{"id":11967,"date":"2016-07-13T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=11967"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:08:07","slug":"the-three-conditions-of-receptivity-to-gods-word-and-will-15th-wednesday-ii-july-13-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-three-conditions-of-receptivity-to-gods-word-and-will-15th-wednesday-ii-july-13-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Conditions of Receptivity to God&#8217;s Word and Will, 15th Wednesday (II), July 13, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nWednesday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Henry<br \/>\nJuly 13, 2016<br \/>\nIs 10:5-7.13-16, Ps 94, Mt 11:25-27<\/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-11967-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7.13.16-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7.13.16-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7.13.16-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily: <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today&#8217;s Gospel allows Jesus to continue to guide us as to how we&#8217;re called to receive him and his work in our life and how we&#8217;re supposed to understand the welcoming others give to Him and to us when we are seeking to proclaim the Gospel in Jesus&#8217; name.\u00a0Jesus describes that it is the will of the Father to reveal himself to us and to others, but there are three conditions to our and others&#8217;\u00a0receptivity to God\u2019s self-revelation.<\/li>\n<li>First, God reveals himself to us in his Son as the Son reveals himself to us by through the Father.\u00a0Jesus tells us, \u201cNo one knows the Son except the Father,\u00a0and no one knows the Father except the Son\u00a0and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.\u201d The way we come to know God the Father and the depth of his ardent love is through Jesus\u2019 choosing to reveal him to us, which is a tremendous grace. Jesus is the icon of the Father and also speaks not only of the Father but also what he hears the Father saying. His whole mission on earth was to help us establish this loving bond with the Father, teaching us by his example and explicit instructions to pray, \u201cOur Father.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Second, to receive this revelation we must do so not just through spiritual childhood but entering into Jesus\u2019 spiritual childhood. Jesus\u00a0joyfully exclaims in prayer, \u201cI give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,\u00a0for although you have hidden these things\u00a0from the wise and the learned\u00a0you have revealed them to the childlike.&#8221; We can\u2019t get to know the Father as Father unless we see ourselves not just as children, but his children, and we do that in Jesus. The wise and the clever of this world try to pretend as \u201cgrown-ups,\u201d who say, \u201cThanks, but I\u2019ve got it from here,\u201d who try\u00a0to be self-sufficient rather than dependent on the Father, who behave like the sons in the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the first of whom treats the Father as if he is as good as dead to him and no longer needed, and the second treats him more as a slave master than as a dad. To receive the revelation of the Father we need to be open like children, we need to be receptive and trusting, we need to learn from Jesus, who is not only the revelation of the Father but also the revelation of how to relate to the Father as a beloved Son in whom the Father is well pleased. When Jesus describes the \u201cwise and the clever,\u201d we should note, he\u2019s not castigating intelligence but intellectual pride. We see this type of pride in the Assyrians in today\u2019s first reading from the Prophet Isaiah. God was delivering the kingdom of Judah into their hand in order to bring his people to conversion, but they responded with arrogance. Putting Assyria\u2019s attitude into words in their mouth, God describes their intellectual pride through his prophet: \u201cBy my own power I have done it,\u00a0and by my wisdom, for I am shrewd,\u201d the Assyrians say. \u201cI have moved the boundaries of peoples,\u00a0their treasures I have pillaged,\u00a0and, like a giant, I have put down the enthroned.\u00a0My hand has seized like a nest\u00a0the riches of nations;\u00a0As one takes eggs left alone,\u00a0so I took in all the earth.\u201d There was no openness to God. They were too wise and clever, to powerful and wise on their own, too shrewd, too giantlike in their own estimation to need God. Jesus was also clearly referring to those\u00a0scribes and Pharisees whose intimate knowledge of the Scriptures actually prevented rather than facilitated their hearing him speaking to them live in the Word made flesh. They not only resisted Jesus\u2019 words, they not only pretended that even his miracles were\u00a0done by the power of the devil, but they ended up culminating their resistance to God\u2019s word by breaking the fifth and seventh commandments and conspiring to frame and to kill Jesus. Jesus calls us not to be clever like them, but to progress to full stature, to mature manhood, precisely through spiritual childhood. Yesterday we celebrated for the first time the feast of SS. Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St. Therese Lisieux, and it was first in their home that God taught St. Therese the way of spiritual childhood to which we&#8217;re all called. We ask their intercession that we might grow in that same school!\u00a0Jesus actually uses an\u00a0expression in Greek of the childlike that means \u201cnon-speaking\u201d or \u201cno-word,\u201d pointing to the stage of infancy before the child is able to express himself \u00a0in\u00a0words. That doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re babblers, but that they\u2019re defined not by their own words, their own thoughts, their own opinions, but by\u00a0accept Jesus\u2019 word, which they receive, live in accordance with, and\u00a0announce. It\u2019s not their own takes that matter, but God\u2019s. They\u2019re those\u00a0who are able to enter into the mysteries because they\u2019re docile, because they accept Jesus, who is the revelation of all the hidden things he himself announces. Jesus, \u201cthe\u00a0Son,\u201d wishes to reveal the Father to all of us but only the childlike, only the docile, only those with good soil accept that revelation enfleshed in Jesus.<\/li>\n<li>Third, we need to receive that revelation also with joy, because if we&#8217;re not receiving God&#8217;s revelation with joy, we&#8217;re not receiving it anywhere in its fullness, because Jesus came so that his joy might be in us and our joy complete. In today&#8217;s prayer, Jesus exclaims, &#8220;Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will!\u201d He rejoices in it. He rejoices in the Father&#8217;s will throughout, even when it would lead to us saying, &#8220;Not my will, but thy will, be done!,&#8221; while sweating blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, when he was entrusting himself to the Father from the Cross, when he was leaving the tomb, when he was sending the Holy Spirit with the Father, when he was calling each of us. Likewise we&#8217;re called to rejoice at the will of God, even when at a human level it&#8217;s excruciating. That&#8217;s what truly\u00a0childlike trust\u00a0leads us to do. This is essential for our living out our Christian obedience well, not to mention our promises and vows of obedience in the priesthood and religious life respectively. God wants to help us to do his will with cheerfulness, even when it&#8217;s not easy. There&#8217;s a story in the life of St. Henry whom the Church celebrates today that illustrates this point well. He was a very pious king living in a time in which he really did need to bring order to Bavaria and beyond. He helped to organize the Church\u00a0by reorganizing dioceses, building Cathedrals, erecting monasteries. He eventually became a Benedictine Oblate and it is said that he wanted to entrust the kingship to someone else so that he could truly live the life of a monk. After the abbot received his oblation, he commanded him under holy obedience to administer the kingdom in a holy and just way, and that&#8217;s what Henry did. Even though it was against what he wanted to do, which is dedicate himself more to the &#8220;work of God&#8221; through prayer we were speaking about on the feast of St. Benedict, but God wanted him to do his work in the world. And I like to think that St. Henry rejoiced to do what God clearly wanted.<\/li>\n<li>The great place we learn to say with every cell of our body \u00a0\u201cYes, Father! Such has been your gracious will!,\u201d together with Jesus, is here at Mass. This is the place where we say, \u201cI give you praise, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth.\u201d The word translated, \u201cI give you praise, Father,\u201d is better translated, \u201cI gratefully avow, Father.\u201d Jesus was vowing, consecrating, committing himself to the Father with gratitude over his plan. Mass is the place we do so. Mass is the place where we become more childlike. I\u2019ve always loved Psalm 43 that priests pray at the foot of the altar in the extraordinary form of the Mass. It begins, \u201cI will go up to the altar of God to the God who rejuvenates me with joy.\u201d Every time we approach Mass we become more childlike, we fill ourselves not with our own words but the words of the Church, the bride and body of Christ that we make in unison with him. The Mass is the place of the revelation of Jesus\u2019 word and the fullness of his divine love. Together with St. Henry, with SS. Louis and Zelie, and all the saints,\u00a0we rejoice to be here, we gratefully renew our vows to God, we praise him or his gracious will, and we ask him for all the graces we need, like trusting children, to spend our lives as living, loving commentaries of that holy grace and holy will!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/isaiah\/10:5\">IS 10:5-7, 13B-16<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Thus says the LORD:<br \/>\nWoe to Assyria! My rod in anger,<br \/>\nmy staff in wrath.<br \/>\nAgainst an impious nation I send him,<br \/>\nand against a people under my wrath I order him<br \/>\nTo seize plunder, carry off loot,<br \/>\nand tread them down like the mud of the streets.<br \/>\nBut this is not what he intends,<br \/>\nnor does he have this in mind;<br \/>\nRather, it is in his heart to destroy,<br \/>\nto make an end of nations not a few.For he says:<br \/>\n\u201cBy my own power I have done it,<br \/>\nand by my wisdom, for I am shrewd.<br \/>\nI have moved the boundaries of peoples,<br \/>\ntheir treasures I have pillaged,<br \/>\nand, like a giant, I have put down the enthroned.<br \/>\nMy hand has seized like a nest<br \/>\nthe riches of nations;<br \/>\nAs one takes eggs left alone,<br \/>\nso I took in all the earth;<br \/>\nNo one fluttered a wing,<br \/>\nor opened a mouth, or chirped!\u201dWill the axe boast against him who hews with it?<br \/>\nWill the saw exalt itself above him who wields it?<br \/>\nAs if a rod could sway him who lifts it,<br \/>\nor a staff him who is not wood!<br \/>\nTherefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts,<br \/>\nwill send among his fat ones leanness,<br \/>\nAnd instead of his glory there will be kindling<br \/>\nlike the kindling of fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/94:5\">PS 94:5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (14a)\u00a0The Lord will not abandon his people.<br \/>\nYour people, O LORD, they trample down,<br \/>\nyour inheritance they afflict.<br \/>\nWidow and stranger they slay,<br \/>\nthe fatherless they murder.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord will not abandon his people.<br \/>\nAnd they say, \u201cThe LORD sees not;<br \/>\nthe God of Jacob perceives not.\u201d<br \/>\nUnderstand, you senseless ones among the people;<br \/>\nand, you fools, when will you be wise?<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord will not abandon his people.<br \/>\nShall he who shaped the ear not hear?<br \/>\nor he who formed the eye not see?<br \/>\nShall he who instructs nations not chastise,<br \/>\nhe who teaches men knowledge?<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord will not abandon his people.<br \/>\nFor the LORD will not cast off his people,<br \/>\nnor abandon his inheritance;<br \/>\nBut judgment shall again be with justice,<br \/>\nand all the upright of heart shall follow it.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord will not abandon his people.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/11:25\">MT 11:25<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nBlessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,<br \/>\nyou have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/11:25\">MT 11:25-27<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>At that time Jesus exclaimed:<br \/>\n\u201cI give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,<br \/>\nfor although you have hidden these things<br \/>\nfrom the wise and the learned<br \/>\nyou have revealed them to the childlike.<br \/>\nYes, Father, such has been your gracious will.<br \/>\nAll things have been handed over to me by my Father.<br \/>\nNo one knows the Son except the Father,<br \/>\nand no one knows the Father except the Son<br \/>\nand anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/185_HenryII_13c.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11971\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/185_HenryII_13c.jpg?resize=237%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"185_HenryII_13c\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/185_HenryII_13c.jpg?resize=237%2C300&amp;ssl=1 237w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/185_HenryII_13c.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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