2020년 7월 25일 성 야고보 사도 축일
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제1독서
코린토 2서. 4,7-15
제 여러분, 7 우리는 보물을 질그릇 속에 지니고 있습니다.
그 엄청난 힘은 하느님의 것으로,
우리에게서 나오는 힘이 아님을 보여 주시려는 것입니다.
8 우리는 온갖 환난을 겪어도 억눌리지 않고,
난관에 부딪혀도 절망하지 않으며,
9 박해를 받아도 버림받지 않고, 맞아 쓰러져도 멸망하지 않습니다.
10 우리는 언제나 예수님의 죽음을 몸에 짊어지고 다닙니다.
우리 몸에서 예수님의 생명도 드러나게 하려는 것입니다.
11 우리는 살아 있으면서도 늘 예수님 때문에 죽음에 넘겨집니다.
우리의 죽을 육신에서 예수님의 생명도 드러나게 하려는 것입니다.
12 그리하여 우리에게서는 죽음이 약동하고
여러분에게서는 생명이 약동합니다.
13 “나는 믿었다. 그러므로 말하였다.”고 성경에 기록되어 있습니다.
이와 똑같은 믿음의 영을 우리도 지니고 있으므로
“우리는 믿습니다. 그러므로 말합니다.”
14 주 예수님을 일으키신 분께서 우리도 예수님과 함께 일으키시어
여러분과 더불어 당신 앞에 세워 주시리라는 것을 알고 있기 때문입니다.
15 이 모든 것은 다 여러분을 위한 것입니다.
그리하여 은총이 점점 더 많은 사람에게 퍼져 나가
하느님의 영광을 위하여 감사하는 마음이 넘치게 하려는 것입니다.
복음
마태오 20,20-28
20 그때에 제베대오의 두 아들의 어머니가 그 아들들과 함께
예수님께 다가와 엎드려 절하고 무엇인가 청하였다.
21 예수님께서 그 부인에게 “무엇을 원하느냐?” 하고 물으시자,
그 부인이
“스승님의 나라에서 저의 이 두 아들이 하나는 스승님의 오른쪽에,
하나는 왼쪽에 앉을 것이라고 말씀해 주십시오.” 하고 말하였다.
22 예수님께서 “너희는 너희가 무엇을 청하는지 알지도 못한다.
내가 마시려는 잔을 너희가 마실 수 있느냐?” 하고 물으셨다.
그들이 “할 수 있습니다.” 하고 대답하자,
23 예수님께서 그들에게 말씀하셨다.
“너희는 내 잔을 마실 것이다.
그러나 내 오른쪽과 왼쪽에 앉는 것은 내가 허락할 일이 아니라,
내 아버지께서 정하신 이들에게 돌아가는 것이다.”
24 다른 열 제자가 이 말을 듣고 그 두 형제를 불쾌하게 여겼다.
25 예수님께서는 그들을 가까이 불러 이르셨다.
“너희도 알다시피 다른 민족들의 통치자들은 백성 위에 군림하고,
고관들은 백성에게 세도를 부린다.
26 그러나 너희는 그래서는 안 된다.
너희 가운데에서 높은 사람이 되려는 이는
너희를 섬기는 사람이 되어야 한다.
27 또한 너희 가운데에서 첫째가 되려는 이는
너희의 종이 되어야 한다.
28 사람의 아들도 섬김을 받으러 온 것이 아니라 섬기러 왔고,
또 많은 이들의 몸값으로 자기 목숨을 바치러 왔다.”
July 25, 2020
Feast of Saint James, apostle
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Reading 1
2 Cor 4:7-15
Brothers and sisters:
We hold this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.
We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained;
perplexed, but not driven to despair;
persecuted, but not abandoned;
struck down, but not destroyed;
always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.
For we who live are constantly being given up to death
for the sake of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Since, then, we have the same spirit of faith,
according to what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke,
we too believe and therefore speak,
knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus
will raise us also with Jesus
and place us with you in his presence.
Everything indeed is for you,
so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people
may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (5) Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.
When the LORD brought back the captives of Zion,
we were like men dreaming.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with rejoicing.
R. Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.
Then they said among the nations,
“The LORD has done great things for them.”
The LORD has done great things for us;
we are glad indeed.
R. Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.
Restore our fortunes, O LORD,
like the torrents in the southern desert.
Those that sow in tears
shall reap rejoicing.
R. Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.
Although they go forth weeping,
carrying the seed to be sown,
They shall come back rejoicing,
carrying their sheaves.
R. Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.
Gospel
The mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sons
and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something.
He said to her,
“What do you wish?”
She answered him,
“Command that these two sons of mine sit,
one at your right and the other at your left, in your Kingdom.”
Jesus said in reply,
“You do not know what you are asking.
Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?”
They said to him, “We can.”
He replied,
“My chalice you will indeed drink,
but to sit at my right and at my left, this is not mine to give
but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
When the ten heard this,
they became indignant at the two brothers.
But Jesus summoned them and said,
“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them,
and the great ones make their authority over them felt.
But it shall not be so among you.
Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave.
Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?»
Mons. Octavio RUIZ Arenas Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization
(Città del Vaticano, Vatican)
Today’s fragment of the Gospel narrates an episode that places us in front of a situation which is not unusual in the various Christian communities. Indeed, John and James have been very generous leaving behind their households and their nets to follow Jesus the Christ. They have heard the Lord announce a Kingdom and offer eternal life but they still fail to understand the new dimension the Lord puts forward to them. It is because of this that their mother is going to ask for something which is good enough, but which doesn’t go beyond a simple human ambition: «Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom» (Mt 20,21).
Similarly, we listen to the Lord and follow Him, like the first disciples, but not always do we fully understand his message; we then sometimes follow our personal interests and ambitions within the Church. We forget that when we accept the Lord we have to give ourselves wholly and with full trust in Him; that we cannot think in obtaining the glory without having accepted the cross.
The answer Jesus gives them puts the stress precisely on this aspect: in order to have a share in his Kingdom what matters is to drink from his same «cup» (see Mt 20, 22), i.e. to be ready and willing to give our own life for the love of God and dedicate ourselves to the service of our brethren with the same merciful attitude that Jesus showed. In his first homily Pope Francis emphasized that in order to follow Jesus we have to carry our cross, because «when we make our way without the cross, when we confess a Christ without his cross, we are not disciples of the Lord».
As a consequence, following Christ demands from us great humility. From the minute of our Baptism we have been called to be his witnesses in order to transform the world. But this transformation will only be achieved if we are able to be servants of our brethren, with a spirit of great generosity and self-giving, but always joyful because we are following and making the Lord present.
«You do not know what you are asking (…) .That will be for those for whom the Father has prepared it»
+ Fr. Antoni ORIOL i Tataret
(Vic, Barcelona, Spain)
Today, in the fragment of St. Matthew's Gospel we can find many teachings. I will however limit myself to underline just one, which refers to God's total control of events throughout time: whether of all men together (mankind), or of each and every human group (in our case, for instance, the family group of the Zebedees), or of any individual person. This is why Jesus clearly tells them: «You do not know what you are asking» (Mt 20:22).
To sit at Jesus Christ's right is for those his Father has prepared it: «To sit at my right or at my left is not for me to grant. That will be for those for whom the Father has prepared it» (Mt 20:23). Just like that, in a clear-cut way. There is an English saying that goes «Man proposes and God disposes». And it is so, precisely because God is God. Or we could also say it the other way round: if it was not so, God would not be God.
Before this fact, unquestionably overpowering any human determining factor, at the beginning, men are left with nothing else but acceptance and worship (because God has revealed himself to us as the Absolute); while marching on, with confidence and love (because God has revealed himself to us as a Father, too); and at the end..., that grand and definite end: to sit at Jesus' side (whether at his right or at his left, it does not matter at all).
On our side, the enigma of divine election and predestination can only be solved with confidence. A milligram of confidence placed in God's heart is worth more than all the weight of the world put on our poor little scale pan. In fact, «St. James did not live long: this is because from the very beginning he was already burning with a great vehemence: he scorned all human things and climbed to such ineffable ceilings that he died immediately» (St. John Chrysostom).
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
The Church has declared this the feast day of St. James the Apostle, and today’s Gospel contains one of stories associated with James (and his brother, John) that easily stick with us. James and John’s mother comes to Jesus, asking for favors for her sons. She asks that they be given the seats at Jesus’ right and left hand when he comes into his Kingdom.
It’s pretty much implied that the two put their mother up to asking Jesus for the favor, as they were right there with her and eagerly answered Jesus’ questions about the request. And the other Apostles were annoyed with the two brothers, not the mother, after the conversation.
Jesus tells them that they don’t fully realize what they are asking for. “Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?” he asks. They reply that they can, but he then says “My chalice you will indeed drink, but to sit at my right and at my left, this is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
James does indeed die a bloody death (the chalice Jesus is referring to), as he was likely the first of the Apostles to be martyred. Acts 12 tells us King Herod had him killed by the sword. No other Apostle’s martyrdom is recorded in the New Testament.
Jesus turns the situation into a teachable moment for all of his followers, including all of us today. He says that, unlike the way other leaders act in the world, lording it over their followers, his disciples are to be servants. I imagine some, or most, of them were not too pleased to hear that. Really, it goes against human nature. Who grows up naturally wanting to serve others? Not too many of us. Receiving honors, accolades and power are enticing experiences for human beings. Jesus turns those ideas on their heads. He says to be great is to serve.
Some people do derive real pleasure from putting others’ needs before their own in some situations, but to consistently make that your way of thinking and behaving takes a deeply spiritual change, a conversion of the heart.
If every Christian in the world reflected on just these words of Jesus each day, and put them into practice, how different would our world be? Imagine if all leaders were striving to be humble and lay down their lives for their followers, never seeking power and prestige? Imagine if all who were not leaders, per se, were seeking at all times only to better their fellow women, men and children and not themselves.
Just imagine.
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LOUD SPEAKER
“We have that spirit of faith of which the Scripture says, ‘Because I believed, I spoke out.’ We believe and so we speak.” —2 Corinthians 4:13
St. James spoke out publicly without fear. In the book of the Acts of the Apostles, we read about the speeches of Peter and John, but James proclaimed the truth so powerfully that Herod chose him as the first apostle to be killed (Acts 12:2). However, James was initially fearful and ran from conflict (Mk 14:50). Yet after receiving the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, James was “filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:4) and could not help speaking about Jesus (Acts 4:20).
Brothers and sisters in Christ, we live in a time of fierce battle for the truth and the faith. Our culture of death relentlessly attacks the lives of children in the womb, the sanctity and even the definition of marriage, the innocence of our children, the infirm, the aged, Christians, and especially Catholics.
Evil advances because the faithful are silent, and the faithful are silent because of a lack of love. Love casts out fear (1 Jn 4:18) and displaces self-preservation with zeal for the Lord. On this feast of St. James, pray for the Lord to give you greater love, “a well-trained tongue” (Is 50:4), and the spirit of faith to speak out (2 Cor 4:13). Fearlessly proclaim the truth in love (Eph 4:15).
Prayer: Father, give me the boldness and faith of St. James.
Promise: “Those that sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.” —Ps 126:5
Praise: St. James, along with his brother St. John, were designated “Boanerges” by Jesus (see Mk 3:17). Unquestionably, this “son of thunder” displayed great fortitude when King Herod targeted him to be the first apostle to be martyred.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
How good are you at listening, especially for the word of God? God is ever ready to speak to each of us and to give us understanding of his word. This parable of Jesus is a warning to those who hear and who preach the word of God. What makes us ineffective and unresponsive to God's word? Preoccupation with other things can distract us from what is truly important and worthwhile. And letting our hearts and minds be consumed with material things can easily weigh us down and draw us away from the treasure that lasts for eternity.
Allowing God's word to take root in our heart
God's word can only take root in a receptive heart which is docile and ready to hear what God has to say. One lesson is clear: the harvest is sure.While some seed will fall by the wayside and some fall on shallow ground and never come to maturity, and some be choked to death by the thorns; nonetheless a harvest will come. The seed that falls on good soil, on the heart that is receptive, will reap abundant fruit. Are you teachable and eager to learn God's truth? And do you allow anything to keep you from submitting to God's word with joy and trusting obedience?
Lord Jesus, help me to guard the word you have planted in my heart that no doubt or temptation may keep me from believing and obeying you. May I be fruitful in your service and may I never fear to speak of you to others and to share with them the good news of the Gospel.
Psalm 19:8-11
8 the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
9 the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever; the ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: God's word is like good seed sown in the heart, by Jerome (347-420 AD)
"'And the one sown upon good ground is he who hears the word, understands it and bears fruit.' Even as on bad ground there were three diverse situations (by the path, upon rocky ground and among thorns), so too on good ground the diversity is of three types: fruit of one hundredfold, sixtyfold and thirtyfold. Both in one and the other there is a change that takes place in the will, not in the nature itself. In both the unbelievers and believers it is the heart that receives the seed. 'The wicked one comes,' he says, 'and snatches away what has been sown in his heart.' In the second and third cases, he says, 'That is he who hears the word.' In the explanation of the good ground, he is the one who hears the word. First we must listen, then understand; after understanding, we must bear the fruits of good teaching and yield fruit either one hundredfold, sixtyfold or thirtyfold." (excerpt from COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 2.13.23)
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