{"id":14836,"date":"2018-01-12T08:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=14836"},"modified":"2020-01-17T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T11:00:05","slug":"letting-christ-heal-us-of-the-paralysis-caused-by-trying-to-reign-1st-friday-ii-january-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/letting-christ-heal-us-of-the-paralysis-caused-by-trying-to-reign-1st-friday-ii-january-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting Christ Heal Us of the Paralysis Caused by Trying to Reign, 1st Friday (II), January 12, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nFriday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Marguerite\u00a0Bourgeoys<br \/>\nJanuary 12, 2018<br \/>\n1 Sam 8:4-7.10-22, Ps 89, Mk 2:1-12<\/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-14836-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1.12.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1.12.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1.12.18-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in today\u2019s homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Throughout this first week of Ordinary Time, as we continue to act on the central grace of the Christmas season which is to recognize that God-with-us is still with us and seeking to make us sharers in his divinity by his assuming our humanity, we have been focusing on the beginnings of Jesus&#8217; public ministry, his teaching, preaching the reality of the kingdom, his healing, his exorcising. These are all expressions of his mercy. Today we get to the summit of that mercy. As Pope Francis repeatedly says, everything Jesus did \u2014 preaching, teaching healing \u2014 was meant to bring about forgiveness, the reconciliation of the human race with God. That\u2019s why the first thing Jesus did in today\u2019s Gospel, when a paralyzed man was dangerously lifted onto a roof and lowered\u00a0into his midst in a home, was to heal his sins. The physical healing, which was important but less important than that, came later.<\/li>\n<li>There are several lessons we can draw from this scene:\n<ul>\n<li>First, how important the forgiveness of sins is to Jesus. It\u2019s his priority. Heaven rejoices more for one repentant sinner than for 99 who didn&#8217;t need to repent, as Jesus would say later. Is his priority ours? Do we share his sense of importance?<\/li>\n<li>The second lesson is the importance of bringing friends to Jesus so that he can give them his merciful love like the friends of the paralytic brought him to Jesus. We can do that in our prayer. We can do that by example. We can do that by invitation. And we can do that by inconveniencing ourselves and carrying in one way or another those who are infirm physically, emotionally, or spiritually and cannot get there on their own.<\/li>\n<li>The third lesson is about letting others carry us to Jesus in his mercy if we\u2019re not going. We can think of the Blessed Mother praying for us, the saints praying for us, the contemplatives across the world praying for us. We can take advantage of when others bring confessors to us so that we can likewise meet Christ through them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What are the sins that paralyze us most? We can learn it from today\u2019s first reading. It\u2019s a general desire not to allow God to reign in our life. It\u2019s not just disobedience, which means not living by God commands or asks by acknowledging we should and desiring to do so. It\u2019s not wanting God to reign. Part of that as well is not really wanting to be like God, to live in his image. We see both in the attitude of the Israelites in today\u2019s first reading who were asking for a king so that they could be like \u201cother nations.\u201d Through Samuel, God told them in no uncertain terms what the cost would be, that kings would take their sons and daughters, their best fields, vineyards, olive groves, their male and female servants, their best animals, their flocks and eventually their liberty, but their unholy stubborn desire to be like other nations who did not follow the Lord blinded them. This wasn\u2019t the first time such a request was made.\u00a0Jotham had warned the people of Shechem during the time of the Judges (Judges 9) that if they allowed Abimelech to be their king, they were choosing a buckthorn, who would devour them. But they consented anyway. It\u2019s unbelievable sometimes how we fail to convert even when we see the consequences of our behavior. Our desire to be like others rather than like God is one of the great tricks of the evil one and we fall for it over and again. (It\u2019s important to note that God doesn\u2019t condemn civil leadership. Jesus refused to be a political Messiah and he himself said that it was lawful to give to Caesar. But he stressed we first need to give to God. We need to obey him above men. We need to desire that his kingdom come and his will be done. When we fail to do that, that\u2019s when, to some degree, all Hell breaks loose. As St. Peter himself said before the Sanhedrin, and St. Thomas More reiterated at the scaffold, we are to obey God first and be the good servant of the King and civil society, but God&#8217;s first).<\/li>\n<li>One saint who allowed God fully to reign in her life, who sought to help others to enter his kingdom, and who was an instrument of the type of merciful love we see Jesus show to the paralyzed man is St. Marguerite\u00a0Bourgeoys (1620-1700), who is basically one of the founders of the city of Montreal. She lost both her parents when she was young, but they had passed onto her the gift of their faith in God and sought to bring her to meet him. When she was 21, she attended a procession of Our Lady of the Rosary and the statue of Mary looked at her in such a way that it changed the trajectory of her life. She had a great desire to bring Jesus to others and others to him. She entered the confraternity of the Sisters of Notre Dame in her town of Troyes. They were cloistered sisters who had a school inside the convent, but they knew that they needed uncloistered women to go to teach those who would never approach the convent school, and that\u2019s what the Confraternity did. Eventually the brother of one of the sisters came back from Ville Marie in Quebec, what would expand to become Montreal, and he, the civil leader of Ville Marie, described the need for women to come and teach especially the girls and women who were sent there as orphans to have families in the new world (a practice that 350 years later is hard to understand). She took up the charge to go far away from home to bring others to Jesus and help them learn how to live as sons and daughters of the Father who would not leave them orphans. Eventually the Bishop of Quebec, St. Fran\u00e7ois de Laval, allowed her to found an order called in time\u00a0the Soeurs de Notre Dame de Montreal. He wanted them to become cloistered, too, since he didn\u2019t think it was fitting for women to go out to teach where so many men would be able to hurt them. But she insisted that Mary hadn\u2019t been cloistered but constantly brought Jesus out and she wanted to go wherever there were people who needed to be taught about God\u2019s word, about his mercy. She got her way. And the Church grew quickly in Montreal because of her efforts.<\/li>\n<li>We want God to reign. And God wants to strengthen us to self-governance, to genuine freedom, which can only be had in alignment with the truth. There\u2019s a beautiful part of today\u2019s Gospel that doesn\u2019t get much attention. It\u2019s what Jesus said to the paralyzed man when he healed his paralysis. He first said, \u201cRise,\u201d or \u201cGet up,\u201d a prophecy of what he seeks to do to all of us by his Resurrection. The second is, \u201cPick up your mat.\u201d He no longer needed to be carried. He was going to be able to carry his own mat. In fact, he wasn\u2019t going to need the mat for himself any longer, but he could now use it for charity, giving it to others, or perhaps even carrying them. Jesus wants to strengthen each of us to do our own part as well, to restore us to strength. And the third imperative was to \u201cgo home,\u201d to start living this new reality in all our familiar surroundings, letting our relationship with the Lord who mercifully saves us reign. Today as Jesus comes with his mercy to meet us here in this, his house, he wants to raise us up through the gift of his word, his forgiveness, and his Body and Blood, so that we might live a new life like a person just cured of paralysis and, with zeal and generosity like St. Margaret Bourgeoys, go out to our friends and seek to bring them home to Jesus with us.<\/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 href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1samuel\/8:4\">1 SM 8:4-7, 10-22A<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">All the elders of Israel came in a body to Samuel at Ramah<br \/>\nand said to him, \u201cNow that you are old,<br \/>\nand your sons do not follow your example,<br \/>\nappoint a king over us, as other nations have, to judge us.\u201d<br \/>\nSamuel was displeased when they asked for a king to judge them.<br \/>\nHe prayed to the LORD, however, who said in answer:<br \/>\n\u201cGrant the people\u2019s every request.<br \/>\nIt is not you they reject, they are rejecting me as their king.\u201d<br \/>\nSamuel delivered the message of the LORD in full<br \/>\nto those who were asking him for a king.<br \/>\nHe told them:<br \/>\n\u201cThe rights of the king who will rule you will be as follows:<br \/>\nHe will take your sons and assign them to his chariots and horses,<br \/>\nand they will run before his chariot.<br \/>\nHe will also appoint from among them his commanders of groups<br \/>\nof a thousand and of a hundred soldiers.<br \/>\nHe will set them to do his plowing and his harvesting,<br \/>\nand to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.<br \/>\nHe will use your daughters as ointment makers, as cooks, and as bakers.<br \/>\nHe will take the best of your fields, vineyards, and olive groves,<br \/>\nand give them to his officials.<br \/>\nHe will tithe your crops and your vineyards,<br \/>\nand give the revenue to his eunuchs and his slaves.<br \/>\nHe will take your male and female servants,<br \/>\nas well as your best oxen and your asses,<br \/>\nand use them to do his work.<br \/>\nHe will tithe your flocks and you yourselves will become his slaves.<br \/>\nWhen this takes place,<br \/>\nyou will complain against the king whom you have chosen,<br \/>\nbut on that day the LORD will not answer you.\u201dThe people, however, refused to listen to Samuel\u2019s warning and said,<br \/>\n\u201cNot so! There must be a king over us.<br \/>\nWe too must be like other nations,<br \/>\nwith a king to rule us and to lead us in warfare<br \/>\nand fight our battles.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen Samuel had listened to all the people had to say,<br \/>\nhe repeated it to the LORD, who then said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cGrant their request and appoint a king to rule them.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/89:16\">PS 89:16-17, 18-19<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (2)\u00a0For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.<br \/>\nBlessed the people who know the joyful shout;<br \/>\nin the light of your countenance, O LORD, they walk.<br \/>\nAt your name they rejoice all the day,<br \/>\nand through your justice they are exalted.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.<br \/>\nFor you are the splendor of their strength,<br \/>\nand by your favor our horn is exalted.<br \/>\nFor to the LORD belongs our shield,<br \/>\nand to the Holy One of Israel, our King.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/7:16\">LK 7:16<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nA great prophet has arisen in our midst<br \/>\nand God has visited his people.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/mark\/2:1\">MK 2:1-12<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days,<br \/>\nit became known that he was at home.<br \/>\nMany gathered together so that there was no longer room for them,<br \/>\nnot even around the door,<br \/>\nand he preached the word to them.<br \/>\nThey came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.<br \/>\nUnable to get near Jesus because of the crowd,<br \/>\nthey opened up the roof above him.<br \/>\nAfter they had broken through,<br \/>\nthey let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying.<br \/>\nWhen Jesus saw their faith, he said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cChild, your sins are forgiven.\u201d<br \/>\nNow some of the scribes were sitting there asking themselves,<br \/>\n\u201cWhy does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming.<br \/>\nWho but God alone can forgive sins?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus immediately knew in his mind what<br \/>\nthey were thinking to themselves,<br \/>\nso he said, \u201cWhy are you thinking such things in your hearts?<br \/>\nWhich is easier, to say to the paralytic,<br \/>\n\u2018Your sins are forgiven,\u2019<br \/>\nor to say, \u2018Rise, pick up your mat and walk\u2019?<br \/>\nBut that you may know<br \/>\nthat the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013he said to the paralytic,<br \/>\n\u201cI say to you, rise, pick up your mat, and go home.\u201d<br \/>\nHe rose, picked up his mat at once,<br \/>\nand went away in the sight of everyone.<br \/>\nThey were all astounded<br \/>\nand glorified God, saying, \u201cWe have never seen anything like this.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Unknown.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14837\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Unknown.jpeg?resize=189%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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