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나는 누구?

도서관은
골 깊은 산이다.

등산하듯
층계를 올라

어두운 서가를
뒤진다.

이 골짜기는
역사 서가,

저 산봉우리는
철학서가,

저 능선은
과학 서가

고서는
이끼 낀 바위로
앉아 있고

사서는
칡넝쿨로
얽혀 있다.

이곳 저곳
걸으며

화두 하나
참구한다.

나는 누구일까

청노루,
백사슴 다 아는
산길에서

길을 잃고
망연히
헤매는데

앞에는 문득

깎아지른 듯
가로막고 서 있는
절벽.

그 까마득한
벼랑에 핀

꽃
한 그루.

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탕자의 귀향
(The return of the prodigal son)
 램브란트 그림

성경이 말하는 ‘회개’의 의미

하나님 아버지의 용서의 품으로 돌아오는 것

죄인이 구원을 받는데
가장 필수적인 요건 중 하나가
‘회개’입니다.

그런데 안타깝게도 우리가 알고 있는
회개의 의미와 성경이 말하는 회개가 너무 달라서
바람직한 회개에 이르지 못하는 경우가 많습니다.

한자를 쓰는 동양권에서는 ‘회개(悔改)’를 한자로
‘잘못을 뉘우치고 고친다’고 알고
또 그렇게 가르치는 경우가 대부분입니다.

반면 성경은 회개를 ‘죄인이 죄를 뉘우치고
죄에서 돌아서서 하나님 아버지의 용서의 품으로
돌아오는 것이라고 말합니다.
(이사야 44장 22절).

우리는 죄를 뉘우친 다음에
그 죄를 스스로 고칠 수 없습니다.

죄인의 힘으로 죄는 스스로 고칠 수도,
고쳐지지도 않습니다.

죄를 고치는 것은
오로지 하나님만이 하실 수 있습니다.

고침을 받으려면
이미 우리를 용서하시고 기다리시는
하나님 아버지의 품으로 돌아가야 합니다.

“이에 일어나서 아버지께로 돌아가니라.”
(누가복음 15장 20절)

회개는

하나님의 용서가 만든

사랑의 선물입니다.

“하나님께서 이방인에게도
생명 얻는 회개를 주셨도다.”
(사도행전 11장 18절)

“네가 하나님의 인자하심이
너를 인도하여 회개하게 하심을 알지 못하여
그의 인자하심과 용납하심과 길이 참으심이
풍성함을 멸시하느냐?”
(로마서 2장 4절)

구약성경에는 ‘회개 하다’라는
의미를 가진 단어들이 몇개 있습니다.

그 중에 ‘나함’이라는 동사가 있습니다.
그 단어의 본래 뜻은 ‘깊이 숨 쉰다’는 뜻입니다.
이 말을 번역할 때 우리 한국말로

첫째는
‘위로 한다’,

두 번째는
‘한탄 한다’고

번역했습니다.

다른 사람이 어려움을 당했는데
가서 함께 위로할 때 아~
이렇게 깊은 한숨을 쉽니다.

또 ‘한탄 한다’, 자기 신세 한탄 할 때도
깊은 한숨을 내 쉽니다.

두 번째는

‘슈브’라는 동사인데
이 동사는 ‘돌아간다’라는 뜻을
가지고 있습니다.

이 두 개의 단어 어디에도
‘고치다’라는 말이 없는 것을
볼 수 있습니다.

고쳐야하는 것은 맞지만
우리 보고 고치라고 말씀하시지 않으셨습니다.

고치라고 하신
말씀이 있기는 합니다.

그런데 그것은 다 고쳐 주겠다는
약속입니다.

우리 죄인에게
스스로 고치라는 얘기가 아닙니다.

사람은 스스로 악한 습관과
죄를  절대로 고칠 수 없습니다.

신약성경에는 회개의 의미로
‘메타노에오(μετανοέω)’가 쓰였습니다.
이 단어는 ‘뒤에 깨닫다’라는 의미입니다.

‘메타-’는 ‘후에’ 혹은 ‘뒤에’라는 뜻이고, ‘-
노에오’는 ‘깨닫다’라는 뜻입니다.

대표적인 성경절이 누가복음 15장에 나오는
탕자의 비유입니다.

돼지 사료로 먹이던 쥐엄 열매로 끼니를 해결하던 아들이
아버지의 품으로 돌아갈 때 깔끔하게 목욕 재개하고
새 옷 입고 가지 않았습니다.

아버지한테 갈 때, ‘그래도 명색이 부잣집 아들이었는데
돼지 구정물 냄새나는 옷을 입고 어떻게 아버지께 갈 수 있겠는가?

목욕탕에 가서 목욕하고, 때 빼고 광내고,
아버지한테 드릴 과일이라도 한 바구니 사들고 가야지.’
탕자가 그렇게 마음을 먹었다면 이 이야기에 나오는 아들은
결코 집에 갈 수 없었을 것입니다.

그는 용서의 아버지를 바라보고

그냥 갔습니다.

아버지는 너무 좋아서 덩실덩실 춤을 추고
잔치를 하고 살아 돌아온 아들을 깨끗하게 목욕시키고,
옷을 입히고, 신발을 신기고, 반지를 끼워주고,
끌어안고 입을 맞춥니다.

분명 고치고 씻긴 사람은 아버지였습니다.
사람은 스스로 고칠 수 있는 존재가 아닙니다.

‘후회하고 고친다’는 개념은 동양적 윤리 개념에서
나온 것이지 성경이 본래 말하는 뜻이 아닙니다.

차라리 회개보다는 ‘회심(悔心)’이라는 단어가
훨씬 성경하고 의미가 가깝습니다.

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Because of The Truth

because
of the truth,

which
lives in us and
will be
with us
forever:

Grace,
mercy and
peace
from

God the Father

and
from
Jesus Christ,
the Father`s Son,

will be with us
in truth and
love.

2 John 1: 2-3

우리 안에 거하여
영원히 우리와
함께할 진리를
인함이로다

은혜와
긍휼과 평강이

하나님
아버지와
아버지의 아들
예수 그리스도께로
부터

진리와
사랑 가운데서

우리와
함께 있으리라

요한이서 1: 2-3

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The Wild Iris

At
the end of
my suffering
there was
a door.

Hear me out:
that which you
call death

I remember.

Overhead,
noises,

branches of
the pine
shifting.

Then nothing.

The
weak sun
flickered over
the dry surface.

It is
terrible to
survive

as
consciousness
buried in the dark
earth.

Then
it was over:

that
which you fear,
being a soul

and
unable
to speak,

ending
abruptly,
the stiff earth
bending
a little.

And
what I took to be
birds darting in
low shrubs.

You
who do not
remember passage
from the other
world

I tell you

I could
speak again:

whatever
returns from
oblivion

returns
to find

a voice:

from
the center of
my life

came
a great
fountain,

deep blue
shadows on
azure seawater.

-Louise Glück-

야생 아이리스

내 고통의
마지막에 문이
있었어.

내 얘길 들어봐:

네가 죽음이라
부르던 것
나 기억해.

머리위,
소음,
소나무가지가
요동쳤고.

그리곤
아무것도 없었어.

약해진 태양은
메마른 땅위에
어른거렸지.

의식이
캄캄한 땅속에
묻힌채

살아남는다는 것은
가혹한 일이야

그리곤 끝이났어:

네가
두려워 하는것,

한 영혼이 되어
말을 할 수 없다는
그것이,

홀연한 종료,
가파른 지구가
조금 허리를
굽혔지.

나는
관목을 쪼는
새들이 되었어.

다른
세계로부터의
통로를 기억하지
못하는
너에게

나는
전한다

나는 다시
말할 수 있었다고:

무엇이든
망각으로 부터
돌아온 것은

목소리를
찾으러

돌아온다는
것을.

내
생명의
중심으로 부터
솟아나는 위대한
샘,

짙푸른
그림자
파아란 바닷물
위.

-루이스 글릭-

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겨울나무

겨울나무는
외로운 바람이다.
일년 내내 들녘을 헤메던
갈망의 손짓들이
앙상한 가지 끝에 매달려
잉잉 울어대는 바람이다.
​
겨울나무는
하얀 눈밭에 버틴 초병이다.
동구밖 길가에 열병을 하고
밀물처럼 밀려오는 겨울밤의 고독을 지켜주는
용감한 초병이다.
​
겨울나무는
잠자는 나비의 꿈이다.
무성하던 잎새들의 기억에
온몸을 온몸을 떨며
소로륵 눈이 내리는 밤이면
한 마리 노오란 나비가 되어
초록의 하늘을 난다.
​
겨울나무는
봄이 오는 골목이다.
눈 덮힌 지하에 뿌리를 내리고
진달래 꽃길을 마련하는
분주한 길목이다.

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Benedict Leaves Behind a Conflicted Legacy on Clerical Sexual Abuse

Benedict Leaves Behind a Conflicted Legacy on Clerical Sexual Abuse
Joseph Ratzinger was accused of mishandling cases when he was bishop of Munich, but as pope he was credited with forcing the Catholic Church to face a scourge long ignored.

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The cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising in Germany. Supporters of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI note that he forced the Roman Catholic Church to make it easier to get rid of abusers.

Others say he did not go far enough.
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By Jason Horowitz and Erika Solomon

Jason Horowitz reported and wrote this article from Rome, where he is bureau chief.

Erika Solomon, based in Berlin, spoke with abuse victims and mourners in Munich and Garching an der Alz, Germany.
Jan. 4, 2023

Before he led the Roman Catholic Church as Benedict XVI, and before he loomed over the church as a powerhouse cardinal and the Vatican’s chief doctrinal watchdog, Joseph Ratzinger, archbishop of Munich, attended a 1980 meeting about a priest in northwestern Germany accused of abusing children.

What exactly transpired during the meeting is unclear — but afterward, the priest was transferred, and over the next dozen years moved around Bavaria to different parishes before he ended up in the tiny village of Garching an der Alz, where he sexually abused Andreas Perr, then 12.

“It feels so heavy,” Mr. Perr said on Tuesday, puffing cigarettes outside the house where he was molested, just a few steps from the white steeple of the village church. He said his abuse had led him down a road marred by drugs and prison while Archbishop Ratzinger had risen up the ranks of the church. Speaking of the retired Pope Benedict XVI, who died on Saturday, he added, “to think of the power that one person could have over your life.”

A report last year commissioned by the Catholic Church in Munich accused Benedict of mishandling cases of sexual abuse by priests. Benedict apologized for any “grievous faults” but denied any wrongdoing.

The scourge of child sexual abuse in the church haunted Benedict, from the beginning of his rise through the hierarchy to his last year as a frail, retired pope, when the Munich investigators added a final complication to a deeply conflicted legacy.

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Andreas Perr, who was molested by a priest, near the church in Garching, Germany. “It feels so heavy,” he said, “to think of the power that one person could have had over your life.”

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To supporters, he is the leader who first met with victims and — more than anyone before him — forced the church to finally face its demons,

change its laws and get rid of hundreds of abusive priests.

He raised the age of consent and included vulnerable adults in laws that protected minors.

He allowed the statutes of limitations on sexual abuse to be waived.

To critics, he protected the institution over the victims in its flock, failed to hold even a single bishop accountable for shielding abusers and did not back up his words with action.

He preferred to keep discipline in house, never requiring cases to be reported to the civil authorities.

“We can be grateful for what Benedict XVI did in bringing the fight against abuse in the church to a new level by introducing tighter procedures and new laws,” said the Rev. Hans Zollner, one of the Vatican’s top experts in safeguarding minors and in sexual abuse.

“He was the first pope to meet with survivors of abuse.

At the same time, given the report that during his years as archbishop of Munich he failed to give due attention to victims of abuse and hold perpetrators accountable, we cannot ignore that victims and others are hurting.”

Mr. Perr, now 38, is still trying to rebuild a life after what the church put him through.

He is no longer a member of the Catholic Church.

As Archbishop Ratzinger ascended to greater heights, Mr. Perr’s life spiraled into an ever deeper abyss.

His mother refused to believe him, and he fled home and got into heavy drugs like heroine, living out on the streets.

“After it happened, I started having nightmares,” he said.
“That’s what made me start doing drugs.
I wanted to stop dreaming, to stop feeling guilty and disgusting.
I just didn’t want to feel anything anymore.”

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Mr. Perr with his lawyer, Andreas Schulz, outside the church building where the abuse happened.
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Lena Mucha for The New York Times

That was when he found the criminal lawyer Andreas Schulz, after learning Mr. Schulz was representing other abuse victims of the same priest.

Together, they decided to aim higher: They would file a civil lawsuit, not just against the priest accused of molesting him and several boys in Garching, but also against the Archdiocese of Munich and Joseph Ratzinger, then its archbishop.

Before Benedict died, the pope emeritus hired a large international law firm and said he planned to defend himself in a trial set to start this year.

Now, Mr. Schulz and his client plan to pursue the case even in his death, and they still want to hold Benedict XVI, or the heir to his estate, accountable.

Mr. Schulz said it might even be Benedict’s successor, Pope Francis, who inherits case, should he become Benedict’s heir.

The lawyer argued that the church should accept the trial as an opportunity to finally clear up the complicated history Benedict XVI left behind.

“His theological achievements are one side of his legacy,” Mr. Schulz said. “But there are shadows that hang over him, and those shadows can only be removed now if the right thing is done and accountability is accepted. That is something only Pope Francis can do now, and that is what our trial is trying to push toward: People want transparency, they want acceptance of accountability, they want compensation.”
Accounts such as Mr. Perr’s have become painfully familiar in the church over recent decades.

The revelation of systemic abuse gutted dioceses and chased away the faithful in countries all around the world.

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The altar in the Sankt Nikolaus Church in Garching, Germany.

Benedict was the first pope to meet personally with victims and the first to publish a papal letter directly addressing the scourge of sexual abuse in the church.

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In the United States, a scandal that erupted in Boston has shaken nearly every part of the country.

The church in Ireland, once a fortress for Catholicism, was so decimated by abuse scandals that Benedict in 2010 wrote the first pastoral letter from a pope on the issue of abuse.

“You have suffered grievously, and I am truly sorry,” he wrote. A 2021 report in France alleged that hundreds of thousands of children had been abused by the church there.

Church leaders, who once considered the crisis an invention of liberals and lawyers, or a problem of Anglophone countries drummed up by an anti-Catholic news media, now acknowledge that it is everywhere, and Francis, after his own missteps, introduced rules to hold the hierarchy more accountable.
But supporters of Benedict, and even his critics, acknowledge that Francis built on Benedict’s reforms.

Before the deluge that overwhelmed the church, the cases dripped in during the 1980s — often from English-speaking countries — and fell on his desk at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
In 1988, he pressed the Vatican’s canon law department — which required long church trials to address accusations — to give him a freer hand to more quickly remove abusive priests. It refused, arguing that such a move would deprive priests of due process, and as a result, bishops sought to cure them with prayer and therapy or simply relocated abusers to other parishes, where they preyed on more children.

But Cardinal Ratzinger’s office also failed to act in egregious cases. In the 1990s, it halted a secret trial of an American priest who had molested as many as 200 deaf boys and wrote to the cardinal insisting the priest had already repented. He was never defrocked.

In 2001, Cardinal Ratzinger persuaded Pope John Paul II to let him try to get the problem under control.

He drafted a church law that required bishops to forward all credible allegations of abuse to the Vatican, where his office was made responsible for the cases.

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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 2001 in Munich. In the line to pay their last respects, the faithful were forgiving. “He did his best,” said one person.
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He backed up American bishops who sought to adopt a “zero tolerance” policy that expelled priests who engaged in a single episode of sexual abuse. . As John Paul reached the end of his pontificate in 2004, Cardinal Ratzinger ordered a review of the pending cases in his department.
In 2005 for the Good Friday Via Crucis procession at Rome’s Colosseum, Cardinal Ratzinger wrote, “How much filth there is in the church, especially among those who, in the priesthood, are supposed to belong totally” to Christ.

When he became pope, he disciplined — and ultimately defrocked — the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, a serial abuser and the Mexican founder of the religious order the Legionaries of Christ. A prodigious fund-raiser, Father Maciel had won the loyalty of Pope John Paul II and his inner circle, which had for years blocked Benedict’s efforts to investigate him.

“The issue is very mixed and complex,” said Marie Collins, an Irish survivor of abuse who resigned in frustration in 2017 from a Vatican commission on protecting minors created by Francis. She said that Benedict’s reading of so many cases as head of the doctrinal congregation made him “grasp the enormity of the problem when he became pope,” and that he brought in new procedures against sexual abuse.

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The body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI lying in state at St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday.
Credit…
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Ms. Collins said that it was “unfair to make too much” of the mistakes he made in handling cases during his own personal ministry, when he was a bishop in Germany, but that Benedict, as pope, “didn’t do enough in-depth work on the issue or pursue it to the fullest.”

For many, he did not go nearly far enough.
Anne Barrett Doyle, a co-director of BishopAccountability.org, a victims advocacy and research group, said in a statement the day of Benedict’s death that he “left hundreds of culpable bishops in power and a culture of secrecy intact.”
On Tuesday evening in the Munich cathedral that Benedict led as bishop 40 years ago, the current archbishop, Reinhard Marx, began a Mass in honor of Benedict by inviting everyone to pray, including “those who have experienced abuse and suffering in the space of the church.

All those who have received good gifts from Joseph Ratzinger. And all those who now, in this hour, trust that God’s goodness and mercy will heal everything.”

Jason Horowitz reported from Rome, and Erika Solomon from Munich and Garching an der Alz, Germany. Gaia Pianigiani contributed reporting from Rome, and Christopher F. Schuetze from Berlin.

From: New York Times

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YOU ARE MY HELP

Because

you
are my help,

I
sing
in the shadow
of your
wings.

My
soul
clings to you;

your
right hand
upholds
me.

Psalm 63:7-8

주는
나의 도움이
되셨음이라

내가
주의 날개
그늘에서

즐거이
부르리이다

나의 영혼이
주를 가까이
따르니

주의
오른손이 나를
붙드시거니와

시편 63:7-8

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겨울 맛

겨울에는 더러
하늘이 흐리기도 해야
맛이다.

아주
흐려질 때까지
눈 아프게 보고
있다가

설레설레 눈 내리는
모양을 보아야
맛이다.

눈이 내리면
그냥 보기는
심심하고

뽀독뽀독
발자국을 만들어야
맛이다.

눈이 쌓이면
온돌방에 돌아와

콩비지 찌개를
훌훌 떠먹어야
맛이다.

찌개가 끓으면
덩달아 웅성대면서

마음에도
김이 자욱히 서려야
맛이다.

-강세화-

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