard.
Jesus teaches us to call God "Our Father". And not simply "Father" or "My Father". Disciples, even when they pray on their own, are never isolated nor they are orphans; they are always members of the Lord's family.
In praying together, beside the mystery of being children of God, there is also the mystery of brotherhood, as the Father of the Church said: "You cannot have God as father without having the church as mother". When praying together, the Holy Spirit assembles the disciples in the upper room together with Mary, the Lord's mother, so that they may direct their gaze towards the Lord's face and learn from Him the secret of his Heart.
 The Communities of Sant'Egidio all over the world gather in the various places of prayer and lay before the Lord the hopes and the sufferings of the tired, exhausted crowds of which the Gospel speaks ( Mat. 9: 3-7 ), In these ancient crowds we can see the huge masses of the modern cities, the millions of refugees who continue to flee their countries, the poor, relegated to the very fringe of life and all those who are waiting for someone to take care of them. Praying together includes the cry, the invocation, the aspiration, the desire for peace, the healing and salvation of the men and women of this world. Prayer is never in vain; it rises ceaselessly to the Lord so that anguish is turned into hope, tears into joy, despair into happiness, and solitude into communion. May the Kingdom of God come soon among people!