{"id":22765,"date":"2021-09-16T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T09:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=22765"},"modified":"2021-09-16T08:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T12:28:47","slug":"learning-to-love-the-lord-much-24th-thursday-i-september-16-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/learning-to-love-the-lord-much-24th-thursday-i-september-16-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Love the Lord Much, 24th Thursday (I), September 16, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nThursday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of SS. Cyprian and Cornelius, Martyrs<br \/>\n19th Anniversary of Cardinal Fran\u00e7ois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan<br \/>\nSeptember 16, 2021<br \/>\n1 Tim 4:12-16, Ps 111, Lk 7:36-50<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio\u00a0recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22765-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.16.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.16.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.16.21_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>Today in the Gospel we encounter one of most beautiful scenes in the life of Jesus, but it is also one of the most important for us to grasp if we wish to love Jesus and to spread love of him. Jesus enters the home of a leading Pharisee, Simon, who doesn\u2019t welcome Jesus with the three typical gestures with which guests were always greeted, with an embrace on the shoulder, the washing of the guest&#8217;s feet with cold water, and a pinch of incense or smell of roses on the head. Simon, it seems, not only took typical hospitality for granted but took Jesus for granted.<\/li>\n<li>The sinful woman in the Gospel, however, did not take him for granted. As Jesus lay reclining with the others at the table, she anointed his feet with oil, then washed them with her tears \u2014 think about how copious she must have been weeping or how many years worth of tears into an ancient Jewish tear jar! \u2014 and then dried them with her long hair. Simon\u2019s reaction was that Jesus couldn\u2019t have been a prophet if he didn\u2019t realize this woman was a sinner, but Jesus in fact recognized they both were and drew an important and obvious lesson we shouldn\u2019t miss as he prepared to forgive her sins and send her away in peace: The one who has been forgiven more, loves more. \u201cBut the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.\u201d For us to love Jesus much, we need to be forgiven much. On this day on which the Jews marks Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we Christians grasp that Jesus became the atonement for our sins and every day with him is meant to be one of expiation and merciful love.<\/li>\n<li>Pope Francis stresses the point about those being forgiven more loving more in a book length interview before he became Pope. \u201cFor me, feeling oneself a sinner is one of the most beautiful things that can happen, if it leads to its ultimate consequences\u201d the future Pope Francis said in\u00a0<em>El Jesuita<\/em>. \u201cWhen a person becomes conscious that he is a sinner and is saved by Jesus,\u201d Cardinal Bergoglio said, \u201che proclaims this truth to himself and discovers the pearl of great price, the treasure buried in the field. He discovers the greatest thing in life: that there is someone who loves him profoundly, who gave his life for him.\u201d Many Catholics have sadly not had this fundamental Christian experience. \u201cThere are people who believe the right things, who have received catechesis and accepted the Christian faith in some way, but who do not have the experience of having been saved, \u2026 who therefore lack the experience of who they are,\u201d he lamented. \u201cI believe that only we great sinners have this grace.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s why it\u2019s essential for us to grow in the love of Jesus that we have this experience of our desperate need for Christ\u2019s mercy and come, like the woman in the Gospel, to weep at Jesus\u2019 feet, conscious that, as we prayed in the Psalm, \u201chis mercy endures forever\u201d and that he has done everything he did to forgive us our sins. If we remain aloof, like Simon the Pharisee, we\u2019ll never really understand who Jesus is or who we are.<\/li>\n<li>To say that those love the Lord much are those who have been forgiven much doesn\u2019t mean that those who have had the \u201cbiggest sins\u201d forgiven but those who have the greatest gratitude for the Lord\u2019s mercy. Some of the great saints, like for example St. Philip Neri, have always said, \u201cBut for the grace of God go I.\u201d\u00a0They realized that they were capable of every type of sin but the grace, the mercy, of God prevented them. Saint Therese, whose spiritual director doubted whether she had ever committed a mortal sin, said that she was looked upon so mercifully by the Lord who, knowing her greater weakness, gave her the grace of mercy ahead of time to prevent her fall. None of us will love the Lord as much as the Blessed Mother who didn\u2019t need to be forgiven, but she had a great sense of how the Lord\u2019s mercy extends from generation to generation, to Abraham and his children forever. Her sinlessness was preveniently a gift of God\u2019s mercy from the moment she was conceived. She was able to love the Lord much because she experienced that mercy in filling her with grace, because she recognized that but by being filled and helped by grace she could succumb to the temptations she experienced in faith. She loved much because she had this great gratitude for God\u2019s mercy.<\/li>\n<li>This truth brings us to appreciate better today\u2019s first reading. St. Paul was one who had experienced the abundance of God\u2019s mercy. As we\u2019ve heard earlier in his first letter to St. Timothy, he knew he was a blasphemer, persecutor and violently angry man. He was the foremost of sinners yet he recognized that by his having been forgiven he could become a fitting ambassador to appeal to everyone else to be reconciled to God because if he could be forgiven, so could they. But St. Timothy was not exactly in the same category. He had been raised in a holy way by his mother Eunice and grandmother Lois (2 Tim 1:5) and lived with their \u201csincere faith.\u201d He had been made aware from his earliest days of the mercy of the Lord and because of that gratitude never took it for granted and sought to live a holy life. But his youthfulness was a little bit of a handicap. It was, in some ways, harder for him to appeal to others for conversion because some thought he hadn\u2019t yet lived, that he might not understand their temptations. So today St. Paul gives a lot of advice for him to show the power of the Lord\u2019s mercy through other means.\u00a0St. Paul begins by saying, \u201cLet no one have contempt for your youth\u201d \u2014 youth meant anyone under 40 in the Greek \u2014 but \u201cset an example for those who believe in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity.\u201d The way we contradict the critics is by virtue, the way we speak and act, our agape, our loyalty, our unsullied life. When we give evidence that our behavior is the fruit of a genuine choice for God rather than just a sense of naive innocence, then it can be even more powerful than a great conversion story. St. Paul continues, \u201cAttend to the reading, exhortation and teaching.\u201d He means here to the Liturgy of the Word at Mass, proclaiming God\u2019s word, encouraging others on account of it and explaining what it means and its power. \u201cDo not neglect the gift you have,\u201d Paul tells Timothy, which is incredible advice in every season, because one of the ways we most often neglect God\u2019s gift is by failing to focus on it, instead focusing on the gifts\u00a0we don\u2019t have and desire. He tells Timothy to be \u201cdiligent in these matters [and] absorbed in them, so that your progress may be evident to everyone.\u201d We have a duty not to hide the gift of God under a bushel basket; when people criticize us for being too young, we can at least point to the growth God has given us, not to draw attention to ourselves but to God. It\u2019s a sign of the type of growth God wants to do in them. And St. Paul finishes by speaking about his discipleship and apostolate, both of which are meant to be a proclamation of God\u2019s merciful love: \u201cAttend to yourself and to your teaching;\u00a0persevere in both tasks,\u00a0for by doing so you will save\u00a0both yourself and those who listen to you.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today the Church marks three people who loved the Lord very much because of having received the Lord&#8217;s mercy, who set an example for fellow believers in their speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, who attended to the reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching, and who did not neglect the gift they had but were diligent in using their gifts for others. Saint Cyprian and Cornelius both gave their lives for Christ during the ferocious anti-Christian persecution of the emperor Valerian in 258. Seven years prior, there was the persecution of Decius and various Christians had either sacrificed to idols or bought certificates saying that they had. Many Christians resented those who had betrayed the faith and there was a question about whether they could be forgiven for their apostasy. Pope Cornelius and Cyprian of Carthage were apostles of Jesus&#8217; mercy, shown on the Cross, praying for all who didn\u2019t know what they were doing, forgiving the Good Thief, forgiving Peter and the other ten apostles for abandoning him under trial. They made a path for the reconciliation of the <i>lapsi, <\/i>conscious that the more one is forgiven, the more one can love and appreciate the Lord Jesus.\u00a0Similarly today marks the 19th anniversary of the death, and we humbly pray, birth into eternal life of the Venerable Cardinal Fran\u00e7ois Xavier Nguyen van Thuan \u2014 whom I knew, who called me a friend and whose feast I hope to be able to celebrate soon if a miracle is accepted for his beatification. He was imprisoned for 13 years, nine in solitary confinement, but while he was there, being mistreated in many ways, he never stopped praying not just for his flock but for his persecutors and loving his enemies. The only people he came into contact with for a while were his guards. He prayed for them, worked for their conversion, tried to teach them foreign languages, and returned good for evil brutality. Eventually, won over by his meekness, humanity, goodness and faith, they started to give in. Then they were exchanged. He did the same for the next guards. Then they were changed, too. Eventually the communists grasped that he would convert all the guards sent to him and they just kept converted ones with him so that he would convert no more. After his liberation he would travel to speak to the Vietnamese in diaspora, appealing to them on the basis of his sufferings, not to be eaten alive by resentment and hatred for the communists who had killed so many of their family members and destroyed their country. He had written from his prison cell, \u201cWherever love exists, God is there; wherever hatred exists, hell is there.\u201d He wanted them, having received God&#8217;s mercy, to love, rather than to be in the hands of the evil one through hatred. It was so moving to hear him make this appeal in person. He was someone who loved the Lord much.<\/li>\n<li>Today on his feast day we come here to meet the same Jesus who entered Simon the Pharisee\u2019s house. We come to hear the reading, exhortation and teaching, We ask for Jesus\u2019 help so that we may never neglect the gift we have, and the greatest gift of all is the gift of Jesus himself in the sacraments. This is the gift that Cardinal Van Thuan used to celebrate it solitary confinement, with a few bread crumbs and a drop of wine on his hands, from memory, as he did this in Jesus&#8217; memory for the forgiveness of sins. Indeed, the works of the Lord are great, and, having received his mercy, we have, like Cardinal Van Thuan, become one of those works!<\/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\/1timothy\/4:12\">1 TM 4:12-16<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Beloved:<br \/>\nLet no one have contempt for your youth,<br \/>\nbut set an example for those who believe,<br \/>\nin speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.<br \/>\nUntil I arrive, attend to the reading, exhortation, and teaching.<br \/>\nDo not neglect the gift you have,<br \/>\nwhich was conferred on you through the prophetic word<br \/>\nwith the imposition of hands by the presbyterate.<br \/>\nBe diligent in these matters, be absorbed in them,<br \/>\nso that your progress may be evident to everyone.<br \/>\nAttend to yourself and to your teaching;<br \/>\npersevere in both tasks,<br \/>\nfor by doing so you will save<br \/>\nboth yourself and those who listen to you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/111:7\">PS 111:7-8, 9, 10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (2)\u00a0How great are the works of the Lord!<br \/>\nThe works of his hands are faithful and just;<br \/>\nsure are all his precepts,<br \/>\nReliable forever and ever,<br \/>\nwrought in truth and equity.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0How great are the works of the Lord!<br \/>\nHe has sent deliverance to his people;<br \/>\nhe has ratified his covenant forever;<br \/>\nholy and awesome is his name.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0How great are the works of the Lord!<br \/>\nThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;<br \/>\nprudent are all who live by it.<br \/>\nHis praise endures forever.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0How great are the works of the Lord!<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/11:28\">MT 11:28<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nCome to me, all you who labor and are burdened,<br \/>\nand I will give you rest, says the Lord.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/7:36\">LK 7:36-50<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">A certain Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him,<br \/>\nand he entered the Pharisee\u2019s house and reclined at table.<br \/>\nNow there was a sinful woman in the city<br \/>\nwho learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee.<br \/>\nBringing an alabaster flask of ointment,<br \/>\nshe stood behind him at his feet weeping<br \/>\nand began to bathe his feet with her tears.<br \/>\nThen she wiped them with her hair,<br \/>\nkissed them, and anointed them with the ointment.<br \/>\nWhen the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself,<br \/>\n\u201cIf this man were a prophet,<br \/>\nhe would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him,<br \/>\nthat she is a sinner.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to him in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cSimon, I have something to say to you.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cTell me, teacher,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cTwo people were in debt to a certain creditor;<br \/>\none owed five hundred days\u2019 wages and the other owed fifty.<br \/>\nSince they were unable to repay the debt, he forgave it for both.<br \/>\nWhich of them will love him more?\u201d<br \/>\nSimon said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cThe one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said to him, \u201cYou have judged rightly.\u201d<br \/>\nThen he turned to the woman and said to Simon,<br \/>\n\u201cDo you see this woman?<br \/>\nWhen I entered your house, you did not give me water for my feet,<br \/>\nbut she has bathed them with her tears<br \/>\nand wiped them with her hair.<br \/>\nYou did not give me a kiss,<br \/>\nbut she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered.<br \/>\nYou did not anoint my head with oil,<br \/>\nbut she anointed my feet with ointment.<br \/>\nSo I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven;<br \/>\nhence, she has shown great love.<br \/>\nBut the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said to her, \u201cYour sins are forgiven.\u201d<br \/>\nThe others at table said to themselves,<br \/>\n\u201cWho is this who even forgives sins?\u201d<br \/>\nBut he said to the woman,<br \/>\n\u201cYour faith has saved you; go in peace.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/francis-xavier-cardinal-ngugen-van-thuan-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22767\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/francis-xavier-cardinal-ngugen-van-thuan-1.jpg?resize=300%2C164&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3253\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22765-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.16.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.16.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.16.21_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\/9.16.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=22765-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.16.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"9.16.21_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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