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Liturgy of the Sunday
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Liturgy of the Sunday

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kobe, a priest martyr for love, who accepted death in the concentration camp of Auschwitz to save the life of another man in 1941.
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Libretto DEL GIORNO
Liturgy of the Sunday
Sunday, August 14

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kobe, a priest martyr for love, who accepted death in the concentration camp of Auschwitz to save the life of another man in 1941.


First Reading

Jeremiah 38,4-6.8-10

The chief men then said to the king, 'You must have this man put to death: he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, and all the people too, by talking like this. This man is seeking not the welfare of the people but their ruin.' King Zedekiah answered, 'He is in your hands as you know, for the king is powerless to oppose you.' So they took Jeremiah and put him into the storage-well of the king's son Malchiah in the Court of the Guard, letting him down with ropes. There was no water in the storage-well, only mud, and into the mud Jeremiah sank. Ebed-Melech came out from the palace and spoke to the king. 'My lord king,' he said, 'these men have done a wicked thing by treating the prophet Jeremiah like this: they have thrown him into the storage-well. He will starve to death there, since there is no more food in the city.' At this the king gave Ebed-Melech the Cushite the following order: 'Take thirty men with you from here and pull the prophet Jeremiah out of the storage-well before he dies.'

Psalmody

Psalm 39

Antiphon

Blessed is the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

I waited, I waited for the Lord
and he stooped down to me;
he heard my cry.

He drew me from the deadly pits,
from the miry clay.

He set my feet upon a rock
and made my footsteps firm.

He put a new song into my mouth,
praise of our God.

Many shall see and fear
and shall trust in the Lord.

Happy the man who has placed
his trust in the Lord

and has not gone over to the rebels
who follow false gods.

How many, O Lord my God,
are the wonders and designs

that you have worked for us;
you have no equal.

Should I proclaim and speak of them,
they are more than I can tell!

You do not ask for sacrifice and offerings,
but an open ear.

You do not ask for holocaust and victim.
Instead, here am I.

In the scroll of the book it stands written
that I should do your will.

My God, I delight in your law
in the depth of my heart.

Your justice I have proclaimed
in the great assembly.

My lips I have not sealed;
you know it, O Lord.

I have not hidden your justice in my heart
but declared your faithful help.

I have not hidden your love and your truth
from the great assembly.

O Lord, you will not withhold
your compassion from me.

Your merciful love and your truth
will always guard me.

For I am beset with evils
too many to be counted.

My sins have fallen upon me
and my sight fails me.

They are more than the hairs of my head
and my heart sinks.

O Lord, come to my rescue
Lord, come to my aid.

O let there be shame and confusion,
on those who seek my life.

O let them turn back in confusion,
who delight in my harm.

Let them be appalled, covered with shame,
who jeer at my lot.

O let there be rejoicing and gladness
for all who seek you.

Let them ever say : 'The Lord is great',
who love your saving help.,

As for me, wretched and poor,
the Lord thinks of me

You are my rescuer, my help,
O God, do not delay.

Second Reading

Hebrews 12,1-4

With so many witnesses in a great cloud all around us, we too, then, should throw off everything that weighs us down and the sin that clings so closely, and with perseverance keep running in the race which lies ahead of us. Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection: for the sake of the joy which lay ahead of him, he endured the cross, disregarding the shame of it, and has taken his seat at the right of God's throne. Think of the way he persevered against such opposition from sinners and then you will not lose heart and come to grief. In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of bloodshed.

Reading of the Gospel

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Yesterday I was buried with Christ,
today I rise with you who are risen.
With you I was crucified;
remember me, Lord, in your kingdom.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Luke 12,49-53

'I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 'Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on, a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three; father opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.'

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Yesterday I was buried with Christ,
today I rise with you who are risen.
With you I was crucified;
remember me, Lord, in your kingdom.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Homily

There is urgency in the Gospel of this Sunday, the urgency of proclaiming to all that the Kingdom of God is at the door. Jesus, moved by compassion for the crowds who were " harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd" (Mt 9:36) said to them, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near." And he "went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness," Unfortunately, today this urgency is often obscured, suffocated and restrained: it is obscured by the climate of violence, suffocated by wars and injustice and, at times, restrained by the disciples themselves when they shy away from the Lord's invitation to follow their own urgencies or habits. It is easy to resign oneself to the present. How many times we hear: nothing can be done! The world has always been like that! On the contrary the Lord tells us: "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!" Let us allow ourselves to be drawn into this passion, to be burnt by this fire. We will see the meanness of our passions and the avarice of our hearts. Unfortunately, so often the only fire that burns in us is the fatuous fire of self-love, which the Fathers called "filautìa." The love of Jesus is of another nature. It is a sweet and overwhelming love, it makes us forget ourselves so that love for the poor can grow. "Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division," Jesus reminds us today. We would hardly put these words on Jesus' mouth. But the Gospel is different from our way of thinking. Jesus' statement emphasises the sword more than peace is meant to make us understand that he did not come to defend our self-centredness, but love for others. Jesus did not come to defend the stingy tranquillity of the rich man who did not even see poor Lazarus starving at his door; he did not come to defend the egocentricity of the priest and the Levite who, despite seeing the half-dead man on the road, passed by. This is not peace, but greed, and as the Orthodox Archbishop of Tirana, Anastasius, once said: "The opposite of peace is not war, but egocentrism." Peace does not exist without strong, passionate love.

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.