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dim aMenu(20)
dim aSez(20)
cDataBreve = "07/22/2024"
cDataEstera= "Monday, July 22"
cLingua = "en"
cLinguaCode= "EN"
cTitolo = "Memory of the Poor"
cIcona = "poveri.jpg"
cAlleluia1 = "This is the Gospel of the poor,
liberation for the imprisoned,
sight for the blind,
freedom for the oppressed.
"
cAlleluia2 = "The Son of Man came to serve,
whoever wants to be great
should become servant of all.
"
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aMenu(2) = Array("Reading of the Word of God","")
aMenu(3) = Array("Reading of the Word of God","")
aMenu(4) = Array("Reading of the Word of God","")
aMenu(5) = Array("Reading of the Word of God","")
aMenu(6) = Array("Reading of the Word of God","")
aMenu(7) = Array("The Prayer","../index.htm")
aMenu(8) = Array("Home page","../../index.html")
aSez(1) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura", "=GetCommento")
aSez(2) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura", "=GetCommento")
aSez(3) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura", "=GetCommento")
aSez(4) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura", "=GetCommento")
aSez(5) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura", "=GetCommento")
aSez(6) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura", "=GetCommento")
nVociMenu = 8
cTempo = "ORDINARIO"
cPreghiera = "poveri"
cSalmo = ""
cVersetti1 = ""
cVersetti2 = ""
cVersettiV = "John 20,1.11-18"
cLettura1 = ""
cLettura2 = ""
cLetturaV = "It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb But Mary was standing outside near the tomb, weeping. Then, as she wept, she stooped to look inside, and saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head, the other at the feet. They said, 'Woman, why are you weeping?' 'They have taken my Lord away,' she replied, 'and I don't know where they have put him.' As she said this she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not realise that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, 'Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?' Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, 'Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and remove him.' Jesus said, 'Mary!' She turned round then and said to him in Hebrew, 'Rabbuni!' -- which means Master. Jesus said to her, 'Do not cling to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to the brothers, and tell them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' So Mary of Magdala told the disciples, 'I have seen the Lord,' and that he had said these things to her."
cMemoria = "Feast of Mary Magdalene. She announced to the disciples that the Lord was risen."
cOmelia = "Today the liturgy commemorates Mary Magdalene, who met Jesus at the beginning of his mission in Galilee and was delivered from "seven demons." The Gospel presents her to us as she stands by the empty tomb and weeps. It is not easy to stand beside a tomb, that is, beside great suffering. But this is the strength of the love that binds Mary of Magdala to her Master. "Woman, why are you weeping?" The angels ask, as Jesus himself will later do. Mary's tears speak to us of a great love, of a revolt against death, and that there is no true resurrection if one does not go through those tears and that question: "Why are you weeping?" And that question addressed to Mary of Magdala resonates today in front of so many tombs and places of pain: from the places wounded by war, in Ukraine and in so many other places in the world, to the pain of those who feel alone in the face of the difficulties and problems of life. What do you seek? How many seek peace, a future, friendship, a meaning to their lives! Jesus for Mary was all this. And Mary then, whom the church calls the Apostle of the Apostles, becomes for us a model of disciple and apostle. Disciple because she learned from her "Master" who is Jesus (this is what she calls him), the compassion that does not resign, and her tears before the empty tomb recall the tears of Jesus himself before the tomb of Lazarus. Apostle because in the encounter with the risen Jesus, Mary helps us today to live a passage, an Easter, from the Garden of Gethsemane to the garden of the resurrection, sadness that turns into joy. It is a transformation that this world needs; so many places that remain as empty spaces of hope tell us so and we do not forget them precisely because like Mary we are called to take this hope where it is lacking, disciples also of this love of the Lord that forgets no one."
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