每日祈祷

Memory of the Mother of the Lord
每天都有神的话

Memory of the Mother of the Lord

Memorial of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. The Ethiopian Church, one of the first among the African churches, venerates Saint Michael as its protector. 阅读更多

Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of the Mother of the Lord
Tuesday, September 29

Memorial of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. The Ethiopian Church, one of the first among the African churches, venerates Saint Michael as its protector.


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

Job 3,1-3.11-17.20-23

In the end it was Job who broke the silence and cursed the day of his birth. This is what he said: Perish the day on which I was born and the night that told of a boy conceived. Why was I not still-born, or why did I not perish as I left the womb? Why were there knees to receive me, breasts for me to suck? Now I should be lying in peace, wrapped in a restful slumber, with the kings and high viziers of earth who have built their dwellings in desolate places, or with princes who have quantities of gold and silver cramming their tombs; or, put away like an abortive child, I should not have existed, like little ones that never see the light. Down there, the wicked bustle no more, there the weary rest. Why give light to a man of grief? Why give life to those bitter of heart, who long for a death that never comes, and hunt for it more than for buried treasure? They would be glad to see the grave-mound and shout with joy if they reached the tomb. Why give light to one who does not see his way, whom God shuts in all alone?

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

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

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

The silence of his friends (and how often - as we know from our own experience - we do not know what to say when faced with suffering!) is shattered by Job's cry, which, like the poor and the sick in the psalms, turns to God in prayer, and his prayer is like a great lament questioning the meaning of the existence of a person who is suffering. So begins Job's great protest, which questions divine justice, without lashing out against God. It is a recurrent question that human beings have been asking throughout history: why do the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper? Job does not speak against God. He does not curse. He knows that his God is the Lord of life. But what senses does a life have when it is marked by death and suffering like his? Job calls into question his entire life, from birth to death. His words are sharp and hard. He begins by cursing his birth: why could he not have died before he was born, since all he has is darkness? In his words we can see the drama of so many suffering people whose lives are dangling by a thread and who seem to be doomed to death: children who are never born or who are sick, prisoners and those condemned to death, the terminally ill, and the elderly who are abandoned. Job's words also contain great wisdom: they help us think about the meaning of life and death, which seems inevitable. No one can escape it: it strikes the rich and the poor indiscriminately, the powerful and those who do not count, the prisoner and his jailer, the little and the great, the master and the slave. So why do we wear ourselves out chasing ourselves, Job seems to say. That is how fear enters human life: "Truly the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me."

每天都有神的话:日历

March
24
星期日
March
25
周一
March
26
周二
March
28
周四
March
29
星期五
March
30
周六
March
31
星期日

这群年轻人,通过阅读圣经,並将圣经作为生命的中心,激励他们度真正信仰的生活,接受耶稣基督自古以来,世世代代的邀请,成为祂的门徒。这邀请呼籲人悔改,放弃只是为自己而生活的态度,开始自由自在地成为泛爱众人的工具,爱人不分男女,而特别是爱那些最贫穷的人。聆听及生活天主的圣言,是人生命中的最重要的事,就是承认人应跟随耶稣,而非跟随自我。

在这个团体中,最真情流露的景象就是大家聚集一起祈祷,聆听天主的圣言,像当年的门徒,有如一家人般聚集在耶稣身旁一样。同心合意的祈祷(宗2:42)是简单的祈祷方式,它要求团体所有成员献出自己。如同圣咏一样,祈祷是熟识耶稣的说话和祈祷的门径,融合了前人的祈祷,将穷人的需要、我们的需要、以及整个世界的需要,呈献给上主。

因此,在罗马及在意大利、欧洲、以至在全世界的其他城市中,我们的团体都尽可能经常聚会,一起祈祷。我们在很多城市中,每晚都会有团体的祈祷,並开放给普罗大众参与。我们也期望团体内的每个成员,都有个人祈祷的理想地方,在生活中阅读圣经,並要从福音开始阅读。