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dim aSez(20)
cDataBreve = "10/19/2025"
cDataEstera= "Sunday, October 19"
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")
aMenu(13) = Array("Home page","../../index.html")
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 = "120"
cVersetti1 = "Exodus 17,8-13"
cVersetti2 = "2 Timothy 3,14-4,2"
cVersettiV = "Luke 18,1-8"
cLettura1 = "The Amalekites then came and attacked Israel at Rephidim. Moses said to Joshua, 'Pick some men and tomorrow morning go out and engage Amalek. I, for my part, shall take my stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.' Joshua did as Moses had told him and went out to engage Amalek, while Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill. As long as Moses kept his arms raised, Israel had the advantage; when he let his arms fall, the advantage went to Amalek. But Moses' arms grew heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him and on this he sat, with Aaron and Hur supporting his arms on each side. Thus his arms remained unwavering till sunset, and Joshua defeated Amalek, putting their people to the sword."
cLettura2 = "You must keep to what you have been taught and know to be true; remember who your teachers were, and how, ever since you were a child, you have known the holy scriptures -from these you can learn the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and useful for refuting error, for guiding people's lives and teaching them to be upright. This is how someone who is dedicated to God becomes fully equipped and ready for any good work. Before God and before Christ Jesus who is to be judge of the living and the dead, I charge you, in the name of his appearing and of his kingdom: proclaim the message and, welcome or unwelcome, insist on it. Refute falsehood, correct error, give encouragement -- but do all with patience and with care to instruct."
cLetturaV = "Then he told them a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart. 'There was a judge in a certain town,' he said, 'who had neither fear of God nor respect for anyone. In the same town there was also a widow who kept on coming to him and saying, "I want justice from you against my enemy!" For a long time he refused, but at last he said to himself, "Even though I have neither fear of God nor respect for any human person, I must give this widow her just rights since she keeps pestering me, or she will come and slap me in the face." ' And the Lord said, 'You notice what the unjust judge has to say? Now, will not God see justice done to his elect if they keep calling to him day and night even though he still delays to help them? I promise you, he will see justice done to them, and done speedily. But when the Son of man comes, will he find any faith on earth?'"
cMemoria = "Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time"
cOmelia = "The Gospel reports a parable of on the need to always pray, without giving up "not losing heart" literally. The parable speaks of a poor widow who does not find justice for her case. In the biblical tradition, as we well know, the widow is presented as the symbol of the powerlessness of the weak, the defenceless: having neither husband nor children to defend her, she has no one to rely on. And yet that widow, unlike the majority, does not resign. And she continues to go to that judge demanding justice from him against her attackers, even to the point of coming to blows with him, some scholars comment. "The judge," Jesus continues, "said to himself: 'Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming." This is certainly not exemplary behaviour. Indeed, that judge is far from the two main commandments: to love God and neighbour. However, Jesus wants to convince the disciples in every way about the necessity of prayer: God will not fail to answer their insistent prayer. In a world where the weakest are oppressed and abandoned, Jesus wants to assure us that God intervenes: "and will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them," someone translates "suddenly", when we least expect it. It is clear in Jesus' words that the disciples' prayer is so strong that it bends God himself. The cry of the poor, the prayer of believers traverses the heavens and reaches God's heart and moves it to the point of changing it. It is not by chance that this Gospel passage unites the insistence of the widow and the prayer of 'God's chosen ones who cry out to him day and night,' as if to make them a single cry, a single prayer: the cry of the poor is the prayer of the Church. And God hears it. The answering of prayer, one might say, is part of God's justice, a justice that requires, however, the insistence of invocation. All of us, like that widow, have nothing but intercession to God to intervene and do justice where there is violence and conflict, war, and destruction. Jesus exhorts us not to grow weary. We have also heard from the book of Exodus the intercession of Moses who perseveres until the setting of the sun with steady and trusting hands. He cannot do this, however, without the help of his brothers and sisters to support his hands. Alone - even for Moses it was difficult, and we cannot even compare ourselves to him - it is easy for us to lower our hands, out of tiredness or laziness, out of that stingy tranquillity that makes us deaf to the cry of the poor. Prayer in common - especially that of each evening in this basilica - is a true ministry of intercession that enables God to "quickly grant justice." The question that Jesus asks at the end of the parable should give us pause for thought: "And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?" we could say: will the Son of Man find his chosen ones praying for the salvation of all and especially the poorest? There is a grace for us, that of having for a mother this family that never ceases to raise its steady and trusting hands to the Lord. And we, like Aaron and Hur, are asked to help this mother's prayer so that the poor may be helped and the world freed from evil, violence and war."
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