{"id":15976,"date":"2018-07-25T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=15976"},"modified":"2019-07-25T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T10:07:00","slug":"christ-like-ambition-for-self-giving-in-marriage-and-in-life-feast-of-st-james-july-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/christ-like-ambition-for-self-giving-in-marriage-and-in-life-feast-of-st-james-july-25-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ-Like Ambition for Self-Giving in Marriage and in Life, Feast of St. James, July 25, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nFeast of St. James the Apostle<br \/>\nFiftieth Anniversary of <em>Humanae Vitae<\/em><br \/>\nJuly 25, 2018<br \/>\n2 Cor 4:7-15, Ps 126, Mt 20:20-28<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio homily of today\u2019s homily, please click below:<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-15976-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7.25.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7.25.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7.25.18-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>Every summer tens of thousands of people from around the world, from devout Catholics to agnostics trying to take a journey to find themselves, make the 478 mile <em>Camino de Santiago\u00a0<\/em>in Spain to the tomb of St. James the Apostle whose feast we celebrate today. Today, we\u2019re not in Spain, but we\u2019re asked to make what I would call the true way of St. James, following his footsteps as he sought to follow the Lord\u2019s, knowing that this sainted apostle is praying for us that we may indeed take that root.<\/li>\n<li>The Way of St. James begins at the seashore of Galilee when the apostle left his boats, his fish, his parents to respond to Jesus\u2019 call \u201cfollow me!\u201d and he kept following Jesus not only in the occasions he shared with all of the apostles, but when Jesus called him, his brother John and Peter, apart from the rest to cure Peter\u2019s mother in law, to raise the daughter of Jairus from the dead, to be transfigured among them, and to pray in the Garden that, if it be the Father\u2019s will, the chalice of suffering God the Father was giving\u00a0him might be taken away. For us to follow the way of St. James, we, too, must follow Jesus, leaving other things behind; to follow him to the sick; to follow him to the dead and mourning; to follow him on the happy moments; to follow him into the moments of great suffering.<\/li>\n<li>To do that, we need to have our desires, our ambitions, our longings transformed just like St. James did. In today\u2019s Gospel, after his mother asks whether\u00a0James and John could have the choicest positions in Jesus\u2019 messianic administration, Jesus asks, \u201cCan you drink the chalice I am to drink?,\u201d the chalice Jesus would reveal in Gethsemane he would rather have taken from him, the chalice of suffering foretold in Isaiah\u2019s suffering servant song. They both responded with zeal, \u201cWe can,\u201d and Jesus confirmed that they would, but they would be able to do so only through a humble acceptance of the power of the Holy Spirit after Pentecost, since we know both refused to drink it with Jesus on Holy Thursday night. That chalice is a death to ourselves so that Christ can rise, it\u2019s a joining him in giving our life as a ransom for all, becoming with him a servant and slave of the rest, starting from serving those \u201camong us\u201d rather than neglecting them to serve neighbors elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>That path of self-sacrificial loving service is, of drinking Christ\u2019s chalice,\u00a0St. Paul tells us in today\u2019s first reading, paradoxically the path to life. He says that we are \u201calways carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body,\u201d that \u201cwe who live are constantly being given up to death for the sake of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.\u201d For Christ &#8220;dying&#8221; is the process of total self-giving: &#8220;No one has greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.&#8221; We are called constantly to live Christ&#8217;s dying, his self-giving, so that his real risen life can shine. All of our sufferings are an opportunity for us to die to ourselves so that the love of Christ risen from the dead can become more manifested in our \u201cearthen vessels.\u201d That\u2019s the chalice we must consume. It\u2019s a bitter one of suffering at first but in the consumption and the living it is transformed into truly sweet and overflowing, as love is. This is part of the way of St. James, to drink that chalice, become true servants of the rest, and manifest the dying, rising and living of Jesus in our own life.<\/li>\n<li>Today as the Church marks the 50th anniversary of the Blessed Paul VI&#8217;s <em>Humanae Vitae<\/em>, it&#8217;s an opportunity for us to recognize that just as in the Christian life we&#8217;re called to drink the chalice of Christ like self-giving love, so in marriage. In HV 9, Pope Paul VI described how marital love, modeled on Christ&#8217;s spousal love, is to be free, full, faithful and fruitful. The use of contraception, on the other hand, does not involve this type of loving self-giving to God or to one&#8217;s spouse, but rather a built-in rejection of the maternal or paternal meaning of the man&#8217;s or woman&#8217;s body in the very act made by God for it to be maximally expressed. I saw a comment to an article I wrote yesterday commemorating <em>Humanae Vitae<\/em>&#8216;s 25th anniversary saying, &#8220;You have to admit that Catholic couples have it much harder than their non-Catholic contemporaries.&#8221; There would be a lot one could say in response to that, but I&#8217;d like to get right to the core of it: yes, to be a Catholic brings with it higher demands. When a Catholic bride processes down the aisle, she passes the Stations of the Cross and heads toward the Crucifix. St. Paul instructs husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the Church, and Christ was crucified out of love for the Church. So it may be &#8220;harder,&#8221; but Jesus didn&#8217;t promise any of us in any state of life an easy path. He promised us that he would be with us on that narrow road. Christian marriage is an opportunity for spouses to learn how to love each other as Christ loves them, to serve rather than be served, to give their life as a ransom for the other&#8217;s eternity, to carry about the self-giving dying to self of Jesus so that the real life of Jesus may be manifested in their bodies and the children with which God blesses them. Today on the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, we pray for all married couples that the\u00a0&#8220;grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people,&#8221; as more and more come to discover that there&#8217;s a better way to live marriage than with contraception, &#8220;may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The way we learn with St. James to drink that chalice is every day at Mass, when we are given a chance to hear Christ saying, in a slightly different way each day, \u201cfollow me!,\u201d and then, united to him, we are able to go out to give our life as a ransom to save others\u2019 lives, serving them and becoming great with St. James. That\u2019s the chalice of blessing we have, which is a participation in Christ\u2019s blood (1 Cor 10:16). This is the sacrifice in which St. James participated on Holy Thursday and later would celebrate with the first Christians. This is the source and summit of the <em>Camino<\/em> on earth. May St. James intercede for us that we may follow his\u00a0<em>Camino\u00a0<\/em>all the way to Jesus\u2019 eternal right side where he seeks to make our chalice forever overflow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Today\u2019s readings were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Reading 1<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_3684\">\n<div>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/2corinthians\/4:7\">2 COR 4:7-15<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nWe hold this treasure in earthen vessels,<br \/>\nthat the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.<br \/>\nWe are afflicted in every way, but not constrained;<br \/>\nperplexed, but not driven to despair;<br \/>\npersecuted, but not abandoned;<br \/>\nstruck down, but not destroyed;<br \/>\nalways carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus,<br \/>\nso that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.<br \/>\nFor we who live are constantly being given up to death<br \/>\nfor the sake of Jesus,<br \/>\nso that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.<\/div>\n<div>So death is at work in us, but life in you.<br \/>\nSince, then, we have the same spirit of faith,<br \/>\naccording to what is written,\u00a0<em>I believed, therefore I spoke,<\/em><br \/>\nwe too believe and therefore speak,<br \/>\nknowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus<br \/>\nwill raise us also with Jesus<br \/>\nand place us with you in his presence.<br \/>\nEverything indeed is for you,<br \/>\nso that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people<br \/>\nmay cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/psalms\/126:1\">PS 126:1BC-2AB, 2CD-3, 4-5, 6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (5)\u00a0<strong>Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen the LORD brought back the captives of Zion,<br \/>\nwe were like men dreaming.<br \/>\nThen our mouth was filled with laughter,<br \/>\nand our tongue with rejoicing.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.<\/strong><br \/>\nThen they said among the nations,<br \/>\n\u201cThe LORD has done great things for them.\u201d<br \/>\nThe LORD has done great things for us;<br \/>\nwe are glad indeed.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.<\/strong><br \/>\nRestore our fortunes, O LORD,<br \/>\nlike the torrents in the southern desert.<br \/>\nThose that sow in tears<br \/>\nshall reap rejoicing.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough they go forth weeping,<br \/>\ncarrying the seed to be sown,<br \/>\nThey shall come back rejoicing,<br \/>\ncarrying their sheaves.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/matthew\/20:20\">MT 20:20-28<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>The mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sons<br \/>\nand did him homage, wishing to ask him for something.<br \/>\nHe said to her,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you wish?\u201d<br \/>\nShe answered him,<br \/>\n\u201cCommand that these two sons of mine sit,<br \/>\none at your right and the other at your left, in your Kingdom.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cYou do not know what you are asking.<br \/>\nCan you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?\u201d<br \/>\nThey said to him, \u201cWe can.\u201d<br \/>\nHe replied,<br \/>\n\u201cMy chalice you will indeed drink,<br \/>\nbut to sit at my right and at my left, this is not mine to give<br \/>\nbut is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen the ten heard this,<br \/>\nthey became indignant at the two brothers.<br \/>\nBut Jesus summoned them and said,<br \/>\n\u201cYou know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them,<br \/>\nand the great ones make their authority over them felt.<br \/>\nBut it shall not be so among you.<br \/>\nRather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant;<br \/>\nwhoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave.<br \/>\nJust so, the Son of Man did not come to be served<br \/>\nbut to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/saint-james-the-greater-el-greco.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15977\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/saint-james-the-greater-el-greco.jpg?resize=168%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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