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Memory of Jesus crucified
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Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of Jesus crucified
Friday, October 30


Reading of the Word of God

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

This is the Gospel of the poor,
liberation for the imprisoned,
sight for the blind,
freedom for the oppressed.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Philippians 1,1-11

Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all God's holy people in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with their presiding elders and the deacons. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God whenever I think of you, and every time I pray for you all, I always pray with joy for your partnership in the gospel from the very first day up to the present. I am quite confident that the One who began a good work in you will go on completing it until the Day of Jesus Christ comes. It is only right that I should feel like this towards you all, because you have a place in my heart, since you have all shared together in the grace that has been mine, both my chains and my work defending and establishing the gospel. For God will testify for me how much I long for you all with the warm longing of Christ Jesus; it is my prayer that your love for one another may grow more and more with the knowledge and complete understanding that will help you to come to true discernment, so that you will be innocent and free of any trace of guilt when the Day of Christ comes, entirely filled with the fruits of uprightness through Jesus Christ, for the glory and praise of God.

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

The Son of Man came to serve,
whoever wants to be great
should become servant of all.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Paul writes this letter to the community of Philippi while he is in prison. He includes Timothy in his initial greeting - he will soon send him to them - and the two present themselves as "servants of Christ Jesus." Their pastoral ministry is understood as total service to the Gospel. It is striking that the apostle does not speak of his difficulties at the beginning of the letter. Instead, he thanks the Lord for the witness of the Philippians and for their "sharing in the gospel." And he writes that the life of the community and its commitment to communicating the Gospel are a good work begun by the Lord, who "will bring it to completion." The apostle is aware of the centrality of the community in the evangelization of the city of Philippi. And indeed he is so proud of them that he expresses feelings of great affection: "It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart, for all of you share in God's grace with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defence and confirmation of the Gospel." The apostle is comforted by the positive reports that reach him from the community of Philippi. He feels joy because of them, along with comfort. Indeed the common passion for the Gospel creates strong and intense bonds that neither distance nor difficulties can decrease and even less eliminate. The growth of the community is always a reason of consolation. While he is in prison, in fact, Paul testifies how the fraternity shared by all the disciples of Jesus gives an extraordinary strength to those living in faith. The secret of this strength is in prayer. If the apostle first showed his prayer of thanksgiving, now he writes to the Philippians that he is praying for them. It is a prayer of intercession: "this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight." Praying for others, praying - like in this case - for the distant community of Philippi, shows the importance of this gesture of communion in faith. The fraternity of Christians in the world is woven and strengthened by the prayer that we offer for each other.

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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!

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