August 3, 2019 Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

2019년 8월 3일 연중 제17주간 토요일 

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제1독서

레위기. 25,1.8-17
1 주님께서 시나이 산에서 모세에게 이르셨다.
8 “너희는 안식년을 일곱 번, 곧 일곱 해를 일곱 번 헤아려라. 그러면 안식년이 일곱 번 지나 마흔아홉 해가 된다. 9 그 일곱째 달 초열흘날 곧 속죄일에 나팔 소리를 크게 울려라. 너희가 사는 온 땅에 나팔 소리를 울려라.
10 너희는 이 오십 년째 해를 거룩한 해로 선언하고, 너희 땅에 사는 모든 주민에게 해방을 선포하여라. 이 해는 너희의 희년이다.
너희는 저마다 제 소유지를 되찾고, 저마다 자기 씨족에게 돌아가야 한다. 11 이 오십 년째 해는 너희의 희년이다. 너희는 씨를 뿌려서도 안 되고, 저절로 자란 곡식을 거두어서도 안 되며, 저절로 열린 포도를 따서도 안 된다.
12 이 해는 희년이다. 그것은 너희에게 거룩한 해다. 너희는 밭에서 그냥 나는 것만을 먹어야 한다.
13 이 희년에 너희는 저마다 제 소유지를 되찾아야 한다. 14 너희가 동족에게 무엇을 팔거나 동족의 손에서 무엇을 살 때, 서로 속여서는 안 된다. 15 너희는 희년에서 몇 해가 지났는지 헤아린 다음 너희 동족에게서 사고, 그는 소출을 거둘 햇수를 헤아린 다음 너희에게 팔아야 한다.
16 그 햇수가 많으면 값을 올리고, 햇수가 적으면 값을 내려야 한다. 그는 소출을 거둘 횟수를 너희에게 파는 것이다.
17 너희는 동족끼리 속여서는 안 된다. 너희는 너희 하느님을 경외해야 한다. 나는 주 너희 하느님이다.”

 

복음

마태오. 14,1-12
1 그때에 헤로데 영주가 예수님의 소문을 듣고 2 시종들에게, “그 사람은 세례자 요한이다. 그가 죽은 이들 가운데에서 되살아난 것이다. 그러니 그에게서 그런 기적의 힘이 일어나지.” 하고 말하였다.
3 헤로데는 자기 동생 필리포스의 아내 헤로디아의 일로, 요한을 붙잡아 묶어 감옥에 가둔 일이 있었다. 4 요한이 헤로데에게 “그 여자를 차지하는 것은 옳지 않습니다.” 하고 여러 차례 말하였기 때문이다.
5 헤로데는 요한을 죽이려고 하였으나 군중이 두려웠다. 그들이 요한을 예언자로 여기고 있었기 때문이다.
6 그런데 마침 헤로데가 생일을 맞이하자, 헤로디아의 딸이 손님들 앞에서 춤을 추어 그를 즐겁게 해 주었다. 7 그래서 헤로데는 그 소녀에게, 무엇이든 청하는 대로 주겠다고 맹세하며 약속하였다.
8 그러자 소녀는 자기 어머니가 부추기는 대로, “세례자 요한의 머리를 쟁반에 담아 이리 가져다주십시오.” 하고 말하였다.
9 임금은 괴로웠지만, 맹세까지 하였고 또 손님들 앞이어서 그렇게 해 주라고 명령하고, 10 사람을 보내어 감옥에서 요한의 목을 베게 하였다. 11 그리고 그의 머리를 쟁반에 담아다가 소녀에게 주게 하자, 소녀는 그것을 자기 어머니에게 가져갔다.
12 요한의 제자들은 가서 그의 주검을 거두어 장사 지내고, 예수님께 가서 알렸다. 

August 3, 2019

Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1

Lv 25:1, 8-17
The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
“Seven weeks of years shall you count–seven times seven years–
so that the seven cycles amount to forty-nine years.
Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, let the trumpet resound;
on this, the Day of Atonement, the trumpet blast shall re-echo
throughout your land.
This fiftieth year you shall make sacred
by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants.
It shall be a jubilee for you,
when every one of you shall return to his own property,
every one to his own family estate.
In this fiftieth year, your year of jubilee,
you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth
or pick the grapes from the untrimmed vines.
Since this is the jubilee, which shall be sacred for you,
you may not eat of its produce,
except as taken directly from the field.

“In this year of jubilee, then,
every one of you shall return to his own property.
Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor
or buy any from him, do not deal unfairly.
On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee
shall you purchase the land from your neighbor;
and so also, on the basis of the number of years for crops,
shall he sell it to you.
When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more;
when the years are few, the price shall be so much the less.
For it is really the number of crops that he sells you.
Do not deal unfairly, then; but stand in fear of your God.
I, the LORD, am your God.”

Responsorial Psalm

67:2-3, 5, 7-8

R. (4) O God, let all the nations praise you!
May God have pity on us and bless us;
may he let his face shine upon us.
So may your way be known upon earth;
among all nations, your salvation.
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
May the nations be glad and exult
because you rule the peoples in equity;
the nations on the earth you guide.
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
The earth has yielded its fruits;
God, our God, has blessed us.
May God bless us,
and may all the ends of the earth fear him!
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!

Gospel

Mt 14:1-12

Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus
and said to his servants, “This man is John the Baptist.
He has been raised from the dead;
that is why mighty powers are at work in him.”

Now Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison
on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip,
for John had said to him,
“It is not lawful for you to have her.”
Although he wanted to kill him, he feared the people,
for they regarded him as a prophet.
But at a birthday celebration for Herod,
the daughter of Herodias performed a dance before the guests
and delighted Herod so much
that he swore to give her whatever she might ask for.
Prompted by her mother, she said,
“Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”
The king was distressed, 
but because of his oaths and the guests who were present,
he ordered that it be given, and he had John beheaded in the prison.
His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl,
who took it to her mother.
His disciples came and took away the corpse

and buried him; and they went and told Jesus

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 «The news about Jesus reached King Herod»

Fr. Joan Pere PULIDO i Gutiérrez
(Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain)

Today, our liturgy proposes us to contemplate an injustice: the beheading of St. John the Baptist; and, at the same time, to discover in God's Word the need of a clear and concrete testimony of our faith to fill out the world with hope.

I invite you to center our consideration in the person of Herod, the tetrarch. In fact, it is a counter-testimony for us, but it will help us to emphasize some interesting aspects, important enough for our testimony of faith amid the world. «The news about Jesus reached King Herod» (Mt 14:1). This assertion underlines an apparently correct, but not too sincere, attitude. It is the same kind of reality we can today find in many persons and, perhaps, even in ourselves. There are many who have heard of Jesus, but, who is He actually?, what kind of personal implication can we find in him?

First of all, we must give the correct answer; Herod's reply is but vague information: «This man is John the Baptist. John has risen from the dead» (Mt 14:2). Most probably you will be missing here Peter's reply to Jesus' question: «He said to them, ‘but who do you say that I am?’ Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’» (Mt 16:15-16). And this assertion does not leave any room for fear or indifference but it rather gives way to a testimony based in the Gospel of hope. This is how His Holiness Saint John Paul II defined it in his apostolic Exhortation The Church in Europe: «Therefore, in union with the whole Church, I invite my brothers and my sisters in faith constantly to be open in trust to Christ and to allow themselves to be renewed by him, proclaiming to all people of good will in the power of peace and love that whoever encounters the Lord comes to know the Truth, discovers the Life, and finds the Way leading to it».

Today, Saturday, let the Mother of God, the Mother of hope, help us to really discover Jesus and to bear witness of him to our brethren.

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The first reading is fascinating to me. In the fiftieth year the trumpet is to sound. That reminds me of what happened when the Lord descended upon Mount Sinai and gave the people his commandments. The sound of the trumpet was deafening. And when is the trumpet to sound that the year of jubilee has begun? on the Day of Atonement, the day in which the high priest enters through the veil into the Holy of Holies and, appearing before God, offers sacrifice for his own sins and the sins of the people. Then there is to be a proclamation - liberty for all inhabitants! This is the year of freedom. The year is sacred, holy, to the Lord.

In the year of jubilee people were to rest. There was to be no sowing or reaping. God would make sure that everyone had plenty left over from the year before. Relax. Praise God. Don't fret. Also during this year, all sales of land were null and void and people went back and repossessed their ancestral property. God had parceled out the promised land and that land would always belong to the people to whom he gave it. You could sell it. But everyone knew that the sale was only good until the jubilee year. So, if there were forty-nine years left until the next jubilee, you could get more for your land. If there were only nine years left until the next jubilee, you got a lot less. God warns the people against defrauding one another by charging more than their land was worth.

What does this say to me, a disciple of Jesus living long after the time of this old Mosaic statute? Jesus proclaimed the year of the Lord. In that year the sick would be healed, demons cast out, the dead raised, and the good news proclaimed to the poor. We live in the year of jubilee, my brothers and sisters. The trumpet has sounded. The Lord has descended in the flesh. The Day of Atonement occurred on that Good Friday of our Lord's passion. We have been set free. Jesus invited us to come to him and rest from our labors. Those who hear the word of God and live return to their ancestral home, the house of the Father. We are part of the Body of Christ and Jesus promised to prepare a room for us in his Father's house. From God we came and to God we go. Blessed be the name of God.

On this passage the great English saint, the Venerable Bede, said:

In the law the fiftieth year was ordered to be called the year of jubilee, that is, "forgiving" or "changed." During it the people were to remain at rest from all work, the debts of all were to be canceled, slaves were to go free and the year itself was to be more notable than other years because of its greater solemnities and divine praises. Therefore by this number is rightly indicated the tranquility of greatest peace when, as the apostle says, at the sound of the last trumpet "the dead will rise and we shall be changed" into glory. Then, when the labors and hardships of this age come to an end and our debts, that is all our faults, have been forgiven, the entire people of the elect will rejoice eternally in the sole contemplation of the divine vision. And that most longed-for command of our Lord and Savior will be fulfilled: "Be still, and see that I am God."

Amen.

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LIFESTYLE OF WORSHIP

"This fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all." �Leviticus 25:10

We all must worship. If we don't worship God, then we worship ourselves, and eventually demons. "What am I saying � that meat offered to an idol is really offered to that idol, or that an idol is a reality? No, I mean that the Gentiles sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and likewise the table of demons" (1 Cor 10:19-21). Society may appear to hinder worship, but actually worship dominates society. A new worship is the only force that can stifle another worship. For example, the purpose of the Jubilee Year was to overcome the worship of greed, money, and self-glorification (Lv 25:1ff). In Egypt the worship of work and pleasure hindered the worship of God (Ex 5:3-4). Herod's worship of sex stifled worship in Spirit and truth (Mt 14:4). In modern America, we continue to worship money, work, pleasure, and sex. The Lord's Day is not the Lord's but ours. Our holy days are weekends and holidays. The worship of this world has increased and the worship of the true God has decreased. We can reverse this diabolical trend by repenting and changing lifestyles because styles of life become invariably styles of worship. "Worship God alone!" (Rv 22:9)

Prayer: Father, I repent of ungodly, perverted worship of self and creatures rather than of You, the Creator.

Promise: "It shall be a jubilee for you, when every one of you shall return to his own property." —Lv 25:10

Praise: Albert gave up sports on Sunday to keep Sunday holy.

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 Herod's reaction to John the Baptist

Do you ever feel haunted by a past failure or a guilty conscience? King Herod, the most powerful and wealthy man in Judea, had everything he wanted, except a clear conscience and peace with God. Herod had respected and feared John the Baptist as a great prophet and servant of God. John, however did not fear to rebuke Herod for his adulterous relationship with his brother's wife. He ended up in prison because of Herodias' jealousy. Herod, out of impulse and a desire to please his family and friends, had John beheaded. Now his conscience is pricked when he hears that all the people are going to Jesus to hear his message of repentance and to see his mighty works. Herod is now haunted by the thought that the prophet he murdered might now be raised from the dead!

A sign of vanity and cowardice
Unfortunately for Herod, he could not rid himself of sin by ridding himself of the man who confronted him with his sin. Herod's power and influence was badly flawed. He could take a strong stand on the wrong things when he knew the right. Such a stand, however, was a sign of weakness and cowardice. Where do you get the strength of will and heart to choose what is right and to reject what is bad?

God is our help and our strength
The Lord Jesus gives grace and help to the humble, to those who acknowledge their weaknesses and their sinfulness, and who look to God for his mercy and pardon, wisdom and strength. His grace and pardon not only frees us from a guilty conscience, it enables us to pursue holiness in every area of our lives, in our thoughts and intentions as well as our words and actions.

Fight fear with faith
God's grace enables us to fight fear with faith and to overcome the temptation to compromise good with evil. Do you rely on God's grace and help to choose his way of holiness and to reject whatever would weaken your faith and loyalty to Jesus Christ?

"Heavenly Father, form in me the likeness of your Son Jesus that I may imitate him in word and deed. Help me to live the Gospel faithfully and give me the strength and courage I need to not shrink back in the face of hardship and temptation."

Psalm 67:1-7

1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]
2 that your way may be known upon earth, your saving power among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. [Selah]
5 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
6 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.
7 God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!

Daily Quote from the early church fathers: Integrity is a hardship for the morally corrupt, by Peter Chrysologus (400-450 AD)

"John aroused Herod by his moral admonitions, not by any formal accusation. He wanted to correct, not to suppress. Herod, however, preferred to suppress rather than be reconciled. To those who are held captive, the freedom of the one innocent of wrongdoing becomes hateful. Virtue is undesirable to those who are immoral; holiness is abhorrent to those who are impious; chastity is an enemy to those who are impure; integrity is a hardship for those who are corrupt; frugality runs counter to those who are self-indulgent; mercy is intolerable to those who are cruel, as is loving-kindness to those who are pitiless and justice to those who are unjust. The Evangelist indicates this when he says, "John said to him, ‘It is not lawful for you to have the wife of your brother Philip.'" This is where John runs into trouble. He who admonishes those who are evil gives offense. He who repudiates wrongdoers runs into trouble. John was saying what was proper of the law, what was proper of justice, what was proper of salvation and what was proper certainly not of hatred but of love. And look at the reward he received from the ungodly for his loving concern!" (excerpt from SERMONS 127.6-7)

  

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