2019년 10월 29일 연중 제30주간 화요일
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제1독서
로마서. 8,18-25
형제 여러분, 18 장차 우리에게 계시될 영광에 견주면, 지금 이 시대에 우리가 겪는 고난은 아무것도 아니라고 생각합니다.
19 사실 피조물은 하느님의 자녀들이 나타나기를 간절히 기다리고 있습니다. 20 피조물이 허무의 지배 아래 든 것은 자의가 아니라 그렇게 하신 분의 뜻이었습니다. 그러나 그것은 희망을 간직하고 있습니다. 21 피조물도 멸망의 종살이에서 해방되어, 하느님의 자녀들이 누리는 영광의 자유를 얻을 것입니다.
22 우리는 모든 피조물이 지금까지 다 함께 탄식하며 진통을 겪고 있음을 알고 있습니다. 23 그러나 피조물만이 아니라 성령을 첫 선물로 받은 우리 자신도 하느님의 자녀가 되기를, 우리의 몸이 속량되기를 기다리며 속으로 탄식하고 있습니다.
24 사실 우리는 희망으로 구원을 받았습니다. 보이는 것을 희망하는 것은 희망이 아닙니다. 보이는 것을 누가 희망합니까? 25 우리는 보이지 않는 것을 희망하기에 인내심을 가지고 기다립니다.
복음
루카. 13,18-21
그때에 18 예수님께서 말씀하셨다.
“하느님의 나라는 무엇과 같을까? 그것을 무엇에 비길까? 19 하느님의 나라는 겨자씨와 같다. 어떤 사람이 그것을 가져다가 자기 정원에 심었다. 그랬더니 자라서 나무가 되어 하늘의 새들이 그 가지에 깃들였다.”
20 예수님께서 다시 이르셨다. “하느님의 나라를 무엇에 비길까? 21 그것은 누룩과 같다. 어떤 여자가 그것을 가져다가 밀가루 서 말 속에 집어넣었더니, 마침내 온통 부풀어 올랐다.”
October 29, 2019
Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Rom 8:18-25
I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing
compared with the glory to be revealed for us.
For creation awaits with eager expectation
the revelation of the children of God;
for creation was made subject to futility,
not of its own accord but because of the one who subjected it,
in hope that creation itself
would be set free from slavery to corruption
and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God.
We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now;
and not only that, but we ourselves,
who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,
we also groan within ourselves
as we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
For in hope we were saved.
Now hope that sees for itself is not hope.
For who hopes for what one sees?
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait with endurance.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 126:1b-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6
When the LORD brought back the captives of Zion,
we were like men dreaming.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with rejoicing.
R. The Lord has done marvels for us.
Then they said among the nations,
"The LORD has done great things for them."
The LORD has done great things for us;
we are glad indeed.
R. The Lord has done marvels for us.
Restore our fortunes, O LORD,
like the torrents in the southern desert.
Those that sow in tears
shall reap rejoicing.
R. The Lord has done marvels for us.
Although they go forth weeping,
carrying the seed to be sown,
They shall come back rejoicing,
carrying their sheaves.
R. The Lord has done marvels for us.
Gospel
Lk 13:18-21
To what can I compare it?
It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden.
When it was fully grown, it became a large bush
and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches."
Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?
It is like yeast that a woman took
and mixed in with three measures of wheat flour
until the whole batch of dough was leavened."
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«What is the kingdom of God like?»
+ Fr. Francisco Lucas MATEO Seco
(Pamplona, Navarra, Spain)
Today, the liturgical texts, through these two parables, place before our eyes one of the characteristics of the Kingdom of God: it is something that flourishes slowly —as a mustard seed— but, eventually, grows to offer shelter to the birds in its trees. Tertulian said it like this: «We come from yesterday and we fill everything». With this parable, Our Lord encourages us to patience, fortitude and hope. These virtues are especially necessary for those who devote themselves to propagate the Kingdom of God. We must be patient, and with God's grace and human cooperation, wait for the planted seed to grow while profoundly embedding its roots in the good soil to gradually become a tree. In the first place, we need to have faith in the virtuality —fecundity— contained in the seed of the Kingdom of God. This seed is the Word; it is also the Eucharist that is planted in us through Communion. Our Lord Jesus Christ compared himself to «a kernel of wheat that falls to the ground and dies (…). But if it dies, it produces many seeds» (Jn 12:24).
The Kingdom of God, our Lord goes on, is similar to «the yeast a woman has taken and hidden in three measures of flour until it is all leavened» (Lk 13:21). Here also the yeast capacity to leaven all the dough is mentioned. This is what happens with “the rest of Israel” which the Old Testament mentions: the rest will have to save and leaven all the people. Continuing on with the parable, we only need the yeast inside the dough, getting to the people, to be like salt that preserves from corruption and makes all food to taste (cf. Mt 5:13). Time is also of essence so that it can carry out with its function by and by.
Parables encouraging patience and the hopeful certainty; parables referring to the Kingdom of God and to the Church, and that are also applied to the growth of this same Kingdom in each of us.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Today’s Gospel’s two little parables contained quite large insights. A single mustard seed and a bit of yeast increasing, enlarging are symbols used by Jesus to give a tiny hint of what the “Kingdom of God” is meant to become.
I have the delight to prepare couples for the sacrament of marriage. one aspect I really enjoy is their sharing with me how they met. one woman told me she, and two of her recently-graduated friends, were sitting in a lounge in Las Vegas and one of her friends noticed that a young man across the room was eyeing her. Her friend notified her so she slyly and slowly glanced that way and the fellow winked once. The rest is their history, including a set of twins two years later. Just a wink and a tentative response and look what happened! So many marriages begin with a hint, a glance, a mustard-seed moment.
In class the other day, a female student spoke of “God Winks” as experiences she has as the beginning of her faith in God. She mentioned a few of them which caught her eye or ear and she took them seriously, personally and wonderingly. They led her deeper, inside and not merely remained in her head.
God-winks or hints are subtle. We could ask about why the fellow who winked, didn’t just first come right over and and kneel down and propose! Why didn’t he send her over a drink, or some gambling chips? No relationships which last seem to begin “littlely.” Jesus is speaking of something universal, big-time, a “kingdom” which He began as one man, in a quite-tiny country and with several small-minded mustard-seeded men. We could ask why God didn’t just come right out and say it! Why these hints, these little winks which do not always catch the eye or ear or heart?
Jesus invited responses, personal reception of His invitations. He did and does, come right out and say it, but he also comes right in and says “it” beyond complete understanding. True relationships are based in mystery and the continuation of that relationship increases as it grows. That married couple is living that mystery and increasing in fruitful love. The Kingdom of God is more than understanding or reception of hints and glances.
The object of intimacy of any kind is fruitfulness, increase, branches and leavened bread to be available, shareable, welcoming. How does it all happen? When we mix yeast with flour we do not stand around watching it puff up. When planting seeds we do not sit down to experience just how the seeds spread roots. The Kingdom is taking time within us, as individuals and as a people of the Kingdom.
How do we know when and if we are in? The answer has to do with how each of us is a “winker” or “Hint.” The answers are in our branchings-out, our increasing the revelations of God’s presence and presents. Faith is the reception of, not ideas, but identity and the freedom to increase God’s Kingdom, and not our own.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF HOPE? | ||
| "Hoping for what we cannot see means awaiting it with patient endurance." �Romans 8:25 | ||
A lengthy waiting period can either make or break our hope. We can react by growing bitter and losing hope. "Hope deferred makes the heart sick" (Prv 13:12). For example, a man had been sick for thirty-eight years (Jn 5:5ff). Although he daily placed himself in a position of hope by the side of healing waters, he didn't expect to be healed. When Jesus came to him, he had excuses instead of expectations (Jn 5:7). He built his life around going through the motions of hope, but was "without hope" (Eph 2:12). Alternatively, we can use a long and difficult waiting period to increase in hope and get better instead of bitter. "Affliction makes for endurance, and endurance for tested virtue, and tested virtue for hope" (Rm 5:3-4). Instead of breaking our hope, the difficulty and long time without change makes for a hope full of patient endurance (Rm 8:24-25). Simeon (Lk 2:25ff) and Anna (Lk 2:36ff) used a long period of waiting to grow better, not bitter. Instead of going through the motions of hope, they devoted their hearts to God and became full of hope. For what have you been hoping and praying a long time? Are you going through the motions of praying for these intentions without having any real hope of the Lord answering your prayers? Like the growth of a mustard seed, sometimes in God's kingdom things take a long time. Ask God for an increase of hope. With Simeon and Anna, say: "this hope will not leave us disappointed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us" (Rm 5:5). | ||
| Prayer: Jesus, "Hope of Glory" (Col 1:27), encourage me when I lose hope (Sir 17:19). May I "rejoice in hope" (Rm 12:12). | ||
| Promise: "In hope we were saved." —Rm 8:24 | ||
| Praise: Chris and Jo's marriage was saved when they gave up their own desires, and gave it all to the Lord. |
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
"What God's kingdom is like"
What can mustard seeds and leaven teach us about the kingdom of God? The tiny mustard seed literally grew to be a tree which attracted numerous birds because they loved the little black mustard seed it produced. God's kingdom works in a similar fashion. It starts from the smallest beginnings in the hearts of men and women who are receptive to God's word. And it works unseen and causes a transformation from within.
The transforming power of the Holy Spirit within us
Leaven is another powerful agent of change. A lump of dough left to itself remains just what it is, a lump of dough. But when the leaven is added to it a transformation takes place which produces rich and wholesome bread when heated - the staple of life for humans. The kingdom of God produces a transformation in those who receive the new life which Jesus Christ offers. When we yield to Jesus Christ, our lives are transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. Paul the Apostle says, "we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us" (2 Corinthians 4:7). Do you believe in the transforming power of the Holy Spirit?
"Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit and transform me into the Christ-like holiness you desire. Increase my zeal for your kingdom and instill in me a holy desire to live for your greater glory."
Psalm 126:1-6
1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."
3 The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.
4 Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the watercourses in the Negeb!
5 May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy!
6 He that goes forth weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: The Word of God operates in us like leaven, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"The leaven is small in quantity, yet it immediately seizes the whole mass and quickly communicates its own properties to it. The Word of God operates in us in a similar manner. When it is admitted within us, it makes us holy and without blame. By pervading our mind and heart, it makes us spiritual. Paul says, 'Our whole body and spirit and soul may be kept blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ' (1 Thessalonians 5:23). The God of all clearly shows that the divine Word is poured out even into the depth of our understanding... We receive the rational and divine leaven in our mind. We understand that by this precious, holy and pure leaven, we may be found spiritually unleavened and have none of the wickedness of the world, but rather be pure, holy partakers of Christ." (excerpt from COMMENTARY on LUKE, HOMILY 96)
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