2020년 10월 3일 연중 제26주간 토요일
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제1독서
욥기 . 42,1-3.5-6.12-17
1 욥이 주님께 대답하였다.
2 “저는 알았습니다.
당신께서는 모든 것을 하실 수 있음을,
당신께는 어떠한 계획도 불가능하지 않음을!
3 당신께서는 ‘지각없이 내 뜻을 가리는 이자는 누구냐?’ 하셨습니다.
그렇습니다, 저에게는 너무나 신비로워 알지 못하는 일들을
저는 이해하지도 못한 채 지껄였습니다.
5 당신에 대하여 귀로만 들어 왔던 이 몸,
이제는 제 눈이 당신을 뵈었습니다.
6 그래서 저 자신을 부끄럽게 여기며 먼지와 잿더미에 앉아 참회합니다.”
12 주님께서는 욥의 여생에 지난날보다 더 큰 복을 내리시어,
그는 양 만사천 마리와 낙타 육천 마리,
겨릿소 천 쌍과 암나귀 천 마리를 소유하게 되었다.
13 또한 그는 아들 일곱과 딸 셋을 얻었다.
14 그는 첫째 딸을 여미마, 둘째 딸을 크치아,
셋째 딸을 케렌 하푹이라 불렀다.
15 세상 어디에서도 욥의 딸들만큼 아리따운 여자는 찾아볼 수 없었다.
그들의 아버지는 그들에게도 남자 형제들과 같이 유산을 물려주었다.
16 그 뒤 욥은 백사십 년을 살면서,
사 대에 걸쳐 자식과 손자들을 보았다.
17 이렇게 욥은 늘그막까지 수를 다하고 죽었다.
복음
루카 10,17-24
그때에 17 일흔두 제자가 기뻐하며 돌아와 말하였다.
“주님, 주님의 이름 때문에 마귀들까지 저희에게 복종합니다.”
18 그러자 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다.
“나는 사탄이 번개처럼 하늘에서 떨어지는 것을 보았다.
19 보라, 내가 너희에게 뱀과 전갈을 밟고
원수의 모든 힘을 억누르는 권한을 주었다.
이제 아무것도 너희를 해치지 못할 것이다.
20 그러나 영들이 너희에게 복종하는 것을 기뻐하지 말고,
너희 이름이 하늘에 기록된 것을 기뻐하여라.”
21 그때에 예수님께서 성령 안에서 즐거워하며 말씀하셨다.
“아버지, 하늘과 땅의 주님,
지혜롭다는 자들과 슬기롭다는 자들에게는 이것을 감추시고
철부지들에게는 드러내 보이시니, 아버지께 감사를 드립니다.
그렇습니다, 아버지! 아버지의 선하신 뜻이 이렇게 이루어졌습니다.”
22 “나의 아버지께서는 모든 것을 나에게 넘겨주셨다.
그래서 아버지 외에는 아들이 누구인지 아무도 알지 못한다.
또 아들 외에는, 그리고 그가 아버지를 드러내 보여 주려는 사람 외에는
아버지께서 누구이신지 아무도 알지 못한다.”
23 그리고 예수님께서는 돌아서서 제자들에게 따로 이르셨다.
“너희가 보는 것을 보는 눈은 행복하다. 24 내가 너희에게 말한다.
많은 예언자와 임금이 너희가 보는 것을 보려고 하였지만 보지 못하였고,
너희가 듣는 것을 들으려고 하였지만 듣지 못하였다.”
October 3, 2020
Saturday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Jb 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17
Job answered the LORD and said:
I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be hindered.
I have dealt with great things that I do not understand;
things too wonderful for me, which I cannot know.
I had heard of you by word of mouth,
but now my eye has seen you.
Therefore I disown what I have said,
and repent in dust and ashes.
Thus the LORD blessed the latter days of Job
more than his earlier ones.
For he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels,
a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
And he had seven sons and three daughters,
of whom he called the first Jemimah,
the second Keziah, and the third Kerenhappuch.
In all the land no other women were as beautiful
as the daughters of Job;
and their father gave them an inheritance
along with their brothers.
After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years;
and he saw his children, his grandchildren,
and even his great-grandchildren.
Then Job died, old and full of years.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 119:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130
R. (135) Lord, let your face shine on me.
Teach me wisdom and knowledge,
for in your commands I trust.
R. Lord, let your face shine on me.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
R. Lord, let your face shine on me.
I know, O LORD, that your ordinances are just,
and in your faithfulness you have afflicted me.
R. Lord, let your face shine on me.
According to your ordinances they still stand firm:
all things serve you.
R. Lord, let your face shine on me.
I am your servant; give me discernment
that I may know your decrees.
R. Lord, let your face shine on me.
The revelation of your words sheds light,
giving understanding to the simple.
R. Lord, let your face shine on me.
Gospel
Lk 10:17-24
The seventy-two disciples returned rejoicing and said to Jesus,
“Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name.”
Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.
Behold, I have given you the power
‘to tread upon serpents’ and scorpions
and upon the full force of the enemy
and nothing will harm you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you,
but rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”
At that very moment he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
“I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows who the Son is except the Father,
and who the Father is except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
Turning to the disciples in private he said,
“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
For I say to you,
many prophets and kings desired to see what you see,
but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”
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When we hear Luke speaking about the 72 returning after being sent to proclaim the presence of the kingdom of God, we need to remember who these 72 are and how they fit into Luke’s two-part story of Jesus and the church (which we have learned to call Luke-Acts). The gospel writers, each in their own way, present the inner group of Twelve in portraits that speak not only of history and also, and especially, in a way that prompts their readers (contemporary and future, including us) to reflect on what it means to be a follower of Jesus as risen Lord in their own day. In the case of Luke, this becomes more complicated because he not only prompts such reflection by means of his own presentation of the inner 12 disciples; he (alone) also introduces another chosen group called “the 72” [or 70, but that has to do with Greek and Hebrew manuscript variants, which need not detain us here] at chapter 10. The 12 are presented as slow learners, like most of us, when it comes to following Jesus in a mature and generous way. The 12 are recreated in the Acts by the grace of Pentecost. But the (apparently parallel) function of the 72 is at first puzzling. No group by that name exists in Acts.
Since Luke gives us two groups named with a symbolic number 12 and 72, it is worthwhile to sample Luke’s portrait of each and see how they relate.
Consider the following examples of the behavior of the 12 chosen ones in the gospel stage: In Luke’s “plot” as he retells the tradition represented in Mark’s version, Jesus’ first encounter with future members of the Twelve occurs in chapter 5, with Peter, the Zebedee brothers and other partners in the fishing business. It involves the miraculous draft of fish and the prophecy that they will in the future “catch” people; even though they “leave everything and follow him” they are not yet sent on mission.
In the middle of chapter 6, after a night of prayer on a mountain top, Jesus comes down and gathers an uncounted number of disciples, and from them chooses an inner 12, whom he calls ‘apostles’ (literally ‘sent ones,’ or special messengers). But Jesus does not yet send them anywhere. Instead they continue to be part of the large group of disciples and presumably identify with the people Jesus calls “you who hear me” and they receive the radical teaching addressed to all disciples of Jesus: to love enemies and do good to those who hate them, and to imitate God the Father himself by being merciful and He is merciful, and leaving any judging of others to God.
During his early movement around Galilee, at a certain point (beginning at chapter 9), Jesus summons the Twelve and gives them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases and sends them to proclaim the gospel and to heal the sick, and to lodge with the people who accept them. This might seem to be the moment when Jesus is “passing the baton” to them, setting them up to carry on his mission after his death. But the larger story of the gospel of Luke, and then the Acts, teaches us differently. They have a lot to learn before they take on the challenge of a worldwide, Spirit-driven mission. When the “apostles” return and report to Jesus “what they had done,” Luke then proceeds to narrate his (single!) version of a miraculous feeding of thousands who crowd around him with their needs for healing and teaching. When the disciples begin to get nervous about this huge crowd getting hungry at the end of a long day and ask Jesus to dismiss them so they can find provisions and lodging before dark, Jesus confronts them with the startling mandate, “Give them something yourselves.” (After all, they had just been boasting about all they had done on their first mission.) Hearing Jesus’ mandate, they realize their poverty: five loaves and two fish to feed 5000? Jesus has them divide the people up in groups of fifty, says the Jewish blessing before meals, begins to break the loaves, and hands them to the disciples to set before those hundred groups of fifty. Leftovers fill twelve baskets. They have learned (we hope) another lesson about where the power for mission really comes from.
If we have been paying attention to the slowness of these leaders-in-training, we hear another example in Peter’s response upon waking up in the middle of the transfiguration: Master, it is good. Let’s make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, one for Elijah.” Pointedly, Luke the narrator remarks, “But he did not know what he was saying.” A voice from the cloud says, “This is my chosen Son. Listen to him!” The training about who Jesus is and what it means to follow him intensifies. When the disciples argue about who is the greatest among them, Jesus teaches, “The one who receives me receives the one who sent me. For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest.” When John reports that the disciples tried to stop an outsider from casting out demons in Jesus’ name, Jesus says, “Do not prevent him, for whoever is not against you is for you.” When Jesus sends messengers to a Samaritan village to prepare the way for Jesus, and they would not welcome him because his destination was Jerusalem (in other words, they saw Jesus and his group as Jews acting out their heresy, understanding Mt. Zion in Jerusalem—not Mt. Gerisim--as the place to worship God), James and John say, “Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?” Luke writes that Jesus turns and rebukes them, and they journey to another village. Thus, we learn that when Jesus is confronted with simple misunderstanding, he did not force himself on people (i.e. violently). Within a few more verses, we hear for the first time, reference to another group. At the beginning of chapter 10, Luke tells of Jesus appointing seventy-two “others” whom he sends ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intends to visit.
Now what are we readers to make of this distinct group of the 72, who seem to disappear as a distinct group in the Acts of the Apostles? Are the twelve first-chosen disciples proving so slow on the pickup that Jesus makes a fresh start, and appoints a fresh group of disciples, large enough to sustain dropouts, and then does it happen that no one in the new group perseveres long enough to be mentioned in the post-Pentecost account of the church in the Acts? That might seem to be the case, but the most satisfactory explanation from biblical scholars regarding these two groups and the meaning of their numeric names of 12 and 72 goes like this. The historical Jesus deliberately chooses 12 males to make the point that this diverse set of 12 men are meant to parallel the twelve sons of Jacob from whom stem the restored tribes of Israel, the fulfillment of Israelite expectation of a new people of God who will be sent out to lead the whole human family to a shared life of peace and justice, with another David as their leader under God. For Luke, the key backstory was Isaiah 42:1-7 and 49:5-6, especially the latter with its two-stage movement from the restoration of the tribes of Israel to becoming a “light to the nations, that my [the Lord’s] salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.” This background illuminates Luke’s focus at the beginning of Acts on the importance of choosing someone to replace Judas and restore the full 12 witnesses of the resurrection of Jesus who would be enabled by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to evangelize the whole human family. Once we are aware of Luke’s use of the Old Testament to tell the story of Jesus and the church, the meaning that other group, the 72, becomes understandable. Where in the Old Testament is the number 72 used in a significant way? In two places. First in the story of the origins of the human family in the preface to the story if Israel, Genesis 1-11, where 72 is the number of the post-flood descendants of Noah--from the standpoint of the human authors of Genesis, the whole human family! (A second place is the 70 delegates chosen by Moses to assist him in the governance of Israel in their passage through the desert [Numbers 11:16-17, 25], but here we’ll concentrate on the Genesis account.) Applied to the Gospel of Luke and Acts, the Genesis 1-11 backstory suggests that Luke introduces the choosing and sending of 72 (in Luke 10) as a type (let’s call it a “forecast”) of the development and commissioning of the church as the restored people of God on mission sketched in the Acts of the Apostles, specifically through the networks of delegates led by Peter and Paul. Having introduced the “short story” of the mission of the 72 in the Gospel narrative, Luke, focusing on the worldwide mission in Acts, will lean more heavily on the prophecies in Isaiah, especially chapters 42, and 49 (“light for the nations”).
Just as Luke draws on the traditions of Israel to help his readers (and listeners) understand their own place in the life and mission of the church, so does Pope Francis draw on the whole of biblical tradition (especially Luke-Acts, but also the whole experience [failures and well as successes] of the church ever since). Here are some highlights of his own reflections and discernments.
All Christians are called to engage in mission (i.e. implementing Vatican II’s universal call to holiness). Following Christ requires personal conversion (in Luke’s version of Jesus’ program, the Sermon on the Plain, only some of those who come to him ‘listen to his words’ [6:27], and only some of those ‘act on them’ [6:49]). Mission entails more than growth of the church; it calls as well for service of the world, all people of good will; in our own day especially, service of the world calls for solidarity with the systematically excluded. Today, being fully “pro-life” (what Pope Francis calls “integral ecology” entails acting as if all networks of human life, from conception to natural death, are interconnected with other networks of life, including cultures). Integral development of life involves hearing the voice of the earth as well as the voice of the poor. Service of the common good requires a new kind of listening (since collaborating with stakeholders with different interests requires practical compromises on all sides. And that kind of dialogue calls for compassionate and sacrificial listening).
Compassionate and self-giving Lord, Jesus, we can identify with Luke’s Gospel portrait of the slow-learning twelve. In this time when the pandemic brings us to a virtual stand-still, and forces us to cope with the basic human needs of our own kin and like-minded groups but also the needs of others beyond those of “our own people,” please open our eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to hear what your words call us to today and to be inspired by your example and truly act on your call. Send your Holy Spirit afresh to recrate us as your people. Thank you for giving us Francis in this time of history. We appreciate that his teaching and preaching builds on that of his predecessors in the role of Peter, but also the earthy wisdom of the faith of Israel, the urgency of the Prophets, and your own incarnate expression and example. Help us share in your humanity and trust in your divinity. We take hope in your power to convert us to become fit to join you in your mission. Save and enliven us and our posterity in the service of one another and in the care of the special gift of our planet. We understand that eternal life with you has been inaugurated in this world with your love of the 12 and the 72. Lord, in your mercy save us.
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HIDDEN DEMONS
“The seventy-two returned in jubilation saying, ‘Master, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.’ ” —Luke 10:17
Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and praised His Father. He was so excited because His Father hid things from the learned and the clever and revealed these things to the merest children (Lk 10:21).
The disciples had just returned, impressed because they could overcome demons in Jesus’ name. They had shot Satan right out of the sky and had “power to tread on snakes and scorpions and all the forces of the enemy” (Lk 10:18-19).
This victory over Satan seems to be what was revealed to the merest children and hidden from the learned and the clever. This same situation persists to the present day. Most of the learned and sophisticated, even among religious leaders, are largely unaware of Satan’s power. The evil one easily manipulates them, and they exercise little or no power over him. They are in the dark and have hidden themselves from the truth.
Little people — uneducated “backward” people — are not given much respect in our society. Yet by faith they command great respect from the fallen archangel Lucifer, who trembles and cowers as these little people wield their God-given authority.
Will you be a sophisticated loser or a simple faith-filled victor?
Prayer: Father, may I not build walls of pride to hide myself from the Truth.
Promise: “I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be hindered.” —Jb 42:2
Praise: Every day, Dave calls on St. Michael the Archangel to defend him against the powers of Satan.
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Do you know and experience in your personal life the joy of the Lord? The Scriptures tell us that "the joy of the Lord is our strength" (Nehemiah 8:10). Why does Jesus tell his disciples to not take joy in their own successes, even spiritual ones? Jesus makes clear that the true source of our joy is God himself, and God alone. Regardless of the circumstances, in good times and bad times, in success or loss, God always assures us of victory in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus assures his disciples that he has all power over all evil, including the power of Satan and the evil spirits (demons) - the fallen angels who rebelled against God and who hate men and women who have been created in God's image and likeness (Genesis 1:29). Jesus told his disciples that he came into the world to overthrow the evil one (John 12:31). That is why Jesus gave his disciples power over Satan and his legion of demons (rebellious angels). We, too, as disciples of Jesus have been given spiritual authority and power for overcoming the works of darkness and evil (1 John 2:13-14).
Self-centered pride closes the mind to God's revelation and wisdom
Jesus thanks the Father in heaven for revealing to his disciples the wisdom and knowledge of God. What does Jesus' prayer tell us about God and about ourselves? First, it tells us that God is both Father and Lord of earth as well as heaven. He is both Creator and Author of all that he has made, the first origin of everything and transcendent authority, and at the same time, goodness and loving care for all his children. All fatherhood and motherhood is derived from him (Ephesians 3:14-15).
Jesus' prayer also contains a warning that pride can keep us from the love and knowledge of God. What makes us ignorant and blind to the things of God? Sinful pride springs from being self-centered and holding an exaggerated view of oneself. Pride closes the mind to God's truth and wisdom for our lives. Lucifer, who was once the prince of angels, fell into pride because he did not want to serve God but wanted to be equal with God. Through his arrogant pride he led a whole host of angels to rebel against God. That is why the rebellious angels (whom Scripture calls evil spirits, devils, and demons) were cast out of heaven and thrown down to the earth. They seek to lead us away from God through pride and rebellion.
How can we guard our hearts from sinful pride and rebellion? The virtue of humility teaches us to put our trust in God and not in ourselves. God gives strength and help to those who put their trust in him. Humility is the only true remedy against sinful pride. True humility, which is very different from the feelings of inferiority or low self-esteem, leads us to a true recognition of who we are in the sight of God and of our dependence on God.
Humility is the only soil where God's grace and truth can take root
Jesus contrasts intellectual pride with child-like simplicity and humility. The simple of heart are like "babes" or "little children" in the sense that they see purely without pretense or falsehood and acknowledge their dependence and trust in one who is greater, wiser, and more trustworthy. They seek one thing - the "summum bonum" or "greatest good" who is God himself. Simplicity of heart is wedded with humility, the queen of virtues, because humility inclines the heart towards grace and truth.
Just as pride is the root of every sin and evil inclination, so humility is the only soil in which the grace of God can take root. It alone takes the right attitude before God and allows him as God to do all. God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble (Proverbs 3:34, James 4:6). The grace of Christ-like humility inclines us towards God and disposes us to receive God's wisdom and help. Allow the Lord Jesus to heal the wounds of pride in your heart and to fill you with the joy of the Holy Spirit who transforms us into the likeness of Christ himself - who is meek and humble of heart (Matthew 11:29).
Nothing can give us greater joy than the knowledge that we are God's beloved and that our names are written in heaven. The Lord Jesus has ransomed us from slavery to sin, Satan, and death and has adopted us as God's beloved sons and daughters. That is why we no longer belong to ourselves - but to God alone. Do you seek to be like Jesus Christ in humility and simplicity of heart?
The Lord Jesus wants us to know him personally - experientially
Jesus makes a claim which no one would have dared to make: He is the perfect revelation of God - he and the Father are perfectly united in a bond of unbreakable love and fidelity. One of the greatest truths of the Christian faith is that we can know the living God. Our knowledge of God is not simply limited to knowing something about God, but we can know God personally. The essence of Christianity, and what makes it distinct from Judaism and other religions, is the knowledge of God as our Father. Jesus makes it possible for each of us to personally know God as our Father. Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote: "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us to love."
Seek God with expectant faith and trust
To see Jesus is to see what God is like. In Jesus we see the perfect love of God - a God who yearns over men and women, who cares intensely for them and who shows them unceasing kindness, mercy, and forgiveness. That is why the Father sent his only begotten Son who laid down his life for us on the cross. Jesus taught his followers to confidently pray to the Father with expectant faith, "Our Father who art in heaven ...give us this day our daily bread." Do you believe in your heavenly Father's care and love for you and do you pray with confident trust and hope that he will give you what you need to live as his son or daughter?
Most High and glorious God, enlighten the darkness of our hearts and give us a true faith, a certain hope and a perfect love. Give us a sense of the divine and knowledge of yourself, so that we may do everything in fulfillment of your holy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Prayer of Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226)
Psalm 69:32-36
32 Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
33 For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.
35 For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it;
36 the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The power of the Kingdom of God, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"He also gave the holy apostles power and might even to raise the dead, cleanse lepers, heal the sick, and by the laying on of hands to call down from heaven the Holy Spirit on anyone they wanted. He gave them power to bind and to loose people's sins. His words are 'I say to you, whatever you will bind on earth, will be bound in heaven (Matthew 18:18). Whatever you will loose on earth, will be loosed in heaven.' These are the things we see ourselves possessing. Blessed are our eyes and the eyes of those of all who love him. We have heard his wonderful teaching. He has given us the knowledge of God the Father, and he has shown him to us in his own nature. The things that were by Moses were only types and symbols. Christ has revealed the truth to us. He has taught us that not by blood and smoke, but rather by spiritual sacrifices, we must honor him who is spiritual, immaterial and above all understanding."(excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 67)
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