{"id":12759,"date":"2016-12-02T14:15:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=12759"},"modified":"2016-12-02T14:15:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:15:48","slug":"going-out-to-meet-our-light-and-salvation-1st-friday-of-advent-december-2-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/going-out-to-meet-our-light-and-salvation-1st-friday-of-advent-december-2-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Going out to Meet our Light and Salvation, 1st Friday of Advent, December 2, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nFriday of the First Week of Advent<br \/>\nDecember\u00a02, 2016<br \/>\nIs 29:17-24, Ps 27, Mt 9:27-31<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12759-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.2.16-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.2.16-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.2.16-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>We encounter again today the double-dynamism of Lent: Christ\u2019s coming in the past, present and future \u2014 history, mystery and majesty \u2014 and the way the Church has been teaching us how we\u2019re called to go out to meet him in each of these three moments.<\/li>\n<li>Today Christ was coming past two blind men, who first went out to meet him intentionally, crying out, \u201cSon of David, have mercy on us!\u201d But then Jesus had them come to meet him physically. It would have been easy for him just to go to where they were at \u2014 like he stopped for the woman with the hemorrhage elsewhere in the Gospel \u2014 and work the miracle there, but he doesn&#8217;t. Jesus went\u00a0into the city to make them make the effort to follow him. When they do, that\u2019s when Jesus approaches and asks them the question of faith, \u201cDo you believe that I can do this for you?\u201d When they express their faith, Jesus helps them to see. This is a pattern we see throughout the Gospel. Jesus could have been born right next to the Shepherds, but instead he comes down from heaven to Bethlehem and has them move some distance to run by faith. Two days ago, if we were not celebrating the feast of St. Andrew, we would have had the Gospel of Jesus&#8217; multiplying the loaves and fish, which began with his having all of the people bringing him the lame, the blind and those with illnesses have to climb a mountain before they received their miraculous cures. He comes, but he still makes us get up and go to meet him, to stoke our faith and our desire.<\/li>\n<li>This is\u00a0a very important spiritual lesson both for Advent as well as for life. Jesus with his mercy comes to us in history, mystery and majesty but we have to recognize our need for it and be willing to make the effort to come to receive it. Like St. John the Baptist will announce this Sunday, we need to make straight the paths. Jesus\u2019 messianic work can be summarized by healing our blindness. In the first reading, Isaiah tells us, \u201cOn that day \u2026\u00a0out of gloom and darkness,\u00a0the eyes of the blind shall see,\u201d and we need to see ourselves among the blind whom the Savior comes to heal. Today\u00a0at the United Nations, there will be a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Last year, during the opening panel, Luis Gallegos, the former Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the UN, gave a speech I still remember a year later. He discussed how when we think about the disabled, we ought to be thinking not just about &#8220;others&#8221; but about each of us. He said if we live long enough, we\u2019re going to start to have eye problems, need hearing aids, end up using canes and handicapped ramps and wheelchairs, and made likewise be dependent on so many things that today we take for granted. He said\u00a0we need to remember that all of us will one day be handicapped. What is true at a physical level is certainly true spiritually. We\u2019re all to some degree spiritually blind, incapable of seeing God where we ought. We\u2019re deaf to his frequency with regard to many of the things he\u2019s trying to say to us. Even though we can walk, fear cripples us from walking in certain directions. Jesus wants to address all of those at his coming, but we need to learn from the blind men how to cry out for mercy. And so today we need to ask the Lord Jesus to open us up to see the history\u00a0of his birth, the mystery of his presence in the Sacraments, his word, in the Church and others, and in future majesty when he comes again with the eyes of faith.<\/li>\n<li>The Lord to whom we need to look, to whom we direct that prayer, the Messiah who will make the eyes of the blind see, is, as\u00a0we pray\u00a0today in the Responsorial Psalm, our \u201clight and salvation.\u201d He\u2019s the one who saves our lives and illumines everything. And once we begin to see things in his light, four things happen, as we prayed later in the Psalm:\n<ul>\n<li>First, we&#8217;re filled with courage. \u00a0\u201cWhom should I fear? \u2026 Of whom should I be afraid?,\u201d we prayed. Because the Lord is illumining our path and nothing in all of creation can separate us from his love, we have every reason not to remain in the darkness of fear. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to do what we need to do despite our fear. When we see Christ with us,\u00a0who triumphed even over death, how could we not have the courage of the martyrs?<\/li>\n<li>Second, we&#8217;re enabled\u00a0to see God\u2019s sacredness all around us: \u201cOne thing I ask of the Lord;\u00a0this I seek,&#8221; we prayed: &#8220;To dwell in the house of the Lord\u00a0all the days of my life, that I may gaze on the loveliness of the Lord\u00a0and contemplate his temple.\u201d When the Psalm was being written, the Temple was understood to be\u00a0the Temple in Jerusalem built by Solomon. But we know that when Jesus came, he opened our eyes to see that he is the true Temple and that we become part of that temple through baptism. To contemplate his temple means to see that the whole world is charged with his grandeur. To dwell in the house of the Lord all our days means to dwell in him. That\u2019s what he wants us to see!<\/li>\n<li>Third, we&#8217;re filled with thanksgiving because we behold God&#8217;s generosity everywhere. \u00a0\u201cI believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living,\u201d we prayed together. The Lord gives abundantly and when we see with his light we begin to grasp just how generous he is, that he is constantly giving every meal we meet, every day we have, every friend we make, every prayer answered. And he even loves us enough to give us the Cross and some privations precisely so that he can fill us with even greater spiritual gifts.<\/li>\n<li>Fourth, he we&#8217;re filled with faith and hope to live the Advent of life. We prayed,\u00a0\u201cWait for the Lord\u00a0with courage;\u00a0be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.\u201d Because the Lord is our Light and Salvation, we are able audaciously to wait for him with strong hearts, with &#8220;proud&#8221; hearts that remember our dignity restored by the immensity of his life. Waiting for him courageously in that way is what Advent is about. We&#8217;re waiting for him to do for us something even greater than what he did for the men in today\u2019s Gospel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Lord is coming to us today as our light and salvation and the way we\u2019re called to go out to meet him is with a faith like that of the blind men, following him here to Church, where after having taught us, he&#8217;s about to feed us with himself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/isaiah\/29:17\">IS 29:17-24<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Thus says the Lord GOD:<br \/>\nBut a very little while,<br \/>\nand Lebanon shall be changed into an orchard,<br \/>\nand the orchard be regarded as a forest!<br \/>\nOn that day the deaf shall hear<br \/>\nthe words of a book;<br \/>\nAnd out of gloom and darkness,<br \/>\nthe eyes of the blind shall see.<br \/>\nThe lowly will ever find joy in the LORD,<br \/>\nand the poor rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.<br \/>\nFor the tyrant will be no more<br \/>\nand the arrogant will have gone;<br \/>\nAll who are alert to do evil will be cut off,<br \/>\nthose whose mere word condemns a man,<br \/>\nWho ensnare his defender at the gate,<br \/>\nand leave the just man with an empty claim.<br \/>\nTherefore thus says the LORD,<br \/>\nthe God of the house of Jacob,<br \/>\nwho redeemed Abraham:<br \/>\nNow Jacob shall have nothing to be ashamed of,<br \/>\nnor shall his face grow pale.<br \/>\nWhen his children see<br \/>\nthe work of my hands in his midst,<br \/>\nThey shall keep my name holy;<br \/>\nthey shall reverence the Holy One of Jacob,<br \/>\nand be in awe of the God of Israel.<br \/>\nThose who err in spirit shall acquire understanding,<br \/>\nand those who find fault shall receive instruction.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/27:1\">PS 27:1, 4, 13-14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (1a)\u00a0The Lord is my light and my salvation.<br \/>\nThe LORD is my light and my salvation;<br \/>\nwhom should I fear?<br \/>\nThe LORD is my life\u2019s refuge;<br \/>\nof whom should I be afraid?<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my light and my salvation.<br \/>\nOne thing I ask of the LORD;<br \/>\nthis I seek:<br \/>\nTo dwell in the house of the LORD<br \/>\nall the days of my life,<br \/>\nThat I may gaze on the loveliness of the LORD<br \/>\nand contemplate his temple.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my light and my salvation.<br \/>\nI believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD<br \/>\nin the land of the living.<br \/>\nWait for the LORD with courage;<br \/>\nbe stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my light and my salvation.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia<\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nBehold, our Lord shall come with power;<br \/>\nhe will enlighten the eyes of his servants.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/9:27\">MT 9:27-31<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">As Jesus passed by, two blind men followed him, crying out,<br \/>\n\u201cSon of David, have pity on us!\u201d<br \/>\nWhen he entered the house,<br \/>\nthe blind men approached him and Jesus said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cDo you believe that I can do this?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYes, Lord,\u201d they said to him.<br \/>\nThen he touched their eyes and said,<br \/>\n\u201cLet it be done for you according to your faith.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd their eyes were opened.<br \/>\nJesus warned them sternly,<br \/>\n\u201cSee that no one knows about this.\u201d<br \/>\nBut they went out and spread word of him through all that land.<\/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\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12760\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"maxresdefault\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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