{"id":19652,"date":"2020-06-26T09:18:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T13:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=19652"},"modified":"2020-10-31T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:40:08","slug":"the-lords-desire-to-make-us-clean-12th-friday-ii-june-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-lords-desire-to-make-us-clean-12th-friday-ii-june-26-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord&#8217;s Desire to Make Us Clean, 12th Friday (II), June 26, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nFriday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Josemaria Escriva<br \/>\nThe 21st Anniversary of my Ordination<br \/>\nJune 26, 2020<br \/>\n2 Kings 25:1-12, Ps 137, Mt 8:1-4<\/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-19652-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6.26.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6.26.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6.26.20-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>Over the past two-and-a-half weeks at daily Mass, we have been pondering Jesus&#8217; words in the Sermon on the Mount, in which he sets forth his standards \u2014 and the standards by which he wishes us to live \u2014 that surpass that of the Scribes, Pharisees and virtuous pagans. He calls us to be &#8220;perfect&#8221; (<em>teleios<\/em>) as his Father in heaven is perfect, to be great by keeping his commandments and teaching others to do the same, to seek first the kingdom of heaven and God&#8217;s holiness. He calls us to seek to be, in contrast to the standards and behavior of so many in the world, poor in spirit, compassionate to the point of mourning, meek, merciful, peacemaking, hungry and thirst for holiness, pure of heart, and willing to suffer for the sake of holiness. He calls us to love our enemies, pray for our persecutors, do good to those who are evil, to turn the other cheek, to walk the second mile, to give our cloak when all that&#8217;s asked for is our tunic, to not hate and not only not kill, to be chaste in heart and not just continent in the body, to have our eye mean yes and our no mean no, to pray, fast and give alms only for God the Father and not for show, not to worry about what we are to eat, drink or wear but to trust in the Father&#8217;s providence, to take out the beams from our own eyes and stop judging, to enter through the narrow gate of life, to do to others what we ourselves wish to be done to us, to become a good tree bearing good fruit and to build our whole life on his word.\u00a0After hearing all of this, it is understandable that we might feel overwhelmed, as if the standards Jesus is proposing are unreachable. We may recognize just how often, every day, we fall short.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s why in God&#8217;s providence, and in the Holy Spirit&#8217;s inspiration of St. Matthew, right after the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus makes clear the standards by which Christians are called to live, we have Chapter 8, which features seven different miracles of healing. The first we have today, in which a leper approaches Jesus, kneels down in homage, and humbly asks, &#8220;Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.&#8221; We can say the same, with similar adoration and trust: &#8220;Lord, if you will, you can cleanse me of all of the ways I&#8217;ve lived by the standards of the world rather than by yours. If you will, you can give me the help you know I need to become\u00a0<em>teleios<\/em>, to become great by keeping and teaching your commandments, to seek first your kingdom, and to base my whole life on the rock of your holy word!&#8221; And we have every confidence Jesus will respond like he did to the leper, to all the others who approached him through Chapter 8 and in other scenes in the Gospel, and say, &#8220;I do will it! Be made clean!&#8221; After hearing God&#8217;s wisdom at length, now we encounter God&#8217;s healing power to strengthen us to live up to the high standards of ordinary Christian living to which Jesus calls us.<\/li>\n<li>God&#8217;s desire to cleanse us, to make us pure, to fill us with his mercy to overflowing, explains the motivation behind Jesus&#8217; incarnation, his hidden life, his passion, death and resurrection. Jesus&#8217; whole life screams the ardor of God&#8217;s hunger to make us clean, to heal us of our words and the leprosy of sin that alienates us from God, others and our truest selves. In the ancient world, leprosy was the worst disease one could have. Not only would it eat away one&#8217;s flesh and bones and make one stink in a most disgusting fashion, but it would also cut the leper off from everyone other than fellow lepers. One needed to remain 50 feet away from others, cry out &#8220;Unclean! Unclean!&#8221; whenever anyone approached. One couldn&#8217;t be with one&#8217;s family or friends. One couldn&#8217;t live in one&#8217;s home. Even though there was technically a place for lepers in the synagogue, none would go because of the social stigma and obstacles others would place in their way. It&#8217;s a sign of the alienation that can happen to us spiritually through sin, where we begin to cut ourselves off from communion. Jesus comes, however, to restore us. He reaches out, he touches us through the Sacraments, and he renews us like God in touching us at the beginning gave us life. All we need is faith. We remember the scene after the Transfiguration when Jesus, Peter, James and John descend from the mountain and meet the dad whose son was tormented by a devil that the other nine apostles couldn&#8217;t exorcise. The father said to Jesus, &#8220;If you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us&#8221; (Mk 9:22). Jesus replied by challenging him to grow in faith, &#8220;If you\u00a0<em>can!\u00a0<\/em>Everything is possible to one who has faith!&#8221; In this case, there was no doubt in the leper about Jesus&#8217; power to do what he was asking. He politely say, &#8220;If you wish, you can make me whole,&#8221; and Jesus did.<\/li>\n<li>The way God desires to cleanse us and make us whole is not what we would necessarily want. We see one of his means in today&#8217;s first reading, when King Nubuchadnezzar of Babylon and the captain of his bodyguard, Nebuzaradan, commit all types of atrocities against the residents of Jerusalem, sacrileges against the Temple and destruction of almost every structure in the city. King Zedekiah&#8217;s eyes were plucked out, his sons (and heirs) killed, and most of those who were not slain were enslaved. The Jews who had been taking God&#8217;s law for granted no longer did. The ones who could see the Temple but didn&#8217;t go there to pray and convert sat, as we prayed in the Psalm, by the rivers of Babylon and wept. It was a 70 year time of conversion. Even those who were being struck down by the Babylonians likely had a chance to turn to God for mercy as they paid for their sins. When they finally returned after the exile, they took God, and his dwelling place, and his law seriously as the gifts they should have always recognized.<\/li>\n<li>Another way the Lord purifies us is through our work. At the beginning of Mass today on the feast of St. Josemaria, we asked God the Father, through St. Rosemarie&#8217;s intercession, to grant us that\u00a0<em>through our daily work\u00a0<\/em>we may be &#8220;formed in the likeness of Jesus \u2026 and serve the work of redemption with burning love.&#8221; Work was part of God&#8217;s plan for us from the beginning. He gave us the three-fold vocation to increase and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion as stewards over God&#8217;s creation. After the Fall, that vocation remained, but it would be accomplished with pangs, toil and sweat. These sufferings in work would force us to have to persevere in working. It would purify our motivation and help us in work to learn to love God, love those who we&#8217;re serving through our work, and become more like Jesus through our work, making up for what is lacking in us of the work of salvation. St. Josemaria was God&#8217;s chosen instrument to teach us how to make our work a true\u00a0<em>opus Dei<\/em>, a work of God, something that can be offered to God like the sacrifice of Abel and sanctify us through the subjective or intransitive effect of work and potentially sanctify our co-workers and clients through the Christ-like virtues we exercise in imitation of Jesus&#8217;, Joseph&#8217;s and Mary&#8217;s work in Nazareth. I give thanks for St. Josemaria&#8217;s teachings and his intercession in my life. As a priest it&#8217;s somewhat straightforward to sanctify our prayer, our preaching, our celebration of the sacraments, even our charitable work. But it&#8217;s not easy to unite all of the other stuff we need to do to Christ, the various &#8220;temporalities&#8221; like fixing toilets and other things around the parish, attending incessant meetings, paying bills with money we don&#8217;t have, and so many other aspects of priestly life. From St. Josemaria, I learned that those were not obstacles to my growth as a disciple and an apostle, were not impediments to my living by Christ&#8217;s standards, but rather opportunities. From him I learned that when I have a lot of work to do, I can respond with Thanksgiving for so much work to sanctify!<\/li>\n<li>St. Josemaria said in The Way, his most famous work of spiritual aphorisms, &#8220;<em>Domine<\/em>! \u2014 Lord \u2014 <em>si vis, potes me mundare<\/em>, \u2014 if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.&#8217; What a beautiful prayer for you to say often, with the faith of the poor leper. \u2026 \u00a0You will not have to wait long to hear the Master&#8217;s reply: &#8216;Volo, mundare! I will: be thou made clean!'&#8221; (142). It is a prayer to be said often, including to cleanse our work of mixed motives, so that we might through our work be formed in Jesus&#8217; likeness and ardently cooperate with him in our and others&#8217; redemption.<\/li>\n<li>Every Mass we come to meet Jesus with the faith of that poor leper. We begin by confessing how much we need cleansing of our thoughts, words, and actions, and we turn to him, the Lamb of God, and beg him to have mercy on us and take away our sins. We echo the prayer of the Leper when we say, &#8220;Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.&#8221; I rejoice today, on the 21st anniversary of my priestly ordination, for the 10,321st time, that I have the chance to approach Jesus and to receive within his body and blood given so that sins may be forgiven. I rejoice at the countless times Jesus has sent those who wish to be healed to show themselves to the priests so that through me had can do something even greater for their souls than he did for the leper&#8217;s body. I am not worthy of the priesthood, but Jesus has willed to call me to it anyway, saying to me repeatedly, &#8220;I do will it. Be made clean!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#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\/2kings\/25:1\">2 KGS 25:1-12<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>In the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah\u2019s reign,<br \/>\non the tenth day of the month,<br \/>\nNebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his whole army<br \/>\nadvanced against Jerusalem, encamped around it,<br \/>\nand built siege walls on every side.<br \/>\nThe siege of the city continued until the eleventh year of Zedekiah.<br \/>\nOn the ninth day of the fourth month,<br \/>\nwhen famine had gripped the city,<br \/>\nand the people had no more bread,<br \/>\nthe city walls were breached.<br \/>\nThen the king and all the soldiers left the city by night<br \/>\nthrough the gate between the two walls<br \/>\nthat was near the king\u2019s garden.<br \/>\nSince the Chaldeans had the city surrounded,<br \/>\nthey went in the direction of the Arabah.<br \/>\nBut the Chaldean army pursued the king<br \/>\nand overtook him in the desert near Jericho,<br \/>\nabandoned by his whole army.<\/p>\n<p>The king was therefore arrested and brought to Riblah<br \/>\nto the king of Babylon, who pronounced sentence on him.<br \/>\nHe had Zedekiah\u2019s sons slain before his eyes.<br \/>\nThen he blinded Zedekiah, bound him with fetters,<br \/>\nand had him brought to Babylon.<\/p>\n<p>On the seventh day of the fifth month<br \/>\n(this was in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar,<br \/>\nking of Babylon),<br \/>\nNebuzaradan, captain of the bodyguard,<br \/>\ncame to Jerusalem as the representative<br \/>\nof the king of Babylon.<br \/>\nHe burned the house of the LORD,<br \/>\nthe palace of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem;<br \/>\nevery large building was destroyed by fire.<br \/>\nThen the Chaldean troops who were with the captain of the guard<br \/>\ntore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Then Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard,<br \/>\nled into exile the last of the people remaining in the city,<br \/>\nand those who had deserted to the king of Babylon,<br \/>\nand the last of the artisans.<br \/>\nBut some of the country\u2019s poor, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard,<br \/>\nleft behind as vinedressers and farmers.<\/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\/137:1\">137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>R.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0(6ab)\u00a0 <strong>Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!<\/strong><br \/>\nBy the streams of Babylon<br \/>\nwe sat and wept<br \/>\nwhen we remembered Zion.<br \/>\nOn the aspens of that land<br \/>\nwe hung up our harps.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!<\/strong><br \/>\nThough there our captors asked of us<br \/>\nthe lyrics of our songs,<br \/>\nAnd our despoilers urged us to be joyous:<br \/>\n\u201cSing for us the songs of Zion!\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!<\/strong><br \/>\nHow could we sing a song of the LORD<br \/>\nin a foreign land?<br \/>\nIf I forget you, Jerusalem,<br \/>\nmay my right hand be forgotten!<br \/>\nR.\u00a0\u00a0<strong> \u00a0Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!<\/strong><br \/>\nMay my tongue cleave to my palate<br \/>\nif I remember you not,<br \/>\nIf I place not Jerusalem<br \/>\nahead of my joy.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!<\/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>Alleluia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/8:17\">MT 8:17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>R.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nChrist took away our infirmities<br \/>\nand bore our diseases.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/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\/matthew\/8:1\">MT 8:1-4<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him.<br \/>\nAnd then a leper approached, did him homage, and said,<br \/>\n\u201cLord, if you wish, you can make me clean.\u201d<br \/>\nHe stretched out his hand, touched him, and said,<br \/>\n\u201cI will do it.\u00a0 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