2020년 1월 1일 천주의 성모 마리아 대축일 (세계 평화의 날)
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제1독서
민수기 6,22-27
22 주님께서 모세에게 이르셨다.
23 “아론과 그의 아들들에게 일러라.
‘너희는 이렇게 말하면서 이스라엘 자손들에게 축복하여라.
24 ′주님께서 그대에게 복을 내리시고 그대를 지켜 주시리라.
25 주님께서 그대에게 당신 얼굴을 비추시고 그대에게 은혜를 베푸시리라.
26 주님께서 그대에게 당신 얼굴을 들어 보이시고
그대에게 평화를 베푸시리라.′’
27 그들이 이렇게 이스라엘 자손들 위로 나의 이름을 부르면,
내가 그들에게 복을 내리겠다.”
제2독서
갈라티아서. 4,4-7
형제 여러분, 4 때가 차자 하느님께서 당신의 아드님을 보내시어
여인에게서 태어나 율법 아래 놓이게 하셨습니다.
5 율법 아래 있는 이들을 속량하시어
우리가 하느님의 자녀 되는 자격을 얻게 하시려는 것이었습니다.
6 진정 여러분이 자녀이기 때문에
하느님께서 당신 아드님의 영을 우리 마음 안에 보내 주셨습니다.
그 영께서 “아빠! 아버지!” 하고 외치고 계십니다.
7 그러므로 그대는 더 이상 종이 아니라 자녀입니다.
그리고 자녀라면 하느님께서 세워 주신 상속자이기도 합니다.
복음
루카. 2,16-21
그때에 목자들이 베들레헴으로 16 서둘러 가서,
마리아와 요셉과 구유에 누운 아기를 찾아냈다.
17 목자들은 아기를 보고 나서, 그 아기에 관하여 들은 말을 알려 주었다.
18 그것을 들은 이들은 모두 목자들이 자기들에게 전한 말에 놀라워하였다.
19 그러나 마리아는 이 모든 일을 마음속에 간직하고 곰곰이 되새겼다.
20 목자들은 천사가 자기들에게 말한 대로 듣고 본 모든 것에 대하여
하느님을 찬양하고 찬미하며 돌아갔다.
21 여드레가 차서 아기에게 할례를 베풀게 되자 그 이름을 예수라고 하였다.
그것은 아기가 잉태되기 전에 천사가 일러 준 이름이었다.
January 1, 2020
The Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading
1 Nm 6:22-27
"Speak to Aaron and his sons and tell them:
This is how you shall bless the Israelites.
Say to them:
The LORD bless you and keep you!
The LORD let his face shine upon
you, and be gracious to you!
The LORD look upon you kindly and
give you peace!
So shall they invoke my name upon the Israelites,
and I will bless them."
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. May God bless us in his mercy.
May the nations be glad and exult
because you rule the peoples in equity;
the nations on the earth you guide.
R. May God bless us in his mercy.
May the peoples praise you, O God;
may all the peoples praise you!
May God bless us,
and may all the ends of the earth fear him!
R. May God bless us in his mercy.
Reading
2 Gal 4:4-7
When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son,
born of a woman, born under the law,
to ransom those under the law,
so that we might receive adoption as sons.
As proof that you are sons,
God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts,
crying out, "Abba, Father!"
So you are no longer a slave but a son,
and if a son then also an heir, through God.
Gospel
Lk 2:16-21
and the infant lying in the manger.
When they saw this,
they made known the message
that had been told them about this child.
All who heard it were amazed
by what had been told them by the shepherds.
And Mary kept all these things,
reflecting on them in her heart.
Then the shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God
for all they had heard and seen,
just as it had been told to them.
When eight days were completed for his circumcision,
he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel
before he was conceived in the womb.
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«The shepherds came hurriedly and found Mary and Joseph with the baby lying in the manger»
Fr. Manel VALLS i Serra
(Barcelona, Spain)
Today, the Church gratefully reflects on the Virgin's maternity as a model of her own motherhood of all of us. Luke offers the “meeting” of the shepherds and the Boy, who is with Mary —His mother— and with Joseph. Joseph's discreet presence reflects his important mission as guardian of the great mystery of the Son of God. All together, shepherds, Mary and Joseph, «with the baby lying in the manger» (Lk 2:16) form a beautiful image of the Church in adoration.
“The manger”: Jesus is placed there as a veiled reference to the Eucharist. It was Mary who put Him there! Luke speaks of an “encounter”, of a meeting between the shepherds and Jesus. Faith does not materialize without the personal experience of an encounter with the Lord. only that meeting, which has brought with it “seeing”, and in a way “touching”, allows the shepherds to become witnesses of the Good News, true evangelists who can «relate what they had been told about the child» (Lk 2:17).
A first fruit of the “encounter” is pointed out for us here: «and all were astonished on hearing the shepherds» (Lk 2:18). We need to ask for the grace of being able to arouse that fascination, that admiration in those to with whom we talk about the Gospel.
There is still a second fruit of this encounter: «The shepherds then returned giving glory and praise to God for all they had heard and seen» (Lk 2:20). The adoration of the Child fills their hearts with enthusiasm for communicating what they have seen and felt, and the communication of what they have seen leads them to prayer and thanksgiving, to the glorification of the Lord.
Maria, example of contemplation —«she treasured all these messages and continually pondered over them» (Lk 2:19)— gave us Jesus, whose name means “God Saves”. His name is our Peace too. Let's accept his holy and sweet Name in our hearts and have it on our lips often!
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
The liturgical season can be a roller coaster ride. We ended the liturgical year by celebrating Christ the King and then entered Advent, preparing for the birth of a newborn infant, our king and savior. The Church devotes an entire octave to celebrate this historic birth. And now the roller coaster ride levels off a bit as we celebrate the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. Our readings exhibit a tenderness that we sometimes forget is present in Scripture.
The LORD bless you and keep you! The LORD let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you! The LORD look upon you kindly and give you peace!
How do we receive blessings from the Lord? Do we bless each other with the same tenderness God shows us?
God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
How do we receive God in our hearts? Do we receive each other with the same tenderness?
And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart. Then the shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God.
How do we respond to God’s love and blessing? Do we respond to each other with the same tenderness?
As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Mother of God, we are reminded of God’s tenderness. The earthly parental love of God contrasts with the lofty image of Christ the King. Both images are important and invite both reflection in our hearts and praise for our God. Yet, the emphasis on parental tenderness in today’s readings raises an important challenge. Just as God shows tenderness to us, we must show tenderness to one another.
After over a month of over-eating, family visits and shopping in crowded stores, we may have tired of the roller coaster ride known as the “holiday season.” Our nerves may be frayed, and we may feel on edge. And the same may be true of our loved ones and the stranger in our midst. So, the importance to treat all with loving tenderness is even greater.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
PEACE-MONGER | ||
| "The Lord look upon you kindly and give you peace!" �Numbers 6:26 | ||
Mary bore Jesus, the "Prince of Peace" (Is 9:5). Mary is called the Queen of Peace. "When the designated time had come" (Gal 4:4), she bore (Mi 5:2) a child "Who is our Peace" (Eph 2:14; see also Mi 5:4). This Child came "to make peace" (Eph 2:15) and announce the "good news of peace" (Eph 2:17). Jesus made "peace through the blood of His cross" (Col 1:20). How ironic that Mary, the woman of peace, was forced to live in such turmoil and sorrow. As a teenage mother, she had to flee to Egypt as a refugee in the middle of the night to save her Son from government soldiers who were trying to hunt Him down and assassinate Him (Mt 2:13ff). Even as she raised her Son "to guide our feet into the way of peace" (Lk 1:79), her heart was pierced many times with a sword of sorrow (Lk 2:35). Finally, Mary had to suffer the unspeakable agony of standing at the foot of the cross of her only Son, watching Him die a humiliating, excruciating death (Jn 19:25ff). With Mary, the blessed "peacemaker" (see Mt 5:9), begin this first day of the new year by praying for peace. on this World Day of Prayer for Peace, join Mary, Queen of Peace, in asking her Son, the Prince of Peace, for shalom-peace for our world. | ||
| Prayer: Father, may I make "every effort to preserve the unity which has the Spirit as its origin and peace as its binding force" (Eph 4:3). | ||
| Promise: "You are no longer a slave but a son!" —Gal 4:7 | ||
| Praise: "We believe that the Holy Mother of God, the new Eve, Mother of the Church, continues in heaven to exercise her maternal role on behalf of the members of Christ" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 975). Praise You, Lord, for sending Mary as our mother. |
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
"He was called Jesus"
What's the significance of a name? For the Jewish people the giving of a name had great importance. When a name was given it represented what that person should be in the future. An unknown name meant that someone could not be completely known. To not acknowledge someone's name meant both denial of the person, destruction of their personality, and change in their destiny. A person's name expressed the reality of his or her being at its deepest level. A Jewish male child was named at the time of circumcision, eight days after birth. This rite was instituted by God as an outward sign to single out those who belonged to the chosen people (Genesis 17:10-12). It was a sign of the covenant that God made with Abraham and his posterity.
Jesus - the eternal Son of God who was born of a woman to become our Savior
In fulfilment of this precept, Mary's newborn child is given the name Jesus on the eighth day according to the Jewish custom. Joseph and Mary gave the name Jesus because that is the name given by God's messenger before Jesus was conceived in Mary's womb (Luke 1:31, Matthew 1:21). This name signifies Jesus' identity and his mission. The literal Hebrew means the Lord saves. Since God alone can forgive sins and free us from death, it is God who, in Jesus his eternal Son became a man to offer up his life as the atoning sacrifice to save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). The son that Mary bore is both God and man - the "Word who was God" (John 1:1) and who "became flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1:14). That is why Mary is not only called the mother of the Christ (the Greek word for Messiah in Hebrew) but also the mother of God or Theotokos in Greek which literally means "God bearer."
Jesus - the name above every other name
In the birth and naming of this child we see the wondrous design and plan of God in giving us a Savior who would bring us grace (the gift of God's favor), mercy, and freedom from the power of sin and the fear of death. The name Jesus signifies that the very name of God is present in the person of his Son who became man for our salvation. Peter the Apostle exclaimed that there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved (Acts 2:12). In the name of Jesus demons flee, cripples walk, the blind see, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised. His name is exalted far above every other name (Philippians 2:9-11).
The name Jesus is at the heart of all Christian prayer. It is through and in Jesus that we pray to the Father in the power of the Holy Spirit. Many Christians have died with one word on their lips, the name of Jesus. Do you exalt the name of Jesus and pray with confidence in his name?
"Lord Jesus Christ, I exalt your name above every other name. For in you I have pardon, mercy, grace and victory over sin and death. You humbled yourself for my sake and for the sake of all sinners by sharing in our humanity and by dying on the cross. Help me to always praise your holy name and to live for your greater glory."
Psalm 67
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: By Christ's faith, hope, and love we are purified, by Bede the Venerable, 672-735 A.D.
"He therefore received in the flesh the circumcision decreed by the law, although he appeared in the flesh absolutely without any blemish of pollution. He who came in the likeness of sinful flesh (Romans 8:3) - not in sinful flesh - did not turn away from the remedy by which sinful flesh was ordinarily made clean. Similarly, not because of necessity but for the sake of example, he also submitted to the water of baptism, by which he wanted the people of the new law of grace to be washed from the stain of sins...
"The reason 'the child who was born to us, the son who was given to us ' (Isaiah 9:6), received the name Jesus (that is, 'Savior') does not need explanation in order to be understood by us, but we need eager and vigilant zeal so that we too may be saved by sharing in his name. Indeed, we read how the angel interprets the name of Jesus: 'He will save his people from their sins' (Matthew 1:21). And without a doubt we believe and hope that the one who saves us from sins is not failing to save us also from the corruptions which happen because of sins, and from death itself, as the psalmist testifies when he says, 'Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases' (Psalm 103:3). Indeed, with the pardoning of all of our iniquities, all our diseases will be completely healed when, with the appearance of the glory of the resurrection, our last enemy, death, will be destroyed... We read that circumcision was done with knives made of rock (Joshua 5:2), and the rock was Christ (1 Corinthians 10:4). And by Christ's faith, hope and love the hearts of the good are purified not only in baptism but furthermore in every devout action. This daily circumcision of ours (that is, the continual cleansing of our heart) does not cease from always celebrating the sacrament of the eighth day. (excerpt from HOMILIES on THE GOSPELS 1.11)
http://www.homilies.net/
Mary Holy Mother of God
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God - Cycle C
Luke 2:16-21
Do you recall the story? Jesus was taking His morning walk through heaven. He met there nasty people who should be in the other place. Angrily He went to the front gates to bawl Peter out. In his defense, the apostle said, "Lord, when the unworthy come here, I chase them away and tell them to go to hell. But then they go to the back door, knock softly, and your mother sneaks them in." The Christ smiled and apologized to Peter. He promised to go fishing with him soon. Then He whistled softly as He went off to have lunch with Mozart and Bach.
Fulton Sheen gave a talk to priests in 1974. He began by quoting a professor from the University of California. The professor claimed that whenever one hears a good word about the Blessed Virgin Mary, one can be sure the author is a Protestant. Also he said if one reads a bad word about the Mother of God, one may suspect the author is a Catholic.
The memorable archbishop conceded that this was an exaggeration. But in the next breath he mentioned that "it must be said that two of the best books on the Blessed Virgin were written by Protestants." The first was called a Treatise on Mary by the monks of Taize. The second was Meditations on the Rosary by Methodist minister Neville Ward.
I leave you to your own judgment on the university professor's point and Sheen's reaction.
But what is certain is that our American bishops said that a recent August 15 Feast of the Assumption was not a Holy Day of obligation. It fell on a Monday. Accordingly, very few Catholics took themselves to Mass to honor this extraordinary woman. The parishes about me had but one Liturgy and that sparsely attended. Somehow I felt the only mother God ever had, in the words of Vincent McCorry, deserved much better.
Ironically, though, in that same month and year an edition of that most secular of magazines, The New Yorker, did not ignore the Virgin. The weekly in a full page piece alluded to a book The Jewish 100: a Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time. The author is a Jewish gentleman, Michael Shapiro. Predictably he placed Moses as number one. And Jesus was second. But what was surprising to The New Yorker editor was that Mr Shapiro listed Mary in his top 100.
The New Yorker speaks. "We put the question to Mr Shapiro: Why the Virgin Mary? 'She made the church user- friendly,' Mr Shapiro explained. 'She made it into a softer place.'"
Ironically enough, as Fulton Sheen might tell us, once again a non-Catholic was kind to our remarkable Mary. on the other hand, many of her own kinsfolk are very shabby to her.
Very few of us I wager would quibble with the on-target insights of Mary's fellow Jew, Michael Shapiro. She surely has made the Church user-friendly and a softer place. As Elizabeth Johnson has put it, "Mary embodies the female face of God. She does this as a merciful mother who will not let one of her children be lost." We are all in her debt for that dimension of her character in the now and here. Many of us may even be more in her debt at the time of our death.
But in fact Mr Shapiro is simply reminding us of an old concept. Artists of the medieval period often painted the Virgin with a voluminous cloak. Their inference was that all of us could get under it. There, if necessary, we could hide and seek sanctuary and support from her. She would be our own back door into Heaven.
I heard a preacher speak of a mother who goes each visiting day to spend time with her daughter in a psychiatric hospital. The daughter has been estranged from her for years. She refuses in the rudest way possible to meet with her mother. Still the next visiting day finds the mother back again hoping to speak with her child. The preacher wisely compared this mother to Mary who never gives up on anyone of us no matter how wretched we are.
Sheen said whenever there is a decline in purity or the sanctity of marriage, there is a decline in devotion to Mary. He says it falls on us to revive that devotion by reviving it in our lives. Would anyone quarrel with his conclusion?
Frjoeshomilies.net
Mary Holy Mother of God
There are three aspects to this feast that I wish to focus on, which, I hope, you'll find intertwined. Briefly the feast celebrates the Jewish origins of the Lord, secondly, it celebrates Mary, a Jewish girl whose faith resulted in the world having a special presence of God, and thirdly, the feast calls us to be firm in our resolution to make this child present in our worlds.
First of all, the gospel reading speaks about the circumcision of the Lord. In fact, years back this feast used to be called the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord. The medical, physical aspects of the procedure aside, circumcision was a statement that a person was in a covenant relationship with the God of Israel. The covenant, the strongest promise known to the ancient people, was simply that God would be present for the circumcised person as a caring and loving Father. The circumcised person, in turn, would live as a member of God's people. How about women? Women through marriage became one flesh with their husbands. They participated in the covenant without having to have the sign of the covenant.
Back to the guys. The gospel notes that Jesus was circumcised to point out that the Lord was in the heart of the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. He was not some sort of fringe outsider. Jesus was thoroughly a Jew, and, thoroughly the Jewish Messiah. Next Sunday we will celebrate the Epiphany emphasizing the invitation to the world to come and share in the presence of the Savior. Today, though, we celebrate the particular Jewish ancestry of the Lord. The meaning this has for us is that Jesus is the Promised one of Hebrew Scriptures. He is the very Word of God who gives meaning to Hebrew scriptures.
This leads to the second point, this is the feast of Mary, Mother of God. Mary was a Jewish girl, in the heart of the Jewish tradition that the will of God must be the driving force of her life. Her reaction to the angel, "Let it be done unto me according to God's will," demonstrates this. She was the perfect person to be the mother of God. She continually turned to the Lord, making God present not only physically, at Bethlehem, but spiritually wherever she was. To meet her would be to understand the quality of love the Lord was bringing to the world.
The paintings and statues of Mary that I like best are those that depict her as a young mother, holding up her baby for him to bless the world. As a man, I can never fathom what it must be like to hold in your arms the child that lived inside you for nine months. Does a mother see her husband, the baby’s father, in the infant? Does she see herself? I’m sure she see a unique individual that came from her yet is not her. A mother must experience love of a different type than she ever has experienced before. She also must experience love to a greater degree than she ever fathomed she could have.
What must have it been like for Mary to hold Jesus? Did she see herself? Did she see her family traits, her father’s eyes, her Uncle Solomon’s cleft chin? Did she see the baby’s Eternal Father, the First Person of the Trinity? Did Mary see in Jesus the Mercy of God, the Peace of God, the Compassion of God for his people, a people that struggled to get by in the darkness of a world that had rejected its Creator? How much did Mary love this child? Certainly, she loved him as much as every mother loves her child. But she must have loved him even more than this. She must have loved this child with, as the second preface for Advent says, a love beyond all telling. She loved the child created within her, and she loved the Creator whom the child perfectly reflected.
It is reasonable to depict Mary holding the child up for him to bless the world, to bless us. Her resolve to fulfill God’s plan for her and for all people resulted in our Savior becoming one of us. Mary is the only person in scripture to be present in every aspect of Jesus’ life--from his birth to his death. She is always there, saying to us: Look here is your Savior, my son.
Just as Mary was resolved to make God present in the world through her faith and obedience, we are called to make God present to the world. Even though the beginning of the Church year is the first Sunday of Advent, and even though we concentrate during Lent on those areas of our lives that need spiritual refining, it is still proper for us to consider New Year's resolutions regarding our faith. It is proper for each of us to consider, "What do I need to do to manifest a clearer presence of the Lord in the world." How can I utilize my own unique reflection of God, my own personality, in such a way that I, like Mary, can bring God to others? This is a good time of year to consider methods of fulfilling our obligations as Christians, the responsibility we took on when we were baptized, to make Jesus present to the world.
Joseph and Mary pondered in the hearts the mysteries of the presence of the Lord. You and I need to begin this year considering the mystery of Jesus’s presence in our lives. We need to search for ways to bring this presence to others. Like Mary, we have to hold Jesus up to a world that seeks His blessing, that yearns for His salvation.
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Mary Holy Mother of God
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