July 15, 2019 Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
2019년 7월 15일 연중 제15주간 월요일
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제1독서
탈출기. 1,8-14.22
그 무렵 8 요셉을 알지 못하는 새 임금이 이집트에 군림하게 되었다. 9 그가 자기 백성에게 말하였다. “보아라, 이스라엘 백성이 우리보다 더 많고 강해졌다. 10 그러니 우리는 그들을 지혜롭게 다루어야 할 것이다. 그러지 않으면 그들이 더욱 번성할 것이고, 전쟁이라도 일어나면, 그들은 우리 원수들 편에 붙어 우리에게 맞서 싸우다 이 땅에서 떠나가 버릴 것이다.”
11 그래서 이집트인들은 강제 노동으로 그들을 억압하려고 그들 위에 부역 감독들을 세웠다. 그렇게 하여 이스라엘 백성은 파라오의 양식을 저장하는 성읍, 곧 피톰과 라메세스를 짓게 되었다. 12 그러나 그들은 억압을 받을수록 더욱 번성하고 더욱 널리 퍼져 나갔다.
이집트인들은 이스라엘 자손들을 두려워하게 되었다. 13 그리하여 이집트인들은 이스라엘 자손들을 더욱 혹독하게 부렸다. 14 진흙을 이겨 벽돌을 만드는 고된 일과 온갖 들일 등, 모든 일을 혹독하게 시켜 그들의 삶을 쓰디쓰게 만들었다.
22 마침내 파라오가 온 백성에게 명령하였다. “히브리인들에게서 태어나는 아들은 모두 강에 던져 버리고, 딸은 모두 살려 두어라.
복음
마태오 10,34ㅡ11,1
그때에 예수님께서 사도들에게 말씀하셨다.
34 “내가 세상에 평화를 주러 왔다고 생각하지 마라. 평화가 아니라 칼을 주러 왔다. 35 나는 아들이 아버지와, 딸이 어머니와, 며느리가 시어머니와 갈라서게 하려고 왔다. 36 집안 식구가 바로 원수가 된다.
37 아버지나 어머니를 나보다 더 사랑하는 사람은 나에게 합당하지 않다. 아들이나 딸을 나보다 더 사랑하는 사람도 나에게 합당하지 않다. 38 또 제 십자가를 지고 나를 따르지 않는 사람도 나에게 합당하지 않다. 39 제 목숨을 얻으려는 사람은 목숨을 잃고, 나 때문에 제 목숨을 잃는 사람은 목숨을 얻을 것이다.
40 너희를 받아들이는 이는 나를 받아들이는 사람이고, 나를 받아들이는 이는 나를 보내신 분을 받아들이는 사람이다. 41 예언자를 예언자라서 받아들이는 이는 예언자가 받는 상을 받을 것이고, 의인을 의인이라서 받아들이는 이는 의인이 받는 상을 받을 것이다.
42 내가 진실로 너희에게 말한다. 이 작은 이들 가운데 한 사람에게 그가 제자라서 시원한 물 한 잔이라도 마시게 하는 이는 자기가 받을 상을 결코 잃지 않을 것이다.”
11,1 예수님께서 열두 제자에게 다 지시하시고 나서, 유다인들의 여러 고을에서 가르치시고 복음을 선포하시려고 그곳에서 떠나가셨다.
July 15, 2019
Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Ex 1:8-14, 22
A new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
He said to his subjects, “Look how numerous and powerful
the people of the children of Israel are growing, more so than we ourselves!
Come, let us deal shrewdly with them to stop their increase;
otherwise, in time of war they too may join our enemies
to fight against us, and so leave our country.”
Accordingly, taskmasters were set over the children of Israel
to oppress them with forced labor.
Thus they had to build for Pharaoh
the supply cities of Pithom and Raamses.
Yet the more they were oppressed,
the more they multiplied and spread.
The Egyptians, then, dreaded the children of Israel
and reduced them to cruel slavery,
making life bitter for them with hard work in mortar and brick
and all kinds of field work—the whole cruel fate of slaves.
Pharaoh then commanded all his subjects,
“Throw into the river every boy that is born to the Hebrews,
but you may let all the girls live.”
Responsorial Psalm
R. (8a) Our help is in the name of the Lord.
Had not the LORD been with us–
let Israel say, had not the LORD been with us–
When men rose up against us,
then would they have swallowed us alive,
When their fury was inflamed against us.
R. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
Then would the waters have overwhelmed us;
The torrent would have swept over us;
over us then would have swept
the raging waters.
Blessed be the LORD, who did not leave us
a prey to their teeth.
R. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
We were rescued like a bird
from the fowlers’ snare;
Broken was the snare,
and we were freed.
Our help is in the name of the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
R. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
Gospel
Jesus said to his Apostles:
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth.
I have come to bring not peace but the sword.
For I have come to set
a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
and one’s enemies will be those of his household.
“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me,
and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
and whoever does not take up his cross
and follow after me is not worthy of me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it,
and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
“Whoever receives you receives me,
and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet
will receive a prophet’s reward,
and whoever receives a righteous man
because he is righteous
will receive a righteous man’s reward."
When Jesus finished giving these commands to his Twelve disciples,
he went away from that place to teach and to preach in their towns
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«Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me is not worthy of me»
Fr. Valentí ALONSO i Roig
(Barcelona, Spain)
Today, Jesus offers us an explosive mixture of recommendations; it is like one those fashionable banquets where the dishes are just tiny little tasty “snacks”. This is a hard to swallow sound and profound advice addressed to his disciples in their mid missionary preparation and formation process (Mt 11:1). We have to fragment the text in separate blocks to better taste them.
Jesus starts by explaining them the effect of his teachings. Beyond the positive and evident consequences of our Lord's behavior, the Gospel evokes the hindrances and secondary effects of their preaching: «Each one will have as enemies those of one's own family» (Mt 10:36). This is the paradoxical result of living the Faith: the eventual likelihood of having to confront even our closest relatives, when we do not understand who the Lord Jesus is and we do not perceive him as the Master of Communion.
Secondly, Jesus requests us to place him at the highest level of our esteem: «Whoever loves father or mother more than me...» (Mt 10:37), «And whoever loves son or daughter more than me...» (Mt 10:37). In this way, He proposes us to let him join us as the presence of God, for «whoever welcomes me welcomes him who sent me» (Mt 10:40). Living with the Lord, when we welcome Him at home, is to enjoy the reward of the prophets and the just men, for we have welcome a prophet and a just man.
The Master's recommendation ends when He values our small gestures of help and support to those living with the Lord, his disciples, which are all the Christians. «And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones, because he is a disciple of mine...» (Mt 10:42). From this advice a responsibility is born: when we deal with our fellow men, we should be conscientious that he who lives with the Lord, whoever he may be, must be treated as we should treat him. St. John Crysostom says: «If love would be spread all over, an infinite goodness would be born out of it».
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“Whoever receives you, receives me
and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me…”
Praying with the readings from today and the recommended readings for this feast day of St. Bonaventure, the word “relationships” surfaced. The Egyptians and the Israelites, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, prophets, peoples, Jesus, God, and those who thirst.
A question comes to mind, what do we thirst for? Is it to live in the harmony of right relationships? Peace? Love? Joy? Gratitude? What is it to live in right relationship to life? How do we face each day as we greet the dawn and all we will meet, (people, things, creation), along the way?
I am thinking of the First Principle and Foundation of the Ignatian Exercises.
“The goal of our life is to live with God forever.
God, who loves us, gave us life.
Our own response of love allows God’s life to flow into us without limit…
Our only desire and our one choice should be this:
I want and choose what better leads
To God’s deepening God’s life in me.”
It seems to me that it can be very confusing listening to the words of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel when in fact it comes down to one thing, and that is living in loving relationships to the point of loving one’s enemies. In following Christ, this may mean differing opinions with those closest to us. It may mean “picking up one’s cross”. But LOVE makes all things possible as it is the way to deepen God’s life in each of us. Love is God’s life in each of us. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians (feast day readings) desires this clearly in his beautiful prayer:
“I kneel before the Father,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named
that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory
to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self,
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith,
that you, rooted and grounded in love,
may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones
what is the breath and length and height and depth,
and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge
so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
St. Bonaventure, (1217-1274), was a medieval theologian and served as Minister General of the Franciscan Order. He is revered among the masters of the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition. As author of several spiritual books on Franciscan Spirituality, he wrote the two biographies of St. Francis of Assisi, the Major Life and Minor Life, Journey of Mind into God and the Tree of Life to mention a few. Through his writings, he presented the way a person as a creature ought to love and contemplate God through Christ after the example of St. Francis of Assisi. St. Francis lived his relationship with Christ Crucified as experienced in living in right relationship with all of creation. He received Christ in all encounters. He was a living prayer of great reverence for all of life, this world, and the universe. Bonaventure recorded that all creation exists as a sacramental sign of the presence of God.
I just recently completed my annual retreat on Lake Winnebago in Oshkosh, WI. one day while sitting by the lake, the sun glistened beautifully upon the surface of the water. I smiled and laughed to myself as I thought “God’s Bling”! It was as if the lake was a surface of reflecting diamonds. God all dressed up in Beauty. God is Beauty! God’s name is BEAUTY. In the words of praise to Christ, by St. Francis: You are BEAUTY, Lord!
The following excerpt is from the book, Simply Bonaventure by Illia Delio:
“Bonaventure offers a profound system of thought that can help redefine the boundaries of what it means to be human and Christian. It is, indeed, a search and a journey that begins with desire and prayer and spirals through the complexities of our life, as we seek to find God at the center of our existence. Bonaventure reassures us that on this journey, God is not only with us but in us, leading us in light despite the sense of ever-present darkness. To recognize God within us is to let go in freedom—of clinging to that which is not God—and embrace in love that which is God even in the midst of suffering humanity. In the end…we can only yield to this Mystery of God within us in love. Then and only then do we see the face of God and live, for to yield in love is to return to the point from which we began. And in this return, we discover the truth of who we are created to be and the truth of the world in all its beauty.”
Let us reflect on your relationship with Christ, Jesus, and pray slowly Paul’s prayer so that we “may be filled with the fullness of God.”
Then we can be aware of the next person or thing we encounter. Christ…Jesus, are you there?
How do we reverence and live in awe of life and the universe?
Let us not forget: “Whoever receives you, receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me…”
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A THROW-AWAY CULTURE | ||
| "Throw into the river every boy that is born to the Hebrews." �Exodus 1:22 | ||
Pharaoh, afraid that the enslaved Israelites would grow more numerous and powerful than his Egyptian people, ordered his subjects to throw all Israelite baby boys into the Nile River (Ex 1:22). This would prevent the Israelites from ever having enough soldiers to rebel against Egypt in the future. What the culture didn't value was to be thrown away, even if it was human life. Pope Francis has repeatedly spoken against the "throw-away culture" of secular humanism. This cultural mindset to dispose of whatever is not valued by the culture de jour is not new; it goes all the way back to the ancient Egyptians. On the other hand, Jesus would not allow anyone to throw away the leftover loaves and fishes which He miraculously multiplied (Mk 6:43). Jesus didn't dispose of the lives of serious sinners (e.g. Jn 8:11; Lk 23:43) or those cast off by society, such as lepers or the blind (see Mk 1:40ff; Jn 9:1ff). "All are alive for Him" (Lk 20:38). Everyone and everything is valued by the Lord. Is there anything or anyone that we thoughtlessly discard? Ask the Lord for the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16). Embrace what the culture throws away. | ||
| Prayer: Father, transform me by the renewal of my mind (Rm 12:2). | ||
| Promise: "Whoever gives a cup of cold water to one of these lowly ones because he is a disciple will not want for his reward." —Mt 10:42 | ||
| Praise: St. Bonaventure, a bishop and doctor of the Church, was endowed with exceptional spiritual and intellectual gifts. He wrote profoundly about theology and philosophy. |
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