{"id":21999,"date":"2021-05-09T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=21999"},"modified":"2021-07-05T22:42:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T02:42:51","slug":"entering-into-the-greater-love-sixth-sunday-of-easter-b-may-9-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/entering-into-the-greater-love-sixth-sunday-of-easter-b-may-9-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering into the Greater Love, Sixth Sunday of Easter (B), May 9, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nShrine of Our Lady of Martyrs, Auriesville, NY<br \/>\nSixth Sunday of Easter, Year B<br \/>\nMay 9, 2021<br \/>\nActs 10:25-26.34-35.44-48, Ps 98, 1 Jn 4:7-10, Jn 15:9-17<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21999-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.9.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.9.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.9.21_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following text guided the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a wonderful joy, on this Mothers\u2019 Day, to open the season of Masses at this Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs. As we pray with gratitude to God for all our mothers living or deceased through whose yes to life we were conceived, born, nourished, raised and nurtured in faith, we also thank God the Father for the Woman he chose to be the mother of Jesus and whom Jesus himself chose on Calvary to be our mother. Like Saint John at the foot of the Cross and beyond, here at this beautiful shrine, we gratefully receive anew the gift of the Mother who can the martyrs like Rene Goupil, Jean de Lalande and Isaac Jogues strong until death and can make young people like Kateri Tekakwitha seek to know and do the will of God in holiness all their days.<\/li>\n<li>Mother\u2019s Day is one in which we contemplate the gift of love: unmerited, limitless, sacrificial, patient, kind, enduring, faithful, hopeful, truthful and joyful (see 1 Cor 13:4-7). And that contemplation necessarily brings us to the source of such love. St. John tells us in today\u2019s second reading that motherly love, in fact all human love, comes from God. \u201cIn this is love,\u201d he told the first Christians, \u201cnot that we have loved God, but that he has loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.\u201d He summons us, \u201cLet us love one another, because love is of God. Everyone who loves is begotten of God and knows God.\u201d All love essentially goes back to the one who told us through the prophet Isaiah that his love for us is greater than the combined love of all mothers for their old children. \u201cCan a mother,\u201d God asked, \u201cforget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget,\u201d he emphatically declared, \u201cI will never forget you\u201d (Is 49:15).<\/li>\n<li>And so today, we ponder not just the love of our moms, not just the love of our spiritual mother, Mary, Queen of Martyrs, but the far greater love of God that inspires and makes all love possible. And that brings us to today\u2019s Gospel, which I think contain the most powerful words ever enunciated.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus tells us, \u201cJust as the Father loves me, so I love you.\u201d We know that God the Father cannot possibly love God the Son more perfectly, or deeply, or better than he does. And Jesus is saying that he loves us just as much, just as profoundly, just as completely as God the Father loves him. This is the true foundation of the Christian life, to live in the love of God. God the Father so loved us that he gave his only Son so that we might not perish but have eternal life. God the Son loved us by freely and lovingly giving that life in order to save ours. God the Holy Spirit is that love between the Father and the Son and hence, since Jesus loves us like the Father loves him, the Holy Spirit is, by application, mysteriously the love between Jesus and us. Since as St. John tells us in the second reading, \u201cGod is love,\u201d God wishes to bring us into his interpersonal, Trinitarian communion of love, and that\u2019s what Jesus\u2019 and the Holy Spirit\u2019s missions seek to achieve.<\/li>\n<li>We all know how being loved can turn someone\u2019s life right side up. I remember when I was a high school chaplain. Boys who used to come to high school with their shirts sloppy, their ties crooked, their hair a Mess, would all of a sudden come in with shirts and pants pressed, the double windsor knot perfect, with every strand of hair shampooed and combed or gelled in place. When I would note the positive change that had taken place within them and ask, \u201cWhat\u2019s her name?,\u201d they would think I was a soul-reading genius. But what was going on was crystal clear: they had fallen in love and that love gave meaning to everything they did, including how they prepared for school. If this is what can happen with a teenage crush, imagine what is supposed to happen when we realize that God loves us with an infinite, unchanging love? If the words \u201cI love you\u201d can make a dramatic difference in a young person\u2019s existence, what about Jesus\u2019 saying, \u201cI love you just as the Father loves me?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In one of the most famous passages of his pontificate, Saint John Paul II stated, \u201cMan cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it\u201d (<em>Redemptor Hominis<\/em>, 10)\u00a0If this is true about the human love we find in the family, in friendships, and in marriage, how much more is it true about the love of God? There\u2019s a reason for this: since we\u2019re made in the image and likeness of God who is love, if we don\u2019t live in love, if we don&#8217;t dwell in a loving communion of persons, then we\u2019re lost before God, before others, and within ourselves. That\u2019s why Jesus says to us, emphatically, that he loves us, and that he loves us as purely and perfectly as the Father loves him.<\/li>\n<li>But Jesus doesn\u2019t stop there. He tells us, \u201cRemain in my love.\u201d He knows that many of us run away from love in general and his love in particular. Burning love from someone else can make\u00a0us feel uncomfortable because we may not think we\u2019re worthy of it, because we know that the only response to love is to love back and we fear we may not be capable of it. Love is meant to change us, to lift us up, and sometimes we don\u2019t want to cooperate with that resurrection. Like St. Peter after the first miraculous catch of fish, we can cry out, \u201cDepart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man.\u201d That\u2019s why Jesus gives us the imperative to abide in his love, to rest in it, to let it change us and become the defining characteristic of our life.<\/li>\n<li>But Jesus never gives us a task without providing the means. He tells us clearly <em>how <\/em>to remain in his love. \u201cIf you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love.\u201d We can\u2019t remain in his love if we break the commandments, not because he\u2019ll pull his love away from us \u2014 his love is everlasting and he\u2019ll never retract it \u2014 but because the commandments all train how love to live in the love of God and in the love of neighbor. We see this truth readily in the Ten Commandments. We are not truly loving God if we\u2019re worshipping other gods or giving into superstitions, if we\u2019re abusing his holy name, or if we\u2019re blowing him off on the Lord\u2019s Day. We can\u2019t be loving him in our neighbor whom he loves if we\u2019re dishonoring the parents he gave us, hating or killing those he created, taking advantage of them out of lust, stealing from the goods he has given them, lying to them, or getting sad or envious over the personal or material blessings he has given them. All the law and the prophets, Jesus tells us, hang on the two-fold commandment of loving God and neighbor and that\u2019s why we can\u2019t remain in God\u2019s love if we\u2019re violating the love that is built into the commandments he has given. Jesus adds here that in telling us to remain in his love through keeping the commandments, he\u2019s not asking of us anything he himself hasn\u2019t done. He says, \u201cJust as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments and remain in his love.\u201d Love, as Pope Benedict was accustomed to say, is\u00a0<em>idem velle, idem nolle,\u00a0<\/em>a Latin expression meaning willing and rejecting the same things as the Beloved. If we love God, we\u2019re going to love what he loves. Jesus, in loving the Father, loved the Father\u2019s will. Likewise, if we truly love the Lord and remain in his love, we\u2019ll love what he loves and seek to do what he out of love wills for us and for others.<\/li>\n<li>But even after telling us how to remain in his love through keeping the commandments, he makes everything simpler still, telling us: \u201cThis is my commandment, love one another as I have loved you.\u201d And he makes clear how he loves us and what real love leads to and is: It culminates in a total gift of ourselves for those whom we love. \u201cNo one has greater love than this, to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.\u201d Jesus wants us to love one another to the point of giving of our lives for them, as he gave his life for us. While few of us will be required to die for others, when we\u2019re willing to do so, then we\u2019re much more willing to make the types of smaller sacrifices that are necessary for love to remain and grow: forgiving others, being patient with them, sacrificing some of our desires to help them fulfill their own, and so on. As Jesus says that the greatest love is to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends, he immediately tells us, \u201cYou are my friends.\u201d He calls us friends, he regards us as friends, because he has revealed to us everything he has heard from God the Father and has chosen and appointed us to go and bear fruit that will remain. And the way we reciprocate his love of friendship, is, he says, by doing what he commands, and laying down our life for him, our Friend, and for his friends.<\/li>\n<li>And so we see in these words of Jesus the whole pattern of the Christian life, which begins with grace, received in faith, overflowing in love. It begins, as St. John says, not with our love but with God\u2019s love, who sent his Son to lay down his life for us. But then that love transforms us so that we are strengthened from within to love by that same standard. Jesus says, \u201cJust as the Father loves me, so I love you,\u201d and he wants to help us to say, \u201cJust as Jesus loves me, so I love you,\u201d treating others as friends with a willingness to sacrifice for them, to reveal to them what we have heard from God, to choose them whom God has chosen and to seek to bear fruit with them to eternal life.<\/li>\n<li>And the fruit of this entire experience of being loved by God and loving according to God\u2019s measure is true Christian happiness. Jesus says, \u201cI have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy might be complete.\u201d The fruit of love is joy. We experience joy when we know how loved we are by God. We experience joy when we remain peacefully in that love without struggle. We experience joy when we share the love we have received with others and help them in turn learn the joy of being loved. We experience that joy even in great sacrifice made out of love for others, like we see in the stories of martyrs across the centuries, like the martyrs Ren\u00e9, Isaac and Jean here, who were honored and willing to give their lives for the One who had given his life for theirs, for the ones for whom he had given his life, and out of witness to the love of God that conquers even death. The North American Martyrs teach us that what divine love can do in people just like us: it can make us strong in bearing witness to Him who his love and embolden us in love to live and to die in testimony to that great gift. No one has greater love, Jesus said, than to lay down his life for his friends, and Ren\u00e9, Isaac and Jean showed that great friendship and love for the people right here, and for all of us who have come to the faith as a result of the crimson seeds they planted on this soil. They are our true friends and from heaven they love us still.<\/li>\n<li>The Lord knows that the standard of love to which he calls us is not easy. But every day at the altar he provides the means. No one has greater love than to lay down his life for his friends, and every day he gives us access to that very love and life. He says we are his friends if we do what he commands us and on the same night he gave us the words of today\u2019s Gospel he told us, \u201cDo <em>this <\/em>in memory of me.\u201d In the Holy Eucharist, we receive the greatest act of love that the world has ever known, Jesus\u2019 own self-giving love from the Upper Room and Calvary in expiation for our sins. It is in this love that we become capable of loving each other with the love of Christ. May the Lord through this Eucharist fill us with that love that knows no bounds, so that we, like the Martyrs, like St. Kateri, like Our Lady, like so many of our moms, may love him with all we\u2019ve got and love others as he loves them. There is no greater love than the love we are about to receive. Let us abide in that love, and from the inside, learn from Jesus how to love in this greater way, by giving our body and blood out of love for him and for others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/10:25\">ACTS 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When Peter entered, Cornelius met him<br \/>\nand, falling at his feet, paid him homage.<br \/>\nPeter, however, raised him up, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cGet up. I myself am also a human being.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Then Peter proceeded to speak and said,<br \/>\n\u201cIn truth, I see that God shows no partiality.<br \/>\nRather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly<br \/>\nis acceptable to him.\u201dWhile Peter was still speaking these things,<br \/>\nthe Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the word.<br \/>\nThe circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter<br \/>\nwere astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nshould have been poured out on the Gentiles also,<br \/>\nfor they could hear them speaking in tongues and glorifying God.<br \/>\nThen Peter responded,<br \/>\n\u201cCan anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people,<br \/>\nwho have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?\u201d<br \/>\nHe ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/98:1\">PS 98:1, 2-3, 3-4<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (cf. 2b)\u00a0The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nSing to the LORD a new song,<br \/>\nfor he has done wondrous deeds;<br \/>\nHis right hand has won victory for him,<br \/>\nhis holy arm.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nThe LORD has made his salvation known:<br \/>\nin the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.<br \/>\nHe has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness<br \/>\ntoward the house of Israel.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nAll the ends of the earth have seen<br \/>\nthe salvation by our God.<br \/>\nSing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;<br \/>\nbreak into song; sing praise.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1john\/4:7\">1 JN 4:7-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Beloved, let us love one another,<br \/>\nbecause love is of God;<br \/>\neveryone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.<br \/>\nWhoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.<br \/>\nIn this way the love of God was revealed to us:<br \/>\nGod sent his only Son into the world<br \/>\nso that we might have life through him.<br \/>\nIn this is love:<br \/>\nnot that we have loved God, but that he loved us<br \/>\nand sent his Son as expiation for our sins.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/14:23\">JN 14:23<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nWhoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord,<br \/>\nand my Father will love him and we will come to him.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/15:9\">JN 15:9-17<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cAs the Father loves me, so I also love you.<br \/>\nRemain in my love.<br \/>\nIf you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,<br \/>\njust as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments<br \/>\nand remain in his love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have told you this so that my joy may be in you<br \/>\nand your joy might be complete.<br \/>\nThis is my commandment: love one another as I love you.<br \/>\nNo one has greater love than this,<br \/>\nto lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.<br \/>\nYou are my friends if you do what I command you.<br \/>\nI no longer call you slaves,<br \/>\nbecause a slave does not know what his master is doing.<br \/>\nI have called you friends,<br \/>\nbecause I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.<br \/>\nIt was not you who chose me, but I who chose you<br \/>\nand appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain,<br \/>\nso that whatever you ask the Father in my 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