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Memory of the Mother of the Lord
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Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of the Mother of the Lord
Tuesday, June 8


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

Matthew 5,13-16

'You are salt for the earth. But if salt loses its taste, what can make it salty again? It is good for nothing, and can only be thrown out to be trampled under people's feet. 'You are light for the world. A city built on a hill-top cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp to put it under a tub; they put it on the lamp-stand where it shines for everyone in the house. In the same way your light must shine in people's sight, so that, seeing your good works, they may give praise to your Father in heaven.

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

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

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

"You are the salt of the earth;... You are the light of the world." The Gospel means that if we are united with Jesus, true salt and true light, we can preserve the power to make our life and that of the world new. Our limitations and frailties do not erase the salt and light that we are if we remain united with Jesus. The Lord knows our limits, but He overcomes them. Nor must we hide them. On the contrary, it is precisely because of our limits that God has called us to be disciples of His Son. God's love is ambitious for us; He wants us to become better; He wants us to help men and women to live in peace, to unite the peoples of the earth towards a common destiny, to make the common home of the planet beautiful. God's love is a "spiritual energy" that changes the heart of each of us so that we, in turn, can change the world. In this commitment to change the world we are not alone, the Lord helps us, supports us, gives us strength and defends us. This is the meaning of Jesus' exhortation: "In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven." This is the invitation that we may become ministers of the Gospel and of God's mercy among men and women. And we must also be aware that being salt and light does not indicate any taste and any light: the taste is that of fraternity and the light is that which indicates to the peoples their common destination for the Kingdom of God. It is not our merits that make us salt and light. The Lord, who has pulled us from loneliness and death by uniting us in communion with him and our brothers and sisters, makes us share his light and life so that we may become a leaven of love in a world so often saddened and without a future.

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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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