CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LC - FR BRENDAN -19TH SUNDAY-A

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    Mo Nguyen
     
    Fri, Aug 7 at 3:29 PM
     
     

                 NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A

                                                   09 AUGUST 2020

                 REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Mathew 14: 22-33)

     

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            WALKING ON THE SEA WITH JESUS  

     

                              WALKING ON THE SEA WITH JESUS

    Jesus sends his disciples off to cross the lake by boat, while he disperses the crowd. When eventually he rejoins the disciples, now battling with a headwind and heavy seas, he does so by walking on the sea.

    In the biblical imagery to tread down raging water is something only God can do (Psalm 77: 19; Job 9:8; Isaiah 43: 16). Jesus’ reassurance to the terrified disciples, ‘It is I; fear not’, echoes the revelation of God to Moses at the Burning Bush (Exodus 3: 14).

    What prompts Peter’s desire to come to Jesus across the sea? Love or bravado? Perhaps a mixture of both – but also, surely, faith. Faith enables him to trample for a time the forces of destruction. But when he looks away from his Lord, to focus instead upon the wind and sea, doubt creeps in, and with doubt the gravest danger.

    Peter ‘models’ the mixture of faith and doubt to which all believers are prone. Jesus’ gentle rebuke, ‘O you of little faith, why did you doubt?’, applies to us all. Sometimes the Lord calls us to leave the security of the boat and come to him across the waves. We begin to falter when we take our eyes off Jesus and focus only on the difficulties that come our way.

    Then we can make our own Peter’s cry for rescue and feel, as he felt, the Lord’s strong hand reaching out to raise us up. The Lord is not absent: he is ‘with us’ (‘Emmanuel’: Matthew 1: 17; 28: 19) to the end of time.

    Brendan Byrne, SJ

    NeedtoBreathe - Walking on Water with Lyrics:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh49C6vxB40

     

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    ĐI TRÊN SÓNG NƯỚC- Lm Mi Trầm:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO4uNNRxQTs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIEYDfkv0_k