2022년 7월 24일 연중 제17주일
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1독서
창세기. 18,20-32
그 무렵 20 주님께서 말씀하셨다.
“소돔과 고모라에 대한 원성이 너무나 크고, 그들의 죄악이 너무나 무겁구나.
21 이제 내가 내려가서, 저들 모두가 저지른 짓이
나에게 들려온 그 원성과 같은 것인지 아닌지를 알아보아야겠다.”
22 그 사람들은 거기에서 몸을 돌려 소돔으로 갔다.
그러나 아브라함은 주님 앞에 그대로 서 있었다.
23 아브라함이 다가서서 말씀드렸다.
“진정 의인을 죄인과 함께 쓸어버리시렵니까?
24 혹시 그 성읍 안에 의인이 쉰 명 있다면, 그래도 쓸어버리시렵니까?
그 안에 있는 의인 쉰 명 때문에라도 그곳을 용서하지 않으시렵니까?
25 의인을 죄인과 함께 죽이시어 의인이나 죄인이나 똑같이 되게 하시는 것,
그런 일은 당신께 어울리지 않습니다. 그런 일은 당신께 어울리지 않습니다.
온 세상의 심판자께서는 공정을 실천하셔야 하지 않겠습니까?”
26 그러자 주님께서 대답하셨다.
“소돔 성읍 안에서 내가 의인 쉰 명을 찾을 수만 있다면,
그들을 보아서 그곳 전체를 용서해 주겠다.”
27 아브라함이 다시 말씀드렸다.
“저는 비록 먼지와 재에 지나지 않는 몸이지만, 주님께 감히 아룁니다.
28 혹시 의인 쉰 명에서 다섯이 모자란다면,
그 다섯 명 때문에 온 성읍을 파멸시키시렵니까?”
그러자 그분께서 대답하셨다.
“내가 그곳에서 마흔다섯 명을 찾을 수만 있다면 파멸시키지 않겠다.”
29 아브라함이 또다시 그분께 아뢰었다.
“혹시 그곳에서 마흔 명을 찾을 수 있다면 …… ?”
그러자 그분께서 대답하셨다.
“그 마흔 명을 보아서 내가 그 일을 실행하지 않겠다.”
30 그가 말씀드렸다. “제가 아뢴다고 주님께서는 노여워하지 마십시오.
혹시 그곳에서 서른 명을 찾을 수 있다면 …… ?”
그러자 그분께서 대답하셨다.
“내가 그곳에서 서른 명을 찾을 수만 있다면 그 일을 실행하지 않겠다.”
31 그가 말씀드렸다. “제가 주님께 감히 아룁니다.
혹시 그곳에서 스무 명을 찾을 수 있다면 …… ?”
그러자 그분께서 대답하셨다. “그 스무 명을 보아서 내가 파멸시키지 않겠다.”
32 그가 말씀드렸다. “제가 다시 한번 아뢴다고 주님께서는 노여워하지 마십시오.
혹시 그곳에서 열 명을 찾을 수 있다면 …… ?” 그러자 그분께서 대답하셨다.
“그 열 명을 보아서라도 내가 파멸시키지 않겠다.”
제2독서
콜로새서. 2,12-14
형제 여러분, 12 여러분은 세례 때에 그리스도와 함께 묻혔고,
그리스도를 죽은 이들 가운데에서 일으키신 하느님의 능력에 대한 믿음으로
그리스도 안에서 그분과 함께 되살아났습니다.
13 여러분은 잘못을 저지르고 육의 할례를 받지 않아 죽었지만,
하느님께서는 여러분을 그분과 함께 다시 살리셨습니다.
그분께서는 우리의 모든 잘못을 용서해 주셨습니다.
14 우리에게 불리한 조항들을 담은 우리의 빚 문서를 지워 버리시고,
그것을 십자가에 못 박아 우리 가운데에서 없애 버리셨습니다.
복음
루카 11,1-13
1 예수님께서 어떤 곳에서 기도하고 계셨다.
그분께서 기도를 마치시자 제자들 가운데 어떤 사람이,
“주님, 요한이 자기 제자들에게 가르쳐 준 것처럼,
저희에게도 기도하는 것을 가르쳐 주십시오.” 하고 말하였다.
2 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다. “너희는 기도할 때 이렇게 하여라.
‘아버지, 아버지의 이름을 거룩히 드러내시며 아버지의 나라가 오게 하소서.
3 날마다 저희에게 일용할 양식을 주시고
4 저희에게 잘못한 모든 이를 저희도 용서하오니 저희의 죄를 용서하시고
저희를 유혹에 빠지지 않게 하소서.’”
5 예수님께서 다시 그들에게 이르셨다.
“너희 가운데 누가 벗이 있는데, 한밤중에 그 벗을 찾아가 이렇게 말하였다고 하자.
‘여보게, 빵 세 개만 꾸어 주게.
6 내 벗이 길을 가다가 나에게 들렀는데 내놓을 것이 없네.’
7 그러면 그 사람이 안에서,
‘나를 괴롭히지 말게. 벌써 문을 닫아걸고 아이들과 함께 잠자리에 들었네.
그러니 지금 일어나서 건네줄 수가 없네.’ 하고 대답할 것이다.
8 내가 너희에게 말한다.
그 사람이 벗이라는 이유 때문에 일어나서 빵을 주지는 않는다 하더라도,
그가 줄곧 졸라 대면 마침내 일어나서 그에게 필요한 만큼 다 줄 것이다.
9 내가 너희에게 말한다. 청하여라, 너희에게 주실 것이다.
찾아라, 너희가 얻을 것이다. 문을 두드려라, 너희에게 열릴 것이다.
10 누구든지 청하는 이는 받고, 찾는 이는 얻고,
문을 두드리는 이에게는 열릴 것이다.
11 너희 가운데 어느 아버지가 아들이 생선을 청하는데,
생선 대신에 뱀을 주겠느냐?
12 달걀을 청하는데 전갈을 주겠느냐?
13 너희가 악해도 자녀들에게는 좋은 것을 줄 줄 알거든,
하늘에 계신 아버지께서야 당신께 청하는 이들에게
성령을 얼마나 더 잘 주시겠느냐?”
July 24, 2022
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
In those days, the LORD said: "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great,
and their sin so grave,
that I must go down and see whether or not their actions
fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me.
I mean to find out."
While Abraham's visitors walked on farther toward Sodom,
the LORD remained standing before Abraham.
Then Abraham drew nearer and said:
"Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty?
Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city;
would you wipe out the place, rather than spare it
for the sake of the fifty innocent people within it?
Far be it from you to do such a thing,
to make the innocent die with the guilty
so that the innocent and the guilty would be treated alike!
Should not the judge of all the world act with justice?"
The LORD replied,
"If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom,
I will spare the whole place for their sake."
Abraham spoke up again:
"See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord,
though I am but dust and ashes!
What if there are five less than fifty innocent people?
Will you destroy the whole city because of those five?"
He answered, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
But Abraham persisted, saying "What if only forty are found there?"
He replied, "I will forbear doing it for the sake of the forty."
Then Abraham said, "Let not my Lord grow impatient if I go on.
What if only thirty are found there?"
He replied, "I will forbear doing it if I can find but thirty there."
Still Abraham went on,
"Since I have thus dared to speak to my Lord,
what if there are no more than twenty?"
The LORD answered, "I will not destroy it, for the sake of the twenty."
But he still persisted:
"Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time.
What if there are at least ten there?"
He replied, "For the sake of those ten, I will not destroy it."
R. (3a) Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.
I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,
for you have heard the words of my mouth;
in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;
I will worship at your holy temple
and give thanks to your name.
R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.
Because of your kindness and your truth;
for you have made great above all things
your name and your promise.
When I called you answered me;
you built up strength within me.
R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.
The LORD is exalted, yet the lowly he sees,
and the proud he knows from afar.
Though I walk amid distress, you preserve me;
against the anger of my enemies you raise your hand.
R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.
Your right hand saves me.
The LORD will complete what he has done for me;
your kindness, O LORD, endures forever;
forsake not the work of your hands.
R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.
Brothers and sisters:
You were buried with him in baptism,
in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the power of God,
who raised him from the dead.
And even when you were dead
in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
he brought you to life along with him,
having forgiven us all our transgressions;
obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims,
which was opposed to us,
he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross.
Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished,
one of his disciples said to him,
"Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples."
He said to them, "When you pray, say:
Father, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread
and forgive us our sins
for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,
and do not subject us to the final test."
And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend
to whom he goes at midnight and says,
'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey
and I have nothing to offer him,'
and he says in reply from within,
'Do not bother me; the door has already been locked
and my children and I are already in bed.
I cannot get up to give you anything.'
I tell you,
if he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves
because of their friendship,
he will get up to give him whatever he needs
because of his persistence.
"And I tell you, ask and you will receive;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks, receives;
and the one who seeks, finds;
and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
What father among you would hand his son a snake
when he asks for a fish?
Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg?
If you then, who are wicked,
know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will the Father in heaven
give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
“Ask and you shall receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”
There have been times when I thought of Jesus’ words here with some resentment. “Okay Jesus, but what you must really mean is ‘ask the right question, seek the right thing, knock on the right door.’ Because it feels like I’ve been asking, seeking, and knocking persistently for a long time without receiving, finding, or having the door opened!” I’ve so far learned a couple things from those times: that asking God to “tell me what to do” or thinking that I have to “figure it out” isn’t helpful in prayer. Those tendencies sneak in subtly and frequently!
Many of us know from experience that asking a direct, concrete question to God doesn’t usually receive an answer in the way we hoped. College students will pose questions to God like, “Do you want me to be a doctor, a teacher, or a missionary? Are you calling me to married, single, or religious life?” Very rarely does God answer by checking A, B, or C when we present a choice like that. This “tell me what to do” approach, while it includes a beautiful willingness to listen to God, also assumes that it is God’s responsibility to make my decisions for me. I implicitly resign from participation and responsibility in my own choices. It rather stunts any conversation to be had in prayer.
Often I catch myself thinking that if God isn’t answering my very clear question, then I must be asking the wrong question. Lurking in the background is the idea that I just need to figure out the question God wants to answer! This “figure it out” approach sees both God and myself as tricksters: God has a map of my life that I’m not allowed to see but I have to solve in order to succeed, while I attempt to trick God into answering my questions. (Perhaps a little like Abraham in the first reading – as if God didn’t know what he wanted to ask for in the first place and want to give it to him!) This approach also gets in the way of dialogue in prayer and discernment.
Remembering Jesus’ words within the context of teaching us how to pray helps bring them into focus. In Ignatian spirituality, we know God speaks to us through our deepest desires. Naming our desires before God is an honest prayer. God wants us to ask, seek, and knock about those desires! Honesty like that is the foundation of good discernment, a collaboration with God, a participation in the abundant life God wants to give us. “Even when you were dead,” writes Paul, “[Christ] brought you to life along with him.” God draws us close through our desires. Abraham “drew nearer” to God to pray centuries before Jesus taught his disciples. I think that’s what Jesus is getting at in this Gospel passage. He is teaching the disciples (us) how to pray, which is not really about getting what we want or getting it “right,” but about drawing closer in relationship to God who brings us to life.
So who is this God to whom Jesus teaches us to pray? A loving parent, a generous friend, a just king, and a compassionate teacher who is with us amid our struggles (Jesus himself). This God is not a trickster, a miser, or cruel. If we are skeptical that God could be that good to us, Jesus holds up a mirror to help us out. If we know how to be loving parents, generous friends, fair judges, and compassionate, encouraging teachers – and most of us have a pretty good idea of how to do those things, even if we don’t always do them perfectly – how much more does God know how to love us? Then Jesus teaches us to ask for what draws us closer to God: for forgiveness, for what we need, for the coming of the Kingdom. If we seek the coming of the Kingdom, we can begin to see it and participate in it. If we knock on the door of abundant life, it opens. Indeed, we may find we were holding it closed to begin with, and it opens easily once we let go of the handle to knock.
Teach Us To Pray (John Foley, SJ)
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
PRAYING IN ABBA’S LOVE
“Lord, teach us to pray.” —Luke 11:1
Is the Lord satisfied with your prayer life? Pope St. John Paul II, at the end of his first encyclical letter, maintained that our prayer must be “great, intense, and growing” (The Redeemer of Man, 22). He also emphasized that the Lord wants our prayer to be combined with fasting, for the Lord has decided at this time to make prayer and fasting the first and most effective weapons against our culture of death (The Gospel of Life, 100). According to these criteria, is your prayer life satisfactory to the Lord?
To pray as the Lord wants us to pray, we must see God as our loving Father. That is the first thing Jesus taught us about prayer (see Lk 11:2). We must be aware that our Father sees our prayer and fasting (Mt 6:6, 18). Abraham stopped short in his prayer for the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to be spared destruction. Possibly, his prayer was limited because he:
- wasn’t sure whether God was just (see Gn 18:25),
- was even less sure of God’s mercy, and
- projected his own interior conflicts onto God and thereby accused God of being impatient (Gn 18:30) and angry (Gn 18:32).
We who are in Christ can and must pray always with loving, tender confidence in our Father. In that way, we will pray as we ought (Rm 8:26).
Prayer: Holy Spirit, help me in my weakness regarding prayer (Rm 8:26). Cry out in my heart “Abba” (Rm 8:15).
Promise: “If you, with all your sins, know how to give your children good things, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.” —Lk 11:13
Praise: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory! You sit at the right hand of the Father. Alleluia!
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
Do you pray with joy and confidence? The Jews were noted for their devotion to prayer. Formal prayer was prescribed for three set times a day. And the rabbis had a prayer for every occasion. It was also a custom for rabbis to teach their disciples a simple prayer they might use on a regular basis. Jesus' disciples ask him for such a prayer. When Jesus taught his disciples to pray he gave them the disciple's prayer, what we call the Our Father or Lord's Prayer.
God treats us as his own sons and daughters
What does Jesus' prayer tell us about God and about ourselves? First, it tells us that God is both Father in being the Creator and Author of all that he has made, the first origin of everything and transcendent authority, and he is eternally Father by his relationship to his only begotten Son who, reciprocally is Son only in relation to his Father (Matthew 11:27). All fatherhood and motherhood is derived from him (Ephesians 3:14-15). In the Lord Jesus Christ we are spiritually reborn and made new, and we become the adopted children of God (John 1:12-13; 3:3).
We can approach God confidently as a Father who loves us
Jesus teaches us to address God as "our Father" and to confidently ask him for the things we need to live as his sons and daughters. We can approach God our Father with confidence and boldness because Jesus Christ has opened the way to heaven for us through his atoning death and resurrection. When we ask God for help, he fortunately does not give us what we deserve. Instead, he responds with grace (his favor and blessing) and mercy (pardon and healing). He is kind and forgiving towards us and he expects us to treat our neighbor the same.
We can pray with expectant faith and trust in the Father's goodness
We can pray with expectant faith because our heavenly Father truly loves each one of us and and he treats us as his beloved sons and daughters. He delights to give us what is good. His love and grace transforms us and makes us like himself. Through his grace and power we can love and serve one another as Jesus taught - with mercy, pardon, and loving-kindness.
Do you treat others as they deserve, or do you treat them as the Lord Jesus would with grace and mercy? Jesus' prayer includes a petition that we must ask God to forgive us in proportion as we forgive those who have wronged us (Matthew 6:14-15). God's grace frees us from every form of anger, resentment, envy, and hatred. Are you ready to forgive others as the Lord Jesus forgives you?
Parable of the late night guest
What can we expect from God, especially when we recognize that he doesn't owe us anything and that we don't deserve his grace and favor? Jesus used an illustration from the hospitality customs of his time to show how God is always ready to treat us with the best he has to offer. The rule of hospitality in biblical times required that every guest, whether stranger or friend, be warmly welcomed, refreshed (which often involved the washing of feet), and fed with the best food and drink available. It didn't matter what time of the day or night the guests might show up, it was your duty to stop what you were doing so you could give the guests the best care and shelter you could provide. If there wasn't adequate sleeping accommodation for both your guests and your family, the family slept outside under the stars. When guests showed up in a village, the whole community could be prevailed upon to provide whatever was needed.
Jesus' parable of the importunate and bothersome neighbor shows a worst case scenario of what might happen when an unexpected guest shows up in the middle of the night! The family awakens, unbolts the locked door to receive the guest, then washes the guest's feet, and the wife begins to prepare a meal. When the wife discovers that she has no bread to set before the guest, she prevails on her husband to go and get bread from a nearby family, who by now is also asleep with their door bolted shut. In a small village it would be easy for the wife to know who had baked bread that day. Bread was essential for a meal because it served as a utensil for dipping and eating from the common dishes. Asking for bread from one's neighbor was both a common occurrence and an expected favor. To refuse to give bread would bring shame because it was a sign of inhospitality.
God's generosity towards us
If a neighbor can be imposed upon and coerced into giving bread in the middle of the night, will not God, our heavenly Father and provider, also treat us with kind and generous care no matter how troubling or inconvenient the circumstances might appear? Jesus states emphatically, How much more will the heavenly Father give! St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) reminds us that "God, who does not sleep and who awakens us from sleep that we may ask, gives much more graciously." The Lord Jesus assures us that we can bring our needs to our heavenly Father who is always ready to give not only what we need, but more than we can ask. God gives the best he has. He freely pours out the blessing of his Holy Spirit upon us so that we may be filled with the abundance of his provision. Do you approach your heavenly Father with confidence in his mercy and kindness towards you?
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. Help me to be kind and forgiving towards my neighbor as you have been towards me.
Psalm 138:1-8
1 I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the angels I sing your praise;
2 I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness; for you have exalted above everything your name and your word.
3 On the day I called, you answered me, my strength of soul you increased.
4 All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, for they have heard the words of your mouth;
5 and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD.
6 For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly; but the haughty he knows from afar.
7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.
8 The LORD will fulfil his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures for ever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The privilege and responsibility of calling God Father, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"For the Savior said, 'When you pray, say, 'Our Father.' And another of the holy Evangelists adds, 'who art in heaven' (Matthew 6:9)... He gives his own glory to us. He raises slaves to the dignity of freedom. He crowns the human condition with such honor as surpasses the power of nature. He brings to pass what was spoken of old by the voice of the psalmist: 'I said, you are gods, and all of you children of the Most High' (Psalm 82:6). He rescues us from the measure of slavery, giving us by his grace what we did not possess by nature, and permits us to call God 'Father,' as being admitted to the rank of sons. We received this, together with all our other privileges, from him. One of these privileges is the dignity of freedom, a gift peculiarly befitting those who have been called to be sons. He commands us, therefore, to take boldness and say in our prayers, 'Our Father.'"(excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 71)
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