{"id":15789,"date":"2018-07-09T08:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=15789"},"modified":"2018-07-09T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:47:39","slug":"touched-and-transformed-by-gods-spousal-love-14th-monday-ii-july-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/touched-and-transformed-by-gods-spousal-love-14th-monday-ii-july-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Touched and Transformed by God&#8217;s Spousal Love, 14th Monday (II), July 9, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions, Martyrs of China<br \/>\nJuly 9, 2018<br \/>\nHos 2:16-18.21-22, Ps 145, Mt 9:18-26<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>To listen to an audio\u00a0recording\u00a0of today&#8217;s homily,\u00a0please click below:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-15789-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7.9.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7.9.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7.9.18-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>God reveals his love in Hosea and Isaiah as spousal, a thing of choice, as a willing forgiveness of adultery. Our relationship with God should be marked not just with reverence for a Creator, God and Lord, but also by spousal affection for someone who has chosen us to be his despite our unworthiness. Our whole Christian life must be marked by the sense of being loved by God and loving him back.<\/li>\n<li>We see the particular love of God incarnate in Jesus Christ in his care for Jairus, for his daughter, and for the woman with the hemorrhage. They were not just other people, but ones loved particularly. Jesus responded immediately to Jairus&#8217; petition. He called the little girl by name and gave her a foretaste of his resurrection. He asked that she be given something to eat. With the anonymous woman, he wanted to meet her so that he could give her the gift of salvation by faith. He loved them all individually.<\/li>\n<li>We see that spousal love in the Chinese Martyrs. They were not just giving witness to the truth about God but were responding with love to his love: no one has any greater love than to lay down one&#8217;s life for his friends, and just as Jesus spousally died for them, they were willing to die for him. Altogether we mark today 120 martyrs,\u00a0St. Augustine Zhao Rong and his 119 companions, some of the thousands of martyrs in China from 1648 to 2000. Whenever the Church beatifies or canonizes large groups of martyrs, they always look for one who will be the \u201clead\u201d name. It\u2019s almost always a native son rather than a missionary (and today we celebrate 87 Chinese \u2014 \u00a0children, parents, catechists or laborers, ranging from nine years of age to 72 and\u00a0four Chinese diocesan priests \u2014 and 33 missionaries to\u00a0China, priests and women religious,\u00a0especially from the Order of Preachers, the Paris Foreign Mission Society, the Friars Minor, Jesuits, Salesians and Franciscan Missionaries of Mary)\u00a0and one who, in a sense, summarizes and synthesizes the beauty of the faith, hope and love of all of them. There were so many candidates for the Chinese martyrs. There would have been great fittingness in my opinion if the Vatican had selected St.\u00a0Chi Zhuzi, an 18 year-old boy who had been preparing to receive the sacrament of Baptism when he was caught on the road one night and ordered to worship idols. He refused to do so, revealing his belief in Christ. His right arm was cut off and he was tortured, but he would not deny his faith. Rather, he fearlessly pronounced to his captors, before being flayed alive, \u201cEvery piece of my flesh, every drop of my blood will tell you that I am Christian.\u201d But the Vatican chose St. Augustine Zhao Rong, who was the first native born Chinese priest to be martyred. And the story of his ascent to the altars on earth, as a priest and as a saint, is one of the most memorable in hagiography.\u00a0In 1815, he was a 30 year old soldier escorting French Missionary Bishop Saint John Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse on an infamous Chinese death march from Chendu to Beijing where he would be martyred. He was so moved by the bishop\u2019s patience, his forgiving those who struck him with blows, whipped him with cords and pushed him to the ground, his prayer and his joy along the death march that after the journey, he asked what he needed to do to become a Christian. Once baptized, he asked who would be able to celebrate the sacraments for the people after so many missionary priests had been killed. When he realized that people might live and die without the sacraments, he asked to go to the seminary, even though to be a priest was to basically live under a death sentence. He journeyed to Macao, where they gave him an expedited course and, because the few bishops left who could ordain priests could be arrested and killed at any moment, he was ordained right away, intending that he would continue to learn what he needed on the fly. But he was soon himself arrested after he had begun his priestly ministrations, and then tortured and martyred. He had gone from pagan soldier to baptized Christian to priest to martyr within three months, such was the power of Bishop Dufresse\u2019s faith on the death march, which the bishop transformed into the way to the eternal Jerusalem; such was also the love of God that made Bishop Dufresne so courageous, the contagious love that captivated Zhao Rong. And his own conversion and example of love for God inspired many other Chinese people to come to the faith after him. It&#8217;s an incredible love story.<\/li>\n<li>The Mass is the consummation of the spousal union between Christ the Bridegroom and his Bride the Church as we become one flesh with the Lord. This is the means by which God each day not only reminds us of his love but fills us with it. This is the place where we come to love him back, with all our mind, heart, soul and strength, and unite with him in loving our neighbor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"cs_control_3684\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/Hosea\/2:16\">HOS 2:16, 17C-18, 21-22<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Thus says the LORD:<br \/>\nI will allure her;<br \/>\nI will lead her into the desert<br \/>\nand speak to her heart.<br \/>\nShe shall respond there as in the days of her youth,<br \/>\nwhen she came up from the land of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>On that day, says the LORD,<br \/>\nShe shall call me \u201cMy husband,\u201d<br \/>\nand never again \u201cMy baal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I will espouse you to me forever:<br \/>\nI will espouse you in right and in justice,<br \/>\nin love and in mercy;<br \/>\nI will espouse you in fidelity,<br \/>\nand you shall know the LORD.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228452\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/psalms\/145:2\">PS 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (8a) <strong>The Lord is gracious and merciful.<\/strong><br \/>\nEvery day will I bless you,<br \/>\nand I will praise your name forever and ever.<br \/>\nGreat is the LORD and highly to be praised;<br \/>\nhis greatness is unsearchable.<br \/>\nR. <strong>The Lord is gracious and merciful.<\/strong><br \/>\nGeneration after generation praises your works<br \/>\nand proclaims your might.<br \/>\nThey speak of the splendor of your glorious majesty<br \/>\nand tell of your wondrous works.<br \/>\nR.<strong> The Lord is gracious and merciful.<\/strong><br \/>\nThey discourse of the power of your terrible deeds<br \/>\nand declare your greatness.<br \/>\nThey publish the fame of your abundant goodness<br \/>\nand joyfully sing of your justice.<br \/>\nR.<strong> The Lord is gracious and merciful.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe LORD is gracious and merciful,<br \/>\nslow to anger and of great kindness.<br \/>\nThe LORD is good to all<br \/>\nand compassionate toward all his works.<br \/>\nR. <strong>The Lord is gracious and merciful.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228454\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Alleluia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/2Timothy\/1:10\">SEE 2 TM 1:10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nOur Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death<br \/>\nand brought life to light through the Gospel.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228453\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/matthew\/9:18\">MT 9:18-26<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">While Jesus was speaking, an official came forward,<br \/>\nknelt down before him, and said,<br \/>\n\u201cMy daughter has just died.<br \/>\nBut come, lay your hand on her, and she will live.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus rose and followed him, and so did his disciples.<br \/>\nA woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him<br \/>\nand touched the tassel on his cloak.<br \/>\nShe said to herself, \u201cIf only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus turned around and saw her, and said,<br \/>\n\u201cCourage, daughter! Your faith has saved you.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd from that hour the woman was cured.<\/p>\n<p>When Jesus arrived at the official\u2019s house<br \/>\nand saw the flute players and the crowd who were making a commotion,<br \/>\nhe said, \u201cGo away! The girl is not dead but sleeping.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd they ridiculed him.<br \/>\nWhen the crowd was put out, he came and took her by the hand,<br \/>\nand the little girl arose.<br \/>\nAnd news of this spread throughout all that land.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chinesemartyrschernyak.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15791\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chinesemartyrschernyak.jpg?resize=263%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chinesemartyrschernyak.jpg?resize=263%2C300&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chinesemartyrschernyak.jpg?resize=768%2C875&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chinesemartyrschernyak.jpg?resize=640%2C729&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chinesemartyrschernyak.jpg?w=878&amp;ssl=1 878w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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