2019년 10월 26일 연중 제29주간 토요일
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제1독서
로마서 8,1-11
형제 여러분, 1 이제 그리스도 예수님 안에 있는 이들은 단죄를 받을 일이 없습니다. 2 그리스도 예수님 안에서 생명을 주시는 성령의 법이 그대를 죄와 죽음의 법에서 해방시켜 주었기 때문입니다.
3 율법이 육으로 말미암아 나약해져 이룰 수 없던 것을 하느님께서 이루셨습니다. 곧 당신의 친아드님을 죄 많은 육의 모습을 지닌 속죄 제물로 보내시어 그 육 안에서 죄를 처단하셨습니다.
4 이는 육이 아니라 성령에 따라 살아가는 우리 안에서, 율법이 요구하는 바가 채워지게 하려는 것이었습니다.
5 무릇 육을 따르는 자들은 육에 속한 것을 생각하고, 성령을 따르는 이들은 성령에 속한 것을 생각합니다. 6 육의 관심사는 죽음이고 성령의 관심사는 생명과 평화입니다. 7 육의 관심사는 하느님을 적대하는 것이기 때문입니다. 사실 그것은 하느님의 법에 복종하지 않을 뿐만 아니라 복종할 수도 없습니다. 8 육 안에 있는 자들은 하느님 마음에 들 수 없습니다.
9 그러나 하느님의 영이 여러분 안에 사시기만 하면, 여러분은 육 안에 있지 않고 성령 안에 있게 됩니다. 누구든지 그리스도의 영을 모시고 있지 않으면, 그는 그리스도께 속한 사람이 아닙니다. 10 그러나 그리스도께서 여러분 안에 계시면, 몸은 비록 죄 때문에 죽은 것이 되지만, 의로움 때문에 성령께서 여러분의 생명이 되어 주십니다.
11 예수님을 죽은 이들 가운데에서 일으키신 분의 영께서 여러분 안에 사시면, 그리스도를 죽은 이들 가운데에서 일으키신 분께서 여러분 안에 사시는 당신의 영을 통하여 여러분의 죽을 몸도 다시 살리실 것입니다.
복음
루카 13,1-9
1 바로 그때에 어떤 사람들이 와서, 빌라도가 갈릴래아 사람들을 죽여 그들이 바치려던 제물을 피로 물들게 한 일을 예수님께 알렸다.
2 그러자 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다. “너희는 그 갈릴래아 사람들이 그러한 변을 당하였다고 해서 다른 모든 갈릴래아 사람보다 더 큰 죄인이라고 생각하느냐? 3 아니다. 내가 너희에게 말한다. 너희도 회개하지 않으면 모두 그처럼 멸망할 것이다.
4 또 실로암에 있던 탑이 무너지면서 깔려 죽은 그 열여덟 사람, 너희는 그들이 예루살렘에 사는 다른 모든 사람보다 더 큰 잘못을 하였다고 생각하느냐? 5 아니다. 내가 너희에게 말한다. 너희도 회개하지 않으면 모두 그렇게 멸망할 것이다.”
6 예수님께서 이러한 비유를 말씀하셨다. “어떤 사람이 자기 포도밭에 무화과나무 한 그루를 심어 놓았다. 그리고 나중에 가서 그 나무에 열매가 달렸나 하고 찾아보았지만 하나도 찾지 못하였다.
7 그래서 포도 재배인에게 일렀다. ‘보게, 내가 삼 년째 와서 이 무화과나무에 열매가 달렸나 하고 찾아보지만 하나도 찾지 못하네. 그러니 이것을 잘라 버리게. 땅만 버릴 이유가 없지 않은가?’
8 그러자 포도 재배인이 그에게 대답하였다. ‘주인님, 이 나무를 올해만 그냥 두시지요. 그동안에 제가 그 둘레를 파서 거름을 주겠습니다. 9 그러면 내년에는 열매를 맺겠지요. 그러지 않으면 잘라 버리십시오.’”
October 26, 2019
Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Rom 8:1-11
Now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus
has freed you from the law of sin and death.
For what the law, weakened by the flesh, was powerless to do,
this God has done:
by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
and for the sake of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
so that the righteous decree of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who live not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.
For those who live according to the flesh
are concerned with the things of the flesh,
but those who live according to the spirit
with the things of the spirit.
The concern of the flesh is death,
but the concern of the spirit is life and peace.
For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God;
it does not submit to the law of God, nor can it;
and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
But you are not in the flesh;
on the contrary, you are in the spirit,
if only the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
But if Christ is in you,
although the body is dead because of sin,
the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
the one who raised Christ from the dead
will give life to your mortal bodies also,
through his Spirit that dwells in you.
Responsorial Psalm
PS 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6
The LORD’s are the earth and its fullness;
the world and those who dwell in it.
For he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain.
R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
a reward from God his savior.
Such is the race that seeks for him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
R. Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
Gospel
Lk 13:1-9
whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.
He said to them in reply,
“Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way
they were greater sinners than all other Galileans?
By no means!
But I tell you, if you do not repent,
you will all perish as they did!
Or those eighteen people who were killed
when the tower at Siloam fell on them—
do you think they were more guilty
than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem?
By no means!
But I tell you, if you do not repent,
you will all perish as they did!”
And he told them this parable:
“There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard,
and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none,
he said to the gardener,
‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree
but have found none.
So cut it down.
Why should it exhaust the soil?’
He said to him in reply,
‘Sir, leave it for this year also,
and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;
it may bear fruit in the future.
If not you can cut it down.’”
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«He came looking for fruit on it, but found none»
+ Fr. Antoni ORIOL i Tataret
(Vic, Barcelona, Spain)
Today, Jesus' words invite us to ponder over the inconveniences of hypocrisy: «A man had a fig tree growing in his vine-yard and he came looking for fruit on it, but found none» (Lk 13:6). The hypocrite makes believe to be what he is not. This lie reaches its apex when one feigns virtue (the moral aspect) but is dissolute and libertine, or feigns devotion (the religious aspect) but only cares about himself and his own interests and not about God. Moral hypocrisy abounds in our world, and religious hypocrisy hurts the Church.
Jesus' invectives against the masters of the Law and the Pharisees —clearer and more direct in other evangelic fragments— are very strong. We cannot help reading them or feeling what we have just felt and read and not remain astounded, unless we have not really understood or listened to its message.
We all have experienced the distance between what we pretend to be and what we actually are. Some politicians are hypocritical when they claim to be serving their country while they are simply using it; security forces can be, when, in the name of public order, they protect crooked and illegal groups; sanitary personnel could also be when, in the name of medicine, they decide to do away with an incipient life or advance the ending of a terminal patient; the media, when they alter the news or pretend to amuse people by corrupting them; administrators of public money, when they divert part of it to their own party or individual pockets, but openly proclaim their honesty; the laity, when they hinder the public dimension of religion in the name of the freedom of conscience; friars, when they live out of their monastic orders, unfaithful to the spirit and demands of their rule; and priests, who live from the altar and do not serve their parishioners with evangelic spirit and abnegation; etc.
Ah! and you and I too, to the extent our conscience may tell us what we are supposed to be doing and we do not do it, and we prefer to see the splinter in the other's eye while we do not even want to realize we have a trunk in our own eyes. Is it not so?
—Jesus Christ, Savior of the world, save us from our hypocrisies, whether be small or great!
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Like the fig tree in today’s reading from Luke, we all need a bit of cultivation and fertilization to be the best we can be. In the absence of nurturing and loving intention, any one of us can lose our ability to flourish. We can lose our way. The fig’s owner wanted to cut down the tree when it stopped bearing fruit. How often do we rush to judgement as to the worthiness of others? How quickly do we turn our backs on people (or plants in our garden?) that may need little more than our kindness, our nurturing, our support?
Today’s reading called me to gratitude for the people in my life who have taken the time to help grow me; to help me blossom and bear good fruit for the world. That gratitude encourages me to return the favor. In small ways, I can give a little more time to one of my students, to treat a stranger with kindness, to wink and smile at a child – even when those individuals may not seem open to the love.
Not one of the marginalized of this world is a greater sinner than I am. Not one of the oppressed deserve their fate. Jesus calls me as a sinner to repent, and as a child of God to open my heart to the spirit and to love others. As the beneficiary of both the love of God and the nurturing of other people, I am happy to share that love, and when I do, to perhaps encourage the baby figs of joy and love in others. Amen.
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DEADLINES CAN BE "LIFELINES" | ||
| "In answer, the man said, 'Sir, leave it another year while I hoe around it and manure it; then perhaps it will bear fruit. If not, it shall be cut down.' " �Luke 13:8-9 | ||
The Lord has stated clearly that He expects us to bear fruit which is abundant (Jn 15:5) and lasting (Jn 15:16). He has given us all we need to bear the fruit of the Spirit, the fruit of holiness (see Gal 5:22-23), and the fruit of evangelization. If we are truly holy, we will evangelize effectively. The Lord is patient with us. He does not expect us to bear fruit overnight (see Mk 4:27), but He will not wait for our fruit forever. For example, sometimes the Lord sets a deadline of one more year (see Lk 13:8). If we do not accept His grace to bear fruit within a year, then the deadline will literally be our spiritual death. However, God wills that the deadline be a "lifeline" � the time of full life and fruitfulness. We bear fruit by:
Bear fruit for Jesus. The clock is ticking. Will God's deadline be your lifeline? | ||
| Prayer: Father, may I love You and people so much that I will not settle for anything less than bearing maximum fruit. | ||
| Promise: "There is no condemnation now for those who are in Christ Jesus." —Rm 8:1 | ||
| Praise: After raising one son, Maria remarried and adopted four more children by the grace of God. |
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"Unless you repent - you will perish"
What can a calamity, such as a political blood-bath or a natural disaster, teach us about God's kingdom and the consequences of wrong-doing and turning away from God? Jesus used two such occasions to address the issue of sin (wrong-doing) and judgment with his Jewish audience. Pilate, who was the Roman governor of Jerusalem at the time, ordered his troops to slaughter a group of Galileans who had come up to Jerusalem to offer sacrifice in the Temple. We do not know what these Galileans did to incite Pilate's wrath, nor why Pilate chose to attack them in the holiest of places for the Jews, in their temple at Jerusalem. For the Jews, this was political barbarity and sacrilege at its worst!
The second incident which Jesus addressed was a natural disaster, a tower in Jerusalem which unexpectedly collapsed, killing 18 people. The Jews often associated such calamities and disasters as a consequence of sin (doing what is wrong and contrary to God's law). Scripture does warn that sin can result in calamity! Though the righteous fall seven times, and rise again; the wicked are overthrown by calamity (Proverbs 24:16).
The time for repentance and forgiveness is right now!
The real danger and calamity which Jesus points out is that an unexpected disaster or a sudden death does not give us time to repent of our sins by acknowledging our wrong-doing and asking for pardon here and now before we die and are brought face to face with the Lord of heaven and earth when he calls us to his judgment seat. The Book of Job reminds us that misfortune and calamity can befall both the righteous and the unrighteous alike. Jesus gives a clear warning - take responsibility for your actions and moral choices and put sin to death today before it can poison your heart, corrupt your mind, and bring destruction to your body as well. Allowing sin and sinful attitudes to go unchecked in us is like a cancer which spreads and corrupts us from within and causes death if it is not cut off.We must honestly and humbly acknowledge our sins before God and ask for his forgiveness and for his healing grace to restore and change us so that we may grow day by day into the holiness he desires for us. Holding on to sinful attitudes, and refusing to confess our wrongdoing (sins) before God to receive his pardon and healing, can only lead to one result - a corrupt heart, mind, and soul that is dead spiritually. Paul the Apostle reminds us that "the wages of sin in death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23). Spiritual death and separation from God is a far worse condition than any physical harm or loss we might experience in this present life.Choose today for the abundant life and grace which Christ has won for you through his victory over sin and death on the Cross.
The sign of the barren fig tree
Jesus followed his warning to turn away from sin and not allow it to corrupt our minds and hearts with an illustration and story (parable) from nature and farming which his listeners would have easily understood. Good land for growing crops and fruit trees were sparse in the arrid climate of Judae and the surrounding desert regions. one very common and important source of food for the people who lived in the region of Galilee and Judea was the fig tree. Its fruit was highly prized and became a symbol of God's fruitful blessing and provision for his people. A fig tree normally matured within three years, producing plentiful fruit. If it failed, it was cut down to make room for more healthy trees. A decaying fig tree and its bad fruit came to symbolize for the Jews the consequence of spiritual corruption caused by evil deeds and unrepentant sin.
The unfruitful fig tree symbolized the outcome of Israel's indifference and lack of response to God's word of repentance and restoration. The prophets depicted the desolation and calamity of Israel's fall and ruin - due to her unfaithfulness to God - as a languishing fig tree (see Joel 1:7,12; Habbakuk 3:17; and Jeremiah 8:13). Jeremiah likened good and evil rulers and members of Israel with figs that were either good for eating or rotten and wasteful (Jeremiah 24:2-8). Jesus' parable depicts the patience of God, but it also contains a warning that we should not presume upon God's patience and mercy. God's judgment will come in due course - very soon or later. Jesus' parable of the barren fig tree illustrates his warning about the consequences of allowing sin (wrongdoing) and moral corruption to take root in our hearts and minds. We must turn away from sinful atttitudes and sinful habits and turn to God for his transforming grace and power to change us.
Why God judges
Why does God judge his people? He judges to purify and cleanse us of all sin so that we might grow in his holiness and righteousness (being in a right relationship with God). And he disciplines us for our own good, to inspire a godly fear and reverence for him and his holy word. God is patient, but for those who persistently and stubbornly rebel against him and refuse to repent and change their course, there is the consequence that they will lose both their soul and body to hell.
Are God's judgments unjust or unloving? When God's judgments are revealed in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness (Isaiah 26:9). To pronounce God's judgment on sin is much less harsh than what will happen if those who sin are not warned to repent and turn back to God.
Don't tolerate sin
God, in his mercy, gives us time to get right with him, but that time is now. We must not assume that there is no hurry. A sudden and unexpected death leaves one no time to prepare to settle one's accounts when he or she must stand before the Lord on the day of judgment. Jesus warns us that we must be ready at all times. Tolerating sinful habits and excusing unrepentant sin and wrongdoing will result in bad fruit, painful discipline, and spiritual disease that leads to death and destruction. The Lord in his mercy gives us both grace (his gracious help and healing) and time to turn away from sin, but that time is right now. If we delay, even for a day, we may discover that grace has passed us by and our time is up. Do you hunger for the Lord's righteousness (moral goodness) and holiness?
"Lord Jesus, increase my hunger for you that I may grow in righteousness and holiness. May I not squander the grace of the present moment to say "yes" to you and to your will and plan for my life."
Psalm 24:1-6
1 The earth is the LORD's and the fulness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein;
2 for he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the rivers.
3 Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.
5 He will receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God of his salvation.
6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: The Lord's three visits through the Patriarchs, Prophets, and the Gospel, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"The Lord also has something very fitting to say about a fruitless tree, 'Look, it is now three years that I have been coming to it. Finding no fruit on it, I will cut it down, to stop it blocking up my field.' The gardener intercedes... This tree is the human race. The Lord visited this tree in the time of the patriarchs, as if for the first year. He visited it in the time of the law and the prophets, as if for the second year. Here we are now; with the gospel the third year has dawned. Now it is as though it should have been cut down, but the merciful one intercedes with the merciful one. He wanted to show how merciful he was, and so he stood up to himself with a plea for mercy. 'Let us leave it,' he says, 'this year too. Let us dig a ditch around it.' Manure is a sign of humility. 'Let us apply a load of manure; perhaps it may bear fruit.' Since it does bear fruit in one part, and in another part does not bear fruit, its Lord will come and divide it. What does that mean, 'divide it'? There are good people and bad people now in one company, as though constituting one body." (excerpt from Sermon 254.3)
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