2020년 10월 15일 연중 제28주간 목요일
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제1독서
에페소서.1,1-10
1 하느님의 뜻에 따라 그리스도 예수님의 사도가 된 바오로가
에페소에 있는 성도들과
그리스도 예수님 안에서 사는 신자들에게 인사합니다.
2 하느님 우리 아버지와 주 예수 그리스도에게서
은총과 평화가 여러분에게 내리기를 빕니다.
3 우리 주 예수 그리스도의 아버지 하느님께서 찬미받으시기를 빕니다.
하느님께서는 그리스도 안에서
하늘의 온갖 영적인 복을 우리에게 내리셨습니다.
4 세상 창조 이전에 그리스도 안에서 우리를 선택하시어,
우리가 당신 앞에서 거룩하고 흠 없는 사람이 되게 해 주셨습니다.
사랑으로 5 예수 그리스도를 통하여
우리를 당신의 자녀로 삼으시기로 미리 정하셨습니다.
이는 하느님의 그 좋으신 뜻에 따라 이루어진 것입니다.
6 그리하여 사랑하시는 아드님 안에서
우리에게 베푸신 그 은총의 영광을 찬양하게 하셨습니다.
7 우리는 그리스도 안에서, 그리스도의 피를 통하여 속량을,
곧 죄의 용서를 받았습니다.
이는 하느님의 그 풍성한 은총에 따라 이루어진 것입니다.
8 하느님께서는 이 은총을 우리에게 넘치도록 베푸셨습니다.
당신의 지혜와 통찰력을 다하시어,
9 그리스도 안에서 미리 세우신 당신 선의에 따라
우리에게 당신 뜻의 신비를 알려 주셨습니다.
10 그것은 때가 차면 하늘과 땅에 있는 만물을
그리스도 안에서 그분을 머리로 하여 한데 모으는 계획입니다.
복음
루카 11,47-54
그때에 주님께서 말씀하셨다.
47 “너희는 불행하여라!
바로 너희 조상들이 죽인 예언자들의 무덤을 너희가 만들기 때문이다.
48 이렇게 너희 조상들은 예언자들을 죽이고
너희는 그들의 무덤을 만들고 있으니,
조상들이 저지른 소행을 너희가 증언하고 또 동조하는 것이다.
49 그래서 하느님의 지혜도,
‘내가 예언자들과 사도들을 그들에게 보낼 터인데,
그들은 이들 가운데에서 더러는 죽이고
더러는 박해할 것이다.’ 하고 말씀하셨다.
50 그러니 세상 창조 이래 쏟아진 모든 예언자의 피에 대한 책임을
이 세대가 져야 할 것이다.
51 아벨의 피부터, 제단과 성소 사이에서 죽어 간
즈카르야의 피에 이르기까지 그렇게 해야 할 것이다.
그렇다, 내가 너희에게 말한다.
이 세대가 그 책임을 져야 할 것이다.
52 불행하여라, 너희 율법 교사들아!
너희가 지식의 열쇠를 치워 버리고서,
너희 자신들도 들어가지 않고
또 들어가려는 이들도 막아 버렸기 때문이다.”
53 예수님께서 그 집을 나오시자,
율법 학자들과 바리사이들은 독한 앙심을 품고
많은 질문으로 그분을 몰아대기 시작하였다.
54 예수님의 입에서 나오는 말씀으로 그분을 옭아매려고 노렸던 것이다.
October 15, 2020
Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
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Reading 1
Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,
to the holy ones who are in Ephesus
and faithful in Christ Jesus:
grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ
with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,
as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world,
to be holy and without blemish before him.
In love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ,
in accord with the favor of his will,
for the praise of the glory of his grace
that he granted us in the beloved.
In Christ we have redemption by his Blood,
the forgiveness of transgressions,
in accord with the riches of his grace that he lavished upon us.
In all wisdom and insight, he has made known to us
the mystery of his will in accord with his favor
that he set forth in him as a plan for the fullness of times,
to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (2a) The Lord has made known his salvation.
Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done wondrous deeds;
His right hand has won victory for him,
his holy arm.
R. The Lord has made known his salvation.
The LORD has made his salvation known:
in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.
He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness
toward the house of Israel.
R. The Lord has made known his salvation.
All the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation by our God.
Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;
break into song; sing praise.
R. The Lord has made known his salvation.
Sing praise to the LORD with the harp,
with the harp and melodious song.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
sing joyfully before the King, the LORD.
R. The Lord has made known his salvation.
Gospel
The Lord said:
“Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets
whom your fathers killed.
Consequently, you bear witness and give consent
to the deeds of your ancestors,
for they killed them and you do the building.
Therefore, the wisdom of God said,
‘I will send to them prophets and Apostles;
some of them they will kill and persecute’
in order that this generation might be charged
with the blood of all the prophets
shed since the foundation of the world,
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah
who died between the altar and the temple building.
Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood!
Woe to you, scholars of the law!
You have taken away the key of knowledge.
You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.”
When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees
began to act with hostility toward him
and to interrogate him about many things,
for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.
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Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
This one prayer of St. Teresa of Jesus, also know as St. Teresa of Avila, for me sums up the profound faith and knowledge of God she attained in her lifetime. God’s fidelity!
Teresa was a Spanish nun, of the Carmelite Order and proclaimed Doctor of the Church. She is known as a theologian, and leader within her community and the Church. Grounded in her profound mysticism, and prophetic in her own way, she took on reforms within the Carmelite Order. Teresa was eventually joined by St. John of the Cross within that movement of reform that led to a split in the Order establishing the Discalced Carmelites. There is much to be said about Teresa that only time to read her biography would do her justice! Let’s reflect on her name.
Teresa OF JESUS! Such a woman she was who experienced a deep intimacy and union with Christ that she describes through her visions. The Ecstasy of St. Teresa is magnificently depicted in Bernini’s sculpture at Santa Maria della Vittoria, in Rome which I was able to see and spend time in prayer. Bernini was able to portray powerful emotion in his works. Teresa’s own writing, particularly the Interior Castle describes for us the stages of spiritual growth that leads to complete union with Christ. This she experienced and was one with JESUS. She experienced unity with the Holy Name she carried.
St. Teresa speaks to her soul. “Be joyful, my soul… Don’t let any earthly thing be enough to separate you from your delight, and rejoice in the grandeur of God; in how He deserves to be loved and praised; that He helps you to play some small role in the blessing of His name; and that you can truthfully say; My soul magnifies and praises the Lord!
How profound or deep might our desired union with Christ be? Do I speak to my soul?
St. Paul in this Letter to the Ephesians expresses “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens”! It is his own Magnificat of experiencing profoundly his gratitude of the knowledge and union with Christ that was his to proclaim. In love through Christ, Paul tells us, we are adopted by God through Christ! All praise and glory! Take a moment to take that in!
Jesus, to whom we give praise and glory, a prophet in his own time has grown bolder as we find him in conversation with the Pharisee’s and Scribes. “Woe to you…” He has definitely gotten under their skins challenging the hypocrisy of their religious leadership from a historical context. Perhaps this is where St. Teresa, upon praying with Scripture, got her courage to speak out during the Reformation and Counter Reformation of her time! Not the best time in history with the Spanish Inquisition in full force!
“Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge.” Wow! Where might we find the foundation for our courage to speak out to both civil and religious authority. These times when there is clearly a need to point out hypocrisy, and to restore balance, harmony, justice, Peace, the foundation of a country, or the Gospel truth may be something to consider. “The Lord has made His Salvation known.” It is ours to live up to it! Or will it be WOE TO US?
Let us pray again these words of St. Teresa with confidence to obtain courage and peace of soul, that our God, in Christ Jesus, together with the Holy Spirit, is with us.
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
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SIN-SEARED
“The Lord has made His salvation known.” —Psalm 98:2
Jesus accused the people of His time of standing behind the murders committed by their fathers (Lk 11:48). Their fathers murdered the prophets, who were innocent and holy messengers of God. In doing so, they rejected God, Who sent the prophets (cf Mt 21:33-46). Jesus maintained that His generation would “have to account for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world” (Lk 11:50). The reaction to Jesus’ convicting statements was “fierce hostility” (Lk 11:53). This resulted in the murder of murders committed against Jesus, the all-holy, perfectly innocent Prophet of prophets.
Sin is epidemic, generational, and self-perpetuating in that it blinds us to sin. Sin is also murderous even to the point of deicide itself, that is, to the point of murdering God. Therefore, when we sin, we are trapped. By our power, we can’t do anything to get out of sin. We would die in our sins (see Jn 8:24) and be damned but for Jesus. Jesus saved us. He intervened and broke the power of sin in our life. “It is in Christ and through His blood that we have been redeemed and our sins forgiven, so immeasurably generous is God’s favor to us” (Eph 1:7-8).
We must thank Jesus always for saving us from sin. We must avoid at all costs falling into sin, and we must tell a sinful world about the only Savior from sin.
Prayer: Jesus, may I go to Confession and let You wash away my sin.
Promise: “God has given us the wisdom to understand fully the mystery, the plan He was pleased to decree in Christ, to be carried out in the fullness of time: namely, to bring all things in the heavens and on earth into one under Christ’s headship.” —Eph 1:9-10
Praise: St. Teresa and St. Catherine of Siena were each declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970. They represent the first women honored with the title.
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How can God's wisdom free us from being double-minded and spiritually blind? God sent his prophets to open the ears of his people to hear and understand God's word and intention for their lives. God's wisdom is personified in the voice of the prophets, a voice that often brought rejection and death because they spoke for God rather than for human favor and approval. Jesus chastised many of the religious leaders of his day for being double-minded and for demanding from others standards which they refused to satisfy. They professed admiration for the prophets from the past by building their tombs while at the same time they opposed the message that the prophets spoke in God's name. They rejected the prophets' warnings and closed their ears to the word of God.
Jesus in the key of knowledge that opens God's kingdom for us
What does Jesus mean when he says they have taken away the key of knowledge? The religious lawyers and scribes held the "office of the keys" since they were the official interpreters of the Scriptures. Unfortunately their interpretation of the Scriptures became so distorted and difficult to understand that others were "shut off" to the Scriptures. They not only shut themselves to heaven - they also hindered others from understanding God's word. Through pride and envy, they rejected not only the prophets of old, but God's final prophet and Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is the "key of David" (see Isaiah 22:22; Revelations 3:7) who opens heaven for those who accept him as Lord and Savior. He is the "Wisdom of God" and source of everlasting life.
Humility helps us to be receptive to God's wisdom
Only the humble of heart - those who thirst for God and acknowledge his word as true - can truly understand the wisdom which comes from above. [See Psalm 119:99ff: "I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation."] God is ever ready to speak his word to us and to give us true wisdom and understanding. Do you hunger for the wisdom which comes from above?
Lord Jesus, may your word take root in my heart and transform all my thoughts and actions. Give me wisdom and understanding that I may know your will for my life and have the courage to live according to it.
Psalm 130:1-7
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!
2 Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
6 my soul waits for the LORD more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
7 O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plenteous redemption.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The key of knowledge that opens the kingdom of God, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"We consider that the key of knowledge means the law [of Moses] itself, and by faith in him, I mean justification in Christ. Although the law was in shadow and type, yet those types show to us the truth, and those shadows depict to us in many ways the mystery of Christ. A lamb was sacrificed according to the law of Moses. They ate its flesh. They anointed the lintels with its blood and overcame the destroyer. The blood of a mere sheep could not turn away death. Christ was typified under the form of a lamb. He endures to be the victim for the life of the world and saves by his blood those who are partakers of him. One might mention many other instances as well, by means of which we can discern the mystery of Christ sketched out in the shadows of the law. When speaking to the Jews, he once said, 'There is one that accuses you, even Moses, whom you trusted. For if you had believed Moses, you should have also believed me, because he wrote of me' (John 5:45-46). 'You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me' (John 5:39). Every word of divinely inspired Scripture looks to him and refers to him. As it has been shown, if Moses speaks, he typified Christ. If the holy prophets that you name speak, they also proclaimed to us in many ways the mystery of Christ, preaching beforehand the salvation that is by him." (excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 86)
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