{"id":13131,"date":"2017-02-14T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=13131"},"modified":"2017-02-14T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T15:04:32","slug":"understanding-and-becoming-the-leaven-christ-wants-6th-tuesday-i-february-14-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/understanding-and-becoming-the-leaven-christ-wants-6th-tuesday-i-february-14-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding and Becoming the Leaven Christ Wants, 6th Tuesday (I), February 14, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nTuesday\u00a0of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of SS. Cyril &amp; Methodius<br \/>\nFebruary\u00a014, 2017<br \/>\nGen 6:5-8.7:1-5.10, Ps 29, Mk 8:14-21<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To\u00a0listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13131-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2.14.17-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2.14.17-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2.14.17-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were\u00a0attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cDo you still not understand?\u201d So Jesus asks the disciples and asks us. The specific context was about leaven when he warned them about the leaven, the corrosive teaching and example, on the one hand of the rigorist Pharisees and on the other the laxist Herodians. He wanted, rather, the leaven of faith, that a tiny bit of faith when placed in the &#8220;dough&#8221; of God&#8217;s power was able to accomplish great things. Jesus showed what a little bit of this leaven could do in the two miracles of the multiplication of the loaves and fish. He wants us to trust that with faith the size of a mustard seed we could move mountains, with some water in jars at a wedding we could have wine, 12 relative nobodies we could have a message go out to all of the world.\u00a0\u201cDo you still not understand?,&#8221; he asks.<\/li>\n<li>Noah in today&#8217;s first reading is a sign of this leaven of faith. God asks Noah to build a huge ark and to do so, not in a big ship building place but in the middle of nowhere far from the ocean. The dimensions of the ark \u2014 300 x 50 x 30 cubits, with a cubit being 18 inches or half a yard \u2014 were huge and would have taken some time to build. For weeks and months, people around him must have thought he was nuts. Imagine trying to build the Queen Elizabeth II on a farm in Iowa or up in the Rocky Mountains, far from water. But Noah trusted in the Lord and built. He, with\u00a0his faith in God, was the leaven for the renewal of creation.\u00a0God always starts small and builds. We see that with the Israelites, with the tribe of Judah within God&#8217;s people, with the &#8220;remnant,&#8221; ultimately with Mary and Joseph, and then the apostles. Many get corrupted by the leaven of the world or pseudo-religion. God always looks for the leaven of faith.<\/li>\n<li>As the Fathers of the Church were accustomed to preach, the Church is meant to function as Noah&#8217;s Ark, bringing everybody to salvation on the barque of Peter despite the storms of life on the water. The &#8220;nave&#8221; of a Church is named because the Church is meant to be the &#8220;navis&#8221; or ship like the ark as a means of rescue. Christ is like Noah on that boat.<\/li>\n<li>We see that in God&#8217;s plan of salvation he brought not just individuals, not just random people and animals of different sexes, but pairs, heterosexual couples, pointing, on this St. Valentine&#8217;s Day, to the importance of marriage for the renewal of the world after the devil tries to destroy Adam&#8217;s and Eve&#8217;s bond and every other. Married couples are called through the Sacrament of Marriage, to help each other onto the ark as it heads toward the eternal shore.<\/li>\n<li>But it&#8217;s not just married pairs that are part of salvation. God sent out the first disciples two-by-two even though they could have covered far more ground going out singly. The reason, however, is so that they could announce the good news by how they lived it, loving each other, forgiving each other, correcting each other, helping each other to trust in God&#8217;s providence and so much more. Today the Church celebrates one of the most fruitful pairs in Church history, two brothers in blood and in spirit who brought whole nations in the Slavic world onto God&#8217;s ark: SS. Cyril and Methodius. Today we ask their intercession to help unite East and West in the Church, so that we can more effectively give witness to God&#8217;s plan of unity and salvation, and serve as much needed leaven for the world.<\/li>\n<li>Today at this Mass, we see God&#8217;s greatest miracle of all, when God does something greater than the miracle of the multiplications of loaves and fish, greater than the flood. He wants us to respond to this gift with faith, to understand what he&#8217;s asking, and to help others similarly to become with us this leaven.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/genesis\/6:5|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=673dd34801&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Gn 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When the LORD saw how great was man\u2019s wickedness on earth,<br \/>\nand how no desire that his heart conceived<br \/>\nwas ever anything but evil,<br \/>\nhe regretted that he had made man on the earth,<br \/>\nand his heart was grieved.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">So the LORD said:<br \/>\n\u201cI will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created,<br \/>\nand not only the men,<br \/>\nbut also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air,<br \/>\nfor I am sorry that I made them.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Noah found favor with the LORD.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Then the LORD said to Noah:<br \/>\n\u201cGo into the ark, you and all your household,<br \/>\nfor you alone in this age have I found to be truly just.<br \/>\nOf every clean animal, take with you seven pairs,<br \/>\na male and its mate;<br \/>\nand of the unclean animals, one pair,<br \/>\na male and its mate;<br \/>\nlikewise, of every clean bird of the air, seven pairs,<br \/>\na male and a female,<br \/>\nand of all the unclean birds, one pair,<br \/>\na male and a female.<br \/>\nThus you will keep their issue alive over all the earth.<br \/>\nSeven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth<br \/>\nfor forty days and forty nights,<br \/>\nand so I will wipe out from the surface of the earth<br \/>\nevery moving creature that I have made.\u201d<br \/>\nNoah did just as the LORD had commanded him.As soon as the seven days were over,<br \/>\nthe waters of the flood came upon the earth.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/29:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=a1bbd0a674&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Ps 29:1a and 2, 3ac-4, 3b and 9c-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (11b)\u00a0<strong>The Lord will bless his people with peace.<\/strong><br \/>\nGive to the LORD, you sons of God,<br \/>\ngive to the LORD glory and praise,<br \/>\nGive to the LORD the glory due his name;<br \/>\nadore the LORD in holy attire.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>The Lord will bless his people with peace.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe voice of the LORD is over the waters,<br \/>\nthe LORD, over vast waters.<br \/>\nThe voice of the LORD is mighty;<br \/>\nthe voice of the LORD is majestic.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>The Lord will bless his people with peace.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe God of glory thunders,<br \/>\nand in his temple all say, \u201cGlory!\u201d<br \/>\nThe LORD is enthroned above the flood;<br \/>\nthe LORD is enthroned as king forever.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>The Lord will bless his people with peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/john\/14:23|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=b8d2d9c561&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Jn 14:23<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord;<br \/>\nand my Father will love him<br \/>\nand we will come to him.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/mark\/8:14|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=f0fbd6f815&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Mk 8:14-21<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The disciples had forgotten to bring bread,<br \/>\nand they had only one loaf with them in the boat.<br \/>\nJesus enjoined them, \u201cWatch out,<br \/>\nguard against the leaven of the Pharisees<br \/>\nand the leaven of Herod.\u201d<br \/>\nThey concluded among themselves that<br \/>\nit was because they had no bread.<br \/>\nWhen he became aware of this he said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cWhy do you conclude that it is because you have no bread?<br \/>\nDo you not yet understand or comprehend?<br \/>\nAre your hearts hardened?<br \/>\nDo you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?<br \/>\nAnd do you not remember,<br \/>\nwhen I broke the five loaves for the five thousand,<br \/>\nhow many wicker baskets full of fragments you picked up?\u201d<br \/>\nThey answered him, \u201cTwelve.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhen I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand,<br \/>\nhow many full baskets of fragments did you pick up?\u201d<br \/>\nThey answered him, \u201cSeven.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said to them, \u201cDo you still not understand?\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/page17_picture0_slide.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13133\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/page17_picture0_slide.jpg?resize=276%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/page17_picture0_slide.jpg?resize=276%2C300&amp;ssl=1 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/page17_picture0_slide.jpg?resize=300%2C327&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/page17_picture0_slide.jpg?w=440&amp;ssl=1 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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