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Memory of the Saints and the Prophets
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Memory of the Saints and the Prophets

Memorial of Timothy and Titus, co-operators of Paul and bishops of Ephesus and Crete. Többet

Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of the Saints and the Prophets
Wednesday, January 26

Memorial of Timothy and Titus, co-operators of Paul and bishops of Ephesus and Crete.


Reading of the Word of God

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

You are a chosen race,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a people acquired by God
to proclaim his marvellous works.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

2 Timothy 1,1-8

From Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God in accordance with his promise of life in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, dear son of mine. Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. Night and day I thank God whom I serve with a pure conscience as my ancestors did. I remember you in my prayers constantly night and day; I remember your tears and long to see you again to complete my joy. I also remember your sincere faith, a faith which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and I am sure dwells also in you. That is why I am reminding you now to fan into a flame the gift of God that you possess through the laying on of my hands. God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but the Spirit of power and love and self-control. So you are never to be ashamed of witnessing to our Lord, or ashamed of me for being his prisoner; but share in my hardships for the sake of the gospel, relying on the power of God

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

You will be holy,
because I am holy, thus says the Lord.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

The day after Saint Paul's conversion, the Church remembers two of his closest collaborators, Timothy and Titus. Timothy was baptized by Paul himself and received from him the laying on of hands, as the apostle calls to mind in the beginning of the letter we heard. At the threshold of his death, Paul writes to this "beloved child" with passionate feeling. Already in the Letter to the Philippians, the apostle had written: "I have no one like him who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare" (Phil 2:20). While in jail, Paul continues to serve God and in prayer he puts before God his communities and collaborators: chains do not block his communion with his brothers and sisters. But the consolation the apostle feels is Timothy's faithfulness to the Gospel, a fidelity rooted even in his family, a very religious family beginning with his grandmother, Lois and his mother, Eunice. The ministry entrusted to Timothy is not easy, especially because he is young. Paul, however, reminds him of "the gift of God" which was given to him by the laying on of hands (see 1 Tim 4:14). And he asks him to revive it through prayer, faithfulness and dedication, so that its light becomes brighter and increasingly a source of strength for him. The other disciple that the Church remembers today is Titus, a Greek from Antioch, the precious fruit of Paul's preaching to the Gentiles. This is why Paul and Barnabas bring him with them to present him to the Jerusalem community (Acts 15). Paul proudly calls him "my loyal child in the faith we share" and entrusts to him first the community at Corinth and then that of Crete, where still today his memory is revered. Their memory awakens in the Church the responsibility of transmitting the Gospel everywhere in the world and also from generation to generation.

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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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