2022년 9월 12일 연중 제24주월요일
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제1독서
코린토 1서.11,17-26.33
형제 여러분, 17 내가 지시하려는 문제와 관련해서는 여러분을 칭찬할 수가 없습니다. 여러분의 모임이 이익이 아니라, 해를 끼치기 때문입니다.
18 우선, 여러분이 교회 모임을 가질 때에 여러분 가운데에 분열이 있다는 말이 들리는데, 나는 그것이 어느 정도 사실이라고 믿습니다. 19 하기야 여러분 가운데에 분파도 있어야 참된 이들이 드러날 것입니다.
20 그렇지만 여러분이 한데 모여서 먹는 것은 주님의 만찬이 아닙니다. 21 그것을 먹을 때, 저마다 먼저 자기 것으로 저녁 식사를 하기 때문에, 어떤 이는 배가 고프고, 어떤 이는 술에 취합니다.
22 여러분은 먹고 마실 집이 없다는 말입니까? 아니면, 하느님의 교회를 업신여기고, 가진 것 없는 이들을 부끄럽게 하려는 것입니까? 내가 여러분에게 무슨 말을 해야 하겠습니까? 여러분을 칭찬해야 하겠습니까? 이 점에서는 칭찬할 수가 없습니다.
23 사실 나는 주님에게서 받은 것을 여러분에게도 전해 주었습니다. 곧, 주 예수님께서는 잡히시던 날 밤에 빵을 들고 24 감사를 드리신 다음, 그것을 떼어 주시며 말씀하셨습니다. “이는 너희를 위한 내 몸이다. 너희는 나를 기억하여 이를 행하여라.”
25 또 만찬을 드신 뒤에, 같은 모양으로 잔을 들어 말씀하셨습니다. “이 잔은 내 피로 맺는 새 계약이다. 너희는 이 잔을 마실 때마다 나를 기억하여 이를 행하여라.”
26 사실 주님께서 오실 때까지, 여러분은 이 빵을 먹고 이 잔을 마실 적마다 주님의 죽음을 전하는 것입니다.
33 그러므로 나의 형제 여러분, 여러분이 만찬을 먹으려고 모일 때에는 서로 기다려 주십시오.
복음
루카. 7,1-10
1 예수님께서는 백성에게 들려주시던 말씀들을 모두 마치신 다음, 카파르나움에 들어가셨다.
2 마침 어떤 백인대장의 노예가 병들어 죽게 되었는데, 그는 주인에게 소중한 사람이었다. 3 이 백인대장이 예수님의 소문을 듣고 유다인의 원로들을 그분께 보내어, 와서 자기 노예를 살려 주십사고 청하였다.
4 이들이 예수님께 다가와 이렇게 말하며 간곡히 청하였다. “그는 선생님께서 이 일을 해 주실 만한 사람입니다. 5 그는 우리 민족을 사랑할 뿐만 아니라, 우리에게 회당도 지어 주었습니다.” 6 그리하여 예수님께서 그들과 함께 가셨다.
그런데 백인대장의 집에서 그리 멀지 않은 곳에 이르셨을 때, 백인대장이 친구들을 보내어 예수님께 아뢰었다.
“주님, 수고하실 것 없습니다. 저는 주님을 제 지붕 아래로 모실 자격이 없습니다. 7 그래서 제가 주님을 찾아뵙기에도 합당하지 않다고 여겼습니다. 그저 말씀만 하시어, 제 종이 낫게 해 주십시오.
8 사실 저는 상관 밑에 매인 사람입니다만, 제 밑으로도 군사들이 있어서, 이 사람에게 가라 하면 가고, 저 사람에게 오라 하면 옵니다. 또 제 노예더러 이것을 하라 하면 합니다.”
9 이 말을 들으시고 예수님께서는 백인대장에게 감탄하시며, 당신을 따르는 군중에게 돌아서서 말씀하셨다. “내가 너희에게 말한다. 나는 이스라엘에서 이런 믿음을 본 일이 없다.”
10 심부름 왔던 이들이 집에 돌아가 보니, 노예는 이미 건강한 몸이 되어 있었다.
September 12, 2022
Monday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
Brothers and sisters:
In giving this instruction, I do not praise the fact
that your meetings are doing more harm than good.
First of all, I hear that when you meet as a Church
there are divisions among you,
and to a degree I believe it;
there have to be factions among you
in order that also those who are approved among you
may become known.
When you meet in one place, then,
it is not to eat the Lord's supper,
for in eating, each one goes ahead with his own supper,
and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.
Do you not have houses in which you can eat and drink?
Or do you show contempt for the Church of God
and make those who have nothing feel ashamed?
What can I say to you? Shall I praise you?
In this matter I do not praise you.
For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,
that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over,
took bread and, after he had given thanks,
broke it and said, "This is my Body that is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me."
In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in my Blood.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,
you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters,
when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (1 Cor 11:26b) Proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes again.
Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Burnt offerings or sin?offerings you sought not;
then said I, "Behold I come."
R. Proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes again.
"In the written scroll it is prescribed for me,
To do your will, O my God, is my delight,
and your law is within my heart!"
R. Proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes again.
I announced your justice in the vast assembly;
I did not restrain my lips, as you, O Lord, know.
R. Proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes again.
May all who seek you
exult and be glad in you
And may those who love your salvation
say ever, "The LORD be glorified."
R. Proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes again.
Gospel
When Jesus had finished all his words to the people,
he entered Capernaum.
A centurion there had a slave who was ill and about to die,
and he was valuable to him.
When he heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to him,
asking him to come and save the life of his slave.
They approached Jesus and strongly urged him to come, saying,
"He deserves to have you do this for him,
for he loves our nation and he built the synagogue for us."
And Jesus went with them,
but when he was only a short distance from the house,
the centurion sent friends to tell him,
"Lord, do not trouble yourself,
for I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof.
Therefore, I did not consider myself worthy to come to you;
but say the word and let my servant be healed.
For I too am a person subject to authority,
with soldiers subject to me.
And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes;
and to another, 'Come here,' and he comes;
and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it."
When Jesus heard this he was amazed at him
and, turning, said to the crowd following him,
"I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith."
When the messengers returned to the house,
they found the slave in good health.
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
«I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith»
Fr. John A. SISTARE
(Cumberland, Rhode Island, United States)
Today, we are faced with an interesting question. Why did the captain in the Gospel not personally approach Jesus but rather, sent messengers ahead with the request to heal his servant? The captain answers this question for us in the Gospel passage. «You see I didn't approach you myself. Just give the order and my servant will be healed» (Lk 7:7).
The captain possessed the virtue of faith to believe that Jesus could work this miracle if it was in accord with his divine will. Faith allowed the captain to believe that no matter where Jesus was located He could heal the ill servant. The captain believed that no distance could prevent or stop the Christ from carrying out his work of salvation.
We are called to have that same faith in our own lives. There are times when we are tempted to think that Jesus is far away and not listening to our prayers. However, faith illumines our minds and hearts to believe that Jesus is always there to help us. In fact, the healing presence of Jesus in the Eucharist is a reminder that Jesus is always with us. St. Augustine, with eyes of faith, believed this reality: «What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the Body of Christ and the chalice is the Blood of Christ».
Faith illumines our minds to see that it is the very presence of Jesus in our midst. We like the captain say, «I am not worthy to welcome you under my roof» (Lk 7:6). Yet, we humble ourselves before our Lord and Savior and He still draws near to heal us. May we allow Jesus to enter our soul, under our roof, to heal and strengthen our faith so we may press on towards Eternal Life.
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
The gospel reading is not by itself a Eucharistic passage, but the centurion’s words –Lord... I am not worthy that you enter under my roof– are echoed at every Eucharistic celebration. Indeed, the other two readings –Paul’s letter and the response to the Psalm– render the tone of today’s liturgy of the word clearly Eucharistic.
Even if the centurion’s words were not meant by him in a Eucharistic sense, they do reveal a depth of faith that, we are told, amazed Jesus. The man was a pagan and an officer of an army of occupation at that, yet as a Gentile he had undertaken the building of a synagogue for the Jews. It is such a Roman officer that does not consider himself worthy to receive a Jew under his roof. As we transpose his setting to ours today, it raises two pertinent questions for us. One is about our own respect for people of other faiths and for the faith of other peoples (even if they are of our own faith), a respect that in the gospel passage went beyond tolerance into actually facilitating their different faith life. The other question is the way we approach God: as entitled to God’s action on our behalf, or aware that we have no real claim that would make us worthy? Do we let the centurion’s words, which we echo before communion, sink into us and help us approach communion more aware of our not being entitled to it? We do not partake in the Eucharist because we are worthy, but because God in sheer goodness considers us worthy enough.
A second comment is about Paul’s letter. His words reveal a very different setting for the celebration of the Eucharist as one component of a wider gathering that included a regular meal, in fact one at which abuses were evident: unequal food provisions, not waiting for one another, and even drinking to excess. It is encouraging to recognize how much the situation has changed, at least in that one respect. But the disregard for others manifested in those no longer existing abuses was also a manifestation of approaching the gathering as “my celebration”, not as “our celebration”. And, as we take comfort in the disappearance of those concrete abuses, I am not sure we can say that we are always free from the “my celebration” syndrome. When we see people absorbed in their otherwise commendable private devotions during the celebration of the Eucharist, we have to wonder whether some are not still bringing their own food to the gathering.
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THE FOOD OF UNITY | ||
| "Do this in remembrance of Me." �1 Corinthians 11:24 | ||
The early Church met in homes for the first several centuries of its existence. The liturgical form of the Mass was still evolving. Thus, the admonitions St. Paul mentions in today's first reading may sound foreign to our ears (1 Cor 11:20-22). There was some fellowship and hospitality in the homes in addition to the Mass. Some people overindulged while others went hungry. Decades ago, I attended a retreat which illustrated the scenario mentioned in today's first reading very nicely. The retreat closed with a common meal in which everyone ate together in a large dining room. The food would be distributed in the same proportions as the population of the world would eat that evening. A few people were given a full steak and shrimp dinner with wine. Several others were served a meal of hamburger, potatoes, and milk. The other 75% of the retreatants were served a meager bowl of beans and rice with water to drink. All were instructed to eat together at the same large table. No one could share food or drink. Those with a plentiful meal commented afterward how much they wished they could share their food with those who had little. The message was one of unity and to live simply so that others could simply live. The Church no longer serves any food at Mass except the Eucharist, the food of unity. Unity was St. Paul's objective, and is also that of Jesus (see Jn 17:21). We call the Eucharist "Communion," a word which can mean "Common Unity." Let us go to Mass in remembrance of Jesus, and not of our own desires. | ||
| Prayer: Holy Spirit, Source of Unity (Eph 4:3), may everything we do, whether we eat or drink (1 Cor 10:31), be done to gather together into one the dispersed children of God (Jn 11:52). | ||
| Promise: "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of Me." —1 Cor 11:25 | ||
| Praise: St. Robert sought unity both with and within the Church. His students became missionaries and martyrs. |
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
"Say the word - be healed"
Do you approach the Lord Jesus with confident trust and expectant faith? A Roman centurion boldly sought Jesus with a daring request. What made him confident that Jesus would receive his request and act favorably towards him? Like a true soldier, he knew the power of command. And he saw in Jesus both the power and the mercy of God to heal and restore life.
In the Roman world the position of a centurion was very important. He was an officer in charge of a hundred soldiers. In a certain sense, he was the backbone of the Roman army, the cement which held the army together. Polybius, an ancient write, describes what a centurion should be: "They must not be so much venturesome seekers after danger as men who can command, steady in action, and reliable. They ought not to be over-anxious to rush into the fight, but when hard pressed, they must be ready to hold their ground, and die at their posts."
Expectant faith and humility draws us close to the Lord Jesus
The centurion who approached Jesus was not only courageous, but faith-filled as well. He risked the ridicule of his Roman companions by seeking help from a Jewish preacher from Galilee, as well as mockery from the Jews who despised the Roman occupation of their land. Nonetheless, this centurion approached Jesus with confidence and humility. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) notes that the centurion regarded himself as unworthy to receive the Lord into his house: "Humility was the door through which the Lord entered to take full possession of one whom he already possessed."
This centurion was an extraordinary man because he loved his slave who had become seriously ill and he was ready to do everything he could to save his life. The centurion was also an extraordinary man of faith. He believed that Jesus had the power to heal his beloved slave. Jesus commends him for his faith and immediately grants him his request.
The Lord is merciful and gracious to all who seek him
How do you approach the Lord Jesus - with doubt, fear, and disbelief? Or with trust and confident expectation that he will give you whatever you need to follow and serve him? Surrender your pride and doubts to him and seek him earnestly with humble trust and expectant faith.
"Lord Jesus you came to set us free from the tyranny of sinful pride, fear, and rebellion. Take my heart captive to your merciful love and truth and set me free to love and serve you always with joy and trust in the power of your saving word. May your love grow in me that I may always seek to love and serve others generously for their sake just as you have generously laid down your life for my sake."
Psalm 28:2,6-9
2 Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.
6 Blessed be the LORD! for he has heard the voice of my supplications.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
8 The LORD is the strength of his people, he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
9 O save your people, and bless your heritage; be their shepherd, and carry them for ever.
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: The power of Divinity and the grace of humility, by Ambrose of Milan, 339-397 A.D.
"How great is the sign of divine humility, that the Lord of heaven by no means disdained to visit the centurion’s servant! Faith is revealed in deeds, but humanity is more active in compassion. Surely he did not act this way because he could not cure in his absence, but in order to give you a form of humility for imitation he taught the need to defer to the small and the great alike. In another place he says to the ruler, 'Go, your son lives' (John 4:50), that you may know both the power of Divinity and the grace of humility. In that case he refused to go to the ruler's son, lest he seem to have had regard for riches. In this case he went himself lest he seem to have despised the humble rank of the centurion's servant. All of us, slave and free, are one in Christ (Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11)." (excerpt from EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 5.84)
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