May 18, 2021 Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easte
2021년 5월 18일 부활 제7주간 화요일
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제1독서
<나는 달릴 길을 다 달려 주 예수님께 받은 직무를 다 마칩니다.>
사도행전. 20,17-27
무렵 17 바오로는 밀레토스에서 에페소로 사람을 보내어
그 교회의 원로들을 불러오게 하였다.
18 그들이 자기에게 오자 바오로가 말하였다.
“여러분은 내가 아시아에 발을 들여놓은 첫날부터 여러분과 함께
그 모든 시간을 어떻게 지냈는지 잘 알고 있습니다.
19 나는 유다인들의 음모로 여러 시련을 겪고 눈물을 흘리며
아주 겸손히 주님을 섬겼습니다.
20 그리고 유익한 것이면 무엇 하나 빼놓지 않고 회중 앞에서
또 개인 집에서 여러분에게 알려 주고 가르쳤습니다.
21 나는 유다인들과 그리스인들에게,
회개하여 하느님께 돌아오고
우리 주 예수님을 믿어야 한다고 증언하였습니다.
22 그런데 이제 나는 성령께 사로잡혀 예루살렘으로 가고 있습니다.
거기에서 나에게 무슨 일이 닥칠지 나는 모릅니다.
23 다만 투옥과 환난이 나를 기다리고 있다는 것은
성령께서 내가 가는 고을에서마다 일러 주셨습니다.
24 그러나 내가 달릴 길을 다 달려 주 예수님께 받은 직무
곧 하느님 은총의 복음을 증언하는 일을 다 마칠 수만 있다면,
내 목숨이야 조금도 아깝지 않습니다.
25 이제, 내가 두루 돌아다니며
하느님의 나라를 선포한 여러분 가운데에서
아무도 다시는 내 얼굴을 볼 수 없으리라는 것을 나는 압니다.
26 그래서 여러분 가운데 그 누구의 멸망에 대해서도
나에게는 잘못이 없다는 것을,
나는 오늘 여러분에게 엄숙히 선언합니다.
27 내가 하느님의 모든 뜻을 무엇 하나 빼놓지 않고
여러분에게 알려 주었기 때문입니다.”
복음
<아버지, 아버지의 아들을 영광스럽게 해 주십시오.>
요한. 17,1-11ㄴ
그때에 예수님께서는 1 하늘을 향하여 눈을 들어 말씀하셨다.
“아버지, 때가 왔습니다.
아들이 아버지를 영광스럽게 하도록
아버지의 아들을 영광스럽게 해 주십시오.
2 아버지께서는 아들이 아버지께서 주신 모든 이에게 영원한 생명을 주도록
아들에게 모든 사람에 대한 권한을 주셨습니다.
3 영원한 생명이란 홀로 참하느님이신 아버지를 알고
아버지께서 보내신 예수 그리스도를 아는 것입니다.
4 아버지께서 저에게 하라고 맡기신 일을 완수하여,
저는 땅에서 아버지를 영광스럽게 하였습니다.
5 아버지, 세상이 생기기 전에 제가 아버지 앞에서 누리던 그 영광으로,
이제 다시 아버지 앞에서 저를 영광스럽게 해 주십시오.
6 아버지께서 세상에서 뽑으시어 저에게 주신 이 사람들에게
저는 아버지의 이름을 드러냈습니다.
이들은 아버지의 사람들이었는데
아버지께서 저에게 주셨습니다.
그래서 이들은 아버지의 말씀을 지켰습니다.
7 이제 이들은 아버지께서 저에게 주신 모든 것이
아버지에게서 왔다는 것을 알고 있습니다.
8 아버지께서 저에게 주신 말씀을 제가 이들에게 주고,
이들은 또 그것을 받아들였기 때문입니다.
그리하여 이들은 제가 아버지에게서 나왔다는 것을 참으로 알고,
아버지께서 저를 보내셨다는 것을 믿게 되었습니다.
9 저는 이들을 위하여 빕니다.
세상을 위해서가 아니라 아버지께서 저에게 주신 이들을 위하여 빕니다.
이들은 아버지의 사람들이기 때문입니다.
10 저의 것은 다 아버지의 것이고
아버지의 것은 제 것입니다.
이 사람들을 통하여 제가 영광스럽게 되었습니다.
11 저는 더 이상 세상에 있지 않지만 이들은 세상에 있습니다.
저는 아버지께 갑니다.”
May 18, 2021
Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter
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Reading 1
Acts 20:17-27
From Miletus Paul had the presbyters
of the Church at Ephesus summoned.
When they came to him, he addressed them,
“You know how I lived among you
the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia.
I served the Lord with all humility
and with the tears and trials that came to me
because of the plots of the Jews,
and I did not at all shrink from telling you
what was for your benefit,
or from teaching you in public or in your homes.
I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks
to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus.
But now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem.
What will happen to me there I do not know,
except that in one city after another
the Holy Spirit has been warning me
that imprisonment and hardships await me.
Yet I consider life of no importance to me,
if only I may finish my course
and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus,
to bear witness to the Gospel of God’s grace.
“But now I know that none of you
to whom I preached the kingdom during my travels
will ever see my face again.
And so I solemnly declare to you this day
that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you,
for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.”
Responsorial Psalm
R. (33a) Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
A bountiful rain you showered down, O God, upon your inheritance;
you restored the land when it languished;
Your flock settled in it;
in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy.
R. Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Blessed day by day be the Lord,
who bears our burdens; God, who is our salvation.
God is a saving God for us;
the LORD, my Lord, controls the passageways of death.
R. Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Gospel
Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said,
“Father, the hour has come.
Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you,
just as you gave him authority over all people,
so that your son may give eternal life to all you gave him.
Now this is eternal life,
that they should know you, the only true God,
and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
I glorified you on earth
by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do.
Now glorify me, Father, with you,
with the glory that I had with you before the world began.
“I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world.
They belonged to you, and you gave them to me,
and they have kept your word.
Now they know that everything you gave me is from you,
because the words you gave to me I have given to them,
and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you,
and they have believed that you sent me.
I pray for them.
I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me,
because they are yours, and everything of mine is yours
and everything of yours is mine,
and I have been glorified in them.
And now I will no longer be in the world,
but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.”
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
I have known people who want to be liked by everyone. This desire can make it hard to know what they truly believe. Take politicians, for example. When I am with an anti-gun crowd, I want to see laws enacted that ban certain types of guns. When I am with a pro-gun crowd, well, you need to know that I grew up hunting and know how to handle a rifle. Neither of those positions necessarily contradict the other but I frame everything in such a way that everyone will like me. Ministers can be that way, too. There are hard sayings in the Bible and hard teachings of the Church. I might tend to shave the hard edges off for fear that someone could disagree and not like me.
This is a temptation to which the apostle Paul did not succumb. Twice in this first reading he says that only the truth will truly benefit you. When he was at Ephesus he didn’t shave off the hard edges. He says, “I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit….” Later he says, “And so I solemnly declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you, for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.”
What happens to ministers who proclaim the entire plan of God? Tears, trials, plots, imprisonment, and hardships await them. St. Paul said, “Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the Gospel of God’s grace.” If you want to be liked, do not proclaim the entire plan of God.
According to the Gospel reading, God’s plan was to give eternal life through his Son. What is eternal life? Jesus says, “Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.” Eternal life is a relationship with God. We don’t wait for pie in the sky in the bye and bye. We have that life now. And that life doesn’t end just because our body dies. Section 1721 of the Catechism says, “God put us in the world to know, to love, and to serve him, and so to come to paradise.” Genesis presents a beautiful picture of a God who walks in the garden with his friends. He loves having fellowship with his children and he wants them to know him. It’s through that knowledge that we have life.
Do I want to be liked by everybody? Well, I don’t go out of my way to make people hate me. The truth, however, can be hard to receive and the fact is that proclaiming the love of God through Jesus Christ can get you killed or, if not killed, hated, dismissed, canceled. Do I want eternal life? This comes through knowing God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This life is one of joy and peace but it also includes suffering and hardship. This is especially true for anyone who would dare to share their faith. If you want to be liked by everyone, keep your faith to yourself. If you want others to know Jesus, share your faith. But be prepared for the temptation to shave off the rough edges. Being servants and keeping commandments isn’t something that a lot of folks want to hear. So, make it easy for them. I may be liked but I will also have blood on my hands. Or, tell the truth and follow your master to the Place of the Skull.
God walked with his friends in the garden of Eden. Jesus suffered in the garden of Gethsemane. If we follow Jesus, he doesn’t promise us a rose garden. Eternal life is to know God; it’s not to be liked by everybody.
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BOLD AND UNCOMPROMISING
“I have never shrunk from announcing to you God’s design in its entirety.” —Acts 20:27
Historically, when the Church has been shrinking, the Lord has raised up shrink-resistant men and women who never shrink from speaking the total truth of God’s plan (Acts 20:27). They insist “solemnly on repentance before God” (Acts 20:21). They never shrink from telling people what is for their good, or from teaching them in every way God’s truth (Acts 20:20).
The Holy Spirit lavishes us with grace to expand. Yet we must put aside our old, fearful nature which shrinks from the fear of man. Jesus taught that no one sews a new “unshrunken” cloth onto an old cloth (Mt 9:16), else it would tear loose. We can’t mix our old “shrinking-violet” ways with the Holy Spirit. Nothing good comes from shrinking away. As Job proclaims: “What I fear overtakes me, and what I shrink from comes upon me” (Jb 3:25).
Repent of fear. Be bold and uncompromising in the Spirit (Acts 2:4). Help the Church expand again. “The Spirit God has given us is no cowardly spirit, but rather One that makes us strong” (2 Tm 1:7).
Prayer: Father, I’m not ashamed of the gospel (Rm 1:16). I’m “proud to profess it in Christ Jesus” (Easter Baptismal Promises).
Promise: “Eternal life is this: to know You, the only true God, and Him Whom You have sent, Jesus Christ.” —Jn 17:3
Praise: Pope St. John I helped repair the schism of 482.
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In his Last Supper discourse with his beloved disciples Jesus speaks of his glory and the glory of his Father. What is this glory? It is the cross which Jesus speaks of here and the willing offering of his life for us. How does the cross reveal this glory? In the cross God reveals the breadth of his great love for sinners and the power of Jesus' redemptive sacrifice which cancels the debt of sin and reverses the curse of our condemnation (Romans 8:1). Jesus gave his Father the supreme honor and glory through his obedience and willingness to go to the cross for our sake. In times of defense the greatest honor belongs not to those who fought and survived but to those who gave the supreme sacrifice of their own lives for their fellow citizens.The Lord Jesus freely and willingly offered up his life out of obedience to his Father and love for us.
Jesus reveals the glory of God to us
Jesus speaks of the Father bringing glory to the Son through the great mystery of the Incarnation - the eternal Word who became flesh for our sake (John 1:14) - and the Cross of Christ which won for us pardon, freedom, and new life in the Holy Spirit. God the Father gave us his only begotten Son to set us free from slavery to sin, guilt, and condemnation. His sacrificial death brings us new life - the abundant life of peace and joy which God wishes to share with each one of us. There is no greater proof of God's love for each and every person on the face of the earth than the Cross of Jesus Christ. In the cross we see a new way of love - a love that is merciful, sacrificial, and generous beyond measure.
Jesus offers abundant life without end
Jesus offers us eternal life. What is eternal life? It is more than simply a life without end or an eternal state of being. Science and medicine look for ways to extend the duration of human life - but God offers us something vastly greater and more surpassing than a simple extension of physical life. Eternal life is qualitative more than quantitative. To have eternal life is to have the very life of God within us. When we possess eternal life we experience here and now something of God's majesty, glory, and holiness which he shares with us. Through the gift and working of the Holy Spirit, God fills us with the abundant fruit of his peace, joy and love.
We can know God personally
Jesus also speaks of the knowledge of God. Jesus tells his disciples that they can know the only true God. Knowledge of God is not simply limited to knowing something about God, but we can know God personally and be united with God in a personal relationship of love and friendship. The essence of Christianity, and what makes it distinct from Judaism and other religions, is the personal and experiential knowledge of God as our eternal Father - the one who knew us before creation (Ephesians 1:4 and Romans 8:29) and who knit us in our mother's womb (Psalm 139:13 and Jeremiah 1:5). Jesus makes it possible for each of us to personally know God as our Father. To see Jesus is to see what God is like.
A unity of love that endures forever
In Jesus Christ we see the perfect love of God - a God who cares intensely and who yearns over men and women, loving them to the point of laying down his life for them upon the Cross. Jesus is the revelation of God - a God who loves us completely, unconditionally and perfectly. Do you hunger to know God personally and to be united with the Father in his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, through the unity of the Holy Spirit who dwells with us? The Lord Jesus invites each of us to enter more deeply into a personal relationship of love and oneness of mind, heart, and spirit with the eternal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit who created us in love for love.
If only I possessed the grace, good Jesus, to be utterly at one with you! Amidst all the variety of worldly things around me, Lord, the only thing I crave is unity with you. You are all my soul needs. Unite, dear friend of my heart, this unique little soul of mine to your perfect goodness.You are all mine; when shall I be yours? Lord Jesus, my beloved, be the magnet of my heart; clasp, press, unite me for ever to your sacred heart. You have made me for yourself; make me one with you. Absorb this tiny drop of life into the ocean of goodness whence it came. (Prayer of Francis de Sales, 1567-1622)
Psalm 27:1,4,7-8
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
4 One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me!
8 You have said, "Seek my face." My heart says to you, "Your face, LORD, do I seek."
Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Eternity will be ours when faith sees, by Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.
"We are distanced from eternity to the extent that we are changeable. But eternal life is promised to us through the truth. Our faith, however, stands as far apart from the clear knowledge of the truth as mortality does from eternity. At the present we put faith in things done in time on our account, and by that faith itself we are cleansed. In this way, when we have come to sight, as truth follows faith, so eternity may follow on mortality. Our faith will become truth, then, when we have attained to that which is promised to us who believe. And that which is promised to us is eternal life. And the Truth - not that which shall come to be according to how our faith shall be, but that truth that always exists because eternity is in it - the Truth then has said, 'And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.' When our faith sees and comes to be truth, then eternity shall possess our now changed mortality." (excerpt from ON THE TRINITY 4.18.24.34)
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