每日祈祷

Memory of the Church
每天都有神的话
Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of the Church
Thursday, April 15


Reading of the Word of God

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

I am the good shepherd,
my sheep listen to my voice,
and they become
one flock and one fold.
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Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

John 3,31-36

He who comes from above is above all others; he who is of the earth is earthly himself and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven bears witness to the things he has seen and heard, but his testimony is not accepted by anybody; though anyone who does accept his testimony is attesting that God is true, since he whom God has sent speaks God's own words, for God gives him the Spirit without reserve. The Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything to his hands. Anyone who believes in the Son has eternal life, but anyone who refuses to believe in the Son will never see life: God's retribution hangs over him.'

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

I give you a new commandment,
that you love one another.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Jesus, who descended from heaven to be with us, is the true hope for the world. He was sent by God to communicate to us divine life, that life that he lives in a unique way with the Father in heaven. The evangelist writes: "He testifies to what he has seen and heard." It is the sense of Jesus' mission in the world: revealing the mystery of God who loves us in an unimaginable way. Without Jesus' word, the mystery of God's love would have remained impenetrable to us. Jesus reveals the Father. In this is mission is comprised his entire life. Jesus did not come on earth to assert himself or to realize his personal projects, as each one of us generally does. He came down from heaven to communicate to men and women the "words of God" and to give all of us "the Spirit" who leads and guides. This is the mystery hidden by the centuries that Jesus came to reveal to us and that the Holy Scriptures preserve and communicate. Hence we should love and be devoted to the Holy Scriptures as they contain "the Word of God." Every day we are called to listen to them and meditate on them until we make them our own. The Bible is not just any book: it is the chest that holds the thought of God, the Word who became flesh. This is why the "sacred page", as the Fathers called it, must be opened and tasted daily, letting us be guided by the "Spirit" who has been given to us "without measure" also for this reason. The words of the Holy Scriptures, beyond their literal meaning, offer - if read with the help of the Spirit - a light that allows us to read in depth the history we live. Gregory the Great said that "Scripture grows with those who read it." It is to say that it illuminates our steps in the ways of the world so that we can be instruments in God's hands to hasten the coming of the kingdom of heaven.

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。