2020년 11월 17일 연중 제33주간 화요일
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제1독서
요한 묵시록. 3,1-6.14-22
나 요한은 주님께서 나에게 말씀하시는 것을 들었습니다.
1 “사르디스 교회의 천사에게 써 보내라.
‘하느님의 일곱 영과 일곱 별을 가진 이가 말한다.
나는 네가 한 일을 안다. 너는 살아 있다고 하지만 사실은 죽은 것이다.
2 깨어 있어라. 아직 남아 있지만 죽어 가는 것들을 튼튼하게 만들어라.
나는 네가 한 일들이 나의 하느님 앞에서 완전하다고 보지 않는다.
3 그러므로 네가 가르침을 어떻게 받아들이고 어떻게 들었는지 되새겨,
그것을 지키고 또 회개하여라.
네가 깨어나지 않으면 내가 도둑처럼 가겠다.
너는 내가 어느 때에 너에게 갈지 결코 알지 못할 것이다.
4 그러나 사르디스에는 자기 옷을 더럽히지 않은 사람이 몇 있다.
그들은 흰옷을 입고, 나와 함께 다닐 것이다. 그럴 자격이 있기 때문이다.
5 승리하는 사람은 이처럼 흰옷을 입을 것이다.
그리고 나는 생명의 책에서 그의 이름을 지우지 않을 것이고,
내 아버지와 그분의 천사들 앞에서 그의 이름을 안다고 증언할 것이다.
6 귀 있는 사람은 성령께서 여러 교회에 하시는 말씀을 들어라.’
14 라오디케이아 교회의 천사에게 써 보내라.
‘아멘 그 자체이고 성실하고 참된 증인이며 하느님 창조의 근원인 이가 말한다.
15 나는 네가 한 일을 안다. 너는 차지도 않고 뜨겁지도 않다.
네가 차든지 뜨겁든지 하면 좋으련만!
16 네가 이렇게 미지근하여 뜨겁지도 않고 차지도 않으니,
나는 너를 입에서 뱉어 버리겠다.
17 ′나는 부자로서 풍족하여 모자람이 없다.′하고 네가 말하지만,
사실은 비참하고 가련하고 가난하고 눈멀고 벌거벗은 것을 깨닫지 못한다.
18 내가 너에게 권한다.
나에게서 불로 정련된 금을 사서 부자가 되고,
흰옷을 사 입어 너의 수치스러운 알몸이 드러나지 않게 하고,
안약을 사서 눈에 발라 제대로 볼 수 있게 하여라.
19 내가 사랑하는 사람들을 나는 책망도 하고 징계도 한다.
그러므로 열성을 다하고 회개하여라.
20 보라, 내가 문 앞에 서서 문을 두드리고 있다.
누구든지 내 목소리를 듣고 문을 열면,
나는 그의 집에 들어가 그와 함께 먹고 그 사람도 나와 함께 먹을 것이다.
21 승리하는 사람은,
내가 승리한 뒤에 내 아버지의 어좌에 그분과 함께 앉은 것처럼,
내 어좌에 나와 함께 앉게 해 주겠다.
22 귀 있는 사람은 성령께서 여러 교회에 하시는 말씀을 들어라.’”
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루카. 19,1-10
그때에 1 예수님께서 예리코에 들어가시어 거리를 지나가고 계셨다.
2 마침 거기에 자캐오라는 사람이 있었는데, 그는 세관장이고 또 부자였다.
3 그는 예수님께서 어떠한 분이신지 보려고 애썼지만
군중에 가려 볼 수가 없었다. 키가 작았기 때문이다.
4 그래서 앞질러 달려가 돌무화과나무로 올라갔다.
그곳을 지나시는 예수님을 보려는 것이었다.
5 예수님께서 거기에 이르러 위를 쳐다보시며 그에게 이르셨다.
“자캐오야, 얼른 내려오너라. 오늘은 내가 네 집에 머물러야 하겠다.”
6 자캐오는 얼른 내려와 예수님을 기쁘게 맞아들였다.
7 그것을 보고 사람들은 모두
“저이가 죄인의 집에 들어가 묵는군.” 하고 투덜거렸다.
8 그러나 자캐오는 일어서서 주님께 말하였다.
“보십시오, 주님! 제 재산의 반을 가난한 이들에게 주겠습니다.
그리고 제가 다른 사람 것을 횡령하였다면 네 곱절로 갚겠습니다.”
9 그러자 예수님께서 그에게 이르셨다.
“오늘 이 집에 구원이 내렸다. 이 사람도 아브라함의 자손이기 때문이다.
10 사람의 아들은 잃은 이들을 찾아 구원하러 왔다.”
November 17, 2020
Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
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Reading 1
I, John, heard the Lord saying to me:
“To the angel of the Church in Sardis, write this:
“‘The one who has the seven spirits of God
and the seven stars says this: “I know your works,
that you have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
Be watchful and strengthen what is left, which is going to die,
for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.
Remember then how you accepted and heard; keep it, and repent.
If you are not watchful, I will come like a thief,
and you will never know at what hour I will come upon you.
However, you have a few people in Sardis
who have not soiled their garments;
they will walk with me dressed in white,
because they are worthy.
“‘The victor will thus be dressed in white,
and I will never erase his name from the book of life
but will acknowledge his name in the presence of my Father
and of his angels.
“‘Whoever has ears ought to hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”
“To the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write this:
“‘The Amen, the faithful and true witness,
the source of God’s creation, says this:
“I know your works;
I know that you are neither cold nor hot.
I wish you were either cold or hot.
So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold,
I will spit you out of my mouth.
For you say, ‘I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,’
and yet do not realize that you are wretched,
pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich,
and white garments to put on
so that your shameful nakedness may not be exposed,
and buy ointment to smear on your eyes so that you may see.
Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise.
Be earnest, therefore, and repent.
“‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,
then I will enter his house and dine with him,
and he with me.
I will give the victor the right to sit with me on my throne,
as I myself first won the victory
and sit with my Father on his throne.
“‘Whoever has ears ought to hear
what the Spirit says to the churches.’”
Responsorial Psalm
R. (Rev. 3: 21) I will seat the victor beside me on my throne.
He who walks blamelessly and does justice;
who thinks the truth in his heart
and slanders not with his tongue.
R. I will seat the victor beside me on my throne.
Who harms not his fellow man,
nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
By whom the reprobate is despised,
while he honors those who fear the LORD.
R. I will seat the victor beside me on my throne.
Who lends not his money at usury
and accepts no bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things
shall never be disturbed.
R. I will seat the victor beside me on my throne.
Gospel
At that time Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town.
Now a man there named Zacchaeus,
who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man,
was seeking to see who Jesus was;
but he could not see him because of the crowd,
for he was short in stature.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus,
who was about to pass that way.
When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said,
“Zacchaeus, come down quickly,
for today I must stay at your house.”
And he came down quickly and received him with joy.
When they saw this, they began to grumble, saying,
“He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner.”
But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord,
“Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor,
and if I have extorted anything from anyone
I shall repay it four times over.”
And Jesus said to him,
“Today salvation has come to this house
because this man too is a descendant of Abraham.
For the Son of Man has come to seek
and to save what was lost.”
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
“Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today” said Jesus as he was walking through Jericho. Immediately Zacchaeus offers half of his possessions to the poor and offers to pay back monies if need be. In Luke’s gospel it is written that the crowd grumbled and could not believe Jesus was going to a sinner’s home. However, Jesus only sees an ability to give salvation to another soul.
I imagine myself watching this take place in Jericho and going home to share with my friends and family. I also imagine Zacchaeus sharing this experience with his family and friends. How would I frame the story? As a critic who could not believe Jesus was giving attention to a sinner or as someone who was filled with gratitude and respect? An event such as this can cause a ripple effect like a pebble in a pond.
The story today continues to provide this ripple effect. Here I am in 2020 wondering what I would do?
I am hoping that I would be understanding, gracious and willing to accept that something good was happening or would happen. That I, like Zacchaeus, would take an opportunity like this to be present, to take a risk and step forward, to trust and say yes to this gift.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
YOU MAKE ME SICK!
“Because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of My mouth!” —Revelation 3:16
Jesus said that the lukewarm Christians of Laodicea made Him feel like vomiting. Then He knocked at their door and wanted to have supper with them (Rv 3:20). Isn’t it contradictory to want to have supper with people who make you sick? Yet Jesus loves us so much that He is willing to be sick, to suffer, and to die so as to share His life with us.
Zacchaeus, the little tax collector, was another sickening person. Tax collectors, because of their complicity with the oppressive Roman government, made Jews sick. The Jews didn’t vomit, but they would sometimes spit at the tax collectors. Jesus also was repulsed by the sins of Zacchaeus and by the thought of having to atone for them on Calvary. However, Jesus reached out to Zacchaeus, invited Himself to share supper, and brought salvation to Zacchaeus’ house (Lk 19:5, 9).
We have been or are sickening in our sins. Even when we can’t stand ourselves, Jesus is knocking at the door. Open up to Him.
Prayer: Jesus, come into my life this very hour.
Promise: “I will never erase his name from the book of the living, but will acknowledge him in the presence of My Father and His angels.” —Rv 3:5
Praise: St. Elizabeth never let her royal bloodline get in the way of serving the poor. Inspired by St. Francis of Assisi, a contemporary, she founded a hospital in his honor. She is the patron of Catholic charities and the secular Franciscan Order.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
What would you do if Jesus knocked on your door and said, "I must stay at your home today"? Would you be excited or embarrassed? Jesus often "dropped-in" at unexpected times and he often visited the "uninvited" - the poor, the lame, and even public sinners like Zacchaeus, the tax collector! Tax collectors were despised and treated as outcasts, no doubt because they over-charged people and accumulated great wealth at the expense of others.
Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector and was much hated by all the people. Why would Jesus single him out for the honor of staying at his home? Zacchaeus needed God's merciful love and forgiveness. In his encounter with Jesus he found more than he imagined possible. He shows the depth of his repentance by deciding to give half of his goods to the poor and to use the other half for making restitution for fraud. Zacchaeus' testimony included more than words. His change of heart resulted in a change of life, a change that the whole community could experience as genuine.
Faith welcomes Christ in our heart and home
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) urges us to climb the sycamore tree like Zacchaeus that we might see Jesus and embrace his cross for our lives:
Zacchaeus climbed away from the crowd and saw Jesus without the crowd getting in his way. The crowd laughs at the lowly, to people walking the way of humility, who leave the wrongs they suffer in God's hands and do not insist on getting back at their enemies. The crowd laughs at the lowly and says, 'You helpless, miserable clod, you cannot even stick up for yourself and get back what is your own.' The crowd gets in the way and prevents Jesus from being seen. The crowd boasts and crows when it is able to get back what it owns. It blocks the sight of the one who said as he hung on the cross, 'Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing... He ignored the crowd that was getting in his way. He instead climbed a sycamore tree, a tree of 'silly fruit.' As the apostle says, 'We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block indeed to the Jews, [now notice the sycamore] but folly to the Gentiles.' Finally, the wise people of this world laugh at us about the cross of Christ and say, 'What sort of minds do you people have, who worship a crucified God?' What sort of minds do we have? They are certainly not your kind of mind. 'The wisdom of this world is folly with God.' No, we do not have your kind of mind. You call our minds foolish. Say what you like, but for our part, let us climb the sycamore tree and see Jesus. The reason you cannot see Jesus is that you are ashamed to climb the sycamore tree.
Let Zacchaeus grasp the sycamore tree, and let the humble person climb the cross. That is little enough, merely to climb it. We must not be ashamed of the cross of Christ, but we must fix it on our foreheads, where the seat of shame is. Above where all our blushes show is the place we must firmly fix that for which we should never blush. As for you, I rather think you make fun of the sycamore, and yet that is what has enabled me to see Jesus. You make fun of the sycamore, because you are just a person, but 'the foolishness of God is wiser than men.'[Sermon 174.3.]
The Lord Jesus is always ready to make his home with each one of us. Do you make room for him in your heart and in every area of your life?
Lord Jesus, come and stay with me. Fill my life with your peace, my home with your presence, and my heart with your praise. Help me to show kindness, mercy, and goodness to all, even to those who cause me ill-will or harm.
Psalm 3:1-6
1 O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;
2 many are saying of me, there is no help for him in God. [Selah]
3 But you, O LORD, art a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
4 I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy hill. [Selah]
5 I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
6 I am not afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: To see Christ, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"Come and let us see what was the method of Zacchaeus's conversion. He desired to see Jesus and therefore climbed into a sycamore tree, and so a seed of salvation sprouted within him. Christ saw this with the eyes of deity. Looking up, he also saw Zacchaeus with the eyes of humanity, and since it was his purpose for all to be saved, he extends his gentleness to him. To encourage him, he says, 'Come down quickly.' Zacchaeus searched to see Christ, but the multitude prevented him, not so much that of the people but of his sins. He was short of stature, not merley in a bodily point of view but also spiritually. He could not see him unless he were raised up from the earth and climbed into the sycamore, by which Christ was about to pass. The story contains a puzzle. In no other way can a person see Christ and believe in him except by climbing up into the sycamore, by making foolish his earthly members of fornication, uncleanness, etc." (excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 127)
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November 20, 2018 Tuesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary
