2022년 3월 20일 사순 제3주일
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제1독서
탈출기. 3,1-8ㄱㄷ.13-15
그 무렵 1 모세는 미디안의 사제인 장인 이트로의 양 떼를 치고 있었다.
그는 양 떼를 몰고 광야를 지나 하느님의 산 호렙으로 갔다.
2 주님의 천사가 떨기나무 한가운데로부터 솟아오르는 불꽃 속에서 그에게 나타났다.
그가 보니 떨기가 불에 타는데도, 그 떨기는 타서 없어지지 않았다.
3 모세는 ‘내가 가서 이 놀라운 광경을 보아야겠다.
저 떨기가 왜 타 버리지 않을까?’ 하고 생각하였다.
4 모세가 보러 오는 것을 주님께서 보시고,
떨기 한가운데에서 “모세야, 모세야!” 하고 그를 부르셨다.
그가 “예, 여기 있습니다.” 하고 대답하자,
5 주님께서 말씀하셨다. “이리 가까이 오지 마라.
네가 서 있는 곳은 거룩한 땅이니, 네 발에서 신을 벗어라.”
6 그분께서 다시 말씀하셨다. “나는 네 아버지의 하느님,
곧 아브라함의 하느님, 이사악의 하느님, 야곱의 하느님이다.”
그러자 모세는 하느님을 뵙기가 두려워 얼굴을 가렸다.
7 주님께서 말씀하셨다.
“나는 이집트에 있는 내 백성이 겪는 고난을 똑똑히 보았고,
작업 감독들 때문에 울부짖는 그들의 소리를 들었다.
정녕 나는 그들의 고통을 알고 있다.
8 그래서 내가 그들을 이집트인들의 손에서 구하여,
그 땅에서 저 좋고 넓은 땅, 젖과 꿀이 흐르는 땅으로
데리고 올라가려고 내려왔다.”
13 모세가 하느님께 아뢰었다. “제가 이스라엘 자손들에게 가서,
‘너희 조상들의 하느님께서 나를 너희에게 보내셨다.’ 하고 말하면,
그들이 저에게 ‘그분 이름이 무엇이오?’ 하고 물을 터인데,
제가 그들에게 무엇이라고 대답해야 하겠습니까?”
14 하느님께서 모세에게 “나는 있는 나다.” 하고 대답하시고, 이어서 말씀하셨다.
“너는 이스라엘 자손들에게 ‘′있는 나′께서 나를 너희에게 보내셨다.’ 하여라.”
15 하느님께서 다시 모세에게 말씀하셨다. “너는 이스라엘 자손들에게,
‘너희 조상들의 하느님, 곧 아브라함의 하느님, 이사악의 하느님,
야곱의 하느님이신 야훼께서 나를 너희에게 보내셨다.’ 하여라.
이것이 영원히 불릴 나의 이름이며, 이것이 대대로 기릴 나의 칭호이다.”
제2독서
코린토 1서 10,1-6.10-12
1 형제 여러분, 나는 여러분이 이 사실도 알기를 바랍니다.
우리 조상들은 모두 구름 아래 있었으며 모두 바다를 건넜습니다.
2 모두 구름과 바다 속에서 세례를 받아 모세와 하나가 되었습니다.
3 모두 똑같은 영적 양식을 먹고, 4 모두 똑같은 영적 음료를 마셨습니다.
그들은 자기들을 따라오는 영적 바위에서 솟는 물을 마셨는데,
그 바위가 곧 그리스도이셨습니다.
5 그러나 하느님께서는 그들 대부분이 마음에 들지 않으셨습니다.
사실 그들은 광야에서 죽어 널브러졌습니다.
6 이 일들은 우리를 위한 본보기로 일어났습니다.
그들이 악을 탐냈던 것처럼 우리는 악을 탐내지 말라는 것입니다.
10 그들 가운데 어떤 자들이 투덜거린 것처럼 여러분은 투덜거리지 마십시오.
그들은 파괴자의 손에 죽었습니다.
11 이 일들은 본보기로 그들에게 일어난 것인데,
세상 종말에 다다른 우리에게 경고가 되라고 기록되었습니다.
12 그러므로 서 있다고 생각하는 이는 넘어지지 않도록 조심하십시오.
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루카. 13,1-9
1 바로 그때에 어떤 사람들이 와서, 빌라도가 갈릴래아 사람들을 죽여
그들이 바치려던 제물을 피로 물들게 한 일을 예수님께 알렸다.
2 그러자 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다.
“너희는 그 갈릴래아 사람들이 그러한 변을 당하였다고 해서
다른 모든 갈릴래아 사람보다 더 큰 죄인이라고 생각하느냐?
3 아니다. 내가 너희에게 말한다.
너희도 회개하지 않으면 모두 그처럼 멸망할 것이다.
4 또 실로암에 있던 탑이 무너지면서 깔려 죽은 그 열여덟 사람,
너희는 그들이 예루살렘에 사는 다른 모든 사람보다
더 큰 잘못을 하였다고 생각하느냐? 5 아니다. 내가 너희에게 말한다.
너희도 회개하지 않으면 모두 그렇게 멸망할 것이다.”
6 예수님께서 이러한 비유를 말씀하셨다.
“어떤 사람이 자기 포도밭에 무화과나무 한 그루를 심어 놓았다.
그리고 나중에 가서 그 나무에 열매가 달렸나 하고 찾아보았지만
하나도 찾지 못하였다.
7 그래서 포도 재배인에게 일렀다. ‘보게, 내가 삼 년째 와서
이 무화과나무에 열매가 달렸나 하고 찾아보지만 하나도 찾지 못하네.
그러니 이것을 잘라 버리게. 땅만 버릴 이유가 없지 않은가?’
8 그러자 포도 재배인이 그에게 대답하였다.
‘주인님, 이 나무를 올해만 그냥 두시지요.
그동안에 제가 그 둘레를 파서 거름을 주겠습니다.
9 그러면 내년에는 열매를 맺겠지요.
그러지 않으면 잘라 버리십시오.’”
March 20, 2022
Third Sunday of Lent
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Reading I
Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,
the priest of Midian.
Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb,
the mountain of God.
There an angel of the LORD appeared to Moses in fire
flaming out of a bush.
As he looked on, he was surprised to see that the bush,
though on fire, was not consumed.
So Moses decided,
“I must go over to look at this remarkable sight,
and see why the bush is not burned.”
When the LORD saw him coming over to look at it more closely,
God called out to him from the bush, AMoses! Moses!”
He answered, “Here I am.”
God said, “Come no nearer!
Remove the sandals from your feet,
for the place where you stand is holy ground.
I am the God of your fathers, “ he continued,
“the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.”
Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
But the LORD said,
“I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt
and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers,
so I know well what they are suffering.
Therefore I have come down to rescue them
from the hands of the Egyptians
and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land,
a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Moses said to God, “But when I go to the Israelites
and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’
if they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what am I to tell them?”
God replied, “I am who am.”
Then he added, “This is what you shall tell the Israelites:
I AM sent me to you.”
God spoke further to Moses, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites:
The LORD, the God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob,
has sent me to you.
“This is my name forever;
thus am I to be remembered through all generations.”
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 103: 1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11
(8a) The Lord is kind and merciful.
Bless the LORD, O my soul;
and all my being, bless his holy name.
Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits.
The Lord is kind and merciful.
He pardons all your iniquities,
heals all your ills,
He redeems your life from destruction,
crowns you with kindness and compassion.
The Lord is kind and merciful.
The LORD secures justice
and the rights of all the oppressed.
He has made known his ways to Moses,
and his deeds to the children of Israel.
The Lord is kind and merciful.
Merciful and gracious is the LORD,
slow to anger and abounding in kindness.
For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him.
The Lord is kind and merciful.
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,
that our ancestors were all under the cloud
and all passed through the sea,
and all of them were baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea.
All ate the same spiritual food,
and all drank the same spiritual drink,
for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them,
and the rock was the Christ.
Yet God was not pleased with most of them,
for they were struck down in the desert.
These things happened as examples for us,
so that we might not desire evil things, as they did.
Do not grumble as some of them did,
and suffered death by the destroyer.
These things happened to them as an example,
and they have been written down as a warning to us,
upon whom the end of the ages has come.
Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure
should take care not to fall.
Some people told Jesus about the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.
Jesus said to them in reply,
“Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way
they were greater sinners than all other Galileans?
By no means!
But I tell you, if you do not repent,
you will all perish as they did!
Or those eighteen people who were killed
when the tower at Siloam fell on them—
do you think they were more guilty
than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem?
By no means!
But I tell you, if you do not repent,
you will all perish as they did!”
And he told them this parable:
“There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard,
and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none,
he said to the gardener,
‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree
but have found none.
So cut it down.
Why should it exhaust the soil?’
He said to him in reply,
‘Sir, leave it for this year also,
and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;
it may bear fruit in the future.
If not you can cut it down.’”
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
In today’s first reading from Exodus, I am struck by the fact that Moses’ life and vocation – not to mention salvation history – are changed forever because: he was aware of what was happening around him; he took the time to investigate; he was open to God; and he was willing to engage and listen.
Sure, a burning bush that doesn’t consume itself is a curiosity, but still, a burning bush is not utterly unique, and if he had been wrapped up in his own problems or thoughts, or in a hurry, he could have easily passed by, assuming the bush would soon burn up or that someone else would be along to tend to it.
How often do we pass by someone or something that could transform us, if we were open to them or it? Would God necessarily speak to us directly and give us a message as important as the message God gave Moses? Maybe not, but maybe. God does have desires and plans for each of us, just as God had desires and plans for Moses.
The night I met my husband, who was a stranger to me at the time, I was open to God’s plans for me, even though I had no idea that evening. Each of us can think back to special people and happenings in our lives that have changed us forever and brought great blessings into our lives.
When I first started my career in journalism as a photographer for the local newspaper, I encountered many amazing and some famous people. Two people that made enormous impressions upon me were the opposite of famous. One was an unassuming, elderly man who lived in a very humble home and used his meager income to buy food to feed wild birds who had come to depend on him. He was generous and kind and he touched my soul. Another person I photographed was a loving, energetic, older blind nun who lived in a contemplative community. Again, she was definitely a messenger from God, and she taught me many things about life and faith as we remained friends for years and she came to know my whole family.
Each of us have many special encounters like these, and more, if we are open and responsive to the Lord. Let us pray that we use the remaining time in Lent to reflect upon the many times God has spoken to our hearts throughout the course of our lives, and to ask for a renewed sense of the Divine here and now, and in the days and years to come.
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THE VIEW FROM THE CROSS
“I want you to remember this...” —1 Corinthians 10:1
When you’re talking with Jesus, it seems like He’s always changing the subject to repentance. You might mention how tragic the most recent natural disaster was (see Lk 13:4). Jesus maneuvers the conversation to our need to reform (see Lk 13:4-5). You might mention to Him how pretty your Church building looks (see Mk 13:1ff). But Jesus turns the conversation into the need to be watchful and on guard against tragedy and sin. You’re hard at work, and Jesus talks about reforming your life (Mt 4:17). Why is repentance always on the tip of His tongue?
To answer this question, try to put yourself into Jesus’ sandals. Imagine walking around for at least three years knowing that you would stretch out your hands and have them nailed to a cross so that others would repent. Picture yourself tied to a pillar and being cruelly whipped until you pass out — to pay the penalty for other people’s sins. Imagine hanging in excruciating agony in place of people who could care less whether they sin or not. Now imagine having a heart of passionate love for each person who has no interest in repentance. You’re getting a glimpse of Jesus’ perspective on the importance of repentance.
If you had to suffer all this, you’d change the subject too. You wouldn’t want even one person to lose their soul if you had suffered that much so they could be saved. Be like Jesus and “proclaim this theme: ‘Reform your lives!’ ” (Mt 4:17)
Prayer: Jesus, may Your death never be in vain for anyone. I will spend my life leading others to You and to repentance.
Promise: “He pardons all your iniquities; He heals all your ills.” —Ps 103:3
Praise: St. Paul told us “that the Messiah must suffer, and that, as the first to rise from the dead, He will proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles” (Acts 26:23). Praise Jesus!
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What causes suffering or affliction and what does God want to teach us through it? The people of Israel suffered greatly under the oppressive rule of Egypt for more than 400 years. Did they suffer unjustly or was God angry with them? God was faithful to his people Israel even in the midst of their affliction and ill treatment by their Egyptian taskmaster. God in his mercy did not forget them nor forsake them. Throughout their long history of exile and suffering God made them strong and they grew in number. God listened to their plea for mercy and freedom. And God raised up a savior for them, called Moses, whom he taught and tested in the wilderness until he was ready to hear and obey God's call.
The fire of God's purifying love and deliverance
When Moses came near the mountain of God at Horeb (which is also named Sinai), God made his presence and will known to Moses through an extraordinary sign - a bush inflamed with a fierce fire that did not harm or destroy the bush. This burning bush was a sign of God's presence and power to save his people from destruction. The fire of God's presence always demonstrates his purifying love and mercy that burns away sin and refashions us in his holiness and righteousness (moral goodness). Just as gold is tested through fire, God tests and purifies his people and fills them with the fire of his love and holiness.
When Jesus preached the coming of God's kingdom of peace and righteousness to his people, he called them to repent and believe in the gospel - the good news of pardon, peace, and new life in the Holy Spirit. His numerous signs and miracles demonstrated the power of God's kingdom breaking into the lives of all who turned to Jesus with faith and obedience. Many recognized that Jesus was the Messiah whom God had promised would come and do even greater signs and wonders than Moses has done.
Jesus addresses the issue of suffering and sin
Jesus on a number of occasions warned the people to turn away from sin before it was too late to repent and receive God's mercy and pardon. Luke recounts two current disasters which Jesus addressed with the people. The first incident occurred in the temple at Jerusalem. Pilate, who was the Roman governor of Jerusalem at the time, ordered his troops to slaughter a group of Galileans who had come up to Jerusalem to offer sacrifice in the Temple. We do not know what these Galileans did to incite Pilate's wrath, nor why Pilate chose to attack them in the holiest of places for the Jews, in their temple at Jerusalem. For the Jews, this was political barbarity and sacrilege at its worst!
The second incident which Jesus addressed was a natural disaster, a tower in Jerusalem which unexpectedly collapsed, killing 18 people. The Jews often associated such calamities and disasters as a consequence of sin. Scripture does warn that sin can result in calamity! Though the righteous fall seven times, and rise again; the wicked are overthrown by calamity (Proverbs 24:16).
The time for repentance and forgiveness is right now!
The real danger and calamity which Jesus points out is that an unexpected disaster or a sudden death does not give us time to repent of our sins and to prepare ourselves to meet the Judge of heaven and earth. The Book of Job reminds us that misfortune and calamity can befall both the righteous and the unrighteous alike. Jesus gives a clear warning - take responsibility for your actions and moral choices and put sin to death today before it can destroy your heart, mind, soul, and body as well. Unrepentant sin is like a cancer which corrupts us from within. If it is not eliminated through repentance - asking God for forgiveness and for his healing grace - it leads to a spiritual death which is far worse than physical destruction.
The sign of the barren fig tree
Jesus' parable of the barren fig tree illustrates his warning about the consequences of allowing sin and corruption to take root in our hearts and minds. Fig trees were a common and important source of food for the people of Palestine. A fig tree normally matured within three years, producing plentiful fruit. If it failed, it was cut down to make room for more healthy trees. A decaying fig tree and its bad fruit came to symbolize for the Jews the consequence of spiritual corruption caused by evil deeds and unrepentant sin.
The unfruitful fig tree symbolized the outcome of Israel's indifference and lack of response to God's word of repentance and restoration. The prophets depicted the desolation and calamity of Israel's fall and ruin - due to her unfaithfulness to God - as a languishing fig tree (see Joel 1:7,12; Habbakuk 3:17; and Jeremiah 8:13). Jeremiah likened good and evil rulers and members of Israel with figs that were either good for eating or rotten and wasteful (Jeremiah 24:2-8). Jesus' parable depicts the patience of God, but it also contains a warning that we should not presume upon God's patience and mercy. God's judgment will come in due course - very soon or later.
Why God judges
Why does God judge his people? He judges to purify and cleanse us of all sin that we might grow in his holiness and righteousness. And he disciplines us for our own good, to inspire a godly fear and reverence for him and his word. God is patient, but for those who persistently and stubbornly rebel against him and refuse to repent and change their course, there is the consequence that they will lose both their soul and body to hell. Are God's judgments unjust or unloving? When God's judgments are revealed in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness (Isaiah 26:9). To pronounce God's judgment on sin is much less harsh than what will happen if those who sin are not warned to repent and turn back to God.
Don't tolerate sin
God, in his mercy, gives us time to get right with him, but that time is now. We must not assume that there is no hurry. A sudden and unexpected death leaves one no time to prepare to settle one's accounts when he or she must stand before the Lord on the day of judgment. Jesus warns us that we must be ready at all times. Tolerating sinful habits and excusing unrepentant sin and wrongdoing will result in bad fruit, painful discipline, and spiritual disease that leads to death and destruction. The Lord in his mercy gives us both grace (his gracious help and healing) and time to turn away from sin, but that time is right now. If we delay, even for a day, we may discover that grace has passed us by and our time is up. Do you hunger for the Lord's righteousness (moral goodness) and holiness?
Lord Jesus, increase my hunger for you that I may grow in righteousness and holiness. May I not squander the grace of the present moment to say "yes" to you and to your will and plan for my life.
Psalm 103:1-8,11
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name!
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the Pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good as long as you live so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
6 The LORD works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The Lord's three visits through the Patriarchs, Prophets, and the Gospel, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"The Lord also has something very fitting to say about a fruitless tree, 'Look, it is now three years that I have been coming to it. Finding no fruit on it, I will cut it down, to stop it blocking up my field.' The gardener intercedes... This tree is the human race. The Lord visited this tree in the time of the patriarchs, as if for the first year. He visited it in the time of the law and the prophets, as if for the second year. Here we are now; with the gospel the third year has dawned. Now it is as though it should have been cut down, but the merciful one intercedes with the merciful one. He wanted to show how merciful he was, and so he stood up to himself with a plea for mercy. 'Let us leave it,' he says, 'this year too. Let us dig a ditch around it.' Manure is a sign of humility. 'Let us apply a load of manure; perhaps it may bear fruit.' Since it does bear fruit in one part, and in another part does not bear fruit, its Lord will come and divide it. What does that mean, 'divide it'? There are good people and bad people now in one company, as though constituting one body." (excerpt from Sermon 254.3)
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