{"id":12885,"date":"2016-12-21T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=12885"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:19:14","slug":"going-out-to-meet-christ-as-he-springs-across-the-mountains-december-21-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/going-out-to-meet-christ-as-he-springs-across-the-mountains-december-21-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Out to Meet Christ as He Springs Across the Mountains, December 21, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMass for December 21<br \/>\nDecember 21, 2016<br \/>\nSong 2:8-14, Ps 33, Lk 1:39-45<\/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-12885-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.21.16-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.21.16-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.21.16-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>There\u2019s a great irony of proclaiming in today\u2019s first reading from the Song of Songs, \u201cThe winter is past,\u201d on the day winter begins, but it will make far greater sense if we understand the Song of Songs from the perspective of today\u2019s O Antiphon* (see explanation below):\u00a0<i>O Oriens, splendor lucis aeternae et sol iustitiae: veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris et umbra mortis.\u00a0<\/i>\u201cO Rising Sun in the East, splendor of eternal light and sun of justice, come, illumine those sitting in darkness and the shadow of death.\u201d Jesus is the Rising Sun and his light \u2014 his eternal \u201cLight from Light\u201d \u2014 shines in the midst of the greatest darkness and makes the darkest day of the year radiant. Even when we\u2019re walking through the dark valley of the shadow of death, Jesus comes to bring us into the kingdom of light.<\/li>\n<li>We see this happen in the Gospel. Even though John the Baptist is in the darkness of Elizabeth\u2019s womb, Jesus comes in the womb of Mary and irradiates that darkness with his light and joy. We see the same dynamism in the first reading, the Song of Songs, which is an allegory of the dramatic loving dialogue that\u2019s supposed to happen between God and each one of our souls. Much more than a husband and wife who have been apart for a year run across airports to embrace each other, so our longing is meant to be even greater for God because his longing is greater for us. There\u2019s darkness in separation, but the hope of reunion shines in the midst of that darkness and when the encounter happens the long night is forgotten.<\/li>\n<li>Throughout Advent our desire is supposed to be growing like we see in the Song of Songs.\u00a0The purpose of the Advent wreath is to indicate what\u2019s supposed to be happening within us, that week by week, the flame of our intense desire is meant to be doubling, tripling and quadrupling. And that\u2019s what we see in the relationship between Bridegroom and Bride in this passage, which has inspired so many mystics, like St. Bernard and St. John of the Cross, to use it as a paradigm for the loving relationship we\u2019re supposed to have with God. Jesus is coming as a Lover \u201cspringing across the mountains, leaping across the hills, \u2026 like a gazelle or a young stag.\u201d He was doing that in the Gospel within Mary\u2019s womb before he had even the tiniest of feet. He speaks, continually saying, \u201cArise, my beloved, my dove, my beautiful one and come!\u201d He wants to raise us from\u00a0<em>sitting\u00a0<\/em>in darkness and the shadow of death, and come to him who loves us, who finds us beautiful and pure. He wants to see us, to hear our voice, the voice that leads us to \u201csing a new song\u201d in today\u2019s Responsorial Psalm, literally the \u201csong of the dove,\u201d the song inspired by the Holy Spirit that we\u2019re called to sing to our Emmanuel. This is the whole essence of Advent. Jesus is coming out of love for us because he seeks to espouse us to him forever. He\u2019s coming because he loves us, because he finds us beautiful, and want, by water and the word, \u00a0to make us like a dove, \u201cpure and immaculate in his sight\u201d (Eph 5:25-27).<\/li>\n<li>In our world, in our souls, the darkness that Christ wants to heal is wherever Christ doesn\u2019t shine. And we all know that there\u2019s a lot of darkness \u2014 anxiety, concerns, crime, war, hatred, violence, envy, poverty and neglect, abuse and manipulation \u2014 all places where Christ is evicted, where the lights are turned off, so that those one can do in the darkness what one would be ashamed to do in the light. That\u2019s why conversion is so important during the Advent season. St. John tells us in his Gospel about Jesus, \u201cThe light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil\u201d (Jn 3:19). Jesus is coming into the world precisely to bring us into the light. That\u2019s what Zechariah \u2014 in his famous Benedictus that we\u2019ll hear on Christmas Eve morning\u2014 will say about the One whose way his son will prepare: \u201cBecause of the tender mercy of our God by which the Daybreak (<em>Oriens<\/em>)\u00a0 from on high will visit us to shine on those who sit in darkness and death\u2019s shadow, to guide our feet into the path of peace.\u201d Jesus is coming to take those of us who are sitting in darkness and the shadow of death into the path of peace, joy and light. But he does so not by force but by engaging our freedom. He wants us to arise and come to him who is coming to us.<\/li>\n<li>We all need that resurrection. Pope Francis wrote in\u00a0<em>Evangelii Gaudium<\/em>\u00a0that many Christians behave as if they\u2019ve always just come from a funeral, as if life is a long Lent without an Easter. Many Christians\u00a0don\u2019t live with the joy that comes from the light, like children enjoy a sunny day. The O Antiphon says \u201csitting in the darkness and in the shadow of death,\u201d pointing to the fact that there\u2019s no dynamism, there\u2019s no movement, there\u2019s no action, just inertia. People are staying put. John the Baptist comes to get us moving inwardly toward conversion, to recognize our darkness and our need for light. Christ comes to deliver that light.\u00a0But how does Christ illumine the shadow of death? He does so from the inside, by himself rising.\u00a0He\u2019s coming into the world so that just as the light of the Sun rises every morning we can rise with him. Just as Mary proclaims in her Magnificat that he exalts the humble, so he even raises the dead. Rather than looking like we\u2019ve always come from a funeral, we Christians should look as if we\u2019re perpetually come from a resurrection \u2014 and not just Jesus\u2019, but our own.\u00a0We all need to hear Jesus say, &#8220;<em>Arise<\/em>, my beloved, my pure one, my beautiful one, and come.&#8221; Mary shows us how to live this type of life, to arise and go out to meet Christ in such a way that we begin to journey with him to bring his joy to others as he continues to bound over obstacles for the sake of his lost sheep.<\/li>\n<li>The way Jesus tries to help us to do this every day is in the Mass, when we enter into his death so that together with him we can rise from the dead. The ancient Christian Churches were always built to the East with the cruciform or basilical churches built literally\u00a0<em>ad\u00a0<\/em><i>orientem\u00a0<\/i>(to the East), toward where the Sun rises, to symbolize how Christ rises from the dead and takes us with him. When the priest and people faced the East together, the people were able to experience Christ\u2019s rising like the Sun in a very way, when after the worlds of consecration, the priest would elevate the host above his head. The people would see him from behind lifting Jesus upward and holding him above so that the light of his presence might illumine our life. Today I\u2019m not celebrating the Mass\u00a0<em>ad\u00a0orientem\u00a0<\/em>but the same reality applies. As I raise Christ, the Radiant Dawn, to the highest point of which I\u2019m capable, see the Sun at \u201chigh noon,\u201d and recognize that this is a response to our prayer, \u201cO Rising Sun in the East, splendor of eternal light and sun of justice, come, illumine those sitting in darkness and the shadow of death!\u201d Amen!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* (There is a lack of alignment among the O Antiphons between what is used as the Gospel verse and what is used for Magnificat antiphon during Vespers. Vespers preserves the original order of the seven O Antiphons:\u00a0<em>O Sapientia<\/em>\u00a0(Wisdom, Dec 17),\u00a0<em>O Adonai<\/em>\u00a0(Lord and leader of the house of Israel, Dec 18),\u00a0<em>O Radix Iesse<\/em>\u00a0(Root of Jesse, Dec 19),\u00a0<em>O Clavis David<\/em>\u00a0(O Key of David, Dec 20),\u00a0<em>O Oriens<\/em>\u00a0(O Rising Sun, Dec 21),\u00a0<em>O Rex Gentium<\/em>\u00a0(O King of the Nations, Dec 22),\u00a0<em>O Emmanuel<\/em>\u00a0(O God-with-us, Dec 23). There is no O Antiphon for Vespers on December 24, because it is first Vespers of the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord. In the Gospel verses, however, while the first four days are the same (Dec 17-20), the Mass liturgies change the order of the others:\u00a0<em>O Rex Gentium<\/em>\u00a0is not only said on Dec 22 but repeated on Dec 23,\u00a0<em>O Emmanuel<\/em>\u00a0is moved from Dec 23 to Dec 21, and\u00a0<em>O Oriens\u00a0<\/em>is moved from Dec 21 to Dec 24, so that the words \u201cillumine those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death\u201d will correspond to the words of Zechariah\u2019s canticle in the Gospel.\u00a0I write this explanation because, as far as I have been able to find through internet searches, there is no other explanation of the disparity between the O Antiphons at Mass and at Vespers.)<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/songofsongs\/2:8\">SG 2:8-14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Hark! my lover\u2013here he comes<br \/>\nspringing across the mountains,<br \/>\nleaping across the hills.<br \/>\nMy lover is like a gazelle<br \/>\nor a young stag.<br \/>\nHere he stands behind our wall,<br \/>\ngazing through the windows,<br \/>\npeering through the lattices.<br \/>\nMy lover speaks; he says to me,<br \/>\n\u201cArise, my beloved, my dove, my beautiful one,<br \/>\nand come!<br \/>\n\u201cFor see, the winter is past,<br \/>\nthe rains are over and gone.<br \/>\nThe flowers appear on the earth,<br \/>\nthe time of pruning the vines has come,<br \/>\nand the song of the dove is heard in our land.<br \/>\nThe fig tree puts forth its figs,<br \/>\nand the vines, in bloom, give forth fragrance.<br \/>\nArise, my beloved, my beautiful one,<br \/>\nand come!<\/div>\n<div>\u201cO my dove in the clefts of the rock,<br \/>\nin the secret recesses of the cliff,<br \/>\nLet me see you,<br \/>\nlet me hear your voice,<br \/>\nFor your voice is sweet,<br \/>\nand you are lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/psalms\/33:2\">PS 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>R. (1a; 3a)\u00a0Exult, you just, in the Lord! Sing to him a new song.<br \/>\nGive thanks to the LORD on the harp;<br \/>\nwith the ten-stringed lyre chant his praises.<br \/>\nSing to him a new song;<br \/>\npluck the strings skillfully, with shouts of gladness.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Exult, you just, in the Lord! Sing to him a new song.<br \/>\nBut the plan of the LORD stands forever;<br \/>\nthe design of his heart, through all generations.<br \/>\nBlessed the nation whose God is the LORD,<br \/>\nthe people he has chosen for his own inheritance.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Exult, you just, in the Lord! Sing to him a new song.<br \/>\nOur soul waits for the LORD,<br \/>\nwho is our help and our shield,<br \/>\nFor in him our hearts rejoice;<br \/>\nin his holy name we trust.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Exult, you just, in the Lord! Sing to him a new song.<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/luke\/1:39\">LK 1:39-45<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Mary set out in those days<br \/>\nand traveled to the hill country in haste<br \/>\nto a town of Judah,<br \/>\nwhere she entered the house of Zechariah<br \/>\nand greeted Elizabeth.<br \/>\nWhen Elizabeth heard Mary\u2019s greeting,<br \/>\nthe infant leaped in her womb,<br \/>\nand Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,<br \/>\ncried out in a loud voice and said,<br \/>\n\u201cMost blessed are you among women,<br \/>\nand blessed is the fruit of your womb.<br \/>\nAnd how does this happen to me,<br \/>\nthat the mother of my Lord should come to me?<br \/>\nFor at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears,<br \/>\nthe infant in my womb leaped for joy.<br \/>\nBlessed are you who believed<br \/>\nthat what was spoken to you by the Lord<br \/>\nwould be fulfilled.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1397488116474_wps_The_sun_rises_over_The_Fa.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12886\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1397488116474_wps_The_sun_rises_over_The_Fa.jpg?resize=300%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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