2019년 12월 9일 한국 교회의 수호자 원죄 없이 잉태되신 동정 마리아 대축일
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제1독서
창세기. 3,9-15.20
사람이 나무 열매를 먹은 뒤, 주 하느님께서 그를 9 부르시며,
“너 어디 있느냐?” 하고 물으셨다.
10 그가 대답하였다.
“동산에서 당신의 소리를 듣고 제가 알몸이기 때문에 두려워 숨었습니다.”
11 그분께서 “네가 알몸이라고 누가 일러 주더냐?
내가 너에게 따 먹지 말라고 명령한 그 나무 열매를
네가 따 먹었느냐?” 하고 물으시자,
12 사람이 대답하였다. “당신께서 저와 함께 살라고 주신 여자가
그 나무 열매를 저에게 주기에 제가 먹었습니다.”
13 주 하느님께서 여자에게 “너는 어찌하여 이런 일을 저질렀느냐?” 하고 물으시자,
여자가 대답하였다.
“뱀이 저를 꾀어서 제가 따 먹었습니다.”
14 주 하느님께서 뱀에게 말씀하셨다. “네가 이런 일을 저질렀으니
너는 모든 집짐승과 들짐승 가운데에서 저주를 받아
네가 사는 동안 줄곧 배로 기어 다니며 먼지를 먹으리라.
15 나는 너와 그 여자 사이에,
네 후손과 그 여자의 후손 사이에 적개심을 일으키리니
여자의 후손은 너의 머리에 상처를 입히고
너는 그의 발꿈치에 상처를 입히리라.”
20 사람은 자기 아내의 이름을 하와라 하였다.
그가 살아 있는 모든 것의 어머니가 되었기 때문이다.
제2독서
에페소서. 1,3-6.11-12
3 우리 주 예수 그리스도의 아버지 하느님께서 찬미받으시기를 빕니다.
하느님께서는 그리스도 안에서
하늘의 온갖 영적인 복을 우리에게 내리셨습니다.
4 세상 창조 이전에 그리스도 안에서 우리를 선택하시어,
우리가 당신 앞에서 거룩하고 흠 없는 사람이 되게 해 주셨습니다.
사랑으로 5 예수 그리스도를 통하여
우리를 당신의 자녀로 삼으시기로 미리 정하셨습니다.
이는 하느님의 그 좋으신 뜻에 따라 이루어진 것입니다.
6 그리하여 사랑하시는 아드님 안에서
우리에게 베푸신 그 은총의 영광을 찬양하게 하셨습니다.
11 만물을 당신의 결정과 뜻대로 이루시는 분의 의향에 따라 미리 정해진 우리도
그리스도 안에서 한몫을 얻게 되었습니다.
12 그리하여 하느님께서는 이미 그리스도께 희망을 둔 우리가
당신의 영광을 찬양하는 사람이 되게 하셨습니다.
복음
루카. 1,26-38
그때에 26 하느님께서는
가브리엘 천사를 갈릴래아 지방 나자렛이라는 고을로 보내시어,
27 다윗 집안의 요셉이라는 사람과 약혼한 처녀를 찾아가게 하셨다.
그 처녀의 이름은 마리아였다.
28 천사가 마리아의 집으로 들어가 말하였다.
“은총이 가득한 이여, 기뻐하여라. 주님께서 너와 함께 계시다.”
29 이 말에 마리아는 몹시 놀랐다.
그리고 이 인사말이 무슨 뜻인가 하고 곰곰이 생각하였다.
30 천사가 다시 마리아에게 말하였다.
“두려워하지 마라, 마리아야. 너는 하느님의 총애를 받았다.
31 보라, 이제 네가 잉태하여 아들을 낳을 터이니 그 이름을 예수라 하여라.
32 그분께서는 큰 인물이 되시고 지극히 높으신 분의 아드님이라 불리실 것이다.
주 하느님께서 그분의 조상 다윗의 왕좌를 그분께 주시어,
33 그분께서 야곱 집안을 영원히 다스리시리니
그분의 나라는 끝이 없을 것이다.”
34 마리아가 천사에게, “저는 남자를 알지 못하는데,
어떻게 그런 일이 있을 수 있겠습니까?” 하고 말하자,
35 천사가 마리아에게 대답하였다.
“성령께서 너에게 내려오시고 지극히 높으신 분의 힘이 너를 덮을 것이다.
그러므로 태어날 아기는 거룩하신 분, 하느님의 아드님이라고 불릴 것이다.
36 네 친척 엘리사벳을 보아라. 그 늙은 나이에도 아들을 잉태하였다.
아이를 못낳는 여자라고 불리던 그가 임신한 지 여섯 달이 되었다.
37 하느님께는 불가능한 일이 없다.”
38 마리아가 말하였다.
“보십시오, 저는 주님의 종입니다.
말씀하신 대로 저에게 이루어지기를 바랍니다.”
그러자 천사는 마리아에게서 떠나갔다.
December 9, 2019
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Reading 1
Gn 3:9-15, 20
After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree,
the LORD God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?”
He answered, “I heard you in the garden;
but I was afraid, because I was naked,
so I hid myself.”
Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked?
You have eaten, then,
from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!”
The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me
she gave me fruit from the tree, and so I ate it.”
The LORD God then asked the woman,
“Why did you do such a thing?”
The woman answered, “The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it.”
Then the LORD God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this, you shall be banned
from all the animals
and from all the wild creatures;
on your belly shall you crawl,
and dirt shall you eat
all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will strike at your head,
while you strike at his heel.”
The man called his wife Eve,
because she became the mother of all the living.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4
R. (1) Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds.
Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done wondrous deeds;
His right hand has won victory for him,
his holy arm.
R. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds.
The LORD has made his salvation known:
in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.
He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness
toward the house of Israel.
R. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds.
All the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation by our God.
Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;
break into song; sing praise.
R. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds.
Brothers and sisters:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ
with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,
as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world,
to be holy and without blemish before him.
In love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ,
in accord with the favor of his will,
for the praise of the glory of his grace
that he granted us in the beloved.
In him we were also chosen,
destined in accord with the purpose of the one
who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will,
so that we might exist for the praise of his glory,
we who first hoped in Christ.
Gospel
Lk 1:26-38
The angel Gabriel was sent from God
to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,
of the house of David,
and the virgin’s name was Mary.
And coming to her, he said,
“Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.”
But she was greatly troubled at what was said
and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.
Then the angel said to her,
“Do not be afraid, Mary,
for you have found favor with God.
Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
and you shall name him Jesus.
He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,
and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,
and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,
and of his Kingdom there will be no end.”
But Mary said to the angel,
“How can this be,
since I have no relations with a man?”
And the angel said to her in reply,
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
Therefore the child to be born
will be called holy, the Son of God.
And behold, Elizabeth, your relative,
has also conceived a son in her old age,
and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;
for nothing will be impossible for God.”
Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.
May it be done to me according to your word.”
Then the angel departed from her.
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
The angel came to her and said, Rejoice, full of grace, the Lord is with you»
Fr. David COMPTE i Verdaguer
(Manlleu, Barcelona, Spain)
Today, the Gospel plays a tune made up of three notes. Three notes which, in our society, are not always that well-tuned: one note of doing, one of friendship and another one of coherence of life. Nowadays, we all have very busy lives, but, do we have a plan? Today, when we are navigating through a world of communications, are we capable of being alone in our own company for a while? Today, in the information era, are we letting it shape who we are?
A plan. Mary, a young woman «betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the family of David» (Lk 1:28). Mary has a plan. Of human proportions, evidently. Nevertheless, God comes into her life to bestow on her another project... of divine proportions. Today, He wants to come into our lives too, to give our everyday human tasks divine proportions.
A presence. «Do not fear, Mary» (Lk 1:30). We just do not go and build the first thing that comes into our head! Lest our addiction to “doing” were to become a way to hide a void. Marriage, a life of servitude, our profession, should not mean a leap in the dark. «(...) Full of grace, the Lord is with you» (Lk 1:28). Presence that accompanies and provides a new meaning. Trust in God, which —indirectly— brings us to trust others. Friendship with God that renews our friendship with others, too.
To shape ourselves. Today, when we are confronted with so many stimuli, so often conflicting, it is necessary to give unity and shape to our life. Mary, says saint Louis Mary Grignion, «is the living mould of God». «A sculptor, explains Grignion, can make a statue in two ways: By using his skill, strength, experience and good tools to produce a statue out of hard, shapeless matter; or by making a cast of it in a mould (...). The second is quick, easy, straightforward, almost effortless and inexpensive, but the mould must be perfect and true to life and the material must be easy to handle and offer no resistance». Mary is the great mould of God. Do we turn to Her by being ourselves material that easy to shape?
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
“Get a life. Get a real life.”
The words cut through the electric air of the hotel ballroom occupied by 2,000 high school and college students attending the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice (IFTJ) in Washington, D.C. last month. They had gathered for a two-day conference of learning, singing, praying and dialoguing around the issues of immigration rights and environmental justice before spending a third day on Capitol Hill conducting advocacy visits with their elected officials. In the midst of this difficult and sometimes tense work for social justice came the challenge to “get a life” and it came from the mouth of a very spunky 80 year-old nun named Sr. Peggy O’Neill.
Sr. Peggy has spent the past 30 years living and ministering with the people of El Salvador as they have endured and healed from a bloody civil war and multiple other social injustices. As she told the students at IFTJ stories of abundant grace amidst the gritty reality of life in El Salvador, she encouraged them to discover the intersection of their God-given gifts, their passions, and the suffering of the world and go set up shop at the cross-roads of those three.
Grace and grit go hand-in-hand.
In the garden abundant with grace that was Eden, God walked with humankind “at the breezy time of the day”. (GN 3:8) Can you imagine?! What a grace-filled life that must have been! Then, within this idyllic paradise the gritty existence of sin enters when humanity chooses to turn away from God. So deep is their shame around this that Eve and Adam hide themselves from God. Then, always the arbiter of grace, God asks them a question that I so often hear for myself, “Where are you?” I hear within the question an invitation to return to that space where I turn back toward God, walking side-by-side in the cool of the garden. I have found that I am best able to do this when I live from that place that Sr. Peggy described to those energetic youth -- the place of my vocation.
A wonderful model for someone who lived from that space was Miriam of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus. Here was a person who knew all too well the gritty reality of an earthly existence. Nazareth in the first century was a very difficult place to live if you were not among the small, ruling elite classes. Life under the Roman Empire was brutal for agrarian communities like Nazareth. In fact, by the nature of Joseph’s trade as a carpenter, Mary and her husband belonged to the artisan class which had an even lower income than the peasant class due to the fact that they had no land on which to grow their own food. And yet, within this space of apparent scarcity comes the abundance of Mary’s great “Yes” to God: “May it be done to me according to your word.” (LK 1:38) What a powerful witness of what it means to endure the struggle and trials of life with a deep, abiding trust and faith in God!
I end with another modern-day example of this, also from El Salvador, who is Sr. Ita Ford. She was one of three Religious Sisters who, along with a lay partner named Jean Donovan, were martyred in 1980. Her words in a letter to her niece Jennifer on her 16th birthday are words for us too:
“What I’m saying is, I hope you come to find that which gives life a deep meaning for you...something worth living for, maybe even worth dying for...something that energizes you, enthuses you, enables you to keep moving ahead. I can’t tell you what it might be ‐‐ that’s for you to find, to choose, to love. I can just encourage you to start looking, and support you in the search.
“Maybe this sounds weird and off‐the‐wall, and maybe, no one else will talk to you like this, but then, too, I’m seeing and living things that others around you aren’t... I want to say to you: don’t waste the gifts and opportunities you have to make yourself and other people happy…”
May we all not only get a life, but live a life that embraces the gritty reality of our world and celebrates the grace that is waiting to be discovered there.
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HOPE � EVEN UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES | ||
| "God chose us in Him before the world began, to be holy and blameless in His sight." �Ephesians 1:4 | ||
The Lord created the human race to be with Him in Paradise. However, because of original sin, we:
Original sin is the most depressing fact of life. When we realize this, we cry out: "What a wretched man I am! Who can free me from this body under the power of death?" (Rm 7:24) Jesus Christ alone has freed us from original sin and its devastating effects. In fact, Jesus freed His mother Mary from ever having original sin. She was immaculately conceived. Mary is therefore "a sign of sure hope" (see Lumen Gentium, 68) for all of us that original sin with its death and damnation need not be the final word. Jesus is Lord of all, including original sin. "He is always able to save those who approach God through Him" (Heb 7:25). Jesus is our Lord and Savior. Mary Immaculate is a sign of hope pointing us to her Son, Jesus. No matter how shattered your life, broken your world, and sinful your society, look to Jesus and rejoice. | ||
| Prayer: Father, on this holy day, make me immaculate as I repent of my sins, confess them, and receive Your forgiveness. | ||
| Promise: "Nothing is impossible with God." —Lk 1:37 | ||
| Praise: "The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin" (see Catechism of the Catholic Church, 491). Praise You, Almighty God, for the sure hope You give us through Mary. Alleluia! |
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
"For with God nothing will be impossible"
Do you want to live a grace-filled life? The angel Gabriel salutes Mary as "full of grace". To become the mother of the Savior, Mary was enriched by God with gifts to enable her to assume this awesome role. There is a venerable tradition among many Christians, dating back to the early church, for honoring Mary as the spotless virgin who bore the Son of God in her womb. A number of early church fathers link Mary's obedience to this singular grace of God. "Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race... The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith" (from Adv. haeres 3.22.4, by Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, 130-200 AD).
Faith is the key that unlocks the power of God's kingdom in our lives
What is the key that can unlock the power and grace of God's kingdom in our personal lives? Faith and obedience for sure! When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they immediately experienced the consequence of their action - separation from the God who loved them. God in his mercy promised them a Redeemer who would pay the price for their sin and the sin of the world. We see the marvelous unfolding of God's plan of redemption in the events leading up to the Incarnation, the birth of the Messiah. Mary's prompt response of "yes" to the divine message is a model of faith for all believers. Mary believed God's promises even when they seemed impossible. She was full of grace because she trusted that what God said was true and would be fulfilled. She was willing and eager to do God's will, even if it seemed difficult or costly.
God gives us the grace to say "yes" to his will and to his transforming work in our lives
God gives us grace and he expects us to respond with the same willingness, obedience, and heart-felt trust as Mary did. When God commands he also gives the grace, strength, and means to respond. We can either yield to his grace or resist and go our own way. Do you believe in God's promises and do you yield to his grace?
"Heavenly Father, you offer us abundant grace, mercy, and forgiveness through your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Help me to live a grace-filled life as Mary did by believing in your promises and by giving you my unqualified "yes" to your will and to your plan for my life."
Psalm 98:1-4
1 O sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.
2 The LORD has made known his victory, he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.
3 He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: God borrows Mary's flesh to lead humanity to glory, by an anonymous early author from the Greek church
"Revealing to you the pre-eternal counsel, Gabriel came and stood before you, maid, and in greeting said, 'Rejoice, earth that has not been sown; rejoice, burning bush that remains unconsumed; Rejoice, unsearchable depth; Rejoice, bridge that leads to heaven; Rejoice, ladder raised on high that Jacob saw; Rejoice, divine jar of manna; Rejoice, deliverance from the curse; Rejoice, restoration of Adam, the Lord is with you!'
"'You appeared to me in the form of a man,' said the undefiled maid to the chief of the heavenly hosts. 'How then do you speak to me of things that pass human power? For you have said that God shall be with me and shall take up his dwelling in my womb. How shall I become the spacious habitation and the holy place of him that rides upon the cherubim? (Psalm 18:10) Do not amuse me with deceit; for I have not known pleasure, I have not entered into wedlock. How then shall I bear a child?'
"Then the bodiless angel replied, 'When God so wills, the order of nature is overcome, and what is beyond humankind comes to pass. Believe that my sayings are true, all-holy and immaculate lady.' And she cried aloud, 'Let it be to me according to your word, and I shall bear him that is without flesh, who shall borrow flesh from me, that through this mingling he may lead humankind up to his ancient glory, for he alone has power so to do!'"(excerpt from STICHERA OF THE ANNUNCIATION)
More Homilies
December 8 2017 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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