2020년 10월 6일 연중 제27주간 화요일
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제1독서
갈라티아서.1,13-24
형제 여러분, 13 내가 한때 유다교에 있을 적에
나의 행실이 어떠하였는지 여러분은 이미 들었습니다.
나는 하느님의 교회를 몹시 박해하며 아예 없애 버리려고 하였습니다.
14 유다교를 신봉하는 일에서도
동족인 내 또래의 많은 사람들보다 앞서 있었고,
내 조상들의 전통을 지키는 일에도 훨씬 더 열심이었습니다.
15 그러나 어머니 배 속에 있을 때부터 나를 따로 뽑으시어
당신의 은총으로 부르신 하느님께서 기꺼이 마음을 정하시어,
16 내가 당신의 아드님을 다른 민족들에게 전할 수 있도록
그분을 내 안에 계시해 주셨습니다.
그때에 나는 어떠한 사람과도 바로 상의하지 않았습니다.
17 나보다 먼저 사도가 된 이들을 찾아 예루살렘에 올라가지도 않았습니다.
그냥 아라비아로 갔다가 다시 다마스쿠스로 돌아갔습니다.
18 그러고 나서 삼 년 뒤에 나는 케파를 만나려고 예루살렘에 올라가,
보름 동안 그와 함께 지냈습니다.
19 그러나 다른 사도는 아무도 만나 보지 않았습니다.
주님의 형제 야고보만 보았을 뿐입니다.
20 내가 여러분에게 쓰는 이 글은 하느님 앞에서 말합니다만
거짓이 아닙니다.
21 그 뒤에 나는 시리아와 킬리키아 지방으로 갔습니다.
22 그래서 나는 유다에 있는 그리스도의 여러 교회에 얼굴이 알려지지 않았습니다.
23 그들은 “한때 우리를 박해하던 그 사람이
지금은 자기가 한때 그렇게 없애 버리려고 하던 믿음을 전한다.”는
소문만 듣고 있었습니다.
24 그리고 그들은 나 때문에 하느님을 찬양하였습니다.
복음
루카.10,38-42
때에 38 예수님께서 어떤 마을에 들어가셨다.
그러자 마르타라는 여자가 예수님을 자기 집으로 모셔 들였다.
39 마르타에게는 마리아라는 동생이 있었는데,
마리아는 주님의 발치에 앉아 그분의 말씀을 듣고 있었다.
40 그러나 마르타는 갖가지 시중드는 일로 분주하였다.
그래서 예수님께 다가가,
“주님, 제 동생이 저 혼자 시중들게 내버려 두는데도 보고만 계십니까?
저를 도우라고 동생에게 일러 주십시오.” 하고 말하였다.
41 주님께서 마르타에게 대답하셨다.
“마르타야, 마르타야! 너는 많은 일을 염려하고 걱정하는구나.
42 그러나 필요한 것은 한 가지뿐이다. 마리아는 좋은 몫을 선택하였다.
그리고 그것을 빼앗기지 않을 것이다.”
October 6, 2020
Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Brothers and sisters:
You heard of my former way of life in Judaism,
how I persecuted the Church of God beyond measure
and tried to destroy it,
and progressed in Judaism
beyond many of my contemporaries among my race,
since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral traditions.
But when he, who from my mother’s womb had set me apart
and called me through his grace,
was pleased to reveal his Son to me,
so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles,
I did not immediately consult flesh and blood,
nor did I go up to Jerusalem
to those who were Apostles before me;
rather, I went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas
and remained with him for fifteen days.
But I did not see any other of the Apostles,
only James the brother of the Lord.
(As to what I am writing to you, behold,
before God, I am not lying.)
Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
And I was unknown personally to the churches of Judea
that are in Christ;
they only kept hearing that “the one who once was persecuting us
is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
So they glorified God because of me.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (24b) Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
O LORD, you have probed me and you know me;
you know when I sit and when I stand;
you understand my thoughts from afar.
My journeys and my rest you scrutinize,
with all my ways you are familiar.
R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
Truly you have formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mother’s womb.
I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made;
wonderful are your works.
R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
My soul also you knew full well;
nor was my frame unknown to you
When I was made in secret,
when I was fashioned in the depths of the earth.
R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
Gospel
Jesus entered a village
where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him.
She had a sister named Mary
who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak.
Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said,
“Lord, do you not care
that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving?
Tell her to help me.”
The Lord said to her in reply,
“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things.
There is need of only one thing.
Mary has chosen the better part
and it will not be taken from her.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
The story of Mary and Martha is often used for prayer and reflection. It is not new to us. We are generally invited to pause and consider are we more like Mary the listener/contemplative or more like Martha the doer/activist. I will say, upfront to claim my bias, that I am more of a Mary. This being said, my attention in prayer with the scripture was Jesus’ words, “There is need of only one things. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.” When praying, the question surfaced for me, what is “the better part”? In my imagination, I see Mary sitting with Jesus and others listening but also in conversation, maybe asking questions or offering ideas. I realize that this would have been unconventional in Jesus’ time, but, he was unconventional. The point is, I hear Jesus telling Martha and us, that to be with one another, to be in relationship is the “one thing” that is needed. For me, that is a call to prayer. Not worship at his feet, but prayer where I share with God how things are going and listen for a response.
As I reflected with the scripture some more, I struggled with Jesus’ apparent choosing the contemplative way over the activist way. But once again, as I rested in the story in prayer, I realized that starting with prayer, being in relationship with God and others, naturally leads to activism. How many times do we serve out of a sense of obligation or because we think that it is expected? Is that what Martha was doing? Given the norms of the time, women would not have been part of the conversation, possibly not even at the table. They would have been preparing the meal and serving because that was the expectation. If given the opportunity to be in relationship, to be a disciple/apostle maybe would have desired to make and serve the meal, to use their gifts out of love. When we are in relationship with people we want to use our gifts to help them, serve them. This desire comes from a place of love, not obligation. Serving becomes a privilege not a burden. Could it be that Mary “choosing the better part” is really resulting in Mary choosing both. I wonder, if after this encounter, Mary chose out of love for Martha to join her in serving those gathered in their home.
As we go about our day, let’s ask: How is God calling me to be in relationship? Where are we serving out of obligation and where are we serving out of love? How does this knowledge call me to prayer and transformation and/or greater relationship?
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EXTREME UNCTION
“I went to extremes.” —Galatians 1:13
Paul “went to extremes in persecuting the Church of God and tried to destroy it” (Gal 1:13). He had an “excess of zeal” (Gal 1:14), which means he was extremely extreme. He described himself “as an extreme case” (1 Tm 1:16). Paul was an extremist.
Many of you reading this are also extremists. You may tend to go to extremes in eating, working, buying, worrying, fearing, drinking, watching TV or staring at your handheld electronic device. Although the current direction of your extremism may be a curse, it can become a blessing. If, like Paul by God’s grace, you can direct your extremism away from self-indulgence, self-destruction, and opposition to God’s work, you will be able to use your extremism for the building of God’s kingdom.
Jesus was and is an Extremist. He was so extreme that He became a Man and died on the cross because of love for us (see Phil 2:7-8). He commands us to love Him with all our hearts, all our souls, all our minds, and all our strength (Lk 10:27). What’s more extreme than “all”? He gives us His Body and Blood under the appearance of bread and wine. Did you ever hear anything so far-out, so extreme?
Jesus loves us extremely. What more can He do? We must go to extremes to love Him in return.
Prayer: Father, You went to extremes in giving Your Son for our salvation. I love and thank You.
Promise: Mary “seated herself at the Lord’s feet and listened to His words.” —Lk 10:39
Praise: Pope Urban II, during his youth, was a student of St. Bruno. After Urban ascended to the papacy, he summoned his former teacher to Rome. Bruno became the Pope’s Confessor. He wrote “Almighty God will inscribe in your hearts with His finger not only His love but also the knowledge of His holy law.”
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Does the peace of Christ reign in your home and in your personal life? Jesus loved to visit the home of Martha and Mary and enjoyed their gracious hospitality. In this brief encounter we see two very different temperaments in Martha and Mary. Martha loved to serve, but in her anxious manner of waiting on Jesus, she caused unrest. Mary, in her simple and trusting manner, waited on Jesus by sitting attentively at his feet. She instinctively knew that what the Lord and Teacher most wanted at that moment was her attentive presence.
Give your concerns and pre-occupations to the Lord
Anxiety and preoccupation keep us from listening and from giving the Lord our undivided attention. The Lord bids us to give him our concerns and anxieties because he is trustworthy and able to meet any need we have. His grace frees us from needless concerns and preoccupation. Do you seek the Lord attentively? And does the Lord find a welcomed and honored place in your home?
Always welcome the Lord into your home and heart
The Lord Jesus desires that we make a place for him, not only in our hearts, but in our homes and in the daily circumstances of our lives as well. We honor the Lord when we offer to him everything we have and everything we do. After all, everything we have is an outright gift from God (1 Chronicles 29:14). Paul the Apostle urges us to give God glory in everything: "Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him" (Colossians 3:17).
When you sit, eat, sleep and when you entertain your friends and guests, remember that the Lord Jesus is also the guest of your home. Scripture tells us that when Abraham opened his home and welcomed three unknown travelers, he welcomed the Lord who blessed him favorably for his gracious hospitality (Genesis 18:1-10; Hebrews 13:2). The Lord wants us to bring him glory in the way we treat others and use the gifts he has graciously given to us. God, in turn, blesses us with his gracious presence and fills us with joy.
Lord Jesus, to be in your presence is life and joy for me. Free me from needless concerns and preoccupations that I may give you my undivided love and attention.
Psalm 130:1-8
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!
2 Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
6 my soul waits for the LORD more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
7 O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plenteous redemption.
8 And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The Body of Christ needs hearers and doers of the Word, by Ambrose of Milan, 339-397 A.D.
"'Virtue does not have a single form. In the example of Martha and Mary, there is added the busy devotion of the one and the pious attention of the other to the Word of God, which, if it agrees with faith, is preferred even to the very works, as it is written: 'Mary has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.' So let us also strive to have what no one can take away from us, so that not careless but diligent hearing may be granted to us. For even the seeds of the heavenly Word itself are likely to be taken away if they are sowed by the wayside (Luke 8:5,12). Let the desire for wisdom lead you as it did Mary. It is a greater and more perfect work. Do not let service divert the knowledge of the heavenly Word... Nor is Martha rebuked in her good serving, but Mary is preferred because she has chosen the better part for herself, for Jesus abounds with many blessings and bestows many gifts. And therefore the wiser chooses what she perceives as foremost."(excerpt from EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 7.83-86)
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