{"id":16509,"date":"2018-11-16T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=16509"},"modified":"2018-11-16T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T14:37:18","slug":"going-to-the-king-like-vultures-to-a-body-32nd-friday-ii-november-16-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/going-to-the-king-like-vultures-to-a-body-32nd-friday-ii-november-16-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to the King like Vultures to a Body, 32nd Friday (II), November 16, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"\">Fr. Roger J. Landry<\/span><br class=\"\" \/><span class=\"\">Sacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<\/span><br class=\"\" \/><span class=\"\">Friday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<\/span><br class=\"\" \/><span class=\"\">Memorial of St. Gertrude the Great<\/span><br class=\"\" \/><span class=\"\">November\u00a016, 2018<\/span><br class=\"\" \/><span class=\"\">2 John 4-9, Ps 119, Lk 17:26-37<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><em class=\"\">To listen to today&#8217;s homily, please click below: <\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16509-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11.16.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11.16.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11.16.18-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><em class=\"\">The following points were attempted in today\u2019s homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">Yesterday the Church throughout the world\u00a0pondered Jesus\u2019 words that the kingdom of God is among us and why that is, because the King is here with us, he took our flesh, he remains with us in the sacraments, in grace, in the Church, in others; and we enter into that kingdom when we follow up our prayer \u201cthy kingdom come!\u201d with the complementary couplet \u201cthy will be done!\u201d We dwell within that kingdom when we\u2019re with the King, when allow his will to be done within us, when he reigns. Today\u2019s readings and memorials provide a fitting commentary on these truths.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">In today\u2019s Gospel, we see that even though Christ the King is present, some live in that kingdom and others don\u2019t; others behave as if they are vincibly oblivious to it. Jesus contrasts Noah with those who perished in the flood, and Lot and those who perished in Sodom. Some were attentive and alert to God\u2019s kingdom in their midst and some were not. Jesus encourages us to be similarly on guard. He says that when he comes we shouldn\u2019t head down into the house to get possessions or come in from the field but we should go straight to the King whose kingdom we were seeking in action. He says that two will be sleeping, two will be cooking, but only one will be taken. This isn\u2019t to be misinterpreted as if God\u2019s going to do an arbitrary 50\/50 split. Rather, it\u2019s saying some in the very same circumstances will be ready because they\u2019re connecting sleeping or cooking to God and his kingdom, and others won\u2019t be ready, because all they think they\u2019re doing is sleeping or cooking rather than doing it in communion with God in his kingdom. When they ask where this will take place, Jesus uses an aphorism, \u201cWhere the body is, there also the vultures will gather,\u201d to indicate that just as vultures find a corpse, so we should find the kingdom! He also gives the principle of living in the kingdom: \u201cWhoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it,\u00a0but whoever loses it will save it.\u201d Those who are living in the kingdom are losing their life for God and others, so that his kingdom will come and his will be done. Those who try to preserve their own kingdom, to hallow their own name, to do their own will, will be those who lose their lives.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">In today\u2019s first reading, the only passage we have in the two year liturgical cycle of daily Mass readings from St. John\u2019s Second Letter, the Apostle, who was present when Jesus said the words in today\u2019s Gospel, makes plain what living in the kingdom is all about. He phrases it as \u201cwalking in the truth just as we were commanded by the Father,\u201d following in the footsteps of the Incarnate Truth. He describes that involves not a new commandment but the one to \u201clove one another\u201d that Christ gave us, reminding us that love to \u201cwalk according to the commandments\u201d because the commandments train us to love God with all our mind, heart, soul and strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves. He notes that there are \u201cprogressives\u201d who do not \u201cremain in the teaching of the Christ\u201d and says that they do not remain in the Father and the Son, in the kingdom of God, and says, parallel to the upshot of Jesus\u2019 message in today\u2019s Gospel, \u201cLook to yourselves\u00a0that you do not lose what we worked for\u00a0but may receive a full recompense,\u201d losing their lives so as to save it.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Two people who showed us how to live in this way in the kingdom are Saints Gertrude the Great and Saint Margaret of Scotland, whom the Church celebrates today.\u00a0St. Gertrude was brought to the Monastery at a very early age, either for her education or because she was orphaned. She would spend the rest of her life there. She was an extraordinary student, who learned everything that she could in the classical formation of the day, throwing herself into profane subjects and to literature, music, song and art. She was surrounded by holy nuns, but wasn\u2019t profiting. Even though she wasn&#8217;t living a life of sin, she really wasn&#8217;t prioritizing the kingdom. After 20 years of study and of sharing in their liturgical prayer, she began to recognize she had been giving herself over much of the time to vanities. In 1280, when she was in her mid-20s, the Lord illumined her to see that she was basically living in a worldly way but that Jesus would take her by the hand to lead her to holiness. And from that point forward, she so invested the gift of the Lord\u2019s grace that she continues to bear fruit seven-plus centuries later. Her conversion involved a different type of study, passing from profane humanistic studies to the study of theology and of divine wisdom, and a different type of obedience, from negligence to intense mystical prayer coupled to a zeal for the salvation of all, and a different spirituality, from spiritual worldliness to the spirituality of the kingdom. She wrote in her\u00a0<em class=\"\">Spiritual Exercises<\/em>\u00a0something that pointed to how, post-conversion, she wanted to use the gifts God had given her:<em class=\"\">\u00a0<\/em>\u201cI have so little profited from your graces that I cannot resolve to believe that they were lavished upon me solely for my own use,\u00a0<em class=\"\">since no one can thwart your eternal wisdom<\/em>. Therefore, O Giver of every good thing who has freely lavished upon me gifts so undeserved, in order that, in reading this, the heart of at least one of your friends may be moved at the thought that zeal for souls has induced you to leave such a priceless gem for so long in the abominable mud of my heart.\u201d Pope Benedict, when he gave a Catecheses on her life (October 6, 2010) said, \u201cSt Gertrude\u2019s life lives on as a lesson of Christian life, of an upright path, and shows us that the heart of a happy life, of a true life, is friendship with the Lord Jesus. \u2026 This friendship is learned in love for Sacred Scripture, in love for the Liturgy, in profound faith, in love for Mary, so as to be ever more truly acquainted with God himself and hence with true happiness, which is the goal of our life.\u201d We&#8217;re called to learn from what she got wrong and what she got right!<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">St. Margaret Queen of Scotland had a similar passion to live in the Lord\u2019s kingdom and use her earthly royalty to help others to experience that same kingdom. The daughter of a Hungarian Princess and Anglo-Saxon Prince, she and her family fled from William the Conquerer and were shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland, where Scottish King Malcolm befriended them and was captivated by Margaret, whom he married in 1070. She helped him become virtuous and was allowed by him, essentially, to become interior minister of the kingdom. She improved arts and education, reformed the country and the clergy religiously through synods she promoted and founded many Churches and monasteries. She had eight kids and supervised their religious instruction so that they would come to know God and his wisdom and live together with him in the world. Her love for Jesus in the Eucharist helped her to grow in love and care for those he died for, and on her way home from Mass would often wash the feet of six poor persons and give them alms. She never refused beggars or sat down to eat without first feeding orphans and poor adults. She died 975 years ago today. She lived truly as a member of the King of King\u2019s royal family and exercised her\u00a0<em class=\"\">munus regendi<\/em>\u00a0according to his wisdom.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Today as we come to Mass on their feast days, like them not to reject but to welcome the King within us and we ask for the grace always to remain aware of him and consciously in communion with him so that we will always dwell in his kingdom. We also come to pray that we and others might enter into the eternal fulfillment of that kingdom.\u00a0St. Gertude is famous for her prayer for the holy souls in Purgatory, for whom the Church prays with particular insistence in the month of November. Like what Jesus revealed to St. Faustina in the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, St. Gertrude\u2019s prayer, inspired by the same Lord, is similarly Eucharistic. \u201cEternal Father, I offer You the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, for those in my own home and in my family. Amen.\u201d As we do so, we remember clearly, The Kingdom of God and the King is at hand, and we ask him, reigning in the Eucharist, for a\u00a0double portion of St. Gertrude&#8217;s and St. Margaret&#8217;s spirit so that, like them, we may love one another, walking according to the truth in the commandments, lose our life, and so serve others so that when the Lord comes he may not take one of us and leave the other behind, but thanks to our love, take us all!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"\"><em class=\"\">The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"\">Reading 1\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/2john\/1:4\">2 JN 4-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">[Chosen Lady:]<br class=\"\" \/>I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth<br class=\"\" \/>just as we were commanded by the Father.<br class=\"\" \/>But now, Lady, I ask you,<br class=\"\" \/>not as though I were writing a new commandment<br class=\"\" \/>but the one we have had from the beginning:<br class=\"\" \/>let us love one another.<br class=\"\" \/>For this is love, that we walk according to his commandments;<br class=\"\" \/>this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning,<br class=\"\" \/>in which you should walk.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Many deceivers have gone out into the world,<br class=\"\" \/>those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh;<br class=\"\" \/>such is the deceitful one and the antichrist.<br class=\"\" \/>Look to yourselves that you do not lose what we worked for<br class=\"\" \/>but may receive a full recompense.<br class=\"\" \/>Anyone who is so \u201cprogressive\u201d<br class=\"\" \/>as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God;<br class=\"\" \/>whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and the Son.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"\">Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/119:1\">PS 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (1b)\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<br class=\"\" \/>Blessed are they whose way is blameless,<br class=\"\" \/>who walk in the law of the LORD.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<br class=\"\" \/>Blessed are they who observe his decrees,<br class=\"\" \/>who seek him with all their heart.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<br class=\"\" \/>With all my heart I seek you;<br class=\"\" \/>let me not stray from your commands.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<br class=\"\" \/>Within my heart I treasure your promise,<br class=\"\" \/>that I may not sin against you.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<br class=\"\" \/>Be good to your servant, that I may live<br class=\"\" \/>and keep your words.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<br class=\"\" \/>Open my eyes, that I may consider<br class=\"\" \/>the wonders of your law.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"\">Alleluia\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/21:28\">LK 21:28<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br class=\"\" \/>Stand erect and raise your heads<br class=\"\" \/>because your redemption is at hand.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"\">Gospel\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/17:26\">LK 17:26-37<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"\">Jesus said to his disciples:<br class=\"\" \/>\u201cAs it was in the days of Noah,<br class=\"\" \/>so it will be in the days of the Son of Man;<br class=\"\" \/>they were eating and drinking,<br class=\"\" \/>marrying and giving in marriage up to the day<br class=\"\" \/>that Noah entered the ark,<br class=\"\" \/>and the flood came and destroyed them all.<br class=\"\" \/>Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot:<br class=\"\" \/>they were eating, drinking, buying,<br class=\"\" \/>selling, planting, building;<br class=\"\" \/>on the day when Lot left Sodom,<br class=\"\" \/>fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all.<br class=\"\" \/>So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.<br class=\"\" \/>On that day, someone who is on the housetop<br class=\"\" \/>and whose belongings are in the house<br class=\"\" \/>must not go down to get them,<br class=\"\" \/>and likewise one in the field<br class=\"\" \/>must not return to what was left behind.<br class=\"\" \/>Remember the wife of Lot.<br class=\"\" \/>Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it,<br class=\"\" \/>but whoever loses it will save it.<br class=\"\" \/>I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed;<br class=\"\" \/>one will be taken, the other left.<br class=\"\" \/>And there will be two women grinding meal together;<br class=\"\" \/>one will be taken, the other left.\u201d<br class=\"\" \/>They said to him in reply, \u201cWhere, Lord?\u201d<br class=\"\" \/>He said to them, \u201cWhere the body is,<br class=\"\" \/>there also the vultures will gather.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Saint_Gertrude_by_Miguel_Cabrera.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16510\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Saint_Gertrude_by_Miguel_Cabrera.jpg?resize=220%2C269&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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