{"id":13614,"date":"2017-05-02T08:36:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2017-05-02T08:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T12:36:34","slug":"the-continuing-incarnation-of-the-true-manna-3rd-tuesday-of-easter-may-2-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-continuing-incarnation-of-the-true-manna-3rd-tuesday-of-easter-may-2-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Continuing Incarnation of the True Manna, 3rd Tuesday of Easter, May 2, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nTuesday of the Third Week of Easter<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church<br \/>\nMay 2, 2017<br \/>\nActs 7:51-8:1, Ps 31, Jn 6:30-35<\/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-13614-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5.2.17-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5.2.17-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5.2.17-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today we enter into the fourth day of the Octave of mystagogical catechesis on the Holy Eucharist and how through this divine gift we intensify our relationship with the Risen Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Today, after Jesus stressed that the work of God was to believe in Him whom the Father had sent \u2014 which, to facilitate that faith, Jesus had worked the \u201csign\u201d of the multiplication of loaves and fish and walked on water \u2014 the crowds nevertheless asked, \u201cWhat sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you?\u201d The sign that he had just worked across the Sea of Galilee for them, multiplying a small boy\u2019s dinner of five buns and two small fish to feed a crowd of 5,000 men, a sign that got them to follow him several miles along the upper lip of the Sea, was apparently not miraculous enough for them, nor were any of the scores of cures that he had worked in Capernaum in previous visits. Still obsessed about food and free meals, they asked him a sign that the rabbis had long said that the prophet\u00a0whom Moses had said would eventually come after him (Deut 18:15) would work to show that he was Moses\u2019 successor: just like Moses had fed the Israelites in the desert with Manna, so the one who would come after him would do the same and rain down from them\u00a0this daily nourishment from heaven. So they said to him, \u201cWhat can you do?\u00a0Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written, \u2018He gave them bread from heaven to eat.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>We\u00a0remember the story of the manna. The Jews were grumbling in the desert, fearful that they would starve to death. So Moses brought their complaints and pleas to God, and God replied by saying, \u201cI am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day\u201d (Exod 16:4). And every morning for forty years, they awoke to find a miraculous edible dew that looked like coriander seed, with the white like gum resin, tasting like wafers made with honey (Num 11:7; Exod 16:31). They Israelites had no idea what it was, and hence called it \u201cmanna,\u201d which literally means, \u201cWhat is it?\u201d Moses told them, \u201cIt is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat\u201d and instructed them to gather as much of it as each one needed for a day. This is how they survived in the desert for forty years, until they reached the promised land.<\/li>\n<li>In reply to that test for a sign, Jesus first corrected them, saying it wasn\u2019t Moses who gave them the manna, but God the Father. Then he basically said that the rabbis were right and the One to whom Moses would point would in fact give them this celestial food, but that\u00a0<em>he was that true Manna,\u00a0<\/em>the food that people need to survive in the desert of human life:\u00a0\u201cAmen, amen, I say to you,\u00a0it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven;\u00a0my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven\u00a0and gives life to the world.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Their response was both materialistic and nevertheless prophetic: \u201cSir, give us this bread always,\u201d and Jesus made plain what the sign he would give a year later during the Last Supper as a perpetual response to that prayer would be: \u201cI am the bread of life;\u00a0whoever comes to me will never hunger,\u00a0and whoever believes in me will never thirst.\u201d\u00a0That\u2019s the food for which he wants us to labor \u2014 as he told us in yesterday\u2019s section of this discourse \u2014 more than the most hardworking parent strives to put material food on his kids\u2019 table.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve always been struck that God in his wisdom made the Israelites go to get the manna every morning except the Sabbath (so that they wouldn\u2019t have to work). Even on the Sabbath, however, they would eat the second daily portion of manna that they had gotten the day before. God said he made them do this every day in order to \u201ctest them,\u201d Exodus tells us, to see whether or not they would follow his instruction and be faithful (Exod 16:4). Throughout their entire time in the desert until they entered the promised land, they received this heavenly gift through this daily work and daily sustenance. In a similar way, Jesus taught us to pray in the Our Father, not, \u201cGive us today all the bread we\u2019re going to need this week\u201d or \u201cGive us now all we\u2019ll ever need,\u201d but \u201cGive us this day our daily bread,\u201d because he wanted us to recognize that every day God wants to grant that prayer. The early saints of the Church commented at length about the Greek word we translate as \u201cdaily\u201d \u2014\u00a0<em>epi-ousios<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 which literally means \u201csuper-substantial.\u201d They said it referred less to the material bread that we need to consume for physical survival, but to the bread that goes beyond our substance \u2014 the Eucharist \u2014 that we need for our souls. The early saints said that Jesus was teaching them to pray\u00a0<em>that the Father would give them every day the Eucharist<\/em>. In other words, when Jesus said that he was the \u201creal manna,\u201d the \u201ctrue bread come down from heaven,\u201d he was intending to be our daily portion of food throughout our lifetime in the desert of life, until, God-willing, we enter into the eternal promised land of heaven, the eternal life that is the consequence of genuinely entering into communion with Christ through the Holy Eucharist. In response to the request of the Jews, \u201cSir, give us this bread always,\u201d Jesus\u00a0<em>has<\/em>, by giving\u00a0 us his body and blood and making it available not just on Sunday, but every day, in the places where there is a priest who is faithful to the daily celebration of the Mass.<\/li>\n<li>That brings us to what our response is to this incredible gift of himself that the Lord gives us every day. Why do we think he does it? Do we think it\u2019s merely to provide some \u201cbonus\u201d to those like us who can conveniently come to Mass each day, or rather to give sustenance to all the people he created and redeemed because he knows we\u00a0need him every day? It was of course possible for a Jew in the desert to skip a day, or two or three, in going out to obtain the daily manna. But over the course of time, the person would become weaker, hungrier and more vulnerable. If God went through the effort to feed them every morning, it\u2019s because he knew that they needed to be fed every day.\u00a0It\u2019s the same way with the \u201creal Manna\u201d of the Holy Eucharist. God has desired to give us each day this \u201cdaily bread come down from heaven,\u201d because he knows that we need to be spiritually fed each day. I\u2019m convinced from both personal and pastoral experience that one of the real proofs of whether we recognize that the Eucharist really is Jesus, and whether we truly love the Lord, can be seen in our attitude toward daily Mass. Even if a Catholic\u00a0cannot physically be present every day at Mass because of other pressing responsibilities, our hearts should always be longing for this encounter. That should be our great hunger. \u201cGive us that bread always\u201d and \u201cGive us today our supersubstantial\u00a0Bread!\u201d should be our most persistent aspirations. And our gratitude to God\u2019s answering that prayer by raining down for us each day this true Bread from heaven should know no bounds. For us as priests and religious, we have daily Mass as part of our spiritual regimen, but it\u2019s not enough for it to remain there. One of our tasks is to help the whole Church come to appreciate this gift and join us in receiving Him. Jesus says, \u201cFor the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven\u00a0and gives life to the world,\u201d and later he will add that unless we eat his flesh and drink his blood we have no life, no <em>zoe, <\/em>in us, even if we still have\u00a0<em>bios.\u00a0<\/em>Those who aren\u2019t living Eucharistic lives are, to some degree, spiritually dead, or at least not anywhere near as spiritually alive as God would want them to be, as he wants to help them to be through communion with Him Risen from the dead.<\/li>\n<li>We see the impact of someone living a truly Eucharistic life in today\u2019s first reading. St. Stephen\u2019s strength came from his faith in the One God has sent, from his Communion with Jesus\u2019 risen life that could not be extinguished even if all the rocks and stones of the world had landed on him at once. He was fed by the Lord to give witness to his living presence, his face radiated with the risen presence of God-with-us, and even as he was being stoned to death, he was totally united to the Lord. As he was thrown into the pit and began to beg pelted, his first words were not, \u201cHelp me, Jesus!\u201d or even \u201cSave me, Jesus!,\u201d which would have been totally legitimate prayers of faith. Instead it was, \u201cLord Jesus, receive my spirit,\u201d a sign that he had regularly been entrusting his body and spirit to Jesus in their regular meeting in the celebration of the Eucharist. And later he showed the depth of his communion with the One who had told us to love our enemies, do good to those who hate us, and pray for our persecutors when he, echoing Jesus\u2019 words to the Father from the Cross, \u201cforgive them for they know not what they do,\u201d said, \u201cLord, do not hold this sin against them.\u201d And that prayer, made in communion with Christ, was efficacious in the life of Saul, who converted to become the greatest apostle of all. The\u00a0<em>zoe,\u00a0<\/em>the supernatural life in St. Stephen, was in a sense prayerfully passed on to Saul, so that as Paul he could bring many others to say with him, \u201cFor me to live is Christ\u201d and the \u201clife I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>We also see an example of living these truths in the great and intrepid saintly doctor of the Church we celebrate today, Saint Athanasius. As a young boy born during the time of ferocious anti-Christian persecutions, he learned\u00a0the Gospel of the Lord from heroic, confessor priests. He \u00a0went as\u00a0a young deacon to assist\u00a0the Patriarch of Alexandria (Egypt) at the Council of Nicaea in 325. This was the first Ecumenical Council, called 12 years after the legalization of Christianity, to deal with the teachings of an Egyptian priest Arius who was claiming that Jesus wasn\u2019t God, that he wasn\u2019t eternal, that he was just figuratively the Son of God and just a man, albeit the holiest man who had ever lived. The brilliant deacon Athanasius led the charge against Arius\u2019 teaching, which he persuaded the Council to condemn, and it was largely out of his work that we have the Nicene Creed we proclaim every Sunday. But even though the Arians lost, their false theological ideas were not extinguished. And Athanasius learned how he himself would suffer for the faith from those who thought they were worshipping God. Over the course of time, Arians, those who didn\u2019t believe Jesus was 100 percent God and 100 percent man, gained the upper hand in civil and Church politics.\u00a0Various bishops and priests were Arians as were some emperors. For that reason, St. Athanasius was persecuted, multiply exiled, and had to suffer a great deal. Five different times he was banished from his see by command of the emperor. 17 years he spent in exile. But the incarnation he taught he also lived and he knew that Jesus was with him in his risen and transfigured Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. He knew that God gave him each day in the true manna all that he would need.\u00a0He was living not just by faith in the Son of God but by his sacramental presence and that&#8217;s what helped him persevere until the end.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSir, give us this Bread always.\u201d Jesus has answered that prayer. Full of\u00a0gratitude, let us now receive that response!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/7:51\">ACTS 7:51-8:1A<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Stephen said to the people, the elders, and the scribes:<br \/>\n\u201cYou stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears,<br \/>\nyou always oppose the Holy Spirit;<br \/>\nyou are just like your ancestors.<br \/>\nWhich of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?<br \/>\nThey put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one,<br \/>\nwhose betrayers and murderers you have now become.<br \/>\nYou received the law as transmitted by angels,<br \/>\nbut you did not observe it.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When they heard this, they were infuriated,<br \/>\nand they ground their teeth at him.<br \/>\nBut Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit,<br \/>\nlooked up intently to heaven and saw the glory of God<br \/>\nand Jesus standing at the right hand of God,<br \/>\nand Stephen said, \u201cBehold, I see the heavens opened<br \/>\nand the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.\u201d<br \/>\nBut they cried out in a loud voice,<br \/>\ncovered their ears, and rushed upon him together.<br \/>\nThey threw him out of the city, and began to stone him.<br \/>\nThe witnesses laid down their cloaks<br \/>\nat the feet of a young man named Saul.<br \/>\nAs they were stoning Stephen, he called out,<br \/>\n\u201cLord Jesus, receive my spirit.\u201d<br \/>\nThen he fell to his knees and cried out in a loud voice,<br \/>\n\u201cLord, do not hold this sin against them\u201d;<br \/>\nand when he said this, he fell asleep.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Now Saul was consenting to his execution.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/31:3\">PS 31:3CD-4, 6 AND 7B AND 8A, 17 AND 21AB<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (6a)\u00a0Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nBe my rock of refuge,<br \/>\na stronghold to give me safety.<br \/>\nYou are my rock and my fortress;<br \/>\nfor your name\u2019s sake you will lead and guide me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nInto your hands I commend my spirit;<br \/>\nyou will redeem me, O LORD, O faithful God.<br \/>\nMy trust is in the LORD;<br \/>\nI will rejoice and be glad of your mercy.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nLet your face shine upon your servant;<br \/>\nsave me in your kindness.<br \/>\nYou hide them in the shelter of your presence<br \/>\nfrom the plottings of men.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/6:30\">JN 6:30-35<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The crowd said to Jesus:<br \/>\n\u201cWhat sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you?<br \/>\nWhat can you do?<br \/>\nOur ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written:<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\"><em>He gave them bread from heaven to eat<\/em>.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">So Jesus said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cAmen, amen, I say to you,<br \/>\nit was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven;<br \/>\nmy Father gives you the true bread from heaven.<br \/>\nFor the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven<br \/>\nand gives life to the world.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">So they said to Jesus,<br \/>\n\u201cSir, give us this bread always.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to them, \u201cI am the bread of life;<br \/>\nwhoever comes to me will never hunger,<br \/>\nand whoever believes in me will never thirst.\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\/05\/4d8dcc6146719939fc0ee88aa9300206.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13615\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4d8dcc6146719939fc0ee88aa9300206.jpg?resize=254%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4d8dcc6146719939fc0ee88aa9300206.jpg?resize=254%2C300&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4d8dcc6146719939fc0ee88aa9300206.jpg?resize=300%2C355&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4d8dcc6146719939fc0ee88aa9300206.jpg?w=541&amp;ssl=1 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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