CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG -BRENDAN-20TH SUNDAY-A

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    Mo Nguyen
     
    Fri, Aug 14 at 10:45 PM
     
     

    TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A

                                         16 AUGUST 2020

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            FAITH THAT BREAKS BOUNDARIES  

     

         REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Matthew 15: 21-28)

                      FAITH THAT BREAKS BOUNDARIES

    The perseverance and faith of the desperate Canaanite woman in today’s Gospel is all the more striking because of the rebuff that she initially receives. Jesus’ treatment of her is, at first sight, one of the most disturbing things in the Gospels. At first, he ignores her, then he insists that his mission is restricted to Israel. Finally, he rebuffs her with a heartless image about not throwing the children’s food to dogs.

    Instead of taking offence at what the image implies for her and her people, the woman seizes upon it and, with superb wit, turns it to her own advantage. Certainly, food prepared for the children is not intended for domestic animals. But children eat untidily. That provides opportunity for pet dogs under the table to gobble up the scraps that fall.

    Developing the image in this way, the woman boldly challenges the restriction of Jesus’ messianic mission to Israel alone, and wins from him recognition that he is Messiah not only for the Jews but also the One ‘in whose name Gentiles (non-Jews, like herself) will place their hope’ (Matthew 12: 21)

    The boundary-breaking faith of this woman of Canaan foreshadows the great mission to the nations of the world, upon which, at the end of the Gospel, the risen Lord will send the infant Church (Matthew 28: 16-20).

    But the woman also stands in for women of faith of all times, including our own, who challenge outworn structures and restricted vision that can cause the Church to lag behind the outreach of God’s grace.

    Brendan Byrne,  SJ

    For the Lord is good - Women of faith:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aivxSb9lg0

     

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    Đáp Ca Chúa Nhật 20A Thường Niên _ Vinam:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ff1tptgmO4T