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제1독서
예레미야서 38,4-6.8-10
그 무렵 4 대신들이 임금에게 말하였다.
“예레미야는 마땅히 사형을 받아야 합니다.
그가 이따위 말을 하여, 도성에 남은 군인들과
온 백성의 사기를 떨어뜨리고 있습니다.
사실 이자는 이 백성의 안녕이 아니라 오히려 재앙을 구하고 있습니다.”
5 이에 치드키야 임금은 “자, 그의 목숨이 그대들의 손에 달려 있소.
이 임금은 그대들의 말에 어찌할 수가 없구려.” 하고 말하였다.
6 그들은 예레미야를 붙잡아 경비대 울안에 있는
말키야 왕자의 저수 동굴에 집어넣었다.
그들은 예레미야를 밧줄로 묶어 저수 동굴에 내려보냈는데,
그곳에는 물은 없고 진흙만 있어서 그는 진흙 속에 빠졌다.
8 에벳 멜렉은 왕궁에서 나와 임금에게 가서 말하였다.
9 “저의 주군이신 임금님,
저 사람들이 예레미야 예언자에게 한 일은 모두 악한 짓입니다.
그들이 그를 저수 동굴에 던져 넣었으니, 그는 거기에서 굶어 죽을 것입니다.
이제 도성에는 더 이상 빵이 없습니다.”
10 그러자 임금이 에티오피아 사람 에벳 멜렉에게 명령하였다.
“여기 있는 사람들 가운데 서른 명을 데리고 가서,
예레미야 예언자가 죽기 전에 그를 저수 동굴에서 꺼내어라.”
제2독서
히브리서 12,1-4
형제 여러분, 1 이렇게 많은 증인들이 우리를 구름처럼 에워싸고 있으니,
우리도 온갖 짐과 그토록 쉽게 달라붙는 죄를 벗어 버리고,
우리가 달려야 할 길을 꾸준히 달려갑시다.
2 그러면서 우리 믿음의 영도자이시며 완성자이신 예수님을 바라봅시다.
그분께서는 당신 앞에 놓인 기쁨을 내다보시면서,
부끄러움도 아랑곳하지 않으시고 십자가를 견디어 내시어,
하느님의 어좌 오른쪽에 앉으셨습니다.
3 죄인들의 그러한 적대 행위를 견디어 내신 분을 생각해 보십시오.
그러면 낙심하여 지쳐 버리는 일이 없을 것입니다.
4 여러분은 죄에 맞서 싸우면서
아직 피를 흘리며 죽는 데까지 이르지는 않았습니다.
복음
루카12,49-53
그때에 예수님께서 제자들에게 말씀하셨다.
49 “나는 세상에 불을 지르러 왔다. 그 불이 이미 타올랐으면 얼마나 좋으랴?
50 내가 받아야 하는 세례가 있다.
이 일이 다 이루어질 때까지 내가 얼마나 짓눌릴 것인가?
51 내가 세상에 평화를 주러 왔다고 생각하느냐?
아니다. 내가 너희에게 말한다. 오히려 분열을 일으키러 왔다.
52 이제부터는 한 집안의 다섯 식구가 서로 갈라져,
세 사람이 두 사람에게 맞서고 두 사람이 세 사람에게 맞설 것이다.
53 아버지가 아들에게, 아들이 아버지에게, 어머니가 딸에게, 딸이 어머니에게
시어머니가 며느리에게, 며느리가 시어머니에게 맞서 갈라지게 될 것이다.”
August 14, 2022
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
Jer 38:4-6, 8-10
In those days, the princes said to the king:
“Jeremiah ought to be put to death;
he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this city,
and all the people, by speaking such things to them;
he is not interested in the welfare of our people,
but in their ruin.”
King Zedekiah answered: “He is in your power”;
for the king could do nothing with them.
And so they took Jeremiah
and threw him into the cistern of Prince Malchiah,
which was in the quarters of the guard,
letting him down with ropes.
There was no water in the cistern, only mud,
and Jeremiah sank into the mud.
Ebed-melech, a court official,
went there from the palace and said to him:
“My lord king,
these men have been at fault
in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah,
casting him into the cistern.
He will die of famine on the spot,
for there is no more food in the city.”
Then the king ordered Ebed-melech the Cushite
to take three men along with him,
and draw the prophet Jeremiah out of the cistern before
he should die.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18
R. (14b) Lord, come to my aid!
I have waited, waited for the LORD,
and he stooped toward me.
R. Lord, come to my aid!
The LORD heard my cry.
He drew me out of the pit of destruction,
out of the mud of the swamp;
he set my feet upon a crag;
he made firm my steps.
R. Lord, come to my aid!
And he put a new song into my mouth,
a hymn to our God.
Many shall look on in awe
and trust in the LORD.
R. Lord, come to my aid!
Though I am afflicted and poor,
yet the LORD thinks of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
O my God, hold not back!
R. Lord, come to my aid!
Reading II
Heb 12:1-4
Brothers and sisters:
Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us
and persevere in running the race that lies before us
while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus,
the leader and perfecter of faith.
For the sake of the joy that lay before him
he endured the cross, despising its shame,
and has taken his seat at the right of the throne of God.
Consider how he endured such opposition from sinners,
in order that you may not grow weary and lose heart.
In your struggle against sin
you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood.
Gospel
Lk 12:49-53
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I have come to set the earth on fire,
and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,
and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided,
three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son
and a son against his father,
a mother against her daughter
and a daughter against her mother,
a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
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A little American History will assist in understanding today’s First Reading from the Prophet Jeremiah. Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding General of the Union Forces has been battling the forces of The Confederacy, Robert E. Lee through the final years of what is known as The American Civil War, which is also referred to in the southern states as “The Recent disturbance.” At the end of warring, these two heroes meet on April ninth eighteen hundred and sixty-five in a little courthouse in Appomatox, Virginia. Grant asks for “unconditional surrender” which puts Lee in a dilemma. If he surrenders, will Grant’s troops slaughter the remaining men under Lee’s leadership and their horses and destroy the remaining farms? If he does not surrender, then the war continues and he will probably be killed himself along with the troops and horses anyway.
He does surrender and Grant allows Lee to keep is sword and allows Lee’s soldiers to return to their farms and villages with horses and guns. Lee maintains his stature and Grant will soon be President of the reunited States of America.
Now we turn to our Reading. Jeremiah has been speaking from his faith and heart to the soldiers and people of the city of Jerusalem. He has been causing problems by encouraging the people to surrender to the surrounding enemy. Some of the civic leaders, “princes” petition King Zedekiah, to have Jeremiah killed because of his preaching. So, Zedekiah is in a similar condition as was Lee. He has to make a life-saving determination. Ebed-melech advises his king to allow Jeremiah to be pulled out of the cistern into which the “non-surrenders” have thrown him. Jeremiah is saved and in the following verses of this chapter (38), you will read and enjoy how these exciting events end and how Jerusalem and Jeremiah survive.
Christian Spirituality may be defined as living, with the tensions caused by our responding to the invitations of Jesus in the Gospels and in our lives. Tensions are a part of every relationship and what we hear in today’s Gospel Reading is full of them. The big question is whether there can be peace while experiencing tensions.
Our TV advertisements promote many items to resolve these nasty tensions. Jesus seems to be advertising something quite different.
This is a puzzling bit of Scripture we have to ponder and pray with. The “peace” which Jesus has come not to establish is a soft, “kind-of” relational tenseless accommodation. Jesus, rather, is inviting His followers into a real relationship in which selfishness, uncaring, violence, and irreverence is confronted. Those following Jesus have all the human characteristics as we do. I was speaking tonight to a young mother who was trying to “reason” with her two-year old son. We all have lots of “terrible-twoness” in us and His invitations are directed right into those self-establishing, self-determinating forces.
Our spirituality is centered on our making decisions which allow us to listen to His invitation and as well to the human invitations which cause the Holy Tension we call Faith. As sacred as family was in the times of Jesus, He speaks right to how Faith calls for decisions and decisions can cause tentions. I find the “peace” Jesus came to offer flows from our not allowing our belief in Jesus to separate us from, but unite us to His family members our sisters and brothers. This will sometimes cause tentions, but tentions prove the quality of His relationship with us and us with Him and within ourselves.
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A little American History will assist in understanding today’s First Reading from the Prophet Jeremiah. Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding General of the Union Forces has been battling the forces of The Confederacy, Robert E. Lee through the final years of what is known as The American Civil War, which is also referred to in the southern states as “The Recent disturbance.” At the end of warring, these two heroes meet on April ninth eighteen hundred and sixty-five in a little courthouse in Appomatox, Virginia. Grant asks for “unconditional surrender” which puts Lee in a dilemma. If he surrenders, will Grant’s troops slaughter the remaining men under Lee’s leadership and their horses and destroy the remaining farms? If he does not surrender, then the war continues and he will probably be killed himself along with the troops and horses anyway.
He does surrender and Grant allows Lee to keep is sword and allows Lee’s soldiers to return to their farms and villages with horses and guns. Lee maintains his stature and Grant will soon be President of the reunited States of America.
Now we turn to our Reading. Jeremiah has been speaking from his faith and heart to the soldiers and people of the city of Jerusalem. He has been causing problems by encouraging the people to surrender to the surrounding enemy. Some of the civic leaders, “princes” petition King Zedekiah, to have Jeremiah killed because of his preaching. So, Zedekiah is in a similar condition as was Lee. He has to make a life-saving determination. Ebed-melech advises his king to allow Jeremiah to be pulled out of the cistern into which the “non-surrenders” have thrown him. Jeremiah is saved and in the following verses of this chapter (38), you will read and enjoy how these exciting events end and how Jerusalem and Jeremiah survive.
Christian Spirituality may be defined as living, with the tensions caused by our responding to the invitations of Jesus in the Gospels and in our lives. Tensions are a part of every relationship and what we hear in today’s Gospel Reading is full of them. The big question is whether there can be peace while experiencing tensions.
Our TV advertisements promote many items to resolve these nasty tensions. Jesus seems to be advertising something quite different.
This is a puzzling bit of Scripture we have to ponder and pray with. The “peace” which Jesus has come not to establish is a soft, “kind-of” relational tenseless accommodation. Jesus, rather, is inviting His followers into a real relationship in which selfishness, uncaring, violence, and irreverence is confronted. Those following Jesus have all the human characteristics as we do. I was speaking tonight to a young mother who was trying to “reason” with her two-year old son. We all have lots of “terrible-twoness” in us and His invitations are directed right into those self-establishing, self-determinating forces.
Our spirituality is centered on our making decisions which allow us to listen to His invitation and as well to the human invitations which cause the Holy Tension we call Faith. As sacred as family was in the times of Jesus, He speaks right to how Faith calls for decisions and decisions can cause tentions. I find the “peace” Jesus came to offer flows from our not allowing our belief in Jesus to separate us from, but unite us to His family members our sisters and brothers. This will sometimes cause tentions, but tentions prove the quality of His relationship with us and us with Him and within ourselves.
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Do you want to be on fire for God? Jesus shocked his disciples when he declared that he would cast fire and cause division rather than peace upon the earth. What kind of fire did Jesus have in mind here?
The fire of God's purifying love and cleansing word
The image of fire in biblical times was often associated with God and with his action in the world and in the lives of his people. God sometimes manifested his presence by use of fire, such as God's revelation to Moses through the burning bush in the wilderness which was not consumed by the flames (Exodus 3:2). God assured the Hebrew people of his continual presence, guidance, and protection for them through the wilderness for forty years with the pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day (Exodus 13:21-22). The prophet Elijah called down fire from heaven to reveal God's presence and power and to purify the people of false idols (1 Kings 18:36-39). The image of fire was also used as a sign of God's glory (Ezekiel 1:4, 13) and holiness (Deuteronomy 4:24), his protective presence (2 Kings 6:17), and his righteous judgment (Zechariah 13:9) and holy wrath against sin (Isaiah 66:15-16).
Fire is also a sign and symbol of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. John the Baptist said that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire (Matthew 3:11-12 and Luke 3:16-17). When the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the disciples at Pentecost "tongues of fire" appeared above their heads (Acts 2:3). We can see from both the Old and New Testament Scriptures that God's fire purifies and cleanses to make us clean (sins washed away) and holy (fit to offer him acceptable praise and worship), and it inspires a reverent fear (awe in God's presence) and respect (obeying and giving God his due) for God and for his holy word.
Loyalty unites - division separates
Why did Jesus link fire from heaven with costly division on the earth? Did he expect his followers to take his statement of "father against son and son against father" and "mother against daughter and daughter against mother" literally? Or was he intentionally using a figure of speech to emphasize the choice and cost of following him above all else? Jesus used a typical Hebrew hyperbole (a figure of speech which uses strong language and exaggeration for emphasis) to drive home an important lesson. We often do the same when we want to emphasize something very strongly. Jesus' hyperbole, however, did contain a real warning that the Gospel message does have serious consequences for our lives.
When Jesus spoke about division within families he likely had in mind the prophecy of Micah: a man's enemies are the men of his own household (Micah 7:6). The essence of Christianity is loyalty to Jesus Christ - the Son of God and Savior of the world - a loyalty that takes precedence over every other relationship. The love of God compels us to choose who will be first in our lives. To place any relationship (or anything else) above God is a form of idolatry.
Who do you love first and foremost?
Jesus challenges his disciples to examine who they love first and foremost. A true disciple loves God above all else and is willing to forsake all for Jesus Christ. Jesus insists that his disciples give him the loyalty which is only due to God, a loyalty which is higher than spouse or kin. It is possible that family and friends can become our enemies if the thought of them keeps us from doing what we know God wants us to do. Does the love of Jesus Christ compel you to put God first in all you do (2 Corinthians 5:14)?
The Gospel message is good news for those who seek pardon, peace, and the abundant life which God offers us through his Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus offers true freedom to those who believe in him - freedom from slavery to sin, Satan, and the oppressive forces of hatred and evil that can destroy body, mind, and spirit. Do you listen to the voice of your Savior and trust in his word? Commit your ways to him, obey his word, and you will find true peace, joy, and happiness in the Lord your God.
Lord Jesus, may the fire of your love consume me and transform my life that I may truly desire nothing more than life with you. Fill me with the power of your Holy Spirit that I may always seek to please you and do your will.
Psalm 40:1-4, 17
1 I waited patiently for the L
ORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
ORD
2 He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the L.
ORD
4 Blessed is the man who makes the Lhis trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods!
17 As for me, I am poor and needy; but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The fire of the Gospel and being baptized in the Holy Spirit, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"We affirm that the fire that Christ sent out is for humanity's salvation and profit. May God grant that all our hearts be full of this. The fire is the saving message of the Gospel and the power of its commandments. We were cold and dead because of sin and in ignorance of him who by nature is truly God. The gospel ignites all of us on earth to a life of piety and makes us fervent in spirit, according to the expression of blessed Paul (Romans 12:11). Besides this, we are also made partakers of the Holy Spirit, who is like fire within us. We have been baptized with fire and the Holy Spirit. We have learned the way from what Christ says to us. Listen to his words: 'Truly I say to you, that except a man be born of water and spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God' (John 3:5). It is the divinely inspired Scripture's custom to give the name of fire sometimes to the divine and sacred words and to the efficacy and power which is by the Holy Spirit by which we are made fervent in spirit."
(excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 94)
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