July 10 2019 Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
2019년 7월 10일 연중 제14주간 수요일
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제1독서
창세기. 41,55-57; 42,5-7ㄴ.17-24ㄱ
그 무렵 55 이집트 온 땅에 기근이 들자, 백성이 파라오에게 빵을 달라고 부르짖었다. 그러자 파라오는 모든 이집트인에게 말하였다. “요셉에게 가서 그가 시키는 대로 하여라.”
56 기근이 온 땅에 퍼지자, 요셉은 곡식 창고를 모두 열고 이집트인들에게 곡식을 팔았다. 이집트 땅에 기근이 심하였지만, 57 온 세상은 요셉에게 곡식을 사려고 이집트로 몰려들었다. 온 세상에 기근이 심하였기 때문이다.
42,5 가나안 땅에도 기근이 들었기 때문에, 야곱의 아들들은 이집트로 곡식을 사러 가는 다른 사람들 틈에 끼어 그곳으로 들어갔다. 6 그때 요셉은 그 나라의 통치자였다. 그 나라 모든 백성에게 곡식을 파는 이도 그였다.
그래서 요셉의 형들은 들어와서 얼굴을 땅에 대고 그에게 절하였다. 7 요셉은 형들을 보자 곧 알아보았지만, 짐짓 모르는 체하며 그들에게 매몰차게 말하면서 물었다. “너희는 어디서 왔느냐?”
17 그러고 나서 그들을 사흘 동안 감옥에 가두었다.
18 사흘째 되던 날 요셉이 그들에게 말하였다. “너희가 살려거든 이렇게 하여라. 나도 하느님을 경외하는 사람이다. 19 너희가 정직한 사람들이라면, 너희 형제들 가운데 한 사람만 감옥에 남아 있고, 나머지는 굶고 있는 너희 집 식구들을 위하여 곡식을 가져가거라. 20 그리고 너희 막내아우를 나에게 데려오너라. 그러면 너희 말이 참되다는 것이 밝혀지고, 너희는 죽음을 면할 것이다.”
그들 은 그렇게 하기로 하였다. 21 그들이 서로 말하였다. “그래, 우리가 아우의 일로 죗값을 받는 것이 틀림없어. 그 애가 우리에게 살려 달라고 애원할 때, 우리는 그 고통을 보면서도 들어 주지 않았지. 그래서 이제 이런 괴로움이 우리에게 닥친 거야.”
22 그러자 르우벤이 그들에게 말하였다. “그러기에 내가 ‘그 아이에게 잘못을 저지르지 마라.’ 하고 너희에게 말하지 않았더냐? 그런데도 너희는 말을 듣지 않더니, 이제 우리가 그 아이의 피에 대한 책임을 지게 되었다.”
23 그들은 자기들과 요셉 사이에 통역이 서 있었기 때문에, 요셉이 알아듣는 줄을 알지 못하였다. 24 요셉은 그들 앞에서 물러 나와 울었다.
복음
마태오. 10,1-7
그때에 1 예수님께서 열두 제자를 가까이 부르시고 그들에게 더러운 영들에 대한 권한을 주시어, 그것들을 쫓아내고 병자와 허약한 이들을 모두 고쳐 주게 하셨다.
2 열두 사도의 이름은 이러하다. 베드로라고 하는 시몬을 비롯하여 그의 동생 안드레아, 제베대오의 아들 야고보와 그의 동생 요한, 3 필립보와 바르톨로메오, 토마스와 세리 마태오, 알패오의 아들 야고보와 타대오, 4 열혈당원 시몬, 그리고 예수님을 팔아넘긴 유다 이스카리옷이다.
5 예수님께서 이 열두 사람을 보내시며 이렇게 분부하셨다. “다른 민족들에게 가는 길로 가지 말고, 사마리아인들의 고을에도 들어가지 마라. 6 이스라엘 집안의 길 잃은 양들에게 가라. 7 가서 이렇게 선포하여라. ‘하늘 나라가 가까이 왔다.’”
July 10 2019
Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a
When hunger came to be felt throughout the land of Egypt
and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread,
Pharaoh directed all the Egyptians to go to Joseph
and do whatever he told them.
When the famine had spread throughout the land,
Joseph opened all the cities that had grain
and rationed it to the Egyptians,
since the famine had gripped the land of Egypt.
In fact, all the world came to Joseph to obtain rations of grain,
for famine had gripped the whole world.
The sons of Israel were among those
who came to procure rations.
It was Joseph, as governor of the country,
who dispensed the rations to all the people.
When Joseph’s brothers came and knelt down before him
with their faces to the ground,
he recognized them as soon as he saw them.
But Joseph concealed his own identity from them
and spoke sternly to them.
With that, he locked them up in the guardhouse for three days.
On the third day Joseph said to his brothers:
“Do this, and you shall live; for I am a God-fearing man.
If you have been honest,
only one of your brothers need be confined in this prison,
while the rest of you may go
and take home provisions for your starving families.
But you must come back to me with your youngest brother.
Your words will thus be verified, and you will not die.”
To this they agreed.
To one another, however, they said:
“Alas, we are being punished because of our brother.
We saw the anguish of his heart when he pleaded with us,
yet we paid no heed;
that is why this anguish has now come upon us.”
Reuben broke in,
“Did I not tell you not to do wrong to the boy?
But you would not listen!
Now comes the reckoning for his blood.”
The brothers did not know, of course,
that Joseph understood what they said,
since he spoke with them through an interpreter.
But turning away from them, he wept.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (22) Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.
Give thanks to the LORD on the harp;
with the ten-stringed lyre chant his praises.
Sing to him a new song;
pluck the strings skillfully, with shouts of gladness.
R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.
The LORD brings to nought the plans of nations;
he foils the designs of peoples.
But the plan of the LORD stands forever;
the design of his heart, through all generations.
R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.
But see, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.
R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.
Gospel
Jesus summoned his Twelve disciples
and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out
and to cure every disease and every illness.
The names of the Twelve Apostles are these:
first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew;
James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
Philip and Bartholomew,
Thomas and Matthew the tax collector;
James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus;
Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot
who betrayed Jesus.
Jesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them thus,
“Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.
Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”
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«Go and proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near’»
Fr. Fernando PERALES i Madueño
(Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain)
Today, the Gospel shows us Jesus sending his Apostles on a mission: «Jesus sent these twelve on mission with these instructions...» (Mt 10:5). The twelve make up the “Apostolic College”, that is “missionary”. The Church, in its earthly pilgrimage, is a Missionary Community, as its origin lies in the fulfillment of the mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit, following God Father's divine intentions. In the same way as Peter and the other Apostles, by institution of our Lord, constituted a single Apostolic College, the Roman Pontiff, Peter's successor, and the Bishops, successors of the Apostles, form a body which has the duty to announce the Gospel everywhere.
Among the disciples sent on mission we find those with an outstanding position, given by Christ, and a greater responsibility, such as Peter; and others, as Thaddaeus, whom we practically know nothing about; however, the Gospels, which communicate Good News, were not intended to satisfy our curiosity. on our side, we are supposed to pray for all the bishops, for the famous and for the not so famous ones, while living in communion with them: «See that you all follow the bishop as Jesus Christ follows the Father and the presbytery as you would the apostles...» (St. Ignatious of Antioch). Jesus was not looking for cultivated people, but simply for people who were available, willing and able to follow him to the end. This means that, as a Christian, I must also feel responsible of a part of Jesus' plan of salvation. Do I keep away from evil? Do I help my fellow-men?
As their mission was just beginning, Jesus hurries to give them instructions with some limitations: «Do not visit pagan territory and do not enter a Samaritan town. Go instead to the lost sheep of the people of Israel. Go and proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near’» (Mt 10:5-6). Today we must do what we can, with the certainty that God is calling all pagans and Samaritans in another phase of the missionary work.
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THE DESIGN OF HIS HEART
At first, today’s readings seem to have little to do with one another. We hear about a few moments in the Joseph story in Genesis; we get a selection of six verses from Psalm 33; and we get a fragment from Matthew’s account of the list of the Twelve apostles and part of Jesus’ commission of them to announce, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” And yet, there is plenty here to contemplate and illuminate what it meant for Jesus to send off this very unusual mix of Jewish males to announce that mysterious message. Let me explain.
First, the message: “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” At first, that sounds like Jesus is saying, ‘Heaven (the realm of God) is closer than you think.’ That would surely be a worthy insight, but a careful study of Matthew’s gospel reveals that Matthew’s phrase “the kingdom of heaven’’ means essentially the same thing as “the kingdom of God” in Mark’s Gospel. And there it means not a place but a set of relationships, namely a community of human beings in covenant relationship with their Creator (here, mainly a renewed people of God—Israel—especially as expressed in the church, Israelites and gentiles responding to Jesus’ call to participate in the merciful “plan of God”—the salvation and redemption of the whole human family, moving from the renewed people of God gathered in Jerusalem to finally include the rest of the world. The point of Matthew’s phrasing, “kingdom of heaven” is not a reluctance to use the word God, but an emphasis that this kingdom has its source in God, in contrast to that other kingdom, the Roman Empire, which posits its authority in the one called Caesar. So, the announcement of the coming of the kingdom of God is the announcement of something even greater than—indeed, far superior to—the kingdom of Rome.
Second, the choice of twelve, potentially incompatible, Jewish males. I say “potentially incompatible” because, for starters, a Cananaean (or Zealot, one of those aiming to mount a violent revolt against Rome) would have nothing to do with a toll collector like Matthew, a Jew who worked for the hated Romans! The fact that they are all males (no women) is not simply a sign that the first-century Mediterranean world was thoroughly patriarchal. Jesus’ point in this context is that twelve males mirror the tradition that the people of Israel descended from twelve men, the sons of Jacob. The mixed nature of the group represents the reality that historical Israel has always been a rowdy mix; so too even the renewed Israel that follows. And they are sent, during Jesus’ pre-Easter work, only to the “lost sheep of the house of Israel”—and not to gentiles, or even those “heretical” Israelites, the Samaritans—because the first step in Jesus’s mission if the renewal of his and their fellow Israelites. The outreach to the wider world will soon follow, after Pentecost.
How do the other readings help us contemplate the meaning of this understanding of the coming of God’s empire or reign? Well, the whole Joseph story in Genesis is about God’s providence working even within the ‘evil empire’ of Egypt. Joseph’s leadership as governor, as shown in his grain reserve program, has enabled Egypt to serve the common good of the larger world. Further, the story about Joseph’s treatment of his brothers reflects qualities of God’s justice and compassion. He confronts the ones who treated him with the terrible injustice of selling him as slave, and yet he has compassion for them once they realize their sinfulness (“turning away from them, he wept”).
And how does the responsorial psalm (Ps 33) fit in? Hear again the second half, and notice how it is an actual commentary on the kingdom of God and it even alludes to the Joseph story:
The LORD brings to naught the plans of nations;
he foils the designs of peoples.
But the plan of the LORD stands forever;
the design of his heart, through all generations.R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.
But see, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.
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THE THIRD FAMINE | ||
| "In fact, all the world came to Joseph to obtain rations of grain, for famine had gripped the whole world." �Genesis 41:57 | ||
In Joseph's time, there was a worldwide physical famine. Amos prophesied a spiritual famine: "Yes, days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send famine upon the land: not a famine of bread, or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord" (Am 8:11). Today we have worse famines. While hundreds of millions starve to death physically, Chinese Communists and Muslim-dominated countries deny well over two billion people free access to the spiritual food of Christian community, the Bible, and the Sacraments. Even worse than this, hundreds of millions of Christians have a third famine and are spiritually anorexic. They have imposed spiritual starvation on themselves. This makes large sectors of the Church so weak that it becomes a doormat for the devil and lets him "get away with murder" as he destroys people through the other kinds of starvation (see Jn 8:44). We need new Josephs to forgive, lead, and administer so as to renew the Church, which has the "authority to expel unclean spirits and to cure sickness and disease of every kind" (Mt 10:1). The Lord through His Church will free those who have lost their spiritual appetite. The Church will call us to repentance and heal us of our sin-sickness, which has ruined our spiritual appetite. Then the Church will be nourished and strong enough to feed both the physically and spiritually hungry. The Church will proclaim the kingdom of God and displace the culture of death (see Mt 10:7). | ||
| Prayer: Father, help me to better recognize the effects of sin, especially spiritual anorexia. | ||
| Promise: "Go instead after the lost sheep." —Mt 10:6 | ||
| Praise: Anne prays daily for both Church and government leaders. |
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Jesus gives his disciples authority to heal and set free
Do you believe in the life-changing power of the Gospel and experience its transforming effect in your life? The core of the Gospel message is quite simple: the kingdom (or reign) of God is very near! What is the kingdom of God? It is that society of men and women who know God's love and mercy, and who willingly obey and honor God as their Lord and King. In the prayer which Jesus gave to his disciples (the Lord's Prayer or Our Father), he taught them to pray for God to reign in their daily lives and in the world around them: May your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
The power of the Gospel to heal and set free
When Jesus proclaimed the good news of God's kingdom he also demonstrated the power of the Gospel with supernatural signs and wonders. Jesus healed people who suffered physical, emotional, and mental illnesses. He freed people from spiritual bondage to sin and demonic powers. Jesus gave his disciples the same authority he had to heal and set people free from spiritual bondage.
The Gospel (which literally means "good news") which Jesus proclaimed is just as relevant and real today, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. If we believe in the Lord Jesus, the Word of God made flesh, and in the power of the Gospel, we will know and experience the freedom, joy, and power he gives us that enables us to live and witness as his disciples. No one can buy heaven; but if we know the love and mercy of Jesus Christ, then we already possess heaven in our hearts! Do you believe that Jesus can change and transform your life and share with you the power and authority of God's kingdom?
Jesus chose ordinary people to do extraordinary work
Jesus commissioned his disciples to carry on the works which he did - to speak God's word and to bring his healing power to the weary and oppressed. In the choice of the twelve apostles we see a characteristic feature of God's work - Jesus chose very ordinary people. They were non-professionals, had no wealth or privileged position. They were chosen from the common people who did ordinary things, had no special education, and no social advantages.
Jesus wanted ordinary people who could take an assignment and do it extraordinarily well. He chose these men, not for what they were, but for what they would be capable of becoming under his direction and power. When the Lord calls us to serve, we must not think we have nothing or very little to offer. The Lord takes what ordinary people, like us, can offer and uses it for greatness in his kingdom. Do you believe that God wants to work in and through you for his glory?
"Lord Jesus, you have chosen me to be your disciple. Take and use what I can offer, however meager it may seem, for the greater glory of your name."
Psalm 105:2-7
2 Sing to him, sing praises to him, tell of all his wonderful works!
3 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!
4 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his presence continually!
5 Remember the wonderful works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,
6 O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!
7 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: Jesus empowers his disciples to act in his name, by John Chrysostom (347-407 AD)
" If the Spirit had not yet been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified, how then did the disciples cast out the unclean spirits? They did this by his own command, by the Son’s authority.2 Note the careful timing of their mission. They were not sent out at the beginning of their walk with him. They were not sent out until they had sufficiently benefited by following him daily. It was only after they had seen the dead raised, the sea rebuked, devils expelled, the legs of a paralytic brought to life, sins remitted, lepers cleansed, and had received a sufficient proof of his power both by deeds and words - only then did he send them out. And he did not send them out unprepared to do dangerous deeds, for as yet there was no danger in Palestine. They had only to stand against verbal abuse. However, Jesus still warned them of larger perils to come, preparing them for what was future." (excerpt from THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 32.3)
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