2019년 9월 2일 연중 제22주간 월요일
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제1독서
테살로니카 1서. 4,13-18
13 형제 여러분, 죽은 이들의 문제를 여러분도 알기를 바랍니다. 그리하여 희망을 가지지 못하는 다른 사람들처럼 슬퍼하지 말라는 것입니다. 14 예수님께서 돌아가셨다가 다시 살아나셨음을 우리는 믿습니다. 이와 같이 하느님께서는 예수님을 통하여, 죽은 이들을 그분과 함께 데려가실 것입니다.
15 우리는 주님의 말씀을 근거로 이 말을 합니다. 주님의 재림 때까지 남아 있게 될 우리 산 이들이 죽은 이들보다 앞서지는 않을 것입니다.
16 명령의 외침과 대천사의 목소리와 하느님의 나팔 소리가 울리면, 주님께서 친히 하늘에서 내려오실 것입니다.
그러면 먼저 그리스도 안에서 죽은 이들이 다시 살아나고, 17 그다음으로, 그때까지 남아 있게 될 우리 산 이들이 그들과 함께 구름 속으로 들려 올라가, 공중에서 주님을 맞이할 것입니다. 이렇게 하여 우리는 늘 주님과 함께 있을 것입니다. 18 그러니 이러한 말로 서로 격려하십시오.
복음
루카 4,16-30
그때에 16 예수님께서는 당신이 자라신 나자렛으로 가시어, 안식일에 늘 하시던 대로 회당에 들어가셨다.
그리고 성경을 봉독하려고 일어서시자, 17 이사야 예언자의 두루마리가 그분께 건네졌다. 그분께서는 두루마리를 펴시고, 이러한 말씀이 기록된 부분을 찾으셨다.
18 “주님께서 나에게 기름을 부어 주시니, 주님의 영이 내 위에 내리셨다. 주님께서 나를 보내시어 가난한 이들에게 기쁜 소식을 전하고, 잡혀간 이들에게 해방을 선포하며, 눈먼 이들을 다시 보게 하고, 억압받는 이들을 해방시켜 내보내며, 19 주님의 은혜로운 해를 선포하게 하셨다.”
20 예수님께서 두루마리를 말아 시중드는 이에게 돌려주시고 자리에 앉으시니, 회당에 있던 모든 사람의 눈이 예수님을 주시하였다.
21 예수님께서 그들에게 말씀하기 시작하셨다. “오늘 이 성경 말씀이 너희가 듣는 가운데에서 이루어졌다.”
22 그러자 모두 그분을 좋게 말하며, 그분의 입에서 나오는 은총의 말씀에 놀라워하였다. 그러면서 “저 사람은 요셉의 아들이 아닌가?” 하고 말하였다.
23 예수님께서는 그들에게 이르셨다. “너희는 틀림없이 ‘의사야, 네 병이나 고쳐라.’ 하는 속담을 들며, ‘네가 카파르나움에서 하였다고 우리가 들은 그 일들을 여기 네 고향에서도 해 보아라.’ 할 것이다.” 24 그리고 계속 이르셨다.
“내가 진실로 너희에게 말한다. 어떠한 예언자도 자기 고향에서는 환영을 받지 못한다. 25 내가 참으로 너희에게 말한다. 삼 년 육 개월 동안 하늘이 닫혀 온 땅에 큰 기근이 들었던 엘리야 때에, 이스라엘에 과부가 많이 있었다. 26 그러나 엘리야는 그들 가운데 아무에게도 파견되지 않고, 시돈 지방 사렙타의 과부에게만 파견되었다.
27 또 엘리사 예언자 시대에 이스라엘에는 나병 환자가 많이 있었다. 그러나 그들 가운데 아무도 깨끗해지지 않고, 시리아 사람 나아만만 깨끗해졌다.”
28 회당에 있던 모든 사람들은 이 말씀을 듣고 화가 잔뜩 났다. 29 그래서 그들은 들고일어나, 예수님을 고을 밖으로 내몰았다. 그 고을은 산 위에 지어져 있었는데, 그들은 예수님을 그 벼랑까지 끌고 가, 거기에서 떨어뜨리려고 하였다.
30 그러나 예수님께서는 그들 한가운데를 가로질러 떠나가셨다.
September 2, 2019
Monday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
1 Thes 4:13-18
We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,
about those who have fallen asleep,
so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose,
so too will God, through Jesus,
bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord,
will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep.
For the Lord himself, with a word of command,
with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God,
will come down from heaven,
and the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive, who are left,
will be caught up together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air.
Thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Therefore, console one another with these words.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 96:1 and 3, 4-5, 11-12, 13
R. (13b) The Lord comes to judge the earth.
Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing to the LORD, all you lands.
Tell his glory among the nations;
among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.
R. The Lord comes to judge the earth.
For great is the LORD and highly to be praised;
awesome is he, beyond all gods.
For all the gods of the nations are things of nought,
but the LORD made the heavens.
R. The Lord comes to judge the earth.
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
let the sea and what fills it resound;
let the plains be joyful and all that is in them!
Then shall all the trees of the forest exult.
R. The Lord comes to judge the earth.
Before the LORD, for he comes;
for he comes to rule the earth.
He shall rule the world with justice
and the peoples with his constancy.
R. The Lord comes to judge the earth.
Gospel
Lk 4:16-30
Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up,
and went according to his custom
into the synagogue on the sabbath day.
He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.
Rolling up the scroll,
he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,
and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
He said to them,
“Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”
And all spoke highly of him
and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
They also asked, “Is this not the son of Joseph?”
He said to them, “Surely you will quote me this proverb,
‘Physician, cure yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native place
the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.’”
And he said,
“Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.
Indeed, I tell you,
there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah
when the sky was closed for three and a half years
and a severe famine spread over the entire land.
It was to none of these that Elijah was sent,
but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
Again, there were many lepers in Israel
during the time of Elisha the prophet;
yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”
When the people in the synagogue heard this,
they were all filled with fury.
They rose up, drove him out of the town,
and led him to the brow of the hill
on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong.
But he passed through the midst of them and went away.
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«Today these prophetic words come true even as you listen»
Fr. David AMADO i Fernández
(Barcelona, Spain)
Today, «these prophetic words come true even as you listen» (Lk 4:21). With these words, Jesus comments at the synagogue of Nazareth a text from the prophet Isaiah: «The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He has anointed me» (Lk 4:18). These words have a meaning that goes beyond the specific historical moment when they were said. The Holy Spirit fully dwells in Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit sends him to believers.
But, in addition, the words of the Gospel are the words of both eternal and current life. They are eternal because The Eternal one has said them, and they are current because God makes them to be permanently fulfilled. When we listen to the Word of God, we have to receive it not as a human speech, but as the Word that has the power of transforming us. God does not speak to our ear but to our heart. Whatever He says is profoundly full of meaning and love. The Word of God is an inexhaustible source of life: «Who, O Lord, could possibly penetrate with his mind even one of your utterances? Just as in the case of thirsty men who drink from a fountain we leave behind more than that we can take a hold of» (St. Ephraem). His words come out of the heart of God. And, from this heart, from the Trinity's bosom, Jesus came —the Father's Word— to mankind.
This is why when, everyday, we listen to the Gospel, we must be able to say, along with the Virgin Mary: «May it be done to me according to your word» (Lk 1:38); to which God will reply: «Today these prophetic words come true even as you listen». However, for the Word to be effective in our lives, we must get rid of all our prejudices. Jesus' contemporaries did not understand it, because they were looking at him with human eyes only: «Who is this but Joseph's son?» (Lk 4:22). They could see Jesus Christ's humanity, but they could not appreciate his divinity. Whenever we listen to the Word of God, beyond its literary style, the beauty of its ｅxpressions or the singularity of the situation, we must remember it is God who is speaking to us.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Saint Paul wrote to a community of young Christians about the future of those who had died in Christ. He told them that he did not want them to grieve as those who have no hope. We grieve. We cannot help but grieve when a loved one, a friend, or a colleague dies. But we do it as people who have hope. We believe that there is a future for those who have died.
Our family lived in Sacramento, California, in the 1980's and there we met a distant cousin that I had never even heard of until my mother came to visit us and looked her up. She and her husband seemed like nice people. However, they both professed to be atheists. She was in great physical condition and ran a lot. one day as she and her husband went out for a walk she said she needed to sit down and, upon doing so, died on the spot. My wife and I went to her "memorial service." What a contrast to the funerals and memorials I had experienced. Poems were read. Reflections on her life were given. one thing was noticeably absent: joy. A dark cloud had descended upon those gathered. As we left and got in our car, we both agreed that we had never gone to anything quite like it where there appeared to be no hope, no future, no sunshine on the horizon. She was dead, and that was it.
I remember reading years later about a different experience. Edith Stein, who later was canonized under her religious name, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, told about the time when the light of Christ first broke through her darkness. She was a secular Jew and had gone to Göttingen University to become the pupil and teaching assistant of Edmund Husserl. She became good friends with Husserl's assistant, Adolf Reinach, and his wife. During the World War I battle of Flanders, Reinach was killed. Edith went to visit his widow. The Reinachs were Christians. Edith felt uneasy about meeting the young widow at first, but was surprised when she actually met with a woman of faith. "This was my first encounter with the Cross and the divine power it imparts to those who bear it ... it was the moment when my unbelief collapsed and Christ began to shine his light on me - Christ in the mystery of the Cross." Adolf Reinach's wife grieved his death but not as one without hope. Edith had never experienced anything like this.
Whether we die or live until the Lord's return, our hope is that we will always be with the Lord. We have a future. It is a future of light, happiness, and joy - the mystery of the Cross come to fruition. We can console one another with these words.
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, pray for us.
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A GOOD JOB MAY NOT BE GOOD ENOUGH | ||
| Jesus "said to them, 'You will doubtless quote Me the proverb, "Physician, heal yourself," and say, "Do here in Your own country the things we have heard You have done in Capernaum." But in fact', He went on, 'No prophet gains acceptance in his native place.' " �Luke 4:23-24 | ||
Jesus was tempted three times by the devil in the desert (see Lk 4:3ff). Next, He was tempted to make healing His primary occupation instead of prophecy and teaching (Lk 4:42). He was tempted to do what people wanted rather than what His Father wanted. Like all of us, Jesus was tempted to do good things instead of "God's thing." Are you in the right job as far as God is concerned? Is God calling you to leave your job as Peter, Andrew, James, John, and Matthew were called to do? (see Mt 4:18-22; 9:9) Even if the Lord isn't calling you to leave your job now, would you obey Him if He called you to leave your job later? In other words, is Jesus the Lord of your life and your work? Sin is not only something we do wrong for a short time. Sin can be patterns in our lives which are not God's will. We can persist in these patterns for years. Let us turn to the Lord to make sure we are doing the job He wants in the way He wants, and for the reasons He wants. We don't need a "good job," but God's job. | ||
| Prayer: Father, on Judgment Day, may You say to me: "Well done, My good and faithful servant" (see Mt 25:21). | ||
| Promise: We "will be caught up...in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thenceforth we shall be with the Lord unceasingly. Console one another with this message." —1 Thes 4:17-18 | ||
| Praise: Emily lifts her hands in prayer. one hand is lifted to give praise to God and one is lifted to receive the Holy Spirit's grace. |
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"No prophet is acceptable in his own country"
How would you react if Jesus spoke this message from the pulpit of your church? It was customary for Jesus to go weekly to the synagogue to worship and on occasion to read the Scriptures and comment on them to the people. His hometown folks listened with rapt attention on this occasion because they had heard about the miracles he had performed in other towns. What sign would he do in his hometown?
Jesus startled them with a seeming rebuke that no prophet or servant of God can receive honor among his own people. He then angered them when he complimented the Gentiles who seemed to have shown more faith in God than the "chosen ones" of Israel. They regarded Gentiles as "fuel for the fires of hell." Jesus' praise for "outsiders" caused them offense because they were blind-sighted to God's mercy and plan of redemption for all nations.
The word "gospel" literally means "good news". Isaiah had prophesied that the Messiah would come in the power of the Holy Spirit to bring freedom to those oppressed by sin and evil (see Isaiah 61:1-2). Jesus came to set people free from the worst tyranny possible - the tyranny of slavery to sin and the fear of death, and the destruction of both body and soul. God's power alone can save us from emptiness and poverty of spirit, from confusion and error, and from the fear of death and hopelessness. The Gospel of salvation is "good news" for us today. Do you know the joy and freedom of the Gospel?
"Lord Jesus, you are the fulfillment of all our hopes and desires. Your Holy Spirit brings us grace, truth, life, and freedom. Fill me with the joy of the Gospel and inflame my heart with love and zeal for you and for your will".
Psalm 96:1-5,11-13
1 O sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth!
2 Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.
3 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
4 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but the LORD made the heavens.
11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
12 let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy
13 before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: By reading Isaiah, Jesus shows he is God and Man, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"Now it was necessary that he should manifest himself to the Israelites and that the mystery of his incarnation should now shine forth to those who did not know him. Now that God the Father had anointed him to save the world, he very wisely orders this also [that his fame should now spread widely]. This favor he grants first to the people of Nazareth, because, humanly speaking, he had grown up among them. Having entered the synagogue, therefore, he takes the book to read. Having opened it, he selects a passage in the Prophets which declares the mystery concerning him. By these words he himself tells us very clearly by the voice of the prophet that he would both be made man and come to save the world. For we affirm that the Son was anointed in no other way than by having become like us according to the flesh and taking our nature. Being at once God and man, he both gives the Spirit to the creation in his divine nature and receives it from God the Father in his human nature. It is he who sanctifies the whole creation, both by shining forth from the Holy Father and by bestowing the Spirit. He himself pours forth his own Spirit on the powers above and on those who recognized his appearing. (excerpt from COMMENTARY on LUKE, HOMILY 12)
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