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dim aMenu(20)
dim aSez(20)
cDataBreve = "10/18/2025"
cDataEstera= "Saturday, October 18"
cLingua = "en"
cLinguaCode= "EN"
cTitolo = "Memory of the apostles"
cIcona = "12apostoli.jpg"
cAlleluia1 = "If we die with him, we shall live with him,
if with him we endure, with him we shall reign.
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cAlleluia2 = "If we die with him, we shall live with him,
if with him we endure, with him we shall reign.
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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")
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nVociMenu = 8
cTempo = "ORDINARIO"
cPreghiera = "apost"
cSalmo = ""
cVersetti1 = ""
cVersetti2 = ""
cVersettiV = "Luke 10,1-9"
cLettura1 = ""
cLettura2 = ""
cLetturaV = "After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself would be visiting. And he said to them, 'The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to do his harvesting. Start off now, but look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Take no purse with you, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road. Whatever house you enter, let your first words be, "Peace to this house!" And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you. Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house. Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is put before you. Cure those in it who are sick, and say, "The kingdom of God is very near to you.""
cMemoria = "Memorial of Saint Luke, evangelist and author of the Acts of the Apostles. According to tradition, he was a physician and a painter."
cOmelia = "Today the Church remembers Luke, the author of the third Gospel and of the Acts of the Apostles. A tradition has that he was part of the seventy-two. Indeed, his figure and his Gospel are characterised by a great missionary drive. Luke will be among Paul's companions and collaborators in his missionary journeys, and he will immediately begin to collect the testimonies of the disciples who had lived with Jesus, accurately writing these memories in the Gospel that bears his name and in the Acts of the Apostles. In this passage, then, we find all of Jesus' trusting gaze upon the world: a ripe harvest that the Lord wishes to be harvested, so that nothing of human life is lost. Jesus' Vision is not the naive gaze of one who does not know evil, but the clear and courageous vision of one who knows the power of love and knows that in the heart of each person and in the very heart of the world is hidden an abundant fruit of life that will be able to ripen. The Lord's first mandate is to pray. And prayer is also readiness to allow ourselves to be involved in God's work, we who have been picked like fruit from the hands of the Lord who has chosen and called us. Jesus says: go! Like Jesus, the disciples also walk with a definite purpose and destination. They are not wanderers but envoys who move freely, without burdens, cumbersome baggage of things and ideas, prejudices: "Do not move about from house to house. Greet no one on the road." Disciples like Jesus go everywhere; they do not choose the place according to criteria of usefulness. They go and become close to those they meet with simplicity and friendliness, offering the proclamation of the Gospel, witnessing it with works, fighting against evil, offering the medicine of love to all. "See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves." The disciple of the Lord cannot accept the logic of the world; the logic of force, of violence, which is more logic of a wolf rather than a lamb. The disciple is called to like a lamb and show the power of love that saves and frees from every evil. And we feel how much in a world marked by so much violence, in which people are tempted by a logic of power and opposition, by the habit of responding to evil with evil, there is instead a need for this Gospel that turns the hearts of wolves into lambs. Right when the light of the kingdom seems farthest away, the prayer, the hope, the love of the disciples makes it near and present."
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