{"id":13734,"date":"2017-05-22T08:54:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=13734"},"modified":"2017-05-22T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:37:18","slug":"the-open-attentive-and-bold-heart-the-spirit-gives-and-wants-to-fill-6th-monday-of-easter-may-22-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-open-attentive-and-bold-heart-the-spirit-gives-and-wants-to-fill-6th-monday-of-easter-may-22-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open, Attentive and Bold Heart the Spirit Gives and Wants to Fill, 6th Monday of Easter, May 22, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the Sixth Week\u00a0of Easter<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Rita of Cascia<br \/>\nMay 22, 2017<br \/>\nActs 16:11-15, Ps 149, Jn 15:26-16:4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13734-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5.22.17-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5.22.17-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5.22.17-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in the Gospel Jesus describes how as Christians we are called to give joint witness together with the Holy Spirit. \u201cWhen the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father,\u00a0the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father,\u201d Jesus tells us in this discourse taken from the Last Supper, \u201che will testify to me.\u00a0And you also testify,\u00a0because you have been with me from the beginning.\u201d In the first reading, we see that witness taking place for the first time in Europe, as Paul, Silas, Timothy and Luke went to Philippi to proclaim where the Jews would assemble on the Sabbath when there was no Synagogue, down by the river. Even though obviously none of those evangelists had been with Jesus physically from the beginning of his public ministry, they had been with him in a far more meaningful way, with him, the Word, from before the foundation of the world. He had them in mind from before the foundation of the world to receive Him within and to bring Him to the ends of the earth. And he likewise has had each of us in mind from that same beginning.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a beautiful and theologically very rich expression that St. Luke uses to describe Lydia who had come to the river that day from Thyatira. St. Luke tells us that she was a dealer in purple cloth, which meant she was very wealthy, because purple was pretty much restricted to the imperial family since purple dye was so costly to obtain, needing to be harvested one drop at a time from an Aegean shellfish. Therefore, in Christianity, she would have had a lot to \u201close\u201d insofar as Christians were so generous in sacrificing what they had for the needs of the brothers and sisters. St. Luke tells us that \u201cthe Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what Paul was saying.\u201d Notice he didn\u2019t say, \u201cthe Lord opened her\u00a0<em>ears<\/em>\u00a0to pay attention,\u201d but her heart. It means she was interiorizing into the center of her personality what Paul was saying, that she was loving, willing and embracing what she was coming to know. The same Holy Spirit who was testifying with and through Paul and his companions was opening up her heart at the same time so that she would be able to receive the seed of the word on good soil and bear much fruit. We pray often in Psalm 95, \u201cIf today you hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts.\u201d That\u2019s the great danger, that we may just listen with our ears, but not open ourselves up for the Word to change who we are and all our aspirations. Lydia heard with great attentiveness of heart, literally her heart was \u201cleaning\u201d toward the word ready to move. That\u2019s the way we should be listening to this morning\u2019s readings as well. That\u2019s the way we should be listening to the Lord in prayer. That\u2019s the way we should be listening to Pope Francis and our Bishops exercising the Magisterium, following in the footsteps of St. Paul (and St. Peter).<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a beautiful way this scene ends that shows the greatness of her attentiveness. She who was so hospitable to the Word of God immediately grasped the way Christians are always supposed to be hospitable to those who announce the Word, and how those who announce the Word also must have attentive hearts. So after she and her whole household were baptized \u2014 immediately, we presume, there at the river, much like the faith of the Ethiopian eunuch whom Philip the Deacon had baptized earlier in the Acts of the Apostles \u2014 she said to St. Paul and his companions,\u00a0\u201cIf you consider me a believer in the Lord,\u00a0come and stay at my home.\u201d Lydia\u2019s home became the first Church in Europe, where she welcomed not only Paul, Timothy, Barnabas and Luke, but Christ who sent them, and the Father who had sent Christ. And St. Paul received this invitation as readily as Lydia had received the Word. The Word wasn\u2019t just something that Lydia had listened to and accepted as an intellectual truth claim; it was something who changed her life, changed her home, changed everything. And she began to give witness to Christian hospitality together with the Holy Spirit immediately.<\/li>\n<li>I want to focus on one other aspect of this tandem proclamation of the Gospel together with and by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus reiterates today that not everyone is going to receive it the way Lydia did in Philippi. There\u00a0will be suffering on account of it, but this suffering likewise will be a far more powerful pulpit to show the way the Gospel changes lives, because it will give us an opportunity to show that it is a truth that we\u2019re willing to suffer and die for, just like Christ suffered and died in sharing it with us. Jesus says, \u201cI have told you this,\u201d and here we can understand everything he had been telling us in Chapter 15 of St. John\u2019s Gospel \u2014 about the Vine and the Branches, about his loving us and commanding\u00a0us to love\u00a0each other by laying down our lives for each other through union with Christ and his love, about being hated by all on account of his name, \u201cso that you may not fall away.\u00a0They will expel you from the synagogues;\u00a0in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you\u00a0will think he is offering worship to God.\u00a0They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.\u201d Then he tells us, \u201cI have told you this so that when their hour comes\u00a0you may remember that I told you.\u201d I\u2019ve always loved that last line. He told us these words not to frighten us but so that when we begin to suffer for the Gospel, we will remember that he had promised us that this would happen, and therefore, we should not be afraid. It would be an occasion for the Holy Spirit to give witness through and with us. It would be an occasion for us to grow in our communion with Jesus the Vine. It would be an occasion for us to experience even more profoundly his love and an opportunity for us to imitate and share in his love, even to the point of laying down our lives for him and with him for the salvation of others. Jesus would tell us in St. Matthew\u2019s Gospel, \u201cWhen they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you\u201d (Mt 10:19-20). Martyrdom, taken from the Greek word for witness, is indeed the supreme witness. And so we should welcome that word with attentive hearts just like Lydia had welcomed the Word proclaimed by St. Paul, and then we should invite the Crucified Christ, and the spiritually to-be-crucified and eventually physically beheaded Paul (Gal 2), and his\u00a0to-be-martyred companions, into our home, into our families, into our lives, not hardening our hearts but responding to God\u2019s grace to open them fully to the realities that will help us to experience the full truth of our baptism and its calling.<\/li>\n<li>Today the Church celebrates someone with Lydia&#8217;s receptivity and someone who was faithful to the Lord in the midst of suffering. St. Rita of Cascia (1381-1457), despite her desires to become a nun, was given by her elderly parents in marriage at the age of 12 to a man, Paolo Mancini, who was cruel, harsh and immoral. She gave birth to her first child within a year. She endured 18 very difficult years of marriage \u2014 of verbal abuse, physical abuse and infidelity \u2014 until her husband was violently stabbed to death by a rival family. She had to work to prevent her sons from exacting revenge. Eventually they, too, died. Sh tried to enter the Augustinian Convent in Cascia, but they refused her because \u2014 having been a mother \u2014 she was not a physical virgin and they required that at the time. They were also desirous of not being associated with the scandal of her husband&#8217;s death and the possibility that it might inflame the Chiqui family who had murdered him. She persisted, however, and the nuns gave her a condition for her acceptance: to reconcile and resolve the conflicts between the Mancinis and the rival Chiqui family. She prayed that her sons be taken by God before they had a chance to exact revenge and got her brother-in-law Bernardo to relinquish his desire to continue the feud. In 1417, at the age of 36, she was able to enter the monastery, where she became renowned for her charity, prayer, austerity and mortified life. At the beginning of Mass we prayed to God to bestow on us &#8220;the wisdom and strength of the cross, with which [he was] pleased to endow Saint Rita, so that, suffering in every tribulation with Christ, we may participate ever more deeply in his Paschal Mystery.&#8221; She suffered everything with Christ and she shows us how to do the same, participating in his paschal mystery but uniting ourselves to him, by the power of the Holy Spirit, in every circumstance. Because of the example of her faith in trial,\u00a0she has become a patron saint of desperate causes.<\/li>\n<li>Today at Mass, as we prepare to enter into the Paschal Mystery in Mass, we recall that Jesus said all of the\u00a0words in today&#8217;s Gospel to us during the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed. Little did the apostles know that within hours these words would be getting fulfilled. At that moment, they didn\u2019t really remember what he had told them because they had not been listening with adequately open and receptive hearts. But they\u2019re all interceding for us \u2014 together with Saint Rita \u2014 so that we will learn from their mistakes and fully embrace what Jesus is saying. As he gives us his body and blood, the full manifestation of his love, the sign of his triumph even over the crucifixion and death, he summons us boldly to cooperate with the Holy Spirit to give the same witness. God so loved the world, St. John tells us, that he gave his only Son. And Jesus so loves the world that he gives us the Holy Spirit so that we might be able to go out into the world, in communion with him and his sacrificial love, and give our bodies, our souls, our homes, our lives to the work of salvation.\u00a0If today you hear the Lord\u2019s voice harden not your hearts, but receive God\u2019s help to open your hearts to it with full attention! Today we say to the Lord, \u201cIf you consider us believers, come and stay within us!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/16:11\">ACTS 16:11-15<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">We set sail from Troas, making a straight run for Samothrace,<br \/>\nand on the next day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi,<br \/>\na leading city in that district of Macedonia and a Roman colony.<br \/>\nWe spent some time in that city.<br \/>\nOn the sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river<br \/>\nwhere we thought there would be a place of prayer.<br \/>\nWe sat and spoke with the women who had gathered there.<br \/>\nOne of them, a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth,<br \/>\nfrom the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, listened,<br \/>\nand the Lord opened her heart to pay attention<br \/>\nto what Paul was saying.<br \/>\nAfter she and her household had been baptized,<br \/>\nshe offered us an invitation,<br \/>\n\u201cIf you consider me a believer in the Lord,<br \/>\ncome and stay at my home,\u201d and she prevailed on us.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/149:1\">PS 149:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6A AND 9B<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (see 4a)\u00a0The Lord takes delight in his people.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nSing to the LORD a new song<br \/>\nof praise in the assembly of the faithful.<br \/>\nLet Israel be glad in their maker,<br \/>\nlet the children of Zion rejoice in their king.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord takes delight in his people.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nLet them praise his name in the festive dance,<br \/>\nlet them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp.<br \/>\nFor the LORD loves his people,<br \/>\nand he adorns the lowly with victory.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord takes delight in his people.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nLet the faithful exult in glory;<br \/>\nlet them sing for joy upon their couches.<br \/>\nLet the high praises of God be in their throats.<br \/>\nThis is the glory of all his faithful. Alleluia.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord takes delight in his people.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/15:26\">JN 15:26B, 27A<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nThe Spirit of truth will testify to me, says the Lord,<br \/>\nand you also will testify.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/15:26\">JN 15:26\u201416:4A<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cWhen the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father,<br \/>\nthe Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father,<br \/>\nhe will testify to me.<br \/>\nAnd you also testify,<br \/>\nbecause you have been with me from the beginning.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\u201cI have told you this so that you may not fall away.<br \/>\nThey will expel you from the synagogues;<br \/>\nin fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you<br \/>\nwill think he is offering worship to God.<br \/>\nThey will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.<br \/>\nI have told you this so that when their hour comes<br \/>\nyou may remember that I told you.\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\/tumblr_n5z2s8QzI41rsd0e4o1_500.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13735\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tumblr_n5z2s8QzI41rsd0e4o1_500.jpg?resize=300%2C191&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tumblr_n5z2s8QzI41rsd0e4o1_500.jpg?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tumblr_n5z2s8QzI41rsd0e4o1_500.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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