{"id":14651,"date":"2017-11-20T08:52:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T13:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=14651"},"modified":"2023-11-19T21:48:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T02:48:29","slug":"what-the-lord-wishes-to-do-for-us-33rd-monday-i-november-17-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/what-the-lord-wishes-to-do-for-us-33rd-monday-i-november-17-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Lord Wishes to Do for Us, 33rd Monday (I), November 20, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nVotive Mass for the Faithful Departed<br \/>\nNovember 20, 2017<br \/>\n1 Mc 1:10-15.41-43.54-57.62-63, Ps 119, Lk 18:35-43<\/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-14651-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/11.18.17-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/11.18.17-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/11.18.17-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>On Saturday Jesus gave us the parable of the importune woman bothering the unjust judge in order to convey to us the necessity of \u201cpraying always\u00a0without losing heart.\u201d\u00a0Today we encounter the living illustration of what he was teaching in the blind man by the side of the road whom St. Mark in his version of the same scene identifies as Bartimaeus.<\/li>\n<li>Like rabbis were accustomed to do on the triennial pilgrimages to Jerusalem for the major feasts, Jesus was teaching the crowds along the journey. Bartimaeus was sitting by the roadside begging. He was in Jericho, literally the lowest place on earth. He heard the commotion of the crowd and asked what was happening. Upon hearing that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by, he immediately began to cry out, \u201cJesus, Son of David, have pity on me!\u201d\u00a0Bartimaeus didn\u2019t cry out for alms, which would have been small. He didn\u2019t cry out at that point for a miracle. He cried out simply for mercy. He had doubtless heard of Jesus\u2019 reputation for working miracles to the north in Galilee and was responding in faith. The fact that he called him \u201cSon of David\u201d was a sign he believed Jesus was the Messiah. But his crying out for Jesus was annoying those who were trying to hear Jesus\u2019 teaching. So the first people in the group rebuked him and told him to shut his trap. But that only led him to cry out all the more, \u201cSon of David, have pity on me!\u201d The word St. Luke uses here means basically an animal cry, something coming deep from his woundedness.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus stopped and ordered that Bartimaeus be brought to him. For Jesus caring for this man was more important than what he was teaching at that moment. Likely, if St. Luke\u2019s account was chronological, Jesus had been talking about persistent and humble prayer, persistence in the prayer of the importune widow and humility in the parable of the publican and the pharisee praying in the Temple. Jesus was about to show how God responds to such a prayer! Jesus asked Bartimaeus, \u201cWhat do you want me to do for you?,\u201d and Bartimaeus said, \u201cLord, please let me see!\u201d The word used \u2014 <em>anablepo<\/em> \u2014 means in Greek to &#8220;see again.&#8221;\u00a0St. Augustine, and with him Pope Benedict, have focused a lot on his name as St. Mark describes it, \u201cBartimaeus, son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging.\u201d\u00a0The evangelist\u00a0in essence repeats himself, saying first his name is Bar-Timaeus, which means in Aramaic, \u201cSon of Timaeus.\u201d Then he says in Greek, \u201cThe Son of Timaeus.\u201d While it\u2019s possible that he was just translation the Aramaic name into Greek, St. Mark isn\u2019t accustomed to doing that with other names. One of the things that was likely at work was that he was stressing something about this blind man\u2019s situation that the play on words among the two languages elucidates. In Aramaic, the root\u00a0<em>tame\u00a0<\/em>means defilement; in Greek the root\u00a0<em>time\u00a0<\/em>means \u201chonor.\u201d So what various scholars think is going on is showing Bartimaeus\u2019 fall. He was a son of someone of honor \u2014 Timaeus \u2014 but he had become a son of defilement. He should have been living with honor but now was living in shame. Hence Jesus was going to be restoring not just his sight but his name and personal dignity.<\/li>\n<li>After he had cried out, it would have been very easy for Jesus to come to meet Bartimaeus exactly where he was begging. But Jesus loved him too much and understands the human heart too well to do that. Instead he drew near, he got close, but then he had Bartimaeus get up to come to him, to exercise Bartimaeus\u2019 freedom, to stoke his desire, to give him greater participation in the miracle Jesus himself was about to accomplish. It takes courage to get up and leave our comfort zone to respond to the Lord. Bartimaeus had that courage and did. St. Mark tells us,\u00a0\u201cHe threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.\u201d The cloak was his outer garment that kept him warm at night. It was in a sense his security blanket. It was quite valuable to him and part of his life. But he was intentionally embracing a new life and establishing a new security. He left it behind, which is not just a fact but an important symbol of how he was thinking more about clinging to Jesus and the new life for which he was hoping than clinging to the past. The second element is he \u201csprang up.\u201d Even though he was blind, he got up immediately. He always raced to respond to his being called by the Lord. Unlike the excuse makers in other sections of the Gospel who said that they would follow Jesus after they had buried their father (who might die three decades later), inspected their oxen, enjoyed their honeymoon, etc., Bartimaeus responded with alacrity. To some degree, Bartimaeus was already seeing by faith but he wanted to see Jesus with physical eyes so that he would be able to do exactly what he did once cured, to \u201cfollow him, giving glory to God.\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cHave sight; your faith has saved you.\u201d The Lord not only gave him his wish to see but heard his initial cry to have mercy on him, and Jesus\u2019 generosity far outdid Bartimaeus\u2019 imagination to ask. Faith in response to God leads to salvation, and even though Bartimaeus didn\u2019t dare ask for that, God gave it.\u00a0Bartimaeus used his sight and his freedom to follow Jesus. He left the depth of Jericho behind and followed Jesus up to Jerusalem, he followed him on Palm Sunday, he followed up on the Way of the Cross, he followed him. St. Luke&#8217;s comment, \u201cHe immediately received his sight and followed him, giving glory to God, and when they saw this, all the people gave praise to God\u201d (Lk 18:43), suggests he spent the rest of his life glorifying God in such a way that others joined him in that divine praise.<\/li>\n<li>This cry of Bartimaeus is one of the most beautiful and frequent Christian aspirations:\u00a0<em>Domine, ut\u00a0<\/em><i>videam!,\u00a0<\/i>\u201cLord, I want to see.\u201d Many times we too fall and need to be restored. We give into blindness, we can no longer see our dignity, or see past the temptations of the evil one, or see God in the midst of daily life. That&#8217;s what happened to the Jews in the first reading today. Many of them lost a sense of their dignity and sought to accommodate themselves to the way of life of the Ptolemeian Greeks from Egypt, covering up the signs of their consecration, giving in to their bellies like the pagans, not recognizing that their circumcision and their dietary laws were means to make sure that they would always order their natural sexual and physical appetites to God. Some remained faithful, as we&#8217;ll be seeing in readings later this week, even to the point of their death. For those who didn&#8217;t, the Son of David would come to try to do for them what he did for Bartimaeus.<\/li>\n<li>Today we began Mass by echoing Bartimaeus\u2019 cry to have mercy on us and Jesus has had mercy in calling us to himself over and again. Today the same Jesus who has passed by our lives and invited us to follow him passes by this E. 66th Street, summoning us by name, and asking, \u201cWhat do you want me to do for you!\u201d With gratitude for all his gifts, we ask him for the grace to see Him in the Eucharist, to see him in those we serve, to see him in all those crying out, and finally with them one day to see him face-to-face forever!<\/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 id=\"\/bible\/1maccabees\/1:10|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=e00eea29d4&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">1 Mc 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">[From the descendants of Alexander\u2019s officers]\nthere sprang a sinful offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes,<br \/>\nson of King Antiochus, once a hostage at Rome.<br \/>\nHe became king in the year one hundred and thirty seven<br \/>\nof the kingdom of the Greeks.In those days there appeared in Israel<br \/>\nmen who were breakers of the law,<br \/>\nand they seduced many people, saying:<br \/>\n\u201cLet us go and make an alliance with the Gentiles all around us;<br \/>\nsince we separated from them, many evils have come upon us.\u201d<br \/>\nThe proposal was agreeable;<br \/>\nsome from among the people promptly went to the king,<br \/>\nand he authorized them to introduce the way of living<br \/>\nof the Gentiles.<br \/>\nThereupon they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem<br \/>\naccording to the Gentile custom.<br \/>\nThey covered over the mark of their circumcision<br \/>\nand abandoned the holy covenant;<br \/>\nthey allied themselves with the Gentiles<br \/>\nand sold themselves to wrongdoing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people,<br \/>\neach abandoning his particular customs.<br \/>\nAll the Gentiles conformed to the command of the king,<br \/>\nand many children of Israel were in favor of his religion;<br \/>\nthey sacrificed to idols and profaned the sabbath.On the fifteenth day of the month Chislev,<br \/>\nin the year one hundred and forty-five,<br \/>\nthe king erected the horrible abomination<br \/>\nupon the altar of burnt offerings<br \/>\nand in the surrounding cities of Judah they built pagan altars.<br \/>\nThey also burned incense at the doors of the houses and in the streets.<br \/>\nAny scrolls of the law which they found they tore up and burnt.<br \/>\nWhoever was found with a scroll of the covenant,<br \/>\nand whoever observed the law,<br \/>\nwas condemned to death by royal decree.<br \/>\nBut many in Israel were determined<br \/>\nand resolved in their hearts not to eat anything unclean;<br \/>\nthey preferred to die rather than to be defiled with unclean food<br \/>\nor to profane the holy covenant; and they did die.<br \/>\nTerrible affliction was upon Israel.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/119:53|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=6f4e3d0fa6&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">PS 119:53, 61, 134, 150, 155, 158<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (see 88)\u00a0<strong>Give me life, O Lord, and I will do your commands.<\/strong><br \/>\nIndignation seizes me because of the wicked<br \/>\nwho forsake your law.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Give me life, O Lord, and I will do your commands.<\/strong><br \/>\nThough the snares of the wicked are twined about me,<br \/>\nyour law I have not forgotten.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Give me life, O Lord, and I will do your commands.<\/strong><br \/>\nRedeem me from the oppression of men,<br \/>\nthat I may keep your precepts.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Give me life, O Lord, and I will do your commands.<\/strong><br \/>\nI am attacked by malicious persecutors<br \/>\nwho are far from your law.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Give me life, O Lord, and I will do your commands.<\/strong><br \/>\nFar from sinners is salvation,<br \/>\nbecause they seek not your statutes.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Give me life, O Lord, and I will do your commands.<\/strong><br \/>\nI beheld the apostates with loathing,<br \/>\nbecause they kept not to your promise.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Give me life, O Lord, and I will do your commands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/john\/8:12|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=c758676fe5&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Jn 8:12<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nI am the light of the world, says the Lord;<br \/>\nwhoever follows me will have the light of life.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/18:35|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=f7f56b040d&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Lk 18:35-43<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">As Jesus approached Jericho<br \/>\na blind man was sitting by the roadside begging,<br \/>\nand hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening.<br \/>\nThey told him,<br \/>\n\u201cJesus of Nazareth is passing by.\u201d<br \/>\nHe shouted, \u201cJesus, Son of David, have pity on me!\u201d<br \/>\nThe people walking in front rebuked him,<br \/>\ntelling him to be silent,<br \/>\nbut he kept calling out all the more,<br \/>\n\u201cSon of David, have pity on me!\u201d<br \/>\nThen Jesus stopped and ordered that he be brought to him;<br \/>\nand when he came near, Jesus asked him,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you want me to do for you?\u201d<br \/>\nHe replied, \u201cLord, please let me see.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus told him, \u201cHave sight; your faith has saved you.\u201d<br \/>\nHe immediately received his sight<br \/>\nand followed him, giving glory to God.<br \/>\nWhen they saw this, all the people gave praise to God.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jesus_heals_helps2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14652\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jesus_heals_helps2.jpg?resize=300%2C230&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jesus_heals_helps2.jpg?resize=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jesus_heals_helps2.jpg?resize=768%2C589&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jesus_heals_helps2.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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