July 13, 2021 Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time

2021년 7월 13일 연중 제15주간 화요일 



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제1독서

<물에서 건져 냈다고 해서 그 이름을 모세라 하였다. 그는 자란 뒤, 자기 동포들이 있는 데로 나갔다.>

탈출기. 2,1-15ㄴ
 그 무렵 1 레위 집안의 어떤 남자가 레위의 딸을 아내로 맞이하였다.

2 그 여자가 임신하여 아들을 낳았는데,
그 아기가 잘생긴 것을 보고 석 달 동안 그를 숨겨 길렀다.
3 그러나 더 숨겨 둘 수가 없게 되자,
왕골 상자를 가져다 역청과 송진을 바르고,
그 안에 아기를 뉘어 강가 갈대 사이에 놓아두었다.
4 그리고 아기의 누이가 멀찍이 서서 아기가 어떻게 되는지 지켜보고 있었다.
5 마침 파라오의 딸이 목욕하러 강으로 내려왔다.
시녀들은 강가를 거닐고 있었는데, 공주가 갈대 사이에 있는 상자를 보고,
여종 하나를 보내어 그것을 가져오게 하였다.
6 그것을 열어 보니 아기가 울고 있었다.
공주는 그 아기를 불쌍히 여기며,
“이 아기는 히브리인들의 아이 가운데 하나로구나.” 하였다.
7 그러자 아기의 누이가 나서서 파라오의 딸에게 말하였다.
“제가 가서, 공주님 대신 아기에게 젖을 먹일
히브리인 유모를 하나 불러다 드릴까요?”
8 파라오의 딸이 “그래, 가거라.” 하자,
그 처녀가 가서 아기의 어머니를 불러왔다.
9 파라오의 딸이 그에게 말하였다.
“이 아기를 데려다 나 대신 젖을 먹여 주게.
내가 직접 그대에게 삯을 주겠네.”
그리하여 그 여인은 아기를 데려다 젖을 먹였다.
10 아이가 자라자 그 여인은 아이를 파라오의 딸에게 데려갔다.
공주는 그 아이를 아들로 삼고,
“내가 그를 물에서 건져 냈다.” 하면서 그 이름을 모세라 하였다.
11 모세가 자란 뒤 어느 날, 그는 자기 동포들이 있는 데로 나갔다가,
그들이 강제 노동하는 모습을 보았다.
그때 그는 이집트 사람 하나가 자기 동포 히브리 사람을 때리는 것을 보고,
12 이리저리 살펴 사람이 없는 것을 확인한 뒤에,
그 이집트인을 때려죽이고서 모래 속에 묻어 감추었다.
13 그가 이튿날 다시 나가서 보니, 히브리 사람 둘이 싸우고 있었다.
그래서 그는 잘못한 사람에게 “당신은 왜 동족을 때리시오?” 하고 말하였다.
14 그자는 “누가 당신을 우리의 지도자와 판관으로 세우기라도 했소?
당신은 이집트인을 죽였듯이 나도 죽일 작정이오?” 하고 대꾸하였다.
그러자 모세는 “이 일이 정말 탄로 나고야 말았구나.” 하면서 두려워하였다.
15 파라오는 그 일을 전해 듣고 모세를 죽이려 하였다.
그래서 모세는 파라오를 피하여 도망쳐서,
미디안 땅에 자리 잡기로 하였다.

복음

<심판 날에는 티로와 시돈과 소돔 땅이 너희보다 견디기 쉬울 것이다.>

마태오. 11,20-24
 20 그때에 예수님께서 당신이 기적을 가장 많이 일으키신 고을들을

꾸짖기 시작하셨다.
그들이 회개하지 않았기 때문이다.
21 “불행하여라, 너 코라진아! 불행하여라, 너 벳사이다야!
너희에게 일어난 기적들이 티로와 시돈에서 일어났더라면,
그들은 벌써 자루옷을 입고 재를 뒤집어쓰고 회개하였을 것이다.
22 그러니 내가 너희에게 말한다.
심판 날에는 티로와 시돈이 너희보다 견디기 쉬울 것이다.
23 그리고 너 카파르나움아, 네가 하늘까지 오를 성싶으냐?
저승까지 떨어질 것이다.
너에게 일어난 기적들이 소돔에서 일어났더라면,
그 고을은 오늘까지 남아 있을 것이다.
24 그러니 내가 너희에게 말한다.
심판 날에는 소돔 땅이 너보다 견디기 쉬울 것이다.”

July 13, 2021

Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1

Ex 2:1-15a
A certain man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
who conceived and bore a son.
Seeing that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months.
When she could hide him no longer, she took a papyrus basket,
daubed it with bitumen and pitch,
and putting the child in it,
placed it among the reeds on the river bank.
His sister stationed herself at a distance
to find out what would happen to him.

Pharaoh’s daughter came down to the river to bathe,
while her maids walked along the river bank.
Noticing the basket among the reeds, she sent her handmaid to fetch it.
On opening it, she looked, and lo, there was a baby boy, crying!
She was moved with pity for him and said,
“It is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter,
“Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women
to nurse the child for you?”
“Yes, do so,” she answered.
So the maiden went and called the child’s own mother.
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,
“Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will repay you.”
The woman therefore took the child and nursed it.
When the child grew, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter,
who adopted him as her son and called him Moses;
for she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

On one occasion, after Moses had grown up,
when he visited his kinsmen and witnessed their forced labor,
he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own kinsmen.
Looking about and seeing no one,
he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
The next day he went out again, and now two Hebrews were fighting!
So he asked the culprit,
“Why are you striking your fellow Hebrew?”
But the culprit replied,
“Who has appointed you ruler and judge over us?
Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?”
Then Moses became afraid and thought,
“The affair must certainly be known.”

Pharaoh, too, heard of the affair and sought to put Moses to death.
But Moses fled from him and stayed in the land of Midian.

Responsorial Psalm

69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34

R. (see 33) Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
I am sunk in the abysmal swamp
where there is no foothold;
I have reached the watery depths;
the flood overwhelms me.
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
But I pray to you, O LORD,
for the time of your favor, O God!
In your great kindness answer me
with your constant help.
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your saving help, O God, protect me;
I will praise the name of God in song,
and I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
“See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
For the LORD hears the poor,
and his own who are in bonds he spurns not.”
R. Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.

Gospel

Mt 11:20-24

Jesus began to reproach the towns
where most of his mighty deeds had been done,
since they had not repented.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty deeds done in your midst
had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes.
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable
for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
And as for you, Capernaum:

Will you be exalted to heaven?
You will go down to the nether world.

For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Sodom,
it would have remained until this day.
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable 

for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”

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“After all I’ve done for you and this is how you treat me!”  Maybe you have heard this angry expression or even shouted it yourself. It reflects love rejected or mistreated. Jesus, as kind of a Moses-like prophet, announces that certain towns in which He had done “mighty deeds” are deserving of “woes”, because they saw them, but were not soul-touched by His works of healing and uniting. Jesus is reminding His hearers of the historically sinful cities of the Hebrew past, such as Sadom and Tyre. Had they witnessed these healings and unitings, and repented, they would not be so cruely judged. You and Bethsaida, as well as Capernaum, will be judged for all you were offered and how little you received. Matthew knows the His hearers are familiar with the biblical history and are also aware of their dignity and yet continue hanging on to disbelief or other gods. “Repentance” actually means letting go of former gods or ultimates. Those towns had been visited, offered invitations, by these “mighty deeds” and yet they could not surrender from and surrender to. “I was so good to you as a people and you slapped the gifts right out of My hands.” So “Woe to you!”   Jesus has been inviting His listeners to “repent” and some did, but not these towns to which He was visiting. The words “pendant, pennant, pendulum, depend, suspend, compendium and impending” all are hinged to the root, “Hang.”  Jesus is recalling the history of how certain groups of Jewish leaders had let go of God’s hanging on to them.  His call to them is to return to that Divine embrace and to let go to their hanging on to false gods and practices.  “Re-pent” literally means letting loose from being tied up and cherish the grasp of their ancient and faithful God. There is nothing nor anyone to which or to whom we can hang on to as our absolute, or ultimate reality. I look around my room, my address book, phone list and memory-bank. There ar so many persons, places and things to which I am attached. Sweaters, pictures, figurines, knickknacks containing charged memories. I hang on to the hands of those who lovingly gave them to me and some of those I find prayerfully difficult to un-depend. We pray for the graceful freedom to let go of our “hang-ups” to be freer to receive the new “Mighty deeds” which of course, we fear will not be offered. Relax, rejoice and re-God!

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MIRACLES AND SODOM

“If the miracles worked in you had taken place in Sodom, it would be standing today.” —Matthew 11:23

 Sodom has gone down in history as infamous for homosexual rape and related perversions (Gn 19:5). Jesus assures us that His miracles would have resulted in Sodom’s conversion (Mt 11:23). He also solemnly assures us that we who believe in Him can do greater by far than He (Jn 14:12). This means we can do miracles which would lead to the conversion of cities and countries even worse than Sodom.

So let’s stop lamenting the wickedness of the world and start accompanying God’s Word with dramatic signs and wonders done in the name of Jesus (Mk 16:17-20). It’s not that we don’t have the power but that we don’t have faith enough to use that power. Jesus assures us: “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you would be able to say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible for you” (Mt 17:20).

Jesus expects the miraculous from us. He does not fill the Bible with signs and wonders to get us to expect what no longer applies in our present day. We know that, as we approach the end of time and Jesus’ second coming, Jesus will work mighty signs and wonders in an unprecedented way. Expect miracles and work them in Jesus’ name. Sodom needs to be converted now.

Prayer:  Father, use me to inspire many to holiness and purity.

Promise:  “The Lord hears the poor, and His own who are in bonds He spurns not.” —Ps 69:34

Praise:  St. Henry was Holy Roman Emperor. His main goal was to stabilize Europe for a lasting peace. He assisted Pope Benedict VIII by suppressing disturbances in Rome.

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 If Jesus were to visit your community today, what would he say? Would he issue a warning like the one he gave to Chorazin and Bethsaida? And how would you respond? Wherever Jesus went he did mighty works to show the people how much God had for them. Chorazin and Bethsaida had been blessed with the visitation of God. They heard the good news and experienced the wonderful works which Jesus did for them. Why was Jesus upset with these communities? The word woe can mean misfortune, calamity, distress, sorrow, sadness, misery, grief, or wretchedness. It is as much an expression of sorrowful pity and grief as it is of dismay over the calamity and destruction which comes as a result of human folly, sin, and ignorance.

Why does Jesus lament and issue a stern warning? The people who heard the Gospel here very likely responded with indifference. Jesus upbraids them for doing nothing! Repentance demands change - a change of heart and way of life. God's word is life-giving and it saves us from destruction - the destruction of heart, mind, and soul as well as body. Jesus' anger is directed toward sin and everything which hinders us from doing the will of God. In love he calls us to walk in his way of truth and freedom, grace and mercy, justice and holiness. Do you receive his word with faith and obedience or with doubt and indifference?

Most High and glorious God, enlighten the darkness of our hearts and give us a true faith, a certain hope and a perfect love. Give us a sense of the divine and knowledge of yourself, so that we may do everything in fulfillment of your holy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Prayer of Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226)

Psalm 48:2-8

1 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,
2 Beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.
3 Within her citadels God has shown himself a sure defense.
4 For behold, the kings assembled, they came on together.
5 As soon as they saw it, they were astounded, they were in panic, they took to flight;
6 trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in travail.
7 By the east wind you did shatter the ships of Tarshish.
8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God establishes for ever. [Selah] 

Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Even after miracles they did not repent, by Jerome (347-420 AD)

"Our Savior laments Chorazin and Bethsaida, cities of Galilee, because after such great miracles and acts of goodness they did not repent. Even Tyre and Sidon, cities that surrendered to idolatry and other vices, are preferred to them. Tyre and Sidon are preferred for the reason that although they trampled down the law, still Chorazin and Bethsaida, after they transgressed natural and written law, cared little for the miracles that were performed among them." (excerpt from COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 2.11.22.1)

 

 

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