2021년 9월 22일 연중 제25주간 수요일
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1독서
<하느님께서는 종살이하는 저희를 버려두지 않으셨습니다.>
에즈라기. 9,5-9
저녁 제사 때에, 나 에즈라는 5 단식을 그치고 일어나서,
의복과 겉옷은 찢어진 채 무릎을 꿇고 두 손을 펼쳐,
주 나의 하느님께 6 말씀드렸다.
“저의 하느님, 너무나 부끄럽고 수치스러워서,
저의 하느님, 당신께 제 얼굴을 들 수가 없습니다.
저희 죄악은 머리 위로 불어났고, 저희 잘못은 하늘까지 커졌습니다.
7 저희 조상 때부터 이날까지 저희는 큰 잘못을 저지르며 살아왔습니다.
그리고 저희의 죄악 때문에 오늘 이처럼,
임금들과 사제들과 더불어 저희가 여러 나라 임금들과 칼에 넘겨지고,
포로살이와 약탈과 부끄러운 일을 당하도록 넘겨지고 말았습니다.
8 그러나 이제 잠깐이나마 주 하느님께서 은혜를 내리시어,
저희에게 생존자를 남겨 주시고,
당신의 거룩한 곳에 저희를 위하여 터전을 마련해 주셨습니다.
하느님께서는 저희 눈을 비추시고,
종살이하는 저희를 조금이나마 되살려 주셨습니다.
9 정녕 저희는 종입니다.
그러나 하느님께서는 종살이하는 저희를 버려두지 않으시고,
페르시아 임금들 앞에서 저희에게 자애를 베푸시어 저희를 되살리셔서,
하느님의 집을 다시 세우고 그 폐허를 일으키도록 해 주셨고,
유다와 예루살렘에 다시 성벽을 쌓게 해 주셨습니다.”
복음
<예수님께서는 하느님의 나라를 선포하고 병자들을 고쳐 주라고 제자들을 보내셨다.>
루카. 9,1-6
그때에 1 예수님께서는 열두 제자를 불러 모으시어,
모든 마귀를 쫓아내고 질병을 고치는 힘과 권한을 주셨다.
2 그리고 하느님의 나라를 선포하고 병자들을 고쳐 주라고 보내시며,
3 그들에게 이르셨다. “길을 떠날 때에 아무것도 가져가지 마라.
지팡이도 여행 보따리도 빵도 돈도 여벌 옷도 지니지 마라.
4 어떤 집에 들어가거든 그곳을 떠날 때까지 거기에 머물러라.
5 사람들이 너희를 받아들이지 않으면,
그 고을을 떠날 때에 그들에게 보이는 증거로 너희 발에서 먼지를 털어 버려라.”
6 제자들은 떠나가서 이 마을 저 마을 돌아다니며,
어디에서나 복음을 전하고 병을 고쳐 주었다.
September 22, 2021
Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Mass : http://www.catholictv.com/shows/daily-mass
Reading 1
Ez 9:5-9
At the time of the evening sacrifice, I, Ezra, rose in my wretchedness,
and with cloak and mantle torn I fell on my knees,
stretching out my hands to the LORD, my God.
I said: “My God, I am too ashamed and confounded to raise my face to you,
O my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads
and our guilt reaches up to heaven.
From the time of our fathers even to this day
great has been our guilt,
and for our wicked deeds we have been delivered up,
we and our kings and our priests,
to the will of the kings of foreign lands,
to the sword, to captivity, to pillage, and to disgrace,
as is the case today.
“And now, but a short time ago, mercy came to us from the LORD, our God,
who left us a remnant and gave us a stake in his holy place;
thus our God has brightened our eyes
and given us relief in our servitude.
For slaves we are, but in our servitude our God has not abandoned us;
rather, he has turned the good will
of the kings of Persia toward us.
Thus he has given us new life
to raise again the house of our God and restore its ruins,
and has granted us a fence in Judah and Jerusalem .”
Responsorial Psalm
Tobit 13:2, 3-4a, 4befghn, 7-8
R. (1b) Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
He scourges and then has mercy;
he casts down to the depths of the nether world,
and he brings up from the great abyss.
No one can escape his hand.
R. Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
Praise him, you children of Israel , before the Gentiles,
for though he has scattered you among them,
he has shown you his greatness even there.
R. Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
So now consider what he has done for you,
and praise him with full voice.
Bless the Lord of righteousness,
and exalt the King of ages.
R. Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
In the land of my exile I praise him
and show his power and majesty to a sinful nation.
R. Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
Bless the Lord, all you his chosen ones,
and may all of you praise his majesty.
Celebrate days of gladness, and give him praise.
R. Blessed be God, who lives for ever.
Gospel
Lk 9:1-6
Jesus summoned the Twelve and gave them power and authority
over all demons and to cure diseases,
and he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God
and to heal the sick.
He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey,
neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money,
and let no one take a second tunic.
Whatever house you enter, stay there and leave from there.
And as for those who do not welcome you,
when you leave that town,
shake the dust from your feet in testimony against them.”
Then they set out and went from village to village
proclaiming the good news and curing diseases everywhere.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
We had a heavy rain all night and the sidewalks are puddly. In returning from my office my squeaky shoes announced that mud and wet were going to follow me up the stairs and into my room, not a good idea. So I removed the shoes at the door and quietly padded roomward.
Today’s Gospel is a picture of Jesus’ sending His best friends to do the same kind of things Jesus has been doing. There is quite an emphasis on their healing the diseases of all kinds. He sends them out penniless and rather unaccompanied by material necessities. If they get their sandles wet with experiences of rejection, well shake it off, take it off.
Leaving, usually attracts our attention about what is coming, where are we going and what will I be like. The unknown can be frightening and full of worries. Jesus sends His apostles with not much to support them if their facing the adventures of proclaiming the Good News. What does accompany them is their past-times with Him and their being healed from their being dominated by self-negativities and doubts.
We, as with them, go toward, but from where they’ve been and whom they/l have been. We walk into the mysteries of our futures from where we have been in and with our pasts. There! The Apostles are to take their pasts with them, including all they have received from their times with Jesus. They can shake the dust from the sandles when their message is not welcomed. They cannot shake off the influences of Jesus and His ways. Nothing extra will be needed except their awareness of whom He has formed them to be.
We go from a then, a past, into a now influenced by everything and everyone who formed that, then. Friendships, conversations, liturgies and prayer all move us form into the for and we cannot shake off those pasts as if they never happened. The Apostles had to remember and had to be comforted so as to be persons of healing and presence.
I am going from writing this, here in my room, over to class and a bit of teaching. I will try to recall my time preparing to write and my time of being with you and Him. Go! My going to a new then will be influenced by all that has been with me during these nows.
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THE “THING”
“My God, I am too ashamed and confounded to raise my face to You, O my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven.” —Ezra 9:6
When Ezra heard “this thing,” he tore his cloak and mantle, plucked hair from his “head and beard, and sat there stupefied” (Ezra 9:3). Ezra fell on his knees and stretched out his hands to the Lord. Why was Ezra traumatized? It was because both Israelite laymen and priests married non-Israelite wives. Ezra knew they were doomed by entering into “mixed marriages.”
If Ezra were alive today, he would probably immediately drop dead from so many “mixed marriages.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in Sections 1633 - 1637 that although the couple has obvious problems when a Catholic and Protestant marry, that marriage is not as “mixed” or as mixed up as when a Christian marries a nonbeliever or a non-practicing Christian, even if the spouse is technically in the same denomination.
Even when a practicing Catholic marries a non-practicing Catholic, we have reason to mourn like Ezra. When someone in love with Jesus marries someone not in love with Jesus, there will be challenges in such a marriage relationship. If a Christian can’t share Christ with his or her spouse, their love may never develop to its fullest potential, since Jesus is Love incarnate (1 Jn 4:8). May all married persons have a committed relationship with the Bridegroom Jesus (see Mk 2:19) and accordingly share that relationship with their spouses.
Prayer: Father, may every married person be married to Your Son.
Promise: “Jesus now called the Twelve together and gave them power and authority to overcome all demons and to cure diseases.” —Lk 9:1
Praise: With simplicity of faith, Randy, a four-pack-a-day smoker, was instantly healed of that addiction by a humble prayer empowered by the Holy Spirit
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What kind of power and authority does God want you to exercise in your personal life and service? God's word has power to change and transform our lives. Jesus gave his apostles both power and authority to speak and to act in his name - to cast out evil spirits, to heal, and to speak the word of God. When Jesus spoke of power and authority he did something unheard of. He wedded power and authority with love and humility. Theworld and theflesh seek power for selfish gain. Jesus teaches us to use it for the good of our neighbor.
God gives power and strength to those who rely on him alone
Why does Jesus tell the apostles totravel light with little or no provision?Poverty of spirit frees us from greed and preoccupation with possessions and makes ample room for God's provision. The Lord wants his disciples to be dependent on him and not on themselves. He wills to work in and through each of us for his glory. Are you ready to handle the power and authority which God wishes you to exercise on his behalf? The Lord entrusts us with his gifts and talents. Are you eager to place yourself at his service, to do whatever he bids you, and to witness his truth and saving power to whomever he sends you?
Lord Jesus, make me a channel of your grace and healing love that others may find life and freedom in you. Free me from all other attachments that I may joyfully pursue the things of your heavenly kingdom. May I witness to others the joy of the Gospel both in word and deed.
Psalm 119:29, 72, 89, 101, 104, 163
29 Put false ways far from me; and graciously teach me thy law!
72 The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is firmly fixed in the heavens.
101 I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep thy word.
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
163 I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love thy law.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Jesus gave power and authority to his apostles, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"The grace bestowed upon the holy apostles is worthy of all admiration. But the bountifulness of the Giver surpasses all praise and admiration. He gives them, as I said, his own glory. They receive authority over the evil spirits. They reduce to nothing the pride of the devil that was so highly exalted and arrogant. They render ineffectual the demon's wickedness. By the might and efficacy of the Holy Spirit, burning them as if they were on fire, they make the devil come forth with groans and weeping from those whom he had possessed... He glorified his disciples, therefore, by giving them authority and power over the evil spirits and over sicknesses. Did he honor them without reason and make them famous without any logical cause? How can this be true? It was necessary, most necessary, that they should be able to work miracles, having been publicly appointed ministers of sacred proclamations. By means of their works, they then could convince men that they were the ministers of God and mediators of all beneath the heaven. The apostles then could invite them all to reconciliation and justification by faith and point out the way of salvation and of life that is this justification." (excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 47)
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