Sunday, September 26, 2010
^ XXVI Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C ) 2 nd Week of the Psalter
Liturgical Color: Green
Saint of the Day: Saints Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs
sec. III, beginning of sec. IV
On the life of Cosmas and Damian the news is scarce. It is known that they were twins and Christians. Nati in Arabia, they dedicated themselves to caring for the sick after having studied the art of medicine in Syria. But they were special doctors. Driven by inspiration than it did not pay. Hence the nickname anàgiri (greek word meaning "non-silver ',' without money '). But this attention to the sick was also an effective instrument of the apostolate. "Mission" that cost the lives of two brothers who were martyred. During the reign of Emperor Diocletian, probably in 303, the Roman governor had them beheaded. It happened to Cyrus, a town close to Antioch in Syria, where the martyrs are buried. Another narrative attests that were killed in the Aegean of Cilicia, Asia Minor, by order of the Governor Lysias, and then shifted to Cyrus. The cult of Cosmas and Damian is attested with certainty since the fifth century.
September 26 is the probable date of the dedication of the basilica in Rome that bears their name, built by Felix IV (525-530). Of them will be commemorated in the Roman Canon.
Patronage: Doctors, Surgeons, Pharmacists, Hairdressers
Emblem: Palma, Surgical Instruments
Martyrology: Saints Cosmas and Damian, martyrs, which is believed Cirrus have pursued in the province of Euphrates, in modern Turkey, as a doctor without asking for any compensation and have cured many with their free care.
LITURGY OF THE DAY
First reading
Am 6,1.4-7
now cease the orgy of debauchery.
now cease the orgy of debauchery.
Responsorial Psalm
Praise the Lord, O my soul.
Second reading
Gospel
Lk 16:19-31
In life, you received your good things, and Lazarus his evil things: but now he is comfort and you're in agony.
In life, you received your good things, and Lazarus his evil things: but now he is comfort and you're in agony.
+ From the Gospel according to Luke
At that time, Jesus told the Pharisees:
"There was a rich man , wearing clothes in purple and fine linen, and every day you gave lavish banquets. A poor named Lazarus, was at his gate, covered with sores, who longed to eat what fell from the rich man's table, but they were the dogs came and licked his sores.
One day the poor man died and was carried by angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. According to Hades in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. So he cried out "Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of the finger and wet my tongue, because I suffer terribly in this fire."
But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in life you received your good things, and Lazarus his evil things: but now he is comforted in this way, but you're in agony. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed so that those who want to go from here you can not, nor can there be up to us.
And that said, "Well, father, I beg you to send Lazarus to my father's house, because I have five brothers. Admonish them severely, why not come to this place of torment. " But Abraham said, "They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them." And he replied: "No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will become." Abraham said "If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if one rise again from the dead" .
Word of the Lord
REFLECTION (Antonio Solmona)
Sunday to Sunday, the Liturgy of the Word takes steps in front of Sacred Scripture certainly deep and beautiful, but also so demanding.
this Sunday's Word is like a beautiful painting by Caravaggio always amazed that we admire for its naturalness and beauty. It almost seems that the evangelist Luke has painted a beautiful painting with words that appears to be an even split of the day. How current is the Word of God, true!?
The details to be examined would be many, but some actually leap eye at a first reading of the parable. In telling the parables, the Lord never identifies the people, but tends to leave an air of mystery about the identity of the protagonists, this time Jesus calls them by name one of the two main characters and see if it does so with the poorest, Lazarus. God knows deep within this man, much to call it by name. He knows his sufferings, his sorrows, his loneliness, his hunger! Gives him the name of his closest friend, the one that cries at the news of the untimely death. Lazarus for God is a friend, intimate, faithful. While the rich man (Dives) has no name, God can not read clearly in his soul, does not know the depth of his intimate, because money, success, fame, preventing the eye docile, sincere, loving God to enter into the secret of his heart.
But he, too, the rich, blinded by his fortune, can not read the incessant and desperate cry for help that comes from the heart and mouth of Lazarus.
is where the figure between the rich and the poor that opens a huge chasm. The rich, is not condemned by God drastically only for his wealth (material), but for his total indifference to his brother. Maybe this man was also a devout jew, assiuduo practitioner of the synagogue ... and this is where the deepest abyss becomes evident, the gulf between her "say" and his "do". Takes a very serious sin of "omission," because his heart is as hard in his ego and surrender to make that leap that led him to meet, to be close to his brother's need.
instead Lazarus is now loved by God, after death, the Lord made him sit next to one of the great patriarchs, Abraham, and filled with love and attention that in life no one had given him.
So what does this parable to the men and women of 2010, especially those who have faith, to those who believe in God? Well surely we must recognize that we too often take place on the beautiful comfortable chair of the rich man, between our wealth, our beliefs, our titles and honors and we are often blinded so as not to see the real needs of our neighbor, our brother or a friend. In our hearts you create a impassable gulf, especially in those who think that they are sufficiently good, devout and normal from the outside world more and more corrupt, evil, intolerable. Often to get us out of any mess target "What can I do?", Facing the injustices of today's world, hunger, disease, environmental and human disaster, some offer made by SMS as it suggests that good (and fake) TV presenter, some good some intention or prayer in the Mass, are sufficient to quench the voice of my conscience, to numb the heart. Dear my friends, is precisely in this way to make good the things that the gulf between us and God becomes very deep and the Lord can no longer reach us. So my faith, my good heart, my devotion should become services, just so I can build a nice solid bridge that helps me to reach the heart of God we are called to love in the concrete, every day, seeing the many "lazarus "who are around us.
And I like to quote the words of Don Paolo Curtaz spoke in his homily and said
"Stay calm and sister who work do you do with your husband and your children: that's your Nigeria. Is' peaceful brother who are studying economy: in that world of sharks are called to draw new paths of a more humane!
But everybody, all of us, always, we are called to see, to understand, to take to heart. God has stooped down to human suffering. Before the social or political reasoning, the first of surrender or roll up your sleeves, first of all, we are called to be compassionate. A feeling inside, that is, to feel how God feels the pain. Yes, we all can live.
A world full of compassion adult (not pietistic, not myeloma, not resigned) would change our fragile world and incarognito, stay certain. "
Dear friends, today's Gospel tells us that anticonsumismo is solidarity, sharing. A share, however, intelligent. And 'The time of alms as a lump sum, the euro dropped to silence the trouble and the insistence of the party seeking to quiet the tumultuous movements of consciousness. God calls Lazarus by name, not a Euro releases. You get involved, listen to reason, does not accept the deceptions, it helps to grow. So our community, increasingly, must allow the Spirit to raise up among us new forms of solidarity that respond to new forms of poverty.
Santa Maria, queen of silence,
admitted to your school. Keep us from the fair
noise
within which risk of stunning,
the limit of dissociation.
Save us from the morbid delight of news,
that makes us deaf to the "good news". Make us
operators quell'ecologia acoustic
we return the taste of contemplation
while in the vortex of the metropolis.
persuade us that only in silence mature big things of life:
conversion, love, sacrifice, death.
last thing we want to ask you, sweet Mother.
you who have experienced, like Christ on the cross,
the silence of God,
you do not remove from our side in times of trial.
When the sun is eclipsed well for us,
and the sky does not respond to our cry, and the earth rumbles
hollow under our feet,
and the fear of abandonment is likely to make us despair,
remain close.
admitted to your school. Keep us from the fair
noise
within which risk of stunning,
the limit of dissociation.
Save us from the morbid delight of news,
that makes us deaf to the "good news". Make us
operators quell'ecologia acoustic
we return the taste of contemplation
while in the vortex of the metropolis.
persuade us that only in silence mature big things of life:
conversion, love, sacrifice, death.
last thing we want to ask you, sweet Mother.
you who have experienced, like Christ on the cross,
the silence of God,
you do not remove from our side in times of trial.
When the sun is eclipsed well for us,
and the sky does not respond to our cry, and the earth rumbles
hollow under our feet,
and the fear of abandonment is likely to make us despair,
remain close.
Don Tonino Bello
GOOD!
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