2021년 7월 31일 연중 제17주간 토요일
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제1독서
<희년에 너희는 저마다 제 소유지를 되찾아야 한다.>
레위기. 25,1.8-17
1 주님께서 시나이 산에서 모세에게 이르셨다.
8 “너희는 안식년을 일곱 번, 곧 일곱 해를 일곱 번 헤아려라.
그러면 안식년이 일곱 번 지나 마흔아홉 해가 된다.
9 그 일곱째 달 초열흘날 곧 속죄일에 나팔 소리를 크게 울려라.
너희가 사는 온 땅에 나팔 소리를 울려라.
10 너희는 이 오십 년째 해를 거룩한 해로 선언하고,
너희 땅에 사는 모든 주민에게 해방을 선포하여라.
이 해는 너희의 희년이다.
너희는 저마다 제 소유지를 되찾고, 저마다 자기 씨족에게 돌아가야 한다.
11 이 오십 년째 해는 너희의 희년이다.
너희는 씨를 뿌려서도 안 되고, 저절로 자란 곡식을 거두어서도 안 되며,
저절로 열린 포도를 따서도 안 된다.
12 이 해는 희년이다. 그것은 너희에게 거룩한 해다.
너희는 밭에서 그냥 나는 것만을 먹어야 한다.
13 이 희년에 너희는 저마다 제 소유지를 되찾아야 한다.
14 너희가 동족에게 무엇을 팔거나 동족의 손에서 무엇을 살 때,
서로 속여서는 안 된다.
15 너희는 희년에서 몇 해가 지났는지 헤아린 다음 너희 동족에게서 사고,
그는 소출을 거둘 햇수를 헤아린 다음 너희에게 팔아야 한다.
16 그 햇수가 많으면 값을 올리고, 햇수가 적으면 값을 내려야 한다.
그는 소출을 거둘 횟수를 너희에게 파는 것이다.
17 너희는 동족끼리 속여서는 안 된다.
너희는 너희 하느님을 경외해야 한다.
나는 주 너희 하느님이다.”
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<헤로데는 사람을 보내어 요한의 목을 베게 하였다. 요한의 제자들이 예수님께 가서 알렸다.>
마태오. 14,1-12
1 그때에 헤로데 영주가 예수님의 소문을 듣고 2 시종들에게,
“그 사람은 세례자 요한이다.
그가 죽은 이들 가운데에서 되살아난 것이다.
그러니 그에게서 그런 기적의 힘이 일어나지.” 하고 말하였다.
3 헤로데는 자기 동생 필리포스의 아내 헤로디아의 일로,
요한을 붙잡아 묶어 감옥에 가둔 일이 있었다.
4 요한이 헤로데에게 “그 여자를 차지하는 것은 옳지 않습니다.” 하고
여러 차례 말하였기 때문이다.
5 헤로데는 요한을 죽이려고 하였으나 군중이 두려웠다.
그들이 요한을 예언자로 여기고 있었기 때문이다.
6 그런데 마침 헤로데가 생일을 맞이하자,
헤로디아의 딸이 손님들 앞에서 춤을 추어 그를 즐겁게 해 주었다.
7 그래서 헤로데는 그 소녀에게,
무엇이든 청하는 대로 주겠다고 맹세하며 약속하였다.
8 그러자 소녀는 자기 어머니가 부추기는 대로,
“세례자 요한의 머리를 쟁반에 담아 이리 가져다주십시오.” 하고 말하였다.
9 임금은 괴로웠지만, 맹세까지 하였고 또 손님들 앞이어서
그렇게 해 주라고 명령하고,
10 사람을 보내어 감옥에서 요한의 목을 베게 하였다.
11 그리고 그의 머리를 쟁반에 담아다가 소녀에게 주게 하자,
소녀는 그것을 자기 어머니에게 가져갔다.
12 요한의 제자들은 가서 그의 주검을 거두어 장사 지내고,
예수님께 가서 알렸다.
July 31, 2021
Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest
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Reading 1
Lv 25:1, 8-17
The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
“Seven weeks of years shall you count–seven times seven years–
so that the seven cycles amount to forty-nine years.
Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, let the trumpet resound;
on this, the Day of Atonement, the trumpet blast shall re-echo
throughout your land.
This fiftieth year you shall make sacred
by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants.
It shall be a jubilee for you,
when every one of you shall return to his own property,
every one to his own family estate.
In this fiftieth year, your year of jubilee,
you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth
or pick the grapes from the untrimmed vines.
Since this is the jubilee, which shall be sacred for you,
you may not eat of its produce,
except as taken directly from the field.
“In this year of jubilee, then,
every one of you shall return to his own property.
Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor
or buy any from him, do not deal unfairly.
On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee
shall you purchase the land from your neighbor;
and so also, on the basis of the number of years for crops,
shall he sell it to you.
When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more;
when the years are few, the price shall be so much the less.
For it is really the number of crops that he sells you.
Do not deal unfairly, then; but stand in fear of your God.
I, the LORD, am your God.”
Responsorial Psalm
R. (4) O God, let all the nations praise you!
May God have pity on us and bless us;
may he let his face shine upon us.
So may your way be known upon earth;
among all nations, your salvation.
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
May the nations be glad and exult
because you rule the peoples in equity;
the nations on the earth you guide.
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
The earth has yielded its fruits;
God, our God, has blessed us.
May God bless us,
and may all the ends of the earth fear him!
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
Gospel
Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus
and said to his servants, “This man is John the Baptist.
He has been raised from the dead;
that is why mighty powers are at work in him.”
Now Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison
on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip,
for John had said to him,
“It is not lawful for you to have her.”
Although he wanted to kill him, he feared the people,
for they regarded him as a prophet.
But at a birthday celebration for Herod,
the daughter of Herodias performed a dance before the guests
and delighted Herod so much
that he swore to give her whatever she might ask for.
Prompted by her mother, she said,
“Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”
The king was distressed,
but because of his oaths and the guests who were present,
he ordered that it be given, and he had John beheaded in the prison.
His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl,
who took it to her mother.
His disciples came and took away the corpse
and buried him; and they went and told Jesus
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I remember it as if it were yesterday. 1982, annual retreat at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, praying with scripture under the guidance of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius whose feast we celebrate today.
The scene is me sitting on a quaintly small bridge over a slow-moving stream running through a fertile farm in Wisconsin’s dark earth. The retreat director, Fr. Joe Diamond, S.J., from St. Joseph University in Philadelphia, had suggested a psalm for me to pray over in an early period of the 8 days of retreat.
The psalm* was a lamentation for the many and oft-cited ways the people ran away from God despite the covenant with Yahweh. This is the God that expressed abiding and prodigal love for the people of Israel. They could not or would not abide by the covenant (I am your God, and you are my people). The psalmist was persistent in his condemnation of the people as they moved away towards “other” gods. Still the God of the covenant loved them beyond measure. The psalm’s last half of the very last verse was a reminder of how they missed the mark, “but I remained faithful to the covenant; you are beloved!"
Then it struck me. The psalm was about me! The way the people left their commitment to God and sinned by denying God’s choice love for them, was describing myself in my unfaithfulness (sin) to God’s intense love. This is an incredible discovery: I was loved despite my failures – just like the people from the psalm. What a personal blessing and revelation of God’s very personal love.
Later, I discovered that commentators on the Spiritual Exercises referred to this kind of experience as the grace of recognizing that I/anyone am a loved sinner. As the Israelites found themselves loved despite their many and great failings (sin) in attending to God’s covenant, so I was led to see that despite MY failings and sin, God never stopped loving and forgiving me.
Today we honor the life and memory of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. Through his inspiration we have the Spiritual Exercises, a book of reflections on God’s love for us through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. This “how to” book on prayer and deepening relationship with God (our covenant), written in the 1500’s, has had a lasting influence on Christians then and now who seek to grasp some of the mystery of how God lovingly reveals himself to them.
What a blessing this day is for the many who have grown spiritually in love of God and Jesus’ life portrayed in the gospels. The Exercises has been a guide for so many who have opened themselves to the wonders of God through the gift of St. Ignatius’ work. And for me on a personal note, I extend my deep gratitude for the Late Joe Diamond, S.J., gifted director of women’s and men’s hearts and mentor to me those glorious days at Oshkosh.
* Full disclosure, as they say, I visited all the 150 psalms and could not discover the one that day in 1982! God has some wonderful and quirky ways to deal with us, to be sure. However, I will never forget the point of that psalm from that day onward. It has made deep memory ruts and I remain grateful.
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GOOD CLEAN FUN?
“Then on Herod’s birthday Herodias’ daughter performed a dance before the court which delighted Herod so much that he swore...” —Matthew 14:6-7
If you had asked Herod whether his birthday party was for God or for Satan, he would likely have answered that it wasn’t fanatically religious or demonically possessed. He would maintain that the party was not that pious and not that evil, just “good clean fun,” morally neutral.
Most people think much of what they do is morally neutral because they mistakenly think they can be neutral. However, there is no such thing as neutrality. The devil is real, powerful, and unscrupulous, and if you don’t choose to join Jesus’ army, Satan could draft you into his army through trickery and playing on your fears. We can’t stop him because he is so much more powerful than us.
The only way to escape Satan’s slavery and hell is to turn to Jesus for salvation, deliverance, and protection. If we continue to believe the myth of neutrality, we will repeatedly be surprised when our “good clean fun” results in violence, sin, and death. We will wonder why so few Herodiases, Hitlers, and Stalins have so much freedom to destroy and pervert the world. Neutrality is a euphemism for complicity with the devil. If we’re not with Jesus, we’re against Him (Lk 11:23).
Prayer: Jesus, by Your power, may I attack the gates of hell.
Promise: “The fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when every one of you shall return to his own property.” —Lv 25:10
Praise: St. Ignatius was a mystic. He had a particular devotion to the Holy Trinity and the Holy Eucharist. He founded the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, “for the greater glory of God.”
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Do you ever feel haunted by a past failure or a guilty conscience? King Herod, the most powerful and wealthy man in Judea, had everything he wanted, except a clear conscience and peace with God. Herod had respected and feared John the Baptist as a great prophet and servant of God. John, however did not fear to rebuke Herod for his adulterous relationship with his brother's wife. He ended up in prison because of Herodias' jealousy. Herod, out of impulse and a desire to please his family and friends, had John beheaded. Now his conscience is pricked when he hears that all the people are going to Jesus to hear his message of repentance and to see his mighty works. Herod is now haunted by the thought that the prophet he murdered might now be raised from the dead!
A sign of vanity and cowardice
Unfortunately for Herod, he could not rid himself of sin by ridding himself of the man who confronted him with his sin. Herod's power and influence was badly flawed. He could take a strong stand on the wrong things when he knew the right. Such a stand, however, was a sign of weakness and cowardice. Where do you get the strength of will and heart to choose what is right and to reject what is bad?
God is our help and our strength
The Lord Jesus gives grace and help to the humble, to those who acknowledge their weaknesses and their sinfulness, and who look to God for his mercy and pardon, wisdom and strength. His grace and pardon not only frees us from a guilty conscience, it enables us to pursue holiness in every area of our lives, in our thoughts and intentions as well as our words and actions.
Fight fear with faith
God's grace enables us to fight fear with faith and to overcome the temptation to compromise good with evil. Do you rely on God's grace and help to choose his way of holiness and to reject whatever would weaken your faith and loyalty to Jesus Christ?
Heavenly Father, form in me the likeness of your Son Jesus that I may imitate him in word and deed. Help me to live the gospel faithfully and give me the strength and courage I need to not shrink back in the face of hardship and temptation.
Psalm 67:1-7
1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]
2 that your way may be known upon earth, your saving power among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. [Selah]
5 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
6 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.
7 God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Integrity is a hardship for the morally corrupt, by Peter Chrysologus (400-450 AD)
"John aroused Herod by his moral admonitions, not by any formal accusation. He wanted to correct, not to suppress. Herod, however, preferred to suppress rather than be reconciled. To those who are held captive, the freedom of the one innocent of wrongdoing becomes hateful. Virtue is undesirable to those who are immoral; holiness is abhorrent to those who are impious; chastity is an enemy to those who are impure; integrity is a hardship for those who are corrupt; frugality runs counter to those who are self-indulgent; mercy is intolerable to those who are cruel, as is loving-kindness to those who are pitiless and justice to those who are unjust. The Evangelist indicates this when he says, "John said to him, 'It is not lawful for you to have the wife of your brother Philip.'" This is where John runs into trouble. He who admonishes those who are evil gives offense. He who repudiates wrongdoers runs into trouble. John was saying what was proper of the law, what was proper of justice, what was proper of salvation and what was proper certainly not of hatred but of love. And look at the reward he received from the ungodly for his loving concern!" (excerpt from SERMONS 127.6-7)
[Peter Chrysologus, 400-450 AD, was a renowned preacher and bishop of Ravena in the 5th century]
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