{"id":17409,"date":"2019-05-13T04:25:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=17409"},"modified":"2019-05-13T08:33:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:33:05","slug":"how-mary-shepherds-us-in-imitation-of-her-son-fourth-monday-of-easter-may-13-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/how-mary-shepherds-us-in-imitation-of-her-son-fourth-monday-of-easter-may-13-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mary Shepherds Us in Imitation of Her Son, Fourth Monday of Easter, May 13, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life,\u00a0Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the Fourth Week of Easter<br \/>\nMemorial of Our Lady of Fatima<br \/>\nMay 13, 2019<br \/>\nActs 11:1-18, Ps 42, Jn 10:1-10<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to this morning\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17409-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5.13.19-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5.13.19-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/5.13.19-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points\u00a0were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The mystagogical catechesis of the Easter Season commences with the apparitions of the Risen Lord to convince us anew of the fact of his Resurrection and how he seeks to have us seek the things that are above and live a new life. Then we have a four-day catechesis on the Sacrament of Baptism followed by an eight-day catechesis on the Eucharist. With Good Shepherd Sunday at the beginning of the Fourth Week, we begin to focus on various images and realities by which the Lord Jesus wishes to relate to us and bring us fully alive. Today everything is summarized in the passage, \u201cI came that they might have life and have it more abundantly.\u201d Jesus wishes us to overflow with his risen\u00a0<em>zoe<\/em> (supernatural life in contrast to \u201cbios\u201d or biological\/natural life).<em>\u00a0<\/em>At the end of today\u2019s first reading, the Church grasped that God wanted his \u201clife-giving repentance\u201d to be preached and offered to all the nations. To the extent that we haven\u2019t lived with Jesus\u2019 life, in which we haven\u2019t related to him as good sheep to Good Shepherd, he wishes now to give us that life-giving repentance so that we might have his risen life in us more abundantly.<\/li>\n<li>In today\u2019s Gospel, and throughout the tenth chapter of St. John&#8217;s Gospel concerning Jesus\u2019 Good Shepherd Discourse, we see how Jesus shepherds us to give us life in the following five ways:\n<ul>\n<li><em>First he calls\u00a0us by name<\/em> \u2014 None of us is a number to him. He knows us by name and calls us each individually. We\u2019re special to him.<\/li>\n<li><em>Second, he leads\u00a0and guides\u00a0us<\/em> \u2014 He doesn\u2019t call us and leave us on our own, but he constantly calls us to be with him. He goes before us so that he can turn to us and say \u201cfollow me.\u201d Because he knows us individually, he knows that we need direction and he constantly gives that personal direction.<\/li>\n<li><em>Third, he feeds\u00a0us<\/em> \u2014 In the most famous Psalm, which is all about how God shepherds us, we proclaim that with him, we lack nothing, but have it all. He leads us \u00a0into green pastures to have us graze. He guides us to restful waters to refresh us. He sets a table before us and makes our cup overflow. In St. Matthew\u2019s Gospel, when Jesus looked on the crowd because they were \u201clike sheep without a shepherd,\u201d on one occasion he worked the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fish and on other occasion he began to teach, knowing that people were hungering for nourishment for their souls as well. As our shepherd, Jesus always remembers to give us each day our daily bread, both material and spiritual.<\/li>\n<li><em>Fourth, he protects\u00a0us<\/em> \u2014 The ancient shepherds used to risk it all to protect their sheep against savage animals like wolves but also against bandits who would come to steal them. Jesus came into our world courageously to do the same for us. When we get lost wandering away from the fold, he leaves everyone else to come to find us and rescue us when we\u2019re in danger.<\/li>\n<li><em>Finally, he loves\u00a0us enough to die for us<\/em> \u2014 Jesus says three times in today\u2019s Gospel passage that he lays down, and lays down freely, his life for his sheep. I\u2019ve always considered it crazy for a human being to die for an animal. It\u2019s silly for us to die for our hamsters or parakeets or even for our pet canines and felines. But shepherds actually would die protecting their flocks from wolves, or lions, or evil bandits. The distance between human beings and animals, however, is nothing compared to the gap between God and us his creatures, and yet that\u2019s precisely what God does. And he does so because he loves us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These are all characteristics of how the risen Lord Jesus wants to relate to us as our shepherd. Our first task is to respond to his shepherding in each of these five ways.\n<ul>\n<li><em>To respond\u00a0to his call<\/em> and singular involvement involvement in our life, to recognize that we\u2019re special to him and summons us to a special bond with him and share in his saving mission. He says that his sheep hear his voice and don\u2019t recognize the voice of a stranger. Yet one of the problems we face is that of discernment, because, after the Fall, we can\u2019t always readily recognize his voice, and so we seek to attune our listening, with the help of others, to his constant calling. Each of us is called!<\/li>\n<li><em>To follow\u00a0him with docility and alacrity,<\/em> knowing that we need his guidance and that he is constantly providing it. Our Christian life is not static, but dynamic. Jesus is always\u00a0leading us out and he wants us following him. He\u2019s leading us on a pilgrimage all the days of our life. Occasionally he will guide us through dark valleys with his rod and staff and we follow him there, too, as he gives us confidence to be with him even on the way of the Cross that is the path to glory.<\/li>\n<li><em>To hunger\u00a0for what he gives us,<\/em> derive our nutrition from what he provides, and be grateful. It\u2019s important for us to allow God to provide for us. That\u2019s what God helped St. Peter to see in today\u2019s first reading when God pronounced clean all food he had created. That\u2019s key to spiritual childhood, that we recognize we need him. This hunger\u00a0is important physically but even more important spiritually, and God seeks to feed our solves even more lavishly than he feeds our bodies, because for our souls, he gives us himself as nutrition.<\/li>\n<li><em>Not to run away from his protection<\/em> to get his attention, <em>but<\/em> <em>to stay close to his strong arm<\/em>. That\u2019s what gives us great confidence and happiness. There\u2019s a beautiful part of today\u2019s Gospel that says that the sheep \u201ccome in and go out and find pasture.\u201d Those verbs point to the fact that they\u2019re secure enough, under the protection of the Shepherd, to wander about, without being paranoid about the wolves or thieves.<\/li>\n<li><em>To receive the fruits of laying down his life for us.<\/em> Jesus gave his life, as he tells us today, so that we might have life and have it to the full. The way we receive this gift is by coming alive, by seizing that gift of abundant life, which is not\u00a0<em>bios (<\/em>biological life), but\u00a0<em>zoe\u00a0<\/em>(supernatural life). We don\u2019t want Jesus\u2019 gift of life to be wasted, but to invest it so that we may have more and more a share of his life, by entering into his life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Today we celebrate the feast of Our Lady Fatima, remembering her appearances to the three young shepherd children in the Cova da Iria in Portugal. She came essentially to shepherd the shepherd children, and with them, the whole Church. To be a spiritual mother is to be a good shepherd and in Fatima,\u00a0she revealed herself to be a Mother concerned for the spiritual growth and health of all her sons and daughters. On Calvary, Jesus gave her to us as our spiritual Mother and gave us to her as her spiritual sons and daughters. As a spiritual mother, she knows us individually and calls us by name, just like she called L\u00facia, Francisco and Jacinta. She led and guided them in prayer and in sacrifice. She fed them with the truth about the situation the Church and world were in. She came to protect them and the whole world from the consequences of sin. She didn&#8217;t need to give her life, but left heaven to help us to receive the fruits of her son&#8217;s great gift.\u00a0In Fatima, Mary appeared with a word of conversion, the same word with which Christ the Good Shepherd began his public ministry (\u201crepent and believe in the Gospel\u201d) and the same message with which he sent out his apostles at his Ascension (to proclaim \u201crepentance for the forgiveness of sins to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem\u201d). With great maternal solicitude, she wanted to help us to mature, to see things as they really are, and to use the freedom her Son gave us to choose aright \u2014 and that involves seeing sin for what it is and turning away from it and turning toward her Son and living by the Gospel he is and announced. She specifically called the pastorinhos\u00a0and through them the whole world to penance and conversion, asking these children to pray for the conversion of poor sinners and to offer up sacrifices, voluntary and involuntary penances, and sufferings for sinners\u2019\u00a0conversion.<\/li>\n<li>Why did she appear to shepherd children, ages 7, 9 and 10? Obviously part of that answer is mysterious, but it\u2019s likely because most of her older children \u2014 then and still now \u2014 routinely ignore this summons of her Son. But it&#8217;s also because they could heed the message and become pastorinhos of others through their prayer and sacrifices, giving their lives for us their sheep just like they would for the sheep and goats entrusted to them. It\u2019s very moving how Francisco, Jacinta and Lucia immediately acted on this summons. They prayed the Rosary for sinners. The recited between the mysteries of the Rosary a prayer Mary herself taught them that most Catholics continue to pray to this day: \u201cO my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of your mercy!\u201d From the beginning of the apparitions,\u00a0Francisco began to pray almost constantly to \u201cconsole Jesus for the sins of the world.\u201d One night, when his father discovered him sobbing in his room, Francisco gave the reason: \u201cI was thinking of Jesus who is so sad because of the sins that are committed against him.\u201d Jacinta was so convinced by the vision of the reality of Hell of the importance of saving sinners from it that she began to pour herself into prayer and practice various corporal mortifications. \u201cPray, pray much and make sacrifices for sinners,\u201d Mary had told her. \u201cMany souls go to hell because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them.\u201d Jacinta responded, as did her brother, by prostrating themselves in prayer for hours, kneeling with their heads humbly bowed to the ground.\u00a0They made all types of physical sacrifices, wearing tight cords around their waist, scourging themselves with stinging nettles, abstaining from water on hot days and other penitential practices.\u00a0When both caught the terrible 1918 flu that took the lives of tens of thousands, they offered all of their sufferings for sinners. Having been told by Our Lady that she would take him to heaven soon, Francisco declined hospital treatment, bearing enormous pain with a smile and without complaint. Our Lady appeared to Jacinta and asked if she wanted to stay on earth a little longer to convert more sinners. She said yes. So the little girl allowed herself to be dragged from clinic to clinic, to have two of her ribs removed without anaesthesia, valiantly sacrificing herself as a victim for the conversion of sinners and for the Holy Father, whom she knew from the vision would suffer much.\u00a0When Saint\u00a0John Paul II beatified them in Fatima in 2000, he lifted them up as an example to the whole world of what Christ-like and Marian shepherdly love for the salvation of others looks like.\u00a0He stressed that their lives demonstrate that children can be heroically virtuous and reach \u201cthe heights of perfection\u201d at a very young age, and if they can so can all of us.<\/li>\n<li>Mary said that the remedy to all that would plague the world would be consecration to her immaculate heart, which means, essentially, to entrust oneself to her maternal, shepherdly love. Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta did. Today we&#8217;re called to imitate their example. Mary seeks to call us by name, guide us, feed us, protect us and help us to open ourselves up to receive her son&#8217;s life to the full. In this year marking the 100th anniversary of the birth into eternal life of Francisco (April 4, 1919), we ask Mary&#8217;s help that she may help lead us, and many others, like she led him to the eternal sheep fold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/11:1\">ACTS 11:1-18<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea<br \/>\nheard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.<br \/>\nSo when Peter went up to Jerusalem<br \/>\nthe circumcised believers confronted him, saying,<br \/>\n\u2018You entered the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them.\u201d<br \/>\nPeter began and explained it to them step by step, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cI was at prayer in the city of Joppa<br \/>\nwhen in a trance I had a vision,<br \/>\nsomething resembling a large sheet coming down,<br \/>\nlowered from the sky by its four corners, and it came to me.<br \/>\nLooking intently into it,<br \/>\nI observed and saw the four-legged animals of the earth,<br \/>\nthe wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.<br \/>\nI also heard a voice say to me, \u2018Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.\u2019<br \/>\nBut I said, \u2018Certainly not, sir,<br \/>\nbecause nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.\u2019<br \/>\nBut a second time a voice from heaven answered,<br \/>\n\u2018What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.\u2019<br \/>\nThis happened three times,<br \/>\nand then everything was drawn up again into the sky.<br \/>\nJust then three men appeared at the house where we were,<br \/>\nwho had been sent to me from Caesarea.<br \/>\nThe Spirit told me to accompany them without discriminating.<br \/>\nThese six brothers also went with me,<br \/>\nand we entered the man\u2019s house.<br \/>\nHe related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, saying,<br \/>\n\u2018Send someone to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,<br \/>\nwho will speak words to you<br \/>\nby which you and all your household will be saved.\u2019<br \/>\nAs I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them<br \/>\nas it had upon us at the beginning,<br \/>\nand I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said,<br \/>\n\u2018John baptized with water<br \/>\nbut you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.\u2019<br \/>\nIf then God gave them the same gift he gave to us<br \/>\nwhen we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nwho was I to be able to hinder God?\u201d<br \/>\nWhen they heard this,<br \/>\nthey stopped objecting and glorified God, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cGod has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/42:2\">PS 42:2-3; 43:3, 4<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (see 3a)\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nAs the hind longs for the running waters,<br \/>\nso my soul longs for you, O God.<br \/>\nAthirst is my soul for God, the living God.<br \/>\nWhen shall I go and behold the face of God?<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nSend forth your light and your fidelity;<br \/>\nthey shall lead me on<br \/>\nAnd bring me to your holy mountain,<br \/>\nto your dwelling-place.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nThen will I go in to the altar of God,<br \/>\nthe God of my gladness and joy;<br \/>\nThen will I give you thanks upon the harp,<br \/>\nO God, my God!<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/10:14\">JN 10:14<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nI am the good shepherd, says the Lord;<br \/>\nI know my sheep, and mine know me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/10:1\">JN 10:1-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus said:<br \/>\n\u201cAmen, amen, I say to you,<br \/>\nwhoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate<br \/>\nbut climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.<br \/>\nBut whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.<br \/>\nThe gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice,<br \/>\nas he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.<br \/>\nWhen he has driven out all his own,<br \/>\nhe walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him,<br \/>\nbecause they recognize his voice.<br \/>\nBut they will not follow a stranger;<br \/>\nthey will run away from him,<br \/>\nbecause they do not recognize the voice of strangers.\u201d<br \/>\nAlthough Jesus used this figure of speech,<br \/>\nthey did not realize what he was trying to tell them.<br \/>\nSo Jesus said again, \u201cAmen, amen, I say to you,<br \/>\nI am the gate for the sheep.<br \/>\nAll who came before me are thieves and robbers,<br \/>\nbut the sheep did not listen to them.<br \/>\nI am the gate.<br \/>\nWhoever enters through me will be saved,<br \/>\nand will come in and go out and find pasture.<br \/>\nA thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy;<br \/>\nI came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0528__0003_b7.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17411\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0528__0003_b7.jpg?resize=300%2C228&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0528__0003_b7.jpg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0528__0003_b7.jpg?resize=640%2C487&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0528__0003_b7.jpg?w=682&amp;ssl=1 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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