July 6, 2019 Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

2019년 7월 6일 연중 제13주간 토요일 

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제1독서

창세기. 27,1-5.15-29
1 이사악은 늙어서 눈이 어두워 잘 볼 수 없게 되었을 때, 큰아들 에사우를 불러 그에게 “내 아들아!” 하고 말하였다. 에사우가 “예, 여기 있습니다.” 하고 대답하자, 2 그가 말하였다.
“네가 보다시피 나는 이제 늙어서 언제 죽을지 모르겠구나. 3 그러니 이제 사냥할 때 쓰는 화살 통과 활을 메고 들로 나가, 나를 위해 사냥을 해 오너라. 4 그런 다음 내가 좋아하는 대로 별미를 만들어 나에게 가져오너라. 그것을 먹고, 내가 죽기 전에 너에게 축복하겠다.”
5 레베카는 이사악이 아들 에사우에게 하는 말을 엿듣고 있었다. 그래서 에사우가 사냥하러 들로 나가자, 15 레베카는 자기가 집에 가지고 있던 큰아들 에사우의 옷 가운데 가장 값진 것을 꺼내어, 작은아들 야곱에게 입혔다. 16 그리고 그 새끼 염소의 가죽을 그의 손과 매끈한 목둘레에 입힌 다음, 17 자기가 만든 별미와 빵을 아들 야곱의 손에 들려 주었다.
18 야곱이 아버지에게 가서 “아버지!” 하고 불렀다. 그가 “나 여기 있다. 아들아, 너는 누구냐?” 하고 묻자, 19 야곱이 아버지에게 대답하였다. “저는 아버지의 맏아들 에사우입니다. 아버지께서 저에게 이르신 대로 하였습니다. 그러니 일어나 앉으셔서 제가 사냥한 고기를 잡수시고, 저에게 축복해 주십시오.”
20 그래서 이사악이 아들에게 “내 아들아, 어떻게 이처럼 빨리 찾을 수가 있었더냐?” 하고 묻자, 그가 “아버지의 하느님이신 주님께서 일이 잘되게 해 주셨습니다.” 하고 대답하였다.
21 이사악이 야곱에게 말하였다. “내 아들아, 가까이 오너라. 네가 정말 내 아들 에사우인지 아닌지 내가 만져 보아야겠다.” 22 야곱이 아버지 이사악에게 가까이 가자, 이사악이 그를 만져 보고 말하였다. “목소리는 야곱의 목소리인데, 손은 에사우의 손이로구나.”
23 그는 야곱의 손에 그의 형 에사우의 손처럼 털이 많았기 때문에 그를 알아보지 못하고, 그에게 축복해 주기로 하였다. 24 이사악이 “네가 정말 내 아들 에사우냐?” 하고 다져 묻자, 그가 “예, 그렇습니다.” 하고 대답하였다.
25 그러자 이사악이 말하였다. “그것을 나에게 가져오너라. 내 아들이 사냥한 고기를 먹고, 너에게 축복해 주겠다.” 야곱이 아버지에게 그것을 가져다 드리니 그가 먹었다. 그리고 포도주를 가져다 드리니 그가 마셨다. 26 그런 다음 아버지 이사악이 그에게 말하였다. “내 아들아, 가까이 와서 입 맞춰 다오.”
27 그가 가까이 가서 입을 맞추자, 이사악은 그의 옷에서 나는 냄새를 맡고 그에게 축복하였다. “보아라, 내 아들의 냄새는, 주님께서 복을 내리신, 들의 냄새 같구나.
28 하느님께서는 너에게, 하늘의 이슬을 내려 주시리라. 땅을 기름지게 하시며, 곡식과 술을 풍성하게 해 주시리라.
29 뭇 민족이 너를 섬기고, 뭇 겨레가 네 앞에 무릎을 꿇으리라. 너는 네 형제들의 지배자가 되고, 네 어머니의 자식들은 네 앞에 무릎을 꿇으리라.
너를 저주하는 자는 저주를 받고, 너에게 축복하는 자는 복을 받으리라.”

 

복음

마태오. 9,14-17
14 그때에 요한의 제자들이 예수님께 와서, “저희와 바리사이들은 단식을 많이 하는데, 스승님의 제자들은 어찌하여 단식하지 않습니까?” 하고 물었다. 15 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다. 
“혼인 잔치 손님들이 신랑과 함께 있는 동안에 슬퍼할 수야 없지 않으냐? 그러나 그들이 신랑을 빼앗길 날이 올 것이다. 그러면 그들도 단식할 것이다. 
16 아무도 새 천 조각을 헌 옷에 대고 꿰매지 않는다. 헝겊에 그 옷이 땅겨 더 심하게 찢어지기 때문이다. 
17 또한 새 포도주를 헌 가죽 부대에 담지 않는다. 그렇게 하면 부대가 터져 포도주는 쏟아지고 부대도 버리게 된다. 새 포도주는 새 부대에 담아야 한다. 그래야 둘 다 보존된다.”

July 6, 2019

Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1
Gn 27:1-5, 15-29
When Isaac was so old that his eyesight had failed him,
he called his older son Esau and said to him, "Son!"
"Yes father!" he replied.
Isaac then said, "As you can see, I am so old
that I may now die at any time.
Take your gear, therefore–your quiver and bow–
and go out into the country to hunt some game for me.
With your catch prepare an appetizing dish for me, such as I like,
and bring it to me to eat,
so that I may give you my special blessing before I die."

Rebekah had been listening
while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau.
So, when Esau went out into the country
to hunt some game for his father,
Rebekah [then] took the best clothes of her older son Esau
that she had in the house,
and gave them to her younger son Jacob to wear;
and with the skins of the kids she covered up his hands
and the hairless parts of his neck.
Then she handed her son Jacob the appetizing dish
and the bread she had prepared.

Bringing them to his father, Jacob said, "Father!"
"Yes?" replied Isaac.  "Which of my sons are you?"
Jacob answered his father:  "I am Esau, your first-born.
I did as you told me.
Please sit up and eat some of my game,
so that you may give me your special blessing."
But Isaac asked, "How did you succeed so quickly, son?"
He answered,
"The LORD, your God, let things turn out well with me."
Isaac then said to Jacob,
"Come closer, son, that I may feel you,
to learn whether you really are my son Esau or not."
So Jacob moved up closer to his father.
When Isaac felt him, he said,
"Although the voice is Jacob's, the hands are Esau's."
(He failed to identify him because his hands were hairy,
like those of his brother Esau;
so in the end he gave him his blessing.)
Again he asked Jacob, "Are you really my son Esau?" 
"Certainly," Jacob replied.
Then Isaac said, "Serve me your game, son, that I may eat of it
and then give you my blessing."
Jacob served it to him, and Isaac ate;
he brought him wine, and he drank.
Finally his father Isaac said to Jacob,
"Come closer, son, and kiss me."
As Jacob went up and kissed him,
Isaac smelled the fragrance of his clothes.
With that, he blessed him saying,

"Ah, the fragrance of my son
is like the fragrance of a field
that the LORD has blessed!

"May God give to you
of the dew of the heavens
And of the fertility of the earth
abundance of grain and wine.

"Let peoples serve you,
and nations pay you homage;
Be master of your brothers,
and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
Cursed be those who curse you,
and blessed be those who bless you."

 

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 135:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6
R. (3a) Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
Praise the name of the LORD;
Praise, you servants of the LORD
Who stand in the house of the LORD,
in the courts of the house of our God.
R. Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;
sing praise to his name, which we love;
For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel for his own possession.
R. Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
For I know that the LORD is great;
our LORD is greater than all gods.
All that the LORD wills he does
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and in all the deeps. 
R. Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.

Gospel
Mt 9:14-17
The disciples of John approached Jesus and said,
"Why do we and the Pharisees fast much,
but your disciples do not fast?"
Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests mourn
as long as the bridegroom is with them?
The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
and then they will fast.
No one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth,
for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse.
People do not put new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined.
Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."

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 «Time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them»

Fr. Joaquim FORTUNY i Vizcarro
(Cunit, Tarragona, Spain)

Today, we see how Jesus brought new times with him and a new doctrine, which He taught with authority; and we also realize how, as usual with new things, they clash with prevailing praxis and environment. Thus, in the pages preceding today's Gospel, we see Jesus forgiving the paralytic of his sins and healing his disease while the scribes are shocked; or, Jesus telling Matthew, a tax collector, to follow him, and eating with him and other publicans and sinners, while the Pharisees were “going up the walls”; and, in today's Gospel, John's disciples are the ones to approach Jesus, because they do not understand that He and his disciples do not fast.

Jesus, who never leaves anyone without an answer, replies: «How can you expect wedding guests to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? Time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, then they will fast» (Mt 9:15). Fasting was, and still is, a penitential practice «which prepares us for the liturgical feasts and help us acquire mastery over our instincts and freedom of heart» (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2043) and requests the Divine Mercy. But in those moments, God's infinite mercy and love was amidst them with Jesus' presence, the Incarnated Verb. How could they fast? There was only one possible attitude: joy, while enjoying the presence of God made man. How could they fast when Jesus had discovered for them a new way to relate to God, a new spirit that was breaking all those old manners and customs?

Today Jesus is here: «And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age» (Mt 28:20), and He is not because He went back to his Father, and thus, we cry out: Come, O Lord Jesus!.

We are living times of expectation. This is why it is convenient to renew ourselves every day with the new spirit of Jesus, to give up our old routines, to abstain from what may prevent us from advancing towards a full identification of Christ, towards sanctity. «Fair is our crying —our fasting— if we have a burning desire to see him» (St. Augustine).

We pray the Virgin Mother to grant us the grace we need to live the joy of knowing we are her beloved children.

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Jesus wants his followers to be united. So many of them today are divided. What can we learn about the unity Jesus desires from these readings?

In the first reading we see the Sadducees and Pharisees divided by different beliefs. To the Sadducees, there were no spiritual beings and no resurrection of the body. Pharisees believed otherwise. Can people be united in their faith who believe such radically different things? Probably not. Every Sunday we Catholics recite the Nicene Creed. It states the basics of our faith. Can people who do not believe in the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son be united with those of us who confess this truth? Probably not. There is not likely to be unity where the most basic teachings of the faith are affirmed by some and denied by others. This does not imply any animosity between the sides; it's simply a fact that there is not going to be unity between them.

People who agree on certain teachings can be divided because of personal animosity or bad attitudes. In the first reading, two groups disagreed over doctrine and this led to such hatred that a person in the middle could be torn to shreds. This almost happened to the apostle. However, I have known people who disagreed over almost nothing but were divided in spite of everything they agreed upon. Actually, the word "heretic" originally referred to people who were divisive because of their attitude. It later came to be used for someone who divided the Church because of their false teaching. Arius may have actually been a nice guy but he was a heretic because his false teaching about Jesus divided the Church for hundreds of years. on the other hand, can you be a thoroughly orthodox Catholic, one who believes absolutely everything the Church teaches, and be a heretic? We have all probably known people like that. They are orthodox in their beliefs but poison wherever they go. They will divide anything and everything in their path.

Jesus teaches us something else about unity, too. He wants his disciples to be one even as he and the Father are one. Now, the Son and the Father are one God but they are also unique. They are two separate persons within the Trinity. Do you have to be like me for us to have unity? Or, can we be one in faith, and yet each of us our unique selves? Unity implies many things but not uniformity. Disciples of Jesus are not made with a cookie cutter.

Jesus wants the world to know that he was sent by God, the Father. He states fairly clearly that this will not happen if his disciples are divided. Unity of believers is a powerful statement to the world that Jesus brings the love of God. So, I am challenged to learn the teachings of Jesus and his Church. I am also challenged to dwell in God's love so that I will not be a poison in the midst of the people of God. When we all grow in this way, Jesus says that the world will know that he was sent to the world by his Father. The proof of it will be in their midst in the form of loving, united, followers of his.

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OUT OF ORDER?

"Rebekah had been listening while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau." �Genesis 27:5

Rebekah loved her son, Jacob, more than she loved her husband, Isaac. Therefore, she had no qualms about deceiving Isaac so as to further Jacob's interests. Rebekah put her motherhood before her marriage. Rebekah had her relationships out of order. This set the stage for a series of lies in which Jacob got a "dose of his own medicine" (see Gn 29:23ff; 37:32ff). Jacob suffered tragically throughout his life as a victim of his own deceptions and those of others. Are any of your relationships out of order? Is there anyone you love more than you love God? That is a misplaced primacy of love, and it is destructive to yourself and the one you love. Do you love your friends more than your parents and family? Be careful not to undermine the very foundations of your life. Are you like Rebekah? Do you love your child more than you love your spouse? If so, you are setting the stage for a possible divorce, which will seriously hurt you, your spouse, and your children. Do you love your friends or fellow workers more than you love your brothers and sisters in Christ? If so, you are not living your Baptism fully and faithfully. This will have harmful consequences. By God's grace, put your relationships in God's order by repentance, forgiveness, and obedience. Otherwise, your life is an accident waiting to happen.

Prayer: Father, send the Holy Spirit to convict me of any disorders in my relationships (Jn 16:8).

Promise: "When the day comes that the Groom is taken away, then they will fast." —Mt 9:15

Praise: St. Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr, valued purity more than life itself. Her heroic virtue led to the eventual conversion of the young man who attempted to rape her.

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 "The day will come when they will fast"

Which comes first, fasting or feasting? The disciples of John the Baptist were upset with Jesus' disciples because they did not fast. Fasting was one of the three most important religious duties, along with prayer and almsgiving. Jesus gave a simple explanation. There's a time for fasting and a time for feasting (or celebrating). To walk as a disciple with Jesus is to experience a whole new joy of relationship akin to the joy of the wedding party in celebrating with the groom and bride their wedding bliss.

A time to rejoice and a time to mourn
But there also comes a time when the Lord's disciples must bear the cross of affliction and purification. For the disciple there is both a time for rejoicing in the Lord's presence and celebrating his goodness and a time for seeking the Lord with humility and fasting and for mourning over sin. Do you take joy in the Lord's presence with you and do you express sorrow and contrition for your sins?

The closed mind that refuses to learn
Jesus goes on to warn his disciples about the problem of the "closed mind" that refuses to learn new things. Jesus used an image familiar to his audience - new and old wineskins. In Jesus' times, wine was stored in wineskins, not bottles. New wine poured into skins was still fermenting. The gases exerted gave pressure. New wine skins were elastic enough to take the pressure, but old wine skins easily burst because they had become hard and had lost their ability to expand and stretch. What did Jesus mean by this comparison? Are we to reject the old in place of the new?

Treasuring the old and new wine of the Holy Spirit
Just as there is a right place and a right time for fasting and for feasting, so there is a right place for the old as well as the new. Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old (Matthew 13:52). How impoverished we would be if we only had the Old Testament or the New Testament books of the Bible, rather than both. The Lord gives us wisdom so we can make the best use of both the old and the new. He doesn't want us to hold rigidly to the past and to be resistant to the new work of his Holy Spirit in our lives. He wants our minds and hearts to be like new wine skins - open and ready to receive the new wine of the Holy Spirit. Are you eager to grow in the knowledge and understanding of God's word and plan for your life?

"Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit, that I may grow in the knowledge of your great love and truth. Help me to seek you earnestly in prayer and fasting that I may turn away from sin and willfulness and conform my life more fully to your will. May I always find joy in knowing, loving, and serving you."

Psalm 85:9,11-13

9 Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
11 Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.
12 Yes, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
13 Righteousness will go before him, and make his footsteps a way.

Daily Quote from the early church fathers: No need to fast in the presence of the Bridegroom, by Hilary of Poitiers (315-367 AD)

"The Pharisees and John's disciples were fasting, and the apostles were not. But Jesus answered them in a spiritual way and indicated to John's disciples that he was a bridegroom. John taught that all hope in life lay in Christ. While he was still preaching, however, his disciples could not be received by the Lord. Up until the time of John, the law and the prophets prevailed, and unless the law came to an end, none of them would subscribe to faith in the gospel. The fact that he said there was no need for his disciples to fast as long as the bridegroom is with them illustrates the joy of his presence and the sacrament of the holy food, which no one need be without while he is present, that is, bearing Christ in the light of the mind. But once he is gone, Jesus says that they will fast, for all those who do not believe that Christ has risen will not have the food of life. By faith in the resurrection, the sacrament of the heavenly bread is received. Whoever is without Christ will be forsaken, fasting from the food of life." (excerpt from the commentary ON MATTHEW 9.3)

  

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