{"id":15348,"date":"2018-04-04T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=15348"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:35:16","slug":"the-easter-heart-transplant-from-slow-to-burning-hearts-easter-wednesday-april-4-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-easter-heart-transplant-from-slow-to-burning-hearts-easter-wednesday-april-4-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Easter Heart Transplant from Slow to Burning Hearts, Easter Wednesday, April 4, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nWednesday of Easter Week<br \/>\nApril 4, 2018<br \/>\nActs 3:1-10, Ps 105, Lk 24:13-35<\/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-15348-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/4.4.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/4.4.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/4.4.18-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 these readings of Easter Week, the Church helps us to ponder the dramatic transformation that Jesus\u2019 Resurrection is supposed to have in our life. We have seen over the course of the last two days the stunning metamorphosis in Mary Magdalene and the 3,000 people listening to St. Peter on Pentecost Sunday. Today we see the total\u00a0changes wrought in the crippled man at the Beautiful Gate and the astonishment and amazement of all those who were accustomed to seeing him at the gate. We also see the transformation in the disciples on the road to Emmaus, which will be ponder together at some length.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s important for us to resist the temptation for Easter to become routine, that the biggest change in us resulting from the liturgical <em>zikkaron<\/em> or remembrance of Jesus\u2019 resurrection be that now we can drink beer and wine, eat chocolate and resume other practices we had given up for Lent. The celebration of Easter is supposed to lead us to the newness of life St. Paul described at the Easter vigil, helping us to be dead to sin and alive for God in Christ Jesus. The power of Easter is meant to\u00a0bring about in us the long litany of effects the Church\u00a0sang about in the Exsultet on Saturday night. The whole Church, Peter, John, their successors and the whole Mystical Body says during the Easter season, to us and through us to others, \u201cArise and walk,\u201d be raised and start journeying, freely, following the footsteps of the Risen Lord knowing that he accompanies you along the way. The power of Easter, however, is meant to do something in us far greater than what happened in this crippled man in Jerusalem. But for\u00a0that to take place we need to participate in this transition.<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s enter into the change that takes place in the disciples of Emmaus in today\u2019s Gospel. We could describe the change as a heart transplant. You remember at the Easter Vigil, Ezekiel prophecies that the redemption will involve God\u2019s sprinkling clean water upon us \u2014 our Baptism \u2014 removing from us our \u201cstony hearts\u201d and replacing them with \u201chearts of flesh,\u201d placing his own spirit within us. We could rephrase that heart transplant in the words of today\u2019s Gospel as a transition from \u201cslowness of heart\u201d to a \u201cburning heart.\u201d When Jesus anonymously and gently upbraids the disciples on the Road to Emmaus, he didn\u2019t say \u201cHow slow of head,\u201d \u201cHow dull of mind, you are not to believe all that Moses and the prophets taught,\u201d but \u201cHow slow of heart.\u201d It was their hearts that were literally\u00a0retarded because they were unwilling to let go of some of their previously conceived notions. Eventually, after Jesus takes them on a journey, their hearts were racing, their hearts were burning, as Jesus spoke to them along the way. That journey was a retracing of the steps of salvation history showing how all of it pointed to how the Messiah needed to suffer to help the two disciples \u2014 who had been leaving Jerusalem and symbolically the place of God, and who had been heading into the sunset instead of the rising sun \u2014 see that Jesus\u2019 crucifixion and death were not a contradiction of the Jews\u2019 Messianic hopes but a confirmation. Jesus helped them to see that what happened to him was the fulfillment of the killing of the just man Abel, of the sacrifice of Isaac, of the Passover lamb led to the slaughter, of the just man beset, of the Suffering Servant, of Psalms 22 and 69 and so many others. Jesus easily could have started with his words in which he had promised three times he would suffer and rise on the third day, but his own status and authority was now in question, whereas that of Sacred Scripture was still unimpeached. And that spiritual pilgrimage on which the anonymous wayfarer led the two disciples during their seven mile walk toward dusk reawakened their hearts and heads. They were transformed.\u00a0They first asked him to stay to stay with them to keep the experience going. Then they recognized him in the breaking of the Bread, because their hearts and their eyes were recalibrated. And finally, even though they had journeyed seven miles down hill into dusk, they were now willing to run seven miles uphill in external darkness but internal illumination to share what they had just heard.<\/li>\n<li>What Jesus does with the disciples on the road to Emmaus shows us the\u00a0path of our being evangelized\u00a0and the path of our being instruments in the new evangelization. This is what Pope Francis said on July 28, 2013 speaking to the bishops of the world gathered in Brazil for World Youth Day. He asked poignantly there the stinging question whether we today in the Church \u2014 and specifically the bishops, priests and preachers \u2014 still have the ability to warm people\u2019s hearts. The truth is that we can\u2019t light the tapers of others\u2019 hearts unless the paschal candle of our own heart is lit. But that\u2019s the essential question: are we on fire with the flame of God such that we can light others on fire?\u00a0What does having that fire\u00a0require? We can identify three clear elements from today\u2019s Gospel.<\/li>\n<li>The first is an ardent familiarity with Sacred Scripture. Jesus lit the two disciples\u2019 hearts aflame through Sacred Scripture. Holy Writ still has that capacity to ignite us, but we need to know it. We need to hunger for every word that comes from God\u2019s mouth. We have to relate to Jesus in his word as giving us the words of everlasting life. We have to care for every crumb of Sacred Scripture, St. Jerome said, just like we would care for every particle of the Eucharistic host. When with spiritual poverty, we approach the treasure of Sacred Scripture in this way, then we become capable of doing what St. Peter did to the crippled man at the gate: giving Jesus Christ\u2019s light, giving his healing, giving\u00a0<em>him.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cSilver and gold I have not, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, rise.\u201d That\u2019s the first means by which we bring people to share in his resurrection.<\/li>\n<li>The second element is a willingness, even a hunger, to allow Jesus to enter into our conversation, into our daily life \u2014 and he enters far more subtly than he did with Cleopas and the other disciple on the Road to Emmaus! \u2014 and then, together with Christ, approach people and enter into their conversations, especially those who are wandering away from \u201cJerusalem\u201d into the \u201csunset\u201d westward away from the east of Christ the \u201crising sun.\u201d This requires a courage, first, to be a disciple full-time and, second, then to meet people where they\u2019re at, to enter into their night without losing our light, to go to the peripheries not just of geography but of existence and try to accompany them back toward the Lord. Jesus didn\u2019t say to the two disciples on Emmaus Avenue, \u201cWhere the heck are you going?,\u201d but entered into their conversation, their questions, their doubts. Pope Francis says that this is part of the New Evangelization that we learn from Jesus.<\/li>\n<li>The third element is to recognize that the reasons for people\u2019s\u00a0departure from Jerusalem contain within the seeds of their return. What makes someone downcast, like the disciples on the Road to Emmaus, contains the seeds of seeking things above. The two disciples were leaving because they thought that Jesus\u2019 crucifixion showed that he couldn\u2019t possibly be the Messiah, but after Jesus opened up their hearts and their minds to the fact that the Messiah had to suffer, they embraced the reality in its fullness. The same thing still occurs. If a teenager has left the faith because of the death of loved one for whose healing the teen prayed, the reason is fundamentally because the teen believes that God should love the teen\u2019s loved ones even more than the teen does and want that grandmother\u2019s happiness and health. But we can enter into the night of mourning and show that God\u2019s desire is for that person to be full of life and happiness forever \u2014 and that\u2019s what we pray for whenever he comes to call a loved one. If someone has abandoned the Church over the clergy sex abuse scandals, it contains the seeds of a desire that God\u2019s ministers should be holy; when the person finds holy ministers, it lays the ground for the route of return. If someone abandons the Church over the Church\u2019s supposed homophobia, because the person things that everyone should be loved and embraced no matter what the person\u2019s sexual attractions, we can show that love and embrace that goes beyond simple superficial hospitality, but rather a concern for the person\u2019s eternal well being, opening the person up to the fact that the Church\u2019s teachings on chastity are not to stifle love among those with same sex attractions but to keep those persons truly loving rather than using.\u00a0If a person has left because\u00a0Mass is boring, or the preaching is poor, or community is inhospitable, these are all signs pointing to the seeds of return when this\u00a0Mass is celebrated by clergy and communities on fire, where preaching is on fire, when the community is like the early Church. When we find ourselves wandering, we must ask why, see what is presently lacking, and then see how Christ through the Church wants to fulfill or transcend those desires. We we find others wandering into the night, we need not to condemn but to enter into their journey to ask why they\u2019re leaving, where they\u2019re going, and discover what they\u2019re truly seeking, in order to help them grasp, concretely in their experience, how they\u2019re really seeking Christ and what he has made them to receive.<\/li>\n<li>Are we still capable of warming hearts? The answer is an emphatic yes. But whether we do or not depends on how we respond to Easter graces. Christ still has the fire to ignite our hearts just like two disciples, Peter, Mary Magdalene, the 3,000 on Pentecost, so many saints. And if we allow him to do that to us, we will be able to go out along the paths of the world to encounter so many for whom Christ died, help them to learn how to turn around toward the heavenly Jerusalem, and with them, go out to light the hearts of the world ablaze. He seeks to do it here, in the \u201cbreaking of the bread,\u201d in the Holy Eucharist preceded by the heart-igniting liturgy of the Word. If we allow him to do his thing and stir into a flame these graces, we will be filled with God and his holy joy so that, like those in Jerusalem marveled at the healed former cripple, others will be \u201cfilled with amazement and astonishment\u201d at what has happened to us and God wants to do to them!<\/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\/acts\/3:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=c6b6a542df&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Acts 3:1-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Peter and John were going up to the temple area<br \/>\nfor the three o\u2019clock hour of prayer.<br \/>\nAnd a man crippled from birth was carried<br \/>\nand placed at the gate of the temple called \u201cthe Beautiful Gate\u201d every day<br \/>\nto beg for alms from the people who entered the temple.<br \/>\nWhen he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple,<br \/>\nhe asked for alms.<br \/>\nBut Peter looked intently at him, as did John,<br \/>\nand said, \u201cLook at us.\u201d<br \/>\nHe paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.<br \/>\nPeter said, \u201cI have neither silver nor gold,<br \/>\nbut what I do have I give you:<br \/>\nin the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, rise and walk.\u201d<br \/>\nThen Peter took him by the right hand and raised him up,<br \/>\nand immediately his feet and ankles grew strong.<br \/>\nHe leaped up, stood, and walked around,<br \/>\nand went into the temple with them,<br \/>\nwalking and jumping and praising God.<br \/>\nWhen all the people saw him walking and praising God,<br \/>\nthey recognized him as the one<br \/>\nwho used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple,<br \/>\nand they were filled with amazement and astonishment<br \/>\nat what had happened to him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/105:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=41fb001b4a&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">PS 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (3b)\u00a0<strong>Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nGive thanks to the LORD, invoke his name;<br \/>\nmake known among the nations his deeds.<br \/>\nSing to him, sing his praise,<br \/>\nproclaim all his wondrous deeds.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nGlory in his holy name;<br \/>\nrejoice, O hearts that seek the LORD!<br \/>\nLook to the LORD in his strength;<br \/>\nseek to serve him constantly.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nYou descendants of Abraham, his servants,<br \/>\nsons of Jacob, his chosen ones!<br \/>\nHe, the LORD, is our God;<br \/>\nthroughout the earth his judgments prevail.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nHe remembers forever his covenant<br \/>\nwhich he made binding for a thousand generations\u2014<br \/>\nWhich he entered into with Abraham<br \/>\nand by his oath to Isaac.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/118:24|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=cbcf95fe75&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Ps 118:24<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is the day the LORD has made;<br \/>\nlet us be glad and rejoice in it.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/24:13|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=59222e6ba9&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Lk 24:13-35<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">That very day, the first day of the week,<br \/>\ntwo of Jesus\u2019 disciples were going<br \/>\nto a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus,<br \/>\nand they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.<br \/>\nAnd it happened that while they were conversing and debating,<br \/>\nJesus himself drew near and walked with them,<br \/>\nbut their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.<br \/>\nHe asked them,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat are you discussing as you walk along?\u201d<br \/>\nThey stopped, looking downcast.<br \/>\nOne of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cAre you the only visitor to Jerusalem<br \/>\nwho does not know of the things<br \/>\nthat have taken place there in these days?\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he replied to them, \u201cWhat sort of things?\u201d<br \/>\nThey said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cThe things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene,<br \/>\nwho was a prophet mighty in deed and word<br \/>\nbefore God and all the people,<br \/>\nhow our chief priests and rulers both handed him over<br \/>\nto a sentence of death and crucified him.<br \/>\nBut we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel;<br \/>\nand besides all this,<br \/>\nit is now the third day since this took place.<br \/>\nSome women from our group, however, have astounded us:<br \/>\nthey were at the tomb early in the morning<br \/>\nand did not find his Body;<br \/>\nthey came back and reported<br \/>\nthat they had indeed seen a vision of angels<br \/>\nwho announced that he was alive.<br \/>\nThen some of those with us went to the tomb<br \/>\nand found things just as the women had described,<br \/>\nbut him they did not see.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he said to them, \u201cOh, how foolish you are!<br \/>\nHow slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!<br \/>\nWas it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things<br \/>\nand enter into his glory?\u201d<br \/>\nThen beginning with Moses and all the prophets,<br \/>\nhe interpreted to them what referred to him<br \/>\nin all the Scriptures.<br \/>\nAs they approached the village to which they were going,<br \/>\nhe gave the impression that he was going on farther.<br \/>\nBut they urged him, \u201cStay with us,<br \/>\nfor it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.\u201d<br \/>\nSo he went in to stay with them.<br \/>\nAnd it happened that, while he was with them at table,<br \/>\nhe took bread, said the blessing,<br \/>\nbroke it, and gave it to them.<br \/>\nWith that their eyes were opened and they recognized him,<br \/>\nbut he vanished from their sight.<br \/>\nThen they said to each other,<br \/>\n\u201cWere not our hearts burning within us<br \/>\nwhile he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?\u201d<br \/>\nSo they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem<br \/>\nwhere they found gathered together<br \/>\nthe Eleven and those with them who were saying,<br \/>\n\u201cThe Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!\u201d<br \/>\nThen the two recounted what had taken place on the way<br \/>\nand how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Le_Repas_dEmma%C3%BCs.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15349\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Le_Repas_dEmma%C3%BCs.jpg?resize=300%2C241&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Le_Repas_dEmma%C3%BCs.jpg?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Le_Repas_dEmma%C3%BCs.jpg?w=746&amp;ssl=1 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" 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