2022년 11월 6일 연중 제32주일
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제1독서
마카베오기 하. 7,1-2.9-14
그 무렵 1 어떤 일곱 형제가 어머니와 함께 체포되어
채찍과 가죽끈으로 고초를 당하며,
법으로 금지된 돼지고기를 먹으라는 강요를 임금에게서 받은 일이 있었다.
2 그들 가운데 하나가 대변자가 되어 이렇게 말하였다.
“우리를 심문하여 무엇을 알아내려 하시오?
우리는 조상들의 법을 어기느니 차라리 죽을 각오가 되어 있소.”
둘째가 9 마지막 숨을 거두며 말하였다.
“이 사악한 인간, 당신은 우리를 이승에서 몰아내지만,
온 세상의 임금님께서는 당신의 법을 위하여
죽은 우리를 일으키시어 영원한 생명을 누리게 하실 것이오.”
10 그 다음에는 셋째가 조롱을 당하였다.
그는 혀를 내밀라는 말을 듣자 바로 혀를 내밀고 손까지 용감하게 내뻗으며,
11 고결하게 말하였다. “이 지체들을 하늘에서 받았지만,
그분의 법을 위해서라면 나는 이것들까지도 하찮게 여기오.
그러나 그분에게서 다시 받으리라고 희망하오.”
12 그러자 임금은 물론 그와 함께 있던 자들까지
고통을 아무것도 아닌 것으로 여기는 그 젊은이의 기개에 놀랐다.
13 셋째가 죽은 다음에 그들은 넷째도 같은 식으로 괴롭히며 고문하였다.
14 그는 죽는 순간이 되자 이렇게 말하였다.
“하느님께서 다시 일으켜 주시리라는 희망을 간직하고,
사람들의 손에 죽는 것이 더 낫소.
그러나 당신은 부활하여 생명을 누릴 가망이 없소.”
제2독서
테살로니카 2서.2,16ㅡ3,5
형제 여러분, 16 우리 주 예수 그리스도께서 친히, 또 우리를 사랑하시고
당신의 은총으로 영원한 격려와 좋은 희망을 주신
하느님 우리 아버지께서,
17 여러분의 마음을 격려하시고 여러분의 힘을 북돋우시어
온갖 좋은 일과 좋은 말을 하게 해 주시기를 빕니다.
3,1 끝으로 형제 여러분, 우리를 위하여 기도해 주십시오.
주님의 말씀이 여러분에게서처럼 빠르게 퍼져 나가 찬양을 받고,
2 우리가 고약하고 악한 사람들에게서 구출되도록 기도해 주십시오.
모든 사람이 믿음을 가지고 있지는 않기 때문입니다.
3 주님은 성실하신 분이시므로, 여러분의 힘을 북돋우시고
여러분을 악에서 지켜 주실 것입니다.
4 우리는 주님 안에서 여러분을 신뢰합니다.
우리가 지시하는 것들을 여러분이 실행하고 있고
앞으로도 실행하리라고 믿습니다.
5 주님께서 여러분의 마음을 이끄시어,
하느님의 사랑과 그리스도의 인내에 이르게 해 주시기를 빕니다.
복음
루카. 20,27-38<또는 20,27.34-38>
그때에 27 부활이 없다고 주장하는 사두가이 몇 사람이 예수님께 다가와 물었다.
28 “스승님, 모세는 ‘어떤 사람의 형제가 자식 없이’아내를 남기고 ‘죽으면,
그 사람이 죽은 이의 아내를 맞아들여 형제의 후사를 일으켜 주어야 한다.’고
저희를 위하여 기록해 놓았습니다.
29 그런데 일곱 형제가 있었습니다.
맏이가 아내를 맞아들였는데 자식 없이 죽었습니다.
30 그래서 둘째가, 31 그다음에는 셋째가 그 여자를 맞아들였습니다.
그렇게 일곱이 모두 자식을 남기지 못하고 죽었습니다.
32 마침내 그 부인도 죽었습니다.
33 그러면 부활 때에 그 여자는 그들 가운데 누구의 아내가 되겠습니까?
일곱이 다 그 여자를 아내로 맞아들였으니 말입니다.”
34 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다. “이 세상 사람들은 장가도 들고 시집도 간다.
35 그러나 저세상에 참여하고
또 죽은 이들의 부활에 참여할 자격이 있다고 판단받는 이들은
더 이상 장가드는 일도 시집가는 일도 없을 것이다.
36 천사들과 같아져서 더 이상 죽는 일도 없다.
그들은 또한 부활에 동참하여 하느님의 자녀가 된다.
37 그리고 죽은 이들이 되살아난다는 사실은,
모세도 떨기나무 대목에서 ‘주님은 아브라함의 하느님,
이사악의 하느님, 야곱의 하느님’이라는 말로 이미 밝혀 주었다.
38 그분은 죽은 이들의 하느님이 아니라 산 이들의 하느님이시다.
사실 하느님께는 모든 사람이 살아 있는 것이다.”
주님의 말씀입니다.
◎ 그리스도님, 찬미합니다.
<강론 후 잠시 묵상한다.><신경>
<또는>
<하느님은 죽은 이들의 하느님이 아니라 산 이들의 하느님이시다.>
✠ 루카가 전한 거룩한 복음입니다. 20,27.34-38
그때에 27 부활이 없다고 주장하는 사두가이 몇 사람이 예수님께 다가와 물었다.
34 예수님께서 그들에게 이르셨다. “이 세상 사람들은 장가도 들고 시집도 간다.
35 그러나 저세상에 참여하고
또 죽은 이들의 부활에 참여할 자격이 있다고 판단받는 이들은
더 이상 장가드는 일도 시집가는 일도 없을 것이다.
36 천사들과 같아져서 더 이상 죽는 일도 없다.
그들은 또한 부활에 동참하여 하느님의 자녀가 된다.
37 그리고 죽은 이들이 되살아난다는 사실은,
모세도 떨기나무 대목에서 ‘주님은 아브라함의 하느님,
이사악의 하느님, 야곱의 하느님’이라는 말로 이미 밝혀 주었다.
38 그분은 죽은 이들의 하느님이 아니라 산 이들의 하느님이시다.
사실 하느님께는 모든 사람이 살아 있는 것이다.”
November 6, 2022
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested
and tortured with whips and scourges by the king,
to force them to eat pork in violation of God's law.
One of the brothers, speaking for the others, said:
"What do you expect to achieve by questioning us?
We are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors."
At the point of death he said:
"You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life,
but the King of the world will raise us up to live again forever.
It is for his laws that we are dying."
After him the third suffered their cruel sport.
He put out his tongue at once when told to do so,
and bravely held out his hands, as he spoke these noble words:
"It was from Heaven that I received these;
for the sake of his laws I disdain them;
from him I hope to receive them again."
Even the king and his attendants marveled at the young man's courage,
because he regarded his sufferings as nothing.
After he had died,
they tortured and maltreated the fourth brother in the same way.
When he was near death, he said,
"It is my choice to die at the hands of men
with the hope God gives of being raised up by him;
but for you, there will be no resurrection to life."
Responsorial Psalm
R. (15b) Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.
Hear, O LORD, a just suit;
attend to my outcry;
hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit.
R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.
My steps have been steadfast in your paths,
my feet have not faltered.
I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me; hear my word.
R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.
Keep me as the apple of your eye,
hide me in the shadow of your wings.
But I in justice shall behold your face;
on waking I shall be content in your presence.
R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.
Reading 2
Brothers and sisters:
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father,
who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement
and good hope through his grace,
encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed
and word.
Finally, brothers and sisters, pray for us,
so that the word of the Lord may speed forward and be glorified,
as it did among you,
and that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked people,
for not all have faith.
But the Lord is faithful;
he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
We are confident of you in the Lord that what we instruct you,
you are doing and will continue to do.
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God
and to the endurance of Christ.
Gospel
Lk 20:27-38 or Lk 20:27, 34-38
Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,
came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying,
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us,
If someone's brother dies leaving a wife but no child,
his brother must take the wife
and raise up descendants for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers;
the first married a woman but died childless.
Then the second and the third married her,
and likewise all the seven died childless.
Finally the woman also died.
Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?
For all seven had been married to her."
Jesus said to them,
"The children of this age marry and remarry;
but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age
and to the resurrection of the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die,
for they are like angels;
and they are the children of God
because they are the ones who will rise.
That the dead will rise
even Moses made known in the passage about the bush,
when he called out 'Lord, '
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
and he is not God of the dead, but of the living,
for to him all are alive."
Being Put to the Test
I have never liked taking tests. They always stir in me a long lingering feeling that I am not good enough or smart enough or worthy. And so, passages like our Gospel today make me uneasy. We have, again, a group of people who are skeptical of Jesus and attempt to trap him through a kind of test. In this case they want to trap him to somehow prove that resurrection is not real.
But, we know that when Jesus is put to the test, he always leans on love and on the truth of life eternal. And for us, Jesus reveals this love and life eternal through his own suffering, death, and resurrection. So when we feel that anxiety of being tested, let's remember that Jesus offers us the one answer that’s most important – that we are worthy of love and that eternal life awaits 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
Lord Jesus, thank you for being my companion when life offers me tests. Help me to remember that you have the answers I need, and that I am good enough. Amen.
—Fr. Eric Immel, SJ
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Patience… is something that I have been forced to work on lately, and it has been a rather painful process. Anger so easily rises to the surface.
The timing of this reflection was perfect for me because it was humbling to be shown how much patience Jesus must have had in this moment. The Sadducees presented Him with a trick question in an attempt to agitate him. They presented Jesus with a scenario intended to make the resurrection look ridiculous. But He didn’t take the bait. I can’t imagine the fortitude Jesus must have had to take a deep breath and respond the way He did. His answer also reminded me not to get lost in the weeds. Just as small things can irritate me when I am already in a bad mood, some of the more obscure parts of Christianity can be tempting to lose oneself within. This is not to say that the resurrection is a small part of Christianity - it is not! Quite the contrary, it is certainly a pillar on which our faith stands. However, I find it difficult sometimes to prevent myself from going to great lengths concocting convoluted scenarios to disprove my own faith.
The second reading provided me with some balm to soothe my previously described feelings. I would like to encourage the reader to sit with the second and larger paragraph. Does anything speak to you? Every line struck me. “The word of the Lord must be glorified.” Now, this may be difficult for some to do. Perhaps we have questions, or doubts. Maybe our own trials feel like they are blocking our connection with God. “But the Lord is faithful, he with strengthen you and guard you from the evil one”. Strengthen…. That is the key for me. I am not meant to walk this path alone. The path of belief, of anger, of frustration. God is there to strengthen me. And what a wondrous thing that is!
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RISEN LIFE
“The King of the world will raise us up to live again forever.”—2 Maccabees 7:9
Both today’s first reading and the Gospel deal with life after death. Both show that we humans have no idea of what risen life will be like. In today’s Gospel, the Sadducees demonstrate this by their misguided assumptions. They were “badly misled” and failed “to understand the Scriptures or the power of God” (Mk 12:24).
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is an historical fact. It is not merely an idea. Throughout the centuries after Jesus rose from the dead, people have given their lives in martyrdom to defend the truth of Jesus’ Resurrection. Numerous martyrs “were tortured and would not receive deliverance, in order to obtain a better resurrection” (Heb 11:35).
The key to life is to have an encounter with the risen Jesus. After we have met the risen Christ, we become “a new creation. The old order has passed away; now all is new” (2 Cor 5:17). Even in this earthly life, our lifestyle changes completely as we see everything through the perspective of the kingdom of God rather than with the eyes of the world (see Mt 6:19-34).
Since Jesus has risen, we who are baptized into Christ can share even now in this risen life (Col 1:10-13). Our life is hidden in Christ (Col 3:3). We are citizens of heaven (Phil 3:20) while living on this earth. Accept the risen Jesus as your Lord.
Prayer: Father, may I be far more confident in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ than I am in such earthly principles as the law of gravity.
Promise: “The Lord keeps faith; He it is Who will strengthen you and guard you against the evil one.” —2 Thes 3:3
Praise: “If we have been united with Him through likeness to His death, so shall we be through a like resurrection” (Rm 6:5). Praise You, risen Jesus!
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Is your life earth-bound or heaven-bound? The Sadducees had one big problem - they could not conceive of heaven beyond what they could see with their naked eyes! Aren't we often like them? We don't recognize spiritual realities because we try to make heaven into an earthly image. The Sadducees came to Jesus with a test question to make the resurrection look ridiculous. The Sadducees, unlike the Pharisees, did not believe in immortality, nor in angels or evil spirits. Their religion was literally grounded in an earthly image of heaven.
The Scriptures give witness - we will rise again to immortal life
Jesus retorts by dealing with the fact of the resurrection. The Scriptures give proof of it. In Exodus 3:6, when God manifests his presence to Moses in the burning bush, the Lord tells him that he is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He shows that the patriarchs who died hundreds of years previously were still alive in God. Jesus defeats their arguments by showing that God is a living God of a living people. God was the friend of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when they lived. That friendship could not cease with death. As Psalm 73:23-24 states: "I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory."
The ultimate proof of the resurrection is the Lord Jesus and his victory over death when he rose from the tomb. Before Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he exclaimed: "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" (John 11:25). Jesus asks us the same question. Do you believe in the resurrection and in the promise of eternal life with God?
Jesus came to restore Paradise and everlasting life for us
The Holy Spirit reveals to us the eternal truths of God's enduring love and the abundant life he desires to share with us for all eternity. Paul the Apostle, quoting from the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 64:4; 65:17) states: "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him," God has revealed to us through the Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). The promise of Paradise - heavenly bliss and unending life with an all-loving God - is beyond human reckoning. We have only begun to taste the first-fruits! Do you live now in the joy and hope of the life of the age to come?
May the Lord Jesus put his hands on our eyes also, for then we too shall begin to look not at what is seen but at what is not seen. May he open the eyes that are concerned not with the present but with what is yet to come, may he unseal the heart's vision, that we may gaze on God in the Spirit, through the same Lord, Jesus Christ, whose glory and power will endure throughout the unending succession of ages. (Prayer of Origen, 185-254 AD)
Psalm 17:1,6-9,15
1 Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
6 I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me, hear my words.
7 Wondrously show your mercies, O savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,
9 from the wicked who despoil me, my deadly enemies who surround me.
15 As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with beholding your form.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Jesus cites Moses to affirm the resurrection, by Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD)
"The Savior also demonstrated the great ignorance of the Sadducees by bringing forward their own leader Moses, who was clearly acquainted with the resurrection of the dead. He set God before us saying in the bush, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob' (Exodus 3:6). Of whom is he God, if, according to their argument, these have ceased to live? He is the God of the living. They certainly will rise when his almighty right hand brings them and all that are on the earth there. For people not to believe that this will happen is worthy perhaps of the ignorance of the Sadducees, but it is altogether unworthy of those who love Christ. We believe in him who says, 'I am the resurrection and the life' (John 11:25). He will raise the dead suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye, and at the last trumpet. It shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise incorruptible, and we shall be changed (1 Corinthians 15:52). For Christ our common Savior will transfer us into incorruption, glory and to an incorruptible life."(excerpt from COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 136)
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