October 7, 2019 Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary

2019년 10월 7일  연중 제 27주간 월요일  

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제1독서

 요나 예언서. 1,1ㅡ2,1.11
1 주님의 말씀이 아미타이의 아들 요나에게 내렸다. 2 “일어나 저 큰 성읍 니네베로 가서, 그 성읍을 거슬러 외쳐라. 그들의 죄악이 나에게까지 치솟아 올랐다.”
3 그러나 요나는 주님을 피하여 타르시스로 달아나려고 길을 나서 야포로 내려갔다. 마침 타르시스로 가는 배를 만나 뱃삯을 치르고 배에 올랐다. 주님을 피하여 사람들과 함께 타르시스로 갈 셈이었다.
4 그러나 주님께서 바다 위로 큰 바람을 보내시니, 바다에 큰 폭풍이 일어 배가 거의 부서지게 되었다. 5 그러자 뱃사람들이 겁에 질려 저마다 자기 신에게 부르짖으면서, 배를 가볍게 하려고 안에 있는 짐들을 바다로 내던졌다. 그런데 배 밑창으로 내려간 요나는 드러누워 깊이 잠들어 있었다.
6 선장이 그에게 다가가 말하였다. “당신은 어찌 이렇게 깊이 잠들 수가 있소? 일어나서 당신 신에게 부르짖으시오. 행여나 그 신이 우리를 생각해 주어, 우리가 죽지 않을 수도 있지 않소?”
7 뱃사람들이 서로 말하였다. “자, 제비를 뽑아서 누구 때문에 이런 재앙이 우리에게 닥쳤는지 알아봅시다.” 그래서 제비를 뽑으니 요나가 뽑혔다.
8 그러자 그들이 요나에게 물었다. “누구 때문에 우리에게 이런 재앙이 닥쳤는지 말해 보시오. 당신은 무엇하는 사람이고 어디서 오는 길이오? 당신은 어느 나라 사람이며 어느 민족이오?”
9 요나는 그들에게, “나는 히브리 사람이오. 나는 바다와 뭍을 만드신 주 하늘의 하느님을 경외하는 사람이오.” 하고 대답하였다.
10 그러자 그 사람들은 더욱더 두려워하며, “당신은 어째서 이런 일을 하였소?” 하고 말하였다. 요나가 그들에게 사실을 털어놓아, 그가 주님을 피하여 달아나고 있다는 것을 그들이 알게 되었던 것이다.
11 바다가 점점 더 거칠어지자 그들이 요나에게 물었다. “우리가 당신을 어떻게 해야 바다가 잔잔해지겠소?”
12 요나가 그들에게 대답하였다. “나를 들어 바다에 내던지시오. 그러면 바다가 잔잔해질 것이오. 이 큰 폭풍이 당신들에게 들이닥친 것이 나 때문이라는 것을 나도 알고 있소.”
13 사람들은 뭍으로 되돌아가려고 힘껏 노를 저었으나, 바다가 점점 더 거칠어져 어쩔 수가 없었다.
14 그러자 그들이 주님께 부르짖었다. “아, 주님! 이 사람의 목숨을 희생시킨다고 부디 저희를 멸하지는 마십시오. 주님, 당신께서는 뜻하신 대로 이 일을 하셨으니, 저희에게 살인죄를 지우지 말아 주십시오.”
15 그러고 나서 그들이 요나를 들어 바다에 내던지자, 성난 바다가 잔잔해졌다. 16 사람들은 주님을 더욱더 두려워하며 주님께 희생 제물을 바치고 서원을 하였다.
2,1 주님께서는 큰 물고기를 시켜 요나를 삼키게 하셨다. 요나는 사흘 낮과 사흘 밤을 그 물고기 배 속에 있었다. 11 주님께서는 그 물고기에게 분부하시어 요나를 육지에 뱉어 내게 하셨다. 

 

복음

 루카. 10,25-37
그때에 25 어떤 율법 교사가 일어서서 예수님을 시험하려고 말하였다. “스승님, 제가 무엇을 해야 영원한 생명을 받을 수 있습니까?”
26 예수님께서 그에게 말씀하셨다. “율법에 무엇이라고 쓰여 있느냐? 너는 어떻게 읽었느냐?”
27 그가 “‘네 마음을 다하고 네 목숨을 다하고 네 힘을 다하고 네 정신을 다하여 주 너의 하느님을 사랑하고’ ‘네 이웃을 너 자신처럼 사랑해야 한다.’ 하였습니다.” 하고 대답하자, 28 예수님께서 그에게 이르셨다.
“옳게 대답하였다. 그렇게 하여라. 그러면 네가 살 것이다.”
29 그 율법 교사는 자기가 정당함을 드러내고 싶어서 예수님께, “그러면 누가 저의 이웃입니까?” 하고 물었다.
30 예수님께서 응답하셨다. “어떤 사람이 예루살렘에서 예리코로 내려가다가 강도들을 만났다. 강도들은 그의 옷을 벗기고 그를 때려 초주검으로 만들어 놓고 가 버렸다.
31 마침 어떤 사제가 그 길로 내려가다가 그를 보고서는, 길 반대쪽으로 지나가 버렸다. 32 레위인도 마찬가지로 그곳에 이르러 그를 보고서는, 길 반대쪽으로 지나가 버렸다.
33 그런데 여행을 하던 어떤 사마리아인은 그가 있는 곳에 이르러 그를 보고서는, 가엾은 마음이 들었다. 34 그래서 그에게 다가가 상처에 기름과 포도주를 붓고 싸맨 다음, 자기 노새에 태워 여관으로 데리고 가서 돌보아 주었다.
35 이튿날 그는 두 데나리온을 꺼내 여관 주인에게 주면서, ‘저 사람을 돌보아 주십시오. 비용이 더 들면 제가 돌아올 때에 갚아 드리겠습니다.’ 하고 말하였다.
36 너는 이 세 사람 가운데에서 누가 강도를 만난 사람에게 이웃이 되어 주었다고 생각하느냐?”
37 율법 교사가 “그에게 자비를 베푼 사람입니다.” 하고 대답하자, 예수님께서 그에게 이르셨다. “가서 너도 그렇게 하여라.”

October 7, 2019 

Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1 

Jon 1:1:2:1-2, 11

This is the word of the LORD that came to Jonah, son of Amittai:
"Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it;
their wickedness has come up before me."
But Jonah made ready to flee to Tarshish away from the LORD.
He went down to Joppa, found a ship going to Tarshish,
paid the fare, and went aboard to journey with them to Tarshish,
away from the LORD.
The LORD, however, hurled a violent wind upon the sea,
and in the furious tempest that arose
the ship was on the point of breaking up.
Then the mariners became frightened and each one cried to his god.
To lighten the ship for themselves, they threw its cargo into the sea.
Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship,
and lay there fast asleep.
The captain came to him and said, "What are you doing asleep?
Rise up, call upon your God!
Perhaps God will be mindful of us so that we may not perish."
Then they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots
to find out on whose account we have met with this misfortune."
So they cast lots, and thus singled out Jonah.
"Tell us," they said, 'what is your business?
Where do you come from?
What is your country, and to what people do you belong?"
Jonah answered them, "I am a Hebrew,
I worship the LORD, the God of heaven,
who made the sea and the dry land."
Now the men were seized with great fear and said to him,
"How could you do such a thing!" 
They knew that he was fleeing from the LORD,
because he had told them."
They asked, "What shall we do with you,
that the sea may quiet down for us?"
For the sea was growing more and more turbulent.
Jonah said to them, "Pick me up and throw me into the sea,
that it may quiet down for you;
since I know it is because of me
that this violent storm has come upon you."
Still the men rowed hard to regain the land, but they could not,
for the sea grew ever more turbulent.
Then they cried to the LORD: "We beseech you, O LORD,
let us not perish for taking this man's life;
do not charge us with shedding innocent blood,
for you, LORD, have done as you saw fit."
Then they took Jonah and threw him into the sea,
and the sea's raging abated.
Struck with great fear of the LORD,
the men offered sacrifice and made vows to him.
But the LORD sent a large fish, that swallowed Jonah;
and Jonah remained in the belly of the fish
three days and three nights.
From the belly of the fish Jonah prayed 
to the LORD, his God.

 

Responsorial Psalm 

Jon 2:3, 4, 5, 8

R. You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.
Out of my distress I called to the LORD,
and he answered me;
From the midst of the nether world I cried for help,
and you heard my voice.
R. You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.
For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea,
and the flood enveloped me;
All your breakers and your billows 
passed over me.
R. You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.
Then I said, "I am banished from your sight!
yet would I again look upon your holy temple."
R. You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.
When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the LORD;
My prayer reached you
in your holy temple.
R. You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.

 

Gospel 

Lk 10:25-37

There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said,
"Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Jesus said to him, "What is written in the law?
How do you read it?"
He said in reply,
"You shall love the Lord, your God,
with all your heart,
with all your being,
with all your strength,
and with all your mind,
and your neighbor as yourself."
He replied to him, "You have answered correctly;
do this and you will live."
But because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus, 
"And who is my neighbor?"
Jesus replied, 
"A man fell victim to robbers
as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead.
A priest happened to be going down that road,
but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.
Likewise a Levite came to the place,
and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.
But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him
was moved with compassion at the sight.
He approached the victim,
poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them.
Then he lifted him up on his own animal,
took him to an inn, and cared for him.
The next day he took out two silver coins
and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction,
"Take care of him.
If you spend more than what I have given you,
I shall repay you on my way back."
Which of these three, in your opinion,
was neighbor to the robbers? victim?"
He answered, "The one who treated him with mercy."

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 «What must I do to inherit eternal life?»

Fr. Ivan LEVYTSKYY CSsR
(Lviv, Ukraine)

Today, the gospel’s message indicates the path to life: «You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, (..) and your neighbor as yourself» (Lk 10:27). And since God has loved us in the first place He leads us to the union with Him. Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta said: «We need this intimate union with God in our daily life. And how can we achieve it? Through prayer». Being in oneness with Him we begin to experience that with Him everything is possible, even to love our neighbor.

Someone said that Christians enter the church to love God and come out to love their neighbors. Pope Benedict accentuates that the Christian’s program – the program of the Good Samaritan, Jesus program – is «a heart which can see». See and stop! In this parable there are two people who see the needy, but they don´t stop. This is why Christ has reproached the Pharisees saying: «Do you have eyes and not see?» (Mk 8:18). on the contrary, the Samaritan sees and stops, he has mercy and thus saves the life of the needy and his own.

When the famous Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí was run over by a tramway some bystanders didn’t stop to help that injured old man. He carried no documents and looked like a beggar. Had they realized who that neighbor was and surely they would have stayed in line to help him.

When we practice the good, we think we do it for our neighbor, but we really do it also for Christ: «I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me» (Mt 25:40). And Benedict XVI says my neighbor is anyone who needs me and I can help. If everyone seeing his neighbors in need would stop and have mercy on them once a day or once a week the crisis would decrease and the world would become better. «Nothing resembles us so much to God as the good deeds» (St. Gregory of Nyssa).

«The one who had mercy on him»

Brother Lluís SERRA i Llançana
(Roma, Italy)

Today, a Teacher of the Law asks Jesus the kind of question we may have asked ourselves more than once, in our life: «Master, what shall I do to receive eternal life?» (Lk 10:25). He wanted to put Jesus to the test. The Master, though, wisely answers what is written in the Scriptures, that is, to love the Lord your God and your neighbour as yourself (cf. Lk 10:27). The key is to love. If we seek the eternal life, we know that «faith and hope will go away, but love will remain forever» (cf. 1Cor 13:13). Any life project, any spirituality, that have not love in its center furthers us away from the actual meaning of our existence. An often forgotten but important reference point, is to love oneself. only from our personal identity can we love God and our neighbours.

The teacher of the Law goes still further when asking Jesus: «Who is my neighbor?» (Lk 10:29). And he gets his answer with a tale, a parable, a little story, far away from complicated theories, but with a clear message. The model of the loving person is a Samaritan, that is, someone who is a dropout, someone excluded from God's people. When they saw the man beaten and half-dead, a priest and a Levite just ignored him and passed by. Those who apparently are closer to God (the priest and the Levite) are those who are farther away from their neighbour. The teacher of the Law avoids to say the word “Samaritan” to state who did behave as neighbor to the wounded man: «The one who had mercy on him» (Lk 10:37).

Jesus' proposal is clear: «Go then and do the same». It is not a theoretical conclusion of the debate but an invitation to live the reality of love, which is not only a vaporous feeling but a behaviour that defeats socials denominations and stems from a person's heart. St. John of the Cross reminds us «at the crepuscule of your life you will only be examined of love».

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Of course, I think to myself, as I read the familiar story in the gospel today. The Good Samaritan. I get it, and I tell myself that I am sure the Samaritan is the person I would be in that same situation. I wouldn’t walk by, quickly, averting my eyes like the priest and the Levite. When the story of the Good Samaritan remains a story, I can play a hero role.

But is that how I live my life? The Samaritan showed compassion and follow through. He didn’t just help the man who was lying by the side of the road half-dead. He helped him and gave the innkeeper money to continue to care for the man. The Samaritan was going to check on his way back to make sure the innkeeper was compensated.

That’s what we would call going above and beyond. That is more than making a donation, filling a bag with canned goods to bring to the food bank, helping out for an afternoon on a community project. All of those things are good. They take some time and treasure. When I ask myself the question about whether I love God and my neighbor in the way described in the gospel; I’m not so sure I can say yes. The mercy of the Samaritan came with compassion and commitment. God will love me even when I fall short, but I can do more to be like the Samaritan with compassion and commitment. I can turn to God to help me do the harder thing, to go beyond the surface and show compassion to those around me. I can help a colleague who asks for assistance on a project even when I’d rather just go home. I know there are ways I can lighten the load of those around me, those in my neighborhood and my city who need my help not just once but with commitment.

I ask God to help me be like the Samaritan. I pray in the words of the gospel: 

"Love the Lord, your God,
with all your heart,
with all your being,
with all your strength,
and with all your mind,
and your neighbor as yourself." 

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WHO'S WHO IN ACTING WITH MERCY?

"The one who treated him with compassion..." �Luke 10:37

The pagan sailors treated Jonah with mercy. They mercifully placed more importance on Jonah's life than on their own safety, working hard and risking much to spare his life. Sadly, Jonah, the religious man, didn't reciprocate that mercy back to the sailors. Through his guilt and disobedience, Jonah put their lives in great danger and it didn't bother him a bit; he slept peacefully while they risked their lives to save him (Jon 1:5ff). Similarly, the religious authorities, the priest and Levite (temple assistant), did not treat the wounded man in today's Gospel parable with mercy or interest. Although they technically obeyed the levitical law to avoid impurity by risking contact with blood (see Lv 5:3, 7:21), they could have aided the victim in other ways. Instead, they merely passed by without getting involved. The Samaritan, viewed as unfaithful in the eyes of the faithful Jews, was appraised by Jesus as the one who truly fulfilled the heart of God's law (Lk 10:36-37). What do the people of the world see when they look at our lives? Do they see the fruit of mercy and compassion? Or do they see us as people who don't care about them and who don't want to get involved with their problems? May we be ambassadors of God's mercy and compassion to all in our lives (see 2 Cor 5:20).

Prayer: Father, open my eyes to the reasons behind all my behaviors toward those who dislike me.

Promise: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." —Lk 10:27

Praise: The Blessed Virgin Mary encouraged praying the rosary for those who most need God's mercy. According to St. Padre Pio, the rosary is a ladder to heaven. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

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 "Go and do likewise"

If God is all-loving and compassionate, then why is there so much suffering and evil in this world? Many agnostics refuse to believe in God because of this seemingly imponderable problem. If God is love then evil and suffering must be eliminated in all its forms. What is God's answer to this human dilemma? Jesus' parable about a highway robbery gives us a helpful hint. Jesus told this dramatic story in response to a devout Jew who wanted to understand how to apply God's great commandment of love to his everyday life circumstances. In so many words this religious-minded Jew said: "I want to love God as best as I can and I want to love my neighbor as well. But how do I know that I am fulfilling my duty to love my neighbor as myself?"

Jesus must have smiled when he heard this man challenge him to explain one's duty towards their neighbor. For the Jewish believer the law of love was plain and simple: "treat your neighbor as you would treat yourself." The real issue for this believer was the correct definition of who is "my neighbor".  He understood "neighbor" to mean one's fellow Jew who belonged to the same covenant which God made with the people of Israel. Up to a certain point, Jesus agreed with this sincere expert but, at the same time, he challenged him to see that God's view of neighbor went far beyond his narrow definition.

God's love and mercy extends to all
Jesus told a parable to show how wide God's love and mercy is towards every fellow human being. Jesus' story of a brutal highway robbery was all too familiar to his audience. The road from Jerusalem to Jericho went through a narrow winding valley surrounded by steep rocky cliffs. Many wealthy Jews from Jerusalem had winter homes in Jerico. This narrow highway was dangerous and notorious for its robbers who could easily ambush their victim and escape into the hills. No one in his right mind would think of traveling through this dangerous highway alone. It was far safer to travel with others for protection and defense.

Our prejudice gets in the way of mercy
So why did the religious leaders refuse to give any help when they saw a half-dead victim lying by the roadside? Didn't they recognize that this victim was their neighbor? And why did a Samaritan, an outsider who was despised by the Jews, treat this victim with special care at his own expense as he would care for his own family? Who was the real neighbor who showed brotherly compassion and mercy? Jesus makes the supposed villain, the despised Samaritan, the merciful one as an example for the status conscious Jews. Why didn't the priest and Levite stop to help? The priest probably didn't want to risk the possibility of ritual impurity. His piety got in the way of charity. The Levite approached close to the victim, but stopped short of actually helping him. Perhaps he feared that bandits were using a decoy to ambush him. The Levite put personal safety ahead of saving his neighbor.

God expects us to be merciful as he is merciful
What does Jesus' story tell us about true love for one's neighbor? First, we must be willing to help even if others brought trouble on themselves through their own fault or negligence. Second, our love and concern to help others in need must be practical. Good intentions and showing pity, or emphathizing with others, are not enough. And lastly, our love for others must be as wide and as inclusive as God's love. God excludes no one from his care and concern. God's love is unconditional. So we must be ready to do good to others for their sake, just as God is good to us.

Jesus not only taught God's way of love, he also showed how far God was willing to go to share in our suffering and to restore us to wholeness of life and happiness. Jesus overcame sin, suffering, and death through his victory on the cross. His death brought us freedom from slavery to sin and the promise of everlasting life with God. He willingly shared in our suffering to bring us to the source of true healing and freedom from sin and oppression. True compassion not only identifies and emphathises with the one who is in pain, but takes that pain on oneself in order to bring freedom and restoration.

The cross shows us God's perfect love and forgiveness
Jesus truly identified with our plight, and he took the burden of our sinful condition upon himself. He showed us the depths of God's love and compassion, by sharing in our suffering and by offering his life as an atoning sacrifice for our sins upon the cross. His suffering is redemptive because it brings us healing and restoration and the fulness of eternal life. God offers us true freedom from every form of oppression, sin, and suffering. And that way is through the cross of Jesus Christ. Are you ready to embrace the cross of Christ, to suffer for his sake, and to lay down your life out of love for your neighbor?

"Lord Jesus, may your love always be the foundation of my life. Free me from every fear and selfish-concern that I may freely give myself in loving service to others, even to the point of laying my life down for their sake."

Psalm 111:1-2,7-10

1 Praise the LORD. I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
2 Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who have pleasure in them.
7 The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy,
8 they are established for ever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.
9 He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant for ever. Holy and awesome is his name!
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who practice it. His praise endures for ever!

Daily Quote from the early church fathers: God desires to be our neighbor, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.

"God our Lord wished to be called our neighbor. The Lord Jesus Christ meant that he was the one who gave help to the man lying half-dead on the road, beaten and left by the robbers. The prophet said in prayer, 'As a neighbor and as one's own brother, so did I please' (Psalm 34:14 ). Since the divine nature is far superior and above our human nature, the command by which we are to love God is distinct from our love of our neighbor. He shows mercy to us because of his own goodness, while we show mercy to one another because of God's goodness. He has compassion on us so that we may enjoy him completely, while we have compassion on another that we may completely enjoy him. (excerpt from CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION 33)

  

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 October 9, 2017 Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time