2012년 4월 5일 주님 만찬 성목요일
제1독서
탈출기. 12,1-8.11-14
그 무렵 1 주님께서 이집트 땅에서 모세와 아론에게 말씀하셨다. 2 “너희는 이달을 첫째 달로 삼아, 한 해를 시작하는 달로 하여라. 3 이스라엘의 온 공동체에게 이렇게 일러라.
‘이달 초열흘날 너희는 가정마다 작은 가축을 한 마리씩, 집집마다 작은 가축을 한 마리씩 마련하여라. 4 만일 집에 식구가 적어 짐승 한 마리가 너무 많거든, 사람 수에 따라 자기 집에서 가장 가까운 이웃과 함께 짐승을 마련하여라. 저마다 먹는 양에 따라 짐승을 골라라. 5 이 짐승은 일 년 된 흠 없는 수컷으로 양이나 염소 가운데에서 마련하여라. 6 너희는 그것을 이달 열나흗날까지 두었다가, 이스라엘의 온 공동체가 모여 저녁 어스름에 잡아라. 7 그리고 그 피는 받아서, 짐승을 먹을 집의 두 문설주와 상인방에 발라라. 8 그날 밤에 그 고기를 먹어야 하는데, 불에 구워, 누룩 없는 빵과 쓴나물을 곁들여 먹어야 한다.
11 그것을 먹을 때는, 허리에 띠를 매고 발에는 신을 신고 손에는 지팡이를 쥐고, 서둘러 먹어야 한다. 이것이 주님을 위한 파스카 축제다. 12 이날 밤 나는 이집트 땅을 지나면서, 사람에서 짐승에 이르기까지 이집트 땅의 맏아들과 맏배를 모조리 치겠다. 그리고 이집트 신들을 모조리 벌하겠다. 나는 주님이다. 13 너희가 있는 집에 발린 피는 너희를 위한 표지가 될 것이다. 내가 이집트를 칠 때, 그 피를 보고 너희만은 거르고 지나가겠다. 그러면 어떤 재앙도 너희를 멸망시키지 않을 것이다.
14 이날이야말로 너희의 기념일이니, 이날 주님을 위하여 축제를 지내라. 이를 영원한 규칙으로 삼아 대대로 축제일로 지내야 한다.’”
제2독서
코린토 1서. 11,23-26
형제 여러분, 23 나는 주님에게서 받은 것을 여러분에게도 전해 주었습니다. 곧 주 예수님께서는 잡히시던 날 밤에 빵을 들고 24 감사를 드리신 다음, 그것을 떼어 주시며 말씀하셨습니다. “이는 너희를 위한 내 몸이다. 너희는 나를 기억하여 이를 행하여라.” 25 또 만찬을 드신 뒤에 같은 모양으로 잔을 들어 말씀하셨습니다. “이 잔은 내 피로 맺는 새 계약이다. 너희는 이 잔을 마실 때마다 나를 기억하여 이를 행하여라.”
26 사실 주님께서 오실 때까지, 여러분은 이 빵을 먹고 이 잔을 마실 적마다 주님의 죽음을 전하는 것입니다.
복음
요한. 13,1-15
1 파스카 축제가 시작되기 전, 예수님께서는 이 세상에서 아버지께로 건너가실 때가 온 것을 아셨다. 그분께서는 이 세상에서 사랑하신 당신의 사람들을 끝까지 사랑하셨다.
2 만찬 때의 일이다. 악마가 이미 시몬 이스카리옷의 아들 유다의 마음속에 예수님을 팔아넘길 생각을 불어넣었다. 3 예수님께서는 아버지께서 모든 것을 당신 손에 내주셨다는 것을, 또 당신이 하느님에게서 나왔다가 하느님께 돌아간다는 것을 아시고, 4 식탁에서 일어나시어 겉옷을 벗으시고 수건을 들어 허리에 두르셨다. 5 그리고 대야에 물을 부어 제자들의 발을 씻어 주시고, 허리에 두르신 수건으로 닦기 시작하셨다.
6 그렇게 하여 예수님께서 시몬 베드로에게 이르시자 베드로가, “주님, 주님께서 제 발을 씻으시렵니까?” 하고 말하였다.
7 예수님께서는 “내가 하는 일을 네가 지금은 알지 못하지만 나중에는 깨닫게 될 것이다.” 하고 대답하셨다. 8 그래도 베드로가 예수님께 “제 발은 절대로 씻지 못하십니다.” 하니, 예수님께서 그에게 대답하셨다.
“내가 너를 씻어 주지 않으면 너는 나와 함께 아무런 몫도 나누어 받지 못한다.”
9 그러자 시몬 베드로가 예수님께 말하였다. “주님, 제 발만 아니라 손과 머리도 씻어 주십시오.”
10 예수님께서 그에게 말씀하셨다. “목욕을 한 이는 온몸이 깨끗하니 발만 씻으면 된다. 너희는 깨끗하다. 그러나 다 그렇지는 않다.” 11 예수님께서는 이미 당신을 팔아넘길 자를 알고 계셨다. 그래서 “너희가 다 깨끗한 것은 아니다.” 하고 말씀하신 것이다.
12 예수님께서는 제자들의 발을 씻어 주신 다음, 겉옷을 입으시고 다시 식탁에 앉으셔서 그들에게 이르셨다. “내가 너희에게 한 일을 깨닫겠느냐? 13 너희가 나를 ‘스승님’, 또 ‘주님’ 하고 부르는데, 그렇게 하는 것이 옳다. 나는 사실 그러하다. 14 주님이며 스승인 내가 너희의 발을 씻었으면, 너희도 서로 발을 씻어 주어야 한다. 15 내가 너희에게 한 것처럼 너희도 하라고, 내가 본을 보여 준 것이다.”
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April 5, 2012
Holy Thursday
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Reading 1
Ex 12:1-8, 11-14
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
“This month shall stand at the head of your calendar;
you shall reckon it the first month of the year.
Tell the whole community of Israel:
On the tenth of this month every one of your families
must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household.
If a family is too small for a whole lamb,
it shall join the nearest household in procuring one
and shall share in the lamb
in proportion to the number of persons who partake of it.
The lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish.
You may take it from either the sheep or the goats.
You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month,
and then, with the whole assembly of Israel present,
it shall be slaughtered during the evening twilight.
They shall take some of its blood
and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel
of every house in which they partake of the lamb.
That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
“This is how you are to eat it:
with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand,
you shall eat like those who are in flight.
It is the Passover of the LORD.
For on this same night I will go through Egypt,
striking down every firstborn of the land, both man and beast,
and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt—I, the LORD!
But the blood will mark the houses where you are.
Seeing the blood, I will pass over you;
thus, when I strike the land of Egypt,
no destructive blow will come upon you.
“This day shall be a memorial feast for you,
which all your generations shall celebrate
with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution.”
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18
R. (cf. 1 Cor 10:16) Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
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. Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
Precious in the eyes of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosed my bonds.
R. Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
R. Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
Reading 2
1 Cor 11:23-26
Brothers and sisters:
I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,
that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over,
took bread, and, after he had given thanks,
broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.”
In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
“This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,
you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
Gospel
Jn 13:1-15
Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come
to pass from this world to the Father.
He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.
The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over.
So, during supper,
fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power
and that he had come from God and was returning to God,
he rose from supper and took off his outer garments.
He took a towel and tied it around his waist.
Then he poured water into a basin
and began to wash the disciples’ feet
and dry them with the towel around his waist.
He came to Simon Peter, who said to him,
“Master, are you going to wash my feet?”
Jesus answered and said to him,
“What I am doing, you do not understand now,
but you will understand later.”
Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.”
Jesus answered him,
“Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.”
Simon Peter said to him,
“Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.”
Jesus said to him,
“Whoever has bathed has no need except to have his feet washed,
for he is clean all over;
so you are clean, but not all.”
For he knew who would betray him;
for this reason, he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
So when he had washed their feet
and put his garments back on and reclined at table again,
he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you?
You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am.
If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet,
you ought to wash one another’s feet.
I have given you a model to follow,
so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”
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a dramatic moment
Jesus took bread, gave thanks to
God, broke it, and said, "This is
my body, which is for you."
1 Corinthians 11:23-24
In 1985 all TV camera showed
footage of a woman pinned be-
neath a fallen crane in New York.
Doctors fought to keep her alive
until a larger crane could arrive to
lift the fallen crane. They gave her
fluids, blood transfusions, and
massive doses of painkiller.
Then came a dramatic moment.
The woman asked for the Body of
Christ in Holy Communion. This,
too, the TV cameras showed.
Eventually, the woman was freed
and rushed to a hospital, where a
team of doctors saved her life.
I imagine I am the injured woman
beneath the fallen crane. What are
my thoughts as I receive Holy
Communion?
Whoever eats this bread will live
forever. John 6:51
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For the Holy Thursday Liturgy I would suggest you follow the road map passed out for the parish or the church where you are attending the Liturgy. Things have been changed somewhat here and there and the Liturgy may vary from place to place.
Traditionally, the Chrism Mass is celebrated on Holy Thursday. Many places now make a special celebration out of the Chrism Mass and celebrate it before Holy Week. In this ritual the Holy Oils used in the administration of the various Sacraments are consecrated by the Bishop. There are three oils used by the Church on particular occasions: The oil of the catechumens is used in the Sacrament of Baptism. The oil of the sick is used in the Sacrament of the Sick. And, thirdly, the Chrism is used in the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Orders.
The Chrism Mass also pays honor to the priests who serve the people of God. On our part, let us remember today to say a special prayer for all our priests.
In todays Liturgy, the Church remembers the gift of the Most Holy Eucharist. This is the greatest of all the gifts our Lord has given us. He gave us Himself; his flesh for our spiritual food and his precious blood for our spiritual drink. How grateful we should be for these very special gifts.
Finally, Our Liturgy today is a memorial of the commission we all have from Christ to serve one another. This ritual is taught in the washing of the feet of some of the congregation by the Celebrant of the Mass. Service to others is the very essence of discipleship. As Jesus served us, so we are to serve others.
Our Holy Thursday Liturgy, then, is about blessing the holy oils, honoring the priesthood, Eucharist and service. Let us thank God this evening for his many gifts and renew our commitment to follow in his footsteps.
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«If I, then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you also must wash one another's feet»
Today, we remember the first Holy Thursday of history, when Jesus Christ gathers his disciples to celebrate the Passover. It is then He inaugurates the new Passover of the new Covenant when his sacrifice is offered for our salvation.
Along with Eucharist, Christ institutes the ministerial priesthood with which the sacrament of the Eucharist is to be perpetuated. The preface of the Chrism Mass reveals its meaning: «He chooses men to share his sacred ministry by the laying on of hands. He appoints them to renew in his name the sacrifice of our redemption as they set before your family his paschal meal. He calls them to lead your people in love, nourish them by your word, and strengthen them through the sacraments».
And that very same Thursday, Jesus gives us his new commandment of love: «Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another» (Jn 13:34). Before, love was based upon the expected reward in return, or upon the fulfillment of an imposed norm. Now, Christian love is based upon Christ. He loves us to the point of giving his life: this must be the measure of the disciple's love and the signal, the characteristic of Christian recognition.
However, man has no capacity to love like this. It is not simply the fruit of an effort but God's wonderful gift. Fortunately, He is Love and —at the same time— source of love that we receive through the Eucharistic Bread.
Finally, today we should mull over the washing of the feet. With a servant's attitude, Jesus washes the Apostles' feet, and He recommends them to wash one another's feet (cf. Jn 13:14). There is something more than a lesson in humility in the Master's gesture. It is like an anticipation, like a symbol of his Passion, of the total humiliation He has to suffer to save all men.
Theologian Romano Guardini says that «the attitude of our littleness bowing down in front of the great is not yet an attitude of humility. It is simply, an attitude to truth. But when the great bows down before our littleness that is true humility». This is why Jesus Christ is really humble. Before this humble Christ our usual patterns shatter. Jesus Christ turn human values over while inviting us to follow him to build a better and different world based on service.
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With Jesus, so often the most important part of his message and of his actions are simple. Simple in the best meaning of the word, a simplicity that resonates in my mind and in my heart and I hope in my actions.
In today’s readings, we first read in Exodus of the power of God and the call for sacrifice. We must prepare and we must be ready with our sandals on our feet and our staffs in our hands. We must strive to be ready spiritually as well. In the second reading and the Gospel, Jesus tries to help his apostles be ready for what is to come. In this most human of his moments, you can tell his love and concern for these men. Like any teacher, he wants to make sure he has done enough, taught them enough.
When Jesus washes the feet of the apostles, it humbles me. The act of kneeling in front of someone to wash that person’s feet is the very core of the idea of servant. Peter at first resists, but when Jesus tells him he will understand later. Peter’s faith and trust are so great that he asks for Jesus to wash his hands and head as well. We also need that faith and trust to be as a servant to others, to treat all others with respect and dignity. The message is a simple one, beautiful in its simplicity. I pray that I can strive to live that message in a world that often seems complicated and chaotic. Let me do my part to be a servant to others.
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Jesus' supreme humility
Does your love waver when you encounter bitter disappointments and injury from others? As Jesus' hour of humiliation draws near he reveals to his disciples the supreme humility which shaped the love he had for them. He stoops to perform a menial task reserved for servants – the washing of smelly, dirty feet. In stooping to serve his disciples Jesus knew he would be betrayed by one of them and that the rest would abandon him through disloyalty. Such knowledge could have easily led to bitterness or hatred. Jesus met the injury of betrayal and disloyalty with the greatest humility and supreme love. Jesus loved his disciples to the very end, even when they failed him and forsook him. The Lord loves each of us unconditionally. His love has power to set us free to serve others with Christ-like compassion and humility. Does the love of Christ rule in your heart, thoughts, intentions and actions?
Saint Augustine in his sermon for this day, wrote: “He had the power of laying down his life; we by contrast cannot choose the length of our lives, and we die even if it is against our will. He, by dying, destroyed death in himself; we are freed from death only in his death. His body did not see corruption; our body will see corruption and only then be clothed through him in incorruption at the end of the world. He needed no help from us in saving us; without him we can do nothing. He gave himself to us as the vine to the branches; apart from him we cannot have life. Finally, even if brothers die for brothers, yet no martyr by shedding his blood brings forgiveness for the sins of his brothers, as Christ brought forgiveness to us. In this he gave us, not an example to imitate but a reason for rejoicing. Inasmuch, then, as they shed their blood for their brothers, the martyrs provided “the same kind of meal” as they had received at the Lord’s table. Let us then love one another as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us.”
"Lord Jesus, your love conquers all and never fails. Help me to love others freely, with heart-felt compassion , kindness and goodness. Where there is injury, may I sow peace rather than strife."
Psalm 116:12-13, 16-18
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,
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
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In Jesus' time, washing feet was usually the menial task of a household slave. It was a lowly, extremely humble form of service to wash someone's feet. No wonder, then, that Peter was scandalized that his master willingly stooped to perform such a task!
Probably he was increasingly upset as he watched Jesus wash the feet of first one, then another of his fellow apostles. By the time Jesus came to him and Peter saw it was his turn, he could hardly believe his eyes. He blurted out, "Master, are you going to wash my feet?"
Jesus, probably kneeling down to continue His service, calmly replied, "What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later." In other words, hold off with the protests, Peter, until you "get it." And you won't "get it" until later.
But Peter wasn't hearing it; he definitely did not understand. He was aghast at the prospect and protested vehemently, "You will never wash my feet."
Oh, Peter! Always the impulsive, blustering, sanguine apostle. I picture him as a big, rough fisherman with calloused hands and a heart of gold. He loved this Master of his, even if he didn't always understand what He was about. When Peter did catch on, he wanted even more. Once Jesus explained that this strange foot-washing ritual was necessary to have a stake in what Jesus was doing, Peter impulsively cried, "Not only my feet, but my hands and head as well." Don't you think Jesus must have smiled at Peter's reply?
"He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end," John says in today's gospel. And there He was, washing their feet, still teaching them, right up until just hours before He died. And all the time, they still weren't getting it, still didn't understand.
Do you think you would have understood any better than Peter?
We "get it" because we have the blessing of the "hindsight" of 2,000 years of understanding and teaching, with the help of the Holy Spirit and the Church Jesus established to keep His people on track. Those human, sinful apostles would become the first leaders of the early Church. Little did they know that what Jesus set in motion they would be expected to continue, using His example of humble service. It was far beyond their understanding at the time.
The whole Triduum is like that: unfathomable. As poor, limited humans, we are incapable of grasping the magnitude of what God was doing, of what God is still doing for us today, here and now. His gift of the ordained priesthood, the unimaginable gift of the Eucharist, His excruciating suffering and shameful manner of execution, and then, incredibly, His victorious resurrection - all of it is so far beyond us, it will take more than we have in this life to fully appreciate it all, to "get it."
But, like Peter, we don't have to understand it all, we just have to accept it. Like Peter, we will understand it later. All of it.
::: Mary Nadeau
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St Augustine had a profound sense of humility. The three essentials of any spiritual life, he once said, are humility and humility and humility. Predictably he is moved by Jesus’ washing the disciples’ feet. “It is He into whose hands the Father had given all things, who now washes the disciples’ feet: and it was precisely while knowing that ‘He had come from God, and was going to God,’ that He performed this task of a servant – a servant to human beings.”
And yet Augustine feels he has to twist the words around so that in the washing of the feet, Peter should come first! “[The text] says ‘Then he came to Simon Peter,’ as if He had already washed the feet of some of the others... But who can fail to know that the most blessed Peter was the first of the apostles? So we are not to understand that Jesus washed some others first. Instead He began with Peter.”
It seems to say that while it is all right for Jesus to make himself least of all, it would not be right for Peter. It’s a curious contradiction, and the first of many silly claims to precedence in religious circles. There’s a kind of humility that is ‘official’ but not real – as when people used to sign letters ‘Your humble servant....’
The astounding thing, commemorated in today’s Liturgy, is that Jesus was genuinely humble; he wasn't just going through the motions. His washing their feet was in keeping with his whole life. He had queued up with sinners for John’s baptism of repentance (Matthew 3:13; Mark 1:9; Luke 3:21). Yet John’s gospel doesn't show him being baptised by the John the Baptist, nor of course queuing up for such a baptism. Instead, he is said to be just “walking by” (1:35). This is in keeping with the image of Jesus in the fourth gospel: he is walking above the ground rather than on it. This, even though the immortal words “The Word became flesh and lived among us” are from this gospel. It is hard to follow something through to the very end. Jesus “loved [the disciples] to the end” (today’s reading). Why conceal the fact that he was also humble to the end? The two go together.
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