June 21, 2021 Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious

2021년 6월 21일 연중 제12주간 월요일 

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제1독서 

<아브람은 주님께서 이르신 대로 길을 떠났다.>

창세기. 12,1-9
그 무렵 1 주님께서 아브람에게 말씀하셨다.
“네 고향과 친족과 아버지의 집을 떠나, 내가 너에게 보여 줄 땅으로 가거라.
2 나는 너를 큰 민족이 되게 하고, 너에게 복을 내리며,
너의 이름을 떨치게 하겠다. 그리하여 너는 복이 될 것이다.
3 너에게 축복하는 이들에게는 내가 복을 내리고,
너를 저주하는 자에게는 내가 저주를 내리겠다.
세상의 모든 종족들이 너를 통하여 복을 받을 것이다.”
4 아브람은 주님께서 이르신 대로 길을 떠났다. 롯도 그와 함께 떠났다.
아브람이 하란을 떠날 때, 그의 나이는 일흔다섯 살이었다.
5 아브람은 아내 사라이와 조카 롯과,
자기가 모은 재물과 하란에서 얻은 사람들을 데리고
가나안 땅을 향하여 길을 나서, 마침내 가나안 땅에 이르렀다.
6 아브람은 그 땅을 가로질러 스켐의 성소 곧 모레의 참나무가 있는 곳에 다다랐다.
그때 그 땅에는 가나안족이 살고 있었다.
7 주님께서 아브람에게 나타나 말씀하셨다. “내가 이 땅을 너의 후손에게 주겠다.”
아브람은 자기에게 나타나신 주님을 위하여 그곳에 제단을 쌓았다.
8 그는 그곳을 떠나 베텔 동쪽의 산악 지방으로 가서,
서쪽으로는 베텔이 보이고 동쪽으로는 아이가 보이는 곳에 천막을 쳤다.
그는 그곳에 주님을 위하여 제단을 쌓고, 주님의 이름을 받들어 불렀다.
9 아브람은 다시 길을 떠나 차츰차츰 네겝 쪽으로 옮겨 갔다.

복음

<먼저 네 눈에서 들보를 빼내어라.>

마태오 7,1-5
 그때에 예수님께서 제자들에게 말씀하셨다.

1 “남을 심판하지 마라.
그래야 너희도 심판받지 않는다.
2 너희가 심판하는 그대로 너희도 심판받고,
너희가 되질하는 바로 그 되로 너희도 받을 것이다.
3 너는 어찌하여 형제의 눈 속에 있는 티는 보면서,
네 눈 속에 있는 들보는 깨닫지 못하느냐?
4 네 눈 속에는 들보가 있는데,
어떻게 형제에게 ‘가만, 네 눈에서 티를 빼내 주겠다.’ 하고 말할 수 있느냐?
5 위선자야, 먼저 네 눈에서 들보를 빼내어라.
그래야 네가 뚜렷이 보고 형제의 눈에서 티를 빼낼 수 있을 것이다.”

June 21, 2021

Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious 

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1

Gn 12:1-9
The LORD said to Abram:
“Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk
and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.

“I will make of you a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
so that you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you
and curse those who curse you.
All the communities of the earth
shall find blessing in you.”

Abram went as the LORD directed him, and Lot went with him.
Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
Abram took his wife, Sarai, his brother’s son Lot,
all the possessions that they had accumulated,
and the persons they had acquired in Haran,
and they set out for the land of Canaan.
When they came to the land of Canaan, Abram passed through the land
as far as the sacred place at Shechem,
by the terebinth of Moreh.
(The Canaanites were then in the land.)

The LORD appeared to Abram and said,
“To your descendants I will give this land.”
So Abram built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel,
pitching his tent with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east.
He built an altar there to the LORD and invoked the LORD by name.
Then Abram journeyed on by stages to the Negeb.

Responsorial Psalm

33:12-13, 18-19, 20 and 22

R. (12) Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
From heaven the LORD looks down;
he sees all mankind.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Our soul waits for the LORD,
who is our help and our shield.
May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us
who have put our hope in you.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

Gospel

Mt 7:1-5

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Stop judging, that you may not be judged.
For as you judge, so will you be judged,
and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye,
but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?
How can you say to your brother,
‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’
while the wooden beam is in your eye?
You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first;
then you will see clearly
to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.”

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

 The portrayal of today’s parable that sticks with me is from the 1999 stop-motion film “The Miracle Maker.” Before I saw it, I had always imagined Jesus sternly warning me, “Don’t tell other people what to do until you’ve got it right yourself!” I also imagined a person with a two-by-four somehow sticking out of their eye, which didn’t make any sense. How would that even happen?!

In the film, as Jesus tells the story with good humor to a crowd, the animation portrays two carpenters. The first pauses his work to remove an irritant from his eye. The other, carrying a thick beam over one shoulder, insists on helping his friend. He turns around, swinging the beam with him and knocking several things over as he tries to get into a good position to “help.” Jesus and the crowd laugh as they picture the slapstick scene, with the silly arrogant man who didn’t think to put down the beam before helping his friend. This portrayal helps me imagine the parable because, while it illustrates the potential destruction if I don’t recognize my own blindness, it also gives me permission not to take myself so seriously. That, in turn, helps me to be open to learning and making amends when my blind spots are revealed to me.

Finally, in this portrayal, the thing causing the person’s blindness (the beam) is a lot of work to carry around! It looks heavy and unwieldy - indeed, almost like a cross. I like that in this image it is possible to set the beam down. Maybe we don’t always know how to set it down, if we’re even aware of it at all. Until we can do that, I think, it is better to just be present and trust that God will help our friends with their splinters just as God will help us to set down our wooden beams.

“Open My Eyes” by Jesse Manibusan

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A LONG-DISTANCE CALL

“Go forth...to a land that I will show you.” —Genesis 12:1

Over three decades ago, God called our family to leave behind all that was familiar, move hundreds of miles, and join Presentation Ministries as volunteers. In a small way, I came to learn some of what Abram learned about following the Lord:

• When you step away from what is familiar to you, you allow God to become more familiar to you.
• Before the Lord calls you somewhere, He has already prepared everything for you (Heb 11:16).
• “All depends on faith, everything is grace” (Rm 4:16). Often God doesn’t provide the grace until you step out in obedient faith. Then the grace arrives without fail.
• “You have no idea what kind of life will be yours tomorrow” (Jas 4:14). So don’t worry about tomorrow (Mt 6:34).
• Whatever you give up for God’s sake and the Gospel will return to you a hundredfold in some way (Mk 10:29-30).
• Though there are personal benefits to obeying God’s call, it’s not about you. It’s about God blessing others through you (Gn 12:3; see 1 Cor 12:7).
• Jesus is always with you — always (Mt 28:20; Ps 23:4).
• “Fear is useless. What is needed is trust” (Mk 5:36).
• God’s timing is perfect — far better than ours.
• Only in the Holy Spirit is to be found the critically necessary balance between actively stepping out in faith and having the docility to let it be done to you (Lk 1:38).

Prayer:  Lord, “here I am...send me!” (Is 6:8)

Promise:  “The measure with which you measure will be used to measure you.” —Mt 7:2

Praise:  St. Aloysius Gonzaga gave up his position in the royal courts to join the Society of Jesus. He chose for himself a life of penance. He served plague victims and eventually died of the plague at the age of 23.

 http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/

 How do you wish to be judged by others? Everybody is a critic, but who wants to be judged negatively? Judgmentalism is rampant, even among Christians. So how can we avoid this poisonous sin and not be contaminated by the world's view of who is good and who is bad? "Thinking the best of other people" is necessary if we wish to grow in love. And kindliness in judgment is nothing less that a sacred duty. The Rabbis warned people: "He who judges his neighbor favorably will be judged favorably by God."

Who can judge rightly?
How easy it is to misjudge and how difficult it is to be impartial in judgment. Our judgment of others is usually "off the mark" because we can't see inside the person to their inner motives and intentions, or we don't have access to all the facts, or we are swayed by instinct and unreasoning reactions to people. It is easier to find fault in others than in oneself.

Why did Jesus calls his critics hypocrites? Listen to Augustine of Hippo's (354-430 A.D) explanation of this passage:

"The word hypocrite is aptly employed here, since the denouncing of evils is best viewed as a matter only for upright persons of goodwill. When the wicked engage in it, they are like impersonators, masqueraders, hiding their real selves behind a mask, while they portray another's character through the mask. The word hypocrites in fact signifies pretenders. Hence we ought especially to avoid that meddlesome class of pretenders who under the pretense of seeking advice undertake the censure of all kinds of vices. They are often moved by hatred and malice.

"Rather, whenever necessity compels one to reprove or rebuke another, we ought to proceed with godly discernment and caution. First of all, let us consider whether the other fault is such as we ourselves have never had or whether it is one that we have overcome. Then, if we have never had such a fault, let us remember that we are human and could have had it. But if we have had it and are rid of it now, let us remember our common frailty, in order that mercy, not hatred, may lead us to the giving of correction and admonition. In this way, whether the admonition occasions the amendment or the worsening of the one for whose sake we are offering it (for the result cannot be foreseen), we ourselves shall be made safe through singleness of eye. But if on reflection we find that we ourselves have the same fault as the one we are about to reprove, let us neither correct nor rebuke that one. Rather, let us bemoan the fault ourselves and induce that person to a similar concern, without asking him to submit to our correction." (excerpt from SERMON ON THE MOUNT 2.19.64)

Merciful healing and removal of sin
Jesus states a heavenly principle we can stake our lives on: what you give to others (and how you treat others) will return to you in like manner. The Lord knows our faults, weaknesses, and sins and he sees everything, even the imperfections and hidden sins of the heart which we cannot recognize in ourselves. Like a gentle father and a skillful doctor he patiently draws us to his seat of mercy and removes the cancer of sin which inhabits our hearts.

Do you trust in God's mercy and grace? And do you submit to his truth about what is right and wrong, good and evil, helpful and harmful for your welfare and the welfare of your neighbor as well? Ask the Lord to purify your heart with his loving-kindness and mercy that you may have ample room for charity and forbearance towards your neighbor.

O Father, give us the humility which realizes its ignorance, admits its mistakes, recognizes its need, welcomes advice, accepts rebuke. Help us always to praise rather than to criticize, to sympathize rather than to discourage, to build rather than to destroy, and to think of people at their best rather than at their worst. This we ask for thy name's sake. (Prayer of William Barclay, 20th century)

Psalm 60:3-12

3 You have made your people suffer hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.
4 You have set up a banner for those who fear you, to rally to it from the bow. [Selah]
5 That your beloved may be delivered, give victory by your right hand and answer us!
6 God has spoken in his sanctuary: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
7 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; E'phraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.
8 Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph."
9 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
10 Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.
11 O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man!
12 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.

Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Judge from justice, forgive from grace, by Ephrem the Syrian, 306-373 A.D.

"Do not judge, that is, unjustly, so that you may not be judged, with regard to injustice. With the judgment that you judge shall you be judged (Matthew 7:2). This is like the phrase 'Forgive, and it will be forgiven you.' For once someone has judged in accordance with justice, he should forgive in accordance with grace, so that when he himself is judged in accordance with justice, he may be worthy of forgiveness through grace. Alternatively, it was on account of the judges, those who seek vengeance for themselves, that he said, 'Do not condemn.' That is, do not seek vengeance for yourselves. Or, do not judge, from appearances and opinion and then condemn, but admonish and advise." (excerpt from COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 6.18B)

 

 

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