March 27, 2020 Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent
2020년 3월 27일 사순 제4주간 금요일
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제1독서
지혜서. 2,1ㄱ.12-22
악인들은 1 옳지 못한 생각으로 저희끼리 이렇게 말한다.
12 “의인에게 덫을 놓자. 그자는 우리를 성가시게 하는 자,
우리가 하는 일을 반대하며 율법을 어겨 죄를 지었다고 우리를 나무라고
교육받은 대로 하지 않아 죄를 지었다고 우리를 탓한다.
13 하느님을 아는 지식을 지녔다고 공언하며 자신을 주님의 자식이라고 부른다.
14 우리가 무슨 생각을 하든 우리를 질책하니
그를 보는 것만으로도 우리에게는 짐이 된다.
15 정녕 그의 삶은 다른 이들과 다르고 그의 길은 유별나기만 하다.
16 그는 우리를 상스러운 자로 여기고 우리의 길을 부정한 것인 양 피한다.
의인들의 종말이 행복하다고 큰소리치고
하느님이 자기 아버지라고 자랑한다.
17 그의 말이 정말인지 두고 보자. 그의 최후가 어찌 될지 지켜보자.
18 의인이 정녕 하느님의 아들이라면 하느님께서 그를 도우시어
적대자들의 손에서 그를 구해 주실 것이다.
19 그러니 그를 모욕과 고통으로 시험해 보자.
그러면 그가 정말 온유한지 알 수 있을 것이고
그의 인내력을 시험해 볼 수 있을 것이다.
20 자기 말로 하느님께서 돌보신다고 하니
그에게 수치스러운 죽음을 내리자.”
21 이렇게 생각하지만 그들이 틀렸다.
그들의 악이 그들의 눈을 멀게 한 것이다.
22 그들은 하느님의 신비로운 뜻을 알지 못하며
거룩한 삶에 대한 보상을 바라지도 않고
흠 없는 영혼들이 받을 상급을 인정하지도 않는다.
복음
요한. 7,1-2.10.25-30
그때에 1 예수님께서는 갈릴래아를 돌아다니셨다.
유다인들이 당신을 죽이려고 하였으므로,
유다에서는 돌아다니기를 원하지 않으셨던 것이다.
2 마침 유다인들의 초막절이 가까웠다.
10 형제들이 축제를 지내러 올라가고 난 뒤에 예수님께서도 올라가셨다.
그러나 드러나지 않게 남몰래 올라가셨다.
25 예루살렘 주민들 가운데 몇 사람이 말하였다.
“그들이 죽이려고 하는 이가 저 사람 아닙니까?
26 그런데 보십시오. 저 사람이 드러내 놓고 이야기하는데
그들은 아무 말도 하지 못합니다.
최고 의회 의원들이 정말 저 사람을 메시아로 알고 있는 것은 아닐까요?
27 그러나 메시아께서 오실 때에는 그분이 어디에서 오시는지
아무도 알지 못할 터인데,
우리는 저 사람이 어디에서 왔는지 알고 있지 않습니까?”
28 그래서 예수님께서는 성전에서 가르치시며 큰 소리로 말씀하셨다.
“너희는 나를 알고 또 내가 어디에서 왔는지도 알고 있다.
그러나 나는 나 스스로 온 것이 아니다.
나를 보내신 분은 참되신데 너희는 그분을 알지 못한다.
29 나는 그분을 안다. 내가 그분에게서 왔고 그분께서 나를 보내셨기 때문이다.”
30 그러자 그들은 예수님을 잡으려고 하였지만,
그분께 손을 대는 자는 아무도 없었다.
그분의 때가 아직 오지 않았기 때문이다.
March 27, 2020
Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent
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Reading 1
Wis 2:1a, 12-22
thinking not aright:
"Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us;
he sets himself against our doings,
Reproaches us for transgressions of the law
and charges us with violations of our training.
He professes to have knowledge of God
and styles himself a child of the LORD.
To us he is the censure of our thoughts;
merely to see him is a hardship for us,
Because his life is not like that of others,
and different are his ways.
He judges us debased;
he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure.
He calls blest the destiny of the just
and boasts that God is his Father.
Let us see whether his words be true;
let us find out what will happen to him.
For if the just one be the son of God, he will defend him
and deliver him from the hand of his foes.
With revilement and torture let us put him to the test
that we may have proof of his gentleness
and try his patience.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death;
for according to his own words, God will take care of him."
These were their thoughts, but they erred;
for their wickedness blinded them,
and they knew not the hidden counsels of God;
neither did they count on a recompense of holiness
nor discern the innocent souls' reward.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23
The LORD confronts the evildoers,
to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.
When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
and from all their distress he rescues them.
R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.
Many are the troubles of the just man,
but out of them all the LORD delivers him.
R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
He watches over all his bones;
not one of them shall be broken.
The LORD redeems the lives of his servants;
no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him.
R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
Gospel
Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
Jesus moved about within Galilee;
he did not wish to travel in Judea,
because the Jews were trying to kill him.
But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast,
he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret.
Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said,
"Is he not the one they are trying to kill?
And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him.
Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ?
But we know where he is from.
When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."
So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said,
"You know me and also know where I am from.
Yet I did not come on my own,
but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true.
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
So they tried to arrest him,
but no one laid a hand upon him,
because his hour had not yet come.
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«His time had not yet come»
Fr. Matthew J. ALBRIGHT
(Andover, Ohio, United States)
Today’s Gospel allows us to contemplate the confusion that arose over the identity and mission of Jesus Christ. As the people come face to face with Jesus, there are misunderstandings and presumptions about who He is, how He will or will not fulfill the Old Testament prophecies and what He will accomplish. Assumptions and judgments lead to frustration and anger. So it is in every age: confusion over faith in Christ and Church teaching sparks controversy and religious disintegration. The flock is scattered if the sheep do not know their shepherd.
The people say: «We know where this man comes from; but when the Christ appears, no one will know where He comes from» (Jn 7:27) and conclude that Jesus cannot be the Messiah because He does not fit the description of “Messiah” that they have been taught. on the other hand, they know that the Chief Priests want Him dead but can see that He is walking about freely without being arrested, so that wonder «Can it be that the rulers know that this is really the Christ?» (Jn 7:26).
Jesus cuts through the confusion by identifying Himself as “sent by the one who is true” (cf. Jn 7:28). He is in charge of the situation, as He is portrayed by John, and no one touches Him because the time has not yet come for Him to fully reveal His identity and mission. Jesus defies expectations by showing Himself to be, not a conquering leader overthrowing Roman oppression but the Suffering Servant of Isaiah.
Pope Francis wrote in “Evangelii Gaudium”: «The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus». It is critical that we help everyone we meet to get beyond presumptions and judgments about who Jesus is and what the Church is and facilitate for them an encounter with Jesus. When a person comes to know who Jesus really is, joy and peace abound.
«His time had not yet come»
+ Fr. Josep VALL i Mundó
(Barcelona, Spain)
Today, evangelist John tells us that Jesus' time «had not yet come» (Jn 7:30). He is referring to the hour of the Cross, to the precise and precious time of his submission for the sins of the entire Humankind. His time has not yet come, but it is getting very close. It will be Good Friday when our Lord will bring to its end his Celestial Father's will, while feeling —as Cardinal Wojtyla wrote— all «the burden of that hour, when the Servant of Yahweh must accomplish Isaiah's prophecy, by pronouncing his “Yes”».
Christ —in his continuous priestly longing— spoke many times about this definite and determining hour (Mt 26:45; Mk 14:35; Lk 22:53; Jn 7:30; 12:27; 17:1). The Lord's life will be completely dominated by the supreme hour and He will long for it with all his heart: «But, there is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished» (Lk 12:50). And «before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end» (Jn 13:1). That Friday, our Redeemer shall hand over into the Father's hands his spirit and, as of that moment, his mission already completed shall become the mission of the Church and of all its members, pushed by the Holy Spirit.
After Gethsemane, after his death on the Cross and his Resurrection, the life initiated by Jesus «underlies all history» (Catechism of the Church, n. 1165). Life, work, prayer, Christ's submission is being now made present in his Church: it is also the hour of the Lord's Body; his hour becomes our hour, the time to join him in the prayer of Gethsemane, «always awake —as Pascal asserted— by his side, in his agony, till the end of time». It is the hour to act as living members of Christ. This is why «The prayer of the Hour of Jesus always remains his own, just as his Passion “once for all” remains ever present in the liturgy of his Church» (Catechism of the Church, n. 2746).
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“Because he is obnoxious to us” are the words of those who are recorded in the Book of Wisdom, who do not like what someone has been saying about them. Obnoxious, from the Latin “nocere” means “harm”. Noxious can be a dangerous and harmful experience. When “ob” is added to that root it means “In front, or in your face”. When we catch a whiff of natural gas, we might check our stove’s burner or maybe there is a leak in the line. It bothers us and could be dangerous to our health.
The Prophets in the Hebrew Scriptures, such as Jeremiah and Amos, were definitely unmpopular for the smell and sounds of their words directed at the religious leaders of their times. The First Reading is quite a helpful introduction to our Gospel for this liturgy.
Two weeks from today is the liturgy of Good Friday. These Readings are setting in motion, quite dramaticly, our prayer as we move toward that celebration. The orientation of John’s Gospel centers about the Who and why and from where is this Word Made Flesh. one of the names John suggests for Jesus is “The Sent one”. “sending” and Sent” are His words for Himself. The Man Born Blind in chapter nine, is sent to the pool of Siloam to be washed and receive his sending and John writes that the name of the pool means “sent”. John is not very subtile about Whom Jesus really is.
There is a plan afoot to kill Jesus, but some confusion about His earthly identity. He has provoked the religious leaders who have found their identities threatened by His obnoxious behavior and teachings. Jesus’ identity intensifies, it seems, as His identity is questioned.
My Reflection upon these Readings is, perhaps, tangential and perhaps not directly thematic. If it is too much, reach for the delete button, which the hearers of Jesus probably wanted to do themselves, so they were planning just to delete Him.
I listen to a large number of spiritual and prayerful persons who just want to be “better”. Everything that is important to them about themselves, their prayer, their relationships, their ministries, “better”. I do not recall Jesus using this exact word or anything like it. We can spend all of Lent, make our entire life a Lenten exercise of self-improvement and never seem to be, or act or feel better, but probably worse. This is in no way healthy, spiritual nor religious. When I have tried, lived this way I have discovered behind it all a very excited and active ego pumping as fast as it could. “Better” seems to be religious, but the closer we allow Jesus to get to us, the lesser it seems important to judge my personal progress. “Deeper” seems to be His invitation and we’ll never be able to measure that either.
Jesus, for the religious leaders of His time, was an inconvenience, a pain in the foot and a bother especially as He challenged His hearers. They centered their relationship with God around their receiving approval for their actions. Jesus basic message, “teaching” was about who they were in the eyes of the one Who sent Him and not who they were in their own eyes.
Simply then, Lent is not a time for self-improvement. Our actions will always flow from who we accept ourselves as being. His life, His death, His resurrection are all affirming, picturing and insisting on who He tells us, shows us, and leads us to the acceptance of who we are deeply and not betterly.
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YEARS OF BITTER SUFFERING AND PERFECT LOVE | ||
| "With revilement and torture let us put Him to the test that we may have proof of His gentleness and try His patience. Let us condemn Him to a shameful death." �Wisdom 2:19-20 "At this they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a finger on Him because His hour had not yet come." �John 7:30 | ||
Jesus suffered for love of us not only during His long hours on the cross but also in His three years of public ministry. Even early in Jesus' ministry, there were attempts to kill Him (see Lk 4:29-30). This continued throughout His ministry with even greater intensity (see Jn 7:1, 30; 8:59). Although some people accepted Jesus at least temporarily, for the most part Jesus was the Keystone of the structure Who was rejected by the builders (Mt 21:42; Ps 118:22). Incredibly, Jesus was accused of being in league with the devil (Mk 3:22). Even His relatives thought He was crazy (Mk 3:21). Peter, the leader of Jesus' apostles, denied Jesus three times. Judas betrayed Jesus by selling Him for thirty pieces of silver. Furthermore, Jesus, Who is God and therefore lives outside of time, was rejected and brutalized by the sins of each one of us. Jesus suffered more than anyone has ever suffered. It is impossible for any creature to conceive of the magnitude of His suffering. Jesus loves more than anyone has ever loved. He is literally Love Himself (see 1 Jn 4:16). As we have personally caused His sufferings, may we take personally His crucified love. Give yourself totally to Jesus and worship Him forever. | ||
| Prayer: Father, send the Holy Spirit to lead me more deeply into the mystery of Christ's sufferings. | ||
| Promise: "They knew not the hidden counsels of God; neither did they count on a recompense of holiness nor discern the innocent souls' reward." �Wis 2:22 | ||
| Praise: Bill fasted two days each week on bread and water, and now has both more energy and more joy than before. |
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His hour had not yet come
What can hold us back from doing the will of God? Fear, especially the fear of death and the fear of losing the approval of others, can easily rob us of courage and the will to do what we know is right. Jesus met opposition and the threat of death with grace and determination to accomplish his Father's will. Jesus knew that his mission, his purpose in life, would entail sacrifice and suffering and culminate with death on the cross. But that would not be the end. His "hour" would crush defeat with victory over sin and Satan, condemnation with pardon and freedom, and death with glory and everlasting life.
Jesus offered up his life for us to restore us to friendship with God
He willingly suffered for our sake and embraced the cross to redeem us from sin and to restore us to new life and friendship with God our Father.
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) wrote:
"Our Lord had the power to lay down his life and to take it up again. But we cannot choose how long we shall live, and death comes to us even against our will. Christ, by dying, has already overcome death. Our freedom from death comes only through his death. To save us Christ had no need of us. Yet without him we can do nothing. He gave himself to us as the vine to the branches; apart from him we cannot live."
No one can be indifferent with Jesus for very long. What he said and did - his miraculous signs and wonders - he did in the name of God. Jesus not only claimed to be the Messiah, God’s Anointed one - he claimed to be in a unique relationship of sonship with God the Father and to know him as no one else did. To the Jews this was utter blasphemy. The religious authorities did all they could to put a stop to Jesus because they could not accept his claims and the demands he made.
Jesus alone can set us free from the power of sinful pride, rebellion, and fear
We cannot be indifferent to the claims which Jesus makes on us. We are either for him or against him. There is no middle ground. We can try to mold the Lord Jesus to our own ideas and way of thinking or we can allow his word of truth to free us from our own sinful blindness, stubborn pride, and ignorance. Do you accept all that Jesus has taught and done for you with faith and reverence or with disbelief and contempt? The consequences are enormous, both in this life and in eternity.
"Eternal God, who are the light of the minds that know you, the joy of the hearts that love you, and the strength of the wills that serve you; grant us so to know you, that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whom to serve is perfect freedom, in Jesus Christ our Lord." (Prayer of Saint Augustine)
Psalm 34:17-22
17 When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
18 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
20 He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
22 The LORD redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
A Daily Quote for Lent: Christ our physician, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our pilgrimage on earth is a school in which God is the only teacher, and it demands good students, not ones who play truant. In this school we learn something every day. We learn something from commandments, something from examples, and something from sacraments. These things are remedies for our wounds and materials for study." (excerpt from Sermon 218c,1)
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