2022년 7월 23일 연중 제16주간 토요일
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제1독서
예레미야서. 7,1-11
1 주님께서 예레미야에게 내리신 말씀이다.
2 주님의 집 대문에 서서 이 말씀을 외쳐라. “주님께 예배하러 이 문으로 들어서는 유다의 모든 주민아, 주님의 말씀을 들어라. 3 만군의 주 이스라엘의 하느님께서 이렇게 말씀하신다. ‘너희 길과 너희 행실을 고쳐라. 그러면 내가 너희를 이곳에 살게 하겠다. 4 ′이는 주님의 성전, 주님의 성전, 주님의 성전이다!′ 하는 거짓된 말을 믿지 마라.
5 너희가 참으로 너희 길과 너희 행실을 고치고 이웃끼리 서로 올바른 일을 실천한다면, 6 너희가 이방인과 고아와 과부를 억누르지 않고, 무죄한 이들의 피를 이곳에서 흘리지 않으며, 다른 신들을 따라가 스스로 재앙을 불러들이지 않는다면, 7 내가 너희를 이곳에, 예로부터 영원히 너희 조상들에게 준 이 땅에 살게 하겠다.
8 그런데 너희는 아무 쓸모도 없는 거짓된 말을 믿고 있다. 9 너희는 도둑질하고 살인하고 간음하고 거짓으로 맹세하며, 바알에게 분향하고, 너희 자신도 모르는 다른 신들을 따라간다. 10 그러면서도 내 이름으로 불리는 이 집 안에 들어와 내 앞에 서서, ′우리는 구원받았다.′고 말할 수 있느냐? 이런 역겨운 짓들이나 하는 주제에! 11 너희에게는 내 이름으로 불리는 이 집이 강도들의 소굴로 보이느냐?
나도 이제 그것을 지켜보고 있다. 주님의 말씀이다.’”
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마태오. 13,24-30
그때에 24 예수님께서 또 다른 비유를 들어 군중에게 말씀하셨다.
“하늘 나라는 자기 밭에 좋은 씨를 뿌리는 사람에 비길 수 있다. 25 사람들이 자는 동안에 그의 원수가 와서 밀 가운데에 가라지를 덧뿌리고 갔다.
26 줄기가 나서 열매를 맺을 때에 가라지들도 드러났다. 27 그래서 종들이 집주인에게 가서, ‘주인님, 밭에 좋은 씨를 뿌리지 않았습니까? 그런데 가라지는 어디서 생겼습니까?’ 하고 묻자, 28 ‘원수가 그렇게 하였구나.’ 하고 집주인이 말하였다.
종 들이 ‘그러면 저희가 가서 그것들을 거두어 낼까요?’ 하고 묻자, 29 그는 이렇게 일렀다. ‘아니다. 너희가 가라지들을 거두어 내다가 밀까지 함께 뽑을지도 모른다. 30 수확 때까지 둘 다 함께 자라도록 내버려 두어라. 수확 때에 내가 일꾼들에게, 먼저 가라지를 거두어서 단으로 묶어 태워 버리고, 밀은 내 곳간으로 모아들이라고 하겠다.’”
July 23, 2022
Saturday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
The following message came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Stand at the gate of the house of the LORD,
and there proclaim this message:
Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah
who enter these gates to worship the LORD!
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
Reform your ways and your deeds,
so that I may remain with you in this place.
Put not your trust in the deceitful words:
"This is the temple of the LORD!
The temple of the LORD! The temple of the LORD!"
Only if you thoroughly reform your ways and your deeds;
if each of you deals justly with his neighbor;
if you no longer oppress the resident alien,
the orphan, and the widow;
if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place,
or follow strange gods to your own harm,
will I remain with you in this place,
in the land I gave your fathers long ago and forever.
But here you are, putting your trust in deceitful words to your own loss!
Are you to steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury,
burn incense to Baal,
go after strange gods that you know not,
and yet come to stand before me
in this house which bears my name, and say:
"We are safe; we can commit all these abominations again"?
Has this house which bears my name
become in your eyes a den of thieves?
I too see what is being done, says the LORD.
R. (2)
How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!
My soul yearns and pines
for the courts of the LORD.
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
R. How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!
Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest
in which she puts her young —
Your altars, O LORD of hosts,
my king and my God!
R. How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!
Blessed they who dwell in your house!
continually they praise you.
Blessed the men whose strength you are!
They go from strength to strength.
R. How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!
I had rather one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I had rather lie at the threshold of the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
R. How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!
Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds.
"The Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man
who sowed good seed in his field.
While everyone was asleep his enemy came
and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.
When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.
The slaves of the householder came to him and said,
'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where have the weeds come from?'
He answered, 'An enemy has done this.'
His slaves said to him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?'
He replied, 'No, if you pull up the weeds
you might uproot the wheat along with them.
Let them grow together until harvest;
then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters,
"First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning;
but gather the wheat into my barn."'"
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
“At harvest time I will say to the harvesters, ‘First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"
- Matthew
During St. Augustine’s scandalous youth, his mother, St. Monica, prayed constantly for his conversion. Finally, the “good seeds” she had sowed bore fruit as her son not only converted but became a great saint.
This reflection is for the “St. Monicas” (both men and women) who, like her, are praying that the “good seeds” they planted will choke out the weeds of sin and self- destructive behavior that have taken over their children’s lives.
Today’s parable offers hope that your child will harvest those good seeds. In the meantime, like the farmer in today’s gospel, wait patiently for that harvest. Remember that people, including our children, are the only ones who can decide when and how to separate their “wheat” from their “weeds.”
Like most parents, I’ve experienced this anxiety and know that you never stop worrying. Keep loving your child and keep praying. It’s likely that if you hadn’t planted those seeds, things could be much worse.
As a teacher, I worked with some remarkable students who turned their lives around in large part because of the good seeds their parents had planted years ago. I’m thinking about a marvelous woman who has become a substance abuse counselor. She was date raped while she was intoxicated and blamed herself for it. Now she helps others.
I’ll never forget the day that a young man who had dropped out of school after landing in jail for drunk driving came to ask if we would take him back now that he was sober, We were delighted to nurture him through his last semester. Never have I been to a more joyous graduation party!
I’m no Pollyanna. Not all stories ended as happily as these two but I saw enough that did to offer you hope that your family’s harvest time will come.
You are part of a legion of loving people who desperately want their children to be safe and well. My prayers are with you.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
“DECEITFUL WORDS” FOR CATHOLICS (JER 7:8)
“But here you are, putting your trust in deceitful words to your own loss!” —Jeremiah 7:8
Some Catholics are still trusting in “deceitful words” today:
- “It’s OK to live with your girlfriend and still receive Holy Communion at Mass each week. You’re a Catholic, and you’ll go to heaven. No one goes to hell anymore.”
- “Is it really a sin to use artificial birth control? All your Catholic friends do it. Look, the music minister and lector had vasectomies. Why should you go to Confession for that?”
- “So you got pulled over for a few DUI violations. Don’t worry, you’re not an alcoholic. Look, your parish sells plenty of alcohol at its festival; it must be OK.”
Jeremiah cut through the deceitful words and spoke truth to the Israelites. He bluntly said they could not continue to sin and expect to hide behind their membership in the Temple (Jer 7:4). He prophesied to them, and to us today, that we cannot come to stand before God in His house and then go out to “commit all these [sins] again” (Jer 7:10). Similarly, Jesus warned against presuming we are safe because of our standing in the Church (Lk 18:9ff). Presumption is a sin against hope in God where a person is “hoping to obtain His forgiveness without conversion” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2091, 2092).
We are always welcome in God’s house with humble, contrite, and repentant hearts (Ps 51:19). Jesus never rejects anyone who comes to Him (Jn 6:37), but He tells each of us to sin no more (Jn 8:11). Resist the deceitful words of our culture. Repent today!
Prayer: Father, show me all areas of my life in which I am deceived. Give me the grace to repent quickly and permanently.
Promise: “Happy the men whose strength You are!” —Ps 84:6
Praise: St. Bridget’s father set apart all Fridays for special acts of penance among the family. He instilled in his daughter a lifelong love for the Passion of Jesus Christ.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
What can malicious weed-sowing tell us about the kingdom of God? The image Jesus uses here is a common everyday example of planting, harvesting, and sorting the good fruit from the bad. Weeds can spoil and even kill a good harvest if they are not separated and destroyed at the proper time. Uprooting them too early, though, can destroy the good plants in the process.
Guard God's implanted word in your heart
Just as nature teaches us patience, so God's patience also teaches us to guard the word which he has planted in our hearts and to beware of the destructive force of sin and deception which can destroy it. God's word brings life, but Satan, the father of lies, seeks to destroy the good seed which God plants in the hearts of those who listen to his word.
God's judgment is not hasty, but it does come. And in the end, God will reward each person according to what he or she has sown and reaped in this life. In that day God will separate the evil from the good. Do you allow God's word to take deep root in your heart?
Lord Jesus, may your word take deep root in my heart and may I bear good fruit for your glory. May I hunger for your righteousness now that I may also look forward to the day of judgment with joy rather than with dismay.
Psalm 50:1-5, 23
1 The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
3 Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.
4 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
15 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The Lord sows good seeds in our heart, by Chromatius (died 406 AD)
"The Lord clearly points out that he is the sower of good seeds. He does not cease to sow in this world as in a field. God's word is like good seed in the hearts of people, so that each of us according to the seeds sown in us by God may bear spiritual and heavenly fruit." (excerpt from TRACTATE ON MATTHEW 51.1)
[Note: Chromatius was an early Christian scholar and bishop of Aquileia, Italy. He was a close friend of John Chrysostom and Jerome. He died in 406 AD. Jerome described him as a "most learned and most holy man."]
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