{"id":16706,"date":"2018-12-29T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T13:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=16706"},"modified":"2018-12-29T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T17:36:13","slug":"abiding-and-walking-in-the-light-of-revelation-to-the-gentiles-december-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/abiding-and-walking-in-the-light-of-revelation-to-the-gentiles-december-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Abiding and Walking in the Light of Revelation to the Gentiles, December 29, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMass of December 29, Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Thomas Becket, Martyr<br \/>\nDecember 29, 2018<br \/>\n1 John 2:3-11, Ps 96, Lk 2:22-35<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio\u00a0recording of today\u2019s homily,\u00a0please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16706-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/12.29.18-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/12.29.18-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/12.29.18-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>Today, on the fifth day of Christmas, the Church gives us what happened on the 40th day after Jesus&#8217; birth, his presentation in the temple. There Simeon, moved by the Spirit, whose whole life was the incarnation of the Advent of the long-awaited Messiah, encountered that long-awaited Messiah. And when he embraced him in his arms, he called him,\u00a0a \u201clight to reveal you [God] to the nations and the glory of your people Israel.\u201d Jesus came as \u201clight\u00a0of the human race\u201d (Jn 1:4), as the \u201crefulgence of eternal light\u201d (Wis 7:26) and the \u201crefulgence of [God\u2019s] glory\u201d (Heb 1:3). This was indeed good news of great joy for all the people, but at the same time some treated this gift as bad news of great foreboding. As St. John would say, \u201cThe light came into the world but people preferred darkness to light\u201d (Jn 3:19). The glory of God took on our flesh but people were seeking their own glory rather than God\u2019s and God\u2019s glory might get in the way. That\u2019s why as soon as Simeon testified that his eyes has seen God\u2019s salvation in the one named \u201cGod saves\u201d (Jesus), as soon as he had said he was God\u2019s light and glory, he turned to say to Mary, \u201cThis child is destined for the fall and the rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be contradicted\u2026 so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.\u201d The response to Jesus\u2019 light and glory will unveil what\u2019s in people\u2019s hearts. Even though Jesus had come to save everyone, not everyone would accept that gift. Simeon said that rather than everyone\u2019s echoing his word many would contradict what he said in words and in body language. He would become the cause of the \u201cruin\u201d and the \u201cresurrection\u201d of many, depending upon their response to Jesus\u2019 word, his light, his glory, his offer of salvation. And so it\u2019s important for us to examine during this Christmas octave what the response of our heart is to Jesus.<\/li>\n<li>St. John in the first reading helps us to do so concretely. Throughout his first letter, St. John calls Jesus the &#8220;light&#8221; and summons us to live in the light and walk in the light.<\/li>\n<li>St. John describes\u00a0three progressive stages of the incarnate Jesus\u2019 progressive illumination in our lives. At one level, they all say essentially the same thing about the type of communion Christ seeks to form with us; but on another, they go progressively deeper. The first level has to do with God\u2019s word, his commandments, his truth, which are a light for our steps and a lamp for our soul. St. John says, \u201cThe way we may be sure that we know Jesus \u00a0is to keep his commandments. \u00a0Whoever says, \u2018I know him,\u2019 but does not keep his commandments\u00a0is a liar, and the truth is not in him.\u00a0But whoever keeps his word,\u00a0the love of God is truly perfected in him.\u201d If we\u2019ve become one with God, we\u2019ll become one with his word, with his will, with the Truth he enfleshes. To know Jesus Christ is to become united with him in doing the will of God, which is fleshed out in the commandments, in the word of God, in what Jesus has taught, what the prophets taught in anticipation of him, what the apostles have taught in application of his life and lessons. Do we see God\u2019s word, do we view the commandments as God\u2019s light and glory, do we allow ourselves to experience Jesus\u2019 resurrection through conforming our life to this truth, or do we contradict the teaching of the Lord conceptually by saying God is wrong or existentially by living according to some other principles than the ones given to us by God himself? That\u2019s the first step in the Christian spiritual life, to receive God\u2019s teaching as a gift and seek to live it.<\/li>\n<li>St. John then goes on to the next stage. If we really are keeping his commandments, if the truth is in us, if his word dwells in us richly, then the apostle says something else will happen: \u201cThis is the way we may know that we are in union with him: whoever claims to abide in him ought to walk just as he walked.\u201d The litmus test is that we\u2019re actually following Jesus, that we\u2019re living as he lived, that we\u2019re going to the Father as he did, we\u2019re going to the outcasts as he did, that we\u2019re going to all the world as he commanded. We can&#8217;t remain in the light without walking in the light. If we truly know Jesus, we\u2019re going to resemble Jesus, because this knowledge is not fundamentally an intellectual act but an existential union. I\u2019d like to give an illustration of this from my family. You know that I\u2019m an identical twin and I\u2019m constantly getting confused, still to this day, with Scot, for obvious physical reasons. But what\u2019s shocked me is how many people confuse Scot and me with our younger brother Greg whom I don\u2019t think looks much like us at all. But dozens of people have told me over the years that if they met him in a crowded airport\u00a0on the other side of the world they\u2019d be able to spot Greg as a Landry. When I asked them why \u2014 since Greg has hair and its darker than Scot\u2019s and mine ever was, since he\u2019s taller, since he has lots of other traits that don\u2019t resemble us \u2014 they\u2019ve all said something a little startling: \u201cWe\u2019d know he\u2019s your brother because he walks just like you!\u201d That still makes no sense to me because I think I walk like half the planet walks, but other people apparently not only think but notice that Scot and I walk with a particularly elegant gait and that Greg has apparently imitated the strides of his boyhood heroes\u2026 I use this as an illustration to make a point that the way we \u201cwalk\u201d in life is supposed to be able to remind people of the way Jesus walked. We\u2019re supposed to remind people of Jesus. If we are really keeping his commandments, living his truth, abiding in his word, St. John tells us that we will remind others of Jesus. Rather than having people the way we walk think that we\u2019re a Landry, as happens to my younger brother, the way we walk is supposed to remind people that we\u2019re a \u201clittle Christ,\u201d literally a Christian. This is the second stage in allowing Christ to take on our flesh, of the resurrection he came to bring into the world.<\/li>\n<li>But there\u2019s a third stage that St. John alludes to today. If we\u2019re walking the way Jesus walks, there\u2019s a clear litmus test: we\u2019re going to love others the way\u00a0Jesus loves us and them. St. John says, \u201cWhoever says he is in the light,\u00a0yet hates his brother, is still in the darkness. \u00a0Whoever loves his brother remains in the light,\u00a0and there is nothing in him to cause a fall. \u00a0Whoever hates his brother is in darkness;\u00a0he walks in darkness\u00a0and does not know where he is going\u00a0because the darkness has blinded his eyes.\u201d If we\u2019re living in the light of the Lord, we love; if we\u2019re hating, it means we\u2019re living in the darkness. When we hear this point, many of us can say that as long as\u00a0can\u2019t recall hating anyone, then we must be living in the light, but in order for that to occur we really have to \u201clove\u201d our brother, and loving our brother doesn\u2019t mean simply not hating him. It means laying down our life for our brother. It means sacrificing for him. It means not doing simply \u201crandom acts of kindness\u201d but coming up with a real strategy, a real plan, to sacrifice for the sake of others. This is something many of us don\u2019t do as much as God would want us to do. We don\u2019t wake up and look at a given today as an opportunity to love our brothers and sisters. Most of us\u00a0don\u2019t plan an agenda the night before saying what people can I visit to bring them the joy of Christmas, what people can I call, what money of mine can I give away, to really help people in need. Most of us wait for a request to be brought to us. That\u2019s not the type of love to which Jesus is calling us. Another common misconception is that loving our brother means loving our lovable brothers and sisters. St. John, for Jesus, is calling us to something more. He\u2019s calling us to recognize that everyone is our brother, that the whole world is our neighborhood. Dorothy Day had a statement haunting in its truthfulness and capacity to help us examine our consciences. She said, \u201cWe love the Lord to the extent that we love the person we like the least.\u201d We love the Lord to the extent that we love the least of his brothers and sisters, either objectively (in the poor, thirsty, hungry, naked, lame, strange, etc., Mt 25:31-46) but also subjectively, those who are least in our affection. We love the Lord the way we love that person we don\u2019t like, the person we may not hate but the person whom we want totally to avoid. When Jesus has truly taken on our flesh and dwelling within us as King, then we begin to love even our enemies, our persecutors, our adversaries like he loved, prayed for and died for those who made themselves his enemies.<\/li>\n<li>One person who illustrates this progression in the assimilation of Christ is the great martyr we celebrate today. St. Thomas Becket was an ambitious, hard-working young man who eventually worked himself up the food chain in 12th century England to become a secretary for the Archbishop of Canterbury and Archdeacon. When the position of chancellor opened up, the Archbishop nominated him and King Henry II appointed him. He and Henry worked very well together and Thomas was thriving, rich, influential. When the Archbishop died, Henry wanted to appointed Thomas his chancellor so that he would essentially control the Church. Thomas didn\u2019t want to accept it because he didn\u2019t think he was holy enough for the position, but Henry insisted and Thomas was ordained a priest and then a bishop. But very soon as after his ordination, Henry realized that Thomas was going to be something totally different than a mitre-wearing puppet. He started to defend the rights of the Church against the King, insisting that he was in his position less because of the King of England\u2019s will and more because of the King of King\u2019s will and he was going to serve that greater King as the Archbishop of Canterbury should. There were many conflicts. Eventually, Henry quipped that he wished to be rid of this troublesome cleric and four people interpreted that as a desire for Thomas to be killed and they killed him during Vespers in the Cathedral 848 years ago today. St. Thomas Becket was one who sought to live faithfully by the Lord\u2019s word, someone who sought to walk as the Lord walked, someone who loved his brother \u2014 including his brother the King of England \u2014 in a way that he was willing to die to pass on the truth and help him to live according to it. He was one who lived in the Light who is Christ and called others, including the King, to live in that same light. Because of his martyrdom, he has become, in Jesus, a light of revelation to the nations and a real glory to God\u2019s people. He has become a witness of courageous fidelity, a sign of the resurrection precisely through his faithful witness in life and in death.<\/li>\n<li>Today we come forward on his feast day asking his intercession to give that same witness, to keep God\u2019s word, to live in the Light, to walk in his ways, to love others as he has loved us first. This is the way others, in seeing our good deeds, will give glory to our heavenly Father. This is the way that we will become the light of the world, reflecting Jesus\u2019 light. This is the way that our hearts will be revealed as hearts that seek and love the Lord and beat with his love for others. As we prepare to receive within the same Jesus whom Simeon held in his hands, we thank God for allowing our eyes to behold our salvation, for our ears to hear his words, and for our whole bodies to touch him and be transformed by him, as we renew our consecration to the Father within Jesus\u2019 own on the altar.<\/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\/1john\/2:3|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=427e67f519&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">1 jn 2:3-11<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Beloved:<br \/>\nThe way we may be sure that we know Jesus<br \/>\nis to keep his commandments.<br \/>\nWhoever says, \u201cI know him,\u201d but does not keep his commandments<br \/>\nis a liar, and the truth is not in him.<br \/>\nBut whoever keeps his word,<br \/>\nthe love of God is truly perfected in him.<br \/>\nThis is the way we may know that we are in union with him:<br \/>\nwhoever claims to abide in him ought to walk just as he walked.Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to you<br \/>\nbut an old commandment that you had from the beginning.<br \/>\nThe old commandment is the word that you have heard.<br \/>\nAnd yet I do write a new commandment to you,<br \/>\nwhich holds true in him and among you,<br \/>\nfor the darkness is passing away,<br \/>\nand the true light is already shining.<br \/>\nWhoever says he is in the light,<br \/>\nyet hates his brother, is still in the darkness.<br \/>\nWhoever loves his brother remains in the light,<br \/>\nand there is nothing in him to cause a fall.<br \/>\nWhoever hates his brother is in darkness;<br \/>\nhe walks in darkness<br \/>\nand does not know where he is going<br \/>\nbecause the darkness has blinded his eyes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/96:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=9b35a37611&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 5b-6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (11a)\u00a0<strong>Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice!<\/strong><br \/>\nSing to the LORD a new song;<br \/>\nsing to the LORD, all you lands.<br \/>\nSing to the LORD; bless his name.<br \/>\nR.<strong>\u00a0Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice!<\/strong><br \/>\nAnnounce his salvation, day after day.<br \/>\nTell his glory among the nations;<br \/>\namong all peoples, his wondrous deeds.<br \/>\nR.<strong>\u00a0Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice!<\/strong><br \/>\nThe LORD made the heavens.<br \/>\nSplendor and majesty go before him;<br \/>\npraise and grandeur are in his sanctuary.<br \/>\nR.<strong>\u00a0Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/2:32|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=52f9e33a3d&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Lk 2:32<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nA light of revelation to the Gentiles<br \/>\nand glory for your people Israel.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/2:22|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=bdca5d5df3&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">lk 2:22-35<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When the days were completed for their purification<br \/>\naccording to the law of Moses,<br \/>\nthe parents of Jesus took him up to Jerusalem<br \/>\nto present him to the Lord,<br \/>\njust as it is written in the law of the Lord,<br \/>\n<em>Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord<\/em>,<br \/>\nand to offer the sacrifice of<br \/>\n<em>a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons<\/em>,<br \/>\nin accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.<br \/>\nThis man was righteous and devout,<br \/>\nawaiting the consolation of Israel,<br \/>\nand the Holy Spirit was upon him.<br \/>\nIt had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nthat he should not see death<br \/>\nbefore he had seen the Christ of the Lord.<br \/>\nHe came in the Spirit into the temple;<br \/>\nand when the parents brought in the child Jesus<br \/>\nto perform the custom of the law in regard to him,<br \/>\nhe took him into his arms and blessed God, saying:\u201cLord, now let your servant go in peace;<br \/>\nyour word has been fulfilled:<br \/>\nmy own eyes have seen the salvation<br \/>\nwhich you prepared in the sight of every people,<br \/>\na light to reveal you to the nations<br \/>\nand the glory of your people Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him;<br \/>\nand Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother,<br \/>\n\u201cBehold, this child is destined<br \/>\nfor the fall and rise of many in Israel,<br \/>\nand to be a sign that will be contradicted<br \/>\n(and you yourself a sword will pierce)<br \/>\nso that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/becket-12-10-18.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16707\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/becket-12-10-18.jpg?resize=273%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/becket-12-10-18.jpg?resize=273%2C300&amp;ssl=1 273w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/becket-12-10-18.jpg?resize=640%2C703&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/becket-12-10-18.jpg?w=662&amp;ssl=1 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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