July 1, 2021 Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

2021년 7월 1일 연중 제13주간 목요일 

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제1독서

<우리 성조 아브라함의 제사>

창세기. 22,1-19
 그 무렵 1 하느님께서 아브라함을 시험해 보시려고 “아브라함아!” 하고 부르시자,

그가 “예, 여기 있습니다.” 하고 대답하였다.
2 그분께서 말씀하셨다.
“너의 아들, 네가 사랑하는 외아들 이사악을 데리고 모리야 땅으로 가거라.
그곳, 내가 너에게 일러 주는 산에서 그를 나에게 번제물로 바쳐라.”
3 아브라함은 아침 일찍 일어나 나귀에 안장을 얹고
두 하인과 아들 이사악을 데리고서는,
번제물을 사를 장작을 팬 뒤 하느님께서 자기에게 말씀하신 곳으로 길을 떠났다.
4 사흘째 되는 날에 아브라함이 눈을 들자, 멀리 있는 그곳을 볼 수 있었다.
5 아브라함이 하인들에게 말하였다. “너희는 나귀와 함께 여기에 머물러 있어라.
나와 이 아이는 저리로 가서 경배하고 너희에게 돌아오겠다.”
6 그러고 나서 아브라함은 번제물을 사를 장작을 가져다
아들 이사악에게 지우고, 자기는 손에 불과 칼을 들었다.
그렇게 둘은 함께 걸어갔다.
7 이사악이 아버지 아브라함에게 “아버지!” 하고 부르자,
그가 “얘야, 왜 그러느냐?” 하고 대답하였다. 이사악이 “불과 장작은 여기 있는데,
번제물로 바칠 양은 어디 있습니까?” 하고 묻자,
8 아브라함이 “얘야, 번제물로 바칠 양은
하느님께서 손수 마련하실 거란다.” 하고 대답하였다. 둘은 계속 함께 걸어갔다.
9 그들이 하느님께서 아브라함에게 말씀하신 곳에 다다르자,
아브라함은 그곳에 제단을 쌓고 장작을 얹어 놓았다.
그러고 나서 아들 이사악을 묶어 제단 장작 위에 올려놓았다.
10 아브라함이 손을 뻗쳐 칼을 잡고 자기 아들을 죽이려 하였다.
11 그때, 주님의 천사가 하늘에서 “아브라함아, 아브라함아!” 하고 그를 불렀다.
그가 “예, 여기 있습니다.” 하고 대답하자 12 천사가 말하였다.
“그 아이에게 손대지 마라. 그에게 아무 해도 입히지 마라.
네가 너의 아들, 너의 외아들까지 나를 위하여 아끼지 않았으니,
네가 하느님을 경외하는 줄을 이제 내가 알았다.”
13 아브라함이 눈을 들어 보니, 덤불에 뿔이 걸린 숫양 한 마리가 있었다.
아브라함은 가서 그 숫양을 끌어와 아들 대신 번제물로 바쳤다.
14 아브라함은 그곳의 이름을 ‘야훼 이레’라 하였다.
그래서 오늘도 사람들은 ‘주님의 산에서 마련된다.’고들 한다.
15 주님의 천사가 하늘에서 두 번째로 아브라함을 불러 16 말하였다.
“나는 나 자신을 걸고 맹세한다. 주님의 말씀이다.
네가 이 일을 하였으니, 곧 너의 아들, 너의 외아들까지 아끼지 않았으니,
17 나는 너에게 한껏 복을 내리고, 네 후손이 하늘의 별처럼,
바닷가의 모래처럼 한껏 번성하게 해 주겠다.
너의 후손은 원수들의 성문을 차지할 것이다.
18 네가 나에게 순종하였으니,
세상의 모든 민족들이 너의 후손을 통하여 복을 받을 것이다.”
19 아브라함은 하인들에게 돌아왔다. 그들은 함께 브에르 세바를 향하여 길을 떠났다.
그리하여 아브라함은 브에르 세바에서 살았다.

 

복음

<군중은 사람들에게 그러한 권한을 주신 하느님을 찬양하였다.>

마태오. 9,1-8 

그때에 1 예수님께서는 배에 오르시어 호수를 건너
당신께서 사시는 고을로 가셨다.
2 그런데 사람들이 어떤 중풍 병자를 평상에 뉘어 그분께 데려왔다.
예수님께서 그들의 믿음을 보시고 중풍 병자에게 말씀하셨다.
“얘야, 용기를 내어라. 너는 죄를 용서받았다.”
3 그러자 율법 학자 몇 사람이 속으로
‘이자가 하느님을 모독하는군.’ 하고 생각하였다.
4 예수님께서 그들의 생각을 아시고 말씀하셨다.
“너희는 어찌하여 마음속에 악한 생각을 품느냐?
5 ‘너는 죄를 용서받았다.’ 하고 말하는 것과
‘일어나 걸어가라.’ 하고 말하는 것 가운데에서 어느 쪽이 더 쉬우냐?
6 이제 사람의 아들이 땅에서 죄를 용서하는 권한을 가지고 있음을
너희가 알게 해 주겠다.”그런 다음 중풍 병자에게 말씀하셨다.
“일어나 네 평상을 가지고 집으로 돌아가거라.”
7 그러자 그는 일어나 집으로 갔다.
8 이 일을 보고 군중은 두려워하며,
사람들에게 그러한 권한을 주신 하느님을 찬양하였다.

July 1, 2021

Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

 

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Reading 1

Gn 22:1b-19
God put Abraham to the test.
He called to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
Then God said: “Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love,
and go to the land of Moriah.
There you shall offer him up as a burnt offering
on a height that I will point out to you.”
Early the next morning Abraham saddled his donkey,
took with him his son Isaac, and two of his servants as well,
and with the wood that he had cut for the burnt offering,
set out for the place of which God had told him.

On the third day Abraham got sight of the place from afar.
Then he said to his servants: “Both of you stay here with the donkey,
while the boy and I go on over yonder.
We will worship and then come back to you.” 
Thereupon Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering
and laid it on his son Isaac’s shoulders,
while he himself carried the fire and the knife.
As the two walked on together, Isaac spoke to his father Abraham:
“Father!” he said.
“Yes, son,” he replied.
Isaac continued, “Here are the fire and the wood,
but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”
“Son,” Abraham answered, 
“God himself will provide the sheep for the burnt offering.”
Then the two continued going forward.

When they came to the place of which God had told him,
Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it.
Next he tied up his son Isaac,
and put him on top of the wood on the altar.
Then he reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.
But the LORD’s messenger called to him from heaven,
“Abraham, Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he answered. 
“Do not lay your hand on the boy,” said the messenger.
“Do not do the least thing to him.
I know now how devoted you are to God,
since you did not withhold from me your own beloved son.”
As Abraham looked about,
he spied a ram caught by its horns in the thicket.
So he went and took the ram
and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.
Abraham named the site Yahweh-yireh;
hence people now say, “On the mountain the LORD will see.”
Again the LORD’s messenger called to Abraham from heaven and said:
“I swear by myself, declares the LORD,
that because you acted as you did
in not withholding from me your beloved son,
I will bless you abundantly
and make your descendants as countless
as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore;
your descendants shall take possession
of the gates of their enemies,
and in your descendants all the nations of the earth
shall find blessingBall this because you obeyed my command.”

Abraham then returned to his servants,
and they set out together for Beer-sheba,
where Abraham made his home.

Responsorial Psalm

115:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9

R. (9) I will walk in the presence of the Lord, in the land of the living.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Not to us, O LORD, not to us
but to your name give glory
because of your kindness, because of your truth.
Why should the pagans say, 
“Where is their God?”
R. I will walk in the presence of the Lord, in the land of the living.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Our God is in heaven;
whatever he wills, he does.
Their idols are silver and gold,
the handiwork of men.
R. I will walk in the presence of the Lord, in the land of the living.
or:
R. Alleluia.
They have mouths but speak not;
they have eyes but see not;
They have ears but hear not;
they have noses but smell not.
R. I will walk in the presence of the Lord, in the land of the living.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Their makers shall be like them,
everyone who trusts in them.
The house of Israel trusts in the LORD;
he is their help and their shield.
R. I will walk in the presence of the Lord, in the land of the living.
or:
R. Alleluia.

Gospel

Mt 9:1-8

After entering a boat, Jesus made the crossing, and came into his own town.
And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic,
“Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.”
At that, some of the scribes said to themselves,
“This man is blaspheming.”
Jesus knew what they were thinking, and said,
:Why do you harbor evil thoughts?
Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’
or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?
But that you may know that the Son of Man
has authority on earth to forgive sins”–
he then said to the paralytic,
“Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.”
He rose and went home.
When the crowds saw this they were struck with awe
and glorified God who had given such authority to men.

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 In today’s Gospel reading, we see Jesus healing a paralyzed man. This is one of many examples of Jesus’ public ministry that we can see blossoming throughout Matthew. In fact, just prior to this section, Jesus expels demons from some swineherds. While the act of healing a person is straightforward, albeit difficult, there is a deeper message that can be found here. Before healing the man of his paralysis, Jesus tells him that his sins are forgiven. This caused some outrage, and Jesus was even accused of blasphemy, for which the punishment could be death.

Why did the scribes react this way? Because they were focused on the worldly. In the eyes of the bystanders, the most important thing that could be fixed in the paralyzed man was his physical condition. However, it is important to realize that the greater gift was the forgiveness of the man’s sins. Jesus makes this point evident by asking the crowd which is harder, to say “your sins are forgiven” or to say “rise and walk”. While healing his paralysis undoubtably improved his quality of life, the forgiveness of his sins improved his eternal life.

Jesus knew the people may have trouble believing in His power to heal what cannot be seen (our sins) so He intelligently did things in this order. Showing the crowd that the man was healed physically, may have helped them believe that He healed the man spiritually as well.

This passage is beautiful because it shows us that God desires to know our hearts and heal the broken pieces. He looks beyond the physical to what makes us who we are on the inside. Is this not a wonderful thing to apply today? Moving forward, I hope this reading inspires us to keep up with our spiritual health, in addition to our mental and physical health, through confession, prayer, and whatever else may be necessary.

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O, MY GOD!

“When Jesus saw their faith He said to the paralytic, ‘Have courage, son, your sins are forgiven.’ ” —Matthew 9:2

When Jesus forgave the paralytic’s sins, He claimed to do something only God can do. Thus, He claimed to be God. The only possible responses to this were to charge Jesus with blasphemy (Mt 9:3) or to worship Him as God.

Jesus repeatedly claimed to be God when He claimed to be the Lord of the Sabbath (Mt 12:8), the Son of God (see Jn 5:18), and the great I AM (Jn 8:24, 28, 58). Jesus is the Word made flesh (Jn 1:14), and the Word is God (Jn 1:1). Jesus is God.

Jesus expects us to believe He is God. Otherwise, we will die in our sins (Jn 8:24). Our faith in Jesus’ divinity means not only a mental assent, but assent expressed by worshiping, obeying, and serving Him. Ultimately, our faith in Jesus’ divinity must be so real that we will give anything to Jesus and do anything for Him. Abraham exemplified this by being willing to sacrifice to the Lord his only child, the joy of his life (Gn 22:10-12). We must be willing to make similar sacrifices. If we believe that Jesus is God, we should be willing to totally abandon our lives to Him.

What does your life indicate about your faith in Jesus’ divinity? Will you die in your sins or will you conquer the world because you believe in Jesus as Son of God, that is, God? (1 Jn 5:5)

Prayer:  Jesus, “my Lord and my God!” (Jn 20:28)

Promise:  “In your descendants all the nations of the earth shall find blessing — all this because you obeyed My command.” —Gn 22:18

Praise:  St. Junipero Serra, despite a leg injury sustained in Mexico, brought the word of the one, true God to the indigenous people of California.

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 What cripples the mind and heart and stifles the healing power of love? Sin and unforgiveness for certain! Sin cripples us more than any physical ailment can. Sin is the work of the kingdom of darkness and it holds us in eternal bondage. There is only one solution and that is the healing, cleansing power of Jesus' forgiveness.

Power of forgiveness
Jesus' treatment of sinners upset the religious teachers of the day. When a cripple was brought to Jesus because of the faith of his friends, Jesus did the unthinkable. He first forgave the man his sins. The scribes regarded this as blasphemy because they understood that only God had authority to forgive sins and to unbind a man or woman from their burden of guilt. Jesus claimed an authority which only God could rightfully give. Jesus not only proved that his authority came from God, he showed the great power of God's redeeming love and mercy by healing the cripple of his physical ailment. This man had been crippled not only physically, but spiritually as well. Jesus freed him from his burden of guilt and restored his body as well.

Healing body, mind, and soul
The Lord Jesus is ever ready to bring us healing of mind, body, and soul. His grace brings us freedom from the power of sin and from bondage to harmful desires and addictions. Do you allow anything to keep you from Jesus' healing power?

Lord Jesus, through your merciful love and forgiveness you bring healing and restoration to body, mind, and soul. May your healing power and love touch every area of my life - my innermost thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and memories. Pardon my offences and transform me in the power of your Holy Spirit that I may walk confidently in your truth and goodness.

Psalm 19:7-10

7 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
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.

Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Healing of soul and body, by Hilary of Poitiers (315-367 AD)

"Now in the narrative of the paralytic a number of people are brought forward for healing. Jesus' words of healing are worthy of reflection. The paralytic is not told, 'Be healed.' He is not told, 'Rise and walk.' But he is told, 'Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven you.' The paralytic is a descendant of the original man, Adam. In one person, Christ, all the sins of Adam are forgiven. In this case the person to be healed is brought forward by ministering angels. In this case, too, he is called a son, because he is God's first work. The sins of his soul are forgiven him, and pardon of the first transgression is granted. We do not believe the paralytic committed any sin [that resulted in his illness], especially since the Lord said elsewhere that blindness from birth had not been contracted from someone's sin or that of his parents" [John 9:1-3]. (excerpt from commentary ON MATTHEW 8.5)

 

 

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