{"id":22838,"date":"2021-09-23T06:13:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=22838"},"modified":"2021-09-23T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:38:13","slug":"considering-our-ways-and-prioritizing-the-lord-25th-thursday-i-september-23-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/considering-our-ways-and-prioritizing-the-lord-25th-thursday-i-september-23-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering Our Ways and Prioritizing the Lord, 25th Thursday (I), September 23, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nThursday of the 25th Week of Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of\u00a0Saint Pio of Pietrelcina<br \/>\nSeptember 23, 2021<br \/>\nHg 1:1-8, Ps 149, Lk 9:7-9<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this homily, please click here:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22838-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.23.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.23.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.23.21_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>We are now in the midst of three weeks of focus in the first reading on the post-exilic writings in which the Church has us focus, if there are no proper feasts, on three days of Ezra, two days of Haggai, three days of Zechariah, two days of Nehemiah, two days of Baruch, three days of Jonah, one day of Malachi and two days of Joel. \u00a0These post-exilic writings focus essentially on two things: first, the rebuilding of the temple and, second, the way of holiness so that there is never again an exile from God. Today as we begin the first of two days listening to Haggai, we focus explicitly on the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem, which is meant to help us, of course, ponder Jesus\u2019 resurrection (the True Temple), the temple that is the Church, and the temple that is meant to be each of us together with Jesus.<\/li>\n<li>The Lord sent Haggai to wake up the people of God whom he had freed from exile. It was during the time of King Darius, the son of Cyrus, who had allowed the Jews to return and helped them to start rebuilding the Temple. The Jews built something quick and temporary on the Temple Mount, but then started to prioritize their own affairs. They were saying, \u201cThe time has not yet come to rebuild the House of the Lord.\u201d They were delaying the things of God for their own affairs, and building their own luxurious interiorly decorated houses instead of the Temple. Haggai, speaking for the Lord said, \u201cIs it time for you to dwell in your own paneled houses,\u00a0while this house [of God] lies in ruins?\u201d He then went on to say that they would never find fulfillment in sowing, eating, drinking, clothing, or money making. The forceful appeal of the Lord was \u201cConsider your ways!\u201d He told them to go get timber and begin to build the house of the Lord \u201cthat I may take pleasure in it and receive my glory.\u201d That might seem like an egocentric statement, but it\u2019s not. The Lord takes pleasure in loving us \u2014 we prayed in the Psalm, \u201cThe Lord takes delight in his people\u201d \u2014 and his glory is, as St. Ireneus would say at the end of the second century, \u201cman fully alive\u201d through the vision of God. God wanted a house so that we would fittingly worship him because it is through that worship that he builds <em>us<\/em> into a holy temple.\u00a0It starts, however, with zeal for him. We remember King David before the building of the first Temple. He was eaten alive by the fact that he was living in a palace while the ark of the Covenant, the sign of God\u2019s presence, was in a tent. He wanted to build a fitting temple, but God, through the prophet Nathan, replied that He instead would build a temple for David. That temple was obviously David\u2019s own descendent according to the flesh and God\u2019s own Son, Jesus. We\u2019re all called, however, to have the same zeal to build a house of the Lord because that\u2019s the way the Lord in fact makes us his temple.\u00a0In the Gospel, Herod was <em>curious<\/em> to meet Jesus, but Jesus hadn&#8217;t come into the world to be an interesting accessory to our life. He had come to save us. He had come to dwell with us. And he will never be able to build a temple for him to dwell within us by <em>curiosity<\/em>. There needs to be a true relationship, a union, with the Lord, a hunger for mutual indwelling, something that Herod never had.<\/li>\n<li>Today the Church celebrates someone who truly became Jesus\u2019 temple and instrument to build others on him who is the Cornerstone. When we think about Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, it&#8217;s easy to think about his more unique gifts, like the sacred stigmata with which he was marked for fifty years, his capacity to read souls, the gift of bilocation, the working of miracles, and the prediction of the future. But I always think back to what St. Paul VI said about him when he visited San Giovanni Rotondo after his death. He praised Padre Pio not for those inimitable qualities but for what all of us can emulate: \u201cHe said Mass humbly, \u2026 heard confessions from dawn to dusk \u2026 and was a man of prayer and suffering.\u201d In each of these four ways the Lord was building him up and through him building up the Church. In each of these ways he was hearing what the Lord was asking and helping others to hear the same message.<\/li>\n<li>Through the Mass, he was built up and helped others to be built up. The early Christians taught \u201cEcclesia de Eucaristia,\u201d that the Church lives by the Eucharist, that the Eucharist makes the Church. We see that truth displayed in St. Pio\u2019s discipleship and apostolate. He was united to Christ and sought to bring people to him in the Mass. His\u00a0daily Mass used to last a\u00a0<em>few hours<\/em>, as he united himself to the Lord\u2019s prayer from the Upper Room and from the Cross. Despite the crowds who attended each day, the local ecclesiastical authorities for a time banned him from celebrating the Mass publicly because they thought three hours was scandalously too long. I wonder whether the same well-meaning but myopic authorities would have tried to hurry Jesus, too, during the agonizingly slow 3-6 hours he took to offer his body and blood on the Cross! But St. Pio knew he was hearing Christ preach in the Mass and welcoming him into his hands on the altar, and he wasn\u2019t going to place anything else ahead of entering into that moment. He sought to help everyone else learn from his reverence how the Mass should fill us with awe and lead us to glorify God.<\/li>\n<li>He sought to restore people to Christ and rebuild them into God&#8217;s dwelling place through his indefatigable work in the Confessional.\u00a0From dawn until dusk, his immobile cross was the wooden box of the confessional, where he would mercifully seek to restore people\u2019s souls to their baptismal beauty. To all who flocked to him, he held up the ideal of holiness, repeating to them: \u201cJesus has no interest outside of sanctifying your soul.\u201d Confession is when the entire sacramental economy exists just for each of us, as we begin to experience what Saint Paul exclaimed to the Galatians, the \u201cChrist died for <em>me<\/em> and gave his life up for <em>me<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0And by the time he gave to individual penitents, he showed each of them just how valuable they were to God.<\/li>\n<li>Padre Pio was a man of prayer who urged others to pray, founding prayer groups all over the world. Even after long grueling hours in the confessional, he would spend much of the night in prayer. He once described himself as \u201conly a poor friar who prays\u201d and encouraged lay people to come together to pray in small groups, tens of thousands of which still exist across the globe under his celestial patronage. \u201cIn books we seek God,\u201d he said, but \u201cin prayer we find him. Prayer is the key that opens God\u2019s heart.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>And he was a man of suffering who taught the world about the meaning of suffering together with the Lord\u2019s sufferings. Paradoxically as we suffer, we can be built up more and more into Christ\u2019s temple and help him rebuild his Church. The Church is built up, not destroyed, on Calvary. Through suffering, we can make up what is lacking in our own flesh of Christ\u2019s sufferings for the sake of the Church. He was associated with the Lord\u2019s sufferings on Calvary in a particular way through his stigmata.\u00a0Two years before his priestly ordination, Padre Pio referred to this unique pathway of the Cross when he wrote, \u201cIn order to succeed in reaching our ultimate end we must follow the divine Head, who does not wish to lead the chosen soul on any way other than the one he followed; by that, I say, of abnegation and the Cross.\u201d\u00a0Christ does not call everyone to bear the stigmata, but he does call everyone to pick up his Cross daily and follow him along the way of the Cross. It is under the Cross, Padre Pio said, that \u201cone learns to love.\u201d\u00a0 It is for that reason, he said, \u201cCalvary is the hill of the saints.\u201d\u00a0Padre Pio was united to Christ on the Cross in more ways than by the stigmata. For decades he suffered from the suspicions and calumny of many in his order who were confused by and perhaps envious of his divine predilection. He bore all these hardships humbly, with religious obedience, as a \u201ccrucible of purification.\u201d When St. John Paul II visited his tomb, he said,\u00a0\u201cThe life and mission of Padre Pio prove that difficulties and sorrows, if accepted out of love, are transformed into a privileged way of holiness, which opens onto the horizons of a greater good, known only to the Lord.\u201d Similarly, he\u00a0helped others to share in it through his founding of the Casa del Sollievo della Sofferenza as a first-rate hospital to care for those who were seriously ill, with paralysis and so many other diseases. It continues that mission until this day.<\/li>\n<li>In all of these ways, St. Pio built up the Church and people as living stones erected on Christ the cornerstone. His life leads us to &#8220;consider our ways&#8221; and to prioritize the reconstruction project into God\u2019s holy temple God desires for all of us. As we celebrate Mass today, we try to do so with St. Pio&#8217;s reverence, cooperation and zeal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/haggai\/1:1\">HG 1:1-8<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>On the first day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius,<br \/>\nThe word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai<br \/>\nto the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel,<br \/>\nand to the high priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak:<\/div>\n<div>Thus says the LORD of hosts:<br \/>\nThis people says:<br \/>\n\u201cThe time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.\u201d<br \/>\n(Then this word of the LORD came through Haggai, the prophet:)<br \/>\nIs it time for you to dwell in your own paneled houses,<br \/>\nwhile this house lies in ruins?<\/div>\n<div>Now thus says the LORD of hosts:<br \/>\nConsider your ways!<br \/>\nYou have sown much, but have brought in little;<br \/>\nyou have eaten, but have not been satisfied;<br \/>\nYou have drunk, but have not been exhilarated;<br \/>\nhave clothed yourselves, but not been warmed;<br \/>\nAnd whoever earned wages<br \/>\nearned them for a bag with holes in it.<\/div>\n<div>Thus says the LORD of hosts:<br \/>\nConsider your ways!<br \/>\nGo up into the hill country;<br \/>\nbring timber, and build the house<br \/>\nThat I may take pleasure in it<br \/>\nand receive my glory, says the LORD.<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/psalms\/149:1\">PS 149:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6A AND 9B<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (see 4a)\u00a0<strong>The Lord takes delight in his people.<\/strong><br \/>\nSing to the LORD a new song<br \/>\nof praise in the assembly of the faithful.<br \/>\nLet Israel be glad in their maker,<br \/>\nlet the children of Zion rejoice in their king.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>The Lord takes delight in his people.<\/strong><br \/>\nLet them praise his name in the festive dance,<br \/>\nlet them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp.<br \/>\nFor the LORD loves his people,<br \/>\nand he adorns the lowly with victory.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>The Lord takes delight in his people.<\/strong><br \/>\nLet the faithful exult in glory;<br \/>\nlet them sing for joy upon their couches;<br \/>\nLet the high praises of God be in their throats.<br \/>\nThis is the glory of all his faithful. Alleluia.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>The Lord takes delight in his people.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/luke\/9:7\">LK 9:7-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening,<br \/>\nand he was greatly perplexed because some were saying,<br \/>\n\u201cJohn has been raised from the dead\u201d;<br \/>\nothers were saying, \u201cElijah has appeared\u201d;<br \/>\nstill others, \u201cOne of the ancient prophets has arisen.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Herod said, \u201cJohn I beheaded.<br \/>\nWho then is this about whom I hear such things?\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he kept trying to see him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/images.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22839\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/images.jpeg?resize=280%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1491\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22838-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.23.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.23.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.23.21_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\/9.23.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=22838-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/9.23.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"9.23.21_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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