{"id":20702,"date":"2020-11-16T06:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=20702"},"modified":"2020-11-16T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T13:54:10","slug":"seeing-with-the-love-we-had-at-first-33rd-monday-ii-november-16-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/seeing-with-the-love-we-had-at-first-33rd-monday-ii-november-16-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing with the Love We Had at First, 33rd Monday (II), November 16, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nVotive Mass for the Faithful Departed<br \/>\nNovember\u00a016, 2020<br \/>\nRev 1:1-4.2:1-5, Ps 1, Lk 18:35-43<\/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-20702-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.16.20_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.16.20_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.16.20_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0<\/em><i>following points were attempted in today\u2019s homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Saturday Jesus gave us the parable of the importune woman bothering the unjust judge in order to convey to us the necessity of \u201cpraying always\u00a0without losing heart.\u201d Immediately thereafter is the Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican \u2014 which the Church doesn\u2019t give us to ponder today because we meditate upon it at other times during the year \u2014 which shows us of the importance of humbly begging the Lord for mercy. Today we encounter the living illustration of what Jesus was teaching about persevering, faithful, humble prayer for mercy in the blind man by the side of the road whom St. Mark in his version of the same scene identifies as Bartimaeus.<\/li>\n<li>As rabbis were accustomed to do on the three-times-per-year pilgrimages to Jerusalem for the major feasts, Jesus was teaching the crowds along the journey. Bartimaeus was sitting by the roadside begging. He heard the commotion of the crowd and asked what was happening. Upon hearing that \u201cJesus of Nazareth was passing by,\u201d he immediately began to cry out, \u201cJesus, Son of David, have pity on me!\u201d He had doubtless heard of Jesus\u2019 reputation for working miracles in Galilee to the north and was responding in faith. The fact that he called him \u201cSon of David\u201d was a sign he believed Jesus was the Messiah. But his cries for Jesus were annoying those who were trying to hear Jesus\u2019 teaching. So the first people in the group rebuked him and told him to shut his trap. But that only led him to cry out all the more, \u201cSon of David, have pity on me!\u201d The word St. Luke uses means basically an animal cry, something coming deep from his woundedness.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus stopped and ordered that Bartimaeus be brought to him. For Jesus, caring for this man was more important than whatever else he was teaching at that moment. Likely, it was also a \u201ccoincidental\u201d opportunity for him put flesh on his parables by showing how God responds to persistent, faithful, humble prayer for compassion.\u00a0Jesus asked Bartimaeus, \u201cWhat do you want me to do for you?,\u201d and Bartimaeus said, \u201cLord, please let me see!\u201d To some degree, Bartimaeus was already seeing by faith but he wanted to see Jesus with physical eyes so that he would be able to do exactly what he did once cured, to \u201cfollow him, giving glory to God.\u201d He saw something with inner eyes, but was asking to see more. Jesus replied, \u201cHave sight; your faith has saved you.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This cry of Bartimaeus is one of the most beautiful and frequent Christian aspirations:\u00a0<em>Domine, ut\u00a0<\/em><i>videam!,\u00a0<\/i>\u201cLord, I want to see.\u201d It\u2019s a beautiful response to Jesus\u2019 perennial question to us in prayer, \u201cWhat do you want me to do for you?\u201d If Jesus were to ask many of us that question, many\u00a0might waste his attention on lesser things, asking for him to return us to the shape we were in at 21, or to resolve a particular issue, or other relatively small stuff. Every day, however, we should ask the Lord for the gift to see, for the grace to see what we don\u2019t see, to see things as they really are, the way he sees them. We should beseech the grace to see him and to see ourselves aright. We should ask for the grace to recognize him in the Holy Eucharist, in Confession, in prayer, in others, in the various events of the day, and especially in the beatific vision. He won\u2019t allow us to see everything, because then we wouldn\u2019t have the grace to live by faith, believing in things unseen, but he does want us to see things more and more in his light and more and more deeply. Today we ask him with Bartimaeus to give us the grace of real vision.<\/li>\n<li>In the first reading today, from the beginning of the Book of Revelation which will guide us until the end of this liturgical year a week from Saturday, the Lord seeks to \u201cun-veil\u201d or \u201creveal\u201d the way things really are behind the scenes so that we can see them. St. John tells us that in this book he was \u201creporting what he saw\u201d as Jesus allowed him to glimpse various of the things of heaven and various of the ways which which Jesus was looking on the Christians of that time and every time. The book of Revelation is a response of God to the Church\u2019s constant cry, \u201cLord, we want to see.\u201d In today\u2019s passage and tomorrow&#8217;s, we get what the Lord was seeing in the seven Churches of the diaspora for whom St. John was writing the book. Today we get the first of the seven Churches, Ephesus, the one that was in the best condition. Tomorrow, we\u2019ll get the last two Churches, Sardis and Laodicea, the two that were in the worst condition. I would encourage you to read Jesus\u2019 words to the other four Churches in the middle \u2014 Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira and Philadelphia \u2014 on your own. As we see what Jesus sees in these Churches, it would also be very good for us to ask what Jesus would see in this Archdiocese and in each of us, whether he would be praising us or reproving us for what he says to these ancient Churches during a time of persecution.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus says that he sees in the Church of Ephesus much deserving of praise. \u201cI know your works, your labor and your endurance,\u201d he says. They were bearing fruit for the Gospel, they were striving to live the faith, and they were enduring faithfully the trials of many persecutions. He said, \u201cYou cannot tolerate the wicked.\u201d We\u2019re called to love even our enemies and pray for our persecutors, but we\u2019re not asked to \u201ctolerate the wicked\u201d but to reject their wickedness and pray for their conversion, something that would do all of us good to remember during this time in which people proclaim \u201ctolerance\u201d and mean by it that we look the other way on their sinfulness, something that Jesus himself never did and we as his followers can\u2019t do either. One wickedness they couldn\u2019t tolerate concerned false prophets. Jesus said, \u201cYou have tested those who call themselves Apostles but are not, and discovered that they are impostors.\u201d They knew the faith well enough that they were able to recognize and reject those who were preaching another Gospel than the one that they had received. Today that, too, is a very important skill, to be able to discriminate between those who are really announcing God\u2019s word and those preachers who are saying what people want to hear for their own aggrandizement. Jesus finishes the praise by saying, \u201cYou have endurance and have suffered for my name and have not grown weary.\u201d This was a Church of martyrs, full of those who were seeking to keep their eyes on Christ even in the midst of tears. But Jesus had one fraternal correction. \u201cI hold this against you: you have lost the love you had at first.\u201d Yes, they were enduring. Yes, they were discerning. Yes, they were working. But they were no longer doing it with the passion, with the love, with which they had begun. Their sufferings had hardened them. Now they were living by fidelity, by loyalty, by duty, but not by love to the same degree. \u201cRealize how far you have fallen,\u201d Jesus said. St. Paul had told the Corinthians that if they were to hand over their body to the torturers as martyrs but didn\u2019t do so out of love, they would gain nothing. Jesus was essentially saying that despite all their works and good deeds, they had fallen very far because they were no longer living by that first love, that love at the beginning, that prior love, which had characterized and ought always to characterize the Christian faith. They were lacking that love for God and that love for others that had distinguished them. \u201cRepent and do the works you did at first,\u201d Jesus said, calling them to works of piety and works of charity. Jesus was saying that it\u2019s not enough for us to be faithful. He wants faith working through love for God and neighbor. To lose that is to lose much! Jesus was calling them to conversion, to recover that first love. He was helping them to see who they really are so that they, like Bartimaeus, might cry out \u201cSon of David, have mercy!,\u201d and begin to see him more in the midst of their afflictions and to see him more in the needy and begin to love him with that passionate love they had at the start.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus\u2019 curing of the Ephesians\u2019 sight is also a salve for the eyes of our own heart. It\u2019s a chance for us to examine whether we still have the love we had at first, the love for God when we first became aware of his presence, the love we had for him at our first holy Communion, the love we had for him when\u00a0we first became conscious of his call and sought to respond with all we are and have, the love we had for him as we prepared to enter the seminary or postulancy, the love we had for him on our retreats, professions or ordinations, the love we had for him in the moments in which our perception of divine love was most intense. God wants to renew us in that love, to bring us not back to the level of love we had at first, but to bring us beyond it, while making sure it remains \u201cvirginal,\u201d pristine, through having had it intensified by the power of his mercy. He wants that love to inundate all our actions, our \u201cworks, labor, endurance,\u201d our discernment, our suffering. He wants our love never to grow weary and even if we have fallen, to help us get up to where we were and keep climbing with him.<\/li>\n<li>The two saints the Church celebrates today help us to live the mysteries and lessons we encounter in the readings.\u00a0Saint Gertrude the Great was brought to the Monastery at a very early age, either for her education or because she was orphaned. She was an extraordinary student, who learned everything that the classical formation of the day could provide, throwing herself into profane subjects and to literature, music, song and art. She was surrounded by holy nuns, but wasn\u2019t profiting. Even though she wasn\u2019t living a life of sin, she really wasn\u2019t loving the Lord, she really wasn&#8217;t seeing what he was wanting of her. After 20 years of study and of sharing in their liturgical prayer, God helped her to see that she had been giving herself over much of the time to vanities. In 1280, when she was in her mid-20s, the Lord opened her eyes to recognize that she was basically living in a worldly way. Her conversion involved a different type of study, passing from profane humanistic studies to the study of theology and of divine wisdom; a different type of obedience, from negligence to intense mystical prayer coupled to a zeal for the salvation of all; and a different spirituality, from spiritual worldliness to the spirituality of the kingdom. She wrote in her\u00a0<em class=\"\">Spiritual Exercises<\/em>\u00a0something that pointed to how, post-conversion, she wanted to use the gifts God had given her:<em class=\"\">\u00a0<\/em>\u201cI have so little profited from your graces that I cannot resolve to believe that they were lavished upon me solely for my own use,\u00a0<em class=\"\">since no one can thwart your eternal wisdom<\/em>. Therefore, O Giver of every good thing who has freely lavished upon me gifts so undeserved, in order that, in reading this, the heart of at least one of your friends may be moved at the thought that zeal for souls has induced you to leave such a priceless gem for so long in the abominable mud of my heart.\u201d She loved, making up for lost time, and helping others be cured of whatever prevented them from beholding the love of God.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">St. Margaret Queen of Scotland is a witness of perseverance in the passionate love of God in the midst of a very busy life. The daughter of a Hungarian Princess and Anglo-Saxon Prince, she and her family fled from William the Conquerer and were shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland, where Scottish King Malcolm befriended them and was captivated by Margaret, whom he married in 1070. She helped him become virtuous and was allowed by him, essentially, to become interior minister of the kingdom. She improved arts and education, reformed the country and the clergy religiously through synods she promoted and founded many Churches and monasteries. She had eight kids and supervised their religious instruction. Her love for Jesus in the Eucharist helped her to grow in love and care for those for whom he died, and on her way home from Mass would often wash the feet of six poor persons and give them alms. She never refused beggars or sat down to eat without first feeding orphans and poor adults. We see in her how someone as a mom of eight with a &#8220;full-time job&#8221; as &#8220;secretary of the interior&#8221; not to mention all of the duties of State in hosting was able not only to retain the love she had at first but to grow in it.<\/li>\n<li>Today at this Mass, we ask the Lord\u00a0with Bartimaeus, through the intercession of Saints Gertrude and Margaret, for the grace to see so that, looking at things with the eyes of faith, we may\u00a0recognize and revere Him with that love we had at first. Christ is passing by today just like he did in Jericho. He is passing by in the Sacred Host and then in our sacred neighbor. May we prepare to receive him with pristine love, the love we would if we would receive him only this time, the love we hope to receive Him with our last time, the love we hope to give him forever!<\/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\/revelation\/1:1\">RV 1:1-4; 2:1-5<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him,<br \/>\nto show his servants what must happen soon.<br \/>\nHe made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,<br \/>\nwho gives witness to the word of God<br \/>\nand to the testimony of Jesus Christ by reporting what he saw.<br \/>\nBlessed is the one who reads aloud<br \/>\nand blessed are those who listen to this prophetic message<br \/>\nand heed what is written in it, for the appointed time is near.<br \/>\nJohn, to the seven churches in Asia: grace to you and peace<br \/>\nfrom him who is and who was and who is to come,<br \/>\nand from the seven spirits before his throne.I heard the Lord saying to me:<br \/>\n\u201cTo the angel of the Church in Ephesus, write this:\u201c<br \/>\n\u2018The one who holds the seven stars in his right hand<br \/>\nand walks in the midst of the seven gold lampstands says this:<br \/>\n\u201cI know your works, your labor, and your endurance,<br \/>\nand that you cannot tolerate the wicked;<br \/>\nyou have tested those who call themselves Apostles but are not,<br \/>\nand discovered that they are impostors.<br \/>\nMoreover, you have endurance and have suffered for my name,<br \/>\nand you have not grown weary.<br \/>\nYet I hold this against you:<br \/>\nyou have lost the love you had at first.<br \/>\nRealize how far you have fallen.<br \/>\nRepent, and do the works you did at first.<br \/>\nOtherwise, I will come to you<br \/>\nand remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.\u201d\u2019\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/1:1\">PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (Rev. 2:17)\u00a0Those who are victorious I will feed from the tree of life.<br \/>\nBlessed the man who follows not<br \/>\nthe counsel of the wicked<br \/>\nNor walks in the way of sinners,<br \/>\nnor sits in the company of the insolent,<br \/>\nBut delights in the law of the LORD<br \/>\nand meditates on his law day and night.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Those who are victorious I will feed from the tree of life.<br \/>\nHe is like a tree<br \/>\nplanted near running water,<br \/>\nThat yields its fruit in due season,<br \/>\nand whose leaves never fade.<br \/>\nWhatever he does, prospers.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Those who are victorious I will feed from the tree of life.<br \/>\nNot so the wicked, not so;<br \/>\nthey are like chaff which the wind drives away.<br \/>\nFor the LORD watches over the way of the just,<br \/>\nbut the way of the wicked vanishes.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Those who are victorious I will feed from the tree of life.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/18:35\">LK 18:35-43<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">As Jesus approached Jericho<br \/>\na blind man was sitting by the roadside begging,<br \/>\nand hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening.<br \/>\nThey told him,<br \/>\n\u201cJesus of Nazareth is passing by.\u201d<br \/>\nHe shouted, \u201cJesus, Son of David, have pity on me!\u201d<br \/>\nThe people walking in front rebuked him,<br \/>\ntelling him to be silent,<br \/>\nbut he kept calling out all the more,<br \/>\n\u201cSon of David, have pity on me!\u201d<br \/>\nThen Jesus stopped and ordered that he be brought to him;<br \/>\nand when he came near, Jesus asked him,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you want me to do for you?\u201d<br \/>\nHe replied, \u201cLord, please let me see.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus told him, \u201cHave sight; your faith has saved you.\u201d<br \/>\nHe immediately received his sight<br \/>\nand followed him, giving glory to God.<br \/>\nWhen they saw this, all the people gave praise to God.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-14-at-8.51.03-AM.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20703\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-14-at-8.51.03-AM.png?resize=300%2C218&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6600\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20702-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.16.20_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.16.20_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.16.20_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.16.20_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=20702-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.16.20_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"11.16.20_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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Landry Visitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan Monday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II Votive Mass for the Faithful Departed November\u00a016, 2020 Rev 1:1-4.2:1-5, Ps 1, Lk 18:35-43 &nbsp; To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0 https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.16.20_Homily_1.mp3 &nbsp; The\u00a0following points were attempted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11775,1063,3,12314,4],"tags":[7241,7248,7243,7244,10057,7249,3364,1182,7242,3624,3207,7239,10056,12337,6344,1176,7245,2301,10059,10058],"class_list":["post-20702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-2020-year-ii","category-audio-homily","category-homily","category-podcast","category-year-ii","tag-bartimaeus","tag-church-of-ephesus","tag-domine-ut-videam","tag-first-love","tag-have-mercy-on-me","tag-impostors","tag-living-water","tag-lk-1835-43","tag-lord-i-want-to-see","tag-persecution","tag-ps-1","tag-rev-11-4-21-5","tag-running-streams","tag-saint-margaret-of-scotland","tag-seven-churches","tag-st-gertrude","tag-the-love-you-had-at-first","tag-vocation","tag-what-do-you-want-me-to-do-for-you","tag-your-faith-has-saved-you"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seeing with the Love We Had at First, 33rd Monday (II), November 16, 2020 - Catholic Preaching<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/seeing-with-the-love-we-had-at-first-33rd-monday-ii-november-16-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seeing with the Love We Had at First, 33rd Monday (II), November 16, 2020 - Catholic Preaching\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fr. 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