{"id":21830,"date":"2021-04-15T05:54:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T09:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=21830"},"modified":"2023-04-20T08:20:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T12:20:06","slug":"not-rationing-the-gift-of-the-spirit-in-baptism-second-thursday-of-easter-april-15-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/not-rationing-the-gift-of-the-spirit-in-baptism-second-thursday-of-easter-april-15-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Rationing the Gift of the Spirit in Baptism, Second Thursday of Easter, April 15, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Mission of the Sisters of Life,\u00a0Manhattan<br \/>\nThursday of the Second Week of Easter<br \/>\nApril 15, 2021<br \/>\nActs 5:27-33, Ps 34, Jn 3:31-36<\/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-21830-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.15.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.15.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.15.21_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>The Easter Season is meant to be a post-baptismal mystagogy, the period in which the Church helps the newly baptized \u2014 and those baptized many years before \u2014 enter into the reality of the mystery of Christ\u2019s risen life received in the Sacraments, pondering his words, and living the truth so that all our works may be seen as done in God, as we heard earlier this week. Throughout this Second Week of Easter, we have been pondering the mystery of our baptismal sharing in Christ\u2019s risen life through Jesus\u2019 conversation with Nicodemus about spiritual rebirth. Tomorrow we will begin eight days of focus on the Eucharistic reality of the Christian life, our ability to receive Jesus\u2019 risen Body and Blood each day. And all of these truths we\u2019re able to see enfleshed by the members of the early Church in the readings from the Acts of the Apostles.<\/li>\n<li>Today we have the\u00a0concluding words of the chapter of Jesus\u2019 conversation with Nicodemus in which Jesus \u2014 or St. John, the text is a little ambiguous and scholars go back and forth about whether St. John is quoting Jesus or whether he is giving his own theological reflections on why Jesus said what he said \u2014 describes his own mission and the life of anyone born anew from above. St. Paul told us on Easter Sunday morning, as he told the Colossians, \u201cIf you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.\u201d Today Jesus describes this difference between living with Him risen from the dead\u00a0or living according to the old Adam: \u201cThe one who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of earthly things,\u201d Jesus says, \u201cbut the one who comes from heaven is above all. He testifies to what he has seen and heard.\u201d Jesus testifies to what he has seen and heard and a Christian must be a witness to what he has seen and heard in his encounters with Christ in person, in prayer, in the Sacraments. Jesus describes that he came as light into the world but many preferred the darkness. \u201cNo one accepts his testimony,\u201d Jesus says, referring in general to the fact that most don\u2019t seek the things that are above, most don\u2019t leave the darkness to enter the light, most don\u2019t allow Jesus to change their fundamental orientation at the root, most don\u2019t really convert and continue to lift up their hearts to God. But, Jesus adds, \u201cWhoever does accept his testimony certifies that God is trustworthy for the one whom God sent speaks the words of God. He does not ration his gift of the Spirit.\u201d We believe what Jesus says on the basis of our faith in God. Because we trust in God we trust in what he says and gives witness to. The one born from above allows the Holy Spirit to give witness within him, not putting up any resistance to what God is doing. The Holy Spirit is a witness just as much as the apostles to Jesus\u2019 risen life and when we are reborn from him, we give witness together with him. We don\u2019t ration the Holy Spirit\u2019s work, and he helps us, as St. Paul described to the Galatians and the Romans, to \u201clive by the Spirit,\u201d which allows us to be \u201cconcerned with the things of the Spirit.\u201d\u00a0 And for that reason, Jesus says, such a person living by the Spirit is already living eternally because he is through the Spirit in union with Christ\u2019s risen life: \u201cWhoever believes in the Son has eternal life.\u201d That\u2019s the life that begins when we\u2019re baptized with water, the Spirit and fire. And that eternal life always experienced makes us courageous in the face of all challenges and vicissitudes, something that, as we saw earlier this week, Nicodemus, the reluctant disciple, desperately needed in order to leave the darkness and come to live with Jesus in the light.<\/li>\n<li>We see life according to these principles in the apostles in the first reading. They accepted Jesus\u2019 testimony, they didn\u2019t ration the gift of the Spirit, but with all boldness were giving witness with the Holy Spirit to what they had seen and heard. After the same members of the Sanhedrin who had had Jesus publicly tortured and executed were threatening them with the same fate had given them strict orders to stop teaching in Jesus\u2019 name only to be met by their \u201cfill[ing] Jerusalem with your teaching,\u201d St. Peter and the Apostles said, \u201cWe must obey God rather than men.\u201d They kept giving witness, undaunted because they knew that they were already experiencing eternal life and even should they be martyred, that wouldn\u2019t be the end of their life but the passage to life with Jesus. That was the source of their boldness. They sought the things above, they spoke of heavenly things, they grasped that, just like Jesus\u2019 testimony, not everyone would receive theirs, but to everyone who did, they testified that God is trustworthy and would give eternal life. They appeal to us to accept that testimony coming from God the Holy Spirit, to order our life to the things that are above and to fill New York and beyond with this teaching. That\u2019s what Jesus, whose Risen Life we\u2019re about to receive within in Holy Communion, wants to strengthen us, like he strengthened his first followers, to do.<\/li>\n<li>The same Jesus who spoke to Nicodemus comes to speak to us today and to feed us, helping us from the inside to live as those born anew from above, helping us not ration the Spirit but put up the sails to the Spirit who blows where he wills, strengthening us boldly to fill New York and beyond with his teachings.<\/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\/acts\/5:27\">ACTS 5:27-33<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When the court officers had brought the Apostles in<br \/>\nand made them stand before the Sanhedrin,<br \/>\nthe high priest questioned them,<br \/>\n\u201cWe gave you strict orders did we not,<br \/>\nto stop teaching in that name.<br \/>\nYet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching<br \/>\nand want to bring this man\u2019s blood upon us.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Peter and the Apostles said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cWe must obey God rather than men.<br \/>\nThe God of our ancestors raised Jesus,<br \/>\nthough you had him killed by hanging him on a tree.<br \/>\nGod exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior<br \/>\nto grant Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.<br \/>\nWe are witnesses of these things,<br \/>\nas is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When they heard this,<br \/>\nthey became infuriated and wanted to put them to death.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/34:2\">PS 34:2 AND 9, 17-18, 19-20<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (7a)\u00a0The Lord hears the cry of the poor.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nI will bless the LORD at all times;<br \/>\nhis praise shall be ever in my mouth.<br \/>\nTaste and see how good the LORD is;<br \/>\nblessed the man who takes refuge in him.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord hears the cry of the poor.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nThe LORD confronts the evildoers,<br \/>\nto destroy remembrance of them from the earth.<br \/>\nWhen the just cry out, the LORD hears them,<br \/>\nand from all their distress he rescues them.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord hears the cry of the poor.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nThe LORD is close to the brokenhearted;<br \/>\nand those who are crushed in spirit he saves.<br \/>\nMany are the troubles of the just man,<br \/>\nbut out of them all the LORD delivers him.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord hears the cry of the poor.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/20:29\">JN 20:29<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nYou believe in me, Thomas, because you have seen me, says the Lord;<br \/>\nblessed are those who have not seen, but still believe!<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/3:31\">JN 3:31-36<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The one who comes from above is above all.<br \/>\nThe one who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of earthly things.<br \/>\nBut the one who comes from heaven is above all.<br \/>\nHe testifies to what he has seen and heard,<br \/>\nbut no one accepts his testimony.<br \/>\nWhoever does accept his testimony certifies that God is trustworthy.<br \/>\nFor the one whom God sent speaks the words of God.<br \/>\nHe does not ration his gift of the Spirit.<br \/>\nThe Father loves the Son and has given everything over to him.<br \/>\nWhoever believes in the Son has eternal life,<br \/>\nbut whoever disobeys the Son will not see life,<br \/>\nbut the wrath of God remains upon him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1102009472_univ_lsr_xl.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21831\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1102009472_univ_lsr_xl.jpg?resize=300%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1102009472_univ_lsr_xl.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1102009472_univ_lsr_xl.jpg?resize=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1102009472_univ_lsr_xl.jpg?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1102009472_univ_lsr_xl.jpg?resize=640%2C320&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1102009472_univ_lsr_xl.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3941\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21830-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.15.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.15.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.15.21_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\/4.15.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=21830-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.15.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"4.15.21_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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