{"id":15323,"date":"2018-03-26T08:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=15323"},"modified":"2018-03-26T08:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:22:46","slug":"christs-lavish-messianic-love-and-our-response-monday-of-holy-week-march-26-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/christs-lavish-messianic-love-and-our-response-monday-of-holy-week-march-26-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ&#8217;s Lavish Messianic Love and Our Response, Monday of Holy Week, March 26, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of Holy Week<br \/>\nMarch 26, 2018<br \/>\nIs 42:1-7, Ps 27, Jn 12:1-11<\/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-15323-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3.26.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3.26.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3.26.18-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>As we enter more deeply into this holiest week of the year, the Church gives us an important frame of how we\u2019re supposed to see what God is doing this week from his perspective and how we\u2019re supposed to respond. We see this in the two different anointings of Jesus that the readings describe today. They show us how Christ was anointed as Messiah precisely to restore us to our relationship with God and others\u00a0and how we, too, filled with the gift received, will naturally want to show how lavish is our\u00a0gratitude.<\/li>\n<li>The first anointing we see is the one God the Father does of his Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. It\u2019s spoken of today in the first reading from the Prophet Isaiah. (This reading is the first of the four \u201cSuffering Servant Songs\u201d found in Isaiah, which are the most explicit prophecies of what Jesus himself would suffer and accomplish for us this week out of merciful love. Today we ponder the first of the four, from Is 42. Tomorrow, we tackled the second, from Is 49. Wednesday we\u2019ll discuss the third, from Is 50. And finally on Good Friday, we\u2019ll have the fourth and most moving of all, from Is 52-53.)\u00a0Today we see what God himself says and does. \u201cHere is my servant whom I uphold,\u00a0my chosen one with whom I am pleased, upon whom I have put my Spirit,\u201d he tells us through the Prophet. The Father has anointed the Son, as we see occur at Jesus\u2019 baptism, when the Holy Spirit comes down upon him like a dove. Earlier in Isaiah, with words that were fulfilled in Jesus, Isaiah says, \u201cThe spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, a spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the Lord.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today a job description that flows from that anointing is given to us, a description Jesus will fulfill to the letter this week: \u201cHe shall bring forth justice to the nations, not crying out, not shouting,\u00a0not making his voice heard in the street.\u00a0A bruised reed he shall not break,\u00a0and a smoldering wick he shall not quench, until he establishes justice on the earth.\u201d We know that several times during his publicly ministry Jesus shouted out against the hypocrisy of the Scribes and the Pharisees. We know that he overturned money changers\u2019 tables and drove out animals from the temple area with a whip. But this week, he didn\u2019t cry out as he was carrying his Cross through the streets. This week he didn\u2019t exert any force sufficient to break a frail reed. He was doing this to establish justice on the earth, taking all the sin upon himself so that he could take that poison away from us and have us life.<\/li>\n<li>As he was doing this, he was not alone. God the Father and the Holy Spirit was\u00a0with him, guiding him, every step along the way of the Cross. \u201cI, the Lord, have called you for the victory of justice,\u00a0I have grasped you by the hand.\u201d And he foretold that he would guide him to this fulfillment from his earliest days in Mary\u2019s womb: \u201cI formed you, and set you\u00a0as a covenant of the people,\u00a0a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind,\u00a0to bring out prisoners from confinement,\u00a0and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.\u201d Jesus would become the light and salvation \u2014 as we prayed in the Psalm \u2014 \u00a0not just of the Jews, but of the nations, whom he would lead from confinement and dark dungeons into the light of life. He would not just seal a Covenant between God and man but\u00a0<em>become<\/em>\u00a0that new and eternal Covenant. All of these actions were those of merciful liberation. This frames all that Jesus will be doing this week. He was anointed to do all of this as the merciful Suffering Servant of both God and us.<\/li>\n<li>What should our response be to that incredible love of God that would permit all of this? It\u2019s shown in today\u2019s Gospel in the second anointing of today\u2019s readings. During a dinner that took place likely very soon after Jesus\u2019 raising Lazarus from the dead, Mary of Bethany took a liter of costly aromatic spikenard, 300 days wages worth \u2014 about a full year\u2019s salary since the person would take the Sabbath off \u2014 and with lavish love \u201cwasted\u201d it on Jesus\u2019 feet, wiping the oil off with her hair, a real gesture of total commitment to Jesus. We recall an earlier scene in St. Luke\u2019s Gospel when a sinful women in Simon the Pharisee\u2019s house washed Jesus\u2019 feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair, how Jesus said she loved much because she had been forgiven much (Lk 7). Mary of Bethany, although we do not know what type of life she lived before Jesus entered her and her family members\u2019 lives, doubtless loved God very much because, regardless of her past sins, she knew that God\u2019s love was greater. The\u00a0fragrant nard came from the oil of the roots of a\u00a0flower that grows only in China, India and Nepal that would need to be crushed to get a minuscule amount of oil out of it. Just imagine one would need to crush to\u00a0get a\u00a0<em>liter\u00a0<\/em>of oil \u2014 no wonder why it was so costly. Last night I looked on <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/doTERRA-Spikenard-Calming-Essential-Oil\/dp\/B01M7R4HM7\/ref=sr_1_10_a_it?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522066816&amp;sr=8-10&amp;keywords=spikenard+essential+oil\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0and 5 milliliters of this aromatic spikenard cost $<a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/doTERRA-Spikenard-Calming-Essential-Oil\/dp\/B01M7R4HM7\/ref=sr_1_10_a_it?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522066816&amp;sr=8-10&amp;keywords=spikenard+essential+oil\">66.00<\/a>. Multiply that by 200 and you get a liter, for $13,200, and that\u2019s much less expensive today that it was in Mary\u2019s time, but still, to pour it out on Jesus\u2019 feet was a sign of lavish lov. Judas expressed his outrage that someone would show such overflowing attention to Jesus. As Archbishop\u00a0Fulton J. Sheen noted, he knew the price of everything and the value of nothing, and Mary just wasted on Jesus\u2019\u00a0<em>feet\u00a0<\/em>more than three times what Judas himself would receive for betraying Jesus, because the 30 silver shekels Judas would be\u00a0awarded were equivalent to\u00a090 days wages.<\/li>\n<li>But Jesus defended Mary and gave us in a sentence with three very important principles: \u201cLeave her alone,\u201d he said. \u201cLet her keep this for the day of my burial.\u00a0You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Jesus tells us, first, that he is about to die and be buried, something that seemed to surprise Judas when Jesus was condemned to death after Judas\u2019 treachery. Mary had grasped what Jesus must have told her, Martha and Lazarus in their home that he would die and rise again and so lead us, as she said before the raising of her brother on the fourth day, to the \u201cresurrection on the last day.\u201d She believed and wanted to thank Jesus in advance. Judas\u2019 words about caring for the poor were, we know in retrospect, just a cover. They were a false compassion. Many times people can fake caring about the poor, pretending to be merciful, because\u00a0they want to be the center of attention and don\u2019t really get how people can be munificent, lavish lovers of Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Second, he tells us that we will always have the poor among us, because God always wants them to teach the world about spiritual poverty and dependence on God but also so that the world may become ever more a place of love by compelling people out of their selfishness to become Good Samaritans and mercifully help those in need.<\/li>\n<li>But the most important principle is that we need to prioritize him and never take him for granted. It\u2019s a constant temptation for us to put other things, activities or persons \u2014 especially good things, activities and persons! \u2014 above Jesus. So many of us\u00a0are tempted to behave as if Jesus can always wait as we run all our errands while saying \u201cI\u2019ll pray later,\u201d only to run out of gas at the end of the day and pray very poorly. Our other activities can become an excuse for us to love Jesus less. Even during Holy Week, we can spend so much time on the little details of hospitality and the various liturgical items that need to be prepared that we can end up missing Jesus in all the hustle and bustle.\u00a0Jesus by his words reminds us that we should never take him for granted. Mary of Bethany\u2019s lavish love for him is a reminder to us of how we should love him. If she was willing to \u201cwaste\u201d a year\u2019s work on Jesus, can we \u201cwaste\u201d a week? Can we \u201cwaste\u201d the time during the Triduum to give the Lord our full attention?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We need to learn from Mary of Bethany how to anoint Jesus with lavish love this week and beyond. We need to learn from her how to express our gratitude for his merciful love. At a practical level we can ask: how can we imitate her gesture of anointing Jesus\u2019s feet with precious oil and wiping them with her feet? I\u2019d like to propose three ways.<\/li>\n<li>The first is by our receptivity in prayer, which will allow Jesus to do what he wants to do in us this Holy Week. On another occasion when Jesus was invited over to their house for dinner, Mary sat at his feet as Martha was once again serving. Martha criticized Mary for what she interpreted as her laziness, but Jesus defended her, saying that Mary had chosen the better part and it wouldn\u2019t be taken away from her, that she had recognized the one thing necessary and was willing to give everything for that pearl of precious price. She grasped what Martha didn\u2019t, that Jesus had come to their home not to be fed but to feed and she sat at his feet anointing them with her faithful receptivity. She spent time with him. She listened to him. In short, she was engaging in contemplative prayer. That\u2019s the first way we can anoint Jesus\u2019 feet this week, by coming with love to spend time with him, fully attentive, sitting at his feet, and letting him feed us. We\u2019ll always have our problems. We\u2019ll always have others in need. But we can\u2019t think that we\u2019ll always have the opportunity to be with him. This is a week to anoint Jesus\u2019 feet and whole person with our love, with the fruits of our work, with our lives, with all our mind, heart, soul and strength, just as she did.<\/li>\n<li>The second way we can anoint Jesus\u2019 feet is to walk in his footsteps. Jesus\u2019 feet aren\u2019t static; they\u2019re on the move. If we\u2019re going to anoint him we need to be moving with him. Elsewhere in the Gospel Jesus said, \u201cWhoever wants to serve me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my servant shall be\u201d (Jn 12:26). St. Peter commented on this, \u201cChrist suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his footsteps\u201d (1 Pet 2:21). \u00a0Christ\u2019s whole passion was an act of love meant to get us to trust in his mercy\u00a0and follow his\u00a0ways. This week we\u2019re called to anoint his feet as he seeks to wash the feet of his disciples and to commission them to wash and anoint Christ\u2019s feet in others. We\u2019re called to anoint his feet as he heads out into the Garden and asks us to come with him to spend an hour in prayer. We\u2019re summoned to anoint his feet each step along the way of the Cross. We\u2019re called to venerate his feet pierced with rude nails and hammered to a tree. We\u2019re beckoned to anoint his feet just like Nicodemus and the women did as his body was taken down from the Cross and laid in the tomb. And we\u2019re invited to enter into the wounds of his feet, like doubting Thomas, as Jesus is raised from the dead. To follow Jesus\u2019 footsteps up close each of the days of this holiest of weeks so that we may be strengthened to follow those same steps in going out with him to save the world.<\/li>\n<li>The third is that we can anoint his feet in anointing others. During the Last Supper, he washed feet as an example so that as he did, so we should do. But we&#8217;re called not just to serve others with &#8220;water,&#8221; but with &#8220;water and Spirit,&#8221; pouring out God together with our sacrifice of love.<\/li>\n<li>Today as we prepare to receive with us Jesus, the new and eternal Covenant, our Light and our Salvation, recognizing that we will not always have him with us and that therefore we\u2019re called to prioritize him as the one thing necessary and better part, we thank his Father for anointing him and sending him to us to suffer so that he may say to us today, \u201cThis is the chalice of my blood, \u2026 which will be poured out for you and for many,\u201d an interior anointing\u00a0far more than precious nard poured from Mary\u2019s jar. And we ask now for the grace that we may love him like Mary of Bethany, anointing him with lavish love here at Mass, in prayer, and in our Christian discipleship and vocations!<\/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\/isaiah\/42:1\">IS 42:1-7<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Here is my servant whom I uphold,<br \/>\nmy chosen one with whom I am pleased,<br \/>\nUpon whom I have put my Spirit;<br \/>\nhe shall bring forth justice to the nations,<br \/>\nNot crying out, not shouting,<br \/>\nnot making his voice heard in the street.<br \/>\nA bruised reed he shall not break,<br \/>\nand a smoldering wick he shall not quench,<br \/>\nUntil he establishes justice on the earth;<br \/>\nthe coastlands will wait for his teaching.<\/div>\n<div>Thus says God, the LORD,<br \/>\nwho created the heavens and stretched them out,<br \/>\nwho spreads out the earth with its crops,<br \/>\nWho gives breath to its people<br \/>\nand spirit to those who walk on it:<br \/>\nI, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice,<br \/>\nI have grasped you by the hand;<br \/>\nI formed you, and set you<br \/>\nas a covenant of the people,<br \/>\na light for the nations,<br \/>\nTo open the eyes of the blind,<br \/>\nto bring out prisoners from confinement,<br \/>\nand from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/27:1\">PS 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (1a)\u00a0The Lord is my light and my salvation.<br \/>\nThe LORD is my light and my salvation;<br \/>\nwhom should I fear?<br \/>\nThe LORD is my life\u2019s refuge;<br \/>\nof whom should I be afraid?<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my light and my salvation.<br \/>\nWhen evildoers come at me<br \/>\nto devour my flesh,<br \/>\nMy foes and my enemies<br \/>\nthemselves stumble and fall.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my light and my salvation.<br \/>\nThough an army encamp against me,<br \/>\nmy heart will not fear;<br \/>\nThough war be waged upon me,<br \/>\neven then will I trust.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my light and my salvation.<br \/>\nI believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD<br \/>\nin the land of the living.<br \/>\nWait for the LORD with courage;<br \/>\nbe stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my light and my salvation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/12:1\">JN 12:1-11<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany,<br \/>\nwhere Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.<br \/>\nThey gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served,<br \/>\nwhile Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him.<br \/>\nMary took a liter of costly perfumed oil<br \/>\nmade from genuine aromatic nard<br \/>\nand anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair;<br \/>\nthe house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.<br \/>\nThen Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples,<br \/>\nand the one who would betray him, said,<br \/>\n\u201cWhy was this oil not sold for three hundred days\u2019 wages<br \/>\nand given to the poor?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said this not because he cared about the poor<br \/>\nbut because he was a thief and held the money bag<br \/>\nand used to steal the contributions.<br \/>\nSo Jesus said, \u201cLeave her alone.<br \/>\nLet her keep this for the day of my burial.<br \/>\nYou always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>The large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came,<br \/>\nnot only because of him, but also to see Lazarus,<br \/>\nwhom he had raised from the dead.<br \/>\nAnd the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too,<br \/>\nbecause many of the Jews were turning away<br \/>\nand believing in Jesus because of him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wjpas0582.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15324\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wjpas0582.jpg?resize=242%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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