2022년 12월 16일 대림 제3주간 금요일
제1독서
이사야서. 56,1-3ㄴ.6-8
1 주님께서 이렇게 말씀하신다. “너희는 공정을 지키고 정의를 실천하여라.
나의 구원이 가까이 왔고 나의 의로움이 곧 드러나리라.”
2 행복하여라, 이를 실천하는 사람! 이를 준수하는 인간
안식일을 지켜 더럽히지 않는 이, 어떤 악행에도 손을 대지 않는 이.
3 주님을 따르는 이방인은 이렇게 말하지 마라.
“주님께서는 나를 반드시 당신 백성에게서 떼어 버리시리라.”
주님께서 이렇게 말씀하신다.
6 “주님을 섬기고 주님의 이름을 사랑하며
주님의 종이 되려고 주님을 따르는 이방인들,
안식일을 지켜 더럽히지 않고 나의 계약을 준수하는 모든 이들.
7 나는 그들을 나의 거룩한 산으로 인도하고
나에게 기도하는 집에서 그들을 기쁘게 하리라.
그들의 번제물과 희생 제물들은 나의 제단 위에서 기꺼이 받아들여지리니
나의 집은 모든 민족들을 위한 기도의 집이라 불리리라.”
8 쫓겨 간 이스라엘 사람들을 모으시는 주 하느님의 말씀이다.
“나는 이미 모아들여진 이들 말고도 다시 더 모아들이리라.”
복음
요한. 5,33-36
그때에 예수님께서 유다인들에게 말씀하셨다.
33 “너희가 요한에게 사람들을 보냈을 때에 그는 진리를 증언하였다.
34 나는 사람의 증언을 필요로 하지 않는다.
그런데도 이러한 말을 하는 것은 너희가 구원을 받게 하려는 것이다.
35 요한은 타오르며 빛을 내는 등불이었다.
너희는 한때 그 빛 속에서 즐거움을 누리려고 하였다.
36 그러나 나에게는 요한의 증언보다 더 큰 증언이 있다.
아버지께서 나에게 완수하도록 맡기신 일들이다.
그래서 내가 하고 있는 일들이 나를 위하여 증언한다.
아버지께서 나를 보내셨다는 것이다.”
December 16, 2022
Friday of the Third Week of Advent
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Reading 1
Is 56:1-3a, 6-8
Thus says the LORD:
Observe what is right, do what is just;
for my salvation is about to come,
my justice, about to be revealed.
Blessed is the man who does this,
the son of man who holds to it;
Who keeps the sabbath free from profanation,
and his hand from any evildoing.
Let not the foreigner say,
when he would join himself to the LORD,
"The LORD will surely exclude me from his people."
The foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,
ministering to him,
Loving the name of the LORD,
and becoming his servants?
All who keep the sabbath free from profanation
and hold to my covenant,
Them I will bring to my holy mountain
and make joyful in my house of prayer;
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be acceptable on my altar,
For my house shall be called
a house of prayer for all peoples.
Thus says the Lord GOD,
who gathers the dispersed of Israel:
Others will I gather to him
besides those already gathered.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 67:2-3, 5, 7-8
R. (4) O God, let all the nations praise you!
May God have pity on us and bless us;
may he let his face shine upon us.
So may your way be known upon earth;
among all nations, your salvation.
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
May the nations be glad and exult
because you rule the peoples in equity;
the nations on the earth you guide.
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
The earth has yielded its fruits;
God, our God, has blessed us.
May God bless us,
and may all the ends of the earth fear him!
R. O God, let all the nations praise you!
Gospel
Jn 5:33-36
Jesus said to the Jews:
"You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth.
I do not accept testimony from a human being,
but I say this so that you may be saved.
John was a burning and shining lamp,
and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light.
But I have testimony greater than John's.
The works that the Father gave me to accomplish,
these works that I perform testify on my behalf
that the Father has sent me."
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For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
Thus says the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel:
Others will I gather to him besides those already gathered.
Isaiah
Every week when we were kids, my sister and I would walk past the local Methodist Church enroute to the public library where we would check out our allowed three books. I used to wonder what went on in this forbidden building.
Forbidden? It was a house of prayer populated by good people from my rural town. But we Catholics debated about whether it was okay to attend even a wedding or a funeral at a Protestant church lest we show our approval of heretics.
The more sensible people opted for weddings and funerals but nothing as dangerous as a Sunday service. Some people would not attend weddings where one of the partners was a Catholic marrying “outside the Church.”
Then came the miracle of Pope John XXIII where we learned that our heretical neighbors were our “separated brethren” whom we should embrace.
Much like today’s wonderful passage from Isaiah, we learned that God’s house was a “house of prayer for all peoples” where he gathered people of many types in addition to the “already gathered” which we assumed meant us.
I thought of those treks past the Methodist Church many times during the 1970’s when I was a religion reporter covering the inspiring social and racial justice work being done by Nebraska Methodists. I interviewed Methodist ministers on fire with the Gospel and loved the way everyone joined in singing “Amazing Grace” at the end of their annual state meetings. Of course, “Amazing Grace” is a Methodist hymn which we have happily adopted along with other classic Protestant hymns like “How Great Thou Art.”
What an improvement our new expanded “house of prayer” was! I covered the consecration of two Episcopal bishops in our beautiful St. Cecilia’s Cathedral because it was larger than Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Creighton’s Jesuits especially embraced such outreach. Our campus even has a Muslim prayer room.
Now Pope Francis is discussing a common date for Easter with Orthodox Christians. Wonderful! It’s an important gesture of outreach and unity.
Thank you, Pope John, for tearing down the foolish walls with which we “protected” ourselves from other people of faiths in God’s universal house of prayer. Surely God wants to gather us all in love, especially during this sacred season.
A blessed Christmas to all!
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For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
Thus says the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel:
Others will I gather to him besides those already gathered.
Isaiah
Every week when we were kids, my sister and I would walk past the local Methodist Church enroute to the public library where we would check out our allowed three books. I used to wonder what went on in this forbidden building.
Forbidden? It was a house of prayer populated by good people from my rural town. But we Catholics debated about whether it was okay to attend even a wedding or a funeral at a Protestant church lest we show our approval of heretics.
The more sensible people opted for weddings and funerals but nothing as dangerous as a Sunday service. Some people would not attend weddings where one of the partners was a Catholic marrying “outside the Church.”
Then came the miracle of Pope John XXIII where we learned that our heretical neighbors were our “separated brethren” whom we should embrace.
Much like today’s wonderful passage from Isaiah, we learned that God’s house was a “house of prayer for all peoples” where he gathered people of many types in addition to the “already gathered” which we assumed meant us.
I thought of those treks past the Methodist Church many times during the 1970’s when I was a religion reporter covering the inspiring social and racial justice work being done by Nebraska Methodists. I interviewed Methodist ministers on fire with the Gospel and loved the way everyone joined in singing “Amazing Grace” at the end of their annual state meetings. Of course, “Amazing Grace” is a Methodist hymn which we have happily adopted along with other classic Protestant hymns like “How Great Thou Art.”
What an improvement our new expanded “house of prayer” was! I covered the consecration of two Episcopal bishops in our beautiful St. Cecilia’s Cathedral because it was larger than Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Creighton’s Jesuits especially embraced such outreach. Our campus even has a Muslim prayer room.
Now Pope Francis is discussing a common date for Easter with Orthodox Christians. Wonderful! It’s an important gesture of outreach and unity.
Thank you, Pope John, for tearing down the foolish walls with which we “protected” ourselves from other people of faiths in God’s universal house of prayer. Surely God wants to gather us all in love, especially during this sacred season.
A blessed Christmas to all!
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Do you know the joy of the Gospel - the good news that the Father in heaven sent his only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to set us free from the kingdom of darkness, death, and Satan? Jesus' opponents refused to accept his authority to speak and act in the name of God. And they refused to believe that he was sent from the Father in heaven. They demanded evidence for his claim to be the Anointed Messiah and divine Son of the eternal Father. Jesus answered their charges with the supporting evidence of witnesses. The law of Moses had laid down the principle that the unsupported evidence of one person shall not prevail against a man for any charge of wrongdoing (see Deuteronomy 17:6). At least two or three witnesses were needed.
John was a burning and shining lamp
Jesus began his defense by citing John the Baptist as his witness, since John publicly pointed to Jesus as the Messiah and had repeatedly borne witness to him (see John 1:19, 20, 26, 29, 35, 36). Jesus called John a burning and shining lamp that illuminated the minds and hearts of those who were ready to hear the prophetic message he spoke in God's name. A lamp cannot light itself - it must be lit from a borrowed source. The function of a lamp is to illumine the darkness and to guide people. John pointed to the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ who is the true source of light which comes from God. Jesus came to open the eyes of the blind and to free people from the blindness of sin, deception, and ignorance. Jesus proclaimed, "I am the light of the world - he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life" (John 8:12).
Jesus' mighty signs witness to the coming of God's kingdom in his person
Jesus asserted that a second and greater witness to his claim to be the Messiah were the mighty signs and miracles which he performed. He cites his own miraculous works, not to point to himself but to point to the power of God the Father working in and through him. He cited God the Father as his supreme witness.
Jesus also asserted that the word of God in the Old Testament Scriptures, including the first five books of Moses, pointed to him as the promised Messiah and Savior. The problem with the scribes and Pharisees was that they did not fully believe what Moses had written. They desired the praise of their own people and since they were so focused on themselves, they became blind-sighted to God and to the truth of his word. They were so preoccupied with their own position as authorities and interpreters of the law that they became hardened and unable to understand the word of God. Their pride made them deaf to God's voice.
God reveals his light and truth to the humble of heart
Scripture tells us that God reveals himself to the lowly of heart, to those who trust not in themselves but in God alone (Matthew 11:25-27,29 and Luke 10:21-22). The lowly of heart listen to God's word with an eagerness to learn and to obey. The Lord Jesus reveals to us the very mind and heart of God. Through the gift of the Holy Spirit he opens our ears so that we may hear his voice and he fills our hearts and minds with the love and knowledge of God. Do you believe that God's word has power to set you free from the blindness of sin and deception? If you believe in his word you will know the truth and the truth will make you free to walk in his way of love and righteousness (John 8:32).
Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may listen to your word attentively, obey it fully, and live it joyfully.
Psalm 67:1-7
1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah
2 that your way may be known upon earth, your saving power among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.Selah
5 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
6 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.
7 God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: The prophets and apostles are lamps of God, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"All people are lamps because they can both be lighted and extinguished... Only [Christ] is not a lamp. For he is not lighted and extinguished, because "as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself." Therefore, the apostles, too, are lamps. And they give thanks because they both have been kindled by the light of truth and burn with the Spirit of love, and the oil of God's grace is available to them. If they were not lamps, the Lord would not say to them, "You are the light of the world" (Matthew 5:14). For after he said, "You are the light of the world," he shows that they should not think they were such a light as that of which it is said, "It was the true light that enlightens everyone who comes into this world." (excerpt from TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 23.3.1-2).
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