July 29, 2022 Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus

2022년 7월 29일 연중 제17주간 금요일

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제1독서

예레미야서 26,1-9
 1 유다 임금 요시야의 아들 여호야킴이 다스리기 시작할 무렵에

주님께서 이런 말씀을 내리셨다.
2 주님께서 이렇게 말씀하신다.
“주님의 집 뜰에 서서,
주님의 집에 예배하러 오는 유다의 모든 성읍 주민들에게,
내가 너더러 그들에게 전하라고 명령한 모든 말을
한마디도 빼놓지 말고 전하여라.
3 그들이 그 말을 듣고서 저마다 제 악한 길에서 돌아설지도 모른다.
그러면 나도 그들의 악행 때문에 그들에게 내리려는 재앙을 거두겠다.
4 너는 그들에게 이렇게 말하여라.
‘주님께서 이렇게 말씀하신다.
′너희가 내 말을 듣지 않고 내가 너희 앞에 세워 둔 내 법대로 걷지 않는다면,
5 또 내가 너희에게 잇달아 보낸 나의 종 예언자들의 말을 듣지 않는다면,
─ 사실 너희는 듣지 않았다. ─
6 나는 이 집을 실로처럼 만들어 버리고,
이 도성을 세상의 모든 민족들에게 저주의 대상이 되게 하겠다.′’”
7 사제들과 예언자들과 온 백성은 주님의 집에서
예레미야가 이 말을 하는 것을 들었다.
8 그리고 예레미야가 주님께서 온 백성에게 전하라고 하신 말씀을 모두 마쳤을 때,

사제들과 예언자들과 온 백성이 그를 붙잡아 말하였다.
“너는 반드시 죽어야 한다.
9 어찌하여 네가 주님의 이름으로 이 집이 실로처럼 되고,
이 도성이 아무도 살 수 없는 폐허가 되리라고 예언하느냐?”
그러면서 온 백성이 주님의 집에 있는 예레미야에게 몰려들었다.

복음

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 29, 2022 

Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1

Jer 26:1-9

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim,
son of Josiah, king of Judah,
this message came from the LORD: 
Thus says the LORD:
Stand in the court of the house of the LORD
and speak to the people of all the cities of Judah
who come to worship in the house of the LORD;
whatever I command you, tell them, and omit nothing.
Perhaps they will listen and turn back, 
each from his evil way,
so that I may repent of the evil I have planned to inflict upon them
for their evil deeds.
Say to them: Thus says the LORD: 
If you disobey me,
not living according to the law I placed before you
and not listening to the words of my servants the prophets,
whom I send you constantly though you do not obey them,
I will treat this house like Shiloh,
and make this the city to which all the nations of the earth
shall refer when cursing another.

Now the priests, the prophets, and all the people
heard Jeremiah speak these words in the house of the LORD.
When Jeremiah finished speaking
all that the LORD bade him speak to all the people,
the priests and prophets laid hold of him, crying,
"You must be put to death! 
Why do you prophesy in the name of the LORD:
'This house shall be like Shiloh,' and
'This city shall be desolate and deserted'?"
And all the people gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 69:5, 8-10, 14

R. (14c)

Lord, in your great love, answer me.
Those outnumber the hairs of my head
who hate me without cause.
Too many for my strength
are they who wrongfully are my enemies.
Must I restore what I did not steal?
R. Lord, in your great love, answer me.
Since for your sake I bear insult,
and shame covers my face.
I have become an outcast to my brothers,
a stranger to my mother's sons,
Because zeal for your house consumes me,
and the insults of those who blaspheme you fall upon me.
R. Lord, in your great love, answer me.
But I pray to you, O LORD,
for the time of your favor, O God!
In your great kindness answer me
with your constant help.
R. Lord, in your great love, answer me.

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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 Martha is not just a busybody!

In popular Christian parlance – reinforced by the gospel two Sundays ago – Martha is a workaholic who chastises Jesus for allowing her sister to sit at his feet rather than do dishes. Luke’s story of Mary and Martha is a timeless parable, to be sure. But today’s gospel from John gets us much closer to why the Church has celebrated Martha’s witness since its earliest days.

For while her contemplative sister Mary “stays at home,” it is the active Martha who seeks out Jesus. It is Martha who confronts Jesus in a biblical spirit of lamentation, decrying his past absence yet also calling on God to act through him. It is Martha who confesses the hope of resurrection, and then goes on to proclaim one of the highest Christological statements in all of the gospels: “I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.” If the Church is built on the faith of Peter, it is also surely built on the faith of Martha, as well as the contemplative silence of Mary, and the new life given to Lazarus.  

Today in the rural diocese of Kasana-Luweero in Uganda, Bethany Land Institute is having its grand opening. Inspired by Pope Francis’s Laudato Si, BLI was also inspired by the witness of today’s three saints. BLI’s “Mary’s Farm” trains agricultural students in sustainable land care and food production; “Martha’s Market” enables BLI Caretakers to develop and practice credit, business and entrepreneurial skills; and “Lazarus’ Trees” is a forest and tree nursery with the audacious goal of planting one million trees by 2030. Forming Ugandans in a vision of integral ecology and resurrection hope, BLI exemplifies Martha’s faith in action in a long-suffering world. May all of us seek similar ways to exemplify Martha’s passionate faith in a “creation groaning in labor pains, even until now” (Romans 8:22).

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THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE

“When Jeremiah finished speaking all that the Lord bade Him speak to all the people, the priests and prophets laid hold of him, crying, ‘You must be put to death!’ ” —Jeremiah 26:8

Jeremiah knew he would be rejected and possibly killed when he prophesied that the Temple would be destroyed. Nevertheless, Jeremiah obeyed the Lord and spoke out. Jesus knew He would be without honor in His native place (Mt 13:57), but, in obedience to His Father, He went there anyway. We know that when we speak up for Jesus, we will suffer the consequences from our anti-Christian society. So what will we do?

Pope St. John Paul II taught: “The Church proposes the example of numerous Saints who bore witness to and defended moral truth even to the point of enduring martyrdom, or who preferred death to a single mortal sin” (The Splendor of Truth, 91). “The words of the Latin poet Juvenal apply to all: ‘Consider it the greatest of crimes to prefer survival to honor and, out of love of physical life, to lose the very reason for living’ ” (The Splendor of Truth, 94).

The Lord calls us to be courageous. “The Spirit God has given us is no cowardly spirit” (2 Tm 1:7). We must pray to have the courage to proclaim the Gospel as we ought (Eph 6:20). With the early Church, our prayer should be: “Now, O Lord, look at the threats they are leveling against us. Grant to Your servants, even as they speak Your words, complete assurance by stretching forth Your hand in cures and signs and wonders to be worked in the name of Jesus, Your holy Servant” (Acts 4:29-30).

Prayer:  Father, may I love You so much that I will be bold and unmanipulated.

Promise:  “They were filled with amazement, and said to one another, ‘Where did this Man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?’ ” —Mt 13:54

Praise:  St. Martha is the patron of cooks, servants, waiters, and waitresses.

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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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