2023년 2월 25일 재의 예식 다음 토요일
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제1독서
이사야서. 58,9ㄷ-14
주님께서 이렇게 말씀하신다.
9 “네가 네 가운데에서 멍에와 삿대질과 나쁜 말을 치워 버린다면
10 굶주린 이에게 네 양식을 내어 주고
고생하는 이의 넋을 흡족하게 해 준다면
네 빛이 어둠 속에서 솟아오르고
암흑이 너에게는 대낮처럼 되리라.
11 주님께서 늘 너를 이끌어 주시고
메마른 곳에서도 네 넋을 흡족하게 하시며
네 뼈마디를 튼튼하게 하시리라.
그러면 너는 물이 풍부한 정원처럼,
물이 끊이지 않는 샘터처럼 되리라.
12 너는 오래된 폐허를 재건하고 대대로 버려졌던 기초를 세워 일으키리라.
너는 갈라진 성벽을 고쳐 쌓는 이,
사람이 살도록 거리를 복구하는 이라 일컬어지리라.
13 ‘네가 삼가 안식일을 짓밟지 않고
나의 거룩한 날에 네 일을 벌이지 않는다면
네가 안식일을 ′기쁨′이라 부르고
주님의 거룩한 날을 ′존귀한 날′이라 부른다면
네가 길을 떠나는 것과 네 일만 찾는 것을 삼가며
말하는 것을 삼가고 안식일을 존중한다면
14 너는 주님 안에서 기쁨을 얻고
나는 네가 세상 높은 곳 위를 달리게 하며
네 조상 야곱의 상속 재산으로 먹게 해 주리라.’
주님께서 친히 말씀하셨다.”
복음
루카. 5,27-32
그때에 예수님께서는
27 레위라는 세리가 세관에 앉아 있는 것을 보시고 말씀하셨다.
“나를 따라라.”
28 그러자 레위는 모든 것을 버려둔 채 일어나 그분을 따랐다.
29 레위가 자기 집에서 예수님께 큰 잔치를 베풀었는데,
세리들과 다른 사람들이 큰 무리를 지어 함께 식탁에 앉았다.
30 그래서 바리사이들과 그들의 율법 학자들이
그분의 제자들에게 투덜거렸다.
“당신들은 어째서 세리와 죄인들과 함께 먹고 마시는 것이오?”
31 예수님께서 그들에게 대답하셨다.
“건강한 이들에게는 의사가 필요하지 않으나
병든 이들에게는 필요하다.
32 나는 의인이 아니라 죄인을 불러 회개시키러 왔다.”
February 25, 2023
Saturday after Ash Wednesday
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Reading 1
Is 58:9b-14
Thus says the LORD:
If you remove from your midst oppression,
false accusation and malicious speech;
If you bestow your bread on the hungry
and satisfy the afflicted;
Then light shall rise for you in the darkness,
and the gloom shall become for you like midday;
Then the LORD will guide you always
and give you plenty even on the parched land.
He will renew your strength,
and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring whose water never fails.
The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt for your sake,
and the foundations from ages past you shall raise up;
"Repairer of the breach," they shall call you,
"Restorer of ruined homesteads."
If you hold back your foot on the sabbath
from following your own pursuits on my holy day;
If you call the sabbath a delight,
and the LORD's holy day honorable;
If you honor it by not following your ways,
seeking your own interests, or speaking with maliceB
Then you shall delight in the LORD,
and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father,
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
R. (11ab) Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.
Incline your ear, O LORD; answer me,
for I am afflicted and poor.
Keep my life, for I am devoted to you;
save your servant who trusts in you.
You are my God.
R. Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.
Have mercy on me, O Lord,
for to you I call all the day.
Gladden the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
R. Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in kindness to all who call upon you.
Hearken, O LORD, to my prayer
and attend to the sound of my pleading.
R. Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.
Gospel
Lk 5:27-32
Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post.
He said to him, "Follow me."
And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him.
Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house,
and a large crowd of tax collectors
and others were at table with them.
The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying,
"Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"
Jesus said to them in reply,
"Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners."
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This reflection is coming soon. Until then, this is a reflection by Larry Gillick, S.J. on these reading, from 2016.
“If you do the impossible then I will do the impossible as a reward for you.” This could be our initial response to our First Reading for this Eucharistic liturgy. All the invitations begin with the big “If” are definitely human tendencies. “Oppression, false accusation, malicious speech, if you bestow your bread on the hungry satisfy the afflicted,” are just openers. Just one of those would be a full-Lenten project for most of us. “If you hold back your foot on the Sabbath from following your own pursuits on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not following your , seeking your own interests or speaking with malice” finish the list. There are seven of these insults to our comfortable habits and selfish behaviors. Counting these Ash-Wednesday days, there are also seven weeks in Lent. one week per sin would eradicate our sinfulness and render us available for the wonderful rewards promised by the Lord who has told us what is expected.
This Reading is the second half of yesterday’s First Reading from the prophet Isaiah. The rewards are quite attractive, blooming, light, guidance always, plenty to eat, strength and abundant fertility and the reception of names of honor will be granted. It does sound like promises made to those beginning a contest or Boot Camp, or persons beginning a weight-loss program at a Fat Farm. It all does sound as if it is all up to our good wills and the results will be worth the struggles.
Perhaps the reading from Luke’s Gospel will help us view Lent differently. I hope so. There is good news for us in the very first verse. Levi, a collector of taxes for the dominating and ruthless Roman Empire is called out from behind his counting table to follow Jesus. Apparently after some time, moments, days, or seven weeks, Levi through a dinner for Jesus and a large number of fellow money-men as well as other sinners. Jesus, it seems, did not hit them with the Big Seven “Ifs”, but accepted His being welcomed as the “Invited Inviter”. Jesus would grow quite familiar with the uninvited Pharisees who while observing the Law were also always observing Jesus’ inobservances.
The Law the Pharisees cherished was the Holy Law of Moses and these men found their holiness by keeping every little legalism. They find it so hard to see Jesus seeming to encourage tax collectors and other sinners by actually eating with them, quite unholy! Jesus hears their questioning of His disciples so He drops a Good News bumper-sticker saying on them which sums up His whole salvific mission. Jesus has come to encourage repentance as does a doctor come for the sick. The question is just who are the healthy and who are the sick?
Jesus is not the bailiff urging the guilty to the bar of Justice for examination and punishment. He is the Divine Inviter to the table of relationship. This relationship with Levi, the disciples and other wanderers will result in changing the “If yous” of the First Reading to the “When yous” reflective of such a relationship. “When you stop malicious speech…. When you feed the hungry… when you live with the ways of Jesus, then you will not be rewarded, but surprised! Jesus promises real life as a relational blessing. God does not repay, reward, trade. Jesus extends in His mercy the ongoing creational love which is all that God is.
A love-relationship moves from “if” to “will”, from “have to” to “want to”. The repentance to which Jesus is calling us is from self-idolatry to self-reverence. This reverence allows us to not spent our lives protecting our identities, our possessions, our everything as if they really were ours. Self-reverence is the acceptance of the holiness of God shared with us, within us and which desires to be manifested as all of God desires. When we reverence what has been given and is ours only as temporary possessors, then the “when” and the “will” walk together.
These days of Lent are meant to be spent walking with those entering the Church through their Easter baptisms. Our repentance as a personal project is impossible, but the grace offered us by His relationship with us will allow for the possible. We walk with Jesus who reverences our humanity for what it is, a Gift from God and reverences our humanity for all it will be through His redemptive life, death and resurrection.
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WALKING INTO GLORY
“Then you shall delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth.” —Isaiah 58:14
We are on the fourth day of a forty-day journey through the desert of Lent. Our destination is the celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead. When we meet the risen Christ in a new way this Easter time, “light shall rise” for us “in the darkness, and the gloom shall become” like midday (Is 58:10). “Then the Lord will guide” us always and give us “plenty even on the parched land” (Is 58:11). “The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt” for our sakes and “the foundations from ages past” we shall raise up (Is 58:12). “ ‘Repairer of the breach,’ they shall call” us, “ ‘Restorer of ruined homesteads’ ” (Is 58:12).
Yes, this Easter season will be more than we could ever ask for or imagine (Eph 3:20). Isaiah’s prophecies from over 2,500 years ago will be fulfilled again. The risen Christ’s love and glory will be so greatly manifested this Easter that it would be too much for us if we had not prepared our hearts through our Lenten repentance, fasting, almsgiving, penance, and prayer. Because Easter is so great, Lent is so necessary. Enter fully into Lent.
Prayer: Father, make me ready for anything as I grow in holiness this Lent more than ever before.
Promise: Jesus “said to him, ‘Follow Me.’ Leaving everything behind, Levi stood up and became His follower.” —Lk 5:27-28
Praise: Louise prays, lobbies, and serves to bring about a culture of life.
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When your neighbor stumbles through sin or ignorance, do you point the finger to criticize or do you lend a helping hand to lift him or her up? The prophet Isaiah tells us that God repays each in kind. When we bless others, especially those who need spiritual as well as physical and material help, God in turn blesses us.
Who do you point the finger at?
When Jesus called a despised tax collector to be his disciple he surprised everyone including Levi (also known as Matthew). The religious leaders were especially upset with Jesus' behavior towards public sinners like Levi. The Jewish people were roughly divided into two groups: the orthodox Jews who rigidly kept the law and all its petty regulations, and the rest who didn't keep all the minute regulations. The orthodox treated the latter like second class citizens. They scrupulously avoided their company, refused to do business with them, refused to give or receive anything from them, refused to intermarry, and avoided any form of friendship with them, including table fellowship. Jesus' association with the latter, especially with tax collectors and public sinners, shocked the sensibilities of these orthodox Jews.
A true physician of body, mind, and soul
When the Pharisees challenged Jesus unorthodox behavior in eating with public sinners, Jesus' defense was quite simple. A doctor doesn't need to treat healthy people - instead he goes to those who are sick. Jesus likewise sought out those in the greatest need. A true physician seeks healing of the whole person - body, mind, and spirit. Jesus came as the divine physician and good shepherd to care for his people and to restore them to wholeness of life.
The orthodox were so preoccupied with their own practice of religion that they neglected to help the very people who needed the greatest care. Their religion was selfish because they didn't want to have anything to do with people not like themselves. Jesus stated his mission in unequivocal terms: I came not to call the righteous, but to call sinners. Ironically the orthodox were as needy as those they despised. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Do you thank the Lord for the great mercy he has shown to you? And do you seek the good of all your neighbors and show them mercy and kindness?
Leave all and follow Christ
What does it mean to "leave all and follow the Lord"? Bede the Venerable (673-735 AD), an Anglo-Saxon monk who wrote numerous commentaries on the Scriptures, explains what it meant for Matthew and for us to "follow" as disciples of the Lord Jesus:
"By 'follow' he meant not so much the movement of feet as of the heart, the carrying out of a way of life. For one who says that he lives in Christ ought himself to walk just as he walked, not to aim at earthly things, not to pursue perishable gains, but to flee base praise, to embrace willingly the contempt of all that is worldly for the sake of heavenly glory, to do good to all, to inflict injuries upon no one in bitterness, to suffer patiently those injuries that come to oneself, to ask God's forgiveness for those who oppress, never to seek one's own glory but always God's, and to uphold whatever helps one love heavenly things. This is what is meant by following Christ. In this way, disregarding earthly gains, Matthew attached himself to the band of followers of One who had no riches. For the Lord himself, who outwardly called Matthew by a word, inwardly bestowed upon him the gift of an invisible impulse so that he was able to follow."
Are you ready to forsake all for the Lord Jesus Christ?
Lord Jesus, our Savior, let us now come to you: Our hearts are cold; Lord, warm them with your selfless love. Our hearts are sinful; cleanse them with your precious blood. Our hearts are weak; strengthen them with your joyous Spirit. Our hearts are empty; fill them with your divine presence. Lord Jesus, our hearts are yours; possess them always and only for yourself.
Psalm 86:1-6
1 Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my life, for I am Godly; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God;
3 be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all the day.
4 Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.
6 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; hearken to my cry of supplication.
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Our All-powerful Physician, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 AD
"Our wound is serious, but the Physician is all-powerful. Does it seem to you so small a mercy that, while you were living in evil and sinning, he did not take away your life, but brought you to belief and forgave your sins? What I suffer is serious, but I trust the Almighty. I would despair of my mortal wound if I had not found so great a Physician." (excerpt from Sermon 352, 3)
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