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Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of Jesus crucified
Friday, October 7


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

Galatians 3,7-14

Be sure, then, that it is people of faith who are the children of Abraham. And it was because scripture foresaw that God would give saving justice to the gentiles through faith, that it announced the future gospel to Abraham in the words: All nations will be blessed in you. So it is people of faith who receive the same blessing as Abraham, the man of faith. On the other hand, all those who depend on the works of the Law are under a curse, since scripture says: Accursed be he who does not make what is written in the book of the Law effective, by putting it into practice. Now it is obvious that nobody is reckoned as upright in God's sight by the Law, since the upright will live through faith; and the Law is based not on faith but on the principle, whoever complies with it will find life in it. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by being cursed for our sake since scripture says: Anyone hanged is accursed, so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the gentiles in Christ Jesus, and so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

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

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

The scripture proof that the apostle shows to justify that it is faith that saves and not Law, starts with the judgment scriptures gives on Abraham, the father of believers who was justified by faith. Paul clarifies to the Galatians that Abraham had numerous descendants, as many as the stars of heaven (see Gen 15:5), only because of his faith, not surely because of any quality or force of his own. Indeed, it was impossible for him to have even one son from Sarah. Abraham, however, believed God's promise and a son was given to him. In truth, even Judaism had underlined the centrality of Abraham's faith, but it stressed mostly the individual acts with which he had fulfilled the Law. In this sense, Judaism spoke of being "children of Abraham," which meant something more than having mere physical descent: a true child of Abraham was the one who fulfilled the requirements of the law. Paul, instead, believes that the faith of Abraham consists in total surrender to God. This is the "faith" that God demands from men and women. Therefore children of Abraham are "those who have faith," that is, those who live by faith. They, and anyone else, can claim this title. For the Apostle, Abraham is the figure of what would happen in the fullness of time with Jesus. In Abraham's "faith" God blessed and justified all the people, all those who "by faith" would entrust themselves to God in Christ Jesus "Those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed." In Jesus, the "blessing of Abraham" comes to all, to every human being, of any culture. As Paul writes to the Galatians, we have been involved in salvation through faith; we have received "the promise of the Spirit."

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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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