2019년 11월 26일 연중 제34주간 화요일
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1독서
다니엘 예언서. 2,31-45
그 무렵 다니엘이 네부카드네자르 임금에게 말하였다.
31 “임금님, 임금님께서는 무엇인가를 보고 계셨습니다. 그것은 큰 상이었습니다. 그 거대하고 더없이 번쩍이는 상이 임금님 앞에 서 있었는데, 그 모습이 무시무시하였습니다.
32 그 상의 머리는 순금이고 가슴과 팔은 은이고 배와 넓적다리는 청동이며, 33 아랫다리는 쇠이고, 발은 일부는 쇠로, 일부는 진흙으로 되어 있었습니다.
34 임금님께서 그것을 보고 계실 때, 아무도 손을 대지 않았는데 돌 하나가 떨어져 나와, 쇠와 진흙으로 된 그 상의 발을 쳐서 부수어 버렸습니다.
35 그러자 쇠, 진흙, 청동, 은, 금이 다 부서져서, 여름 타작마당의 겨처럼 되어 바람에 날려가 버리니, 그 흔적조차 찾아볼 수 없게 되었습니다. 그런데 그 상을 친 돌은 거대한 산이 되어 온 세상을 채웠습니다.
36 이것이 그 꿈입니다. 이제 그 뜻을 저희가 임금님께 아뢰겠습니다.
37 임금님, 임금님께서는 임금들의 임금이십니다. 하늘의 하느님께서 임금님께 나라와 권능과 권세와 영화를 주셨습니다. 38 또 사람과 들의 짐승과 하늘의 새를, 그들이 어디에서 살든 다 임금님 손에 넘기시어, 그들을 모두 다스리게 하셨습니다. 임금님께서 바로 그 금으로 된 머리이십니다.
39 임금님 다음에는 임금님보다 못한 다른 나라가 일어나겠습니다. 그다음에는 청동으로 된 셋째 나라가 온 세상을 다스리게 됩니다. 40 그러고 나서 쇠처럼 강건한 넷째 나라가 생겨날 것입니다. 쇠가 모든 것을 부수고 깨뜨리듯이, 그렇게 으깨 버리는 쇠처럼 그 나라는 앞의 모든 나라를 부수고 깨뜨릴 것입니다.
41 그런데 일부는 옹기장이의 진흙으로, 일부는 쇠로 된 발과 발가락들을 임금님께서 보셨듯이, 그것은 둘로 갈라진 나라가 될 것입니다. 그러나 쇠와 옹기 진흙이 섞여 있는 것을 보셨듯이, 쇠의 강한 면은 남아 있겠습니다.
42 그 발가락들이 일부는 쇠로, 일부는 진흙으로 된 것처럼, 그 나라도 한쪽은 강하고 다른 쪽은 깨지기가 쉬울 것입니다.
43 임금님께서 쇠와 옹기 진흙이 섞여 있는 것을 보셨듯이 그들은 혼인으로 맺어지기는 하지만, 쇠가 진흙과 섞여 하나가 되지 못하는 것처럼 서로 결합되지는 못할 것입니다.
44 이 임금들의 시대에 하늘의 하느님께서 한 나라를 세우실 터인데, 그 나라는 영원히 멸망하지 않고 그 왕권이 다른 민족에게 넘어가지도 않을 것입니다. 그 나라는 앞의 모든 나라를 부수어 멸망시키고 영원히 서 있을 것입니다.
45 이는 아무도 돌을 떠내지 않았는데 돌 하나가 산에서 떨어져 나와, 쇠와 청동과 진흙과 은과 금을 부수는 것을 임금님께서 보신 것과 같습니다. 위대하신 하느님께서 앞으로 무슨 일이 일어날지 임금님께 알려 주신 것입니다. 꿈은 확실하고 그 뜻은 틀림없습니다.”
복음
루카. 21,5-11
그때에 5 몇몇 사람이 성전을 두고, 그것이 아름다운 돌과 자원 예물로 꾸며졌다고 이야기하자, 예수님께서 이르셨다.
6 “너희가 보고 있는 저것들이, 돌 하나도 다른 돌 위에 남아 있지 않고 다 허물어질 때가 올 것이다.”
7 그들이 예수님께 물었다. “스승님, 그러면 그런 일이 언제 일어나겠습니까? 또 그 일이 벌어지려고 할 때에 어떤 표징이 나타나겠습니까?”
8 예수님께서 이르셨다. “너희는 속는 일이 없도록 조심하여라. 많은 사람이 내 이름으로 와서, ‘내가 그리스도다.’, 또 ‘때가 가까웠다.’ 하고 말할 것이다. 그들 뒤를 따라가지 마라.
9 그리고 너희는 전쟁과 반란이 일어났다는 소문을 듣더라도 무서워하지 마라. 그러한 일이 반드시 먼저 벌어지겠지만, 그것이 바로 끝은 아니다.”
10 이어서 그들에게 말씀하셨다. “민족과 민족이 맞서 일어나고, 나라와 나라가 맞서 일어나며, 11 큰 지진이 발생하고, 곳곳에 기근과 전염병이 생길 것이다. 그리고 하늘에서는 무서운 일들과 큰 표징들이 일어날 것이다.”
November 26, 2019
Tuesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Dn 2:31-45
"In your vision, O king, you saw a statue,
very large and exceedingly bright,
terrifying in appearance as it stood before you.
The head of the statue was pure gold,
its chest and arms were silver,
its belly and thighs bronze, the legs iron,
its feet partly iron and partly tile.
While you looked at the statue,
a stone which was hewn from a mountain
without a hand being put to it,
struck its iron and tile feet, breaking them in pieces.
The iron, tile, bronze, silver, and gold all crumbled at once,
fine as the chaff on the threshing floor in summer,
and the wind blew them away without leaving a trace.
But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain
and filled the whole earth.
"This was the dream;
the interpretation we shall also give in the king's presence.
You, O king, are the king of kings;
to you the God of heaven
has given dominion and strength, power and glory;
men, wild beasts, and birds of the air, wherever they may dwell,
he has handed over to you, making you ruler over them all;
you are the head of gold.
Another kingdom shall take your place, inferior to yours,
then a third kingdom, of bronze,
which shall rule over the whole earth.
There shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron;
it shall break in pieces and subdue all these others,
just as iron breaks in pieces and crushes everything else.
The feet and toes you saw, partly of potter's tile and partly of iron,
mean that it shall be a divided kingdom,
but yet have some of the hardness of iron.
As you saw the iron mixed with clay tile,
and the toes partly iron and partly tile,
the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.
The iron mixed with clay tile
means that they shall seal their alliances by intermarriage,
but they shall not stay united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
In the lifetime of those kings
the God of heaven will set up a kingdom
that shall never be destroyed or delivered up to another people;
rather, it shall break in pieces all these kingdoms
and put an end to them, and it shall stand forever.
That is the meaning of the stone you saw hewn from the mountain
without a hand being put to it,
which broke in pieces the tile, iron, bronze, silver, and gold.
The great God has revealed to the king what shall be in the future;
this is exactly what you dreamed, and its meaning is sure."
Responsorial Psalm
Dn 3:57, 58, 59, 60, 61
"Bless the Lord, all you works of the Lord,
praise and exalt him above all forever."
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him.
"Angels of the Lord, bless the Lord,
praise and exalt him above all forever."
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him.
"You heavens, bless the Lord,
praise and exalt him above all forever."
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him.
"All you waters above the heavens, bless the Lord,
praise and exalt him above all forever."
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him.
"All you hosts of the Lord, bless the Lord;
praise and exalt him above all forever."
R. Give glory and eternal praise to him.
Gospel
Lk 21:5-11
how the temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings,
Jesus said, "All that you see here?
the days will come when there will not be left
a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down."
Then they asked him,
"Teacher, when will this happen?
And what sign will there be when all these things are about to happen?"
He answered,
"See that you not be deceived,
for many will come in my name, saying,
"I am he," and "The time has come."
Do not follow them!
When you hear of wars and insurrections,
do not be terrified; for such things must happen first,
but it will not immediately be the end."
Then he said to them,
"Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues
from place to place;
and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from the sky."
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«There shall not be left one stone upon another»
+ Fr. Antoni ORIOL i Tataret
(Vic, Barcelona, Spain)
Today, astounded, we listen to the Lord's severe warning: «The days will come when there shall not be left one stone upon another of all that you now admire; all will be torn down» (Lk 21:6). Jesus' words can be placed in the antipodes of the so called “indefinite human progress culture” or, if preferred, of the unstoppable evolution of some techno/scientific and political/military leaders of the human species.
Where from? Where to? This, nobody knows and nobody can tell, other than, in the last instance, a supposed eternal matter that denies God while, at the same time, usurping his attributes. Amazing, how they try to make us swallow it hook, line and sinker, who, on their side, refuse to accept the temporality and precarious status typical of our human condition!
As disciples of the Son of God-Made-Man, Jesus, we hear his very words and, while making them ours, we ponder over them. He is saying: «Take care not to be deceived!» (Lk 21:8). This is asserted by He, Who came to bear witness of the truth, while affirming that those belonging to the truth listen to his voice.
And He adds: «The end is not so soon» (Lk 21:9). Which means, on the one hand, that we still have time for salvation and we must take advantage of that; and, on the other, that the end will come, anyway. Yes, Jesus, will come «to judge the living and the dead», as we profess in the Creed.
Dear readers of Contemplating Today's Gospel, dear brothers and friends: a few verses further down this fragment I'm commenting now, Jesus encourages us and consoles us with these words that I repeat in his name: «By your endurance you will gain your souls!» (Lk 21:19).
By trying to be a warm and cordial echo of these words, and with the energy of a Christian hymn, we shall exhort one another: «Let us persevere, as we are already attaining the summit with our hands!».
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
The Prophet Daniel was a young man when he was captured in Jerusalem, and taken to Babylon, by the invading soldiers of King Nebuchadnazzar. He soon became known at the King’s court for his wisdom and ability to interpret dreams. one of the King’s dreams featured a statue made of many precious and non-precious components. Daniel was not intimidated by the fact that he was a captive when he confronted a man so powerful that he was known as the King of Kings, conqueror of Judah, and destroyer of the first temple. Daniel told the King the meaning of each element of the dream statue. The most unwelcome part of Daniel’s message for the King was the portion that meant that every earthly kingdom, no matter what its strength, composition, or worth, easily can be ended by the hand of God. The great power and majesty of God, like the stone in the King’s dream, will fill the earth.
Jesus speaks in similar terms in today’s gospel reading. He speaks to the people of the impending destruction of the second temple in Jerusalem; “there will not be left a stone upon another stone…”. Those who listened to Jesus knew well that the temple could be destroyed, and that they could be taken, as their ancestors had, as captives. Jesus could not have chosen a more dire prediction to capture their attention. I believe that the most important phrase that Jesus tells us in today’s gospel is, “many will come in my name, saying ‘I am he’ and ‘the time has come.” He implies by this that he, in fact, is the chosen one. The time had come. God would, and does, replace the temporal powers, and continues to fill the world with His power and majesty.
We all have witnessed, if not in person, in the news media, the end of nations, plagues, wars, famine, and earthquakes. We daily are reminded of our own weakness and impermanence. Should we be terrified? I turned to the Alleluia in today’s readings for my answer: “Remain faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.”
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
"Take heed that you are not led astray"
How would you respond if someone prophesied that your home, land, or place of worship would be destroyed? Jesus foretold many signs that would shake peoples and nations. The signs which God uses are meant to point us to a higher spiritual truth and reality of his kingdom which does not perish or fade away, but endures for all eternity. God works through many events and signs to purify and renew us in hope and to help us set our hearts more firmly on him and him alone.
First signs of the end times
To the great consternation of the Jews, Jesus prophesied the destruction of their great temple at Jerusalem. The Jewish people took great pride in their temple, a marvel of the ancient world. The foretelling of this destruction was a dire warning of spiritual judgment in itself. They asked Jesus for a sign that would indicate when this disastrous event would occur. Jesus admonished them to not look for signs that would indicate the exact timing of impending destruction, but rather to pray for God's intervention of grace and mercy.
Jesus said there would be many signs of impending conflicts and disasters - such as wars, famines, diseases, tidal waves, and earthquakes - which would precede the struggles of the last days when God's anointed King would return to usher in the full reign of God over the earth. In that day when the Lord returns there will be a final judgement of the living and the dead when the secrets of every heart will be brought to light (Luke 12:2-3; Romans 2:16).
Jesus foretells the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem
Jesus' prophecy of the destruction of the temple at Jerusalem was a two-edged sword, because it pointed not only to God's judgment, but also to his saving action and mercy. Jesus foretold the destruction of Jerusalem and the dire consequences for all who would reject him and his saving message. While the destruction of Jerusalem's temple was determined (it was razed by the Romans in 70 A.D.), there remained for its inhabitants a narrow open door leading to deliverance. Jesus said: "I am the door; whoever enters by me will be saved" (John 10:9). Jesus willingly set his face toward Jerusalem, knowing that he would meet betrayal, rejection, and death on a cross. His death on the cross, however, brought about true freedom, peace, and victory over the powers of sin, evil, and death - not only for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, but for all - both Jew and Gentile alike - who would accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Do you know the peace and security of a life submitted to the lordship of Jesus Christ?
We need to recognize the signs of God's judgment, mercy, and grace to save us
Sometimes we don't recognize the moral crisis and spiritual conflict of the age in which we live, until something "shakes us up" to the reality of this present condition. God reminds us that a future judgment and outcome awaits every individual who has lived on this earth. The reward for doing what is right and pleasing to God and the penalty for sinful rebellion and rejection of God are not always experienced in this present life - but they are sure to come in the day of final judgment.
The Lord Jesus tells us that there will be trials, suffering, and persecution in this present age until he comes again at the end of the world. God intends our anticipation of his final judgment to be a powerful deterrent to unfaithfulness and wrongdoing. God extends grace and mercy to all who will heed his call and his warning. Do not pass up, even for one day, God's invitation of grace and mercy to seek first his kingdom of righteousness and peace. This day may be your only chance before that final day comes.
"Lord Jesus, your grace and mercy abounds even in the midst of trials and difficulties. Help me to seek your kingdom first and to reject whatever would hinder me from pursuing your way of peace, righteousness, and holiness. Fill me with the joy and hope of your everlasting kingdom."
Psalm 96:10-13
10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."
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: First signs of the end times, by Maximus of Turin (died between 408-423 AD)
"Perhaps you are anxious, brothers and sisters, at the fact that we hear constantly of the tumult of wars and the onsets of battles. Perhaps your love is still more anxious since these are taking place in our times. The reason is the closer we are to the destruction of the world, the closer we are to the kingdom of the Savior. The Lord himself says, 'In the last days nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. When you see wars, earthquakes and famines, know that the kingdom of God is at hand.'This nearness of wars shows us that Christ is near." (excerpt from SERMON 85.1)
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