{"id":19070,"date":"2020-04-09T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=19070"},"modified":"2020-05-03T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T14:08:51","slug":"the-first-passover-the-new-and-eternal-passover-and-this-passover-holy-thursday-april-9-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-first-passover-the-new-and-eternal-passover-and-this-passover-holy-thursday-april-9-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Passover, The New and Eternal Passover, and This Passover, Holy Thursday, April 9, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nHoly Thursday 2020<br \/>\nApril 9, 2020<br \/>\nEx 12:1-8.11-14, Ps 116, 1 Cor 11:23-26, Jn 13:1-15<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>To listen to an audio\u00a0recording of today&#8217;s Mass, please click below:<\/i><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-19070-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/4.9.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/4.9.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/4.9.20-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The following text guided tonight&#8217;s homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As we begin this most unusual celebration of the Holy Triduum, the first reading from tonight\u2019s Mass not only helps us to grasp that the Biblical precedents of our present situation but also puts into relief just how important what Jesus did during these days, and our participation in it, really is.<\/li>\n<li>The Book of Exodus describes for us how God had the enslaved Israelites in Egypt prepare for the Passover. The first nine plagues \u2014 the Nile turned to blood, frogs, lice, flies, the suffering of livestock, boils, hail, locusts and darkness \u2014 had failed to convert the heart of Pharaoh to set his people free to worship him. And so we came to the tenth pestilence: the death of the firstborn of man and beast alike. One of the characteristics of Jewish spirituality, and part of the virtue of religion in general seen elsewhere, is gratitude to God for his gifts, expressed in a special way through the consecration of the first fruits to him: not only the first agricultural produce of a season but also first-born children, vicariously offered to God, as we see later famously in the presentation of Jesus. If Pharoah was not open to allowing the children of Abraham to worship him at all, if he was not going to permit them to express their gratitude for his blessings even in slavery, if he was not going to believe in God\u2019s presence and power through the first nine signs, then God would teach them the source of all life and every blessing by helping them to appreciate the Giver and his gifts through the loss of what they held most precious.<\/li>\n<li>And so the tenth plague came and every first born in the land died. But God had given the Israelites in advance the vaccine for the plague in the procuring of an unblemished lamb, whom they were to keep for four days, prepare and sacrifice, wipe its blood on the lintels and doorposts of their homes, and finally consume. This Lamb would be offered to God in place of all of their first born and lead to the \u201cPassover,\u201d when God, seeing the blood, would pass over their homes. And that\u2019s precisely what happened and ultimately freed the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. That\u2019s what the Jews have been memorializing on the 14th of the month of Nisan ever since. That\u2019s the context of the Last Supper in which Jesus, celebrating this rite with unleavened bread, wine, bitter herbs and a slaughtered lamb, revealed its ultimate meaning and fulfillment.<\/li>\n<li>As the whole world now lives through the Covid-19 pestilence, which is striking down men and women no matter where they fit in ordinal rank, and when we hear a \u201cgreat cry throughout all the land\u201d for those who have died, for the families who mourn them, for the suffering of those presently in ICUs or home in pain, and as we pray for all those enduring the consequences, what we are doing tonight matters.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus, in completing the Passover rites on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, has provided us an antidote for Covid-19 and every other plague far more valuable than hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. Those drugs might be able to heal us from the coronavirus, but they will just delay the inevitable. Jesus has given us the remedy for death, no matter what cause will be inscribed on our death certificate. This year, in the midst of all of the suffering, we give thanks that this worldwide plague has brought everyone to confront the fact and reality of death, which, as we\u2019re learning in great numbers, will come for some much sooner than many anticipated. The coronavirus is cross-crossing the globe like a thief in the night burglarizing many of health, oxygen and even earthly life.<\/li>\n<li>But Jesus\u2019 words not to be afraid have no expiration date; the Church\u2019s faith that it is our duty and salvation, always and everywhere \u2014 including now, in New York \u2014 to give God thanks and praise admit of no exception. That\u2019s because Jesus has given us the remedy. In dying, he has destroyed our death; in rising, he has triumphed over every plague and its consequences, including the pestilence of sin. One of the goods that God is bringing out of this present crisis is the grace for us to grasp how much we need that remedy and enter into it, by celebrating the new and eternal Passover from death to life, by consuming the Lamb who has been slain, by wiping his blood not on the lintels of our homes but all over our interior temples, by passing over with him from spiritual worldliness and death to newness of life in communion with him risen from the dead.<\/li>\n<li>Holy Thursday is the only occasion when the Church explicitly tells priests what to preach on. The rubrics tell us that \u201cthe homily should explain the principal mysteries that are commemorated in this Mass: the institution of the Eucharist, the institution of the priesthood and Christ\u2019s commandment of brotherly love.\u201d The Church wants to make sure that not only do the faithful hear about each of these three \u201cprincipal mysteries\u201d but also are encouraged to enter into each of them more deeply. This year, because of the coronavirus and the long Lent of 2020, we can appreciate each of them in new light.\n<ul>\n<li>With regard to the Eucharist, most Catholics have been prevented from coming to the celebration the Mass, our entrance in time into the Passover of Jesus, and the opportunity to receive the Lamb that many have said that they will never be able to take Eucharist for granted again.<\/li>\n<li>With respect to the priesthood, faithful and priests both have been forced to look at the priesthood in perhaps a different light, not so much as a \u201cworship leader\u201d understood in a horizontal sense, but far more in line with the Letter to the Hebrews, as someone in the person of Christ who, even celebrating Mass alone, nevertheless brings to God all of the prayers of his people and the Church throughout the world, as someone who has the capacity to cleanse souls at a distance in parking lots or anoint us for the Passover from death to life dressed from head to toe in personal protective equipment and anointing us via cotton balls.<\/li>\n<li>And the whole Church has had a lesson in Christ\u2019s command of brotherly love, in watching medical personnel courageously risk their life to care for those who are ill, washing not just feet, but hands and heads and faces, in making us all far more aware of how we\u2019re called to inconvenience ourselves when necessary to care for others in precarious situation, and in slowing us down and giving us the privilege, day after day, of trying caring for those God has made our closest neighbors, those we live with and now need to spend most of the day with, those literally next door whom we might routinely ignore in the hustle and bustle of modern life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>God\u2019s ways are not our ways, as he himself taught us through the Prophet Isaiah taught us (Is 55:8). We may have preferred to grow in appreciation of the ineffable gifts of the Holy Eucharist, of the priesthood, and of the command to grow in the divine image by loving others as he has loved us, by other means than a pandemic, but one of the benefits that God wants to bring out of this ontological evil is renewed and much deeper appreciation for the means by which God continues to try to set us free from slavery, slavery to sin, slavery to fear, slavery to death.<\/li>\n<li>At the beginning of tonight\u2019s Gospel, St. John summarizes not only Jesus\u2019 whole life but his continued approach to us. \u201cJesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. Having loved his own in the world, he loved them to the end.\u201d Jesus\u2019 love is everlasting. He loves us \u201cto the extreme,\u201d to the point of being the \u201cfirst born of all creation\u201d struck down so that all of us might not perish but have eternal life. During the last Supper, he reminded us, \u201cJust as the Father loves me, so I love you.\u201d Tonight Jesus reiterates those words. He loves us each personally and desires to give himself to us as our nourishment, to lead us from within on the Passover for sin and death to love and life. He then tells us, \u201cRemain in my love\u201d: to dwell in it, believe in it, to rejoice in it, not to run away from it, to let him wash us regularly and thoroughly with his mercy from whatever dust or filth we may pick up from the world and its idolatries. And then he tells us how to remain in it: \u201cYou will remain in my love if you keep my Father\u2019s commandments, just as I have kept his commandments and remained in his love.\u201d Those commandments are all explicitations of how to love God with all our mind, heart, soul and strength and to love our neighbor as Jesus does, imitating his example of love \u201cto the extreme.\u201d The command, \u201cDo this in memory of me,\u201d brings us not only to unite ourselves with him as body and Head, as bride and Bridegroom, to offer ourselves as living worship to the Father (Rom 12:1), but also to give of our own body and blood, our hearts and heads, callouses and caresses to others.<\/li>\n<li>Through the Eucharist, the Priesthood, and the call to an authentically Christian moral life, all of which we celebrate tonight, Jesus seeks to love us, help us to remain in his love and grow in it. That\u2019s why, as we lift up the cup of salvation and call upon the Lord\u2019s saving name, we proclaim, with words that mean more to us this year than perhaps ever, \u201cBlessed are those who are called to the Supper of the Lamb!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for tonight&#8217;s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"cs_control_3684\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/exodus\/12:1\">EX 12:1-8, 11-14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,<br \/>\n\u201cThis month shall stand at the head of your calendar;<br \/>\nyou shall reckon it the first month of the year.<br \/>\nTell the whole community of Israel:<br \/>\nOn the tenth of this month every one of your families<br \/>\nmust procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household.<br \/>\nIf a family is too small for a whole lamb,<br \/>\nit shall join the nearest household in procuring one<br \/>\nand shall share in the lamb<br \/>\nin proportion to the number of persons who partake of it.<br \/>\nThe lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish.<br \/>\nYou may take it from either the sheep or the goats.<br \/>\nYou shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month,<br \/>\nand then, with the whole assembly of Israel present,<br \/>\nit shall be slaughtered during the evening twilight.<br \/>\nThey shall take some of its blood<br \/>\nand apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel<br \/>\nof every house in which they partake of the lamb.<br \/>\nThat same night they shall eat its roasted flesh<br \/>\nwith unleavened bread and bitter herbs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is how you are to eat it:<br \/>\nwith your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand,<br \/>\nyou shall eat like those who are in flight.<br \/>\nIt is the Passover of the LORD.<br \/>\nFor on this same night I will go through Egypt,<br \/>\nstriking down every firstborn of the land, both man and beast,<br \/>\nand executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt\u2014I, the LORD!<br \/>\nBut the blood will mark the houses where you are.<br \/>\nSeeing the blood, I will pass over you;<br \/>\nthus, when I strike the land of Egypt,<br \/>\nno destructive blow will come upon you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis day shall be a memorial feast for you,<br \/>\nwhich all your generations shall celebrate<br \/>\nwith pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228452\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/116:12\">PS 116:12-13, 15-16BC, 17-18.<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>R. (cf. 1 Cor 10:16)\u00a0 <strong>Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.<\/strong><br \/>\nHow shall I make a return to the LORD<br \/>\nfor all the good he has done for me?<br \/>\nThe cup of salvation I will take up,<br \/>\nand I will call upon the name of the LORD.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.<\/strong><br \/>\nPrecious in the eyes of the LORD<br \/>\nis the death of his faithful ones.<br \/>\nI am your servant, the son of your handmaid;<br \/>\nyou have loosed my bonds.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.<\/strong><br \/>\nTo you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving,<br \/>\nand I will call upon the name of the LORD.<br \/>\nMy vows to the LORD I will pay<br \/>\nin the presence of all his people.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228454\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1corinthians\/11:23\">1 COR 11:23-26<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nI received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,<br \/>\nthat the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over,<br \/>\ntook bread, and, after he had given thanks,<br \/>\nbroke it and said, \u201cThis is my body that is for you.<br \/>\nDo this in remembrance of me.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cThis cup is the new covenant in my blood.<br \/>\nDo this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.\u201d<br \/>\nFor as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,<br \/>\nyou proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Verse Before The Gospel<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/13:34\">JN 13:34<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>I give you a new commandment, says the Lord:<br \/>\nlove one another as I have loved you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cs_control_228453\" class=\"cs_control CS_Element_Textblock\">\n<div class=\"CS_Textblock_Text\">\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/13:1\">JN 13:1-15<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come<br \/>\nto pass from this world to the Father.<br \/>\nHe loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.<br \/>\nThe devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over.<br \/>\nSo, during supper,<br \/>\nfully aware that the Father had put everything into his power<br \/>\nand that he had come from God and was returning to God,<br \/>\nhe rose from supper and took off his outer garments.<br \/>\nHe took a towel and tied it around his waist.<br \/>\nThen he poured water into a basin<br \/>\nand began to wash the disciples\u2019 feet<br \/>\nand dry them with the towel around his waist.<br \/>\nHe came to Simon Peter, who said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cMaster, are you going to wash my feet?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus answered and said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat I am doing, you do not understand now,<br \/>\nbut you will understand later.\u201d<br \/>\nPeter said to him, \u201cYou will never wash my feet.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus answered him,<br \/>\n\u201cUnless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.\u201d<br \/>\nSimon Peter said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cMaster, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cWhoever has bathed has no need except to have his feet washed,<br \/>\nfor he is clean all over;<br \/>\nso you are clean, but not all.\u201d<br \/>\nFor he knew who would betray him;<br \/>\nfor this reason, he said, \u201cNot all of you are clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So when he had washed their feet<br \/>\nand put his garments back on and reclined at table again,<br \/>\nhe said to them, \u201cDo you realize what I have done for you?<br \/>\nYou call me \u2018teacher\u2019 and \u2018master,\u2019\u00a0 and rightly so, for indeed I am.<br \/>\nIf I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet,<br \/>\nyou ought to wash one another\u2019s feet.<br \/>\nI have given you a model to follow,<br \/>\nso that as I have done for you, you should also do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/b26581deccc1cbf61dd90dfddf16d361.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19071\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/b26581deccc1cbf61dd90dfddf16d361.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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