{"id":11232,"date":"2016-03-23T06:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T10:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2016-03-23T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T15:47:21","slug":"why-did-judas-betray-jesus-wednesday-of-holy-week-march-23-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/why-did-judas-betray-jesus-wednesday-of-holy-week-march-23-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Judas Betray Jesus?, Wednesday of Holy Week, March 23, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nWednesday of Holy Week<br \/>\nMarch 23, 2016<br \/>\nIs 50:4-9, Ps 69, Mt 26:14-25<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to a recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11232-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3.23.16-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3.23.16-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/3.23.16-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in today&#8217;s homily, please click below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yesterday with the help of St. John&#8217;s account of the beginning of the Last Supper, we were able to look at Judas\u2019 betrayal and contrast\u00a0it with St. Peter\u2019s. Today we look at the betrayal again from the perspective of St. Matthew. St. Matthew records something very important that Jesus said about Judas during this supper: \u201cWoe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.\u201d That brings us face-to-face not only with the tragedy of the life of Judas but also the point of your life and mine.<\/li>\n<li>The lamentable misfortune\u00a0of the life of Judas, the reason why it was better for him never to have been born, is not simply because the names Judas and Iscariot have become synonymous with the most notorious traitor in the history of the world.<em> It\u2019s because he had never come to grasp the point of human life.<\/em> Even though he had been up close with the Lord Jesus for three years, he had never really come to know him and his merciful love. He had totally missed the point of Jesus&#8217; parables of the lost sheep, lost coin and lost son. He hadn&#8217;t grasped that when he called Peter and the others to forgive 70 times 7 times, God himself would do the same. He hadn&#8217;t let penetrate the lessons Jesus had taught in forgiving the sinful woman in Simon the Pharisee&#8217;s House, the Paralytic, the Woman Caught in Adultery or Zacchaeus. He hadn&#8217;t grasped why Jesus had called Simon bar Jonah, whose first words to Jesus were, &#8220;Depart from me because I am a sinful man,&#8221; or Matthew, who was a despicable tax collector. Despite three years with Jesus, he still hadn&#8217;t gotten the most important thing about Jesus and his Mission: that he was mercy incarnate and had come desiring mercy not sacrifice. The real tragedy of the life of Judas\u00a0is that\u00a0at the end of his life when he looked at what he had done, he saw no way past the shame. Consequently, he ended his life rather came\u00a0to receive forgiveness from the one who was preparing to die to take away his sins. <em>It is similarly better for anyone who doesn\u2019t come to know the love and mercy of the Lord never to be born because, frankly, their sins \u2014 and the unexpiated guilt of their sins \u2014 will kill them in this life and forever, even though Jesus has the antidote to the poison of sin that kills us.\u00a0<\/em>This is the one of the most essential messages of this extraordinary Jubilee\u00a0of Mercy, to learn\u00a0from Judas&#8217; fatal mistake and entrust ourselves to the mercy of the Lord of life.<\/li>\n<li>Why did Judas betray Jesus?\n<ul>\n<li>Most think it was for the money, that he was a greedy thief and would sell out Jesus for what he could get. \u201cWhat are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?,\u201d he asked. They gave him 30 shekels of silver, the price of a slave, or about 90 days wages. Jesus had said that we cannot serve both God and money because we will love one and hate the other. Some think that Judas\u2019 avarice led him to love money and consequently to hate Jesus. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the reason because later he threw the money back in the temple area when he recognized he had betrayed an innocent man.<\/li>\n<li>Another reason that is proposed is because Judas himself thought he had been betrayed by Jesus. It\u2019s possible that he had thought that hooking himself to Jesus\u2019 train would be the path to satisfy his human ambitions, that he would become the money-man of the new Messianic administration; when he began to grasp that that was not in the cards, that his hopes in Jesus would not be fulfilled, aggrieved he turned on him.<\/li>\n<li>Another explanation is that he might have been seeking impatiently\u00a0for Jesus to inaugurate his kingdom. Much like Mary at the wedding feast of Cana went to Jesus and precipitated his \u201chour\u201d by asking him to do a miracle for the young couple, so some think Judas may have been provoking Jesus to reveal himself and his kingdom fully when he would be placed\u00a0in the hands of those whom Judas thought Jesus had come into the world to overthrow.<\/li>\n<li>A fourth interpretation is less psychological than spiritual: he had allowed Satan to enter into his heart for some reason and that Satan tempted him to turn on Jesus and then turn on himself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Whatever the explanation, it is totally clear that Judas never believed that in betraying Jesus he was handing him over to a sentence of torture and death. He was shocked later when the chief priests and the Sanhedrin declared that Jesus must die and brought him before Pontius Pilate. He never thought that he was going to\u00a0<em>kill\u00a0<\/em>Jesus by\u00a0betraying him. If he knew that that was what was going to happen to Jesus, it\u2019s pretty clear by his subsequent actions that he never would have betrayed him. <em>And that\u2019s a really important lesson for us all<\/em>. Jesus says in today\u2019s Gospel, \u201cAmen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.\u201d It would be more appropriate for him to say to everyone of us except his immaculate Mother, \u201cAmen, I say to you, every one of you will betray me.\u201d We should be humble enough to say, not \u201c\u201cSurely it is not I, Lord?,\u201d but rather \u201cSurely it is I, Lord. I\u2019m sorry! Have mercy on me!\u201d\u00a0And as we say it we should realize retrospectively what Judas never grasped prospectively, that our sins \u2014 whether venial or mortal with respect to the consequence of God\u2019s presence within our soul \u2014 are all fatal when it comes to Jesus because they all led to his death.<\/li>\n<li>Grasping this will strengthen us in the fight against sin that is supposed to continue well beyond the end of Lent. We would never gossip if we knew that our gossip would kill Jesus or kill someone else. We&#8217;d never lie if we thought our lie would cause Jesus&#8217; crucifixion or someone else&#8217;s. We\u2019d never steal if we knew that our theft would murder Jesus or murder someone else. We\u2019d never neglect a needy person if we knew that as a direct result Jesus would die or that that Lazarus at our gates would die through our omission. But the spiritual reality is that\u00a0<em>our sins are really what led to Jesus\u2019 death.\u00a0<\/em>He died to take away our betrayals, our infidelities, our iniquities. It\u2019s somewhat tempting 2,000 years later to throw stones at Judas, but today the readings help us to grasp that\u00a0Jesus was hammered to the Cross not just to forgive Judas\u2019 breaches of faith but our own. Why do we betray the Lord Jesus? Why do we prefer the Barabbas of our sins to Christ? Like Judas, we don\u2019t want Jesus to die, but unlike Judas, we now know in hindsight what our sins will do and have done. Saint\u00a0John Paul II would speak often of the\u00a0<em>mysterium iniquitatis<\/em>, the mystery of our sinfulness, that our sins basically make little sense when we really think them out. That\u2019s one of the reasons why Jesus cried out to the Father in his first words from the Cross, \u201cFather, forgive them for they know not what they do.\u201d We really don\u2019t think our sinful choices through, because if we knew that our sins would crucify Jesus few of us\u00a0would never choose them.<\/li>\n<li>On this last day of Lent \u2014 tomorrow we enter into a new liturgical season, the shortest of the year, the Blessed Triduum \u2014 it\u2019s key for us to grasp what the Lord is calling us to do as we turn away from sin and are faithful to the Gospel. Today in the first reading, the third of four Suffering Servant Songs, we hear Isaiah\u2019s reflections about what he and Jesus after him wants to do in us: \u201cThe Lord God has given me \u00a0a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary\u00a0a <em>word that will rouse them<\/em>.\u201d With eloquence, Jesus wants to arouse us from our spiritual somnolence. What\u2019s the \u201cword\u201d that will actually do that? First, it\u2019s a word that comes from the Father: \u201cMorning after morning\u00a0he opens my ear that I may hear,\u201d Isaiah says. Jesus would say that he speaks only what he hears from the Father. But second, it\u2019s a word he speaks with his own body language: \u201cI gave my back to those who beat me,\u00a0my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield\u00a0from buffets and spitting,\u201d all things we will be pondering over the next couple of days. <em>The word of what our sins have done to Jesus should arouse us to contrition, to repentance, to \u00a0amendment.<\/em> And that word of Jesus we should \u201cecho\u201d with our own life. Isaiah says, \u201cI have not rebelled, have not turned back. \u2026\u00a0The Lord God is my help,\u00a0therefore I am not disgraced;\u00a0I have set my face like flint,\u00a0knowing that I shall not be put to shame.\u201d He was resolute, setting his face toward Jerusalem like flint, the very hard rock always placed at the tips of spears in the ancient world. <em>Jesus wants us to have that same firm resolve to set our faces toward him with trust and not to rebel or to turn back.<\/em> He preaches this eloquent \u201cword\u201d to arouse the \u201cweary,\u201d because he knows that more than anything else our sins wear us down. We\u2019re also worn down by trying to struggle against evil on our own without God. He comes to join us in that fight.<\/li>\n<li>And where he does that most of all is here at Mass. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen used to say that Judas\u2019 betrayal began with Judas\u2019 rejection of Jesus in the Eucharist.\u00a0He\u00a0wrote in his spiritual autobiography,\u00a0<em>A Treasure in Clay:\u00a0<\/em>\u201cThe beginning of the fall of Judas and the end of Judas both revolved around the Eucharist. The first mention that Our Lord knew who it was who would betray him is at the end of the sixth chapter of John, which is the announcement of the Eucharist. The fall of Judas came the night Our Lord gave the Eucharist, the night of the Last Supper.\u00a0The Eucharist is so essential to our oneness with Christ that as soon as Our Lord announced It in the Gospel, It began to be the test of the fidelity of His followers. First, He lost the masses, for it was too hard a saying and they no longer followed Him. Secondly, He lost some of His disciples: &#8216;They walked with Him no more.\u2019 Third, it split His apostolic band, for Judas is here announced as the betrayer.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>What began Judas\u2019 downfall is meant to begin our rise. The words Jesus preaches to the weary are \u201cThis is my Body, which will be given up for you,\u201d \u201cThis is the chalice of my blood,\u201d and \u201cDo this in memory of me!\u201d This is what gives us the strength to set our faces like flint toward Calvary and not turn back.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s an element we shouldn\u2019t miss in today\u2019s Gospel about our preparing ourselves for Mass so that Jesus may strengthen us through our holy Communion with him to be as firm as flint in the faith. When the disciples asked Jesus where he wanted them to prepare to eat the Passover, he sent them into the city to a \u201ccertain man\u201d to tell him, \u201cMy appointed time draws near,\u201d and that that man would take care of the rest. Jesus had already clued this man in to what his appointed time meant and Jesus had already made all of the other arrangements. Similarly we\u2019re called to prepare ourselves for Mass, to hunger as the \u201cappointed time draws near\u201d and to arrange our hearts and souls so that Jesus may celebrate the Passover within us, helping us to pass with him from death into life. The Lord in his great love has indeed answered us. He has given us himself to strengthen us not to betray him, not to hand him over to those who want to abuse him, but to give him to the Father and ourselves with him and in that act give ourselves over to others for the salvation of the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/isaiah\/50:4\">IS 50:4-9A<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>The Lord GOD has given me<br \/>\na well-trained tongue,<br \/>\nThat I might know how to speak to the weary<br \/>\na word that will rouse them.<br \/>\nMorning after morning<br \/>\nhe opens my ear that I may hear;<br \/>\nAnd I have not rebelled,<br \/>\nhave not turned back.<br \/>\nI gave my back to those who beat me,<br \/>\nmy cheeks to those who plucked my beard;<br \/>\nMy face I did not shield<br \/>\nfrom buffets and spitting.<\/div>\n<div>The Lord GOD is my help,<br \/>\ntherefore I am not disgraced;<br \/>\nI have set my face like flint,<br \/>\nknowing that I shall not be put to shame.<br \/>\nHe is near who upholds my right;<br \/>\nif anyone wishes to oppose me,<br \/>\nlet us appear together.<br \/>\nWho disputes my right?<br \/>\nLet him confront me.<br \/>\nSee, the Lord GOD is my help;<br \/>\nwho will prove me wrong?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/69:8\">PS 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 AND 33-34<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (14c)\u00a0Lord, in your great love, answer me.<br \/>\nFor your sake I bear insult,<br \/>\nand shame covers my face.<br \/>\nI have become an outcast to my brothers,<br \/>\na stranger to my mother\u2019s sons,<br \/>\nbecause zeal for your house consumes me,<br \/>\nand the insults of those who blaspheme you fall upon me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, in your great love, answer me.<br \/>\nInsult has broken my heart, and I am weak,<br \/>\nI looked for sympathy, but there was none;<br \/>\nfor consolers, not one could I find.<br \/>\nRather they put gall in my food,<br \/>\nand in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, in your great love, answer me.<br \/>\nI will praise the name of God in song,<br \/>\nand I will glorify him with thanksgiving:<br \/>\n\u201cSee, you lowly ones, and be glad;<br \/>\nyou who seek God, may your hearts revive!<br \/>\nFor the LORD hears the poor,<br \/>\nand his own who are in bonds he spurns not.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, in your great love, answer me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/26:14\">MT 26:14-25<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot,<br \/>\nwent to the chief priests and said,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat are you willing to give me<br \/>\nif I hand him over to you?\u201d<br \/>\nThey paid him thirty pieces of silver,<br \/>\nand from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over.<\/div>\n<div>On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread,<br \/>\nthe disciples approached Jesus and said,<br \/>\n\u201cWhere do you want us to prepare<br \/>\nfor you to eat the Passover?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said,<br \/>\n\u201cGo into the city to a certain man and tell him,<br \/>\n\u2018The teacher says, \u201cMy appointed time draws near;<br \/>\nin your house I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples.\u201d\u2018\u201c<br \/>\nThe disciples then did as Jesus had ordered,<br \/>\nand prepared the Passover.When it was evening,<br \/>\nhe reclined at table with the Twelve.<br \/>\nAnd while they were eating, he said,<br \/>\n\u201cAmen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.\u201d<br \/>\nDeeply distressed at this,<br \/>\nthey began to say to him one after another,<br \/>\n\u201cSurely it is not I, Lord?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cHe who has dipped his hand into the dish with me<br \/>\nis the one who will betray me.<br \/>\nThe Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him,<br \/>\nbut woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.<br \/>\nIt would be better for that man if he had never been born.\u201d<br \/>\nThen Judas, his betrayer, said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cSurely it is not I, Rabbi?\u201d<br \/>\nHe answered, \u201cYou have said so.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/judas-kiss3.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11233\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11233\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/judas-kiss3.jpg?resize=282%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"judas-kiss3\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/judas-kiss3.jpg?resize=282%2C300&amp;ssl=1 282w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/judas-kiss3.jpg?resize=300%2C319&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/judas-kiss3.jpg?w=470&amp;ssl=1 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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