May 7, 2020 Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter

2020년 5월 7일 부활 제4주간 목요일  

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제1독서

사도행전. 13,13-25
13 바오로 일행은 파포스에서 배를 타고 팜필리아의 페르게로 가고,
요한은 그들과 헤어져 예루살렘으로 돌아갔다.
14 그들은 페르게에서 더 나아가 피시디아의 안티오키아에 이르러,
안식일에 회당에 들어가 앉았다.

15 율법과 예언서 봉독이 끝나자 회당장들이 그들에게 사람을 보내어,
“형제들이여, 백성을 격려할 말씀이 있으면 해 주십시오.” 하고 말하였다.
16 그러자 바오로가 일어나 조용히 하라고 손짓한 다음 이렇게 말하였다.
“이스라엘인 여러분,
그리고 하느님을 경외하는 여러분, 내 말을 들어 보십시오.
17 이 이스라엘 백성의 하느님께서는 우리 조상들을 선택하시고,
이집트 땅에서 나그네살이할 때에 그들을 큰 백성으로 키워 주셨으며,
권능의 팔로 그들을 거기에서 데리고 나오셨습니다.
18 그리고 약 사십 년 동안 광야에서 그들의 소행을 참아 주시고,
19 가나안 땅에서 일곱 민족을 멸하시어
그 땅을 그들의 상속 재산으로 주셨는데,
20 그때까지 약 사백오십 년이 걸렸습니다.
그 뒤에 사무엘 예언자 때까지 판관들을 세워 주시고,
21 그다음에 그들이 임금을 요구하자,
하느님께서는 벤야민 지파 사람으로서 키스의 아들인 사울을
그들에게 사십 년 동안 임금으로 세워 주셨습니다.
22 그러고 나서 그를 물리치시고
그들에게 다윗을 임금으로 세우셨습니다.
그에 대해서는 ‘내가 이사이의 아들 다윗을 찾아냈으니,
그는 내 마음에 드는 사람으로 나의 뜻을 모두 실천할 것이다.’ 하고
증언해 주셨습니다.
23 이 다윗의 후손 가운데에서,
하느님께서는 약속하신 대로 예수님을 구원자로 이스라엘에 보내셨습니다.
24 이분께서 오시기 전에 요한이
이스라엘 온 백성에게 회개의 세례를 미리 선포하였습니다.
25 요한은 사명을 다 마칠 무렵 이렇게 말하였습니다.
‘너희는 내가 누구라고 생각하느냐?
나는 그분이 아니다.
그분께서는 내 뒤에 오시는데,
나는 그분의 신발 끈을 풀어 드리기에도 합당하지 않다.’”

 

복음

요한. 13,16-20
예수님께서 제자들의 발을 씻어 주신 다음 그들에게 말씀하셨다.
16 “내가 진실로 진실로 너희에게 말한다.
종은 주인보다 높지 않고, 파견된 이는 파견한 이보다 높지 않다.
17 이것을 알고 그대로 실천하면 너희는 행복하다.
18 내가 너희를 모두 가리켜 말하는 것은 아니다. 내가 뽑은 이들을 나는 안다.
그러나 ‘제 빵을 먹던 그가 발꿈치를 치켜들며 저에게 대들었습니다.’라는
성경 말씀이 이루어져야 한다.
19 일이 일어나기 전에 내가 미리 너희에게 말해 둔다.
일이 일어날 때에 내가 나임을 너희가 믿게 하려는 것이다.
20 내가 진실로 진실로 너희에게 말한다.
내가 보내는 이를 맞아들이는 사람은 나를 맞아들이는 것이고,
나를 맞아들이는 사람은 나를 보내신 분을 맞아들이는 것이다.”

May 7, 2020

Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter 

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1

Acts 13:13-25
From Paphos, Paul and his companions
set sail and arrived at Perga in Pamphylia. 
But John left them and returned to Jerusalem. 
They continued on from Perga and reached Antioch in Pisidia. 
On the sabbath they entered into the synagogue and took their seats. 
After the reading of the law and the prophets,
the synagogue officials sent word to them,
“My brothers, if one of you has a word of exhortation
for the people, please speak.”

So Paul got up, motioned with his hand, and said,
“Fellow children of Israel and you others who are God-fearing, listen.
The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors
and exalted the people during their sojourn in the land of Egypt. 
With uplifted arm he led them out,
and for about forty years he put up with them in the desert.
When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan,
he gave them their land as an inheritance
at the end of about four hundred and fifty years.
After these things he provided judges up to Samuel the prophet. 
Then they asked for a king.
God gave them Saul, son of Kish,
a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 
Then he removed him and raised up David as their king;
of him he testified,
I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart;
he will carry out my every wish. 
From this man’s descendants God, according to his promise,
has brought to Israel a savior, Jesus. 
John heralded his coming by proclaiming a baptism of repentance
to all the people of Israel;
and as John was completing his course, he would say,
‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he.
Behold, one is coming after me;
I am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.’“

 

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 89:2-3, 21-22, 25 and 27

R. (2) For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
or:
R. Alleluia.
The favors of the LORD I will sing forever;
through all generations my mouth shall proclaim your faithfulness.
For you have said, “My kindness is established forever”;
in heaven you have confirmed your faithfulness.
R. For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
or:
R. Alleluia.
“I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him,
That my hand may be always with him,
and that my arm may make him strong.”
R. For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
or:
R. Alleluia.
“My faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him,
and through my name shall his horn be exalted.
He shall say of me, ‘You are my father,
my God, the Rock, my savior.’”
R. For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
or:
R. Alleluia.

 

Gospel

Jn 13:16-20 

When Jesus had washed the disciples’ feet, he said to them:
“Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master
nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him.
If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it.
I am not speaking of all of you.
I know those whom I have chosen.
But so that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
The one who ate my food has raised his heel against me. 
From now on I am telling you before it happens,
so that when it happens you may believe that I AM. 
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send
receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.” 

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 «After Jesus had washed the feet of the disciples...»

Fr. David COMPTE i Verdaguer
(Manlleu, Barcelona, Spain)

Today, as with those movies that, at the beginning, take us back in time, our liturgy remembers a passage that belongs to the Holy Thursday: Jesus washes the feet of his disciples (cf. Jn 13:12). Thus, this gesture —read from the Easter perspective— recovers a perennial validity. Let us consider only three ideas.

In the first place, the centrality of the person. In our society it seems that to do is the thermometer to measure a person's worth. Within this dynamic it is easy for people to be considered as tools; we use each other extremely easy. Today, the Gospel urges us to transform this dynamic into service dynamics: the other party will never be just a tool. It would rather be a matter of living a spirituality of communion, where the other one —quoting John Paul II— becomes “someone that belongs to me” and a “gift to me”, whom we have “to give room” to. In our language we could translate it as “to care about other people's feelings”. Do we care about other people's feelings? Do we listen to them when they speak to us?

In our world of image and communications, this is not a message to transmit, but a job to be done, to live up to every day: «and blessed are you if you put it into practice!» (Jn 13:17). Maybe, this is why the Master does not limit himself to an explanation: He imprints into his disciples' memory his gesture of service, to pass it immediately on to the Church's memory; a memory that we demand to become a gesture, time and again: in the lives of so many families, of so many people.

Finally, a warning signal: «The one who shared my table has risen against me» (Jn 13:18). In the Eucharist, Jesus resurrected becomes our servant, He washes our feet. But the physical presence is not enough. We have to learn in the Eucharist and get the necessary strength from so that it may become a reality that «having received the gift of love, we die to sin and we live for God» (Saint Fulgence, Bishop of Ruspe).

http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html

 

Past. Present. Future.

Paul retells the history of the Israelites from Saul to David to John the Baptist and Jesus. Why? Surely the synagogue officials already know their people’s history. Paul wants to ground the story of Jesus in the history of the Jewish people. He shows how Jesus is part of their identity as a people.

Jesus washes the feet of his disciples and, once again, reveals his identity: “From now on I am telling you before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I AM.”

Jesus also imparts a duty to his disciples. After washing their feet and reminding them that no slave is greater than his master, he tells them, “blessed are you if you do it.” In other words, this profound act of service performed by Jesus must continue through the hands of his disciples. Imitating Jesus, we must continue to serve one another, washing each other’s feet.

In the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, we reflect on the three questions: “What have I done for Christ? What am I doing for Christ? What ought I do for Christ?”

Past. Present. Future.

As I write this, the coronavirus pandemic is reaching its peak in the United States. The present is full of uncertainty and anxiety. The past (the way things used to be) is becoming a distant memory. Our future is described as the “new normal.” We can only imagine what that future “new normal” will be like. As Christians, we have a duty to bring Christ into this future “new normal.” As Christians, this duty begins now with service to one another, washing our hands and each other’s feet. As Christians, we recall the graces of the past so we can bring them into the future. 

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a heeling mass?

"He who partook of bread with Me has raised his heel against Me." —John 13:18

In the time of Jesus, showing the bottom of your foot to someone was a sign of contempt toward them. Judas, in betraying Jesus, no longer considered Jesus his Master. Judas had committed to the service of new masters, the Sanhedrin. "No man can serve two masters. He will ... be attentive to one and despise the other" (Mt 6:24). Therefore, Judas despised Jesus. By eating the Last Supper with Jesus, Judas showed the greatest contempt for Him (Ps 41:10), even if he outwardly appeared sociable.

When you break bread with Jesus at Mass, are you coming to serve Jesus as your Master? Do you have His interests in mind? Are you listening for a message from Him? (Jn 13:16) Or do you come to Mass while serving someone else, such as yourself? If you are serving anyone else but Jesus, you'll eventually love them and despise Him (Mt 6:24). Others may see your Mass attendance as respectful, but that's not what Jesus sees. He may see the bottom of your foot raised against Him in contempt (Jn 13:18).

How do you spend your prime time? Your answer tells you what you serve. If the answer is not Jesus and His interests, repent now. Give up all that you have to gain Jesus as your Treasure and your Master (Mt 13:44). When you humble yourself and accept Jesus as your Master, Lord, and Savior, you paradoxically discover who you are (Mt 10:39). once you know all these things, blest will you be if you put them into practice" (Jn 13:17).

Prayer:  Father, I will live no longer for myself but for Jesus (2 Cor 5:15). Help me to love Jesus in the Mass ever more deeply.

Promise:  "Through all generations my mouth shall proclaim Your faithfulness." —Ps 89:2

Praise:  Explaining the Eucharist to his children made Carl more in awe of Jesus' Real Presence in Holy Communion.

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 "The one who receives me"

How do you treat those who cause you grief or harm, especially those who are close to you in some way? In his last supper discourse, Jesus addressed the issue of fidelity and disloyalty in relationships. Jesus knew beforehand that one of his own disciples would betray him. Such knowledge could have easily led Jesus to distance himself from such a person and to protect himself from harm's way. Instead, Jesus expresses his love, affection, and loyalty to those who were his own, even to the one he knew would "stab him in the back" when he got the opportunity. Jesus used a quotation from Psalm 4:9 which describes an act of treachery by one's closest friend. In the culture of Jesus' day, to eat bread with someone was a gesture of friendship and trust. Jesus extends such friendship to Judas right at the moment when Judas is conspiring to betray his master. The ｅxpression lift his heel against me reinforces the brute nature of this act of violent rejection.

Love and loyalty that endure to the end
Jesus loved his disciples to the end and proved his faithfulness to them even to death on the cross. Through his death and resurrection Jesus opened a new way of relationship and friendship with God. Jesus tells his disciples that if they accept him they also accept the Father who sent him. This principle extends to all who belong to Christ and who speak in his name. To accept the Lord's messenger is to accept Jesus himself. The great honor and the great responsibility a Christian has is to stand in the world for Jesus Christ. As his disciples and ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:20), we are called to speak for him and to act on his behalf.  Are you ready to stand for Jesus at the cross of humiliation, rejection, opposition, and suffering?

"Eternal God, who are the light of the minds that know you, the joy of the hearts that love you, and the strength of the wills that serve you; grant us so to know you, that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whom to serve is perfect freedom, in Jesus our Lord." (Prayer of Saint Augustine)

Psalm 89:2-3,21-27

2 For your steadfast love was established for ever, your faithfulness is firm as the heavens.
3 20 I have found my servant David; with my holy oil I have anointed him;
21 my hand shall always remain with him; my arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble him.
23 I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
24 My faithfulness and steadfast love shall be with him; and in my name his horn shall be exalted.
25 I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
26 He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation!'
27 I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
You have said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant

Daily Quote from the early church fathers: The Master wants his servants to reach their potential, by Origen, 185-254 A.D.

"The Savior, who is Lord, does something that surpasses all other lords, who have no desire to see their servants rise up to their level. He is such a Son of the Father's goodness and love that, although he was Lord, he produced servants who could become like him, their Lord, not having the spirit of bondage, which comes from fear, but the spirit of adoption in which they too cry, 'Abba, Father.' So then, before becoming like their teacher and lord, they need to have their feet washed because they are still deficient disciples who possess the spirit of bondage to fear. But when they attain the stature of master and lord... then they will be able to imitate their master and wash the disciple's feet as the teacher. (excerpt from COMMENTARY on THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 32.120-22)

  

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