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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, February 25


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

James 4,1-10

Where do these wars and battles between yourselves first start? Is it not precisely in the desires fighting inside your own selves? You want something and you lack it; so you kill. You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so you fight to get your way by force. It is because you do not pray that you do not receive; when you do pray and do not receive, it is because you prayed wrongly, wanting to indulge your passions. Adulterers! Do you not realise that love for the world is hatred for God? Anyone who chooses the world for a friend is constituted an enemy of God. Can you not see the point of the saying in scripture, 'The longing of the spirit he sent to dwell in us is a jealous longing.'? But he has given us an even greater grace, as scripture says: God opposes the proud but he accords his favour to the humble. Give in to God, then; resist the devil, and he will run away from you. The nearer you go to God, the nearer God will come to you. Clean your hands, you sinners, and clear your minds, you waverers. Appreciate your wretchedness, and weep for it in misery. Your laughter must be turned to grief, your happiness to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will lift you up.

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

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

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

James' words describe the tragic fruits of false wisdom. The desire to possess is so dangerous that it leads to killing. Envy leads to fighting one another. The narcissism of a navel gazing community deprives prayer of its strength: "You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly." Whoever allows themselves to be led by the spirit of this world removes themselves from God-to the point of hating him, notes James. And they commit real adultery. Jesus teaches us how to be before God and before our fellow brothers and sisters: "Learn from me that I am meek and humble of heart." (Mt 11:29) To humble oneself before the Lord means recognizing one's misery and sin: "Lament and mourn and weep," writes James. Whoever has this spirit knows how to draw close to the Lord, and while they do, they discover that the Lord has already come close to them, to touch their hearts and save them. Recognizing our debt to God helps us recognize what we owe in love to our brothers and sisters. James puts us on alert for bad speech, quarrelling, hateful judgment, defamation and slander: all of which is born from our removal from God and, often, from the diabolic temptation to take his place or at least to put ourselves the centre of everything. We know how easy it is to judge, to look for the beam in someone's eye. James clearly says to whoever falls foolishly into this prideful and scornful attitude: "But who are you to judge your neighbour?" And he reminds us that the love of God and of neighbour is the essence of the Law and the way of salvation. We are free to love always, so that it frees us from the prison of judgment which poisons our hearts and often deforms and distances the other and makes us unable to love one another.

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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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