2021년 1월 12일 연중 제1주간 화요일
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제1독서
히브리서.2,5-12
5 하느님께서는 우리가 지금 말하고 있는,
곧 앞으로 올 세상을 천사들의 지배 아래 두신 것이 아닙니다.
6 어떤 이가 어디에선가 이렇게 증언하였습니다.
“인간이 무엇이기에 그를 기억해 주십니까?
사람이 무엇이기에 그를 돌보아 주십니까?
7 천사들보다 잠깐 낮추셨다가 영광과 존귀의 관을 씌워 주시고
만물을 그의 발아래 두셨습니다.”
하느님께서는 이렇게 만물을 그의 지배 아래 두시면서,
그 아래 들지 않는 것은 하나도 남겨 놓지 않으셨습니다.
그런데도 우리가 보기에는
만물이 아직도 그의 지배 아래 들지 않았습니다.
9 그러나 우리는 “천사들보다 잠깐 낮아지셨다가”
죽음의 고난을 통하여 “영광과 존귀의 관을 쓰신”
예수님을 보고 있습니다.
이렇게 그분께서는 하느님의 은총으로 모든 사람을 위하여
죽음을 겪으셔야 했습니다.
10 만물은 하느님을 위하여 또 그분을 통하여 존재합니다.
이러한 하느님께서 많은 자녀들을 영광으로 이끌어 들이시면서,
그들을 위한 구원의 영도자를
고난으로 완전하게 만드신 것은 당연한 일이었습니다.
11 사람들을 거룩하게 해 주시는 분이나
거룩하게 되는 사람들이나 모두 한 분에게서 나왔습니다.
그러한 까닭에 예수님께서는 그들을 형제라고 부르기를
부끄러워하지 않으시고, 12 이렇게 말씀하십니다.
“저는 당신 이름을 제 형제들에게 전하고
모임 한가운데에서 당신을 찬양하오리다.”
복음
마르코.1,21ㄴ-28
카파르나움에서,
21 예수님께서는 안식일에 회당에 들어가 가르치셨는데,
22 사람들은 그분의 가르침에 몹시 놀랐다.
그분께서 율법 학자들과 달리 권위를 가지고 가르치셨기 때문이다.
23 마침 그 회당에 더러운 영이 들린 사람이 있었는데,
그가 소리를 지르며 24 말하였다.
“나자렛 사람 예수님, 당신께서 저희와 무슨 상관이 있습니까?
저희를 멸망시키러 오셨습니까? 저는 당신이 누구신지 압니다.
당신은 하느님의 거룩하신 분이십니다.”
25 예수님께서 그에게 “조용히 하여라.
그 사람에게서 나가라.” 하고 꾸짖으시니,
26 더러운 영은 그 사람에게 경련을 일으켜 놓고 큰 소리를 지르며 나갔다.
27 그러자 사람들이 모두 놀라,
“이게 어찌 된 일이냐? 새롭고 권위 있는 가르침이다.
저이가 더러운 영들에게 명령하니 그것들도 복종하는구나.” 하며
서로 물어보았다.
28 그리하여 그분의 소문이 곧바로
갈릴래아 주변 모든 지방에 두루 퍼져 나갔다.
January 12, 2021
Tuesday of the First Week In Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
It was not to angels that God subjected the world to come,
of which we are speaking.
Instead, someone has testified somewhere:
What is man that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man that you care for him?
You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
you crowned him with glory and honor,
subjecting all things under his feet.
In “subjecting” all things to him,
he left nothing not “subject to him.”
Yet at present we do not see “all things subject to him,”
but we do see Jesus “crowned with glory and honor”
because he suffered death,
he who “for a little while” was made “lower than the angels,”
that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
For it was fitting that he,
for whom and through whom all things exist,
in bringing many children to glory,
should make the leader to their salvation perfect through suffering.
He who consecrates
and those who are being consecrated all have one origin.
Therefore, he is not ashamed to call them “brothers” saying:
I will proclaim your name to my brethren,
in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (see 7) You have given your Son rule over the works of your hands.
O LORD, our Lord,
how glorious is your name over all the earth!
What is man that you should be mindful of him,
or the son of man that you should care for him?
R. You have given your Son rule over the works of your hands.
You have made him little less than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him rule over the works of your hands,
putting all things under his feet.
R. You have given your Son rule over the works of your hands.
All sheep and oxen,
yes, and the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,
and whatever swims the paths of the seas.
R. You have given your Son rule over the works of your hands.
Gospel
Jesus came to Capernaum with his followers,
and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught.
The people were astonished at his teaching,
for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.
In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit;
he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are?the Holy One of God!”
Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!”
The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him.
All were amazed and asked one another,
“What is this?
A new teaching with authority.
He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.”
His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.
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Today’s gospel from the first chapter of Mark has me thinking about authority. In this early story of the gospel, Jesus is very quickly setting himself apart from others. People are noticing that he is different. He is teaching something new and with authority. I am trying to imagine what that would look like – a stranger teaching with authority. It strikes me that there must have been at least two things going on. There was something visible/energetic about Jesus to capture people’s attention. The word that comes to mind is charismatic. But for the people to notice, they must have had something going on in them, a hunger or longing, that allowed their hearts to be open and searching for something to fill it. They had to be receptive to the message and messenger.
For someone/something to have authority in our lives, we have to give it to them. Many times when we give others authority, when we trust them or elect them or look to them, they abuse the authority or trust. Take advantage. As I was thinking and praying with all this, it occurred to me that Jesus did just the opposite. The people in this story were praising him, recognizing his authority and responds by helping, encouraging us to hold our own authority. He healed the man with the unclean spirit. Essentially, he returned the man to himself. I think of the dignity that he returns to the woman caught in adultery and the living water he gives to the Samaritan woman, both stories in the Gospel of John, as other examples of this. All throughout the gospels people are trying to raise him up as king, and in return he is healing and inviting us to reclaim our own authority, dignity and power.
We are invited into relationship with the Divine through Jesus. I believe Jesus is showing us that the relationship is not one of giving all our authority to him, but the encouragement to maintain our own authority and power and work with him. For example, I hear myself praying, “just tell me what you want.” The response I hear now is “What do you want? I will work with you.” In my spiritual direction practice, I often hear people pondering/praying/asking what God wants of them, what is “God’s will” for them. I hear an invitation from Jesus in today’s reading and many others in the gospels to ask instead, what is the heart’s desire/will. Jesus is encouraging us to claim and live from our own interior authority.
Where/How else might Jesus be inviting us to reclaim our personal authority?
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“COMPLETE IN CHRIST” (COL 1:28)
“In subjecting all things to Him, God left nothing unsubjected. At present we do not see all things thus subject, but we do see Jesus crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death.” —Hebrews 2:8-9
The more complete our relationship with Jesus, the better our lives. If we don’t believe in Jesus as God, we have missed out on life (1 Jn 5:12). If we haven’t let ourselves experience Jesus as man, we lose out on love. If we know Jesus as Healer but not Savior, we might become the healthiest people in hell. If we know Him as Lord but not Healer, we are saved but have not accepted all the benefits of salvation.
Jesus has revealed Himself in such fullness not merely for information’s sake but for practical reasons. The devil will exploit any gaps in our relationship with Jesus. We must “grasp fully, with all the holy ones, the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ’s love” (Eph 3:18). Every title and characteristic of Jesus is a revelation of immeasurable, practical significance.
The Lord warned us: “My people perish for want of knowledge!” (Hos 4:6) But if we know Jesus personally and fully we will inherit the Lord’s promise: “There shall be no harm or ruin on all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the Lord, as water covers the sea” (Is 11:9).
Prayer: Jesus, name above all names, beautiful Savior, glorious Lord; Emmanuel, God-is-with-us, blessed Redeemer, living Word.
Promise: “At that the unclean spirit convulsed the man violently and with a loud shriek came out of him.” —Mk 1:26
Praise: St. Marguerite is called the cofoundress of the Canadian church.
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Do you believe that God's word has power to set you free and to transform your life? When Jesus taught he spoke with authority. He spoke the word of God as no one had spoken it before. When the Rabbis taught they supported their statements with quotes from other authorities. The prophets spoke with delegated authority - "Thus says the Lord." When Jesus spoke he needed no authorities to back his statements. He was authority incarnate - the Word of God made flesh. When he spoke, God spoke. When he commanded even the demons obeyed.
Faith works through love and abounds in hope
Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) remarked that "faith is mighty, but without love it profits nothing. The devils confessed Christ, but lacking charity it availed nothing. They said, 'What have we to do with you' (Mark 1:24)? They confessed a sort of faith, but without love. Hence they were devils."
Faith is powerful, but without love it profits nothing (1 Corinthians 13). Scripture tells us that true faith works through love (Galatians 5:6) and abounds in hope (Romans 15:13). Our faith is made perfect in love because love orients us to the supreme good which is God himself as well as the good of our neighbor who is created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26,27).
Hope anchors our faith in the promises of God and purifies our desires for the things which will last for eternity. That is why the word of Christ has power to set us free from all that would keep us bound up in sin, deception, and despair. Bede the venerable abbot of an English monastery (672-735) contrasted the power and authority of Jesus' word with the word of the devil: "The devil, because he had deceived Eve with his tongue, is punished by the tongue, that he might not speak" [Homilies on the Gospels 1.8].
Faith must be nourished with the Word of God
Faith is both a free gift of God and the free assent of our will to the whole truth that God has revealed. To live, grow, and persevere in the faith to the end, we must nourish it with the word of God. The Lord gives us his Holy Spirit to enlighten our minds that we may grow in his truth and in the knowledge of his great love for each of us. If we approach God's word with trust and submission, and with an eagerness to do what the Lord desires for us, then we are in a much better position to learn what God wants to teach us through his word. Are you eager to be taught by the Lord and to conform your mind, heart, attitude, and intentions according to his word of truth, goodness, and love?
Lord Jesus, your word is power and life. May I never doubt your love and mercy, and the power of your word that sets us free, and brings healing and restoration to body, mind, heart, and spirit.
Psalm 8:2,5-9
2 By the mouth of babes and infants, you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
5 Yet you have made him little less than God, and did crown him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Knowing without loving, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"Those words show clearly that the demons had much knowledge, but entirely lacked love. They dreaded receiving their punishment from him. They did not love the righteousness that was in him. He made himself known to them to the extent he willed; and he willed to be made known to the extent that was fitting. But he was not made known to them as he is known to the holy angels, who enjoy participation in his eternity, in that he is the Word of God. To the demons he is known as he had to be made known, by striking terror into them, for his purpose was to free from their tyrannical power all who were predestined for his kingdom and glory, which is eternally true and truly eternal. Therefore, he did not make himself known to the demons as the life eternal, and the unchangeable light which illuminates his true worshipers, whose hearts are purified by faith in him so that they see that light. He was known to the demons through certain temporal effects of his power, the signs of his hidden presence, which could be more evident to their senses, even those of malignant spirits, than to the weak perception of human beings. (excerpt from CITY OF GOD 9.21)
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