2022년 8월 11일 연중 제19주간 목요일
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제1독서
에제키엘 예언서. 12,1-12
1 주님의 말씀이 나에게 내렸다.
2 “사람의 아들아, 너는 반항의 집안 한가운데에서 살고 있다.
그들은 볼 눈이 있어도 보지 않고, 들을 귀가 있어도 듣지 않는다.
그들이 반항의 집안이기 때문이다.
3 그러니 너 사람의 아들아,
유배 짐을 꾸려 대낮에 그들이 보는 앞에서 유배를 가거라.
그들이 보는 앞에서 네가 사는 곳을 떠나 다른 곳으로 유배를 가거라.
행여 자기들이 반항의 집안임을 그들이 깨달을지도 모른다.
4 너는 짐을 유배 짐처럼 싸서 대낮에 그들이 보는 앞에서 내어놓았다가,
저녁에 그들이 보는 앞에서 유배를 떠나듯이 떠나라.
5 그들이 보는 앞에서 벽을 뚫고 나가라.
6 너는 어두울 때에 그들이 보는 앞에서 짐을 어깨에 메고 나가는데,
얼굴을 가리고 땅을 보지 마라.
나는 너를 이스라엘 집안을 위한 예표로 삼았다.”
7 나는 명령을 받은 대로 하였다.
짐을 유배 짐처럼 싸서 대낮에 내어놓았다가,
저녁에 손으로 벽을 뚫고,
어두울 때에 그들이 보는 앞에서 짐을 어깨에 메고 나갔다.
8 이튿날 아침에 주님의 말씀이 나에게 내렸다.
9 “사람의 아들아, 저 반항의 집안인 이스라엘 집안이,
‘지금 무엇을 하고 있습니까?’ 하고 너에게 묻지 않았느냐?
10 그들에게 말하여라. ‘주 하느님이 이렇게 말한다.
이 신탁은 예루살렘에 있는 수장과
그 안에 있는 온 이스라엘 집안에 관한 것이다.’
11 너는 또 말하여라. ‘나는 여러분을 위한 예표입니다.
내가 한 것과 똑같은 일이 그들에게 일어날 것입니다.
그들은 유배를 당해 끌려갈 것입니다.’
12 그들 가운데에 있는 수장은 어두울 때에 짐을 어깨에 메고,
사람들이 그를 내보내려고 벽에 뚫어 놓은 구멍으로 나갈 것이다.
그는 자기 눈으로 그 땅을 보지 않으려고 얼굴을 가릴 것이다.”
복음
마태오 18,21ㅡ19,1
21 그때에 베드로가 예수님께 다가와,
“주님, 제 형제가 저에게 죄를 지으면 몇 번이나 용서해 주어야 합니까?
일곱 번까지 해야 합니까?” 하고 물었다.
22 예수님께서 그에게 대답하셨다.
“내가 너에게 말한다.
일곱 번이 아니라 일흔일곱 번까지라도 용서해야 한다.
23 그러므로 하늘 나라는 자기 종들과 셈을 하려는 어떤 임금에게 비길 수 있다.
24 임금이 셈을 하기 시작하자 만 탈렌트를 빚진 사람 하나가 끌려왔다.
25 그런데 그가 빚을 갚을 길이 없으므로,
주인은 그 종에게 자신과 아내와 자식과
그 밖에 가진 것을 다 팔아서 갚으라고 명령하였다.
26 그러자 그 종이 엎드려 절하며,
‘제발 참아 주십시오. 제가 다 갚겠습니다.’ 하고 말하였다.
27 그 종의 주인은 가엾은 마음이 들어, 그를 놓아주고 부채도 탕감해 주었다.
28 그런데 그 종이 나가서 자기에게 백 데나리온을 빚진 동료 하나를 만났다.
그러자 그를 붙들어 멱살을 잡고 ‘빚진 것을 갚아라.’ 하고 말하였다.
29 그의 동료는 엎드려서, ‘제발 참아 주게. 내가 갚겠네.’ 하고 청하였다.
30 그러나 그는 들어주려고 하지 않았다.
그리고 가서 그 동료가 빚진 것을 다 갚을 때까지 감옥에 가두었다.
31 동료들이 그렇게 벌어진 일을 보고 너무 안타까운 나머지,
주인에게 가서 그 일을 죄다 일렀다.
32 그러자 주인이 그 종을 불러들여 말하였다.
‘이 악한 종아, 네가 청하기에 나는 너에게 빚을 다 탕감해 주었다.
33 내가 너에게 자비를 베푼 것처럼
너도 네 동료에게 자비를 베풀었어야 하지 않느냐?’
34 그러고 나서 화가 난 주인은 그를 고문 형리에게 넘겨 빚진 것을 다 갚게 하였다.
35 너희가 저마다 자기 형제를 마음으로부터 용서하지 않으면,
하늘의 내 아버지께서도 너희에게 그와 같이 하실 것이다.”
19,1 예수님께서는 이 말씀들을 마치시고 갈릴래아를 떠나,
요르단 건너편 유다 지방으로 가셨다.
August 11, 2022
Memorial of Saint Clare, Virgin
Reading 1
The word of the LORD came to me:
Son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house;
they have eyes to see but do not see,
and ears to hear but do not hear,
for they are a rebellious house.
Now, son of man, during the day while they are looking on,
prepare your baggage as though for exile,
and again while they are looking on,
migrate from where you live to another place;
perhaps they will see that they are a rebellious house.
You shall bring out your baggage like an exile in the daytime
while they are looking on;
in the evening, again while they are looking on,
you shall go out like one of those driven into exile;
while they look on, dig a hole in the wall and pass through it;
while they look on, shoulder the burden and set out in the darkness;
cover your face that you may not see the land,
for I have made you a sign for the house of Israel.
I did as I was told.
During the day I brought out my baggage
as though it were that of an exile,
and at evening I dug a hole through the wall with my hand
and, while they looked on, set out in the darkness,
shouldering my burden.
Then, in the morning, the word of the LORD came to me:
Son of man, did not the house of Israel, that rebellious house,
ask you what you were doing?
Tell them: Thus says the Lord GOD:
This oracle concerns Jerusalem
and the whole house of Israel within it.
I am a sign for you:
as I have done, so shall it be done to them;
as captives they shall go into exile.
The prince who is among them shall shoulder his burden
and set out in darkness,
going through a hole he has dug out in the wall,
and covering his face lest he be seen by anyone.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (see 7b) Do not forget the works of the Lord!
They tempted and rebelled against God the Most High,
and kept not his decrees.
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers;
they recoiled like a treacherous bow.
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
They angered him with their high places
and with their idols roused his jealousy.
God heard and was enraged
and utterly rejected Israel.
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
And he surrendered his strength into captivity,
his glory in the hands of the foe.
He abandoned his people to the sword
and was enraged against his inheritance.
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
Gospel
Peter approached Jesus and asked him,
“Lord, if my brother sins against me,
how often must I forgive him?
As many as seven times?”
Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.
That is why the Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king
who decided to settle accounts with his servants.
When he began the accounting,
a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount.
Since he had no way of paying it back,
his master ordered him to be sold,
along with his wife, his children, and all his property,
in payment of the debt.
At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said,
‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.’
Moved with compassion the master of that servant
let him go and forgave him the loan.
When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants
who owed him a much smaller amount.
He seized him and started to choke him, demanding,
‘Pay back what you owe.’
Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him,
‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’
But he refused.
Instead, he had the fellow servant put in prison
until he paid back the debt.
Now when his fellow servants saw what had happened,
they were deeply disturbed,
and went to their master and reported the whole affair.
His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant!
I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.
Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant,
as I had pity on you?’
Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers
until he should pay back the whole debt.
So will my heavenly Father do to you,
unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart.”
When Jesus finished these words, he left Galilee
and went to the district of Judea across the Jordan.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Today’s Gospel is a cautionary tale. We must remember to show mercy, not just receive mercy. Too often in this modern world – and likely in the time of Jesus – we feel we deserve something. We want to reap the benefits sometimes without paying the price. We say to ourselves: I’ve worked hard. I deserve this. I deserve to feel better than someone else. I don’t deserve to suffer, but they – that person -- have made mistakes that should be corrected. By me. And they deserve what they get.
Do I deserve the mercy? Have I forgiven someone for the slight I feel they inflicted on me? Am I treating someone else in a not-so-good way because they, in my estimation, deserve it? The parable goes to extremes to make the point, but in my life, I think I have many opportunities every day to show mercy and compassion. But I don’t always do it. I can recite the Our Father and focus on the “forgive us our trespasses” and somewhat glide over the next part: “As we forgive those who trespass against us.” God is telling us it’s a package deal. I need to spend more time on forgiving those who trepass against me in small ways. Is what I see as a slight really a slight or someone having a bad day? What mercy would I like to see extended to me when I’m having a bad day? Forgiveness can lighten my own load. Forgiveness and mercy can make such a difference in how I maneuver through my day.
Today is also the memorial of St. Clare of Assisi. I looked up details about her, and I was struck by a short video by Sister Margaret Carney and Franciscan Media. Sister Margaret calls Clare an “everyday saint.” She asks us to look at what we know about Clare’s life, which is extraordinary. But Sister Margaret’s message is to look beyond what we know and realize that St. Clare and so many others in religious life and every day life: They show up and they get the job done. Those actions may not be immortalized in a painting or in a hymn. We can be inspired by the example of St. Clare, and we can show up and get the job done in making the world a better place by our actions and our prayers each and every day.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
0X7X70X7
“My heavenly Father will treat you in exactly the same way unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart.” —Matthew 18:35
Jesus not only told Peter to forgive 70x7 times, but also implied that we would need to forgive more (Mt 18:22). Usually we don’t get hurt 70x7 times because we don’t let others have that many shots at us. After a few hurts, we, like turtles, put our heads back in our shells to prevent any additional wounding.
When Jesus calls us to forgive 70x7 times, He calls us to expose ourselves to repeated hurts. “When a person strikes you on the right cheek, turn and offer him the other” (Mt 5:39). He is not calling us to be masochistic, just to love as He loves, to love even enemies. God was and is hurt and insulted 70x7 x 70x7 times.
If we were God, we would just withdraw from the ungrateful rebellion of our planet and leave it doomed. Yet God does just the opposite. After His covenant is spurned and His prophets murdered, He sends His Son to save us and thereby exposes Himself to even greater hurt and insult (Mt 21:33-39).
By God’s grace, let’s forgive one another, not only to stop hurt but to absorb future hurts. Some forgivenesses prepare us to be hurt again and forgive again. The hurts go on and we forgive them as fast as they come. A more faithful translation of Jesus’ words on the cross is, “Jesus kept saying: ‘Father, forgive them’ ” (see Lk 23:34).
Prayer: Father, by Your grace, may I forgive as fast and as often as I am hurt.
Promise: “Moved with pity, the master let the official go and wrote off the debt.” —Mt 18:27
Praise: At the age of fifteen, St. Clare was moved by the preaching of St. Francis of Assisi and left her father’s home to follow Francis. He became her lifelong friend and spiritual guide. Others came to follow her and they became the “Poor Clares,” living lives of prayer and austerity.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
Does mercy overlook justice? Justice demands that everyone be given their due. So when is it right to show mercy and pardon to those who have acted unjustly or wrongly? The prophet Amos speaks of God forgiving transgression three times, but warns that God may not revoke punishment for the fourth (see Amos 1:3-13; 2:1-6). When Peter posed the question of forgiveness, he characteristically offered an answer he thought Jesus would be pleased with. Why not forgive seven times! How unthinkable for Jesus to counter with the proposition that one must forgive seventy times that.
No limit to granting forgiveness and pardon
Jesus makes it clear that there is no limit to giving and receiving forgiveness. He drove the lesson home with a parable about two very different kinds of debts. The first man owed an enormous sum of money - millions in our currency. In Jesus' time this amount was greater than the total revenue of a province - more than it would cost to ransom a king! The man who was forgiven such an incredible debt could not, however, bring himself to forgive his neighbor a very small debt which was about one-hundred-thousandth of his own debt.The contrast could not have been greater!
Jesus paid our ransom to set us free from the debt of sin
No offense our neighbor can do to us can compare with our own personal debt to God for offending him! We have been forgiven an enormous debt we could not repay on our own. That is why the Father in heaven sent his only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who freely and willing gave up his life for our sake to ransom us from slavery to sin, Satan, and death. Paul the Apostle states, "you were bought with a price" (1 Corinthians 7:23 ) and that price was Jesus' death on the cross. Through the shedding of his blood on the cross, Jesus not only brought forgiveness and pardon for our offenses, but release from our captivity to Satan and bondage to sin.
Set free from futile thinking and sinful living
The Lord Jesus sets us free from a futile mind and way of living in sin and spiritual darkness. "You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers ...with the precious blood of Christ" (1 Peter 1:18). Christ "gave himself to redeem us from all iniquity" (Titus 2:14). Iniquity describes the futile ways of wrong thinking, sinful attitudes and wrong behavior, and disregarding or treating God's commandments lightly. We have been forgiven an enormous debt which we could never possibly repay. We owe God a debt of gratitude for the mercy and grace he has given us in his Son, Jesus Christ.
Forgiving others is a sacred duty
If God has shown mercy to us in granting us pardon for our sins, then we, in turn, must show mercy and forgiveness towards every person who has offended us. The willingness to forgive those who offend us is a sacred duty. If we expect God to pardon us and show us his mercy when we sin and disobey his commandments, then we must be willing to let go of any resentment, grievance, or ill-will we feel towards our neighbor. Jesus teaches us to pray daily for the grace and strength to forgive others in the same measure in which God has forgiven us (Matthew 6:12,14-15). If we do not show mercy and forgiveness to our fellow human beings, how can we expect God to forgive us in turn? The Apostle James says that "judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy" (James 2:13).
Mercy seasons justice and perfects it
Mercy is the flip-side of God's justice. Without mercy justice is cold, calculating, and even cruel. Mercyseasons justice assalt seasons meat and gives it flavor. Mercy follows justice and perfects it. Justice demands that the wrong be addressed. To show mercy without addressing the wrong and to pardon the unrepentant is not true mercy but license. C.S. Lewis, a 20th century Christian author wrote: "Mercy will flower only when it grows in the crannies of the rock of Justice: transplanted to the marshlands of mere Humanitarianism, it becomes a man-eating weed, all the more dangerous because it is still called by the same name as the mountain variety." If we want mercy shown to us we must be ready to forgive others from the heart as God has forgiven us. Do you hold any grudge or resentment towards anyone? Ask the Lord to purify your heart that you may show mercy and loving-kindness to all - and especially to those who cause you grief and ill-will.
Lord Jesus, you have been kind and forgiving towards me. May I be merciful as you are merciful. Free me from all bitterness and resentment that I may truly forgive from the heart those who have caused me injury or grief.
Psalm 78:6-7,55-62
7 So that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
56 Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,
57 but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men,
61 and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
62 He gave his people over to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: How often shall I forgive? by Hilary of Poitiers (315-367 AD)
"When Peter asked him whether he should forgive his brother sinning against him up to seven times, the Lord replied, 'Not up to seven times but up to seventy times seven times'" In every way he teaches us to be like him in humility and goodness. In weakening and breaking the impulses of our rampant passions he strengthens us by the example of his leniency, by granting us in faith pardon of all our sins. For the vices of our nature did not merit pardon. Therefore all pardon comes from him. In fact, he pardons even those sins that remain in one after confession. The penalty to be paid through Cain was established at sevenfold, but that sin was against a man, against his brother Abel, to the point of murder (Genesis 4:8). But in Lamech the penalty was established at seventy times seven times (Genesis 4:24), and, as we believe, the penalty was established on those responsible for the Lord's Passion. But the Lord through the confession of believers grants pardon for this crime. By the gift of baptism he grants the grace of salvation to his revilers and persecutors. How much more is it necessary, he shows, that pardon be returned by us without measure or number. And we should not think how many times we forgive, but we should cease to be angry with those who sin against us, as often as the occasion for anger exists. Pardon's frequency shows us that in our case there is never a time for anger, since God pardons us for all sins in their entirety by his gift rather than by our merit. Nor should we be excused from the requirement of giving pardon that number of times [i.e., seventy times seven], since through the grace of the gospel God has granted us pardon without measure." (excerpt from ON MATTHEW 18.10)
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