January 13, 2020 Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
2020년 1월 13일 연중 제1주간 월요일
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제1독서
사무엘기 상권. 1,1-8
1 에프라임 산악 지방에 춥족의 라마타임 사람이 하나 살고 있었다.
그의 이름은 엘카나였는데, 에프라임족 여로함의 아들이고 엘리후의 손자이며,
토후의 증손이고 춥의 현손이었다.
2 그에게는 아내가 둘 있었다.
한 아내의 이름은 한나이고, 다른 아내의 이름은 프닌나였다.
프닌나에게는 아이들이 있었지만 한나에게는 아이가 없었다.
3 엘카나는 해마다 자기 성읍을 떠나 실로에 올라가서,
만군의 주님께 예배와 제사를 드렸다.
그곳에는 엘리의 두 아들 호프니와 피느하스가 주님의 사제로 있었다.
4 제사를 드리는 날,
엘카나는 아내 프닌나와 그의 아들딸들에게 제물의 몫을 나누어 주었다.
5 그러나 한나에게는 한몫밖에 줄 수 없었다.
엘카나는 한나를 사랑하였지만 주님께서 그의 태를 닫아 놓으셨기 때문이다.
6 더구나 적수 프닌나는, 주님께서 한나의 태를 닫아 놓으셨으므로,
그를 괴롭히려고 그의 화를 몹시 돋우었다.
7 이런 일이 해마다 되풀이되었다.
주님의 집에 올라갈 때마다 프닌나가 이렇게 한나의 화를 돋우면,
한나는 울기만 하고 아무것도 먹지 않았다.
8 남편 엘카나가 한나에게 말하였다.
“한나, 왜 울기만 하오? 왜 먹지도 않고 그렇게 슬퍼만 하오?
복음
마르코. 1,14-20
14 요한이 잡힌 뒤에 예수님께서는 갈릴래아에 가시어,
하느님의 복음을 선포하시며 15 이렇게 말씀하셨다.
“때가 차서 하느님의 나라가 가까이 왔다. 회개하고 복음을 믿어라.”
16 예수님께서 갈릴래아 호숫가를 지나가시다가,
호수에 그물을 던지고 있는 시몬과 그의 동생 안드레아를 보셨다.
그들은 어부였다.
17 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다.
“나를 따라오너라. 내가 너희를 사람 낚는 어부가 되게 하겠다.”
18 그러자 그들은 곧바로 그물을 버리고 예수님을 따랐다.
19 예수님께서 조금 더 가시다가,
배에서 그물을 손질하는 제베대오의 아들 야고보와 그의 동생 요한을 보시고,
20 곧바로 그들을 부르셨다.
그러자 그들은 아버지 제베대오를 삯꾼들과 함께 배에 버려두고
그분을 따라나섰다.
January 13, 2020
Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading I
1 Sm 1:1-8
There was a certain man from Ramathaim, Elkanah by name,
a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim.
He was the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu,
son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
He had two wives, one named Hannah, the other Peninnah;
Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.
This man regularly went on pilgrimage from his city
to worship the LORD of hosts and to sacrifice to him at Shiloh ,
where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,
were ministering as priests of the LORD.
When the day came for Elkanah to offer sacrifice,
he used to give a portion each to his wife Peninnah
and to all her sons and daughters,
but a double portion to Hannah because he loved her,
though the LORD had made her barren.
Her rival, to upset her, turned it into a constant reproach to her
that the LORD had left her barren.
This went on year after year;
each time they made their pilgrimage to the sanctuary of the LORD,
Peninnah would approach her,
and Hannah would weep and refuse to eat.
Her husband Elkanah used to ask her:
“Hannah, why do you weep, and why do you refuse to eat?
Why do you grieve?
Am I not more to you than ten sons?”
Responsorial Psalm
116:12-13, 14-17, 18-19
R. (17a) To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
R. Alleluia.
How shall I make a return to the LORD
for all the good he has done for me?
The cup of salvation I will take up,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
R. To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
R. Alleluia.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
Precious in the eyes of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
O LORD, I am your servant;
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosed my bonds.
R. To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
R. Alleluia.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people,
In the courts of the house of the LORD,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
R. To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Gospel
Mk 1:14-20
After John had been arrested,
Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of God:
“This is the time of fulfillment.
The Kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the Gospel.”
As he passed by the Sea of Galilee ,
he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea;
they were fishermen.
Jesus said to them,
“Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Then they left their nets and followed him.
He walked along a little farther
and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John.
They too were in a boat mending their nets.
Then he called them.
So they left their father Zebedee in the boat
along with the hired men and followed him.
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«Change your ways and believe the Good News»
Fr. Joan COSTA i Bou
(Barcelona, Spain)
Today, the Gospel invites us to change: «Change your ways and believe the Good News» (Mk 1:15). Change to what? It would perhaps be better to say, to whom? To Christ! This is how He said it: «Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me» (Mk 10:37). To change means to gratefully receive the gift of Faith and live a life of love and service. To change means to accept Christ as our only Lord and King of our hearts, so that we become a useful servant to Him. To change implies discovering Christ in every event in human history —and in our own personal history too— while realizing He is the origin, the core and the end of all History and that everything has been redeemed by Him and, in Him, everything attains its maximum plenitude. To change also implies living with hope, for He has defeated Sin, the Evil one and Death, and the Eucharist is His guarantee.
To change also involves loving Our Lord more than anything else in this world, with all our heart, all our soul, and all our strength. To change postulates to deliver our intelligence and our will to Him, in such a way that the Episcopal motto of the Holy Father, John Paul II, Totus tuus, that is, All yours, my God, is made true by our lives. And all, means time, qualities, possessions, illusions, projects, health, family, work, leisure, everything. Therefore, to change requires to love God's will in Christ over all things while enjoying it, which means to be grateful for whatever He may care to send us, even if it is contradictions, humiliations or ailments, and take them as treasures which allow us express more clearly our love for God: if You want it like that, so do I!
As it happened with the apostles Simon, Andrew, James and John, changing means to leave «immediately the nets» and follow Him (cf. Mk 1:18), once we hear His voice. To change, after all, is that Christ be everything for us.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
After the celebrations of the miraculous birth of Our Lord, and the beginning of a new year, we begin “ordinary time” in the Church calendar. There, of course, is not much that is ordinary in these readings. We begin with an account from the first book of Samuel concerning a man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite, from the hill country of Ephraim. Most readers and listeners, at least subliminally, are thinking, “who? where? what?” by this point. I admit that most often I do not look up this information, and have always dutifully, but passively, listened to, or read, the day’s readings. Other daily events seem to take precedence. Research may not always be at the top of our list. I found that it did bring a reading to life that I have received more passively in the past.
Elkanah was a polygamous man who lived in the hill country near Shiloh. His wives were named Penninah and Hannah. Penninah had several children, but Hannah, at this time, had none. Penninah gloated about her children. She even tormented Hannah when Elkanah gave Hannah a greater portion of sacrificial food, “because he loved her.” Elkanah was puzzled by Hannah’s weeping and depression. Thinking that the problem centered only on her childlessness, he asked her, “am I not worth ten sons?”
Elkanah’s words did not address all of Hannah’s difficulties. She, no doubt, felt that she as expected by her society to produce a son in order to deserve the apparently unconditional love of her husband. Never-the-less, he loved her as she was.
Hannah’s struggle with depression may be understood if we imagine that she was treated very well by her loving husband, yet she felt unworthy of his unconditional love. We often find ourselves in this circumstance if we believe that God loves us even if we feel that we have not merited this love. We often wish, or long for, a goal or a condition of life that seems to be just out of reach, when suddenly, it is attained. Things seem to fall into place with the aid and love of Our Heavenly Father. Why do we continue to weep and feel sad when we know that we are loved and cared for? God is asking us why we need anything else when we know that we have His love.
As I reflected on this passage, I had the benefit of knowing that Hannah’s difficulties would, at least partially, be resolved; Hannah and Elkanah became the parents of the Prophet Samuel, the namesake of our first reading.
Today, the Gospel reading takes place at one of Jesus’ favorite sites; he was walking along the shore of the beautiful Sea of Galilee. Many in this area made their living as fishermen. Often, families worked together. Jesus encountered two pairs of brothers whose lives would change on this day. James and John, the sons of Zebedee, and Simon (Peter) and his brother, Andrew. Jesus may be encountering these men for the first time when he invites them to follow him and “become fishers of men.” They leave their families at the shore and set out with Jesus. It is hard to imagine the great strength of Jesus’ presence. The young men immediately followed Jesus’ call to spread the word of God. Can we conceive of personally making this leap of faith if we feel called by God? How will we respond?
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THIS IS THE LIFE | ||
| "This is the time of fulfillment. The reign of God is at hand! Reform your lives and believe in the gospel!" �Mark 1:15 | ||
The goal of the rest of our lives is to displace the culture of death with a civilization of love and life. This will probably be done not primarily by popes, presidents, judges, generals, or billionaires. Of course, the lives of prestigious people are important in God's plan (see Rm 13:7). However, the Lord typically chooses to change the world through teenagers like Mary, carpenters like Joseph, toddlers like Samuel, weeping women like Hannah, loving husbands like Elkanah (see 1 Sm 1:5), and manual laborers like the early apostles (Mk 1:16ff). "God chose those whom the world considers absurd to shame the wise; He singled out the weak of this world to shame the strong. He chose the world's lowborn and despised, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who were something" (1 Cor 1:27-28). God's way of changing the world is the "little way" proclaimed by St. Therese, the "Little Flower," and by many other saints. This means that the little things of our everyday lives are very important in God's plan. Because we are adopted children of God, the love and faith we show in the details of life will turn the world right-side up. Because we have been baptized into the body of Christ (see 1 Cor 12:13), everything we do has universal, everlasting significance. Let us rejoice in our awesome dignity and consequent responsibility. Let us live earth-shaking, world-changing, simple lives charged with love. | ||
| Prayer: Father, I am Your child. May I build Your kingdom wherever You put me. | ||
| Promise: "They abandoned their father Zebedee, who was in the boat with the hired men, and went off in His company." —Mk 1:20 | ||
| Praise: St. Hilary was the son of noble pagan parents. He received a thorough education, but his quest for truth went unsatisfied until he studied Holy Scripture. He converted to the Faith at age 30. As bishop, he was a staunch defender of the divinity of Jesus. |
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"The kingdom of God is at hand"
What is the Gospel of God which Jesus came to preach? The word "gospel" literally means "good news". When a king had good news to deliver to his subjects he sent messengers or heralds throughout the land to make a public announcement - such as the birth of a newborn king or the victory over an invading army or occupied force. God sent his prophets to announce the coming of God's anointed King and Messiah. After Jesus was baptized in the River Jordan and anointed by the Spirit he begins his ministry of preaching the Gospel - the good news that the kingdom of God was now at hand for all who were ready to receive it.
God rules over all
What is the kingdom of God? The word "kingdom" means something more than a territory or an area of land. It literally means "sovereignty" or "reign" and the power to "rule" and exercise authority. The prophets announced that God would establish a kingdom not just for one nation or people but for the whole world. The Scriptures tell us that God's throne is in heaven and his rule is over all (Psalm 103:19). His kingdom is bigger and more powerful than anything we can imagine because it is universal and everlasting (Daniel 4:3). His kingdom is full of glory, power, and splendor (Psalm 145:11-13).
In the Book of Daniel we are told that this kingdom is given to the Son of Man (Daniel 7:14,18,22,27). The Son of Man is a Messianic title for God's anointed King. The New Testament word for "Messiah" is "Christ" which literally means the "Anointed one" or the "Anointed King". God sent us his Son not to establish an earthly kingdom but to bring us into his heavenly kingdom - a kingdom ruled by truth, justice, peace, and holiness. The kingdom of God is the central theme of Jesus' mission. It's the core of his gospel message.
As soon as John the Baptist had finished his testimony, Jesus began his in Galilee, his home district. John's enemies had sought to silence him, but the gospel cannot be silenced. Jesus proclaimed that the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Jesus takes up John's message of repentance and calls disciples to believe in the gospel - the good news he has come to deliver. What is the good news which Jesus delivers? It is the good news of peace (restoration of relationship with God - Ephesians 6:15), of hope (the hope of heaven and everlasting life - Colossians 1:23 ), of truth (God's word is true and reliable - Colossians 1:5), of promise (he rewards those who seek him - Ephesians 3:6)), of immortality (God gives everlasting life - 2 Timothy 1:10), and the good news of salvation (liberty from sin and freedom to live as sons and daughters of God - Ephesians 1:13).
Two conditions for the kingdom - repent and believe
How do we enter the kingdom of God? In announcing the good news, Jesus gave two explicit things each of us must do to in order to receive the kingdom of God: repent and believe. When we submit to Christ's rule in our lives and believe the gospel message the Lord Jesus gives us the grace and power to live a new way of life as citizens of his kingdom. He gives us grace to renounce the kingdom of darkness ruled by sin and Satan, the father of lies (John 8:44) and the ruler of this present world (John 12:31). That is why repentance is the first step.
Repentance means to change - to change my way of thinking, my attitude, disposition, and life choices so that Christ can be the Lord and Master of my heart rather than sin, selfishness, and greed. If we are only sorry for the consequences of our sins, we will very likely keep repeating the sin that is mastering us. True repentance requires a contrite heart (Psalm 51:17) and sorrow for sin and a firm resolution to avoid it in the future. The Lord Jesus gives us grace to see sin for what it really is - a rejection of his love and wisdom for our lives and a refusal to do what is good and in accord with his will. His grace brings pardon and help for turning away from everything that would keep us from his love and truth.
To believe is to take Jesus at his word and to recognize that God loved us so much that he sent his only begotten Son to free us from bondage to sin and harmful desires. God made the supreme sacrifice of his Son on the cross to bring us back to a relationship of peace and friendship with himself. He is our Father and he wants us to live as his sons and daughters. God loved us first and he invites us in love to surrender our lives to him. Do you believe that the gospel -the good news of Jesus - has power to free you from bondage to sin and fear?
Like fishermen - we are called to gather in people for the kingdom of Christ
When Jesus preached the gospel message he called others to follow as his disciples and he gave them a mission - "to catch people for the kingdom of God." What kind of disciples did he choose? Smelly fishermen! In the choice of the first apostles we see a characteristic feature of Jesus' work: he chose very ordinary people. They were non-professionals, had no wealth or position. They were chosen from the common people who did ordinary things, had no special education, and no social advantages. Jesus wanted ordinary people who could take an assignment and do it extraordinarily well. He chose these individuals, not for what they were, but for what they would be capable of becoming under his direction and power.
When the Lord calls us to serve, we must not think we have nothing to offer. The Lord takes what ordinary people, like us, can offer and uses it for greatness in his kingdom. Do you believe that God wants to work in and through you for his glory?
Jesus speaks the same message to us today: we will "catch people" for the kingdom of God if we allow the light of Jesus Christ to shine through us. God wants others to see the light of Christ in us in the way we live, speak, and witness the joy of the gospel. Paul the Apostles says, But thanks be to God, who in Christ Jesus always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing (2 Corinthians 2:15). Do you witness to those around you the joy of the Gospel and do you pray for your neighbors, co-workers, and relatives that they may come to know the Lord Jesus Christ and grow in the knowledge of his love?
"Lord Jesus, you have called me personally by name, just as you called your first disciples, Simon, Andrew, James, and John. Help me to believe your word and follow you faithfully. Fill me with the joy of the gospel that your light may shine through me to many others."
Psalm 116:12-19
12 What shall I render to the LORD for all his bounty to me?
13 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD,
14 I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
16 O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
18 I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people,
19 in the courts of the house of the LORD, in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: Common people on an uncommon mission, by Eusebius of Caesarea (260/263-340 AD)
"Reflect on the nature and grandeur of the one Almighty God who could associate himself with the poor of the lowly fisherman’s class. To use them to carry out God's mission baffles all rationality. For having conceived the intention, which no one ever before had done, of spreading his own commands and teachings to all nations, and of revealing himself as the teacher of the religion of the one Almighty God to all humanity, he thought good to use the most unsophisticated and common people as ministers of his own design. Maybe God just wanted to work in the most unlikely way. For how could inarticulate folk be made able to teach, even if they were appointed teachers to only one person, much less to a multitude? How should those who were themselves without education instruct the nations?... When he had thus called them as his followers, he breathed into them his divine power, and filled them with strength and courage. As God himself he spoke God’s true word to them in his own way, enabling them to do great wonders, and made them pursuers of rational and thinking souls, by empowering them to come after him, saying: 'Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for people' (Mark 1:17, Matthew 4:19). With this empowerment God sent them forth to be workers and teachers of holiness to all the nations, declaring them heralds of his own teaching." (excerpt from PROOF OF THE GOSPEL 3.7)
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