2019년 9월 6일 연중 제22주간 금요일
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제1독서
콜로새서. 1,15-20
15 예수 그리스도께서는 보이지 않는 하느님의 모상이시며, 모든 피조물의 맏이이십니다. 16 만물이 그분 안에서 창조되었기 때문입니다. 하늘에 있는 것이든 땅에 있는 것이든, 보이는 것이든 보이지 않는 것이든, 왕권이든 주권이든 권세든 권력이든, 만물이 그분을 통하여, 또 그분을 향하여 창조되었습니다.
17 그분께서는 만물에 앞서 계시고, 만물은 그분 안에서 존속합니다.
18 그분은 또한 당신 몸인 교회의 머리이십니다. 그분은 시작이시며, 죽은 이들 가운데에서 맏이이십니다. 그리하여 만물 가운데에서 으뜸이 되십니다.
19 과연 하느님께서는 기꺼이 그분 안에 온갖 충만함이 머무르게 하셨습니다. 20 그분 십자가의 피를 통하여 평화를 이룩하시어, 땅에 있는 것이든 하늘에 있는 것이든, 그분을 통하여, 그분을 향하여, 만물을 기꺼이 화해시키셨습니다.
복음
루카. 5,33-39
그때에 33 바리사이들과 율법 학자들이 예수님께 말하였다. “요한의 제자들은 자주 단식하며 기도를 하고, 바리사이의 제자들도 그렇게 하는데, 당신의 제자들은 먹고 마시기만 하는군요.” 34 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다.
“혼인 잔치 손님들이 신랑과 함께 있는 동안에 단식을 할 수야 없지 않으냐? 35 그러나 그들이 신랑을 빼앗길 날이 올 것이다. 그때에는 그들도 단식할 것이다.”
36 예수님께서는 그들에게 또 비유를 말씀하셨다. “아무도 새 옷에서 조각을 찢어 내어 헌 옷에 대고 꿰매지 않는다. 그렇게 하면 새 옷을 찢을 뿐만 아니라, 새 옷에서 찢어 낸 조각이 헌 옷에 어울리지도 않을 것이다. 37 또한 아무도 새 포도주를 헌 가죽 부대에 담지 않는다. 그렇게 하면 새 포도주가 부대를 터뜨려, 포도주는 쏟아지고 부대도 버리게 된다. 38 새 포도주는 새 부대에 담아야 한다. 39 묵은 포도주를 마시던 사람은 새 포도주를 원하지 않는다. 사실 그런 사람은 ‘묵은 것이 좋다.’고 말한다.”
September 6, 2019
Friday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Col 1:15-20
Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation.
For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers;
all things were created through him and for him.
He is before all things,
and in him all things hold together.
He is the head of the Body, the Church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
that in all things he himself might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell,
and through him to reconcile all things for him,
making peace by the Blood of his cross
through him, whether those on earth or those in heaven.
Responsorial Psalm
PS 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5
Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;
serve the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful song.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Know that the LORD is God;
he made us, his we are;
his people, the flock he tends.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
his courts with praise;
Give thanks to him; bless his name.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
For he is good,
the LORD, whose kindness endures forever,
and his faithfulness, to all generations.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Alleluia
Jn 8:12
R. Alleluia, alleluia.I am the light of the world, says the Lord;
whoever follows me will have the light of life.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
Lk 5:33-39
“The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers,
and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same;
but yours eat and drink.”
Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast
while the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
then they will fast in those days.”
And he also told them a parable.
“No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one.
Otherwise, he will tear the new
and the piece from it will not match the old cloak.
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins,
and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined.
Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins.
And no one who has been drinking old wine desires new,
for he says, ‘The old is good.’”
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«You can't make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them»
Fr. Frederic RÀFOLS i Vidal
(Barcelona, Spain)
Today, while pondering over the Gospel, we can detect the trap prepared by the Pharisees and masters of the Law, when they twist an important question: they simply oppose the fasting and praying of the Pharisees and John’s disciples to the eating and drinking of Jesus' disciples.
Jesus Christ tells us there is a time to pray and fast and a time to eat and drink. Which means the same person that prays and fasts is who eats and drinks. We can appreciate that in our daily life: let us watch the simple joy of a family, maybe our own family. But, later on, tribulations may visit them. The persons are the same, but circumstances differ: «You can't make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them. But later they will...» (Lk 5:34).
Timing is everything; there is a time under the sky for everything: «A time to rend, and a time to sew» (Eccles 3:7). These words uttered by a learned man of the Old Testament, certainly not the most optimistic one, almost coincide with the simple parable of the torn coat. And, to a certain extent, they probably coincide with our own experience. Our mistake appears when at the time of sewing, we tear and at the time of tearing, we sew. Then, everything goes wrong.
We are aware that, along with Jesus Christ, we shall reach the glory of Resurrection through his passion and death, and that no other way is God's way. Precisely, Simon Peter is scolded when he tries to lead the Lord away from the only way: «You are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men» (Mt 16:23). If we can enjoy a few moments of peace and joy, let us make the most out of it. There will probably come other moments when we shall have to fast for good. The only difference is that, thanks God, we shall always have the bridegroom beside us. And this is what the Pharisees did not know and, maybe, this is why in the Gospel they always appear as such bad-tempered persons. Therefore, and as far as we are concerned, let us avoid being bad-tempered, while admiring the Lord's soft irony, which can be gathered from today's Gospel.
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Praying with the readings for today, I find myself sitting in my living room looking out our westward facing picture window as the light of day slowly brings the enveloping natural world into focus. Squirrels flick their bushy tails inside silvery blue pines while blood red cardinals flit about singing their unmistakable songs. Rabbits scurry and scatter as my dog makes another day’s worth of unsuccessful attempts to catch any of them, his face nonetheless aglow and his eyes bright with the pure joy of the chase. A deep consolation wells up within me like an underground spring pushing its way through the crust of the earth’s surface.
For in him [Jesus] were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible...all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. (COL 1:16a, 17)
The more time I spend bonding with nature, be it through this picture window, on sauntering daily walks with my wife or during nights spent sleeping under blankets of stars, the closer I feel to God. This is a central feature in my spiritual practice. In today’s first reading, St. Paul is inviting me to look even more closely at the features of creation in order to see the face of Christ.
This is challenged by my urban existence that is filled with countless hours in front of a screen (I’m doing it right now!), running from this meeting to that, waiting at red lights or in traffic, responding to emails and any other myriad daily routines that put me more in touch with plastic, artificial light and high fructose corn syrup than I would prefer. Thankfully, Jesus is calling me out (literally!).
In Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si: on Care for Our Common Home, he echoes the line from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem “God’s Grandeur” that warns “The soil is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod” when he writes, “We were not meant to be inundated by cement, asphalt, glass and metal, and deprived of physical contact with nature.” (pt. 44) I know this in my bones. I feel it on my skin when it is dappled with sunlight. I taste it on my tongue in fresh, summer produce. My contact with Jesus is as close as these things and so much more.
The Society of Jesus has recently announced four Universal Apostolic Preferences which are meant to serve as wayward points or a horizon for the next ten years. Listed among them is “caring for our common home.” The Jesuits and those of us who work alongside them in mission are being invited to tend to the Body of Christ found in creation. This is a theology and a teleology to which Paul was speaking in today’s first reading and that Pope Francis further teases out in Laudato Si: “As Christians, we are also called ‘to accept the world as a sacrament of communion, as a way of sharing with God and our neighbours on a global scale. It is our humble conviction that the divine and the human meet in the slightest detail in the seamless garment of God’s creation, in the last speck of dust of our planet’.” (pt. 9)
Today and every day I am both invited and challenged to see the invisible face of Christ in the very visible face of the other: the parched, drought-ridden landscape; the mighty, melting glacier; the suffering seas; and the mass of migrants on the move because of it. In tending to any of this, I am tending to “Christ Jesus...image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.” (COL 1:15)
As the dawning light calls me forth, I join Mary Oliver in praying:
Every morning I want to kneel down on the golden
cloth of the sand and say
some kind of musical thanks for
the world that is happening again—another day—
from the shawl of wind coming out of the
west to the firm green
flesh of the melon lately sliced open and
eaten, its chill and ample body
flavored with mercy. I want
to be worthy—of what? Glory? Yes, unimaginable glory.
O Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am
not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing toward you.(From “On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate”)
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"GETTING TO KNOW YOU" | ||
| Jesus "is..." �Colossians 1:15 | ||
Many of you have talked and listened to Jesus for many years. You are baptized, that is, immersed in Him. You have even gone so far as to receive Jesus' Body and Blood, soul and divinity. Considering all this, you should know Jesus very well and very deeply. If you lived when St. Paul lived, if you lived before the New Testament was written and collected, if you lived before the Church had a creed or a catechism � could you have experienced and expressed many deep things about Jesus? Even now, can you say from your heart and your personal experience that Jesus is "the Image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creatures"? (Col 1:15) Knowing Jesus as you do, can you say of Jesus: "It is He Who is Head of the Body, the Church; He Who is the Beginning, the First-born of the dead, so that primacy may be His in everything. It pleased God to make absolute fullness reside in Him and, by means of Him, to reconcile everything in His person, both on earth and in the heavens, making peace through the blood of His cross"? (Col 1:18-20) Paul and the early Church did not have many resources from which to copy. They had to speak from experience, which later became tradition. Do you know Jesus as they did? How well do you know Jesus? "Eternal life is this: to know You, the only true God, and Him Whom You have sent, Jesus Christ" (Jn 17:3). | ||
| Prayer: Father, free me from my preoccupation with myself so that I can know You deeply as quickly as possible. | ||
| Promise: "When the days come that the Groom is removed from their midst, they will surely fast in those days." —Lk 5:35 | ||
| Praise: Philip reads and meditates on the Bible daily. |
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The unity of the new and the old
Which comes first, fasting or feasting? The disciples of John the Baptist were upset with Jesus' disciples because they did not fast. Fasting was one of the three most important religious duties, along with prayer and almsgiving. Jesus gave a simple explanation. There's a time for fasting and a time for feasting (or celebrating).
A time to weep and fast - a time to rejoice and celebrate
To walk as a disciple with Jesus is to experience a whole new joy of relationship akin to the joy of the wedding party in celebrating with the groom and bride their wedding bliss. But there also comes a time when the Lord's disciples must bear the cross of affliction and purification. For the disciple there is both a time for rejoicing in the Lord's presence and celebrating his goodness and a time for seeking the Lord with humility and fasting and for mourning over sin. Do you take joy in the Lord's presence with you and do you express sorrow and contrition for your sins?
A mind closed to God's wisdom
Jesus goes on to warn his disciples about the problem of the "closed mind" that refuses to learn new things. Jesus used an image familiar to his audience - new and old wine skins. In Jesus' times, wine was stored in wine skins, not bottles. New wine poured into skins was still fermenting. The gases exerted gave pressure. New wine skins were elastic enough to take the pressure, but old wine skins easily burst because they became hard as they aged. What did Jesus mean by this comparison?
The Old Testament points to the New - the New Testament fulfills the Old
Are we to reject the old in place of the new? Just as there is a right place and a right time for fasting and for feasting, so there is a right place for the old as well as the new. Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old (Matthew 13:52).
A very common ｅxpression, dating back to the early beginnings of the Christian church, states that the New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New - the two shed light on each other. The New Testament does not replace the Old - rather it unveils and brings into full light the hidden meaning and signs which foreshadow and point to God's plan of redemption which he would accomplish through his Son, Jesus Christ. How impoverished we would be if we only had the Old Testament or the New Testament, rather than both.
New "wine" of the Holy Spirit
The Lord Jesus gives us wisdom so we can make the best use of both the old and the new. He doesn't want us to hold rigidly to the past and to be resistant to the new action of his Holy Spirit in our lives. He wants our minds and hearts to be like the new wine skins - open and ready to receive the new wine of the Holy Spirit. Are you eager to grow in the knowledge and understanding of God's word and plan for your life?
"Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit, that I may grow in the knowledge of your great love and truth. Help me to seek you earnestly in prayer and fasting that I may turn away from sin and wilfulness and conform my life more fully to your will. May I always find joy in knowing, loving, and serving you."
Psalm 100:1-5
1 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the lands!
2 Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
3 Know that the LORD is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name!
5 For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: Christ will send you wise men and scribes, by Clement of Alexandria, 150-215 A.D.
"A scribe is one who, through continual reading of the Old and New Testaments, has laid up for himself a storehouse of knowledge. Thus Christ blesses those who have gathered in themselves the education both of the law and of the gospel, so as to 'bring forth from their treasure things both new and old.' And Christ compares such people with a scribe, just as in another place he says, 'I will send you wise men and scribes' (Matthew 23:34)" (excerpt from FRAGMENT 172)
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