2022년 10월 7일 연중 제27주간 금요일
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제1독서
갈라티아서.3,7-14
형제 여러분, 7 믿음으로 사는 이들이
바로 아브라함의 자손임을 알아야 합니다.
8 성경은 하느님께서 다른 민족들을 믿음으로 의롭게 하신다는 것을 내다보고,
“모든 민족들이 네 안에서 복을 받을 것이다.” 하는 기쁜 소식을
아브라함에게 미리 전해 주었습니다.
9 그러므로 믿음으로 사는 이들은
믿음의 사람 아브라함과 함께 복을 받습니다.
10 율법에 따른 행위에 의지하는 자들은 다 저주 아래 있습니다.
“율법서에 기록된 모든 것을 한결같이 실천하지 않는 자는
모두 저주를 받는다.”고 성경에 기록되어 있기 때문입니다.
11 그러니 하느님 앞에서는
아무도 율법으로 의롭게 되지 못한다는 것이 분명합니다.
“의로운 이는 믿음으로 살 것이다.” 하였기 때문입니다.
12 율법은 믿음과는 관련이 없습니다.
“그 규정들을 실천하는 이는 그것들로 살” 따름입니다.
13 그리스도께서는 우리를 위하여 스스로 저주받은 몸이 되시어,
우리를 율법의 저주에서 속량해 주셨습니다.
성경에 “나무에 매달린 사람은 모두 저주받은 자다.”라고
기록되어 있기 때문입니다.
14 그리하여 아브라함에게 약속된 복이
그리스도 예수님 안에서 다른 민족들에게 이르러,
우리가 약속된 성령을 믿음으로 받게 되었습니다.
복음
루카.11,15-26
그때에 예수님께서 벙어리 마귀를 쫓아내셨는데,
군중 15 가운데 몇 사람은,
“저자는 마귀 우두머리 베엘제불의 힘을 빌려 마귀들을 쫓아낸다.” 하고 말하였다.
16 다른 사람들은 예수님을 시험하느라고,
하늘에서 내려오는 표징을 그분께 요구하기도 하였다.
17 예수님께서는 그들의 생각을 아시고 이렇게 말씀하셨다.
“어느 나라든지 서로 갈라서면 망하고 집들도 무너진다.
18 사탄도 서로 갈라서면 그의 나라가 어떻게 버티어 내겠느냐?
그런데도 너희는 내가 베엘제불의 힘을 빌려
마귀들을 쫓아낸다고 말한다.
19 내가 만일 베엘제불의 힘을 빌려 마귀들을 쫓아낸다면,
너희의 아들들은 누구의 힘을 빌려 마귀들을 쫓아낸다는 말이냐?
그러니 바로 그들이 너희의 재판관이 될 것이다.
20 그러나 내가 하느님의 손가락으로 마귀들을 쫓아내는 것이면,
하느님의 나라가 이미 너희에게 와 있는 것이다.
21 힘센 자가 완전히 무장하고 자기 저택을 지키면 그의 재산은 안전하다.
22 그러나 더 힘센 자가 덤벼들어 그를 이기면,
그자는 그가 의지하던 무장을 빼앗고 저희끼리 전리품을 나눈다.
23 내 편에 서지 않는 자는 나를 반대하는 자고,
나와 함께 모아들이지 않는 자는 흩어 버리는 자다.
24 더러운 영이 사람에게서 나가면,
쉴 데를 찾아 물 없는 곳을 돌아다니지만 찾지 못한다.
그때에 그는 ‘내가 나온 집으로 돌아가야지.’ 하고 말한다.
25 그러고는 가서 그 집이 말끔히 치워지고 정돈되어 있는 것을 보게 된다.
26 그러면 다시 나와,
자기보다 더 악한 영 일곱을 데리고 그 집에 들어가 자리를 잡는다.
그리하여 그 사람의 끝이 처음보다 더 나빠진다.”
October 7, 2022
Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary
Reading 1
Brothers and sisters:
Realize that it is those who have faith
who are children of Abraham.
Scripture, which saw in advance that God
would justify the Gentiles by faith,
foretold the good news to Abraham, saying,
Through you shall all the nations be blessed.
Consequently, those who have faith are blessed
along with Abraham who had faith.
For all who depend on works of the law are under a curse;
for it is written, Cursed be everyone
who does not persevere in doing all the things
written in the book of the law.
And that no one is justified before God by the law is clear,
for the one who is righteous by faith will live.
But the law does not depend on faith;
rather, the one who does these things will live by them.
Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us,
for it is written, Cursed be everyone who hangs on a tree,
that the blessing of Abraham might be extended
to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus,
so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (5) The Lord will remember his covenant for ever.
I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart
in the company and assembly of the just.
Great are the works of the LORD,
exquisite in all their delights.
R. The Lord will remember his covenant for ever.
Majesty and glory are his work,
and his justice endures forever.
He has won renown for his wondrous deeds;
gracious and merciful is the LORD.
R. The Lord will remember his covenant for ever.
He has given food to those who fear him;
he will forever be mindful of his covenant.
He has made known to his people the power of his works,
giving them the inheritance of the nations.
R. The Lord will remember his covenant for ever.
Gospel
When Jesus had driven out a demon, some of the crowd said:
“By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons,
he drives out demons.”
Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven.
But he knew their thoughts and said to them,
“Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste
and house will fall against house.
And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?
For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons.
If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul,
by whom do your own people drive them out?
Therefore they will be your judges.
But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons,
then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.
When a strong man fully armed guards his palace,
his possessions are safe.
But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him,
he takes away the armor on which he relied
and distributes the spoils.
Whoever is not with me is against me,
and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
“When an unclean spirit goes out of someone,
it roams through arid regions searching for rest
but, finding none, it says,
‘I shall return to my home from which I came.’
But upon returning, it finds it swept clean and put in order.
Then it goes and brings back seven other spirits
more wicked than itself who move in and dwell there,
and the last condition of that man is worse than the first.”
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
St. Paul teaches us something significant about the relationship between faith and works. It is not that works have no place in our lives. Giving to the poor, honoring your parents, taking care of the sick, working for justice - these are just a few of the many good works that we do as followers of Jesus. St. Paul wouldn’t deny how important it is for us to do these things. His question for us is: do you depend on these things? Do you think, I am right with God because I do them? If I depend on these things, he says that I am cursed. On what should I depend? Faith, he says, which basically means that I am depending on God and not myself. Some in his day depended on the works of the law so he presents as a model of how to live before God a man who lived before the law existed. Abraham depended on God; he was a man of faith. When you live like him, you will be blessed and everyone around you will be blessed, too. By trusting in God, we receive the Spirit which empowers us to do good works. So, we trust in God and do good works without thinking, I have to do all these things for God to love and accept me.
The psalmist focuses on works, but not ours. The important work done in this world is done by God. His works are great, exquisite, and powerful. What are his works? Majesty, glory, justice, grace, mercy, giving us food, remembering his promises to us, and giving us an inheritance. If I trust in him, I can do likewise.
In the Gospel, Luke tells us that some questioned the power by which Jesus cast out demons. They attributed his power to Satan. Of course, if that is true, then Satan is fighting against himself. No, Jesus says, it’s not that. What has happened is that the strong man, Satan, has been attacked and overcome by a stronger man who is now distributing his possessions, namely, reclaiming the demon possessed people who were being tortured by Satan’s followers. Jesus likens what he is doing to sweeping and cleaning a house. Jesus puts the house in order. However, if you don’t have the stronger man in the house with you, the strong man will retake possession of the property and make it much worse than it was before.
Jesus taught us, and the spiritual masters of the Christian faith have affirmed it, that we need to detach ourselves from things. Disciplines such as fasting, silence, and solitude can help sweep and clean our house. However, unlike most world religions that teach detachment - and we can learn a lot from them - Christianity also emphasizes the importance of attachment. Through faith, we have a relationship with God to whom we grow in closeness and trust. Thus, disciplines such as prayer, meditation, contemplation, worship, and service help keep the strong man in our house. We don’t depend on any of this for our righteousness before God; I cannot earn anything from God by what I do. Yet, these disciplines help me grow in faith and depend upon God, not myself. The irony is that the more I do these things, the less I trust in them and more in the God for whom these disciplines are intended.
We trust in God. We work like crazy. The strong man keeps our house clean and occupied. As the psalmist said, Great are the works of the Lord.
http://www.presentationministries.com/obob/obob.asp
NO VACANCY?
“When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, it wanders through arid wastes searching for a resting-place.” —Luke 11:24
Many demons are homeless because Christians, using their God-given authority, have evicted them from people and neighborhoods where demons had made their homes. One might think that there are many other places for these demons. Yet sometimes demons fail to find a resting-place (Lk 11:24). Then they check their former residences or any other person or place which is “swept and tidied,” but hasn’t yet been filled with the things of God (Lk 11:25-26).
Would demons consider your life inhabitable or even ideal for occupancy? Is there a “No Vacancy” sign on your life, or do demons see your life as a prime location? Most Christians admit that they have some things wrong in their lives. Yet they hardly consider themselves so bad that demons would love to dwell in them. Nonetheless, this perception of ourselves may itself be a work of the devil, “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44).
Just as an interior decorator may see an old, ramshackle house as having potential to become beautiful, so the devil may see a somewhat good person as having the potential to become evil. Thus, the devil may try to possess that person or at least harass him. The only way to be safe from potentially severe demonic activity is to be filled with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of holiness, from Whom all evil spirits flee (see 1 Cor 12:3; Gal 5:17). Therefore, be holy and offer no vacancy for demonic occupation.
Prayer: Father, may more and more demons become homeless — and stay that way.
Promise: “This has happened so that through Christ Jesus the blessing bestowed on Abraham might descend on the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, thereby making it possible for us to receive the promised Spirit through faith.” —Gal 3:14
Praise: Our Lady of the Rosary was established as a feast day by Pope St. Pius V in 1573.
http://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/readings/
When danger lurks, what kind of protection do you seek? Jesus came to free us from the greatest danger of all - the corrupting force of evil which destroys us from within and makes us slaves to sin and Satan (John 8:34). Evil is not an impersonal force that just happens. It has a name and a face and it seeks to master every heart and soul on the face of the earth (1 Peter 5:8-9). Scripture identifies the Evil One by many names, 'Satan', 'Beelzebul - the 'prince of demons', the 'Devil', the 'Deceiver', the 'Father of Lies', and 'Lucifier', the fallen angel who broke rank with God and established his own army and kingdom in opposition to God.
Jesus has power to cast out the Deceiver and set us free
Jesus declared that he came to overthrow the power of Satan and his kingdom (John 12:31). Jesus' numerous exorcisms brought freedom to many who were troubled and oppressed by the work of evil spirits. Jesus himself encountered personal opposition and battle with Satan when he was put to the test in the wilderness just before his public ministry (Matthew 4:1; Luke 4:1). He overcame the Evil One through his obedience to the will of his Father.
Some of the Jewish leaders reacted vehemently to Jesus' healings and exorcisms and they opposed him with malicious slander. How could Jesus get the power and authority to release individuals from Satan's influence and control? They assumed that he had to be in league with Satan. They attributed his power to Satan rather than to God. Jesus answers their charge with two arguments. There were many exorcists in Palestine in Jesus' time. So Jesus retorted by saying that they also incriminate their own kin who cast out demons. If they condemn Jesus they also condemn themselves.
Whose kingdom do you follow and serve?
In his second argument Jesus asserts that no kingdom divided against itself can survive for long. We have witnessed enough civil wars in our own time to prove the destructive force at work here for the annihilation of whole peoples and their land. If Satan lends his power against his own forces then he is finished.
Cyril of Alexandria, a 5th century church father explains the force of Jesus' argument:
Kingdoms are established by the fidelity of subjects and the obedience of those under the royal scepter. Houses are established when those who belong to them in no way whatsoever thwart one another but, on the contrary, agree in will and deed. I suppose it would establish the kingdom too of Beelzebub, had he determined to abstain from everything contrary to himself. How then does Satan cast out Satan? It follows then that devils do not depart from people on their own accord but retire unwillingly. "Satan," he says, "does not fight with himself." He does not rebuke his own servants. He does not permit himself to injure his own armor bearers. On the contrary, he helps his kingdom. "It remains for you to understand that I crush Satan by divine power." [Commentary on Luke, Homily 80]
How can a strong person be defeated except by someone who is stronger? Jesus asserted his power and authority to cast out demons as a clear demonstration of the reign of God. Jesus' reference to the 'finger of God' points back to Moses' confrontation with Pharoah and his magicians who represented Satan and the kingdom of darkness (see Exodus 8:19). Jesus claims to be carrying on the tradition of Moses whose miracles freed the Israelites from bondage by thefinger of God. God's power is clearly at work in the exorcisms which Jesus performed and they give evidence that God's kingdom has come.
God and his Word is the source of our protection and security
What is the point of Jesus' grim story about a vacant house being occupied by an evil force? It is not enough to banish evil thoughts and habits from our lives. We must also fill the void with God who is the source of all that is good, wholesome, true, and life-giving for us. Augustine of Hippo said that our lives have a God-shaped void which only God can fill. If we attempt to leave it vacant or to fill it with something else which is not of God, we will end up being in a worse state in the end.
What do you fill the void in your life with? The Lord Jesus wants to fill our minds and hearts with the power of his life-giving word and healing love. Jesus makes it very clear that there are no neutral parties in this world. We are either for the Lord Jesus or against him, for the kingdom of God or against it. We cannot serve two kingdoms opposed to each another. There are ultimately only two universal kingdoms which stand in opposition to one another - the kingdom of God - his kingdom of light and truth - and the kingdom of darkness - which is opposed to God's truth and justice and which is dominated by Satan's lies and deception. If we disobey God's word, we open to door to the power of sin and the deception of Satan in our personal lives.
Is Jesus the Lord of your mind, heart, and home?
If we want to live in true freedom, then our "house" (the inner core of our true being) must be occupied by Jesus where he is enthroned as Lord and Savior. The Lord assures us of his protection from spiritual harm and he gives us the help and strength we need to resist the devil and his lies (James 4:7). The Scriptures remind us that God is our refuge and his angels stand guard over us:
"Because you have made the Lord your refuge, the Most High your habitation, no evil shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent. For he will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways"(Psalm 91:9-11).
Do you know the peace and security of a life submitted to God and his word?
Lord Jesus, be the ruler of my heart and the master of my home. May there be nothing in my life that is not under your lordship.
Psalm 9:1-5,7-8
1 I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
2 I will be glad and exult in you, I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
3 When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before you.
4 For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.
5 You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
7 But the LORD sits enthroned for ever, he has established his throne for judgment;
8 and he judges the world with righteousness, he judges the peoples with equity.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Jesus has conquered Satan, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"[Jesus] has conquered the ruler of this world. Having, so to speak, hamstrung him and stripped him of the power he possessed, he has given him over for a prey to his followers. He says, 'The strong man, being armed, guards his house; all his goods are in peace. But when one who is stronger than he shall come on him and overcome him, he takes away all his armor wherein he trusted and divides his spoil.' This is a plain demonstration and type of the matter depicted after the manner of human affairs... Before the coming of the Savior, he was in great power, driving and shutting up in his own stall flocks that were not his own but belonging to God over all. He was like some voracious and most insolent robber. Since the Word of God who is above all, the Giver of all might and Lord of powers attacked him, having become man, all his goods have been plundered and his spoil divided. Those of old who had been ensnared by him into ungodliness and error have been called by the holy apostles to the acknowledgment of the truth and been brought near to God the Father by faith in his Son."(excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 81)
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