{"id":16040,"date":"2018-09-05T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=16040"},"modified":"2018-09-05T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:53:10","slug":"becoming-spiritually-mature-like-st-teresa-of-calcutta-22nd-wednesday-ii-september-5-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/becoming-spiritually-mature-like-st-teresa-of-calcutta-22nd-wednesday-ii-september-5-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Spiritually Mature like St. Teresa of Calcutta, 22nd Wednesday (II), September 5, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nWednesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Teresa of Calcutta<br \/>\nSeptember 5, 2018<br \/>\n1 Cor 3:1-9, Ps 33, Lk 4:38-44<\/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-16040-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9.5.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9.5.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9.5.18-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>St. Paul in today\u2019s first reading points to the type of spiritual growth he was seeking to help catalyze among the Christians in Corinth, something that points to the spiritual growth God would like to see in all of us. He began by saying that when he was first evangelizing them, he needed to care for them spiritually the way parents care for newborns. \u201cI could not talk to you as spiritual people but as fleshly people, as infants in Christ. I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable to take it.\u201d That\u2019s the way it is whenever we try to pass on the faith to young children. We don\u2019t give them a copy of the adult Catechism of the Catholic Church. We speak to them very simply about God, about prayer, about charity, about the Bible, about the Sacraments. We \u201cbreast feed\u201d them, digesting the truths of the faith and passing these truths\u00a0on to them in ways they can assimilate.\u00a0But we don\u2019t want them to stay there. Just like a little child passes from milk to Gerber\u2019s \u00a0to normal food for children to more healthy food for growing children to the challenging cuisine of adults, so a similar\u00a0passage is meant to happen in us spiritually. And St. Paul was saying that that\u2019s what was not happening among the Corinthians. \u201cIndeed you are still not able [to take solid food], even now, because you are still of the flesh.\u201d They were living according to their earthly, fleshy desires, instead of living according to the Spirit. He then says why: \u201cThere is jealousy and rivalry among you.\u201d Such things are not manifestations of a life according to God. We\u2019re called to look at each other as brothers and sisters, not as competition, and we\u2019re supposed to be happy to see them grow and thrive, not jealous. When we\u2019re living by the Spirit, we love each other rather than resent each other.<\/li>\n<li>St. Paul gets specific about the envy and contention that was dividing the community: Some were saying \u201cI belong to Paul\u201d and others \u201cI belong to Apollos\u201d and later, as we\u2019ll see, \u201cI belong to Cephas\u201d (Peter). St. Paul is clear that that\u2019s the talk and behavior of spiritual infants, siding according to their preferences with \u201cministers through whom [they] became believers\u201d instead of to the Lord who sent them to them and who caused the growth. They were focusing on earthly likes and dislikes rather than on God and St. Paul wanted to provoke them by his strong language to grow up.\u00a0There are many similar issues of living according to the flesh in a childish (rather than childlike) way\u00a0that afflict the Christians of today, especially here in the United States. In an age of spiritual consumerism, people are led to focus more on their personal preferences rather than God when it comes to which Church they attend, which music is their favorite, which pew they want to sit in and more. Many pick and choose among popes, or bishops, or priests, or Church councils, rather than receive with gratitude and follow all the Lord sends. People define themselves less with the Lord than with the instruments of the Lord who most meet their tastes. We see it even more with those who define themselves too much with the adjectives they put to their \u201cCatholicism,\u201d whether liberal, progressive, traditional, conservative or others, rather than with the faith that transcends any constricting label. And that\u2019s why there is still so much \u201cjealousy and rivalry\u201d in parishes, dioceses and the Church, when Jesus prayed and worked that we might have a unity as profound as the unity among the Persons of the Blessed Trinity (Jn 17). Many people are still immature in their understanding and living of the faith and there\u2019s a need for all of us to receive God\u2019s help to grow in a healthy way so that we may live truly by the Spirit.<\/li>\n<li>This is particularly an issue with the present scandals that face the Church. It&#8217;s become far easier for Catholics to say they side with Pope Francis or Pope-emeritus Benedict or Archbishop Vigan\u00f2 or Cardinal Wuerl or Cardinal Cupich or Bishop Morlino, etc. There&#8217;s spiritual immaturity abounding all around, as so many identify with ministers more than with Christ, his word, his holiness, his love for his Bride, his whole teaching. True spiritual maturity means that we are focused more on Christ than we are on the filth, more on his risen presence with us than on the sins that led to his crucifixion and death. And people need in a particular way to see bishops, priests, and religious show this type of spiritual maturity to help them transcend the factions that are growing: without this spiritual maturity we&#8217;re really not going to be able to address the scandals at their root.<\/li>\n<li>In the Gospel today, we see in Jesus three manifestations of spiritual maturity. Insofar as each of us is called to grow to full stature in Christ (Eph 4:13), we need to examine each of these and resolve to live them.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The first is in mature,\u00a0self-sacrificial\u00a0charity. Even though Jesus\u00a0was doubtless tired from teaching in the Capernaum synagogue, he responded readily when the disciples interceded with him to help Simon\u2019s mother-in-law who was\u00a0in the grip of a serious fever (think of 103 degrees). After curing her, word spread throughout all the town and at \u201csunset,\u201d when he was probably getting ready to wind down for the day, \u201call who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him\u201d and \u201che laid his hands on each of them and cured them.\u201d It would have been easy, if he were living according to the flesh, to ask everyone to come back the following day. It would have been easy for him, by his power as God, simply to do a \u201cgroup healing\u201d and cure them all in a way that would have saved him hours, but the Good Shepherd knows each of us his sheep by name and he went one-by-one to cure each of them and cast out demons from those who were possessed. This is a great sign of spiritual maturity, that you put others ahead of yourself. We witness that type of spiritual maturity in Simon Peter\u2019s mother-in-law.\u00a0As soon as she was cured by Jesus, she used her health not to run the errands she couldn\u2019t get to during her days in bed, not to divert herself in the ways many of us look to do, but instead to serve\u00a0them. St. Luke says \u201cShe got up immediately and waited on them.\u201d Our health is a blessing from God that we\u2019re not supposed to look at selfishly, but as a blessing to help us love others. When we\u2019re very ill, when we\u2019re bedridden, when we\u2019re in the hospital and especially when we\u2019re dead, we no longer can help others the way we ought. The spiritually mature don\u2019t take their health for granted, the spiritually mature don\u2019t waste their health in perpetually seeking to \u201chave a good time\u201d and to give into various degrees of hedonism, but\u00a0endeavor to use it to love God and others.<\/li>\n<li>The second habit of the spiritually mature is in making the time to pray, even when tired. Jesus\u00a0went out \u201cat daybreak\u201d to a \u201cdeserted place\u201d to pray. Those who are spiritually mature have their priorities straight and for Jesus prayer was a higher priority than \u201csleeping the fat morning\u201d as the French are accustomed to say<em>\u00a0<\/em>A great sign of being a spiritual adult is when we are able to put God ahead of our human appetites, and one of the strongest appetites is to be like little children who never want to get out of bed. For the mature, getting out of bed to do the \u201cwork of God\u201d is something that isn\u2019t necessarily easy physically, but it\u2019s a no-brainer spiritually,\u00a0in a similar way to how a mature parent gets out of bed in the middle of the night to care for a crying child.<\/li>\n<li>The third illustration of spiritual maturity\u00a0we notice is that when the crowds came looking for Jesus\u00a0and tried to prevent him from leaving, he said, \u201cTo the other towns also I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent.\u201d Jesus\u00a0would have had it made\u00a0staying there in Capernaum. He had just cured and exorcised many in the town, the people were amazed and astonished at his preaching, and he would\u00a0probably\u00a0have been elected mayor in a landslide! But he didn\u2019t forget his mission. He was sent for the lost sheep of the house of Israel and he needed to go out looking for the lost sheep rather than staying with the fold that would have made him as comfortable as anyone would want. There\u2019s a great lesson here for us about putting the mission God has given us above our likes and dislikes and being willing to leave our comfort zones for God. That\u2019s something those who are led by the Spirit do. That\u2019s something the spiritually mature do. This is an important lesson for us at a time of transfers in your religious community. For those of you have just moved here, you may have preferred to stay where you are. For those of you who have remained here, you may be struggling with the transfer of someone to another convent whom you very much miss. But the key thing to recall is that we and others in the kingdom often need to go to \u201cother towns\u201d because that\u2019s the \u201cpurpose\u201d for which God has called and sent us.<\/li>\n<li>St. Teresa of Calcutta, who died 21 years ago today and whose feast the Church celebrates today with great joy, was someone who was deeply spiritually mature in these three ways and many others. Her life was a growth in charity, from her life at home, to her work bringing the light of the truth to the poor in India as a Sister of Loreto for 18 years, to her 51 years as a Missionary of Charity serving the poorest of the poor. Her life was also a manifestation of prayer, getting up at 4 pm to pray, because she grasped that unless she was able to see God in prayer, particularly in the Eucharist, she&#8217;d never find him in distressing disguise. She also had a zeal to spread knowledge and love of the King to all places. She was captivated by Christ&#8217;s thirst for souls, which meant something far greater than love: he didn&#8217;t want to live without them, without us. That&#8217;s what moved him to go from place to place and move her. The spirit of the Missionaries of Charity was, she said, one of loving trust, total surrender and cheerfulness as lived by Jesus and Mary in the Gospels, and the MCs continue to seek to satiate Christ&#8217;s infinite thirst by sharing it and helping others to share it and receive it.<\/li>\n<li>When we were younger, God fed us with &#8220;milk&#8221; but now he feeds us with Himself, the food that will bring us to mature to the \u201cfull stature of Christ\u201d (Eph 4:13) whom we are about to receive. This is what helped make St. Teresa holy. This is what both quenched her thirst and paradoxically made it insatiable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a id=\"\/bible\/1corinthians\/3:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=87536dfcb2&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">1 cor 3:1-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Brothers and sisters,<br \/>\nI could not talk to you as spiritual people,<br \/>\nbut as fleshly people, as infants in Christ.<br \/>\nI fed you milk, not solid food,<br \/>\nbecause you were unable to take it.<br \/>\nIndeed, you are still not able, even now,<br \/>\nfor you are still of the flesh.<br \/>\nWhile there is jealousy and rivalry among you,<br \/>\nare you not of the flesh, and walking<br \/>\naccording to the manner of man?<br \/>\nWhenever someone says, \u201cI belong to Paul,\u201d and another,<br \/>\n\u201cI belong to Apollos,\u201d are you not merely men?<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">What is Apollos, after all, and what is Paul?<br \/>\nMinisters through whom you became believers,<br \/>\njust as the Lord assigned each one.<br \/>\nI planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth.<br \/>\nTherefore, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything,<br \/>\nbut only God, who causes the growth.<br \/>\nHe who plants and he who waters are one,<br \/>\nand each will receive wages in proportion to his labor.<br \/>\nFor we are God\u2019s co-workers;<br \/>\nyou are God\u2019s field, God\u2019s building.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/33:12|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=257d074734&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">ps 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (12)\u00a0<strong>Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.<\/strong><br \/>\nBlessed the nation whose God is the LORD,<br \/>\nthe people he has chosen for his own inheritance.<br \/>\nFrom heaven the LORD looks down;<br \/>\nhe sees all mankind.<br \/>\nR.<strong>\u00a0Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom his fixed throne he beholds<br \/>\nall who dwell on the earth,<br \/>\nHe who fashioned the heart of each,<br \/>\nhe who knows all their works.<br \/>\nR.<strong>\u00a0Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.<\/strong><br \/>\nOur soul waits for the LORD,<br \/>\nwho is our help and our shield,<br \/>\nFor in him our hearts rejoice;<br \/>\nin his holy name we trust.<br \/>\nR.<strong>\u00a0Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/4:38|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=df52e813fa&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">lk 4:38-44<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon.<br \/>\nSimon\u2019s mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever,<br \/>\nand they interceded with him about her.<br \/>\nHe stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her.<br \/>\nShe got up immediately and waited on them.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">At sunset, all who had people sick with various diseases<br \/>\nbrought them to him.<br \/>\nHe laid his hands on each of them and cured them.<br \/>\nAnd demons also came out from many, shouting, \u201cYou are the Son of God.\u201d<br \/>\nBut he rebuked them and did not allow them to speak<br \/>\nbecause they knew that he was the Christ.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">At daybreak, Jesus left and went to a deserted place.<br \/>\nThe crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him,<br \/>\nthey tried to prevent him from leaving them.<br \/>\nBut he said to them, \u201cTo the other towns also<br \/>\nI must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God,<br \/>\nbecause for this purpose I have been sent.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20556ptsphotoshottwo844706.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16043\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20556ptsphotoshottwo844706.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20556ptsphotoshottwo844706.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20556ptsphotoshottwo844706.jpg?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20556ptsphotoshottwo844706.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20556ptsphotoshottwo844706.jpg?w=822&amp;ssl=1 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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Landry Visitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Wednesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II Memorial of St. Teresa of Calcutta September 5, 2018 1 Cor 3:1-9, Ps 33, Lk 4:38-44 &nbsp; To listen to an audio recording of this homily, please click below:\u00a0 &nbsp; The\u00a0following points were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10723,1063,3,4],"tags":[6576,6579,6580,6577,6583,6592,6585,6587,1896,6582,1322,53,2067,140,6586,6581,4684,9856,6588],"class_list":["post-16040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-2018-year-ii","category-audio-homily","category-homily","category-year-ii","tag-1-cor-31-9","tag-apollos","tag-cephas","tag-corinthians","tag-fleshly","tag-full-statue-of-christ","tag-jealousy-and-rivalry","tag-jesus-curing-one-by-one","tag-jesus-prayer","tag-led-by-the-spirit","tag-lk-438-44","tag-missionaries-of-charity","tag-paul","tag-ps-33","tag-simons-mother-in-law","tag-spiritual","tag-spiritual-maturity","tag-st-teresa-of-calcutta","tag-using-good-health-to-serve"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Becoming Spiritually Mature like St. Teresa of Calcutta, 22nd Wednesday (II), September 5, 2018 - Catholic Preaching<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/becoming-spiritually-mature-like-st-teresa-of-calcutta-22nd-wednesday-ii-september-5-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Becoming Spiritually Mature like St. Teresa of Calcutta, 22nd Wednesday (II), September 5, 2018 - Catholic Preaching\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fr. 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