2022년 6월 22일 연중 제12주간 수요일
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제1독서
열왕기 하권 .22,8-13; 23,1-3
그 무렵 8 힐키야 대사제가 사판 서기관에게,
“내가 주님의 성전에서 율법서를 발견하였소.” 하고 말하면서,
그 책을 사판에게 주었다. 그것을 읽고 나서,
9 사판 서기관은 임금에게 나아갔다. 그는 임금에게 먼저 이렇게 보고하였다.
“임금님의 신하들이 주님의 집에 있는 돈을 쏟아 내어,
주님의 집 공사 책임자들 손에 넘겨주었습니다.”
10 그러고 나서 사판 서기관은 임금에게,
“그런데 힐키야 사제가 저에게 책을 한 권 주었습니다.” 하면서,
임금 앞에서 소리 내어 읽었다.
11 그 율법서의 말씀을 듣고 임금은 자기 옷을 찢었다.
12 임금은 힐키야 사제, 사판의 아들 아히캄, 미카야의 아들 악보르,
사판 서기관, 그리고 임금의 시종인 아사야에게 명령하였다.
13 “가서 이번에 발견된 이 책의 말씀을 두고,
나와 백성과 온 유다를 위하여 주님께 문의하여 주시오.
우리 조상들이 이 책의 말씀을 듣지 않고,
우리에 관하여 거기에 쓰여 있는 그대로 실천하지 않았기 때문에,
우리를 거슬러 타오르는 주님의 진노가 크오.”
23,1 임금은 사람을 보내어 유다와 예루살렘의 모든 원로를 소집하였다.
2 임금은 모든 유다 사람과 예루살렘의 모든 주민,
사제들과 예언자들, 낮은 자에서 높은 자에 이르기까지
모든 백성을 데리고 주님의 집으로 올라가,
주님의 집에서 발견된 계약 책의 모든 말씀을 큰 소리로 읽어
그들에게 들려주었다.
3 그런 다음에 임금은 기둥 곁에 서서,
주님을 따라 걸으며 마음을 다하고 목숨을 다하여
그분의 계명과 법령과 규정을 지켜,
그 책에 쓰여 있는 계약의 말씀을 실천하기로 주님 앞에서 계약을 맺었다.
그러자 온 백성이 이 계약에 동의하였다.
복음
마태오 7,15-20
그때에 예수님께서 제자들에게 말씀하셨다.
15 “너희는 거짓 예언자들을 조심하여라.
그들은 양의 옷차림을 하고 너희에게 오지만 속은 게걸 든 이리들이다.
16 너희는 그들이 맺은 열매를 보고 그들을 알아볼 수 있다.
가시나무에서 어떻게 포도를 거두어들이고,
엉겅퀴에서 어떻게 무화과를 거두어들이겠느냐?
17 이와 같이 좋은 나무는 모두 좋은 열매를 맺고 나쁜 나무는 나쁜 열매를 맺는다.
18 좋은 나무가 나쁜 열매를 맺을 수 없고 나쁜 나무가 좋은 열매를 맺을 수 없다.
19 좋은 열매를 맺지 않는 나무는 모두 잘려 불에 던져진다.
20 그러므로 너희는 그들이 맺은 열매를 보고 그들을 알아볼 수 있다.”
June 22, 2022
Wednesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
The high priest Hilkiah informed the scribe Shaphan,
“I have found the book of the law in the temple of the LORD.”
Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, who read it.
Then the scribe Shaphan went to the king and reported,
“Your servants have smelted down the metals available in the temple
and have consigned them to the master workmen
in the temple of the LORD.”
The scribe Shaphan also informed the king
that the priest Hilkiah had given him a book,
and then read it aloud to the king.
When the king heard the contents of the book of the law,
he tore his garments and issued this command to Hilkiah the priest,
Ahikam, son of Shaphan,
Achbor, son of Micaiah, the scribe Shaphan,
and the king’s servant Asaiah:
“Go, consult the LORD for me, for the people, for all Judah,
about the stipulations of this book that has been found,
for the anger of the LORD has been set furiously ablaze against us,
because our fathers did not obey the stipulations of this book,
nor fulfill our written obligations.”
The king then had all the elders of Judah
and of Jerusalem summoned together before him.
The king went up to the temple of the LORD with all the men of Judah
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:
priests, prophets, and all the people, small and great.
He had the entire contents of the book of the covenant
that had been found in the temple of the LORD, read out to them.
Standing by the column, the king made a covenant before the LORD
that they would follow him
and observe his ordinances, statutes and decrees
with their whole hearts and souls,
thus reviving the terms of the covenant
which were written in this book.
And all the people stood as participants in the covenant.
R. (33a)
Teach me the way of your decrees, O Lord.
Instruct me, O LORD, in the way of your statutes,
that I may exactly observe them.
R. Teach me the way of your decrees, O Lord.
Give me discernment, that I may observe your law
and keep it with all my heart.
R. Teach me the way of your decrees, O Lord.
Lead me in the path of your commands,
for in it I delight.
R. Teach me the way of your decrees, O Lord.
Incline my heart to your decrees
and not to gain.
R. Teach me the way of your decrees, O Lord.
Turn away my eyes from seeing what is vain:
by your way give me life.
R. Teach me the way of your decrees, O Lord.
Behold, I long for your precepts;
in your justice give me life.
R. Teach me the way of your decrees, O Lord.
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing,
but underneath are ravenous wolves.
By their fruits you will know them.
Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Just so, every good tree bears good fruit,
and a rotten tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,
nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down
and thrown into the fire.
So by their fruits you will know them.”
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Josiah (who became King of Judah at the age of eight) was a man who “did what was right in the Lord’s sight” (I Kings 22:2). From 2 Chronicles 34, we learn that Josiah waged a campaign against idolatrous places and practices in an attempt to purify Judah and Jerusalem. In our first reading, set in the 18th year of Josiah’s 31-year reign, the king has ordered the restoration of the temple, which leads to the discovery of a lost/ignored book of God’s law. Upon hearing it read, Josiah realized how far the people of Judah had strayed from God, and he immediately decided to lead his subjects in a new direction. With that decision made, his first action was to direct the High Priest Hilkiah to seek God’s guidance: “Go, consult the Lord for me, for the people, for all Judah.” In verses not in today’s liturgy, God spoke through the prophet Huldah, a woman living in Jerusalem’s New Quarter, to give Hilkiah a message for the king: Because Josiah’s “heart was responsive” and he had “humbled” himself “before the Lord” (2 Kings 22:19, NIV), God’s punishment against Judah would not be enacted until after Josiah’s passing.
Today’s Gospel reading warns against being tempted by false prophets whose values and teachings run counter to that of Christ. These wolves in sheep’s clothing say the right words, but they mean them in ways inconsistent with the greatest commandments (to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself) or with the “new” commandment Jesus gave (to love one another as Jesus has loved us). To distinguish the false and true prophets, Jesus tells us to look at their “fruits,” which leads me to Galatians 5 for a list of bad fruits
“immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions, occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like” (verses 19-21)
contrasted with the good
“the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law” (verses 22-23).
Even knowing the definitions, we – the righteous and unrighteous – still are in danger of being misled by temptations:
- to prioritize jobs, finances, personal comfort, recreation, family, or any number of things in ways that distract us from loving God;
- to view resources which God has given us – time, money, homes, etc. – as “ours”, and as a result we fail to care for others;
- to align ourselves in factions based on nationality, race, ethnicity, ideology, fan-based rivalries, and more, instead of loving one another as children of God;
- to judge others without acknowledging our own anger, selfishness, envy, pride and other sinful behaviors, thus ignoring Christ’s directive to first take the beams out of our own eyes (Matthew 7:5); or
- to determine we can handle things on our own without turning to God, without listening to the Word, without following Christ’s example, without responding to the Spirit’s prompting.
Josiah, the righteous King of Judah, provides a model for us to emulate. Let us humble ourselves before the Lord, make our hearts responsive, and seek God’s guidance in all we do.
Pray with me the words from today’s Psalm: Teach me the way of your decrees, O Lord. Instruct me, O Lord, in the way of your statues, that I may exactly observe them. Give me discernment, that I may observe your law and keep it with all my heart. Lead me in the path of your commands, for in it I delight. Incline my heart to your decrees and not to gain. Turn away my eyes from seeing what is vain: by your way give me life. Behold, I long for your precepts; in your justice give me life. Amen.
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FRUIT INSPECTION
“Any sound tree bears good fruit, while a decayed tree bears bad fruit.” —Matthew 7:17
This week we conclude three weeks of reading and praying the Sermon on the Mount. The world, even much of the Christian world, explicitly denies Jesus’ commands in the Sermon on the Mount. For example, our society believes in a pleasure-seeking lifestyle, not in voluntary poverty (Mt 5:3). We aren’t nearly as concerned as Jesus about looking lustfully at someone (Mt 5:28). How could we stockpile nuclear weapons if we were concerned with loving our enemies? (Mt 5:44) Most people don’t believe in the Sermon on the Mount. Who’s right — Jesus or our society?
Jesus said: “You will know them by their deeds” (Mt 7:16). “You can tell a tree by its fruit” (Mt 7:20). The fruit of not living God’s way is broken lives, broken marriages, and broken hearts, a world overshadowed by the mushroom cloud of nuclear war, a lifestyle that enslaves, and sexual bondage rather than true love. By its fruits, we know our society is wrong, and Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount were right all along.
Prayer: Father, may I take the Sermon on the Mount as seriously as Jesus did.
Promise: “The King made a covenant before the Lord that they would follow Him and observe His ordinances, statutes and decrees with their whole hearts and souls, thus reviving the terms of the covenant which were written in this book.” —2 Kgs 23:3
Praise: St. Paulinus was wealthy and held various public offices. While serving as a provincial governor, he observed faithful devotion at the shrine of St. Felix. His conversion soon followed.
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What do grapes, thorns, figs, and thistles have to teach us about the kingdom of God? The imagery used by Jesus would have been very familiar to his audience. A certain thorn bush had berries which resembled grapes. And a certain thistle had a flower, which at least from a distance, resembled the fig. Isn't it the same today? What we "hear" might have a resemblance of the truth, but, in fact, when you inspect it closely, it's actually false. False prophets or teachers abound today as much as they did in biblical times.
A sound mind accepts what is truly good and right and rejects what is false and wrong
What's the test of a true or false teacher? Jesus connects soundness with good fruit. Something is sound when it is free from defect, decay, or disease and is healthy. Good fruit is the result of sound living - living according to moral truth and upright character. The prophet Isaiah warned against the dangers of falsehood:Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness (Isaiah 5:20). The fruits of falsehood produce an easy religion which takes the iron out of religion, the cross out of Christianity, and any teaching which eliminates the hard sayings of Jesus, and which push the judgments of God into the background and makes us think lightly of sin.
How do we avoid falsehood in our personal lives? By being true - true to God, his word, and his grace. And that takes character! Those who are true to God know that their strength lies not in themselves but in God who supplies what we need. The fruit of a disciple is marked by faith, hope and love, justice, prudence, fortitude and temperance. Do you seek to cultivate good fruit in your life and reject whatever produces bad fruit?
Lord Jesus, may I bear good fruit for your sake and reject whatever will produce evil fruit. Help me grow in faith, hope, love, sound judgment, justice, courage, and self control.
Psalm 119:33-37,40
33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it to the end.
34 Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.
35 Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.
36 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to gain!
37 Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; and give me life in your ways.
40 Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life!
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Beware of false prophets, by John Chrysostom, 547-407 A.D.
"Jesus reminded them of what happened to their ancestors who were attracted to false prophets. The same dangers are now faced as those that occurred in earlier days. He reminded them of the experience of their ancestors so that they would not despair at the multitude of troubles that would mount up on this way that is narrow and constricted. He reminded them that it is necessary to walk in a way that goes contrary to the common opinion. One must guard oneself not only against pigs and dogs but those other, more elusive creatures: the wolves. They were going to face inward anxieties as well as outward difficulties, but they are not to despair. 'Therefore do not be thrown into confusion,' Jesus says in effect, 'for nothing will happen that is new or strange. Remember that the ancient adversary is forever introducing deception as if true.'" (excerpt from THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 23.6)
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