2020년 8월 16일 연중 제20주일
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제1독서
이사야서. 56,1.6-7
1 주님께서 이렇게 말씀하신다.
“너희는 공정을 지키고 정의를 실천하여라.
나의 구원이 가까이 왔고 나의 의로움이 곧 드러나리라.
6 주님을 섬기고 주님의 이름을 사랑하며
주님의 종이 되려고 주님을 따르는 이방인들,
안식일을 지켜 더럽히지 않고 나의 계약을 준수하는 모든 이들.
7 나는 그들을 나의 거룩한 산으로 인도하고
나에게 기도하는 집에서 그들을 기쁘게 하리라.
그들의 번제물과 희생 제물들은 나의 제단 위에서 기꺼이 받아들여지리니
나의 집은 모든 민족들을 위한 기도의 집이라 불리리라.”
제2독서
로마서 11,13-15.29-32
제 여러분, 13 나는 다른 민족 출신인 여러분에게 말합니다.
나는 이민족들의 사도이기도 한 만큼
내 직분을 영광스럽게 생각합니다.
14 그것은 내가 내 살붙이들을 시기하게 만들어
그들 가운데에서 몇 사람만이라도 구원할 수 있을까 해서입니다.
15 그들이 배척을 받아 세상이 화해를 얻었다면,
그들이 받아들여질 때에는 어떻게 되겠습니까?
죽음에서 살아나는 것이 아니고 무엇이겠습니까?
29 하느님의 은사와 소명은 철회될 수 없는 것이기 때문입니다.
30 여러분도 전에는 하느님께 순종하지 않았지만,
이제는 그들의 불순종 때문에 자비를 입게 되었습니다.
31 마찬가지로 그들도 지금은 여러분에게 자비가 베풀어지도록
하느님께 순종하지 않지만, 이제 그들도 자비를 입게 될 것입니다.
32 사실 하느님께서 모든 사람을 불순종 안에 가두신 것은,
모든 사람에게 자비를 베푸시려는 것입니다.
복음
마태오. 15,21-28
그때에 예수님께서 21 티로와 시돈 지방으로 물러가셨다.
22 그런데 그 고장에서 어떤 가나안 부인이 나와,
“다윗의 자손이신 주님, 저에게 자비를 베풀어 주십시오.
제 딸이 호되게 마귀가 들렸습니다.” 하고 소리 질렀다.
23 예수님께서는 한마디도 대답하지 않으셨다.
제자들이 다가와 말하였다. “저 여자를 돌려보내십시오.
우리 뒤에서 소리 지르고 있습니다.”
24 그제야 예수님께서 “나는 오직
이스라엘 집안의 길 잃은 양들에게 파견되었을 뿐이다.” 하고 대답하셨다.
25 그러나 그 여자는 예수님께 와 엎드려 절하며,
“주님, 저를 도와주십시오.” 하고 청하였다.
26 예수님께서는 “자녀들의 빵을 집어
강아지들에게 던져 주는 것은 좋지 않다.” 하고 말씀하셨다.
27 그러자 그 여자가 “주님, 그렇습니다. 그러나 강아지들도
주인의 상에서 떨어지는 부스러기는 먹습니다.” 하고 말하였다.
28 그때에 예수님께서 그 여자에게 말씀하셨다.
“아, 여인아! 네 믿음이 참으로 크구나. 네가 바라는 대로 될 것이다.”
바로 그 시간에 그 여자의 딸이 나았다.
August 16, 2020
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Thus says the LORD:
Observe what is right, do what is just;
for my salvation is about to come,
my justice, about to be revealed.
The foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,
ministering to him,
loving the name of the LORD,
and becoming his servants-
all who keep the sabbath free from profanation
and hold to my covenant,
them I will bring to my holy mountain
and make joyful in my house of prayer;
their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be acceptable on my altar,
for my house shall be called
a house of prayer for all peoples.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (4) O God, let all the nations praise you!
May God have pity on us and bless us;
may he let his face shine upon us.
So may your way be known upon earth;
among all nations, your salvation.
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
May the nations be glad and exult
because you rule the peoples in equity;
the nations on the earth you guide.
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
May the peoples praise you, O God;
may all the peoples praise you!
May God bless us,
and may all the ends of the earth fear him!
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
Reading 2
Brothers and sisters:
I am speaking to you Gentiles.
Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles,
I glory in my ministry in order to make my race jealous
and thus save some of them.
For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world,
what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
Just as you once disobeyed God
but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,
so they have now disobeyed in order that,
by virtue of the mercy shown to you,
they too may now receive mercy.
For God delivered all to disobedience,
that he might have mercy upon all.
Gospel
At that time, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out,
"Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David!
My daughter is tormented by a demon."
But Jesus did not say a word in answer to her.
Jesus' disciples came and asked him,
"Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us."
He said in reply,
"I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
But the woman came and did Jesus homage, saying, "Lord, help me."
He said in reply,
"It is not right to take the food of the children
and throw it to the dogs."
She said, "Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps
that fall from the table of their masters."
Then Jesus said to her in reply,
"O woman, great is your faith!
Let it be done for you as you wish."
And the woman's daughter was healed from that hour.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
A theme running through today’s readings is that of universalism. In the first reading we find: even the foreigner... will be accepted..., a non-genetic incorporation: my house... a house of prayer for all peoples. The psalm response sings: O God, let all the nations praise you. And in the second reading Paul presents himself to the Romans as apostle of the Gentiles.
It is against this background awareness that today’s gospel reading stands out as a crumbling of barriers between Jews and Gentiles. We observe a very tender “haggling” between Jesus, a Jew, and the non-Jewish Gentile woman in an almost typical middle-Easterner haggling. The woman was arguing from her heart, not from theological principles, and her heart reveals a faith and trust that could not be articulated at a theological level. Jesus gets her message and tells her: you have great faith. The scene and its outcome are reminiscent of the exchange between Jesus and Mary at the Cana wedding, where Jesus states my hour has not yet come and yet Mary’s heart wins the day. In today’s scene we seem to hear my hour to expand beyond the boundaries has not yet come, but the woman’s heart wins the day.
Universalism is at the root of Christianity, indeed the very word Catholic means precisely all-encompassing. The reason I can proclaim the gospel in English is precisely universalism, since the gospel was not initially proclaimed in English and in fact it was not even proclaimed in Greek, the language of the written gospels, but in Aramaic. After centuries of circling the wagons, the Church has regained this universal perspective and ecumenism has been strongly present in the Second Vatican Council and in the Popes since that council. A non-adversarial attitude.
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SAVE THE CHILDREN
“Lord, Son of David, have pity on me! My daughter is terribly troubled by a demon.” —Matthew 15:22
Jesus delivered many people from demons. Sometimes He delivered children from demons (Mt 15:22; Mk 9:17ff). This raises the question: How can innocent children who could not have grievously sinned or been knowingly involved in the occult be possessed or troubled by demons?
Children suffer innocently for the sins of their parents and the world. This suffering seems to include even harassment from the evil one. Sins committed by any of us can result in the severest form of child abuse: exposing a child to demonic influence. A simple reading of any of the historical books of the Old Testament will demonstrate how sins of others can harm innocent children.
Why doesn’t the Lord protect children from the effect of our sins? Why didn’t He intervene and save the Holy Innocents martyred at Bethlehem? Why doesn’t He spare the children victimized by abortion? The Lord allows us to accept the wages of our sins (Rm 6:23). He even lets us pass on a devastating inheritance to our children and to the children of the world (Ex 20:5). Our unrepented sins open the door for Satan to enter not only our lives, but also the lives of innocent children. Repent!
Prayer: In the name of Jesus, leave, Satan, never to return. Thank You, Jesus, for Your victory.
Promise: “Observe what is right, do what is just; for My salvation is about to come, My justice, about to be revealed.” —Is 56:1
Praise: “If Christ was not raised, your faith is worthless” (1 Cor 15:17). Father God, thank You for Your perfect plan of redemption.
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Do you ever feel "put-off" or ignored by the Lord?
This passage (Matthew 15:21) 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, a foreigner who was not a member of the Jewish people, puts Jesus on the spot by pleading for his help. At first Jesus seemed to pay no attention to her, and this made his disciples feel embarrassed. Jesus does this to test the woman to awaken faith in her.
Jesus first tests the woman's faith
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 did not follow God's law and were excluded from God's covenant and favor with the people of Israel. For the Greeks the "dog" was a symbol of dishonor and was used to describe a shameless and audacious woman. There is another reference to "dogs" in Matthew's Gospel where Jesus says to his disciples, "Do not give to dogs what is holy" (Matthew 7:6). Jesus tests this woman's faith to see if she is earnest in receiving holy things from the hand of a holy God. 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".
Seek the Lord Jesus with expectant faith
Jesus praises a Gentile woman for her faith and for her 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 earnest faith - whether Jew or Gentile - was refused his help. Do you seek the Lord Jesus with expectant faith?
Lord Jesus, your love and mercy knows no bounds. May I trust you always and pursue you with indomitable persistence as this woman did. Increase my faith in your saving power and deliver me from all evil and harm.
Psalm 67:1-7
1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]
2 that your way may be known upon earth, your saving power among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. [Selah]
5 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
6 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.
7 God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The Mother of the Gentiles, by Epiphanius the Latin (late 5th century)
"After our Lord departed from the Jews, he came into the regions of Tyre and Sidon. He left the Jews behind and came to the Gentiles. Those whom he had left behind remained in ruin; those to whom he came obtained salvation in their alienation. And a woman came out of that territory and cried, saying to him, 'Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David!' O great mystery! The Lord came out from the Jews, and the woman came out from her Gentile territory. He left the Jews behind, and the woman left behind idolatry and an impious lifestyle. What they had lost, she found. The one whom they had denied in the law, she professed through her faith. This woman is the mother of the Gentiles, and she knew Christ through faith. Thus on behalf of her daughter (the Gentile people) she entreated the Lord. The daughter had been led astray by idolatry and sin and was severely possessed by a demon." (excerpt from INTERPRETATION OF THE GOSPELS 58)
Homily from Father James Gilhooley
20 Ordinary Time
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - A Cycle - Matthew 15:21-29
The 17th century Cromwell was painted by a fawning court artist. The flattering portrait didn't do anything for Cromwell. He snarled, "Paint me - warts and all."
What surety do we have that the Evangelists have written the authentic picture of Christ? Perhaps the Gospels are but puff pieces - the type politicians write about themselves.
The proof the Evangelists have given us the real article is found in today's Gospel. Jesus is on the run from the bad guys. He abandons Palestine and flees north into today's Lebanon. Why? He was scared stiff. Does this sound like a puff biography? We are getting a picture of Christ - warts and all.
Jesus planned to hide out in this foreign country. He was an illegal alien with no visa. When the Jewish cops had forgotten about Him, He would furtively return to Palestine like people sneaking into the USA today.
But His fame as a wonder worker had preceded Him. A woman with a sick child had picked Him off. Hysterically she begged for a cure. His cover had been blown. The apostles begged Jesus to get rid of her. They wanted her to fly away on a broom.
As far as the twelve were concerned, she was bad news on several counts. She was a Canaanite and so an arch enemy of the Jews for centuries. Her loud pleas would attract the cops and media and cause all them to spend time in a foreign jail.
In perhaps the toughest language used by Jesus in the Gospels, He tells the woman His mission is to the Jews. It cannot be shared with dogs which is how Jews regarded Canaanites. Are you still thinking that Matthew wrote a Hallmark card puff piece for his readers? This is Christ - warts and all.
The mother was not frightened by the put-down of this wonder man. She proves herself a match for His tongue. She had no love for this Jew, but she believed He could deliver. She had a sick youngster and was willing to swallow insults. She was going for the gold - the cure of her daughter. The 17th century Rembrandt leaves us a moving drawing of the scene.
She proves to be one of the most remarkable people in the Gospels. She digs in, takes Jesus on, and proves herself to be the wordsmith He is and even better. She hits Him right between the eyes with her famous reply, "Lord, even dogs get the crumbs that fall from their owner's table." But she doesn't want crumbs. She wants the whole loaf - her child's cure.
His irritability and even bad manners indicate Jesus was strung out. His nerves must have been as tight as an overstretched rubber band. The heat was 100 plus degrees. This Canaanite was the first Gentile of record whom He had dealt so aggressively with.
Still, confronted by this courageous woman and, unlike us, He does not hold on to His mad. He cools down. It is an admission of bad manners on His part. He honors the woman by learning from her. (Stephen Mitchell)
Besides, Christ was charmed out of His sandals by her reply.
He knew He had been whipped bad. She had bested Him at the word game of which He was allegedly the master. He may well have broken out into laughter at Himself and given her a high five.
Score Canaanite woman 5 and Christ 0.
Wit is still prized in the Middle East by both Jews and Arabs - the ability to match riddle with riddle, to cap one wise saying with another, to match insult with insult, and to turn raw insult into a compliment. (John McKenzie)
Christ cured her child. Also He salutes her faith. In Matthew's Gospel, she is the only person whose faith He calls great. She was also great for a second reason. She was the only one in any Gospel who had beaten Him in public debate. His conqueror was a Canaanite and a woman to boot in that very macho society.
Is this not a picture of Christ - warts and all?
Some may be tempted to say, "Well, only Matthew tells this story. The other Gospels are election-time biographies." That will not wash, for the identical story is told in Mark 7:24-30. Check it out.
Like it or not, the Gospels tell it like it is. The Jesus you see in the Gospels is the one the Evangelists saw - warts and all. Matthew is saying to us today, "This Christ is the genuine article. Take Him or leave Him."
The Gospels tell us more about the real Christ than the Vatican press tells us about the pope.
Homily from Father Joseph Pellegrino
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20 Ordinary Time
Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time: One Church
Today’s readings are challenging. What is the Church trying to say to us by relating the dialogue that Jesus had with the Canaanite woman? And what in the world is St. Paul saying when he writes that because of the disobedience of the Jews the Gentiles were freed from their disobedience and, as a result, the Jews turned from their disobedience.
And what does all this have to do with us, people of 21st century America?
It has everything to do with us. The readings are about inclusion, the call to One Church, to One Kingdom, a kingdom that refuses to exclude those seeking God.
The Canaanite woman wins healing for her daughter by showing Jesus her faith in Him. She even humbles herself when He said that the gifts of the Messiah, the food of the Jewish people, should not be shared with the dogs, the Gentiles. She responds that even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table, a common practice in meals where there are no utensils, just pieces of bread that are dipped into the stew pot, then dropped onto the floor rather than be re-dipped into the pot. It is clear from the Gospel that the faith of the gentiles, their openness to the wonders of God, has earned them a place at His table, the Banquet of Life.
Let’s tackle that second reading from Romans this way: suppose we go back to the days that St. Paul wrote the Letter to the Romans. Now let’s make believe that the left side of the Church represents the Hebrew people throughout the world and the right side represents the Gentiles, all the known people of Paul’s day, everyone from Britons to the people of Asia. Paul first preaches to the Hebrews, but they refuse to submit to Jesus Christ. They are disobedient to the call of their own prophets as well as the preaching of the evangelists. Because they are disobedient, closed to evangelization, Paul turns to the Gentiles, the right side of the church. Now these Gentiles had been going against their consciences. They had been performing all sorts of immoral acts that they knew were wrong. Paul alludes to this in the beginning of Romans, Romans 1:18-32. This was their disobedience.
Paul’s preaching called the gentiles from disobedience. They were transformed. They had been living, as Henry David Thoreau would later write, lives of silent desperation. But with Christianity, their lives had meaning, and purpose and fulfillment. They received eternal life. They lived in joy.
Now the Jewish people saw the joy of the gentile converts and said, “Wait, we want some of that. We want to be happy. We want to know that there is more to life than living for ourselves. We want the spiritual. We want God.” Therefore, the disobedience of the gentiles was transformed by the mercy of God to eternal happiness. This led to the Jews taking a step away from their disobedience to accepting the new way of life, the Christian way of life.
It would take time, but the Church came to a deep understanding that there is no right side or left side of the Church, nor are there people who are more worthy of the promise of Christ than others. The Church realized that it was universal, it was Catholic, the word that you know means universal. The Church is made up of people from various backgrounds, but all part of One Church. The Catholic Church is not just European, nor is it just American. The Catholic Church is also Asian, South American, African, Australian etc. All are part of the one Church called to accept the spiritual, called to eternal life. Think of the Church as a tapestry with various colors of threads all forming one picture, or as a mosaic with various different tiles all forming a great work of art.
Just as the gentiles and the Jews became blessings for each other, all the people of the Catholic Church are a blessing for each other.
I experienced the universality of the Church so clearly a long time ago when I was able to assist at the Pentecost Mass said by St. John Paul II. Yup, it was just me and the Pope, and about 60 other priests, 20 bishops and all sorts of cardinals. The Pope confirmed people from all over the world, and did so in 22 different languages. After Mass, I joined my parents in the Piazza San Pedro, the square in front of St. Peters, where thousands of people from all over the world gathered for the Pope’s Sunday blessing. Hearing all these different languages, seeing all these people from every continent, I was overwhelmed by the fact that this is who we are, this is what it means to be part of the universal Church. This is what it means to be Catholic. We are Asian. We are American. We are Australian. We are African. We are European. We are Catholic.
The world needs us to be Catholic. Our country needs us to be Catholic. In the First Eucharistic Prayer for Various Needs, entitled The Church on the Path of Unity, we have the petition: In a world torn by strife may your people shine forth as a prophetic sign of unity and love. Recent events in our country are calling us more than ever to be this prophetic sign of unity amid our diversity. The world needs to see one body of people with diverse backgrounds all forming that tapestry, that mosaic, that is the People of God. The world and our country needs to experience in the Catholic Church the prophetic sign that diverse people can become one unified person. We have to be a sign for our country that our strength comes from the bond of love that does not accept any form of exclusion of any peoples. The world needs to witness our living out what we proclaim with our Creed: We are One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic.
Who belongs here? Who belongs in the Church? All people belong here. All people are called to form Church. May our country see in the unity of the Catholic Church a prophetic sign that diverse people can unite in love.
Homily from Father Phil Bloom
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20 Ordinary Time
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Homily from Father Alex McAllister SDS
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August 20, 2017 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
