June 3, 2020 Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs

2020년 6월 3일 연중 제9주간 수요일

 

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제1독서

 

티모테오 2서.1,1-3.6-12
 1 하느님의 뜻에 따라, 또 그리스도 예수님 안에 있는 생명의 약속에 따라

그리스도 예수님의 사도가 된 바오로가,
2 사랑하는 아들 티모테오에게 인사합니다.
하느님 아버지와 우리 주 그리스도 예수님에게서
은총과 자비와 평화가 내리기를 빕니다.
3 나는 밤낮으로 기도할 때마다 끊임없이 그대를 생각하면서,
내가 조상들과 마찬가지로 깨끗한 양심으로 섬기는 하느님께 감사를 드립니다.
6 그러한 까닭에 나는 그대에게 상기시킵니다.
내 안수로 그대가 받은 하느님의 은사를 다시 불태우십시오.
7 하느님께서는 우리에게 비겁함의 영을 주신 것이 아니라,
힘과 사랑과 절제의 영을 주셨습니다.
8 그러므로 그대는 우리 주님을 위하여 증언하는 것을 부끄러워하지 말고,
그분 때문에 수인이 된 나를 부끄러워하지 마십시오.
오히려 하느님의 힘에 의지하여 복음을 위한 고난에 동참하십시오.
9 하느님께서는 우리의 행실이 아니라
당신의 목적과 은총에 따라 우리를 구원하시고
거룩히 살게 하시려고 우리를 부르셨습니다.
이 은총은 창조 이전에 그리스도 예수님 안에서
이미 우리에게 주신 것인데,
10 이제 우리 구원자 그리스도 예수님께서 나타나시어 환히 드러났습니다.
그리스도께서는 죽음을 폐지하시고,
복음으로 생명과 불멸을 환히 보여 주셨습니다.
11 나는 이 복음을 위하여 선포자와 사도와 스승으로 임명을 받았습니다.
12 그러한 까닭에 나는 이 고난을 겪고 있지만 부끄러워하지 않습니다.
나는 내가 누구를 믿는지 잘 알고 있으며,
또 내가 맡은 것을 그분께서 그날까지 지켜 주실 수 있다고 확신합니다.

 

복음

마르코.12,18-27
 그때에 18 부활이 없다고 주장하는 사두가이들이

예수님께 와서 물었다.
19 “스승님, 모세는 ‘어떤 사람의 형제가 자식 없이 아내만 두고 죽으면,
그 사람이 죽은 이의 아내를 맞아들여 형제의 후사를 일으켜 주어야 한다.’고
저희를 위하여 기록해 놓았습니다.
20 그런데 일곱 형제가 있었습니다.
맏이가 아내를 맞아들였는데 후사를 남기지 못하고 죽었습니다.
21 그래서 둘째가 그 여자를 맞아들였지만
후사를 두지 못한 채 죽었고, 셋째도 그러하였습니다.
22 이렇게 일곱이 모두 후사를 남기지 못하였습니다.
맨 마지막으로 그 부인도 죽었습니다.
23 그러면 그들이 다시 살아나는 부활 때에
그 여자는 그들 가운데 누구의 아내가 되겠습니까?
일곱이 다 그 여자를 아내로 맞아들였으니 말입니다.”
24 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다.
“너희가 성경도 모르고 하느님의 능력도 모르니까
그렇게 잘못 생각하는 것이 아니냐?
25 사람들이 죽은 이들 가운데에서 다시 살아날 때에는,
장가드는 일도 시집가는 일도 없이 하늘에 있는 천사들과 같아진다.
26 그리고 죽은 이들이 되살아난다는 사실에 관해서는,
모세의 책에 있는 떨기나무 대목에서
하느님께서 모세에게 어떻게 말씀하셨는지 읽어 보지 않았느냐?
‘나는 아브라함의 하느님,
이사악의 하느님, 야곱의 하느님이다.’ 하고 말씀하셨다.
27 그분께서는 죽은 이들의 하느님이 아니라 산 이들의 하느님이시다.
너희는 크게 잘못 생각하는 것이다.”

June 3, 2020

Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs

 

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1

2 Tm 1:1-3, 6-12

Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God

for the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

to Timothy, my dear child:

grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father

and Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

I am grateful to God,

whom I worship with a clear conscience as my ancestors did,

as I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day.

 

For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame

the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands.

For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice

but rather of power and love and self-control.

So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord,

nor of me, a prisoner for his sake;

but bear your share of hardship for the Gospel

with the strength that comes from God.

 

He saved us and called us to a holy life,

not according to our works

but according to his own design

and the grace bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before time began,

but now made manifest

through the appearance of our savior Christ Jesus,

who destroyed death and brought life and immortality

to light through the Gospel,

for which I was appointed preacher and Apostle and teacher.

On this account I am suffering these things;

but I am not ashamed,

for I know him in whom I have believed

and am confident that he is able to guard

what has been entrusted to me until that day.

 

 

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 123:1b-2ab, 2cdef

R. (1)

To you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes.

To you I lift up my eyes

who are enthroned in heaven.

Behold, as the eyes of servants

are on the hands of their masters.

R. To you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes.

As the eyes of a maid

are on the hands of her mistress,

So are our eyes on the LORD, our God,

till he have pity on us.

R. To you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes.

 

 

 

Gospel

Mk 12:18-27

Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection,

came to Jesus and put this question to him, saying,

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us,

If someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child,

his brother must take the wife

and raise up descendants for his brother.

Now there were seven brothers.

The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants.

So the second brother married her and died, leaving no descendants,

and the third likewise.

And the seven left no descendants.

Last of all the woman also died.

At the resurrection when they arise whose wife will she be?

For all seven had been married to her.”

Jesus said to them, “Are you not misled

because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?

When they rise from the dead,

they neither marry nor are given in marriage,

but they are like the angels in heaven.

As for the dead being raised,

have you not read in the Book of Moses,

in the passage about the bush, how God told him,

I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,

and the God of Jacob?

He is not God of the dead but of the living.

 

You are greatly misled.”

 

 

http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow

 «He is the God, not of the dead but of the living»

Fr. Federico Elías ALCAMÁN Riffo
(Puchuncaví - Valparaíso, Chile)

 

Today, the Holy Church puts at our disposal —through Christ's words— the reality of resurrection and the properties of resurrected bodies. The Gospel mentions Jesus' meeting with the Sadducees who, with a hypothetical and out-of-the-way example, present Jesus with a question about the resurrection of the dead, which they do not believe in, anyway.

They ask him, should a woman be widowed seven times, «to which of them will she be wife? For the seven had her as wife» (Mk 12:23). They were just trying to deride Jesus' doctrine. But, the Lord, just breaks this difficulty up by answering, «when they rise from the dead, men and women do not marry but are like the angels in heaven» (Mk 12:25). 

And, taking advantage of the opportunity, Our Lord reaffirms the existence of resurrection by mentioning what God told Moses in the chapter of the burning bush: «I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob». And He adds, «He is the God, not of the dead but of the living» (Mk 12:26-27). Jesus also tells them how wrong they are, because they understand neither the Scriptures nor the power of God; what is more, this truth was already revealed in the Old Testament, for others, like Isaiah, the Macchabees' mother or even Job, already said it.

St. Augustine described the eternal life and the loving communion, like this: «There, you will have everything and you will not have limits or suffer any hardships, and your brother will also have everything; because you two will just become one and this one, will also own He Who will have you both».

Far from doubting of the Holy Scriptures and of God's merciful love and power, we shall adhere with all our mind and heart to this hopeful truth, while rejoicing for not being thwarted in our thirst of life, full and eternal, which the same God assures us, in its glory and happiness. Before this divine invitation we have nothing to do but to foment our anxious wish to see God, and to be always next to Him, in his Kingdom.

 

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This reflection will be coming soon. Until it does, here is one from Cindy Murphy McMahon from 2014.

Two parallel messages in today's first reading from Acts 20 and the Gospel from John jumped out at me. The first is verse 32 as Paul addresses the church of Ephesus: “And now I commend you to God, and to that gracious word of his that can build you up.”

The second is verse 17 in John 17, as Jesus prays to his Father as he is about to begin his passion and death: “Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.”

In both situations believers are being directed to God's word as their flesh-and-blood liaisons (Paul in the first reading, Jesus in the second) are getting ready to depart.

Of course, this is a very basic message of our Christian faith, that the word of God is valuable, edifying, important, and, in fact, critical to our faith. Still, when I read and reread those two lines they both spoke volumes to me.

Paul called God's word gracious. And so it is. The words from God through God's emissaries are full of grace if we are open to them. And they can build us up if we allow them to. In order to receive those full graces, we need to reflect, to chew on, to digest the words we read n and hear through scripture and allow them to touch us, move us, change us.

And Jesus asked his Father to consecrate us "in truth,” adding, "your word is truth.” Theological debates aside as to what certain scripture passages mean or don't mean, we can all find comfort in Jesus saying that God's word is truth for us.

Again, if we take the time to listen, reflect and respond, we know the truth when we hear it. We know whether certain scripture passages we are reading are meant just for us because the Holy Spirit brings that insight into our hearts and minds. The big T Truth becomes our truth when we recognize ourselves in a reading, a verse, a Bible story. And we know – we just know – that God is speaking to us—to me, to you—and we are changed.

As Paul said, we are built up – we are made better, more complete. How wonderful that God allows a vehicle as simple as words to reach through time and space to our hearts and minds.

 

 

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LIGHT MY FIRE

“I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God...” —2 Timothy 1:6

In today’s Gospel passage, Jesus speaks of flame when He references the burning bush (Mk 12:26). Moses saw an angel of the Lord appear to him “in fire flaming out of a bush” (Ex 3:2). That experience stirred into flame a blazing fire for God in Moses’ heart.

In our Baptism and Confirmation, we have been given gifts of the Spirit (Rm 12:6; Eph 4:8). Hundreds of millions of people on this earth have received incredible gifts from the Holy Spirit. Why then is the world in such a mess when the Spirit has given us so much help? Many have stifled (1 Thes 5:19) and saddened (Eph 4:30) the Spirit by living “at the level of the flesh” (Eph 2:3), and the flesh fights against the Spirit (Gal 5:17). However, the Holy Spirit also fights against the flesh (Gal 5:17), if only we give the Spirit permission.

Jesus came to light a fire on the earth (Lk 12:49), but many are afraid they’ll get burnt. When you’re tempted to douse the fire of the Spirit, God wants you to throw gasoline on it. When you’re tempted to put a damper on the Spirit’s fire burning in your life, God wants you to put a blowtorch on it.

Fr. Al Lauer, founder and longtime author of One Bread, One Body, once said: “The more I say ‘No’ to myself, the more I say ‘Yes’ to the Holy Spirit.” “My point is that you should live in accord with the Spirit and you will not yield to the cravings of the flesh” (Gal 5:16).

 

Prayer:  Father, may I not be so afraid of getting burnt that I fail to catch fire. Consuming Fire (Heb 12:29), melt my heart in Your love.

Promise:  “God has saved us and has called us to a holy life.” —2 Tm 1:9

Praise:  St. Charles Lwanga and his fellow Ugandan martyrs endured cruel and sinister punishment imposed by the vicious King Mwanga. Pope St. Paul VI canonized them in 1964.

 

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 "You  know neither the scriptures nor the power of God"

How reliable is the belief that all will be raised from the dead? The Sadducees, who were a group of religious leaders from the upper classes in Jesus' time, did not believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead to eternal life. They could not conceive of heaven beyond what they could see with their naked eyes! Aren’t we often like them? We don't recognize spiritual realities because we try to make heaven into an earthly image we can touch and see. The Sadducees came to Jesus with a test question to make the resurrection look ridiculous. The Sadducees, unlike the Pharisees, did not believe in the existence of  immortal beings - whether humans, angels, or evil spirits. Their religion was literally grounded in an earthly image of heaven which ended in death.

Jesus offers proof to immortality - life without end
Jesus responds to their argument by dealing with the fact of the resurrection and immortal life. Jesus shows that God is a living God of a living people. The Scriptures give proof of it. In Exodus 3:6, God calls himself the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God was the friend of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when they lived on the earth. That friendship with God could not cease with death. David in the Psalms also speaks of the reality of immortal life with God. In Psalm 73:23-24 we pray through the words of David: "I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory."  

Through Christ's resurrection we, too, can rise again to eternal life with God
The Holy Spirit reveals to us the eternal truths of God's unending love and the life he desires to share with us for all eternity. Paul the Apostle, quoting from the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 64:4; 65:17) states: “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him,” God has revealed to us through the Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). The promise of paradise - heavenly bliss and unending life with an all-loving God - is beyond human reckoning. We have only begun to taste the first-fruits! Do you believe the Scriptures and do you know the power of the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead and who gives us the assurance of everlasting life as well?

"May the Lord Jesus put his hands on our eyes also, for then we too shall begin to look not at what is seen but at what is not seen. May he open the eyes that are concerned not with the present but with what is yet to come, may he unseal the heart’s vision, that we may gaze on God in the Spirit, through the same Lord, Jesus Christ, whose glory and power will endure throughout the unending succession of ages." (Prayer of Origen, 185-254 AD)

Psalms 25:1-5,8-10

1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. 
2 O my God, in you I trust; do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me. 
3 Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous. 
4 Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. 
5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long. 
8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. 
9 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. 
10 All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.  

Daily Quote from the early church fathers: No marriage in the resurrection, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.

"What did the Lord say to the Sadducees? He said, 'You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures or the power of God. For in the resurrection they marry neither husbands nor wives; for neither do they start dying again, but they will be equal to the angels of God' (Mark 12:24-25; Matthew 22:29-30). The power of God is great. Why do they not marry husbands or wives? They will not start dying again. When one generation departs, another is required to succeed it. There will not be such liability to decay in that place. The Lord passed through the usual stages of growth, from infancy to adult manhood, because he was bearing the substance of flesh that still was mortal. After he had risen again at the age at which he was buried, are we to imagine that he is growing old in heaven? He says, 'They will be equal to the angels of God.' He eliminated the assumption of the Jews and refuted the objection of the Sadducees, because the Jews did indeed believe the dead would rise again, but they had crude, fleshly ideas about the state of humanity after resurrection. He said, 'They will be equal to the angels of God.' ... It has already been stated that we are to rise again. We have heard from the Lord that we rise again to the life of the angels. In his own resurrection, he has shown us in what specific form we are to rise again." (excerpt from SERMON 362.18–19.30)

  

 

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