{"id":20207,"date":"2020-09-26T05:36:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T09:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=20207"},"modified":"2020-10-31T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:00:05","slug":"gaining-wisdom-of-heart-from-numbering-our-days-aright-25th-saturday-ii-september-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/gaining-wisdom-of-heart-from-numbering-our-days-aright-25th-saturday-ii-september-26-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaining Wisdom of Heart from Numbering Our Days Aright, 25th Saturday (II), September 26, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nSaturday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of SS. Cosmas and Damian<br \/>\nSeptember 26, 2020<br \/>\nEccl 11:8-12:8, Ps 90, Lk 9:43-45<\/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-20207-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9.26.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9.26.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9.26.20-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>Today\u2019s readings are about death and life, about what really matters and what doesn\u2019t, about wisdom and foolishness, about eternity and evanescence. In the Responsorial Psalm, we prayed to God, \u201cTeach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.\u201d It\u2019s only when we know that we don\u2019t have all the time in the world, it&#8217;s only when we realize that our days are numbered, it&#8217;s only when we grasp that today may be the last day in our earthly sequence, that we begin to live the right way, for what really matters. It\u2019s only when we begin to recognize that God has given us a finite time here on earth that we begin to get our true priorities straight.<\/li>\n<li>In the first reading, we finish our brief examination of the Book of Ecclesiastes, which focuses on the vanity of living just for this world. \u201cVanity of vanities,\u201d it concludes, repeating a refrain from earlier in the Book, \u201cAll things are vanity!\u201d Vanity\u00a0means worthless or futile from the Latin word\u00a0<i>vanus\u00a0<\/i>or \u201cempty.\u201d It\u2019s common understanding of \u201cconceited\u201d is derivative, flowing from getting puffed up by worthless things. Through the Book of Ecclesiastes Qohelet describes the various vain things in which human beings place their treasure. Today he focuses on the vanity of youth and he counsels us to remember our Creator in the days of youth, never to forget that we will age and die, and that \u201cGod will bring [us]\u00a0to judgment\u201d for the way we lived. He was encouraging us to live for God, the one type of life that is not vain.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus teaches us this path in the Gospel by his own example. After he has worked a great miracle of curing a boy whose diabolically-induced attacks would lead him repeatedly to the brink of suicide, \u201call were amazed at his every deed.\u201d It would have been the time for Jesus to ride the wave of popularity, if that\u2019s what he was seeking. But he wasn\u2019t. At that moment of earthly acclaim, Jesus told the disciples: \u201cPay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be handed over to men.\u201d He was telling them for the second time that he was going to die. We had the first time in yesterday&#8217;s Gospel. Right after Peter proclaimed Jesus to be the Christ or Messiah, Jesus announced to them that he would be a suffering Messiah: \u201cThe Son of Man must suffer greatly\u00a0and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,\u00a0and be killed and on the third day be raised.\u201d Peter, according to St. Matthew&#8217;s eyewitness account,\u00a0vainly protested, even rebuking Jesus and telling him that there was no way any such thing would happen to him. This second time they didn\u2019t understand it any better, but \u201cthey were afraid to ask him about this saying,\u201d because they didn\u2019t want to know the answer, because it seemed to go against the vain desires they had for cabinet positions in his worldly messianic administration. Jesus was keeping them focused, however, on the vanity even of the gift of human life if not lived for and together with God. He, too, would die, and if they wanted to live for what mattered, they not only needed to accept that fact but live that truth. They needed to learn not to have their life taken from them but freely to lay it down (Jn 10:18) as a ransom for many (Mk 10:45). For their life to have meaning, they needed to &#8220;lose&#8221; it for Jesus&#8217; sake and the sake of the Gospel being shared. All of the apostles except Judas eventually got that lesson.<\/li>\n<li>St. Paul would be the one who would explain it best, when he wrote to the Philippians, \u201cI consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and <em>I consider them so much rubbish<\/em>, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, \u2026\u00a0depending on faith to know him and the power of his resurrection and [the] sharing of his sufferings by being conformed to his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.\u201d He recognized that everything was vain, was trash, compared to knowing Jesus and being found in him. That realization changed his life. He wrote later to the same Church that his ambition was no longer for vain things but for the fulfillment of his virtuous vocation: \u201cForgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead, I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of God\u2019s upward calling, in Christ Jesus\u201d and he urged them to become \u201cperfectly mature\u201d by \u201cjoin[ing] with others in being imitators of me, \u00a0and observe those who thus conduct themselves according to the model you have in us\u201d and instead of worthlessly living as \u201cenemies of the Cross of Christ\u201d making their stomachs their gods and being occupied with earthly things, to live rather as friends of Christ on the Cross focused on our heavenly calling and citizenship in exile (Phil 3:20).\u00a0This morning&#8217;s readings are so that we gain wisdom of heart \u2014 not just head \u2014 and learn to number our days correctly, using each day to grow in Christ-like loving imitation.<\/li>\n<li>Today the Church has the joy to celebrate two saints who had this type of practical wisdom, who spent their days well and now experience the eternal eight day. They showed and proclaimed\u00a0the type of conversion God is calling each of us to make from vanity to gaining Christ.\u00a0Saints Cosmas and Damian were twins, doctors and eventually martyrs under Diocletian. They were called\u00a0<em>anargyroi,<\/em>\u00a0\u201cpenniless ones,\u201d or &#8220;non-mercenaries,&#8221; because they never charged for their medical services at a time when many doctors were charlatans taking people\u2019s entire savings on one invented \u201cremedy\u201d after another. Cosmas\u2019 and Damian\u2019s goodness was renowned and it was an opportunity for them to explain why they were so generous, because of the generosity they received. We should all have a similar ambition to give and to serve out of love rather than\u00a0<em>for\u00a0<\/em>remuneration, even if we should happen to be remunerated. They recognized that they were receiving far more by having the opportunity to love together with Christ, to serve rather than to be served, than they ever would have received through payment.<\/li>\n<li>Today we ask them to intercede for us that we may number our days aright so that one day we, and others through our cruciform love, may be numbered with them in the Book of Life. And we make that prayer in the context of the Mass, which is the school of this wisdom and Christ-like charity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a id=\"\/bible\/ecclesiastes\/11:9|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=c7cf81b20a&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">eccl 11:9-12:8<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Rejoice, O young man, while you are young<br \/>\nand let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.<br \/>\nFollow the ways of your heart,<br \/>\nthe vision of your eyes;<br \/>\nYet understand that as regards all this<br \/>\nGod will bring you to judgment.<br \/>\nWard off grief from your heart<br \/>\nand put away trouble from your presence,<br \/>\nthough the dawn of youth is fleeting.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Remember your Creator in the days of your youth,<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">before the evil days come<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">And the years approach of which you will say,<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">I have no pleasure in them;<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>Before the sun is darkened,<br \/>\nand the light, and the moon, and the stars,<br \/>\nwhile the clouds return after the rain;<br \/>\nWhen the guardians of the house tremble,<br \/>\nand the strong men are bent,<br \/>\nAnd the grinders are idle because they are few,<br \/>\nand they who look through the windows grow blind;<br \/>\nWhen the doors to the street are shut,<br \/>\nand the sound of the mill is low;<br \/>\nWhen one waits for the chirp of a bird,<br \/>\nbut all the daughters of song are suppressed;<br \/>\nAnd one fears heights,<br \/>\nand perils in the street;<br \/>\nWhen the almond tree blooms,<br \/>\nand the locust grows sluggish<br \/>\nand the caper berry is without effect,<br \/>\nBecause man goes to his lasting home,<br \/>\nand mourners go about the streets;<br \/>\nBefore the silver cord is snapped<br \/>\nand the golden bowl is broken,<br \/>\nAnd the pitcher is shattered at the spring,<br \/>\nand the broken pulley falls into the well,<br \/>\nAnd the dust returns to the earth as it once was,<br \/>\nand the life breath returns to God who gave it.<\/p>\n<p>Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth,<br \/>\nall things are vanity!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/90:3|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=08e254a91d&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (1)\u00a0<strong>In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.<\/strong><br \/>\nYou turn man back to dust,<br \/>\nsaying, \u201cReturn, O children of men.\u201d<br \/>\nFor a thousand years in your sight<br \/>\nare as yesterday, now that it is past,<br \/>\nor as a watch of the night.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.<\/strong><br \/>\nYou make an end of them in their sleep;<br \/>\nthe next morning they are like the changing grass,<br \/>\nWhich at dawn springs up anew,<br \/>\nbut by evening wilts and fades.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.<\/strong><br \/>\nTeach us to number our days aright,<br \/>\nthat we may gain wisdom of heart.<br \/>\nReturn, O LORD! How long?<br \/>\nHave pity on your servants!<br \/>\nR.<strong>\u00a0In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.<\/strong><br \/>\nFill us at daybreak with your kindness,<br \/>\nthat we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.<br \/>\nAnd may the gracious care of the Lord our God be ours;<br \/>\nprosper the work of our hands for us!<br \/>\nProsper the work of our hands!<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/9:43|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=c56b9ce2af&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">lk 9:43b-45<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">While they were all amazed at his every deed,<br \/>\nJesus said to his disciples,<br \/>\n\u201cPay attention to what I am telling you.<br \/>\nThe Son of Man is to be handed over to men.\u201d<br \/>\nBut they did not understand this saying;<br \/>\nits meaning was hidden from them<br \/>\nso that they should not understand it,<br \/>\nand they were afraid to ask him about this saying.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/220px-MHS_ss_Damian_i_Kosma_XVII_w_p.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20208\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/220px-MHS_ss_Damian_i_Kosma_XVII_w_p.jpg?resize=220%2C276&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5553\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20207-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9.26.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9.26.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9.26.20-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\/09\/9.26.20-Homily-1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=20207-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9.26.20-Homily-1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"9.26.20-Homily-1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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