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dim aMenu(20)
dim aSez(20)
cDataBreve = "09/15/2025"
cDataEstera= "Monday, September 15"
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.
"
aMenu(1) = Array("Reading of the Word of God","")
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 19,25-27"
cLettura1 = ""
cLettura2 = ""
cLetturaV = "Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, 'Woman, this is your son.' Then to the disciple he said, 'This is your mother.' And from that hour the disciple took her into his home."
cMemoria = "Remembrance of Mary, Mother of Jesus, sorrowful at the foot of the cross, and of all those who live the compassion with those who are crucified, alone and condemned."
cOmelia = "Right after the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, the Church celebrates the memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Sorrows. The Gospel of John, in a few lines, tells the extraordinary mystery of Mary's presence. She grieves deeply in her heart for her son's death, and while remaining next to him, she receives from him a new mission. Perhaps in those hours Mary remembered her encounter with Simeon. Now she fully understood what the elderly man said to her: "This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed-and a sword will pierce your own soul too" (Lk 2:33-35). The Passion of Jesus, marked by violence and betrayal to the cross, had already the bud of the risen life. From the cross, in fact, Jesus does not ask for consolation for himself, as we would have done for ourselves, nor does he invoke compassion for himself. He takes care of his mother and the young disciple whom he loved. In the disciple, we can see the face of each one of us. Jesus entrusts us all to his mother, Mary, the Church, the community of believers. And, vice versa, he entrusts to Mary each of us. We are not abandoned to a society that cares little for its children. Jesus asks Mary to be our Mother. He entrusts her with a task, a mission, to be the mother of all. The ancient Christians used to say that one can never say enough about Mary, about this mother. And in a certain sense it is very true: Mary is the first of believers, the first to have a heart like that of her Son. And the many images of Our Lady of Sorrows spread among the great people of believers show not only the need we all have for a mother, but above all that we have found her, or rather that she has been given to us. It is up to us to welcome her."
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