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The\u00a0following text guided today\u2019s homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n\n- \u201cBeware of False Prophets,\u201d Jesus tells us in today\u2019s Gospel. These are those who, rather than leading others in the ways of God, lead them astray. Throughout the Old Testament, the Lord\u2019s chosen prophets were always opposed by imposters, those who claimed the title prophet but didn\u2019t speak the Lord\u2019s word but a false message that their listeners often found more pleasant. False prophecy remained a major problem at the time of Jesus and the early Church. St. John wrote in his first letter, \u201cMany false prophets have gone out into the world\u201d (1 Jn 4:1). St. Peter wrote, \u201cThere were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be lying teachers among you (2 Pet 2:1). The Didache<\/em>, authored in the late first century as a type of catechesis for the first Christians, said, \u201cLet every apostle that comes to you be received as the Lord,\u201d but cautioned them to pay attention, stressing, \u201cif the teacher, \u2026 teaches another doctrine opposed to [increasing righteousness and the knowledge of the Lord], do not listen to him.\u201d The Didache\u00a0<\/em>also highlights the self-interest that often motivates false teachers. The prophet, it says, \u201cshall not remain more than one day; if there be a need, also a second; but if he remains three days, he is a false prophet. And when the apostle leaves, let him take nothing but bread until he lodges; if he asks for money, he is a false prophet.\u201d \u00a0The false prophet is concerned, it implies, not with zealously announcing the word of God far and wide but rather with finding a cushy situation. The Didache\u00a0<\/em>summarizes, \u201cNot every one who speaks in the Spirit is a prophet, but only the one who holds the ways of the Lord.\u00a0<\/em>So from their ways shall the false prophet and the prophet be known.\u201d<\/li>\n
- This issue, this serious responsibility, of knowing how to distinguish between true and false prophets didn\u2019t end with the apostolic age. We see it in the many heresies throughout Church history. We see it today. There\u2019s a type of false prophet who preaches a laxist, easy way, as if the road to life is broad and the way to perdition is narrow. The false prophet doesn\u2019t live by and repeat Jesus\u2019 challenge to lose our life to save it, to pick up our Cross each day and follow him, to sacrifice ourselves to wash others\u2019 feet, to love God not just a little but with all our mind, heart, soul and strength, and to love our neighbor not just by not hating our neighbor, not just by having warm thoughts about our neighbor, but according to the truth in the self-sacrificial way with which Jesus has loved us. This type of false prophet manipulates God\u2019s unconditional love to pretend as if the God never gave us the Ten Commandments to train us to love. He tries to pretend that sin isn\u2019t sin, that there\u2019s no need for conversion, that God doesn\u2019t really want us to heed his words to repent and believe but simply to go on doing exactly what we\u2019re doing. Perhaps the most common of these laxist prophets today are those who trumpet a sexual morality different from what Jesus has given us through the Gospels and the Church. There\u2019s another type of false prophet who separates faith from life, union with God in the sanctuary from union with God on the streets, in the workplace, in the classroom, in the home. This type of prophet is for ritualism but never speaks about righteousness; as long as you\u2019re coming to Church and being generous with the things of the Church, what you do outside is never really a subject of his or God\u2019s attention. A third type of false prophet is like many of the Pharisees of old, who use the moral prohibitions of Sacred Scripture as weapons to accuse and condemn others, without preaching the power of God\u2019s mercy, without praying for others, without taking the planks out of their own eyes. This type of false prophet creates a proud, small clique of seemingly morally elite believers apart from others, rather than moves people to join Jesus in seeking and saving what is lost. These types of prophets and their followers often rightly avoid and denounce the chic sins of the age, but they miss the weightier aspects of the law of Christ-like love. And a fourth type of false prophet comes basically from ignorance, passing on false teaching because of a lack of study and humility. How many people I have met many people who were told by fellow Catholics, for example, that they were not able to receive Holy Communion simply because they were divorced, even though they had not remarried or even dated. How many others had IVF treatments because they were told by Catholic family members that they had never heard the Church speak about it and therefore it must be fine.<\/li>\n
- While some false prophets are easy to spot, many are not. One really has to look carefully. One has to pay very close attention to the person\u2019s words and behavior. Jesus talks about this in today\u2019s Gospel. From the time of Elijah, prophets wore sheepskin mantles, by which they could be distinguished from other prophets. False and true prophets both came in sheep\u2019s clothing, and so one couldn\u2019t just stop at superficial vesture. Jesus said that we needed to examine up close the fruit they produce. He uses two images: thorn bushes that produce tiny toxic fruit that at first glance looks like grapes; and thistles that from a distance produce something resembling a fig. He calls us to get beyond superficial appearances, beyond initial words, beyond their crying out \u201cLord, Lord,\u201d in prayer, to determine whether the fruit they produce is good, healthy and holy, or toxic and spiritually lethal. \u201cBy their fruits you will know them,\u201d Jesus says twice, reminding us, \u201cEvery good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit.\u201d We cannot live by the fruit of the buckthorn and thistle. So the questions are always: Are the prophets producing good fruit or bad? Are they making us genuinely more Christ-like or less? Are they challenging us toward holiness or toward worldliness? Are they summoning us, to use the words of the epistle from St. Paul\u2019s Epistle to the Romans, to \u201cpresent [our bodies] as slaves to righteousness for sanctification\u201d or to present them \u201cas slaves to impurity, \u2026 lawnessness [and] sin\u201d? To use the criteria of the Didache<\/em>, are they getting rich off of the Gospel or are they seeking to become rich in what matters to God and moving us to place our hearts in the same treasure?<\/li>\n
- Discerning between true and false prophets is not easy, fast or fun. Many of us would prefer to remain na\u00efve, as if every Catholic cleric who mounts the pulpit is giving you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as God intends, as if every theologian at a Catholic University teaches according to the magisterium, as if every catechist in schools and CCD programs reliably passes on the fullness of the faith. To remember that there are false prophets doesn\u2019t mean that all of a sudden Jesus wants us to become paranoid, not trusting any teacher of the faith until we do an exhaustive background check on every word and action. Rather he wants us to be alert that sometimes there are false prophets who manipulate the faith of believers for their own benefit, either to be admired and popular, or to grow rich, or even sometimes to build big parishes that gratify their vanity more than they please the Lord.<\/li>\n
- It\u2019s tempting, however, to focus mainly on discerning, outing and denouncing the false prophets today who lead people astray rather than in the Lord\u2019s footsteps, but there are two larger \u2014 and I think more important \u2014\u00a0responses we should give to today\u2019s Gospel.<\/li>\n
- The first is that when we\u2019ve recognized that someone is a true prophet, whose words and conduct align with the Lord\u2019s and who bears evident fruit of holiness, do we heed that prophet\u2019s word, convert as they summon us to do, and sacrifice as God through them challenges us to do? While there are indeed false prophets, God never ceases to call and send out true ones. How well do we respond to them? Jesus, looking over the Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives just before he would enter on Palm Sunday, lamented, \u201cJerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling\u201d (Mt 23:37). Jerusalem as a whole didn\u2019t convert even when Jesus came. Do we convert with the true prophets? Do we follow what they say so that Jesus, through them, can gather us together under his wings? And often the prophets Jesus sends us are not dressed in sheepskin mantles, or religious vestments. Often they look literally like those with whom we live and work and go to school. When Jesus returned to Nazareth, he declared that a \u201ca prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.\u201d Do we accept, heed and honor prophets in our home? Do we listen to the saintly members of our extended family who urge us to a greater commitment to our faith? When a relative corrects us for a bad habit, or calls us to forgive, or asks us to pray, or summons us to greater charity, do we recognize that they might be the mouthpiece of God, or do we respond defensively or by pointing out that person\u2019s failings and defects to deflect from our own? How we respond to true prophets is the first application.<\/li>\n
- The second and main application I\u2019d like to ponder is the fact that by our Baptism and our Confirmation each of us now shares in Christ\u2019s prophetic work. He has sent us out to proclaim the Gospel to every creature, teaching them to carry out everything he has commanded us, promising that he will be with us always until the end of time. Jesus has chosen us to spread his Word, to pass on the faith. He has called, constituted and commissioned us to be his prophets. Our example is already a form of prophecy in body language. Are we, by our words and deeds, true prophets or false ones? Are our words and deeds a faithful echo of Jesus\u2019? What fruit do we bear: spiritual grapes and figs or wild grapes and toxic berries? What fruit do others bear as a result of their interaction with us?<\/li>\n
- Regardless of how we\u2019ve done until now \u2014 and perhaps some of us have never really focused on it as much as we should have \u2014 how do we become the types of true prophets the Lord desires? How do we bear good fruit? Jesus tells us in today\u2019s Gospel that it\u2019s by becoming <\/em>a good tree<\/em>, because a good tree produces good fruit naturally. And how do we become a good tree? By staying attached to Christ<\/em>. Jesus tells us in the Gospel of St. John (Jn 15:1-8) that he is the vine and we are the branches. As long as we stay attached to him, he promises\u00a0<\/em>us that we will bear much fruit. But he also tells us that apart from him, we can do nothing. To bear fruit as a prophet we need to remain in him and him in us, to be in the state of grace, to abide in his word and let it abide in us, to remain in a Holy Communion of will and life. That\u2019s the first step.<\/li>\n
- The second step is how we remain attached to him as fruitful branches to the vine. That\u2019s the principal work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit incorporates us into Christ and helps us to bear fruit that will last. St. Paul describes the work and fruit of the Holy Spirit in his letter to the Galatians. Those who are \u201ctrue prophets\u201d \u2014 those who are sheep and shepherds in sheep\u2019s clothing, who live with integrity, who preach the Gospel by their good fruit and not just by their words, who do not just call upon God and prayer but glorify him in doing his will, who \u201cpresent them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification\u201d \u2014\u00a0bear the following fruit of the Spirit: \u201clove, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.\u201d These are strong, not soft, words. Each of them is an attribute of Jesus. Love\u00a0<\/em>means we are willing to lay down our lives for friends rather than live for pleasure; joy\u00a0<\/em>means that we have Christ\u2019s happiness in us, especially at the conversion of sinners (Lk 15); peace\u00a0<\/em>means that we have the tranquility that Jesus gives and the world can\u2019t give or take away, which also occasionally involves the sword of rejection even by family members who don\u2019t order their lives to Christ; patience\u00a0<\/em>means we bear with others\u2019 faults and our own, never giving up on the Lord\u2019s will to forgive and unite us; kindness\u00a0<\/em>means unconquerable benevolence even toward those who make themselves our enemies and persecutors; generosity\u00a0<\/em>means sacrificing to the point of heroism, not just what we have left over but even what we need; faithfulness\u00a0<\/em>means fidelity to Christ and to others, even and especially when it\u2019s hard and everyone else is capitulating; meekness\u00a0<\/em>means the strength not to have to retaliate with the world\u2019s fallen means; self-control\u00a0<\/em>means the self-mastery so that we do what we ought and by God\u2019s grace follow the Lord\u2019s will in season and out of season. This is the good fruit that true prophets bear and help produce in those who receive their prophetic words and deeds on good soil. This is a challenging list, but we should never lose sight of the fact that the apostles, the first prophets of the New Testament prophets, were not spiritual superheroes, but people much like us, with faults and failings. But they corresponded to the power of the Holy Spirit who came down on them on Pentecost and over time bore fruit that has lasted not only down to our day but will last into eternity. Today is an occasion for us to recognize that God wants us to cooperate with the Holy Spirit just as efficaciously as they did, so that through us the Holy Spirit we, like them, can bear effective witness to the saving presence of God in the world.<\/li>\n
- The false prophets, St. Paul goes on to say, are those who bear another type of fruit, because their \u201ctree\u201d is corrupted, because they\u2019re no longer attached to Christ the vine. To use today\u2019s words from his Letter to the Romans, they\u2019re \u201cslaves to impurity and to lawlessness.\u201d Returning to his Letter to the Galatians, we find what that impurity and lawlessness produces. He says the works of the flesh are \u201cimmorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions, occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like.\u201d We see these works often in false prophets today. There are Catholics \u2014\u00a0including clergy and religious \u2014\u00a0who preach and live a pseudo-gospel of various types of immorality and impurity, drinking bouts, orgies and the like. They often treat sexual sins as eighth sacraments that need to be celebrated and indulged rather than things that need to be repented of and confessed. There are even some Catholic parishes in our city that are sadly infamous for coddling and celebrating such behavior, something that should lead all of us to do reparation. But there are also Catholics, including clergy and religious, who preach and live with hatreds, rivalry, outbursts of anger, envy and jealousy, selfishness, dissensions and factions, who are constantly judging not just other people\u2019s actions but their souls, who are cesspools of complaints, criticisms, and separations. Sometimes parishes, sometimes even traditional communities, get reputations for these types of works of the flesh, and we must do reparation for them, too. Both types of bad fruit scandalize and drive many others away. Both are false prophecy. And today we need to ask, honestly, whether we\u2019re producing the fruit of the spirit or the works of the flesh, whether by our deeds and body language, we\u2019re preaching Christ and attracting others to him and to the life of God, or whether we are in fact dishonoring him, harming ourselves, and hurting others.<\/li>\n
- The outcome of these two types of prophetic living, the false and the true, cannot be clearer. This is the ultimate good or rotten fruit. St. Paul in today\u2019s epistle describes that \u201cthe end of those things [life according to the flesh] is death\u201d and in his Letter to the Galatians, he says, \u201cthose who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God\u201d because they\u2019re permanently choosing to live outside of it. On the other hand, for true prophets, he says today, \u201cthe benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life,\u201d reiterating, \u201cthe gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201d One is a path of eternal life, another is of eternal death, of everlasting self-separation from the kingdom. What path are we going to choose<\/em>? Notice I didn\u2019t ask, \u201cWhat path do we want?,\u201d because it\u2019s clear that each of us would want the path that leads to life. But the question is which path will we will<\/em>, will we choose<\/em>, in concrete choices, over and over again? And what path will we help others to choose? The choice of being a true prophet is not just a path of moral integrity and cooperation with the Spirit, but one that recognizes that we need to know our faith enough to be able to pass it on with accuracy and conviction. To choose that path of being a true prophet means to take seriously our mission to preach the faith, in season and out of season, with our lips and our lives, showing as best we can the attractiveness of a life lived in accordance with God\u2019s truth, goodness and beauty.<\/li>\n
- Beware of false prophets. Become true prophets. Today is a day on which the Lord is calling us to ask above all whether our lives are true or false representations of him, whether we\u2019re bearing good fruit that is giving glory to our Father in heaven. The Lord who today calls us to be good trees, seek prayerfully the will of God and then, in accordance with his grace, do it, is prepared to give us all the help he knows we need. He calls us to be \u201cslaves of God\u201d with willing hearts, following the path of sanctification that leads to eternal life, bearing the fruit of the Spirit so that others, when they think of us, see us resemble Christ\u2019s and Mary\u2019s and the saints\u2019 love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. And if we sense that with regard to this divine summons, our spirit is willing but our flesh is weak, today, at Mass, Jesus seeks to strengthen us. He comes as the Vine to attach us anew to Him as branches, promising us that if we remain in him, and he in us, we will bear fruit that will last into eternity. This is our faith. This is the faith of the Church. How proud we are to profess\u00a0<\/em>it, inside Church and out, in Christ our Lord!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nA reading for the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans
\n<\/strong>I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/p>\nThe continuation of the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew<\/strong>
\nJesus said to his disciples: \u201cBeware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep\u2019s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. So by their fruits you will know them. \u201cNot everyone who says to me, \u2018Lord, Lord,\u2019 will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/How-to-Detect-a-Wolf-in-Sheeps-Clothing.001.jpeg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1\")
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