2023년 1월 24일 연중 제3주간 화요일
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제1독서
히브리서. 10,1-10
형제 여러분, 1 율법은 장차 일어날 좋은 것들의 그림자만 지니고 있을 뿐
바로 그 실체의 모습은 지니고 있지 않으므로,
해마다 계속해서 바치는 같은 제물로는
하느님께 나아가는 이들을 완전하게 할 수 없습니다.
2 만일 완전하게 할 수 있었다면,
예배하는 이들이 한 번 깨끗해진 다음에는 더 이상 죄의식을 가지지 않아
제물을 바치는 일도 중단되지 않았겠습니까?
3 그러한 제물로는 해마다 죄를 기억하게 될 뿐입니다.
4 황소와 염소의 피가 죄를 없애지 못하기 때문입니다.
5 그러한 까닭에 그리스도께서는 세상에 오실 때에 이렇게 말씀하셨습니다.
“당신께서는 제물과 예물을 원하지 않으시고
오히려 저에게 몸을 마련해 주셨습니다.
6 번제물과 속죄 제물을 당신께서는 기꺼워하지 않으셨습니다.
7 그리하여 제가 아뢰었습니다.
‘보십시오, 하느님!
두루마리에 저에 관하여 기록된 대로 저는 당신의 뜻을 이루러 왔습니다.’”
8 그리스도께서는 먼저 “제물과 예물을”, 또 “번제물과 속죄 제물을
당신께서는 원하지도 기꺼워하지도 않으셨습니다.” 하고 말씀하시는데,
이것들은 율법에 따라 바치는 것입니다.
9 그다음에는
“보십시오, 저는 당신의 뜻을 이루러 왔습니다.” 하고 말씀하십니다.
두 번째 것을 세우시려고 그리스도께서 첫 번째 것을 치우신 것입니다.
10 이 “뜻”에 따라, 예수 그리스도의 몸이 단 한 번 바쳐짐으로써
우리가 거룩하게 되었습니다.
복음
마르코. 3,31-35
31 그때에 예수님의 어머니와 형제들이 왔다.
그들은 밖에 서서 사람을 보내어 예수님을 불렀다.
32 그분 둘레에는 군중이 앉아 있었는데,
사람들이 예수님께 “보십시오, 스승님의 어머님과 형제들과 누이들이
밖에서 스승님을 찾고 계십니다.” 하고 말하였다.
33 그러자 예수님께서 그들에게, “누가 내 어머니고 내 형제들이냐?” 하고 반문하셨다.
34 그리고 당신 주위에 앉은 사람들을 둘러보시며 이르셨다.
“이들이 내 어머니고 내 형제들이다.
35 하느님의 뜻을 실행하는 사람이 바로 내 형제요 누이요 어머니다.”
January 24, 20230
Memorial of Saint Frances de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
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Reading 1
Brothers and sisters:
Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come,
and not the very image of them, it can never make perfect
those who come to worship by the same sacrifices
that they offer continually each year.
Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered,
since the worshipers, once cleansed, would no longer
have had any consciousness of sins?
But in those sacrifices there is only a yearly remembrance of sins,
for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats
take away sins.
For this reason, when he came into the world, he said:
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
in burnt offerings and sin offerings you took no delight.
Then I said, As is written of me in the scroll,
Behold, I come to do your will, O God.
First he says, Sacrifices and offerings,
burnt offerings and sin offerings,
you neither desired nor delighted in.
These are offered according to the law.
Then he says, Behold, I come to do your will.
He takes away the first to establish the second.
By this “will,” we have been consecrated
through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (8a and 9a) Here am I Lord; I come to do your will.
I have waited, waited for the LORD,
and he stooped toward me.
And he put a new song into my mouth,
a hymn to our God.
R. Here am I Lord; I come to do your will.
Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Burnt offerings or sin-offerings you sought not;
then said I, “Behold I come.”
R. Here am I Lord; I come to do your will.
I announced your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.
R. Here am I Lord; I come to do your will.
Your justice I kept not hid within my heart;
your faithfulness and your salvation I have spoken of;
I have made no secret of your kindness and your truth
in the vast assembly.
R. Here am I Lord; I come to do your will.
Gospel
The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house.
Standing outside, they sent word to Jesus and called him.
A crowd seated around him told him,
“Your mother and your brothers and your sisters
are outside asking for you.”
But he said to them in reply,
“Who are my mother and my brothers?”
And looking around at those seated in the circle he said,
“Here are my mother and my brothers.
For whoever does the will of God
is my brother and sister and mother.”
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Our readings recently have shown Jesus rewriting the rules and reversing the expectations and norms of the day. In the first reading, Paul comments on the psalm, pointing out how Jesus rewrote the rules around sacrificial offerings by offering obedience to God’s will instead of the prescribed offerings from the law of Moses. We respond with the same words of Psalm 40, imitating Jesus as the Body of Christ on earth: “Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.” Then in the gospel, Jesus turns the question “who is my family?” on its head.
These are challenging readings. I work with many college students who wonder what, exactly, God’s will for them is so that they can follow it. This usually becomes a pressing question during junior and senior year. They would like God to “explain the assignment” in detail. I often would, too – that kind of precise clarity and following the rules can be easier than the work of discernment in choosing between multiple goods, and taking responsibility for my choices. I think there’s a false premise at work in this approach: if God’s will is an assignment to be completed and graded, or a riddle to be solved in order to succeed, then one doesn’t really need an ongoing relationship with God. It can be frustrating to come up against a seeming lack of clarity in the “spiritual assignment” when most of life has worked within the model of school. Students learn to follow the directions, complete the assignment, get a good grade, move on to the next step, and repeat. But Jesus is rewriting the rules; after all, they were only there in the first place to lead to something deeper. Jesus just wants to keep showing up saying, “Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will,” and keep the conversation going by living it out loud.
On days with challenging readings, I sometimes go to the saint whose memorial we celebrate, to see if their life sheds any light on the matter. St. Francis de Sales did not disappoint. In a nutshell: he was a lawyer, a teacher, a writer, a spiritual director, a mystic, and he laid the groundwork for Vatican II’s focus on the “universal call to holiness” as far back as the Reformation. Prayer was essential for him; he didn’t want to do anything for which he hadn’t sought God’s input first. He showed up to life saying, “Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.” His insistence that people in every stage and state of life are called to holiness helps me connect with Jesus’ words in the gospel: “Whomever does the will of God is [my family].” In St. Francis de Sales’ time, it was thought that only clergy and religious were really called to be holy; lay or family life simply wasn’t a way to grow closer to God. He saw spiritual direction for laypeople as one of his most important ministries as bishop, and wrote in his most famous book that family life is a path to holiness just as much as religious life. Jesus calls everyone! As Paul wrote to the Hebrews at the end of today’s first reading, Jesus has also consecrated us – we the Body of Christ on earth – through the offering of his Body once for all.
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FAMILY TRANSPLANT
“Whoever does the will of God is brother and sister and mother to Me.” —Mark 3:35
Jesus said that He came for division, to divide a family three against two (Lk 12:52). He meant that some family members would receive Him while others would reject Him, at least for a time. For those who love Jesus and love their families, and yet have been rejected within their families because of their love for Jesus, there is great pain.
Yet Jesus offers the greatest consolation amidst this pain.Through our Baptism and by doing the will of God, we are adopted and transplanted into the family of God (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2782; Eph 1:5). We become a brother or sister of Jesus, a son or daughter of God the Father, united in love through the Holy Spirit. Praise be to the Holy Trinity forever! Our family meal is now the Mass, as we gather with the rest of our family at the table of the Lord to receive the Holy Eucharist.
In the meantime, continue to love your biological family and pray for them. Your love and prayers may not seem to be having any impact. It might even seem that your love and prayers are making the situation worse. Keep persevering anyway. Day by day, the Lord is working behind the scenes (Mk 4:26ff) to unite your family in Him, starting with you. Jesus is the stumbling Stone that smashes a family apart (Mt 21:44) and the Cornerstone upon Which the family is rebuilt (Mt 21:42; Ps 118:22; 1 Pt 2:7).
Prayer: “I have come to do Your will, O God” (Heb 10:7).
Promise: “By this ‘will,’ we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” —Heb 10:10
Praise: St. Francis de Sales pastored his flock with gentleness, patience, understanding, and great love.
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Who do you love and cherish the most? God did not intend for us to be alone, but to be with others. He gives us many opportunities for developing relationships with family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Why did Jesus, on this occasion, seem to ignore his own relatives when they pressed to see him? His love and respect for his mother and his relatives was unquestionable. Jesus never lost an opportunity to teach his disciples a spiritual lesson and truth about the kingdom of God. On this occasion when many gathered to hear Jesus he pointed to another higher reality of relationships, namely our relationship with God and with those who belong to God.
What kind of relationship does God want with us?
What is the essence of being a Christian? It is certainly more than doctrine, precepts, and commandments. It is first and foremost a relationship - a relationship of trust, affection, commitment, loyalty, faithfulness, kindness, thoughtfulness, compassion, mercy, helpfulness, encouragement, support, strength, protection, and so many other qualities that bind people together in mutual love and unity. God offers us the greatest of relationships - union of heart, mind, and spirit with himself, the very author and source of love (1 John 4:8,16).
What is the true nature of God's love?
God's love never fails, never forgets, never compromises, never lies, never lets us down nor disappoints us. His love is consistent, unwavering, unconditional, and unstoppable. We may choose to separate ourselves from him, but nothing will make him ignore us, leave us, or treat us unkindly. He will pursue us, love us, and call us to return to him no matter what might stand in the way. It is his nature to love. That is why he created us - to be united with him and to share in his love and unity of persons (1 John 3:1). God is a trinity of persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - and a community of love. That is why Jesus challenged his followers and even his own earthly relatives to recognize that God is the true source of all relationships. God wants all of our relationships to be rooted in his love.
The Lord Jesus offers each one of us a personal relationship with himself
Jesus is God's love incarnate - God's love made visible in human flesh (1 John 4:9-10). That is why Jesus describes himself as the good shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep and the shepherd who seeks out the sheep who have strayed and lost their way. God is like the father who yearns for his prodigal son to return home and then throws a great party for his son when he has a change of heart and comes back (Luke 15:11-32). Jesus offered up his life on the cross for our sake, so that we could be forgiven and restored to unity and friendship with God. It is through Jesus that we become the adopted children of God - his own sons and daughters. That is why Jesus told his disciples that they would have many new friends and family relationships in his kingdom. Whoever does the will of God is a friend of God and a member of his family - his sons and daughters who have been ransomed by the precious blood of Christ.
The Lord wants to transform all of our relationships so we can love as he loves
An early Christian martyr once said that "a Christian's only relatives are the saints" - namely those who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ and adopted as sons and daughters of God. Those who have been baptized into Jesus Christ and who live as his disciples enter into a new family, a family of "saints" here on earth and in heaven. Jesus changes the order of relationships and shows that true kinship is not just a matter of flesh and blood. Our adoption as sons and daughters of God transforms all of our relationships and requires a new order of loyalty to God first and to his kingdom of righteousness and peace. Do you want to grow in love and friendship? Allow God's Holy Spirit to transform your heart, mind, and will to enable you to love freely and generously as he loves.
Heavenly Father, you are the source of all true friendship and love. In all my relationships, may your love be my constant guide for choosing what is good and for rejecting what is contrary to your will.
Psalm 24:7-10
7 Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
8 Who is the King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle!
9 Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory!
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The cross of Christ as victory, by Augustine of Hippo, 430-543 A.D.
"[Mary] did the Father's will. It was this in her that the Lord magnified, not merely that her flesh gave birth to flesh... When he said, 'Blessed are they who hear the Word of God and keep it' (Luke 11:28), he was in effect saying: 'My mother whom you have called blessed is blessed for the reason that she keeps the Word of God, not that the Word was made flesh in her and dwelt among us (John 1:14), but that she keeps the very Word of God through which she was made and which was made flesh in her." (excerpt from TRACTATE ON JOHN 10.3.2)
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