하바쿡 예언자는 먼저 주님께 질문하고 도움을 청합니다. 그는 주님께서 어느 날엔가는 정의를 실현하실 역사의 주인이심을 알고 있습니다. 그러나 문제는 악인이 의로운 이를 여전히 집어삼킨다는 데에 있습니다. 언제까지 주님께서 나서시기를 기다려야 할 것인지가 하바쿡의 고민입니다. 억압과 불의에 대한 하바쿡의 고민에 주님께서 결정적인 해답을 내놓으십니다(제1독서). 제자들은 간질병에 걸린 아이를 치료하는 데 실패합니다. 그 이유는 제자들의 믿음이 부족한 탓이었습니다. 그들은 하느님의 능력이 자기들의 구체적인 활동을 통하여 구현된다는 사실을 믿지 않았던 것입니다. 사람들을 소외에서 벗어나게 하는 일이 불가능하다고 생각하는 것이 바로 우리 안에서 활동하시는 주님의 능력을 믿지 않은 결과가 됩니다(복음).
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August 7, 2010 Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
Hb 1:12—2:4
Are you not from eternity, O LORD, my holy God, immortal? O LORD, you have marked him for judgment, O Rock, you have readied him punishment! Too pure are your eyes to look upon evil, and the sight of misery you cannot endure. Why, then, do you gaze on the faithless in silence while the wicked man devours one more just than himself? You have made man like the fish of the sea, like creeping things without a ruler. He brings them all up with his hook, he hauls them away with his net, He gathers them in his seine; and so he rejoices and exults. Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his seine; for thanks to them his portion is generous, and his repast sumptuous. Shall he, then, keep on brandishing his sword to slay peoples without mercy?
I will stand at my guard post, and station myself upon the rampart, And keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my complaint.
Then the LORD answered me and said: Write down the vision Clearly upon the tablets, so that one can read it readily. For the vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint; If it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late. The rash man has no integrity; but the just man, because of his faith, shall live.
R. (11b) You forsake not those who seek you, O Lord. The LORD sits enthroned forever; he has set up his throne for judgment. He judges the world with justice; he governs the peoples with equity. R. You forsake not those who seek you, O Lord. The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of distress. They trust in you who cherish your name, for you forsake not those who seek you, O LORD. R. You forsake not those who seek you, O Lord. Sing praise to the LORD enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations his deeds; For the avenger of blood has remembered; he has not forgotten the cry of the poor. R. You forsake not those who seek you, O Lord.
A man came up to Jesus, knelt down before him, and said, “Lord, have pity on my son, who is a lunatic and suffers severely; often he falls into fire, and often into water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.” Jesus said in reply, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring the boy here to me.” Jesus rebuked him and the demon came out of him, and from that hour the boy was cured. Then the disciples approached Jesus in private and said, “Why could we not drive it out?” He said to them, “Because of your little faith. Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
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