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Memory of the Mother of the Lord

Prayer for the unity of Christians. Particular memory of the Orthodox Churches. Többet

Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of the Mother of the Lord
Tuesday, January 19

Prayer for the unity of Christians. Particular memory of the Orthodox Churches.


Reading of the Word of God

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

The Spirit of the Lord is upon you.
The child you shall bear will be holy.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Mark 2,23-28

It happened that one Sabbath day he was taking a walk through the cornfields, and his disciples began to make a path by plucking ears of corn. And the Pharisees said to him, 'Look, why are they doing something on the Sabbath day that is forbidden?' And he replied, 'Have you never read what David did in his time of need when he and his followers were hungry- how he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the loaves of the offering which only the priests are allowed to eat, and how he also gave some to the men with him?' And he said to them, 'The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; so the Son of man is master even of the Sabbath.'

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Look down, O Lord, on your servants.
Be it unto us according to your word.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

After the dispute on fasting, the evangelist Mark tells us of the dispute about the Sabbath. It is a crucial point in the doctrine of the people of Israel. The Pharisees saw that the disciples of Jesus, while walking in a field of grain on the Sabbath, gathered some heads of grain to eat, thus transgressing the law of resting on the Sabbath. But Jesus defended them by telling of a similar example that happened to David, who, fleeing from Saul who wanted to kill him, entered the temple and, with his companions, ate the consecrated bread reserved for the priests (1 Sam 21:2-7). Jesus added, "The sabbath was made ??for humankind and not humankind for the sabbath." With this statement, Jesus wants to show that salvation of humanity is what really matters in the law: not the formal observance of it. Human beings and their salvation are at the very heart of the Scriptures. Indeed, the Lord created the world and sent his own Son for the sake of humanity, to save them from sin and death. Therefore, believers are not so much called to observe rules, but rather to respond to the love of God and to live with love towards others. This is why the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. He came to save, not to condemn, to love and not to impose rules. And he asks each of us to follow him on this path, that of a love that saves.

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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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