{"id":20373,"date":"2020-10-15T05:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=20373"},"modified":"2020-10-31T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T18:50:35","slug":"the-spiritual-blessings-that-make-possible-our-being-holy-and-blameless-in-gods-sight-28th-thursday-ii-october-15-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-spiritual-blessings-that-make-possible-our-being-holy-and-blameless-in-gods-sight-28th-thursday-ii-october-15-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spiritual Blessings That Make Possible Our Being Holy and Blameless in God&#8217;s Sight, 28th Thursday (II), October 15, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nThursday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Teresa of Avila<br \/>\nOctober 15, 2020<br \/>\nEph 1:1-10, Ps 98, Lk 11:47-54<\/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-20373-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10.15.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10.15.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10.15.20-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0following points were attempted in today\u2019s homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today we begin two weeks of study of St. Paul\u2019s Letter to the Ephesians, which is one of the most uplifting and synthetic of all the great apostle\u2019s teaching of the early Church, in which he makes plain God the Father\u2019s plan and will to bring all things into a union of love through the work of Christ his Son continued and carried out in his body the Church. At the very beginning of the letter, which we have today, St. Paul describes\u00a0what God has done for us and what he asks of us. It\u2019s important for us to ponder these truths often, especially when we are having a bad day or are tempted to forget who we are.\n<ul>\n<li>St. Paul begins by reminding us of how blessed we are to be Christians:\u00a0the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has \u201cblessed us in Christ with\u00a0<em>every spiritual blessing in the heavens.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>God held nothing back. There are no blessings we haven\u2019t been given. And we\u2019ve been given those blessings not just\u00a0<em>through<\/em>\u00a0Christ but\u00a0<em>in\u00a0<\/em>Christ who is the greatest blessing of all. God&#8217;s greatest blessing is himself.<\/li>\n<li>He then reminds us of our vocation: God chose us in Christ, \u201cbefore the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him.\u201d Before God said, \u201cLet there be light\u201d and \u201cLet us make man in our image,\u201d he not only had us in mind but chose us and he gave us the vocation to be saints, to be holy and immaculate before him. If he\u2019s given us this vocation, he will provide the means, and those means constitute the &#8220;every spiritual blessing in Christ&#8221; his Son.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0then reminds us of our filiation and inheritance: \u201cIn love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved.\u201d In St. Paul\u2019s day, when someone was adopted, he was treated identically to a biologically child; if he were older than the eldest biological child, he received all the rights of primogeniture. For St. Paul to talk about our being adopted, he means that we have received the full inheritance of Jesus! How can we not praise the glory of this grace?<\/li>\n<li>Though obviously we\u2019re sinners and fallen, God has taken that into consideration as well from before the creation of the world. \u201cIn Christ, we have redemption by his Blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace that he has lavished upon us.\u201d He has lavished his mercy upon us in Christ, as part of &#8220;every spiritual blessing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And he has also made plain his plan so that we can cooperate freely and fully with it: \u201cIn all wisdom and insight, he has made known to us the mystery of his will in accord with his favor that he set forth in him as a plan for the fullness of times,<em>\u00a0to sum up all things in Christ<\/em>, in heaven and on earth.\u201d The mystery is now an open secret: God wants to bring us into communion, communion with God, communion with each other. He wants us to grasp that all of creation is part of God\u2019s plan of love. Christ\u2019s mission is to restore to unity the various divisions that entered through sin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s God\u2019s blessing, calling, help and plan, but he has made us free and each of us needs to respond to that plan by embracing it and letting our whole life develop in accordance with it. As we prayed in today&#8217;s Psalm, \u201cThe Lord has made known his salvation,\u201d but we\u2019re called to \u201csing a new song to the Lord for he has done wondrous deeds.\u201d That\u2019s obviously what the saints do, letting God\u2019s blessing in Christ develop within them so that, redeemed and forgiven by his blood, they might become holy and immaculate. But unfortunately not everyone has received the Lord\u2019s love in that way. Others have rejected it.<\/li>\n<li>We glimpse that rejection in the rejection of Jesus by the scribes and Pharisees in today\u2019s Gospel.\u00a0Jesus says to them, \u201cWoe to you who build the memorials of the prophets whom your fathers killed.\u00a0Consequently, you bear witness and give consent\u00a0to the deeds of your ancestors,\u00a0for they killed them and you do the building.\u201d God never ceases to send prophets to his people to reveal \u201cthe mystery of his will,\u201d but Jesus was saying that the people that God had chosen to be his own, the people he had prepared in order to accomplish his plan in the fullness of time to bring his salvation as a light to the nations,\u00a0only would honor prophets after they rejected and killed them. A dead prophet was safe; a living prophet was a challenge. In building these memorials, they would delude themselves into thinking they had embraced God and his messenger, whereas they were repeating the same faults as their ancestors, by rejecting those whom God continued to send, something seen in the life of St. John the Baptist and especially in Jesus\u2019 own life as they \u201cbegan to act with hostility toward him\u201d and \u201cwere plotting to catch him at something he might say.\u201d Their lack of receptivity is meant to be a warning to us,\u00a0lest we just build memorials for the prophets the Jews killed or, worse, just build a static memorial for Jesus \u2014 and not receive God\u2019s spiritual blessings, not be holy and without blame before him, not behave as his children, not bathe in his blood, and not enter into communion and let our whole life be summed up by Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Today we celebrate a saint who, redeemed by Jesus&#8217; blood, eventually become holy and without blemish before him. When she was seven, she took great pleasure in the lives of the saints, making a little hermitage in her back yard where she could read and pray. One day her younger brother Rodrigo was in the back yard with her and they began to think about the happiness of the saints in heaven and got caught up in the thought of living \u201cforever and ever and ever and ever and ever.\u201d Rodrigo asked how they could get to heaven fastest, and Teresa replied that that would be through martyrdom, because the sufferings of the martyrs were nothing compared with the glory they received immediately upon death. Rodrigo asked how they could become martyrs and she said that they would need to go where the Muslims were in order to be killed by them for the faith. Rodrigo asked where the Muslims were and she told him in Morocco. And so off they went walking toward Morocco, forgetting \u2014 we can excuse 7 and 5 year olds! \u2014 the small geographical complication that there was the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and northern Africa!\u00a0They got outside the city walls and as far as the ancient Roman Adaja Bridge when they were met by their Uncle Francisco coming back on his horse from hunting who asked them where they were headed. When informed they were heading to Africa to be martyred by the Moors, he told them he would give them a ride on his horse. After they hopped on, he took them back to their home! The episode shows the faith and courage of Teresa from an early age, how she longed to be holy and without blemish: \u00a0she was willing to suffer even earthly tortures \u2014 like the stories of the martyrs she read with her brother \u2014 for the sake of the Gospel. That deep desire never left her, but over the course of time, it attenuated. She entered the Carmelite monastery when she was 20, but the house was in a spiritual malaise. Some nuns had suites of rooms, with servants and pets. Eventually she succumbed to it herself, spending vast amounts of time entertaining visitors and friends\u00a0in the parlor, giving herself over to various compromises with worldliness and vanity. It was only two decades later, when she was 39, that God reawakened her from her life according to the flesh, from her spiritual worldliness, from tolerating venial sins, trusting in herself, not valuing God\u2019s grace, to a truly fervent life. She gave herself over to God and allowed herself to be led to reform Carmelite life as a whole. The Holy Spirit revivified her desire for holiness, for happiness, for heaven and he guided her through all the stages necessary to give her a foretaste of heavenly\u00a0union here on earth through prayer. We prayed at the beginning of Mass that God \u201cwho through your Spirit raised up Saint Teresa of Jesus to show the Church the way to seek perfection\u201d would \u201cgrant that we may always be nourished by the food of her heavenly teaching and fired with longing for true holiness.\u201d Her life shows us the way to seek perfection by responding to Jesus\u2019 blessing, his mercy, his call to turn with him always, with longing, and to do everything \u2014 including suffer, live and die \u2014 with him.<\/li>\n<li>Her writings described the various stages on which God\u00a0led her and leads us along the way of perfection. She used the image of an Interior Castle with seven \u201cmansions\u201d (each containing many\u00a0rooms) of prayer and the\u00a0spiritual life which leads to it and flows from it. The first mansion begins in the state of grace, but\u00a0involves a lot of fighting against sin, especially pride. People are pulled by the material world and a desire for possessions, honor and power. The second mansion happens when the person seeks to advance through the castle through daily\u00a0prayer, thoughts of God, humble recognition of God\u2019s work in the soul, sermons, edifying conversations, good company and other means. The third mansion happens when, moved by grace, the person has a love for God so great that the person has a total aversion to all sin including venial and a desire to do works of love for others for God\u2019s glory. The person begins to have\u00a0less self-reliance and become more dependent on God. The person has generally reached a high standard of virtue, self-discipline, penance and prudence. These are all stages that are meant to happen in everyone who follows the guidance of the Holy Spirit in ordinary Catholic life. The fourth stage is one of contemplative prayer, when the person no longer seeks to acquire or grow by one\u2019s own efforts but allows God to lead, even in prayer. The person begins to attach lesser importance to the things of this world and far more to God. The person decreases and God increases and experiences many spiritual consolations, like the prayer of Quiet. It no longer shrinks from trials. The fifth mansion begins an experience of union of wills in which the person develops a complete trust in God\u2019s will. There\u2019s no longer a need to control events or lose much time over petty worries, something that opens the person\u00a0to receive more and more gifts from God. It\u2019s a spiritual betrothal and the faculties of the soul can often go \u201casleep\u201d in prayer as the soul is completely possessed by God. The sixth mansion is when the person is torn away from outside afflictions and begins to experience not just a betrothal but a love between Lover and Beloved that lasts for long periods of time full of intimacy. It often involves some intense suffering (physical, spiritual, often misunderstanding from others and occasionally\u00a0a sense of abandonment comparable to the pains of hell) in which through the Cross one\u2019s union with God and longing for God grows. The person begins to become increasingly occupied in the things of God and can have difficulty in every day practical issues. In the seventh mansion,\u00a0there is a spiritual marriage in which two candles become one, where there is complete transformation and profound peace, when inadvertent venial sins are still possible but there\u2019s great fruitfulness in prayer and action. The person can now continue to fulfill his or her duties without difficulty because there\u2019s a union with God in doing them. The person is engaged fully in the service of God and others with great calm and self-forgetfulness. St. Teresa invited all her sisters through all of these stages of spiritual progress by opening themselves up to the every spiritual blessing that comes from God. She considered it within the reach of everyone who allows the Holy Spirit to lead. She would encourage us to abandon ourselves to the Holy Spirit and let him lead us through the various rooms of each mansion according to God\u2019s pace until, God-willing, we enter into the mansions where we, with her, will live and love God \u201cforever and ever and ever.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>St. Teresa drew her strength from the Eucharist, which enfleshes every spiritual blessing. She advised us in her Way of Perfection, \u201cAfter having received the Lord, since you have the Person Himself present, strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your heart. For I tell you again, and would like to tell you many times that you should acquire the habit of doing this every time. \u2026 Though He comes disguised, the disguise, as I have said, does not prevent Him from being recognized in many ways, in conformity with the desire we have to see Him. And you can desire to see Him so much that He will reveal Himself to you entirely\u201d (34:12). She wrote in her Meditations on the Song of Songs, \u201cI think that if we were to approach the Most Blessed Sacrament with great faith and love, once would be enough to make us rich. How much richer from approaching so many times as we do. The trouble is we do so out of routine, and it shows\u201d (M 3.13).<\/li>\n<li>As we prepare now not to build a memorial of wood or stone, but to enter into Jesus&#8217; new and eternal <em>zikkaron<\/em>, \u201cdo[ing] this in memory of\u201d him. He is the one who\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>every spiritual blessing in the heavens, the one who transforms us into \u201csons in the Son,\u201d the one who seeks to redeem us by his precious blood, the one who wishes to bring us in communion and confirm us in our vocation and mission to the praise of his glory. We ask him to send the Holy Spirit so that we will respond to this loving, exhaustive action of the Lord differently from those in the Gospel who reject God\u2019s action, but rather like St. Teresa of Jesus. \u00a0Today through her intercession we ask for that gift so that through the Eucharistic transformation that Jesus wishes to work within us, we may become holy and without blemish before him and come at last with her to that place that God has planned for us since before the foundation of the world.<\/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\/ephesians\/1:10\">EPH 1:1-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,<br \/>\nto the holy ones who are in Ephesus<br \/>\nand faithful in Christ Jesus:<br \/>\ngrace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nwho has blessed us in Christ<br \/>\nwith every spiritual blessing in the heavens,<br \/>\nas he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world,<br \/>\nto be holy and without blemish before him.<br \/>\nIn love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nin accord with the favor of his will,<br \/>\nfor the praise of the glory of his grace<br \/>\nthat he granted us in the beloved.In Christ we have redemption by his Blood,<br \/>\nthe forgiveness of transgressions,<br \/>\nin accord with the riches of his grace that he lavished upon us.<br \/>\nIn all wisdom and insight, he has made known to us<br \/>\nthe mystery of his will in accord with his favor<br \/>\nthat he set forth in him as a plan for the fullness of times,<br \/>\nto sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/98:1\">PS 98:1, 2-3AB, 3CD-4, 5-6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (2a)\u00a0The Lord has made known his salvation.<br \/>\nSing to the LORD a new song,<br \/>\nfor he has done wondrous deeds;<br \/>\nHis right hand has won victory for him,<br \/>\nhis holy arm.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has made known his salvation.<br \/>\nThe LORD has made his salvation known:<br \/>\nin the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.<br \/>\nHe has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness<br \/>\ntoward the house of Israel.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has made known his salvation.<br \/>\nAll the ends of the earth have seen<br \/>\nthe salvation by our God.<br \/>\nSing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;<br \/>\nbreak into song; sing praise.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has made known his salvation.<br \/>\nSing praise to the LORD with the harp,<br \/>\nwith the harp and melodious song.<br \/>\nWith trumpets and the sound of the horn<br \/>\nsing joyfully before the King, the LORD.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has made known his salvation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/14:6\">JN 14:6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nI am the way and the truth and the life, says the Lord;<br \/>\nno one comes to the Father except through me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/11:47\">LK 11:47-54<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The Lord said:<br \/>\n\u201cWoe to you who build the memorials of the prophets<br \/>\nwhom your fathers killed.<br \/>\nConsequently, you bear witness and give consent<br \/>\nto the deeds of your ancestors,<br \/>\nfor they killed them and you do the building.<br \/>\nTherefore, the wisdom of God said,<br \/>\n\u2018I will send to them prophets and Apostles;<br \/>\nsome of them they will kill and persecute\u2019<br \/>\nin order that this generation might be charged<br \/>\nwith the blood of all the prophets<br \/>\nshed since the foundation of the world,<br \/>\nfrom the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah<br \/>\nwho died between the altar and the temple building.<br \/>\nYes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood!<br \/>\nWoe to you, scholars of the law!<br \/>\nYou have taken away the key of knowledge.<br \/>\nYou yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees<br \/>\nbegan to act with hostility toward him<br \/>\nand to interrogate him about many things,<br \/>\nfor they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/saint-teresa-of-avila-04.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/saint-teresa-of-avila-04.jpg?resize=281%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1269\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20373-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10.15.20-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10.15.20-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10.15.20-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\/10\/10.15.20-Homily-1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=20373-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10.15.20-Homily-1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"10.15.20-Homily-1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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