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Memory of the Mother of the Lord

Memorial of Shabbaz Bhatti, Minister of Minorities in Pakistan, a Christian, killed by terrorists because of his commitment in seeking pace and dialogue in 2011. Többet

Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of the Mother of the Lord
Tuesday, March 2

Memorial of Shabbaz Bhatti, Minister of Minorities in Pakistan, a Christian, killed by terrorists because of his commitment in seeking pace and dialogue in 2011.


Reading of the Word of God

Praise to you, o Lord, King of eternal glory

The Spirit of the Lord is upon you.
The child you shall bear will be holy.

Praise to you, o Lord, King of eternal glory

Matthew 23,1-12

Then addressing the crowds and his disciples Jesus said, 'The scribes and the Pharisees occupy the chair of Moses. You must therefore do and observe what they tell you; but do not be guided by what they do, since they do not practise what they preach. They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people's shoulders, but will they lift a finger to move them? Not they! Everything they do is done to attract attention, like wearing broader headbands and longer tassels, like wanting to take the place of honour at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues, being greeted respectfully in the market squares and having people call them Rabbi. 'You, however, must not allow yourselves to be called Rabbi, since you have only one Master, and you are all brothers. You must call no one on earth your father, since you have only one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor must you allow yourselves to be called teachers, for you have only one Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you must be your servant. Anyone who raises himself up will be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself will be raised up.

 

Praise to you, o Lord, King of eternal glory

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

Praise to you, o Lord, King of eternal glory

The Gospel passage is divided in two parts: in the first, Jesus lashes out against the "scribes and Pharisees" and accuses them not to be the true shepherds of the people of God. With their behaviour they oppose the faith they profess and impose on people "heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them." They do everything they can to show off. They love widening their phylacteries - small boxes containing rolls of parchment containing biblical passages, which are tied to the left arm (to act on those words) and the forehead (to remember what is written) - but they do not act on what they contain. This had become just an exterior practice and the scribes and Pharisees often betrayed the very contents of the words that were guarded in them. Jesus continues to accuse that they "lengthen their fringes", that is, the braids of fabric fitted with a purple and blue string attached to the four corners of the outer garment, but they do not live according to their inner meaning. It is written: "You have the fringe so that, when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them" (Num 15:39). Jesus wore them too, but the Pharisees lengthened them without growing in mercy. This is why Jesus tells the crowd to practice what they teach but not what they do. A similar analysis is to be made of their attitude of seeking the places of honour at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues. In the second part of the passage, Jesus takes issue with the "academic" and official titles that scribes and priests demanded from the people and their disciples. Among the titles, Jesus emphasizes the most well-known, "rabbi", that is "teacher." Jesus emphasizes the absolute primacy of God's Word. All believers are subject to it and should welcome it with faith, communicate it with generosity, and live it in a radical way, always and everywhere. We will discover that true joy and true greatness lie in being servants of the Word of God, that is, listening to it with faith and communicating it to all till the ends of the earth; imitating Jesus who is gentle and humble of heart.

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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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