2020년 2월 13일 연중 제5주간 목요일
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제1독서
열왕기 상. 11,4-13
솔로몬 임금이 4 늙자
그 아내들이 그의 마음을 다른 신들에게 돌려놓았다.
그의 마음은 아버지 다윗의 마음만큼
주 그의 하느님께 한결같지는 못하였다.
5 솔로몬은 시돈인들의 신 아스타롯과
암몬인들의 혐오스러운 우상 밀콤을 따랐다.
6 이처럼 솔로몬은 주님의 눈에 거슬리는 악한 짓을 저지르고,
자기 아버지 다윗만큼 주님을 온전히 추종하지는 않았다.
7 그때에 솔로몬은 예루살렘 동쪽 산 위에
모압의 혐오스러운 우상 크모스를 위하여 산당을 짓고,
암몬인들의 혐오스러운 우상 몰록을 위해서도 산당을 지었다.
8 이렇게 하여 솔로몬은 자신의 모든 외국인 아내를 위하여
그들의 신들에게 향을 피우고 제물을 바쳤다.
9 주님께서 솔로몬에게 진노하셨다.
그의 마음이 주 이스라엘의 하느님에게서 돌아섰기 때문이다.
그분께서는 그에게 두 번이나 나타나시어,
10 이런 일, 곧 다른 신들을 따르는 일을 하지 말라고 명령하셨는데도,
임금은 주님께서 명령하신 것을 지키지 않았던 것이다.
11 그리하여 주님께서 솔로몬에게 이렇게 말씀하셨다.
“네가 이런 뜻을 품고,
내 계약과 내가 너에게 명령한 규정들을 지키지 않았으니,
내가 반드시 이 나라를 너에게서 떼어 내어 너의 신하에게 주겠다.
12 다만 네 아버지 다윗을 보아서 네 생전에는 그렇게 하지 않고,
네 아들의 손에서 이 나라를 떼어 내겠다.
13 그러나 이 나라 전체를 떼어 내지는 않고,
나의 종 다윗과 내가 뽑은 예루살렘을 생각하여
한 지파만은 네 아들에게 주겠다.”
복음
마르코. 7,24-30
그때에 24 예수님께서 티로 지역으로 가셨다.
그리고 어떤 집으로 들어가셨는데,
아무에게도 알려지기를 원하지 않으셨으나 결국 숨어 계실 수가 없었다.
25 더러운 영이 들린 딸을 둔 어떤 부인이 곧바로 예수님의 소문을 듣고 와서,
그분 발 앞에 엎드렸다.
26 그 부인은 이교도로서 시리아 페니키아 출신이었는데,
자기 딸에게서 마귀를 쫓아내 주십사고 그분께 청하였다.
27 예수님께서는 그 여자에게, “먼저 자녀들을 배불리 먹여야 한다.
자녀들의 빵을 집어 강아지들에게 던져 주는 것은 옳지 않다.” 하고 말씀하셨다.
28 그러자 그 여자가, “주님, 그러나 상 아래에 있는 강아지들도
자식들이 떨어뜨린 부스러기는 먹습니다.” 하고 응답하였다.
29 이에 예수님께서 그 여자에게 말씀하셨다.
“네가 그렇게 말하니, 가 보아라. 마귀가 이미 네 딸에게서 나갔다.”
30 그 여자가 집에 가서 보니,
아이는 침상에 누워 있고 마귀는 나가고 없었다.
February 13, 2020
Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
1 Kgs 11:4-13
and his heart was not entirely with the LORD, his God,
as the heart of his father David had been.
By adoring Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians,
and Milcom, the idol of the Ammonites,
Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD;
he did not follow him unreservedly as his father David had done.
Solomon then built a high place to Chemosh, the idol of Moab,
and to Molech, the idol of the Ammonites,
on the hill opposite Jerusalem.
He did the same for all his foreign wives
who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
The LORD, therefore, became angry with Solomon,
because his heart was turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel,
who had appeared to him twice
(for though the LORD had forbidden him
this very act of following strange gods,
Solomon had not obeyed him).
So the LORD said to Solomon: "Since this is what you want,
and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes
which I enjoined on you,
I will deprive you of the kingdom and give it to your servant.
I will not do this during your lifetime, however,
for the sake of your father David;
it is your son whom I will deprive.
Nor will I take away the whole kingdom.
I will leave your son one tribe for the sake of my servant David
and of Jerusalem, which I have chosen."
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 106:3-4, 35-36, 37 and 40
Blessed are they who observe what is right,
who do always what is just.
Remember us, O LORD, as you favor your people;
visit us with your saving help.
R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
But they mingled with the nations
and learned their works.
They served their idols,
which became a snare for them.
R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
They sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to demons.
And the LORD grew angry with his people,
and abhorred his inheritance.
R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
Gospel
Mk 7:24-30
He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it,
but he could not escape notice.
Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him.
She came and fell at his feet.
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth,
and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
He said to her, "Let the children be fed first.
For it is not right to take the food of the children
and throw it to the dogs."
She replied and said to him,
"Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."
Then he said to her, "For saying this, you may go.
The demon has gone out of your daughter."
When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed
and the demon gone.
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«A woman, whose small daughter had an evil spirit, heard of him and came and fell at his feet»
Fr. Enric CASES i Martín
(Barcelona, Spain)
Today, we see the faith of a woman that did not belong to God's chosen people, but trusted Jesus could cure her daughter. That mother «was a pagan, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter» (Mk 7:26). Pain and love bring her to insistently beg, ignoring scorn, delays or indignities. And she gets what she is asking for, as she «went home, and she found her child lying in bed and the demon gone» (Mk 7:30).
Saint Augustine used to say that our prayers are not heard because we ask «aut mali, aut male, aut mala». “Mali”, because we are evil, for that our personal dispositions are not good, or they are bad, and we should be asking for, in the first place, to become good; “male” because we pray badly, without faith, not persevering, not humbly; “mala” because we ask for bad things, that is, things which are not good for us, things which can harm us. In the last analysis, prayer is ineffective when it is not true prayer. Therefore, «Pray. In what human venture could you have greater guarantee of success?» (Josemaria Escrivà). The Syrophenician woman is a good mother; she was begging something good («she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter») and she begged rightly («and came and fell at his feet»).
Our Lord wants us to use insistently the petition prayer or prayer of faith. There are, indeed, other kinds of prayers —worship, salvation, prayer of thanks—, but Jesus insists very much on our often using the petition prayer.
Why? Many could be the reasons: because we need God's help to attain our greatest aim; because it expresses hope and love; because it is a clamor of faith. But there is also a motive that, perhaps, is sometimes ignored: God wants things to be a little as we like them. Thus, our petition —which is an act of freedom— along with God's omnipotent power, can contribute to make the world as God wishes and a little as we wish, too. The power of prayer is just wonderful!
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Our first reading and our Gospel reading today give some beautiful examples of unexpected and generous love where the situation maybe didn’t initially or customarily allow for it. The expectation was punishment for breaking the covenant (in the first reading) and for being an undeserving outsider (in the second reading). But our (Old Testament) God, and then Jesus, respectively, open wide their understandings of judgment to show unprecedented or out-of-the-box generosity and love.
Our first reading from 1st Kings says:
So the LORD said to Solomon: “Since this is what you want,
and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes
which I enjoined on you,
I will deprive you of the kingdom and give it to your servant.
I will not do this during your lifetime, however,
for the sake of your father David;
it is your son whom I will deprive.
Nor will I take away the whole kingdom.
I will leave your son one tribe for the sake of my servant David
and of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
Oh, my! Worshipping many gods instead of one. Solomon breaks his covenant with God but God magnanimously spares Solomon what he technically deserves. This story seems familiar to me and my experience of God. I am welcomed back and loved generously with many gifts even when I fall victim to and choose to worship many gods…the gods of productivity, of reputation, of self-centeredness, of insecurity, of jealousy (the list could go on).
And, in the Gospel reading from Mark, we see Jesus trying to be inconspicuous in a new place, but he finds out soon that his reputation is known in Tyre, too. A foreign woman asks him for help in releasing a demon from her suffering daughter and his initial answer reflects his cultural upbringing and the following of rules. After her quick, clever, challenging response, we witness the Jesus that transcends cultural norms of inclusivity and exclusivity, of who’s in and who’s out.
He said to her, “Let the children be fed first.
For it is not right to take the food of the children
and throw it to the dogs.”
She replied and said to him,
“Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.”
Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go.
The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
For me, these readings invite me to reflect on the times when I was welcomed and awarded more love than I deserved or more acceptance than I predicted. I think of my time teaching in Pine Ridge at Red Cloud Indian School, when I, as an outsider was welcomed by families, parishioners and community members into their homes and lives. I think of second chances I’ve been given when I have made mistakes. I think of the warm and welcome embrace I feel time and time again.
And, in the Ignatian sense of acting from that place of gratitude and feeling loved, the readings also invite me – and each of us – to model that magnanimous love for others in our lives. For the students who keeps turning assignments in late…for the immigrants and refugees in our midst…for those who live with a stigma in society (the felon, the outcast, the homeless person, the high school dropout, the estranged family member, etc.). Who are the ones in our lives that need a second chance or some really expected love? My prayer for each of us today is to channel God and Jesus’ magnanimous love and demonstrate that for everyone around us.
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WANT OR WANTON? | ||
| "The Lord said to Solomon: 'Since this is what you want...' " �1 Kings 11:11 | ||
Solomon made a great start in following the Lord. In his youth, God presented Solomon with the chance to have anything he wanted (1 Kgs 3:5ff). Solomon chose wisdom, so as to rule God's people with understanding and justice. God was pleased with Solomon's choice (1 Kgs 3:10). Later in life, however, Solomon used his God-given power to indulge his own wanton desires rather than fulfilling God's desires. He fell so far into lust and idolatry that his heart turned away from the Lord. Solomon didn't want God anymore, and he therefore deprived himself of the kingdom (see 1 Kgs 11:11). One day of unfaithfulness and wantonness leads to the next day of sin. After a while, Solomon's heart was far from the Lord. Unfaithfulness was what Solomon wanted (1 Kgs 11:11), and the bitter consequences of unfaithfulness are what he got (see Rm 6:23). Faithfulness to God consists in daily seeking God, His way of righteousness, and His kingship over us (see Mt 6:33). Every day we Christians must pick up our cross, deny ourselves, and follow Jesus (Lk 9:23). If we want God, we can find Him (Jer 29:13-14). He is always seeking us and waiting for us to want Him. Discipleship is all in the wanting. What do you want? | ||
| Prayer: Father, let me be faithful to Your teaching, and never let me be parted from You. | ||
| Promise: "Happy are they who observe what is right, who do always what is just." —Ps 106:3 | ||
| Praise: After visiting a Catholic church, Sheila knew she wanted to be Catholic. She attended an RCIA program, and now rejoices in receiving the Holy Eucharist. |
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"The demon has left your daughter"
Do you ever feel "put-off" by the Lord? This passage describes the only occasion in which Jesus ministered outside of Jewish territory. (Tyre and Sidon were fifty miles north of Israel and still exist today in modern Lebanon.) A Gentile woman - an outsider who was not a member of the chosen people - puts Jesus on the spot by pleading with him to show mercy to her daughter who was tormented with an evil spirit. At first Jesus seemed to pay no attention to her, and this made his disciples feel embarrassed. Jesus very likely did this not to put the woman off, but rather to test her sincerity and to awaken faith in her.
The Lord shows mercy to those who seek him
What did Jesus mean by the ｅxpression "throwing bread to the dogs"? The Jews often spoke of the Gentiles with arrogance and insolence as "unclean dogs" since the Gentiles were excluded from God's covenant and favor with Israel. For the Greeks the "dog" was a symbol of dishonor and was used to describe a shameless and audacious woman. Matthew's Gospel records the ｅxpression do not give dogs what is holy (Matthew 7:6). Jesus, no doubt, spoke with a smile rather than with an insult because this woman immediately responds with wit and faith - "even the dogs eat the crumbs".
Love conquers with persistent trust and faith
Jesus praises a Gentile woman for her persistent faith and for her affectionate love. She made the misery of her child her own and she was willing to suffer rebuff in order to obtain healing for her loved one. She also had indomitable persistence. Her faith grew in contact with the person of Jesus. She began with a request and she ended on her knees in worshipful prayer to the living God. No one who ever sought Jesus with faith - whether Jew or Gentile - was refused his help. Do you seek Jesus with expectant faith?
"Lord Jesus, your love and mercy knows no bounds. May I trust you always and never doubt your loving care and mercy. Increase my faith in your saving help and deliver me from all evil and harm."
Psalm 106:3-4, 35-37, 40
3 Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!
4 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people; help me when you deliver them;
34 They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them,
35 but they mingled with the nations and learned to do as they did.
36 They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;
40 Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: Great was the power of her faith, and for our learning, by John Chrysostom (347-407 AD)
"See her humility as well as her faith! For he had called the Jews 'children,' but she was not satisfied with this. She even called them 'masters,' so far was she from grieving at the praises of others. She said, 'Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.' Behold the woman's wisdom! She did not venture so much as to say a word against anyone else. She was not stung to see others praised, nor was she indignant to be reproached. Behold her constancy. When he answered, 'It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs,' she said, 'Yes, Lord.' He called them 'children'” but she called them 'masters.' He used the name of a dog, but she described the action of the dog. Do you see this woman's humility? Then compare her humility with the proud language of the Jews: 'We are Abraham's seed and were never in bondage to any man'(John 8:33). 'We are born of God' (John 8:41). But not so this woman. Rather, she calls herself a dog and them masters. So for this reason she became a child. For what does Christ then say? 'O woman, great is your faith.'
"So we might surmise that this is the reason he put her off, in order that he might proclaim aloud this saying and that he might crown the woman: 'Be it done for you as you desire.' This means 'Your faith, indeed, is able to effect even greater things than these. Nevertheless be it unto you even as you wish.' This voice was at one with the voice that said, 'Let the heaven be,' and it was (Genesis 1:1). 'And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.' Do you see how this woman, too, contributed not a little to the healing of her daughter? For note that Christ did not say, 'Let your little daughter be made whole,' but 'Great is your faith, be it done for you as you desire.' These words were not uttered at random, nor were they flattering words, but great was the power of her faith, and for our learning.
He left the certain test and demonstration, however, to the issue of events. Her daughter accordingly was immediately healed." (excerpt from COMMENTARY on MATTHEW, Homily 52.3)
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