{"id":11623,"date":"2016-05-19T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=11623"},"modified":"2016-05-19T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:35:58","slug":"fattening-our-hearts-or-salting-them-with-fire-seventh-thursday-ii-may-19-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/fattening-our-hearts-or-salting-them-with-fire-seventh-thursday-ii-may-19-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Fattening Our Hearts or Salting Them with Fire, Seventh Thursday (II), May 19, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nThursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMay 19, 2016<br \/>\nJas 5:1-6, Ps 49, Mk 9:41-50<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11623-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5.19.16-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5.19.16-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5.19.16-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>As we continue our devotional Octave of Pentecost, today we can focus together on how the Holy Spirit seeks to help us to live a coherent life, putting to death in us life according to the flesh, according to the spirit of this world, and living according to the Holy Spirit which is the spirit of divine love and mercy. Today&#8217;s readings illustrate for us the coherent Christian life of the Holy Spirit versus the incoherent and ultimately destructive life of the flesh.<\/li>\n<li>In the Gospel today Jesus speaks to us powerfully the correspondence that&#8217;s supposed to exist between what we believe and how we behave. This is a coherence that\u2019s supposed to be found in not just the big things of our life but the little things. He begins by saying that anyone who gives a cup of cold water to another because of the person\u2019s relationship to Christ will surely not lose his reward. Christian coherence doesn\u2019t involve \u00a0fidelity onlywhen threatened with martyrdom, but fidelity in looking out with the eyes and the heart to care for the needs of anyone who is thirsty, aware that Christ identifies with everyone who is thirsty and longs to say to us, \u201cWhen I was thirsty, you gave me to drink.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>That coherence is in sharp contract to St. James&#8217; letter to the first Christians in today&#8217;s epistle. They were supposed to be living with the poverty of spirit with which Jesus began the Sermon on the Mount \u2014 which was our Responsorial Psalm today \u2014 but they were living according to the flesh and setting their hearts on mammon. St. James speaks of the selfish hoarding of possessions while others are in need. He\u00a0said that many of the early Christians addressed in his letter\u00a0were preparing themselves for slaughter by \u201ckilling the righteous one.\u201d He was essentially calling them Christ-murderers by their failure to use the blessings God had given them for others.<\/li>\n<li>There were three main sources of wealth in the ancient world. Today it would be in houses and land, but in the ancient world it was mainly food (stored corn and grained), clothing (especially luxurious garments made by hand, not by machine) and precious metals everyone valued (gold and silver). St. James told the Christians who were hoarding the material blessings God had given them that none of this wealth would last, but not only would it be corroded, but they would be corroded because of their grasping on to it. \u201cCome now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.\u00a0Your wealth [corn and grain] has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten,\u00a0your gold and silver have corroded,\u00a0and that corrosion will be a testimony against you;\u00a0it will devour your flesh like a fire.\u201d How does grain rot away? By being stored too long in a grain bin when others are starving. How do clothes get eaten by moths? By remaining in closets and chests while others don\u2019t have adequate clothes to wear. How do gold and silver corrode? They really don\u2019t, which is why St. James\u2019 image is so powerful: he says it corrodes almost like flesh-eating bacteria when all the oils in our hand eat it away by our never giving it to others, for example, when we, as St. James says, withhold wages from day workers who needed their money to survive and support their families. He declares that while \u201cyou have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure, you have\u00a0<em>fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.<\/em>\u201d He says that such a lifestyle is similar to do to ourselves what ranchers do to fatten the calves that are going to be destined for the slaughter house: we\u2019re preparing ourselves for eternal death. We make ourselves spiritually obese. And the end result is that by such behavior \u201cyou have murdered the righteous one\u201d who \u201coffers you no resistance.\u201d That righteous one is Christ, who identifies with all those who suffered as a result of omission or commission.<\/li>\n<li>Our response to these powerful words must be brutal and forthright. Jesus in the Gospel today tells us first, about sin,\u00a0\u201cIf your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. \u2026\u00a0And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off. \u00a0\u2026\u00a0And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.\u201d The reason is because \u201cit is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands [or two feet or two eyes] to go into Gehenna,\u00a0into the unquenchable fire.\u201d\u00a0At first this seems savage but it\u2019s basic human wisdom. We frequently read about stories of people who self-amputate when trapped because unless they do, they&#8217;ll die. \u00a0That\u2019s the decision any of us who is sane would make, that when it comes down to a choice between life and limb, between dying with both arms or continuing to live with one \u2014 when there\u2019s no longer any choice to continue living with both arms \u2014 then we would choose life over limb. Jesus is telling us to live spiritually by the same wisdom. If there\u2019s something leading us to sin, we need to be brutal in surgically excising it from our life. Jesus isn\u2019t really talking about literal physical amputations here \u2014 lest anyone misinterpret what he&#8217;s saying \u2014 but spiritual amputations. And he says it\u2019s a matter of life and death.<\/li>\n<li>To return to\u00a0St. James&#8217; words today, the apostle is saying, \u201cIf your grain and corn bins are leading you to the slaughtered, be brutal and rip the food out of the bins and give it away. If your clothing is causing you to sin, share it with the poor who have no fabrics at all not to mention finely embroidered ones. If your gold and your silver is rotting away your flesh, put it into the hands of those who could use it to survive, especially those who have earned it. Better for you to enter into life with smaller grain bins, smaller closets, and little money left than as a rich man to be slaughtered for the worms in Gehenna. Jesus said in the Gospel that it is easier for a camel to fit through a needle\u2019s eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. It\u2019s not that he can\u2019t fit, but his possessions can\u2019t fit, and if he continues to hold on to his possessions, he\u2019ll never be able to make it. He must give them away in charity to those who need them, and there are so many who do. Pope Francis said very powerfully in his catechesis yesterday in St. Peter&#8217;s Square that unless our hearts are open to others\u00a0they are not truly opened to God; if they&#8217;re closed to our neighbor, they&#8217;re likewise closed to God. That&#8217;s why St. James is so focused on the charity we give to others, because unless we&#8217;re using the things with which God has blessed us for others, we&#8217;ll be shutting ourselves off to God by making of those things idols.<\/li>\n<li>But Jesus builds on this teaching in the Gospel. He says that the coherence of a Christian life is crucially important to teach others the way to God. Speaking about scandal with very graphic language, he says, \u201cWhoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone\u00a0were put around his neck\u00a0and he were thrown into the sea.\u201d It\u2019s bad enough that we sin, but Jesus says it\u2019s infinitely worse when we lead others to sin, especially those with a child-like faith who look with love to Jesus and expect us to represent Him and live what he asks of us. One of the most frightening ways people were put to death in the ancient world was by drowning them. Their hands would be tied behind their back securely and a rope would be tied around their neck and attached to heavy weights \u2014 occasionally a millstone \u2014 and they would be drawn like an anchor straight to the bottom of the river or lake or sea. Jesus was saying that having that happen to you would be\u00a0<em>better\u00a0<\/em>than what will happen to those who cause scandal. Jesus is infinitely merciful with individual sinners who with repentance approach him for forgiveness, but here he can\u2019t be more brutal in describing how severe he is, and he wants us to be, with conduct that leads to sin and scandal, because it not only will lead us to death but it\u2019s also spiritually homicidal.<\/li>\n<li>After hearing these frankly frightening words, how should we respond. Jesus tells us at the end of today&#8217;s Gospel. \u00a0\u201cKeep salt in yourselves,\u201d he states, \u201cand you will have peace with one another.\u201d The principal purpose of salt in the ancient world was as a preservative, to keep things from being corrupted. Rather than grasping onto things and wealth, rather than treasuring the things of the world in our hearts, we need to keep our heart salted, preserved from that type of idolatry. He reminds us that our salt can lose its flavor and be fit for nothing, so he wants us to constantly be pouring preservative salt on our heart. And he teaches us that \u201ceveryone will be salted with fire.\u201d That\u2019s an allusion to Old Covenant sacrifices when the lamb or ox or other animal, after it had been slaughtered in the temple, would be salted before it would be put on the fire and offered to God. We need regularly to be salting ourselves for that sacrifice and the more we do, the more we will give ourselves and our things in sacrifice to others. For us during the devotional Octave of Pentecost, we know that the &#8220;fire&#8221; with which God salts us is the Holy Spirit! And the Holy Spirit wants us to respond in little ways, one cup of cold water out of a compassionate heart to others at a time.<\/li>\n<li>As we come here to offer our bodies as a holy and acceptable sacrifice to God, our spiritual worship (Rom 12:1-2), to offer our Spirit-salted hearts and souls, we know that Jesus wants to convert us here so that we may, with him, go out and offer our body and blood, our grain, our clothes, our money for the salvation of others. That\u2019s the type of transformation he always seeks to bring about. He seeks to bring us into total communion, total coherence, with his own life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for this Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/james\/5:1\">JAS 5:1-6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries.<br \/>\nYour wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten,<br \/>\nyour gold and silver have corroded,<br \/>\nand that corrosion will be a testimony against you;<br \/>\nit will devour your flesh like a fire.<br \/>\nYou have stored up treasure for the last days.<br \/>\nBehold, the wages you withheld from the workers<br \/>\nwho harvested your fields are crying aloud;<br \/>\nand the cries of the harvesters<br \/>\nhave reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.<br \/>\nYou have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure;<br \/>\nyou have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.<br \/>\nYou have condemned;<br \/>\nyou have murdered the righteous one;<br \/>\nhe offers you no resistance.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/49:14\">PS 49:14-15AB, 15CD-16, 17-18, 19-20<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (Matthew 5:3)\u00a0Blessed are the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!<br \/>\nThis is the way of those whose trust is folly,<br \/>\nthe end of those contented with their lot:<br \/>\nLike sheep they are herded into the nether world;<br \/>\ndeath is their shepherd and the upright rule over them.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!<br \/>\nQuickly their form is consumed;<br \/>\nthe nether world is their palace.<br \/>\nBut God will redeem me<br \/>\nfrom the power of the nether world by receiving me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!<br \/>\nFear not when a man grows rich,<br \/>\nwhen the wealth of his house becomes great,<br \/>\nFor when he dies, he shall take none of it;<br \/>\nhis wealth shall not follow him down.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!<br \/>\nThough in his lifetime he counted himself blessed,<br \/>\n\u201cThey will praise you for doing well for yourself,\u201d<br \/>\nHe shall join the circle of his forebears<br \/>\nwho shall never more see light.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/9:41\">MK 9:41-50<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cAnyone who gives you a cup of water to drink<br \/>\nbecause you belong to Christ,<br \/>\namen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWhoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,<br \/>\nit would be better for him if a great millstone<br \/>\nwere put around his neck<br \/>\nand he were thrown into the sea.<br \/>\nIf your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.<br \/>\nIt is better for you to enter into life maimed<br \/>\nthan with two hands to go into Gehenna,<br \/>\ninto the unquenchable fire.<br \/>\nAnd if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off.<br \/>\nIt is better for you to enter into life crippled<br \/>\nthan with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.<br \/>\nAnd if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.<br \/>\nBetter for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye<br \/>\nthan with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,<br \/>\nwhere\u00a0<em>their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\u201cEveryone will be salted with fire.<br \/>\nSalt is good, but if salt becomes insipid,<br \/>\nwith what will you restore its flavor?<br \/>\nKeep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/a6f3db4ca0069f95daef04cbb2dd0f0b.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11626\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/a6f3db4ca0069f95daef04cbb2dd0f0b.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"a6f3db4ca0069f95daef04cbb2dd0f0b\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/a6f3db4ca0069f95daef04cbb2dd0f0b.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/a6f3db4ca0069f95daef04cbb2dd0f0b.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/a6f3db4ca0069f95daef04cbb2dd0f0b.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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