2021년 7월 16일 연중 제15주간 금요일
오늘의 복음 : http://info.catholic.or.kr/missa/default.asp
1독서
<저녁 어스름에 새끼 양을 잡아라. 그 피를 보고 너희만은 거르고 지나가겠다.>
탈출기. 11,10ㅡ12,14
그 무렵 10 모세와 아론은 파라오 앞에서 모든 기적을 일으켰다.
그러나 주님께서는 파라오의 마음을 완고하게 하셨다.
그리하여 파라오는 이스라엘 자손들을 자기 땅에서 내보내지 않았다.
12,1 주님께서 이집트 땅에서 모세와 아론에게 말씀하셨다.
2 “너희는 이달을 첫째 달로 삼아, 한 해를 시작하는 달로 하여라.
3 이스라엘의 온 공동체에게 이렇게 일러라.
‘이달 초열흘날 너희는 가정마다 작은 가축을 한 마리씩,
집집마다 작은 가축을 한 마리씩 마련하여라.
4 만일 집에 식구가 적어 짐승 한 마리가 너무 많거든,
사람 수에 따라 자기 집에서 가장 가까운 이웃과 함께 짐승을 마련하여라.
저마다 먹는 양에 따라 짐승을 골라라.
5 이 짐승은 일 년 된 흠 없는 수컷으로 양이나 염소 가운데에서 마련하여라.
6 너희는 그것을 이달 열나흗날까지 두었다가,
이스라엘의 온 공동체가 모여 저녁 어스름에 잡아라.
7 그리고 그 피는 받아서, 짐승을 먹을 집의 두 문설주와 상인방에 발라라.
8 그날 밤에 그 고기를 먹어야 하는데,
불에 구워, 누룩 없는 빵과 쓴나물을 곁들여 먹어야 한다.
9 그것을 날로 먹거나 물에 삶아 먹어서는 안 된다.
머리와 다리와 내장이 있는 채로 불에 구워 먹어야 한다.
10 아침까지 아무것도 남겨서는 안 된다. 아침까지 남은 것은 불에 태워 버려야 한다.
11 그것을 먹을 때는, 허리에 띠를 매고 발에는 신을 신고 손에는 지팡이를 쥐고,
서둘러 먹어야 한다.
이것이 주님을 위한 파스카 축제다.
12 이날 밤 나는 이집트 땅을 지나면서,
사람에서 짐승에 이르기까지 이집트 땅의 맏아들과 맏배를 모조리 치겠다.
그리고 이집트 신들을 모조리 벌하겠다. 나는 주님이다.
13 너희가 있는 집에 발린 피는 너희를 위한 표지가 될 것이다.
내가 이집트를 칠 때, 그 피를 보고 너희만은 거르고 지나가겠다.
그러면 어떤 재앙도 너희를 멸망시키지 않을 것이다.
14 이날이야말로 너희의 기념일이니, 이날 주님을 위하여 축제를 지내라.
이를 영원한 규칙으로 삼아 대대로 축제일로 지내야 한다.’”
복음
<사람의 아들은 안식일의 주인이다.>
마태오. 12,1-8
1 그때에 예수님께서 안식일에 밀밭 사이를 지나가시게 되었다.
그런데 그분의 제자들이 배가 고파서, 밀 이삭을 뜯어 먹기 시작하였다.
2 바리사이들이 그것을 보고 예수님께 말하였다.
“보십시오, 선생님의 제자들이 안식일에 해서는 안 되는 일을 하고 있습니다.”
3 그러자 예수님께서 그들에게 말씀하셨다.
“다윗과 그 일행이 배가 고팠을 때,
다윗이 어떻게 하였는지 너희는 읽어 본 적이 없느냐?
4 그가 하느님의 집에 들어가,
사제가 아니면 그도 그의 일행도 먹어서는 안 되는 제사 빵을 먹지 않았느냐?
5 또 안식일에 사제들이 성전에서 안식일을 어겨도
죄가 되지 않는다는 것을 율법에서 읽어 본 적이 없느냐?
6 내가 너희에게 말한다. 성전보다 더 큰 이가 여기에 있다.
7 ‘내가 바라는 것은 희생 제물이 아니라 자비다.’ 하신 말씀이
무슨 뜻인지 너희가 알았더라면, 죄 없는 이들을 단죄하지는 않았을 것이다.
8 사실 사람의 아들은 안식일의 주인이다.”
July 16, 2021
Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1
Ex 11:10—12:14
Although Moses and Aaron performed various wonders
in Pharaoh’s presence,
the LORD made Pharaoh obstinate,
and he would not let the children of Israel leave his land.
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
“This month shall stand at the head of your calendar;
you shall reckon it the first month of the year.
Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month
every one of your families must procure for itself a lamb,
one apiece for each household.
If a family is too small for a whole lamb,
it shall join the nearest household in procuring one
and shall share in the lamb
in proportion to the number of persons who partake of it.
The lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish.
You may take it from either the sheep or the goats.
You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then,
with the whole assembly of Israel present,
it shall be slaughtered during the evening twilight.
They shall take some of its blood
and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel
of every house in which they partake of the lamb.
That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
It shall not be eaten raw or boiled, but roasted whole,
with its head and shanks and inner organs.
None of it must be kept beyond the next morning;
whatever is left over in the morning shall be burned up.
“This is how you are to eat it:
with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand,
you shall eat like those who are in flight.
It is the Passover of the LORD.
For on this same night I will go through Egypt,
striking down every first born of the land, both man and beast,
and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt—I, the LORD!
But the blood will mark the houses where you are.
Seeing the blood, I will pass over you;
thus, when I strike the land of Egypt,
no destructive blow will come upon you.
“This day shall be a memorial feast for you,
which all your generations shall celebrate
with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution.”
Responsorial Psalm
R. (13) I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.
How shall I make a return to the LORD
for all the good he has done for me?
The cup of salvation I will take up,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
R. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.
Precious in the eyes of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosed my bonds.
R. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.
To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
R. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.
Gospel
Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath.
His disciples were hungry
and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him,
“See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.”
He said to the them, “Have you not read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry,
how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering,
which neither he nor his companions
but only the priests could lawfully eat?
Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath
the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath
and are innocent?
I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
you would not have condemned these innocent men.
For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.”
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
“I desire mercy…”
Imagine Jesus with his “hungry” disciples walking “through a field of grain on the sabbath” encouraging them “…to pick the heads of grain and eat them.” Jesus, his disciples and on-lookers knew it was “unlawful” to harvest on the sabbath! Murmurs of confusion, possibly fear of what the Pharisees would say and do. They were breaking the law.
Twenty years ago, I lived with a Peace Corps volunteer on an island in the middle of the South Pacific. A primitive village. The people were welcoming and generous. Daily, families invited us into their thatched roofed, dirt floor homes to share their evening meal. Families of old men with fascinating stories and children vying for attention.
One day, several young women invited us for a beach picnic and to swim. Off we went, they swiping machetes to clear our path through dense vegetation.
To reach the fresh water lagoon, we had to cross through the “Master’s” plantation for permission to swim. Master and his French wife lived in a comfortable western style house overlooking the Pacific. Master was owner of the plantation. It was guarded by ferocious dogs. They charged. Sarah and I froze in place. Our friends trembling in fear sprinted up the nearest trees to safety. Master’s wife appeared, called off the dogs. Distrusting, our friends remained perched on tree limbs.
The wife invited Sarah and me into her home for “tea.” I imagined comfortable chairs, beautiful view of the Pacific, a proper cup of tea and real sweets! I admit, I was very tempted. Sarah politely declined the invitation, gesturing to our friends – still up in trees “our friends are waiting. We are going to swim.” The wife hungry for civilized female company, insisting we stop for tea, ignored four frightened young women perched like oversized birds in trees. Master gruffly informed us “those girls know that they are not permitted to trespass, or to pick my crops. It’s the law. They are not welcome here. You may pick my fruits, nuts and coconuts. You may swim, but not them.”
We were all hungry and forbidden something by some law. The wife was hungry for western female companionship. I was hungry for missed comforts. We could not satisfy her hunger or ours at the expense of our friends. Each of us bound by law, civil or filial. We lived and suffered under the prejudicial laws, written or unwritten.
One day, on one small island in the Pacific, one man and seven women were confronted by the challenge of the gospel. It may seem of little consequence in light of today’s global situations. In truth, we all hunger for something – be it physical, social, spiritual, sacramental.
Who would have known or cared had we given into temptation - sipped tea and abandoned our friends? In so many words, Sarah, my daughter, spoke for Jesus – “I care. These are our friends. They are hungry, they will be feed.” With God’s unrecognized grace, we chose compassion over cruel restrictive law. Just as Jesus had done. We have a directive, an obligation to feed the hungry, extend hospitality, befriend the abandoned, the marginalized, the suffering – to show compassion over compliance with paralyzing law. Be it civil or church law. The gospel is very clear on this.
We are the hungry people of God. And who cares?
Today’s good-news: Jesus cares. As followers of Jesus, we are to care.
The hungry will always be with us – but also will the call for compassion and mercy.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
CELEBRATING THE NEW PASSOVER
“This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the Lord, as a perpetual institution.” —Exodus 12:14
Passover is one of the most important celebrations in the history of the human race. It refers to the event when the Lord passed over the homes of the Israelites while putting to death the firstborn of the Egyptians (Ex 12:12, 29-30). In this way, the Israelites were freed from hundreds of years of slavery.
Jesus celebrated the “Last Supper” on the occasion of the Passover. He said: “I have greatly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer” (Lk 22:15). He commanded us to do the new Passover of the Last Supper in remembrance of Him (Lk 22:19). After Pentecost, the Spirit led the early Church to devote itself to celebrating the New Passover (Acts 2:42). They called it the “breaking of the bread.” For two thousand years the New Passover has been the center of Christian life.
Are you desiring to celebrate the Passover as Jesus greatly desires to celebrate it with you? (Lk 22:15) Is Mass the center of your life? Do you live to celebrate the Eucharist? Have you followed the Spirit’s lead in devoting yourself to the breaking of the bread? (Acts 2:42) Ask for the grace to love Jesus in the Eucharist with all your heart.
Prayer: Jesus, may I desire to celebrate Mass and receive Communion daily. Do anything to increase this desire in Me.
Promise: “It is mercy I desire and not sacrifice.” —Mt 12:7
Praise: Mount Carmel is in northern Israel and was a home for hermits who were especially devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. These monks became known as the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Many prominent saints were Carmelites and have promoted the Immaculate Conception.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
What does the commandment "keep holy the Sabbath" require of us? Or better yet, what is the primary intention behind this command? The religious leaders confronted Jesus on this issue. The "Sabbath rest" was meant to be a time to remember and celebrate God's goodness and the goodness of his work, both in creation and redemption. It was a day set apart for the praise of God, his work of creation, and his saving actions on our behalf. It was intended to bring everyday work to a halt and to provide needed rest and refreshment.
Mercy and not sacrifice
Jesus' disciples are scolded by the scribes and Pharisees, not for plucking and eating corn from the fields, but for doing so on the Sabbath. In defending his disciples, Jesus argues from the Scriptures that human need has precedence over ritual custom. In their hunger, David and his men ate of the holy bread offered in the Temple. Jesus also quoted of the Sabbath work involved in worship in the Temple. This kind of work was usually double the work of worship on weekdays. Jesus then quotes from the prophet Hosea (6:6): I desire mercy, and not sacrifice. While the claims of ritual sacrifice are important to God, mercy and kindness in response to human need are even more important. Do you honor the Lord in the way you treat your neighbor and celebrate the Lord's Day?
Lord, make us to walk in your way: Where there is love and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance; where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor annoyance; where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice; where there is peace and contemplation, there is neither care nor restlessness; where there is the fear of God to guard the dwelling, there no enemy can enter; where there is mercy and prudence, there is neither excess nor harshness; this we know through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. (Prayer of Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226)
Psalm 116:12-19
12 What shall I render to the LORD for all his bounty to me?
13 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD,
14 I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
16 O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
18 I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people,
19 in the courts of the house of the LORD, in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The Seventh Day, from the early Greek fathers, attributed to Eusebius of Alexandria (5th century AD)
"Now every week has seven days. Six of these God has given to us for work, and one for prayer, rest, and making reparation for our sins, so that on the Lord's Day we may atone to God for any sins we have committed on the other six days. Therefore, arrive early at the church of God; draw near to the Lord and confess your sins to him, repenting in prayer and with a contrite heart. Attend the holy and divine liturgy; finish your prayer and do not leave before the dismissal. Contemplate your master as he is broken and distributed, yet not consumed. If you have a clear conscience, go forward and partake of the body and blood of the Lord." (excerpt from SERMON 6, 1-2)
More Homilies
'오늘의 복음' 카테고리의 다른 글
| July 18, 2021Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (0) | 2021.07.18 |
|---|---|
| July 17, 2021Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (0) | 2021.07.17 |
| July 15, 2021 Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (0) | 2021.07.15 |
| July 14, 2021 Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (0) | 2021.07.14 |
| July 13, 2021 Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (0) | 2021.07.13 |