{"id":15246,"date":"2018-03-15T08:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=15246"},"modified":"2018-03-15T08:04:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:04:37","slug":"accepting-and-becoming-the-witnesses-of-jesus-4th-thursday-of-lent-march-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/accepting-and-becoming-the-witnesses-of-jesus-4th-thursday-of-lent-march-15-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting and Becoming The Witnesses of Jesus, 4th Thursday of Lent, March 15, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nThursday of the Fourth Week of Lent<br \/>\nMarch 15, 2018<br \/>\nEx 32:7-14, Ps 106, Jn 5:31-47<\/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-15246-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3.15.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3.15.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3.15.18-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 we continue with Jesus\u2019 response to the Scribes and Pharisees who were opposing him as evil because he healed on the Sabbath day the man crippled for 38 years. They had imputed their own false ideas of the holiness God wanted us to keep on the Sabbath day to God and then, because Jesus violated those false ideas, condemned him for the violation. They thought that the holiness God wanted was to avoid any work at all, including works of charity; what God had forbidden was in fact slavish work so that, instead of enslaving\u00a0ourselves on the Sabbath, we would allow him to restore us to true freedom, a freedom that is meant to make it possible for us to love. The holiness God wanted us to keep on the Sabbath was that of loving Him and loving neighbor. God doesn\u2019t take a weekly day off from loving us \u2014 as if a loving father or mother could take a hiatus\u00a0from caring for her children \u2014 and never intended us to do the same. The Pharisees\u2019 and Scribes\u2019 misunderstanding of the Sabbath was at the root of their deep confusion of what God was asking of them in general, something of which Jesus wanted to cure them, if only their hearts were open.<\/li>\n<li>In today\u2019s passage Jesus discusses the whole question of the authority by which he was working these miracles, especially the ones on the Sabbath. Since they didn\u2019t believe he could possibly be working miracles on the Sabbath by God\u2019s power, since God in their imagination went on vacation each Sabbath, he had to be doing so by some other authority. Elsewhere they explicitly accused him of working miracles on the Sabbath by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, basically in order to destroy the Jewish religion! So Jesus here takes up the question of authority and the question of the witnesses or testimony to his authority. He names five of them. It\u2019s key for us to understand these five witnesses, so that we can grow in our knowledge of Jesus through these five different means of testimony. It\u2019s also key so that in turn, because of his life growing within each of us and within the Christian communion, we can in turn become a\u00a0\u201csixth witness,\u201d like the members of the early Church were and as saints always are.<\/li>\n<li>The first witness is <em>John the Baptist<\/em>, who had pointed out Jesus as the Lamb of God. Jesus said, \u201cYou sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth.\u00a0I do not accept human testimony,\u00a0but I say this so that you may be saved.\u201d John had pointed out Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Jesus would ask them explicitly, when they peppered him with questions to test him, whether they accepted the testimony of John, and they refused to say either way. The point is that, though they were fascinated by John, they didn\u2019t accept John\u2019s testimony and the offer of salvation that would be brought by the Lamb through the forgiveness of their sins.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus says, however, \u201cBut I have testimony greater than John\u2019s\u201d and then immediately describes that greater witness:\u00a0the\u00a0<em>works\u00a0<\/em>he was doing. Jesus says, \u201cThe works that the Father gave me to accomplish,\u00a0these works that I perform testify on my behalf\u00a0that the Father has sent me.\u201d He could only do what he was doing \u2014 healing the sick, casting out demons, raising the dead, multiplying loaves and fish, calming storms \u2014 by the power of God. But they didn\u2019t want to accept the testimony of the works, works that the Messiah had been prophesied to accomplish and many more. Their hearts were hardened and there was just no way they were prepared to receive Jesus no matter what he did. Even after he rose from the dead, they didn\u2019t want to accept even that work, but instead paid off the guards to say, absurdly, that the disciples had stolen his body while they were asleep (if they were asleep, how could they possibly have known what happened to the body not to mention identify any thief?). Because they were going to reject Jesus no matter what, they rejected the divine provenance of all of his works.<\/li>\n<li>The third witness is <em>Sacred Scripture.<\/em> Jesus says, \u201cYou search the Scriptures,\u00a0because you think you have eternal life through them;\u00a0even they testify on my behalf.\u00a0But you do not want to come to me to have life.\u201d There are over 1,000 prophecies about the coming Messiah in the Hebrew Scriptures and Jesus by that point had been fulfilling almost everything on the Messianic job description except for the prophecies of his suffering, death and resurrection that were about to come. But as much as they affirmed themselves as experts in the Scriptures, they resisted concluding that any of them pointed to Jesus despite the fact that he was fulfilling each of them.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth witness Jesus mentions is <em>Moses<\/em>. Jesus says, \u201cDo not think that I will accuse you before the Father:\u00a0the one who will accuse you is Moses,\u00a0in whom you have placed your hope.\u00a0For if you had believed Moses,\u00a0you would have believed me,\u00a0because he wrote about me. \u00a0But if you do not believe his writings,\u00a0how will you believe my words?\u201d All Moses accomplished was together one long prophecy about Jesus. His going up on the Mt. Sinai and returning with the Ten Commandments pointed to how Jesus ascended the Mount of the Beatitudes and gave us the New Law. His leading the Jews in the Passover was a prophecy about what Jesus himself would do through his new and eternal Passover, leading us through the desert of life and death into the Eternal Promised Land. Moses&#8217; interceding for the Israelites before God on the mountain, like in today&#8217;s first reading, was a prophecy of Jesus&#8217; praying on the hill of Calvary for God the Father to forgive us because we didn&#8217;t know what we were doing. But Moses had told the Jews, \u201cThe Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him\u201d (Deut 18:15). That prophecy was still very much awaiting fulfillment at the time of St. John the Baptist, who was asked by the crowds, \u201cAre you\u00a0<em>the\u00a0<\/em>prophet?\u201d (Jn 1:21). No, Jesus in fact was. But they didn\u2019t want to accept that testimony. Jesus was also the fulfillment of Moses\u2019 action in today\u2019s first reading as well, interceding for the people\u2019s salvation before God the Father on account of their idolatry. Moses had asked God to eliminate him rather than the people. That request would be, in essence, fulfilled in the Passion, when Jesus, the new Moses, would actually be killed as an expiatory sacrifice for the sins of the people. But they didn\u2019t want to accept any of that fulfillment of Moses\u2019 life either.<\/li>\n<li>The fifth witness is the most important. It\u2019s\u00a0<em>God the Father<\/em>. &#8220;The Father who sent me has testified on my behalf,&#8221; Jesus said. &#8220;But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form,\u00a0and you do not have his word remaining in you,\u00a0because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent.&#8221; This witness was pointed to in all of the other four. It\u2019s God the Father who called John the Baptist to prepare the way for his Son. It\u2019s God the Father who was speaking through each of Jesus\u2019 miracles. It\u2019s God the Father who inspired Sacred Scripture by the power of the Holy Spirit. It\u2019s God the Father who called Moses at the burning bush, sent him to Pharaoh, worked the 10 plagues, separated the Red Sea, fed the Israelites with Manna and quail, quenched their thirst with water from the Rock, gave the Ten Commandments, accompanied them in a pillar of fire and so much more.\u00a0But all of that testimony was, in a certain sense, indirect. God the Father gave direct testimony of Jesus at his baptism, saying from heaven, \u201cThis is my Son, my beloved, in whom I am well-pleased.\u201d God the Father gave direct testimony at the Transfiguration, witnessed by Peter, James and John, in which he said, \u201cThis is my beloved Son. Listen to him!\u201d God the Father would later give witness to Jesus, not only speaking during the Last Supper that he had glorified Jesus\u2019 name and would glorify it again, but most spectacularly by raising Jesus from the dead on the third day. But they weren\u2019t prepared to receive the testimony of God either.<\/li>\n<li>Today, four weeks into the Lenten conversion God wants to work in us, we need to ask ourselves how docile we are to everything God has given us to strengthen our faith and help us to grow in our relationship with Jesus. Have we accepted the testimony of John the Baptist pointing to Jesus as the Lamb of God taking away the sins of the world by coming to that Lamb to have him take away our sins in the Sacrament of God\u2019s mercy and get at them at the real roots? Have we accepted the witness of so many miracles \u2014 the miracles in the causes of saints, the daily miracles on the altar and the confessional, and so many others \u2014 \u00a0to help increase our faith in the power of prayer by praying with perseverance for the miracles we and others need? Have we embraced the witness of Sacred Scripture by studying the Bible, all it reveals about Christ and about us, and putting its words into practice? Have we accepted the witness of Moses pointing to Christ and really begun to follow\u00a0the New Moses, Jesus, up close or have we, like many of the Jews in the desert, sought to do our own thing? And have we heard the witness of God the Father and really begun to listen to Jesus and recognize through him that God wants us not only to be but behave always as his beloved and much-pleasing sons and daughters?<\/li>\n<li>Today as we come forward to celebrate the Eucharist, we ponder that all five of these witnesses point to what we\u2019re about to do. This is the fulfillment of the Manna given to Moses in the desert. This is the Lamb of God pointed out with the very words of John the Baptist at every Mass. This is the fulfillment of the prophecy of Sacred Scripture contained in Isaiah that God will prepare for us a banquet of the choicest food and drink (Is 25). This is the greatest of all of Jesus\u2019 signs of love, transforming simple bread and wine into his body and blood, soul and divinity, so that we can enter into a holy communion with him. And this is the greatest gift of all of the Father, who witnesses just how dear we are to him that he will give us the One is most precious to Him so that we can by this reception of his body and blood enter into the inner life and love of the Trinity. Let us accept this witness and let us in turn become the \u201csixth\u201d witnesses whose whole lives attest, not just on the Sabbath but on every day, to the truth of Jesus\u2019 continuing saving presence and redemptive work!<\/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\/exodus\/32:7\">EX 32:7-14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>The LORD said to Moses,<br \/>\n\u201cGo down at once to your people<br \/>\nwhom you brought out of the land of Egypt,<br \/>\nfor they have become depraved.<br \/>\nThey have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them,<br \/>\nmaking for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it,<br \/>\nsacrificing to it and crying out,<br \/>\n\u2018This is your God, O Israel,<br \/>\nwho brought you out of the land of Egypt!\u2019<br \/>\nThe LORD said to Moses,<br \/>\n\u201cI see how stiff-necked this people is.<br \/>\nLet me alone, then,<br \/>\nthat my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them.<br \/>\nThen I will make of you a great nation.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cWhy, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people,<br \/>\nwhom you brought out of the land of Egypt<br \/>\nwith such great power and with so strong a hand?<br \/>\nWhy should the Egyptians say,<br \/>\n\u2018With evil intent he brought them out,<br \/>\nthat he might kill them in the mountains<br \/>\nand exterminate them from the face of the earth\u2019?<br \/>\nLet your blazing wrath die down;<br \/>\nrelent in punishing your people.<br \/>\nRemember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel,<br \/>\nand how you swore to them by your own self, saying,<br \/>\n\u2018I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky;<br \/>\nand all this land that I promised,<br \/>\nI will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.\u2019\u201c<br \/>\nSo the LORD relented in the punishment<br \/>\nhe had threatened to inflict on his people.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/106:19\">PS 106:19-20, 21-22, 23<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (4a)\u00a0Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.<br \/>\nOur fathers made a calf in Horeb<br \/>\nand adored a molten image;<br \/>\nThey exchanged their glory<br \/>\nfor the image of a grass-eating bullock.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.<br \/>\nThey forgot the God who had saved them,<br \/>\nwho had done great deeds in Egypt,<br \/>\nWondrous deeds in the land of Ham,<br \/>\nterrible things at the Red Sea.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.<br \/>\nThen he spoke of exterminating them,<br \/>\nbut Moses, his chosen one,<br \/>\nWithstood him in the breach<br \/>\nto turn back his destructive wrath.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/5:31\">JN 5:31-47<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Jesus said to the Jews:<br \/>\n\u201cIf I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true.<br \/>\nBut there is another who testifies on my behalf,<br \/>\nand I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true.<br \/>\nYou sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth.<br \/>\nI do not accept human testimony,<br \/>\nbut I say this so that you may be saved.<br \/>\nHe was a burning and shining lamp,<br \/>\nand for a while you were content to rejoice in his light.<br \/>\nBut I have testimony greater than John\u2019s.<br \/>\nThe works that the Father gave me to accomplish,<br \/>\nthese works that I perform testify on my behalf<br \/>\nthat the Father has sent me.<br \/>\nMoreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf.<br \/>\nBut you have never heard his voice nor seen his form,<br \/>\nand you do not have his word remaining in you,<br \/>\nbecause you do not believe in the one whom he has sent.<br \/>\nYou search the Scriptures,<br \/>\nbecause you think you have eternal life through them;<br \/>\neven they testify on my behalf.<br \/>\nBut you do not want to come to me to have life.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI do not accept human praise;<br \/>\nmoreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you.<br \/>\nI came in the name of my Father,<br \/>\nbut you do not accept me;<br \/>\nyet if another comes in his own name,<br \/>\nyou will accept him.<br \/>\nHow can you believe, when you accept praise from one another<br \/>\nand do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?<br \/>\nDo not think that I will accuse you before the Father:<br \/>\nthe one who will accuse you is Moses,<br \/>\nin whom you have placed your hope.<br \/>\nFor if you had believed Moses,<br \/>\nyou would have believed me,<br \/>\nbecause he wrote about me.<br \/>\nBut if you do not believe his writings,<br \/>\nhow will you believe my words?\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/997113933_orig.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15247\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/997113933_orig.jpg?resize=300%2C224&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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