January 21, 2020 Memorial of Saint Agnes, virgin and martyr

2020년 1월 21일 연중 제2주간 화요일  

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제1독서

  사무엘기 상. 16,1-13
그 무렵 1 주님께서 사무엘에게 말씀하셨다.
“너는 언제까지 이렇게 슬퍼하고만 있을 셈이냐?
나는 이미 사울을 이스라엘의 임금 자리에서 밀어냈다.
그러니 기름을 뿔에 채워 가지고 떠나라.
내가 너를 베들레헴 사람 이사이에게 보낸다.
내가 친히 그의 아들 가운데에서 임금이 될 사람을 하나 보아 두었다.”
2 사무엘이 여쭈었다. “제가 어떻게 갑니까?
사울이 그 소식을 들으면 저를 죽이려고 할 것입니다.”
그러자 주님께서 말씀하셨다.
“암송아지 한 마리를 끌고 가서, ‘주님께 제사를 드리러 왔다.’고 하여라.
3 그러면서 이사이를 제사에 초청하여라.
그다음에 네가 할 일을 내가 알려 주겠다.
너는 내가 일러 주는 이에게 나를 위하여 기름을 부어라.”
4 사무엘은 주님께서 이르시는 대로 하였다.
그가 베들레헴에 다다르자 그 성읍의 원로들이 떨면서 그를 맞았다.
그들은 “좋은 일로 오시는 겁니까?” 하고 물었다.
5 사무엘이 대답하였다.
“물론 좋은 일이지요. 나는 주님께 제사를 드리러 온 것이오.
그러니 몸을 거룩하게 하고 제사를 드리러 함께 갑시다.”
사무엘은 이사이와 그의 아들들을 거룩하게 한 다음
그들을 제사에 초청하였다.
6 그들이 왔을 때 사무엘은 엘리압을 보고,
‘주님의 기름부음받은이가 바로 주님 앞에 서 있구나.’ 하고 생각하였다.
7 그러나 주님께서는 사무엘에게 말씀하셨다.
“겉모습이나 키 큰 것만 보아서는 안 된다.
나는 이미 그를 배척하였다. 나는 사람들처럼 보지 않는다.
사람들은 눈에 들어오는 대로 보지만 주님은 마음을 본다.”
8 다음으로 이사이는 아비나답을 불러 사무엘 앞으로 지나가게 하였다.
그러나 사무엘은 “이 아이도 주님께서 뽑으신 이가 아니오.” 하였다.
9 이사이가 다시 삼마를 지나가게 하였지만,
사무엘은 “이 아이도 주님께서 뽑으신 이가 아니오.” 하였다.
10 이렇게 이사이가 아들 일곱을 사무엘 앞으로 지나가게 하였으나,
사무엘은 이사이에게 “이들 가운데에는 주님께서 뽑으신 이가 없소.” 하였다.
11 사무엘이 이사이에게 “아들들이 다 모인 겁니까?” 하고 묻자,
이사이는 “막내가 아직 남아 있지만,
지금 양을 치고 있습니다.” 하고 대답하였다.
사무엘이 이사이에게 말하였다.
“사람을 보내 데려오시오.
그가 여기 올 때까지 우리는 식탁에 앉을 수가 없소.”
12 그래서 이사이는 사람을 보내어 그를 데려왔다.
그는 볼이 불그레하고 눈매가 아름다운 잘생긴 아이였다.
주님께서 “바로 이 아이다.
일어나 이 아이에게 기름을 부어라.” 하고 말씀하셨다.
13 사무엘은 기름이 담긴 뿔을 들고
형들 한가운데에서 그에게 기름을 부었다.
그러자 주님의 영이 다윗에게 들이닥쳐 그날부터 줄곧 그에게 머물렀다.
사무엘은 그곳을 떠나 라마로 갔다.

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 마르코. 2,23-28
23 예수님께서 안식일에 밀밭 사이를 질러가시게 되었다.
그런데 그분의 제자들이 길을 내고 가면서 밀 이삭을 뜯기 시작하였다.
24 바리사이들이 예수님께 말하였다.
“보십시오, 저들은 어째서 안식일에 해서는 안 되는 일을 합니까?”
25 그러자 예수님께서 그들에게 말씀하셨다.
“다윗과 그 일행이 먹을 것이 없어 배가 고팠을 때,
다윗이 어떻게 하였는지 너희는 읽어 본 적이 없느냐?
26 에브야타르 대사제 때에 그가 하느님의 집에 들어가,
사제가 아니면 먹어서는 안 되는 제사 빵을 먹고
함께 있는 이들에게도 주지 않았느냐?”
27 이어서 그들에게 말씀하셨다.
“안식일이 사람을 위하여 생긴 것이지,
사람이 안식일을 위하여 생긴 것은 아니다.
28 그러므로 사람의 아들은 또한 안식일의 주인이다.”

January 21, 2020 

Memorial of Saint Agnes, virgin and martyr

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1 

1 Sm 16:1-13

The LORD said to Samuel:
"How long will you grieve for Saul,
whom I have rejected as king of Israel?
Fill your horn with oil, and be on your way.
I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem,
for I have chosen my king from among his sons."
But Samuel replied:
"How can I go?
Saul will hear of it and kill me."
To this the LORD answered:
"Take a heifer along and say,
'I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'
Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I myself will tell you what to do;
you are to anoint for me the one I point out to you."

Samuel did as the LORD had commanded him.
When he entered Bethlehem,
the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and inquired,
"Is your visit peaceful, O seer?"
He replied:
"Yes! I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.
So cleanse yourselves and join me today for the banquet."
He also had Jesse and his sons cleanse themselves
and invited them to the sacrifice.
As they came, he looked at Eliab and thought,
"Surely the LORD's anointed is here before him."
But the LORD said to Samuel:
"Do not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature,
because I have rejected him.
Not as man sees does God see,
because he sees the appearance
but the LORD looks into the heart."
Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him before Samuel,
who said, "The LORD has not chosen him."
Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said,
"The LORD has not chosen this one either."
In the same way Jesse presented seven sons before Samuel,
but Samuel said to Jesse,
"The LORD has not chosen any one of these."
Then Samuel asked Jesse,
"Are these all the sons you have?"
Jesse replied,
"There is still the youngest, who is tending the sheep."
Samuel said to Jesse,
"Send for him;
we will not begin the sacrificial banquet until he arrives here."
Jesse sent and had the young man brought to them.
He was ruddy, a youth handsome to behold
and making a splendid appearance.
The LORD said,
"There - anoint him, for this is he!"
Then Samuel, with the horn of oil in hand,
anointed him in the midst of his brothers;
and from that day on, the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David.
When Samuel took his leave, he went to Ramah.

 

Responsorial Psalm 

Ps 89:20, 21-22, 27-28

R. (21a) I have found David, my servant.
Once you spoke in a vision,
and to your faithful ones you said:
on a champion I have placed a crown;
over the people I have set a youth."
R. I have found David, my servant.
"I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him,
That my hand may be always with him,
and that my arm may make him strong."
R. I have found David, my servant.
"He shall say of me, 'You are my father,
my God, the Rock, my savior.'
And I will make him the first-born,
highest of the kings of the earth."
R. I have found David, my servant.

 

Gospel 

Mk 2:23-28

As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath,
his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.
At this the Pharisees said to him,
"Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?"
He said to them,
"Have you never read what David did
when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry?
How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest
and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat,
and shared it with his companions?"
Then he said to them,
"The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.
That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath

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 «The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath»

Fr. Ignasi FABREGAT i Torrents
(Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain)

Today, as yesterday, Jesus has to contend with the Pharisees, who are distorting Moses' Law, by highlighting the letter of the law while ignoring the actual spirit of the Law. The Pharisees accuse, indeed, Jesus' disciples of violating the Sabbath (cf. Mk 2:24). According to their overwhelming casuistry, to pick the heads of grain means “to reap”, while crushing them in their hands signifies “to thresh”: these agricultural tasks —and some forty other— were forbidden on the Sabbath, as a day of rest. As we already know, the breads of offering the Gospel speaks of, were twelve breads that were placed every week in the sanctuary table, as a tribute from the twelve tribes of Israel to their God and Lord.

Abiathar's attitude is the same one Jesus is teaching us today: the less important precepts of the Law have to give way before the most important ones; a ceremonial precept has to give way to a precept of the natural law; the precept of resting on the Sabbath should not, therefore, prevail over the basic needs of subsistence. The II Vatican Council, was inspired by the previous example, and to underline that people have to prevail over economic and social questions, says: «Social order and its progressive development have to subordinate always to persons' welfare, because things are made for man and not the other way round. The Lord pointed it out already when He said the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath (cf. Mk 2:27)».

Saint Augustine also says: «Love and do as you please». Have you understood it well or are you still under the obsession secondary things overrule the love we have to place on whatever we do? To work, forgive, correct, attend Mass on Sundays, take care of sick people, abide by the commandments..., do we do it because we have to or because of our love for God? If only these considerations may help us to revitalize all our deeds with the love our Lord has instilled in our hearts, precisely so that we can also love him.

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This passage from the Old Testament today describes a huge ‘Cinderella” story of great significance for the Jewish people. The anointing of David by God through the engagement of Samuel was a rebuke of Saul falling away from his faith. In Samuel’s task, evaluating the sons of Jesse, even he fell into the trap of only looking at the outward appearance of a person as a criterion to be used in determining who is worthy of being a king. The lesson we must learn is that we can’t read the secrets of another’s heart and we often do only judge on outward appearance. Samuel needed to know his natural inclination was judge only on outward appearance, but he didn’t have to give into it. He could seek the Lord and seek God’s heart and mind when looking at people. This is as it is for us. God was exhorting Samuel to Godly thinking. God can judge a person’s inner life and their inner heart. While God does not ask us to have that gift, the imperative is not to let the outward appearance—indeed the values of the world—interfere with our getting a sense of the real nature of the people God brings into our lives. We also often tend to pick our leaders based on our society's norms about appearance. For example, for the last century or more, the taller of the two final presidential candidates has almost always won. What a powerful, message that this text has to offer us and our times!

“Do not judge from his appearance of from his lofty stature, because I have rejected him. Not as man sees does God see, because he sees the appearance, but the Lord looks into the heart.”

There is also a lesson for us in David himself. David, the future King of Israel, was tending sheep as he was brought before Samuel. Keeping sheep was a servant’s job. A shepherd has time to think and contemplate God’s creation. A shepherd has a special heart for the flock, and a special trust in God in the midst of the dangers that the flock may face. David’s years keeping the sheep were not wasted. It was a time of preparation and training as David became great king over Israel because he never lost his shepherd’s heart.

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ANOINTED OR DEFEATED?

"Samuel, with the horn of oil in hand, anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and from that day on, the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David." �1 Samuel 16:13

Samuel had anointed Saul, but Saul had been unfaithful. Samuel grieved over Saul's unfaithfulness, but the Lord told Samuel to quit crying and to anoint someone else (1 Sm 16:1ff). We likewise need to quit bemoaning the evils of our time and proceed to anoint others. This means that we should lead people to be baptized into Jesus (see Acts 2:38), to receive the anointings of Baptism and also Confirmation. We should also devote our lives to helping the two billion baptized people in the world live their Baptisms to the full. The title "Christ" means "anointed one." We who are baptized into Christ are "anointed ones." Through our anointings, we have all the wisdom, power, and love to transform the world for Jesus. We need only live our anointings, especially by leading others to the anointed life in Christ. How could two billion Christians anointed with the power of the Holy Spirit fail to transform the world and to hasten the final coming of the Christ? only if we fail to live our anointings can we falter. Therefore, let us be Christians to the full. Nothing more or less is necessary to renew the face of the earth (see Ps 104:30).

Prayer: Father, by my life may many people change the way they think of Christians. Make me like Christ.

Promise: "With My holy oil I have anointed him, that My hand may be always with him, and that My arm may make him strong." —Ps 89:21-22

Praise: St. Agnes' witness to virginity earned her a martyr's crown. Throughout the history of the Church, she has been justly honored as the patron saint of purity. She is one of the best known and most highly regarded of the Roman martyrs.

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 "The Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath"

What does the commandment "keep holy the Sabbath" require of us? Or better yet, what is the primary intention behind this command? The religious leaders confronted Jesus on this issue. The "Sabbath rest" was meant to be a time to remember and celebrate God's goodness and the goodness of his work, both in creation and redemption. It was a day set apart for the praise of God, his work of creation, and his saving actions on our behalf. It was intended to bring everyday work to a halt and to provide needed rest and refreshment.

The Lord of the Sabbath feeds and nourishes us
Jesus' disciples are scolded by the scribes and Pharisees, not for plucking and eating corn from the fields, but for doing so on the Sabbath. In defending his disciples, Jesus argues from the Scriptures that human need has precedence over ritual custom.

When David and his men were fleeing for their lives, they sought food from Ahimelech the priest (1 Samuel 21:1-6). The only bread he had was the holy bread offered in the Temple. on every Sabbath morning twelves loaves were laid before God on a golden table in the Holy Place. Each loaf represented one of the twelve tribes of Israel. No one was allowed to eat this bread except the priests because it represented the very presence of God. In their hunger and need for physical nourishment and strength, David and his men ate of this bread which Ahimelech offered to them.

Seek the Lord's rest and refreshment
Why didn't the Pharisees recognize the claims of mercy over rules and regulations? Their zeal for ritual observance blinded them from the demands of charity. Jesus reminds the Pharisees that the Sabbath was given for our benefit, to refresh and renew us in living for God. It was intended for good and not for evil. Withholding mercy and kindness in response to human need was not part of God’s intention that we rest from unnecessary labor.

Jesus' reference to the bread of the Presence (Mark 2:24) alludes to the true bread from heaven which he offers to all who believe in him. Jesus, the Son of David, and the Son of Man, a title for the Messiah, declares that he is "Lord of the Sabbath." Jesus healed on the Sabbath and he showed mercy to those in need. All who are burdened and weary can find true rest and refreshment in him. Do you honor the Lord in the way you treat your neighbor and celebrate the Lord's Day?

"Lord Jesus, may I give you fitting honor in the way I live my life and treat my neighbor. May I honor the Lord's Day as a day holy to you. And may I always treat others with the same mercy and kindness which you have shown to me. Free me from a critical and intolerant spirit that I may always seek the good of my neighbor."

Psalm 111:1-2,5-6,9-10c

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.
5 He provides food for those who fear him; he is ever mindful of his covenant.
6 He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.
9 He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant for ever.  Holy and awesome is his name!
10 His praise endures for ever!

Daily Quote from the early church fathers: The Lord of the Sabbath, by John Chrysostom, 547-407 A.D.

    "Doubtless he speaks of himself when he mentions the 'Lord of the sabbath' (Mark 2:28, Matthew 12:8, Luke 6:5).  Mark relates a complementary saying about our common human nature, that “the sabbath was made for humans, not humans for the sabbath (Mark 2:27). Why then should someone who gathered sticks on the sabbath be censured? The law that was established earlier could not be scorned without jeopardizing the law to be given later.
    "The sabbath did confer many benefits, great blessings in the earlier dispensation. It made people more gentle toward those close to them. It guided them toward being more sympathetic. It located them temporally within God's creation and providence, as Ezekiel knew (Ezekiel 20:19-20). The sabbath trained Israel by degrees to abstain from evil and disposed them to listen to the things of the Spirit.
    "They would have stretched the law out of shape if, when he was giving the law of the sabbath, Jesus had said, 'You can work on the sabbath, but just do good works, do nothing evil.' This would have brought out the worst in them. So he restrained them from doing any works at all on the sabbath. And even this stricter prohibition did not keep them in line. But he himself, in the very act of giving the law of the sabbath, gave them a veiled sign of things to come. For by saying, 'You must do no work, except what shall be done for your life' (Exodus 12:16), he indicated that the intent of the law was to have them refrain from evil works only, not all works. Even in the temple, much went on during the sabbath, and with great diligence and double toil. Thus even by this very shadowy saying Jesus was secretly opening the truth to them. Did Christ then attempt to repeal a law so beneficial as the sabbath law? Far from it. Rather, he greatly magnified the sabbath. For with Christ came the time for everyone to be trained by a higher requirement." (excerpt from THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 39.3)

  

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