2021년 6월 17일 연중 제11주간 목요일
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제1독서
<나는 하느님의 복음을 대가 없이 여러분에게 전해 주었습니다.>
코린토 2서 . 11,1-11
형제 여러분,
1 아무쪼록 여러분은 내가 좀 어리석더라도 참아 주기를 바랍니다.
부디 참아 주십시오.
2 나는 하느님의 열정을 가지고 여러분을 위하여 열정을 다하고 있습니다.
사실 나는 여러분을 순결한 처녀로 한 남자에게,
곧 그리스도께 바치려고 그분과 약혼시켰습니다.
3 그러나 하와가 뱀의 간계에 속아 넘어간 것처럼,
여러분도 생각이 미혹되어
그리스도를 향한 성실하고 순수한 마음을 저버리지 않을까 두렵습니다.
4 사실 어떤 사람이 와서 우리가 선포한 예수님과 다른 예수님을 선포하는데도,
여러분이 받은 적이 없는 다른 영을 받게 하는데도,
여러분이 받아들인 적이 없는 다른 복음을 받아들이게 하는데도,
여러분이 잘도 참아 주니 말입니다.
5 나는 결코 그 특출하다는 사도들보다 떨어진다고는 생각하지 않습니다.
6 내가 비록 말은 서툴러도 지식은 그렇지 않습니다.
우리는 그것을 모든 일에서 갖가지 방식으로 여러분에게 보여 주었습니다.
7 여러분을 높이려고 나 자신을 낮추면서
하느님의 복음을 대가 없이 여러분에게 전해 주었다고 해서,
내가 무슨 죄를 저질렀다는 말입니까?
8 나는 여러분에게 봉사하려고 여러 교회에서 보수를 받는 바람에
그들을 약탈한 꼴이 되었습니다.
9 여러분과 함께 있을 때에 나에게 필요한 것들이 있었지만
누구에게도 폐를 끼치지 않았습니다.
마케도니아에서 온 형제들이 필요한 것들을 채워 주었습니다.
나는 어떠한 경우에도 여러분에게 짐이 되지 않으려고 자제하였고
앞으로도 그렇게 할 것입니다.
10 내 안에 있는 그리스도의 진리를 걸고 말하는데,
아카이아 지방에서는 나의 이러한 자랑을 아무도 막지 못할 것입니다.
11 내가 왜 그렇게 하였겠습니까?
내가 여러분을 사랑하지 않아서겠습니까? 하느님께서는 아십니다!
복음
<그러므로 너희는 이렇게 기도하여라.>
마태오. 6,7-15
그때에 예수님께서 제자들에게 말씀하셨다.
7 “너희는 기도할 때에 다른 민족 사람들처럼 빈말을 되풀이하지 마라.
그들은 말을 많이 해야 들어 주시는 줄로 생각한다. 8 그러니 그들을 닮지 마라.
너희 아버지께서는 너희가 청하기도 전에 무엇이 필요한지 알고 계신다.
9 그러므로 너희는 이렇게 기도하여라.
‘하늘에 계신 저희 아버지, 아버지의 이름을 거룩히 드러내시며
10 아버지의 나라가 오게 하시며
아버지의 뜻이 하늘에서와 같이 땅에서도 이루어지게 하소서.
11 오늘 저희에게 일용할 양식을 주시고
12 저희에게 잘못한 이를 저희도 용서하였듯이 저희 잘못을 용서하시고
13 저희를 유혹에 빠지지 않게 하시고, 저희를 악에서 구하소서.’
14 너희가 다른 사람들의 허물을 용서하면,
하늘의 너희 아버지께서도 너희를 용서하실 것이다.
15 그러나 너희가 다른 사람들을 용서하지 않으면,
아버지께서도 너희의 허물을 용서하지 않으실 것이다.”
June 17, 2021
Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1
2 Cor 11:1-11
Brothers and sisters:
If only you would put up with a little foolishness from me!
Please put up with me.
For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God,
since I betrothed you to one husband
to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning,
your thoughts may be corrupted
from a sincere and pure commitment to Christ.
For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached,
or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received
or a different gospel from the one you accepted,
you put up with it well enough.
For I think that I am not in any way inferior to these “superapostles.”
Even if I am untrained in speaking, I am not so in knowledge;
in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.
Did I make a mistake when I humbled myself so that you might be exalted,
because I preached the Gospel of God to you without charge?
I plundered other churches by accepting from them
in order to minister to you.
And when I was with you and in need, I did not burden anyone,
for the brothers who came from Macedonia
supplied my needs.
So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.
By the truth of Christ in me,
this boast of mine shall not be silenced
in the regions of Achaia.
And why? Because I do not love you?
God knows I do!
Responsorial Psalm
R. (7a) Your works, O Lord, are justice and truth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart
in the company and assembly of the just.
Great are the works of the LORD,
exquisite in all their delights.
R. Your works, O Lord, are justice and truth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Majesty and glory are his work,
and his justice endures forever.
He has won renown for his wondrous deeds;
gracious and merciful is the LORD.
R. Your works, O Lord, are justice and truth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
The works of his hands are faithful and just;
sure are all his precepts,
Reliable forever and ever,
wrought in truth and equity.
R. Your works, O Lord, are justice and truth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Gospel
Jesus said to his disciples:
“In praying, do not babble like the pagans,
who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them.
Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
“This is how you are to pray:
‘Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.’
“If you forgive others their transgressions,
your heavenly Father will forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others,
neither will your Father forgive your transgressions
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Together at the Margins
“Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” (Matthew 6: 8)
The young Augustine scoffed at scripture. These stories were fit for children, not for a lofty seeker of wisdom. Later, ensnared in pompous Manichean prose, he realized the depths of Christian simplicity. “Do not babble,” says Jesus. Your worth is not measured in words. Greet God as your father. No one loves you more. No one knows you better.
What is my purpose? Jesus gives us the words we need. We are here to praise God and to seek God’s will in the murky light of human existence. Our lives are not mortgaged to another world. The kingdom coming is already with us. We are frail. Our needs bubble up daily. With help from God and many others, these needs are met. No one carries her burden alone. My load lifts on the sobering condition that I forgive others. Ornery spirits connive to turn gladness into doubts and regret. God, drive these pests from our door.
Back in Corinth, the new Christian movement is wooed by smooth-talking preachers. Paul implores his beloved community to discern the slick from the real. Humans do not journey alone. Paul brought Jesus into their lives, and Jesus reveals the source of their being in God. We depend on mediators. But beware of the “superapostles,” who dazzle but do not nurture the spirit. Like a virus they replicate emptiness.
In Let us Dream (2020), Pope Francis denies that our old ways will spring back once the pandemic ends. Global rupture brings change. But what kind? Can we imagine a world without the pandemics of indifference, divisions, and dehumanization? Pope Francis calls the church to “open its doors more widely” and to walk with the Popular Movements. There we can discern imposters from truth.
On the margins I have discovered so many social movements with roots in parishes or schools that bring people together to make them become protagonists of their own histories, to set in motion dynamics that smacked of dignity. Taking life as it comes, they do not sit around resigned or complaining but come together to convert injustice into new possibilities. I call them “social poets.” In mobilizing for change, in their search for dignity, I see a source of moral energy, a reserve of civic passion, capable of revitalizing our democracy and reorienting the economy. It was precisely here that the Church was born, in the margins of the Cross, where so many of the crucified are found. If the Church disowns the poor, she ceases to be the Church of Jesus. (120)
The kingdom arises at the margins. Let us be there.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
FATHER’S DAY
“Your Father knows what you need.” —Matthew 6:8
The essence of the Christian life is knowing and believing in God the Father’s love for us (1 Jn 4:16). Jesus was sent to reveal the Father’s love (Jn 15:9). The Holy Spirit cries out in our hearts “Abba,” that is, “Father” (Rm 8:15; Gal 4:6). When Jesus taught us to pray, He taught us to say “Our Father” (Mt 6:9).
When Satan tempts us, he questions whether we are sons and daughters of God the Father (Mt 4:3, 6). Prayer is primarily expressing and deepening our relationship with our Father through the Son and in the Spirit. Prayer is a preoccupation with our Father’s name, kingdom, and will (Mt 6:9-10). Prayer is an experience of our Father as Provider, Forgiver, and Protector (Mt 6:11-13).
When we pray, we should experience love and security because of Abba’s daily provision, forgiveness, and protection. For us human beings to function properly, we must constantly breathe in this atmosphere of Abba’s love. “God is Love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him” (1 Jn 4:16).
Prayer: Abba, I need Your love more than life itself (Ps 63:4).
Promise: “I have given you in marriage to one Husband, presenting you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” —2 Cor 11:2
Praise: Although Joe has never mentioned his faith at work, other then placing a small crucifix on his desk, a non-Christian co-worker told Joe he noticed that Christians were better able to bear bad news than most others.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
Do you believe that God's word has power to change and transform your life today? Isaiah says that God's word is like the rain and melting snow which makes the barren ground spring to life and become abundantly fertile (Isaiah 55:10-11). God's word has power to penetrate our dry barren hearts and make them springs of new life. If we let God's word take root in our heart it will transform us into the likeness of God himself and empower us to walk in his way of love and holiness.
Let God's word guide and shape the way you judge and act
God wants his word to guide and shape the way we think, act, and pray. Ambrose (339-397 AD), an early church father and bishop of Milan, wrote that the reason we should devote time for reading Scripture is to hear Christ speak to us. "Are you not occupied with Christ? Why do you not talk with him? By reading the Scriptures, we listen to Christ."
We can approach God our Father with confidence
We can approach God confidently because he is waiting with arms wide open to receive his prodigal sons and daughters. That is why Jesus gave his disciples the perfect prayer that dares to call God, Our Father. This prayer teaches us how to ask God for the things we really need, the things that matter not only for the present but for eternity as well. We can approach God our Father with confidence and boldness because the Lord Jesus has opened the way to heaven for us through his death and resurrection.
When we ask God for help, he fortunately does not give us what we deserve. Instead, God responds with grace, mercy, and loving-kindness. He is good and forgiving towards us, and he expects us to treat our neighbor the same. God has poured his love into our hearts through the gift of the Holy Spirit who has been given to us (Romans 5:5). And that love is like a refining fire - it purifies and burns away all prejudice, hatred, resentment, vengeance, and bitterness until there is nothing left but goodness and forgiveness towards those who cause us grief or harm.
The Lord's Prayer teaches us how to pray
Consider what John Cassian (360-435 AD), an early church father who lived for several years with the monks in Bethlehem and Egypt before founding a monastery in southern Gaul, wrote about the Lord's Prayer and the necessity of forgiving one another from the heart:
"The mercy of God is beyond description. While he is offering us a model prayer he is teaching us a way of life whereby we can be pleasing in his sight. But that is not all. In this same prayer he gives us an easy method for attracting an indulgent and merciful judgment on our lives. He gives us the possibility of ourselves mitigating the sentence hanging over us and of compelling him to pardon us. What else could he do in the face of our generosity when we ask him to forgive us as we have forgiven our neighbor? If we are faithful in this prayer, each of us will ask forgiveness for our own failings after we have forgiven the sins of those who have sinned against us, not only those who have sinned against our Master. There is, in fact, in some of us a very bad habit. We treat our sins against God, however appalling, with gentle indulgence - but when by contrast it is a matter of sins against us ourselves, albeit very tiny ones, we exact reparation with ruthless severity. Anyone who has not forgiven from the bottom of the heart the brother or sister who has done him wrong will only obtain from this prayer his own condemnation, rather than any mercy."
Do you treat others as you think they deserve to be treated, or do you treat them as the Lord has treated you - with mercy, steadfast love, and kindness?
Father in heaven, you have given me a mind to know you, a will to serve you, and a heart to love you. Give me today the grace and strength to embrace your holy will and fill my heart with your love that all my intentions and actions may be pleasing to you. Give me the grace to be charitable in thought, kind in deed, and loving in speech towards all.
Psalm 111:1-2,4,7-8
1 Praise the LORD. I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
2 Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who have pleasure in them.
4 He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and merciful.
7 The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy,
8 they are established for ever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Blessed are they who recognize their Father! by Tertullian, 160-225 A.D.
"Our Lord so frequently spoke to us of God as Father. He even taught us to call none on earth father, but only the one we have in heaven (Matthew 23:9). Therefore, when we pray to the Father, we are following this command. Blessed are they who recognize their Father! Remember the reproach made against Israel, when the Spirit calls heaven and earth to witness, saying, 'I have begotten sons and they have not known me' (Isaiah 1:2). In addressing him as Father we are also naming him God, so as to combine in a single term both filial love and power. Addressing the Father, the Son is also being addressed, for Christ said, 'I and the Father are one.' Nor is Mother Church passed over without mention, for the mother is recognized in the Son and the Father, as it is within the church that we learn the meaning of the terms Father and Son." (excerpt from ON PRAYER 2.2-6)
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