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Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 395
Reading I
When it was reported to the king of Egypt
that the people had fled,
Pharaoh and his servants changed their minds about them.
They exclaimed, “What have we done!
Why, we have released Israel from our service!”
So Pharaoh made his chariots ready and mustered his soldiers
six hundred first-class chariots
and all the other chariots of Egypt, with warriors on them all.
So obstinate had the LORD made Pharaoh
that he pursued the children of Israel
even while they were marching away in triumph.
The Egyptians, then, pursued them;
Pharaoh’s whole army, his horses, chariots and charioteers,
caught up with them as they lay encamped by the sea,
at Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
Pharaoh was already near when the children of Israel looked up
and saw that the Egyptians were on the march in pursuit of them.
In great fright they cried out to the LORD.
And they complained to Moses,
“Were there no burial places in Egypt
that you had to bring us out here to die in the desert?
Why did you do this to us?
Why did you bring us out of Egypt?
Did we not tell you this in Egypt, when we said,
‘Leave us alone. Let us serve the Egyptians’?
Far better for us to be the slaves of the Egyptians
than to die in the desert.”
But Moses answered the people,
“Fear not! Stand your ground,
and you will see the victory the LORD will win for you today.
These Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again.
The LORD himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.”
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me?
Tell the children of Israel to go forward.
And you, lift up your staff and, with hand outstretched over the sea,
split the sea in two,
that the children of Israel may pass through it on dry land.
But I will make the Egyptians so obstinate
that they will go in after them.
Then I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army,
his chariots and charioteers.
The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD,
when I receive glory through Pharaoh
and his chariots and charioteers.”
Responsorial Psalm
R. (1b) Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
I will sing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant;
horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.
My strength and my courage is the LORD,
and he has been my savior.
He is my God, I praise him;
the God of my father, I extol him.
R. Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
The LORD is a warrior,
LORD is his name!
Pharaoh’s chariots and army he hurled into the sea;
the elite of his officers were submerged in the Red Sea.
R. Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
The flood waters covered them,
they sank into the depths like a stone.
Your right hand, O LORD, magnificent in power,
your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
R. Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
If today you hear his voice,
harden not your hearts.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus,
“Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”
He said to them in reply,
“An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign,
but no sign will be given it
except the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights,
so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth
three days and three nights.
At the judgment, the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation
and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah;
and there is something greater than Jonah here.
At the judgment the queen of the south will arise with this generation
and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth
to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and there is something greater than Solomon here.”
(Source of:www.usccbdailyreadings.org)
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Pesta Bunda Maria dari Gunung Karmel
Hari ini adalah Pesta Bunda Maria dari Gunung Karmel. Pesta ini memperingati rahmat yang diberikan oleh Bunda Maria di Gunung Karmel. Pada 16 Juli 1251 Santa Perawan Maria menampakkan diri kepada St. Simon Stock, memegang di tangan-Nya sebentuk scapular.
Menurut catatan sejarah Karmelit yang paling kuno, Ordo ini memiliki asal-usul dari murid-murid nabi Elia dan Eliseus. Mereka tinggal di gua-gua di Gunung Karmel. Mereka menghormati Ratu Surga sebagai Perawan yang melahirkan Juruselamat. Ketika realitas menggantikan simbol, para pertapa saleh Karmel bertobat ke Iman Kristiani. Pada abad ke-12, banyak peziarah dari Eropa yang mengikuti Tentara Perang Salib datang untuk bergabung dengan para pertapa. Disusunlah aturan dan Ordo mulai menyebar ke Eropa.
Di tengah banyaknya penganiayaan yang muncul terhadap Ordo Gunung Karmel, anggota yang baru tiba di Eropa, Santo Simon Stock, Pemimpin Ordo, menoleh dengan keyakinan penuh bakti kepada Santa Bunda Allah. Saat ia berlutut dalam doa pada 16 Juli 1251, di biara Biarawan Putih di Cambridge, Bunda Maria muncul dihadapannya dan menyajikan skapulir coklat yang terkenal, pakaian longgar tanpa lengan yang diperuntukkan bagi Ordo Karmel, dari bahu mencapai ke lutut. Hal ini diberikan sebagai jaminan, bagi semua yang meninggal memakainya, mendapat perlindungan surgawi Bunda Maria dari kematian kekal. Sungguh perjanjian yang luar biasa, tapi seseorang butuh kehidupan doa dan pengorbanan.
Janji seutuhnya dari Bunda Maria Gunung Karmel Carmel kepada St. Simon Stock 16 Juli 1251:
"Terimalah Skapulir ini. Yang akan menjadi tanda keselamatan, perlindungan dalam bahaya dan janji perdamaian. Barang siapa meninggal berpakaian Skapulir ini tidak akan menderita api abadi."
Devosi kepada pakaian yang terberkati ini menyebar dengan cepat ke seluruh dunia Kristen. Paus demi Paus memperkaya dengan indulgensi, dan tak terhitung mukjizat yang dimeteraikan atas kemanjurannya. Yang pertama terjadi di Winchester pada seorang pria sekarat yang putus asa, yang ketika skapulir diletakkan dibawah badannya oleh St. Simon Stock seketika itu juga ia meminta Sakramen.
Pada tahun 1636, seorang pria terhormat, anggota dari resimen kavaleri, terluka parah di pertempuran Tehin, peluru bersarang di dekat jantungnya. Dia berada dalam keadaan dosa besar, tapi ia punya waktu untuk membuat pengakuannya. Setelah itu dokter bedah memeriksa lukanya, dan peluru itu ditemukan telah mendorong skapulir kedalam jantungnya. Ketika telah ditarik ia segera terbebaskan, membuat tindakan rasa syukur yang mendalam kepada Santa Perawan yang memperpanjang hidupnya secara mukjizat, sehingga menjaga dia dari kematian kekal jiwanya.
Di Lourdes pada tahun 1858, sang Perawan memilih untuk membuat penampakan terakhirnya pada tanggal 16 Juli, pesta Bunda Maria dari Gunung Karmel, hari dimana Gereja memperingati penampakan Bunda Maria kepada St. Simon Stock. Dan di Fatima pada tanggal 13 Oktober 1917, sebagai Bunda Maria dari Gunung Karmel Ia menampakkan diri ketika mengucapkan selamat tinggal kepada ketiga anak. Sepanjang jaman, Ratu dari Karmel selalu terus mencermati dengan setia nasib anak-anak yang dikasihi-Nya di bumi.


