July 2, 2019 Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
2019년 7월 2일 연중 제13주간 화요일
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제1독서
창세기. 19,15-29
그 무렵 15 천사들이 롯을 재촉하며 말하였다. “자, 이 성읍에 벌이 내릴 때 함께 휩쓸리지 않으려거든, 그대의 아내와 여기에 있는 두 딸을 데리고 어서 가시오.” 16 그런데도 롯이 망설이자 그 사람들은 롯과 그의 아내와 두 딸의 손을 잡고 성읍 밖으로 데리고 나갔다. 주님께서 롯에게 자비를 베푸셨기 때문이다.
17 그들은 롯의 가족을 밖으로 데리고 나와 말하였다. “달아나 목숨을 구하시오. 뒤를 돌아다보아서는 안 되오. 이 들판 어디에서도 멈추어 서지 마시오. 휩쓸려 가지 않으려거든 산으로 달아나시오.”
18 그러나 롯은 그들에게 말하였다. “나리, 제발 그러지 마십시오. 19 이 종이 나리 눈에 들어, 나리께서는 이제껏 저에게 하신 것처럼 큰 은혜를 베푸시어 저의 목숨을 살려 주셨습니다. 그렇지만 재앙에 휩싸여 죽을까 두려워, 저 산으로는 달아날 수가 없습니다.
20 보십시오, 저 성읍은 가까워 달아날 만하고 자그마한 곳입니다. 제발 그리로 달아나게 해 주십시오. 자그마하지 않습니까? 그러면 제 목숨을 살릴 수 있겠습니다.”
21 그러자 그가 롯에게 말하였다. “좋소. 내가 이번에도 그대의 얼굴을 보아 그대가 말하는 저 성읍을 멸망시키지 않겠소. 22 서둘러 그곳으로 달아나시오. 그대가 그곳에 다다르기 전까지는 내가 일을 하지 못하기 때문이오.” 그리하여 그 성읍을 초아르라 하였다. 23 롯이 초아르에 다다르자 해가 땅 위로 솟아올랐다.
24 그때 주님께서 당신이 계신 곳 하늘에서 소돔과 고모라에 유황과 불을 퍼부으셨다.
25 그리하여 그 성읍들과 온 들판과 그 성읍의 모든 주민, 그리고 땅 위에 자란 것들을 모두 멸망시키셨다. 26 그런데 롯의 아내는 뒤를 돌아다보다 소금 기둥이 되어 버렸다.
27 아브라함이 아침 일찍 일어나, 자기가 주님 앞에 서 있던 곳으로 가서 28 소돔과 고모라와 그 들판의 온 땅을 내려다보니, 마치 가마에서 나는 연기처럼 그 땅에서 연기가 솟아오르고 있었다.
29 하느님께서 그 들판의 성읍들을 멸망시키실 때, 아브라함을 기억하셨다. 그래서 롯이 살고 있던 성읍들을 멸망시키실 때, 롯을 그 멸망의 한가운데에서 내보내 주셨다.
복음
마태오. 8,23-27
그 무렵 23 예수님께서 배에 오르시자 제자들도 그분을 따랐다.
24 그때 호수에 큰 풍랑이 일어 배가 파도에 뒤덮이게 되었다. 그런데도 예수님께서는 주무시고 계셨다. 25 제자들이 다가가 예수님을 깨우며, “주님, 구해 주십시오. 저희가 죽게 되었습니다.” 하였다.
26 그러자 그분은 “왜 겁을 내느냐? 이 믿음이 약한 자들아!” 하고 말씀하셨다. 그런 다음 일어나셔서 바람과 호수를 꾸짖으셨다. 그러자 아주 고요해졌다.
27 그 사람들은 놀라워하며 말하였다. “이분이 어떤 분이시기에 바람과 호수까지 복종하는가?”
July 2, 2019
Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Gn 19:15-29
As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, “On your way!
Take with you your wife and your two daughters who are here,
or you will be swept away in the punishment of Sodom.”
When he hesitated, the men, by the LORD’s mercy,
seized his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters
and led them to safety outside the city.
As soon as they had been brought outside, he was told:
“Flee for your life!
Don’t look back or stop anywhere on the Plain.
Get off to the hills at once, or you will be swept away.”
“Oh, no, my lord!” Lot replied,
“You have already thought enough of your servant
to do me the great kindness of intervening to save my life.
But I cannot flee to the hills to keep the disaster from overtaking me,
and so I shall die.
Look, this town ahead is near enough to escape to.
It’s only a small place.
Let me flee there–it’s a small place, is it not?–
that my life may be saved.”
“Well, then,” he replied,
“I will also grant you the favor you now ask.
I will not overthrow the town you speak of.
Hurry, escape there!
I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”
That is why the town is called Zoar.
The sun was just rising over the earth as Lot arrived in Zoar;
at the same time the LORD rained down sulphurous fire
upon Sodom and Gomorrah
from the LORD out of heaven.
He overthrew those cities and the whole Plain,
together with the inhabitants of the cities
and the produce of the soil.
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she was turned into a pillar of salt.
Early the next morning Abraham went to the place
where he had stood in the LORD’s presence.
As he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah
and the whole region of the Plain,
he saw dense smoke over the land rising like fumes from a furnace.
Thus it came to pass: when God destroyed the Cities of the Plain,
he was mindful of Abraham by sending Lot away from the upheaval
by which God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (3a) O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Search me, O LORD, and try me;
test my soul and my heart.
For your mercy is before my eyes,
and I walk in your truth.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Gather not my soul with those of sinners,
nor with men of blood my life.
On their hands are crimes,
and their right hands are full of bribes.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
But I walk in integrity;
redeem me, and have mercy on me.
My foot stands on level ground;
in the assemblies I will bless the LORD.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Gospel
As Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him.
Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea,
so that the boat was being swamped by waves;
but he was asleep.
They came and woke him, saying,
“Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
He said to them, “Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?”
Then he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea,
and there was great calm.
The men were amazed and said, “What sort of man is this,
whom even the winds and the sea obey?”
http://evangeli.net/gospel/tomorrow
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Even though I myself am neither a fisherman nor a boat expert, I find it hard to believe that Jesus was really asleep. The wind was fierce, the waves were high, the fishermen’s boat was not all that large and it was being swamped by the waves ...but he was asleep? Was he perhaps baiting the disciples? If so, they took the bait: do you not care? The situation rings a bell with me and perhaps also with others.
To us at times Jesus seems to be asleep, when we feel we are about to drown in our personal or ecclesial storms. God seems to us not to care and we are tempted to panic. The disciples offer us a good lesson: they go to Jesus. They are afraid, even though they and Jesus are literally “in the same boat”. Fear can be a low level of rapport, but it can also be a beginning, just as curiosity was a beginning for Zacchaeus. Still their fear reveals their little faith.
And suddenly it was all over and they were amazed. We may be like the apostles in “crying uncle” in our storms, but, once the storm is passed, are we also amazed? Or do we think we have pulled ourselves up by our own bootstraps? The gospel narrative teaches us a twofold lesson: asking for help and also recognizing that it is God’s help, not our own powers, that calms the storm.
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WAKING UP TO FAITH | ||
| "The boat began to be swamped by the waves. Jesus was sleeping soundly." �Matthew 8:24 | ||
Over the centuries, Church fathers and Scripture scholars have seen the Gospel boat as a representation of the Church. on occasion, the boat is rocked by violent storms, which threaten imminent destruction. Through it all, Jesus is constantly present to the Church, even when He seems to be sleeping (Mt 8:25). In the last few decades, the Catholic Church in the United States was "swamped" (Mt 8:24) by the storm of scandal. Some pundits even speculate that "we are lost" as a Church (Mt 8:25). To this, Jesus would reply: "How little faith you have!" (Mt 8:26) As horrible as scandal is, as tragic as the devastation is to a victim, as burdensome as the taint of scandal is to innocent clergy and religious, Jesus maintains that the issue is essentially the same as it was that night in the boat. The disciples naturally saw the problem as the imminent danger of the storm. However, Jesus, upon waking, instantly put His finger on the crisis of faith. How many of us think of faith when we first wake up? Jesus does! Faith in Jesus is the answer. "All depends on faith" (Rm 4:16). Jesus is an innocent Victim. In the blood of His cross, He has the answer for victims (Col 1:20). By His wounds, victims are healed (1 Pt 2:24). Jesus died the death of a condemned, scandalized criminal and bore our guilt. He understands and even removes guilt (Mi 7:18) for the repentant guilty. For innocent clergy regarded with suspicion, Jesus shows the way by maintaining His dignity even when wrongly portrayed as a "sinner" (Jn 9:24). Jesus reconciles all things in Himself (Col 1:20). Jesus commands us: Have "faith in Me" (Jn 14:1). | ||
| Prayer: Lord, "increase our faith" (Lk 17:5). | ||
| Promise: "He stood up and took the winds and the sea to task. Complete calm ensued." —Mt 8:26 | ||
| Praise: Fr. Robert forgave the person who falsely accused him. |
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"Why are you afraid, O men of little faith?"
How can we fight fear with faith? Jesus' sleeping presence on the storm-tossed sea reveals the sleeping faith of his disciples (Matthew 8:25). They feared for their lives even though their Lord and Master was with them in the boat. They were asleep to Christ while he was present to them in their hour of need.
Why are you afraid?
The Lord is ever present to us. And in our time of testing he asks the same question: Why are you afraid? Have you no faith (Matthew 8:26)? Do you recognize the Lord's presence with you, especially when you meet the storms of adversity, sorrow, and temptation? Whenever we encounter trouble, the Lord Jesus is there with the same reassuring message: "It is I, do not be afraid" (Matthew 14:27).
Faith nourished with the word of God
What are the characteristics of faith and how can we grow in it? Faith is an entirely free gift that God makes to us. Believing is only possible by grace and the help of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and who opens the eyes of the mind to understand and accept the truth which God has revealed to us. Faith enables us to relate to God rightly and confidently, with trust and reliance, by believing and adhering to his word, because he is utterly reliable and trustworthy. If we want to live, grow, and persevere in faith, then it must be nourished with the word of God.
Let the love of Christ rule your heart and mind
Fear does not need to cripple us from taking right action or rob us of our trust and reliance on God. Courage working with faith enables us to embrace God's word of truth and love with confidence and to act on it with firm hope in God's promises. The love of God strengthens us in our faith and trust in him and enables us to act with justice and kindness towards our neighbor even in the face of opposition or harm. Do you allow the love of Jesus Christ to rule in your heart and mind, and to move your will to choose what is good in accordance with his will?
"Lord Jesus, increase my faith in your redeeming love and power that I may always recognize your abiding presence with me. Give me courage and strength to face every difficulty, trial, and temptation with trust in your saving help and guiding presence."
Psalm 5:4-8
4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with you.
5 The boastful may not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
6 You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors bloodthirsty and deceitful men.
7 But I through the abundance of your steadfast love will enter your house, I will worship toward your holy temple in the fear of you.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: Training in courage and endurance, by John Chrysostom, 347-407 A.D.
"He took the disciples with him, not for nothing and not merely to face an absurd hazard but in order to permit them to witness the miracle that was to take place on the sea. For like a superb trainer, he was gradually coaching and fitting them for endurance. He had two objectives in mind. He wanted to teach them to remain undismayed amid dangers and modest in honors. So, to prevent them from thinking too much of themselves, having sent away the multitude, he kept them near him but permitted them to be tossed with a tempest. By doing so he disciplined them to bear trials patiently. His former miracles were indeed great, but this one contained a unique kind of discipline of exceptional importance. For it was a sign akin to that of old [referring to Moses parting the Red Sea]. To do this, he took his disciples with him by himself. He permitted others to see his other miracles, but when trials and terrors were rising, he took with him none but those he was training to be champions of the gospel. (excerpt from THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 28.1.2)
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