{"id":15519,"date":"2018-05-18T11:19:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=15519"},"modified":"2018-05-18T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:19:19","slug":"whether-and-how-we-love-jesus-7th-friday-of-easter-may-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/whether-and-how-we-love-jesus-7th-friday-of-easter-may-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Whether and How We Love Jesus, 7th Friday of Easter, May 18, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, New York, NY<br \/>\nFriday of the Seventh Week of Easter<br \/>\nMemorial of\u00a0Pope St. John I<br \/>\nMay 18, 2018<br \/>\nActs 25:13-21, Ps 103, Jn 21:15-19<\/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-15519-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/5.18.18-Homily-2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/5.18.18-Homily-2.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/5.18.18-Homily-2.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 today\u2019s Gospel, we have one of the most powerful and poignant scenes in the Gospel, which the Church gives us to help us to summarize the graces of the Easter Season and send us forward into Pentecost and beyond.\u00a0Jesus meets Peter and six other disciples on the seashore of Galilee where he cooks them breakfast. At the end of the meal, he takes Simon Peter aside in order to restore his confidence after having totally denied Jesus three times on Holy Thursday just a couple of hours after saying that even if he should have to die for Jesus, he would never betray him.\u00a0Peter was not yet able to experience the joy of Jesus\u2019 resurrection fully because of the trauma of his sins. But Jesus needed him. Jesus wanted to solidify the rock on whom he was building his Church. So in response to Peter\u2019s three-fold denial, Jesus gave him a chance to make a three-fold affirmation of love.<\/li>\n<li>But buried within the dialogue is a real drama, but to see you, we have to know a little Greek. The first time Jesus asks Peter if he loves him, the word he uses for love is <em>agape, <\/em>which means a total self-sacrificial type of love, the type of love Jesus himself showed when he said, \u201cNo one has any greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.\u201d \u201cSimon, son of John,\u201d he was asking, \u201cdo you love me with agape?\u201d Peter\u2019s response, \u201cYes, Lord, you know that I love you,\u201d doesn\u2019t use the word \u201cagape,\u201d but rather \u201cphilia.\u201d He replies, in other words, \u201cYes, Lord, you know that I love you <em>as a friend<\/em>.\u201d Peter, after having broken his promise to die for Jesus before he ever would deny him, wasn\u2019t going to make the same promise again. He was still carrying around the weight of his betrayal.\u00a0So Jesus asked him a second time, \u201cPeter, do you love me with agape, with total self-sacrificial love?\u201d Peter replied again, \u201cYes, Lord, you know that I love you with philia, as a friend.\u201d\u00a0So Jesus in the third question lowered himself to where Peter was comfortable and asked, \u201cSimon, Son of John, do you love me with philia?\u201d That\u2019s when Peter was distressed. He knew the Lord was calling him to more but the Lord was acknowledging that Peter didn\u2019t think he was capable of heroic love. He replied, \u201cLord, you know everything; you know that I love you as a friend.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jesus, however, wasn\u2019t going to leave Peter there. He said to him that when he was younger, he used to dress himself and go about as he pleased. But when Peter would grow old, another would \u201cstretch out his hands\u201d \u2014 a Greek euphemism for crucifixion \u2014 and lead him to a place he didn\u2019t want to go, something, St. John said, was indicating the type of death by which Peter would glorify God. Jesus was telling him, \u201cEven if you don\u2019t want to say again publicly that you love me enough to die for me, you will love me that way, even being crucified for me.\u201d And Jesus to emphasize the point said to him, \u201cFollow me,\u201d because Peter would follow him all the way.<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s the lesson for us? Each of us, too, has had times when we haven\u2019t been faithful to God, but no matter what our falls, Jesus wants to restore us to be capable of a love like his, of a total self-giving love in response to Jesus\u2019 love for us. And he indicates to Peter and to us how to show it, but feeding his lambs and sheep, and tending his flock. In other words, the way we would demonstrate our love for him would be by sacrificing ourselves, by giving of ourselves, out of love for those he loved so much to die for. Jesus didn\u2019t say, \u201cLove me as I have loved you,\u201d but \u201cLove one another as I have loved you,\u201d because our love for him would be shown in our love for his flock.<\/li>\n<li>Paul, who was on trial in today\u2019s first reading because of his love for Jesus and for Jesus\u2019 sheep and lambs, wrote to the Corinthians of the importance of this type of agape. He said that if we have faith to move mountains, if we even give our bodies over to the torturers in defense of the faith \u2014 like today\u2019s Pope St. John I did in the early sixth century \u2014 but don\u2019t have love, we are just a noisy gong and a clashing cymbal. We could update his language in 21st\u00a0century terms. For me and my colleagues at the Mission, if\u00a0we become the greatest interns, or diplomat, or Nuncio in the history of the Holy See to the United Nations, if we give stunning discourses, if we convert all the employees of UN Women and the UNFPA to become zealous pro-lifers and succeed single handedly in bringing peace between Israel and Palestine, but don\u2019t do so with agape, we are, St. Paul says, just making noise. For you, as Sisters, if you have a personality like no one before in speaking to the guests, but don\u2019t do so with love, you\u2019ll gain nothing. Everything we do is meant to be an expression of the love we receive from Jesus that he sends us out to share. This Mission is an extension of the self-giving love of Jesus.<\/li>\n<li>To love by Jesus\u2019 standard isn\u2019t easy and Jesus knows it. St. Peter himself learned it the hard way. But Jesus gave us two gifts to make that type of love possible.<\/li>\n<li>The first is the gift we\u2019re preparing to receive anew on Sunday, which is the feast of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit came down upon Peter, the Apostles, Mary and the members of the early Church as tongues of fire, so that with ardent love they might give witness to the faith. The Holy Spirit changed Peter from an apostate to an apostle, from a chicken to a shepherd. He upgraded his love from philia to agape and strengthened him by the gift of courage to remain faithful. And the Holy Spirit seeks to work the same moral miracle in us.<\/li>\n<li>The second is the gift of Jesus Himself in the Eucharist. Jesus himself enters us with his own love so that from the inside we are able to love others with the total gift of ourselves in communion with him. He who says to us with love, \u201cThis is my Body given for you, this is the Chalice of my Blood poured out for you,\u201d strengthens us from within to echo in our own lives his words, so that we may give our body, our soul, our sweat, our lives loving others with the same love we here receive.<\/li>\n<li>So today Jesus calls each of us by name like he called Simon Peter and asks, \u201cDo you love me?\u201d May each of us today be strengthened by the Holy Spirit not just here but throughout the day to reply, \u201cYes, Lord, you know that I love you with a total self-sacrificial gift of love\u201d by the way we love the lambs and sheep he entrusts to our shepherdly care.<\/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 href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/25:13\">ACTS 25:13B-21<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea<br \/>\non a visit to Festus.<br \/>\nSince they spent several days there,<br \/>\nFestus referred Paul\u2019s case to the king, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cThere is a man here left in custody by Felix.<br \/>\nWhen I was in Jerusalem the chief priests and the elders of the Jews<br \/>\nbrought charges against him and demanded his condemnation.<br \/>\nI answered them that it was not Roman practice<br \/>\nto hand over an accused person before he has faced his accusers<br \/>\nand had the opportunity to defend himself against their charge.<br \/>\nSo when they came together here, I made no delay;<br \/>\nthe next day I took my seat on the tribunal<br \/>\nand ordered the man to be brought in.<br \/>\nHis accusers stood around him,<br \/>\nbut did not charge him with any of the crimes I suspected.<br \/>\nInstead they had some issues with him about their own religion<br \/>\nand about a certain Jesus who had died<br \/>\nbut who Paul claimed was alive.<br \/>\nSince I was at a loss how to investigate this controversy,<br \/>\nI asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem<br \/>\nand there stand trial on these charges.<br \/>\nAnd when Paul appealed that he be held in custody<br \/>\nfor the Emperor\u2019s decision,<br \/>\nI ordered him held until I could send him to Caesar.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/103:1\">PS 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20AB<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (19a)\u00a0The Lord has established his throne in heaven.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nBless the LORD, O my soul;<br \/>\nand all my being, bless his holy name.<br \/>\nBless the LORD, O my soul,<br \/>\nand forget not all his benefits.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has established his throne in heaven.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nFor as the heavens are high above the earth,<br \/>\nso surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him.<br \/>\nAs far as the east is from the west,<br \/>\nso far has he put our transgressions from us.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has established his throne in heaven.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nThe LORD has established his throne in heaven,<br \/>\nand his kingdom rules over all.<br \/>\nBless the LORD, all you his angels,<br \/>\nyou mighty in strength, who do his bidding.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has established his throne in heaven.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/14:26\">JN 14:26<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nThe Holy Spirit will teach you everything<br \/>\nand remind you of all I told you.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/21:15\">JN 21:15-19<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">After Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them,<br \/>\nhe said to Simon Peter,<br \/>\n\u201cSimon, son of John, do you love me more than these?\u201d<br \/>\nSimon Peter answered him, \u201cYes, Lord, you know that I love you.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to him, \u201cFeed my lambs.\u201d<br \/>\nHe then said to Simon Peter a second time,<br \/>\n\u201cSimon, son of John, do you love me?\u201d<br \/>\nSimon Peter answered him, \u201cYes, Lord, you know that I love you.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said to him, \u201cTend my sheep.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said to him the third time,<br \/>\n\u201cSimon, son of John, do you love me?\u201d<br \/>\nPeter was distressed that he had said to him a third time,<br \/>\n\u201cDo you love me?\u201d and he said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cLord, you know everything; you know that I love you.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to him, \u201cFeed my sheep.<br \/>\nAmen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger,<br \/>\nyou used to dress yourself and go where you wanted;<br \/>\nbut when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands,<br \/>\nand someone else will dress you<br \/>\nand lead you where you do not want to go.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God.<br \/>\nAnd when he had said this, he said to him, \u201cFollow me.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jesus-Peter-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15521\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jesus-Peter-2.jpg?resize=214%2C299&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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