2021년 9월 27일 연중 제26주간 월요일
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제1독서
<내 백성을 해 뜨는 땅과 해 지는 땅에서 구해 내리라.>
즈카르야 예언서. 8,1-8
만군의 주님의 말씀이 내렸다.
2 “만군의 주님이 이렇게 말한다.
나는 시온에 커다란 열정을, 격렬한 열정을 지니고 있다.
3 주님이 이렇게 말한다. 내가 시온으로 돌아가 예루살렘 한가운데에 살리라.
예루살렘은 ‘진실한 도성’이라고, 만군의 주님의 산은 ‘거룩한 산’이라고 불리리라.
4 만군의 주님이 이렇게 말한다.
나이가 많아 저마다 손에 지팡이를 든 남녀 노인들이
다시 예루살렘 광장마다 앉아 쉬리라.
5 도성의 광장마다 뛰노는 소년 소녀들로 가득 차리라.
6 만군의 주님이 이렇게 말한다.
그때에 이것이 이 백성의 남은 자들 눈에 신기하게 보인다 할지라도
내 눈에까지 신기하게 보이겠느냐? 만군의 주님의 말이다.
7 만군의 주님이 이렇게 말한다.
이제 내가 내 백성을 해 뜨는 땅과 해 지는 땅에서 구해 내리라.
8 나는 그들을 데리고 와서 예루살렘 한가운데에 살게 하리라.
그러면 진실과 정의 안에서 그들은 나의 백성이 되고
나는 그들의 하느님이 되리라.”
복음
<너희 가운데에서 가장 작은 사람이야말로 가장 큰 사람이다.>
루카. 9,46-50
그때에 46 제자들 가운데 누가 가장 큰 사람이냐 하는 문제로
그들 사이에 논쟁이 일어났다.
47 예수님께서는 그들 마음속의 생각을 아시고
어린이 하나를 데려다가 곁에 세우신 다음, 48 그들에게 이르셨다.
“누구든지 이 어린이를 내 이름으로 받아들이면 나를 받아들이는 것이다.
그리고 나를 받아들이는 사람은 나를 보내신 분을 받아들이는 것이다.
너희 가운데에서 가장 작은 사람이야말로 가장 큰 사람이다.”
49 요한이 예수님께 말하였다. “스승님, 어떤 사람이
스승님의 이름으로 마귀를 쫓아내는 것을 저희가 보았습니다.
그런데 그가 저희와 함께 스승님을 따르는 사람이 아니므로,
저희는 그가 그런 일을 못 하게 막아 보려고 하였습니다.”
50 그러자 예수님께서 그에게 이르셨다.
“막지 마라. 너희를 반대하지 않는 이는 너희를 지지하는 사람이다.”
September 27, 2021
Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest
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Reading 1
Zec 8:1-8
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
I am intensely jealous for Zion,
stirred to jealous wrath for her.
Thus says the LORD:
I will return to Zion,
and I will dwell within Jerusalem;
Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city,
and the mountain of the LORD of hosts,
the holy mountain.
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women,
each with staff in hand because of old age,
shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem.
The city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
Even if this should seem impossible
in the eyes of the remnant of this people,
shall it in those days be impossible in my eyes also,
says the LORD of hosts?
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
Lo, I will rescue my people from the land of the rising sun,
and from the land of the setting sun.
I will bring them back to dwell within Jerusalem.
They shall be my people, and I will be their God,
with faithfulness and justice.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23
The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,
and all the kings of the earth your glory,
When the LORD has rebuilt Zion
and appeared in his glory;
When he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,
and not despised their prayer.
R. The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
Let this be written for the generation to come,
and let his future creatures praise the LORD:
"The LORD looked down from his holy height,
from heaven he beheld the earth,
To hear the groaning of the prisoners,
to release those doomed to die."
R. The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
The children of your servants shall abide,
and their posterity shall continue in your presence.
That the name of the LORD may be declared in Zion;
and his praise, in Jerusalem,
When the peoples gather together,
and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
R. The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.
Gospel
Lk 9:46-50
about which of them was the greatest.
Jesus realized the intention of their hearts and took a child
and placed it by his side and said to them,
"Whoever receives this child in my name receives me,
and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
For the one who is least among all of you
is the one who is the greatest."
Then John said in reply,
"Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name
and we tried to prevent him
because he does not follow in our company."
Jesus said to him,
"Do not prevent him, for whoever is not against you is for you."
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“Always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us
can do something to bring some portion of misery to an end.” (Anonymous)
The dog days of summer were especially tough for many of my friends and me. Almost everyone I spoke with during those terrible weeks felt so overwhelmed. The news recounted one ‘fresh hell’ after another. One friend lamented: “It’s too much and I am not even near Kabul or Haiti or Louisiana or a hospital.”
What, we wondered, could we do to keep ourselves from getting swamped by this steady stream of catastrophes? How could we keep hoping in the midst of so much devastation? We ended up making a pact to ‘phone a friend’ when things got too much and to try to do one thing each day that addressed this mess we are all in.
A short time later I read this sentence in today’s scriptures and my first thought was, “Thank you Jesus.”
“Thus says the LORD of hosts:
Even if this should seem impossible
in the eyes of the remnant of this people,
shall it in those days be impossible in my eyes also,
says the LORD of hosts?”
And that’s it, isn’t it? People have repeatedly faced horrific situations… Cambodia’s Pol Pot’s regime, Serbia, slavery… awful, impossible situations. No one person alone solved any of those impossible situations, but many individuals stepped up during those horrific times and did something to ease another’s suffering.
As my friends and I pondered what we could do each day to show God’s love and perhaps give someone hope to carry on, our friend Nancy decided the one thing she could do was to help with the newly arrived refugees from Afghanistan.
The day she was to go in for the first time to volunteer, she unexpectedly ended up with her 4-year-old granddaughter. My practical friend packed up Dana and a bag of ‘distractors’ and went to help out. As Nancy and Dana waited for their assignment, they shared the lobby with a family who had just arrived from Afghanistan.
Dana took one look at the subdued children, picked up the bag of ‘distractors’ and went over to them. It quickly got noisy, but no one seemed to mind as it made all but the mother smile. The mother seemed so exhausted, so overwhelmed just blankly staring at Nancy. Not knowing how to help this woman, Nancy simply got up and sat closer to her. The mother started silently weeping. My friend just sat with her and handed her tissues.
After a while, Nancy said she felt a bit of hope seeping back into that mother as she began to hear her children laughing and playing with Dana. The first reading encourages, “The city (Jerusalem) shall be filled with girls and boys playing in the streets.” Nancy told me that hearing the laughter get louder and louder was the best medicine for that despairing mother. She knows it is a drop in the bucket, but it’s a start. Sometimes just sitting with people in their pain is all we can do, but it helps not to be alone.
So, we do what we can where we are and trust in our God to see us through these ‘impossible days’.
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“GOOD NEWS FOR MODERN MAN”
“Old men and old women, each with staff in hand because of old age, shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem. The city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in her streets.” —Zechariah 8:4-5
Today, don’t watch the news on TV or your handheld electronic device. Instead, picture in your mind the “prophetic” news reported by Zechariah in today’s first Eucharistic reading. A news camera zooms in on a group of old men and women sitting peacefully in chairs on a sidewalk in Jerusalem. They are observing a game played by a group of happy children in the street (Zec 8:4-5). Zechariah, the prophet-reporter, looks into the camera. He reports that these older folks have lived many years because there have been no car-bombings, terrorist attacks, or random shootings. The old folks are secure and feel no need to hide in their homes for safety. The children have lived their entire life in peace and have no experience of oppression and injustice (see Zec 8:12).
Zechariah’s audience scoffs at this idyllic setting. Exiled for decades, they have only recently returned to Jerusalem. Much of the city is still in rubble. Rebuilding goes slowly because the people are poor and defenseless against marauders. Zechariah’s prophetic news flash seems “impossible” to them (Zec 8:6).
What situation in your life seems impossible to you? “Even if this should seem impossible in [your] eyes,” should it “be impossible in My eyes also, says the Lord?” (Zec 8:6) “For God all things are possible” (Mt 19:26). The Lord says to you: “Is My hand too short to ransom? Have I not the strength to deliver?” (Is 50:2)
Prayer: Lord, “I do believe! Help my lack of trust!” (Mk 9:24)
Promise: “Whoever welcomes Me welcomes Him Who sent Me.” —Lk 9:48
Praise: St. Vincent de Paul was gifted with abundant charity and humility.
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Are you surprised to see the disciples of Jesus arguing about who is the greatest among them? Don't we do the same thing? The appetite for glory and greatness seems to be inbred in us. Who doesn't cherish the ambition to be "somebody" whom others admire rather than a "nobody"? Even the psalms speak about the glory God has destined for us. "You have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor" (Psalm 8:5). Jesus made a dramatic gesture by placing a child next to himself to show his disciples who really is the greatest in the kingdom of God.
What can a little child possibly teach us about greatness? Children in the ancient world had no rights, position, or privileges of their own. They were socially at the "bottom of the rung" and at the service of their parents, much like the household staff and domestic servants. What is the significance of Jesus' gesture? Jesus elevated a little child in the presence of his disciples by placing the child in a privileged position of honor at his right side. It is customary, even today, to seat the guest of honor at the right side of the host. Who is the greatest in God's kingdom? The one who is humble and lowly of heart - who instead of asserting their rights willingly empty themselves of pride and self-seeking glory by taking the lowly position of a servant or child.
Jesus, himself, is our model. He came not to be served, but to serve (Matthew 20:28). Paul the Apostles states that Jesus "emptied himself and took the form of a servant" (Philippians 2:7). Jesus lowered himself (he whose place is at the right hand of God the Father) and took on our lowly nature that he might raise us up and clothe us in his divine nature. "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble" (James 4:6). If we want to be filled with God's life and power, then we need to empty ourselves of everything which stands in the way - pride, envy, self-seeking glory, vanity, and possessiveness. God wants empty vessels so he can fill them with his own glory, power, and love (2 Corinthians 4:7). Are you ready to humble yourself and to serve as Jesus did?
Lord Jesus, your grace knows no bounds. You give freely to the humble of heart and you grant us freedom to love and serve others selflessly. May my love for you express itself in an eagerness to do good for others.
Psalm 102:16-21
16 For the LORD will build up Zion, he will appear in his glory;
17 he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication.
18 Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD:
19 that he looked down from his holy height, from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;
21 that men may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Jesus, the Physician of souls, amputates vainglory, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"The passion and lust of pride attacked some of the holy apostles. The mere argument about who of them was the greatest is the mark of an ambitious person, eager to stand at the head of the rest. Christ, who did not sleep, knows how to deliver. He saw this thought in the disciple's mind, springing up, in the words of Scripture (Hebrews 12:15), like some bitter plant. He saw the weeds, the work of the wicked sower. Before it grew up tall, struck its root down deep, grew strong, and took possession of the heart, he tears up the evil by the very root...
"In what way does the Physician of souls amputate pride’s passion? How does he deliver the beloved disciple from being the prey of the enemy and from a thing hateful to God and man? "He took a child," it says, "and set it by him." He made the event a means of benefiting both the holy apostles themselves and us their successors. This illness, as a rule, preys upon all those who are in any respect superior to other people".(excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 54.2)
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