PRIMA LETTURA
Is 66, 18-21
Dal libro del profeta Isaia
Così dice il Signore: «Io verrò a radunare tutte le genti e tutte le lingue; essi verranno e vedranno la mia gloria. Io porrò in essi un segno e manderò i loro superstiti alle popolazioni di Tarsis, Put, Lud, Mesec, Ros, Tubal e Iavan, alle isole lontane che non hanno udito parlare di me e non have seen my glory they will proclaim my glory among the nations. Bring all your brethren from all nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses, chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain of Jerusalem - says the Lord - as the children of Israel bring the ' offered in clean vessels in the temple of the Lord. Also I will take each other priests the Levites, saith the Lord. "
PSALM RESPONSORIAL
from Ps 116
All nations will see the glory of the Lord
all Gentiles, praise the Lord, all you peoples, sing his praise. Strong is his love trouble for the Lord's faithfulness endures forever.
SECOND READING
Eb 12,5-7.11-13
From Hebrews
Brothers, have already forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons: "My son, despise not correction Signoree you do not lose heart when you're taken by him, because the Lord disciplines him whom he beats everyone recognizes as a child amae. "That's your fix that you suffer! God is treating you as sons, and what is the child that is not corrected by his father? Of course, the moment every fix does not seem cause for joy, but sadness later, however, causes a fruit of peace and justice to those who have been through it addestrati.Perciò, strengthen the hands inert and the feeble knees and walk straight with your feet, because the foot has a limp that cripples, but rather to heal.
SINGING THE GOSPEL
Jn 14:6
Alleluia, alleluia.Io am the way, the truth and the life, saith the Lord: no man cometh unto the Father except through me.Alleluia.
GOSPEL
Luke 13.22-30
From the Gospel according to Luke
At that time, Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching, and was on his way to Jerusalem. One said to him: "Sir, there are few who are saved?". He told them: "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but they will not. When the master of the house will rise and shut the door, you stand outside and knocking at the door, saying: "Lord, open to us." But he will answer "I do not know where you are." Then you will say, 'We ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets. " But he will declare: "You do not know where you are. Get away from me, all ye workers of injustice. " There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you kicked out. From east and west, from north and south and sit at table in the kingdom of God here, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be the last. "
Is 66, 18-21
Dal libro del profeta Isaia
Così dice il Signore: «Io verrò a radunare tutte le genti e tutte le lingue; essi verranno e vedranno la mia gloria. Io porrò in essi un segno e manderò i loro superstiti alle popolazioni di Tarsis, Put, Lud, Mesec, Ros, Tubal e Iavan, alle isole lontane che non hanno udito parlare di me e non have seen my glory they will proclaim my glory among the nations. Bring all your brethren from all nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses, chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain of Jerusalem - says the Lord - as the children of Israel bring the ' offered in clean vessels in the temple of the Lord. Also I will take each other priests the Levites, saith the Lord. "
PSALM RESPONSORIAL
from Ps 116
All nations will see the glory of the Lord
all Gentiles, praise the Lord, all you peoples, sing his praise. Strong is his love trouble for the Lord's faithfulness endures forever.
SECOND READING
Eb 12,5-7.11-13
From Hebrews
Brothers, have already forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons: "My son, despise not correction Signoree you do not lose heart when you're taken by him, because the Lord disciplines him whom he beats everyone recognizes as a child amae. "That's your fix that you suffer! God is treating you as sons, and what is the child that is not corrected by his father? Of course, the moment every fix does not seem cause for joy, but sadness later, however, causes a fruit of peace and justice to those who have been through it addestrati.Perciò, strengthen the hands inert and the feeble knees and walk straight with your feet, because the foot has a limp that cripples, but rather to heal.
SINGING THE GOSPEL
Jn 14:6
Alleluia, alleluia.Io am the way, the truth and the life, saith the Lord: no man cometh unto the Father except through me.Alleluia.
GOSPEL
Luke 13.22-30
From the Gospel according to Luke
At that time, Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching, and was on his way to Jerusalem. One said to him: "Sir, there are few who are saved?". He told them: "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but they will not. When the master of the house will rise and shut the door, you stand outside and knocking at the door, saying: "Lord, open to us." But he will answer "I do not know where you are." Then you will say, 'We ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets. " But he will declare: "You do not know where you are. Get away from me, all ye workers of injustice. " There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you kicked out. From east and west, from north and south and sit at table in the kingdom of God here, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be the last. "
HOMILY
COMMENT ON READING
SUNDAY CHRISTIAN ANONYMOUS
I know that sounds like a crazy stuff, but according to a recent and well documented research - amazing - F . Garelli, an impressive number of young people - about one million - in Italy has decided at least once in their vita a… farsi prete. Sì, avete sentito bene: 1.000.000 (un milione) dei nostri ragazzi ha sentito questo desiderio nel cuore.
Ancora più incredibile sembra questo: duecentomila giovani italiani hanno avuto questa attrazione per almeno tre anni, e questo indipendentemente dall’intervento di qualche animatore vocazionale.
Gli esperti del settore, che hanno analizzato le statistiche, sono giunti a una conclusione sconcertante: più che di crisi dei desideri vocazionali nei giovani, oggi, si deve parlare di crisi di accompagnamento del desiderio vocazionale.
I nostri ragazzi non trovano qualcuno che li ascolti e li accompagni nel realizzare i loro sogni, sembra.
Ma non leggiamo sempre, sui giornali, che i giovani sono quelli dei Sabati sera in discoteca, del bullismo, dello sballo obbligatorio, della crisi dei valori, della vita facile, ecc.?
Per farci venire definitivamente il mal di testa sarebbe, poi, interessante vedere quanti di loro si impegnano in variegate forme di servizi, assistenza e volontariato. Anche lì incontreremmo delle sorprese, capaci di mettere in crisi il nostro schema preconfezionato che ci siamo fatti sull’argomento.
Verrebbe da dire che, con percentuali in picchiata relative alla partecipazione alla Messa domenicale e alla conoscenza della fede cattolica, le statistiche siano sbagliate. Oppure c’è da mettere a registro qualcosa nella nostra valutazione.
Una cosa è certa: se crediamo che young Christians are only those who go to Mass and catechism, we may not have understood how things are today.
The same could be said than adults.
do not know if you've never heard of the so-called anonymous Christians. Cristiano
anonymous, explains the great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner, is anyone who follows his own conscience, whether they consider they be Christian or non-Christian, and that feel the need to be an atheist or believer. Such a person is acceptable to and accepted by God and can attain the eternal life that we confess our Christian faith as the end of all men. In other words, the grace and justification, the union and communion with God, the possibility of attaining eternal life, everything just an obstacle in the bad conscience of a man (Karl Rahner, The effort to believe, Editions Pauline, 1986, p. 86).
Listening to the readings for this Sunday, we could, humorously, to thank the Church for a Sunday dedicated to the anonymous Christians: those who, considering the classic adage extra ecclesia nulla salus, they are physically outside the Church on earth ... but are likely to overtake it in heavenly one, if we take the words of Jesus for good
They are not in church with us today, but the Church tells us that we are present in the liturgy, as we look at them. We have to correct some 'our ideas about una domanda fondamentale, che spesso ci facciamo.
La domanda fondamentale è bene espressa da quel tale del Vangelo: “Sono pochi quelli che sono sulla via della salvezza?” (questo è il senso esatto del versetto 23).
A questa domanda, la prima lettura dà una risposta interessante: sono diversi da quelli che ci immaginiamo. Infatti tra di essi ci sono anche quelli “che non hanno udito parlare di me e non hanno visto la mia gloria”. La cosa ancora più sorprendente è che proprio questi, oltre ad essere sulla via della salvezza senza saperlo, “annunceranno la mia gloria tra le genti” e “anche tra loro mi prenderò sacerdoti leviti”. È un invito alla speranza, una exhortation that allows us to broaden our horizons to embrace a broader vision. The path to salvation is narrow, but is crossed by people who not imagine.
"strengthen the hands inert and the feeble knees" takes over the second reading. Here, too, returns a call to hope, that is, to accept the point of view of God, which is larger than ours, a perspective that is not fundamentalist or sectarian, but based on mercy. We believe in a God who is Father, and then corrects the wrong views of those he loves. "What is the child that is not corrected by the Father?" Says the author of Hebrews. You take the picture of Previous Sunday, that is the sport of racing. In this way we are not alone, we Christians, but we have many friends. "Reassured our hope and our trust and lanciamoci pitch trained and safe on the difficult path of life" (G. Ravasi).
Jesus confirms this in the Gospel: to be the way of salvation must be going through the "narrow gate" (verse 24), that is the commitment and personal effort in the search for a clear conscience, say Karl Rahner. But I prefer to say, the commitment and personal effort in seeking the kingdom of Dio.Non is important to be enrolled in a church, to present their religious traditions, practice of the precepts, to belong to a group: to be the way of salvation requires a choice of real life, made of a clear conscience, peace building, the practice of justice, love and forgiveness to others. "from east and west, from north and south and sit at table in the kingdom of God "Jesus said to still back the vision of hope, breaking our narrow mindsets.
"Better to be a Christian without saying that to say it without being" always preaches the Archbishop of Milan, Dionigi Tettamanzi, quoting Ignatius of Antioch.
Perhaps this expression is the synthesis of the above.
There are Christians who do not know of it. Others who think so, and they are not.
Perhaps the ideal solution would be a third way: "Being a Christian and say" put into practice what Jesus recommended in today's Gospel and bear witness to life in a consistent and clear.
We can certainly agree that outside the Church there is no salvation. But we can also say, being fully in the Catholic orthodoxy, which, next to a church official, there is a communion of Christians are not formally sanctioned by the officer of this membership (R. Vernino).
pray in silence for a few moments, taking the words of the Gloria, we decided at the beginning of the Mass: "Glory to Dio nell’alto dei cieli e pace in terra agli uomini di buona volontà”.
Non è “Pace in terra ai cristiani”.
È “pace in terra agli uomini di buona volontà”.
Pace in terra anche ai cristiani anonimi, quindi.
SUNDAY CHRISTIAN ANONYMOUS
I know that sounds like a crazy stuff, but according to a recent and well documented research - amazing - F . Garelli, an impressive number of young people - about one million - in Italy has decided at least once in their vita a… farsi prete. Sì, avete sentito bene: 1.000.000 (un milione) dei nostri ragazzi ha sentito questo desiderio nel cuore.
Ancora più incredibile sembra questo: duecentomila giovani italiani hanno avuto questa attrazione per almeno tre anni, e questo indipendentemente dall’intervento di qualche animatore vocazionale.
Gli esperti del settore, che hanno analizzato le statistiche, sono giunti a una conclusione sconcertante: più che di crisi dei desideri vocazionali nei giovani, oggi, si deve parlare di crisi di accompagnamento del desiderio vocazionale.
I nostri ragazzi non trovano qualcuno che li ascolti e li accompagni nel realizzare i loro sogni, sembra.
Ma non leggiamo sempre, sui giornali, che i giovani sono quelli dei Sabati sera in discoteca, del bullismo, dello sballo obbligatorio, della crisi dei valori, della vita facile, ecc.?
Per farci venire definitivamente il mal di testa sarebbe, poi, interessante vedere quanti di loro si impegnano in variegate forme di servizi, assistenza e volontariato. Anche lì incontreremmo delle sorprese, capaci di mettere in crisi il nostro schema preconfezionato che ci siamo fatti sull’argomento.
Verrebbe da dire che, con percentuali in picchiata relative alla partecipazione alla Messa domenicale e alla conoscenza della fede cattolica, le statistiche siano sbagliate. Oppure c’è da mettere a registro qualcosa nella nostra valutazione.
Una cosa è certa: se crediamo che young Christians are only those who go to Mass and catechism, we may not have understood how things are today.
The same could be said than adults.
do not know if you've never heard of the so-called anonymous Christians. Cristiano
anonymous, explains the great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner, is anyone who follows his own conscience, whether they consider they be Christian or non-Christian, and that feel the need to be an atheist or believer. Such a person is acceptable to and accepted by God and can attain the eternal life that we confess our Christian faith as the end of all men. In other words, the grace and justification, the union and communion with God, the possibility of attaining eternal life, everything just an obstacle in the bad conscience of a man (Karl Rahner, The effort to believe, Editions Pauline, 1986, p. 86).
Listening to the readings for this Sunday, we could, humorously, to thank the Church for a Sunday dedicated to the anonymous Christians: those who, considering the classic adage extra ecclesia nulla salus, they are physically outside the Church on earth ... but are likely to overtake it in heavenly one, if we take the words of Jesus for good
They are not in church with us today, but the Church tells us that we are present in the liturgy, as we look at them. We have to correct some 'our ideas about una domanda fondamentale, che spesso ci facciamo.
La domanda fondamentale è bene espressa da quel tale del Vangelo: “Sono pochi quelli che sono sulla via della salvezza?” (questo è il senso esatto del versetto 23).
A questa domanda, la prima lettura dà una risposta interessante: sono diversi da quelli che ci immaginiamo. Infatti tra di essi ci sono anche quelli “che non hanno udito parlare di me e non hanno visto la mia gloria”. La cosa ancora più sorprendente è che proprio questi, oltre ad essere sulla via della salvezza senza saperlo, “annunceranno la mia gloria tra le genti” e “anche tra loro mi prenderò sacerdoti leviti”. È un invito alla speranza, una exhortation that allows us to broaden our horizons to embrace a broader vision. The path to salvation is narrow, but is crossed by people who not imagine.
"strengthen the hands inert and the feeble knees" takes over the second reading. Here, too, returns a call to hope, that is, to accept the point of view of God, which is larger than ours, a perspective that is not fundamentalist or sectarian, but based on mercy. We believe in a God who is Father, and then corrects the wrong views of those he loves. "What is the child that is not corrected by the Father?" Says the author of Hebrews. You take the picture of Previous Sunday, that is the sport of racing. In this way we are not alone, we Christians, but we have many friends. "Reassured our hope and our trust and lanciamoci pitch trained and safe on the difficult path of life" (G. Ravasi).
Jesus confirms this in the Gospel: to be the way of salvation must be going through the "narrow gate" (verse 24), that is the commitment and personal effort in the search for a clear conscience, say Karl Rahner. But I prefer to say, the commitment and personal effort in seeking the kingdom of Dio.Non is important to be enrolled in a church, to present their religious traditions, practice of the precepts, to belong to a group: to be the way of salvation requires a choice of real life, made of a clear conscience, peace building, the practice of justice, love and forgiveness to others. "from east and west, from north and south and sit at table in the kingdom of God "Jesus said to still back the vision of hope, breaking our narrow mindsets.
"Better to be a Christian without saying that to say it without being" always preaches the Archbishop of Milan, Dionigi Tettamanzi, quoting Ignatius of Antioch.
Perhaps this expression is the synthesis of the above.
There are Christians who do not know of it. Others who think so, and they are not.
Perhaps the ideal solution would be a third way: "Being a Christian and say" put into practice what Jesus recommended in today's Gospel and bear witness to life in a consistent and clear.
We can certainly agree that outside the Church there is no salvation. But we can also say, being fully in the Catholic orthodoxy, which, next to a church official, there is a communion of Christians are not formally sanctioned by the officer of this membership (R. Vernino).
pray in silence for a few moments, taking the words of the Gloria, we decided at the beginning of the Mass: "Glory to Dio nell’alto dei cieli e pace in terra agli uomini di buona volontà”.
Non è “Pace in terra ai cristiani”.
È “pace in terra agli uomini di buona volontà”.
Pace in terra anche ai cristiani anonimi, quindi.
LITURGIA
ATTO PENITENZIALE
* Signore, tu vuoi che tutti gli uomini giungano alla salvezza. Abbi pietà di noi. Signore, pietà.
* Cristo, tu desideri che tutti quelli che il Padre ti ha dato siano con te. Abbi pietà di noi. Cristo, pietà.
* Signore, tu sei stato mandato non per condannare il mondo ma per salvarlo. Abbi pietà di noi. Signore, pietà.
PREGHIERA DEI FEDELI
Carissimi fratelli e sorelle,Preghiamo insieme il Padre di Misericordia perché ci conceda di camminare sulla via stretta inaugurata da Cristo, per giungere uniti alla vita eterna. Ripetiamo assieme: Ascoltaci, Signore.
* Per la Chiesa, perché sappia sempre rivolgersi con amore e rispetto agli uomini che vivono nel dubbio e nell’incredulità, preghiamo.
* Per tutti coloro che vivono rettamente e secondo coscienza, ma non hanno ancora incontrato Dio, perché possano scoprire che solamente nell’incontro personale con Cristo c’è la vera pace e realizzazione dell’uomo, preghiamo.
* For those who build the kingdom of God through suffering, because the Lord is close to them and arouse in us compassion and active solidarity, please.
* For those who have lost direction of the road and entered the wide road that leads to artificial and empty joy, because they are not brought back, thanks to our witness, in the way of life, please.
Hail, Holy Father, the prayers that we turn to us worthy of your love and be witnesses to cooperate with your grace, that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of verità.Per Christ our Lord. AMEN.
FOR MEDITATION
After communion
Lord, enjoy the adventure of life is freedom, live and spread their wings, the single wing, with the confidence of someone who knows how to have great partners in voloun Te.Ma not enough to be able to fly with you Lord, you gave me the task of embracing even the fratelloe help volare.Ti beg your pardon, therefore, for all the wings that I have helped you to relax, do not make me spend more indifferentevicino the brother who has been with the wing, the single wing, inexorably entangled in the web of doubt and solitudinee persuasodi is now no longer worthy to fly Te.Soprattutto for this unfortunate brother Give me, O Lord, spare wing.
* Signore, tu vuoi che tutti gli uomini giungano alla salvezza. Abbi pietà di noi. Signore, pietà.
* Cristo, tu desideri che tutti quelli che il Padre ti ha dato siano con te. Abbi pietà di noi. Cristo, pietà.
* Signore, tu sei stato mandato non per condannare il mondo ma per salvarlo. Abbi pietà di noi. Signore, pietà.
PREGHIERA DEI FEDELI
Carissimi fratelli e sorelle,Preghiamo insieme il Padre di Misericordia perché ci conceda di camminare sulla via stretta inaugurata da Cristo, per giungere uniti alla vita eterna. Ripetiamo assieme: Ascoltaci, Signore.
* Per la Chiesa, perché sappia sempre rivolgersi con amore e rispetto agli uomini che vivono nel dubbio e nell’incredulità, preghiamo.
* Per tutti coloro che vivono rettamente e secondo coscienza, ma non hanno ancora incontrato Dio, perché possano scoprire che solamente nell’incontro personale con Cristo c’è la vera pace e realizzazione dell’uomo, preghiamo.
* For those who build the kingdom of God through suffering, because the Lord is close to them and arouse in us compassion and active solidarity, please.
* For those who have lost direction of the road and entered the wide road that leads to artificial and empty joy, because they are not brought back, thanks to our witness, in the way of life, please.
Hail, Holy Father, the prayers that we turn to us worthy of your love and be witnesses to cooperate with your grace, that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of verità.Per Christ our Lord. AMEN.
FOR MEDITATION
After communion
Lord, enjoy the adventure of life is freedom, live and spread their wings, the single wing, with the confidence of someone who knows how to have great partners in voloun Te.Ma not enough to be able to fly with you Lord, you gave me the task of embracing even the fratelloe help volare.Ti beg your pardon, therefore, for all the wings that I have helped you to relax, do not make me spend more indifferentevicino the brother who has been with the wing, the single wing, inexorably entangled in the web of doubt and solitudinee persuasodi is now no longer worthy to fly Te.Soprattutto for this unfortunate brother Give me, O Lord, spare wing.
Don Tonino Bello
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