하느님은 우리 아버지이십니다. 기도는 아버지와 마주하는 대화입니다. 아버지께 솔직하게 드릴 말씀을 드리고, 아버지의 나라가 이 땅에 세워질 수 있도록, 공손하게 아버지께 들은 말씀을 세상에 드러내는 것이 자식의 사명이기도 합니다.
자식으로서 아버지께 청할 것이 있으면, 겸손한 마음으로, 일상생활에서 온전하게 살 수 있도록 필요한 것을 청해야 합니다. 뿐만 아니라, 아버지께서 자식의 청을 들어주시고, 자식의 잘못을 당신의 친밀감으로, 당신의 자비로 용서해 주듯이, 자신에게 잘못한 타인을 먼저 용서해 주는 모습을 보여야 합니다. 그리하여 사랑이 없는 세상에 아버지의 사랑을 나누어 주어야 합니다. 정의와 평화가 없는 세상에 아버지의 정의와 평화를 선포하는 일꾼이 될 결심을 해야 합니다.
기도는 아버지 앞에서 예수님께서 걸어가신 길을 따라 걷겠다는 자기 다짐입니다. 예수님께서 걸어가신 길을 좌절하거나 유혹에 빠지지 않고 걸어갈 수 있도록 아버지께 지혜와 용기를 청하는 행위입니다.
일반 사람들도 자기 친구나 자녀의 청을 쉽게 거절하지 않습니다. 하물며 아버지께서야 어떠시겠습니까? 아버지께서는 우리가 청하는 것이면 아무것도 거절하지 않으십니다. 우리에게 성령을 보내시어, 예수 그리스도의 생명으로 살 수 있게 하는 당신의 능력을 주십니다. 그러니, 확고한 믿음으로 그분께 간절히 기도하고, 매일의 삶을 주시니, 언제나, 어떤 처지에서나 아버지께 감사드려야 합니다. 아버지께 감사드릴 줄 아는 사람이 아버지의 참된 자녀가 됩니다.
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아브라함이 소돔과 고모라 때문에 주님께 간절히 기도합니다. 주님께서는 당신의 백성에게 정의를 실천하면서 살 것을 요구하십니다. 그러나 정의가 무너진 도시는 파멸을 맞을 수밖에 없습니다. 도시가 멸망하지 않으려면 얼마나 많은 의인이 필요한지 주님께서는 제시해 주십니다(제1독서). 바오로 사도는 콜로새 신자들에게 그리스도 안에서의 충만한 삶이 무엇을 의미하는지 제시합니다. 세상의 유치하고 경직된 원리나 법칙에 현혹되지 말라고 경고합니다. 오히려, 세례 때에 그리스도와 함께 묻혔으니 그분께 전적으로 의탁할 것을 주문합니다. 십자가의 그리스도를 통해서만 온전히 자유로울 수 있음을 제시해 줍니다(제2독서). 예수님께서는 기도를 가르쳐 주십니다. 기도하는 이는 오직 아버지의 뜻을 실현하려는 굳건한 의지를 가져야 합니다. 그리고 자신이 하느님께 드릴 수 없는 것을 말씀드리지 않으며, 오직 열린 마음으로 아버지께 말씀드리고, 아버지의 자비에 의탁하며 기다릴 줄 알아야 합니다. 하느님께서는 성령을 보내시어, 인간이 필요로 하는 것을 채워 주실 것입니다(복음).
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오늘은 연중 제17주일입니다. 예수님께서는 제자들에게 올바른 기도를 가르쳐 주십니다. 우리가 즐겨 바치는 ‘주님의 기도’입니다. 기도는 하느님과 나누는 대화입니다. 하느님 아버지와 이루는 자녀다운 친밀함 속에서 바쳐야 합니다. 그리고 기도는 주님의 길을 따라가면서, 좌절하지 말고 끊임없이 바쳐야 합니다. 아버지의 자녀로서 합당하게 살아갈 것을 결심하고 은총을 간절히 청하면서, 미사를 봉헌합시다.
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July 25, 2010 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
Gn 18:20-32
In those days, the LORD said: "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave, that I must go down and see whether or not their actions fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out."
While Abraham's visitors walked on farther toward Sodom, the LORD remained standing before Abraham. Then Abraham drew nearer and said: "Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty? Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city; would you wipe out the place, rather than spare it for the sake of the fifty innocent people within it? Far be it from you to do such a thing, to make the innocent die with the guilty so that the innocent and the guilty would be treated alike! Should not the judge of all the world act with justice?" The LORD replied, "If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake." Abraham spoke up again: "See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord, though I am but dust and ashes! What if there are five less than fifty innocent people? Will you destroy the whole city because of those five?" He answered, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there." But Abraham persisted, saying "What if only forty are found there?" He replied, "I will forbear doing it for the sake of the forty." Then Abraham said, "Let not my Lord grow impatient if I go on. What if only thirty are found there?" He replied, "I will forbear doing it if I can find but thirty there." Still Abraham went on, "Since I have thus dared to speak to my Lord, what if there are no more than twenty?" The LORD answered, "I will not destroy it, for the sake of the twenty." But he still persisted: "Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time. What if there are at least ten there?" He replied, "For the sake of those ten, I will not destroy it."
R. (3a) Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me. I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise; I will worship at your holy temple and give thanks to your name. R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me. Because of your kindness and your truth; for you have made great above all things your name and your promise. When I called you answered me; you built up strength within me. R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me. The LORD is exalted, yet the lowly he sees, and the proud he knows from afar. Though I walk amid distress, you preserve me; against the anger of my enemies you raise your hand. R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me. Your right hand saves me. The LORD will complete what he has done for me; your kindness, O LORD, endures forever; forsake not the work of your hands. R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.
Brothers and sisters: You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. And even when you were dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions; obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross.
Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples." He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test."
And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight and says, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to offer him,' and he says in reply from within, 'Do not bother me; the door has already been locked and my children and I are already in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.' I tell you, if he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence.
"And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish? Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
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