2019년 9월 25일 연중 제25주간 수요일
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1독서
에즈라기. 9,5-9
5 저녁 제사 때에 나 에즈라는 단식을 그치고 일어나서, 의복과 겉옷은 찢어진 채 무릎을 꿇고 두 손을 펼쳐, 주 나의 하느님께 6 말씀드렸다.
“저의 하느님, 너무나 부끄럽고 수치스러워서, 저의 하느님, 당신께 제 얼굴을 들 수가 없습니다. 저희 죄악은 머리 위로 불어났고, 저희 잘못은 하늘까지 커졌습니다.
7 저희 조상 때부터 이날까지, 저희는 큰 잘못을 저지르며 살아왔습니다. 그리고 저희의 죄악 때문에 오늘 이처럼, 임금들과 사제들과 더불어 저희가 여러 나라 임금들과 칼에 넘겨지고, 포로살이와 약탈과 부끄러운 일을 당하도록 넘겨지고 말았습니다. 8 그러나 이제 잠깐이나마 주 하느님께서 은혜를 내리시어, 저희에게 생존자를 남겨 주시고, 당신의 거룩한 곳에 저희를 위하여 터전을 마련해 주셨습니다. 하느님께서는 저희 눈을 비추시고, 종살이하는 저희를 조금이나마 되살려 주셨습니다.
9 정녕 저희는 종입니다. 그러나 하느님께서는 종살이하는 저희를 버려두지 않으시고, 페르시아 임금들 앞에서 저희에게 자애를 베푸시어 저희를 되살리셔서, 하느님의 집을 다시 세우고 그 폐허를 일으키도록 해 주셨고, 유다와 예루살렘에 다시 성벽을 쌓게 해 주셨습니다.”
복음
루카. 9,1-6
그때에 1 예수님께서는 열두 제자를 불러 모으시어, 모든 마귀를 쫓아내고 질병을 고치는 힘과 권한을 주셨다. 2 그리고 하느님의 나라를 선포하고 병자들을 고쳐 주라고 보내시며, 3 그들에게 이르셨다.
“길을 떠날 때에 아무것도 가져가지 마라. 지팡이도, 여행 보따리도, 빵도, 돈도, 여벌 옷도 지니지 마라.
4 어떤 집에 들어가거든 그곳을 떠날 때까지 거기에 머물러라. 5 사람들이 너희를 받아들이지 않으면, 그 고을을 떠날 때에 그들에게 보이는 증거로 너희 발에서 먼지를 털어 버려라.”
6 제자들은 떠나가서 이 마을 저 마을 돌아다니며, 어디에서나 복음을 전하고 병을 고쳐 주었다.
September 25, 2019
Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1
Ez 9:5-9
At the time of the evening sacrifice, I, Ezra, rose in my wretchedness,
and with cloak and mantle torn I fell on my knees,
stretching out my hands to the LORD, my God.
I said: “My God, I am too ashamed and confounded to raise my face to you,
O my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads
and our guilt reaches up to heaven.
From the time of our fathers even to this day
great has been our guilt,
and for our wicked deeds we have been delivered up,
we and our kings and our priests,
to the will of the kings of foreign lands,
to the sword, to captivity, to pillage, and to disgrace,
as is the case today.
“And now, but a short time ago, mercy came to us from the LORD, our God,
who left us a remnant and gave us a stake in his holy place;
thus our God has brightened our eyes
and given us relief in our servitude.
For slaves we are, but in our servitude our God has not abandoned us;
rather, he has turned the good will
of the kings of Persia toward us.
Thus he has given us new life
to raise again the house of our God and restore its ruins,
and has granted us a fence in Judah and Jerusalem .”
Responsorial Psalm
Tobit 13:2, 3-4a, 4befghn, 7-8
R. (1b) Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
He scourges and then has mercy;
he casts down to the depths of the nether world,
and he brings up from the great abyss.
No one can escape his hand.
R. Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
Praise him, you children of Israel , before the Gentiles,
for though he has scattered you among them,
he has shown you his greatness even there.
R. Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
So now consider what he has done for you,
and praise him with full voice.
Bless the Lord of righteousness,
and exalt the King of ages.
R. Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
In the land of my exile I praise him
and show his power and majesty to a sinful nation.
R. Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
Bless the Lord, all you his chosen ones,
and may all of you praise his majesty.
Celebrate days of gladness, and give him praise.
R. Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
Gospel
Lk 9:1-6
Jesus summoned the Twelve and gave them power and authority
over all demons and to cure diseases,
and he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God
and to heal the sick.
He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey,
neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money,
and let no one take a second tunic.
Whatever house you enter, stay there and leave from there.
And as for those who do not welcome you,
when you leave that town,
shake the dust from your feet in testimony against them.”
Then they set out and went from village to village
proclaiming the good news and curing diseases everywhere.
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«Jesus called his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority to drive out all evil spirits and to heal diseases»
Fr. Jordi CASTELLET i Sala
(Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà, Barcelona, Spain)
Today, we are given to live in times when new mental diseases are reaching unsuspected levels never ever known before. At present, our rhythm of life is impelling us towards a stressing race to consume and misrepresent more than our neighbor next door, the whole dragnet being seasoned with a strong dosage of individualism, that is customizing persons isolated from the rest of the world. This loneliness, that many of us are forced to put up with because of social conveniences, job pressure or enslaving practices, is responsible for quite a few of us buckling under depression, neurosis, hysterics, schizophrenia, or some other mental disorders, that may severely endanger a person's future.
«Jesus called his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority to drive out all evil spirits and to heal diseases» (Lk 9:1). Diseases we can identify in the same Gospel as mental diseases.
Meeting Christ, the perfect Person, brings about a state of equilibrium and peace that soothes our mood and allows us to rediscover ourselves while providing light and lucidity to our lives and to our approach to future. The Gospels are criteria to clarify any doubts; they are good to teach and mentor, to educate both young and older, and to lead persons through the path of life, that path that never has to shrivel.
«So they set out and went through the villages, proclaiming the good news» (Lk 9:6). This is our mission too: to live and ponder over the Gospel, the very word of Jesus, so that it can be imbued into us. Thus, by and by, we shall be able to find the path to follow and the freedom to accomplish. As John Paul II has written, «peace has to be accomplished through truth (...); it has to be built in freedom».
Let Jesus Christ —who called us to faith and eternal joy— overfills us with his hope and love, He who has given us a new life and an inexhaustible future.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
The Feast of the Holy Cross each year (September 14) falls close to the Fall Equinox and the continued movement into the rapidly waning light in the Northern Hemisphere. Now there are now more hours of darkness and the agrarian world is entering the time of harvest. This natural context in the world in which the liturgical calendar developed through many centuries provides a deep sub-text for the Church’s prayer in the final months of the year. The Readings from both the Sunday and daily lectionaries during this period draw on the closing weeks or months of the mission period of Jesus, leading up to his passion and death. The readings also challenge each and all Christians to face claim and practice their purpose – which is to provide fruit. The chosen liturgical texts invite us to ponder our accountability for our actions and our failures to act – challenging us to be clearer about what God desires of us.
Part of this liturgical focus of the ending of Jesus’ work is also on the handing over of his labor to those he has chosen to succeed and carry on his mission of salvation. Those chosen are guided, disciplined, into the mission of proclaiming God’s saving love. In today’s Gospel we hear Jesus instructing his disciples into a kind of internship. Here they are given his authority over illness and evil, based on the level of trust in God they exercise, to effectively move through the cities and towns of the region proclaiming the good news, and manifesting its effects through healings and reconciliations.
This internship under Jesus’ direct supervision is the necessary ecclesial method for those who are called to preach and heal. The trust they have is manifest in their lack of concern for the “daily bread” of food, water, shelter and clothing. Such trust assumes that God will provide for them the material goods they need to be effective in disclosing God’s Reign in the world.
We know from history that when Christians do not trust in God they are driven by their own need or greed to choices that HIDE the Kingdom of God rather than disclosing it. When the Church, most particularly its visible leaders, fail to live the genuine trust at the heart of poverty of spirit, then concern about possessions instead of the work of the Gospel causes the Church to fail in its mission of proclaiming God’s mercy. Even the baptized can not hear the truth of mercy because those entrusted with proclaiming it don’t believe or practice it.
This points back to the choice of the short passage from the Book of Ezra that serves as the first reading today. The priest, Ezra is responsible for restoring the Mosaic and Davidic Law to the people of Israel, both those returning and the people of the land who were not taken away. The exiles returned to find the poorer members of the community, mostly poor farmers, greatly influenced by the cultural pagan values around them. In his zeal for God’s plan as he understands it, Ezra weeps in grief over the corporate breach in the Covenant the community’s behavior indicates and proclaims. Like Moses in the Exodus, Ezra realizes that salvation comes from God’s mercy, but God gives trusting disciples the capacity to accomplish His work of salvation.
Today’s liturgy should serve as a good challenge to all of us that are concerned about rebuilding God’s Church to a faithful voice of mercy and reconciliation in a very broken world. We will never be effective if we don’t pay attention to the “internship” in ministry that Jesus put his disciples through. Trusting in God is the essential energy that proclaiming the Kingdom flows from – and all the Baptized are called to exercise the discipleship of proclamation and healing.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
TRUST-FUN | ||
| "Take nothing for the journey, neither walking staff nor traveling bag; no bread, no money. No one is to have two coats." �Luke 9:3 | ||
Jesus commanded His disciples to "take nothing for the journey." This does not mean that they had nothing but that they did not control whether or not they would have something. Jesus later "asked them, 'When I sent you on mission without purse or traveling bag or sandals, were you in need of anything?' 'Not a thing,' they replied" (Lk 22:35). Jesus' disciples did not live in poverty so much as in trust. When we take nothing for our life's journey but trust, we not only see our Father's providence for us, His children, but we also see miracles as we go "spreading the good news everywhere and curing diseases" (Lk 9:6). This makes credible our proclamation that the kingdom of God is at hand (see Lk 9:2). Thus, trust is not only the atmosphere for our journey but also the foundation for our mission. If we try to control our lives, we will lose them (see Lk 9:24). If we give God control of our lives, we will gain them. Trust frees us from the tyrannical compulsion to control our lives. Trust frees us to receive Abba's love and power. "Trust in Him at all times, O my people!" (Ps 62:9) | ||
| Prayer: Father, in You we trust! | ||
| Promise: "He has given us new life to raise again the house of our God and restore its ruins, and has granted us a fence in Judah and Jerusalem." —Ezr 9:9 | ||
| Praise: After surviving the loss of everything in the wildfires, James and his family thanked God. | ||
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"Jesus gave them authority over all demons and diseases"
What kind of power and authority does God want you to exercise in your personal life and service? God's word has power to change and transform our lives. Jesus gave his apostles both power and authority to speak and to act in his name - to cast out evil spirits, to heal, and to speak the word of God. When Jesus spoke of power and authority he did something unheard of. He wedded power and authority with love and humility. The world and the flesh seek power for selfish gain. Jesus teaches us to use it for the good of our neighbor.
God gives power and strength to those who rely on him alone
Why does Jesus tell the apostles to travel light with little or no provision? Poverty of spirit frees us from greed and preoccupation with possessions and makes ample room for God's provision. The Lord wants his disciples to be dependent on him and not on themselves. He wills to work in and through each of us for his glory. Are you ready to handle the power and authority which God wishes you to exercise on his behalf? The Lord entrusts us with his gifts and talents. Are you eager to place yourself at his service, to do whatever he bids you, and to witness his truth and saving power to whomever he sends you?
"Lord Jesus, make me a channel of your grace and healing love that others may find life and freedom in you. Free me from all other attachments that I may joyfully pursue the things of your heavenly kingdom. May I witness to others the joy of the Gospel both in word and deed."
Psalm 119:29, 72, 89, 101, 104, 163
29 Put false ways far from me; and graciously teach me thy law!
72 The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is firmly fixed in the heavens.
101 I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep thy word.
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
163 I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love thy law.
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: Jesus gave power and authority to his apostles, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"The grace bestowed upon the holy apostles is worthy of all admiration. But the bountifulness of the Giver surpasses all praise and admiration. He gives them, as I said, his own glory. They receive authority over the evil spirits. They reduce to nothing the pride of the devil that was so highly exalted and arrogant. They render ineffectual the demon's wickedness. By the might and efficacy of the Holy Spirit, burning them as if they were on fire, they make the devil come forth with groans and weeping from those whom he had possessed... He glorified his disciples, therefore, by giving them authority and power over the evil spirits and over sicknesses. Did he honor them without reason and make them famous without any logical cause? How can this be true? It was necessary, most necessary, that they should be able to work miracles, having been publicly appointed ministers of sacred proclamations. By means of their works, they then could convince men that they were the ministers of God and mediators of all beneath the heaven. The apostles then could invite them all to reconciliation and justification by faith and point out the way of salvation and of life that is this justification." (excerpt from COMMENTARY on LUKE, HOMILY 47)
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