毎日のカトリックのミサ - 2020-02-26 - マーク神父 (Daily Catholic Mass - 2020-02-26 - Fr. Mark)

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>> A READING FROM THE BOOK OF
THE PROPHET JOEL.
EVEN NOW, SAYS THE LORD,
RETURN TO ME WITH YOUR WHOLE
HEART, WITH FASTING,
AND WEEPING,
AND MOURNING;
REND YOUR HEARTS,
NOT YOUR GARMENTS,
AND RETURN TO THE LORD,
YOUR GOD.
FOR GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL IS HE,
SLOW TO ANGER,
RICH IN KINDNESS,
AND RELENTING IN PUNISHMENT.
PERHAPS HE WILL AGAIN RELENT
AND LEAVE BEHIND HIM
A BLESSING,
OFFERINGS AND LIBATIONS
FOR THE LORD, YOUR GOD.
BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION!
PROCLAIM A FAST,
CALL AN ASSEMBLY;
GATHER THE PEOPLE,
NOTIFY THE CONGREGATION;
ASSEMBLE THE ELDERS,
GATHER THE CHILDREN
AND THE INFANTS AT THE BREAST;
LET THE BRIDEGROOM QUIT HIS ROOM
AND THE BRIDE HER CHAMBER.
BETWEEN THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR
LET THE PRIESTS,
THE MINISTERS OF THE LORD,
WEEP, AND SAY,
SPARE, O LORD, YOUR PEOPLE, AND
MAKE NOT YOUR HERITAGE
A REPROACH
WITH THE NATIONS RULING
OVER THEM!
WHY SHOULD THEY SAY
AMONG THE PEOPLES,
WHERE IS THEIR GOD?
THEN THE LORD WAS STIRRED
TO CONCERN FOR HIS LAND
AND TOOK PITY ON HIS PEOPLE.
♪ VERBUM DOMINI ♪
♪ DEO GRATIAS ♪
[ORGAN MUSIC]
>> ♪ BE MERCIFUL, O LORD,
FOR WE HAVE SINNED ♪
♪ BE MERCIFUL, O LORD,
FOR WE HAVE SINNED ♪
♪ HAVE MERCY ON ME, 0 GOD,
ACCORDING TO YOUR MERCIFUL LOVE;
ACCORDING TO YOUR GREAT
COMPASSION,
BLOT OUT MY TRANSGRESSIONS ♪
♪ WASH ME COMPLETELY
FROM MY INIQUITY,
AND CLEANSE ME
FROM MY SIN ♪
♪ BE MERCIFUL, O LORD,
FOR WE HAVE SINNED ♪
♪ MY TRANSGRESSIONS,
TRULY I KNOW THEM; MY SIN IS
ALWAYS BEFORE ME ♪
♪ AGAINST YOU, YOU ALONE,
HAVE I SINNED ♪
♪ WHAT IS EVIL IN YOUR SIGHT
I HAVE DONE ♪
♪ BE MERCIFUL, O LORD,
FOR WE HAVE SINNED ♪
♪ CREATE A PURE HEART
FOR ME, 0 GOD;
RENEW A STEADFAST SPIRIT
WITHIN ME ♪
♪ DO NOT CAST ME AWAY FROM YOUR
PRESENCE; TAKE NOT YOUR HOLY
SPIRIT FROM ME ♪
♪ BE MERCIFUL, O LORD,
FOR WE HAVE SINNED ♪
♪ RESTORE IN ME
THE JOY OF YOUR SALVATION ♪
♪ SUSTAIN IN ME
A WILLING SPIRIT ♪
♪ 0 LORD, OPEN MY LIPS
AND MY MOUTH
SHALL PROCLAIM YOUR PRAISE ♪
♪ BE MERCIFUL, O LORD,
FOR WE HAVE SINNED ♪
>> A READING FROM THE SECOND
LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE
CORINTHIANS.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS:
WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST,
AS IF GOD WERE APPEALING
THROUGH US.
WE IMPLORE YOU
ON BEHALF OF CHRIST,
BE RECONCILED TO GOD.
FOR OUR SAKE HE MADE HIM
TO BE SIN
WHO DID NOT KNOW SIN,
SO THAT WE MIGHT BECOME
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
IN HIM.
WORKING TOGETHER, THEN,
WE APPEAL TO YOU
NOT TO RECEIVE THE GRACE
OF GOD IN VAIN.
FOR HE SAYS:
IN AN ACCEPTABLE TIME
I HEARD YOU,
AND ON THE DAY OF SALVATION
I HELPED YOU.
BEHOLD,
NOW IS A VERY ACCEPTABLE TIME;
BEHOLD,
NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.
♪ VERBUM DOMINI ♪
♪ DEO GRATIAS ♪
[ORGAN MUSIC]
>> ♪ GLORY AND PRAISE TO YOU,
LORD JESUS CHRIST ♪
♪ GLORY AND PRAISE TO YOU,
LORD JESUS CHRIST ♪
>> ♪ IF TODAY YOU HEAR
HIS VOICE,
HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS ♪
♪ GLORY AND PRAISE TO YOU,
LORD JESUS CHRIST ♪
>> ♪ DOMINUS VOBISCUM ♪
♪ ET CUM SPIRITU TUO ♪
♪ LECTIO SANCTI EVANGELII
SECUNDUM MATTHEUM ♪
♪ GLORIA TIBI, DOMINE ♪
JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES:
TAKE CARE NOT TO PERFORM
RIGHTEOUS DEEDS
IN ORDER THAT PEOPLE MAY SEE
THEM;
OTHERWISE,
YOU WILL HAVE NO RECOMPENSE
FROM YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.
WHEN YOU GIVE ALMS,
DO NOT BLOW A TRUMPET
BEFORE YOU,
AS THE HYPOCRITES DO
IN THE SYNAGOGUES
AND IN THE STREETS
TO WIN THE PRAISE OF OTHERS.
AMEN, I SAY TO YOU,
THEY HAVE RECEIVED
THEIR REWARD.
BUT WHEN YOU GIVE ALMS,
DO NOT LET YOUR LEFT HAND KNOW
WHAT YOUR RIGHT IS DOING,
SO THAT YOUR ALMSGIVING
MAY BE SECRET.
AND YOUR FATHER WHO SEES
IN SECRET WILL REPAY YOU.
WHEN YOU PRAY,
DO NOT BE LIKE THE HYPOCRITES,
WHO LOVE TO STAND
AND PRAY IN THE SYNAGOGUES
AND ON STREET CORNERS
SO THAT OTHERS MAY SEE THEM.
AMEN, I SAY TO YOU,
THEY HAVE RECEIVED THEIR REWARD.
BUT WHEN YOU PRAY,
GO TO YOUR INNER ROOM,
CLOSE THE DOOR,
AND PRAY TO YOUR FATHER
IN SECRET.
AND YOUR FATHER
WHO SEES IN SECRET
WILL REPAY YOU.
WHEN YOU FAST,
DO NOT LOOK GLOOMY
LIKE THE HYPOCRITES.
THEY NEGLECT THEIR APPEARANCE,
SO THAT THEY MAY APPEAR
TO OTHERS TO BE FASTING.
AMEN, I SAY TO YOU,
THEY HAVE RECEIVED THEIR
REWARD.
BUT WHEN YOU FAST,
ANOINT YOUR HEAD
AND WASH YOUR FACE,
SO THAT YOU MAY NOT APPEAR
TO BE FASTING,
EXCEPT TO YOUR FATHER
WHO IS HIDDEN.
AND YOUR FATHER
WHO SEES WHAT IS HIDDEN
WILL REPAY YOU.
♪ VERBUM DOMINI ♪
♪ LAUS TIBI, CHRISTE ♪
TODAY IS ASH WEDNESDAY AND THE
BEGINNING OF THE SEASON OF LENT.
40 DAYS LEADING UP TO THE GREAT
EASTER CELEBRATION.
THE TRITIUM.
TODAY WE HAVE THE IMPOSITION OF
ASHES ON ONE'S FOREHEAD.
AND IN ONE SENSE
IT NEEDS NO EXPLANATION
BUT IT IS AN OLD TESTAMENT
SIGN OF REPENTANCE, SACK
CLOTH AND ASHES, PEOPLE
REPENTING FOR THEIR SINS AND
TURNING BACK TO THE LORD.
IT REMINDS US THAT
WE ARE DUST THAT WE
ARE SINNERS THAT
WE ARE MORTALS.
WE ARE MADE FROM THE DUST AND
GOD HOLDS US IN EXISTENCE AND
WITHOUT HIS HAND HOLDING US IN
EXISTENCE, WE RETURN TO THAT
DUST FROM WHICH WE ARE MADE.
ONE SPIRITUAL WRITER
DESCRIBES THE ASHES,
IT TELLS US OF THE DESPAIR
OF MAN WHEN HE TRUSTED
HIMSELF.
THAT IN TRUSTING IN OUR
OWN STRENGTH WE FAIL.
BUT TURNING TO THE LORD
WE CAN BE RENEWED
AND FORGIVEN OF OUR SINS.
THE CATECHISM DESCRIBES
THE SEASON OF LENT AS WHERE WE
UNITE WITH JESUS IN THE DESERT.
WHERE HE SPENT 40 DAYS FASTING
AND PRAYER, FOUGHT TEMPTATION.
HE DEFEATED SATAN IN THE DESERT.
HE WAS VICTORIOUS.
IN THIS VICTORY IN
THE DESERT AT THE BEGINNING
OF HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY
IT ANTICIPATES HIS VICTORY,
TOTAL VICTORY AT CALVARY.
ADAM AND EVE WERE
OVERCOME BY THE TEMPTER AND
THE ISRAELITES FAILED MANY TIMES
IN THE 40 YEARS IN THE DESERT
AND NOW JESUS FULFILLS THE LAW.
HE IS THE ONE VICTORIOUS TO
DELIVER US FROM THE HOLD, BEING
HELD DOWN THAT SATAN HAS ON US.
IN A SENSE IN OUR SINFULNESS WE
BECOME HIS POSSESSION AND JESUS
IS THE ONE STRONGER THAT CAN
DELIVER US FROM THE STRONG MAN
AS LUKE DESCRIBES IT.
LENT IS A PENITENTIAL SEASON.
ONE OF CONVERSION
AND TURNING BACK TO THE LORD
AND A CHANGE OF HEART.
METANOIA, THIS CHANGE,
TURNING BACK.
TIME OF REPENTANCE.
WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE
AND REPENT OF PERSONAL SIN.
TODAY ON ASH WEDNESDAY IT
IS A DAY OF ABSTINENCE FROM MEAT
AND FASTING.
FRIDAYS DURING LENT
ARE DAYS OF ABSTINENCE
AND GOOD FRIDAY IS
ABSTINENCE AND FASTING.
SO, TO JUMP START US,
THAT WE ARE TO TAKE UP
PERSONAL DISCIPLINES AND
PENANCES DURING THIS TIME.
THIS TURNING BACK TO THE LORD,
CHANGING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH
OURSELVES, WITH GOD AND OTHERS
IS EXPRESSED IN THE TRADITIONAL
FORMS OF PENANCE OF PRAYER,
FASTING AND ALMSGIVING.
THAT IS WHAT JESUS SPEAKS
ABOUT TODAY IN THE GOSPEL.
PRAYER, THAT WE, IT TALKS,
IT FOSTERS THIS CHANGE IN
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD TO
SPEND MORE TIME WITH HIM AND
GROW IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE.
FASTING IN RELATIONSHIP TO
OURSELVES TO BE PURIFIED, TO
FIGHT AGAINST OUR TENDENCY TO
CONCUPISCENCE.
THESE FLESHLY DESIRES WE HAVE.
SCRIPTURE WARNS US.
ST. JOHN WARNS US OF THE
LUST OF THE FLESH, THE EYES,
THE PRIDE OF LIFE.
THE FLESH OBVIOUSLY,
THIS CONCUPISCENCE WE HAVE
TO EXPERIENCE PLEASURE IN
DIFFERENT WAYS.
OF THE EYES AND COVETING.
A BIG PROBLEM IN THE WEST
OF WANTING TO HAVE MORE AND
DO MORE ALL THE TIME TO TRY TO
FILL UP OUR INNER EMPTINESS WITH
THINGS AND HAVING AND DOING.
THE PRIDE OF LIFE.
IT SPEAKS OF THAT
TENDENCY OF THE PRIDE WE ALL
HAVE TO CONTROL.
OUR SELF-CENTEREDNESS.
SELF-SUFFICIENCY.
TO DEPEND ON OURSELVES
AND NOT ON GOD.
THAT IS THE PRIDE OF LIFE.
THAT FASTING CAN HELP
TO DEFEAT.
AND ALMSGIVING.
RELATIONSHIP TO OUR NEIGHBOR.
ANY KIND OF SERVICE OR
SHARING OF TIME, TALENT AND
TREASURE WITH ANOTHER TO MAKE A
GIFT OF OURSELVES TO OTHERS,
RENEWS AND CONVERTS THAT
RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR BROTHERS
AND SISTERS.
THAT WE ALL NEED TO ALWAYS
BE WORKING ON.
WE HEAR IN THE GOSPEL,
IN MARK'S GOSPEL
AT THE BEGINNING THAT THE
KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND.
REPENT AND BELIEVE IN THE GOOD
NEWS.
THAT THAT FUNDAMENTAL
REPENTANCE AND FAITH THAT WE ARE
CALLED TO IS SOMETHING WE HAVE
TO DO OUR WHOLE LIVES.
IT IS NOT JUST A
ONE TIME THING.
THE CATECHISM SPEAKS
OF THE 1ST CONVERSION
AS BAPTISM.
WE COULD SAY
CONFIRMATION AS WELL.
WE HAVE THE FORGIVENESS
OF SINS THAT WE ARE
MADE INTO A NEW CREATURE.
THIS IS THE 1ST AND
FUNDAMENTAL CONVERSION.
ORIGINAL SIN IS
WIPED AWAY AND WE ARE
GIVEN SANCTIFYING GRACE.
THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES,
THE NATURAL VIRTUES.
GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
BUT THEN IT ALSO SPEAKS
OF A 2ND CONVERSION.
THAT WE NEED TO HAVE.
THIS IS AN UNINTERRUPTED
TASK FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH.
A PURIFICATION.
THAT OUR LOVE FOR GOD AND OUR
NEIGHBOR NEEDS TO BE PURIFIED.
IT IS OFTEN TAINTED WITH
SELF-LOVE.
WE NEED TO GROW IN THE
SPIRITUAL LIFE AND OUR
DEDICATION TO BE ALL IN FOR GOD
AND TO SURRENDER TO HIM, TO BE
SEEKING HIS WILL, TO TRUST HIM
FULLY.
CHOOSING GOD IN A DEEPER WAY.
I THINK OFTEN THERE ARE
MOMENTS AS WE MATURE AS
CHRISTIANS WE HAVE TO MAKE THAT
CHOICE FOR GOD.
TO RECOMMIT TO HIM.
AND TO HAVE THAT PURIFIED.
MAYBE IT IS NOT AS EASY AS WE GO
ALONG.
GOD GIVES US CANDY IN THE
SPIRITUAL LIFE EARLY ON SO THAT
WE WILL HAVE CONSOLATIONS AND
THEN WHEN TRIALS HAPPEN, WE ARE
CALLED TO CHOOSE HIM AGAIN, TO
SURRENDER AGAIN AND IT IS NOT SO
EASY.
THERE IS A DEATH TO SELF THAT
IS INVOLVED.
IN THE 2ND CONVERSION
WE HAVE TO RECLAIM
THE FILIAL RELATIONSHIP
WITH GOD.
THAT HIM ALONE DO I SERVE.
I THINK THAT IS THE
GREAT THEME OF JESUS'S
TEMPTATION IN THE DESERT.
SATAN APPEARS TO HIM.
TELLS HIM TURN THESE
STONES INTO BREAD.
WORK THESE DAZZLING MIRACLES.
THROW YOURSELF OFF THE
TEMPLE PINNACLE.
HE SHOWS HIM ALL THE
KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD.
BOW DOWN AND SERVE ME
AND I WILL GIVE YOU
ALL THESE KINGDOMS.
AND THE TEMPTATION
SOME WRITERS BELIEVE
WAS TO BE A MESSIAH IN A
DIFFERENT WAY THAN THE CROSS.
TO BE A MESSIAH
IN A WORLDLY WAY
WITH WORLDLY SUCCESS AND FEED
THE PEOPLE, GET BIG CROWDS.
IF YOU WORK JUST SPECTACULAR
ENDLESS MIRACLES,
YOU'LL GET BIG CROWDS.
IF YOU LIVE IN A;
IF YOU SEEK A WORLDLY KINGDOM,
YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE
KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD.
ALL THOSE KINGDOMS,
POPE BENEDICT SAID
SO ELOQUENTLY ONE TIME,
ALL THOSE KINGDOMS ARE PASSING.
ALL THOSE KINGDOMS
THAT JESUS SAW THAT DAY
WERE PASSING.
THEY DON'T LAST.
HE RENEWS THAT HE
IS THE BELOVED SON.
GOD ALONE, HE SERVES
HIS FATHER ALONE.
THAT IS WHAT HE
SAID AT THE BAPTISM
RIGHT BEFORE HE GOES, HE IS
DRIVEN INTO THE DESERT.
SO WE NEED THAT 2ND
CONVERSION, THESE OUTWARD
PENANCES HAVE TO BE ROOTED IN
THIS INTERIOR CONVERSION
OF SERVING GOD ALONE
AND REALIZING OUR CHILDHOOD
AND OUR SPIRITUAL
CHILDHOOD, BEING SONS AND
DAUGHTERS OF THE FATHER, THAT IT
IS ABOUT HIM AND SERVING HIM AND
NOT US, OURSELVES AND THE WORLD.
AND I THINK AS I MENTIONED THE
ASHES IN THIS SEASON OF
CONVERSION AND REPENTANCE AND
THE GRACES WE ARE GIVEN I THINK
WE ARE REMINDED, AND IT MIGHT BE
IN OUR FAILURE TO EVEN COMPLETE
OUR PENANCE.
I DO NOT KNOW IF ANYBODY
BITES OFF MORE THAN THEY
CAN CHEW, BUT MY USUAL
EXPERIENCE, BUT WE HAVE TO
REALIZE THAT ONLY GOD CAN
ACHIEVE THIS VICTORY IN US.
THAT IT IS ONLY BY
HIS GRACE THAT WE CAN
OVERCOME FAULTS.
YES, IT IS A COOPERATION
AND YES, I HAVE TO HAVE
HUMAN EFFORT BUT I THINK
MORE OFTEN THAN NOT WE MISS
THAT PIECE OF, UNLESS GOD DOES
IT AND BUILDS THE HOUSE THE
LABORERS LABOR IN VAIN.
IT IS ONLY ROOTING OUT
THESE FAULTS AND WEAKNESSES
AND TENDENCIES
AND IT IS ONLY BY TRUSTING IN
HIM, SURRENDERING TO HIM, COMING
TO HIM AND SAYING, GOD, I NEED
YOU TO DO THIS.
I CANNOT DO THIS.
RIGHT.
SOMETIMES THAT IS THE LESSON
THAT TAKES A LIFETIME TO
LEARN BUT NOW IS THE TIME.
THAT IS THE THEME
OF THE READINGS I THINK.
READING FROM JOEL, EVEN
NOW, SAYS THE LORD, RETURN TO ME
WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART.
REND YOUR HEARTS.
NOT YOUR GARMENTS.
IN THE SENSE THAT
GET THIS INTERIOR FILIAL,
TRUSTING RELATIONSHIP
1ST IN ORDER TO DO PENANCE AND
BE CONVERTED.
SO YES, A TIME OF EXTRA PRAYER.
WE DO THE STATIONS
OF THE CROSS.
JOHN PAUL II WOULD DO
THE STATIONS EVERY WEEKDAY
DURING LENT.
EVERY FRIDAY THROUGHOUT
THE YEAR AND THEN EVERY
WEEKDAY DURING THE SEASON
OF LENT.
IT IS A TIME OF PRAYER,
REFLECTION ON OUR LORD'S PASSION
AND DEATH.
WE'RE TO KEEP OUR EYES
ON THE CROSS OF CHRIST AND
HE ALONE IS OUR SALVATION.
WE'RE ON THIS JOURNEY OF A TRUE
CONVERSION AND NOW IS THE TIME.
WE CAN PUT IT OFF AND
PROCRASTINATE AND NOT REALLY
TURN BACK TO HIM AND JUST
SURRENDER, TO REPENT AND BELIEVE
AND TO TRUST IN HIM.
PAUL USES THE SAME
LANGUAGE TODAY.
2 CORINTHIANS.
BEHOLD, NOW IS A VERY
ACCEPTABLE TIME.
BEHOLD, NOW IS THE
DAY OF SALVATION.
MEANING THAT THE WORDS BECOME
FLESH.
WE'VE HAD THE INCARNATION.
THE GOSPEL HAS BEEN
PROCLAIMED.
NOW IS THE TIME TO BELIEVE.
TO ACCEPT HIM.
TO TRUST HIM.
TO TURN TO HIM.
JESUS IN THE GOSPEL SPEAKS
OF THE SPIRITUAL QUALITY
THAT WE ARE TO HAVE IN DOING
THESE WORKS OF PENANCE AND
PRAYER, FASTING AND ALMSGIVING.
NOT IN ORDER TO BE SEEN OR TO
GARNER HUMAN RESPECT.
TO DO THESE THINGS
IN SECRET AND TO BE
REWARDED BY THE FATHER AND NOT
BY THE ADMIRATION OF OTHERS AND
NOT TO ELEVATE OURSELVES THAT WE
MAY BE SEEN AND PUT OURSELVES
ON A PEDESTAL, BUT TO TRULY SEEK
HIM IN OUR INTERIOR LIFE AND TO
TRUST HIM.
I THINK A GOOD PRACTICE
TO DO DURING THIS TIME
IS TO PRAYERFULLY ASK GOD, WHAT
WE SHOULD DO AND WORK ON.
WHAT COMES TO MIND?
MAYBE OUR CONFESSIONS
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
THAT WE KEEP REPEATING.
MAYBE THERE ARE CERTAIN
THINGS THAT KEEP HOLDING
US BACK THAT NOW IS
THE TIME TO TRUST IN GOD'S GRACE
AND TO BE FREED FROM THOSE SINS
AND TO BE FURTHER FULLY
CONVERTED OVER TO THE LORD.