{"id":16437,"date":"2018-11-05T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=16437"},"modified":"2018-11-05T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:43:16","slug":"humbly-regarding-others-as-more-important-than-we-are-and-inviting-them-to-dinner-31st-monday-ii-november-5-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/humbly-regarding-others-as-more-important-than-we-are-and-inviting-them-to-dinner-31st-monday-ii-november-5-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Humbly Regarding Others as More Important Than We Are, and Inviting Them to Dinner, 31st Monday (II), November 5, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nNovember 5, 2018<br \/>\nPhil 2:1-4, Ps 131, Lk 14:12-14<\/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-16437-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11.5.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11.5.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11.5.18-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Throughout the month of November, we ponder the four last things and in particular our call to holiness. Today, Jesus and St. Paul speak to us about the path to holiness, happiness and heaven.<\/li>\n<li>St. Paul in today&#8217;s letter to the Philippians speaks to us about humility, holiness and unity. Philippi was the first place in Europe to hear the Gospel. It was the place when, after St. Paul received the dream of a Macedonian asking him to come over, he left Troas and went on a boat to Neapolis, eventually coming to Philippi, a Roman colony with lots of disunity. It was there he met Lydia and stayed in her house. It was here he cured the possessed girl whom others were using for her divinations by the power of the devil. It was here he was thrown in jail and liberated by the earthquake. St. Paul had a special relationship with Philippi. It was the only place from which he accepted charity for himself, probably to give them a chance to repair for the sufferings he endured there. And he had a great desire for their unity and sanctity, and this letter is meant to help everyone come to unity.\u00a0The real climax and center of the letter we will hear\u00a0tomorrow, when he will tell us, \u201cHave among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus.\u201d He calls us to put on Christ\u2019s mind, to adapt ourselves to the Lord, to respond to his grace to think as Christ thinks, to will as Christ wills, to act as Christ acts. That\u2019s his fundamental prayer for the Christians in Philippi and for the Christians in New York. That\u2019s the path to holiness. That\u2019s the proper context to understand what he says in today\u2019s first reading: \u201cComplete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love,\u00a0united in heart, thinking one thing.\u201d Their unity will come about by their all attuning their minds and hearts to Christ\u2019s. Once that happens then the rest of his prayer will come about: \u201cDo nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory,\u201d because Christ did everything out of selflessness and for the Father\u2019s glory. \u201cRather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests but also everyone for those of others.\u201d Christ regarded us as more important than himself, he gave his life to save our lives, he even though\u00a0he was God became our servant so that we might enter into divine life. When we adopt Christ\u2019s attitude, then we, too, will not act out of self-centeredness or for earthly fame but will seek God\u2019s glory, kingdom and will. We will seek to follow Christ\u2019s example of greatness by becoming the servant of all, by washing the feet of others, by giving our lives for their salvation. We seek, like he did, to empty ourselves and become a servant, obeying God all the way to death.<\/li>\n<li>We see the attitude, the mindset, of Christ in today\u2019s Gospel when he gives invitation advice to those who had been invited to a dinner with him, a dinner in which he cured a man with dropsy to their scandal, a dinner in which he spoke about taking the lowest seats. He teaches us not to have dinner parties our of self-interest or for our own vanity or ambition \u2014 something that was probably taking place then as the <em>creme de la creme<\/em> were invited for the dinner with Jesus the famous rabbi \u2014 but out of charity, to serve others with love. \u201cWhen you hold a lunch or a dinner,\u201d Jesus said, \u201cdo not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters\u00a0or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors,\u00a0in case they may invite you back and you have repayment.\u00a0Rather, when you hold a banquet,\u00a0invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;\u00a0blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you.\u00a0For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.\u201d Jesus\u2019 advice is revolutionary, because most of us naturally invite to dinner those family and friends or people with whom we can do business or guests of honor that can make us feel important. Jesus is telling us to invite the nobodies, the handicapped, the overlooked and marginalized, those who often go without food not to mention don\u2019t get invitations. This is precisely what he does at the Eucharist, inviting not just everybody including those who are challenged in any way, but us, who are often so poor in our relationship with him, maimed in our ability to do his work, lame in our ability to follow him when it gets strenuous, blind in our ability to see him in others or in various circumstances. He invites even those who have betrayed him and will betray him, those who cannot possibly ever repay him. And he tells us to do the same.<\/li>\n<li>I had the great, great joy two years ago of helping to organize at the United Nations a conference on St. Mother Teresa\u2019s enduring relevance for the international community. There was an exhibition, a great conference, and finally a dinner. Our co-organizers wanted to pay for a dinner after the Conference at the exquisite Union League Club, but I said such a dinner would be out of the spirit of an event on Mother Teresa and something that likely her sisters would not come to. I proposed, rather, a dinner for the poor, held in the Parish\u00a0Hall of Holy Family Church, in which the Archbishop, their CEO, I and others served the poor a really good meal in honor of Mother\u2019s canonization. They went for it. I spoke to the Missionaries of Charity around the New York area to try to bring those they serve to the UN event and then to the meal. They filled two buses with a total of 112. Many asked to be bathed, and shaved, and to dress up for this event. At the UN, there\u2019s a lot of talk about the poor, but it\u2019s rare that you have so many really poor people present. And when I was speaking to the Superior of the Convent in Greenwich Village serving men with AIDS, Sister wanted to ask special permission to take several of them, because she said one of those with AIDS is also blind and in a wheel chair, another is deaf, and a few others have special circumstances. I told her immediately, \u201cOf course they can come, Sister. They\u2019re at the top of Jesus\u2019 list and they\u2019re at the top of ours!\u201d And the poor were so happy. When we had left over food and I brought four trays of great Italian pasta on the buses for them to take back, one for each convent, I\u2019ve never seen people clap with such happiness and gratitude in my life. It was a beautiful day, made possible because we took Jesus\u2019 words in today\u2019s Gospel seriously.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve likewise always been moved by a story of Cardinal Antonio Tagle of Manila in the Philippines. In his previous assignment as Bishop of Imus, he used to take Jesus\u2019 words literally and regularly invite the poor, the homeless, the drunks and those otherwise in great need to the bishop\u2019s house for lunch and dinner at his table. Journalist John Allen tells a story that one woman called a shelter trying to find her brother, a drunk, and she was told that he was having lunch at the bishop\u2019s residence. She thought it was a lie and a joke, but called the bishop\u2019s residence to prove it. She asked for her brother and her brother came to the phone. Jesus didn\u2019t give us today\u2019s teaching merely as an inspiration. He wants us to take it seriously. When was the last time we\u00a0invited people over to dinner that we\u2019d normally never invite? When was the last time we invited someone who might not have had a familial meal in months or years? When have we invited the outsiders? Jesus wants us to have the same mind that he has.<\/li>\n<li>The point I would like to stress today, however, in this month pondering holiness and the last things, is what Jesus says at the end of passage. He tells those who act on his words and invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind, \u201cBlessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you.\u00a0For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.\u201d He doesn\u2019t just say at the \u201cresurrection,\u201d because we know that at the end of time, there will be the \u201cresurrection of life\u201d and the \u201cresurrection of condemnation\u201d (Jn 5:29), there will be the separation of the \u201csheep\u201d and the \u201cgoats,\u201d respectively, to the kingdom of the Father\u00a0or\u00a0to the fire prepared for the devil and his angels (Mt 25:31-46). Jesus says specifically that those who do this will be repaid at the resurrection of the \u201crighteous.\u201d <em>The only way we\u2019ll be repaid there is if we are indeed righteous<\/em>. Jesus is indicating to us a clear path to heaven by acting on what he\u2019s teaching today: the actual act of inviting and caring for those who cannot pay for us, as well as the spiritual point of not doing things in any circumstance in order to be repaid. The path of sanctity involves something as simple as this, by loving and caring for those who can\u2019t reward us here, because in so doing, we will be having the same attitude as found in Christ Jesus and pouring ourselves out kenotically\u00a0like Christ. We will be humbly regarding others as more important than ourselves, looking out not for our own interests but also for those of others.<\/li>\n<li>Today as we come to the altar with all our handicaps, Jesus seeks to nourish us with himself so that having his mind and heart we may make room at this table for all those who are not here who need Jesus just as much as we do, and to make room at our our tables and in our lives, for those Jesus loves so much that he gave his life to save.<\/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 id=\"\/bible\/philippians\/2:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=f051b08a43&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">phil 2:1-4<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nIf there is any encouragement in Christ,<br \/>\nany solace in love,<br \/>\nany participation in the Spirit,<br \/>\nany compassion and mercy,<br \/>\ncomplete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love,<br \/>\nunited in heart, thinking one thing.<br \/>\nDo nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory;<br \/>\nrather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves,<br \/>\neach looking out not for his own interests,<br \/>\nbut also everyone for those of others.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/131:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=a9a41968f8&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">ps 131:1bcde, 2, 3<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R.\u00a0<strong>In you, O Lord, I have found my peace.<\/strong><br \/>\nO LORD, my heart is not proud,<br \/>\nnor are my eyes haughty;<br \/>\nI busy not myself with great things,<br \/>\nnor with things too sublime for me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>In you, O Lord, I have found my peace.<\/strong><br \/>\nNay rather, I have stilled and quieted<br \/>\nmy soul like a weaned child.<br \/>\nLike a weaned child on its mother\u2019s lap,<br \/>\nso is my soul within me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>In you, O Lord, I have found my peace.<\/strong><br \/>\nO Israel, hope in the LORD,<br \/>\nboth now and forever.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>In you, O Lord, I have found my peace.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/14:12|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=1366a170ca&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">lk 14:12-14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">On a sabbath Jesus went to dine<br \/>\nat the home of one of the leading Pharisees.<br \/>\nHe said to the host who invited him,<br \/>\n\u201cWhen you hold a lunch or a dinner,<br \/>\ndo not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters<br \/>\nor your relatives or your wealthy neighbors,<br \/>\nin case they may invite you back and you have repayment.<br \/>\nRather, when you hold a banquet,<br \/>\ninvite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;<br \/>\nblessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you.<br \/>\nFor you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mafa_PoorFeast_710.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16438\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mafa_PoorFeast_710.jpg?resize=300%2C186&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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