{"id":19794,"date":"2020-07-10T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=19794"},"modified":"2020-10-31T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:37:32","slug":"sent-out-as-sheep-to-evangelize-even-the-wolves-14th-friday-ii-july-10-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/sent-out-as-sheep-to-evangelize-even-the-wolves-14th-friday-ii-july-10-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Sent Out As Sheep To Evangelize Even The Wolves, 14th Friday (II), July 10, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nFriday of the 14th Week of Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nJuly 10, 2020<br \/>\nHos 14:2-10, Ps 51, Mt 10:16-23<\/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-19794-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7.10.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7.10.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7.10.20-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily: <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Prophet Hosea says, \u201cStraight are the paths of the Lord,\u201d but the Book of Hosea, as well as today\u2019s Gospel both at first glance seem to contradict it. Those words of Hosea are at the end of the entire book. Hosea summarizes everything he says about the forceful call to conversion throughout the book as the Assyrians were approaching to attack the Kingdom of Israel and had finally arrived to do their destruction and deport so many Israelites, \u201cLet him who is wise understand these things; let him who is prudent know them.\u201d The Lord\u2019s paths are straight, he says, and the just walk in them. Sinners stumble, in them, he adds, but as God said through him in yesterday\u2019s passage, God lifts them after they\u2019ve fallen up to his cheek, or, as we saw earlier this week, God welcomes us back as his beloved bride. But how can we understand the Lord\u2019s straight paths when he allows his people to be defeated and deported? The Lord\u2019s path does not meant the path to earthly prosperity, or earthly tranquility, or earthly pleasure. The Lord\u2019s path is ultimately the path to him. And even in hardship, even in difficulty, even in losing everything else in life, we can still walk that path. That\u2019s why God through Hosea tells those in the Kingdom of Israel before the deportation, \u201cReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God.\u201d They are leaving Israel but it\u2019s still a chance to return to the Lord! He adds, \u201cTake with you words and return to the Lord,\u201d meaning that God\u2019s word is part of the journey home. And God specifies those words that they\u2019re supposed to say to him: \u201cForgive all iniquity and receive what is good. \u2026 Assyria will not save us. \u2026\u00a0We shall say no more \u2018Our god\u2019 to the work of our hands, for in you the orphan finds compassion.\u201d He was teaching them the straight path of a prayer for mercy, which involves renouncing the sins of placing their trust in Assyria, creating idols and making sacrifices to them. He was also teaching them the path of trust. Even though they were being orphaned their land, God extends to orphans his compassion. And God specifies the compassion he will give: He will heal their defection, forgive their betrayal. He will love them free of any anger. He will be like dew for them, allowing a fruitful spring day, that will permit their flower \u2014\u00a0their lily, a sign of purity and a future sign of resurrection \u2014 to blossom. He will plant them like a fragrant Lebanon cedar and a splendid olive tree and they will produce fruit \u2014 symbolized by great wine. God says about himself, \u201cI am like a verdant cypress tree,\u201d meaning he is ever green, ever casting his shade, preventing them as olives and vines from being scorched by incessant sun. This is what the Lord will do as soon as the Israelites return to him and walk the straight path to meeting him.<\/li>\n<li>In the Gospel, Jesus similarly illustrates how the straight path is not immune from bandits, traitors, persecutors and even executioners. He says he is sending out the apostles as sheep among wolves, and describes how they will be betrayed to courts, scourged in places of worship, led before governors and kings, handed over by family members to death, hated by all, and persecuted. The ways of the Lord seem complicated and perilous, anything but straight. But that brings up again what we understand by straight. If it means a road without sufferings, without hills and valleys, without having people try to get in our way, then it would seem that the Lord\u2019s ways indeed are meandering. But if we understand by straight everything intended to lead us to the destination he intends \u2014\u00a0encounter with him \u2014 then we can begin to see how neither betrayals, nor hardships, nor sufferings can prevent it. In fact they can make that encounter even more complete as we meet Jesus on the Cross. But we have to be just and walk that way.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s similarly a paradoxically straight path for our apostolate. At first, it seems strange that Jesus is sending his apostles \u201cas sheep\u201d at all \u2014\u00a0aren\u2019t they supposed to be shepherds? \u2014 and then sending them out \u201camong wolves,\u201d and those wolves will be come from the state (kings), Church (synagogues) and family (parents, brothers, children). But Jesus sends us out as sheep because he wants us to be docile and show our relationship with the Good Shepherd. He sends us out among wolves so that we might help convert the wolves! He tells us two things. First, not to worry about what we are to say because \u201cThe Spirit of our Father\u201d will speak through us. God will himself to proclaiming his presence by our words and our body language. The very situation of persecution will lead not just to our encounter with God in us, but also to our joint witness, with God doing the work! \u00a0We saw this yesterday in the life of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, how the witness of the way Bishop Dufresse handled his suffering with meekness and forgiveness led him to go from a pagan soldier to follow the Lord\u2019s straight path baptized Christian to priest to martyr within months. \u00a0Similarly, all of the difficulties Jesus describes will lead us, he says, to giving a compelling \u201cwitness\u201d together with the Holy Spirit that life triumphs over death, forgiveness over sin, resurrection over crucifixion, fidelity over betrayal. The second thing Jesus says to us is to be as shrewd as serpents and as simple as doves. It\u2019s easy for us to understand the simile of doves, because we\u2019re meant to be pure in intention, thought, word and action. Many people are thrown off by the image of the serpent\u2019s shrewdness, because we normally think of the serpent as a sign of the evil one, as if Jesus is calling us to become spiritual Machiavellians or manipulative like the devil. He\u2019s not. Like with his lament later that the children of this world are wiser than the children of light, the main point is that Jesus wants us to be truly practical, and, in Biblical times, the serpent was image of cutthroat practicality: it would sacrifice most of its body while saving its life and growing back. Jesus was telling us to be shrewd and courageous because those threatening us cannot definitively hurt us, they can harm the body but not the soul, provided that we don\u2019t give them the soul. That\u2019s why doves and serpents are not contradictory images but similar. With purity of soul, we\u2019re called to trust in God as we go out, because even if we\u2019re among wolves, they can\u2019t ultimately harm us unless we surrender to them what belongs to God alone.<\/li>\n<li>Every Mass we are given the opportunity to live these lessons. We literally return to the Lord here through repentance and through hearing the Word of God. God has not left us orphans, but as sons and daughters we come to entrust ourselves to his compassion. As dew hits the grass outside, we allow the Holy Spirit to be poured out upon us like dew, so that we may blossom like the lily, become strong like a Lebanon cedar, and plant ourselves under the God\u2019s evergreen shade, as he strength us through this encounter to walk with him, since in walking with him we will always be on the straight path. This is where the Good Shepherd gives his life not only for us but to us, to strengthen us to be, like him, shrewd and pure, filled with the Spirit of the Father, as we go out to evangelize not just the sheep but the wolves among our families, among fellow believers, among all those in society. The Son of Man here comes to us and we have not even finished traveling to all the towns in Israel!<\/li>\n<li>I finish this homily with words from today\u2019s first reading that are a fitting end to any homily in which the Spirit of the Father has spoken through human instrumentality: \u201cLet him who is wise understand these things; let him who is prudent know them.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/hosea\/14:10\">HOS 14:2-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Thus says the LORD:<br \/>\nReturn, O Israel, to the LORD, your God;<br \/>\nyou have collapsed through your guilt.<br \/>\nTake with you words,<br \/>\nand return to the LORD;<br \/>\nSay to him, \u201cForgive all iniquity,<br \/>\nand receive what is good, that we may render<br \/>\nas offerings the bullocks from our stalls.<br \/>\nAssyria will not save us,<br \/>\nnor shall we have horses to mount;<br \/>\nWe shall say no more, \u2018Our god,\u2019<br \/>\nto the work of our hands;<br \/>\nfor in you the orphan finds compassion.\u201d<br \/>\nI will heal their defection, says the LORD,<br \/>\nI will love them freely;<br \/>\nfor my wrath is turned away from them.<br \/>\nI will be like the dew for Israel:<br \/>\nhe shall blossom like the lily;<br \/>\nHe shall strike root like the Lebanon cedar,<br \/>\nand put forth his shoots.<br \/>\nHis splendor shall be like the olive tree<br \/>\nand his fragrance like the Lebanon cedar.<br \/>\nAgain they shall dwell in his shade<br \/>\nand raise grain;<br \/>\nThey shall blossom like the vine,<br \/>\nand his fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Ephraim! What more has he to do with idols?<br \/>\nI have humbled him, but I will prosper him.<br \/>\n\u201cI am like a verdant cypress tree\u201d\u2014<br \/>\nbecause of me you bear fruit!<br \/>\nLet him who is wise understand these things;<br \/>\nlet him who is prudent know them.<br \/>\nStraight are the paths of the LORD,<br \/>\nin them the just walk,<br \/>\nbut sinners stumble in them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/51:3\">PS 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14 AND 17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (17b)\u00a0My mouth will declare your praise.<br \/>\nHave mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;<br \/>\nin the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.<br \/>\nThoroughly wash me from my guilt<br \/>\nand of my sin cleanse me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0My mouth will declare your praise.<br \/>\nBehold, you are pleased with sincerity of heart,<br \/>\nand in my inmost being you teach me wisdom.<br \/>\nCleanse me of sin with hyssop, that I may be purified;<br \/>\nwash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0My mouth will declare your praise.<br \/>\nA clean heart create for me, O God,<br \/>\nand a steadfast spirit renew within me.<br \/>\nCast me not out from your presence,<br \/>\nand your Holy Spirit take not from me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0My mouth will declare your praise.<br \/>\nGive me back the joy of your salvation,<br \/>\nand a willing spirit sustain in me.<br \/>\nO Lord, open my lips,<br \/>\nand my mouth shall proclaim your praise.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0My mouth will declare your praise.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/16:13\">JN 16:13A; 14:26D<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nWhen the Spirit of truth comes,<br \/>\nhe will guide you to all truth<br \/>\nand remind you of all I told you.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/10:16\">MT 10:16-23<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus said to his Apostles:<br \/>\n\u201cBehold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves;<br \/>\nso be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.<br \/>\nBut beware of men,<br \/>\nfor they will hand you over to courts<br \/>\nand scourge you in their synagogues,<br \/>\nand you will be led before governors and kings for my sake<br \/>\nas a witness before them and the pagans.<br \/>\nWhen they hand you over,<br \/>\ndo not worry about how you are to speak<br \/>\nor what you are to say.<br \/>\nYou will be given at that moment what you are to say.<br \/>\nFor it will not be you who speak<br \/>\nbut the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.<br \/>\nBrother will hand over brother to death,<br \/>\nand the father his child;<br \/>\nchildren will rise up against parents and have them put to death.<br \/>\nYou will be hated by all because of my name,<br \/>\nbut whoever endures to the end will be saved.<br \/>\nWhen they persecute you in one town, flee to another.<br \/>\nAmen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of Israel<br \/>\nbefore the Son of Man comes.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mg21228354.700-2_300.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19801\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mg21228354.700-2_300.jpg?resize=300%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1760\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-19794-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7.10.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7.10.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7.10.20-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7.10.20-Homily-1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=19794-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7.10.20-Homily-1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"7.10.20-Homily-1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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