<%@ LANGUAGE = VBScript %> <% dim aMenu(20) dim aSez(20) cDataBreve = "01/01/2025" cDataEstera= "Wednesday, January 1" cLingua = "en" cLinguaCode= "EN" cTitolo = "Feast of Mary, Mother of God" cIcona = "f_madre.jpg" cAlleluia1 = "

Glory to God in the highest
and peace on earth to the people he loves.

" cAlleluia2 = "

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

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Prayer for peace in the world and for the end of every war." cOmelia = "The liturgy invites us to look at Mary, to celebrate and venerate her as the Mother of God. Seven days have passed since Christmas and with this feast, the Church wants us all to look at the Mother of that Child. Certainly, - and it is good to underline it - we do not find her alone; she holds Jesus on her lap. The Gospel says that as soon as the shepherds arrived in Bethlehem, they "found Mary and Joseph, and the child." It is beautiful to imagine Jesus out of the manger and in Mary's arms. It is one of the most familiar and tender images of the mystery of the incarnation. In the tradition of the Eastern Church the relationship between the mother and the son is so strong that you never find an image of Mary without Jesus, her ask is to generate him and to show him to the world. Once at the cave, the shepherds saw a child. And the shepherds after seeing him - we could say after contemplating him - "they made known what had been told them about this child." In this affirmation is contained the entire life of Christinas. If in the previous night the angels spoke to the shepherds of the Child, it is not difficult to think that in the cave Mary spoke of the Son to the shepherds. Mary, who "treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart," knew well what mystery was present in that child. It is now a beautiful and never more useful tradition that on the first day of the year the Church gather to invoke the gift of peace. It is like extending the blessing we heard from the reading in Numbers to the entire world, to the family of peoples: "The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace." There is need that the Lord broaden his gaze on all peoples on earth. At the beginning of this year we need to gather the hymn of the angels on Christmas night: "On earth peace among those whom [God] favours!" This is our prayer and hymn for this beginning of the year. May the Spirit of the Lord descend in the hearts of men and women and melt their hardness; may he transform the hearts of our cities and push way hatred, oppression, and indifference from them. May he change the heart of peoples at war so that violent spirits may be disarmed, and workers of peace be strengthened. May he transform the heart of each man and woman so that we may discover the face of the only God, father of all." %>