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Sunday Vigil
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Sunday Vigil

Memorial of the death of Gandhi, killed in1948 in New Delhi. With him we remember all those who, in the name of non-violence, are peacemakers. Baca lebih lanjut

Libretto DEL GIORNO
Sunday Vigil
Saturday, January 30

Memorial of the death of Gandhi, killed in1948 in New Delhi. With him we remember all those who, in the name of non-violence, are peacemakers.


Reading of the Word of God

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Whoever lives and believes in me
will never die.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Mark 4,35-41

With the coming of evening that same day, he said to them, 'Let us cross over to the other side.' And leaving the crowd behind they took him, just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him. Then it began to blow a great gale and the waves were breaking into the boat so that it was almost swamped. But he was in the stern, his head on the cushion, asleep. They woke him and said to him, 'Master, do you not care? We are lost!' And he woke up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, 'Quiet now! Be calm!' And the wind dropped, and there followed a great calm. Then he said to them, 'Why are you so frightened? Have you still no faith?' They were overcome with awe and said to one another, 'Who can this be? Even the wind and the sea obey him.'

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

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

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

The Gospel of Mark continues to present Jesus walking through the streets of the world. There is in him un unstoppable urgency to communicate the Gospel to everyone. For this reason, he does not stop in places that may be more secure and reliable. He says to his disciples, "Let us go across to the other side." The other side in the Gospel of Mark refers to the pagan world, of those who are far from faith in the God of Israel. The disciples would not have gone there alone, just as we find it hard to go towards those whom we believe are distant or not suitable to receive the Gospel of Jesus. We all know the temptation to stop along the boundaries that are known to us, the usual and warm horizons. Jesus broadens our hearts and our minds from the start. There is an urgency for universality that Jesus communicates to the disciples and that manifests itself with varied intensity through the passage of the centuries. Today, in a globalized world, which has dramatically discovered its own fragility, that urgency is still even more evident. Globalisation, which made us accept an often senseless development that caused cruel inequalities, today needs to be marked by effective solidarity and by a development that leaves no one behind. Yes, never before the whole world needs to "pass to the other side," that of fraternity, of solidarity between peoples. And Christians have a crucial task on this horizon. We need to welcome the invitation of Jesus like his first disciples did. Mark writes: "And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was." During the crossing, as often happens in the lake of Galilee, there was a storm. It is easy to read in this storm the many storms that hits nations in our time and devastate the existence of many. We often dwell on our small psychological agitations. In the cry of the disciples we hear the echo of the cry of many men and many women whose lives are overwhelmed by the waves of evil. This cry often also collects the feeling of powerlessness and the resignation of someone who, overwhelmed by the storms of life, ends up believing that the Lord is far away, asleep and not keeping watch over them. Pope Francis gathered this cry during the pandemic of the coronavirus and addressed it to the Lord in the empty St. Peter Square. With him we too gather the cries of those who suffer and we transform them in prayer to the Lord so that, like that time, he can get up, rebuke the winds and the sea saying, "Peace! Be still!" And thus, men and women who have been hit hard by evil may reach the other side, to the shore of peace.

FIRMAN TUHAN SETIAP HARI: KALENDER

Doa merupakan jantung kehidupan Komunitas Sant'Egidio dan merupakan prioritas yang paling penting. Di penghujung hari, setiap Komunitas Sant'Egidio, besar maupun kecil, akan berkumpul di sekeliling Tuhan untuk mendengarkan sabda-Nya. Sesungguhnya Sabda Allah dan doa merupakan landasan seluruh kehidupan Komunitas. Para rasul tidak bisa tidak selain tetap di sekitar kaki Yesus, seperti yang dilakukan oleh Maria dari Bethani, untuk menerima kasih dan belajar cara-Nya (Fil. 2:5).

Sehingga setiap malam, ketika Komunitas kembali ke kaki Tuhan, Komunitas mengulangi kata-kata dari rasul tak bernama: "Tuhan ajarkanlah kami cara berdoa" Yesus, Sang Guru, terus menjawab: "Ketika kamu berdoa, katakanlah: Abba, Bapa". Hal itu bukanlah satu seruan sederhana. Dengan kata-kata ini, Yesus membiarkan para murid untuk berperan serta dalam hubungan mereka sendiri dengan Bapa. Oleh sebab itu, fakta bahwa sebagai anak-anak Bapa yang bertahta di surga, muncul sebelum kata-kata yang mungkin kita ucapkan. Jadi doa di atas segalanya merupakan cara untuk menjadi manusia. Ini untuk mengatakan bahwa kita anak-anak yang berpaling kepada Bapa dengan iman, dan yakin bahwa hal itu akan didengar.

Yesus mengajar kita memanggil Allah dengan sebutan "Bapa Kami" Tidak hanya "Bapa" atau "Bapaku" Para murid, meskipun mereka berdoa dengan cara mereka, tidak pernah terisolasi tidak juga menjadi yatim; mereka selalu menjadi anggota keluarga Tuhan.

Dalam doa bersama, di samping misteri anak Allah, ada juga misteri persaudaraan, seperti Bapa Gereja mengatakan: "Kamu tidak bisa memiliki Allah sebagai Bapa tanpa memiliki gereja sebagai ibu". Ketika berdoa bersama, Roh Kudus menyatukan para rasul di ruangan atas bersama dengan Maria, Bunda Allah, sehingga mereka dapat memusatkan pandangan mereka kepada wajah Tuhan dan belajar dari Dia rahasia hati-Nya.

Komunitas Sant'Egidio di seluruh dunia berkumpul bersama di berbagai tempat doa dan menghamparkan di hadapan Tuhan harapan dan penderitaan manusia yang lelah dan letih seperti yang di katakan oleh Injil (Mat. 9:37). Dalam kumpulan di masa lalu ini kita bisa melihat jumlah massa yang sangat besar di kota-kota modern ini, jutaan pengungsi yang terus melarikan diri dari negeri mereka, orang miskin yang terpinggirkan ke tepi kehidupan dan mereka yang menantikan seseorang yang akan merawat mereka. Berdoa bersama termasuk di dalamnya tangisan, seruan, permohonan, keinginan bagi damai, penyembuhan dan penebusan manusia di dunia ini. Doa tidak pernah sia-sia, doa terus menerus kepada Tuhan sehingga mengubah kecemasan menjadi harapan, air mata menjadi kegembiraan, putus asa menjadi kebahagiaan, dan kesepian menjadi persatuan. Semoga Kerajaan Allah hadir segera di antara manusia.