{"id":12815,"date":"2016-12-10T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=12815"},"modified":"2016-12-10T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:39:14","slug":"getting-transformed-by-gods-advent-fire-second-saturday-of-advent-december-10-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/getting-transformed-by-gods-advent-fire-second-saturday-of-advent-december-10-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Transformed by God&#8217;s Advent Fire, Second Saturday of Advent, December 10, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nSaturday of the Second Week of Advent<br \/>\nDecember\u00a010, 2016<br \/>\nSir 48:1-4.9-11, Ps 80, Mt 17:9-13<\/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-12815-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.10.16-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.10.16-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.10.16-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today, as we hit the half-way point of Advent, Jesus speaks in the Gospel about St. John the Baptist, saying that he is the new Elijah whom the Jews were awaiting to prepare them for the Advent of the Messiah. Many didn\u2019t recognize St. John the Baptist to be fulfilling this mission and \u201cdid to him what they pleased,\u201d just like Elijah himself was persecuted, and harassed and hunted down by the prophets and royal patrons of the pagan god Ba\u2019al.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s something in the link in today\u2019s readings between Elijah and St. John the Baptist that we should catch. What was John the Baptist\u2019s mission? It was more than level mountains, filling valleys, straightening out crooked ways and smoothing out rough ones. It was to announce the love of God and to help the people get ready to response with passionate love in return. We see this in what the Book of Sirach says about Elijah today. The reading is full of \u201cfire.\u201d Sirach tells us, \u201cLike a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah,\u201d his words were a \u201cflaming furnace,\u201d in his \u201czeal\u201d three times he \u201cbrought down fire,\u201d he was even taken aloft in a \u201cwhirlwind of fire, in a charity with fiery horses.\u201d Elijah\u2019s whole prophetic work was to bring the Lord\u2019s fire to earth and to help people respond with fire. It was the same thing with St. John the Baptist. His mission wasn\u2019t a cold engineering project to build roads. It was to help get us ready to embrace Christ who when he finally began his public ministry announced, \u201cI have come to set the world on fire and how I am in anguish until it is enkindled.\u201d John the Baptist\u2019s work was, in a sense, to get all the wood ready for this world-embracing blaze.<\/li>\n<li>Advent is a time in which we are called to ponder the fire of God\u2019s love and to examine whether we meet that fiery love with passionate love in return.\u00a0A few years back, Pope Benedict gave an unforgettable Pentecost homily when he talked about how God wants to light us on fire with the fire of the Holy Spirit. But he said many of us have to overcome a fear of that holy flame: \u201cThe divine fire frightens us, [because] we are afraid of being \u2018burned,\u2019 we prefer to stay just as we are. This is because our life is often formed according to the logic of having, of possessing and not the logic of self-giving. Many people believe in God and admire the person of Jesus Christ, but when they are asked to lose something of themselves, then they retreat, they are afraid of the demands of faith. There is the fear of giving up something nice to which we are attached; the fear that following Christ deprives us of freedom, of certain experiences, of a part of ourselves. On one hand, we want to be with Jesus, follow him closely, and, on the other hand, we are afraid of the consequences that this brings with it. \u2026 We must know how to recognize that losing something, indeed, losing ourselves for the true God, the God of love and of life, is in reality gaining ourselves, finding ourselves more fully. Whoever entrusts himself to Jesus already experiences in this life peace and joy of heart, which the world cannot give, and it cannot even take it away once God has given it to us.\u00a0So it is worthwhile to let ourselves be touched by the fire of the Holy Spirit! The suffering that it causes us is necessary for our transformation. It is the reality of the cross: It is not for nothing that in the language of Jesus \u2018fire\u2019 is above all a representation of the cross, without which Christianity does not exist.\u201d\u00a0Pope Benedict said that the flame of God\u2019s love is burning bush from which God spoke to Moses (Ex 3:2). \u201cIt is a flame that burns but does not destroy, that, in burning, brings forth the better and truer part of man, as in a fusion it makes his interior form emerge, his vocation to truth and to love.\u00a0\u00a0\u2026 It causes a transformation, and it must for this reason consume something in man, the waste that corrupts him and hinders his relations with God and neighbor.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s what\u2019s supposed to happen in us during Advent. That\u2019s the mission of the St. John the Baptist, who prepared people for the One after him who would baptize \u201cwith the Holy Spirit and with fire\u201d (Lk 3:16).\u00a0For many of us that requires conversion. We prayed in today&#8217;s Psalm,\u00a0\u201cLord, make us turn to you; let us see your face, and we shall be saved!\u201d These words frame\u00a0the essential work of Elijah who with fire\u00a0battled against the worship of sex in the cult of Ba\u2019al, who battled with fire, in King Ahab and Jezebel, against the worship of self and the corruption of freedom to do evil rather than to love, and who battled with zeal against the materialism of living off of material bread in the great fast of 40 days on his journey to Horeb and in the great miracle done for the widow of Zarephath and her son. He was one who himself God had turned to him. He was one to whom God had revealed his face. And he sought to reveal that face of God to others so that they, too, might turn to God with faith and be saved. With the fire of God he wanted to urge, on God&#8217;s behalf, for people to turn back to God by turning the \u201chearts of fathers toward their sons,\u201d so that they might pass on the faith as God had commanded them through Moses not just to the next generation but through the next generation to many generations to come.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0greatest way we get filled with fire is here at Mass. St. Ephrem, fourth century Syrian doctor of the Church, used to say that when we receive Jesus in the Holy Eucharist we receive &#8220;fire.&#8221; It&#8217;s here that we get ignited to go out and light the world ablaze. So today let us receive the word of Elijah and John the Baptist and go out to meet Christ and be filled with his fire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/sirach\/48:1\">SIR 48:1-4, 9-11<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>In those days,<br \/>\nlike a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah<br \/>\nwhose words were as a flaming furnace.<br \/>\nTheir staff of bread he shattered,<br \/>\nin his zeal he reduced them to straits;<br \/>\nBy the Lord\u2019s word he shut up the heavens<br \/>\nand three times brought down fire.<br \/>\nHow awesome are you, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds!<br \/>\nWhose glory is equal to yours?<br \/>\nYou were taken aloft in a whirlwind of fire,<br \/>\nin a chariot with fiery horses.<br \/>\nYou were destined, it is written, in time to come<br \/>\nto put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD,<br \/>\nTo turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons,<br \/>\nand to re-establish the tribes of Jacob.<br \/>\nBlessed is he who shall have seen you<br \/>\nand who falls asleep in your friendship.<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/psalms\/80:2\">PS 80:2AC AND 3B, 15-16, 18-19<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (4)\u00a0Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.<br \/>\nO shepherd of Israel, hearken,<br \/>\nFrom your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth.<br \/>\nRouse your power.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.<br \/>\nOnce again, O LORD of hosts,<br \/>\nlook down from heaven, and see;<br \/>\nTake care of this vine,<br \/>\nand protect what your right hand has planted<br \/>\nthe son of man whom you yourself made strong.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.<br \/>\nMay your help be with the man of your right hand,<br \/>\nwith the son of man whom you yourself made strong.<br \/>\nThen we will no more withdraw from you;<br \/>\ngive us new life, and we will call upon your name.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/matthew\/17:9\">MT 17:9A, 10-13<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>As they were coming down from the mountain,<br \/>\nthe disciples asked Jesus,<br \/>\n\u201cWhy do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said in reply, \u201cElijah will indeed come and restore all things;<br \/>\nbut I tell you that Elijah has already come,<br \/>\nand they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased.<br \/>\nSo also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.\u201d<br \/>\nThen the disciples understood<br \/>\nthat he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/chariot.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12818\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/chariot.jpeg?resize=300%2C234&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/chariot.jpeg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/chariot.jpeg?w=397&amp;ssl=1 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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