2022년 4월 5일 사순 제5주간 화요일
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제1독서
<물린 자는 누구든지 구리 뱀을 보면 살게 될 것이다.>
민수기. 21,4-9
그 무렵 이스라엘은 4 에돔 땅을 돌아서 가려고,
호르 산을 떠나 갈대 바다로 가는 길에 들어섰다.
길을 가는 동안에 백성은 마음이 조급해졌다.
5 그래서 백성은 하느님과 모세에게 불평하였다.
“당신들은 어쩌자고 우리를 이집트에서 올라오게 하여,
이 광야에서 죽게 하시오? 양식도 없고 물도 없소.
이 보잘것없는 양식은 이제 진저리가 나오.”
6 그러자 주님께서 백성에게 불 뱀들을 보내셨다.
그것들이 백성을 물어, 많은 이스라엘 백성이 죽었다.
7 백성이 모세에게 와서 간청하였다.
“우리가 주님과 당신께 불평하여 죄를 지었습니다.
이 뱀을 우리에게서 치워 주시도록 주님께 기도해 주십시오.”
그래서 모세가 백성을 위하여 기도하였다.
8 그러자 주님께서 모세에게 말씀하셨다.
“너는 불 뱀을 만들어 기둥 위에 달아 놓아라.
물린 자는 누구든지 그것을 보면 살게 될 것이다.”
9 그리하여 모세는 구리 뱀을 만들어 그것을 기둥 위에 달아 놓았다.
뱀이 사람을 물었을 때, 그 사람이 구리 뱀을 쳐다보면 살아났다.
복음
<너희는 사람의 아들을 들어 올린 뒤에야 내가 나임을 깨달을 것이다.>
요한. 8,21-30
그때에 예수님께서 바리사이들에게 21 이르셨다.
“나는 간다. 너희가 나를 찾겠지만 너희는 자기 죄 속에서 죽을 것이다.
내가 가는 곳에 너희는 올 수 없다.”
22 그러자 유다인들이 “‘내가 가는 곳에 너희는 올 수 없다.’ 하니,
자살하겠다는 말인가?” 하였다.
23 예수님께서 그들에게 말씀하셨다. “너희는 아래에서 왔고 나는 위에서 왔다.
너희는 이 세상에 속하지만 나는 이 세상에 속하지 않는다.
24 그래서 너희는 자기 죄 속에서 죽을 것이라고 내가 말하였다.
정녕 내가 나임을 믿지 않으면, 너희는 자기 죄 속에서 죽을 것이다.”
25 그러자 그들이 예수님께 “당신이 누구요?” 하고 물었다.
예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다. “처음부터 내가 너희에게 말해 오지 않았느냐?
26 나는 너희에 관하여 이야기할 것도, 심판할 것도 많다.
그러나 나를 보내신 분께서는 참되시기에,
나는 그분에게서 들은 것을 이 세상에 이야기할 따름이다.”
27 그들은 예수님께서 아버지를 가리켜 말씀하신 줄을 깨닫지 못하였다.
28 그래서 예수님께서 다시 그들에게 이르셨다.
“너희는 사람의 아들을 들어 올린 뒤에야 내가 나임을 깨달을 뿐만 아니라,
내가 스스로는 아무것도 하지 않고
아버지께서 가르쳐 주신 대로만 말한다는 것을 깨달을 것이다.
29 나를 보내신 분께서는 나와 함께 계시고 나를 혼자 버려두지 않으신다.
내가 언제나 그분 마음에 드는 일을 하기 때문이다.”
30 예수님께서 이렇게 말씀하시자 많은 사람이 그분을 믿었다.
April 5, 2022
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
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Reading 1
Nm 21:4-9
to bypass the land of Edom.
But with their patience worn out by the journey,
the people complained against God and Moses,
"Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert,
where there is no food or water?
We are disgusted with this wretched food!"
In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents,
which bit the people so that many of them died.
Then the people came to Moses and said,
"We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you.
Pray the LORD to take the serpents away from us."
So Moses prayed for the people, and the LORD said to Moses,
"Make a saraph and mount it on a pole,
and whoever looks at it after being bitten will live."
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole,
and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent
looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
Responsorial PsalmPs 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21
O LORD, hear my prayer,
and let my cry come to you.
Hide not your face from me
in the day of my distress.
Incline your ear to me;
in the day when I call, answer me speedily.
R. O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.
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. O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.
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. O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you.
Gospel
Jn 8:21-30
"I am going away and you will look for me,
but you will die in your sin.
Where I am going you cannot come."
So the Jews said,
"He is not going to kill himself, is he,
because he said, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"
He said to them, "You belong to what is below,
I belong to what is above.
You belong to this world,
but I do not belong to this world.
That is why I told you that you will die in your sins.
For if you do not believe that I AM,
you will die in your sins."
So they said to him, "Who are you?"
Jesus said to them, "What I told you from the beginning.
I have much to say about you in condemnation.
But the one who sent me is true,
and what I heard from him I tell the world."
They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.
So Jesus said to them,
"When you lift up the Son of Man,
then you will realize that I AM,
and that I do nothing on my own,
but I say only what the Father taught me.
The one who sent me is with me.
He has not left me alone,
because I always do what is pleasing to him."
Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
But with their patience worn out by the journey,
the people complained against God and Moses. - Numbers 21
Make a saraph and mount it on a pole,
and whoever looks at it after being bitten will live.”
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole,
and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent
looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. - Numbers 21
When you lift up the Son of Man,
then you will realize that I AM. - John 8
At this point in our Lenten journey, we might be like the people in the desert - complaining against God. We might also be saying, "Why did you lead us into this Lent, to starve us." We might be still hoping for something hopeful to make this a fruitful Lent, and, not yet finding it, we might begin a bit of whining. Of course, God is the easiest target of our discontent.
In the desert, God remained faithful. He'd led them out of slavery in Egypt and had compassion on them in the desert journey. Serpents were biting them. What a great image to help us realize what can be happening to us - some kind of something is biting us and getting us down and leading us into whining. God directs Moses to give them a "vaccine," a protection, from the biting they are experiencing. The bronze serpent represents God's power over all serpents.
As the people in the gospel today whine to Jesus - basically because they aren't seeing him for who he is - their Savior - Jesus offers them a remedy and a revelation of who he is. When he's "lifted up" - in two senses: on the Cross, and in the Resurrection - then we will realize who he really is for us. He uses the name God gave Moses in the desert, "Tell the people I AM sent you." Jesus is God with us, among us, and God's salvation for us.
This is a wonderful opportunity on our Lenten journey - if we feel a complaining spirit compromising the graces of this journey - to turn to Jesus again and look at him for who he is for us. Realizing our need for a Savior, and beholding him as our Savior, can be the grace we need at this point in our journey. It can be the time to be freed from the biting crabbiness that can settle in and make its troubling presence felt in our heart. It can be a liberation from the darkness of judgments of others and the divisive spirit which is determined to take away our peace. It can fill us with more gratitude and simple joy to "re-discover" the "good news" of Jesus' love for us and his presence with us on this journey, warming our hearts to turn from ourselves to others in need of our compassion and mercy and faithful presence.
The reality of our Lent desire these days is to recognize that Jesus is lifted up - in both senses - so that we might be lifted up - in both senses - for others and for the fullness of our salvation. There is time for much grace in the Fifth week of Lent.
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EVANGELIZATION AND LENT
“Because He spoke this way, many came to believe in Him.” —John 8:30
Jesus told people they would die in their sins unless they believed that He was God (Jn 8:24). Like the Israelites who were bitten by the saraph serpents, humanity is sentenced to death and damnation unless it looks at Jesus with faith (see Nm 21:8; Jn 3:14). People desperately need to know and love Jesus.
Although the greatest need of every person is to believe in Jesus and although He commanded us to be His witnesses, many Christians don’t share their faith in Jesus with others. One of the main purposes of this Lent is to change that. Lent is the imitation of Jesus when He was led by the Spirit into the desert to fast for forty days and overcome the temptations of the evil one. When Jesus emerged from that desert, He “returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee” (Lk 4:14), where He proclaimed the Good News of redemption (see Lk 4:18).
In imitation of Jesus, we should emerge from the Lenten desert and proclaim the Good News of life in Jesus. We should acknowledge that our refusal to evangelize is sinful. We should repent, go to Confession, and share our faith. We should ask others to pray that the obstacles to evangelization in our lives be removed. We exist to evangelize (Evangelization in the Modern World, Pope St. Paul VI, 14). Our Lenten repentance must result in Easter evangelization.
Prayer: Father, may I evangelize as if I had seen with my own eyes Jesus’ death on the cross.
Promise: “Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he recovered.” —Nm 21:9
Praise: St. Vincent Ferrer lived during difficult times. There were multiple claims to the papacy. Vincent encouraged healing of the papal schism. He preached the Good News throughout Western Europe and God worked many miracles through his ministry.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
Do you know the healing power of the cross of Jesus Christ? When the people of Israel were afflicted with serpents in the wilderness because of their sin, God instructed Moses: "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live" (Numbers 21:8). The visible sign of the "fiery bronze serpent" being lifted up in the sight of the people reminded them of two important facts - sin leads to death and repentance leads to God's mercy and healing. The lifting up of the bronze serpent on a wooden pole points to Jesus Christ being lifted up on the wooden cross at Calvary where he took our sins upon himself to make atonement to the Father on our behalf. The cross of Christ broke the curse of sin and death and won pardon, healing, and everlasting life for all who believe in Jesus, the Son of God and Savior of the world.
Either for him or against him
While many believed in Jesus and his message, many others, including the religious leaders, opposed him. Some openly mocked him when he warned them about their sin of unbelief. It's impossible to be indifferent to Jesus' word and his judgments. We are either for him or against him. There is no middle ground and no neutral parties.
When Jesus spoke about "going away" he was referring to his return in glory to his Father in heaven. Jesus warned his opponents that if they continued to disobey God's word and to reject him as Lord and Savior, they would shut themselves off from God and die in their sins. Jesus' words echoed the prophetic warning given to Ezekiel that people would die in their sins if they did not turn to God and ask for his mercy and pardon (see Ezekiel 3:18 and 18:18). In every age God warns his people to heed his word before the time is too late to seek his mercy and forgiveness. God gives us time to turn to him and to receive his mercy and pardon, but that time is right now.
To sin literally means to miss the mark or to be off target. The essence of sin is that it diverts us from God and from our true purpose in life - to know the source of all truth and beauty which is God himself and to be united with God in everlasting joy. When Adam and Eve yielded to their sin of disobedience, they literally tried to hide themselves from God's presence (Genesis 3:8-10). That is what sin does - it separates us from the One who is not only "all-seeing" and "ever present" to us, but who is also "all loving" and "merciful" and eager to receive us with open arms of mercy, healing, and forgiveness. When God calls you to turn your gaze and attention towards him, do you try to hide yourself from his presence with other distractions and excuses that keep you from seeking him and listening to his voice?
The proof of God's love for us
Jesus went on to explain to people that if they could not recognize his voice when they heard his word, they would have the opportunity to recognize him when he is "lifted up" on the cross. Jesus pointed to the atoning sacrifice of his life on the cross as the true source of healing and victory over sin and reconciliation with God. The sacrifice of Jesus' life on the cross is the ultimate proof of God's love for us.
God so loved the world that he gave us his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).
To fail to recognize who Jesus is and where he came from is to remain in darkness - the darkness of sin, ignorance, and unbelief. But if we look to Jesus and listen to his word of life and truth, then we will find the way to lasting peace and joy with God. The Lord Jesus invites each one of us to accept him as the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Our time here in this present world is very limited and short, but how we live it today has consequences not only for the present moment but for our eternal destiny as well. Which direction is your life headed in right now?
Lord Jesus, you came to set us free from sin, doubt, fear, and ignorance. Your word brings life, truth, and healing to mind, heart, soul, and body. Let your healing love free me from the blindness of sin and disbelief and from the destructive force of evil and wrongdoing. May I always find peace, joy, and strength in knowing your merciful love, truth, and goddness.
Psalm 102:2-3,16-21
2 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!
3 For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
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: Aided by Christ's grace, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"God the Father said: 'I sent you One who would seek you out, walk with you, and forgive you. So he had feet to walk with and hands to forgive with. Thus, when he ascended after his resurrection, he showed hands, side, and feet: hands with which he gave pardon to sinners; and side from which flowed the ransom of the redeemed.'" (excerpt from Sermon 16A,10)
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