2021년 1월 1일 천주의 성모 마리아 대축일 (세계 평화의 날)
오늘의 복음 : http://info.catholic.or.kr/missa/default.asp
제1독서
민수기 6,22-27
22 주님께서 모세에게 이르셨다.
23 “아론과 그의 아들들에게 일러라.
‘너희는 이렇게 말하면서 이스라엘 자손들에게 축복하여라.
24 ′주님께서 그대에게 복을 내리시고 그대를 지켜 주시리라.
25 주님께서 그대에게 당신 얼굴을 비추시고 그대에게 은혜를 베푸시리라.
26 주님께서 그대에게 당신 얼굴을 들어 보이시고
그대에게 평화를 베푸시리라.′’
27 그들이 이렇게 이스라엘 자손들 위로 나의 이름을 부르면,
내가 그들에게 복을 내리겠다.”
제2독서
갈라티아서. 4,4-7
형제 여러분, 4 때가 차자 하느님께서 당신의 아드님을 보내시어
여인에게서 태어나 율법 아래 놓이게 하셨습니다.
5 율법 아래 있는 이들을 속량하시어
우리가 하느님의 자녀 되는 자격을 얻게 하시려는 것이었습니다.
6 진정 여러분이 자녀이기 때문에
하느님께서 당신 아드님의 영을 우리 마음 안에 보내 주셨습니다.
그 영께서 “아빠! 아버지!” 하고 외치고 계십니다.
7 그러므로 그대는 더 이상 종이 아니라 자녀입니다.
그리고 자녀라면 하느님께서 세워 주신 상속자이기도 합니다.
복음
루카. 2,16-21
그때에 목자들이 베들레헴으로 16 서둘러 가서,
마리아와 요셉과 구유에 누운 아기를 찾아냈다.
17 목자들은 아기를 보고 나서, 그 아기에 관하여 들은 말을 알려 주었다.
18 그것을 들은 이들은 모두 목자들이 자기들에게 전한 말에 놀라워하였다.
19 그러나 마리아는 이 모든 일을 마음속에 간직하고 곰곰이 되새겼다.
20 목자들은 천사가 자기들에게 말한 대로 듣고 본 모든 것에 대하여
하느님을 찬양하고 찬미하며 돌아갔다.
21 여드레가 차서 아기에게 할례를 베풀게 되자 그 이름을 예수라고 하였다.
그것은 아기가 잉태되기 전에 천사가 일러 준 이름이었다.
January 1, 2021
The Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading
1 Nm 6:22-27
"Speak to Aaron and his sons and tell them:
This is how you shall bless the Israelites.
Say to them:
The LORD bless you and keep you!
The LORD let his face shine upon
you, and be gracious to you!
The LORD look upon you kindly and
give you peace!
So shall they invoke my name upon the Israelites,
and I will bless them."
May God have pity on us and bless us;
may he let his face shine upon us.
So may your way be known upon earth;
among all nations, your salvation.
R. May God bless us in his mercy.
May the nations be glad and exult
because you rule the peoples in equity;
the nations on the earth you guide.
R. May God bless us in his mercy.
May the peoples praise you, O God;
may all the peoples praise you!
May God bless us,
and may all the ends of the earth fear him!
R. May God bless us in his mercy.
Reading
2 Gal 4:4-7
When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son,
born of a woman, born under the law,
to ransom those under the law,
so that we might receive adoption as sons.
As proof that you are sons,
God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts,
crying out, "Abba, Father!"
So you are no longer a slave but a son,
and if a son then also an heir, through God.
Gospel
Lk 2:16-21
and the infant lying in the manger.
When they saw this,
they made known the message
that had been told them about this child.
All who heard it were amazed
by what had been told them by the shepherds.
And Mary kept all these things,
reflecting on them in her heart.
Then the shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God
for all they had heard and seen,
just as it had been told to them.
When eight days were completed for his circumcision,
he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel
before he was conceived in the womb.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
“God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law to transom those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.” - Galatians
When strangers used to see me with my son from India and my daughter from Thailand, they would sometimes ask who their “real” mothers were. I would say “me,” and quickly move on, hoping the kids wouldn’t notice. But occasionally someone would even try to argue the point.
I worried about the impact these rude encounters might have on my kids. Would they wonder if I was really their mother? Would they feel stigmatized because they were adopted? I suspect many adoptive parents harbor such fears even when the adoptive relationship isn’t as obvious as it was in our case.
Then I heard a homily discussing today’s beautiful passage from Galatians that helped me resolve these fears. The priest explained that when we “received adoption as sons,” we became God’s “real” children.
“As proof that you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out “Abba Father!” So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then also an heir through God.”
In other words, adoption makes us God’s “real” children just as it made me the “real” mother of my children – not their birth mother (a status that I deeply honor) but the “real” mom who loved them as deeply and permanently as any other parent. Who cares what we all look like or how we came together? The important this is that we are family just as all of us “adopted” children are members of God’s family on earth.
Being an adoptive parent helps me understand that God never stops loving us even when we sin. God will never abandon us, his adopted children, any more than I could ever abandon my kids.
Knowing this gives me great confidence in the strength of our relationship with God. As one of my favorite St. Louis Jesuit hymns, “Though the Mountains May Fall,” reminds us, no matter what happens, “he will not abandon you.”
So rejoice in our adoption! It is holy and beautiful. Relationships are real. How they were formed is incidental.
Happy new year!
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THE BEGINNINGS
“When the eighth day arrived for His circumcision, the name Jesus was given the Child, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.” —Luke 2:21
When we become Christians, we start out as babies, “infants in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1). Just as babies must be taught to talk, walk, eat, clothe themselves, etc., so also baby Christians must be taught to talk, walk, think, feel, and act like Christ. We don’t know how to live, or even to start the day or the year. We must be taught every little thing. The world has programmed us to begin the new year by staying up late, altering our consciousness with alcohol, being preoccupied with petty pleasures, and amusing ourselves with the TV-hype of parades and bowl games.
However, the Lord begins His days and years differently. He promised the incredible sign of His birth to a virgin centuries before (Is 7:14). He made her be immaculately conceived a generation before. He began His life in the obscurity of a teenager’s womb in the country village of Nazareth (Lk 1:35). He began His public life as just one of the crowd waiting in line to be baptized by John (Mt 3:13). Then He fasted for forty days in the desert (Mt 4:2). Jesus began His days praying very early in the morning in a deserted place (Mk 1:35).
Jesus’ beginnings were hidden, quiet, humble, and prayerful. How will you begin this year?
Prayer: Jesus, may I let Your mother Mary teach me to live as You did. May this be a day of prayer for peace and justice in our world.
Promise: “Mary treasured all these things and reflected on them in her heart.” —Lk 2:19
Praise: In 431 AD, the Council of Ephesus decreed the Church was right in calling the holy Virgin Mary “Theotokos” (God-bearer). From this we derive our English title “Mother of God.”
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
What's the significance of a name? For the Jewish people the giving of a name had great importance. When a name was given it represented what that person should be in the future. An unknown name meant that someone could not be completely known. To not acknowledge someone's name meant both denial of the person, destruction of their personality, and change in their destiny. A person's name expressed the reality of his or her being at its deepest level. A Jewish male child was named at the time of circumcision, eight days after birth. This rite was instituted by God as an outward sign to single out those who belonged to the chosen people (Genesis 17:10-12). It was a sign of the covenant that God made with Abraham and his posterity.
Jesus - the eternal Son of God who was born of a woman to become our Savior
In fulfilment of this precept, Mary's newborn child is given the name Jesus on the eighth day according to the Jewish custom. Joseph and Mary gave the name Jesus because that is the name given by God's messenger before Jesus was conceived in Mary's womb (Luke 1:31, Matthew 1:21). This name signifies Jesus' identity and his mission. The literal Hebrew means the Lord saves. Since God alone can forgive sins and free us from death, it is God who, in Jesus his eternal Son became a man to offer up his life as the atoning sacrifice to save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). The son that Mary bore is both God and man - the "Word who was God" (John 1:1) and who "became flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1:14). That is why Mary is not only called the mother of the Christ (the Greek word for Messiah in Hebrew) but also the mother of God or Theotokos in Greek which literally means "God bearer."
Jesus - the name above every other name
In the birth and naming of this child we see the wondrous design and plan of God in giving us a Savior who would bring us grace (the gift of God's favor), mercy, and freedom from the power of sin and the fear of death. The name Jesus signifies that the very name of God is present in the person of his Son who became man for our salvation. Peter the Apostle exclaimed that there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved (Acts 2:12). In the name of Jesus demons flee, cripples walk, the blind see, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised. His name is exalted far above every other name (Philippians 2:9-11).
The name Jesus is at the heart of all Christian prayer. It is through and in Jesus that we pray to the Father in the power of the Holy Spirit. Many Christians have died with one word on their lips, the name of Jesus. Do you exalt the name of Jesus and pray with confidence in his name?
Lord Jesus Christ, I exalt your name above every other name. For in you I have pardon, mercy, grace and victory over sin and death. You humbled yourself for my sake and for the sake of all sinners by sharing in our humanity and by dying on the cross. Help me to always praise your holy name and to live for your greater glory.
Psalm 67
1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]
2 that your way may be known upon earth, your saving power among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. [Selah]
5 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
6 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.
7 God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: By Christ's faith, hope, and love we are purified, by Bede the Venerable, 672-735 A.D.
"He therefore received in the flesh the circumcision decreed by the law, although he appeared in the flesh absolutely without any blemish of pollution. He who came in the likeness of sinful flesh (Romans 8:3) - not in sinful flesh - did not turn away from the remedy by which sinful flesh was ordinarily made clean. Similarly, not because of necessity but for the sake of example, he also submitted to the water of baptism, by which he wanted the people of the new law of grace to be washed from the stain of sins...
"The reason 'the child who was born to us, the son who was given to us ' (Isaiah 9:6), received the name Jesus (that is, 'Savior') does not need explanation in order to be understood by us, but we need eager and vigilant zeal so that we too may be saved by sharing in his name. Indeed, we read how the angel interprets the name of Jesus: 'He will save his people from their sins' (Matthew 1:21). And without a doubt we believe and hope that the one who saves us from sins is not failing to save us also from the corruptions which happen because of sins, and from death itself, as the psalmist testifies when he says, 'Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases' (Psalm 103:3). Indeed, with the pardoning of all of our iniquities, all our diseases will be completely healed when, with the appearance of the glory of the resurrection, our last enemy, death, will be destroyed... We read that circumcision was done with knives made of rock (Joshua 5:2), and the rock was Christ (1 Corinthians 10:4). And by Christ's faith, hope and love the hearts of the good are purified not only in baptism but furthermore in every devout action. This daily circumcision of ours (that is, the continual cleansing of our heart) does not cease from always celebrating the sacrament of the eighth day. (excerpt from HOMILIES ON THE GOSPELS 1.11)
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