2020년 6월 2일 연중 제9주간 화요일
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제1독서
베드로 2서.3,12-15ㄱ.17-18
사랑하는 여러분, 12 하느님의 날이 오기를 기다리고
그날을 앞당기도록 해야 하지 않겠습니까?
그날이 오면 하늘은 불길에 싸여 스러지고
원소들은 불에 타 녹아 버릴 것입니다.
13 그러나 우리는 그분의 언약에 따라,
의로움이 깃든 새 하늘과 새 땅을 기다리고 있습니다.
14 그러므로 사랑하는 여러분, 여러분은 이러한 것들을 기다리고 있으니,
티 없고 흠 없는 사람으로 평화로이 그분 앞에 나설 수 있도록 애쓰십시오.
15 그리고 우리 주님께서 참고 기다리시는 것을 구원의 기회로 생각하십시오.
17 그러므로 사랑하는 여러분, 여러분은 이 사실을 이미 알고 있으니,
무법한 자들의 오류에 휩쓸려 확신을 잃는 일이 없도록 주의하십시오.
18 그리고 우리의 주님이시며 구원자이신 예수 그리스도에게서 받은 은총과
그분에 대한 앎을 더욱 키워 나아가십시오.
이제와 영원히 그분께 영광이 있기를 빕니다. 아멘.
복음
마르코. 12,13-17
그때에 수석 사제들과 율법 학자들과 원로들은
13 예수님께 말로 올무를 씌우려고,
바리사이들과 헤로데 당원 몇 사람을 보냈다.
14 그들이 와서 예수님께 말하였다.
“스승님, 저희는 스승님께서 진실하시고
아무도 꺼리지 않으시는 분이라는 것을 압니다.
과연 스승님은 사람을 그 신분에 따라 판단하지 않으시고,
하느님의 길을 참되게 가르치십니다.
그런데 황제에게 세금을 내는 것이 합당합니까, 합당하지 않습니까?
바쳐야 합니까, 바치지 말아야 합니까?”
15 예수님께서는 그들의 위선을 아시고 그들에게 말씀하셨다.
“너희는 어찌하여 나를 시험하느냐?
데나리온 한 닢을 가져다 보여 다오.”
16 그들이 그것을 가져오자 예수님께서,
“이 초상과 글자가 누구의 것이냐?” 하고 물으셨다.
그들이 “황제의 것입니다.” 하고 대답하였다.
17 이에 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다.
“황제의 것은 황제에게 돌려주고, 하느님의 것은 하느님께 돌려 드려라.”
그들은 예수님께 매우 감탄하였다.
June 2, 2020
Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1
Beloved:
Wait for and hasten the coming of the day of God,
because of which the heavens will be dissolved in flames
and the elements melted by fire.
But according to his promise
we await new heavens and a new earth
in which righteousness dwells.
Therefore, beloved, since you await these things,
be eager to be found without spot or blemish before him, at peace.
And consider the patience of our Lord as salvation.
Therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned,
be on your guard not to be led into the error of the unprincipled
and to fall from your own stability.
But grow in grace
and in the knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
To him be glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (1) In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Before the mountains were begotten
and the earth and the world were brought forth,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
You turn man back to dust,
saying, “Return, O children of men.”
For a thousand years in your sight
are as yesterday, now that it is past,
or as a watch of the night.
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Seventy is the sum of our years,
or eighty, if we are strong,
And most of them are fruitless toil,
for they pass quickly and we drift away.
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Fill us at daybreak with your kindness,
that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.
Let your work be seen by your servants
and your glory by their children.
R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Gospel
Some Pharisees and Herodians were sent
to Jesus to ensnare him in his speech.
They came and said to him,
“Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man
and that you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion.
You do not regard a person’s status
but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.
Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?
Should we pay or should we not pay?”
Knowing their hypocrisy he said to them,
“Why are you testing me?
Bring me a denarius to look at.”
They brought one to him and he said to them,
“Whose image and inscription is this?”
They replied to him, “Caesar’s.”
So Jesus said to them,
“Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar
and to God what belongs to God.”
They were utterly amazed at him.
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«Return to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's»
Fr. Manuel SÁNCHEZ Sánchez
(Sevilla, Spain)
Today, we marvel again at Christ's wit and wisdom. With his masterly response, He directly points out to the fair autonomy of the worldly realities: «Return to Caesar what is Caesar's» (Mk 12:17).
Today's Word, however, is something more than knowing how to successfully get out of a conflict; it is something utterly relevant to all aspects of our life: what am I giving God?; is it really what I prize more in my life? Where did I place my heart? Because... «where your treasure is, there will your heart be also» (Lk 12:34).
Yes, indeed, according to St. Jerome, «you must necessarily render unto Caesar the coin in his image; but you willingly give your best to God, because it is his image, not Caesar's, that is on us». Throughout his life, Jesus Christ constantly poses the matter of choice. It is up to us to choose, and our options are clear: either we choose the worldly values to live by or we decide to live by the Gospel's values.
It is always a time for choice before us, a time for conversion, a time to “replace” our life again in the dynamics of God. Our prayer, and specially the prayer made by God's Word, will gradually be discovering us what God expects of us. He who opts for God becomes God's dwelling place, for «if a man loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him» (Jn 14:23). And prayer becomes the true school where, as Tertulian says, «Christ teaches us which was the Father's purpose which He was carrying out in this world, and what a man's ethical behavior should be so that it is in agreement with this very purpose». If only we would succeed in choosing the right way that suits us!
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
I remember once meeting someone in my formative college years who refused to pay taxes because of his disagreements with how the government was choosing to use those funds. He claimed his retirement plan was to write a book from prison once he was arrested for tax evasion. To my 19 year-old ears, this was confusing and curious all at the same time. I remember thinking, “But I saw him pull up in a car that traveled on roads that were maintained by taxes. And wouldn’t his prison ‘retirement plan’ be heavily funded by taxpayers? How can he both benefit from, while also rejecting, the system in which we all live?” My brain was all tied in a knot.
Perhaps I would have felt the same if I was in the crowd on the day depicted in today’s Gospel passage. Some political and religious leaders approach Jesus and try to “ensnare” him in his own teachings. They shower him with empty platitudes and then spring the question on him, “Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?” In his typical way, Jesus cooly calls them out on their antics (“Why are you testing me?”) and flips the script by asking them to present a coin (“Whose image and inscription is this?”).
We form our students at Creighton to embrace in their hearts the awesome awareness and utterly humbling reality that they are each made in the image and likeness of God. “This is my beloved child in whom I am well pleased.” As I read today’s Gospel and consider this theological lens, I can’t help but wonder, “What can I look to in my life, like Jesus asked the leaders to do with that coin, and see the ‘image and inscription’ of God?” And then, once I have taken this inventory, face the harder question: “Am I repaying ‘to God what belongs to God’?”
While I could wax poetic about “finding God in all things,” looking around my currently isolated life at home, it really boils down to a few “currencies” that truly hold God’s image and inscription -- God’s imprint: my wife...our dog...the natural world on which our home rests and…(perhaps the hardest to see) my own embodied existence that can often feel both messy and glorious all at once.
As my wife and I lean into the grand “Yes!” of our vocation to marriage with the multiple, smaller, daily “yeses,” we are embracing the stance that Fr. Anthony deMello, S.J. recommends we take with God: “Behold the One beholding you, smiling.” As our dog pursues us with unapologetic love, affection and acceptance, I witness Thompson’s depiction of the Divine as a “hound of heaven.” As I watch the four locust trees planted by the original owner of this home standing like sturdy sentinels through multiple human lifespans, the cardinals and bluejays flit and flurry in feathery exuberance, and the seasons break through on the heels of one another in some sacred square dance, I am humbled by God’s creative composition. And as I gaze with gentle eyes at the ways in which I live out this human adventure (some days better than others), I see the Divine author continuing to pen the story of my life.
After all of this embracing, witnessing, watching and gazing, it is then time to do what Jesus asks: repay to God what is God’s! But how? I have found that the greatest way to provide God the “return on investment” for this abundance of gift is through the ways in which I choose to share and engage these wonderful treasures for “the greater glory of God” and in an effort to bring reconciliation to our world.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
IMAGE-CONSCIOUS
“Whose head is this and whose inscription is it?” —Mark 12:16
The Pharisees and Herodians were able to identify the owner of the Roman coin because of what was stamped on it. The seal on the coin marked it as belonging to Caesar.
When we were baptized into Christ, we too were stamped with an image, “sealed” with the Holy Spirit (Eph 1:13; 2 Cor 1:22). We were “formed anew in the image of [our] Creator” (Col 3:10), and now we “share the image of His Son,” Jesus (Rm 8:29). God marked us with His own seal to identify us as His property (Rm 14:8). Isn’t this amazing? The same God Who forbade the making of any graven images out of concern for our falling into idol worship (see Ex 20:4) has now engraved His very own seal upon us (Eph 4:30).
Are you aware that you are marked with the seal of God? Can others tell to Whom you belong merely by looking at you? You can polish up your image. Concentrate on your Owner and gaze “on the Lord’s glory.” Then you will be “transformed from glory to glory into His very image by the Lord Who is the Spirit” (2 Cor 3:18).
Prayer: Father, may all who see me think of You.
Promise: “What we await are new heavens and a new earth where, according to His promise, the justice of God will reside.” —2 Pt 3:13
Praise: Emperor Constantine had great respect for Sts. Marcellinus and Peter. He buried his mother, St. Helena, in the basilica that had been erected over their burial crypt. These two saints were such powerful witnesses that they converted other prisoners and their jailer before their deaths.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
"Give to God what belongs to God"
What do we owe God and what's our obligation towards others? Paul the Apostle tells us that we must give each what is their due (Romans 13:6-8). The Jewish authorities sought to trap Jesus in a religious-state dispute over the issue of taxes. The Jews resented their foreign rulers and despised paying taxes to Caesar. They posed a dilemma to test Jesus to see if he would make a statement they could use against him. If Jesus answered that it was lawful to pay taxes to a pagan ruler, then he would lose credibility with the Jewish populace who would regard him as a coward and a friend of Caesar. If he said it was not lawful, then the Pharisees would have grounds to report him to the Roman authorities as a political trouble-maker and have him arrested.
Jesus avoided their trap by confronting them with the image of a coin. Coinage in the ancient world had significant political power. Rulers issued coins with their own image and inscription on them. In a certain sense the coin was regarded as the personal property of the ruler. Where the coin was valid the ruler held political sway over the people. Since the Jews used the Roman currency, Jesus explained that what belonged to Caesar must be given to Caesar.
We belong to God and not to ourselves
This story has another deeper meaning as well. We, too, have been stamped with God's image since we are created in his own likeness (Genesis 1:26-27). We rightfully belong, not to ourselves, but to God who created us and redeemed us in the precious blood of his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ (see 1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Paul the Apostle says that we are to present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God (Romans 12:1). Do you acknowledge that your life belongs to God and not to yourself? And do you give to God what rightfully belongs to Him?
"Lord, because you have made me, I owe you the whole of my love; because you have redeemed me, I owe you the whole of myself; because you have promised so much, I owe you all my being. Moreover, I owe you as much more love than myself as you are greater than I, for whom you gave yourself and to whom you promised yourself. I pray you, Lord, make me taste by love what I taste by knowledge; let me know by love what I know by understanding. I owe you more than my whole self, but I have no more, and by myself I cannot render the whole of it to you. Draw me to you, Lord, in the fullness of love. I am wholly yours by creation; make me all yours, too, in love." (prayer of Anselm, 1033-1109)
Psalm 90:1-4,14-16
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You turn man back to the dust, and say, "Turn back, O children of men!"
4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil.
16 Let your work be manifest to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: Put off the earthly image and put on the heavenly one, by Origen of Alexandria (185-254 AD)
"Some people think that the Savior spoke on a single level when he said, 'Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar' - that is, 'pay the tax that you owe.' Who among us disagrees about paying taxes to Caesar? The passage therefore has a mystical and secret meaning. There are two images in humanity. One he received from God when he was made, in the beginning, as Scripture says in the book of Genesis, 'according to the image and likeness of God' (Genesis 1:27). The other image is of the earth (1 Corinthians 15:49). Man received this second image later. He was expelled from Paradise because of disobedience and sin after the 'prince of this world' (John 12:31) had tempted him with his enticements. Just as the coin, or denarius, has an image of the emperor of this world, so he who does the works of 'the ruler of the darkness' (Ephesians 6:12) bears the image of him whose works he does. Jesus commanded that that image should be handed over and thrown away from our face. He wills us to take on that image, according to which we were made from the beginning, according to God's likeness. It then happens that we give 'to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what is God's.' Jesus said, 'Show me a coin.' For 'coin,' Matthew wrote 'denarius' ( Matthew 22:19). When Jesus had taken it, he said, 'Whose inscription does it have?' They answered and said, 'Caesar's.' And he said to them in turn, 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's.'" (excerpt from HOMILY ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 39.4-6)
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