January 31, 2021 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
2021년 1월 31일 연중 제4주일(해외 원조 주일)
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제1독서
신명기 18,15-20
모세가 백성에게 말하였다.
15 “주 너희 하느님께서 너희 동족 가운데에서
나와 같은 예언자를 일으켜 주실 것이니, 너희는 그의 말을 들어야 한다.
16 그것은 너희가 호렙에서 집회의 날에 주 너희 하느님께 청한 것이다.
그때에 너희는 이렇게 말하였다.
‘다시는 저희가 주 저희 하느님의 소리를 듣지 않게 하시고
이 큰 불도 보지 않게 해 주십시오.
저희가 죽지 않게 해 주십시오.’
17 그러자 주님께서 나에게 말씀하셨다.
‘그들이 한 말은 옳다. 18 나는 그들을 위하여
그들의 동족 가운데에서 너와 같은 예언자 하나를 일으켜,
나의 말을 그의 입에 담아 줄 것이다.
그러면 그는 내가 그에게 명령하는 모든 것을 그들에게 일러 줄 것이다.
19 그가 내 이름으로 이르는 말을 듣지 않는 사람은 내가 직접 추궁할 것이다.
20 또한 내가 말하라고 명령하지도 않은 것을
주제넘게 내 이름으로 말하거나,
다른 신들의 이름으로 말하는 예언자가 있으면,
그 예언자는 죽어야 한다.’”
제2독서
코린토 1서. 7,32-35
형제 여러분, 32 나는 여러분이 걱정 없이 살기를 바랍니다.
혼인하지 않은 남자는 어떻게 하면 주님을 기쁘게 해 드릴 수 있을까 하고
주님의 일을 걱정합니다.
33 그러나 혼인한 남자는 어떻게 하면 아내를 기쁘게 할 수 있을까 하고
세상일을 걱정합니다.
34 그래서 그는 마음이 갈라집니다.
남편이 없는 여자와 처녀는 몸으로나 영으로나 거룩해지려고
주님의 일을 걱정합니다.
그러나 혼인한 여자는 어떻게 하면 남편을 기쁘게 할 수 있을까 하고
세상일을 걱정합니다.
35 나는 여러분 자신의 이익을 위하여 이 말을 합니다.
여러분에게 굴레를 씌우려는 것이 아니라,
아무런 방해도 받지 않고서
품위 있고 충실하게 주님을 섬기게 하려는 것입니다.
복음
마르코. 1,21ㄴ-28
카파르나움에서,
21 예수님께서는 안식일에 회당에 들어가 가르치셨는데,
22 사람들은 그분의 가르침에 몹시 놀랐다.
그분께서 율법 학자들과 달리 권위를 가지고 가르치셨기 때문이다.
23 마침 그 회당에 더러운 영이 들린 사람이 있었는데,
그가 소리를 지르며 24 말하였다.
“나자렛 사람 예수님, 당신께서 저희와 무슨 상관이 있습니까?
저희를 멸망시키러 오셨습니까?
저는 당신이 누구신지 압니다. 당신은 하느님의 거룩하신 분이십니다.”
25 예수님께서 그에게 “조용히 하여라. 그 사람에게서 나가라.” 하고 꾸짖으시니,
26 더러운 영은 그 사람에게 경련을 일으켜 놓고 큰 소리를 지르며 나갔다.
27 그러자 사람들이 모두 놀라,
“이게 어찌 된 일이냐? 새롭고 권위 있는 가르침이다.
저이가 더러운 영들에게 명령하니 그것들도 복종하는구나.” 하며
서로 물어보았다.
28 그리하여 그분의 소문이 곧바로 갈릴래아 주변 모든 지방에 두루 퍼져 나갔다.
January 31, 2021
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Reading 1
Dt 18:15-20
"A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you
from among your own kin;
to him you shall listen.
This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb
on the day of the assembly, when you said,
'Let us not again hear the voice of the LORD, our God,
nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.'
And the LORD said to me, 'This was well said.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin,
and will put my words into his mouth;
he shall tell them all that I command him.
Whoever will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name,
I myself will make him answer for it.
But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name
an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak,
or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.'"
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9
Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;
let us acclaim the rock of our salvation.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us joyfully sing psalms to him.
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Come, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For he is our God,
and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
"Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the desert,
Where your fathers tempted me;
they tested me though they had seen my works."
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Reading 2
1 Cor 7:32-35
I should like you to be free of anxieties.
An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord,
how he may please the Lord.
But a married man is anxious about the things of the world,
how he may please his wife, and he is divided.
An unmarried woman or a virgin is anxious about the things of the Lord,
so that she may be holy in both body and spirit.
A married woman, on the other hand,
is anxious about the things of the world,
how she may please her husband.
I am telling you this for your own benefit,
not to impose a restraint upon you,
but for the sake of propriety
and adherence to the Lord without distraction.
Gospel
Mk 1:21-28
and on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught.
The people were astonished at his teaching,
for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.
In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit;
he cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are?the Holy One of God!"
Jesus rebuked him and said,
"Quiet! Come out of him!"
The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him.
All were amazed and asked one another,
"What is this?
A new teaching with authority.
He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him."
His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee
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This is a reflection from the Rev. Richard Gabuzda for this Sunday in 2015.
I Know Who You Are
Mark’s gospel marks the inauguration of Jesus’ public ministry with a scene in which he demonstrates his teaching and his power over an “unclean” spirit. Trying to grasp what they have observed, the gathered crowd describes the particular quality of his teaching: he teaches as “one having authority.” This teaching authority is matched by his authority over evil. Yet, for all that, the crowd does not seem to be able to identify the source of this authority and power. The source is identified by an unlikely voice—that of the possessed man, who shouts out: “I know who you are — the Holy One of God!”
Throughout the gospel of Mark, amidst the continual teaching and miracle-working of Jesus, the question lingers: Who is this man? This continues until, at the moment of his death on the cross, another unlikely voice reveals Jesus’ identity: the Roman soldier who sees Jesus die calls out: “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
We can admire the teachings of Jesus. And why not? They have had a major influence on the western world and much beyond. We can marvel at the miracles described in the gospels. But do we really grasp and abide in the truth of WHO HE IS? Jesus, not merely a “good man” or the “best of men,” but the Holy One of God, the Son of God.
And what difference would that make? If we could grasp in a consistent way the truth of who he is, would that change anything in our lives?
Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and one of the best known American Catholics of the last century, experienced his conversion journey in stages. One of the most important experiences of that journey occurred when he visited the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Rome. As he gazed at the mosaic of Christ in glory which surrounds the altar, it suddenly dawned on him: the Jesus spoken of by Christians is no mere “historical figure” but the Lord who is alive and who interacts with those who believe in and worship him. This experience contributed powerfully to Merton’s conversion to a deeper Christian faith, then to the Catholic faith and eventually to his monastic vocation.
Have we encountered Jesus in this way, as someone alive and who is in relationship with us? Or do we still relate to him as someone from “back then” and “out there”? Pope Francis, in quoting words of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, reminds us: “Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.”
Jesus, draw us to know you in our hearts as you are: the Holy One of God, the Son of God, our Savior and Lord, alive and in our midst!
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PROPHET-ABLE
“If a prophet presumes to speak in My name an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.” —Deuteronomy 18:20
If prophets prophesy something God did not tell them to say, they risk death. This makes prophets feel like being quiet. However, if prophets “do not speak out to dissuade the wicked man from his way, he [the wicked man] shall die for his guilt, but [God] will hold [them] responsible for his death” (Ez 33:8). If we are silent in the face of evil, we are held responsible for the deaths of sinners. We must be careful when we prophesy, but we shouldn’t be silent. This dilemma makes us feel like not being prophets. However, the Lord commands us to seek above all the gift of prophecy (1 Cor 14:1).
Even if we don’t have the gift of prophecy, we must obey the prophets’ messages, for without prophecy we perish (Prv 29:18). If we don’t listen to Jesus and His prophets, we “shall be ruthlessly cut off from the people” (Acts 3:23).
In summary, we must not despise prophecies (1 Thes 5:20) but be open to them. We should be open to being prophets ourselves. We must neither be silent nor careless in prophesying. As best as we can discern, we must say what the Lord tells us to say when He wants us to say it. Prophesy obediently, courageously, boldly, and carefully.
Prayer: Father, may I be enlightened, encouraged, and built up by the prophetic messages of the Pope.
Promise: “He is our God, and we are the people He shepherds, the flock He guides.” —Ps 95:7
Praise: “For great is the Lord and highly to be praised; and awesome is He, beyond all gods” (1 Chr 16:25). Jesus, we worship You, fully God and fully man!
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Do you believe that God's word has power to set you free and to transform your life? When Jesus taught he spoke with authority. He spoke the word of God as no one had spoken it before. When the Rabbis taught they supported their statements with quotes from other authorities. The prophets spoke with delegated authority - "Thus says the Lord." When Jesus spoke he needed no authorities to back his statements. He was authority incarnate - the Word of God made flesh. When he spoke, God spoke. When he commanded even the demons obeyed.
Faith works through love and abounds in hope
Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) remarked that "faith is mighty, but without love it profits nothing. The devils confessed Christ, but lacking charity it availed nothing. They said, 'What have we to do with you' (Mark 1:24)? They confessed a sort of faith, but without love. Hence they were devils."
Faith is powerful, but without love it profits nothing (1 Corinthians 13). Scripture tells us that true faith works through love (Galatians 5:6) and abounds in hope (Romans 15:13). Our faith is made perfect in love because love orients us to the supreme good which is God himself as well as the good of our neighbor who is created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26,27).
Hope anchors our faith in the promises of God and purifies our desires for the things which will last for eternity. That is why the word of Christ has power to set us free from all that would keep us bound up in sin, deception, and despair. Bede the venerable abbot of an English monastery (672-735) contrasted the power and authority of Jesus' word with the word of the devil: "The devil, because he had deceived Eve with his tongue, is punished by the tongue, that he might not speak" [Homilies on the Gospels 1.8].
Faith must be nourished with the Word of God
Faith is both a free gift of God and the free assent of our will to the whole truth that God has revealed. To live, grow, and persevere in the faith to the end, we must nourish it with the word of God. The Lord gives us his Holy Spirit to enlighten our minds that we may grow in his truth and in the knowledge of his great love for each of us. If we approach God's word with trust and submission, and with an eagerness to do what the Lord desires for us, then we are in a much better position to learn what God wants to teach us through his word. Are you eager to be taught by the Lord and to conform your mind, heart, attitude, and intentions according to his word of truth, goodness, and love?
Lord Jesus, your word is power and life. May I never doubt your love and mercy, and the power of your word that sets us free, and brings healing and restoration to body, mind, heart, and spirit.
Psalm 8:2,5-9
2 By the mouth of babies and infants, you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
5 Yet you have made him little less than God, and did crown him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Knowing without loving, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"Those words show clearly that the demons had much knowledge, but entirely lacked love. They dreaded receiving their punishment from him. They did not love the righteousness that was in him. He made himself known to them to the extent he willed; and he willed to be made known to the extent that was fitting. But he was not made known to them as he is known to the holy angels, who enjoy participation in his eternity, in that he is the Word of God. To the demons he is known as he had to be made known, by striking terror into them, for his purpose was to free from their tyrannical power all who were predestined for his kingdom and glory, which is eternally true and truly eternal. Therefore, he did not make himself known to the demons as the life eternal, and the unchangeable light which illuminates his true worshipers, whose hearts are purified by faith in him so that they see that light. He was known to the demons through certain temporal effects of his power, the signs of his hidden presence, which could be more evident to their senses, even those of malignant spirits, than to the weak perception of human beings. (excerpt from CITY OF GOD 9.21)
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