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dim aMenu(20)
dim aSez(20)
cDataBreve = "07/21/2024"
cDataEstera= "Sunday, July 21"
cLingua = "en"
cLinguaCode= "EN"
cTitolo = "Liturgy of the Sunday"
cIcona = "domenica.jpg"
cAlleluia1 = "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.
"
cAlleluia2 = "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.
"
aMenu(1) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(2) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(3) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(4) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(5) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(6) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(7) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(8) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(9) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(10) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(11) = Array("Reading of the Gospel","")
aMenu(12) = Array("The Prayer","../index.htm")
aMenu(13) = Array("Home page","../../index.html")
aSez(1) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(2) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(3) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(4) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(5) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(6) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(7) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(8) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(9) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(10) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(11) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
nVociMenu = 13
cTempo = "ORDINARIO"
cPreghiera = "domenica"
cSalmo = ""
cVersetti1 = "Jeremiah 23,1-6"
cVersetti2 = "Ephesians 2,13-18"
cVersettiV = "Mark 6,30-34"
cLettura1 = "'Disaster for the shepherds who lose and scatter the sheep of my pasture, Yahweh declares. This, therefore, is what Yahweh, God of Israel, says about the shepherds who shepherd my people, "You have scattered my flock, you have driven them away and have not taken care of them. Right, I shall take care of you for your misdeeds, Yahweh declares! But the remnant of my flock I myself shall gather from all the countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; they will be fruitful and increase in numbers. For them I shall raise up shepherds to shepherd them and pasture them. No fear, no terror for them any more; not one shall be lost, Yahweh declares! Look, the days are coming, Yahweh declares, when I shall raise an upright Branch for David; he will reign as king and be wise, doing what is just and upright in the country. In his days Judah will triumph and Israel live in safety. And this is the name he will be called, 'Yahweh-is-our-Saving-Justice.' ""
cLettura2 = "But now in Christ Jesus, you that used to be so far off have been brought close, by the blood of Christ. For he is the peace between us, and has made the two into one entity and broken down the barrier which used to keep them apart, by destroying in his own person the hostility, that is, the Law of commandments with its decrees. His purpose in this was, by restoring peace, to create a single New Man out of the two of them, and through the cross, to reconcile them both to God in one Body; in his own person he killed the hostility. He came to bring the good news of peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. Through him, then, we both in the one Spirit have free access to the Father."
cLetturaV = "The apostles rejoined Jesus and told him all they had done and taught. And he said to them, 'Come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while'; for there were so many coming and going that there was no time for them even to eat. So they went off in the boat to a lonely place where they could be by themselves. But people saw them going, and many recognised them; and from every town they all hurried to the place on foot and reached it before them. So as he stepped ashore he saw a large crowd; and he took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach them at some length."
cMemoria = "Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time"
cOmelia = ""Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while." It is an exhortation that sounds close to this time in which many are preparing for rest or, perhaps even more so, the need for silence for a serious return to the inner life. In the liturgy of Sunday, we are led "aside," that is, to a place other than our ordinary occupations, even if it is the holiday season, in order to dialogue with the Lord, to listen to a true word about our lives, to be nourished by a friendship that remains steadfast, to receive a strength that is capable of sustaining us. This is what happens in the Gospel story, when Jesus and the disciples get into the boat to cross to the other shore. The moment of the crossing in the boat, between one shore and the other, can be compared to the Sunday Mass, which precisely binds us to the two shores of the sea, always crowded with people in need.
Upon reaching the other shore, once again, there is the crowd waiting for them. Perhaps they had seen the boat's course and deduced the point of landing. They run up ahead and they arrived first. As soon as he gets out of the boat, Jesus finds himself surrounded by much crowd once again. John the Baptist had been killed not long before, and there was no prophet left. Rare was the Word of God. True, the temple was packed and the synagogues crowded; so much so that many said that religion had won. Yet, the people, the poor and the weak above all, did not know on whom to trust, on whom to put their hope, on which door to knock. In the last words of this Gospel passage we hear echo the entire Old-Testament tradition on the abandonment of their people by the leaders of the people of Israel. The prophet Jeremiah cries out with clear words, "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" It will be the Lord himself who will take care of his people, "I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold." The secret of all of this is hidden in the Lord's compassion for his people. This compassion, which urged Jesus to send the Twelve to proclaim the Gospel and serve the poor, continues to compel him, as soon as he gets out of the boat, to resume immediately his "work." This is what the Gospel continues to ask the disciples of every time."
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