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제1독서
탈출기.17,8-13
그 무렵 8 아말렉족이 몰려와 르피딤에서 이스라엘과 싸움을 벌였다.
9 그러자 모세가 여호수아에게 말하였다.
“너는 우리를 위하여 장정들을 뽑아 아말렉과 싸우러 나가거라.
내일 내가 하느님의 지팡이를 손에 잡고 언덕 꼭대기에 서 있겠다.”
10 여호수아는 모세가 말한 대로 아말렉과 싸우고,
모세와 아론과 후르는 언덕으로 올라갔다.
11 모세가 손을 들면 이스라엘이 우세하고, 손을 내리면 아말렉이 우세하였다.
12 모세의 손이 무거워지자,
그들은 돌을 가져다 그의 발 아래 놓고 그를 그 위에 앉혔다.
그런 다음 아론과 후르가 한 사람은 이쪽에서,
다른 사람은 저쪽에서 모세의 두 손을 받쳐 주니,
그의 손이 해가 질 때까지 처지지 않았다.
13 그리하여 여호수아는 아말렉과 그의 백성을 칼로 무찔렀다.
제2독서
티모테오 2서.3,14ㅡ4,2
사랑하는 그대여, 14 그대는 그대가 배워서 확실히 믿는 것을 지키십시오.
그대는 누구에게서 배웠는지 잘 알고 있습니다.
15 또한 어려서부터 성경을 잘 알고 있습니다.
성경은 그리스도 예수님에 대한 믿음을 통하여
구원을 얻는 지혜를 그대에게 줄 수 있습니다.
16 성경은 전부 하느님의 영감으로 쓰인 것으로,
가르치고 꾸짖고 바로잡고 의롭게 살도록 교육하는 데에 유익합니다.
17 그리하여 하느님의 사람이 온갖 선행을 할 능력을 갖춘
유능한 사람이 되게 해 줍니다.
4,1 나는 하느님 앞에서, 또 산 이와 죽은 이를 심판하실 그리스도 예수님 앞에서,
그리고 그분의 나타나심과 다스리심을 걸고 그대에게 엄숙히 지시합니다.
2 말씀을 선포하십시오. 기회가 좋든지 나쁘든지 꾸준히 계속하십시오.
끈기를 다하여 사람들을 가르치면서, 타이르고 꾸짖고 격려하십시오.
복음
루카.18,1-8
그때에 1 예수님께서는 낙심하지 말고 끊임없이 기도해야 한다는 뜻으로
제자들에게 비유를 말씀하셨다.
2 “어떤 고을에 하느님도 두려워하지 않고
사람도 대수롭지 않게 여기는 한 재판관이 있었다.
3 또 그 고을에는 과부가 한 사람 있었는데
그는 줄곧 그 재판관에게 가서,
‘저와 저의 적대자 사이에 올바른 판결을 내려 주십시오.’ 하고 졸랐다.
4 재판관은 한동안 들어주려고 하지 않다가 마침내 속으로 말하였다.
‘나는 하느님도 두려워하지 않고 사람도 대수롭지 않게 여기지만,
5 저 과부가 나를 이토록 귀찮게 하니 그에게는 올바른 판결을 내려 주어야겠다.
그렇게 하지 않으면 끝까지 찾아와서 나를 괴롭힐 것이다.’”
6 주님께서 다시 이르셨다. “이 불의한 재판관이 하는 말을 새겨들어라.
7 하느님께서 당신께 선택된 이들이 밤낮으로 부르짖는데
그들에게 올바른 판결을 내려 주지 않으신 채, 그들을 두고 미적거리시겠느냐?
8 내가 너희에게 말한다.
하느님께서는 그들에게 지체 없이 올바른 판결을 내려 주실 것이다.
그러나 사람의 아들이 올 때에 이 세상에서 믿음을 찾아볼 수 있겠느냐?”
October 16, 2022
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
In those days, Amalek came and waged war against Israel.
Moses, therefore, said to Joshua,
"Pick out certain men,
and tomorrow go out and engage Amalek in battle.
I will be standing on top of the hill
with the staff of God in my hand."
So Joshua did as Moses told him:
he engaged Amalek in battle
after Moses had climbed to the top of the hill with Aaron and Hur.
As long as Moses kept his hands raised up,
Israel had the better of the fight,
but when he let his hands rest,
Amalek had the better of the fight.
Moses’hands, however, grew tired;
so they put a rock in place for him to sit on.
Meanwhile Aaron and Hur supported his hands,
one on one side and one on the other,
so that his hands remained steady till sunset.
And Joshua mowed down Amalek and his people
with the edge of the sword.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (cf. 2) Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
I lift up my eyes toward the mountains;
whence shall help come to me?
My help is from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
R. Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
May he not suffer your foot to slip;
may he slumber not who guards you:
indeed he neither slumbers nor sleeps,
the guardian of Israel.
R. Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
The LORD is your guardian; the LORD is your shade;
he is beside you at your right hand.
The sun shall not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
R. Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
The LORD will guard you from all evil;
he will guard your life.
The LORD will guard your coming and your going,
both now and forever.
R. Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Reading 2
Beloved:
Remain faithful to what you have learned and believed,
because you know from whom you learned it,
and that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures,
which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation
through faith in Christ Jesus.
All Scripture is inspired by God
and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction,
and for training in righteousness,
so that one who belongs to God may be competent,
equipped for every good work.
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus,
who will judge the living and the dead,
and by his appearing and his kingly power:
proclaim the word;
be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient;
convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.
Gospel
Jesus told his disciples a parable
about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary.
He said, "There was a judge in a certain town
who neither feared God nor respected any human being.
And a widow in that town used to come to him and say,
'Render a just decision for me against my adversary.'
For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought,
'While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being,
because this widow keeps bothering me
I shall deliver a just decision for her
lest she finally come and strike me.'"
The Lord said, "Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says.
Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones
who call out to him day and night?
Will he be slow to answer them?
I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily.
But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
Sitting with Jesus
When I first entered the Jesuits, I couldn’t sit still - this was a problem. I was months away from a 30-day retreat during which I would sit in silent prayer for hours every day. If I couldn’t sit still, how would I survive?
So, I started ‘exercising’ my capacity for stillness. First, ten minutes. When that felt easy, 20, then 30, and eventually, a full hour of nearly no movement at all.
Then, one day towards the end of my stillness training, I understood - the gift wasn’t the stillness in itself. The gift was realizing that in all this sitting still, Jesus showed up to sit with me.
Today’s Gospel invites us to pray without becoming weary. This invitation is ultimately not about learning to pray all day every day. Rather, it’s about recognizing that the Lord wants to sit with us and build a relationship. And so, let our prayer be a willingness to come to Jesus in prayer, and faith that Jesus will come to us.
—Fr. Eric Immel, SJ, is a vocation promoter for the Midwest Jesuits. He was ordained in June 2022. Learn more about Jesuit vocations at beajesuit.org.
Prayer
Be still and know that I am God.
—Psalm 46:10
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Years ago when my daughter was first learning to write her name it was time to select and share Valentine cards with her classmates. She was determined to personally sign each and every card. I sat with her at the dining room table as she painstakingly wrote her name in her best handwriting on each card. As the evening went on, the stack of unsigned cards remained taller than those she had completed. Worried that she might be getting tired (or perhaps wishing I could go do something else), I asked her if she would like to stop the project. She looked at me with the most earnest expression and proclaimed “Mom, I am no quitter.” Throughout her life she has demonstrated that she is “no quitter” in her work for social justice and her fidelity to family and friends.
My purposeful, industrious daughter comes to mind as I pray with today’s readings. In the first reading from Exodus we hear about the support Moses is giving his people by keeping his hands raised. However, as he grew weary, Israel struggled in their fight against Amalek. Aaron and Hur supported Moses’ raised hands which gave the necessary strength to Joshua and the Israelites. This image helps me appreciate the support I was giving my daughter’s efforts to be a good friend by staying with her at the table as she worked to be a good friend. I am reminded to also appreciate the presence of God’s loving support in my life through prayer.
In today’s second reading from Timothy, we hear: All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work. What a powerful invitation to ground ourselves to pray with Scripture, especially through contemplative prayer where we can use all of our senses to put ourselves in the story. And at the same time, I am inspired to feel God’s presence throughout my day and have those experiences, emotions and encounters animate my prayer.
The widow in the parable shared by Jesus in the Gospel from Luke is the ultimate “no quitter.” Her persistence in her requests to the hard-hearted judge is impressive. She is strong, courageous, purposeful and focused. I wonder what it might be like if I approached my prayer life with such strength, courage, purpose and focus. As I listen to what Jesus is attempting to teach about prayer through this parable, I feel comforted by today’s responsorial psalm: Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Rather than try to figure out the perfect way to pray or the perfect time to pray or the perfect structure of my prayers, I simply need to put my trust in God to support my desire to pray. I am comforted by that support and am inspired to be as persistent as the widow.
St Ignatius had a lot to say about prayer. In the Spiritual Exercises St Ignatius tells us that before we even begin to pray, we should “Ask God our Lord for what I want and desire.” Being attentive and asking for a grace, a desire, helps me listen more deeply to God. Beginning my prayer by asking for a grace reminds me that prayer is not a high-powered negotiation session for a particular request but rather a rich conversation with God.
The wants and desires that form the grace I put before God are limitless. Perhaps I pray for the grace to be more attentive to God in my daily routine. Or the grace for insight as I face big decisions. Or the grace to celebrate the many gifts in my life. Or perhaps the grace to …... you fill in the blank.
Inspired by the beautiful readings today and trusting in the vastness of God’s love, I am confident that when it comes to prayer, I am no quitter.
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WORLD WORD-WAR
“As long as Moses kept his hands raised up, Israel had the better of the fight.” —Exodus 17:11
We are in a war against demons (Eph 6:12). As the Church, we are attacking the gates of hell which cannot prevail against us (Mt 16:18). By the power of the Holy Spirit, we are claiming Jesus’ victory over Satan and applying it to our lives and our world.
Our sword is the Spirit using God’s Word (Eph 6:17) and helping us to pray in our weakness (Rm 8:26). Therefore, “preach the word, [staying] with this task whether convenient or inconvenient” (2 Tm 4:2). Also, accompany the proclamation of God’s Word by praying as Moses did (Ex 17:11-13). “At every opportunity pray in the Spirit, using prayers and petitions of every sort. Pray constantly and attentively for all in the holy company” (Eph 6:18). Pray with and for the ministry of God’s Word. “Pray for us that the word of the Lord may make progress and be hailed by many others, even as it has been by you” (2 Thes 3:1). Pray “that God may put His word” on our lips that we “may have courage to proclaim it as” we ought (Eph 6:19, 20).
On this World Mission Sunday, fight in the power of the Spirit the world war of words — words of witnessing, preaching, teaching, and praying.
Prayer: Father, I will “fight hard for the faith” (Jude 3).
Promise: “All Scripture is inspired of God and is useful for teaching — for reproof, correction, and training in holiness so that the man of God may be fully competent and equipped for every good work.” —2 Tm 3:16-17
Praise: St. Peter first preached about Christ’s passion, then told the rest of the story: “But God raised Him from the dead, and we are His witnesses” (Acts 3:15). Praise You, risen Jesus!
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What can a shameless and unjust judge pitted against a crusty and pestering woman teach us about justice and vindication (to restore what is right and just) in the kingdom of God? Jesus tells a story that is all too true - a defenseless widow is taken advantaged of and refused her rights. Through sheer persistence she wears down an unscrupulous judge until he gives her justice. Persistence pays off, and that's especially true for those who trust in God. Jesus illustrates how God as our Judge and Vindicator is much quicker to come to our defense and to bring us his justice, blessing, and help when we need it. But we can easily lose heart and forget to ask our heavenly Father for his grace and help.
Faith-filled persistence reaps the fruit of justice and grace
Jesus told the parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge (Luke 18:1-8) to give his disciples fresh hope and confidence in God's unfailing care and favor towards us (grace). In this present life we can expect trials and adversity, but we are not without hope in God. The Day of the Last Judgment will reveal that God's justice triumphs over all the injustices perpetrated by a fallen world of sinful people and that God's love is stronger than death (Song of Songs 8:6). Those who put their faith in God and entrust their lives to him can look forward with hope and confident assurance. They will receive their reward - if not fully in this present life then surely and completely in the age to come in God's kingdom of righteousness, peace, and joy (Romans 14:17).
Jesus ends his parable with a probing question for us. Will you and I have faith - the kind of faith that doesn't give up or lose hope in God - but perseveres to the end of our lives - and to the end of this present age when the Lord Jesus will return in glory as Ruler and Judge of All? Faith is an entirely free gift that God makes to us. We could not believe, trust, and persevere with hope if God did not first draw us to himself and reveal to us his merciful love and care. If we want to grow and persevere in faith until the end of our days, then we must nourish our faith with the word of God and ask the Lord to increase it (Luke 17:5). When trials and setbacks disappoint you, where do you place your hope and confidence? Do you pray with expectant faith and confident hope in God's merciful care and provision for you?
Lord Jesus, increase my faith and make it strong that I may never doubt your word and promise to be with me always. In every situation I face - whether trials, setbacks, or loss - may I always find strength in your unfailing love and find joy and contentment in having you alone as the treasure of my heart.
Psalm 121:1-8
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot be moved, he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
8 The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Persistent prayer transforms iniquity and wickedness into mercy, by Ephrem the Syrian (306-373 AD)
"How was that unjust judge immoral and wicked? How was the upright judge gracious and just? The first in his iniquity was not willing to vindicate the widow, and in his wickedness, he was not willing to put her mind at rest. The justice of God knows how to vindicate, and his grace discerns how to give life. The iniquity of this wicked judge was contrary to the justice of God, and the wickedness of this rebel was in opposition to the grace of the gentle One. His wickedness therefore was stubbornness, for it dared to go against the fear of God. His boldness was stubborn, for it refused the lowly person."
"These two were stubborn, but persistent prayer was even more stubborn. The persistence of the widow humiliated both the iniquity that was rebelling against God and the boldness that was behaving arrogantly towards human beings. She subjected them to her will, so that they might provide her with a vindication over her adversary. Persistence transformed these two bitter branches, and they bore sweet fruit that was against their nature. The iniquity of the judge brought about a righteous judgment and a just retribution for the falsely accused woman. His wickedness gave peace to the afflicted one, although iniquity does not know how to judge, and wickedness does not know how to give refreshment. Persistence forced these two evil and bitter branches to give good fruit against their nature. If we persist in prayer, we should be even more able to prevail on the grace and justice of God to give us fruit that agrees with their nature. Let justice vindicate us, and let grace refresh us. Accordingly, the fruit of justice is the just reward of the oppressed, while the giving of refreshment to the afflicted is the fruit of grace." (excerpt from COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 16.16.6)
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