2011년 4월 26일 부활 팔일 축제 내 화요일
제1독서 사도행전. 2,36-41
복음 요한. 20,11-18
April 26, 2011
Acts 2:36-41 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, Responsorial Psalm R. (5b) The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Gospel Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping.
When Peter and John received the news that Jesus had risen from the dead, they ran to the tomb to see for themselves and then returned home not knowing what to think. Our Gospel for today tells us that Mary Magdelene followed them back to the tomb and when they left she remained outside the tomb weeping. Finally she looked into the tomb and saw two angels who ask her why she is weeping. Mary replies that she believes someone has stolen the body of Jesus. The idea that he had risen from the dead still had not soaked in for Mary.
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http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html The readings right after Easter season show us different pictures of human chaos and confusion. Over and over again some revelation about Jesus in the midst of this chaos and confusion transforms people. The stories today fall into this familiar pattern. In Acts many people are moved to repentance and a new identity after coming to a new understanding of Jesus after hearing Peter speak. Mary Magdalene has messages from angels and a personal visit ? but it takes Jesus calling her name for her to move from confusion to a new level of understanding, hope, and action.
http://www.rc.net/wcc/readings/ "I have seen the Lord!"
How easy it is to miss the Lord when our focus is on ourselves! Mary did not at first recognize the Lord because her focus was on the empty tomb and on her own grief. It took only one word from the Master, when he called her by name, for Mary to recognize him. Mary's message to the disciples, I have seen the Lord, is the very essence of Christianity. It is not enough that a Christian know about the Lord, but that we know him personally. It is not enough to argue about him, but to meet him. In the resurrection we encounter the living Lord who loves us personally and shares his glory with us. The Lord gives us "eyes of faith" to see the truth of his resurrection and victory over sin and death (Ephesians 1:18). The resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of our hope ? the hope that we will see God face to face and share in his everlasting glory and joy. "Without having seen him you love him; though you do not now see him you believe in him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy. As the outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls" (1 Peter 1:8-9). Do you recognize the Lord's presence with you, in his word, in the "breaking of the bread", and in his church, the body of Christ? "Lord Jesus, may I never fail to recognize your voice nor lose sight of your presence in your saving word." Psalm 33:4-5, 18-22 4 For the word of the LORD is upright; and all his work is done in faithfulness.
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http://www.contemplative.com/weekday_readings.htm Jesus said to her, “Mary.” The reason I have a proper name is that I am a person, unique, autonomous, responsible, individual. The complexities of my self, the multiple levels of nature and consciousness, find their simplicity in my person. I am principally a “who” not a “what.” The essence of my prayer is to open my person into the Person of God. Person to person is Presence. My prayer is to open to the Presence of the Holy Trinity. The Person of the Risen Son calls to my person. Jesus to me: His presence into me, in my person, calls my name. Although a person is unique and distinct, a person must live in relationship. My person is not an absolute in formless, eternal nothingness in a nameless mass of being. As the Persons live in the oneness of the Godhead, the Trinity, so I am called forth as a person to live in the Trinitarian relationship of love. I must not cling in my prayer to a fixed experience of my soul, but must empty myself into the relationship of the Trinity expressed concretely in the corporate life of the Church amid the persons of humanity. In prayer the resurrected Christ calls me by name and I respond and then I am led into the Father in the Spirit amid the relationships of my call in life and in the Church.
http://goodnews.ie/calendar.php A frequent literary device in John’s gospel is the use of gradual recognition, or misunderstanding as a stage on the path to understanding: see for example, the conversations Jesus had with Nicodemus (ch. 3), the Samaritan woman (ch. 4), etc. In today’s passage we find it once again: Mary thought at first that Jesus was the gardener. The moment of full recognition was when he spoke her name. This has a great deal of resonance throughout the Scriptures, from beginning to end. “The Lord said to Moses, ‘I am pleased with you and I know you by name’” (Exodus 33:17). Referring to himself, Jesus said, “The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep…. The sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out” (John 10:2-3). A faith that does not go to the depth of one’s personal existence is not faith but theory. Even theology is not faith: a person may know a great deal of theology but have no faith. I heard a woman describe her husband, “He’s very interested in religion, but he has no faith.” Conversely, a person may know little about religion but have profound faith. St Thomas Aquinas said that one old lady (una vetera) may have more faith than a host of learned theologians. Matthew’s account says, “The women left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy” (28:8). A tomb is not a place you come away from with joy: you come away in deep grief in the early days of bereavement, and later on with quiet resignation; hardly with joy! But with the death of Jesus there was to be no 'closure': the past was not to be closed up and sealed with nostalgia. The past had flooded into the present through the open tomb: the past is no longer past, it is timeless. This is the destruction of time. “Christ yesterday and today and the same forever” (Heb. 13:8).
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EASTER EXPRESS "Mary Magdalene went to the disciples. 'I have seen the Lord!' she announced." ?ohn 20:18 The apostles took fifty days to be confirm!ed in the risen Christ and have Easter. For almost two months Jesus "opened their minds to the understanding of the Scriptures" (Lk 24:45), opened their eyes in the breaking of the bread (Lk 24:31), and appeared to them several times. In contrast, Mary Magdalene had Easter just a few hours after Jesus had His Easter. Jesus only had to appear once and say one word to her, "Mary" (Jn 20:16). Why was Mary Magdalene so much quicker to receive Easter than the apostles were? It was because of her love. When we love the Lord and His people, we can catch on to the risen Christ quickly. "Love covers a multitude of sins" (1 Pt 4:8). Love speeds things up, leaps over obstacles, and never fails (1 Cor 13:8). Ask the Holy Spirit to point out to you a person you have difficulty loving. This situation will either be a detour from or an expressway to Easter. If you can accept God's grace to unconditionally love this person, you will be like Mary Magdalene and immediately have Easter and a deep relationship with the risen Christ. If you refuse to love this person, Easter will have to wait. Be another Mary Magdalene. Prayer: Father, I repent of making You wait for me. Give me Easter now, by giving me unconditional love for others. Promise: "You must reform and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, that your sins may be forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." ?cts 2:38 Praise: Praise the risen Jesus, Whose love transcends death!
http://www.judeop.org/daily_bread.htm Woman, why are you weeping? If nothing else strikes us in today’s Gospel, surely we are meant to ponder and grasp what is suggested in this twice-repeated (first by angels, then Jesus) rhetorical question. We can all think of things that make us sad: an immoral, unjust, war-torn world; personal situations ? strained relationships, our own shortcomings or those of our loved ones. Whatever our sadness, whatever is still wrong in the world, it is not the last word. In his life, death, and resurrection, Jesus has become our sure hope that there is a way through every sorrow. As his followers, let us always be agents of that hope, going forth to comfort those in sorrow and to cheer on those most in need of the good news. For courage and good cheer, we pray. ECW
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