Jesus, the favorite Child of God, is persecuted. He who is poor, gentle, mourning; he who hungers and thirsts for uprightness; is merciful, pure of heart and a peacemaker is not welcome in this world. The Blessed One of God is a threat to the established order and a source of constant irritation to those…

  Jesus, the Blessed Child of the Father, is a peacemaker. His peace doesn’t mean only absence of war. It is not simply harmony or equilibrium. His peace is the fullness of well-being, gratuitously given by God. Jesus says, “Peace I leave to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world…

Jesus, the Blessed Child of God, is merciful. Showing mercy is different from having pity. Pity connotes distance, even looking down upon. When a beggar asks for money and you give him something out of pity, you are not showing mercy. Mercy comes from a compassionate heart; it comes from a desire to be an…

성 삼위일체 주일   교회의 처음 축일들은 그리스도의 생애 속에 잇었던 중요한 사건들을 기념하거나 교회생활 가운데 있는 성인들과 사건들을 기념하는 것이엇습니다. 교회의 교리들을 위하여 축일은 제정되지 않았습니다. 성삼위일체 주일은 교리를 위하여 제정된 축일 중에 가장 먼저 그리고 가장 중요한 축일로 제정되었습니다.   성삼위일체 주일 이전에는 하느님께서 그리스도를 통해서 이루신 구원의 사건들을 기념합니다. 즉 그리스도의 일생을…

삼위일체 주일 성서묵상 및 성공회 묵주기도문 서로 다른 역활 속에 일치를 이루시는 삼위일체 하느님 이사야6:1-8, 성시29, 로마8:12-17, 요한복음3:1-16 오늘은 삼위일체 주일입니다. 오늘의 독서들은 삼위일체 하느님을 이해하기 위한 내용들로 구성되어 있습니다.   구약 이사야서 6장은 이사야가 환상 중 하느님을 만나는 장면과 예언자로서 부르심을 받는 소명의 내용입니다. 삼위일체적 관점에서 이해할 때 거룩하신 하느님을 경험하고, 예언자를 불러 역사를…

Jesus, the Blessed Son of God, hungers and thirsts for uprightness. He abhors injustice. He resists those who try to gather wealth and influence by oppression and exploitation. His whole being yearns for people to treat one another as brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of the same God. With fervor he proclaims that the…

Jesus, the Blessed One, mourns. Jesus mourns when his friend Lazarus dies (see John 11:33-36); he mourns when he overlooks the city of Jerusalem, soon to be destroyed (see Luke 19:41-44). Jesus mourns over all losses and devastations that fill the human heart with pain. He grieves with those who grieve and sheds tears with…

  Jesus, the Blessed One, is gentle. Even though he speaks with great fervor and biting criticism against all forms of hypocrisy and is not afraid to attack deception, vanity, manipulation and oppression, his heart is a gentle heart. He won’t break the crushed reed or snuff the faltering wick (see Matthew 12:20). He responds…

  Jesus, the Blessed One, is poor. The poverty of Jesus is much more than an economic or social poverty. Jesus is poor because he freely chose powerlessness over power, vulnerability over defensiveness, dependency over self-sufficiency. As the great “Song of Christ” so beautifully expresses: “He … did not count equality with God something to…

  Jesus says: “Blessed are the poor, the gentle, those who mourn, those who hunger and thirst for uprightness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, and those who are persecuted in the cause of uprightness” (Matthew 5:3-10). These words offer us a self-portrait of Jesus. Jesus is the Blessed One. And the face…