2022년 11월 21일 연중 34주일 월요일
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제1독서
요한 묵시록. 14,1-3.4ㄴ-5
나 요한이 1 보니 어린양이 시온산 위에 서 계셨습니다.
그와 함께 십사만 사천 명이 서 있는데,
그들의 이마에는 어린양의 이름과 그 아버지의 이름이 적혀 있었습니다.
2 그리고 큰 물소리 같기도 하고 요란한 천둥소리 같기도 한 목소리가
하늘에서 울려오는 것을 들었습니다.
내가 들은 그 목소리는 또 수금을 타며 노래하는 이들의 목소리 같았습니다.
3 그들은 어좌와 네 생물과 원로들 앞에서 새 노래를 부르고 있었습니다.
그 노래는 땅으로부터 속량된 십사만 사천 명 말고는
아무도 배울 수 없었습니다.
4 그들은 어린양이 가는 곳이면 어디든지 따라가는 이들입니다.
그들은 하느님과 어린양을 위한 맏물로
사람들 가운데에서 속량되었습니다.
5 그들의 입에서는 거짓을 찾아볼 수가 없었습니다.
그들은 흠 없는 사람들입니다.
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루카. 21,1-4
그때에 1 예수님께서 눈을 들어
헌금함에 예물을 넣는 부자들을 보고 계셨다.
2 그러다가 어떤 빈곤한 과부가
렙톤 두 닢을 거기에 넣는 것을 보시고 3 이르셨다.
“내가 참으로 너희에게 말한다.
저 가난한 과부가 다른 모든 사람보다 더 많이 넣었다.
4 저들은 모두 풍족한 데에서 얼마씩을 예물로 넣었지만,
저 과부는 궁핍한 가운데에서 가지고 있던 생활비를 다 넣었기 때문이다.”
November 21, 2022
Memorial of The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Reading 1
and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand
who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
I heard a sound from heaven
like the sound of rushing water or a loud peal of thunder.
The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.
They were singing what seemed to be a new hymn before the throne,
before the four living creatures and the elders.
No one could learn this hymn except the hundred and forty-four thousand
who had been ransomed from the earth.
These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes.
They have been ransomed as the first fruits
of the human race for God and the Lamb.
On their lips no deceit has been found; they are unblemished.
Responsorial Psalm
The LORD’s are the earth and its fullness;
the world and those who dwell in it.
For he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain.
R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
a reward from God his savior.
Such is the race that seeks for him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
Gospel
putting their offerings into the treasury
and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins.
He said, “I tell you truly,
this poor widow put in more than all the rest;
for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth,
but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood.”
Giving From Abundance
God’s unconditional love for us deserves a generous response. Today’s Gospel reminds us that generosity is giving out of desire, not out of abundance. It is a desire to give to or support something that benefits others, something from which we have little to gain. True generosity requires sacrifice. We are often willing to give, but not always willing to sacrifice.
Think of the generous people in your own life who make sacrifices from which you benefit - the teachers who sacrifice their plan period to sub for a colleague or to be available to students who need extra help; the parents who make financial sacrifices so their children can attend private schools; the teenager who makes social sacrifices, foregoing a party or a game, to spend time with their friend who is struggling. All of these sacrifices are made out of love for the other. What can you sacrifice today so as to more generously respond to the needs of someone else?
—Jackie Schulte is the Dean of Faculty Formation at Creighton Preparatory School in Omaha, Nebraska.
Prayer
Lord Jesus, teach me to be generous.
Teach me to serve as you deserve,
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to labor and not to seek to rest,
to give of myself and not ask for a reward,
except the reward of knowing that I am doing your will.
Amen
—Prayer for Generosity of St. Ignatius of Loyola
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This feastday has no foundation whatsoever in Scripture, not in the case of Mary in particular or newborn girls in general; at best the feastday represents a pious desire to show Mary as having the same sort of dedication to God that Jesus receives in his Presentation in the Temple, which we celebrate on February 2nd.
In the case of Mary, though, we should see that dedication in God’s plans for her from her very origin, which we celebrate on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, or in how she has dedicated herself by her simple stance before God as we see her proclaim in the “Magnificat.”
And what is it that we do if we consider those two moments in her life? First that God wished her to be untainted by sin of any sort so that Jesus might have the perfect mother – and so that we might have her as our own perfectly loving mother.
Then the “Magnificat” outlines her basic spirituality: she is as simple and receptive of God’s grace as it is possible to be, and it is because she receives everything from God that she is able to give thanks to God and proclaim his goodness for what he decided to achieve through her.
If we ourselves had that same spirituality we would use God’s gifts perfectly and gratefully recognize that everything good about us is the result of his love. We would embrace our lowliness, a humility which permits God to sweep aside all merely human values and expectations, to create a Kingdom in which the poor and disregarded come to be lifted up and shine with God’s light for the sake of all.
Are we willing to present ourselves to God and ask that he recreate us in the image of Mary? Could we even rejoice if God took us at our word?
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THE NEW SONG
“They were singing a new hymn before the throne, in the presence of the four living creatures and the elders. This hymn no one could learn except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been ransomed from the world.” —Revelation 14:3
Only those in heaven can sing the new song of the Lamb. Only those baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit can sing the new song (Mt 28:19). They alone sing the new song who are so immersed in the Holy Trinity that they are branded on their foreheads with the names of the Father and the Son (Rv 14:1). Only those begotten and owned by God sing the new song. They “are pure and follow the Lamb wherever He goes” (Rv 14:4).
To sing the new song means to live the new life in Christ, to love Him with all our hearts, and to “bless the Lord at all times” (Ps 34:2). To sing the new song means to be a people of praise because we are a people of love. To love and to praise the Lord means that we have been purified by obedience to the truth (1 Pt 1:22). This means we have been saved by grace through faith (Eph 2:8) and have been created “to lead the life of good deeds which God prepared for us in advance” (Eph 2:10).
Forever sing the new song of salvation and live the new life of love, praise, purification, and obedience. By faith with good works (see Jas 2:21-22), accept the grace to sing the new song.
Prayer: Father, teach me how to praise You always and forever.
Promise: “This poor widow has put in more than all the rest. They make contributions out of their surplus, but she from her want has given what she could not afford — every penny she had to live on.” —Lk 21:3-4
Praise: Mary was presented to God in the Temple by her parents and she presents us, her children, to our Father.
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Do you know the joy of selfless giving and generous love for others? True love doesn't calculate - it spends lavishly! Jesus drove this point home to his disciples while sitting in the temple and observing people offering their tithes. Jesus praised a poor widow who gave the smallest of coins in contrast with the rich who gave greater sums. How can someone in poverty give more than someone who has ample means? Jesus' answer is very simple - love is more precious than gold or wealth!
Love grows with gratitude and generous giving
Jesus taught that real giving must come from the heart. A gift that is given with a grudge or for display loses its value. But a gift given out of love, with a spirit of generosity and sacrifice, is precious. The amount or size of the gift doesn't matter as much as the cost to the giver. The poor widow could have kept one of her coins, but instead she recklessly gave away all she had! Jesus praised someone who gave barely a penny - how insignificant a sum - because it was everything she had, her whole living.
Nothing given in love is worthless
What we have to offer may look very small and not worth much, but if we put all we have at the Lord's disposal, no matter how insignificant it may seem, then God can do with it and with us what is beyond our reckoning. Do you give out of love and gratitude for what God has already given to you?
Lord Jesus, your love knows no bounds and you give without measure. All that I have comes from you. May I give freely and generously in gratitude for all that you have given to me. Take my life and all that I possess - my gifts, talents, time and resources - and use them as you see fit for your glory.
Psalm 24:1-6
1 The earth is the LORD's and the fulness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein;
2 for he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the rivers.
3 Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.
5 He will receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God of his salvation.
6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. [Selah]
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Mercy and compassion are never worthless, by Leo the Great, 400-461 A.D.
"Although the spite of some people does not grow gentle with any kindness, nevertheless the works of mercy are not fruitless, and kindness never loses what is offered to the ungrateful. May no one, dearly beloved, make themselves strangers to good works. Let no one claim that his poverty scarcely sufficed for himself and could not help another. What is offered from a little is great, and in the scale of divine justice, the quantity of gifts is not measured but the steadfastness of souls. The "widow" in the Gospel put two coins into the "treasury," and this surpassed the gifts of all the rich. No mercy is worthless before God. No compassion is fruitless. He has given different resources to human beings, but he does not ask different affections." (excerpt from Sermon 20.3.1)
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November 23, 2020 Monday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
