February 15, 2020 Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

2020년 2월 15일 연중 5주간 토요일 

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제1독서

 열왕기 상. 12,26-32; 13,33-34
그 무렵 26 예로보암은 마음속으로 이런 생각을 하였다.
‘어쩌면 나라가 다윗 집안으로 돌아갈지도 모른다.
27 이 백성이 예루살렘에 있는 주님의 집에 희생 제물을 바치러 올라갔다가,
자기들의 주군인 유다 임금 르하브암에게 마음이 돌아가면,
나를 죽이고 유다 임금 르하브암에게 돌아갈 것이다.’
28 그래서 임금은 궁리 끝에 금송아지 둘을 만들었다.
그리고 백성에게 이렇게 말하였다.

“예루살렘에 올라가는 일은 이만하면 충분합니다.
이스라엘이여, 여러분을 이집트 땅에서 데리고 올라오신
여러분의 하느님께서 여기에 계십니다.”
29 그러고 나서 금송아지 하나는 베텔에 놓고, 다른 하나는 단에 두었다.
30 그런데 이 일이 죄가 되었다.
백성은 금송아지 앞에서 예배하러 베텔과 단까지 갔다.
31 임금은 또 산당들을 짓고,
레위의 자손들이 아닌 일반 백성 가운데에서 사제들을 임명하였다.
32 예로보암은 여덟째 달 열닷샛날을 유다에서 지내는 축제처럼 축제일로 정하고,
제단 위에서 제물을 바쳤다.
이렇게 그는 베텔에서 자기가 만든 송아지들에게 제물을 바치고,
자기가 만든 산당의 사제들을 베텔에 세웠다.
13,33 예로보암은 그의 악한 길에서 돌아서지 않고,
또다시 일반 백성 가운데에서 산당의 사제들을 임명하였다.
그는 원하는 사람은 누구에게나 직무를 맡겨 산당의 사제가 될 수 있게 하였다.
34 예로보암 집안은 이런 일로 죄를 지어,
마침내 멸망하여 땅에서 사라지게 되었다.

 

복음

 마르코. 8,1-10
1 그 무렵 많은 군중이 모여 있었는데 먹을 것이 없었다.
예수님께서 제자들을 가까이 불러 말씀하셨다.
2 “저 군중이 가엾구나.
벌써 사흘 동안이나 내 곁에 머물렀는데 먹을 것이 없으니 말이다.
3 내가 저들을 굶겨서 집으로 돌려보내면 길에서 쓰러질 것이다.
더구나 저들 가운데에는 먼 데서 온 사람들도 있다.”
4 그러자 제자들이 “이 광야에서 누가 어디서 빵을 구해
저 사람들을 배불릴 수 있겠습니까?” 하고 대답하였다.
5 예수님께서 “너희에게 빵이 몇 개나 있느냐?” 하고 물으시자,
그들이 “일곱 개 있습니다.” 하고 대답하였다.
6 예수님께서는 군중에게 땅에 앉으라고 분부하셨다.
그리고 빵 일곱 개를 손에 들고 감사를 드리신 다음,
떼어서 제자들에게 주시며 나누어 주라고 하시니,
그들이 군중에게 나누어 주었다.
7 또 제자들이 작은 물고기 몇 마리를 가지고 있었는데,
예수님께서는 그것도 축복하신 다음에 나누어 주라고 이르셨다.
8 사람들은 배불리 먹었다.
그리고 남은 조각을 모았더니 일곱 바구니나 되었다.
9 사람들은 사천 명가량이었다. 예수님께서는 그들을 돌려보내시고 나서,
10 곧바로 제자들과 함께 배에 올라 달마누타 지방으로 가셨다.

 February 15, 2020

Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1 

1 Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34

Jeroboam thought to himself:
"The kingdom will return to David's house.
If now this people go up to offer sacrifices
in the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem,
the hearts of this people will return to their master,
Rehoboam, king of Judah,
and they will kill me."
After taking counsel, the king made two calves of gold
and said to the people:
"You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough.
Here is your God, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."
And he put one in Bethel, the other in Dan.
This led to sin, because the people frequented those calves
in Bethel and in Dan.
He also built temples on the high places
and made priests from among the people who were not Levites.
Jeroboam established a feast in the eighth month
on the fifteenth day of the month
to duplicate in Bethel the pilgrimage feast of Judah,
with sacrifices to the calves he had made;
and he stationed in Bethel priests of the high places he had built.
Jeroboam did not give up his evil ways after this,
but again made priests for the high places
from among the common people.
Whoever desired it was consecrated
and became a priest of the high places.
This was a sin on the part of the house of Jeroboam
for which it was to be cut off and destroyed from the earth.

 

Responsorial Psalm 

Ps 106:6-7ab, 19-20, 21-22

R. (4a) Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
We have sinned, we and our fathers;
we have committed crimes; we have done wrong.
Our fathers in Egypt
considered not your wonders.
R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
They made a calf in Horeb
and adored a molten image;
They exchanged their glory
for the image of a grass-eating bullock.
R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
They forgot the God who had saved them,
who had done great deeds in Egypt,
Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham,
terrible things at the Red Sea.
R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.

 

Gospel

 Mk 8:1-10

In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat,
Jesus summoned the disciples and said,
"My heart is moved with pity for the crowd,
because they have been with me now for three days
and have nothing to eat.
If I send them away hungry to their homes,
they will collapse on the way,
and some of them have come a great distance."
His disciples answered him, "Where can anyone get enough bread
to satisfy them here in this deserted place?"
Still he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?"
They replied, "Seven."
He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground.
Then, taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them,
and gave them to his disciples to distribute,
and they distributed them to the crowd.
They also had a few fish.
He said the blessing over them
and ordered them distributed also.
They ate and were satisfied.
They picked up the fragments left over--seven baskets.
There were about four thousand people.
He dismissed the crowd and got into the boat with his disciples

and came to the region of Dalmanutha.

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 «They have nothing to eat»

Fr. Carles ELÍAS i Cao
(Barcelona, Spain)

Today, in our times of inclemency and anxiety, Jesus also calls us to tell us he feels «sorry for these people» (Mk 8:2). Today, with the peace process in crisis, fear, apathy, banality and evasion may abound: «and now have nothing to eat».

Whom is the Lord calling to? The text says: «So Jesus called his disciples» (Mk 8:1), that is, He calls me, not to send them home hungry, to give them something to eat. Jesus sympathizes with them —this time in heathen land— because they are hungry.

But, alas! Sheltered in our little world, we say we can do nothing about it. «Where in a deserted place like this could we get enough bread to feed these people?» (Mk 8:4). Where shall we find a true and firm word of hope while knowing the Lord will be with us every day till the end of time? How can we tell the believers and the non-believers that violence and death are no solution?

Today, the Lord simply asks us how many loaves have we. Whatever we have, this is what He needs. The text says «seven», a symbol for the heathen, just as twelve was a symbol for the Jewish people. The Lord wants to reach us all —this is why the Church, from its Catholicism, wants to recognize itself— and is asking for your help. Give Him your prayer: it is a loaf of bread! Give Him the Eucharist you have celebrated: it is another loaf of bread! Give Him your decision to reconcile with those you love, with those that have offended you: still another loaf of bread! Give Him your sacramental reconciliation with the Church: another loaf! Give Him your little sacrifice, your fasting, your solidarity: and still another loaf! Give Him your love for his Word that soothes and gives you strength: more bread! Anyway, give Him whatever He asks from you, though you may believe it is not worthwhile.

As St. Gregory of Nyssa says: «He who splits his bread with the poor becomes a part of He who, for us, wanted to be poor. The Lord was poor; do not be afraid of poverty».

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I am writing this reflection for a friend who wasn't able to do it. I am so glad. It gave me the opportunity to chew the gospel and hear it anew.

I like to watch Jesus and to see how he reacts to people. In this situation, his heart goes out to the people who have been out in a deserted place to hear him and find themselves with a journey home without food. I identify with the situation. I have found myself reluctant to follow Jesus out to a deserted place, for fear I might starve to death there. My self-sufficiency has keep me, at times, from encountering Jesus out to a special place he is trying to lead me.

The disciples give up, in the face of this seemingly impossible situation. They point out the obvious. They couldn't possibly feed this crowd and there is no place to get enough food, even if they wanted to. I identify with them. I've felt sent/missioned to a place or situation which seems overwhelming. I've observed the obvious. This isn't doable. There doesn't seem to be any room for grace here.

Jesus just asks what they do have. Seven loaves and a few fish. Jesus does what he will do in the Eucharist each time we celebrate it. "Then, taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd." The people "ate and were satisfied." And from the seven loaves there were seven baskets of leftovers.

A miracle for sure, but also a message. When we feel empty and discouraged - in whatever situation we find ourselves - we can bring what we have - no matter how poor it seems - and Jesus with take it and bless it and break it to be distributed. I can't recount the number of times I've experienced my poverty in doing something and discovered that when I surrendered my control of it all and let go to let Jesus work through me, the result was far beyond what I could have accomplished on my own. Seven baskets of leftovers more.

We might be tempted to respond that we've experienced turning something over to Jesus and didn't get what we hoped, or didn't experience any "miracle." I have had that experience as well. I think that is when we bring our brokenness and weariness and fragility and inability to dare to hope any more to the Eucharist. That is where Jesus takes our ordinary offering and transforms it to feed us with his body and blood. He feeds us with his sacrifice of himself on the Cross. He nourishes us with the gift of life everlasting. It is his mercy on my sin and the sins of the world. And, it is his holy communion with us that not only comforts us - that we know we are not alone - but consecrates us with a union with him which allows us to be like him, even with him, in bringing faith and life to other discouraging desert situations. When I move from "Where's my miracle?" to giving thanks and praise for receiving the gift of union with Jesus in the Eucharist, grace happens. And, there will be seven baskets of leftovers.

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WHAT RELIGION ARE YOU?

"Jeroboam thought to himself: 'The kingdom will return to David's house. If now this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, the hearts of this people will return to their master, Rehoboam, king of Judah.' " �1 Kings 12:26-27

Jeroboam realized that religion is part of human nature. Therefore, human beings must be religious. The only question is: "Will we be committed to the only true religion, Judaism fulfilled in the Church, or will we be involved in some of the many thousands of false religions?" Some think they have proven Jeroboam wrong: they say they don't need religion. However, they end up replacing God with themselves or an idea such as socialism or secular humanism. Then they religiously follow their "anti-religion." God constantly calls us away from false religions to "worship the Father in Spirit and truth. Indeed, it is just such worshipers the Father seeks" (Jn 4:23). The writer of the book of James summarizes the old covenant's delineation of true religion: Religion that is pure and undefiled before God is to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world (see Jas 1:27, RNAB). Even with these clarifications, human beings tend to be deceived about religion. So God the Father sent Jesus, fully man and fully God. Now we know the only Way to which our religious aspirations should be directed. Now we know the Way to the true, religious life (see Jn 14:6).

Prayer: Father, free me from false religions. Give me Your pure, true religion in Christ.

Promise: "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd." —Mk 8:2

Praise: Now that he has been set free of his addiction to pornography, Mark witnesses freely to the joy of living in Christ.

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 Jesus alone can satisfy our hunger for God

Can anything on earth truly satisfy the hunger we experience for God? The enormous crowd that pressed upon Jesus for three days were hungry for something more than physical food. They hung upon Jesus' words because they were hungry for God. When the disciples were confronted by Jesus with the task of feeding four thousand people many miles away from any source of food, they exclaimed: Where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them? The Israelites were confronted with the same dilemma when they fled Egypt and found themselves in a barren wilderness.

Like the miraculous provision of manna in the wilderness, Jesus, himself provides bread in abundance for the hungry crowd who came out into the desert to seek him. The Gospel records that all were satisfied and they took up what was leftover. When God gives he gives abundantly - more than we deserve and more than we need so that we may have something to share with others as well. The Lord Jesus nourishes and sustains us with his life-giving word and with his heavenly bread.

Jesus nourishes us with the true bread of heaven
The sign of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes through his disciples, prefigures the superabundance of the unique bread of his Eucharist or Lord's Supper. When we receive from the Lord's table we unite ourselves to Jesus Christ, who makes us sharers in his body and blood. Ignatius of Antioch (35-107 A.D.) calls it the one bread that provides the medicine of immortality, the antidote for death, and the food that makes us live for ever in Jesus Christ" (Ad Eph. 20,2). This supernatural food is healing for both body and soul and strength for our journey heavenward.

When you approach the Table of the Lord, what do you expect to receive? Healing, pardon, comfort, and refreshment for your soul? The Lord has much more for us, more than we can ask or imagine. The principal fruit of receiving from the Lord's Table is an intimate union with Christ himself. As bodily nourishment restores lost strength, so the Eucharist strengthens us in charity and enables us to break with disordered attachments to creatures and to be more firmly rooted in the love of Christ. Do you hunger for Jesus, the true "bread of life"?

"Lord Jesus, you alone can satisfy the hunger in our lives. Fill me with grateful joy and eager longing for the true heavenly bread which gives health, strength, and wholeness to body and soul alike.”

Psalm 106:4,6-7, 19-22

4 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people; help me when you deliver them;
6 Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wonderful works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled against the Most High at the Red Sea.
19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image.
20 They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea.

Daily Quote from the early church fathers: Breaking the bread of God's Word, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.

"In expounding to you the Holy Scriptures, I as it were break bread for you. If you hunger to receive it, your heart will sing out with the fullness of praise (Psalm 138:1). If you are thus made rich in your banquet, be not meager in good works and deeds. What I am distributing to you is not my own. What you eat, I eat; what you live upon, I live upon. We have in heaven a common store-house - from it comes the Word of God." (excerpt from SERMONS on NEW TESTAMENT LESSONS 45.1)

  

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