July 30, 2021 Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

2021년 7월 30일  연중 제17주간 금요일  

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제1독서

<너희는 주님의 축일들에 거룩한 모임을 소집해야 한다.>

레위기. 23,1.4-11.15-16.27.34ㄴ-37
 1 주님께서 모세에게 이르셨다.

4 “너희가 정해진 때에 소집해야 하는 거룩한 모임, 곧 주님의 축일들은 이러하다.
5 첫째 달 열나흗날 저녁 어스름에 주님의 파스카를 지켜야 한다.
6 이달 보름에는 주님의 무교절을 지내는데,
너희는 이레 동안 누룩 없는 빵을 먹어야 한다.
7 첫날에는 거룩한 모임을 열고,
생업으로 하는 일은 아무것도 해서는 안 된다.
8 그리고 이레 동안 주님에게 화제물을 바쳐야 한다.
이레째 되는 날에는 다시 거룩한 모임을 열고,
생업으로 하는 일은 아무것도 해서는 안 된다.”
9 주님께서 모세에게 이르셨다.
10 “너는 이스라엘 자손들에게 일러라.
그들에게 이렇게 말하여라.
‘너희는 내가 너희에게 주는 땅으로 들어가서 수확을 거두어들일 때,
너희 수확의 맏물인 곡식 단을 사제에게 가져와야 한다.
11 사제는 그 곡식 단이 너희를 위하여 호의로 받아들여지도록
주님 앞에 흔들어 바친다.
사제는 그것을 안식일 다음 날 흔들어 바친다.
15 너희는 안식일 다음 날부터,
곧 곡식 단을 흔들어 바친 날부터 일곱 주간을 꽉 차게 헤아린다.
16 이렇게 일곱째 안식일 다음 날까지 오십 일을 헤아려,
새로운 곡식 제물을 주님에게 바친다.’
27 또한 일곱째 달 초열흘날은 속죄일이다.
너희는 거룩한 모임을 열고 고행하며, 주님에게 화제물을 바쳐야 한다.
34 ‘이 일곱째 달 보름날부터 이레 동안은 주님을 위한 초막절이다.
35 그 첫날에는 거룩한 모임을 열고, 생업으로 하는 일은 아무것도 해서는 안 된다.
36 너희는 이레 동안 주님에게 화제물을 바친다.
여드레째 되는 날에는 다시 거룩한 모임을 열고, 주님에게 화제물을 바친다.
이날은 집회일이므로, 너희는 생업으로 하는 일은 아무것도 해서는 안 된다.
37 이는 너희가 거룩한 모임을 소집해야 하는 주님의 축일들로서,
이때 너희는 그날그날에 맞는 번제물과 곡식 제물과
희생 제물과 제주를 주님에게 화제물로 바쳐야 한다.’”

 

복음

<저 사람은 목수의 아들이 아닌가? 그런데 저 사람이 어디서 저 모든 것을 얻었지?>

마태오. 13,54-58
 그때에 54 예수님께서 고향에 가시어 회당에서 사람들을 가르치셨다.

그러자 그들은 놀라서 이렇게 말하였다.
“저 사람이 어디서 저런 지혜와 기적의 힘을 얻었을까?
55 저 사람은 목수의 아들이 아닌가?
그의 어머니는 마리아라고 하지 않나?
그리고 그의 형제들은 야고보, 요셉, 시몬, 유다가 아닌가?
56 그의 누이들도 모두 우리와 함께 살고 있지 않는가?
그런데 저 사람이 어디서 저 모든 것을 얻었지?”
57 그러면서 그들은 그분을 못마땅하게 여겼다.
그러자 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다.
“예언자는 어디에서나 존경받지만 고향과 집안에서만은 존경받지 못한다.”
58 그리고 그들이 믿지 않으므로 그곳에서는 기적을 많이 일으키지 않으셨다.

July 30, 2021

Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1
Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37 
The LORD said to Moses,
"These are the festivals of the LORD which you shall celebrate
at their proper time with a sacred assembly.
The Passover of the LORD falls on the fourteenth day of the first month,
at the evening twilight.
The fifteenth day of this month is the LORD's feast of Unleavened Bread.
For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
On the first of these days you shall hold a sacred assembly
and do no sort of work.
On each of the seven days you shall offer an oblation to the LORD.
Then on the seventh day you shall again hold a sacred assembly
and do no sort of work."

The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the children of Israel and tell them:
When you come into the land which I am giving you,
and reap your harvest,
you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest
to the priest, who shall wave the sheaf before the LORD
that it may be acceptable for you.
On the day after the sabbath the priest shall do this.

"Beginning with the day after the sabbath,
the day on which you bring the wave-offering sheaf,
you shall count seven full weeks,
and then on the day after the seventh week, the fiftieth day,
you shall present the new cereal offering to the LORD.

"The tenth of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement,
when you shall hold a sacred assembly and mortify yourselves
and offer an oblation to the LORD.

"The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the LORD's feast of Booths,
which shall continue for seven days.
On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly,
and you shall do no sort of work.
For seven days you shall offer an oblation to the LORD,
and on the eighth day you shall again hold a sacred assembly
and offer an oblation to the LORD.
On that solemn closing you shall do no sort of work.

"These, therefore, are the festivals of the LORD
on which you shall proclaim a sacred assembly,
and offer as an oblation to the LORD burnt offerings and cereal offerings,
sacrifices and libations, as prescribed for each day."

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 81:3-4, 5-6, 10-11ab 
R.(2a) Sing with joy to God our help.
Take up a melody, and sound the timbrel,
the pleasant harp and the lyre.
Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our solemn feast.

R. Sing with joy to God our help.
For it is a statute in Israel ,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob,
Who made it a decree for Joseph
when he came forth from the land of Egypt .

R. Sing with joy to God our help.
There shall be no strange god among you
nor shall you worship any alien god.
I, the LORD, am your God
who led you forth from the land of Egypt .
R. Sing with joy to God our help.

Gospel
Mt 13:54-58
Jesus came to his native place and taught the people in their synagogue.
They were astonished and said,
"Where did this man get such wisdom and mighty deeds?
Is he not the carpenter's son?
Is not his mother named Mary
and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?
Are not his sisters all with us?
Where did this man get all this?"
And they took offense at him.
But Jesus said to them,
"A prophet is not without honor except in his native place
and in his own house."
And he did not work many mighty deeds there
because of their lack of faith.

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 The Lord God has always been open with His people. In today’s reading from Leviticus, Moses received specific instructions regarding festivals dedicated to the Lord. They involved a sacrifice, an oblation, that was often the first fruits of the harvest. A sheaf of grain was waved by the priest as the people made their supplications to the Lord. In addition to the days of offering the fruits of their labor, the people were also asked to have days of atonement to mortify themselves, and to make offerings. For each festival, the instruction included the phrase, “...you shall do no sort of work” in order to echo the schedule of the work of creation. Even God rested on the seventh day. The people were to rest, relax, and step back from their labor in order to praise the Lord in this rare silence and calm. Another remarkable aspect of God’s instruction is how very little He asks: a sheaf of grain, minimal self-mortification, abstention from eating leavened bread, yet He gives us so much.

Many centuries after Leviticus was written, God gave us the ultimate gift for our offering, His son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ. Christians often make offerings or fast, and continue to observe, in some fashion, the special days that God related to Moses. We are now able daily to offer to God the rarest of sacrifices, the body and blood of Jesus, present in the Eucharist. We are drawn and held together by the continuous sacrifice to the Father of the ultimate gift, the body and blood of Jesus. We should thank the Lord for the freedom from the bonds of sin that God has given to His humble creations. Sing with joy to God, our help.

The gospel today recounts a day that Jesus returned to his “home town,” Nazareth. He spent some time teaching in the synagogue; the people were amazed by his wisdom. Their astonishment was tempered, however, by the fact that Jesus was raised in Nazareth, was known as a carpenter, and his family lived in the town. They, no doubt, wondered: “How does he know so much? He is a man like us.” They soon became upset and offended. Jesus responded to their unease with one of the best-known biblical quotes: “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place, and in his own house.” It seems that our tendency is to discount the words of a person who is well-known and seemingly equal to us. The ability to listen and to discern the truth, and to be open to positive change in our lives is necessary for growth in faith, prayer, and in our daily lives. The incentive for this may come from unexpected sources. So many people and occasions may convey God’s message each day. We need humility to realize that we can all help each other to become stronger, and informed in our faith. Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., in his book, Hymn of the Universe, touched this point when he wrote, “ ...when we learn to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion, we fix our gaze on the universal realities.”

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MUCH TOO MUCH

“They were filled with amazement.” —Matthew 13:54

We want God to help us, bless us, and be there when we need Him. However, He wants us to help Him, bless Him, and be there when He needs us. We want to tell God what to do, but He wants to tell us what to do and take over our lives. That’s much more than we had in mind.

Like the people of Nazareth, we find Jesus “altogether too much” for us (Mt 13:57). If only Jesus would stay in His place, come when He’s called, speak only when spoken to, and visit occasionally...

But, no, He wants to run our entire lives and be with us constantly. We can’t go anywhere without Him tagging along. We can’t go on a date, watch TV, or even go to the bathroom without Him being there, all the time. We might feel like dwelling on sexual fantasies, committing sexual sins, or getting high. Yet with Jesus there all the time, we can’t have any “fun.”

We have no privacy. We can’t do as we please. Jesus is too much. He’s too concerned about our actions. He spends too much time with us. Twenty-four hours a day, every day, is excessive. Jesus refuses to be Lord of anything in our lives unless He can be Lord of everything.

Is He asking too much?

Prayer:  Jesus, because You died for me, I give my life to You unreservedly.

Promise:  “When you come into the land which I am giving you, and reap your harvest, you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.” —Lv 23:10

Praise:  St. Peter Chrysologus was Bishop of Ravenna during the Fifth Century. Many of his sermons have survived and can be read today. He endorsed learning as an obligation to develop God-given talents.

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 Are you critical towards others, especially those who are close to you? The most severe critics are often people very familiar to us, a member of our family, a relative, neighbor, student, or worker we rub shoulders with on a regular basis. Jesus faced a severe testing when he returned to his home town, not simply as the carpenter's son, but now as a rabbi with disciples. It would have been customary for Jesus to go to the synagogue each week during the Sabbath, and when his turn came, to read from the scriptures during the Sabbath service. His hometown folks listened with rapt attention on this occasion because they had heard about the miracles he had performed in other towns.

What sign would he do in his hometown? Jesus startled them with a seeming rebuke that no prophet or servant of God can receive honor among his own people. The people of Nazareth took offense at him and refused to listen to what he had to say. They despised his preaching because he was a carpenter from the working class, and a mere layman untrained by religious scholars. They also despised him because of his family background. After all, Joseph was a tradesman as well and Mary had no special social distinctions.

Familiarity breeds contempt
How easily familiarity breeds contempt. Jesus could do no mighty works in his hometown because the people who were familiar with him were closed-minded and despised his claim to speak and act in the name of God. If people come together to hate and refuse to understand others different than themselves, then they will see no other point of view than their own and they will refuse to love and accept others. How do you view those who are familiar to you? With kindness and respect or with a critical and judgmental spirit?

The Lord Jesus offers us freedom from sin, prejudice, contempt, and fear. His love and grace sets us free to love others with the same grace and mercy which he has shown to us. Only Jesus can truly set us free from the worst tyranny possible - slavery to sin and the fear of death. His victory on the cross brings us pardon and healing, and the grace to live holy lives by the power of the Holy Spirit. Do you know the joy and freedom which Christ's love brings to our hearts?

Lord Jesus, your love conquers every fear and breaks the power of hatred and prejudice. Flood my heart with your mercy and compassion, that I may treat my neighbor with the same favor and kindness which you have shown to me.

Psalm 81:1-5, 9-10a

1 Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2 Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt.
9 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Few miracles done because of their unbelief, by Origen of Alexandria (185-254 AD)

"It seems to me that the production of miracles is similar in some ways to the case of physical things. Cultivation is not sufficient to produce a harvest of fruits unless the soil, or rather the atmosphere, cooperates to this end. And the atmosphere of itself is not sufficient to produce a harvest without cultivation. The one who providentially orders creation did not design things to spring up from the earth without cultivation. Only in the first instance did he do so when he said, 'Let the earth bring forth vegetation, with the seed sowing according to its kind and according to its likeness' (Genesis 1:11). It is just this way in regard to the production of miracles. The complete work resulting in a healing is not displayed without those being healed exercising faith. Faith, of whatever quality it might be, does not produce a healing without divine power.' (excerpt from the COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 10.19)

 

 

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