{"id":18785,"date":"2020-02-19T05:52:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=18785"},"modified":"2020-02-21T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T16:41:46","slug":"the-gradual-healing-of-our-sight-speech-and-behavior-6th-wednesday-ii-february-19-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-gradual-healing-of-our-sight-speech-and-behavior-6th-wednesday-ii-february-19-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gradual Healing of our Sight, Speech, and Behavior, 6th Wednesday (II), February 19, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nWednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nFebruary 19, 2020<br \/>\nJames 1:19-27, Ps 15, Mk 8:22-26<\/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-18785-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2.19.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2.19.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2.19.20-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 in the Gospel Jesus does something noteworthy. Unlike most of the other recorded miracles of Jesus where he healed instantaneously by his touch or by his words, today he heals a blind man progressively, in stages. After Jesus puts spit on his eyelids, the man can see people looking like walking trees; the next time Jesus does it, the man could see everything distinctly. Jesus obviously had the power to heal him of his blindness instantaneously, but he progressively healed him, I believe, in order to help the man persevere in hope and faith. Many of Jesus\u2019 miracles since then are progressive. He heals us in stages, so that we, too, may grow in the Christian virtues of patience, perseverance and faith in contact with Jesus\u2019 sacred humanity touching our own.<\/li>\n<li>Today we can ponder how Jesus seeks progressively to heal us, to heal our sight, to heal our hearing, to heal our speech, to heal our behavior. Jesus worked this miracle in the Gospel immediately before the scene tomorrow when he\u2019ll ask the apostles and us who we believe him to be. The apostles needed God\u2019s help to see who he really is. Some thought initially he was the Messiah, others didn\u2019t, but they all needed to grasp that he was also the Son of God. Peter confesses him as the Christ and Son of God by the grace of the healing of his mind by God the Father. We, too, need that healing to see him and confess him.<\/li>\n<li>In the first reading today, St. James talks about the mirror of the Word of God, which is one way God progressively heals us. The more we get to know God&#8217;s holy Word, the more we get to know God, to know ourselves, and to know how we\u2019re called to live in loving communion with him. St. James says positively that when we look into the mirror of the Word of God, we see who we\u2019re supposed to be and how we\u2019re called to respond to God&#8217;s help to change. When people look in a mirror, we do so to see if our hair\u2019s straight, if we still have shaving cream on the ears, if the double-windsor knot of a man\u2019s tie is straight, if a woman\u2019s make up came out the way it should. If there\u2019s anything awry as we look in the mirror, we then try to correct it. That\u2019s the vision that the word of God gives to us, to help us see ourselves as we are and to help us to correct ourselves by bringing ourselves into alignment with God\u2019s word and will. That\u2019s the first healing God gives us, of our sight, to see ourselves as we really ought to be, to remember our fundamental identity. In the Responsorial Psalm today, we see the \u201cmirror image\u201d of the one who will live on the Lord\u2019s mountain, the mirror image image of who God wants us to be, the one he wants to help us to become: \u201cHe who walks blamelessly and does justice;\u00a0who thinks the truth in his hear\u00a0and slanders not with his tongue.\u00a0Who harms not his fellow man,\u00a0nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;\u00a0Who lends not his money at usury\u00a0and accepts no bribe against the innocent.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The next progressive healing God wants to give us is of our hearing and speech. St. James is very clear today about the way a Christian ought to listen and converse: \u201cKnow this, my dear brothers and sisters, everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger. \u2026\u00a0If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue\u00a0but deceives his heart, his religion is vain.\u201d Many people, rather than being quick to hear and slow to speak, are instead slow to hear and quick to speak. When we\u2019re quick to hear and slow to speak, it shows that we recognize how much we need to learn and docile. It also shows how much we desire to enter into another\u2019s experience, to hear other\u2019s opinions, even more than sharing our own. When we\u2019re slow to hear and quick to speak, it shows that we believe we have little to learn from others and care more about our own experiences and thoughts than we do others\u2019. If we can\u2019t bridle our tongue and listen, St. James says, our worship of God is worthless because then we won\u2019t really even listen to him, especially when he speaks to us about how we glorify him in loving others.<\/li>\n<li>How does this progressive healing of our hearing and speech happen? How can we become people of bridled tongues, who are slow to speak and quick to hear? The Lord Jesus seeks to take us, like he took the man in the Gospel, aside from the crowd one by one to heal us, and he does that above all in the Sacrament of Confession. It\u2019s there where he helps us little by little to see ourselves as we are in the mirror of his love and convert with his assistance to become who we see in the mirror of his own life as the Word made flesh. It\u2019s where he strengthens us from within so that we might become his mirrors in the world. In the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, Christ ministers to us individually and purifies our sight, our speech, our hearing, our heart, our entire life. We need to love and be grateful for this Sacrament, as grateful as the blind man in today\u2019s Gospel was to receive this gift of the Lord Jesus.<\/li>\n<li>St. James famously today calls us to be not only hearers of the Word but doers of the Word. May he intercede for us that we may put into practice what God has taught us today about the healing of our senses and heart, as we prepare not to have Jesus put his saliva on our eyelids but to receive his Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity on the saliva of our tongues as we become one with him and give him permission to carry out his progressive healing from within us!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/james\/1:19\">JAS 1:19-27<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Know this, my dear brothers and sisters:<br \/>\neveryone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger<br \/>\nfor anger does not accomplish<br \/>\nthe righteousness of God.<br \/>\nTherefore, put away all filth and evil excess<br \/>\nand humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you<br \/>\nand is able to save your souls.<br \/>\nBe doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.<br \/>\nFor if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer,<br \/>\nhe is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror.<br \/>\nHe sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets<br \/>\nwhat he looked like.<br \/>\nBut the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres,<br \/>\nand is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts;<br \/>\nsuch a one shall be blessed in what he does.<br \/>\nIf anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue<br \/>\nbut deceives his heart, his religion is vain.<br \/>\nReligion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this:<br \/>\nto care for orphans and widows in their affliction<br \/>\nand to keep oneself unstained by the world.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/15:2\">PS 15:2-3A, 3AB-4AB, 5<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (1b)\u00a0Who shall live on your holy mountain, O Lord?<br \/>\nHe who walks blamelessly and does justice;<br \/>\nwho thinks the truth in his heart<br \/>\nand slanders not with his tongue.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Who shall live on your holy mountain, O Lord?<br \/>\nWho harms not his fellow man,<br \/>\nnor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;<br \/>\nBy whom the reprobate is despised,<br \/>\nwhile he honors those who fear the LORD.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Who shall live on your holy mountain, O Lord?<br \/>\nWho lends not his money at usury<br \/>\nand accepts no bribe against the innocent.<br \/>\nHe who does these things<br \/>\nshall never be disturbed.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Who shall live on your holy mountain, O Lord?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/8:22\">MK 8:22-26<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida,<br \/>\npeople brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.<br \/>\nHe took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village.<br \/>\nPutting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on the man and asked,<br \/>\n\u201cDo you see anything?\u201d<br \/>\nLooking up the man replied, \u201cI see people looking like trees and walking.\u201d<br \/>\nThen he laid hands on the man\u2019s eyes a second time and he saw clearly;<br \/>\nhis sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly.<br \/>\nThen he sent him home and said, \u201cDo not even go into the village.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Mirror-of-Gods-Word-1000x563-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18787\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Mirror-of-Gods-Word-1000x563-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Mirror-of-Gods-Word-1000x563-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Mirror-of-Gods-Word-1000x563-1.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Mirror-of-Gods-Word-1000x563-1.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Mirror-of-Gods-Word-1000x563-1.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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