2022년 4월 24일 일요일 부활 제2주일, 하느님의 자비 주일
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제1독서
사도행전 5,12-16
12 사도들의 손을 통하여 백성 가운데에서 많은 표징과 이적이 일어났다. 그들은 모두 한마음으로 솔로몬 주랑에 모이곤 하였다.
13 다른 사람들은 아무도 감히 그들 가운데에 끼어들지 못하였다. 백성은 그들을 존경하여, 14 주님을 믿는 남녀 신자들의 무리가 더욱더 늘어났다. 15 그리하여 사람들은 병자들을 한길까지 데려다가 침상이나 들것에 눕혀 놓고, 베드로가 지나갈 때에 그의 그림자만이라도 누구에겐가 드리워지기를 바랐다.
16 예루살렘 주변의 여러 고을에서도 많은 사람들이 병자들과 또 더러운 영에게 시달리는 이들을 데리고 몰려들었는데, 그들도 모두 병이 나았다.
제2독서
요한 묵시록. 1,9-11ㄴ.12-13.17-19
9 여러분의 형제로서, 예수님 안에서 여러분과 더불어 환난을 겪고 그분의 나라에 같이 참여하며 함께 인내하는 나 요한은, 하느님의 말씀과 예수님에 대한 증언 때문에 파트모스라는 섬에서 지내고 있었습니다. 10 어느 주일에, 나는 성령께 사로잡혀 내 뒤에서 나팔 소리처럼 울리는 큰 목소리를 들었습니다. 11 그 목소리가 이렇게 말하였습니다. “네가 보는 것을 책에 기록하여 일곱 교회에 보내라.”
12 나는 나에게 말하는 것이 누구의 목소리인지 보려고 돌아섰습니다. 돌아서서 보니 황금 등잔대가 일곱 개 있고, 13 그 등잔대 한가운데에 사람의 아들 같은 분이 계셨습니다. 그분께서는 발까지 내려오는 긴 옷을 입고 가슴에는 금 띠를 두르고 계셨습니다.
17 나는 그분을 뵙고, 죽은 사람처럼 그분 발 앞에 엎드렸습니다. 그러자 그분께서 나에게 오른손을 얹고 말씀하셨습니다. “두려워하지 마라. 나는 처음이며 마지막이고, 18 살아 있는 자다. 나는 죽었었지만, 보라, 영원무궁토록 살아 있다. 나는 죽음과 저승의 열쇠를 쥐고 있다. 19 그러므로 네가 본 것과, 지금 일어나는 일들과, 그다음에 일어날 일들을 기록하여라.”
복음
요한. 20,19-31
19 그날, 곧 주간 첫날 저녁이 되자, 제자들은 유다인들이 두려워 문을 모두 잠가 놓고 있었다. 그런데 예수님께서 오시어 가운데에 서시며, “평화가 너희와 함께!” 하고 그들에게 말씀하셨다. 20 이렇게 말씀하시고 나서, 당신의 두 손과 옆구리를 그들에게 보여 주셨다. 제자들은 주님을 뵙고 기뻐하였다.
21 예수님께서 다시 그들에게 이르셨다. “평화가 너희와 함께! 아버지께서 나를 보내신 것처럼 나도 너희를 보낸다.” 22 이렇게 이르시고 나서, 그들에게 숨을 불어넣으며 말씀하셨다. “성령을 받아라. 23 너희가 누구의 죄든지 용서해 주면 그가 용서를 받을 것이고, 그대로 두면 그대로 남아 있을 것이다.”
24 열두 제자 가운데 하나로서 ‘쌍둥이’라고 불리는 토마스는 예수님께서 오셨을 때에 그들과 함께 있지 않았다. 25 그래서 다른 제자들이 그에게 “우리는 주님을 뵈었소.” 하고 말하였다. 그러나 토마스는 그들에게, “나는 그분의 손에 있는 못 자국을 직접 보고, 그 못 자국에 내 손가락을 넣어 보고, 또 그분 옆구리에 내 손을 넣어 보지 않고는 결코 믿지 못하겠소.” 하고 말하였다.
26 여드레 뒤에 제자들이 다시 집 안에 모여 있었는데, 토마스도 그들과 함께 있었다. 문이 다 잠겨 있었는데도 예수님께서 오시어 가운데에 서시며, “평화가 너희와 함께!” 하고 말씀하셨다. 27 그러고 나서 토마스에게 이르셨다. “네 손가락을 여기 대 보고 내 손을 보아라. 네 손을 뻗어 내 옆구리에 넣어 보아라. 그리고 의심을 버리고 믿어라.”
28 토마스가 예수님께 대답하였다. “저의 주님, 저의 하느님!” 29 그러자 예수님께서 토마스에게 말씀하셨다. “너는 나를 보고서야 믿느냐? 보지 않고도 믿는 사람은 행복하다.”
30 예수님께서는 이 책에 기록되지 않은 다른 많은 표징도 제자들 앞에서 일으키셨다. 31 이것들을 기록한 목적은, 예수님께서 메시아시며 하느님의 아드님이심을 여러분이 믿고, 또 그렇게 믿어서 그분의 이름으로 생명을 얻게 하려는 것이다.
April 24, 2022
Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy
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Reading 1
Many signs and wonders were done among the people
at the hands of the apostles.
They were all together in Solomon’s portico.
None of the others dared to join them, but the people esteemed them.
Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord,
great numbers of men and women, were added to them.
Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets
and laid them on cots and mats
so that when Peter came by,
at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them.
A large number of people from the towns
in the vicinity of Jerusalem also gathered,
bringing the sick and those disturbed by unclean spirits,
and they were all cured.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (1) Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Let the house of Israel say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
Let the house of Aaron say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
Let those who fear the LORD say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
R. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
I was hard pressed and was falling,
but the LORD helped me.
My strength and my courage is the LORD,
and he has been my savior.
The joyful shout of victory
in the tents of the just:
R. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
By the LORD has this been done;
it is wonderful in our eyes.
This is the day the LORD has made;
let us be glad and rejoice in it.
R. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Reading 2
I, John, your brother, who share with you
the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus,
found myself on the island called Patmos
because I proclaimed God’s word and gave testimony to Jesus.
I was caught up in spirit on the Lord’s day
and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet, which said,
“Write on a scroll what you see.”
Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me,
and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands
and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man,
wearing an ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his chest.
When I caught sight of him, I fell down at his feet as though dead.
He touched me with his right hand and said, “Do not be afraid.
I am the first and the last, the one who lives.
Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever.
I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.
Write down, therefore, what you have seen,
and what is happening, and what will happen afterwards.”
Gospel
On the evening of that first day of the week,
when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their midst
and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained.”
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve,
was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”
But he said to them,
“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands
and put my finger into the nailmarks
and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
Now a week later his disciples were again inside
and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, although the doors were locked,
and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands,
and bring your hand and put it into my side,
and do not be unbelieving, but believe.”
Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me?
Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples
that are not written in this book.
But these are written that you may come to believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that through this belief you may have life in his name.
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The Easter Season lasts seven weeks liturgically because the Church wants to make the point that the Easter Mysteries are a disclosure of Divine love and seven is a biblical number assigning the fullness of something. A week is a fullness of time but it isn’t “big enough” to fully celebrate this ultimate fullness of time, so we have a full week of weeks – a fullness of fullness.
Easter Sunday celebrates the fullness of life that only God brings. There is no death finally – life overcomes it completely for those who embrace the fullness of God.
The Second Week of Easter challenges us to discover the fullness of God’s Mercy – the victory of God’s forgiveness over every possible harm or sin that humans can engage – except presumably the refusal of humans to accept God’s mercy. God will invite, challenge, lure and even seduce, us into relationship but never coerce us. But for those who respond to the power of God’s seduction there is no sin so terrible it can’t be overcome by mercy.
There are no readings from the Old Testament during the Easter Season because the whole season is about the fulfillment of God’s promises from the Old Testament. So, we hear passages from the book of Acts during these seven weeks. Today’s reading invites us to experience the Mercy of God made present in the Church through the healing of the sick when the “Apostolic Shadow” fell on them. This is a strong statement about God’s mercy being granted through even weak agencies that are related to God’s desire for compassion on His people. Remember, Peter was the great denier just a short time ago – and yet through God’s forgiveness of Peter the apostle is able to extend that mercy throughout Jerusalem and to the whole world, wherever the Church is faithful to the mission of mercy.
The Mystical Writer of the book of Revelations shares this wonderful vision of being raised in Christ’s risen glory and hearing the Lord tell the visionary (and us) to not be afraid, for death has no power that the Risen Christ cannot overcome. The Lord holds the power of total forgiveness and the ending of all death which the earlier biblical texts ascribe to human sin. If we too stand before the power of Christ – in the Church, in the Sacraments, in our personal prayer, and offer ourselves, we will be touched by Christ and brought to the fullness of life – both here and hereafter.
Finally, we hear the wonderful story of Jesus’ mercy to the twin who doubts the truth of the apostolic witness. He must see for himself the Jesus he knew and loved. Jesus gently comes to him and shows himself – his wounds, his new life – and Thomas believes. In so many ways, Thomas is the twin of each of us – the part of ourselves that does not want to believe the witness of brothers and sisters who have allowed the Good News to become their deepest truth. Today is the day to throw ourselves on the mercy of Jesus and ask for the grace of belief and freedom from our sin and potential death. God’s mercy is for each one and for all – we become agents to that as Peter, the mystic John and now Thomas, who show us that through the very broken human tendency to sin, and therefore to illness and death, God acts to deliver us with the blessing of Divine Mercy.
May God’s abundant mercy forgive and heal us and show us the way to the Father of all mercies where joy and abundance spring up as from a fountain giving us life and perfect joy to share with others. May Easter continue to burst forth from our lives and hopes.
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I BELIEVE
“These have been recorded to help you believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, so that through this faith you may have life in His name.” —John 20:31
Alleluia! Jesus is risen! Has this last week been one of the greatest weeks in your life, not because of what you’ve done, but because of what the risen Lord has done? Or are you still locked in the upper room with all the doubting Thomases and fearful disciples? “Do not persist in your unbelief, but believe!” (Jn 20:27)
“There is nothing to fear” (Rv 1:17). Jesus is “the First and the Last and the One Who lives” (Rv 1:17-18). He once was dead but now He lives — “forever and ever” (Rv 1:18). He is “rich in mercy” (Eph 2:4).
Respond to Him: “My Lord and my God!” (Jn 20:28) Because you believe, “many signs and wonders” will occur “among the people” (Acts 5:12). Because you believe, “more and more believers, men and women in great numbers” will be “continually added to the Lord” (Acts 5:14). Because you believe, crowds will gather, “bringing their sick” and those “troubled by unclean spirits” (Acts 5:16), all of whom will be cured (Acts 5:16).
Jesus is out of the tomb forever. Yet many parts of His Body remain entombed. We must roll away the stone of doubt and come out into the glory of the risen Son. Easter is for believers. “Blest are they who have not seen and have believed” (Jn 20:29).
Prayer: Father, change my heart and my lifestyle. Through my witness of faith, bring many people to new freedom in Your Son.
Promise: “There is nothing to fear.” —Rv 1:17
Praise: “If we have died with Him we shall also live with Him” (2 Tm 2:11). Jesus, thank You for Your mercy.
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Do you know the joy of the resurrection? The Risen Lord Jesus revealed the glory of his resurrection to his disciples gradually and over a period of time. Even after the apostles saw the empty tomb and heard the reports of Jesus' appearance to the women, they were still weak in faith and fearful of being arrested by the Jewish authorities. When Jesus appeared to them he offered proofs of his resurrection by showing them the wounds of his passion, his pierced hands and side. He calmed their fears and brought them peace, the peace which reconciles sinners and makes us friends of God.
Live and proclaim the Gospel of mercy in the power of the Holy Spirit
Jesus did something which only love and trust can do. He commissioned his weak and timid apostles to bring the good news of the Gospel to the ends of the earth. This sending out of the disciples is parallel to the sending out of Jesus by his heavenly Father. Jesus fulfilled his mission through his perfect love and obedience to the will of his Father. He called his first disciples and he now calls each one of us to do the same. Just as he gave his first disciples the gift of the Holy Spirit, so he breathes on each of us the same Holy Spirit who equips us with new life, power, joy, and courage to live each day as followers of the Risen Lord.
The last apostle to meet the resurrected Lord was the first to go with him to Jerusalem at Passover time. The apostle Thomas was a natural pessimist. When Jesus proposed that they visit Lazarus after receiving news of his illness, Thomas said to the disciples: "Let us also go, that we may die with him" (John 11:16). While Thomas deeply loved the Lord, he lacked the courage to stand with Jesus in his passion and crucifixion. After Jesus' death, Thomas made the mistake of withdrawing from the other apostles. He sought loneliness rather than fellowship in his time of trial and adversity. He doubted the women who saw the resurrected Jesus and he doubted his own fellow apostles.
Through the gift of faith we recognize the Risen Lord and receive new life
When Thomas finally had the courage to rejoin the other apostles, the Lord Jesus made his presence known to him and reassured him that he had indeed overcome death and risen again. When Thomas recognized his Master, he believed and exclaimed that Jesus was truly Lord and truly God! Through the gift of faith we, too, proclaim that Jesus is our personal Lord and our God. He died and rose that we, too, might have new life in him. The Lord offers each of us new life in his Holy Spirit that we may know him personally and walk in this new way of life through the power of his resurrection. Do you believe in the good news of the Gospel and in the power of the Holy Spirit to bring you new life, hope, and joy?
Lord Jesus Christ, through your victory over sin and death you have overcome all the powers of sin and darkness. Help me to draw near to you and to trust in your life-giving word. Fill me with your Holy Spirit and strengthen my faith in your promises and my hope in the power of your resurrection.
Psalm 118:1-4, 13-15, 23-24
1 O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his steadfast love endures for ever!
2 Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures for ever."
3 Let the house of Aaron say, "His steadfast love endures for ever."
4 Let those who fear the LORD say, "His steadfast love endures for ever."
13 I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
15 Hark, glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the LORD does valiantly,
22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.
23 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day which the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Touching the Flesh, He Invokes the Word, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"But when Jesus showed Thomas the very places where he had his doubts, Thomas exclaimed, "My Lord and my God." He touched his flesh, he proclaimed his divinity. What did he touch? The body of Christ. Was the body of Christ the divinity of Christ? The divinity of Christ was the Word; the humanity of Christ was soul and flesh. Thomas could not touch the soul, but he could perceive it, because the body that had been dead was moving about alive. But that Word is subject neither to change nor to contact, it neither regresses nor progresses, neither fails nor flourishes, because in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. That is what Thomas proclaimed. He touched the flesh, he invoked the Word, because the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." (excerpt from Sermon 145A)
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