{"id":15018,"date":"2018-02-07T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=15018"},"modified":"2018-02-07T09:33:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:33:27","slug":"learning-from-the-queen-of-sheba-to-seek-gods-wisdom-5th-wednesday-ii-february-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/learning-from-the-queen-of-sheba-to-seek-gods-wisdom-5th-wednesday-ii-february-7-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from the Queen of Sheba to Seek God&#8217;s Wisdom, 5th Wednesday (II), February 7, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nWednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nFebruary 7, 2018<br \/>\n1 Kings 10:1-10; Ps 37; Mk 7:14-23<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-15018-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2.7.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2.7.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2.7.18-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>In the first reading today, we have the remarkable scene of the visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon. Sheba was located at the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula, encompassing modern Yemen across the Red Sea from Ethiopia. She and her enormous retinue undertook a journey of about 2,300 miles \u2014 the walking distance basically between New York and Carson City Nevada! \u2014 in order to come into Solomon\u2019s presence in search of his wisdom. She had heard reports in her country thousands of miles away about his wisdom and his deeds and had come to test him with subtle questions. Solomon explained everything she asked about, the first Book of Kings relates, and there remained nothing that he could not explain to her. She said that his wisdom surpassed even the reports she had heard and she praised the great fortune of Solomon\u2019s servants who had a chance to be with him and hear his wisdom, and she emptied her treasury, giving him 120 gold talents (<em>$193.4 million in today\u2019s money<\/em>, since one talent is basically 75 pounds, the price of gold today is $1,288 per ounce, and there are 16 ounces in a pound, so the value is 120*75*1343.25*16 = $193,428,000), a huge quantity of spices and precious stones. She valued Solomon\u2019s wisdom more than that enormous fortune. That\u2019s why God was so pleased when Solomon asked for the gift of wisdom, for \u201can understanding heart\u00a0to judge your people and to distinguish right from wrong,\u201d instead of wealth, a long life, or the defeat of enemies. God\u2019s wisdom is more valuable than wealth, health and winning battles. Like Solomon, the Queen of Sheba recognized this, sought it and was willing to give anything for it.<\/li>\n<li>That points first to how much we value God\u2019s wisdom, whether we would pay an enormous sum to obtain it, whether we would walk 2300 miles through a desert to obtain it, whether we would have the hunger and the unanswered questions about so many things with regard to human life to grasp how much we need it.<\/li>\n<li>But there\u2019s a more important point. In St. Matthew\u2019s Gospel, Jesus referred to this hunger of the Queen of Sheba and said that it\u2019s a test for the people of his age and our own. \u201cAt the judgment,\u201d he said, \u201cthe queen of the south will arise with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and there is something greater than Solomon here.\u201d If she would have made such a journey and expended so much for Solomon\u2019s wisdom, how much more should we desire and be willing to sacrifice to obtain Jesus\u2019 own teaching! \u00a0In the Responsorial Psalm today we proclaimed \u201cthe mouth of the just murmurs wisdom,\u201d that if we\u2019re truly in a right relationship with God, we are going to be \u201cregurgitating\u201d on God\u2019s wisdom, speaking about it to ourselves, trying to understand it, and speaking of it to others. If we\u2019re just, we\u2019re going to be murmuring on these things more than the weather, more than sports, more than politics, more than the stories on the front pages of newspapers.<\/li>\n<li>Today in the Gospel, Jesus gives us his wisdom on something that was truly revolutionary in the Jewish mindset of his day. \u201cHear me, all of you, and understand,\u201d Jesus said. \u201cNothing that enters one from outside can defile that person;\u00a0but the things that come out from within are what defile.\u201d Right before this, in the Gospel we briefly encountered yesterday, we recall that Jesus was criticized because he and his disciples didn\u2019t do the scrupulous ritual washings of the Jews, of their hands, their cups, jugs, kettles, beds and so many other objects. I\u2019ve explained before what the ritual washing of hands was all about. It had nothing really to do with hygiene. You\u2019d take one-and-a-half egg shells of ritually clean water and pour it down your hands from the fingers toward the palms, and then made a fist and scrub the other hand until it was dry. Then you\u2019d take another one-and-a-half egg shells of ritually clean water and go in the other direction. Unless you did this, whatever you ate would be unclean. And if you touched a cup, or a pot, or someone else who wasn\u2019t purified in these same intricate ways, you were now ritually impure and anything or anyone you touched would likewise be ritually impure. This hadn\u2019t been given to us by God, and yet it had become the obsession of the Jews in Jesus\u2019 today. That\u2019s why he said that they were setting aside God\u2019s commandments \u2014 like honoring and caring for parents \u2014 in order to uphold these human traditions.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus said that nothing coming from the outside, either touching a jug or a ritually impure person, or even anything you eat can make you impure in the sight of God. The purity that concerns God, he said, is what comes from the heart. Jesus had come to give us a heart transplant, to take away our hearts of stone and give us hearts of flesh, hearts like his, that could love God and others. He had come to set us on the path of beatitude, in this life and in the next, and enunciated that blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. The heart is the real core of the person, pointing to what we love and desire. It\u2019s what\u2019s in the heart \u2014 and the actions that flow from the heart \u2014 that renders a person pure or impure. Jesus describes several desires in the heart that defile us: \u201cevil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,\u00a0adultery, greed, malice, deceit,\u00a0licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.\u201d The last one, folly, is basically the lack of wisdom. The Greek word that St. Mark uses,\u00a0<em>aphrosune,\u00a0<\/em>doesn\u2019t point to an imprudence flowing from a frail brain or intellect, but moral foolishness, those who play the fool by acting foolishly, by acting contrary to God\u2019s wisdom.<\/li>\n<li>And so Jesus points us inward to our heart and what our heart really desires. Do we desire chastity or unchastity? Do we desire spiritual poverty or greed and envy? Do we desire fidelity or adultery? Do we desire the good of others or wish them evil? Do we desire to praise God with our life or to blaspheme? Do we desire humility or arrogance? Ultimately, <em>do we desire wisdom or folly?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jesus, who is greater than Solomon, wants to give us an even greater wisdom than he gave Solomon and Solomon gave the Queen of Sheba. Jesus gives us his Holy Word and even more importantly he gives us his Holy Spirit to guide us through the gift of wisdom and prudence to know and to live wisdom. But it\u2019s up to us to desire it, to prioritize it, to seek it, to live by it.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a greater than Solomon here with us. What we\u2019ve just heard something more valuable $193 million.\u00a0We are about to do something far more valuable than all the money in the world: enter into a holy communion with the Wisdom of God made flesh. This is worth traveling across deserts and countries for 2300 miles. May we in response to these gifts praise God like the Queen of Sheba, give ourselves and all we have in response to God\u2019s lavish generosity, and then go to announce this holy wisdom to the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1kings\/10:1\">1 KGS 10:1-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>The queen of Sheba, having heard of Solomon\u2019s fame,<br \/>\ncame to test him with subtle questions.<br \/>\nShe arrived in Jerusalem with a very numerous retinue,<br \/>\nand with camels bearing spices,<br \/>\na large amount of gold, and precious stones.<br \/>\nShe came to Solomon and questioned him on every subject<br \/>\nin which she was interested.<br \/>\nKing Solomon explained everything she asked about,<br \/>\nand there remained nothing hidden from him<br \/>\nthat he could not explain to her.<\/div>\n<div>When the queen of Sheba witnessed Solomon\u2019s great wisdom,<br \/>\nthe palace he had built, the food at his table,<br \/>\nthe seating of his ministers, the attendance and garb of his waiters,<br \/>\nhis banquet service,<br \/>\nand the burnt offerings he offered in the temple of the LORD,<br \/>\nshe was breathless.<br \/>\n\u201cThe report I heard in my country<br \/>\nabout your deeds and your wisdom is true,\u201d she told the king.<br \/>\n\u201cThough I did not believe the report until I came and saw with my own eyes,<br \/>\nI have discovered that they were not telling me the half.<br \/>\nYour wisdom and prosperity surpass the report I heard.<br \/>\nBlessed are your men, blessed these servants of yours,<br \/>\nwho stand before you always and listen to your wisdom.<br \/>\nBlessed be the LORD, your God,<br \/>\nwhom it has pleased to place you on the throne of Israel.<br \/>\nIn his enduring love for Israel,<br \/>\nthe LORD has made you king to carry out judgment and justice.\u201d<br \/>\nThen she gave the king one hundred and twenty gold talents,<br \/>\na very large quantity of spices, and precious stones.<br \/>\nNever again did anyone bring such an abundance of spices<br \/>\nas the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/37:5\">PS 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (30a)\u00a0The mouth of the just murmurs wisdom.<br \/>\nCommit to the LORD your way;<br \/>\ntrust in him, and he will act.<br \/>\nHe will make justice dawn for you like the light;<br \/>\nbright as the noonday shall be your vindication.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The mouth of the just murmurs wisdom.<br \/>\nThe mouth of the just man tells of wisdom<br \/>\nand his tongue utters what is right.<br \/>\nThe law of his God is in his heart,<br \/>\nand his steps do not falter.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The mouth of the just murmurs wisdom.<br \/>\nThe salvation of the just is from the LORD;<br \/>\nhe is their refuge in time of distress.<br \/>\nAnd the LORD helps them and delivers them;<br \/>\nhe delivers them from the wicked and saves them,<br \/>\nbecause they take refuge in him.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The mouth of the just murmurs wisdom.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/7:14\">MK 7:14-23<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cHear me, all of you, and understand.<br \/>\nNothing that enters one from outside can defile that person;<br \/>\nbut the things that come out from within are what defile.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>When he got home away from the crowd<br \/>\nhis disciples questioned him about the parable.<br \/>\nHe said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cAre even you likewise without understanding?<br \/>\nDo you not realize that everything<br \/>\nthat goes into a person from outside cannot defile,<br \/>\nsince it enters not the heart but the stomach<br \/>\nand passes out into the latrine?\u201d<br \/>\n(Thus he declared all foods clean.)<br \/>\n\u201cBut what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him.<br \/>\nFrom within the man, from his heart,<br \/>\ncome evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,<br \/>\nadultery, greed, malice, deceit,<br \/>\nlicentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.<br \/>\nAll these evils come from within and they defile.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-9.32.04-AM.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15023\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-9.32.04-AM.png?resize=300%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-9.32.04-AM.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-9.32.04-AM.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-9.32.04-AM.png?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-9.32.04-AM.png?w=2256&amp;ssl=1 2256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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