August 10, 2022Feast of Saint Lawrence, deacon and martyr

2022년 8월 10일 성 라우렌시오 부제 순교자 축일 

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제1독서

 코린토 2서. 9,6-10
 형제 여러분, 6적게 뿌리는 이는 적게 거두어들이고

많이 뿌리는 이는 많이 거두어들입니다.
7 저마다 마음에 작정한 대로 해야지,
마지못해 하거나 억지로 해서는 안 됩니다.
하느님께서는 기쁘게 주는 이를 사랑하십니다.
8 하느님께서는 여러분에게 모든 은총을 넘치게 주실 수 있습니다.
그리하여 여러분은 언제나 모든 면에서 모든 것을 넉넉히 가져
온갖 선행을 넘치도록 할 수 있게 됩니다.
9 이는 성경에 기록된 그대로입니다.
“그가 가난한 이들에게 아낌없이 내주니
그의 의로움이 영원히 존속하리라.”
10 씨 뿌리는 사람에게 씨앗과 먹을 양식을 마련해 주시는 분께서
여러분에게도 씨앗을 마련해 주실 뿐만 아니라
그것을 여러 곱절로 늘려 주시고,
또 여러분이 실천하는 의로움의 열매도 늘려 주실 것입니다.

 

복음

요한. 12,24-26
 그때에 예수님께서 제자들에게 말씀하셨다.

24 “내가 진실로 진실로 너희에게 말한다.
밀알 하나가 땅에 떨어져 죽지 않으면 한 알 그대로 남고,
죽으면 많은 열매를 맺는다.
25 자기 목숨을 사랑하는 사람은 목숨을 잃을 것이고,
이 세상에서 자기 목숨을 미워하는 사람은
영원한 생명에 이르도록 목숨을 간직할 것이다.

26 누구든지 나를 섬기려면 나를 따라야 한다.
내가 있는 곳에 나를 섬기는 사람도 함께 있을 것이다.
누구든지 나를 섬기면 아버지께서 그를 존중해 주실 것이다.”

August 10, 2022

Feast of Saint Lawrence, deacon and martyr

Daily Readings — Audio

Daily Reflections — Video

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Reading 1

2 Cor 9:6-10
Brothers and sisters:
Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly,
and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion,
for God loves a cheerful giver.
Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you,
so that in all things, always having all you need,
you may have an abundance for every good work.
As it is written:

He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever.

The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food
will supply and multiply your seed
and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

 

Responsorial Psalm

112:1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9

R. (5) Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those in need.
Blessed the man who fears the LORD,
who greatly delights in his commands.
His posterity shall be mighty upon the earth;
the upright generation shall be blessed.
R. Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those in need.
Well for the man who is gracious and lends,
who conducts his affairs with justice;
He shall never be moved;
the just one shall be in everlasting remembrance.
R. Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those in need.
An evil report he shall not fear;
his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD.
His heart is steadfast; he shall not fear
till he looks down upon his foes.
R. Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those in need.
Lavishly he gives to the poor, 
his generosity shall endure forever;
his horn shall be exalted in glory.
R. Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those in need.

 

Gospel

Jn 12:24-26

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it remains just a grain of wheat;
but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Whoever loves his life loses it,
and whoever hates his life in this world
will preserve it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me,
and where I am, there also will my servant be.
The Father will honor whoever serves me.”

 

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 Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr. Lawrence was one of the seven deacons in Rome during the persecution of the emperor Valerian in the year 258. He was responsible for ministering to the poor whose patron saint he has become. In his day there was likely no saint who was more loved than Lawrence. He was generous and kind.

All three readings today could have been written to describe St. Lawrence. In the first reading, St. Paul says that God loves a cheerful giver, one who doesn’t give with sadness or a sense of compulsion. St. Lawrence was just a bit too cheerful for the emperor. Instead of producing what the emperor thought were the treasures of the Church – silver and gold – Lawrence showed up with the poor of the city. I can imagine the smile on his face when Lawrence saw the emperor fly into a rage. Beheading wasn’t good enough for the smart-aleck deacon; let’s cook him to death. Lawrence has certainly had the last laugh because today he is also the patron saint of cooks! St. Paul said that if you sow sparingly you will reap sparingly but if you sow bountifully you will reap bountifully. Lawrence may have been able to spare his own life. He didn’t flinch in laying it down. To use St. Paul’s words, the harvest of his righteousness didn’t stop even with his death.

The psalmist speaks of the person, like Lawrence, who is gracious and lends to those in need. “His posterity shall be mighty upon the earth.” Who is celebrating the Roman Empire today? Lawrence’s posterity is singing his praises. “The just one shall be in everlasting remembrance.” Who remembers emperor Valerian? Yet, today we celebrate one that Valerian would have considered a nobody. God promised that those who lavishly give to the poor will experience a generosity that endures forever. Lawrence’s “horn” has been “exalted in glory.”

Lawrence’s life was described by Jesus as a grain of wheat. That grain fell to the ground and died. Almost eighteen hundred years later it is still producing fruit. Lawrence lost his life; thus, he preserved it. He served and followed Jesus. Jesus said “where I am, there also will my servant be.” Could anything be better for Lawrence than to simply be with Jesus? We honor Lawrence today and rightly so. However, I quite imagine that this means little to Lawrence. Better than that is what Jesus said about honor: “The Father will honor whoever serves me.”

St. Lawrence – honored by Almighty God. Could it get any better than that?

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THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF GIVING<BR>AND GIVING ALL

“He who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will reap bountifully.” —2 Corinthians 9:6

“In the measure you give you shall receive, and more besides” (Mk 4:24). The Lord promises that we will never out-give Him. If we give bountifully, we will harvest more than we sow and receive more than we give. Then we are to give generously again and receive even more, spiritually and materially. After a few rounds of giving and then receiving more, we have significantly greater spiritual and material resources than before our rounds of giving and receiving. This may not always be obvious because spiritual resources are not visible and quantifiable as are material resources. Nonetheless, after repeated givings in the spirit of the Gospel, we definitely have much more to give (see Lk 8:18; 19:26).

The Lord calls us to give not only bountifully but totally to Him. He commands us to love Him with all our heart, all our soul, all our strength, and all our mind (Lk 10:27). This command to give all to Him may seem unreasonable until we focus on Jesus’ death on the cross. At the foot of the cross, we see the command to give all to Jesus as a privilege of love, not as a burden. We give all to the Lord. Then we find that not only are our resources transformed, we are transformed. We are no longer our old selves of selfishness; we are new creations in the love of Jesus. Therefore, accept the grace to give all to Jesus.

Prayer:  Father, may I get into Your spirit of giving.

Promise:  “The man who loves his life loses it, while the man who hates his life in this world preserves it to life eternal.” —Jn 12:25

Praise:  St. Lawrence, an ordained deacon, was martyred on August 10, 258. Lawrence, along with the Apostles Peter and Paul, is a patron of the city of Rome.

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THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF GIVING<BR>AND GIVING ALL

“He who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will reap bountifully.” —2 Corinthians 9:6

“In the measure you give you shall receive, and more besides” (Mk 4:24). The Lord promises that we will never out-give Him. If we give bountifully, we will harvest more than we sow and receive more than we give. Then we are to give generously again and receive even more, spiritually and materially. After a few rounds of giving and then receiving more, we have significantly greater spiritual and material resources than before our rounds of giving and receiving. This may not always be obvious because spiritual resources are not visible and quantifiable as are material resources. Nonetheless, after repeated givings in the spirit of the Gospel, we definitely have much more to give (see Lk 8:18; 19:26).

The Lord calls us to give not only bountifully but totally to Him. He commands us to love Him with all our heart, all our soul, all our strength, and all our mind (Lk 10:27). This command to give all to Him may seem unreasonable until we focus on Jesus’ death on the cross. At the foot of the cross, we see the command to give all to Jesus as a privilege of love, not as a burden. We give all to the Lord. Then we find that not only are our resources transformed, we are transformed. We are no longer our old selves of selfishness; we are new creations in the love of Jesus. Therefore, accept the grace to give all to Jesus.

Prayer:  Father, may I get into Your spirit of giving.

Promise:  “The man who loves his life loses it, while the man who hates his life in this world preserves it to life eternal.” —Jn 12:25

Praise:  St. Lawrence, an ordained deacon, was martyred on August 10, 258. Lawrence, along with the Apostles Peter and Paul, is a patron of the city of Rome.

  

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