June 25, 2022 Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary

2022년 6월 25일 티 없이 깨끗하신 성모 성심 기념일

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제1독서 

<나는 주님 안에서 크게 기뻐하리라.>

이사야서. 61,9-11
 내 백성의 9 후손은 민족들 사이에,

내 백성의 자손은 겨레들 가운데에 널리 알려져
그들을 보는 자들은 모두 그들이 주님께 복 받은 종족임을 알게 되리라.
10 나는 주님 안에서 크게 기뻐하고 내 영혼은 나의 하느님 안에서 즐거워하리니
신랑이 관을 쓰듯 신부가 패물로 단장하듯
그분께서 나에게 구원의 옷을 입히시고
의로움의 겉옷을 둘러 주셨기 때문이다.
11 땅이 새순을 돋아나게 하고 정원이 싹을 솟아나게 하듯
주 하느님께서는 모든 민족들 앞에 의로움과 찬미가 솟아나게 하시리라.

 

복음

<마리아는 이 모든 일을 마음속에 간직하였다.>

루카. 2,41-51
41 예수님의 부모는 해마다 파스카 축제 때면 예루살렘으로 가곤 하였다.
42 예수님이 열두 살 되던 해에도 이 축제 관습에 따라 그리로 올라갔다.
43 그런데 축제 기간이 끝나고 돌아갈 때에
소년 예수님은 예루살렘에 그대로 남았다.
그의 부모는 그것도 모르고,
44 일행 가운데에 있으려니 여기며 하룻길을 갔다.
그런 다음에야 친척들과 친지들 사이에서 찾아보았지만,
45 찾아내지 못하였다.
그래서 예루살렘으로 돌아가 그를 찾아다녔다.
46 사흘 뒤에야 성전에서 그를 찾아냈는데,
그는 율법 교사들 가운데에 앉아 그들의 말을 듣기도 하고
그들에게 묻기도 하고 있었다.
47 그의 말을 듣는 이들은 모두 그의 슬기로운 답변에 경탄하였다.
48 예수님의 부모는 그를 보고 무척 놀랐다.
예수님의 어머니가 “얘야, 우리에게 왜 이렇게 하였느냐?
네 아버지와 내가 너를 애타게 찾았단다.” 하자,
49 그가 부모에게 말하였다. “왜 저를 찾으셨습니까?
저는 제 아버지의 집에 있어야 하는 줄을 모르셨습니까?”
50 그러나 그들은 예수님이 한 말을 알아듣지 못하였다.
51 예수님은 부모와 함께 나자렛으로 내려가, 그들에게 순종하며 지냈다.
그의 어머니는 이 모든 일을 마음속에 간직하였다.

June 25, 2022 

Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1

Lam 2:2, 10-14, 18-19
The Lord has consumed without pity
all the dwellings of Jacob;
He has torn down in his anger
the fortresses of daughter Judah;
He has brought to the ground in dishonor
her king and her princes.

On the ground in silence sit
the old men of daughter Zion;
They strew dust on their heads
and gird themselves with sackcloth;
The maidens of Jerusalem
bow their heads to the ground.

Worn out from weeping are my eyes,
within me all is in ferment;
My gall is poured out on the ground
because of the downfall of the daughter of my people,
As child and infant faint away
in the open spaces of the town.

In vain they ask their mothers,
“Where is the grain?”
As they faint away like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
And breathe their last
in their mothers’ arms.

To what can I liken or compare you,
O daughter Jerusalem?
What example can I show you for your comfort,
virgin daughter Zion?
For great as the sea is your downfall;
who can heal you?

Your prophets had for you
false and specious visions;
They did not lay bare your guilt,
to avert your fate;
They beheld for you in vision
false and misleading portents.

Cry out to the Lord;
moan, O daughter Zion!
Let your tears flow like a torrent
day and night;
Let there be no respite for you,
no repose for your eyes.

Rise up, shrill in the night,
at the beginning of every watch;
Pour out your heart like water
in the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to him
for the lives of your little ones
Who faint from hunger
at the corner of every street.

Responsorial Psalm

74:1b-2, 3-5, 6-7, 20-21
R. (19b) Lord, forget not the souls of your poor ones.
Why, O God, have you cast us off forever?
Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Remember your flock which you built up of old,
the tribe you redeemed as your inheritance,
Mount Zion, where you took up your abode.
R. Lord, forget not the souls of your poor ones.
Turn your steps toward the utter ruins;
toward all the damage the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Your foes roar triumphantly in your shrine;
they have set up their tokens of victory.
They are like men coming up with axes to a clump of trees.
R. Lord, forget not the souls of your poor ones.
With chisel and hammer they hack at all the paneling of the sanctuary.
They set your sanctuary on fire;
the place where your name abides they have razed and profaned.
R. Lord, forget not the souls of your poor ones.
Look to your covenant,
for the hiding places in the land and the plains are full of violence.
May the humble not retire in confusion;
may the afflicted and the poor praise your name.
R. Lord, forget not the souls of your poor ones.

Alleluia

See Lk 2:19
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed is the Virgin Mary who kept the word of God
and pondered it in her heart.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel

Lk 2:41-51
Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover,
and when he was twelve years old,
they went up according to festival custom.
After they had completed its days, as they were returning,
the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem,
but his parents did not know it.
Thinking that he was in the caravan,
they journeyed for a day
and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances,
but not finding him,
they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
After three days they found him in the temple,
sitting in the midst of the teachers,
listening to them and asking them questions,
and all who heard him were astounded
at his understanding and his answers.
When his parents saw him,
they were astonished,
and his mother said to him,
“Son, why have you done this to us?
Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.”
And he said to them,
“Why were you looking for me?
Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
But they did not understand what he said to them.
He went down with them and came to Nazareth,
and was obedient to them;
and his mother kept all these things in her heart.

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 Today’s feast, like several other feasts that are paired together and referred to as “liturgical diptychs”, offers a reflection on Mary as the characteristic Church – she who is wounded, even seriously harmed, when her members fail in their mission (so the first reading from Lamentations challenges us).  The theme of this diptych of liturgical feasts is the Love that God has for us through Christ (Sacred Heart) and the love the Church responds with for Christ and the Father (Immaculate Heart).

Such love on the Church’s part is characterized by deep reflection on and obedience to God’s desires for our own lives and for creation, which are not easily discovered in some situations. To bring this into focus, the Church presents Luke’s account of the very human story of Mary and Joseph taking Jesus to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Passover every year. At the age of 12 (when a Jewish boy “comes of age”) they again do what is the custom and complete the days of the celebration.  It is helpful to know that Passover is the founding feast of the Jewish faith, just as the Triduum becomes the Founding Feast of Christianity, this has some theological weight in Luke’s telling of this story. But for us the very human experience narrated gives us a basic message of the feast to pray with.

There are quite a number of friends and neighbors going up to Jerusalem apparently and the city itself is overrun with visitors and pilgrims.  In this chaos one rather young adolescent can easily become lost. When Mary and Joseph start back, they assume that Jesus is with the group they are traveling with, until the end of the first day when they look for him.   

When I was a child, my parents traveled with extended family from our home in Wyoming to Kansas City for a wedding.  We were so many that we “caravanned in three cars, stopping at the same gas stations to fill up, restaurants to eat and so forth.  On one of these stops, my younger brother was left at a gas station when we pulled out, the three sets of parents assuming that he was in one of the cars.  When we then stopped later in the day for lunch or dinner, it was discovered that he was not with us.  Frantically my parents left us all together and drove back some miles to the gas station and found him with a highway patrolman and the gas station owner debating what to do.  I will never forget how upset my parents were over this incident – terribly frightened and feeling guilty for not paying more attention (after all there were only 14 children in the crowded cars).  Now Tom did not indicate that he stayed at the gas station intentionally, nor that he had to be about his father’s business as Jesus did, but none-the-less the experience stayed in my mother’s memory all her life.  Shortly before her death forty or more years later she was able to describe the terrible fear and loss that this event occasioned for her and continued to weigh in her heart even to that time, what it had meant.

Based on the memory of this very human experience that I was part of, I have never had trouble imagining how Mary and Joseph might have felt.  What must have stunned them, when they found him in the Temple in Jerusalem, was his calm assumption that they would understand and accept what he was doing by not going back with the family.

Seemingly, for Mary – and perhaps Joseph as well – Jesus’ calm authority both as he spoke to the Rabbis in the Temple and to his parents that he must be in his Father’s house and thus accomplishing his Father’s will, was a shock.  One might assume, though it is unsaid, that they were confused, dismayed and even angry – even while they were relieved and grateful.  This tremendous mix of internal responses was a cause for Mary to “ponder all these things in her heart.”  In other words, she had to discern, to think about and pray about this event (along with others) to begin to understand something of what the Angel Gabriel had said to her about who Jesus was and is.

So must the whole Church ponder in our hearts what it is that Jesus is asking of us through the signs of the times.  Through the confusions and conflicts of our day.  Through the divisions and distortions of certitude that have been too easy at other times in Christian life.

How do we know how to love God, which is the central work of the Church, and the dilemma of our day?  To love means to know and follow the Divine Will – which is EVER NEW and constantly revealed anew in the signs of the times? 

We can be faithful only by discerning God’s desire and seeking to follow it at whatever personal cost.  To do that we must ponder in our hearts, prayerfully listening and weighing events, attentively guided by the Spirit discovering anew what God’s Will is for each of us and for all of us together.  Mary stands today as the perfect expression of the Church – attentive, loving, patient, occasionally confused, sometimes anxious, but eager to be faithful to the love she has been given.  As members of Christ’s Body, the Church, we ponder with Mary all these things in our hearts and act as faithfully as we can in love.

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HEAR YE!

“They did not lay bare your guilt, to avert your fate.” —Lamentations 2:14

Solomon built a temple in Jerusalem as a dwelling place for the Lord.  “The Lord’s glory filled the house of God” (2 Chr 5:14). During the next three-hundred years, Jerusalem was miraculously spared from attack on several occasions (e.g. 2 Kgs 19:35).
Gradually the people grew complacent and neglected the Lord’s commands, falling into lifestyles of sin and injustice. Many so-called prophets of the time fueled this lax attitude with “false and specious visions” and “misleading portents” (Lam 2:14). They falsely predicted divine protection rather than judgment and accountability for sin. In 587 B.C., the unthinkable occurred. Babylon besieged Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, and the Lord did not intervene (2 Chr 36:19). The inhabitants of Jerusalem were killed or exiled. The temple was gone, and so, seemingly, was the Lord. All was unexpectedly lost (see Prv 29:1).
We want to hear about hope and security, but we also need to hear about our guilt (Lam 2:14). We must never grow weary of hearing about our propensity to sin and to backslide. “The things that happened to” the people of Jerusalem “serve as an example...as a warning to us” (1 Cor 10:11). Therefore, “let anyone who thinks he is standing upright watch out lest he fall!” (1 Cor 10:12) The sins of complacency and presumption lead straight to the shock of hell. Repent! Live in the fear of the Lord (Prv 9:10).

Prayer:  Jesus, may You find faith in me (Mt 8:10), not smugness.

Promise:  “To the centurion Jesus said, ‘Go home. It shall be done because you trusted.’ ” —Mt 8:13

Praise:  Tim overcame temptations to acts of sexual impurity by praying daily devotions to Mary’s Immaculate Heart.

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  What kind of expectant faith and trust does the Lord Jesus want you to place in him? In Jesus' time the Jews hated the Romans because they represented everything the Jews stood against - including pagan beliefs and idol worship, immoral practices such as abortion and infanticide, and the suppression of the Israelites' claim to be a holy nation governed solely by God's law. It must have been a remarkable sight for the Jewish residents of Capernaum to see Jesus conversing with an officer of the Roman army.

The power to command with trust and respect
Why did Jesus not only warmly receive a Roman centurion but praise him as a model of faith and confidence in God? In the Roman world the position of centurion was very important. He was an officer in charge of a hundred soldiers. In a certain sense, he was the backbone of the Roman army, the cement which held the army together. Polybius, an ancient write, describes what a centurion should be: "They must not be so much venturesome seekers after danger as men who can command, steady in action, and reliable; they ought not to be over-anxious to rush into the fight, but when hard pressed, they must be ready to hold their ground, and die at their posts."

Faith in Jesus' authority over sickness and power to heal
The centurion who approached Jesus was not only courageous, but faith-filled as well. He risked the ridicule of his associates as well as mockery from the Jews by seeking help from a wandering preacher from Galilee. Nonetheless, he approached Jesus with great confidence and humility. He was an extraordinary man because he loved his slave. In the Roman world slaves were treated as property and like animals rather than people. The centurion was also an extraordinary man of faith. He believed that Jesus could heal his beloved slave. Jesus commended him for his faith and immediately granted him his request. Are you willing to suffer ridicule in the practice of your faith? And when you need help, do you approach the Lord Jesus with expectant faith?

Heavenly Father, you sent us your Son Jesus that we might be freed from the tyranny of sin and death. Increase my faith in the power of your saving word and give me freedom to love and serve others with generosity and mercy as you have loved me.

Psalm 74:1-6,20-21

1 O God, why do you cast us off for ever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember your congregation, which you have gotten of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
3 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
4 Your foes have roared in the midst of your holy place; they set up their own signs for signs.
5 At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
6 And then all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
20 Have regard for your covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
21 Let not the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.

Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Welcoming the Lord Jesus with expectant faith and humility, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.

"When the Lord promised to go to the centurion's house to heal his servant, the centurion answered, 'Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.' By viewing himself as unworthy, he showed himself worthy for Christ to come not merely into his house but also into his heart. He would not have said this with such great faith and humility if he had not already welcomed in his heart the One who came into his house. It would have been no great joy for the Lord Jesus to enter into his house and not to enter his heart. For the Master of humility both by word and example sat down also in the house of a certain proud Pharisee, Simon, and though he sat down in his house, there was no place in his heart. For in his heart the Son of Man could not lay his head" (Matthew 8:20). (excerpt from SERMON 62.1)

  

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