{"id":14187,"date":"2017-08-01T09:20:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=14187"},"modified":"2017-08-01T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:20:36","slug":"shining-like-the-sun-in-the-kingdom-of-our-father-17th-tuesday-i-august-1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/shining-like-the-sun-in-the-kingdom-of-our-father-17th-tuesday-i-august-1-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining like the Sun in the Kingdom of our Father, 17th Tuesday (I), August 1, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nTuesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori<br \/>\nAugust 1, 2017<br \/>\nEx 33:7-11.34:5-9.28, Ps 103, Mt 13:36-43<\/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-14187-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8.1.17-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8.1.17-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8.1.17-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>There\u2019s been a progression among the eight Parables Jesus has been preaching to us as recorded in the 13th Chapter of St. Matthew\u2019s Gospel. They\u2019ve gone from focusing on the\u00a0power of the seed of the Word of God to bear 30, 60, 0r 100 fold fruit in those with good soil, to showing how the growth of the Kingdom happens, as a mustard seed or leaven, once someone really begins to bear that fruit. Today Jesus says that once we receive Him as the Seed sown in us, once we become united with him, he seeks in turn to sow us together with him in the field of the world, as \u201cchildren of the kingdom.\u201d At the same time, however, he describes in today\u2019s Parable of the Weeds and Wheat (the first part of which was supposed to be given on Saturday, but we had the proper Gospel for the Feast of St. Martha, so we include it today) that while God the Father sows us like wheat as children of the kingdom of the world (united with Christ), so the \u201cEnemy\u201d sows like weeds the \u201cchildren of the Evil One.\u201d How are we supposed to relate to this reality as wheat and weeds, of children of the kingdom versus those of the evil one?<\/li>\n<li>The first thing we should ponder is what it means to be in a relationship of filiation, because at the end of the Parable Jesus gives us the key, about the righteous&#8217; &#8220;shining like the sun in the kingdom of their Father&#8221; and earlier that the weeds are &#8220;children of the evil one.&#8221; \u00a0At first glance, it might seem that this parable points to an almost Calvinist notion of predestination, that we\u2019re born either of God or of the devil. But in the spiritual case, what we\u2019re talking about is a relationship of adoption. Through baptism, we become adopted children of God (Rom 8:15; Gal 4:5; Eph 1:5). There\u2019s a choice on God\u2019s part to extend to us this supreme gift and there\u2019s an acceptance of it on our part and a desire to live as chips off the old divine block. Similarly with the devil, there\u2019s an offer on his part \u2014 seldom explicit, but through temptation \u2014 and an acceptance on the part of free men and women to live according to the world and the flesh. This is something we can see. In the middle of the field of the world there are Missionaries of Charity, pious prayerful grandmothers and many innocent children on the one hand and Porn makers, abortion doctors, and drug cartel leaders on the other. Today is an opportunity for us to examine the principle on the basis of which we\u2019re living, whether we\u2019re seeking to live as children of the Father, righteous and shining like the sun, or whether, rather than good wheat that nourishes others, we\u2019re growing more like weeds under the influence of evil.<\/li>\n<li>The main point of the parable is about what to do with the weeds. The slaves ask their Master, \u201cDo you want us to go and pull them up?\u201d And he shouts, \u201cNo!,\u201d lest \u201cyou pull up the weeds\u00a0[and]\u00a0uproot the wheat along with them.\u201d Out of concern for the wheat, for the children of the kingdom, he urges patience until the harvest. In order to understand better Jesus\u2019\u00a0message, it\u00a0helps to know something about wheat and weeds (called <em>lolium<\/em>)\u00a0in the Holy Land. The wheat\u00a0and the weeds\u00a0Jesus was likely pointing to\u00a0are indistinguishable during the early phases of growth. Not even expert farmers can tell the difference between them. When they grow enough to distinguish between them, their roots are so intertwined that you can\u2019t separate them without ripping out the wheat by the roots as well. So one needs to let them grow, take them all out and then separate them on sifting tables, lest the good wheat be contaminated by the toxic fruit of the weeds. By this parable Jesus is saying that the same patience and prudence have to be exercised with the proclamation of the kingdom. The good seed and the bad seed, the children living according to the kingdom and those living outside the kingdom, grow up side by side. We really can\u2019t tell the difference between them, especially early in life. We can\u2019t judge by present appearances. We need to wait until the end when Jesus himself will judge. But there&#8217;s a bigger point. Jesus is telling them not to worry so much about the weeds, but about growing as seeds of the kingdom, as children of God, bearing fruit.<\/li>\n<li>This is an important corrective for many faithful people today. Many\u00a0think that the Lord wants them\u00a0to go out and pull up all all the weeds, to find all of the children of the evil one, expose and in some fashion eradicate them, lest they poison the wheat, the children of the kingdom. But Jesus is teaching us another way today. Without minimizing the evil being done, <em>Jesus wants us to prioritize the growth of the wheat more than seeking to eliminate the weeds.<\/em> There are some people who spend more\u00a0time trying to out and oppose heretics, for example, than they do making converts. They obsess about opposing malefactors than doing good. They want to purify the Church of those who aren\u2019t fully faithful rather than focusing on inspiring others by the example of their own merciful fidelity. The judgment will come, but we\u2019ve got to grasp that we need to wait for the judgment: if we try to separate the wheat from the weeds now, we\u2019ll end up losing some of the wheat, especially those who really are or will become wheat who right now would appear to be weeds. If the harvest were done too quickly, there would have been a time when the future St. Paul would have been thrown into the fire, the future St. Mary Magdalene, the future St. Augustine, not to mention wretches like us who have been saved by God\u2019s amazing grace.\u00a0Jesus is also saying that we shouldn\u2019t be surprised or overly discouraged when we find \u201cbad seed\u201d in the Church, those who, for example, live contrary to the Gospel, even those among the Catholics of our family and neighborhood, even those who teach, even those who, as clergy and religious, are supposed to be living by the highest standards of all. Jesus tells us in this parable that there is going to be some bad seed. But he also tells us that while such weeds can provide frustration for the farmer or for the Christian, they ultimately can\u2019t stop the growth of the good seed! He tells us that we need simply to keep growing until harvest time, to keep living our faith with zeal until the end, asking him to help us bring about much more good seed.<\/li>\n<li>In order truly to be wheat, truly to be sons and daughters of the kingdom, children of God, we need to strive to behave like him. He describes his own character in today\u2019s first reading when he passed Moses on Mount Sinai and said, \u201cThe Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God,\u00a0slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity,\u00a0continuing his kindness for a thousand generations,\u00a0and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin,\u00a0yet not declaring the guilty guiltless.\u201d His mercy is what allows him to be patient. It&#8217;s what will allow us to be patient. To live in the image of God, we need to be merciful and gracious, slow to anger, rich in kindness, faith and loyalty, beginning God to forgive our and others\u2019 wickedness. He\u2019s just, and for that reason won\u2019t declare the guilt guiltless, but he\u2019s also trying to bring the guilty to repentance. That\u2019s one of the reasons why he waits until harvest time. Again, we need to think about the great saintly converts and our own spiritual biographies to be grateful for that mercy and patience!\u00a0But how do we become patient in that way like God? The first step is by worshipping him. In today\u2019s first reading, we see how Moses would adore the Lord in the Meeting Tent and all the Israelites would do so from the doors of their own tents. We eventually become more and more like the One or what we worship, and when we worship God in spirit and in truth, we not only begin to aspire but are helped by him to become similar to him in various of his attributes. Obviously the Meeting Tent in which Moses spoke to God face to face is a type pointing first toward the privilege we have of Adoration, in which we, too, behold God and speak to him personally. But it points to something even greater: our becoming God\u2019s\u00a0tent, God\u2019s Meeting Place! St. John, describing the Incarnation, says that the Word of God was \u201ctabernacled\u201d or \u201ctented\u201d among us: that\u2019s why the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth is built in the form of\u00a0a tent. God seeks to dwell within us and keep a conversation of life going. That leads us to the second means by which we become more like God our Father in Christ his Son by the working of the Holy Spirit: it\u2019s through this communion of life and love according to God\u2019s word. Moses says at the end of today\u2019s passage, \u201cIf I find favor with you, O Lord,\u00a0do come along in our company.\u201d Moses did find favor and God continued to accompany him and the Israelites. God accompanies us in an even more mind-blowing way, from the inside, through grace and the Sacraments. Moses came down with the Tablets of the Law precisely to indicate that God is with us as we keep his word. Jesus will say during the Last Supper, \u201cRemain in me, as I remain in you. \u2026\u00a0If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. \u00a0\u2026 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments and remain in his love\u201d (Jn 15). It\u2019s through keeping his word, that we remain in God and God in us.<\/li>\n<li>Today we celebrate a saint who enfleshed these mysteries, St. Alphonsus Liguori, the founder of the Redemptorists. \u00a0After a brilliantly precocious career as a lawyer, he perceived a vocation as a priest and, after ordination, eventually discerned a call within a call to found an order dedicated to the Redeemer and his redeeming work. The Redemptorists preached parish and diocesan missions, spent a long time in the confessional, and sought by God&#8217;s power to change weeds into wheat and wheat into fruit. St. Alphonsus became a patron of confessors and wrote a manual to help confessors after him learn how to be both just and merciful, so that the penitent will be able to unit his or her whole life to God. He was able himself to be a minister of mercy because he pondered in prayer, particularly adoration, the Lord, writing so many books to help ordinary people pray. He likewise was able to do it because he prayed often to the Mother of Mercy, to pray for him and us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Among her greatest glories, he said, was her maternal mercy toward and prayer for us. Today is a day in which we pray, as we asked God the Father in today&#8217;s Collect to grant that &#8220;we may follow so closely in the footsteps of the Bishop Saint Alphonsus in his zeal for souls,&#8221; his merciful fire for the weeds and the wheat, &#8220;so as to attain the same rewards that are his in heaven.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Today as we come to Mass on his feasts we focus on how the Lord Jesus anew plants himself in us, tabernacles himself within us, talks to his person-to-person, and strives to help us become in him children of the Father as he seeks to plant us as mustard seeds and leaven in the midst of a world with many weeds. He seeks to transform us to be kind and merciful, slow to anger, and full of grace. May we receive this gift on good soil, bear fruit 30, 60, and 100 fold, and go out with him as workers in his harvest, not so much worried about separating wheat from weeds, but making as much wheat as possible grow.<\/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\/33:7|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=69a82d9cd3&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The tent, which was called the meeting tent,<br \/>\nMoses used to pitch at some distance away, outside the camp.<br \/>\nAnyone who wished to consult the LORD<br \/>\nwould go to this meeting tent outside the camp.<br \/>\nWhenever Moses went out to the tent, the people would all rise<br \/>\nand stand at the entrance of their own tents,<br \/>\nwatching Moses until he entered the tent.<br \/>\nAs Moses entered the tent, the column of cloud would come down<br \/>\nand stand at its entrance while the LORD spoke with Moses.<br \/>\nOn seeing the column of cloud stand at the entrance of the tent,<br \/>\nall the people would rise and worship<br \/>\nat the entrance of their own tents.<br \/>\nThe LORD used to speak to Moses face to face,<br \/>\nas one man speaks to another.<br \/>\nMoses would then return to the camp,<br \/>\nbut his young assistant, Joshua, son of Nun,<br \/>\nwould not move out of the tent.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Moses stood there with the LORD and proclaimed his name, \u201cLORD.\u201d<br \/>\nThus the LORD passed before him and cried out,<br \/>\n\u201cThe LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God,<br \/>\nslow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity,<br \/>\ncontinuing his kindness for a thousand generations,<br \/>\nand forgiving wickedness and crime and sin;<br \/>\nyet not declaring the guilty guiltless,<br \/>\nbut punishing children and grandchildren<br \/>\nto the third and fourth generation for their fathers\u2019 wickedness!\u201d<br \/>\nMoses at once bowed down to the ground in worship.<br \/>\nThen he said, \u201cIf I find favor with you, O LORD,<br \/>\ndo come along in our company.<br \/>\nThis is indeed a stiff-necked people;<br \/>\nyet pardon our wickedness and sins,<br \/>\nand receive us as your own.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">So Moses stayed there with the LORD for forty days and forty nights,<br \/>\nwithout eating any food or drinking any water,<br \/>\nand he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant,<br \/>\nthe ten commandments.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/103:6|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=d50897062f&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">PS 103:6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (8a)\u00a0<strong>The Lord is kind and merciful.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe LORD secures justice<br \/>\nand the rights of all the oppressed.<br \/>\nHe has made known his ways to Moses,<br \/>\nand his deeds to the children of Israel.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>The Lord is kind and merciful.<\/strong><br \/>\nMerciful and gracious is the LORD,<br \/>\nslow to anger and abounding in kindness.<br \/>\nHe will not always chide,<br \/>\nnor does he keep his wrath forever.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>The Lord is kind and merciful.<\/strong><br \/>\nNot according to our sins does he deal with us,<br \/>\nnor does he requite us according to our crimes.<br \/>\nFor as the heavens are high above the earth,<br \/>\nso surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>The Lord is kind and merciful.<\/strong><br \/>\nAs far as the east is from the west,<br \/>\nso far has he put our transgressions from us.<br \/>\nAs a father has compassion on his children,<br \/>\nso the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>The Lord is kind and merciful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia<\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe seed is the word of God, Christ is the sower;<br \/>\nall who come to him will live for ever.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/13:24\">MT 13:24-30<\/a>; 36-43<\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man<br \/>\nwho sowed good seed in his field.<br \/>\nWhile everyone was asleep his enemy came<br \/>\nand sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.<br \/>\nWhen the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.<br \/>\nThe slaves of the householder came to him and said,<br \/>\n\u2018Master, did you not sow good seed in your field?<br \/>\nWhere have the weeds come from?\u2019<br \/>\nHe answered, \u2018An enemy has done this.\u2019<br \/>\nHis slaves said to him, \u2018Do you want us to go and pull them up?\u2019<br \/>\nHe replied, \u2018No, if you pull up the weeds<br \/>\nyou might uproot the wheat along with them.<br \/>\nLet them grow together until harvest;<br \/>\nthen at harvest time I will say to the harvesters,<br \/>\n\u201cFirst collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning;<br \/>\nbut gather the wheat into my barn.&#8217;\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house.<br \/>\nHis disciples approached him and said,<br \/>\n\u201cExplain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said in reply, \u201cHe who sows good seed is the Son of Man,<br \/>\nthe field is the world, the good seed the children of the Kingdom.<br \/>\nThe weeds are the children of the Evil One,<br \/>\nand the enemy who sows them is the Devil.<br \/>\nThe harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.<br \/>\nJust as weeds are collected and burned up with fire,<br \/>\nso will it be at the end of the age.<br \/>\nThe Son of Man will send his angels,<br \/>\nand they will collect out of his Kingdom<br \/>\nall who cause others to sin and all evildoers.<br \/>\nThey will throw them into the fiery furnace,<br \/>\nwhere there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.<br \/>\nThen the righteous will shine like the sun<br \/>\nin the Kingdom of their Father.<br \/>\nWhoever has ears ought to hear.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2016-07-12-RP-c.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14189\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2016-07-12-RP-c.jpg?resize=300%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2016-07-12-RP-c.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2016-07-12-RP-c.jpg?resize=768%2C427&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2016-07-12-RP-c.jpg?w=810&amp;ssl=1 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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Landry Visitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Tuesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori August 1, 2017 Ex 33:7-11.34:5-9.28, Ps 103, Mt 13:36-43 &nbsp; To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0 &nbsp; The following points were attempted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10073,1063,3,5],"tags":[2134,2133,2131,8569,8571,2159,4831,8570,8573,2093,10556,3142,4411,520,10555,8572,10554,2035,1373,1423,8574,2129,2130],"class_list":["post-14187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-2017","category-audio-homily","category-homily","category-year-i","tag-children-of-the-evil-one","tag-children-of-the-kingdom","tag-darnel","tag-ex-337-11-345-9-28","tag-heretics","tag-judgment","tag-kind-and-merciful","tag-lolium","tag-meeting-tent","tag-moses","tag-mt-1336-43","tag-parable","tag-patience","tag-ps-103","tag-redemporists","tag-slow-to-anger","tag-st-alphonsus-liguori","tag-st-augustine","tag-st-mary-magdalene","tag-st-paul","tag-tabernacled-among-us","tag-weeds","tag-wheat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shining like the Sun in the Kingdom of our Father, 17th Tuesday (I), August 1, 2017 - Catholic Preaching<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/shining-like-the-sun-in-the-kingdom-of-our-father-17th-tuesday-i-august-1-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shining like the Sun in the Kingdom of our Father, 17th Tuesday (I), August 1, 2017 - Catholic Preaching\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fr. 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