2020년 1월 3일 주님 공현 전 금요일
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제1독서
요한 1서. 2,29─3,6
사랑하는 여러분, 하느님께서 29 의로우신 분이심을 깨달으면,
의로운 일을 실천하는 사람들이 모두
하느님에게서 태어났다는 것도 알게 됩니다.
3,1 아버지께서 우리에게 얼마나 큰 사랑을 주시어
우리가 하느님의 자녀라 불리게 되었는지 생각해 보십시오.
과연 우리는 그분의 자녀입니다.
세상이 우리를 알지 못하는 까닭은
세상이 그분을 알지 못하였기 때문입니다.
2 사랑하는 여러분, 이제 우리는 하느님의 자녀입니다.
우리가 어떻게 될지는 아직 드러나지 않았지만,
그분께서 나타나시면 우리도 그분처럼 되리라는 것은 알고 있습니다.
그분을 있는 그대로 뵙게 될 것이기 때문입니다.
3 그분께 이러한 희망을 두는 사람은 모두,
그리스도께서 순결하신 것처럼 자신도 순결하게 합니다.
4 죄를 저지르는 자는 모두 불법을 자행하는 자입니다.
죄는 곧 불법입니다.
5 여러분도 알다시피, 그분께서는 죄를 없애시려고 나타나셨던 것입니다.
그분 안에는 죄가 없습니다.
6 그분 안에 머무르는 사람은 아무도 죄를 짓지 않습니다.
죄를 짓는 자는 모두 그분을 뵙지도 못하고 알지도 못한 자입니다.
복음
요한. 1,29-34
그때에 29 요한은 예수님께서 자기 쪽으로 오시는 것을 보고 말하였다.
“보라, 세상의 죄를 없애시는 하느님의 어린양이시다.
30 저분은, ‘내 뒤에 한 분이 오시는데,
내가 나기 전부터 계셨기에 나보다 앞서신 분이시다.’ 하고
내가 전에 말한 분이시다.
31 나도 저분을 알지 못하였다.
내가 와서 물로 세례를 준 것은,
저분께서 이스라엘에 알려지시게 하려는 것이었다.”
32 요한은 또 증언하였다.
“나는 성령께서 비둘기처럼 하늘에서 내려오시어
저분 위에 머무르시는 것을 보았다.
33 나도 저분을 알지 못하였다.
그러나 물로 세례를 주라고 나를 보내신 그분께서 나에게 일러 주셨다.
‘성령이 내려와 어떤 분 위에 머무르는 것을 네가 볼 터인데,
바로 그분이 성령으로 세례를 주시는 분이다.’
34 과연 나는 보았다.
그래서 저분이 하느님의 아드님이시라고 내가 증언하였다.”
January 3, 2020
Christmas Weekday
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1
1 Jn 2:29-3:6
you also know that everyone who acts in righteousness
is begotten by him.
See what love the Father has bestowed on us
that we may be called the children of God.
Yet so we are.
The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Beloved, we are God's children now;
what we shall be has not yet been revealed.
We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he is.
Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure,
as he is pure.
Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness,
for sin is lawlessness.
You know that he was revealed to take away sins,
and in him there is no sin.
No one who remains in him sins;
no one who sins has seen him or known him.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 98:1, 3cd-4, 5-6
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. All the ends of the earth have seen the saving power of God.
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. All the ends of the earth have seen the saving power of God.
Sing praise to the LORD with the harp,
with the harp and melodious song.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
sing joyfully before the King, the LORD.
R. All the ends of the earth have seen the saving power of God.
Gospel
Jn 1:29-34
"Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
He is the one of whom I said,
'A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me
because he existed before me.'
I did not know him,
but the reason why I came baptizing with water
was that he might be made known to Israel."
John testified further, saying,
"I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from the sky
and remain upon him.
I did not know him,
but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me,
'on whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain,
he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.'
Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God."
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«I have seen! And I declare that this is the Chosen one of God»
Fr. Higinio Rafael ROSOLEN IVE
(Cobourg, ontario, Canada)
Today, St. John the Baptist testifies about the baptism of Jesus. Pope Francis reminded us «Baptism is the Sacrament on which our faith is based, and which grafts us to Christ and His Church, as living members”; and added: "It is not a mere formality! It is an act that touches the depth of our existence” A baptized child is not the same than a non-baptized child. A baptized person is not the same than a non-baptized person. “With the Baptism, we are immersed in that inexhaustible fount of life that is the death of Jesus, the greatest act of love of all history; and thanks to this love we are able to live a new life, no longer at the mercy of evil, sin and death, but rather in communion with God and with our brothers»
We have listened to the two main effects of Baptism taught in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (p. 1262-1266):
«Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world» (Jn 1:29). one effect of Baptism is the purification from sins, that is, all sins are forgiven, original sin and all personal sins as well as all the penalties of sin.
«The Spirit comes down», «baptizes with the Holy Spirit» (John 1.33): Baptism makes us become a "new creation", God’s foster children sharing the divine nature, members of Christ, joint-heirs with Him and temples of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit — gives us the sanctifying grace, which makes us capable of believing in God, to wait on Him and to love Him; to live and act under the motion of the Holy Spirit through its gifts; to grow in goodness through the moral virtues.
Let us therefore ask, as Pope Francis urges us, «for the grace of the memory of our Baptism», «living out our Baptism every day as the present reality in our lives».
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See what love the Father has bestowed on us
that we may be called the children of God. ...
The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ...
We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he is. - 1 John 2
“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. ...
‘On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain,
he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’" - John 1
John is marvelous in his simplicity. He just says what we know, but have a hard time experiencing sometimes. The reason the world doesn't embrace "us" - followers of Jesus - and the way of Jesus lived out in the real world - is that the world just doesn't know Jesus.
Each of us can reflect on where we are, in terms of knowing Jesus. Each of us can probably relate to a time when we knew "about" Jesus, and may have "practiced" that faith, to one degree or another. But, the experience of knowing Jesus - experiencing his love and mercy, personally - is quite powerful. It is freeing, emboldening, and it sets us apart from the world around us and its ways.
Take the word "success." Our world has a variety of ways of describing success and what a successful person looks like, or signs of achieving success. Our world's language has ways of describing a successful family, a successful career, or even what we mean when we say our children have become successful. We know what those signs are. In some ways, they will have to do with honor, money, status. once we know Jesus, personally - once that encounter with his unconditional love and mercy has overwhelmed us - everything changes. Success is then defined in terms of whatever helps me become closer to him and his ways. It involves humility, dying to myself, and service of others and the common good. Ultimately, it means taking on his mission to include others, forgive them, heal them, and share with them the joy of the Good News of his love. And, the sign of that highest degree of success is that we will embrace the gift of eternal life with him forever in heaven.
That's why St. Ignatius speaks of the spiritual journey as the "reformation of our desires." It's about what I want; what I seek; what attracts me and motivates me. When I experience Jesus' love - for me personally - my desires change. Love always does that. I love the one who loves me. The Christian ethic is no longer "avoiding sin, when I can" (while persuing what pleases me or appears to be the goal of success in the world). The Christian life becomes the desire to thrive as a human person on fire with Jesus' love and his mission. Jesus told us, "They'll know you are my disciples by the love you have for one another." (John 13:35). My desires are formed by the one who loves me and with whom I am falling in love.
This is how Jesus is introduced at the beginning of John's gospel: The Lamb of God. He is the one whose sacrifice will save us from our sin. Behold God's Mercy! John says that Jesus will baptize us with the Holy Spirit. We won't just be "washed," we'll be set on fire.
On the next day - tomorrow's gospel - John points out Jesus again. "Behold the Lamb of God." The two disciples turn toward Jesus and Jesus turns toward them, and the first words of Jesus in John's gospel are, "What are you looking for?" These are always the words Jesus addresses to us when we turn to him. He doesn't approach us with a rule book - Do this and you can follow me! He first asks where our heart is. He asks about our desires. The first two disciples don't know what to say, so they ask "What do you live." (The word for "home" wlll be key in this gospel, where Jesus will say, "Make your home in me, as I make mine in you." (John 15:4) Jesus respondes, as he always does to us: "Come, and see." The disciples went and spent the day with him.
No matter where we are, what shape we're in spiritually, how confused we are, how much we are hurting or angry or sad - Jesus always invites us to come to him and to see where this new "home" for us is. It will often lead us to row against the strong current around us. What we will discover is complete love, which feels for us and with us, and desires only our healing, our peace and our true fulfillment. And, his Holy Spirit will lift us up and help us join him in renewing the face of the earth.
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CHRISTMAS ENDS WITH PENTECOST | ||
| "When you see the Spirit descend and rest on Someone, it is He Who is to baptize with the Holy Spirit." �John 1:33 | ||
The finale of the Christmas season is not Christmas day or even Epiphany but the Baptism of Jesus. This is more emphasized in the Eastern Church. Christmas is Trinitarian. Christmas is to the Father, through the Son, and in the Spirit. Christmas is focused on Christ and culminates in the Holy Spirit, the only true Christmas Spirit. Thus, we should be looking to conclude the Christmas season by having the Holy Spirit stirred into flame in our lives (see 2 Tm 1:6-7). In a way, the Christmas season ends as Easter does � with a new Pentecost. In our Baptism, Jesus has immersed us in the Holy Spirit (see Jn 1:33). We should be preoccupied with the Holy Spirit. However, we can fall into the temptation of being preoccupied with ourselves. The Lord teaches through the Church: "The more we renounce ourselves, the more we 'walk by the Spirit' " (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 736). The Spirit poured out within us fights against our selfishness (Gal 5:17). By the Spirit, we can "put to death the evil deeds of the body" (Rm 8:13). In these last nine days of the Christmas season, let us not merely "have the Christmas spirit" but may the Holy Spirit of Christmas have us. Then we will truly have a great Christmas. | ||
| Prayer: Father, give me Christmas by Your standards. | ||
| Promise: "See what love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called children of God. Yet that is what we are." —1 Jn 3:1 | ||
| Praise: "The apostles for their part left the Sanhedrin full of joy that they had been judged worthy of ill-treatment for the sake of the Name" (Acts 5:41). "At the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow." |
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
"Behold the Lamb of God!"
John calls Jesus the Lamb of God and thus signifies Jesus' mission as the one who redeems us from our sins. The blood of the Passover Lamb (Exodus 12) delivered the Israelites in Egypt from slavery and death. The Lord Jesus freely offered up his life for us on the cross as the atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 Corinthians 5:7). The blood which he poured out for us on the cross cleanses, heals, and frees us from our slavery to sin, and from the "wages of sin which is death" (Romans 6:23) and the "destruction of both body and soul in hell" (Matthew 10:28).
John points to Jesus' saving mission - to offer up his life as the atoning sacrifice for our sins
It is significant that John was the son of Zachariah, a priest of Israel who participated in the daily sacrifice of a lamb in the temple for the sins of the people (Exodus 29). John recognized that Jesus was the perfect unblemished lamb offered by the Father in heaven as the one and only sacrifice that could cancel the debt of sin, and free us from death and the destruction of body and soul in hell.
The Holy Spirit reveals who Jesus truly is - the Son of God and Savior of the world
When John says he did not know Jesus (John 1:31,33) he was referring to the hidden reality of Jesus' divinity. But the Holy Spirit in that hour revealed to John Jesus' true nature, such that John bore witness that this is the Son of God. How can we be certain that Jesus is truly the Christ, the Son of the living God? The Holy Spirit makes the Lord Jesus Christ known to us through the gift of faith. God gives us his Spirit as our helper and guide who opens our hearts and minds to receive and comprehend the great mystery and plan of God - to unite all things in his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:10).
Do you want to grow in the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ? Ask the Lord to pour his Holy Spirit upon you to deepen your faith, hope, and love for God and for the plan he has for your life.
"Lord Jesus Christ, fill me with the power of your Holy Spirit and let me grow in the knowledge of your great love and truth. Let your Spirit be aflame in my heart that I may know and love you more fervently and strive to do your will in all things."
Psalm 98:1,3b-6
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.
3b 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!
5 Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody!
6 With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD!
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: John points to Jesus' saving mission, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"No longer does John need to 'prepare the way,' since the one for whom the preparation was being made is right there before his eyes... But now he who of old was dimly pictured, the very Lamb, the spotless Sacrifice, is led to the slaughter for all, that he might drive away the sin of the world, that he might overturn the destroyer of the earth, that dying for all he might annihilate death, that he might undo the curse that is upon us... For one Lamb died for all (2 Corinthians 5:14), saving the whole flock on earth to God the Father, one for all, that he might subject all to God." (excerpt from the COMMENTARY on THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 2.1)
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