{"id":2189,"date":"2010-04-02T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2012-05-30T18:43:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:43:28","slug":"our-spiritual-resurrection-the-anchor-april-2-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/our-spiritual-resurrection-the-anchor-april-2-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Spiritual Resurrection, The Anchor, April 2, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. Roger J. Landry
\nThe Anchor
\nPutting Into the Deep<\/em>
\nApril 2, 2010<\/p>\n

The saints are always given to us as models of the Christian life. St. John Vianney is given not merely to priests as a patron and exemplar but to all the faithful as an icon of receptivity and response to God\u2019s graces. That\u2019s why it\u2019s particularly instructive for all of us how he celebrated Easter, so that we may imitate him in making the practical consequences of Easter come alive.<\/p>\n

For the Cur\u00e9 of Ars, the joy of Jesus\u2019 resurrection came not from just from the fact that Jesus rose from the dead but from the reality that Jesus, risen from the dead, is still alive. In his Easter homilies, he would exultantly and repeatedly exclaim, \u201cJesus lives!,\u201d and pass on the joy of that fact and living relationship to his parishioners.<\/p>\n

The height of his joy was inversely proportioned to the depth of his Lenten sorrow over the Lord\u2019s sufferings. \u201cWe beheld him trodden upon like a worm,\u201d he preached one Easter Sunday, with words that can move all of us this Good Friday. \u201cWe saw him drag his rack to the place of execution; we heard the dull strokes of the hammer that fastened his hands and feet to the cross; we saw the cross lifted up with its precious burden; briefly, we were witnesses in spirit of the awful agonizing death of our Savior. \u2026 The only begotten Son of the Father was calumniated as the poor Son of the carpenter, the Messiah sent from heaven was mocked as the Galilean, his words of charity were branded as the work of hell. When he said that he had come to found a kingdom that was not of this world, he was denounced as a seducer of the people, and an enemy of Caesar. \u2026 It seemed as if His enemies were really triumphant in victory when Jesus hung bleeding upon the cross. His enemies appeared sure of victory, when they said to the crucified Savior in derision, \u2018If you are the Messiah, descend from the cross. You helped others, now help yourself,\u2019 and He made no reply to these words, but bowed His head and died. And still more, He was laid in a grave like an ordinary mortal, the grave itself being guarded and sealed. \u2026 Everything was over and at an end; the world seemed to conquer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut dear brethren,\u201d Fr. Vianney continued, stressing the adversative conjunction, \u201cour mourning is now turned into joy. The seal of the grave is broken; he who reposed there is living; he whom we saw die upon the wood of the cross, as the outcast of mankind, he has proclaimed his divine dignity; neither seal, nor grave, nor stone, nor lock could withstand Him; He is risen! Jesus lives! \u2026 Because he arose from the grave through his own almighty power, because he has built up again the temple of his body in three days, he has proven the glory of his divinity and placed the seal of completeness upon the work of redemption.\u201d<\/p>\n

The joy of the resurrection and the fact that Jesus Christ is alive, Fr. Vianney stressed, should have several \u201cpractical\u201d consequences in the way we live. \u201cAs Christ is risen, so we must arise and enter into a new life.\u201d<\/p>\n

He started by saying that this new life must begin in the domestic church. He called on spouses and parents to renew themselves in this risen life at home, reflecting on whether they both live in union with the risen Lord Jesus and whether they pass on to their children, by word and example, how to keep their communion with Jesus. He called on Christian children to appreciate the gift of a living mother and father, not to grieve them by disobedience or sin but to honor and please them by a virtuous life. He reminded them both that they are among the principal catalysts or obstacles to each others\u2019 Easter joy.<\/p>\n

Jesus\u2019 resurrection must lead all of us, he continued, to do a thorough housecleaning of their soul. Basing himself on St. Paul\u2019s words, \u201cIf you have been raised with Christ \u2026 seek the things that are above, not the things of earth\u201d (Cor 3:1-2), he said:\u00a0 \u201cTo seek and to find that which is above, we must not only arise from the grave of sin, by cleansing our hearts from every sin, but we must purify them\u2026. When Christ arose from the grave he left the burial sheets behind; so should we at our spiritual resurrection leave in the graves the fetters of our old habits; we must break with the old life and walk in a new one; we must put off the old man and put on the new man, which is created in holiness and justice. And so \u2026 we should be able to say of [hedonists], \u2018He is risen, he is not here, he is no longer in the tomb where he has so often sinned;\u2019 of the greedy, \u2018The miser is risen, he lingers no more with his treasures, which the rust and moth will eat away; he no longer kneels at the altar of mammon; he has become the father of the poor\u2019; of the drunkard, \u2018He is risen\u2019; of the gambler, \u2018He is not here. Behold the place is empty where once he sat far into the night playing and drinking, while his poor wife and hungry children suffered want at home.\u2019 This is what ought and must be said of all sinners: \u2018They are risen, they are not here, the grave of sin is empty, they are leading a new life. O then indeed we shall all spend a blessed and happy Easter, a day of gladness, a day that the Lord has made.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christ\u2019s resurrection is also meant to have dramatic practical effects in those who are suffering. \u201cIf crosses and sufferings come upon us,\u201d he said, \u201clet us, too, kneel in the garden of olives; let us drain the chalice of suffering to the dregs on Golgotha, let us look up with courage and holy zeal. Good Friday was followed by a joyful Easter morning for the incarnate God, and we, too, shall enjoy a day of rejoicing, for if we suffer with Christ we shall also be glorified with Him. Our cross will be for us Jacob’s ladder, upon which we shall ascend from earth to heaven, where there shall be no more weeping, no more pain, but where eternal joy, eternal peace, and eternal rejoicing will reign.\u201d<\/p>\n

This assurance in particular for those who are mourning the death of loved ones. Christ\u2019s resurrection defeated death and removed its sting, Fr. Vianney triumphantly emphasized. \u201cNow we may face death with confidence and say with Job: \u2018I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he will raise me up at the last day\u2019 Dry your tears, then, poor wife, weeping at the heavy loss of your children’s provider; weep not, poor husband, at the early death of your wife; children, mourn not the loss of your parents, who have left you orphans. My brethren, let us not weep and mourn for our beloved dead, like those who have no hope. We have a hope in the risen Savior, that he will one day send his Angels to call us from our graves; we shall see one another again; we shall rejoice, and our joy no man shall take from us!\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Christ\u2019s resurrection also has practical consequences for the whole Church, especially when she is suffering, as we now are with our Holy Father. \u201cOur Church, too, will arise from the grave of oppression,\u201d Fr. John Vianney said. \u201cEvery century testifies that the deeper they dig her grave, the tighter they seal and close it, the more gloriously she has arisen from the grave, and the more victoriously she has unfurled her flag. Her founder, who rose from the grave today, has said: \u2018The gates of hell shall never prevail against her.\u2019 And this founder proclaims this joyfully to the redeemed world today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus is alive! He has truly risen! And this changes everything. Alleluia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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