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dim aSez(20)
cDataBreve = "02/23/2025"
cDataEstera= "Sunday, February 23"
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.
"
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aMenu(12) = Array("The Prayer","../index.htm")
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aSez(1) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
aSez(2) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura1", "=GetSalmo", "=GetLettura2", "=GetLetturaV", "=GetOmelia")
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cTempo = "ORDINARIO"
cPreghiera = "domenica"
cSalmo = "103"
cVersetti1 = "1 Samuel 26,2.7-9.12-13.22-23"
cVersetti2 = "1 Corinthians 15,45-49"
cVersettiV = "Luke 6,27-38"
cLettura1 = "So Saul set off and went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand picked men of Israel, to search for David in the desert of Ziph. So in the dark David and Abishai made their way towards the force, where they found Saul lying asleep inside the camp, his spear stuck in the ground beside his head, with Abner and the troops lying round him. Abishai then said to David, 'Today God has put your enemy in your power; so now let me pin him to the ground with his own spear. Just one stroke! I shall not need to strike him twice.' David said to Abishai, 'Do not kill him, for who could raise his hand against Yahweh's anointed and go unpunished? David took the spear and the pitcher of water from beside Saul's head, and they made off. No one saw, no one knew, no one woke up; they were all asleep, because a torpor from Yahweh had fallen on them. David crossed to the other side and halted on the top of the mountain a long way off; there was a wide space between them. In reply, David said, 'Here is the king's spear. Let one of the men come across and get it. May Yahweh reward each as each has been upright and loyal. Today Yahweh put you in my power but I would not raise my hand against Yahweh's anointed."
cLettura2 = "So the first man, Adam, as scripture says, became a living soul; and the last Adam has become a life-giving spirit. But first came the natural body, not the spiritual one; that came only afterwards. The first man, being made of earth, is earthly by nature; the second man is from heaven. The earthly man is the pattern for earthly people, the heavenly man for heavenly ones. And as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so we shall bear the likeness of the heavenly one."
cLetturaV = "'But I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly. To anyone who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek as well; to anyone who takes your cloak from you, do not refuse your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your property back from someone who takes it. Treat others as you would like people to treat you. If you love those who love you, what credit can you expect? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit can you expect? For even sinners do that much. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to get money back, what credit can you expect? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount. Instead, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend without any hope of return. You will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. 'Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate. Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap; because the standard you use will be the standard used for you.'"
cMemoria = "Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time
Memorial of Saint Polycarp (+155), disciple of the apostle John, bishop and martyr."
cOmelia = ""Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you." These words, with the theme of love, are the central part of the sermon of the beatitudes. They resonate particularly appropriate in this time that seems to be at the mercy of the demon of war. There is a need for these Gospel words to resonate in this time and arouse an indignation at the worsening dangers, along with a commitment to a more fraternal world. The commandment of love for enemies reveals to us the very face of God, his way of being and working. The Apostle recalls this when he states that God shows his love for us because he loved us while we were sinners (cf. Rom 5:6-8), far from him, we can say enemies. By his death on the cross Jesus broke down the wall of enmity, of separation. The page from the book of Samuel showing David's decision not to kill Saul, indicates what the wisdom of the righteous is: to imitate God, who is Father of all and who wants the conversion of the sinner, not his death. Commenting on this page, John Chrysostom says: "A man, whatever he does to you, is a brother;" the enemy who does evil to you is a brother whom evil has removed from you and also from his own humanity. The Lord exhorts us to do good to those who do us harm, to pray for them, to overcome them in love. This exhortation to the superabundance of love is not on the sentimental level but on the level of changing hearts and history. It is the superabundant love that allows us to understand and accept Jesus' other exhortation: "If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your cloak do not withhold even your shirt." Jesus lacks that fundamental category present in everyone: the idea of victory over others, whatever the cost is. Jesus does not want to defeat anyone; he does not consider anyone his enemy, not even Judas, whom he called "friend" while receiving the kiss of betrayal. For the world, winning is an obsession. The only great law for Jesus is that of love, that love that drove him to leave heaven to come to earth to save us, even at the cost of death. That love is called mercy. As he exhorts at the end of this Gospel passage: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful." It is the way to serve the Kingdom entrusted in our hands. We are asked not to measure love, but to go beyond: "Do to others as you would have them do to you.""
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