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Memory of the Poor
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Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of the Poor
Monday, June 14


Reading of the Word of God

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

This is the Gospel of the poor,
liberation for the imprisoned,
sight for the blind,
freedom for the oppressed.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Matthew 5,38-42

'You have heard how it was said: Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. But I say this to you: offer no resistance to the wicked. On the contrary, if anyone hits you on the right cheek, offer him the other as well; if someone wishes to go to law with you to get your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone requires you to go one mile, go two miles with him. Give to anyone who asks you, and if anyone wants to borrow, do not turn away.

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

The Son of Man came to serve,
whoever wants to be great
should become servant of all.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

The ancient law that prescribed "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,"39 wanted to regulate an unending cycle of implacable vengeance. It was certainly a wise disposition to avoid any abuse and unbalance. And yet, it failed the power of uprooting hatred. The path proposed by Jesus is super-abundant love. Evil cannot be overcome by evil, even if regulated, but only by a greater good. With these statements, Jesus turned around the well rooted mentality of his time. But we too live in a culture saturated with a vengeful and vindictive spirit. It is sufficient to think of the prejudices that affect public behaviour and the sensitivity of a large part of the population towards prisoners. Despite the fact that legal science foresees prison as redemption from guilt and not as revenge on the part of society, common sensibility is quite different. The Gospel asks the disciple not only to ban vengeance from his behaviour, but even to overturn the vengeful instinct with "turning the other cheek". This teaching has often been misunderstood and even mocked. Unfortunately, a vengeful mentality that poisons relationships between people is growing unbridled in our societies. Jesus wants feelings of fraternity to grow among us. He is way far from proposing a logic of violence and death. He came to establish a new way of living that is centred on love for others. It is the way to defeat evil with good. On the way of love, disciples offer even their coat to the one who asks them; they are ready to accompany someone even twice as many miles as they are asked, and they do not turn their back to the one who asks for help. With this love, we chase away evil from the start and we open the way to a good and dignified life for all.

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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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