{"id":16164,"date":"2018-09-25T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=16164"},"modified":"2018-09-25T07:45:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:45:20","slug":"the-word-of-god-and-the-making-of-familial-communion-25th-tuesday-ii-september-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-word-of-god-and-the-making-of-familial-communion-25th-tuesday-ii-september-25-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word of God and the Making of Familial Communion, 25th Tuesday (II), September 25, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nTuesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nSeptember 25, 2018<br \/>\nProv 21:1-6.10-13, Ps 119, Lk 8:19-21<\/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-16164-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9.25.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9.25.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/9.25.18-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>On Saturday, Jesus spoke to us the Parable of the Sower and the Seed, which is a means by which to assess our receptivity and responsiveness to Christ\u2019s words and work in our life. Yesterday we look at how, in order to receive on good soil, we must take care of how we hear, receive God\u2019s word\u00a0as light to be shared, and then act on it in such a way that, like a muscle or a talent, it will grow. Today we see a beautiful illustration of that lesson in the reference to Jesus\u2019 mother, who not just conceived Jesus in her womb, but conceived him in faith. When the people told Jesus that his mother and his relatives (there\u2019s no separate word in Aramaic and Hebrew to distinguish siblings from cousins) were outside wishing to see him, he replied, \u201cMy\u00a0mother and my brothers\u00a0are those who hear the word of God and act on it.\u201d This was not a violation of the fourth commandment and a put down of his mother, but, like we\u2019ll hear later in St. Luke\u2019s Gospel in the scene of the anonymous woman from the crowd blessing the mother who bore and nursed him, Jesus was giving the real secret to his mother\u2019s greatness: she was the first of all those who would \u201chear the word of God and act on it,\u201d someone whose whole life developed in accordance with the word of God.\u00a0Jesus came from heaven to earth to found a family and that family would be constituted by loving obedience to God\u2019s will, together with Jesus\u2019 obedience. St. John in his prologue focused on the connection between these two realities as well: that Jesus came unto his own, but his own did not receive him, but to those who did receive him, he gave power to become children of God. As we accept Jesus by his own grace, he constitutes and confirms us as children of God.<\/li>\n<li>So the first thing we need to ponder today is how we hear and act on the word of God. In Hebrew there is no distinction between &#8220;hear&#8221; and &#8220;obey&#8221; when it comes to God: to hear him speaking as God is to will to obey him. To listen to God and then to evaluate the truthfulness or goodness or helpfulness of what he says would be contradictory. There wasn&#8217;t fully developed by this time St. Paul&#8217;s distinction about the difficulty of doing the good \u2014 of not doing the good we desire or not avoiding the sin we detest \u2014 but I think it&#8217;s still helpful for us to have an attitude that when we listen to God&#8217;s word, we listen to it as words to be done. In the Psalm today, we see the attitude we should have before God&#8217;s word: We want to walk in the Lord&#8217;s law, to understand the way of his precepts, to meditate on his wondrous deeds, to choose the way of truth, to observe his law and keep it with\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>our heart, to delight in the path of God&#8217;s commands and to keep his law continually. This is a life without blame, we say at the beginning of the Psalm. This is the path on which God himself wants to guide us. God&#8217;s word is the GPS of our life, and so much more. In the first reading, the second of three days in two years in which the Church ponders the Book of Proverbs, I&#8217;d like to focus on two of the most relevant pearls of wisdom. The first is, &#8220;To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.&#8221; The way we please the Lord most is not by &#8220;knowing&#8221; but &#8220;doing&#8221; what is right and just, by living in right relationship with him and others. He wants to praise us like he praised Mary for hearing and acting on God&#8217;s word. The second passage is, &#8220;The just man appraises the house of the wicked: there is one who brings down the wicked to ruin.&#8221; Jesus built upon this at the end of the Sermon on the Mount when he talked about the two houses, the first built on the rock of hearing his word and acting upon it, the second built upon the sand of hearing his word and not acting on it. The just man is the one who recognizes that the wicked may have an earthly mansion built but because it has no firm foundation it will collapse when the storms of life come. The just man is able to foresee that ruin from his house built of stone by firmly rooting himself in God&#8217;s word.<\/li>\n<li>The second application of today&#8217;s reading is about communion. Jesus says about the family that he has come to form that it will be a fruit of hearing and doing the Lord&#8217;s word. The communion he prayed for during the Last Supper will come from obedience to God. There is no other way to have the true union for which God has made us all long. Without this shared desire to know and do God&#8217;s word and will, there may be a superficial harmony, but there will never be a communion that will last, and when there&#8217;s clear disobedience, there may very well be great division. I remember once as a high school chaplain, there was great division among the faculty that overflowed into the school. Everyone recognized it. Everyone wanted it fixed. But the real issue was because there, in a Catholic school, there was huge division with regard to people&#8217;s approach to the Catholic faith. Some strove to live it; others stood above it, criticizing it and trying to change it. Part of the reason was because in previous decades the priests who had served in the school had formed the faculty to a large degree in the theology of dissent and when the Diocese took over there were huge struggles whenever people talked about fidelity to the teaching of the Church about Mass, confession, the Ten Commandments, etc. At a faculty meeting I said that if we really wanted a familial union at the school it would start by building all that we were doing on two books: the Bible and the Catechism. Some immediately agreed; others totally rejected. It was sad. The lack of communion was flowing from a lack of &#8220;one faith.&#8221; I&#8217;ve seen the same thing in the priesthood when presbyterates are divided by priests who are faithful disciples and others who do not teach in doctrinal communion or live in moral communion. We&#8217;re seeing the same thing in the divisions in the Church with regard to faith and morals. We have seen the same thing in so many women&#8217;s religious communities divided over ultimately questions of fidelity to God, to the Church, to their constitutions. Today Jesus is helping all of us to recognize his great desire for unity and the deep desire for it that he has planted within will be fulfilled only hearing and doing the word of God.<\/li>\n<li>Today as we celebrate this Mass, the Lord wants to sow his word in our ears, minds and generous hearts, so that we, like Mary, can become his &#8220;mother&#8221; in the faith, conceiving that word within and allowing it to grow until we give birth to it in loving needs; so that we, as his siblings, might imitate and cooperate with his holy obedience.\u00a0As Jesus sows himself within us today, we ask him to help us to stay united and help others to come into a similar communion!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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\/proverbs\/21:1\">PRV 21:1-6, 10-13<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Like a stream is the king\u2019s heart in the hand of the LORD;<br \/>\nwherever it pleases him, he directs it.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">All the ways of a man may be right in his own eyes,<br \/>\nbut it is the LORD who proves hearts.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">To do what is right and just<br \/>\nis more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.<br \/>\nHaughty eyes and a proud heart\u2013the tillage of the wicked is sin.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The plans of the diligent are sure of profit,<br \/>\nbut all rash haste leads certainly to poverty.<br \/>\nWhoever makes a fortune by a lying tongue<br \/>\nis chasing a bubble over deadly snares.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The soul of the wicked man desires evil;<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">his neighbor finds no pity in his eyes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When the arrogant man is punished, the simple are the wiser;<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">when the wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The just man appraises the house of the wicked:<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">there is one who brings down the wicked to ruin.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">will himself also call and not be heard.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/119:1\">PS 119:1, 27, 30, 34, 35, 44<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (35)\u00a0Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.<br \/>\nBlessed are they whose way is blameless,<br \/>\nwho walk in the law of the LORD.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.<br \/>\nMake me understand the way of your precepts,<br \/>\nand I will meditate on your wondrous deeds.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.<br \/>\nThe way of truth I have chosen;<br \/>\nI have set your ordinances before me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.<br \/>\nGive me discernment, that I may observe your law<br \/>\nand keep it with all my heart.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.<br \/>\nLead me in the path of your commands,<br \/>\nfor in it I delight.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.<br \/>\nAnd I will keep your law continually,<br \/>\nforever and ever.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/11:28\">LK 11:28<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nBlessed are those who hear the word of God<br \/>\nand observe it.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/8:19\">LK 8:19-21<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him<br \/>\nbut were unable to join him because of the crowd.<br \/>\nHe was told,<br \/>\n\u201cYour mother and your brothers are standing outside<br \/>\nand they wish to see you.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said to them in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cMy mother and my brothers<br \/>\nare those who hear the word of God and act on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/466.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16166\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/466.jpeg?resize=300%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/466.jpeg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/466.jpeg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/466.jpeg?resize=640%2C384&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/466.jpeg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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