July 20, 2020 Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
2020년 7월 20일 연중 제16주간 월요일
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제1독서
미카 예언서. 6,1-4.6-8
1 너희는 주님께서 하시는 말씀을 들어라.
“너희는 일어나 산들 앞에서 고소 내용을 밝히고
언덕들이 네 목소리를 듣게 하여라.”
2 산들아, 땅의 견고한 기초들아, 주님의 고소 내용을 들어라.
주님께서 당신 백성을 고소하시고 이스라엘을 고발하신다.
3 내 백성아, 내가 너희에게 무엇을 하였느냐?
내가 무엇으로 너희를 성가시게 하였느냐? 대답해 보아라.
4 정녕 나는 너희를 이집트 땅에서 데리고 올라왔고
종살이하던 집에서 너희를 구해 내었으며
너희 앞으로 모세를, 아론과 미르얌을 보냈다.
6 내가 무엇을 가지고 주님 앞에 나아가고
무엇을 가지고 높으신 하느님께 예배드려야 합니까?
번제물을 가지고, 일 년 된 송아지를 가지고 그분 앞에 나아가야 합니까?
7 수천 마리 숫양이면, 만 개의 기름 강이면 주님께서 기뻐하시겠습니까?
내 죄를 벗으려면 내 맏아들을,
내 죄악을 갚으려면 이 몸의 소생을 내놓아야 합니까?
사람아, 무엇이 착한 일이고 주님께서 너에게 요구하시는 것이 무엇인지
그분께서 너에게 이미 말씀하셨다.
공정을 실천하고 신의를 사랑하며
겸손하게 네 하느님과 함께 걷는 것이 아니냐?
복음
마태오. 12,38-42
38 그때에 율법 학자와 바리사이 몇 사람이 예수님께 말하였다.
“스승님, 스승님이 일으키시는 표징을 보고 싶습니다.”
39 그러자 예수님께서 대답하셨다.
“악하고 절개 없는 세대가 표징을 요구하는구나!
그러나 요나 예언자의 표징밖에는 어떠한 표징도 받지 못할 것이다.
40 요나가 사흘 밤낮을 큰 물고기 배 속에 있었던 것처럼,
사람의 아들도 사흘 밤낮을 땅속에 있을 것이다.
41 심판 때에 니네베 사람들이 이 세대와 함께 다시 살아나 이 세대를 단죄할 것이다.
그들이 요나의 설교를 듣고 회개하였기 때문이다.
그러나 보라, 요나보다 더 큰 이가 여기에 있다.
42 심판 때에 남방 여왕이 이 세대와 함께 되살아나 이 세대를 단죄할 것이다.
그 여왕이 솔로몬의 지혜를 들으려고 땅끝에서 왔기 때문이다.
그러나 보라, 솔로몬보다 더 큰 이가 여기에 있다.”
July 20, 2020
Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1 Mic 6:1-4, 6-8
Hear what the LORD says:
Arise, present your plea before the mountains,
and let the hills hear your voice!
Hear, O mountains, the plea of the LORD,
pay attention, O foundations of the earth!
For the LORD has a plea against his people,
and he enters into trial with Israel.
O my people, what have I done to you,
or how have I wearied you? Answer me!
For I brought you up from the land of Egypt,
from the place of slavery I released you;
and I sent before you Moses,
Aaron, and Miriam.
With what shall I come before the LORD,
and bow before God most high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
with myriad streams of oil?
Shall I give my first-born for my crime,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
You have been told, O man, what is good,
and what the LORD requires of you:
Only to do the right and to love goodness,
and to walk humbly with your God.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 50:5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23
R. (23b) To the upright I will show the saving power of God.
“Gather my faithful ones before me,
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
And the heavens proclaim his justice;
for God himself is the judge.
R. To the upright I will show the saving power of God.
“Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,
for your burnt offerings are before me always.
I take from your house no bullock,
no goats out of your fold.”
R. To the upright I will show the saving power of God.
“Why do you recite my statutes,
and profess my covenant with your mouth,
Though you hate discipline
and cast my words behind you?”
R. To the upright I will show the saving power of God.
“When you do these things, shall I be deaf to it?
Or do you think that I am like yourself?
I will correct you by drawing them up before your eyes.
He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me;
and to him that goes the right way I will show the salvation of God.”
R. To the upright I will show the saving power of God.
Alleluia Ps 95:8R. Alleluia, alleluia.
If today you hear his voice,
harden not your hearts.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel Mt 12:38-42
Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus,
“Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”
He said to them in reply,
“An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign,
but no sign will be given it
except the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights,
so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth
three days and three nights.
At the judgment, the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation
and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah;
and there is something greater than Jonah here.
At the judgment the queen of the south will arise with this generation
and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth
to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and there is something greater than Solomon here.”
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
“What is good? Do the right, love goodness and walk humbly with God.” This text from the Prophet Micah is one of the most frequently cited texts of the Hebrew Scriptures. But before that final sentence of today’s first reading the Prophet Micah tells us that God wants a legal hearing (a court trial) on human response to Divine compassion.
“My people” the Lord begins His legal brief, “what have I done to you, or how have a wearied you?”
The Church puts these words in Jesus’ mouth, in a meditation that was written to be sung during the veneration of the Cross during the Liturgy on Good Friday. In that liturgy, as the members of the assembly approach the cross and ponder its meaning we hear the voice in the background singing “what have I done to you or in what have I wearied you, that you repay me this way.”
In mid-summer liturgy we are called to examine our lives, our choices, our actions in the demanding light of Jesus’ legal brief: Think of all I have done for you and answer me. He invites you and me to consider the ways we have failed our God who has never failed us.
The Gospel reading from Matthew starts with the faith leaders of the people demanding a sign from Jesus that what he does is from God. “Only the sign of Jonah will we be given,” Jesus retorts “three days and nights in the earth between death and resurrection.” Remember the Jonah story is about the call to the wicked people of Nineveh to repent before God destroys them (which they deserve). Will we see the sign? Will we hear the call to repentance from Micah, or a more contemporary prophet like Pope Francis? Will we understand that we are destroying our earth, neglecting the hungry, ignoring the sick poor, identifying people in a hierarchy of value by the color of their skin or their cultural social status?
Will you, like Teresa of Avila, (one of the great mystics of the Church) come around a corner and encounter Jesus looking at you with sadness because of the time, gifts, even life, that you have wasted? Will I, like Peter, deny that I even know Jesus when he has begged me to stay faithful just for one night?
In this year of COVID, racism, the overheated tundra, famine and many other terrible responses and choices, it is time for a course correction for each one of us. Today’s liturgy provides a powerful script:
“What is good? Do the right . . . love goodness. . . and walk humbly with God”
“My people, what have I done to you or how have I wearied you? Answer me.”
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
“YOU HATE DISCIPLINE”
“You hate discipline.” —Psalm 50:17
This is the fourth time in three weeks the Church has proclaimed to us the words: “You hate discipline.” We live in a pleasure-seeking, play today, pay tomorrow society. So many in our society are unable to exercise discipline in the areas of sexual self-control, financial restraint, and diet. We are not disciplined in taking custody of our eyes (Jb 31:1), our thoughts and fantasies (2 Cor 10:5), what our mouths say (Jas 3:5ff), and what we eat (Phil 3:19). Yet these are only symptoms of a greater hate of discipline and lack of discipline. The psalmist specifically associates the hating of discipline with casting God’s words behind us (Ps 50:17).
If you can’t control your appetite, examine how much time you read the Bible. If you are chained to sexual sin, check how much time you spend reading Scripture. Is your budget out of control? How much time do you spend reading the Bible? Discipline begins with humbling yourself to tremble before the Word of God (Is 66:2).
Soldiers and athletes accept discipline. A soldier wants to please his or her commander and so avoids getting entangled in the things of the world (2 Tm 2:4). Athletes show discipline by denying themselves many things (1 Cor 9:25). Let us likewise discipline our bodies and souls and master them, for fear that we may ourselves otherwise be rejected (1 Cor 9:27).
“Do not disdain the discipline of the Lord” (Heb 12:5). In love, discipline yourself to read God’s Word daily.
Prayer: Jesus, may my discipline be transformed into love as I choose the better portion of sitting at Your feet daily listening to Your words (Lk 10:39, 42).
Promise: “You have a greater than Solomon here.” —Mt 12:42
Praise: Just as St. Paul was left for dead at Lystra (see Acts 14:19-22), Bishop St. Apollinaris patiently endured physical abuse while leading his flock in Ravenna, Italy.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
What would the Lord Jesus say about our generation? Jesus gave a rather stern warning to his generation when they demanded a sign from him. It was characteristic of the Jews that they demanded "signs" from God's messengers to authenticate their claims. Jesus faulted them for one thing: spiritual adultery. The image of adultery was often used in the Scriptures for describing apostasy or infidelity towards God.
Signs from God
When the religious leaders pressed Jesus to give proof for his claims to be the Messiah sent from God, he says in so many words that he is God's sign and that they need no further evidence from heaven than his own person. The Ninevites recognized God's warning when Jonah spoke to them, and they repented (Jonah 3:5). And the Queen of Sheba recognized God's wisdom in Solomon (1 Kings 10:1-9). Jonah was God's sign and his message was the message of God for the people of Nineveh. Unfortunately the religious leaders of Jesus' day were not content to accept the signs right before their eyes. They had rejected the message of John the Baptist and now they reject Jesus as God's Anointed One (Messiah) and they fail to heed his message.
Simeon had prophesied at Jesus' birth that he was destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against... that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed (Luke 2:34-35). Jesus confirmed his message with many miracles in preparation for the greatest sign of all - his resurrection on the third day.
The Holy Spirit's gift of wisdom and understanding
The Lord Jesus, through the gift of his Holy Spirit, offers us freedom from sin and ignorance, and he gives us wisdom and understanding so that we may grow in knowledge of God and his ways. Do you thirst for God and for the wisdom which comes from above? James the Apostle says that the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity (James 3:17). A double-minded person cannot receive this kind of wisdom. If we wish to be wise in God's ways, then we must humble ourselves before him, like attentive students who wish to learn, and submit our heart and mind to his will for our lives.
The single of heart and mind desire one thing alone - God who is the source of all wisdom, goodness, truth, and knowledge. Do you wish to be wise and loving as God is wise and loving? Ask the Holy Spirit to fill you with the wisdom which comes from above and to free your heart from all that would hinder God's loving action in your life.
Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may grow in wisdom and knowledge of your love and truth. Free me from stubborn pride and willfulness that I may wholly desire to do what is pleasing to you.
Psalm 50: 5-9, 16-17, 21-23
5 "Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"
6 The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]
7 "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
8 I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
15 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
16 But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
17 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
21 These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.
22 "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!
23 He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The stumbling block of the cross, from an anonymous early Christian teacher
"What is the sign of Jonah? The stumbling block of the cross. So it is not the disputers of knowledge who will be saved but those who believe true teaching. For the cross of Christ is indeed a stumbling block to those who dispute knowledge but salvation to those who believe. Paul testifies to this: 'But we, for our part, preach the crucified Christ - to the Jews indeed a stumbling block and to the Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God' (1 Corinthians 1:23-24). Why do the Jews seek signs and the Greeks seek wisdom? God pointed to the sign of the stumbling block of the cross to both the Jews and the Greeks. Thus those who wish to find Christ not through faith but through wisdom will perish on the stumbling block of foolishness. Those who wish to know the Son of God not through faith but through a demonstration of signs will remain trapped in their disbelief, falling on the stumbling block of his death. It is no small wonder that the Jews, considering the death of Christ, thought he was merely a man, when even Christians - as they purport to be but really are not - because of his death are reluctant to declare the only begotten, the crucified, as incomparable majesty. (excerpt from INCOMPLETE WORK ON MATTHEW, HOMILY 30)
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