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    Mo Nguyen
     
    Sat, Jul 4 at 4:30 AM
     
     

    FOURTEEN SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME  -  YEAR A

                                          (05 July 2020)

      

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                Burdens are Lifted at Calvary  

    REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Matthew 11: 25-30)

                            TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

    Today’s Gospel records a moment of joyful intimacy between Jesus and his heavenly Father. Jesus rejoices because he senses that he has managed to share with his disciples something of his own knowledge of God.

    The ‘knowledge’ of which Jesus speaks goes well beyond knowing a great deal about another person. He has in mind the Semitic sense of ‘knowing’ that flows from deep intimacy. Such knowledge is not gained by learning or study about God. It is a gift that comes to those who set aside any claim to expertise and adopt before God the simplicity of a child.

    Jesus goes on to present himself as one who has come to lift humanity’s burdens, including but not confined to the burden of sin. In contrast to the interpretations of the Mosaic law given by the scribes and Pharisees (cf. Matt 23:4), the yoke is ‘easy’ and his burden ‘light’. The ease and lightness do not stem from a lowering of standards but from the fact that mercy and love, rather than precise legal perfection, have become the supreme criterion. Twice in Matthew’s Gospel Jesus quotes the prophet Hosea to this effect: “What I (God) want in mercy, not sacrifice’ (Hos 6:6; see Matt 9: 13; 12: 7; also 23: 23).

    The heart of that ease and lightness is the knowledge of which he spoke earlier. To those who worship God as a distant and fearful potentate religious rules and requirements can indeed appear burdensome. This ought not be the ease for those who truly know the God Jesus reveals.

    Brendan Byrne, SJ

    "Burdens are Lifted at Calvary" - Hymn 476: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxshl7VM8KI

     

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    Thánh Vịnh 144 - Chúa Nhật 14 Thường Niên năm A - lm Thái Nguyên - Cs Maria Thủy Tiên:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgAGQ2v85lg