FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY
TIME – CYCLE C – 2019
INTRODUCTION
Luke has presented several different
ways to look at Jesus in order to discover who he is.
Today Jesus calls his first disciples,
collaborators in the mission he has come to accomplish among us.
The call will help Peter to acknowledge
his indignity, his sin, and at the same time to learn that our sins do not make
the Lord depart from us, on the contrary he comes closer to us to save us, to
give his life so that we may have life.
Today the liturgy of the Church invites
us to reflect on our own vocation, looking at the vocation of the first
followers.
FIRST
READING Is 6:1-2a, 3-8
Ø
Isaiah tells us about the vision he had
of the Majesty of God.
Ø
He tells us that the vision happened in
the year of the death of King Uzziah around the year 740 or 739 BC.
Ø In
the second book of Kings and in the 2 book of Chronicles this King is also
called Azariah (2 Kings 14:21; 2
Chronicles 26)
o
Isaiah sees God seating on a high
throne. Isaiah was an official at the court of the King, it seems very normal
that when God wants to reveal himself to him he uses images, which Isaiah will
understand. God is seen as a Monarch, a King.
o
The description of the celestial
liturgy performed by the Seraphims reminds us of the liturgy or worship in the
Temple of Jerusalem, the smoke of the incense.
o
Over the throne Isaiah sees some winged
celestial creatures, he calls them seraphim, which reminds of the word “serap”
which means “to burn.”
o They
cry out to each other “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts! His glory fills the earth!
o
The voices are so loud that the place
is shaken.
o
This is an awesome vision in which God
is seen as a King of an extraordinary majesty, surrounded by those creatures
which are on fire.
o
In the presence of God the human being
experiences his or her indignity, his or her sin and becomes conscious of his
or her sinfulness.
o
Thus Isaiah acknowledges that his lips
are impure, and also those of his people.
o
Fear invades Isaiah, since it was a
common belief, that whoever sees God dies.
o
God does not abandon his sinful people,
on the contrary through the incarnation; God comes to live among us.
o
To purify the lips of Isaiah God sends a
Seraphim with a burning coal to touch his lips.
o
God who always calls us to entrust a
mission to us, seems to speak to himself saying: whom shall I sent? Who will go
in our name?
o
Isaiah who is burning in divine love
responds with enthusiasm “Here I am, send me!”
Ø
This is how Isaiah tells us his
vocation, his call to be a prophet.
Ø
His mission will be difficult, since he
will speak but they will not listen to him, they will not understand because
they are afraid that if they understand they will have to change their lives,
they will have to allow God to convert them.
Ø
This vision of the Majesty of God will
help Isaiah all his life long to see the injustices committed against the poor,
the least of society as an idolatry, a worship of an alien god, the god of
selfishness, of money, of power. Injustice will become an offense against God,
before being an offense against another human being.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM – Ps
138
IN THE SIGHT OF THE
ANGELS I WILL SING YOUR PRAISES, LORD
I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with all my
heart
For you have heard the words of my mouth
In the presence of the angels I will sing your
praise
I will worship at your holy temple
And give thanks to your name
IN THE SIGHT OF THE
ANGELS I WILL SING YOUR PRAISES, LORD
Because of your kindness and your truth
For you have made great above all things
Your name and your promise
When I called, you answered me
You built up strength within me
IN THE SIGHT OF THE
ANGELS I WILL SING YOUR PRAISES, LORD
All the kings of the earth shall give thanks to you
O Lord
When they hear the words of your mouth
And they shall sing of the ways of the Lord
“Great is the glory of the Lord.”
IN THE SIGHT OF THE
ANGELS I WILL SING YOUR PRAISES, LORD
Your right hand saves me.
The Lord will complete what he has done for me
Your kindness, O Lord, endures forever
Forsake not the work of your hands.
IN THE SIGHT OF THE
ANGELS I WILL SING YOUR PRAISES, LORD
It is a psalm of
thanksgiving recited by the people and by the kings as well, all are called to praise God.
GOSPEL Lk 5:1-11
ü Jesus is
preaching, people are around him pressing him because they want to listen to
the fascinating words of the young teacher, Jesus the son of Joseph of
Nazareth.
ü He gets into one
of the boats, the boat of Peter, to be able to speak from the boat. Peter and
his companions are mending their nets.
ü From the boat,
he speaks and speaks, and all are pleased listening to him.
ü When he
finishes teaching the people, he asks Peter to throw their nets to catch
fish.
ü The fishermen
know that you do not fish at noon when there is so much light, and especially
if they could not catch any fish during the right time at night.
ü Peter who has
been a fisherman for many years knows that, but on the word of Jesus he throws
the nets, and they catch a large number of fish.
ü Peter, like
Isaiah acknowledges his sinfulness, his unworthiness in the presence of the God
three times holy. He starts discovering that Jesus is more than what her sees
in him.
ü Depart from
me Lord, for I am a sinful man.
ü Isaiah was
purified with a burning coal that a seraphim took from the incense. Peter will
hear the words of Jesus telling him, “Fear not! You will be fisher of
men.”
ü As a
consequence of the vision Isaiah is sent to prophesize to his people. From the
encounter of Peter with Jesus, Peter becomes fisher of men. Both Isaiah and
Peter are called to proclaim among their sisters and brothers the wonderful
works of our amazing God, to discover his presence among us.
ü Isaiah says,
“Here I am.” Peter and his companions leave their nets and everything else and
follow Jesus.
In this encounter of Jesus with the fishermen
from Galilee there is no fire, no seraphim, no smoke, nothing extraordinary,
everything happens very quietly, peacefully. This is because God has decided to
become incarnate and to live among us.
SECOND
READING 1Cor 15:1-11
Paul reminds his community of Corinth the gospel he
has preached to them. A gospel which Paul in turn received from the community
of the believers, thus Paul is handing over the tradition of the young
church.
What he has handed over to them is
o That Christ
died for our sins
o That he was
buried and
o That he was raised
on the third day. All of this happened in accordance with the Scriptures.
o That he
appeared to Cephas (Peter), to the twelve and to more than five hundred
brothers and sisters.
Finally the risen and glorified Lord appeared to
Paul,
He considers himself the least of the apostles,
because he persecuted the church.
But he says that he has worked harder than anyone
of them
Although he rectifies and says, that it is the
grace of God that has done the work in him.
Paul says that faith has to follow the preaching,
the listening to the word of God.
CLARETIAN CORNER
Year 1842, one night while I was at prayer pleading to Christ crucified
to remedy the necessities of the church, which in that time were many, that had
cost him so much, I offered him my life in sacrifice as I have done before many
times, well aware that my life was not of much value to sacrifice for so many
evils, but as I had no virtues to offer him, I begged him to deign to teach me
what should I do in order to give him pleasure and glory accomplishing his most
holy will. Venerable María Antonia
París, Foundress of the Claretian Missionary Sisters, Autobiography 2.
I
was born in the village of Sallent, deanery of Manresa, diocese of
Vich, province of Barcelona. My parents, whose names were John
Claret and Josephine Clara were married,
upright, and God-fearing people, very devoted to the Blessed Sacrament and Mary
Most Holy. I was baptized in St. Mary's
Parish, Sallent, on December 25, Christmas Day, 1807, although the parish books
say 1808. The reason for this is that they counted the year as beginning on
December 25, and so it is that mine is the first entry in the books for the
year 1808. St. Anthony Mary Claret, Founder of the
Claretian Missionary Sisters. Autobiography 3-4.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CLARET, Antonio María. Autobiography.
PARIS, María Antonia. Autobiography.
RAVASI, Gianfranco. Según las
Escrituras – Ciclo C. San Pablo 2006.
SCHÖKEL , Luis Alonso, La Biblia de
nuestro Pueblo.
SWEENEY,
Marvin A. The Prophetic Literature.
SAGRADA BIBLIA, Versión Oficial de la Conferencia Episcopal Española
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