{"id":13442,"date":"2017-03-28T08:36:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=13442"},"modified":"2017-03-28T08:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:36:34","slug":"watered-by-the-healing-flow-from-the-sanctuary-4th-tuesday-of-lent-march-28-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/watered-by-the-healing-flow-from-the-sanctuary-4th-tuesday-of-lent-march-28-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Watered by the Healing Flow from the Sanctuary, 4th Tuesday of Lent, March 28, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nTuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent<br \/>\nMarch 28, 2017<br \/>\nEzek 47:1-9.12, Ps 46, Jn 5:1-16<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click \u00a0below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13442-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3.28.17-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3.28.17-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3.28.17-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>As I been mentioning for the last nine days, the second phase of Lent \u2014 from the third Sunday through the fifth Friday \u2014 is an intense preparation of the Elect for baptism and mystagogical\u00a0course for the baptized to renew and live out better their baptismal promises and identity that are at the core of the Christian life. In today\u2019s readings, we have a chance to ponder far more deeply what that baptismal journey is about, how we\u2019re supposed to desire it, and how it is supposed to be life-long.<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s begin with the desire we are supposed to have for God\u2019s mercy and its transformative power. Today in the Gospel Jesus says to the man crippled for 38 years, \u201cDo you want to be well?\u201d \u00a0At first glance, it\u2019s a strange question. It\u2019s like asking a starving man if he\u2019d like a sandwich, a man in prison if he\u2019d like a pardon, a post-partum woman if she\u2019d like to hold her newborn. The answer is totally obvious: of course the man would want to be made well. He was, after all, at the Pool of Bethesda to participate in a superstitious race with the blind, lame, crippled to be the first one into the pool when the waters were stirred, believing that that was the path to be restored to wellness. But Jesus asked the question at a deeper level, trying to solicit the man\u2019s deep desires, so that the man\u2019s will would be involved in the cure. The man didn\u2019t respond the way we would have thought he would, with an emphatic \u201cYes, I obviously would like to be made well!\u201d Instead, he acknowledged that he needed help to be cured \u2014 he needed someone, he thought, to place him into the pool when the water became \u201calive.\u201d Jesus had come to help and cure him with another type of living water, the living water enlivened by the Holy Spirit he had announced to the Samaritan woman in the encounter immediately preceding the scene in the Gospel.\u00a0Jesus, in curing him and us, always wants to engage our will and our freedom. That\u2019s why he asks whether we want to be made well. The problem with this man was that he was embittered, complaining, defeated. His will had been crushed. In response to Jesus\u2019 simple, straightforward question, he blurted out how crippled his spirit was. \u201cSir, I have no one to put me into the pool\u00a0when the water is stirred up;\u00a0while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.\u201d What should have been an immediate response, \u201cOf course I want to be made well!\u201d had morphed into a \u201cwoe am I\u201d self-pitying violin solo. This Lent, this Jubilee of Mercy, Jesus asks us, \u201cDo\u00a0<em>you<\/em>\u00a0want to be well?\u201d He doesn\u2019t want us to reply with apathy, with a broken down \u201cI\u2019ve tried to live a great Lent before with prayer, fasting and almsgiving, but I\u2019m never able to keep my resolutions to unite myself to you in your prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, and so while of course I want to be made fully well and holy, I really have lowered my expectations because I just don\u2019t want to disappoint myself, you or others.\u201d He doesn\u2019t was to say, \u201cNo matter how often I try, I just can\u2019t avoid falling into sin.\u201d He\u00a0wants us to respond, rather, with hunger, thirst, enthusiasm, \u201cYes, Jesus! I do want to be totally spiritually healed! Please help me!\u201d He wants us to say, \u201cYes, Jesus, I trust in you!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jesus\u2019 words to this man are almost identical to what he said to the paralytic he healed in Capernaum, \u201cRise, take up your mat and walk,\u201d because there is a great similarity between the miracles. In Capernaum, Jesus first forgave the paralyzed man\u2019s sins. In Jerusalem, Jesus told the man, \u201cLord, you are well. Do not sin any more.\u201d In each miracle, Jesus did not cure merely a physical paralysis but a spiritual one due to sin, and he does it in such a way that he wants us, in faith, to trust in his healing power and cooperate, however little, in the miracle. He wants us to participate in our own healing and set out more fully on the adventure of the Christian life and the journey of faith.<\/li>\n<li>This is pointed to by the very powerful imagery of the first reading. Ezekiel sees a vision of water trickling from the eastern side of the Temple down toward the Arabah, the sandy 20 mile desert that separates Jerusalem from the Dead Sea. The Angel takes Ezekiel another 1000 cubits (about 500 yards since a cubit is the distance between the elbow and the top of the middle finger, about 18 inches for those of us who aren\u2019t in the NBA) and the water is now ankle deep; another 500 yards and it\u2019s knee deep; yet another 500 and it\u2019s up to his waist; a final 500 and it had become a river over his head so that he could only swim across it. And along it\u2019s path, it brought all types of life to the desert as it flowed into the Dead Sea \u2014 where no marine life can survive because it\u2019s 20 times the salinity of the ocean \u2014 and raised it literally from the Dead, making it fresh and allowing all types of fish to live in it again. This is an image of the Christian life of the baptized. On the day of our baptism we receive a trickle of the Living Water flowing from the true Temple\u2019s \u2014 Jesus\u2019 \u2014 pierced Eastern side, the font of sacramental life for the Church. But we\u2019re to journey more deeply with that living water. By the time we\u2019re able to communicate with others and with God and pray, this living water should be up to our ankles. By the time of we\u2019re ready to\u00a0receive Jesus in Holy Communion, it should be up to our knees so that we can kneel in adoration. At the age of Confirmation, it should be up to our waist so that we, by the help of the Holy Spirit, can live by the Spirit and not by the concupiscence of the flesh. By the time we\u2019re adults, we should be submerging ourselves in it and allowing that river of Living Water to direct us to wherever he wants us to bring vitality even in the midst of the deserts of life. The Living Water who is Jesus wants to raise from the dead whatever Dead Seas we bear inside, converting what is salty and bitter into something fresh and alive. God wants to say of us, &#8220;They shall be watered by the flow from the sanctuary,&#8221; the sanctuary of who Jesus is and the water flowing from his side. It behooves us, therefore, this Lent and every Lent to ask ourselves whether we are advancing in this Living Water, whether we\u2019re allowing Jesus to raise within us whatever is dead. Jesus wants to cure us of our spiritual stagnation! But he wants us to want to be cured!<\/li>\n<li>The Lenten season is meant to be a pilgrimage, cubit by cubit, more and more deeply into Christ the living water. We begin on Ash Wednesday and seek to unite ourselves to Christ in his prayer, fasting and almsgiving. We advance to listening to him and seeing his glory at the Transfiguration. We ask him to give us this living water always, like the Samaritan Woman. We follow him progressively on the path to illumination, as we see with the man born blind. We could look at a thousand, possible Lenten angles, but the main point is what is our desire, do we hunger to be healed, are we translating that hunger into a journey with Christ the living water into the desert, cubit by cubit, so that he can give us life?<\/li>\n<li>Today the same Jesus who spoke to the crippled and to St. John of God says to us,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cDo you want to be made well?,\u201d awaiting our response. He wants to help us to\u00a0respond with enthusiasm, \u201cYes, I\u00a0do!,\u201d and open ourselves up to the way by which he wants to raise from the dead whatever in us is lifeless, and guide us to grow in our receptivity to his mercy and our passing it on.\u00a0Today\u00a0we ask him for the grace today to advance 1000 cubits in faith in his mercy and allow him who is the Living Water to pour out from this altar a great river flowing into Manhattan\u00a0leading us in the current to where he wants us to bring life and resurrection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/ezekiel\/47:1\">EZ 47:1-9, 12<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>The angel brought me, Ezekiel,<br \/>\nback to the entrance of the temple of the LORD,<br \/>\nand I saw water flowing out<br \/>\nfrom beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east,<br \/>\nfor the fa\u00e7ade of the temple was toward the east;<br \/>\nthe water flowed down from the right side of the temple,<br \/>\nsouth of the altar.<br \/>\nHe led me outside by the north gate,<br \/>\nand around to the outer gate facing the east,<br \/>\nwhere I saw water trickling from the right side.<br \/>\nThen when he had walked off to the east<br \/>\nwith a measuring cord in his hand,<br \/>\nhe measured off a thousand cubits<br \/>\nand had me wade through the water,<br \/>\nwhich was ankle-deep.<br \/>\nHe measured off another thousand<br \/>\nand once more had me wade through the water,<br \/>\nwhich was now knee-deep.<br \/>\nAgain he measured off a thousand and had me wade;<br \/>\nthe water was up to my waist.<br \/>\nOnce more he measured off a thousand,<br \/>\nbut there was now a river through which I could not wade;<br \/>\nfor the water had risen so high it had become a river<br \/>\nthat could not be crossed except by swimming.<br \/>\nHe asked me, \u201cHave you seen this, son of man?\u201d<br \/>\nThen he brought me to the bank of the river, where he had me sit.<br \/>\nAlong the bank of the river I saw very many trees on both sides.<br \/>\nHe said to me,<br \/>\n\u201cThis water flows into the eastern district down upon the Arabah,<br \/>\nand empties into the sea, the salt waters, which it makes fresh.<br \/>\nWherever the river flows,<br \/>\nevery sort of living creature that can multiply shall live,<br \/>\nand there shall be abundant fish,<br \/>\nfor wherever this water comes the sea shall be made fresh.<br \/>\nAlong both banks of the river, fruit trees of every kind shall grow;<br \/>\ntheir leaves shall not fade, nor their fruit fail.<br \/>\nEvery month they shall bear fresh fruit,<br \/>\nfor they shall be watered by the flow from the sanctuary.<br \/>\nTheir fruit shall serve for food, and their leaves for medicine.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/46:2\">PS 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (8)\u00a0The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob.<br \/>\nGod is our refuge and our strength,<br \/>\nan ever-present help in distress.<br \/>\nTherefore we fear not, though the earth be shaken<br \/>\nand mountains plunge into the depths of the sea.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob.<br \/>\nThere is a stream whose runlets gladden the city of God,<br \/>\nthe holy dwelling of the Most High.<br \/>\nGod is in its midst; it shall not be disturbed;<br \/>\nGod will help it at the break of dawn.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob.<br \/>\nThe LORD of hosts is with us;<br \/>\nour stronghold is the God of Jacob.<br \/>\nCome! behold the deeds of the LORD,<br \/>\nthe astounding things he has wrought on earth.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/5:1\">JN 5:1-16<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.<br \/>\nNow there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate<br \/>\na pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.<br \/>\nIn these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled.<br \/>\nOne man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.<br \/>\nWhen Jesus saw him lying there<br \/>\nand knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cDo you want to be well?\u201d<br \/>\nThe sick man answered him,<br \/>\n\u201cSir, I have no one to put me into the pool<br \/>\nwhen the water is stirred up;<br \/>\nwhile I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to him, \u201cRise, take up your mat, and walk.\u201d<br \/>\nImmediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked.<\/div>\n<div>Now that day was a sabbath.<br \/>\nSo the Jews said to the man who was cured,<br \/>\n\u201cIt is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.\u201d<br \/>\nHe answered them, \u201cThe man who made me well told me,<br \/>\n\u2018Take up your mat and walk.\u2019\u201c<br \/>\nThey asked him,<br \/>\n\u201cWho is the man who told you, \u2018Take it up and walk\u2019?\u201d<br \/>\nThe man who was healed did not know who it was,<br \/>\nfor Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there.<br \/>\nAfter this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cLook, you are well; do not sin any more,<br \/>\nso that nothing worse may happen to you.\u201d<br \/>\nThe man went and told the Jews<br \/>\nthat Jesus was the one who had made him well.<br \/>\nTherefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus<br \/>\nbecause he did this on a sabbath.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/at_the_pool_of_bethesda_lg1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13443\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/at_the_pool_of_bethesda_lg1.jpg?resize=300%2C233&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/at_the_pool_of_bethesda_lg1.jpg?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/at_the_pool_of_bethesda_lg1.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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