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Sunday Vigil
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Sunday Vigil

Memorial of Sr. Romuald (+1027) anchorite and father of the Camaldolensis monks. Többet

Libretto DEL GIORNO
Sunday Vigil
Saturday, June 19

Memorial of Sr. Romuald (+1027) anchorite and father of the Camaldolensis monks.


Reading of the Word of God

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Whoever lives and believes in me
will never die.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Matthew 6,24-34

'No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money. 'That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and what you are to wear. Surely life is more than food, and the body more than clothing! Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they are? Can any of you, however much you worry, add one single cubit to your span of life? And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin; yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these. Now if that is how God clothes the wild flowers growing in the field which are there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more look after you, you who have so little faith? So do not worry; do not say, "What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What are we to wear?" It is the gentiles who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all. Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God's saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.'

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

If you believe, you will see the glory of God,
thus says the Lord.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

"You cannot serve God and riches," says Jesus to his disciples. Jesus personifies riches (the term "mamonas" is the Greek form of the Aramaic "mammona" which means riches). Riches behave like a true dictator even if they do not have a face, and even less, a soul. The implacable dictatorship of riches steals the soul of those who entrust them their lives. They are at the origin of conflicts, disorder, hatreds and wars which still today continue to make life bitter and sad for many peoples. The Lord instead is love and asks a free response from us. God does not want subjects but friends. Jesus knows well that if we bind ourselves to God, we will grow in love, in justice and in the commitment to fight for the freedom and progress of all, starting from the poorest. For this reason, it is not possible to serve God and riches at the same time, the Gospel and money. The heart cannot be divided. Jesus lives himself the claim for an exclusive love. In the First Testament God is several times presented as a "jealous God", but not just for himself; he is jealous also for us. So, to trust in the Lord means being free from the slavery of things, knowing that he will not fail us anything. Often, anxiety for things of life prevents us from being generous in proclaiming the Gospel. Jesus reminds it to us: "Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink... your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things." The Lord is a good Father who takes care of His children and provides for their necessities. And if many remain hungry and naked, it is because others do not seek the Kingdom of God and its justice, but only their own advantage. Therefore, they keep for themselves what is destined to all. God does not abandon anyone. When Adam and Eve left the garden of Eden, God made a dress for them so that they would not suffer from the cold of history. The true worry for the disciples, says Jesus, must be that of the Kingdom, that is, the communication of the Gospel to all peoples, the edification of the community and service to the poor. The disciple must seek this "justice." The Lord is at our side, he sustains and protects us so that the Gospel may be proclaimed and men and women may find salvation.

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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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28
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29
Péntek
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30
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31
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