2021년 7월 20일 연중 제16주간 화요일
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제1독서
<이스라엘 자손들이 바다 가운데로 마른땅을 걸어 들어갔다.>
탈출기 14,21ㅡ15,1ㄴ
그 무렵 21 모세가 바다 위로 손을 뻗었다.
주님께서는 밤새도록 거센 샛바람으로 바닷물을 밀어내시어,
바다를 마른땅으로 만드셨다.
그리하여 바닷물이 갈라지자,
22 이스라엘 자손들이 바다 가운데로 마른땅을 걸어 들어갔다.
물은 그들 좌우에서 벽이 되어 주었다.
23 뒤이어 이집트인들이 쫓아왔다.
파라오의 모든 말과 병거와 기병들이 그들을 따라 바다 한가운데로 들어갔다.
24 새벽녘에 주님께서 불기둥과 구름 기둥에서 이집트 군대를 내려다보시고,
이집트 군대를 혼란에 빠뜨리셨다.
25 그리고 그분께서는 이집트 병거들의 바퀴를 움직이지 못하게 하시어,
병거를 몰기 어렵게 만드셨다.
그러자 이집트인들이 “이스라엘을 피해 달아나자.
주님이 그들을 위해서 이집트와 싸우신다.” 하고 말하였다.
26 주님께서 모세에게 말씀하셨다.
“바다 위로 손을 뻗어,
이집트인들과 그들의 병거와 기병들 위로 물이 되돌아오게 하여라.”
27 모세가 바다 위로 손을 뻗었다.
날이 새자 물이 제자리로 되돌아왔다.
그래서 도망치던 이집트인들이 물과 맞닥뜨리게 되었다.
주님께서는 이집트인들을 바다 한가운데로 처넣으셨다.
28 물이 되돌아와서, 이스라엘 자손들을 따라 바다로 들어선
파라오의 모든 군대의 병거와 기병들을 덮쳐 버렸다.
그들 가운데 한 사람도 살아남지 못하였다.
29 그러나 이스라엘 자손들은 바다 가운데로 마른땅을 걸어갔다.
물은 그들 좌우에서 벽이 되어 주었다.
30 그날 주님께서는 이렇게 이스라엘을 이집트인들의 손에서 구해 주셨고,
이스라엘은 바닷가에 죽어 있는 이집트인들을 보게 되었다.
31 이렇게 이스라엘은 주님께서 이집트인들에게 행사하신 큰 권능을 보았다.
그리하여 백성은 주님을 경외하고, 주님과 그분의 종 모세를 믿게 되었다.
15,1 그때 모세와 이스라엘 자손들이 주님께 이 노래를 불렀다.
그들은 이렇게 노래하였다.
복음
<예수님께서 제자들을 가리키시며 이르셨다. “이들이 내 어머니고 내 형제들이다.”>
마태오 12,46-50
그때에 46 예수님께서 군중에게 말씀하고 계시는데,
July 20, 2021
Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Ex 14:21-15:1
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,
and the LORD swept the sea
with a strong east wind throughout the night
and so turned it into dry land.
When the water was thus divided,
the children of Israel marched into the midst of the sea on dry land,
with the water like a wall to their right and to their left.
The Egyptians followed in pursuit;
all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and charioteers went after them
right into the midst of the sea.
In the night watch just before dawn
the LORD cast through the column of the fiery cloud
upon the Egyptian force a glance that threw it into a panic;
and he so clogged their chariot wheels
that they could hardly drive.
With that the Egyptians sounded the retreat before Israel,
because the LORD was fighting for them against the Egyptians.
Then the LORD told Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea,
that the water may flow back upon the Egyptians,
upon their chariots and their charioteers.”
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,
and at dawn the sea flowed back to its normal depth.
The Egyptians were fleeing head on toward the sea,
when the LORD hurled them into its midst.
As the water flowed back,
it covered the chariots and the charioteers of Pharaoh’s whole army
that had followed the children of Israel into the sea.
Not a single one of them escaped.
But the children of Israel had marched on dry land
through the midst of the sea,
with the water like a wall to their right and to their left.
Thus the LORD saved Israel on that day
from the power of the Egyptians.
When Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the seashore
and beheld the great power that the LORD
had shown against the Egyptians,
they feared the LORD and believed in him and in his servant Moses.
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD:
I will sing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant;
horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (1b) Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
At the breath of your anger the waters piled up,
the flowing waters stood like a mound,
the flood waters congealed in the midst of the sea.
The enemy boasted, “I will pursue and overtake them;
I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them;
I will draw my sword; my hand shall despoil them!”
R. Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
When your wind blew, the sea covered them;
like lead they sank in the mighty waters.
When you stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them!
R. Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
And you brought them in and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance—
the place where you made your seat, O LORD,
the sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands established.
R. Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
Gospel
Mt 12:46-50
While Jesus was speaking to the crowds,
his mother and his brothers appeared outside,
wishing to speak with him.
Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside,
asking to speak with you.”
But he said in reply to the one who told him,
“Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said,
“Here are my mother and my brothers.
For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father
is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
I have a confession to make. When it comes to contributing to Creighton's Online Ministries through writing these scriptural reflections, I feel quite inadequate, not to mention unqualified. Though I quite enjoy writing these reflections, I have no degree in theology nor any time in formation to be a priest, brother, or deacon. I can think of many who seem to 'do spirituality better' than I or who have a scholarly eye for biblical interpretation. Accordingly, I wonder what I can truly offer to this ministry. How sobering a realization this is.
To pour salt on this wound, as the saying goes, today's scripture readings reveal how misguided this line of thinking is to begin with. Why? Because this whole train of thought is so self-centered when, in truth, this or any other labor in which we engage is not truly about us. Glory for any triumph is not ours but God's. Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord swept the sea - not Moses. Further, the Lord saved Israel - not Moses. Here, it seems that Moses's outstretched hand was not so much a gesture of power but, rather, of surrender to the power of God.
Too often, perhaps, we live wrestling with our inadequacies, our failures, our shortcomings. These are the brushstrokes that paint an unsatisfying picture of ourselves to behold. But there is hope. And that hope does not rest in ourselves but in God. God labors with us, through us, and for us. God offers the perpetual invitation to do his will and, as Jesus says, be [his] brother, and sister, and mother. Like Moses, may we too surrender to God's will and so glorify him.
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HAND-SHAKE
“Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord swept the sea with a strong east wind throughout the night and so turned it into dry land.” —Exodus 14:21
After the Israelites had crossed the sea and the Lord had bogged the Egyptians’ chariot wheels in the midst of the sea, Moses again “stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea flowed back to its normal depth” (Ex 14:27). This drowned the Egyptian army.
When Moses stretched out his hand, he did miracles. However, when Jesus extended His hands (Mt 12:49), He did even greater things. Jesus extended His hands to us, His disciples, and said: “There are My mother and My brothers. Whoever does the will of My heavenly Father is brother and sister and mother to Me” (Mt 12:50). When Jesus extended His hands, He told us, who obey His Father’s will, that we are His brothers, sisters, and mothers. We are members of God’s family. We have a personal, intimate relationship with Jesus, Son of God, God Himself, second Person of the Trinity.
Stretch out your hand to the extended, nail-scarred hands of Jesus. Give Jesus a hand, even if that means having nail-scarred hands yourself. Be more than a Moses (see Mt 11:11). Be a member of God’s family.
Prayer: Father, when I receive Holy Communion, may I consecrate my hands to You.
Promise: “I will sing to the Lord, for He is gloriously triumphant.” —Ex 15:1
Praise: St. Apollinaris, who was appointed Bishop of Ravenna by St. Peter, converted many by his preaching. The pagans, angered by his success, repeatedly beat him and tried to kill him. They finally succeeded in killing him after he was bishop for 26 years.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
HAND-SHAKE
“Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord swept the sea with a strong east wind throughout the night and so turned it into dry land.” —Exodus 14:21
After the Israelites had crossed the sea and the Lord had bogged the Egyptians’ chariot wheels in the midst of the sea, Moses again “stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea flowed back to its normal depth” (Ex 14:27). This drowned the Egyptian army.
When Moses stretched out his hand, he did miracles. However, when Jesus extended His hands (Mt 12:49), He did even greater things. Jesus extended His hands to us, His disciples, and said: “There are My mother and My brothers. Whoever does the will of My heavenly Father is brother and sister and mother to Me” (Mt 12:50). When Jesus extended His hands, He told us, who obey His Father’s will, that we are His brothers, sisters, and mothers. We are members of God’s family. We have a personal, intimate relationship with Jesus, Son of God, God Himself, second Person of the Trinity.
Stretch out your hand to the extended, nail-scarred hands of Jesus. Give Jesus a hand, even if that means having nail-scarred hands yourself. Be more than a Moses (see Mt 11:11). Be a member of God’s family.
Prayer: Father, when I receive Holy Communion, may I consecrate my hands to You.
Promise: “I will sing to the Lord, for He is gloriously triumphant.” —Ex 15:1
Praise: St. Apollinaris, who was appointed Bishop of Ravenna by St. Peter, converted many by his preaching. The pagans, angered by his success, repeatedly beat him and tried to kill him. They finally succeeded in killing him after he was bishop for 26 years.
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