2020년 4월 7일 성주간 화요일
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제1독서
이사야서. 49,1-6
1 섬들아, 내 말을 들어라. 먼 곳에 사는 민족들아, 귀를 기울여라.
주님께서 나를 모태에서부터 부르시고
어머니 배 속에서부터 내 이름을 지어 주셨다.
2 그분께서 내 입을 날카로운 칼처럼 만드시고 당신의 손 그늘에 나를 숨겨 주셨다.
나를 날카로운 화살처럼 만드시어 당신의 화살 통 속에 감추셨다.
3 그분께서 나에게 말씀하셨다.
“너는 나의 종이다. 이스라엘아, 너에게서 내 영광이 드러나리라.”
4 그러나 나는 말하였다. “나는 쓸데없이 고생만 하였다.
허무하고 허망한 것에 내 힘을 다 써 버렸다.
그러나 내 권리는 나의 주님께 있고 내 보상은 나의 하느님께 있다.”
5 이제 주님께서 말씀하신다.
그분께서는 야곱을 당신께 돌아오게 하시고
이스라엘이 당신께 모여들게 하시려고
나를 모태에서부터 당신 종으로 빚어 만드셨다.
나는 주님의 눈에 소중하게 여겨졌고 나의 하느님께서 나의 힘이 되어 주셨다.
6 그분께서 말씀하신다.
“네가 나의 종이 되어 야곱의 지파들을 다시 일으키고
이스라엘의 생존자들을 돌아오게 하는 것만으로는 충분하지 않다.
나의 구원이 땅끝까지 다다르도록 나는 너를 민족들의 빛으로 세운다.”
복음
요한. 13,21ㄴ-33.36-38
그때에 제자들과 함께 식탁에 앉으신 예수님께서는
21 마음이 산란하시어 드러내 놓고 말씀하셨다.
“내가 진실로 진실로 너희에게 말한다.
너희 가운데 한 사람이 나를 팔아넘길 것이다.”
22 제자들은 누구를 두고 하시는 말씀인지 몰라
어리둥절하여 서로 바라보기만 하였다.
23 제자 가운데 한 사람이 예수님 품에 기대어 앉아 있었는데,
그는 예수님께서 사랑하시는 제자였다.
24 그래서 시몬 베드로가 그에게 고갯짓을 하여,
예수님께서 말씀하시는 사람이 누구인지 여쭈어 보게 하였다.
25 그 제자가 예수님께 더 다가가, “주님, 그가 누구입니까?” 하고 물었다.
26 예수님께서는 “내가 빵을 적셔서 주는 자가 바로 그 사람이다.” 하고 대답하셨다.
그리고 빵을 적신 다음 그것을 들어 시몬 이스카리옷의 아들 유다에게 주셨다.
27 유다가 그 빵을 받자 사탄이 그에게 들어갔다.
그때에 예수님께서 유다에게 말씀하셨다. “네가 하려는 일을 어서 하여라.”
28 식탁에 함께 앉은 이들은
예수님께서 그에게 왜 그런 말씀을 하셨는지 아무도 몰랐다.
29 어떤 이들은 유다가 돈주머니를 가지고 있었으므로,
예수님께서 그에게 축제에 필요한 것을 사라고 하셨거나,
또는 가난한 이들에게 무엇을 주라고 말씀하신 것이려니 생각하였다.
30 유다는 빵을 받고 바로 밖으로 나갔다. 때는 밤이었다.
31 유다가 나간 뒤에 예수님께서 말씀하셨다.
“이제 사람의 아들이 영광스럽게 되었고,
또 사람의 아들을 통하여 하느님께서도 영광스럽게 되셨다.
32 하느님께서 사람의 아들을 통하여 영광스럽게 되셨으면,
하느님께서도 몸소 사람의 아들을 영광스럽게 하실 것이다.
이제 곧 그를 영광스럽게 하실 것이다.
33 얘들아, 내가 너희와 함께 있는 것도 잠시뿐이다. 너희는 나를 찾을 터인데,
내가 유다인들에게 말한 것처럼 이제 너희에게도 말한다.
‘내가 가는 곳에 너희는 올 수 없다.’”
36 시몬 베드로가 예수님께 “주님, 어디로 가십니까?” 하고 물었다.
예수님께서는 그에게, “내가 가는 곳에 네가 지금은 따라올 수 없다.
그러나 나중에는 따라오게 될 것이다.” 하고 대답하셨다.
37 베드로가 다시 “주님, 어찌하여 지금은 주님을 따라갈 수 없습니까?
주님을 위해서라면 저는 목숨까지 내놓겠습니다.” 하자,
38 예수님께서 대답하셨다. “나를 위하여 목숨을 내놓겠다는 말이냐?
내가 진실로 진실로 너에게 말한다.
닭이 울기 전에 너는 세 번이나 나를 모른다고 할 것이다.”
April 7, 2020
Tuesday of Holy Week
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Reading 1
Is 49:1-6
listen, O distant peoples.
The LORD called me from birth,
from my mother's womb he gave me my name.
He made of me a sharp-edged sword
and concealed me in the shadow of his arm.
He made me a polished arrow,
in his quiver he hid me.
You are my servant, he said to me,
Israel, through whom I show my glory.
Though I thought I had toiled in vain,
and for nothing, uselessly, spent my strength,
Yet my reward is with the LORD,
my recompense is with my God.
For now the LORD has spoken
who formed me as his servant from the womb,
That Jacob may be brought back to him
and Israel gathered to him;
And I am made glorious in the sight of the LORD,
and my God is now my strength!
It is too little, he says, for you to be my servant,
to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and restore the survivors of Israel;
I will make you a light to the nations,
that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5ab-6ab, 15 and 17
In you, O LORD, I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
In your justice rescue me, and deliver me;
incline your ear to me, and save me.
R. I will sing of your salvation.
Be my rock of refuge,
a stronghold to give me safety,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
O my God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked.
R. I will sing of your salvation.
For you are my hope, O Lord;
my trust, O God, from my youth.
On you I depend from birth;
from my mother's womb you are my strength.
R. I will sing of your salvation.
My mouth shall declare your justice,
day by day your salvation.
O God, you have taught me from my youth,
and till the present I proclaim your wondrous deeds.
R. I will sing of your salvation.
Gospel
Jn 13:21-33, 36-38
"Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me."
The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant.
One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved,
was reclining at Jesus' side.
So Simon Peter nodded to him to find out whom he meant.
He leaned back against Jesus' chest and said to him,
"Master, who is it?"
Jesus answered,
"It is the one to whom I hand the morsel after I have dipped it."
So he dipped the morsel and took it and handed it to Judas,
son of Simon the Iscariot.
After Judas took the morsel, Satan entered him.
So Jesus said to him, "What you are going to do, do quickly."
Now none of those reclining at table realized why he said this to him.
Some thought that since Judas kept the money bag, Jesus had told him,
"Buy what we need for the feast,"
or to give something to the poor.
So Judas took the morsel and left at once. And it was night.
When he had left, Jesus said,
"Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself,
and he will glorify him at once.
My children, I will be with you only a little while longer.
You will look for me, and as I told the Jews,
'Where I go you cannot come,' so now I say it to you."
Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?"
Jesus answered him,
"Where I am going, you cannot follow me now,
though you will follow later."
Peter said to him,
"Master, why can I not follow you now?
I will lay down my life for you."
Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me?
Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow
before you deny me three times."
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«It was night»
Fr. Jean GOTTIGNY
(Bruxelles, Belgium)
Today, Holy Tuesday, the liturgy emphasizes the drama which is about to develop and will end with the crucifixion in Good Friday. «Judas left as soon as he had eaten the bread. It was night» (Jn 13:30). It is always night when we move away from he who is «light from light, true God from true God» (Nicaea-Constantinople Symbol).
The sinner turns his back on the Lord to gravitate around the created things, without referring them to its Creator. St. Augustine describes sin as «as a love of self to the point of despising God». That is, a betrayal. A prevarication that is the fruit of «an arrogance with which we want to emancipate from God and be only ourselves; an arrogance which makes us believe we do not need the eternal love; an arrogance with which we wish to become the only masters of our own life» (Benedict XVI). We may understand that Jesus, that night, has felt «distressed in spirit» (Jn 13:21).
Fortunately, sin is not the last word. The last word is God's mercy. This means, however, a “change” on our side. Inverting the situation to part from all creatures and become attached to God to find again the true freedom. Nevertheless, to change to God we should not wait to become sick of the false freedom we have been using. As Louis Bourdaloue denounces, «we would like to convert when we would get tired of this world or, rather, when the world would get tired of us». We should know better than that. Let us make up our mind right now. Easter time is the adequate time. In the Cross, Christ opens his arms wide to all of us. Nobody is excluded. Every repented thief has his place in Paradise. on condition, however, to change his life and remedy his shortcomings, like the thief in the Gospel: «And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal» (Lc 23:41).
«Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him»
+ Fr. Lluís ROQUÉ i Roqué
(Manresa, Barcelona, Spain)
Today, we are given to contemplate Jesus in the darkness of His Passion days. Darkness that will be over when He will exclaim: «It is finished» (Jn 19:30); as of that moment, Easter's light will flare up. In Easter's glowing night —in opposition to the darkness of the vigil of his death— Jesus' words will become true: «Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him» (Jn 13:31). We can indeed say that each step Jesus takes is a step from death to Life and it has a Paschal character, expressed by an attitude of total obedience to the Father: «I have come to do your will» (Heb 10:9); attitude corroborated by words, gestures and deeds which are opening the way to his glorification as the Son of God.
Today, we also contemplate the person of Judas, the traitor apostle. And his heart, full of evil intentions he is seeking to dissimulate; hipocritically, he is also trying to cover up the greediness that rules and blinds him, despite he is so close to him, who is the Light of the world. In spite of being surrounded by Light and exemplar unselfishness, for Judas «it was night» (Jn 13:30): thirty silver coins, «the devil's excrement» —as Papini qualified money— have dazzled and gagged him. Dominated by avidity, he betrays and sells Jesus, the most honored amongst honored men; but Judas experienced despair too, for money is not everything and it can definitely enslave us.
Finally, we consider Peter with attention and devotion. Everything in him is good will, love, generosity, simplicity, nobility... He is Judas' counterpoint. It is true that three times Peter denied Jesus, but his intentions were not mean; he just did it out of cowardice and human feebleness. «He denied him for the third time, and when Jesus Christ looks at him, he immediately cried, and bitterly he cried» (Saint Ambrose). Peter's remorse and repentance was sincere as shown by his excruciating pain full of love. This is why, Jesus afterwards, reaffirmed him in the vocation and in the mission He had prepared for him.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Are we truly fulfilling God’s plan for our life? While that question should be a key focus for each of us each and every day, is it really something we should contemplate during Holy Week? Yet today’s readings certainly seem to point us back to that fundamental issue.
In the first reading for today, we see a clear picture that God had a plan for Isaiah from the very beginning of his life. Even during those times when Isaiah felt that he “had toiled in vain, and for nothing, uselessly, spent his strength” God was with him. Even in times of uncertainty Isaiah was indeed fulfilling his calling as a servant and prophet of God.
I can certainly relate to Isaiah’s thoughts and questions. While my goal each day is to be a faithful servant of God, more often than not I feel like I have failed in living up to God’s plan for my life. Yet Isaiah reminds us that not only does God have a plan for each of our lives, but he also provides the strength to accomplish that plan. He even provides the avenue to recover from those times when we stray from God’s specific plan for us.
And of course, Isaiah is pointing to Jesus whose life on earth followed precisely God’s plan. Jesus is truly “the light to the nations”, our salvation. Jesus is the perfect example of how to follow God’s plan for every moment of our life.
Psalm 71 further reinforces the simple truth that each of our lives has a profound purpose. Like Isaiah, we are reminded to rely on our Lord – for everything. Beginning in our mother’s womb and continuing throughout our youth and on into our entire adult life, we can count on God’s amazing strength to fulfill his plan for our life. We are reminded that it is an important part of our life’s journey to sing of God’s salvation and to proclaim his wondrous deeds.
So how does this all fit into the wonder of Holy Week? It is enough to be awestruck by the magnitude of Jesus’ gift of salvation as played out this week. The passion of Jesus is certainly much more than words could ever adequately describe or that we could ever fully comprehend. The details of this week tear at the very fabric of our hearts. How can it be that the God of the universe who lived a perfect, sinless life could suffer so much to pay for my sins? Yet this was the detailed plan for Jesus, beginning in Mary’s womb.
In John’s account for today, we see the lives of Jesus’ disciples playing out during the last supper. Jesus knew of Judas’s upcoming betrayal as well as Simon Peter’s denial. I cannot say I understand the Judas piece. While I am confident that Jesus knew in advance of Judas’ betrayal and Satan’s role in that action, I do not believe that evil is a part of God’s plan for any of us. Peter’s upcoming denial that Jesus mentioned during the last supper also does not seem to be something that was in Peter’s life plan. Perhaps the point of Judas’ story and of Peter’s temporary failure was to help us deal with our own failures. We each are aware of the times in our lives where we feel we have let God down and not lived up to what we know we should have done or said. The good news of course is that we have the option of returning to God, seeking his redemption and forgiveness. Jesus gave us the perfect example of how to follow God’s plan for our individual life, even in the most difficult times. We must simple cling to his loving arms, his steadfast presence, and his amazing strength available for each of us.
Dear Heavenly Father, I know you have a meaningful plan for my life, a plan for me to point others to you. Please give me the wisdom to stay focused upon you and your will every moment of my life. Help me to remember that you are indeed my everlasting strength.
In the name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ.
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NIGHT OR LIGHT? | ||
| "It was night." �John 13:30 | ||
In today's Gospel, Satan enters Judas � and "it was night...the triumph of darkness" (Jn 13:30; Lk 22:53). "Men loved darkness rather than light" (Jn 3:19). It wasn't one bad day that caused Satan to enter Judas at the most holy environment of the Last Supper. Judas deteriorated little by little. It was the daily decisions to seek the power and lures of the kingdom of darkness rather than seeking the kingdom of God. How ironic that on the very week that he should have most been seeking Jesus, Judas was instead constantly on the lookout for an opportunity to hand Jesus over to His enemies (Mt 26:16). There is no neutrality during Holy Week nor during our daily life. We either seek Jesus or we seek the world (Mt 6:24). We are for Jesus or against Him (Lk 11:23). Those who are set on the things of the world are enemies of the cross of Christ (Phil 3:18-19). So today, in this holiest week of the Church year, examine yourself (see 2 Cor 13:5). Are you seeking the Lord while He may be found? (Is 55:6) If not, "turn now ten times the more to seek Him" (Bar 4:28). | ||
| Prayer: Jesus, nail me to the cross with You so that I may never leave You in times of trial. | ||
| Promise: "Though I thought I had toiled in vain, and for nothing, uselessly, spent my strength, yet my reward is with the Lord, my recompense is with my God." —Is 49:4 | ||
| Praise: After years of being away from the Church, Jerome returned to Church for an Easter Vigil Mass and literally saw the Light. He now rejoices in attending Mass. |
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Betrayal and faltering loyalty to Jesus
Jesus' disciples were put to the test as Jesus prepared to make the final and ultimate sacrifice of his own life for their sake and for all the world. What was different between Peter and Judas? Judas deliberately betrayed his Master while Peter, in a moment of weakness, denied him with an oath and a curse. Judas' act was cold and calculated. Peter, however, never meant to do what he did. He acted impulsively, out of weakness and cowardice. Jesus knew both the strength of Peter's loyalty and the weakness of his resolution. He had a habit of speaking with his heart without thinking through the implications of what he was saying.
Disordered love leads to hurtful desires and wrong deeds
The treachery of Judas, however, is seen at its worst when Jesus makes his appeal by showing special affection to him at his last supper. John says that Satan entered into Judas when he rejected Jesus and left to pursue his evil course. Satan can twist love and turn it into hate. He can turn holiness into pride, discipline into cruelty, affection into complacency. We must be on our guard lest Satan turn us from the love of God and the path which God has chosen for us.
God never withholds his persevering grace and strength to those who cling to him
The Holy Spirit will give us grace and strength in our time of testing. If we submit to Jesus we will walk in the light of his truth and love. If we turn our backs on him we will stumble and fall in the ways of sin and darkness. Are you ready to follow Jesus in his way of the cross?
"Give me, O Lord, a steadfast heart which no unworthy thought can drag downwards; an unconquered heart which no tribulation can wear out; an upright heart which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon me also, O Lord my God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ, our Lord." (Prayer of Thomas Aquinas)
Psalm 71:1-6,15,17
1 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!
2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me!
3 Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
5 For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth.
6 Upon you I have leaned from my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you.
15 My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.
17 O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
A Daily Quote for Lent: Fight sin and put up with trials, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things." (excerpt from Commentary on Psalm 59,5)
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