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Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of the Church
Thursday, May 20


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.
.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

John 17,20-26

I pray not only for these but also for those who through their teaching will come to believe in me. May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they be so perfected in unity that the world will recognise that it was you who sent me and that you have loved them as you have loved me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see my glory which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Father, Upright One, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

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

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

The Gospel passage presents the third and last part of Jesus' "priestly prayer." The dramatic hour of the passion is drawing closer. Jesus has lifted his eyes to the Father and now his gaze is widening beyond the room to include all those who in every age and in every part of the earth will believe the Gospel because of the apostolic preaching. Jesus prays for this vast people: "As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,* so that the world may believe that you have sent me." Jesus asks that they may be a true fraternity of men and women, of sick and healthy, of small and great. The virus of division is so serious that Jesus dares asking the Father that the disciples may have the same unity that exists between him and the Father. Jesus knows well that men and women of any generation will believe the Gospel to the extent that the disciples of that generation bear witness to each other's love. There is a direct relationship between the love that the disciples live among them and the communication of the Gospel that they are called to do. Without the witness of mutual love there can be no Christian mission, no evangelization. That is why we must seriously ask ourselves whether or not we are a ferment of love, unity, solidarity, and communion. Unfortunately we have given in to the virus of individualism which has also infected the way of living Christianity: each one committed to saving his or her soul. In reality, the Christian is saved in a people. Hence the centrality of rediscovering the Gospel as a word that gathers us from dispersion and brings us together in a people of believers. The unity of love among the disciples is the prophecy the world needs today. Nothing, not even the most sophisticated organization, can substitute for love between brothers and sisters. In love lays the secret of the Church's efficacy.

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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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March
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Csütörtök
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29
Péntek
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30
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31
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