2020년 9월 19일 연중 제24주간 토요일
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제1독서
코린토 1서.15,35-37.42-49
형제 여러분, 35 “죽은 이들이 어떻게 되살아나는가?
그들이 어떤 몸으로 되돌아오는가?” 하고 묻는 이가 있을 수 있습니다.
36 어리석은 사람이여!
그대가 뿌리는 씨는 죽지 않고서는 살아나지 못합니다.
37 그리고 그대가 뿌리는 것은 장차 생겨날 몸체가 아니라
밀이든 다른 종류든 씨앗일 따름입니다.
42 죽은 이들의 부활도 이와 같습니다.
썩어 없어질 것으로 묻히지만 썩지 않는 것으로 되살아납니다.
43 비천한 것으로 묻히지만 영광스러운 것으로 되살아납니다.
약한 것으로 묻히지만 강한 것으로 되살아납니다.
44 물질적인 몸으로 묻히지만 영적인 몸으로 되살아납니다.
물질적인 몸이 있으면 영적인 몸도 있습니다.
45 성경에도 이렇게 기록되어 있습니다.
“첫 인간 아담이 생명체가 되었다.”
마지막 아담은 생명을 주는 영이 되셨습니다.
46 그러나 먼저 있었던 것은 영적인 것이 아니라 물질적인 것이었습니다.
영적인 것은 그다음입니다.
47 첫 인간은 땅에서 나와 흙으로 된 사람입니다.
둘째 인간은 하늘에서 왔습니다.
48 흙으로 된 그 사람이 그러하면 흙으로 된 다른 사람들도 마찬가지입니다.
하늘에 속한 그분께서 그러하시면
하늘에 속한 다른 사람들도 마찬가지입니다.
49 우리가 흙으로 된 그 사람의 모습을 지녔듯이,
하늘에 속한 그분의 모습도 지니게 될 것입니다.
복음
루카가 . 8,4-15
그때에 4 많은 군중이 모이고 또 각 고을에서 온 사람들이 다가오자
예수님께서 그들에게 비유로 말씀하셨다.
5 “씨 뿌리는 사람이 씨를 뿌리러 나갔다.
그가 씨를 뿌리는데, 어떤 것은 길에 떨어져 발에 짓밟히기도 하고
하늘의 새들이 먹어 버리기도 하였다.
6 어떤 것은 바위에 떨어져,
싹이 자라기는 하였지만 물기가 없어 말라 버렸다.
7 또 어떤 것은 가시덤불 한가운데로 떨어졌는데,
가시덤불이 함께 자라면서 숨을 막아 버렸다.
8 그러나 어떤 것은 좋은 땅에 떨어져, 자라나서 백 배의 열매를 맺었다.”
예수님께서는 이 말씀을 하시고,
“들을 귀 있는 사람은 들어라.” 하고 외치셨다.
9 제자들이 예수님께 그 비유의 뜻을 묻자, 10 예수님께서 이르셨다.
“너희에게는 하느님 나라의 신비를 아는 것이 허락되었지만,
다른 이들에게는 비유로만 말하였으니,
‘저들이 보아도 알아보지 못하고 들어도 깨닫지 못하게 하려는 것이다.’
11 그 비유의 뜻은 이러하다. 씨는 하느님의 말씀이다.
12 길에 떨어진 것들은, 말씀을 듣기는 하였지만
악마가 와서 그 말씀을 마음에서 앗아 가 버리기 때문에
믿지 못하여 구원을 받지 못하는 사람들이다.
13 바위에 떨어진 것들은, 들을 때에는 그 말씀을 기쁘게 받아들이지만
뿌리가 없어 한때는 믿다가 시련의 때가 오면 떨어져 나가는 사람들이다.
14 가시덤불에 떨어진 것은, 말씀을 듣기는 하였지만
살아가면서 인생의 걱정과 재물과 쾌락에 숨이 막혀
열매를 제대로 맺지 못하는 사람들이다.
15 좋은 땅에 떨어진 것은, 바르고 착한 마음으로 말씀을 듣고 간직하여
인내로써 열매를 맺는 사람들이다.”
September 19, 2020
Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Brothers and sisters:
Someone may say, "How are the dead raised?
With what kind of body will they come back?"
You fool!
What you sow is not brought to life unless it dies.
And what you sow is not the body that is to be
but a bare kernel of wheat, perhaps, or of some other kind.
So also is the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible.
It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious.
It is sown weak; it is raised powerful.
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.
So, too, it is written,
"The first man, Adam, became a living being,"
the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
But the spiritual was not first;
rather the natural and then the spiritual.
The first man was from the earth, earthly;
the second man, from heaven.
As was the earthly one, so also are the earthly,
and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly.
Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one
Responsorial Psalm
R. (14) I will walk in the presence of God, in the light of the living.
Now I know that God is with me.
In God, in whose promise I glory,
in God I trust without fear;
what can flesh do against me?
R. I will walk in the presence of God, in the light of the living.
I am bound, O God, by vows to you;
your thank offerings I will fulfill.
For you have rescued me from death,
my feet, too, from stumbling;
that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
R. I will walk in the presence of God, in the light of the living.
Gospel
When a large crowd gathered, with people from one town after another
journeying to Jesus, he spoke in a parable.
"A sower went out to sow his seed.
And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path and was trampled,
and the birds of the sky ate it up.
Some seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew,
it withered for lack of moisture.
Some seed fell among thorns,
and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
And some seed fell on good soil, and when it grew,
it produced fruit a hundredfold."
After saying this, he called out,
"Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear."
Then his disciples asked him
what the meaning of this parable might be.
He answered,
"Knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God
has been granted to you;
but to the rest, they are made known through parables
so that they may look but not see, and hear but not understand.
"This is the meaning of the parable.
The seed is the word of God.
Those on the path are the ones who have heard,
but the Devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts
that they may not believe and be saved.
Those on rocky ground are the ones who, when they hear,
receive the word with joy, but they have no root;
they believe only for a time and fall away in time of temptation.
As for the seed that fell among thorns,
they are the ones who have heard, but as they go along,
they are choked by the anxieties and riches and pleasures of life,
and they fail to produce mature fruit.
But as for the seed that fell on rich soil,
they are the ones who, when they have heard the word,
embrace it with a generous and good heart,
and bear fruit through perseverance."
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
I first wrote a reflection on today’s readings for September 18, 2004. A refreshed and edited version of that prior reflection follows.
These readings are very appropriate for September 19 in the northern hemisphere. It generally is harvest time across these latitudes, and the yield from the crops is directly related to some of the factors both Paul and Jesus mention today. Was there good seed? Did it fall on good soil? Does it send down deep roots? Did it receive nourishment and good rain? Does it mature and bear fruit?
This year the weather in our region has definitely been the most challenging aspect of a good harvest. The summer was very hot, and drought conditions prevailed in some areas. A sudden wind-storm, called a derecho, swept over miles-wide swaths of eastern Nebraska, central Iowa, and Illinois, lodging over crops that were nearing harvest, and causing billions of dollars of crop losses. And economic conditions, caused by the pandemic, have also roiled market prices and shipping and access, further reducing the financial returns earned by growers and harvesters and processers of grain.
As people of faith, we are in a unique situation – we are both the soil that receives the seed and we are in turn sowers of seeds to others. We are part of a process regarding the seed – receiving and (hopefully) nurturing it, and through our efforts of successful harvesting, creating new seeds to be propagated in others.
The lesson from Jesus is that this receiving the word, this seed, is not a one-time event. He uses the parable of a sower, someone who every growing season is out in the fields, sowing seed in the hope that a bounteous harvest will come at the end of the season. The sower who is careful will do all the right things, and if conditions are favorable, will receive the benefits of an abundant harvest. The sower who is persistent will bear fruit when conditions are favorable. The experienced sower knows, though, that no matter how diligent the efforts, success is not guaranteed or controllable.
So too with us. We receive the seed regularly – from both public and private reading of the gospels, from reflective and contemplative prayer, from pulpits and informal gatherings, from observations of and interactions with our brothers and sisters in our daily lives.
Sometimes when we receive the seed our personal soil conditions are not right, and it does not germinate. That seed bears no fruit.
Sometimes the seed takes root, but then withers and dies when our daily lives clamor for attention and we lose our focus on what we are called to do. The potential for that seed has been lost and perhaps squandered.
Sometimes the soil and other conditions are right, and the seed germinates and grows and thrives, and we bear great fruit and do wonderful things. We then can share the harvested seed with others and propagate new plantings in others.
As Jesus reminds us, if we are persistent over the years, eventually the sowing of the seed will bear fruit in us. If we keep trying to improve our soil (as all farmers do), eventually all the growing conditions will be favorable, and we will enjoy bumper crops. We will be able to harvest our crops and share the seeds with others. The key is not whether our soil conditions are favorable when we first receive the seed, but whether we persist in improving our soil so the seed will ultimately bear fruit.
And so, my prayer today is that I persist in preparing my growing conditions, in recognizing the seeds as I receive them, and in cultivating and nourishing the seed so, in my partnership with the Sower, it will bear great fruit that I can then share with others.
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GRAIN ELEVATOR
“Some fell on good soil, grew up, and yielded grain a hundredfold.” —Luke 8:8
A typical harvest of grain in the time of Jesus would be a sevenfold to eightfold yield. A hundredfold yield of grain could not possibly be attributed to the skill of the farmer or the fertility of the land. Jesus’ hearers would have understood that only the sheer grace of God could produce a hundredfold harvest.
Our approach to our daily reading of Scripture can resemble that of the Israelites who gathered the manna that God provided for decades in the desert (Ex 16:14ff). Many Israelites surely gathered it routinely year after year, seeing the miraculous food appear without perceiving; hearing others around them in the desert picking up their daily miracle from heaven without understanding (Lk 8:10). A normal routine of Scripture reading may not produce a hundredfold harvest, but rather the typical sevenfold or eightfold harvest that the Word of God automatically produces “of itself” (see Mk 4:28). If, by our own efforts, we are truly open to the Holy Spirit in our daily Scripture reading (Lk 8:15), perhaps we can increase the harvest to thirty or sixtyfold (Mt 13:8).
We at Presentation Ministries write One Bread, One Body to encourage you to read the daily Eucharistic readings before Mass. We encourage you to attend Mass daily, if possible, for at Holy Mass we are in the environment of miracles. Day by day, in the Eucharistic presence of Jesus, let’s expectantly ask Him to open our ears (Is 50:4). God will transform us and we will see an astounding, miraculous, hundredfold or greater harvest.
Prayer: Father, I tremble at Your Word (Is 66:2).
Promise: “To you the mysteries of the reign of God have been confided.” —Lk 8:10
Praise: St. Januarius was martyred during Emperor Diocletian’s persecution. His relics are preserved in Naples, Italy. Vials of his blood still regularly liquefy, defying natural explanation.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
How good are you at listening, especially for the word of God? God is always ready to speak to each of us and to give us understanding of his word. Jesus' parable of the sower is aimed at the hearers of his word. There are different ways of accepting God's word and they produce different kinds of fruit accordingly. There is the prejudiced hearer who has a shut mind. Such a person is unteachable and blind to the things of God. Then there is the shallow hearer who fails to think things out or think them through; such a person lacks spiritual depth. They may initially respond with an emotional fervor; but when it wears off their mind wanders to something else.
Does God's word for you go in one ear and out the other?
Another type of hearer is the person who has many interests and cares, but who lacks the ability to hear and understand what is truly important. Such a person is for ever too busy to pray and to listen and reflect on God's word because he or she allows other things to occupy their mind and heart. Whose voice or message gets the most attention from you - the voice of the world with its many distractions or the voice of God who wishes to speak his word of love and truth with you each and every day?
A receptive heart and mind that listens attentively
Jesus compares the third type of hearer with the good soil that is ready to receive the seed of his word so it can take root and grow, and produce good fruit. A receptive heart and open mind are always ready to hear what God wants to teach us through his word. The "ears of their heart" and the "eyes of their mind" search out the meaning of God's word for them so that it may grow and produce good fruit in their lives. They hear with a listening ear and teachable spirit (Isaiah 50:4-5) that wants to learn and understand the intention of God's word for them. They strive to tune out the noise and distractions of the world around them so they can give their attention to God's word and find nourishment in it. They listen in order to understand.
God's word has power to change and transform each one of us if we receive it with trust (a believing heart) and allow it to take root in our inner being (the depths of our heart, mind, and soul). God's word is our daily food to nourish and strengthen us on our journey of faith to his everlasting kingdom. Do you hunger for God's word?
Lord Jesus, faith in your word is the way to wisdom, and to ponder your divine plan is to grow in the truth. Open my eyes to your deeds, and my ears to the sound of your call, that I may understand your will for my life and live according to it.
Psalm 100
1 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the lands!
2 Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
3 Know that the LORD is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name!
5 For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The Devil snatches good seed off the path, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"The seed is the Word of God. Those on the way are they who have heard. Afterwards, the devil comes and takes away the Word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. We see in a moment that the hardness of the ground causes the seed on the pathways to be snatched away. A pathway always is hard and untilled, because it is exposed to every one's feet. It does not admit any seed into it, but it lies rather upon the surface, ready for any birds that will to snatch it away. All whose minds are hard and unyielding, and so to speak, pressed together, do not receive the divine seed. The divine and sacred admonition does not find an entrance into them. They do not accept the words that would produce in them the fear of God and by means of which they could bring forth as fruits the glories of virtue. They have made themselves a beaten and trampled pathway for unclean demons, yes, for Satan himself, such as never can bear holy fruit. Let those who are awake, whose heart is sterile and unfruitful, open your mind, receive the sacred seed, be like productive and well-tilled soil, bring forth to God the fruits that will raise you to an incorruptible life."(excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 41)
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