FIRST READING
5.9 to 12 Gs
From the Book of Joshua
In those days, the Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have removed from you the reproach of Egypt" . The Israelites were encamped at Gilgal, and celebrated Easter on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening in the plains of Jericho. The day after Easter ate the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain in the same day. And from the day following, as they had eaten the produce of the land, the manna ceased. The Israelites had no more manna that year they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan.
PSALM RESPONSORIAL
from Ps 33
Taste and see how good the Lord
bless the Lord at all times, always on my lips its lode.Io I glory in the Lord and listen to the poor rallegrino.Magnificate is the Lord with me, together let us praise his nome.Ho sought the Lord: I rispostoe from all my fears I liberato.Guardate to him and be radiant, your faces will not have to cry poor and arrossire.Questo Lord heard him, saves him from all his troubles.
SECOND READING
2Cor 5.17 to 21
from the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians
Brothers, if anyone is in Christ is a new creature: old things are passed away; here, things have come nuove.Tutto this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry reconciliation. It was God who reconciled the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. In the name of Christ, therefore, we are ambassadors through us is God Himself who calls. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God who knew no sin, God made him sin for our sake, for in him we might become the righteousness of God
SINGING THE GOSPEL
Lk 15.18
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory! I get up, go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you te.Lode, O Christ, King of eternal glory!
GOSPEL
Lk 15,1-3.11-32
From the Gospel according to Luke
At that time, came to Jesus all the publicans and sinners to hear him. The Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." And he told them this parable: "A man had two sons. The younger one said to his father: "Father, give me the share of heritage that falls to me. " And he divided his wealth between them. A few days later, the younger son gathered all his belongings and set off for a distant country where he squandered his fortune by living debauchery. When he had spent all, there came a severe famine in that country, and he began to feel the pinch. So he went to serve a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. He would gladly have fed on the pods which were fed the pigs, but nobody gave him anything. Then came to himself and said, "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and I perish here with hunger! I will get up, go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, are no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me like one of your employees. " He got up and returned to his padre.Quando was still way off, his father saw him, he had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. The son said "Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee, are no longer worthy to be called your son." But the father said to his servants, 'Quickly, bring out the best robe and let her wear, Put the ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and kill it; we are celebrating, because this my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and has been found. " And they began to festa.Il eldest son was in the field. Come back when it was close to home, he heard music and dancing called one of the servants and asked what it was all that. That's said, "Your brother is here and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound." He was indignant, and refused to go. His father then went out to beg. But he said to his father: "Behold, I served you for many years and I never disobeyed your command, and you've never given a young goat to celebrate with my friends. But now that this son of yours came back, who has devoured your substances with prostitutes, for him you kill the fatted calf. " The father said "Son, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours, but we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found". "
5.9 to 12 Gs
From the Book of Joshua
In those days, the Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have removed from you the reproach of Egypt" . The Israelites were encamped at Gilgal, and celebrated Easter on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening in the plains of Jericho. The day after Easter ate the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain in the same day. And from the day following, as they had eaten the produce of the land, the manna ceased. The Israelites had no more manna that year they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan.
PSALM RESPONSORIAL
from Ps 33
Taste and see how good the Lord
bless the Lord at all times, always on my lips its lode.Io I glory in the Lord and listen to the poor rallegrino.Magnificate is the Lord with me, together let us praise his nome.Ho sought the Lord: I rispostoe from all my fears I liberato.Guardate to him and be radiant, your faces will not have to cry poor and arrossire.Questo Lord heard him, saves him from all his troubles.
SECOND READING
2Cor 5.17 to 21
from the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians
Brothers, if anyone is in Christ is a new creature: old things are passed away; here, things have come nuove.Tutto this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry reconciliation. It was God who reconciled the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. In the name of Christ, therefore, we are ambassadors through us is God Himself who calls. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God who knew no sin, God made him sin for our sake, for in him we might become the righteousness of God
SINGING THE GOSPEL
Lk 15.18
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory! I get up, go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you te.Lode, O Christ, King of eternal glory!
GOSPEL
Lk 15,1-3.11-32
From the Gospel according to Luke
At that time, came to Jesus all the publicans and sinners to hear him. The Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." And he told them this parable: "A man had two sons. The younger one said to his father: "Father, give me the share of heritage that falls to me. " And he divided his wealth between them. A few days later, the younger son gathered all his belongings and set off for a distant country where he squandered his fortune by living debauchery. When he had spent all, there came a severe famine in that country, and he began to feel the pinch. So he went to serve a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. He would gladly have fed on the pods which were fed the pigs, but nobody gave him anything. Then came to himself and said, "How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and I perish here with hunger! I will get up, go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, are no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me like one of your employees. " He got up and returned to his padre.Quando was still way off, his father saw him, he had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. The son said "Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee, are no longer worthy to be called your son." But the father said to his servants, 'Quickly, bring out the best robe and let her wear, Put the ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and kill it; we are celebrating, because this my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and has been found. " And they began to festa.Il eldest son was in the field. Come back when it was close to home, he heard music and dancing called one of the servants and asked what it was all that. That's said, "Your brother is here and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound." He was indignant, and refused to go. His father then went out to beg. But he said to his father: "Behold, I served you for many years and I never disobeyed your command, and you've never given a young goat to celebrate with my friends. But now that this son of yours came back, who has devoured your substances with prostitutes, for him you kill the fatted calf. " The father said "Son, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours, but we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found". "
HOMILY
COMMENT ON READING
* When it finishes the manna? When Israel finally, after his long journey in the desert accompanied by the eagerness of God, enter the land that was promised, enter into "his" land. There, in that moment, at the same moment when his feet trample Canaan, the land that is now her, manna disappears. Disappears, the gift was made to Israel without its participation, a bread that he has not contributed to work, the result of a grain that he did not plant, a flour that has not ground, to a paste in which he did not to enter the lievito.La manna ends when Israel is entering a new phase of his life, becomes, so to speak, adult, and the gift of God is at his own responsibility, able to procure only from the bread. Of course, the gift of God in the desert had become responsible way, and the steps in this long journey he had to put Israel. Even then there was a space for free initiative of the people, and God's love for him had set up a space in front of his feet, a space to fill yourself. But in the "infancy" of the people, God had spoken with many gifts, he had his hands out bread and water to feed the lack of faith, had blown a cloud over the people on their way to witness to his care, in order to support the direction and orientation. Mano.Ad led him to a certain point, however, enough! Just because a father who always want their child to grow, and then steps back and allows him to earn his bread alone. Do you want your child to learn to live autonomously, and stops to solve all problems, at the cost of seeing him fail and fall. Here, the manna ends in our lives, when God, who loves us, let us go our way, to dare our individuality, to look for the shape of our personality, at the risk of cross roads that lead us away from him. *
's father speaks in the Gospel parable, like any good father can not keep the child, let him go. Runs the risk of being forgotten forever, but not to interrupt the adventure of freedom of his son. Like any good teacher, there comes a time when he becomes invisible, you can create a distance between himself and his disciple. Without come to terms with its freedom and independence, no child who really loves and has created large, sustained until in life you learn to help themselves. But this is also true in our relationship with God do not love God until you experience that against him, even against him, we are free. Free to go, free to disobey him, free to ignore it! Experiment without this autonomy, perhaps makes us stay close to God, but it hardly means love, often it just means we are slaves. "And you did not receive a spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit who makes us children of adoption, whereby we cry," Abba, Father '"(Rom 8:15). We can not build our faith in God on the fear of him, nor our sense of duty. The only space which flourishes in the true faith, understood as trust in God, is the space of autonomy and personal freedom.
* And then God leaves us alone? So as not to disrespect our freedom God becomes a distant, cold? From today's readings we can try to get an answer to this question. From the Gospel, we can say that what he does is at-tending, constantly striving towards us, stay on the threshold of his divine life to scan the horizon hoping to see us get there sooner or later, to see that we put our feet in the direction of his house. A God who at-tend, tending toward us, not a God who does nothing, a cold and distant God, but God respects che si muove verso di noi e si rende presente, ma con delicatezza, senza by-passare la nostra scelta di dare alla nostra vita la forma che vogliamo. La sua at-tesa è un’at-tenzione, una tensione, egli è tutto sbilanciato in avanti proteso verso la speranza di un incontro libero con ciascuno di noi.
* Fin dove giunge questa sua attesa, verso dove si pro-tende il nostro Dio, il Dio di cui oggi ci parlano le Scritture? Ci aiuta a rispondere la seconda lettura, nel brano della lettera di Paolo ai cristiani di Corinto: Paolo arriva a farci contemplare fin dove Dio si pro-tende, pur di farsi vicino a noi senza soffocare la nostra libertà: “Era Dio infatti che riconciliava a sé il mondo in Cristo, non imputando agli uomini le loro faults "and again:" He who knew no sin, God made him sin for our sake, for in him we might become the righteousness of God. " Here is the abyss in which God leans while continuing to at-tend, the abyss of sin, non-life. Contemplate this great mystery on the Friday of Holy Week, in a few days, but already this Sunday Scripture gives us a glimpse of the madness of a love that does not want to stop, who knows how to find a way to meet and come together to make us free. God turns to us, not imputing to us our mistakes, our waste, and even giving us his Son, who for our sakes he became a "sin." Yes, like the father in the parable who had become his love for solitude, where his son had chosen to walk alone. He was left alone crying, when his son was paying with tears in his choices. He was left hungry by the absence of the beloved, when they had traveled a path of poverty and failure, to remain in hunger .* In the face of the announcement of a God, so we welcome this Sunday of Lent, the exhortation Paul "We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God."
* When it finishes the manna? When Israel finally, after his long journey in the desert accompanied by the eagerness of God, enter the land that was promised, enter into "his" land. There, in that moment, at the same moment when his feet trample Canaan, the land that is now her, manna disappears. Disappears, the gift was made to Israel without its participation, a bread that he has not contributed to work, the result of a grain that he did not plant, a flour that has not ground, to a paste in which he did not to enter the lievito.La manna ends when Israel is entering a new phase of his life, becomes, so to speak, adult, and the gift of God is at his own responsibility, able to procure only from the bread. Of course, the gift of God in the desert had become responsible way, and the steps in this long journey he had to put Israel. Even then there was a space for free initiative of the people, and God's love for him had set up a space in front of his feet, a space to fill yourself. But in the "infancy" of the people, God had spoken with many gifts, he had his hands out bread and water to feed the lack of faith, had blown a cloud over the people on their way to witness to his care, in order to support the direction and orientation. Mano.Ad led him to a certain point, however, enough! Just because a father who always want their child to grow, and then steps back and allows him to earn his bread alone. Do you want your child to learn to live autonomously, and stops to solve all problems, at the cost of seeing him fail and fall. Here, the manna ends in our lives, when God, who loves us, let us go our way, to dare our individuality, to look for the shape of our personality, at the risk of cross roads that lead us away from him. *
's father speaks in the Gospel parable, like any good father can not keep the child, let him go. Runs the risk of being forgotten forever, but not to interrupt the adventure of freedom of his son. Like any good teacher, there comes a time when he becomes invisible, you can create a distance between himself and his disciple. Without come to terms with its freedom and independence, no child who really loves and has created large, sustained until in life you learn to help themselves. But this is also true in our relationship with God do not love God until you experience that against him, even against him, we are free. Free to go, free to disobey him, free to ignore it! Experiment without this autonomy, perhaps makes us stay close to God, but it hardly means love, often it just means we are slaves. "And you did not receive a spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit who makes us children of adoption, whereby we cry," Abba, Father '"(Rom 8:15). We can not build our faith in God on the fear of him, nor our sense of duty. The only space which flourishes in the true faith, understood as trust in God, is the space of autonomy and personal freedom.
* And then God leaves us alone? So as not to disrespect our freedom God becomes a distant, cold? From today's readings we can try to get an answer to this question. From the Gospel, we can say that what he does is at-tending, constantly striving towards us, stay on the threshold of his divine life to scan the horizon hoping to see us get there sooner or later, to see that we put our feet in the direction of his house. A God who at-tend, tending toward us, not a God who does nothing, a cold and distant God, but God respects che si muove verso di noi e si rende presente, ma con delicatezza, senza by-passare la nostra scelta di dare alla nostra vita la forma che vogliamo. La sua at-tesa è un’at-tenzione, una tensione, egli è tutto sbilanciato in avanti proteso verso la speranza di un incontro libero con ciascuno di noi.
* Fin dove giunge questa sua attesa, verso dove si pro-tende il nostro Dio, il Dio di cui oggi ci parlano le Scritture? Ci aiuta a rispondere la seconda lettura, nel brano della lettera di Paolo ai cristiani di Corinto: Paolo arriva a farci contemplare fin dove Dio si pro-tende, pur di farsi vicino a noi senza soffocare la nostra libertà: “Era Dio infatti che riconciliava a sé il mondo in Cristo, non imputando agli uomini le loro faults "and again:" He who knew no sin, God made him sin for our sake, for in him we might become the righteousness of God. " Here is the abyss in which God leans while continuing to at-tend, the abyss of sin, non-life. Contemplate this great mystery on the Friday of Holy Week, in a few days, but already this Sunday Scripture gives us a glimpse of the madness of a love that does not want to stop, who knows how to find a way to meet and come together to make us free. God turns to us, not imputing to us our mistakes, our waste, and even giving us his Son, who for our sakes he became a "sin." Yes, like the father in the parable who had become his love for solitude, where his son had chosen to walk alone. He was left alone crying, when his son was paying with tears in his choices. He was left hungry by the absence of the beloved, when they had traveled a path of poverty and failure, to remain in hunger .* In the face of the announcement of a God, so we welcome this Sunday of Lent, the exhortation Paul "We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God."
LITURGY
INTERCESSIONS
* Lord forgive our arrogance, la nostra arroganza nell’annunciarti senza possederti. Donaci la nostalgia e il desiderio di Te. Donaci la vista per poter contemplare nella storia e nelle persone le meraviglie del tuo amore.* Perdona Signore la nostra superficialità, insegnaci a vedere nel profondo per poter scorgere la tua immagine in ogni persona che ogni giorno ci fai il dono di incontrare.* Signore, illumina la nostra mente e il nostro cuore. Rendici limpidi così che coloro che ci incontrano possano cogliere un riflesso della tua luce e rimanere rapiti dalla tua grazia.* Per il Papa, esempio di coraggio umano e di fede incrollabile nella prova e nel dolore; in lui, Signore, la tua luce ha trovato un cristallo purissimo. Sostienilo, o Signore, con la tua grazia e lenisci le sue suffering with your tenderness.
FOR MEDITATION
After communion
Oh, Lord, have mercy on us, so our story, so often so obscure and useless! Have pity on the poor sky of our souls, and vapors that arise in and through it all always knocks your light. Not unless we see reflected light, light mirror, we see no puzzle: you, our sun, do not you come to us except through our many clouds. Win their thickness and their entanglement, or The Jesus we know, time is no longer the light revealed, and only eternity will reveal to us, we know, our eyes, small, weak, carnal, for the death, can not stand the light of your live. You, sir, you win more than you can interstices of mortality, the screens of the weakness, the veils of terrestrial vapors mundane. Have mercy on us, do not leave a single day without a little of your light, as reflected. And even at the most aching, more and more cloudy out, makes you feel frightened to our care that you're there anyway, even if you do not see, and you will come to shine. Especially at the end of the day you come back with a completely different light, when our mortality is gone in death. "Veni Domine Jesu."
* Lord forgive our arrogance, la nostra arroganza nell’annunciarti senza possederti. Donaci la nostalgia e il desiderio di Te. Donaci la vista per poter contemplare nella storia e nelle persone le meraviglie del tuo amore.* Perdona Signore la nostra superficialità, insegnaci a vedere nel profondo per poter scorgere la tua immagine in ogni persona che ogni giorno ci fai il dono di incontrare.* Signore, illumina la nostra mente e il nostro cuore. Rendici limpidi così che coloro che ci incontrano possano cogliere un riflesso della tua luce e rimanere rapiti dalla tua grazia.* Per il Papa, esempio di coraggio umano e di fede incrollabile nella prova e nel dolore; in lui, Signore, la tua luce ha trovato un cristallo purissimo. Sostienilo, o Signore, con la tua grazia e lenisci le sue suffering with your tenderness.
FOR MEDITATION
After communion
Oh, Lord, have mercy on us, so our story, so often so obscure and useless! Have pity on the poor sky of our souls, and vapors that arise in and through it all always knocks your light. Not unless we see reflected light, light mirror, we see no puzzle: you, our sun, do not you come to us except through our many clouds. Win their thickness and their entanglement, or The Jesus we know, time is no longer the light revealed, and only eternity will reveal to us, we know, our eyes, small, weak, carnal, for the death, can not stand the light of your live. You, sir, you win more than you can interstices of mortality, the screens of the weakness, the veils of terrestrial vapors mundane. Have mercy on us, do not leave a single day without a little of your light, as reflected. And even at the most aching, more and more cloudy out, makes you feel frightened to our care that you're there anyway, even if you do not see, and you will come to shine. Especially at the end of the day you come back with a completely different light, when our mortality is gone in death. "Veni Domine Jesu."
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