{"id":21884,"date":"2021-04-24T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=21884"},"modified":"2021-04-24T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T13:26:16","slug":"coming-to-the-eucharistic-holy-one-of-god-third-saturday-of-easter-april-24-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/coming-to-the-eucharistic-holy-one-of-god-third-saturday-of-easter-april-24-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to the Eucharistic Holy One of God, Third Saturday of Easter, April 24, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nSaturday of the Third Week of Easter<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen<br \/>\nApril 24, 2021<br \/>\nActs 9:31-42, Ps 116, Jn 6:60-69<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to a recording of this homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21884-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.24.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.24.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.24.21_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0following points were attempted in this homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today we come to the dramatic\u00a0conclusion, the eighth\u00a0part of our second Easter octave, the \u201cmystagogical catechesis\u201d of Jesus\u2019 Bread of Life discourse that the Church has us ponder\u00a0every Easter season to help us to enter more deeply into Jesus\u2019 risen life through the Holy Eucharist.\u00a0After Jesus communicates to us that he is the True Manna God the Father gives us each day, that in order for us to have life we must live off of him, that he in the Eucharist is the fulfillment of the miracle of the multiplication of loaves and fish, today we are confronted with three possible responses to all he has said. These responses are those of every age, and they can help us gauge our own.<\/li>\n<li>The first response is rejection. Throughout the Discourse, Jesus has been dialoguing fundamentally either with the \u201ccrowds\u201d or the leaders of the \u201cJews.\u201d They struggled with Jesus\u2019 words about gnawing on his flesh and drinking his blood, which \u2014 without the Eucharistic context we are now aware of after the Last Supper \u2014\u00a0sounded cannibalistic and gross. But today Jesus\u2019 dialogue is with the disciples and then with the twelve disciples whom he had chosen as apostles. These were the people who had been with Jesus for up to two years, observing him heal lepers, the lame, the blind, watching him cast out demons and raise the dead, hearing his great sermons and parables, and making the decision to follow him. But many of the disciples slammed on the breaks when it came to what Jesus was saying about the need to eat his flesh and drink his blood to have any life within them. \u201cThis saying is hard,\u201d they say in today\u2019s Gospel, \u201cwho can accept it?\u201d They were right that the teaching is hard, but let\u2019s face it, many of Jesus\u2019 teachings are hard: to forgive 70 times 7 times, to love our enemies, to pray for our persecutors, to turn the other cheek, to pick up our Cross each day to follow him, to save our life by losing it, to go the way of the grain of wheat, to cut off our hands and feet and pluck out our eyes if they lead us to sin, and \u2014 most of all \u2014 to love the Lord with\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>our mind, heart, soul and strength. These are all hard. Some are even excruciatingly hard. But who can accept it? Someone with faith can accept it! These disciples seemed to behave as if they didn\u2019t anticipate Jesus would challenge them to leave their comfort zones, not to mention to die to themselves so as to live by Him. But that\u2019s what he was doing. That\u2019s what he is always doing. And that\u2019s what we have to confront. Jesus calls them out on this. He says, \u201cDoes this shock you?\u00a0What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? \u2026\u00a0But there are some of you who do not believe.\u201d They simply didn\u2019t have the faith or the willingness to accept something shocking, even if Jesus were saying it. Ultimately they didn\u2019t believe in Jesus enough. And St. John tells us later, \u201cAs a result of this,\u00a0many of his disciples returned to their former way of life\u00a0and no longer walked with him.\u201d They abandoned Jesus because of his teaching about the Eucharist. Note that Jesus didn\u2019t run after them saying that they had misunderstood him. He also didn\u2019t water down the truth. He knew that they had understood him clearly but they just didn\u2019t have the faith to believe in Him enough to believe in what he taught.\u00a0Still today there are many who don\u2019t believe in Jesus\u2019 teaching in the Eucharist, finding it too hard to endure. They have some faith in Jesus, they do follow him to some degree, but they find the teaching on the Eucharist revolting. So many of our Protestant brothers and sisters are in this camp just don\u2019t accept the literal meaning of Jesus\u2019 words throughout the Bread of Life Discourse and separate themselves from this great sacrament. But there are many Catholics, too, who don\u2019t believe in Jesus\u2019 real presence in the Eucharist and their need to enter into Communion with him in order to live. The surveys show this lack of faith, that many Catholics just think that the Eucharist is simply\u00a0bread and wine. But we see it most in the percentage of Catholics who don\u2019t even make the effort to come to receive Jesus worthily on Sundays. They think that keeping Holy the Lord\u2019s day is \u201chard\u201d and wonder who can accept putting God first on the Lord\u2019s day. We need to pray in a special way for all those, especially, among the disciples, who find Jesus\u2019 teachings hard.<\/li>\n<li>The second response we see today is hypocrisy. This we see in Judas. St. John tells us that in response to his teaching, \u201cJesus knew the ones who would not believe\u00a0and the one who would betray him.\u201d But Judas didn\u2019t have the courage to admit it at the time. He continued to follow the Lord on the outside. He continued to pretend as if he believed. But his doubts about Jesus really crystallized right here. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen used to preach about this Eucharistic beginning of Judas\u2019 betrayal in his powerful retreats to brothers priests. \u201cScripture gives considerable evidence to prove that a priest begins to fail his priesthood when he fails in his love of the Eucharist,\u201d Sheen wrote in his spiritual autobiography,\u00a0<em>A Treasure in Clay.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cThe beginning of the fall of Judas and the end of Judas both revolved around the Eucharist. The first mention that Our Lord knew who it was who would betray him is at the end of the sixth chapter of John, which is the announcement of the Eucharist. The fall of Judas came the night Our Lord gave the Eucharist, the night of the Last Supper.\u00a0The Eucharist is so essential to our oneness with Christ that as soon as Our Lord announced It in the Gospel, It began to be the test of the fidelity of His followers. First, He lost the masses, for it was too hard a saying and they no longer followed Him. Secondly, He lost some of His disciples: \u2018They walked with Him no more.\u2019 Third, it split His apostolic band, for Judas is here announced as the betrayer.\u201d Likewise the fall of many of Jesus\u2019 beloved friends happens in this similar way. They continue to follow Jesus on the outside, but not on the inside. They pretend as if they believe, but they really don\u2019t. Often they\u2019ll come to receive Jesus like Judas did during the Last Supper and go out into the night and betray him. They\u2019ll receive him unworthily, believing that they can remain in communion with Christ here and remain obstinately in sin in other parts of their life. This, in a sense, is even worse than outright rejection, because it lacks sincerity. And when we don\u2019t really believe in Jesus here, when we don\u2019t really seek to unite our entire life to him, when we think we should just go with the routine and receive Jesus even though we know that we\u2019ve sinned against him, then it just leads to greater moral schizophrenia and greater betrayals. We need to learn from where Judas\u2019 great betrayal began.<\/li>\n<li>The third response is the one that the Lord wants from us. After the multitude of his disciples had abandoned him, after he had seen the response of those who didn\u2019t believe and the one who would betray him, Jesus turned to the other members of the twelve and asked, \u201cDo you also want to leave?\u201d It was a question coming from the depth of Jesus\u2019 disappointment, which itself was coming out of the depth of his love for those who were abandoning him in droves, because they thought that his total gift of himself to us in the Eucharist was, rather than the greatest example of divine love, an example of human insanity. But St. Peter shows us what real faith is.\u00a0He replied, \u201cLord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy one of God.\u201d Jesus\u2019\u00a0teaching wasn\u2019t any easier for Peter than for the many\u00a0disciples who had just abandoned Jesus. He wouldn\u2019t understand what Jesus was saying until a year later when he during the Last Supper would totally change bread and wine into his body and blood. But he knew that Jesus had the words of eternal life and so, because of his faith in Jesus, he put his faith in Jesus\u2019 words. Likewise, our Eucharistic faith is based on our faith in Jesus\u2019 words.\u00a0In the great Eucharistic Hymn,\u00a0<em>Adoro Te Devote<\/em>, written by St. Thomas Aquinas, we sing, \u201cI belief whatever the Son of God has said. Nothing is truer than the Word of truth!\u201d Eucharistic miracles can help buttress our faith in the Eucharist, but they can\u2019t substitute for it. We believe that what we\u2019re about to receive is Jesus\u2019 body and blood because Jesus told us that it was and sent out the apostles from the Upper Room with the command to do this in his memory.<\/li>\n<li>The Eucharistic Lord in whom we believe, from whom we live, wants to bring our whole life into communion with him, so that we may not only \u201clive because of him\u201d but act together with him. This is where he wants our faith to lead us, so that, as we heard yesterday in the Gospel, we draw our life from him in the Eucharist and he is able through us to continue his saving work in the world. We see the consequences of a truly\u00a0risen Eucharistic life in St. Peter in today\u2019s first reading. He was faithfully allowing Jesus\u2019 risen life to radiate through him as he continued Jesus\u2019 saving mission. We see that first in his healing of Aeneas in Lydda, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years. Echoing the words Jesus said in Capernaum to the paralyzed man lowered through the roof, \u201cRise, take up your mat, and go home,\u201d Peter said, \u201cAeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed.\u201d It wasn\u2019t Peter who was healing Aeneas, but the risen Jesus through Peter. Likewise when Peter was summoned by the disciples to go to Joppa after the death of the little charitable \u201cgazelle,\u201d what the Hebrew\u00a0Tabitha or the Greek\u00a0Dorcas\u00a0means, Peter emulated what Jesus did in the healing of the daughter of the synagogue official Jairus. Peter was one of three apostles present in the room when Jesus said, \u201cTalitha, koum,\u201d (\u201cLittle girl, arise!\u201d). So here, Peter, praying at her bedside, then says, \u201cTabitha, rise up.\u201d The word in both circumstances is the same word for \u201cresurrection.\u201d Jesus directly and then indirectly through Peter was telling each child to share in his resurrection, to arise, to experience newness of life and a foretaste of eternal life. Jesus similarly wants to live through us, to love through us, to preach through us, to minister through us, but for him to be able to do so, we need to be in communion with him and that happens right here at Mass when we learn to live off of him in Holy Communion.<\/li>\n<li>Someone through whom Jesus lived, loved, preached, ministered, suffered and died was St. Fidelis of Sigmarigen, whom the Church celebrates today. He died on April 24, 1622, which means that today we begin the 400th anniversary of his martyrdom, and insofar as next year April 24 will be Divine Mercy Sunday and won&#8217;t be observed, it&#8217;s important we ponder his holy life a little more this year. St. Fidelis was a philosopher, a lawyer and a young professor who heard the Lord calling him to more. While still teaching, he refused wine, wore a hair-shirt and distinguished himself for being modest, meek and chaste like Jesus. At 27 he became a traveling teacher and for six years attended Mass frequently, visited hospitals, adored the Blessed Sacrament, served the poor, and used his law practice to help the poor get justice. Eventually he entered the Capuchins, received the religious name Fidelis and continued to help people to learn how to come to Jesus the Master who alone had the words of eternal life. He became a famous preacher and confessor and was sent with other Capuchins by the Holy Office to try to bring back the Calvinists in eastern Switzerland. The Calvinists had separated themselves from the teaching and sacraments of the faith. St. Fidelis was successful enough that his life began to be threatened and eventually, on April 24, 1622, in Seewis, he was confronted by 20 Calvinist soldiers who demanded that he renounce the Catholic faith. \u201cI am sent to you to confute, not embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages and I fear not death,\u201d he replied. They struck him with a sword, he fell to his knees, stretched his arms in the form of a cross, prayed to God to forgive his enemies and he was struck on the skull and died. His life was Eucharistic to the end.<\/li>\n<li>Today as we finish this eight day catechesis on his feast day,\u00a0we ask the Lord for the gift of faith so that we may stake our existence, too, on his words of eternal life, \u201cThis is my body!\u201d and \u201cThis is chalice of my blood!\u201d and offer our body and blood for him and for others. In response to the awesome gift of the Holy Eucharist, we, together with St. Fidelis, make our own today&#8217;s Psalm, \u201cHow shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me?,\u201d we asked in the Psalm. And we make that response now: \u201cThe cup of salvation I will take up,\u00a0and I will call upon the name of the Lord.\u201d<\/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 href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/9:31\">ACTS 9:31-42<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The Church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria<br \/>\nwas at peace.<br \/>\nShe was being built up and walked in the fear of the Lord,<br \/>\nand with the consolation of the Holy Spirit she grew in numbers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">As Peter was passing through every region,<br \/>\nhe went down to the holy ones living in Lydda.<br \/>\nThere he found a man named Aeneas,<br \/>\nwho had been confined to bed for eight years, for he was paralyzed.<br \/>\nPeter said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cAeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed.\u201d<br \/>\nHe got up at once.<br \/>\nAnd all the inhabitants of Lydda and Sharon saw him,<br \/>\nand they turned to the Lord.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha<br \/>\n(which translated is Dorcas).<br \/>\nShe was completely occupied with good deeds and almsgiving.<br \/>\nNow during those days she fell sick and died,<br \/>\nso after washing her, they laid her out in a room upstairs.<br \/>\nSince Lydda was near Joppa,<br \/>\nthe disciples, hearing that Peter was there,<br \/>\nsent two men to him with the request,<br \/>\n\u201cPlease come to us without delay.\u201d<br \/>\nSo Peter got up and went with them.<br \/>\nWhen he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs<br \/>\nwhere all the widows came to him weeping<br \/>\nand showing him the tunics and cloaks<br \/>\nthat Dorcas had made while she was with them.<br \/>\nPeter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed.<br \/>\nThen he turned to her body and said, \u201cTabitha, rise up.\u201d<br \/>\nShe opened her eyes, saw Peter, and sat up.<br \/>\nHe gave her his hand and raised her up,<br \/>\nand when he had called the holy ones and the widows,<br \/>\nhe presented her alive.<br \/>\nThis became known all over Joppa,<br \/>\nand many came to believe in the Lord.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/116:12\">PS 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (12)\u00a0How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me?<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nHow shall I make a return to the LORD<br \/>\nfor all the good he has done for me?<br \/>\nThe cup of salvation I will take up,<br \/>\nand I will call upon the name of the LORD<br \/>\nR.\u00a0How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me?<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nMy vows to the LORD I will pay<br \/>\nin the presence of all his people.<br \/>\nPrecious in the eyes of the LORD<br \/>\nis the death of his faithful ones.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me?<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nO LORD, I am your servant;<br \/>\nI am your servant, the son of your handmaid;<br \/>\nyou have loosed my bonds.<br \/>\nTo you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving,<br \/>\nand I will call upon the name of the LORD.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me?<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/6:60\">JN 6:60-69<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Many of the disciples of Jesus who were listening said,<br \/>\n\u201cThis saying is hard; who can accept it?\u201d<br \/>\nSince Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this,<br \/>\nhe said to them, \u201cDoes this shock you?<br \/>\nWhat if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?<br \/>\nIt is the Spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail.<br \/>\nThe words I have spoken to you are Spirit and life.<br \/>\nBut there are some of you who do not believe.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe<br \/>\nand the one who would betray him.<br \/>\nAnd he said, \u201cFor this reason I have told you that no one can come to me<br \/>\nunless it is granted him by my Father.\u201dAs a result of this,<br \/>\nmany of his disciples returned to their former way of life<br \/>\nand no longer walked with him.<br \/>\nJesus then said to the Twelve, \u201cDo you also want to leave?\u201d<br \/>\nSimon Peter answered him, \u201cMaster, to whom shall we go?<br \/>\nYou have the words of eternal life.<br \/>\nWe have come to believe<br \/>\nand are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Unknown.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Unknown.jpeg?resize=186%2C270&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6126\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21884-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.24.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.24.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.24.21_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\/4.24.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=21884-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/4.24.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"4.24.21_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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