2022년 6월 16일 연중 제11주간 목요일
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제1독서
집회서.48,1-14
1 엘리야 예언자가 불처럼 일어섰는데 그의 말은 횃불처럼 타올랐다.
2 엘리야는 그들에게 굶주림을 불러들였고
자신의 열정으로 그들의 수를 감소시켰다.
3 주님의 말씀에 따라 그는 하늘을 닫아 버리고 세 번씩이나 불을 내려보냈다.
4 엘리야여, 당신은 놀라운 일들로 얼마나 큰 영광을 받았습니까?
누가 당신처럼 자랑스러울 수 있겠습니까?
5 당신은 죽은 자를 죽음에서 일으키고
지극히 높으신 분의 말씀에 따라 그를 저승에서 건져 냈습니다.
6 당신은 여러 임금들을 멸망으로 몰아넣고
명사들도 침상에서 멸망으로 몰아넣었습니다.
7 당신은 시나이 산에서 꾸지람을 듣고 호렙 산에서 징벌의 판결을 들었습니다.
8 당신은 임금들에게 기름을 부어 복수하게 하고
예언자들에게도 기름을 부어 당신의 후계자로 삼았습니다.
9 당신은 불 소용돌이 속에서 불 마차에 태워 들어 올려졌습니다.
10 당신은 정해진 때를 대비하여 주님의 분노가 터지기 전에 그것을 진정시키고
아버지의 마음을 자식에게 되돌리며
야곱의 지파들을 재건하리라고 기록되어 있습니다.
11 당신을 본 사람들과 사랑 안에서 잠든 사람들은 행복합니다.
우리도 반드시 살아날 것입니다.
12 엘리야가 소용돌이에 휩싸일 때 엘리사는 엘리야의 영으로 가득 차게 되었다.
엘리사는 일생 동안 어떤 통치자도 두려워하지 않았고
아무도 그를 굴복시키지 못하였다.
13 그에게는 어떤 일도 어렵지 않았으며 잠든 후에도 그의 주검은 예언을 하였다.
14 살아생전에 엘리사는 기적들을 일으켰고 죽어서도 그의 업적은 놀라웠다.
복음
마태오.6,7-15
그때에 예수님께서 제자들에게 말씀하셨다.
7 “너희는 기도할 때에 다른 민족 사람들처럼 빈말을 되풀이하지 마라.
그들은 말을 많이 해야 들어 주시는 줄로 생각한다. 8 그러니 그들을 닮지 마라.
너희 아버지께서는 너희가 청하기도 전에 무엇이 필요한지 알고 계신다.
9 그러므로 너희는 이렇게 기도하여라.
‘하늘에 계신 저희 아버지, 아버지의 이름을 거룩히 드러내시며
10 아버지의 나라가 오게 하시며
아버지의 뜻이 하늘에서와 같이 땅에서도 이루어지게 하소서.
11 오늘 저희에게 일용할 양식을 주시고
12 저희에게 잘못한 이를 저희도 용서하였듯이 저희 잘못을 용서하시고
13 저희를 유혹에 빠지지 않게 하시고, 저희를 악에서 구하소서.’
14 너희가 다른 사람들의 허물을 용서하면,
하늘의 너희 아버지께서도 너희를 용서하실 것이다.
15 그러나 너희가 다른 사람들을 용서하지 않으면,
아버지께서도 너희의 허물을 용서하지 않으실 것이다.”
June 13, 2022
Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah
whose words were as a flaming furnace.
Their staff of bread he shattered,
in his zeal he reduced them to straits;
By the Lord’s word he shut up the heavens
and three times brought down fire.
How awesome are you, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds!
Whose glory is equal to yours?
You brought a dead man back to life
from the nether world, by the will of the LORD.
You sent kings down to destruction,
and easily broke their power into pieces.
You brought down nobles, from their beds of sickness.
You heard threats at Sinai,
at Horeb avenging judgments.
You anointed kings who should inflict vengeance,
and a prophet as your successor.
You were taken aloft in a whirlwind of fire,
in a chariot with fiery horses.
You were destined, it is written, in time to come
to put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD,
To turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons,
and to re-establish the tribes of Jacob.
Blessed is he who shall have seen you
And who falls asleep in your friendship.
For we live only in our life,
but after death our name will not be such.
O Elijah, enveloped in the whirlwind!
Then Elisha, filled with the twofold portion of his spirit,
wrought many marvels by his mere word.
During his lifetime he feared no one,
nor was any man able to intimidate his will.
Nothing was beyond his power;
beneath him flesh was brought back into life.
In life he performed wonders,
and after death, marvelous deeds.
R. (12a)
Rejoice in the Lord, you just!
The LORD is king; let the earth rejoice;
let the many isles be glad.
Clouds and darkness are round about him,
justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne.
R. Rejoice in the Lord, you just!
Fire goes before him
and consumes his foes round about.
His lightnings illumine the world;
the earth sees and trembles.
R. Rejoice in the Lord, you just!
The mountains melt like wax before the LORD,
before the Lord of all the earth.
The heavens proclaim his justice,
and all peoples see his glory.
R. Rejoice in the Lord, you just!
All who worship graven things are put to shame,
who glory in the things of nought;
all gods are prostrate before him.
R. Rejoice in the Lord, you just!
Jesus said to his disciples:
“In praying, do not babble like the pagans,
who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them.
Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
“This is how you are to pray:
‘Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.’
“If you forgive others their transgressions,
your heavenly Father will forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others,
neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.”
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
The reading from Sirach honors the lives of Elijah and Elisha. The Psalm has God appearing in the midst of a storm. Jesus teaches the “Our Father” in the Gospel.
The readings leave me thinking about how often I am drawn away from the direction to which I am called. The events of everyday life provide a continuous source of distractions. Elijah and Elisha try to bring reform to a community that has fallen victim to diversions and disruptions. Jesus provides perspective on where thoughts should be focused. He provides a prayer that encompasses praise, intercession, and reconciliation. I am reminded of the times that my attention has drifted away from the meaning of the Our Father and has become merely repeating words (like the pagans?).
If I imagine myself in the crowd which Jesus is addressing, I see Him speaking with insight and confidence. I can also picture Elijah and Elisha in the same way. (There is clearly a role for discernment in listening to people who speak with a confident voice and purport to show insight. The television ads for many candidates competing in the primary elections demonstrate the need to discriminate between how things are said and what rings true.) This past weekend we attended a Mass where a grandnephew, who is a deacon in transition to the priesthood, read the Gospel and delivered the sermon. It was encouraging to see someone with the depth of faith of an Elijah or an Elisha.
My prayer today involves “keeping my eye on the ball.” As a very wise person under whom I had the opportunity to study wrote: Pondering and noticing interior movements of attraction and heaviness are at the heart of Ignatian discernment. Discernment involves prayer and weighing facts and feelings about the several good choices which ultimately leads to a choice about what is the best fit for an individual. (Doug Leonhardt SJ)
Dear Lord,
Far too frequently I lose my focus due to age and fatigue.
I often come home feeling that I am too tired to do much of anything.
Actions become tasks rather than movements toward that “best fit”.
It is easier to carry out prescribed behaviors than to invest the energy needed for insight.
Real prayer as well as weighing facts and feelings often fall to the wayside.
Help me to persevere.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
ABBA
“Our Father...” —Matthew 6:9
“The expression ‘God the Father’ had never been revealed to anyone” before Jesus taught us to pray “Our Father” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2779). When Jesus taught His disciples to pray the Our Father, He used a word for Father, “Abba,” that can be translated as “Daddy.” Addressing God as Father only occurs a very few times in the Old Testament (e.g. Is 64:7). So those who originally heard Jesus teach them the Our Father must have been shocked. Even today, many wounded people admit that they cannot relate to God as gentle and loving because they did not receive tender, merciful love from their own earthly fathers. Accordingly, they perceive God as distant and uncaring.
Nonetheless, Jesus reveals God as “Our Father.” He wants to bring people to a proper relationship with the Father. Jesus reveals to us: “Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him” (Mt 6:8). Jesus teaches us to call God “Our Father” (Mt 6:9), Who is such a loving Father and Provider. “God loves His people more than a bridegroom his beloved” (Catechism, 219).
Can you believe that your Father in heaven loves you so much that He would send His only begotten Son to die for your salvation? (Jn 3:16-17) Surrender your life to God the Father. Love Him with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind (Lk 10:27).
Prayer: Holy Spirit, cry out in my heart “Abba, Father” (see Gal 4:6; Rm 8:15).
Promise: “If you forgive the faults of others, your heavenly Father will forgive you yours. If you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive you.” —Mt 6:14-15
Praise: Stan kept witnessing to Holly, a hardhearted teen, although she showed no sign of a change of heart. Holly is now in full-time ministry for Jesus.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
Do you believe that God's word has power to change and transform your life today? Isaiah says that God's word is like the rain and melting snow which makes the barren ground spring to life and become abundantly fertile (Isaiah 55:10-11). God's word has power to penetrate our dry barren hearts and make them springs of new life. If we let God's word take root in our heart it will transform us into the likeness of God himself and empower us to walk in his way of love and holiness.
Let God's word guide and shape the way you judge and act
God wants his word to guide and shape the way we think, act, and pray. Ambrose (339-397 AD), an early church father and bishop of Milan, wrote that the reason we should devote time for reading Scripture is to hear Christ speak to us. "Are you not occupied with Christ? Why do you not talk with him? By reading the Scriptures, we listen to Christ."
We can approach God our Father with confidence
We can approach God confidently because he is waiting with arms wide open to receive his prodigal sons and daughters. That is why Jesus gave his disciples the perfect prayer that dares to call God, Our Father. This prayer teaches us how to ask God for the things we really need, the things that matter not only for the present but for eternity as well. We can approach God our Father with confidence and boldness because the Lord Jesus has opened the way to heaven for us through his death and resurrection.
When we ask God for help, he fortunately does not give us what we deserve. Instead, God responds with grace, mercy, and loving-kindness. He is good and forgiving towards us, and he expects us to treat our neighbor the same. God has poured his love into our hearts through the gift of the Holy Spirit who has been given to us (Romans 5:5). And that love is like a refining fire - it purifies and burns away all prejudice, hatred, resentment, vengeance, and bitterness until there is nothing left but goodness and forgiveness towards those who cause us grief or harm.
The Lord's Prayer teaches us how to pray
Consider what John Cassian (360-435 AD), an early church father who lived for several years with the monks in Bethlehem and Egypt before founding a monastery in southern Gaul, wrote about the Lord's Prayer and the necessity of forgiving one another from the heart:
"The mercy of God is beyond description. While he is offering us a model prayer he is teaching us a way of life whereby we can be pleasing in his sight. But that is not all. In this same prayer he gives us an easy method for attracting an indulgent and merciful judgment on our lives. He gives us the possibility of ourselves mitigating the sentence hanging over us and of compelling him to pardon us. What else could he do in the face of our generosity when we ask him to forgive us as we have forgiven our neighbor? If we are faithful in this prayer, each of us will ask forgiveness for our own failings after we have forgiven the sins of those who have sinned against us, not only those who have sinned against our Master. There is, in fact, in some of us a very bad habit. We treat our sins against God, however appalling, with gentle indulgence - but when by contrast it is a matter of sins against us ourselves, albeit very tiny ones, we exact reparation with ruthless severity. Anyone who has not forgiven from the bottom of the heart the brother or sister who has done him wrong will only obtain from this prayer his own condemnation, rather than any mercy."
Do you treat others as you think they deserve to be treated, or do you treat them as the Lord has treated you - with mercy, steadfast love, and kindness?
Father in heaven, you have given me a mind to know you, a will to serve you, and a heart to love you. Give me today the grace and strength to embrace your holy will and fill my heart with your love that all my intentions and actions may be pleasing to you. Give me the grace to be charitable in thought, kind in deed, and loving in speech towards all.
Psalm 111:1-2,4,7-8
1 Praise the LORD. I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
2 Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who have pleasure in them.
4 He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and merciful.
7 The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy,
8 they are established for ever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Blessed are they who recognize their Father! by Tertullian, 160-225 A.D.
"Our Lord so frequently spoke to us of God as Father. He even taught us to call none on earth father, but only the one we have in heaven (Matthew 23:9). Therefore, when we pray to the Father, we are following this command. Blessed are they who recognize their Father! Remember the reproach made against Israel, when the Spirit calls heaven and earth to witness, saying, 'I have begotten sons and they have not known me' (Isaiah 1:2). In addressing him as Father we are also naming him God, so as to combine in a single term both filial love and power. Addressing the Father, the Son is also being addressed, for Christ said, 'I and the Father are one.' Nor is Mother Church passed over without mention, for the mother is recognized in the Son and the Father, as it is within the church that we learn the meaning of the terms Father and Son." (excerpt from ON PRAYER 2.2-6)
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