{"id":14172,"date":"2017-07-28T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=14172"},"modified":"2017-07-28T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:52:00","slug":"bearing-fruit-from-the-commandments-16th-friday-i-july-28-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/bearing-fruit-from-the-commandments-16th-friday-i-july-28-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearing Fruit from the Commandments, 16th Friday (I), July 28, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nFriday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nJuly 28, 2017<br \/>\nEx 20:1-17, Ps 19, Mt 13:18-23<\/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-14172-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/7.28.17-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/7.28.17-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/7.28.17-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today\u2019s Gospel gives us a chance to take anew the soil sample of our heart, to determine our receptivity and response to God\u2019s action. God\u2019s word, as we prayed in the Responsorial Psalm, has the power of eternal life. Jesus wishes it to bear 30, 60, 100 and more in us, and it has the ability to change in life in these types of big number ways, but that depends on the soil that receives that word.<\/li>\n<li>To have good soil begins with a real reverence for the power of the Word. Then it requires tilling hardened soil, drilling through the rocky layers underneath shallow soil, and taking out the thorn bushes of worldly cares and anxieties that can choke the growth of the good seed. Doing all of this allows us to hear the Word with an understanding heart and allow its power to begin to transform us and through us the world.<\/li>\n<li>Today in the first reading we can examine the soil we have to the Ten Commandments and how much fruit they have borne in our life.\n<ul>\n<li>There are many who respond to the Decalogue with hardened soil. Even those who grew up as Catholics and Jews, when they hear the Commandments they think about them as suggestions and often reject them. They serve idols of their own making, often materialistic golden calves. They treat Sunday as if it\u2019s just another day or day off. They build whole industries off breaking the commandment, \u201cThou shalt not kill,\u201d which is what Planned Parenthood and the abortion business is all about. They are stubbornly resistant to the Sixth Commandment and prefer the make-it-up-as-you-go-along dictates of the sexual revolution. They covet and believe their envy\u00a0is justified.<\/li>\n<li>There are others who respond with superficial soil. They memorize the commandments. They see them as coming from God. But when tribulations come up, the commandments take a back seat and they don\u2019t bear fruit in training them to love God and love neighbor, which is what the two tablets of the law do respectively as Jesus himself said (Mt 22:40).<\/li>\n<li>There are others for whom worldly cares and anxieties choke the growth of the seed. They give in to various pleasures or various fears, which lead them to relativize the force of the Commandments. We see with many teenagers, for example, that selfishly seeking the satisfaction of desires or excessive concern about their future, leads them to neglect and dishonor their parents, or to tell a lie to them or to their teachers or coaches when they haven\u2019t done what they were expected to do, or even to steal something when they don\u2019t have the money to purchase it. They\u2019re otherwise good kids, kids who pray, kids who want a relationship with God, but they\u2019re full of thorn bushes and it impedes the growth of God such that the Commandments bear little fruit.<\/li>\n<li>Then there are those with good soil in whom you can see abundant fruit from the life of the commandments. They really do love God with all their mind, heart, soul and strength. They use their capacity for speech to speak to him in prayer and speak about him with reverence, rather than blaspheme. They not only show up at Sunday Mass, but truly live it as the highlight of their week and live Sunday as a\u00a0day real day for love, love for the Lord, for family members and for others. They are dedicated to their parents. They seek to affirm the lives of others. They treat those to whom their attracted with purity, piety, chastity and fidelity. They are happy when others are blessed. They tell others the truth. They become, in short, virtuous through the keeping of the commandments and not only sacrifice for others but become open through the pedagogy of the commandments for Jesus to take them much deeper into the Christian way, something that allows them to bear even greater fruit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Our receptivity is not just to the \u201cwords\u201d of God but the \u201cWord of God.\u201d That word has the power, we prayed in the Psalm, of everlasting life, something St. Peter himself affirmed in the Eucharistic discourse in Capernaum. That Word is perfect, refreshing, trustworthy, right, clear, enlightening, enduring, true. It gives wisdom and rejoices the heart. It is more precious that a heap of purest gold. The word of God, in fact, is more valuable than all the riches of the world, and we&#8217;re called to live on every word that comes from God&#8217;s mouth because each word is an unending bank vault that will continue to bear fruit if we receive it on good soil, on ardent, hungry, responsive soil that listens to these words as words to be done.<\/li>\n<li>Each Mass we not only receive that power through our ears when we hear the Word of God proclaimed, but through our mouths when the Word-made-flesh comes within. Jesus said once that he was the grain of wheat falling to the ground and dying in order to bear great fruit (Jn 12:24). He implants himself as that grain of wheat, as that good seed, within us today. May he give us good and receptive soil so that, united as branches to the Vine (Jn 15), we may bear fruit that will remain into eternity!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/exodus\/20:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=d62dc90ed5&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Ex 20:1-17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">In those days:<br \/>\nGod delivered all these commandments:<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\u201cI, the LORD, am your God,<br \/>\nwho brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.<br \/>\nYou shall not have other gods besides me.<br \/>\nYou shall not carve idols for yourselves<br \/>\nin the shape of anything in the sky above<br \/>\nor on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth;<br \/>\nyou shall not bow down before them or worship them.<br \/>\nFor I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God,<br \/>\ninflicting punishment for their fathers\u2019 wickedness<br \/>\non the children of those who hate me,<br \/>\ndown to the third and fourth generation;<br \/>\nbut bestowing mercy down to the thousandth generation<br \/>\non the children of those who love me and keep my commandments.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\u201cYou shall not take the name of the LORD, your God, in vain.<br \/>\nFor the LORD will not leave unpunished<br \/>\nhim who takes his name in vain.\u201cRemember to keep holy the sabbath day.<br \/>\nSix days you may labor and do all your work,<br \/>\nbut the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD, your God.<br \/>\nNo work may be done then either by you, or your son or daughter,<br \/>\nor your male or female slave, or your beast,<br \/>\nor by the alien who lives with you.<br \/>\nIn six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth,<br \/>\nthe sea and all that is in them;<br \/>\nbut on the seventh day he rested.<br \/>\nThat is why the LORD has blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.<br \/>\n\u201cHonor your father and your mother,<br \/>\nthat you may have a long life in the land<br \/>\nwhich the LORD, your God, is giving you.\u201cYou shall not kill.\u201cYou shall not commit adultery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shall not steal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shall not covet your neighbor\u2019s house.<br \/>\nYou shall not covet your neighbor\u2019s wife,<br \/>\nnor his male or female slave, nor his ox or ass,<br \/>\nnor anything else that belongs to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/19:8|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=61681f8b6a&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (John 6:68c)\u00a0<strong>Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe law of the LORD is perfect,<br \/>\nrefreshing the soul;<br \/>\nThe decree of the LORD is trustworthy,<br \/>\ngiving wisdom to the simple.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe precepts of the LORD are right,<br \/>\nrejoicing the heart;<br \/>\nThe command of the LORD is clear,<br \/>\nenlightening the eye.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe fear of the LORD is pure,<br \/>\nenduring forever;<br \/>\nThe ordinances of the LORD are true,<br \/>\nall of them just.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.<\/strong><br \/>\nThey are more precious than gold,<br \/>\nthan a heap of purest gold;<br \/>\nSweeter also than syrup<br \/>\nor honey from the comb.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/8:15|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=b034e12eca&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">See LK 8:15<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nBlessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart<br \/>\nand yield a harvest through perseverance.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/matthew\/13:18|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=e874678c3d&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Mt 13:18-23<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cHear the parable of the sower.<br \/>\nThe seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word of the Kingdom<br \/>\nwithout understanding it,<br \/>\nand the Evil One comes and steals away<br \/>\nwhat was sown in his heart.<br \/>\nThe seed sown on rocky ground<br \/>\nis the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy.<br \/>\nBut he has no root and lasts only for a time.<br \/>\nWhen some tribulation or persecution comes because of the word,<br \/>\nhe immediately falls away.<br \/>\nThe seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word,<br \/>\nbut then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word<br \/>\nand it bears no fruit.<br \/>\nBut the seed sown on rich soil<br \/>\nis the one who hears the word and understands it,<br \/>\nwho indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tumblr_m7adgaqyFH1qktv7n.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14174\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tumblr_m7adgaqyFH1qktv7n.jpg?resize=300%2C238&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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