{"id":11482,"date":"2016-04-29T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2016-04-29T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:06:07","slug":"growing-in-union-with-god-through-loving-others-as-he-has-loved-us-fifth-friday-of-easter-april-29-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/growing-in-union-with-god-through-loving-others-as-he-has-loved-us-fifth-friday-of-easter-april-29-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing In Union with God through Loving Others As He Has Loved Us, Fifth Friday of Easter, April 29, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, New York, NY<br \/>\nFriday of the Fifth Week of Easter<br \/>\nMemorial of\u00a0St. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church<br \/>\nApril 29, 2016<br \/>\nActs 15:22-31, Ps 57, Jn 15:12-17<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this homily please click here:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11482-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4.29.16-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4.29.16-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4.29.16-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted\u00a0in\u00a0the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Throughout this 15th chapter of St. John\u2019s Gospel, recounting what Jesus said during the Last Supper, Jesus has been focusing on the type of communion he came into the world to bring about, communion with him and with others. He began with the image of the Vine and the Branches. Yesterday and today he has focused on how that ontological union with him (brought about by the sacraments) is meant to lead into a moral union, a union based on communion in his love.<\/li>\n<li>Yesterday he said the most important words ever uttered, that just as God the Father loves him, so he loves each of us individually. He calls us to remain in that love, to hunger for it, to choose it, and tells us the means by which we will is through keeping his commandments, the commandments that precisely train us to love God and love others. All the love and the prophets, all the commandments in other words, hang on the two-fold imperative to love God with all we are and to love our neighbor as ourselves. And he tells us that remaining in his love in this way is the path to true and unending happiness, so that Jesus\u2019 joy may be in us and our joy complete.<\/li>\n<li>Today he specifies more clearly what his commandment is in which we are supposed to abide. He\u00a0gives us \u201chis\u201d commandment, which he also calls \u201cnew.\u201d It\u2019s the summary of the Christian moral life. \u201cThis is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you.\u201d Jesus loves us, he told us yesterday, as much as the Father loves him, which is a total, self-sacrificial love to the extreme. Jesus didn\u2019t call us to love\u00a0<em>him\u00a0<\/em>as he loved us, but to love others at the\u00a0level of total self-sacrificial love. Jesus teaches us this same truth after the resurrection when he gives St. Peter three times to reconstitute his fidelity after his three fold denial. Jesus asks three times whether he loves him more than everything else and three times Peter replies that he does. Jesus, in response to each, doesn\u2019t stop there in mutual love. He says, \u201cFeed my sheep.\u201d \u201cFeed my lambs.\u201d \u201cTend my sheep.\u201d Peter\u2019s love for Jesus would be shown in how he cares for those Christ has entrusted to him, both old (sheep) as well as\u00a0young or vulnerable (lambs). And Jesus told Peter, using a euphemism for crucifixion, that when he would grow old, he would love the Lord and others in imitation of Christ. It\u2019s the same way with all of us. Our love for the Lord will be shown by our love for others and not just by any old feelings of sympathy, but by our willingness to give our lives for others, which begins with giving our time, using our talents, and willingly putting others\u2019 lives above our own.\u00a0Two years ago, when this Gospel came up at daily Mass, Pope Francis made this point: \u201cJesus says something remarkable to us: \u2018Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.\u2019\u00a0<em>Love always takes this path: to give one\u2019s life.<\/em>\u00a0To live life as a gift, a gift to be given \u2014 not a treasure to be stored away. And Jesus lived it in this manner, as a gift. \u2026 We must not burn out life with selfishness.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jesus tells us today that he has chosen us, he has given us the vocation, precisely to love in this way. \u201cI have chosen you and appointed you to bear fruit, fruit that will last.\u201d The way we bear fruit is by attaching ourselves to Jesus the Vine, by uniting ourselves with him who is the Grain of Wheat as he falls to the ground in loving sacrifice (Jn 12:24). And once we\u2019re united in this way, we\u2019re able to ask God the Father for anything and he\u2019ll do it, because we will not be praying things apart from God and his will, but asking precisely in a total communion with Jesus\u2019 salvific aims for us and others.<\/li>\n<li>This communion in love is the proper way to understand today\u2019s first reading as well. They weren\u2019t going to concern the Gentile converts with all 613 precepts of the Old Covenant, but wanted them to be focused on the new commandment of the New Covenant. They gave them only three restrictions, each meant to help them remain in God&#8217;s love: to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols so that they wouldn\u2019t scandalize others, which would be contrary to love of neighbor; from blood, which was a sign of life and take the place of God as Lord of life, which would again be a scandal and a lack of reverence for God; and from\u00a0<em>porneia,\u00a0<\/em>which is far more than unlawful marriage, but all sexual sin, which corrupts our capacity to love like God when we become takers rather than givers, consumers rather than servants, predators rather than protectors.<\/li>\n<li>The saint we celebrate today also focuses us on the love of neighbor.\u00a0\u00a0She was one who from a young age had a deep loving relationship with God. When she was six she had a remarkable mystical experience: looking up into the sky, she beheld the Lord seated in glory with St. Peter, St. Paul and St. John. Jesus looked upon her, smiled at her, extended his hand toward her and blessed her. From that point she was in a special way his and sought to live by prayer despite the various sufferings caused by her family for her not wanting to be like her many siblings or other children her age. She began to have interior dialogues with God, dwelled in a \u201ccell\u201d within her family home, and spent her formative years cut off in a sense from the world to be with God. She was mystically wed to him, with the Lord\u2019s placing a ring on her finger invisible to everyone except her but one that would leave a mark finally visible to all upon her death.<\/li>\n<li>But all of that would communion with God as a branch on the Vine would fructify in love of neighbor. God told her one day, \u201cI desire to become more closely united with you through charity toward your neighbor,\u201d and so the Lord began to manifest himself to her in this way. She went out to care for all the sick in hospitals or on the streets due to normal illness and the epidemic of the plague. She visited prisons and ministered in a special way to those who were on death row. She went to towns that had lost their faith to try to bring about religious revivals. She began to become a spiritual director and mother to many. She went on missions to try to bring the Pope back from Avignon to Rome, which succeeded. After the Pope returned to Rome, she sought by her letters to bring everyone into union and continued to serve the poor in Rome. Her love for God was shown through her becoming &#8220;more closely united with [him] through charity toward [her] neighbor.&#8221; And so it will always be for us. The Lord commands us to love our neighbor because it is through the expansion of charity, through a union of wills with him for others, that we grow in love for him.<\/li>\n<li>St. Catherine was strengthened in the love of God and loving her neighbor as Christ lived her through her intensely Eucharist life. For the last many years of her life she lived literally only on the nourishment she received in the Eucharist, eating nothing else. She drew her life from her union with Jesus in the Eucharist and discovered that that was a source of endless dynamism, the dynamism that united herself to him in charity. Today as we prepare to receive the same Lord Jesus, he says to us, \u201cI desire to become more closely united to you through charity toward your neighbor&#8221; and &#8220;do this in memory of me.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/15:22\">ACTS 15:22-31<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The Apostles and presbyters, in agreement with the whole Church,<br \/>\ndecided to choose representatives<br \/>\nand to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.<br \/>\nThe ones chosen were Judas, who was called Barsabbas,<br \/>\nand Silas, leaders among the brothers.<br \/>\nThis is the letter delivered by them:<br \/>\n\u201cThe Apostles and the presbyters, your brothers,<br \/>\nto the brothers in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia<br \/>\nof Gentile origin: greetings.<br \/>\nSince we have heard that some of our number<br \/>\nwho went out without any mandate from us<br \/>\nhave upset you with their teachings<br \/>\nand disturbed your peace of mind,<br \/>\nwe have with one accord decided to choose representatives<br \/>\nand to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,<br \/>\nwho have dedicated their lives to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nSo we are sending Judas and Silas<br \/>\nwho will also convey this same message by word of mouth:<br \/>\n\u2018It is the decision of the Holy Spirit and of us<br \/>\nnot to place on you any burden beyond these necessities,<br \/>\nnamely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols,<br \/>\nfrom blood, from meats of strangled animals,<br \/>\nand from unlawful marriage.<br \/>\nIf you keep free of these,<br \/>\nyou will be doing what is right. Farewell.\u2019\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">And so they were sent on their journey.<br \/>\nUpon their arrival in Antioch<br \/>\nthey called the assembly together and delivered the letter.<br \/>\nWhen the people read it, they were delighted with the exhortation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/57:8\">PS 57:8-9, 10 AND 12<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (10a)\u00a0I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Lord.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nMy heart is steadfast, O God; my heart is steadfast;<br \/>\nI will sing and chant praise.<br \/>\nAwake, O my soul; awake, lyre and harp!<br \/>\nI will wake the dawn.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Lord.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nI will give thanks to you among the peoples, O LORD,<br \/>\nI will chant your praise among the nations.<br \/>\nFor your mercy towers to the heavens,<br \/>\nand your faithfulness to the skies.<br \/>\nBe exalted above the heavens, O God;<br \/>\nabove all the earth be your glory!<br \/>\nR.\u00a0I will give you thanks among the peoples, O 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\/15:12\">JN 15:12-17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cThis is my commandment: love one another as I love you.<br \/>\nNo one has greater love than this,<br \/>\nto lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.<br \/>\nYou are my friends if you do what I command you.<br \/>\nI no longer call you slaves,<br \/>\nbecause a slave does not know what his master is doing.<br \/>\nI have called you friends,<br \/>\nbecause I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.<br \/>\nIt was not you who chose me, but I who chose you<br \/>\nand appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain,<br \/>\nso that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.<br \/>\nThis I command you: love one another.\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\/02-santa-Caterina-e-il-Dialogo.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11484\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/02-santa-Caterina-e-il-Dialogo.jpg?resize=300%2C195&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"02-santa-Caterina-e-il-Dialogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/02-santa-Caterina-e-il-Dialogo.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/02-santa-Caterina-e-il-Dialogo.jpg?w=680&amp;ssl=1 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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