{"id":16851,"date":"2019-01-21T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=16851"},"modified":"2019-01-21T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:41:09","slug":"the-new-fasting-and-feasting-with-the-bridegroom-and-his-passion-second-monday-i-january-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-new-fasting-and-feasting-with-the-bridegroom-and-his-passion-second-monday-i-january-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Fasting and Feasting with the Bridegroom and His Passion, Second Monday (I), January 21, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr<br \/>\nJanuary 21, 2019<br \/>\nHeb 5:1-10, Ps 110, Mk\u00a02:18-22<\/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-16851-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1.21.19-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1.21.19-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1.21.19-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in today\u2019s homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the beginning of Ordinary Time, the Church today helps us to relate to what God is seeking to do with renewed, fresh receptivity. Jesus, with regard to fasting, said that his disciples needed to learn how to fast differently than the disciples of John the Baptist and the Pharisees, who fasted in reparation, petition and for self-discipline. Jesus wanted his disciples to fast for union with God, to hunger for what God hungers, and to feast when they are in union like \u201csons of the wedding chamber\u201d do when the Bridegroom is with them and the wedding reception is on-going. Jesus uses two homespun images to illustrate the point. He says he\u2019s not trying to place a small patch on the Old Covenant garments, to improve it in a slight way; rather he\u2019s giving a totally new garment. Similarly the \u201cnew wine\u201d he is pouring out cannot be received by tough, un-expansive\u00a0old wineskins but they need to be received with fresh wineskins that can expand as the new wine expands.<\/li>\n<li>Ultimately, Jesus says we will fast when the &#8220;Bridegroom is taken away from them.&#8221; The verb &#8220;taken away&#8221; in Greek actually means &#8220;ripped away.&#8221; It&#8217;s the same verb that&#8217;s use when Jesus was taken out of the Garden of Gethsemane at his arrest. This is an indication that we&#8217;re called to fast in union with his passion. That&#8217;s what leads us to today&#8217;s very important passage from the Letter to the Hebrews.\u00a0Throughout the Letter until now, we have learned that God the Father\u2019s definitive Word, his Son, has come to lead us to perfection, to eternal salvation, through his suffering and through helping us suffer with him. The Letter has urged us not to harden our hearts to this message but to let the Word profit us by approaching God\u2019s throne to receive mercy and grace whenever we need it to endure. Today the Letter continues to show us the type of high priest we have, the one who is able to sympathize with us in our weaknesses, because he himself has been tested in every way we have been and passed those tests. Like the old covenant high priests, Jesus has been chosen from among men \u2014 hence the incarnation!, where God the Father said \u201cYou are my Son\u201d and made him a priest not according to the order of Levi but the order of Melchizedek \u2014 to represent us before God and offer sacrifices not of bulls and goats and other animals but to offer himself. Just like the high priests, he is able to deal patiently with others because he has physical weaknesses and hence prayed with \u201cloud cries and tears\u201d and \u201clearned obedience from what he suffered\u201d and was perfected by what he suffered. Jesus wants us, through our baptismal and \u2014 in my case \u2014 ministerial priesthood to receive the gift of his priesthood with freshness and through our fasting seek to unite ourselves totally to that work, recognizing that we too have been chosen in him to offer ourselves as the holy and acceptable sacrifice, our spiritual worship (Rom 12:1-2), so that we might receive salvation and in Christ be a minister of eternal salvation to others. Just like there needed to be a new fasting, there likewise needed to be a new conception of the high priesthood and what Jesus is trying to do in us through making us a kingdom of priests in him. Part of that priesthood is learning obedience through what we suffer \u2014 a type of fasting from good things of the body \u2014 so that he may bring us to perfection, to fulfillment according to how he\u2019s made us.<\/li>\n<li>Today to help us learn how to feast and fast, to smile and suffer, to die and live with Jesus, we have have 12 year old teacher, St. Agnes, whom the Church celebrates today. St. Agnes was a beautiful 12 year old virgin, who had consecrated herself to the Lord, her \u201cheavenly spouse,\u201d as she called Jesus in the stories of her death. Men who wanted her for themselves couldn\u2019t stand the fact that she belonged to someone else, even to the One she believed was God. If they couldn\u2019t have her, they didn\u2019t want anyone to have her. In fact, if they couldn\u2019t have her, they wanted her dead. They outed her as a Christian during the ferocious anti-Christian persecution of the emperor Diocletian in 304. After the magistrate tried to frighten her through showing her various means of torture, she persevered. He sentenced her to a brothel so that people would destroy the beauty of her bodily consecration to the Lord, but the Lord miraculously protected her. Her martyrdom, as St. Ambrose once said, was simply an extension of the death to self out of love for God that characterized her chaste virginity: virginity is praiseworthy, he wrote, not because it is found in martyrs but because in makes martyrs. Her chaste love for the Lord in little things became the school of the training in courage that allowed her to remain faithful in love of the Lord and others while under the threat of torture and death. People rejoiced in the death of this beautiful, faithful, chaste your girl; that\u2019s what evil does. And so we shouldn\u2019t be surprised if envy gets people even in our own day to resent our love and service of God. We shouldn\u2019t be surprised if our virtues are mocked. We shouldn&#8217;t be surprised, in other words, if we should have to suffer. But little Agnes shows us how to suffer together with Jesus, how to enter into his priesthood, how to share his hunger as co-redeemers that all might come to live, including our persecutors.<\/li>\n<li>Agnes was strengthened in her chastity because she assimilated the chaste love of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. As we prepare now to receive the fulfillment of Melchizedek\u2019s sacrifice, we ask Jesus to fill us with the love that will make us martyrs, make us true witness, like her.\u00a0Today as we meet our High Priest in the Holy Eucharist, we have fasted not only from food but he wants us to fast from our old ways, so that as he makes supplications and prayers to the Father for us and gets ready to offer himself up as the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him and \u201cdo this in memory of him,\u201d we may fully receive this gift and as not just \u201csons of the wedding chamber\u201d but as the Bride rejoice in such a way that others may be scandalized to recognize the difference Christ makes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/hebrews\/5:1\">HEB5:1-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nEvery high priest is taken from among men<br \/>\nand made their representative before God,<br \/>\nto offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.<br \/>\nHe is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring,<br \/>\nfor he himself is beset by weakness<br \/>\nand so, for this reason, must make sin offerings for himself<br \/>\nas well as for the people.<br \/>\nNo one takes this honor upon himself<br \/>\nbut only when called by God,<br \/>\njust as Aaron was.<br \/>\nIn the same way,<br \/>\nit was not Christ who glorified himself in becoming high priest,<br \/>\nbut rather the one who said to him:<br \/>\n<em>You are my Son:<br \/>\nthis day I have begotten you;<\/em><br \/>\njust as he says in another place,<br \/>\n<em>You are a priest forever<br \/>\naccording to the order of Melchizedek.<\/em><br \/>\nIn the days when he was in the Flesh,<br \/>\nhe offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears<br \/>\nto the one who was able to save him from death,<br \/>\nand he was heard because of his reverence.<br \/>\nSon though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered;<br \/>\nand when he was made perfect,<br \/>\nhe became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.<\/p>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/psalms\/110:1\">PS 110:1, 2, 3, 4<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R. (4b)\u00a0You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.<br \/>\nThe LORD said to my Lord: \u201cSit at my right hand<br \/>\ntill I make your enemies your footstool.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.<br \/>\nThe scepter of your power the LORD will stretch forth from Zion:<br \/>\n\u201cRule in the midst of your enemies.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.<br \/>\n\u201cYours is princely power in the day of your birth, in holy splendor;<br \/>\nbefore the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.<br \/>\nThe LORD has sworn, and he will not repent:<br \/>\n\u201cYou are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/hebrews\/4:12\">HEB 4:12<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nThe word of God is living and effective,<br \/>\nable to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/mark\/2:18\">MK 2:18-22<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were accustomed to fast.<br \/>\nPeople came to Jesus and objected,<br \/>\n\u201cWhy do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast,<br \/>\nbut your disciples do not fast?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus answered them,<br \/>\n\u201cCan the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?<br \/>\nAs long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.<br \/>\nBut the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,<br \/>\nand then they will fast on that day.<br \/>\nNo one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak.<br \/>\nIf he does, its fullness pulls away,<br \/>\nthe new from the old, and the tear gets worse.<br \/>\nLikewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins.<br \/>\nOtherwise, the wine will burst the skins,<br \/>\nand both the wine and the skins are ruined.<br \/>\nRather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/stagnespainting.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16852\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/stagnespainting.jpg?resize=300%2C289&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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