{"id":22788,"date":"2021-09-17T07:48:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T11:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=22788"},"modified":"2023-09-22T05:50:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T09:50:16","slug":"the-root-of-all-evil-and-the-path-of-good-24th-friday-i-september-17-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-root-of-all-evil-and-the-path-of-good-24th-friday-i-september-17-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Root of All Evil and the Path of Good, 24th Friday (I), September 17, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nFriday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\n400th Anniversary of the death of St. Robert Bellarmine<br \/>\nSeptember 17, 2021<br \/>\n1 Tim 6:2-12, Ps 49, Lk 8:1-3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22788-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.17.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.17.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.17.21_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In today\u2019s Gospel, we see Jesus\u2019 peripatetic preaching, journeying with the Twelve apostles from one town to another preaching and proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom. This was a snapshot of his ordinary life, what occupied most of his\u00a0days. He was announcing the kingdom and inviting people to enter. In the midst of all of their sufferings, hardships and up-until-then unfilled hopes, he was proclaiming the good news. He was helping them to see that Sacred Scripture was being fulfilled in their hearing, inviting them to strive to enter through the narrow gate, encouraging them to buy the treasure buried in a field and selling everything they have for the precious pearl of the kingdom.\u00a0But St. Luke adds another detail, a very important one. He said that some women were accompanying Jesus and the apostles, women who had received Jesus\u2019 healing power \u2014 they \u201chad been cured of evil spirits and infirmities\u201d \u2014 and wanted to spend their life, with faith and constancy, assisting him to heal others and raise them up. Three get named \u2014 Mary Magdalene, Joanna, the wife of Herod Antipas\u2019\u00a0<em>epitropos\u00a0<\/em>or money-man Chuza, and Susanna \u2014 but he also says \u201cand many others,\u201d who \u201cprovided for them out of their resources.\u201d They were the ones who, to some degree, made possible Jesus\u2019 and the apostles\u2019 preaching, so that Jesus everyday wouldn\u2019t have to multiply loaves and fish, so that they wouldn\u2019t have to appall\u00a0the hypersensensitive Scribes and the Pharisees by plucking heads of grain while walking through the fields. Like the widow with her two\u00a0<em>lepta\u00a0<\/em>placed in the Temple treasury, these women were giving all they had not just to make possible\u00a0but to assist the preaching of the Gospel. They were the ones who were providing drink to lubricate Jesus\u2019 and the apostles\u2019 vocal chords. They were the ones who were making sure that they would have the necessary bread\u00a0within their bodies to be able to preach that man doesn\u2019t live on bread alone but on every word that comes from God\u2019s mouth. This was not a group of bored do-gooders who figured that these wandering 13 men would be lost without their feminine genius and maternal practicality. Having received much from the mercy of Jesus, as we heard yesterday, they loved much, and they wanted to give Jesus and his mission all the love, the time and the material goods they could. They\u2019re a model for all of us in making the choice to serve God rather than mammon and to use whatever resources we have for the building up of the kingdom. They show us true poverty in spirit, treasuring God&#8217;s kingdom.<\/li>\n<li>This is in sharp contrast to what St. Paul warns St. Timothy about in the first reading: the\u00a0false prophets, theological sophists, who use \u201creligion to be a means of gain.\u201d They were trying to fulfill their three-fold concupiscence off of religion, getting famous, becoming rich, and learning how to control people. The same temptation remains today of faking faith to profit in some material way. St. Paul says, in a shocking synthesis, that \u201cthe love of money is the root of all evil.\u201d Acquisitiveness, the worship of the ancient golden calf, is a spiritual cancer that metastasizes into all parts of life and leads, St. Paul describes, to conceit, arguments, verbal disputes,\u00a0envy, rivalry, insults, evil suspicions,and mutual friction. So much harm comes when we\u2019re trying to gain money. We use and hurt others. We throw them away when they\u2019re not of use to us. When we place our treasure in mammon, we begin not to be satisfied with what we have, because there\u2019s always someone with more mammon. We begin to think we never have enough, and in the pursuit of more, we destroy often our relationships with others, with the environment, with ourselves, and with God. The Psalm focuses on this, saying about money lovers that rather than trusting in and praising God, \u201cThey trust in their wealth;\u00a0the abundance of their riches is their boast,\u201d and reminds us that when someone dies, \u201chis wealth shall not follow him down.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>St. Paul describes another way, which he sums up as \u201creligion with contentment.\u201d It\u2019s a way of living by faith-filled gratitude, content with what we have rather than obsessed about what we don\u2019t have, happy with what God has provided rather than desirous of mammon, a lifestyle that doesn\u2019t bring us down but lifts us up toward God. As St. Paul wisely reminds us, \u201cWe brought nothing into the world,\u00a0just as we shall not be able to take anything out of it.\u00a0If we have food and clothing, we shall be content with that.\u201d That faithful spirit of thanksgiving allows us to \u201cpursue righteousness, devotion,\u00a0faith, love, patience, and gentleness.\u201d It helps us to \u201ccompete well for the faith\u201d and to \u201clay hold of eternal life,\u201d because, like the letter to the Hebrews says about the first Christians, we permit ourselves to be stripped of earthly possessions because we have a far greater one! This is what only those who are poor in spirit, those who place their treasure in God, know.<\/li>\n<li>Today we celebrate the feast of someone who not only fought against the cancer of the evil of avarice and hype dependence on money but who also lived religion with contentment. St. Robert Bellarmine, who died 400 years ago today, was one of the great figures who helped the Church get back on track from the problems and scandals that led to the Protestant Reformation. In many places Catholics had become corrupt and sinful because of the love of money. The selling of indulgences was just the tip of the iceberg. There were various types of simony. There was the system of benefices that many fought to acquire simply for the income associated with them, rather than to fulfill the service those offices \u2014 dioceses, abbey and monasteries, parishes \u2014 required. They were, to use St. Paul&#8217;s words, &#8220;supposing religion to be a means of gain&#8221; and &#8220;in their desire for it have strayed from the faith.&#8221;\u00a0The scandal produced by this love of money led many to have an excuse not to practice the faith and even to leave the Church. St. Robert worked patiently, with holy perseverance, to do everything he could to repair the Church after the Council of Trent and to heal the schism and bring people back to God. He guided popes. He wrote apologetic manuals. As a leader of the new seminary system that the Council had prescribed, he trained priests to be part of the solution rather than the problem. He labored to reunite those who had\u00a0cut themselves off from the Church. He worked on the divide that had invaded the relationship between faith and science in his famous conversations with Galileo, after an occasionally stale and hardened philosophy was almost being raised to the point of dogma. We prayed at the beginning of Mass that God who so \u201cadorned the Bishop Saint Robert Bellarmine with wonderful learning and virtue to vindicate the faith of your Church,\u201d would help us to \u201calways find joy\u201d in the \u201cintegrity of that same faith.\u201d He had integrity. His faith was whole. He united his whole life to God in religion with contentment and taught the clergy and faithful of the Church the same path. That\u2019s why he is now a doctor of the Church, someone whose teachings we can follow with confidence.<\/li>\n<li>Today at Mass we receive the Gift that was his treasure, the Pearl of great price worth selling everything else to obtain. This is the source of religious contentment. He is the one for whom Mary Magdalene, Susanna, Joanna cared, and who strengthens us to go out to care for him in the disguise of others, with all the resources he places within us and at our disposal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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\/6:2\">1 TM 6:2C-12<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Beloved:<br \/>\nTeach and urge these things.<br \/>\nWhoever teaches something different<br \/>\nand does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ<br \/>\nand the religious teaching<br \/>\nis conceited, understanding nothing,<br \/>\nand has a morbid disposition for arguments and verbal disputes.<br \/>\nFrom these come envy, rivalry, insults, evil suspicions,<br \/>\nand mutual friction among people with corrupted minds,<br \/>\nwho are deprived of the truth,<br \/>\nsupposing religion to be a means of gain.<br \/>\nIndeed, religion with contentment is a great gain.<br \/>\nFor we brought nothing into the world,<br \/>\njust as we shall not be able to take anything out of it.<br \/>\nIf we have food and clothing, we shall be content with that.<br \/>\nThose who want to be rich are falling into temptation and into a trap<br \/>\nand into many foolish and harmful desires,<br \/>\nwhich plunge them into ruin and destruction.<br \/>\nFor the love of money is the root of all evils,<br \/>\nand some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith<br \/>\nand have pierced themselves with many pains.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">But you, man of God, avoid all this.<br \/>\nInstead, pursue righteousness, devotion,<br \/>\nfaith, love, patience, and gentleness.<br \/>\nCompete well for the faith.<br \/>\nLay hold of eternal life,<br \/>\nto which you were called when you made the noble confession<br \/>\nin the presence of many witnesses.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/49:6\">PS 49:6-7, 8-10, 17-18, 19-20<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R.\u00a0Blessed the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!<br \/>\nWhy should I fear in evil days<br \/>\nwhen my wicked ensnarers ring me round?<br \/>\nThey trust in their wealth;<br \/>\nthe abundance of their riches is their boast.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!<br \/>\nYet in no way can a man redeem himself,<br \/>\nor pay his own ransom to God;<br \/>\nToo high is the price to redeem one\u2019s life; he would never have enough<br \/>\nto remain alive always and not see destruction.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!<br \/>\nFear not when a man grows rich,<br \/>\nwhen the wealth of his house becomes great,<br \/>\nFor when he dies, he shall take none of it;<br \/>\nhis wealth shall not follow him down.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!<br \/>\nThough in his lifetime he counted himself blessed,<br \/>\n\u201cThey will praise you for doing well for yourself,\u201d<br \/>\nHe shall join the circle of his forebears<br \/>\nwho shall never more see light.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/11:25\">SEE MT 11:25<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nBlessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth;<br \/>\nyou have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.<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\/8:1\">LK 8:1-3<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus journeyed from one town and village to another,<br \/>\npreaching and proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God.<br \/>\nAccompanying him were the Twelve<br \/>\nand some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities,<br \/>\nMary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,<br \/>\nJoanna, the wife of Herod\u2019s steward Chuza,<br \/>\nSusanna, and many others<br \/>\nwho provided for them out of their resources.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/7995062870_f219dc3f87_b.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22789\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/7995062870_f219dc3f87_b.jpg?resize=300%2C182&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8188\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22788-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.17.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.17.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.17.21_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\/9.17.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=22788-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.17.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"9.17.21_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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