{"id":16988,"date":"2019-02-26T10:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=16988"},"modified":"2019-02-26T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T15:32:15","slug":"tested-like-jesus-in-the-crucible-of-humiliation-7th-tuesday-i-february-26-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/tested-like-jesus-in-the-crucible-of-humiliation-7th-tuesday-i-february-26-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Tested, like Jesus, in the Crucible of Humiliation, 7th Tuesday (I), February 26, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">Fr. Roger J. Landry<br class=\"\" \/>Visitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br class=\"\" \/>Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br class=\"\" \/>February 26, 2019<br class=\"\" \/>Sir 2:1-11, Ps 37, Mk 9:30-37<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s Gospel, please click below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16988-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2.26.19-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2.26.19-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2.26.19-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><em class=\"\"><br \/>\nThe following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">Today Jesus continues to stress with his disciples the same lesson they rejected in Caesarea Philippi (in the readings last Thursday and what would have been last Friday if not for the Feast of the Chair of Peter), that God the Father told three of them to listen to on Mt. Tabor (on Saturday), and that Jesus reemphasized as they were descending the mountain. He says for the second time, \u201cThe Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him,\u00a0and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.\u201d In response to this, they do not console him or even ask him questions to try to understand. Instead, they begin to debate who\u2019s better than whom. It\u2019s sad and ridiculous. But Jesus never tried to eliminate his followers\u2019 ambition, but to purify it and direct it toward true greatness. He told them the path, which would be his path, the path of cruciform love: \u201cIf anyone wishes to be first,\u00a0he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.\u201d To be great we must become great in loving service. And to illustrate exactly what he was describing, lest we interpret it according to our comforts, he took a child and said, \u201cWhoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me;\u00a0and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.\u201d An infant is someone who cannot will to reward us, with whom we cannot engage in a <em>quid pro quo<\/em>. A child is not even able to thank us. While it\u2019s true that whenever we love we receive more than we give and that those who love children receive so many blessings in return, Jesus\u2019 point is that we need to love those who cannot reward us. That\u2019s the type of service we\u2019re called to give to which we\u2019re supposed to aspire.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">This is one of the reasons why the Sisters of Life are so important, because you, Sisters, help us all and not just pregnant mothers in distress to receive children, including children the world doesn\u2019t want, as we would receive Jesus and God the Father. You help remind us of the type of service to which we\u2019re called. You show us the path to real greatness! Yours is in particular a message for the world, because many shudder before this sacrifice. Many young gift, professional, first-time moms have told me what a crucifixion it is to sacrifice all that they&#8217;re able to accomplish at work for the care of a baby at home; they often are tempted to feel that their life has less meaning, that they&#8217;re contributing far less, because they don&#8217;t realize what Jesus says about the path to greatness: far more important than what they could accomplish in a board room or classroom is what they&#8217;re able to achieve through loving, especially through loving the child through whom they also receive Jesus and his Father. Eventually, with encouragement, many professional women are able to grasp this, but many other women continue to struggle with aligning their ambitions with truly lasting achievement: real happiness comes not from achieving the standards of success of the world, but the standards of love of Jesus that he describes in today&#8217;s Gospel. Today we pray in a special way for women who struggle with the wisdom of the Cross, of self-denial, carrying the cross of humble agape, and following Jesus first by embracing him in the least among us.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">In the first reading from the Book of Sirach, we ponder the wisdom of the Cross, of this life of cruciform love. Today\u2019s passage begins, \u201cWhen you come to serve the Lord, \u2026 prepare yourself\u201d not for\u00a0a stream of consolation, but \u201cfor trials.\u201d It then describes them: \u201ctime of adversity,\u201d \u201ccrushing misfortune,\u201d even \u201ca crucible of humiliation.\u201d These trials are all tests, meant to help purify us just as \u201cin fire gold and silver are tested.\u201d For that reason, while we\u2019re in them, we should not think that God has abandoned us, but is helping us to learn how to be great, to learn how to love him and trust in him so that we might truly serve him and become the servant of all. So he tell us, \u201cBe sincere of heart and steadfast, incline your ear and received the word of understanding undisturbed in time of adversity, wait on God with patience, cling to him, forsake him not, \u2026 accept whatever befalls you, be steadfast when sorrowful, be patient in crushing misfortune, trust God and God will help\u00a0you \u2026 and direct your way. Wait for his mercy, trust him and your reward will not be lost, hope for good things, love him and your hearts will be enlightened.\u201d Sirach reminds us \u201cStudy the generations long past\u201d including the martyrs \u201cand understand: has anyone hoped in the Lord and been disappointed? \u2026 Persevered and been forsaken? \u2026 Called upon God and been rebuffed?\u201d God \u201csave in time of trouble and is a protector to all who seek him in truth.\u201d This is the type of trust in trial we witness in Jesus when he was fulfilling today\u2019s Gospel words on the Cross. In Psalm 22 and 69 which he cited in his words \u201cMy God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d and \u201cI thirst,\u201d they both finish with hymns of trust and praise. The crucible of humiliation is God\u2019s means to help make us great like Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Early this morning I had the chance to ponder this crucible of humiliation with all of the stories that have come out about Cardinal George Pell in Australia, who was found guilty by an Australian jury of abusing two boys in the sacristy of the Cathedral of Melbourne in December 1996. Because there was a gag rule about the trial, none of the details were able to be published until today, but it&#8217;s quite clear from the trial that it would have been impossible for him practically to commit what he was accused of doing. Any reasonable person would be able to find not just reasonable doubt of guilt, but much evidence that he was innocent. He was accused of abusing two choir boys in a sacristy within six minutes after a big Sunday Mass while still in his vestments, but the Cardinal produced a series of witnesses saying he would never be alone on a Sunday, he would be outside of the Cathedral after Mass greeting people, not in a sacristy, and that the boys whereabouts would have always been known because immediately after they had processed out of Mass they needed to process to practice. Regardless, it appears that the accuser was believed, despite all of the disproven evidence, despite the lack of other accusers for what would have been one of the most desperately cavalier abusers imaginable: if someone is so desperate as to try to molest two children in a heavily trafficked sacristy on a Sunday in his vestments, don&#8217;t you think he would have had a whole history of such actions and scores of other victims? Now Cardinal Pell is in a crucible of humiliation, and with him the Church in Australia and across the globe. Today the words of Sirach take on new meaning, both in terms of the tests each of us will receive, but also how the Lord will not abandon us. How ironic that the father of lies gets to rejoice on the day on which Jesus&#8217; words about welcoming little children in his name \u2014 something that Cardinal Pell sought to do and help the Church do by fighting against abuse, rather than committing it \u2014 are proclaiming in the Church! Jesus, himself, was falsely accused. Jesus, himself, experienced the crucible. Jesus, himself, experienced liberation by God the Father, but only after his death. We pray for Cardinal Pell and for the Church, that we might live this in a way that will help us to commit our lives to the Lord who will help us, and cooperate with the Lord&#8217;s desire to bring good out of evil.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Today as we get ready to receive the foremost outpouring of God\u2019s love and service in giving us himself in the Eucharist, we prepare ourselves for the trials that come today \u2014 albeit less than what Cardinal Pell has needed to endure \u2014 with justice and awe, sincerity and steadfastness of heart, patience, love, and hope, ambitious for the chance with Christ to become least and a servant of the rest and to welcome, by the power of the Holy Spirit, every child of God no matter how small as we would welcome God the Son and God the Father!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"\"><em class=\"\">The readings for today\u2019s Mass\u00a0were:<\/em><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"\">Reading 1\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/sirach\/2:1\">SIR 2:1-11<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"\">My son, when you come to serve the LORD,<br class=\"\" \/>stand in justice and fear,<br class=\"\" \/>prepare yourself for trials.<br class=\"\" \/>Be sincere of heart and steadfast,<br class=\"\" \/>incline your ear and receive the word of understanding,<br class=\"\" \/>undisturbed in time of adversity.<br class=\"\" \/>Wait on God, with patience, cling to him, forsake him not;<br class=\"\" \/>thus will you be wise in all your ways.<br class=\"\" \/>Accept whatever befalls you,<br class=\"\" \/>when sorrowful, be steadfast,<br class=\"\" \/>and in crushing misfortune be patient;<br class=\"\" \/>For in fire gold and silver are tested,<br class=\"\" \/>and worthy people in the crucible of humiliation.<br class=\"\" \/>Trust God and God will help you;<br class=\"\" \/>trust in him, and he will direct your way;<br class=\"\" \/>keep his fear and grow old therein.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">You who fear the LORD, wait for his mercy,<br class=\"\" \/>turn not away lest you fall.<br class=\"\" \/>You who fear the LORD, trust him,<br class=\"\" \/>and your reward will not be lost.<br class=\"\" \/>You who fear the LORD, hope for good things,<br class=\"\" \/>for lasting joy and mercy.<br class=\"\" \/>You who fear the LORD, love him,<br class=\"\" \/>and your hearts will be enlightened.<br class=\"\" \/>Study the generations long past and understand;<br class=\"\" \/>has anyone hoped in the LORD and been disappointed?<br class=\"\" \/>Has anyone persevered in his commandments and been forsaken?<br class=\"\" \/>has anyone called upon him and been rebuffed?<br class=\"\" \/>Compassionate and merciful is the LORD;<br class=\"\" \/>he forgives sins, he saves in time of trouble<br class=\"\" \/>and he is a protector to all who seek him in truth.<\/div>\n<h4 class=\"\">Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/psalms\/37:3\">PS 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"\">R. (see 5)\u00a0Commit your life to the Lord, and he will help you.<br class=\"\" \/>Trust in the LORD and do good,<br class=\"\" \/>that you may dwell in the land and be fed in security.<br class=\"\" \/>Take delight in the LORD,<br class=\"\" \/>and he will grant you your heart\u2019s requests.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Commit your life to the Lord, and he will help you.<br class=\"\" \/>The LORD watches over the lives of the wholehearted;<br class=\"\" \/>their inheritance lasts forever.<br class=\"\" \/>They are not put to shame in an evil time;<br class=\"\" \/>in days of famine they have plenty.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Commit your life to the Lord, and he will help you.<br class=\"\" \/>Turn from evil and do good,<br class=\"\" \/>that you may abide forever;<br class=\"\" \/>For the LORD loves what is right,<br class=\"\" \/>and forsakes not his faithful ones.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Commit your life to the Lord, and he will help you.<br class=\"\" \/>The salvation of the just is from the LORD;<br class=\"\" \/>he is their refuge in time of distress.<br class=\"\" \/>And the LORD helps them and delivers them;<br class=\"\" \/>he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,<br class=\"\" \/>because they take refuge in him.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Commit your life to the Lord, and he will help you.<\/div>\n<h4 class=\"\">Alleluia\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/galatians\/6:14\">GAL 6:14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"\">R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br class=\"\" \/>May I never boast except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,<br class=\"\" \/>through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/div>\n<h4 class=\"\">Gospel\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/mark\/9:30\">MK 9:30-37<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"\">Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee,<br class=\"\" \/>but he did not wish anyone to know about it.<br class=\"\" \/>He was teaching his disciples and telling them,<br class=\"\" \/>\u201cThe Son of Man is to be handed over to men<br class=\"\" \/>and they will kill him,<br class=\"\" \/>and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.\u201d<br class=\"\" \/>But they did not understand the saying,<br class=\"\" \/>and they were afraid to question him.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house,<br class=\"\" \/>he began to ask them,<br class=\"\" \/>\u201cWhat were you arguing about on the way?\u201d<br class=\"\" \/>But they remained silent.<br class=\"\" \/>For they had been discussing among themselves on the way<br class=\"\" \/>who was the greatest.<br class=\"\" \/>Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them,<br class=\"\" \/>\u201cIf anyone wishes to be first,<br class=\"\" \/>he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.\u201d<br class=\"\" \/>Taking a child, he placed it in their midst,<br class=\"\" \/>and putting his arms around it, he said to them,<br class=\"\" \/>\u201cWhoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me;<br class=\"\" \/>and whoever receives me,<br class=\"\" \/>receives not me but the One who sent me.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/8506-33ace50b-7502-4ea6-b4da-d0b5a741b283.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16990\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/8506-33ace50b-7502-4ea6-b4da-d0b5a741b283.jpg?resize=300%2C140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/8506-33ace50b-7502-4ea6-b4da-d0b5a741b283.jpg?resize=300%2C140&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/8506-33ace50b-7502-4ea6-b4da-d0b5a741b283.jpg?resize=768%2C357&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/8506-33ace50b-7502-4ea6-b4da-d0b5a741b283.jpg?resize=640%2C298&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/8506-33ace50b-7502-4ea6-b4da-d0b5a741b283.jpg?w=860&amp;ssl=1 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>After Mass today\u00a0the Sisters celebrated my birthday, which was on Saturday. As they regularly do, they took something I&#8217;ve\u00a0shared and had some fun with it. This year they took the story of how I found out my name was Roger on the first day of kindergarten from Mrs. Kathy Brophy, my kindergarten teacher, because my parents had never informed me what my real name was. They had always called me Joe, from my middle name Joseph, and lest I be confused with my father Roger when my mom was calling out. Using what they knew was one of my favorite melodies \u2014 Lo, How a Rose E&#8217;er Blooming \u2014 they wrote a little song, which I surreptitiously recorded and you can listen to below. I print the lyrics below as well as a copy of their very creative card in which they adapted a spiritual\u00a0bouquet based on my recent book Plan of Life.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lyrics<\/div>\n<div><em>Joe&#8217;s name is really Roger<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Looks like he didn&#8217;t know<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>He never would have thought it<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>His teacher told him so<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>He was but five years old<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>On that day he chose Roger<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>As his name over Joe<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>We&#8217;re grateful, Father Roger<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>More than you&#8217;ll ever know<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Yours is the name we honor<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>For mercies God has shown<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Through you, at break of dawn<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>You bring the light from heaven<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Eternity begun<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16988-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SVs-2019-Happy-Birthday.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SVs-2019-Happy-Birthday.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SVs-2019-Happy-Birthday.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.33-AM.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16996\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.33-AM.png?resize=300%2C195&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.33-AM.png?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.33-AM.png?resize=768%2C499&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.33-AM.png?resize=1024%2C666&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.33-AM.png?resize=640%2C416&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.46-AM.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16995\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.46-AM.png?resize=300%2C197&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.46-AM.png?resize=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.46-AM.png?resize=768%2C505&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.46-AM.png?resize=1024%2C674&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-10.27.46-AM.png?resize=640%2C421&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. 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