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“주님, 그렇습니다. 그러나 강아지들도 주인의 상에서 떨어지는 부스러기는 먹습니다.” 예수님께서 가나안 부인의 청을 거절하시자, 그 여인이 예수님께 다시 한 번 청하며 했던 말입니다. 예수님께서는 이 말씀을 들으시고 그 여인의 딸을 고쳐 주십니다. 여인의 말을 그대로 옮기자면, ‘부스러기 은총’이 그 가정에 내려진 것입니다. 지난 월요일의 복음에서 예수님께서 오천 명을 먹이신 기적을 우리는 들었습니다. 그때 배불리 먹고 ‘남은 조각’(부스러기)을 모으니 열두 광주리나 되었습니다. 이 부스러기들은 그저 먹고 버리는 음식물 쓰레기가 아닙니다. 열두 광주리에 부스러기들이 가득 담겼다는 것은 매우 상징적인 의미를 지니고 있습니다. 새로운 이스라엘 백성, 곧 열두 사도 위에 세워진 교회에 이제 ‘부스러기 은총’이 충만히 주어졌다는 것을 뜻합니다. 그 ‘부스러기 은총’이 이스라엘 백성이 아닌 다른 민족인 가나안 여인에게까지 주어진 것입니다. 이스라엘 백성에게 ‘빵의 은총’이 주어졌지만, 그들은 그 은총에 감사하지 않았습니다. 그러나 가나안 여인은 ‘부스러기 은총’이라도 간절히 원하였고, 이를 통하여 자신의 딸을 살릴 수 있었습니다. 그렇습니다. 이스라엘 백성이든 다른 민족들이든 모두에게 부스러기 은총이 주어진 것입니다. 그러나 예수님께서 다른 민족들에게 내리신 은총은 부스러기로만 끝나지 않습니다. 그분 스스로 빵이 되시어 당신 백성인 교회에 ‘빵의 은총’을 새롭게 내려 주십니다. 우리는 그리스도의 이러한 사랑에 힘입어 빵도, 부스러기도 모두 차지할 수 있게 되었습니다. |
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모세는 주님께서 약속하신 가나안 땅 앞의 파란 광야에 이르러 사람들을 보내 가나안 지역을 정찰하게 합니다. 그러나 그곳을 둘러보고 돌아온 이들은 그곳 주민들이 너무나 강하여 그 땅을 차지할 수 없을 것이라고 보고합니다. 주님께서는 이들의 부족한 믿음을 책망하십니다(제1독서). 이민족들의 지방에서 온 가나안 부인이 예수님께 자기 딸을 살려 주십사고 청합니다. 예수님께서는 그녀가 이스라엘 민족이 아니어서 그 청을 거절하시지만, 그녀는 이스라엘 민족이 지닌 것보다 더 깊은 믿음으로 예수님께 매달립니다. 결국 예수님께서는 그 여인의 딸을 고쳐 주십니다(복음). |
August 7, 2013
Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 409
The LORD said to Moses [in the desert of Paran,] “Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, which I am giving the children of Israel. You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe, all of them princes.”
After reconnoitering the land for forty days they returned, met Moses and Aaron and the whole congregation of the children of Israel in the desert of Paran at Kadesh, made a report to them all, and showed the fruit of the country to the whole congregation. They told Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, and here is its fruit. However, the people who are living in the land are fierce, and the towns are fortified and very strong. Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there. Amalekites live in the region of the Negeb; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites dwell in the highlands, and Canaanites along the seacoast and the banks of the Jordan.”
Caleb, however, to quiet the people toward Moses, said, “We ought to go up and seize the land, for we can certainly do so.” But the men who had gone up with him said, “We cannot attack these people; they are too strong for us.” So they spread discouraging reports among the children of Israel about the land they had scouted, saying, “The land that we explored is a country that consumes its inhabitants. And all the people we saw there are huge, veritable giants (the Anakim were a race of giants); we felt like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them.”
At this, the whole community broke out with loud cries, and even in the night the people wailed.
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron: “How long will this wicked assembly grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the children of Israel against me. Tell them: By my life, says the LORD, I will do to you just what I have heard you say. Here in the desert shall your dead bodies fall. Forty days you spent in scouting the land; forty years shall you suffer for your crimes: one year for each day. Thus you will realize what it means to oppose me. I, the LORD, have sworn to do this to all this wicked assembly that conspired against me: here in the desert they shall die to the last man.”
R. (4a) Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. We have sinned, we and our fathers; we have committed crimes; we have done wrong. Our fathers in Egypt considered not your wonders. R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. But soon they forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel. They gave way to craving in the desert and tempted God in the wilderness. R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. They forgot the God who had saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt, Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham, terrible things at the Red Sea. R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. Then he spoke of exterminating them, but Moses, his chosen one, Withstood him in the breach to turn back his destructive wrath. R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
At that time Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.” But he did not say a word in answer to her. His disciples came and asked him, “Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us.” He said in reply, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But the woman came and did him homage, saying, “Lord, help me.” He said in reply, “It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” She said, “Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.” Then Jesus said to her in reply, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.
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