2020년 1월 22일 연중 제2주간 수요일
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제1독서
사무엘기 상. 17,32-33.37.40-51
그 무렵 32 다윗은 사울에게,
“아무도 저자 때문에 상심해서는 안 됩니다.
임금님의 종인 제가 나가서 저 필리스티아 사람과 싸우겠습니다.” 하고 말하였다.
33 그러자 사울은 다윗을 말렸다.
“너는 저 필리스티아 사람에게 마주 나가 싸우지 못한단다.
저자는 어렸을 때부터 전사였지만, 너는 아직도 소년이 아니냐?”
37 다윗이 말을 계속하였다.
“사자의 발톱과 곰의 발톱에서 저를 빼내 주신 주님께서
저 필리스티아 사람의 손에서도 저를 빼내 주실 것입니다.”
그제야 사울은 다윗에게 허락하였다.
“그러면 가거라. 주님께서 너와 함께 계시기를 빈다.”
40 그러고 나서 다윗은 자기의 막대기를 손에 들고,
개울가에서 매끄러운 돌멩이 다섯 개를 골라서
메고 있던 양치기 가방 주머니에 넣은 다음,
손에 무릿매 끈을 들고 그 필리스티아 사람에게 다가갔다.
41 필리스티아 사람도 방패병을 앞세우고 나서서
다윗에게 점점 가까이 다가왔다.
42 그런데 필리스티아 사람은 다윗을 보더니,
그가 볼이 불그레하고 용모가 아름다운 소년에 지나지 않았으므로
그를 업신여겼다.
43 필리스티아 사람이 다윗에게
“막대기를 들고 나에게 오다니, 내가 개란 말이냐?” 하고는,
자기 신들의 이름으로 다윗을 저주하였다.
44 필리스티아 사람이 다시 다윗에게 말하였다.
“이리 와라. 내가 너의 몸을 하늘의 새와 들짐승에게 넘겨주겠다.”
45 그러자 다윗이 필리스티아 사람에게 이렇게 맞대꾸하였다.
“너는 칼과 표창과 창을 들고 나왔지만,
나는 네가 모욕한 이스라엘 전열의 하느님이신 만군의 주님 이름으로 나왔다.
46 오늘 주님께서 너를 내 손에 넘겨주실 것이다.
나야말로 너를 쳐서 머리를 떨어뜨리고,
오늘 필리스티아인들 진영의 시체를 하늘의 새와 들짐승에게 넘겨주겠다.
그리하여 하느님께서 이스라엘에 계시다는 사실을 온 세상이 알게 하겠다.
47 또한 주님께서는 칼이나 창 따위로 구원하시지 않는다는 사실도,
여기 모인 온 무리가 이제 알게 하겠다.
전쟁은 주님께 달린 것이다.
그분께서 너희를 우리 손에 넘겨주실 것이다.”
48 필리스티아 사람이 다윗을 향하여 점점 가까이 다가오자,
다윗도 그 필리스티아 사람을 향하여 전열 쪽으로 날쌔게 달려갔다.
49 그러면서 다윗은 주머니에 손을 넣어 돌 하나를 꺼낸 다음,
무릿매질을 하여 필리스티아 사람의 이마를 맞혔다.
돌이 이마에 박히자 그는 땅바닥에 얼굴을 박고 쓰러졌다.
50 이렇게 다윗은 무릿매 끈과 돌멩이 하나로
그 필리스티아 사람을 누르고 그를 죽였다.
다윗은 손에 칼도 들지 않고 그를 죽인 것이다.
51 다윗은 달려가 그 필리스티아 사람을 밟고 선 채,
그의 칼집에서 칼을 뽑아 그를 죽이고 목을 베었다.
필리스티아인들은 저희 용사가 죽은 것을 보고 달아났다.
복음
마르코. 3,1-6
그때에 1 예수님께서 회당에 들어가셨는데,
그곳에 한쪽 손이 오그라든 사람이 있었다.
2 사람들은 예수님을 고발하려고,
그분께서 안식일에 그 사람을 고쳐 주시는지 지켜보고 있었다.
3 예수님께서 손이 오그라든 사람에게 “일어나 가운데로 나와라.” 하시고,
4 그들에게 말씀하셨다.
“안식일에 좋은 일을 하는 것이 합당하냐?
남을 해치는 일을 하는 것이 합당하냐?
목숨을 구하는 것이 합당하냐? 죽이는 것이 합당하냐?”
그러나 그들은 입을 열지 않았다.
5 그분께서는 노기를 띠시고 그들을 둘러보셨다.
그리고 그들의 마음이 완고한 것을 몹시 슬퍼하시면서 그 사람에게,
“손을 뻗어라.” 하고 말씀하셨다.
그가 손을 뻗자 그 손이 다시 성하여졌다.
6 바리사이들은 나가서 곧바로 헤로데 당원들과 더불어
예수님을 어떻게 없앨까 모의를 하였다.
January 22, 2020
Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1
1 Sm 17:32-33, 37, 40-51
"Let your majesty not lose courage.
I am at your service to go and fight this Philistine."
But Saul answered David,
"You cannot go up against this Philistine and fight with him,
for you are only a youth, while he has been a warrior from his youth."
David continued:
"The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear,
will also keep me safe from the clutches of this Philistine."
Saul answered David, "Go! the LORD will be with you."
Then, staff in hand, David selected five smooth stones from the wadi
and put them in the pocket of his shepherd's bag.
With his sling also ready to hand, he approached the Philistine.
With his shield bearer marching before him,
the Philistine also advanced closer and closer to David.
When he had sized David up,
and seen that he was youthful, and ruddy, and handsome in appearance,
the Philistine held David in contempt.
The Philistine said to David,
"Am I a dog that you come against me with a staff?"
Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods
and said to him, "Come here to me,
and I will leave your flesh for the birds of the air
and the beasts of the field."
David answered him:
"You come against me with sword and spear and scimitar,
but I come against you in the name of the LORD of hosts,
the God of the armies of Israel that you have insulted.
Today the LORD shall deliver you into my hand;
I will strike you down and cut off your head.
This very day I will leave your corpse
and the corpses of the Philistine army for the birds of the air
and the beasts of the field;
thus the whole land shall learn that Israel has a God.
All this multitude, too,
shall learn that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves.
For the battle is the LORD's and he shall deliver you into our hands."
The Philistine then moved to meet David at close quarters,
while David ran quickly toward the battle line
in the direction of the Philistine.
David put his hand into the bag and took out a stone,
hurled it with the sling,
and struck the Philistine on the forehead.
The stone embedded itself in his brow,
and he fell prostrate on the ground.
Thus David overcame the Philistine with sling and stone;
he struck the Philistine mortally, and did it without a sword.
Then David ran and stood over him;
with the Philistine's own sword which he drew from its sheath
he dispatched him and cut off his head.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10
Blessed be the LORD, my rock,
who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war.
R. Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!
My refuge and my fortress,
my stronghold, my deliverer,
My shield, in whom I trust,
who subdues my people under me.
R. Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!
O God, I will sing a new song to you;
with a ten-stringed lyre I will chant your praise,
You who give victory to kings,
and deliver David, your servant from the evil sword.
R. Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!
Gospel
Mk 3:1-6
There was a man there who had a withered hand.
They watched Jesus closely
to see if he would cure him on the sabbath
so that they might accuse him.
He said to the man with the withered hand,
"Come up here before us."
Then he said to the Pharisees,
"Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil,
to save life rather than to destroy it?"
But they remained silent.
Looking around at them with anger
and grieved at their hardness of heart,
Jesus said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."
He stretched it out and his hand was restored.
The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel
with the Herodians against him to put him to death
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«What does the Law allow us to do on the sabbath? To do good or to do harm? To save life or to kill?»
Fr. Joaquim MESEGUER García
(Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)
Today, Jesus tells us we must alwa
ys do good: there is no such thing as a time to do good and a time to overlook our love for others. The love we get through God brings us to the supreme Law, Jesus left with us, in the new commandment: «Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another» (Jn 13:34). Jesus neither repeals nor criticizes Moses' Law, inasmuch as He is the first one to comply with its precepts and go to the synagogue on the Sabbath; what Jesus criticizes is the narrow minded version of the Law by its masters and the Pharisees, an interpretation leaving little room for mercy.
Jesus Christ has come to proclaim the Gospel of salvation, but his antagonists, far from being convinced, seek all kind of pretexts against him: «A man who had a paralyzed hand was there and some people watched Jesus: Would He heal the man on the Sabbath? If He did they could accuse him.» (Mk 3:1-2). At the same time as we witness the power of grace, we also see how hardhearted, those boastful men who though they had the truth on their side, were. Were those Pharisees joyful upon realizing that poor man had been cured hand? Certainly not, rather on the contrary, they were even more blinded, to the point of rushing to make a deal with Herod's supporters —their natural foes— looking for a way to destroy Jesus. Some alliance!
With his action, Jesus also removes the chains with which the masters of the Law and the Pharisees had constrained the Sabbath while conferring it its true meaning: the day of communion between God and man, the day of liberation from slavery, the day of salvation from evil forces. Saint Augustin tells us: «He who has peace in the conscience, is peaceful, and this very peace is his heart's Sabbath». With Jesus Christ, the Sabbath already opens up to the gift of Sunday.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
This Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children is a special day on the Church Calendar in the United States. It is an opportunity to pray - to turn to our God, the Author of all life - to ask for the graces we need to protect, by means of the law, the lives of unborn children. It is a special occasion to reflect on the sacredness of all life from conception to natural birth. When we find ourselves reaching out, in our reflection, to human life we can not see - human life in its development - we can grow in a deeper respect for all human life. Defending unborn human life can help us be more conscious advocates for all human life after birth. Especially, the human lives of those who are not so easy to defend: murderers on death row, enemy combatants, people are on the margins of our society.
Becoming more sensitive to human life can help us become more sensitive to our common home - this planet - which we have abused so much as to change the amount of CO2 and Methane in the atmosphere - trapping gases into the greenhouse affect, which has steadily raised the temperature of our planet. The effects of these changes - as Pope Francis reminds us so vividly in his encyclical on the Care of Our Common Home (Laudato Si) - hurts the poor of our world first and the worst. Ultimately, human life itself could be challenged unless we make significant changes in the way we choose to live, all aroud this planet. I've been in the a third world country with no polution laws, and visited and held children in an orphanage with birth defects we haven't yet seen in the first world. It is terrifying to see what these unborn children have suffered.
The readings today are from the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Jesus is being confronted by the so called "religious" people of his day who had made laws which did not respect the dignity of human life. Let's pray this day that, whatever country we live in, there might be greater legal protection for unborn human life, and all human life, everywhere.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
THE ALL-POWERFUL NAME OF THE LORD | ||
| "You come against me with sword and spear and scimitar, but I come against you in the name of the Lord." �1 Samuel 17:45 | ||
The giant Goliath came against David with spear, sword, and scimitar. However, the youth David came against Goliath with something infinitely more powerful: the name of the Lord. The battle belonged to the Lord (1 Sm 17:47), and God's name was victorious. Many giants today likewise attempt to dominate us who serve the Lord. These present-day giants might say something like "I come against you with funding, a powerful legal team, and public opinion," or "I come against you with threats, popularity, and ridicule." As members of the army of God, let us imitate David. We are God's servants, and we are in a battle. The battle belongs to the Lord, and we do not fight with worldly weapons. But we do fight, with fingers trained for war (Ps 144:1). We use the weapons of God (Eph 6:10-20), and no weapon fashioned against us shall stand (Is 54:17). Our war-trained fingers ply the rosary beads, and this weapon has won many battles and has toppled many giants over the centuries. In fact, this teaching is being written in Church after morning Mass. A group of intercessors is praying the rosary after Mass for pro-life causes. Today is the 47th anniversary of the legalization of abortion in the United States. These intercessors have faithfully fought for years against the giant of the pro-abortion culture. May we all fight giants in the name of the Lord, and share in the glorious victory of the name of the Lord. | ||
| Prayer: Father, strengthen me to "fight the good fight" with full confidence and no fear (see 2 Tm 4:7). | ||
| Promise: "Blessed be the Lord, my Rock, Who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war." —Ps 144:1 | ||
| Praise: Louise is a member of a group of intercessors who faithfully gather weekly to pray. |
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
"Is it lawful... to save life or to kill?"
What is God's intention for the commandment, keep holy the Sabbath (Exodus 20:8; Deuteronomy 5:12)? The scribes and Pharisees wanted to catch Jesus in the act of breaking the Sabbath ritual so they might accuse him of breaking God's law. In a few penetrating words Mark the Evangelist tells us that Jesus looked at them with anger, and grieved at their hardness of hearts (Mark 3:5).
God's purpose and intention for the Sabbath commandment
The legal scholars and religious-minded Jews were filled with fury and contempt for Jesus because they put their own thoughts of right and wrong above God. They were ensnared in their own legalism because they did not understand or see the purpose of God for the Sabbath commandment (remember the Sabbath day - to keep it holy - Exodus 20:8).. Jesus shows their fallacy by pointing to God's intention for the Sabbath: to do good and to save life rather than to do evil or to destroy life (Mark 3:3).
Commemorating Christ's resurrection and work of redemption on the Lord's Day
Since the time of the first Apostles, Christians have traditionally celebrated Sunday as the Lord's Day (Revelation 1:10; Acts 20:7; Luke 24:30; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2) to worship together around the table of the Lord (the Eucharist or Lord's Supper) and to commemorate God's work of redemption in Jesus Christ and the new work of creation accomplished through Christ's death and resurrection.
Taking "our sabbath rest" is a way of expressing honor to God for all that he has done for us in and through Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer. Such "rest" however does not exempt us from our love for our neighbor. If we truly love the Lord above all else, then the love of God will overflow to love of neighbor as well. Do you honor the Lord in the way you celebrate Sunday, the Lord's Day and in the way you treat you neighbor?
"Lord Jesus, in your victory over sin and death on the cross and in your resurrection you give us the assurance of sharing in the eternal rest of heaven. Transform my heart with your love that I may freely serve my neighbor for his good and find joy and refreshment in the celebration of Sunday as the Lord's Day."
Psalm 110:1-4 1 The LORD says to my lord: "Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool."
2 The LORD sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your foes!
3 Your people will offer themselves freely on the day you lead your host upon the holy mountains. From the womb of the morning like dew your youth will come to you.
4 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: The tender compassion of the Lord, by John Chrysostom, 547-407 A.D.
"Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, 'Come here.' Then he challenged the Pharisees as to whether it would be lawful to do good on the sabbath. Note the tender compassion of the Lord when he deliberately brought the man with the withered hand right into their presence (Luke 6:8). He hoped that the mere sight of the misfortune might soften them, that they might become a little less spiteful by seeing the affliction, and perhaps out of sorrow mend their own ways. But they remained callous and unfeeling. They preferred to do harm to the name of Christ than to see this poor man made whole. They betrayed their wickedness not only by their hostility to Christ, but also by their doing so with such contentiousness that they treated with disdain his mercies to others." (excerpt from THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 40.1)
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