{"id":11353,"date":"2016-04-11T08:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=11353"},"modified":"2016-04-11T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T13:30:27","slug":"are-we-laboring-for-the-food-and-life-god-gives-third-monday-of-easter-april-11-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/are-we-laboring-for-the-food-and-life-god-gives-third-monday-of-easter-april-11-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Laboring for the Food and Life God Gives?, Third Monday of Easter, April 11, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the Third Week of Easter<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Stanislaus, Martyr<br \/>\nApril\u00a011, 2016<br \/>\nActs 6:8-15, Ps 119, Jn 6:22-29<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11353-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4.11.16-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4.11.16-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4.11.16-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in the Gospel we continue our annual \u201csecond\u201d Easter Octave allowing Jesus to show us\u00a0the most important way we will be able to experience the newness of life to which our share in his Resurrection is meant to lead us: a communion with him in his Risen life by means of the Holy Eucharist.\u00a0On Friday, we saw the foretaste of the miraculous multiplication of his Body and Blood throughout all time and space in the multiplication of the loaves and fish. This was not only a Messianic sign, even a divine sign of the Lord\u2019s preparing a banquet on a mountain for his people (Is 25), but something pointing to the two greater banquets to which that miracle pointed: the banquet of the Eucharist and the banquet of eternal life. Immediately after that miracle, Jesus went up on the mountain to pray and the disciples got into the boat from and crossed westward toward Capernaum. Jesus walked on the water toward them to show that he transcended the power of death, symbolized by the churning waters and the drowning they portended. When the apostles\u00a0disembark we have today\u2019s scene.<\/li>\n<li>Those who had received the free meal had come the seven-mile journey along the north lip of the Sea of Galilee looking for Jesus there. Because they knew Jesus hadn\u2019t gotten into the boat with the other disciples, they asked, \u201cRabbi, when did you get there?\u201d But Jesus wasn\u2019t interested in small talk. Jesus wanted to help them to grow in faith, to help them to recognize why they were following him and to challenge him to follow him for the right reasons. \u201cAmen, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs\u201d \u2014 in other words, because you saw me perform a miracle and it\u2019s led you to put faith in me and in my words \u2014\u00a0\u201cbut because you ate your fill of the loaves.\u201d They came looking for another free meal, a divine handout, seeking Jesus as a means to address their material hungers and needs. This is not evil in itself. Jesus would teach us to pray, \u201cGive us today our daily bread.\u201d Many of us come to the Lord not just with wants but real material needs, not knowing how we\u2019re going to pay the rent, or put food on the table, purchase the medications they need, or find a job to help support those they love. God wants to hear these prayers. As a loving Father, he wants us to bring our needs to him. It wasn\u2019t this that Jesus was criticizing. Jesus was criticizing the fact that they had stopped there, that all they were concerned about were their material needs. Just as with all the healing miracles, however, Jesus in the multiplication of the loaves and the fish was doing a sign to help them to come to ask him for something far more than loaves and fish.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus tells them, and tells us, \u201cDo not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you.\u201d So many people, good people,\u00a0spend most of our lives working in to put food on the table, to nourish themselves\u00a0and our families. We all know how important\u00a0<em>that\u00a0<\/em>is, but Jesus is saying that as hard as we work to fulfill that duty of love, we must work much harder for the food that he will give us, the food of eternal life. What is that food that God puts on the table? What is that nourishment of eternal life? If people\u00a0spend forty hours a week or more, sometimes working two or three jobs for\u00a0perishables , what is the imperishable nutrition for which Jesus tells us we should labor even more strenuously?<\/li>\n<li>There are three interconnected answers to that question:\n<ul>\n<li>The first response\u00a0<em>is knowing God\u2019s Word<\/em>. In the battles to which Jesus was exposed in the desert, Jesus was asked by the devil to turn stone into bread to feed his incredible hunger after having fasted for 40 days and 40 nights. Jesus responded by saying, \u201cMan does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.\u201d To work for this food means to strive to know, understand, treasure and put into practice all the words that come from God\u2019s mouth to feed us.<\/li>\n<li>This leads directly to the second common interpretation:\u00a0<em>Doing God\u2019s will.\u00a0<\/em>Jesus says elsewhere in the Gospel, \u201cMy food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to accomplish his work.\u201d To work for the food that endures for eternal life is to strive to do God\u2019s will. That\u2019s why it\u2019s unsurprising that Jesus later in this Bread of Life Discourse at the Capernaum synagogue, will say, \u201cFor I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me; and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day.\u201d We sang in today&#8217;s Psalm that blessed are those who follow the law of the Lord, who do his will, who obey what he commands. Jesus wants us to have that beatitude!<\/li>\n<li>The third answer is the one that ought to be obvious to us who have heard the Bread of Life discourse many times:\u00a0<em>it\u2019s Jesus&#8217; presence in the Eucharist<\/em>. As Jesus will explain to us in upcoming days, the Eucharist is the food prophesied by the Old Testament daily miracle of the manna. Just as God rained down manna each day to feed the people of God as they wandered in the desert before coming to the promised land, so God the Father rains down Jesus, the Living Bread come down from heaven, each day as our spiritual food in the Eucharist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>All three of these interpretations, of course, go together in the celebration of the Mass. We begin with God\u2019s word, we unite ourselves with God\u2019s will and \u201cdo this in memory of [him]\u201d and then have the awesome privilege of receiving the Word made Flesh, God\u2019s daily spiritual manna, in the Eucharist. Becoming one body with Christ in the Eucharist is meant to help us become one with his will and accomplish it in the world, as we, united with Christ our head, become his hands, his feet, his heart, and his mouth in the world. This is what the risen life of a Christian in union with Risen Jesus is all about.<\/li>\n<li>But the main point for us is not simply to\u00a0<em>know\u00a0<\/em>what is the imperishable nourishment for which we should be striving but actually to\u00a0<em>live for it<\/em>. Many Catholics, just like the first century Jews, spend more of our time hungering and working for hamburgers and french fries, for pancakes and sausages, for salads and sweets, than we do for Jesus\u2019 word, will and flesh and blood. Sometimes those of us in the priesthood and in religious life likewise need to review our intentionality in following the Lord today, whether it&#8217;s really out of the hunger that flows from love, or out of routine, past choices, security, etc. \u00a0That\u2019s why Jesus repeats this Eucharistic course for us year during the Easter Season, because so many of us have not really put these words into action \u2014 and Jesus wants to help us.<\/li>\n<li>Today we can focus just on two\u00a0witnesses who shows us what it means to strive for the food that endures to eternal life. The first is St. Stephen, one of the first seven deacons, men \u201cfilled with faith and the Holy Spirit,\u201d ordained by the apostles to help carry out the Church\u2019s charity. He was willing to give his whole life to obtain the food of everlasting life. Today in the first reading we see him, \u201cfilled with grace and power [and] working great wonders and signs among the people.\u201d Jews from various nations had come to debate him, but they couldn\u2019t withstand his wisdom and the power of the Holy Spirit speaking through him. So they sought to do to him what the Jewish leaders had previously done to Jesus: accuse him with false witnesses of blasphemously speaking against Moses, God and the Temple because he was passing on the Words of Jesus, on every syllable of which he was constructing his life. Tomorrow we will have the account of his martyrdom. But in between, what we unfortunately won\u2019t hear at Mass is his tremendous testimony before the Sanhedrin. I\u2019d urge you to read it at home today by turning to the sixth and seventh chapters of the Acts of the Apostles. What we see there is just how deeply he has assimilated the Word of God and was living on every syllable of it, showing\u00a0how all of salvation history had culminated in Jesus and was meant to culminate in the life of every believer. So much was he laboring for God\u2019s word, will, and Word-made-flesh that the mortal danger he was in didn\u2019t frighten him. He had become so united with Jesus Christ in his Eucharistic self-offering that he would give his own body and shed his own blood in union with Jesus\u2019 for the salvation of the very members of the Sanhedrin who would sentence him to death and especially for the conversion of the man (Saul of Tarsus) who was presiding over his execution. Now St. Stephen shares in the eternal wedding banquet, being nourished forever by the food of eternity. We ask him to intercede for us that we will likewise be characterized by the same hunger, the same faith, the same grace and power, the same risen Christian life, and strive today, in all our work, for the food that endures forever.<\/li>\n<li>Our second witness is St. Stanislaus, whose feast day is today. The bishop of Cracow, he was put to death because, ultimately, he gave a fraternal correction to the adulterous\u00a0King Boleslaw\u00a0who slayed the successor of the apostles with his own hand at the end of Mass. St. Stanislaus had proclaimed to King Boleslaw the living word of God, he sought to help him follow the Lord&#8217;s ways and do his will, he tried to get him to labor for communion with the Risen Lord Jesus, but Boleslaw chose darkness over light, homicide\u00a0over love, and sin over communion. But St. Stanislaus, like St. Stephen, wasn&#8217;t afraid. He knew because of his communion with the word, will, and Word Made Flesh of God that his death was just a passage into what God was giving. We pray through his intercession that we may have such a love for the Mass that we might strive to celebrate and attend it even if we know that the kings of the earth may seek to kill us for doing so! That&#8217;s what it means to live a truly Eucharistic life! That&#8217;s what Jesus urges us today to strive for!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/6:8\">ACTS 6:8-15<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Stephen, filled with grace and power,<br \/>\nwas working great wonders and signs among the people.<br \/>\nCertain members of the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen,<br \/>\nCyreneans, and Alexandrians,<br \/>\nand people from Cilicia and Asia,<br \/>\ncame forward and debated with Stephen,<br \/>\nbut they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.<br \/>\nThen they instigated some men to say,<br \/>\n\u201cWe have heard him speaking blasphemous words<br \/>\nagainst Moses and God.\u201d<br \/>\nThey stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes,<br \/>\naccosted him, seized him,<br \/>\nand brought him before the Sanhedrin.<br \/>\nThey presented false witnesses who testified,<br \/>\n\u201cThis man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law.<br \/>\nFor we have heard him claim<br \/>\nthat this Jesus the Nazorean will destroy this place<br \/>\nand change the customs that Moses handed down to us.\u201d<br \/>\nAll those who sat in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him<br \/>\nand saw that his face was like the face of an angel.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/119:23\">PS 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (1ab)\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nThough princes meet and talk against me,<br \/>\nyour servant meditates on your statutes.<br \/>\nYes, your decrees are my delight;<br \/>\nthey are my counselors.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nI declared my ways, and you answered me;<br \/>\nteach me your statutes.<br \/>\nMake me understand the way of your precepts,<br \/>\nand I will meditate on your wondrous deeds.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nRemove from me the way of falsehood,<br \/>\nand favor me with your law.<br \/>\nThe way of truth I have chosen;<br \/>\nI have set your ordinances before me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/6:22\">JN 6:22-29<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">[After Jesus had fed the five thousand men, his disciples saw him walking on the sea.]\nThe next day, the crowd that remained across the sea<br \/>\nsaw that there had been only one boat there,<br \/>\nand that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat,<br \/>\nbut only his disciples had left.<br \/>\nOther boats came from Tiberias<br \/>\nnear the place where they had eaten the bread<br \/>\nwhen the Lord gave thanks.<br \/>\nWhen the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there,<br \/>\nthey themselves got into boats<br \/>\nand came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.<br \/>\nAnd when they found him across the sea they said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cRabbi, when did you get here?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus answered them and said,<br \/>\n\u201cAmen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me<br \/>\nnot because you saw signs<br \/>\nbut because you ate the loaves and were filled.<br \/>\nDo not work for food that perishes<br \/>\nbut for the food that endures for eternal life,<br \/>\nwhich the Son of Man will give you.<br \/>\nFor on him the Father, God, has set his seal.\u201d<br \/>\nSo they said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat can we do to accomplish the works of God?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus answered and said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cThis is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/St.-Stanislaus-Martyrdom.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11357\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11357\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/St.-Stanislaus-Martyrdom.jpg?resize=300%2C202&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"St. Stanislaus Martyrdom\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/St.-Stanislaus-Martyrdom.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/St.-Stanislaus-Martyrdom.jpg?w=446&amp;ssl=1 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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