January 16, 2020 Thursday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
2020년 1월 16일 연중 제1주간 목요일
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제1독서
사무엘기 상. 4,1ㄴ-11
그 무렵 필리스티아인들이 이스라엘을 대적하여 싸우려고 모여들었다.
1 이스라엘은 필리스티아인들과 싸우러 나가 에벤 에제르에 진을 치고,
필리스티아인들은 아펙에 진을 쳤다.
2 필리스티아인들은 전열을 갖추고 이스라엘에게 맞섰다.
싸움이 커지면서 이스라엘은 필리스티아인들에게 패배하였다.
필리스티아인들은 벌판의 전선에서
이스라엘 군사를 사천 명가량이나 죽였다.
3 군사들이 진영으로 돌아오자 이스라엘의 원로들이 말하였다.
“주님께서 어찌하여 오늘 필리스티아인들 앞에서 우리를 치셨을까?
실로에서 주님의 계약 궤를 모셔 옵시다.
주님께서 우리 가운데에 오시어 원수들 손에서 우리를 구원하시도록 합시다.”
4 그리하여 백성은 실로에 사람들을 보내어,
거기에서 커룹들 위에 좌정하신 만군의 주님의 계약 궤를 모셔 왔다.
엘리의 두 아들 호프니와 피느하스도 하느님의 계약 궤와 함께 왔다.
5 주님의 계약 궤가 진영에 도착하자,
온 이스라엘은 땅이 뒤흔들리도록 큰 함성을 올렸다.
6 필리스티아인들이 이 큰 함성을 듣고,
“히브리인들의 진영에서 저런 함성이 들리다니 무슨 까닭일까?” 하고 묻다가,
주님의 궤가 진영에 도착하였다는 사실을 알게 되었다.
7 필리스티아인들은 두려움에 사로잡혀 말하였다.
“그 진영에 신이 도착했다.” 그리고 그들은 이렇게 외쳤다.
“우리는 망했다! 이런 일은 일찍이 없었는데.
8 우리는 망했다! 누가 저 강력한 신의 손에서 우리를 구원하겠는가?
저 신은 광야에서 갖가지 재앙으로 이집트인들을 친 신이 아니냐!
9 그러니 필리스티아인들아, 사나이답게 힘을 내어라.
히브리인들이 너희를 섬긴 것처럼 너희가 그들을 섬기지 않으려거든,
사나이답게 싸워라.”
10 필리스티아인들이 이렇게 싸우자,
이스라엘은 패배하여 저마다 자기 천막으로 도망쳤다.
이리하여 대살육이 벌어졌는데,
이스라엘군은 보병이 삼만이나 쓰러졌으며,
11 하느님의 궤도 빼앗기고 엘리의 두 아들 호프니와 피느하스도 죽었다.
복음
마르코. 1,40-45
그때에 40 어떤 나병 환자가 예수님께 와서 도움을 청하였다.
그가 무릎을 꿇고 이렇게 말하였다.
“스승님께서는 하고자 하시면 저를 깨끗하게 하실 수 있습니다.”
41 예수님께서 가엾은 마음이 드셔서 손을 내밀어 그에게 대시며 말씀하셨다.
“내가 하고자 하니 깨끗하게 되어라.”
42 그러자 바로 나병이 가시고 그가 깨끗하게 되었다.
43 예수님께서는 그를 곧 돌려보내시며 단단히 이르셨다.
44 그에게 이렇게 말씀하셨다.
“누구에게든 아무 말도 하지 않도록 조심하여라.
다만 사제에게 가서 네 몸을 보이고,
네가 깨끗해진 것과 관련하여 모세가 명령한 예물을 바쳐,
그들에게 증거가 되게 하여라.”
45 그러나 그는 떠나가서 이 이야기를 널리 알리고 퍼뜨리기 시작하였다.
그리하여 예수님께서는 더 이상 드러나게 고을로 들어가지 못하시고,
바깥 외딴곳에 머무르셨다.
그래도 사람들은 사방에서 그분께 모여들었다.
January 16, 2020
Thursday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
1 Sm 4:1-11
Israel went out to engage them in battle and camped at Ebenezer,
while the Philistines camped at Aphek.
The Philistines then drew up in battle formation against Israel.
After a fierce struggle Israel was defeated by the Philistines,
who slew about four thousand men on the battlefield.
When the troops retired to the camp, the elders of Israel said,
"Why has the LORD permitted us to be defeated today
by the Philistines?
Let us fetch the ark of the LORD from Shiloh
that it may go into battle among us
and save us from the grasp of our enemies."
So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there
the ark of the LORD of hosts, who is enthroned upon the cherubim.
The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were with the ark of God.
When the ark of the LORD arrived in the camp,
all Israel shouted so loudly that the earth resounded.
The Philistines, hearing the noise of shouting, asked,
"What can this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?"
On learning that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp,
the Philistines were frightened.
They said, "Gods have come to their camp."
They said also, "Woe to us! This has never happened before. Woe to us!
Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods?
These are the gods that struck the Egyptians
with various plagues and with pestilence.
Take courage and be manly, Philistines;
otherwise you will become slaves to the Hebrews,
as they were your slaves.
So fight manfully!"
The Philistines fought and Israel was defeated;
every man fled to his own tent.
It was a disastrous defeat,
in which Israel lost thirty thousand foot soldiers.
The ark of God was captured,
and Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were among the dead.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 44:10-11, 14-15, 24-25
Yet now you have cast us off and put us in disgrace,
and you go not forth with our armies.
You have let us be driven back by our foes;
those who hated us plundered us at will.
R. Redeem us, Lord, because of your mercy.
You made us the reproach of our neighbors,
the mockery and the scorn of those around us.
You made us a byword among the nations,
a laughingstock among the peoples.
R. Redeem us, Lord, because of your mercy.
Why do you hide your face,
forgetting our woe and our oppression?
For our souls are bowed down to the dust,
our bodies are pressed to the earth.
R. Redeem us, Lord, because of your mercy.
Gospel
Mk 1:40-45
"If you wish, you can make me clean."
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand,
touched the leper, and said to him,
"I do will it. Be made clean."
The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean.
Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once.
Then he said to him, "See that you tell no one anything,
but go, show yourself to the priest
and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed;
that will be proof for them."
The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter.
He spread the report abroad
so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly.
He remained outside in deserted places,
and people kept coming to him from everywhere
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«‘If you so will, you can make me clean’ (...). ‘I will; be clean’»
Fr. Xavier PAGÉS i Castañer
(Barcelona, Spain)
Today, in the first reading we read: «As the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear his voice ‘do not harden your hearts’» (Heb 3:7-8). And we constantly repeat it in the response to Psalm 94. In this brief quote, two points are raised: a longing and a warning. Both should never be forgotten.
During our daily prayer we long for and hope to hear our Lord's voice. But, perhaps more often than not, we fill it with our own words without allowing us time to listen to what the Good God may wish to tell us. Let us, therefore, take care of our inner silence which —by avoiding distractions and centering our attention— opens up a space to receive the affections and inspirations Our Lord, most certainly, wants to impregnate our hearts with.
A risk we must never forget is the risk that dwelling on the old sin may harden our spiritual heart. Life's hazards, at times, may make us —even without our realizing it— more leery, insensible, disheartened, forlorn…! We must beg our Lord to make us more conscientious of this inner downgrading. Our prayer offers us the opportunity to look serenely at our own life and to all circumstances surrounding it. We must meditate over the different events in the Light of the Gospel, to discover where we are in need of an authentic change.
If only we could hope for our change with the same degree of faith and confidence as the leper showed when he asked Jesus!: «He came to Jesus and begged Him, ‘If you so will, you can make me clean’» (Mk 1:40). He is the only one to make possible what for us is simply impossible. Let God act through His Grace upon us so our hearts can be purified and, meek to His influence, may every day become more in the image and semblance of Jesus' heart. He is telling us, in confidence: «I will; be clean» (Mk 1:41).
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In the religious/cultural milieu of Jesus’ time the fact that the encounter itself took place is already remarkable. Now, there is no archeological evidence of true leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in Israel at that time. Any skin blemish (e.g. acne, psoriasis) would be considered leprosy, just as any ugly growth in a building (mold) would be considered leprosy of the house. Those considered “lepers” were required to stay away from people, lest they rendered them unclean, since sin was seen as the cause of the illness. So, did the leper come running and shouting: Unclean!? No. Instead, Jesus went as far as touching the leper and he did not come thereby unclean. Instead, the leper became clean.
On approaching Jesus, the leper said: If you wish, which may sound like a matter of correct social protocol, but it is a key statement that presupposes faith in Jesus’ power to heal him. Without that power, wishing to heal would take them nowhere. That clause could also be interpreted by some as questioning Jesus’ compassion: do you care to heal me? But Jesus’ encouraging response recommends rather a positive interpretation of respect for Jesus’ mission: if it fits in your mission, if this is your will.
The leper’s question also opens the door to a possible counter-question by Jesus. Not that Jesus asks any such question, but in Jn. 5 he does ask the paralytic by the pool: do you want to be healed? It may sound like a dumb question, since Jesus knew that the paralytic had lain there for 38 years, yet it is not an idle question at all. Being made whole means that we have no excuse to expect others to meet our needs. Hence the importance of Jesus’ question to the paralytic: are you willing to stand on your own two feet, both physically and socially? We need to question – and also to allow God to question – our desire for wholeness. Do I really want to be healed? The leper did.
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THE WHY-WAIT | ||
| "After a fierce struggle Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who slew about four thousand men on the battlefield. When the troops retired to the camp, the elders of Israel said, 'Why has the Lord permitted us to be defeated today by the Philistines' " �1 Samuel 4:2-3 | ||
When we suffer tragedy, it is good to ask God: "Why?" Then we must wait on ourselves to receive the Lord's revelation. The defeated Israelites asked the right question but didn't wait. They assumed that they wouldn't get an answer, so they proceeded to fight another battle in which "Israel lost thirty thousand foot soldiers" (1 Sm 4:10). If we don't stop and wait to hear God, we often make tragedies much worse. So don't just do something, sit there. "For thus said the Lord God, the Holy one of Israel: by waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust your strength lies. But this you did not wish" (Is 30:15). When things are bad, we must not be stampeded into activity and decision-making. Even if we aren't good at hearing God, we have no acceptable alternative. If we act without hearing God, we are not under Jesus' lordship. Rather, we are doing our own thing. This is the very cause of our problems and repeats the pattern which has already brought about our downfall. We can't save ourselves. We must hear the Lord. He is faithful; He will break through our deafness. Stop and wait. | ||
| Prayer: Father, You are my only Hope and the only Hope I need. | ||
| Promise: "Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out His hand, touched him, and said, 'I do will it. Be cured.' The leprosy left him then and there, and he was cured." —Mk 1:41-42 | ||
| Praise: Nick, a young adult, gave up a much-desired camping vacation in order to minister to a group of Catholic youth. |
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The Lord Jesus can make me clean
Do you seek the Lord Jesus with expectant faith? No one who sought Jesus out was refused his help. Even the untouchables and the outcasts of Jewish society found help in him. Unlike the people of Jesus' time who fled at the sight of a leper, Jesus touched the leper who approached him and he made him whole and clean. Why was this so remarkable? Lepers were outcasts of society. They were driven from their homes and communities and left to fend for themselves. Their physical condition was terrible as they slowly lost the use of their limbs and withered away. They were not only shunned but regarded as "already dead" even by their relatives. The Jewish law forbade anyone from touching or approaching a leper, lest ritual defilement occur.
This leper did something quite remarkable. He approached Jesus confidently and humbly, expecting that Jesus could and would heal him. Normally a leper would be stoned or at least warded off if he tried to come near a rabbi. Jesus not only grants the man his request, but he demonstrates the personal love, compassion, and tenderness of God in his physical touch. The medical knowledge of his day would have regarded such contact as grave risk for incurring infection. Jesus met the man's misery with compassion and tender kindness. He communicated the love and mercy of God in a sign that spoke more eloquently than words. He touched the man and made him clean - not only physically but spiritually as well.
How do you approach those who are difficult to love, or who are shunned by others because they are deformed or have some defect? Do you show them kindness and offer them mercy and help as Jesus did? The Lord is always ready to show us his mercy and to free us from whatever makes us unclean, unapproachable, or unloving towards others.
Lord Jesus, inflame my heart with your love and make me clean and whole in body, mind, and spirit. May I never doubt your love nor cease to tell others of your mercy and compassion."
Psalm 44: 10-11, 14-15, 25-26
10 You have made us turn back from the foe; and our enemies have gotten spoil.
11 You have made us like sheep for slaughter, and have scattered us among the nations.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
15 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body cleaves to the ground.
26 Rise up, come to our help! Deliver us for the sake of your steadfast love!
Daily Quote from the early church fathers: Why did Jesus touch the leper, by Origen of Alexandria (185-254 AD)
"And why did [Jesus] touch him, since the law forbade the touching of a leper? He touched him to show that 'all things are clean to the clean' (Titus 1:15). Because the filth that is in one person does not adhere to others, nor does external uncleanness defile the clean of heart. So he touches him in his untouchability, that he might instruct us in humility; that he might teach us that we should despise no one, or abhor them, or regard them as pitiable, because of some wound of their body or some blemish for which they might be called to render an account... So, stretching forth his hand to touch, the leprosy immediately departs. The hand of the Lord is found to have touched not a leper, but a body made clean! Let us consider here, beloved, if there be anyone here that has the taint of leprosy in his soul, or the contamination of guilt in his
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