{"id":21249,"date":"2021-02-11T06:02:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=21249"},"modified":"2021-02-11T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T14:20:01","slug":"the-suitable-helper-god-gives-fifth-thursday-in-ordinary-time-i-february-11-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-suitable-helper-god-gives-fifth-thursday-in-ordinary-time-i-february-11-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suitable Helper God Gives, Fifth Thursday in Ordinary Time (I), February 11, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nThursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of Our Lady of Lourdes<br \/>\nFebruary\u00a011, 2021<br \/>\nGen 2:18-25, Ps 128, Mk 7:24-30<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21249-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.11.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.11.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.11.21_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone.\u201d These words from today\u2019s first reading come in the Genesis account after God says, throughout creation, \u201cIt is good,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is good,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is good,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is good,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is good,\u201d and with the creation of the human person,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is very good.\u201d Finally God exclaims,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is <em>not\u00a0<\/em>good for the man to be alone,\u201d but he waited to make this judgment, we can say, until man himself had had this awareness. Even though man was in relation with God and\u00a0with the animals he had named, there was still something missing. He needed a \u201csuitable partner,\u201d a \u201cfitting helper\u201d for him. And that\u2019s what God gave him in the creation of Eve. God created such a fitting helper, so that the two of them could help each other as the image of God, live in true communion, and grow more and more into God\u2019s loving image.\u00a0This points to two existential realities: first, each of us needs help and it\u2019s not good for us to be without this help; second, we are created as a helper for others.\u00a0We are created as fitting helpers likewise always in need of suitable help.<\/li>\n<li>We also see in the passage the basic complementarity at work in this helping and being helped. God didn\u2019t create merely someone to kill time with, or even a generic helper, but rather a \u201csuitable helper,\u201d a \u201cpartner,\u201d someone who makes up for our weaknesses with strength and someone who draws from us our strength to remedy his or her weaknesses. God created Eve out of Adam\u2019s side, to show that they stand side-by-side, equal, before God. The rib symbolizes what covers the heart (the loving center of the person) and the lungs (what is necessary to breathe and survive). Adam exclaims, \u201c<em>Finally\u00a0<\/em>this one is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh,\u201d a Hebrew expression meaning \u201cstrength of my strength and weakness of my weakness,\u201d that they are like each other in strengths and weaknesses and need to help each other. The type of help that is needed is not just in terms of a \u201chand\u201d in ordinary life, but with regard to their living as the image and likeness of God. They can\u2019t grow in love without each other and without the analogy of human love, Adam had already discovered that he couldn\u2019t really receive and reciprocate (however asymmetrically) divine love. The most suitable help given is with regard to their living in a fully human way in the divine image.\u00a0That\u2019s what human marriage, par excellence, is supposed to be, when a man and a woman, like Adam and Eve, fittingly help each other to become who they are.\u00a0That\u2019s why Christ raised marriage to the dignity of a Sacrament, to give his help so that they might resemble the love in the heart of the Trinity, which Christ came as Bridegroom to make possible anew.<\/li>\n<li>But the help we need extends to more than marriage. It\u2019s not good for any of us to be alone, we all need fitting helpers, and we all need, to some degree, the complementarity between man and woman to remedy the ways in which, by original differentiation, we are not fully human. That\u2019s why gender ideology is so harmful to human anthropology, because it suggests masculinity and femininity are mental conceptions rather than divinely ordered, complementary realities. St. John Paul II talked about the \u201carchetypical masculine\u201d and the \u201carchetypical feminine\u201d and the way that men receive love by giving love and women give\u00a0love by receiving love and how man\u2019s relative strengths in complementarity to woman\u2019s relative weaknesses, and woman\u2019s relative strengths to man\u2019s relative weaknesses provide the support we need to grow as God\u2019s image. This applies to\u00a0<em>agape\u00a0<\/em>(Christ-like sacrificial love) and\u00a0<em>philia\u00a0<\/em>(love of true friendship) just as much as to\u00a0<em>eros\u00a0<\/em>(romantic love). Man\u2019s courage confronting fears and the unknown, for example, can encourage women to similar boldness and women\u2019s receptivity to the person can complement man\u2019s task-oriented personality. This type of normal, healthy interaction takes place among brothers and sisters in the family, among dads and daughters, moms and sons, among friends of opposite sexes and in ordinary daily interactions.\u00a0For those of us who are priests and religious, living ordinarily solely among men or solely among women,\u00a0we cannot forget the importance of this complementarity for full human thriving in the divine image and must resist any attempt to pretend\u00a0that faithful chastity means no or minimal interaction with those of the opposite sex. Chastity forms us to love with charity (sacrifice), purity (seeing <em>God<\/em> in the other) \u00a0and piety (<em>reverencing<\/em> God in the other).\u00a0Without chaste friendships with women, priests risk becoming cold, insensitive functionaries; without chaste friendships with men, religious women risk becoming overly sentimental and petty. And when chaste, non-exclusive friendships form between religious men or priests and religious women, their complementary spiritual gifts can help each other too; religious woman teach religious men how to be alone before God, how to be receptive rather than Pelagian before his graces, how to build communion in depth rather than in superficial activity or pleasures; religious men teach religious women how to wipe the dust off their feet and move on rather than nurse injuries and how to take risks for Christ and the faith. While acknowledging how the devil always wants and strives to corrupt something good and holy, at the same time we have to acknowledge that priests and religious are not exceptions to God\u2019s statement \u201cIt is not good for the human person to be alone,\u201d and \u201cI will make for the person a fitting helper.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This need for a fitting helper is likewise seen in today\u2019s observation of the World Day of the Sick. In his Message for today, Pope Francis wrote, \u201cThe experience of sickness makes us realize our own vulnerability and our innate need of others. It makes us feel all the more clearly that we are creatures dependent on God.\u201d Sickness, in other words, makes us recognize we need God and others. We see this reality at play in\u00a0the beautiful interaction in today\u2019s Gospel. At first glance it seems a little harsh, but Jesus in an almost brutally masculine way was helping the Syro-Phoenician mom of a possessed girl to grow in faith, and she, with her beautiful femininity, not only drew forth the Lord\u2019s loving and miraculous generosity, but his extraordinary compliment for her receptive faith.\u00a0St. Matthew\u2019s account of this scene gives us many more details than St. Mark does today. When this Canaanite woman\u00a0first approaches Jesus asking her for a miracle for her daughter, the Lord ignores her. When she harasses the apostles begging for their intervention and they ask Jesus on her behalf, Jesus stresses he was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, not to pagan women in Phoenicia. When she continues to pursue and falls down begging, \u201cPlease, Lord!,\u201d he replies by saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.\u201d But she still doesn\u2019t give up. She retorts, \u201cBut even the little dogs eat the scraps that comes from their master\u2019s table.\u201d She reminded him that he was the Good Shepherd even of puppies. \u201cPlease, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.\u201d \u00a0At this, Jesus replies, \u201cWoman, great is your faith\u201d and performs an immediate exorcism on her daughter at a distance. Jesus behaved in this way precisely because he loved the woman and was helping her to grow in the type of persevering faith and prayer that God wants to develop and see in all of us. Her feminine, maternal persistence led to one of the greatest compliments Jesus is ever recorded giving. And that woman\u2019s great feminine faith was a means to draw greater faith from the apostles.<\/li>\n<li>Pondering the fitting helper God gave Adam as well as a maternal intercessor with regard to sick children brings us somewhat inexorably to today\u2019s feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. God chose Mary to be the new Eve, the mother of all the living. She identified herself as the \u201cancilla Domini,\u201d the handmaid of the Lord. It is never good for man to be alone and hence she was created, in a sense, to accompany God\u2019s son, the God man, according to his humanity, from the first moment of the incarnation onward. He wasn\u2019t alone in the womb. He wasn\u2019t alone in the manger. He wasn\u2019t alone in the perilous journey to Egypt. He wasn\u2019t alone as a boy in Nazareth, even after the death of St. Joseph. He wasn\u2019t alone even on Calvary. And it was there that, through excruciating pain, he reiterated that it is not good for the human person to be alone, entrusting all of us through the beloved disciple as Mary\u2019s loving sons and daughters and her to us as our spiritual mother. And like the mother in today\u2019s Gospel, with intrepid faith in Jesus, she continues to intercede for us, that we may be freed of the evil one, and in Lourdes, that we may be freed of physical diseases. When we realize our own vulnerability, as Pope Francis says, and our innate need of others and dependence on God, Mary is there to accompany us with her human motherly heart and to help us grow in faith through entering into her dependence on God for everything.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt is not good for man to be alone.\u201d And the suitable help God made for Adam was not just Eve. It was not even merely Mary, the new Eve. God made <em>himself<\/em>\u00a0as a suitable helper, entering into the human race, in order by his humanity to restore us to the divine image and make us partakers in his divinity. And where he carries that out each day is here at the altar. We know that Jesus in the Gospel quoted the words of the Book of Genesis after Adam rejoiced at the creation of his wife, \u201cThat is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one flesh.\u201d St. Paul, after citing that phrase, will tell us in the fifth chapter of his letter to the Ephesians \u201cThis is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.\u201d Human marriage is based on Christ\u2019s marriage to his Bride the Church; because Christ will never abandon us, sacramental marriage is indissoluble; because Christ is faithful, human marriage is faithful; because Christ\u2019s marriage with us is fruitful, generating newborn Christians in the baptismal womb of the Church, so human marriage increases and multiplies. To understand what happens in the Eucharist, we need to look at it in this spousal key. The early Christians used to illustrate this reality between marriage and the Eucharist in their architecture \u2014 as we\u2019ll see when we get to Rome \u2014 covering the altars with a baldachin just like ancient beds were covered, to communicate that the altar is the marriage bed of the union between Christ the Bridegroom and his Bride, the Church. It\u2019s here on this altar that we, Christ\u2019s bride, in the supreme of love, receive within ourselves the body, the blood, of the divine Bridegroom, becoming one-flesh with him and made capable of bearing fruit with him in acts of love. This is the means by which we enter into one flesh union with Christ. This is the way by which we receive within Christ\u2019s love for us and become more capable of sharing that type of love with each other. This is the greatest help of all and something that leads us to say, with the words of today\u2019s Psalm, \u201cBlessed are those who hold the Lord in awe!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/genesis\/2:18|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&id=f25027ffa8&e=b55e3798ee\">Gn 2:18-25<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The LORD God said:<br \/>\n\u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone.<br \/>\nI will make a suitable partner for him.\u201d<br \/>\nSo the LORD God formed out of the ground<br \/>\nvarious wild animals and various birds of the air,<br \/>\nand he brought them to the man to see what he would call them;<br \/>\nwhatever the man called each of them would be its name.<br \/>\nThe man gave names to all the cattle,<br \/>\nall the birds of the air, and all the wild animals;<br \/>\nbut none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.<br \/>\nSo the LORD God cast a deep sleep on the man,<br \/>\nand while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs<br \/>\nand closed up its place with flesh.<br \/>\nThe LORD God then built up into a woman<br \/>\nthe rib that he had taken from the man.<br \/>\nWhen he brought her to the man, the man said:<br \/>\n\u201cThis one, at last, is bone of my bones<br \/>\nand flesh of my flesh;<br \/>\nthis one shall be called \u2018woman,\u2019<br \/>\nfor out of \u2018her man\u2019 this one has been taken.\u201d<br \/>\nThat is why a man leaves his father and mother<br \/>\nand clings to his wife,<br \/>\nand the two of them become one flesh.<br \/>\nThe man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/128:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&id=6f499eee42&e=b55e3798ee\">Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (see 1a)\u00a0<strong>Blessed are those who fear the Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nBlessed are you who fear the LORD,<br \/>\nwho walk in his ways!<br \/>\nFor you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;<br \/>\nblessed shall you be, and favored.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Blessed are those who fear the Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nYour wife shall be like a fruitful vine<br \/>\nin the recesses of your home;<br \/>\nYour children like olive plants<br \/>\naround your table.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Blessed are those who fear the Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nBehold, thus is the man blessed<br \/>\nwho fears the LORD.<br \/>\nThe LORD bless you from Zion:<br \/>\nmay you see the prosperity of Jerusalem<br \/>\nall the days of your life.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Blessed are those who fear the Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/james\/1:21|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&id=7e4708d041&e=b55e3798ee\">Jas 1:21bc<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nHumbly welcome the word that has been planted in you<br \/>\nand is able to save your souls.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/mark\/7:24|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&id=cc41d677e9&e=b55e3798ee\">Mk 7:24-30<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus went to the district of Tyre.<br \/>\nHe entered a house and wanted no one to know about it,<br \/>\nbut he could not escape notice.<br \/>\nSoon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him.<br \/>\nShe came and fell at his feet.<br \/>\nThe woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth,<br \/>\nand she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.<br \/>\nHe said to her, \u201cLet the children be fed first.<br \/>\nFor it is not right to take the food of the children<br \/>\nand throw it to the dogs.\u201d<br \/>\nShe replied and said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cLord, even the dogs under the table eat the children\u2019s scraps.\u201d<br \/>\nThen he said to her, \u201cFor saying this, you may go.<br \/>\nThe demon has gone out of your daughter.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed<br \/>\nand the demon gone.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creation-of-Eve-300x211-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21250\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Creation-of-Eve-300x211-1.jpg?resize=300%2C211&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9153\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21249-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.11.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.11.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.11.21_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\/2.11.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=21249-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.11.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2.11.21_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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