2022년 8월 7일 연중 제19주일
오늘의 복음 : http://info.catholic.or.kr/missa/default.asp
제1독서
지혜서 18,6-9
해방의 날 6 밤이 저희 조상들에게는 벌써 예고되었으니
그들이 어떠한 맹세들을 믿어야 하는지 확실히 알고
용기를 가지게 하시려는 것이었습니다.
7 그리하여 당신의 백성은 의인들의 구원과 원수들의 파멸을 기대하였습니다.
8 과연 당신께서는 저희의 적들을 처벌하신 그 방법으로
저희를 당신께 부르시고 영광스럽게 해 주셨습니다.
9 선인들의 거룩한 자녀들은 몰래 희생 제물을 바치고
한마음으로 하느님의 법에 동의하였습니다.
그 법은 거룩한 이들이 모든 것을 다 같이,
성공도 위험도 함께 나눈다는 것입니다.
그리고 그때에 벌써 조상들의 찬미가들을 불렀습니다.
제2독서
히브리서 11,1-2.8-19<또는 11,1-2.8-12>
형제 여러분,
1 믿음은 우리가 바라는 것들의 보증이며 보이지 않는 실체들의 확증입니다.
2 사실 옛사람들은 믿음으로 인정을 받았습니다.
8 믿음으로써, 아브라함은 장차 상속 재산으로 받을 곳을 향하여
떠나라는 부르심을 받고 그대로 순종하였습니다.
그는 어디로 가는지도 모르고 떠난 것입니다.
9 믿음으로써, 그는 같은 약속의 공동 상속자인 이사악과 야곱과 함께
천막을 치고 머무르면서,
약속받은 땅인데도 남의 땅인 것처럼 이방인으로 살았습니다.
10 하느님께서 설계자이시며 건축가로서
튼튼한 기초를 갖추어 주신 도성을 기다리고 있었기 때문입니다.
11 믿음으로써, 사라는 아이를 가지지 못하는 여인인 데다
나이까지 지났는데도 임신할 능력을 얻었습니다.
약속해 주신 분을 성실하신 분으로 여겼기 때문입니다.
12 그리하여 한 사람에게서, 그것도 죽은 것이나 다름없는 사람에게서
하늘의 별처럼 수가 많고 바닷가의 모래처럼 셀 수 없는 후손이 태어났습니다.
13 이들은 모두 믿음 속에 죽어 갔습니다.
약속된 것을 받지는 못하였지만 멀리서 그것을 보고 반겼습니다.
그리고 자기들은 이 세상에서 이방인이며
나그네일 따름이라고 고백하였습니다.
14 그들은 이렇게 말함으로써 자기들이 본향을 찾고 있음을 분명히 드러냈습니다.
15 만일 그들이 떠나온 곳을 생각하고 있었다면, 돌아갈 기회가 있었을 것입니다.
16 그러나 실상 그들은 더 나은 곳, 바로 하늘 본향을 갈망하고 있었습니다.
그래서 하느님께서는 그들의 하느님이라고 불리시는 것을
부끄러워하지 않으시고, 그들에게 도성을 마련해 주셨습니다.
17 믿음으로써, 아브라함은 시험을 받을 때에 이사악을 바쳤습니다.
약속을 받은 아브라함이 외아들을 바치려고 하였습니다.
18 그 외아들을 두고 하느님께서는 일찍이,
“이사악을 통하여 후손들이 너의 이름을 물려받을 것이다.”
하고 말씀하셨습니다.
19 아브라함은 하느님께서 죽은 사람까지 일으키실 수 있다고 생각하였습니다.
그리하여 이사악을 하나의 상징으로 돌려받은 것입니다.
복음
루카 12,32-48<또는 12,35-40>
그때에 예수님께서 제자들에게 말씀하셨다.
32 “너희들 작은 양 떼야, 두려워하지 마라.
너희 아버지께서는 그 나라를 너희에게 기꺼이 주기로 하셨다.
33 너희는 가진 것을 팔아 자선을 베풀어라.
너희 자신을 위하여 해지지 않는 돈주머니와 축나지 않는 보물을
하늘에 마련하여라.
거기에는 도둑이 다가가지도 못하고 좀이 쏠지도 못한다.
34 사실 너희의 보물이 있는 곳에 너희의 마음도 있다.
35 너희는 허리에 띠를 매고 등불을 켜 놓고 있어라.
36 혼인 잔치에서 돌아오는 주인이 도착하여 문을 두드리면
곧바로 열어 주려고 기다리는 사람처럼 되어라.
37 행복하여라, 주인이 와서 볼 때에 깨어 있는 종들!
내가 진실로 너희에게 말한다.
그 주인은 띠를 매고 그들을 식탁에 앉게 한 다음,
그들 곁으로 가서 시중을 들 것이다.
38 주인이 밤중에 오든 새벽에 오든 종들의 그러한 모습을 보게 되면,
그 종들은 행복하다!
39 이것을 명심하여라. 도둑이 몇 시에 올지 집주인이 알면,
자기 집을 뚫고 들어오도록 내버려 두지 않을 것이다.
40 너희도 준비하고 있어라.
너희가 생각하지도 않은 때에 사람의 아들이 올 것이다.”
41 베드로가, “주님, 이 비유를 저희에게 말씀하시는 것입니까?
아니면 다른 모든 사람에게도 말씀하시는 것입니까?” 하고 물었다.
42 그러자 주님께서 이르셨다.
“주인이 자기 집 종들을 맡겨 제때에 정해진 양식을 내주게 할
충실하고 슬기로운 집사는 어떻게 하는 사람이겠느냐?
43 행복하여라, 주인이 돌아와서 볼 때에 그렇게 일하고 있는 종!
44 내가 참으로 너희에게 말한다.
주인은 자기의 모든 재산을 그에게 맡길 것이다.
45 그러나 만일 그 종이 마음속으로 ‘주인이 늦게 오는구나.’ 하고 생각하며,
하인들과 하녀들을 때리고 또 먹고 마시며 술에 취하기 시작하면,
46 예상하지 못한 날, 짐작하지 못한 시간에 그 종의 주인이 와서,
그를 처단하여 불충실한 자들과 같은 운명을 겪게 할 것이다.
47 주인의 뜻을 알고도 아무런 준비를 하지 않았거나
주인의 뜻대로 하지 않은 그 종은 매를 많이 맞을 것이다.
48 그러나 주인의 뜻을 모르고서 매 맞을 짓을 한 종은 적게 맞을 것이다.
많이 주신 사람에게는 많이 요구하시고,
많이 맡기신 사람에게는 그만큼 더 청구하신다.”
August 7, 2022
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
The night of the passover was known beforehand to our fathers,
that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith,
they might have courage.
Your people awaited the salvation of the just
and the destruction of their foes.
For when you punished our adversaries,
in this you glorified us whom you had summoned.
For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice
and putting into effect with one accord the divine institution.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (12b) Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Exult, you just, in the LORD;
praise from the upright is fitting.
Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Our soul waits for the LORD,
who is our help and our shield.
May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us
who have put our hope in you.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Brothers and sisters:
Faith is the realization of what is hoped for
and evidence of things not seen.
Because of it the ancients were well attested.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place
that he was to receive as an inheritance;
he went out, not knowing where he was to go.
By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country,
dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;
for he was looking forward to the city with foundations,
whose architect and maker is God.
By faith he received power to generate,
even though he was past the normal age
?and Sarah herself was sterile?
for he thought that the one who had made the promise was
trustworthy.
So it was that there came forth from one man,
himself as good as dead,
descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky
and as countless as the sands on the seashore.
All these died in faith.
They did not receive what had been promised
but saw it and greeted it from afar
and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth,
for those who speak thus show that they are seeking a homeland.
If they had been thinking of the land from which they had come,
they would have had opportunity to return.
But now they desire a better homeland, a heavenly one.
Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God,
for he has prepared a city for them.
By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac,
and he who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son,
of whom it was said,
“Through Isaac descendants shall bear your name.”
He reasoned that God was able to raise even from the dead,
and he received Isaac back as a symbol.
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Brothers and sisters:
Faith is the realization of what is hoped for
and evidence of things not seen.
Because of it the ancients were well attested.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place
that he was to receive as an inheritance;
he went out, not knowing where he was to go.
By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country,
dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;
for he was looking forward to the city with foundations,
whose architect and maker is God.
By faith he received power to generate,
even though he was past the normal age
?and Sarah herself was sterile?
for he thought that the one who had made the promise was
trustworthy.
So it was that there came forth from one man,
himself as good as dead,
descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky
and as countless as the sands on the seashore.
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Do not be afraid any longer, little flock,
for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
Sell your belongings and give alms.
Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out,
an inexhaustible treasure in heaven
that no thief can reach nor moth destroy.
For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
“Gird your loins and light your lamps
and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding,
ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.
Blessed are those servants
whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.
Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself,
have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.
And should he come in the second or third watch
and find them prepared in this way,
blessed are those servants.
Be sure of this:
if the master of the house had known the hour
when the thief was coming,
he would not have let his house be broken into.
You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect,
the Son of Man will come.”
Then Peter said,
“Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?”
And the Lord replied,
“Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward
whom the master will put in charge of his servants
to distribute the food allowance at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so.
Truly, I say to you, the master will put the servant
in charge of all his property.
But if that servant says to himself,
‘My master is delayed in coming,’
and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants,
to eat and drink and get drunk,
then that servant’s master will come
on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour
and will punish the servant severely
and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
That servant who knew his master’s will
but did not make preparations nor act in accord with his will
shall be beaten severely;
and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will
but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating
shall be beaten only lightly.
Much will be required of the person entrusted with much,
and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.”
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
There is certainly a lot to consider from today’s readings. I like Paul’s message about faith in the second reading and how it ties into the Gospel of Luke. Faith is an obvious theme in so many biblical stories that it might seem to sometimes come across as white noise. At least it does occasionally for me. But, what stuck out for me in Paul’s writing is that he seems to be asking us to compare our occasional lack of faith with that of Abraham’s experience. And, if I stop and think about it for a minute my occasional lack of faith pales in comparison to Abraham’s faith journey. We have the benefit of reading the bible, going to church services, listening to faith speakers, and confiding in spiritual leaders. By comparison, Abraham didn’t have any of those things. Can you imagine being on the very front edge of God’s spoken messaging to the world? For me, this messaging has been part of my entire life from the time I was a young boy growing up in a faith-filled house with wonderful parents who took me to church and enrolled me in catholic schools to today by having the luxury of working at a catholic institution and surrounded by likeminded people. But Abraham did not have those luxuries. He was paving the way without others to lean on – talk about faith! No wonder Paul refers to Abraham and others as “well attested” in their faith.
The transition, then, into Luke’s Gospel seems perfect. Jesus starts by talking with his disciples about “not being afraid any longer.” In other words, have faith in what I am about to tell you.
There was so much that grabbed my attention in the Gospel reading today. But what mostly sticks with me is the notion of having intentionality. Jesus begins the gospel story by telling his disciples that God wants to give them the kingdom – a life better than could possibly be imagined and one that doesn’t ever go away. But, there is a catch. I imagine Jesus saying, “Living fully in the Kingdom of God will require some work on your end. It is here for you right now in this very life you are presently living, but you must make a movement towards it in order to experience it. There must be purposeful intention on your part.”
The language that Luke emphasizes such as preparation, keeping watch, and being a faithful and prudent steward seems to be pointing to a way of life rather than a time bound achievement we are used to in today’s world. It would be impossible to stay awake 24 hours a day, 7 days a week preparing and keeping watch. Rather, modifying the way we live, think, work, relate, and feel in a way that intentionally moves towards God at a fundamental level puts us in a 24/7 position. It seems to me like it’s an intentional movement towards, rather than an achievement focus “I’ve made it” attitude that is necessary to experience the Kingdom of God. This seems apparent when Peter asks Jesus (almost with a certain kind of arrogance) if his parable applies just to them or to everyone. And Jesus’ masterful answer lets the disciples know that this applies to everyone. Almost as if to say, “just because you are in the inner circle, doesn’t mean you are different.” This is intentional work for everyone.
After reading Luke’s Gospel a few times it seems to be telling me that the “Kingdom of God is at hand” right here and now – today! But, in order for me to realize the Kingdom I need to do my part because God is already meeting me here. I just need to have faith that God is not just “out there” but also “in here” and I need to have a 24/7 way of life that makes an intentional movement towards God.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
AN OPEN-BOOK TEST
“By faith Abraham, when put to the test...” —Hebrews 11:17
By preparing our hearts to serve God each day, we will not be caught off-guard when the time of testing comes (Lk 12:36-40). It will be second-nature, in fact, our new nature, to “seek to serve Him constantly” (Ps 105:4). Daily we ask for the grace to “serve the Lord with gladness” (Ps 100:2).
Each day, give to God your life, will, health, desires, hopes, and dreams. Then, when the test comes, your daily practice has trained your nature to offer everything up to God. Our Master’s will is “known beforehand” so we “might have courage” (Wis 18:6) and be “ready” when the test comes (see Gn 22:1).
God is “the Tester of our hearts” (1 Thes 2:4), and we are the students. He uses our trials “to test [us] by affliction and find out whether or not it was [our] intention to keep His commandments” (Dt 8:2).
Life in Christ is an open-book test. We find the answers in the inspired Sacred Scriptures and in the Sacred Tradition of the Church. We should set aside time each week to study our faith, even daily if possible.
Prayer: Father, You never give a test I can’t pass (1 Cor 10:13). Grace me to spend my life preparing to pass every test You send me, that You may be glorified through my life.
Promise: “...known beforehand to our fathers, that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage.” —Wis 18:6
Praise: The risen Jesus is our hope. “That is why we read: ‘Awake, O sleeper, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light’ ” (Eph 5:14).
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
AN OPEN-BOOK TEST
“By faith Abraham, when put to the test...” —Hebrews 11:17
By preparing our hearts to serve God each day, we will not be caught off-guard when the time of testing comes (Lk 12:36-40). It will be second-nature, in fact, our new nature, to “seek to serve Him constantly” (Ps 105:4). Daily we ask for the grace to “serve the Lord with gladness” (Ps 100:2).
Each day, give to God your life, will, health, desires, hopes, and dreams. Then, when the test comes, your daily practice has trained your nature to offer everything up to God. Our Master’s will is “known beforehand” so we “might have courage” (Wis 18:6) and be “ready” when the test comes (see Gn 22:1).
God is “the Tester of our hearts” (1 Thes 2:4), and we are the students. He uses our trials “to test [us] by affliction and find out whether or not it was [our] intention to keep His commandments” (Dt 8:2).
Life in Christ is an open-book test. We find the answers in the inspired Sacred Scriptures and in the Sacred Tradition of the Church. We should set aside time each week to study our faith, even daily if possible.
Prayer: Father, You never give a test I can’t pass (1 Cor 10:13). Grace me to spend my life preparing to pass every test You send me, that You may be glorified through my life.
Promise: “...known beforehand to our fathers, that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage.” —Wis 18:6
Praise: The risen Jesus is our hope. “That is why we read: ‘Awake, O sleeper, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light’ ” (Eph 5:14).
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