June 1, 2020 Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
2020년 6월 1일 월요일
교회의 어머니 복되신 동정 마리아 기념일
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제1독서
창세기. 3,9-15.20
사람이 나무 열매를 먹은 뒤, 주 하느님께서 그를 9 부르시며,
“너 어디 있느냐?” 하고 물으셨다. 10 그가 대답하였다.
“동산에서 당신의 소리를 듣고 제가 알몸이기 때문에 두려워 숨었습니다.”
11 그분께서 “네가 알몸이라고 누가 일러 주더냐?
내가 너에게 따 먹지 말라고 명령한 그 나무 열매를 네가 따 먹었느냐?” 하고
물으시자, 12 사람이 대답하였다.
“당신께서 저와 함께 살라고 주신 여자가
그 나무 열매를 저에게 주기에 제가 먹었습니다.”
13 주 하느님께서 여자에게 “너는 어찌하여 이런 일을 저질렀느냐?” 하고
물으시자, 여자가 대답하였다.
“뱀이 저를 꾀어서 제가 따 먹었습니다.”
14 주 하느님께서 뱀에게 말씀하셨다.
“네가 이런 일을 저질렀으니
너는 모든 집짐승과 들짐승 가운데에서 저주를 받아
네가 사는 동안 줄곧 배로 기어 다니며 먼지를 먹으리라.
15 나는 너와 그 여자 사이에,
네 후손과 그 여자의 후손 사이에 적개심을 일으키리니
여자의 후손은 너의 머리에 상처를 입히고
너는 그의 발꿈치에 상처를 입히리라.”
20 사람은 자기 아내의 이름을 하와라 하였다.
그가 살아 있는 모든 것의 어머니가 되었기 때문이다.
복음
요한. 19,25-34
그때에 25 예수님의 십자가 곁에는 그분의 어머니와 이모,
클로파스의 아내 마리아와 마리아 막달레나가 서 있었다.
26 예수님께서는 당신의 어머니와 그 곁에 선 사랑하시는 제자를 보시고,
어머니에게 말씀하셨다.
“여인이시여, 이 사람이 어머니의 아들입니다.”
27 이어서 그 제자에게“이분이 네 어머니시다.”하고 말씀하셨다.
그때부터 그 제자가 그분을 자기 집에 모셨다.
28 그 뒤에 이미 모든 일이 다 이루어졌음을 아신 예수님께서는
성경 말씀이 이루어지게 하시려고“목마르다.”하고 말씀하셨다.
29 거기에는 신 포도주가 가득 담긴 그릇이 놓여 있었다.
그래서 사람들이 신 포도주를 듬뿍 적신 해면을 우슬초 가지에 꽂아
예수님의 입에 갖다 대었다.
30 예수님께서는 신 포도주를 드신 다음에 말씀하셨다.
“다 이루어졌다.”
이어서 고개를 숙이시며 숨을 거두셨다.
31 그날은 준비일이었고 이튿날 안식일은 큰 축일이었으므로,
유다인들은 안식일에 시신이 십자가에 매달려 있지 않게 하려고,
십자가에 못 박힌 이들의 다리를 부러뜨리고
시신을 치우게 하라고 빌라도에게 요청하였다.
32 그리하여 군사들이 가서
예수님과 함께 십자가에 못 박힌 첫째 사람과
또 다른 사람의 다리를 부러뜨렸다.
33 예수님께 가서는 이미 숨지신 것을 보고
다리를 부러뜨리는 대신,
34 군사 하나가 창으로 그분의 옆구리를 찔렀다.
그러자 곧 피와 물이 흘러나왔다.
June 1, 2020
Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
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Reading 1
After Adam had eaten of the tree,
the LORD God called to him and asked him, “Where are you?”
He answered, “I heard you in the garden;
but I was afraid, because I was naked,
so I hid myself.”
Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked?
You have eaten, then,
from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!”
The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me—
she gave me fruit from the tree, and so I ate it.”
The LORD God then asked the woman,
“Why did you do such a thing?”
The woman answered, “The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it.”
Then the LORD God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this, you shall be banned
from all the animals
and from all the wild creatures;
On your belly shall you crawl,
and dirt shall you eat
all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
He will strike at your head,
while you strike at his heel.”
The man called his wife Eve,
because she became the mother of all the living.
Or
Acts 1:12-14
After Jesus had been taken up to heaven,
the Apostles returned to Jerusalem
from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem,
a sabbath day’s journey away.
When they entered the city
they went to the upper room where they were staying,
Peter and John and James and Andrew,
Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew,
James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot,
and Judas son of James.
All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer,
together with some women,
and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (3) Glorious things are told of you, O city of God.
His foundation upon the holy mountains
the LORD loves:
The gates of Zion,
more than any dwelling of Jacob.
R. Glorious things are told of you, O city of God.
Glorious things are said of you,
O city of God!
And of Zion they shall say:
“One and all were born in her;
And he who has established her
is the Most High LORD.”
R. Glorious things are told of you, O city of God.
They shall note, when the peoples are enrolled:
“This man was born there.”
And all shall sing, in their festive dance:
“My home is within you.”
R. Glorious things are told of you, O city of God.
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
O happy Virgin, you gave birth to the Lord;
O blessed mother of the Church,
you warm our hearts with the Spirit of your Son Jesus Christ.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother
and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary of Magdala.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved,
he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”
Then he said to the disciple,
“Behold, your mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
After this, aware that everything was now finished,
in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
Jesus said, “I thirst.”
There was a vessel filled with common wine.
So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop
and put it up to his mouth.
When Jesus had taken the wine, he said,
“It is finished.”
And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.
Now since it was preparation day,
in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath,
for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one,
the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken
and they be taken down.
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first
and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead,
they did not break his legs,
but one soldier thrust his lance into his side,
and immediately Blood and water flowed out.
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«Woman, behold, your son»
Fr. Alexis MANIRAGABA
(Ruhengeri, Rwanda)
Today, we remember Mary, Mother of the Church. In this sense, we contemplate the spiritual motherhood of Mary in connection with the Church which is - in itself - Mother of the People of God, because "no one can have God as Father if he does not have the Church as Mother" (St. Cyprian) . Mary is the Mother of the Son of God and at the same time Mother of those who love her Son and the "beloveds" of her Son, in conformity with that «Woman, behold, your son; disciple: Behold, your mother» (Jn 19:26-27), as Jesus said. By giving his body to men and returning his spirit to his Father, Jesus Christ even gave his friends to his Mother.
And the greatest love is that with which Jesus loves the Church (cf Eph 5:25), and to which his friends belong. Therefore, children adopted by God can’t have Jesus as brother if they do not have Mary as Mother because, while Mary loves her Son, she loves the Church of which She is an eminent member. This does not mean that Mary is superior to the Church, but that She is "mother of the members of Christ" (Saint Augustine).
The Second Vatican Council adds that Mary is "truly a mother of the members of Christ for having cooperated with her love so that the faithful, who are members of that Head (Jesus), would be born in the Church." Furthermore, by remaining in the midst of the Apostles in the Upper Room (cf. Acts 1:14), Mary - Mother of the Church - recalls the presence, the gift and the action of the Holy Spirit in the missionary Church. By imploring the Holy Spirit in the heart of the Church, Mary prays with the Church and prays for the Church, because "already assumed in the glory of heaven, she accompanies and protects the Church with her maternal love" (Preface of the Mass) “Mary, Mother of the Church”).
Maria takes care of her children. We can, therefore, entrust him to the whole life of the Church, as Pope St. Paul VI did: "O Virgin Mary, august Mother of the Church, we entrust to you the whole Church and the ecumenical council!"
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Woman, behold, your son.
Behold, your mother.
For we judge people’s virtue not by their sex but by their character, and we hold those to be worthy of the highest glory who have renounced both rank and wealth. It was for this reason that Jesus loved the Evangelist John more than the other disciples. For John was of noble birth and known to the high priest, yet he was so little intimidated by the plotting of the Jews that he introduced Peter into his court and was the only one of the apostles bold enough to take his stand before the cross. For it was he who took the Savior’s parent to his own home. It was the virgin son who received the virgin mother as a legacy from the Lord (St. Jerome).
He handed over the spirit.
Could Life himself die unless he chose to? Could anyone take life from its author against his will? He himself declared, “I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it up again; no one takes it from me. “ To die, therefore, was his own choice. Immortal though he was, he allowed himself to be put to death.
Blood and Water Flowed Out
At the Lamb’s high feast we sing
Praise to our victorious king,
Who has washed us in the tide
Flowing from his pierced side.Praise we him whose love divine
Gives the guests his blood for wine,
Gives his body for the feast,
Love the victim, love the priest.Where the Pascal blood is poured,
Death’s dark angel sheathes his sword;
Israel’s hosts triumphant go
Through the wave that drowns the foe.Christ, the Lamb whose blood was shed,
Pascal victim, Pascal bread;
With sincerity and love
Eat we manna from above.Mighty victim from the sky,
Powers of hell beneath you lie;
Death is conquered in the fight;
You have brought us life and light.
Alleluia!(Ambrosian Hymn Writer)
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MOTHERS
“The man replied, ‘The woman whom You put here with me — she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it.’ ” ––Genesis 3:12
Most of us are very familiar with the story of the fall. Adam and Eve succumbed to temptation and thwarted God’s plan. Because our first parents were disobedient, we suffer the wounds of original sin. Shortsightedly, we could label Adam and Eve the ultimate scapegoats. But we and they are family! “The man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the living” (Gn 3:20). Have you pondered your lineage? Eve gave birth to us in the natural order — she is truly our ancestor. The trickery of the serpent, although frustrating, merely exposes human frailty. Are we any better than Eve? Jesus reminds us, “Let the man among you who has no sin be the first to cast a stone at her” (Jn 8:7).
Providentially, God the Father instituted a new master plan. He desired to restore us to His grace and love, for He wants all “to be saved and come to know the truth” (1 Tm 2:4). He chose a young virgin from Nazareth to help complete the plan. “The virgin’s name was Mary” (Lk 1:27). This new “woman” (see Gn 3:15) was destined to become the “new Eve.” In the spiritual order, Mary has given birth to “those who keep God’s commandments and give witness to Jesus”; we, as members of the Church, represent “the rest of her offspring” (see Rv 12:17).
Focus on Mary’s obedience, not Eve’s disobedience. Echo Mary and tell the Lord, “May it be done to me according to Your word” (see Lk 1:38, RNAB).
Prayer: Father, give me the grace to accept Mary as my mother (Jn 19:27) and always act so as to honor her (Ex 20:12).
Promise: “When Jesus took the wine, He said, ‘Now it is finished.’ Then He bowed His head, and delivered over His spirit.” ––Jn 19:30
Praise: Mother Mary, you “gather your children, as a mother bird gathers her young under her wings” (see Mt 23:37).
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
Woman, behold, your son! Disciple, behold, your mother!
: Why was it necessary for the Son of God to be born of a virgin mother - only to suffer rejection, betrayal, and cruel death on a cross? God's love knows no bounds. He created the human race in love for love - to be united with him and with one another in a bond of unbreakable love, peace, and friendship. True love risks all and gives all for the beloved. With the gift of love and fruit-bearing life God also gave freedom and responsibility - freedom to choose for good or for evil, for community or for division, for peace or for strife, for life or for death.
God's gift of love - broken by sin and rebellion
Adam and Eve, the man and woman God created to be the beginning of a people who were made in the image and likeness of God, received everything they needed for life, happiness, and friendship with God. God provided a dwelling place specially made for them - a Garden of Paradise (also called Eden in Genesis 22:8) which was full of the fruit of his creation. God took great delight in his son Adam and Eve his wife - he walked with them daily in the garden so they could grow in the knowledge of his great love and wisdom.
God allowed the tempter, whom Scripture calls the devil and Satan, the father of lies, to test them so they could freely choose whom they would serve and obey. Satan tricked them into believing that they could be all powerful and wise, like God, on their own terms and conditions, according to their own desires and preferences (Genesis 3:4-6). Like Satan and the fallen angels who rebelled against God, Adam and Eve thought they could be equal with God and chart their own course for happiness and life together. They choose to believe Satan's word over God's word - a choice that opened the door to sin, rebellion, and separation from God.
Their fall resulted in a grievous wound which only God could heal and restore to wholeness. God in his merciful love and wise judgment, disciplined them for their own good, to lead them to repentance, purification, and restoration of friendship with God. God did not leave them in sin and darkness - he promised to send them a Redeemer who would restore them and their descendants to fullness of life with God.
The promised Redeemer who comes to restore our fallen humanity
How did God fulfill his promise to restore a broken and fallen humanity? The prophet Isaiah foretold that God himself would send his people a Redeemer, born of a virgin mother from the house of David (Isaiah 7:14), who would willingly undergo affliction and chastisement to the point of shedding his blood to make atonement for their sins (Isaiah 53:1-12, and Isaiah 50:4-8; 52:13-15).
In the wonderous cross of Christ, who shed his blood for our sins, we see God's unfolding plan of restoration for the human race. Through his obedience to the Father's will and the willing sacrifice of his own life for our sake, he reversed the curse of our first parents' sin and won for us pardon and abundant life. John tells us in his Gospel account that "God so loved the world that he gave us his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, humbled himself by taking on human flesh in the womb of the virgin Mary, so he could become one with us in our humanity and offer himself as the perfect sacrifice for our sins and the sin of he world.
Christ is the new Adam - who creates a new humanity through his cross and resurrection
Paul the Apostle tells us that Jesus Christ is the new Adam who begets a new humanity and a new creation (Romans 5:12-18, 2 Corinthians 15:7) through his victory on the cross and his resurrection. That is why Jesus explained to Nicodemus that we must be born anew (John 3:3) - of water and the Spirit (John 3:5,8).
Woman, behold, your son! Disciple, behold, your mother!
As Jesus hung on the cross at Calvary, he looked down and saw his mother and John the beloved disciple standing at the foot of the cross. Jesus said, "Woman, behold your son," and then to John he said, "behold, your mother" (John 19:26-27). John takes Mary as his spiritual mother, and Mary takes John as her spiritual son.
Why did Jesus address Mary as "Woman" rather than "mother" (see also Jesus addressing Mary as "Woman" in John 2:4). Jesus may be alluding to the beginning of creation in Genesis when Adam addressed Eve first as Woman, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man" (Genesis 2:23). Adam later called her "Eve" because she became the "mother of all living" (Genesis 3:20).
Mary's mission is inseparably linked with the mission of her Son, the Lord Jesus
Mary's mission as the bearer of the Son of God (theo-tokos which means God-bearer in Greek) is inseparably linked with the mission of her Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Through the grace and gift of the Holy Spirit Mary becomes the first disciple and a spiritual mother of a new humanity who are born again through her son, the Lord Jesus.
To become the mother of the Savior, Mary was enriched by God with the gifts of the Holy Spirit to enable her to assume this awesome role. A number of early church fathers saw Mary as a new Eve who cooperated with her Son's mission through her faith and devotion to God's word, and her prompt "yes" to God's will.
Irenaeus, an early second century bishop of Lyons (130-200 AD), described Mary's role in the service of her Son's mission:
"The Lord, coming into his own creation in visible form, was sustained by his own creation which he himself sustains in being. His obedience on the tree of the cross reversed the disobedience at the tree in Eden; the good news of the truth announced by an angel to Mary, a virgin subject to a husband, undid the evil lie that seduced Eve, a virgin espoused to a husband...
As Eve was seduced by the word of an angel and so fled from God after disobeying his word, Mary in her turn was given the good news by the word of an angel, and bore God in obedience to his word. As Eve was seduced into disobedience to God, so Mary was persuaded into obedience to God; thus the Virgin Mary became the advocate of the virgin Eve...
The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith"
(quotes from Against Heresies (Lib. 5, 19, 1; 20, 2; 21,1: SC 153, 248-250. 260-264)
Throughout her life Mary remained steadfast and faithful to the call and mission God entrusted to her, as the mother of the Son of God who took flesh in her womb. She is the first Christian disciple because she accepted the Gospel and gave her "yes" to God's plan of redemption. She followed her son to the cross and she prayed for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all the disciples at Pentecost. She is a model for us of faith and obedience, hope and perseverance, and love and fidelity. Are you ready to take up your cross and follow the Lord Jesus in his way of love and sacrifice?
God gives us the grace to say "yes" to his will and to his transforming work in our lives
What is the key that unlocks the power of God's kingdom and his abundant life in our personal lives? Faith is the free gift of God for all who accept his Son as Lord and Redeemer. Our faith and trust in the Lord Jesus opens the door to all the promises of God who find their fulfillment in Christ. God gives us all the grace and strength we need and he expects us to respond with the same willing obedience and heart-felt trust as Mary did. When God commands he also gives the strength, and means to respond. We can either yield to his grace or resist and go our own way. Do you believe in God's promises and do you yield to his grace?
"Heavenly Father, you offer us abundant grace, mercy, and forgiveness through your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Help me to live a grace-filled life as Mary did by believing in your promises and by giving you my unqualified "yes" to your will and your plan for my life."
Psalm 87:1-3,5-7
1 On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
2 the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. [Selah]
5 And of Zion it shall be said, "This one and that one were born in her"; for the Most High himself will establish her.
6 The LORD records as he registers the peoples, "This one was born there." [Selah]
7 Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you."
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: God borrows Mary's flesh to lead humanity to glory, by an anonymous early author from the Greek church
"The virgin mother, when wine was lacking, wanted Jesus to do a miracle. She was at once answered, 'Woman, what have I to do with you?' as if to say plainly, The fact that I can do a miracle comes to me from my Father, not my mother. For it was from the nature of his Father that he could do miracles but from the nature of his mother that he could die. When he was on the cross, then, in dying he acknowledged his mother whom he commended to the disciple, saying, 'Behold your mother.' And so, when he says, 'Woman, what have I to do with you? My hour is not yet come" (John 2:4). he is in effect saying, In the miracle, which I did not from your nature, I do not acknowledge you. When the hour of death shall come, however, I shall acknowledge you as my mother, since it is from you that I can die." (excerpt from LETTER 10.39.27)
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