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Memory of the Church

Memorial of the first martyrs of the Roman Church during persecution of Nero. Többet

Libretto DEL GIORNO
Memory of the Church
Thursday, June 30

Memorial of the first martyrs of the Roman Church during persecution of Nero.


Reading of the Word of God

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

I am the good shepherd,
my sheep listen to my voice,
and they become
one flock and one fold.
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Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Amos 7,10-17

Amaziah the priest of Bethel then sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel as follows, 'Amos is plotting against you in the heart of the House of Israel; the country cannot tolerate his speeches. For this is what Amos says, "Jeroboam is going to die by the sword, and Israel will go into captivity far from its native land." ' To Amos himself Amaziah said, 'Go away, seer, take yourself off to Judah, earn your living there, and there you can prophesy! But never again will you prophesy at Bethel, for this is a royal sanctuary, a national temple.' 'I am not a prophet,' Amos replied to Amaziah, 'nor do I belong to a prophetic brotherhood. I am merely a herdsman and dresser of sycamore-figs. But Yahweh took me as I followed the flock, and Yahweh said to me, "Go and prophesy to my people Israel." So now listen to what Yahweh says: "You say: Do not prophesy against Israel, do not foretell doom on the House of Isaac!" Very well, this is what Yahweh says, "Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parcelled out by measuring line, and you yourself will die on polluted soil and Israel will go into captivity far from its own land!" '

 

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

I give you a new commandment,
that you love one another.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

This page reports the conversation between the priest Amaziah and the prophet Amos. It is the clash between on one hand the freedom of the prophet who speaks in the name of God and on the other of Amaziah, a priest connected to the political and who speaks in the name of Jeroboam, the king of Samaria. The priest regards Amos' prophetic action as a political conspiracy against the state or its highest representative. After discussing the matter with Jeroboam himself, Amaziah confronts the prophet directly, telling him that "the land Is not able to bear all his words." And he warned him that he could no longer be a prophet in Bethel. He had to withdraw in the land of Judah. He expels him from the temple, which was no longer God's sanctuary, since it had been transformed into the king's "sanctuary." This reminds us of what was to happen in the temple of Jerusalem when, having become a market place rather than a house of prayer, it provoked the violent reaction of Jesus. The prophet Amos, who had allowed himself to be grasped by the Lord, retorts to Amaziah. He justifies himself first of all by saying that he does not belong to any caste, to any prophetic guild, nor does he claim a special place that distinguishes him from others. On the contrary, he reiterates clearly that there had been a direct intervention of God with him: "he took me from following the flock" and immediately gave him the prophetic mission: "Go, prophesy to my people Israel." And God himself intervenes to warn Amaziah. He, who wanted to silence the prophet to stay quiet, will see evil raging against him. It is a warning for all Israel. Without the Word of God, without its prophets, the people of God does not survive.

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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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