2021년 9월 18일 연중 제24주간 토요일
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1독서
<주님께서 나타나실 때까지 흠 없이 계명을 지키십시오.>
티모테오 1서 6,13-16
사랑하는 그대여, 13 만물에게 생명을 주시는 하느님,
그리고 본시오 빌라도 앞에서 훌륭하게 신앙을 고백하신
그리스도 예수님 앞에서 그대에게 지시합니다.
14 우리 주 예수 그리스도께서 나타나실 때까지
흠 없고 나무랄 데 없이 계명을 지키십시오.
15 제때에 그 일을 이루실 분은 복되시며 한 분뿐이신 통치자
임금들의 임금이시며 주님들의 주님이신 분
16 홀로 불사불멸하시며 다가갈 수 없는 빛 속에 사시는 분
어떠한 인간도 뵌 일이 없고 뵐 수도 없는 분이십니다.
그분께 영예와 영원한 권능이 있기를 빕니다. 아멘.
복음
<좋은 땅에 떨어진 것은, 말씀을 간직하여 인내로써 열매를 맺는 사람들이다.>
루카. 8,4-15
그때에 4 많은 군중이 모이고 또 각 고을에서 온 사람들이 다가오자
예수님께서 그들에게 비유로 말씀하셨다.
5 “씨 뿌리는 사람이 씨를 뿌리러 나갔다.
그가 씨를 뿌리는데, 어떤 것은 길에 떨어져 발에 짓밟히기도 하고
하늘의 새들이 먹어 버리기도 하였다.
6 어떤 것은 바위에 떨어져,
싹이 자라기는 하였지만 물기가 없어 말라 버렸다.
7 또 어떤 것은 가시덤불 한가운데로 떨어졌는데,
가시덤불이 함께 자라면서 숨을 막아 버렸다.
8 그러나 어떤 것은 좋은 땅에 떨어져, 자라나서 백 배의 열매를 맺었다.”
예수님께서는 이 말씀을 하시고,
“들을 귀 있는 사람은 들어라.” 하고 외치셨다.
9 제자들이 예수님께 그 비유의 뜻을 묻자, 10 예수님께서 이르셨다.
“너희에게는 하느님 나라의 신비를 아는 것이 허락되었지만,
다른 이들에게는 비유로만 말하였으니,
‘저들이 보아도 알아보지 못하고 들어도 깨닫지 못하게 하려는 것이다.’
11 그 비유의 뜻은 이러하다. 씨는 하느님의 말씀이다.
12 길에 떨어진 것들은, 말씀을 듣기는 하였지만
악마가 와서 그 말씀을 마음에서 앗아 가 버리기 때문에
믿지 못하여 구원을 받지 못하는 사람들이다.
13 바위에 떨어진 것들은, 들을 때에는 그 말씀을 기쁘게 받아들이지만
뿌리가 없어 한때는 믿다가 시련의 때가 오면 떨어져 나가는 사람들이다.
14 가시덤불에 떨어진 것은, 말씀을 듣기는 하였지만
살아가면서 인생의 걱정과 재물과 쾌락에 숨이 막혀
열매를 제대로 맺지 못하는 사람들이다.
15 좋은 땅에 떨어진 것은, 바르고 착한 마음으로 말씀을 듣고 간직하여
인내로써 열매를 맺는 사람들이다.”
September 18, 2021
Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1
1 Tm 6:13-16
I charge you before God, who gives life to all things,
and before Christ Jesus,
who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate
for the noble confession,
to keep the commandment without stain or reproach
until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ
that the blessed and only ruler
will make manifest at the proper time,
the King of kings and Lord of lords,
who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light,
and whom no human being has seen or can see.
To him be honor and eternal power. Amen.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5
Sing joyfully to the LORD all you lands;
serve the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful song.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Know that the LORD is God;
he made us, his we are;
his people, the flock he tends.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
his courts with praise;
Give thanks to him; bless his name.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
For he is good:
the LORD, whose kindness endures forever,
and his faithfulness, to all generations.
R. Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.
Gospel
Lk 8:4-15
journeying to Jesus, he spoke in a parable.
"A sower went out to sow his seed.
And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path and was trampled,
and the birds of the sky ate it up.
Some seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew,
it withered for lack of moisture.
Some seed fell among thorns,
and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
And some seed fell on good soil, and when it grew,
it produced fruit a hundredfold."
After saying this, he called out,
"Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear."
Then his disciples asked him
what the meaning of this parable might be.
He answered,
"Knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God
has been granted to you;
but to the rest, they are made known through parables
so that they may look but not see, and hear but not understand.
"This is the meaning of the parable.
The seed is the word of God.
Those on the path are the ones who have heard,
but the Devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts
that they may not believe and be saved.
Those on rocky ground are the ones who, when they hear,
receive the word with joy, but they have no root;
they believe only for a time and fall away in time of temptation.
As for the seed that fell among thorns,
they are the ones who have heard, but as they go along,
they are choked by the anxieties and riches and pleasures of life,
and they fail to produce mature fruit.
But as for the seed that fell on rich soil,
they are the ones who, when they have heard the word,
embrace it with a generous and good heart,
and bear fruit through perseverance."
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
he Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius have been a true gift in my life. Some aspects of the Exercises have been easy for me to embrace and others have been quite challenging. My trust in God helps me to accept the grace of the challenge. I have been often challenged to enter into a space of indifference, of spiritual freedom.
Kevin O’Brien, S.J., in The Ignatian Adventure, describes Ignatian indifference not as an unfeeling lack of concern but rather holding all of God’s gifts reverently, gratefully but also lightly. Fr. O’Brien reminds us to embrace God’s gifts or let them go, all depending on how they help us fulfill our vocations.
Despite the turbulent times in which we live, I have recently been experiencing a profound sense of Ignatian indifference. Although people sometimes confuse indifference with complacency, indifference is not a passive abdication. I am guided to be attentive to God and indifferent to created things.
In today’s Gospel from Luke, Jesus shares with the crowd the parable of the Sower and the Seeds. This parable brings to mind Ignatian indifference. Jesus explains the parable to his disciples that the seed is the word of God. Some seeds are taken away by the Devil, temptations create rocky ground so the seeds can have no root, and the thorns represent the anxieties, riches and pleasures of life. Yet a generous and good heart can truly hear the word of God and bear fruit. This parable helps me continue to be attentive to God by orienting my life like rich soil to hear and accept the word of God.
Today I pray for a generous and good heart. I pray to be aware of the temptations of life such as social media, 24 hour news cycle, fearful gossiping that do not allow the word of God to take root. I continue to pray for the grace of indifference when worries about friends and family and community abound and pull me away from God.
I pray the Ignatian Suscipe:
"Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, my whole will, all that I have and all that I possess. You gave it all to me, Lord; I give it all back to you. Do with it as you will, according to your good pleasure. Give me your love and your grace; for with this I have all that I need."
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CHARGE IT
“I charge you to keep God’s command without blame or reproach until our Lord Jesus Christ shall appear. This appearance God will bring to pass at His chosen time.” —1 Timothy 6:14-15
St. Paul said: “I have a solemn charge to give you, Timothy, my child” (1 Tm 1:18). He charged St. Timothy to be fully aware that Jesus could return at any time, and to preach the Word of God accordingly. “In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, Who is coming to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingly power, I charge you to preach the word” (2 Tm 4:1-2).
If you knew for sure Jesus would be coming back today, would you do anything differently? Hopefully, you would not need to make any changes. The Lord calls us to be so conscious of His Second Coming that we live each day as if it were our last. We are called to do the Lord’s will all day, every day. That’s the way to be prepared for His coming.
Are you charged up about Jesus’ Second Coming? Are you looking forward to seeing Him face to face? Do you wish Jesus would come back today? (see 2 Pt 3:12) True disciples of Jesus over the centuries have been excited about Jesus’ return. They love Jesus and want to see Him. Let’s charge each other to run the race and fight the fight of the Christian life because Jesus is coming “soon and very soon” (see 2 Tm 4:8).
Prayer: Jesus, may I want to see You more than I want to see the person I love most in this world.
Promise: “The seed on good ground are those who hear the word in a spirit of openness, retain it, and bear fruit through perseverance.” —Lk 8:15
Praise: James and Diane take the opportunity to evangelize to all who may notice their seven children
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
How good are you at listening, especially for the word of God? God is always ready to speak to each of us and to give us understanding of his word. Jesus' parable of the sower is aimed at the hearers of his word. There are different ways of accepting God's word and they produce different kinds of fruit accordingly. There is the prejudiced hearer who has a shut mind. Such a person is unteachable and blind to the things of God. Then there is the shallow hearer who fails to think things out or think them through; such a person lacks spiritual depth. They may initially respond with an emotional fervor; but when it wears off their mind wanders to something else.
Does God's word for you go in one ear and out the other?
Another type of hearer is the person who has many interests and cares, but who lacks the ability to hear and understand what is truly important. Such a person is for ever too busy to pray and to listen and reflect on God's word because he or she allows other things to occupy their mind and heart. Whose voice or message gets the most attention from you - the voice of the world with its many distractions or the voice of God who wishes to speak his word of love and truth with you each and every day?
A receptive heart and mind that listens attentively
Jesus compares the third type of hearer with the good soil that is ready to receive the seed of his word so it can take root and grow, and produce good fruit. A receptive heart and open mind are always ready to hear what God wants to teach us through his word. The "ears of their heart" and the "eyes of their mind" search out the meaning of God's word for them so that it may grow and produce good fruit in their lives. They hear with a listening ear and teachable spirit (Isaiah 50:4-5) that wants to learn and understand the intention of God's word for them. They strive to tune out the noise and distractions of the world around them so they can give their attention to God's word and find nourishment in it. They listen in order to understand.
God's word has power to change and transform each one of us if we receive it with trust (a believing heart) and allow it to take root in our inner being (the depths of our heart, mind, and soul). God's word is our daily food to nourish and strengthen us on our journey of faith to his everlasting kingdom. Do you hunger for God's word?
Lord Jesus, faith in your word is the way to wisdom, and to ponder your divine plan is to grow in the truth. Open my eyes to your deeds, and my ears to the sound of your call, that I may understand your will for my life and live according to it.
Psalm 100
1 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the lands!
2 Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
3 Know that the LORD is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name!
5 For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The Devil snatches good seed off the path, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"The seed is the Word of God. Those on the way are they who have heard. Afterwards, the devil comes and takes away the Word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. We see in a moment that the hardness of the ground causes the seed on the pathways to be snatched away. A pathway always is hard and untilled, because it is exposed to every one's feet. It does not admit any seed into it, but it lies rather upon the surface, ready for any birds that will to snatch it away. All whose minds are hard and unyielding, and so to speak, pressed together, do not receive the divine seed. The divine and sacred admonition does not find an entrance into them. They do not accept the words that would produce in them the fear of God and by means of which they could bring forth as fruits the glories of virtue. They have made themselves a beaten and trampled pathway for unclean demons, yes, for Satan himself, such as never can bear holy fruit. Let those who are awake, whose heart is sterile and unfruitful, open your mind, receive the sacred seed, be like productive and well-tilled soil, bring forth to God the fruits that will raise you to an incorruptible life."(excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 41)
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