2022년 3월 9일 사순 제1주간 수요일
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제1독서
요나 예언서. 3,1-10
주님의 말씀이 1 요나에게 내렸다.
2 “일어나 저 큰 성읍 니네베로 가서, 내가 너에게 이르는 말을 그 성읍에 외쳐라.”
3 요나는 주님의 말씀대로 일어나 니네베로 갔다.
니네베는 가로지르는 데에만 사흘이나 걸리는 아주 큰 성읍이었다.
4 요나는 그 성읍 안으로 걸어 들어가기 시작하였다.
하룻길을 걸은 다음 이렇게 외쳤다.
“이제 사십 일이 지나면 니네베는 무너진다!”
5 그러자 니네베 사람들이 하느님을 믿었다. 그들은 단식을 선포하고
가장 높은 사람부터 가장 낮은 사람까지 자루옷을 입었다.
6 이 소식이 니네베 임금에게 전해지자,
그도 왕좌에서 일어나 겉옷을 벗고 자루옷을 걸친 다음 잿더미 위에 앉았다.
7 그리고 그는 니네베에 이렇게 선포하였다. “임금과 대신들의 칙령에 따라
사람이든 짐승이든, 소든 양이든 아무것도 맛보지 마라.
먹지도 말고 마시지도 마라.
8 사람이든 짐승이든 모두 자루옷을 걸치고 하느님께 힘껏 부르짖어라.
저마다 제 악한 길과 제 손에 놓인 폭행에서 돌아서야 한다.
9 하느님께서 다시 마음을 돌리시고 그 타오르는 진노를 거두실지 누가 아느냐?
그러면 우리가 멸망하지 않을 수도 있다.”
10 하느님께서는 그들이 악한 길에서 돌아서는 모습을 보셨다.
그래서 하느님께서는 마음을 돌리시어
그들에게 내리겠다고 말씀하신 그 재앙을 내리지 않으셨다.
복음
루카. 11,29-32
그때에 29 군중이 점점 더 모여들자 예수님께서 말씀하기 시작하셨다.
“이 세대는 악한 세대다. 이 세대가 표징을 요구하지만
요나 예언자의 표징밖에는 어떠한 표징도 받지 못할 것이다.
30 요나가 니네베 사람들에게 표징이 된 것처럼,
사람의 아들도 이 세대 사람들에게 그러할 것이다.
31 심판 때에 남방 여왕이 이 세대 사람들과 함께 되살아나
이 세대 사람들을 단죄할 것이다.
그 여왕이 솔로몬의 지혜를 들으려고 땅끝에서 왔기 때문이다.
그러나 보라, 솔로몬보다 더 큰 이가 여기에 있다.
32 심판 때에 니네베 사람들이 이 세대와 함께 다시 살아나
이 세대를 단죄할 것이다.
그들이 요나의 설교를 듣고 회개하였기 때문이다.
그러나 보라, 요나보다 더 큰 이가 여기에 있다.”
March 9, 2022
Wednesday of the First Week in Lent
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Reading 1
"Set out for the great city of Nineveh,
and announce to it the message that I will tell you."
So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh,
according to the LORD's bidding.
Now Nineveh was an enormously large city;
it took three days to go through it.
Jonah began his journey through the city,
and had gone but a single day's walk announcing,
"Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed,"
when the people of Nineveh believed God;
they proclaimed a fast
and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.
When the news reached the king of Nineveh,
he rose from his throne, laid aside his robe,
covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.
Then he had this proclaimed throughout Nineveh,
by decree of the king and his nobles:
"Neither man nor beast, neither cattle nor sheep,
shall taste anything;
they shall not eat, nor shall they drink water.
Man and beast shall be covered with sackcloth and call loudly to God;
every man shall turn from his evil way
and from the violence he has in hand.
Who knows, God may relent and forgive, and withhold his blazing wrath,
so that we shall not perish."
When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way,
he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them;
he did not carry it out.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19
Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.
R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
A clean heart create for me, O God,
and a steadfast spirit renew within me.
Cast me not out from your presence,
and your Holy Spirit take not from me.
R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
For you are not pleased with sacrifices;
should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it.
My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit;
a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
Gospel
Lk 11:29-32
"This generation is an evil generation;
it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it,
except the sign of Jonah.
Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites,
so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
At the judgment
the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation
and she will condemn them,
because she came from the ends of the earth
to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
and there is something greater than Solomon here.
At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation
and condemn it,
because at the preaching of Jonah they repented,
and there is something greater than Jonah here.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Recently, I have been participating as a parent guide at the school robotics club with my 3rd grade daughter and some of her classmates. At the first meeting, the six industrious, determined, independent, and experienced Lego-building children spent the majority of the time on their own agendas. Two were growing a bit impatient over taking turns while they practiced with the remote control moving around the robot vehicle. Three others had started tinkering with little plastic pieces and building potential attachments to the basic vehicle without knowing which attachments they would actually need to build. Another one started opening small plastic packages of pieces, eager to explore what he found in the large bin full of building supplies.
Despite reminders, these six young and inexperienced third graders struggled with the important components, or the main areas of focus for the robotics club, of identifying a problem that they would like to solve, brainstorming and listening to each other, and working collaboratively together to solve the problem(s) or hurdle.
Though they likely needed a little more direction and maturity, they were not acting too differently compared to adults who sometimes (often times) prioritize their own agenda. I know I am guilty of that!
One of the parent leaders assured me the team dynamics would get better and they would resist their unconscious preferences to work alone. Sure enough, as time went on, they resisted the temptation to jump in and work on their own ideas alone. It was a new way of operating. They began taking turns talking and listening, asked questions and affirmed each other’s ideas, which in turn invited deeper collaboration and a more successful robotics creation to accomplish the robotics tasks at hand. I would guess that they also felt affirmed and valued in this true group collaboration rather than the fleeting satisfaction of creating something on their own (that may have ultimately been inadequate).
How often do we chose our own way, without paying attention to the sometimes subtle voice of the Spirit in our hearts? Decisively persevering with our own desires and priorities without care for another’s well-being or what is good for everyone? How often have we ignored or brushed off the Spirit acting and moving in our hearts, and in our experiences?
I have been reflecting on these innocent third graders and the beginning of our Lenten season. I have hope that these students, in upcoming meetings, will continue to come together to listen and pay attention to each other’s ideas, to the spirit, (or Spirit), moving in their group members and the process of collaboratively building an effective robot. We often set out with our own priorities and agendas, the way the Ninevites did prior to the process of repenting in our first reading. Thanks to Jonah’s convincing prophetic voice, they changed their hearts and sought to live in way that involved relying on God and adjusting their selfish agendas.
Jesus, in the Gospel, cautions us against looking for false signs that might lead us in towards wrong directions or in pursuit of something other than closeness and companionship with him. God’s hope and care for us is evident in the persistence and encouragement of Jonah (and giving him another chance) and even more so, now, in the person of Jesus. God and Jesus are constantly working in our lives and among our experiences, breaking into our lives. Pursuing our own agenda may lead to increased convenience, a stronger reputation, or fuel for an unhealthy habit. Or we may just be guilty of being unaware of the ways God is trying to speak to us.
Maybe this Lent we can ask God for awareness of Christ’s presence and the Holy Spirit’s urging, in our daily lives. Maybe we can slow down and seek to listen a bit more closely to God’s voice in our hearts, in our experiences, urging us out of our selfish ways. Maybe it means recommitting to a Lenten practice we attempted last week; maybe it means just carving out some silence to listen and reflect on our day with God, through the Ignatian Examen prayer.
Like the Ninevites , there is great potential for us to listen for God’s voice and change our hearts to be more in sync with God’s hopes for us. Changing our hearts might likely lead us out of our selfish agendas like the third grade robotics club participants. And, like the third graders who learned to collaborate more with those around them, listening to God’s voice may invite us to prioritize our neighbors, or even (and especially) those on the margins. That will likely lead us to care for and lift each other up, an urging that so often comes from God.
Wishing us all continued and deepening closeness to Christ these Lenten days.
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A SIGN FOR THE TIMES
“Just as Jonah was a sign for the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be a sign for the present age.” —Luke 11:30
For modern-day readers of today’s Gospel, the sign of Jonah is that he spent three days buried in the belly of the large fish (Jon 2:1). After three days, the fish spit him alive onto the shore. Thus, Jonah prefigured Jesus’ three-day burial and subsequent Resurrection.
In today’s text, Jesus refers to Jonah being “a sign for the Ninevites” (Lk 11:30). The Old Testament book of Jonah makes no mention of Jonah telling the people of Nineveh about his “fish story.” In addition, Jonah despised Nineveh (see Jon 4:1-2). While he may have enjoyed prophesying their destruction, in his pride he likely wouldn’t have shared his humiliating experience with those he hated. Exactly how, then, was Jonah “a sign for the Ninevites”?
From the standpoint of the Ninevites, Jonah’s sign would have been the prophetic words he spoke. To prophesy means simply to speak what God is speaking when He is speaking it. Jonah’s timely prophetic words carried the awesome convicting power of Almighty God. The immediate and total repentance of the Ninevites proved the power of prophecy.
Your words may be eloquent, but God’s prophetic words have the power. “The time is short” (1 Cor 7:29). Let’s spend the rest of our lives (1 Pt 4:2) speaking God’s words, not ours. His words spoken at the proper time change hearts (1 Thes 2:13; Heb 4:12-13). “Set your hearts on...the gift of prophecy” (1 Cor 14:1).
Prayer: Father, teach me “what to say and how to speak” (Jn 12:49). May I be a sign of Your power to the present generation.
Promise: “The people of Nineveh believed God.” —Jon 3:5
Praise: After the death of her nobleman husband, St. Frances of Rome took the “lowest place” (Lk 14:10) by entering the convent as one of the humblest of sisters. God soon raised her up to the role of a superior.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
Do you pay careful attention to warning signs? Many fatalities could be avoided if people paid attention to such signs. When the religious leaders demanded a sign from Jesus, he gave them a serious warning to avert spiritual disaster. It was characteristic of the Jews that they demanded "signs" from God's messengers to authenticate their claims.
God warns us for our good - do you listen?
When the religious leaders pressed Jesus to give proof for his claims he says in so many words that he is God's sign and that they need no further evidence from heaven than his own person. The Ninevites recognized God's warning when Jonah spoke to them, and they repented. And the Queen of Sheba recognized God's wisdom in Solomon. Jonah was God's sign and his message was the message of a merciful God for the people of Nineveh.
Unfortunately the religious leaders were not content to accept the signs right before their eyes. They had rejected the message of John the Baptist and now they reject Jesus as God's Anointed One (Messiah) and they fail to heed his message. Simeon had prophesied at Jesus' birth that he was destined for the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed so that inner thoughts of many will be revealed (Luke 2:34-35). Jesus confirmed his message with many miracles in preparation for the greatest sign of all - his resurrection on the third day.
Let God's word of truth set you free from sin and ignorance
The Lord Jesus came to set us free from slavery to sin and hurtful desires. Through the gift of the Holy Spirit he pours his love into our hearts that we may understand his will for our lives and walk in his way of holiness. God searches our hearts, not to condemn us, but to show us where we need his saving grace and help. He calls us to seek him with true repentance, humility, and the honesty to see our sins for what they really are - a rejection of his love and will for our lives. God will transform us if we listen to his word and allow his Holy Spirit to work in our lives. Ask the Lord to renew your mind and to increase your thirst for his wisdom and truth.
James says that the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity (James 3:17). A double-minded person cannot receive this kind of wisdom. The single of mind desire one thing alone - God's pleasure. God wants us to delight in him and to know the freedom of his truth and love. Do you thirst for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14)?
Lord Jesus, change my heart and fill me with your wisdom that I my love your ways. Give me strength and courage to resist temptation and stubborn wilfulness that I may truly desire to do what is pleasing to you.
Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless in your judgment.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
19 then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Don't put off conversion - tomorrow may never come, by Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"God is not now so long-suffering in putting up with you that He will fail to be just in punishing. Do not say then: 'Tomorrow I shall be converted, tomorrow I shall please God, and all that I shall have done today and yesterday will be forgiven me.' What you say is true: God has promised forgiveness if you turn back to Him. But what He has not promised is that you will have tomorrow in which to achieve your conversion." (excerpt from Commentary on Psalm 144,11)
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