2020년 2월 28일 재의 예식 다음 금요일
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제1독서
이사야서. 58,1-9ㄴ
주 하느님께서 이렇게 말씀하신다.
1 “목청껏 소리쳐라, 망설이지 마라. 나팔처럼 네 목소리를 높여라.
내 백성에게 그들의 악행을, 야곱 집안에 그들의 죄악을 알려라.
2 그들은 마치 정의를 실천하고
자기 하느님의 공정을 저버리지 않는 민족인 양
날마다 나를 찾으며 나의 길 알기를 갈망한다.
그들은 나에게 의로운 법규들을 물으며 하느님께 가까이 있기를 갈망한다.
3 ‘저희가 단식하는데 왜 보아 주지 않으십니까?
저희가 고행하는데 왜 알아주지 않으십니까?’
보라, 너희는 너희 단식일에 제 일만 찾고 너희 일꾼들을 다그친다.
4 보라, 너희는 단식한다면서 다투고 싸우며 못된 주먹질이나 하고 있다.
저 높은 곳에 너희 목소리를 들리게 하려거든
지금처럼 단식하여서는 안 된다.
5 이것이 내가 좋아하는 단식이냐? 사람이 고행한다는 날이 이러하냐?
제 머리를 골풀처럼 숙이고 자루옷과 먼지를 깔고 눕는 것이냐?
너는 이것을 단식이라고, 주님이 반기는 날이라고 말하느냐?
6 내가 좋아하는 단식은 이런 것이 아니겠느냐?
불의한 결박을 풀어 주고 멍에 줄을 끌러 주는 것,
억압받는 이들을 자유롭게 내보내고 모든 멍에를 부수어 버리는 것이다.
7 네 양식을 굶주린 이와 함께 나누고
가련하게 떠도는 이들을 네 집에 맞아들이는 것,
헐벗은 사람을 보면 덮어 주고
네 혈육을 피하여 숨지 않는 것이 아니겠느냐?
8 그리하면 너의 빛이 새벽빛처럼 터져 나오고
너의 상처가 곧바로 아물리라.
너의 의로움이 네 앞에 서서 가고 주님의 영광이 네 뒤를 지켜 주리라.
9 그때 네가 부르면 주님께서 대답해 주시고
네가 부르짖으면 ‘나 여기 있다.’ 하고 말씀해 주시리라.”
복음
마태오. 9,14-15
14 그때에 요한의 제자들이 예수님께 와서,
“저희와 바리사이들은 단식을 많이 하는데,
스승님의 제자들은 어찌하여 단식하지 않습니까?” 하고 물었다.
15 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다.
“혼인 잔치 손님들이 신랑과 함께 있는 동안에 슬퍼할 수야 없지 않으냐?
그러나 그들이 신랑을 빼앗길 날이 올 것이다.
그러면 그들도 단식할 것이다.”
February 28, 2020
Friday after Ash Wednesday
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Reading 1
Is 58:1-9a
Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,
lift up your voice like a trumpet blast;
Tell my people their wickedness,
and the house of Jacob their sins.
They seek me day after day,
and desire to know my ways,
Like a nation that has done what is just
and not abandoned the law of their God;
They ask me to declare what is due them,
pleased to gain access to God.
"Why do we fast, and you do not see it?
afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?"
Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits,
and drive all your laborers.
Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and fighting,
striking with wicked claw.
Would that today you might fast
so as to make your voice heard on high!
Is this the manner of fasting I wish,
of keeping a day of penance:
That a man bow his head like a reed
and lie in sackcloth and ashes?
Do you call this a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD?
This, rather, is the fasting that I wish:
releasing those bound unjustly,
untying the thongs of the yoke;
Setting free the oppressed,
breaking every yoke;
Sharing your bread with the hungry,
sheltering the oppressed and the homeless;
Clothing the naked when you see them,
and not turning your back on your own.
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and your wound shall quickly be healed;
Your vindication shall go before you,
and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer,
you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19
Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.
R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
For I acknowledge my offense,
and my sin is before me always:
"Against you only have I sinned,
and done what is evil in your sight."
R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
For you are not pleased with sacrifices;
should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it.
My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit;
a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
Gospel
Mt 9:14-15
"Why do we and the Pharisees fast much,
but your disciples do not fast?"
Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests mourn
as long as the bridegroom is with them?
The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«Time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, then they will fast»
Fr. Xavier PAGÉS i Castañer
(Barcelona, Spain)
Today the first Friday of Lent, having experienced the fasting and abstinence of Ash Wednesday, we have attempted to offer our fasting and the prayer of the Holy Rosary, for the Peace, that our World needs so badly. We are willing to take care of this Lenten exercise, our Church, Mother and Teacher, is asking us to abide by, and to remember it was the same Lord who said: «Time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, then they will fast» (Mt 9:15). We have the desire to experience it, not just as the fulfillment of an obligation which is mandatory for us, but —most of all— as the possibility to find the spirit which will let us live this Lenten practice while helping us in our spiritual improvement.
By seeking this deep feeling, we can ask ourselves: which is the true fasting? Already, prophet Isaiah, in today's first reading, tells us which is the fasting God appreciates: «Sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; your vindication shall go before you, and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard» (Is 58:7-8). God likes and expects from us whatever is taking us towards a true love for all our brothers.
Every year, the Holy Father John Paul II wrote us a message for Lent. one of these messages, under the motto «There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving» (Acts 20:35); helped us to discover the very same charitable dimension of our fasting, which, from the bottom of our heart, allows us to prepare for Easter Time, in an effort to identify ourselves, more and more, with Christ's love which took him to die in the Cross for us. In short, «what every Christian ought to do all the time, he ought to do it now more carefully and more devotedly» (Saint Leo the Great, pope).
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Very early in my Jesuit formation, I was aware of a deep desire to be holy. I once got permission to sleep without a pillow. I couldn’t wait for the nine-o’clock bell to chime. It just felt so good and holy to experience what the ancient monks must have felt. After two hours of sleepless sanctification, I began to grow tired of not being tired. It was now six hours until rising-time and I was physically awake and mentally becoming awakened to something unholy about my attempts at doing “holy”. I picked up my pillow from the floor, thought, “the hell with the whole thing,” gave up being “holy” and went to sleep, feeling quite a failure at being “holy”.
In today’s Gospel, John the Baptist’s disciples come to Jesus with a sincere question about fasting and probably about sleeping without their pillows too. They notice that the disciples of Jesus do not do the usual legal acts of holiness. Jesus shares with His questioners a little thought-provoking image about a bride’s groom being present and then departing. The friends of the groom are happy until their good friend leaves and then they will grieve their loss. Did the disciples of John get the picture, get the answer? Something new, different is in and with Jesus about just what the human response to God is and will be. Holiness has to do with a relationship with its responses rather than with a legal practice with its demands and expectations. It is received rather than achieved.
After listening to or reading the First Reading for today’s Eucharistic liturgy and today’s Gospel, fasting seems to be more than giving something up for the sake of getting something back. We can fast from such things as eating, drinking, watching, doing and or many other human activities and these are actually quite good. What about our fasting from eating from the delightful cookies of self-negativity and spiritual inferiority. How about fasting from drinking the fermented spirits of regret, past failures and disappointments. How about not watching the actions of self or others in a spirit of competition and compara-sinning. How about fasting from our not doing the works of caring for the lonely or lost, curing the broken and hurting, being present and receptive to the inconvenient and the awkward.
The days of Lent are meant for our becoming more deeply aware of who we are in the Church as we will celebrate at Easter. These days are invitations to become more intentionally His disciples who, after His rising, rise, themselves to extend His life through out the human condition. We are urged and invited to become more, who He says we are and do some actions which more reveal Him and His Spirit, than our own self-holyfied selves.
We can sleep with our pillow or even two, so that we can rise more awake to who we are in Him and He in us and in others.
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GROWLING STOMACHS AND HUNGRY MINDS | ||
| "Why do we fast, and You do not see it? afflict ourselves, and You take no note of it?" �Isaiah 58:3 | ||
On this third day of Lent and worldwide day of abstinence from meat, it is good to recall that Lent is not merely abstaining but also fasting, that is, limiting our intake of food and drink. Lent is a forty-day fast in imitation of Jesus' fasting in the desert (Mt 4:2). Fasting must be done in the right spirit (see Is 58:3-4), but this right spirit should not substitute for fasting but authenticate it. For example, it's good to abstain from gossip, TV viewing, smartphones, and other selfish pursuits. These things may need to accompany fasting, but they are not fasting, for fasting always entails the limiting of our food and drink. Let's not spiritualize fasting and take away its essential material element. Let's not spiritualize Christianity and forget its fundamental, incarnational essence. "Take note, the spiritual was not first; first came the natural and after that the spiritual" (1 Cor 15:46). Let us have both a natural and a spiritual Lent. May our Lent be as physical as growling stomachs, hunger pains, and lost weight. May Lent then be as spiritual as repentance, reconciliation in relationships, and total commitment to the Lord. In this Lent, both "offer your bodies as a living sacrifice" and "be transformed by the renewal of your mind" (Rm 12:1-2). | ||
| Prayer: Father, give me a fully human Lent. | ||
| Promise: "Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed." —Is 58:8 | ||
| Praise: At a healing service, the Lord healed Barbara of deafness in one of her ears. |
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Fasting for the kingdom of God
Are you hungry for God? Hungering for God and fasting for his kingdom go hand in hand. When asked why he and his disciples did not fast Jesus used the vivid picture of a wedding celebration. In Jesus' time the newly wed celebrated their honeymoon at home for a whole week with all the guests! This was a time of great feasting and celebrating. Jesus points to himself as the bridegroom and his disciples as the bridegroom's friends. He alludes to the fact that God takes delight in his people as a groom delights in his bride (Isaiah 62:5).
Humble yourself before the Lord your God
To be in God's presence is pure delight and happiness. But Jesus also reminds his followers that there is a time for fasting and for humbling oneself in preparation for the coming of God's kingdom and for the return of the Messianic King. The Lord's disciples must also bear the cross of affliction and purification. For the disciple there is both a time for rejoicing in the Lord's presence and celebrating his goodness and a time for seeking the Lord with humility, fasting, and mourning for sin. If we hunger for the Lord, he will not disappoint us. His grace draws us to his throne of mercy and favor. Do you seek the Lord with confident trust and allow his Holy Spirit to transform your life with his power and grace?
Fast and hunger for more of God and his righteousness
What kind of fasting is pleasing to God? Fasting can be done for a variety of reasons - to gain freedom from some bad habit, addiction, or vice, to share in the suffering of those who go without, or to grow in our hunger for God and for the things of heaven. Basil the Great wrote: "Take heed that you do not make fasting to consists only in abstinence from meats. True fasting is to refrain from vice. Shred to pieces all your unjust contracts. Pardon your neighbors. Forgive them their trespasses." Do you hunger to know God more, to grow in his holiness, and to live the abundant life of grace he offers you?
"Come Lord, work upon us, set us on fire and clasp us close, be fragrant to us, draw us to your loveliness, let us love, let us run to you." (Prayer of St. Augustine)
Psalm 51:3-6,18-19
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless in your judgment.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
19 then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
A Daily Quote for Lent: True fasting, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 AD
"All the endeavors for fasting are concerned not about the rejection of various foods as unclean, but about the subjugation of inordinate desire and the maintenance of neighborly love. Charity especially is guarded - food is subservient to charity, speech to charity, customs to charity, and facial ｅxpressions to charity. Everything works together for charity alone." (excerpt from Letter 243, 11)
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