{"id":22589,"date":"2021-08-09T04:12:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T08:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=22589"},"modified":"2021-08-09T08:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:42:01","slug":"freely-doing-what-the-lord-asks-of-us-19th-monday-i-august-9-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/freely-doing-what-the-lord-asks-of-us-19th-monday-i-august-9-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Freely Doing What the Lord Asks of Us, 19th Monday (I), August 9, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the 19th Week of Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, Martyr<br \/>\nDt 10:12-22, Ps 147, Mt 17:22-27<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio of this homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22589-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/8.9.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/8.9.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/8.9.21_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The following points were\u00a0attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in\u00a0the Gospel, Peter is approached by those collecting the annual Temple tax that all Jewish males over 20 were expected to pay each year not only to support the liturgical needs of the temple but to remind them that God ransomed them (literally redeemed them or \u201cbought them back\u201d from slavery). When they asked Peter if Jesus paid the Temple Tax, Peter was too much of a slave to human respect and replied that he did and sent the collectors away. When Peter returned to the house, Jesus, aware of the conversation, asked him whether it was foreigners or subjects, citizens or members of the royal family that paid taxes. Peter replied, in accordance with his knowledge of the customs of the times, that members of the royal family or citizens of an occupying power were free of the taxes. Peter got the initial point that Jesus knew he was exempt from the Temple Tax. Jesus had\u00a0mentioned to his mother and foster father when they rediscovered him in the Temple after three days that he was in his \u201cFather\u2019s house\u201d and for that reason would be exempt, because he was a Son of the King. But he was exempt for a more important reason: He identified himself as the Temple that would be destroyed and in three days rebuilt. The temple was a sign that was pointing to Him and it would be absurd for the Signified to pay taxes\u00a0to the sign. By the same logic, because we have been made sons in the Son and have been made Temples of God\u2019s presence, we are free of the requirement, too.<\/li>\n<li>But Jesus then pointed to a higher understanding of freedom than a freedom from responsibility. The purpose of our freedom is so that we can choose to love God and others. And so Jesus said that lest they scandalize anyone out of their duties to God, they should pay the temple tax and Jesus instructed Peter on how to do so, through catching a fish that Jesus somehow either knew or arranged was carrying a coin worth twice the tax, to pay for Christ and Peter both. Jesus was teaching Peter and all of us that we should focus more on our\u00a0<i>freedom for\u00a0<\/i>than our\u00a0<em>freedom from.\u00a0<\/em>Jesus was free from sin, yet he took on all our sins. He was free from the consequences of sin, death, but he freely underwent death so that we might live, allowing himself as he foretold at the beginning of today\u2019s\u00a0Gospel to be betrayed into the hands of men who would kill him. He didn\u2019t stand on his dignity and his privileges, but with his dignity privileged others. We\u2019re supposed to use our freedom in the same way. To be a son in the Son, to be templed with him (contemplative), means to be someone who passed onto others the gift we have received in God. Jesus has united himself to us in paying everything we owe.<\/li>\n<li>The entire arc of salvation history, all that we have in the Old Testament, was to prepare the Jewish people to use their freedom properly to follow God. Moses, as he gives his farewell discourse to the Israelites in the desert, focuses on their using their freedom to &#8220;love and serve the Lord, your God, with all your heart and soul,&#8221; to &#8220;follow his ways exactly,&#8221; &#8220;to keep the commandments and statues of the Lord,&#8221; to &#8220;befriend the alien,&#8221; and to be just to &#8220;the orphan and the widow.&#8221; God had freed them from slavery precisely so that they could use their freedom for this form of love of God and neighbor.<\/li>\n<li>Today we celebrate the feast day of a woman \u00a0who was a citizen of the Temple, who would come to see herself joined to Christ in a particular way on the Cross, and who used her freedom to seek to love and serve the Lord with all her heart and soul. St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born into a devout Jewish family on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement in 1891 in Breslau, Germany, a prophetic day insofar as she would eventually freely offer her whole life, together with Jesus and so many of their fellow Jews, in expiation for their salvation and the salvation of the world. Her father died when she was two and her mother heroically sought to raise the family of 11 and run the family business on her own. As much as her mom sought to pass on her deep Jewish piety, Edith never really connected with God, she never truly encountered him or came to have a personal relationship with him or even to believe in his existence, and so at the age of 14, she made the deliberate\u00a0decision to stop praying.\u00a0For 16 years, study became her pseudo-religion. She was brilliant and easily obtained university degrees in history and German, while spending most of her free time learning philosophy at the feet of the famous phenomenologist Edmund Husserl. Under his tutelage she eventually wrote her doctorate\u00a0<em>summa cum laude<\/em>\u00a0and embarked on a university teaching career. She eventually became one of the first female professors in the history of her country.<\/li>\n<li>Her conversion to a life of faith through spiritual childhood happened in various stages. The first was a simple occurrence that happened in downtown Frankfurt. She saw an ordinary Catholic woman with a shopping basket enter Frankfurt\u2019s cathedral, kneel down and pray. \u201cThis was something totally new to me,\u201d she wrote later in an\u00a0unfinished autobiography. \u201cIn the synagogues and in Protestant churches I had visited, people simply went to the services. Here, however, I saw someone coming straight from the busy marketplace into this empty church, as if she was going to have an intimate conversation. It was something I never forgot.\u201d At least for that simple woman, God was real. He was someone you could talk to. He was someone to whom you could bring your prayers, your loved ones, your day.<\/li>\n<li>The second stage happened later when\u00a0she went to console the widow of a fellow philosopher, Adolf Reinach,\u00a0who had just died. Edith was dreading what to say to the widow, but she was overwhelmed by the widow\u2019s peace flowing from her Protestant Christian faith in the power of the Cross and Resurrection. \u201cThis was my first encounter with the Cross and the divine power it imparts to those who bear it,\u201d she remarked. \u201cIt was the moment when my unbelief collapsed and Christ began to shine his light on me \u2014 Christ in the mystery of the Cross.\u201d Mrs. Reinach had received even the death of her beloved husband with childlike faith and it struck Edith.<\/li>\n<li>The third stage happened four years later,\u00a0when Edith was 29. While vacationing at the home of a fellow professor, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, one night she pulled a copy of St. Teresa of Avila\u2019s\u00a0<em>Life<\/em>\u00a0from their bookshelves. She could not put it down the rest of the night. When she had finished the great Spanish mystic\u2019s autobiography, she said simply, \u201cThis is the truth.\u201d She never said what was it in the writings of St. Teresa that had moved her \u2014 she always said it was her secret \u2014 but I\u2019m convinced it had something to do with the obvious fact that for St. Teresa, God was very much alive, someone to whom we not only could pray, but someone who responded with himself. Through St. Teresa\u2019s help, she discovered that the truth for which she had been searching for years\u00a0had a name \u2014 and from that moment on, she dedicated herself to Truth Incarnate. She went to the local Catholic parish the next day and asked the priest to be baptized, something that would happen a few months later.<\/li>\n<li>She wanted to enter a Carmelite convent immediately but her spiritual director encouraged her freely to unite herself to God, to love and serve him in the midst of her day-to-day life, in the midst of work as a teacher, a writer and a lecturer on women\u2019s issues. That\u2019s what she did, growing in childlike faith over the course of the next 12 years. She eventually developed the most profound theology of woman in the history of the Church and the world until now, all the while developing deep philosophical insights into being and especially into empathy. She began to pass on so many of her insights to others, especially other women, so that they, too, might grow in faith in the midst of ordinary life. This wasn\u2019t an easy time for her because she longed to be in the convent but she grasped during his time that to live by faith, to be just, you didn\u2019t have to run away to Carmel but could experience that as a child of God in the midst of the world as well.<\/li>\n<li>When Hitler rose to power and it became impossible for her, with Jewish blood, to remain teaching in Germany, when friends were suggesting\u00a0she immigrate to South America where she would never see her mother again, she saw that if that would be the case, she should enter the Convent finally, which she did. There she became a bride of Christ and, since she knew with clarity that her one-flesh union with Divine Bridegroom would lead her to the Cross, asked for and received the name of \u201cTeresa Blessed of the Cross.\u201d\u00a0 She saw her blessing in her vocation \u201cto be wedded to the Lord in the sign of the Cross.\u201d She began to grasp that to live by faith means to live crucified to the world, to live in a spousal union with Christ crucified. St. Paul had written\u00a0to the Galatians, \u201cI have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live by Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.\u201d The only way to live by faith is to crucify our relationship with the things of the world, so that they are no longer idols. That\u2019s why St. Paul would eventually say that he boasted of nothing but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by which the world was crucified to him and him to the world. He would encourage the early Christians to learn how to become friends of the Cross of Christ, because the vast majority lived as enemies of the Cross, making their bellies their god and glorying in sins that should bring them shame. These are all lessons that St. Edith Stein pondered and sought freely to embrace. When it became too dangerous for her to remain in a monastery in Cologne, the sisters smuggled her to Echt in the Netherlands, soon followed by her blood sister Rosa, a third-order Carmelite, who came after their mother died.\u00a0\u201cI understood the cross as the destiny of God\u2019s people,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI felt that those who understood the Cross of Christ should take it upon themselves on everybody\u2019s behalf.\u201d That\u2019s one of the most profound truths of the faith, one she accepted with childlike faith. No one would take her life from her, as Jesus said in his Good Shepherd discourse (Jn 10:18); she would freely lay it down.<\/li>\n<li>As her understanding grew \u2014 shown in her most famous theological work, \u201cThe Science of the Cross\u201d \u2014 so did her willingness to take it upon herself for her Jewish people. \u201cAve, Crux, Spes Unica,\u201d she repeated: \u201cI welcome you, O Cross, our only hope.\u201d \u00a0Her welcome and knowledge of the Cross in faith would soon become a Biblical embrace of her crucified Spouse. After the Dutch bishops publicly condemned Nazism, the Gestapo retaliated by deporting all Jewish converts in the Netherlands to the concentration camps. \u201cCome, we are going for our people,\u201d she said as she was being rounded up in Echt. She was bringing to Jesus on the Cross her entire people. She was transported to Auschwitz, where she died in the gas chamber 79 years ago today, the final culmination of her life\u00a0in faith, knowing that moments after the poison gas would suffocate her in the gas chamber that she would be smelling forever the beautiful fragrance of Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus had had\u00a0Peter catch a fish with a\u00a0<em>stater<\/em>\u00a0in its mouth to pay the Tax for them\u00a0both. Jesus could have easily had him catch a fish with two coins rather than one with twice the value, but he was emphasizing the union between Christ and Peter. Christ seeks that same union with us. And today he will put himself under the appearance of a host about the size of a\u00a0<em>stater\u00a0<\/em>within our mouths in order to bring about that communion and make us truly his Temple as he yokes himself to us on Calvary. This is a communion with the fruit of the Tree of Life that we,\u00a0with St. Teresa Blessed by the Cross, say \u201cThis is the truth!\u201d It\u2019s here that we ask the Lord to be crucified with him\u00a0and live by faith in the Son of God who loves us, gave his life for us, and now feeds us, as he consummates his union with his Body and Bride on the wedding bed of the Cross, our only hope!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/deuteronomy\/10:12\">DT 10:12-22<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Moses said to the people:<br \/>\n\u201cAnd now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you<br \/>\nbut to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly,<br \/>\nto love and serve the LORD, your God,<br \/>\nwith all your heart and all your soul,<br \/>\nto keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD<br \/>\nwhich I enjoin on you today for your own good?<br \/>\nThink! The heavens, even the highest heavens,<br \/>\nbelong to the LORD, your God,<br \/>\nas well as the earth and everything on it.<br \/>\nYet in his love for your fathers the LORD was so attached to them<br \/>\nas to choose you, their descendants,<br \/>\nin preference to all other peoples, as indeed he has now done.<br \/>\nCircumcise your hearts, therefore, and be no longer stiff-necked.<br \/>\nFor the LORD, your God, is the God of gods,<br \/>\nthe LORD of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome,<br \/>\nwho has no favorites, accepts no bribes;<br \/>\nwho executes justice for the orphan and the widow,<br \/>\nand befriends the alien, feeding and clothing him.<br \/>\nSo you too must befriend the alien,<br \/>\nfor you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.<br \/>\nThe LORD, your God, shall you fear, and him shall you serve;<br \/>\nhold fast to him and swear by his name.<br \/>\nHe is your glory, he, your God,<br \/>\nwho has done for you those great and terrible things<br \/>\nwhich your own eyes have seen.<br \/>\nYour ancestors went down to Egypt seventy strong,<br \/>\nand now the LORD, your God,<br \/>\nhas made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/psalms\/147:12\">PS 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (12a)\u00a0<strong>Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.<\/strong><br \/>\nGlorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;<br \/>\npraise your God, O Zion.<br \/>\nFor he has strengthened the bars of your gates;<br \/>\nhe has blessed your children within you.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.<\/strong><br \/>\nHe has granted peace in your borders;<br \/>\nwith the best of wheat he fills you.<br \/>\nHe sends forth his command to the earth;<br \/>\nswiftly runs his word!<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.<\/strong><br \/>\nHe has proclaimed his word to Jacob,<br \/>\nhis statutes and his ordinances to Israel.<br \/>\nHe has not done thus for any other nation;<br \/>\nhis ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/matthew\/17:22\">MT 17:22-27<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>As Jesus and his disciples were gathering in Galilee,<br \/>\nJesus said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cThe Son of Man is to be handed over to men,<br \/>\nand they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd they were overwhelmed with grief.When they came to Capernaum,<br \/>\nthe collectors of the temple tax approached Peter and said,<br \/>\n\u201cDoes not your teacher pay the temple tax?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYes,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nWhen he came into the house, before he had time to speak,<br \/>\nJesus asked him, \u201cWhat is your opinion, Simon?<br \/>\nFrom whom do the kings of the earth take tolls or census tax?<br \/>\nFrom their subjects or from foreigners?\u201d<br \/>\nWhen he said, \u201cFrom foreigners,\u201d Jesus said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cThen the subjects are exempt.<br \/>\nBut that we may not offend them, go to the sea, drop in a hook,<br \/>\nand take the first fish that comes up.<br \/>\nOpen its mouth and you will find a coin worth twice the temple tax.<br \/>\nGive that to them for me and for you.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/179.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22590\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/179.jpg?resize=212%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6761\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22589-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/8.9.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/8.9.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/8.9.21_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\/8.9.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=22589-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/8.9.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8.9.21_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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