2020년 4월 6일 성주간 월요일
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제1독서
이사야서. 42,1-7
1 여기에 나의 종이 있다.
그는 내가 붙들어 주는 이, 내가 선택한 이, 내 마음에 드는 이다.
내가 그에게 나의 영을 주었으니 그는 민족들에게 공정을 펴리라.
2 그는 외치지도 않고 목소리를 높이지도 않으며
그 소리가 거리에서 들리게 하지도 않으리라.
3 그는 부러진 갈대를 꺾지 않고 꺼져 가는 심지를 끄지 않으리라.
그는 성실하게 공정을 펴리라.
4 그는 지치지 않고 기가 꺾이는 일 없이 마침내 세상에 공정을 세우리니
섬들도 그의 가르침을 고대하리라.
5 하늘을 창조하시고 그것을 펼치신 분
땅과 거기에서 자라는 온갖 것들을 펴신 분
그곳에 사는 백성에게 목숨을, 그 위를 걸어 다니는 사람들에게 숨을 넣어 주신 분
주 하느님께서 이렇게 말씀하신다.
6 “주님인 내가 의로움으로 너를 부르고 네 손을 붙잡아 주었다.
내가 너를 빚어 만들어 백성을 위한 계약이 되고
민족들의 빛이 되게 하였으니
7 보지 못하는 눈을 뜨게 하고 갇힌 이들을 감옥에서,
어둠 속에 앉아 있는 이들을 감방에서 풀어 주기 위함이다.”
복음
요한. 12,1-11
1 예수님께서는 파스카 축제 엿새 전에 베타니아로 가셨다.
그곳에는 예수님께서 죽은 이들 가운데에서
다시 일으키신 라자로가 살고 있었다.
2 거기에서 예수님을 위한 잔치가 베풀어졌는데, 마르타는 시중을 들고
라자로는 예수님과 더불어 식탁에 앉은 이들 가운데 끼여 있었다.
3 그런데 마리아가 비싼 순 나르드 향유 한 리트라를 가져와서,
예수님의 발에 붓고 자기 머리카락으로 그 발을 닦아 드렸다.
그러자 온 집 안에 향유 냄새가 가득하였다.
4 제자들 가운데 하나로서 나중에 예수님을 팔아넘길 유다 이스카리옷이 말하였다.
5 “어찌하여 저 향유를 삼백 데나리온에 팔아
가난한 이들에게 나누어 주지 않는가?”
6 그가 이렇게 말한 것은,
가난한 이들에게 관심이 있어서가 아니라 도둑이었기 때문이다.
그는 돈주머니를 맡고 있으면서 거기에 든 돈을 가로채곤 하였다.
7 예수님께서 이르셨다. “이 여자를 그냥 놔두어라.
그리하여 내 장례 날을 위하여 이 기름을 간직하게 하여라.
8 사실 가난한 이들은 늘 너희 곁에 있지만, 나는 늘 너희 곁에 있지는 않을 것이다.”
9 예수님께서 그곳에 계시다는 것을 알고 많은 유다인들의 무리가 몰려왔다.
예수님 때문만이 아니라,
그분께서 죽은 이들 가운데에서 다시 일으키신 라자로도 보려는 것이었다.
10 그리하여 수석 사제들은 라자로도 죽이기로 결의하였다.
11 라자로 때문에 많은 유다인이 떨어져 나가 예수님을 믿었기 때문이다.
April 6, 2020
Monday of Holy Week
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1
Is 42:1-7
my chosen one with whom I am pleased,
Upon whom I have put my Spirit;
he shall bring forth justice to the nations,
Not crying out, not shouting,
not making his voice heard in the street.
A bruised reed he shall not break,
and a smoldering wick he shall not quench,
Until he establishes justice on the earth;
the coastlands will wait for his teaching.
Thus says God, the LORD,
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spreads out the earth with its crops,
Who gives breath to its people
and spirit to those who walk on it:
I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice,
I have grasped you by the hand;
I formed you, and set you
as a covenant of the people,
a light for the nations,
To open the eyes of the blind,
to bring out prisoners from confinement,
and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life's refuge;
of whom should I be afraid?
R. The Lord is my light and my salvation.
When evildoers come at me
to devour my flesh,
My foes and my enemies
themselves stumble and fall.
R. The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Though an army encamp against me,
my heart will not fear;
Though war be waged upon me,
even then will I trust.
R. The Lord is my light and my salvation.
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD with courage;
be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.
R. The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Gospel
Jn 12:1-11
where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served,
while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him.
Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil
made from genuine aromatic nard
and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair;
the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
Then Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples,
and the one who would betray him, said,
"Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days' wages
and given to the poor?"
He said this not because he cared about the poor
but because he was a thief and held the money bag
and used to steal the contributions.
So Jesus said, "Leave her alone.
Let her keep this for the day of my burial.
You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me."
The large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came,
not only because of him, but also to see Lazarus,
whom he had raised from the dead.
And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too,
because many of the Jews were turning away
and believing in Jesus because of him.
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«Anointed the feet of Jesus, wiping them with her hair»
Fr. Jordi POU i Sabater
(Sant Jordi Desvalls, Girona, Spain)
Today, the Gospel summarizes two attitudes about God: Jesus Christ and life, in itself. Judas criticizes Mary for anointing Jesus' feet: «Judas, son of Simon Iscariot —the disciple who was to betray Jesus— remarked, ‘This perfume could have been sold for three hundred silver coins and turned over to the poor’» (Jn 12:4-5). What Judas said did not make sense, and it ties in with Jesus' doctrine. But it is much too easy to criticize what others may do, even when they had no hidden intentions, as it was the case with Judas.
Whatever our protest it must be an act of responsibility: with our protest we have to ask ourselves how would we do it instead, what are we willing to do, to do it better. Otherwise, our protest may just be —as it is actually the case here— the complaint, those who normally do it, wrongly use to make before those who try to do it the best they can.
Mary anoints Jesus' feet and she wipes them with her hair, because she truly believes this is what she must do. Her behavior can be qualified of splendid magnanimity: «Mary took a pound of costly perfume made from genuine nard» (Jn 12:3). It is an act of love, and like any act of love, difficult to understand by those who do not share it. I think that, as of that moment, Mary realized what, centuries later would write saint Augustine: «Maybe in this world the feet of our Lord are still in need. For, of whom, other than his members, said He: ‘Whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me. You spend that which you do not need, but you have done that which is good for my feet’».
Judas' complaint has no utility whatsoever, and it only led him to treachery. Mary's act led her to love her Lord even more and, as a consequence, to love more all the “feet” of Christ there are on this world.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
One of the most significant and powerful gifts that one person can share with another is the gift of compassion.
Compassion rises from deep within and becomes an almost unstoppable movement toward someone in response to their pain. We respond with love in a gesture of care and a meaningful, sacred encounter emerges.
In our gospel story today, Mary, Martha and Lazarus, who are friends of Jesus, host a dinner for him. Surely the political pressure on Jesus and the anger that was simmering against him were taking an extreme toll on him. It is likely that his dear companions were moved by their deep compassion for their friend and reached out to him to provide respite, love and care. They wanted to provide comfort in the great storm of his life, so they invited him to join them and prepared a special feast to demonstrate their solidarity and devotion to him.
Mary was so moved that she went even further when she …took a liter of costly performed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Imagine how his muscles must have relaxed and his eyes closed as he was comforted by her tender massage and the aroma which filled the air. I myself would like to think that while she comforted him, he released his weary spirit into her compassionate hands and experienced precious moments of relief from the vicious societal and political pressures that were bearing down on him. Perhaps our loving God was touching Jesus with compassion through Mary.
Father Joseph Nassal invites us to think about compassion through the metaphor of breathing. Nassal’s powerful image invites us to imagine that Mary, Martha and Lazarus were breathing on the pain of Jesus: "I have come to believe that the only real healing for our deepest hurt is found in inhaling that divine breath which is often felt in the compassion we experience from others...and it is when we know our own pain, our own suffering, our own experiences of sorrow that we find the courage and the sensitivity to breathe upon another's wound." [The Conspiracy of Compassion: Breathing Together for a Wounded World by Fr. Joseph Nassal]
Compassion differs from pity or sympathy because of its depth. When someone reaches out to us with compassion, we recognize its authenticity and when we allow ourselves to be open to the compassion of another, we are gifted with a balm for our pain. It is also one of the significant ways that our compassionate God can reach us…through the love of another.
God’s divine breath touches our world through our compassionate hearts, love and actions. As we journey through Holy Week, and face the challenging complexities of the Coronavirus, perhaps the love of Jesus’ friends can inspire us to also be distributors of God’s divine breath for our wounded world.
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CLEARLY AND COMPLETELY IN LOVE | ||
| "Mary brought a pound of costly perfume made from genuine aromatic nard, with which she anointed Jesus' feet. Then she dried His feet with her hair." �John 12:3 | ||
The Lord gives us the command and the privilege to love Him with all our hearts, minds, souls, and strength (Lk 10:27). David prayed: "For You my flesh pines and my soul thirsts," and "My soul clings fast to You," and "Your kindness is a greater good than life" (Ps 63:2, 9, 4). Another psalmist prayed to the Lord: "When I am with You, the earth delights me not" (Ps 73:25). Pope St. John Paul II has spoken of having an encounter with the living God (Church in America, 7ff) and of praying "until the heart truly 'falls in love' " with God (Entering the New Millennium, 33). In effect, the Lord wants us to have a relationship with Him as did Mary of Bethany. The Lord wants us to throw ourselves at His feet without counting the cost (see Jn 12:3). The Lord wants our love for Him to be so manifest that it is written all over our lives in our speech, work, relationships, decisions, sufferings, etc. Our lifestyles should proclaim our passion for Jesus so comprehensively and boldly that anyone observing us for a few minutes would have to come to the conclusion that we are preoccupied with loving Jesus. This Holy Week, pray to be like Mary of Bethany in her obvious love for Jesus. | ||
| Prayer: Father, may I take personally Jesus' death on the cross. | ||
| Promise: "I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living." —Ps 27:13 | ||
| Praise: George gave up his well-paying job to answer a call to the priesthood. |
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Extravagant love for Jesus
Do you know the love that knows no bounds? As Jesus dines with his beloved friends, Mary does something which only love can do. She took the most precious thing she had and spent it all on Jesus. Her love was not calculated but extravagant. Mary's action was motivated by one thing, and one thing only, namely, her love for Jesus and her gratitude for God’s mercy. She did something, however, a Jewish woman would never do in public. She loosed her hair and anointed Jesus with her tears. It was customary for a woman on her wedding day to bound her hair. For a married woman to loosen her hair in public was a sign of grave immodesty. Mary was oblivious to all around her, except for Jesus. She took no thought for what others would think, but what would please her Lord. In humility she stooped to anoint Jesus' feet and to dry them with her hair. How do you anoint the Lord's feet and show him your love and gratitude?
Love unbounded and poured out in gratitude
The Gospel of John records that the whole house was filled with the perfume of the ointment (John 12:3). What Mary had done brought sweetness not only in the physical sense, but the spiritual sense as well. Her lovely deed shows the extravagance of love - a love that we cannot outmatch. The Lord Jesus showed us the extravagance of his love in giving the best he had by pouring out his own blood for our sake and by anointing us with his Holy Spirit. The Apostle Paul says that nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:39). Do you allow the love of Christ to rule in all your thoughts and intentions, and in all your words and deeds?
The cost to the giver shows the true beauty and goodness of a heart filled with love and gratitude
Why was Judas critical of Mary's lovely deed? Judas viewed her act as extravagant wastefulness because of greed. A person will view others according to what is inside their heart, mind, and soul - the inner core of their being. Judas was an embittered man and had a warped sense of what was precious and valuable, especially to God. Jesus had put Judas in charge of their common purse, very likely because he was gifted in financial matters. The greatest temptation we can face will often come in the area of our greatest strength or gifting. Judas used money entrusted to him for wrong and hurtful purposes. He allowed greed and personal gain to corrupt his heart and to warp his view of things. He was critical towards Mary because he imputed unworthy motives. Do you examine your heart correctly when you impute wrong or unworthy motives towards others?
"Give us, Lord, a lively faith, a firm hope, a fervent charity, a love of you. Take from us all lukewarmness in meditation, dullness in prayer. Give us fervor and delight in thinking of you and your grace, your tender compassion towards me. The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for: through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Prayer of Sir Thomas More, 16th century)
Psalm 27:1-3,13-14
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me, my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.
3 Though a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.
13 I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!
14 Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the LORD!
A Daily Quote for Lent: God first loved us, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"Fulfill the commandments out of love. Could anyone refuse to love our God, so abounding in mercy, so just in all His ways? Could anyone deny love to Him Who first loved us despite all our injustice and all our pride? Could anyone refuse to love God Who so loved us as to send His only Son not only to live among human beings but also to be put to death for their sake and at their own hands?." (excerpt from Catechetical Instructions 39)
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