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dim aMenu(20)
dim aSez(20)
cDataBreve = "10/17/2025"
cDataEstera= "Friday, October 17"
cLingua = "en"
cLinguaCode= "EN"
cTitolo = "Memory of Jesus crucified"
cIcona = "croce.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")
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aSez(5) = Array("=GetMemoria", "=GetLettura", "=GetCommento")
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nVociMenu = 8
cTempo = "ORDINARIO"
cPreghiera = "croce"
cSalmo = ""
cVersetti1 = ""
cVersetti2 = ""
cVersettiV = "Romans 4,1-8"
cLettura1 = ""
cLettura2 = ""
cLetturaV = "Then what do we say about Abraham, the ancestor from whom we are descended physically? If Abraham had been justified because of what he had done, then he would have had something to boast about. But not before God: does not scripture say: Abraham put his faith in God and this was reckoned to him as uprightness? Now, when someone works, the wages for this are not considered as a favour but as due; however, when someone, without working, puts faith in the one who justifies the godless, it is this faith that is reckoned as uprightness. David, too, says the same: he calls someone blessed if God attributes uprightness to that person, apart from any action undertaken: How blessed are those whose offence is forgiven, whose sin is blotted out. How blessed are those to whom the Lord imputes no guilt."
cMemoria = "Memorial of Saint Ignatius (+107), bishop of Antioch. He was condemned to death, brought to Rome where he died a martyr."
cOmelia = "In chapter 4 of the Letter to the Romans, Paul develops a biblical argumentation all centred on the figure of Abraham. The apostle's intention is to demonstrate that the "Gospel of Justification" is not a distortion of Scripture, on the contrary, it is a confirmation of it. Abraham is par excellence the model of the believer who, by opening himself to faith, received the gift of righteousness. Already in the book of Genesis we read: "And he believed the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness" (Gen 15:6). Abraham's life is a testimony to the power that flows from faith. By this faith even sin can be wiped out. So also forgiveness, the "justification" of which Paul speaks, is solely the fruit of the mercy and love of God who continues to call people to follow him. By entrusting himself totally to the one who had called him, the holy Patriarch was freed from the bondage of himself, of his works and traditions. By faith, certainly not by the clarity of vision or the certainty of his convictions, Abraham left his land and set out towards a new destiny. By absolute and total faith in God he took his son, his only son, Isaac, up the mountain to immolate him, but God gave him back to him. On the road opened by Abraham, our father in faith, Paul also outlines the path for those who accept Jesus as Lord of their lives."
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