{"id":23339,"date":"2021-11-24T05:57:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T10:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=23339"},"modified":"2021-11-24T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:55:34","slug":"reading-and-heeding-gods-writing-on-the-wall-34th-wednesday-i-november-24-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/reading-and-heeding-gods-writing-on-the-wall-34th-wednesday-i-november-24-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Heeding God&#8217;s Writing on the Wall, 34th Wednesday (I), November 24, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nWednesday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of Saint Andrew Dung Lac and Companions, Martyrs<br \/>\nNovember 24, 2021<br \/>\nDan 5:5:1-6.13-14.16-17.23-28, Dan 3, Lk 21:12-19<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to a recording of today\u2019s homily, please click here:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-23339-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.24.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.24.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.24.21_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>November is a month in which we pray for our faithful departed and focus on the last things, especially about our call to holiness and heaven. It\u2019s also a month in which the Church forms us concretely for what is to come. In the early Church, catechumens could not be baptized until they were ready to be martyrs, because many of them would be threatened with martyrdom as soon as they were Christians. As we ponder Jesus\u2019 words at the end of his journey to Jerusalem, we can see that he was doing the same. He was telling us what was to come so that we wouldn\u2019t be surprised, shocked, scandalized, or paralyzed when they occurred, and so that, just like a soldier well-trained in boot camp for war, we might be prepared to know what to do when these eventualities transpire.<\/li>\n<li>In the Gospel Jesus describes what was coming for his disciples. Just like would happen to him, so they, too, would be seized and persecuted, handed over to religious and civil leaders, thrown in prison, betrayed my family members and friends, hated by all, and even martyred. But he told them why it would occur: so that they would be able to give witness. Sometimes persecution is the Christian\u2019s greatest pulpit. Jesus told them not to worry about what to say, that the Holy Spirit would teach them what to say, and despite their martyrdom, not a single follicle would be destroyed but that all would be restored \u2014 even to the baldest of them! \u2014 in the resurrection. \u201cBy your perseverance,\u201d he stressed, \u201cyou will secure your lives.\u201d He was stressing \u2014 in words that are highly relevant to our age of rampant personal insecurity \u2014 that real security comes from building our whole life on God. Once we do, nothing in all of creation \u2014 not persecution, peril or the sword (Rom 8:31-39) \u2014 will be able to separate us from God. By persevering in faith, we will be secure now and secure later, even if all fleeting forms of worldly security disappear. This is a lesson we always need to learn. The first Christians suffered so much, including the plundering of their property and even their lives, as we read in the Letter to the Hebrews (10:34), but they didn\u2019t fear, because they had a greater security in God. True security in God can\u2019t be given by the world or stolen by those in the world. That\u2019s why the martyrs in every age weren\u2019t afraid even during while suffering torture or death.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a great contrast between this type of security in faith in relation with God that Jesus wants us to have even in the humanly worst of circumstances and the type of insecurity we see in King Belshazzar in today\u2019s first reading. He was\u00a0living outwardly very securely. He was throwing a banquet for 1,000 courtiers and their wives at a time of great prosperity. He decided to have some of the 5,400 gold and silver chalices that King\u00a0Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem brought out, using what was sacred for the Jews for their drunken party. But when, straight out of a script of the Addams\u2019 Family television program, a hand started writing on the wall, we see that his security was just an outward show: \u201cWhen the king saw the wrist and hand that wrote,\u201d the Prophet Daniel tells us, \u201chis face blanched; his thoughts terrified him, his hip joints shook, and his knees knocked.\u201d None of his pagan experts could mollify his anxiety, because no matter how smart they were, they didn\u2019t have divine wisdom. Daniel was brought in and he was able to interpret the three words that were being written on the wall: <em>m<\/em><i>ene, tekel, peres,\u00a0<\/i>which were three terms for coins. <em>Mene<\/em> was a full payment, and Daniel used it to express that Belshazzar\u2019s kingdom was \u201cfulfilled\u201d or all over; a\u00a0<em>tekel<\/em> was 1\/60 of a <em>mene<\/em>, indicating that Belshazzar doesn\u2019t weigh very much; and\u00a0<em>peres<\/em>, which was half of <em>m<\/em><i>ene<\/i>, indicating that his kingdom would be divided in half. Belshazzar\u2019s kingdom would come to an end that very night when his kingdom and the palace would be invaded by Darius and Belshazzar would be killed. Like the man in the parable whom Jesus called foolish for building bigger grain bins to store his harvest only to have his life taken that very night, Belshazzar was an even bigger fool, sacrilegiously debauching the things of God not realizing that he would be weighed in the balance and found less secure than a feather. Today there are still many who, even though they\u2019re in prominent positions with body guards or have incredible houses with state-of-the-art security systems, aren\u2019t really secure at all. There are also many who, as they approach their own <em>mene<\/em>\u00a0or the fulfillment of their life, might indeed be as weighty as a\u00a0<em>tekel\u00a0<\/em>because their life is\u00a0<em>peres,\u00a0<\/em>or divided, among many things. The writing on the wall of King Belshazzar\u2019s palace is also written for us.<\/li>\n<li>Those who were secure in God despite insecure times, who were found weighty in holiness, who were betrayed, seized, persecuted, and hated by many, but who persevered until the end faithfully are the Vietnamese martyrs we celebrate today,\u00a0St. Andrew Dung-Lac and his 116 companions, just 117 of the estimated 130,000 Vietnamese Catholics who gave their lives for Christ between the 17th and 19th centuries. St. Andrew gave his supreme testimony to Christ in 1839. He was a teenage catechist who was eventually ordained and was tireless in his preaching and ministry of baptism, exhorting others to constancy and fidelity. He himself, like so many of those to whom he ministered, was captured and sentenced to death. The tortures suffered by the Vietnamese Catholics are among the worst recorded. Their limbs were hacked off joint by joint, their flesh was torn off with red hot tongs, they were drugged, caged, and exposed to many indignities. They were commonly branded on the face with the words \u201cta dao,\u201d which means \u201csinister religion,\u201d but none of that was able to detach them from true religion. One of the Vietnamese martyrs was St. Paul Le-Bao-Tinh who wrote a letter to the students of the Seminary of Ke-Vinh in 1843. His words have become famous because Pope Benedict XVI featured them in Spe Salvi as a description of Christian hope, the hope that comes from knowing that Christ is with us, that we are solidly built on him. It shows how suffering can indeed become the Christian&#8217;s most powerful pulpit. St. Paul wrote, \u201cI, Paul, in chains for the name of Christ, wish to relate to you the trials besetting me daily, in order that you may be inflamed with love for God and join with me in his praises, for his mercy is for ever. The prison here is a true image of everlasting hell: to cruel tortures of every kind\u2014shackles, iron chains, manacles\u2014are added hatred, vengeance, calumnies, obscene speech, quarrels, evil acts, swearing, curses, as well as anguish and grief. But the God who once freed the three children from the fiery furnace is with me always; he has delivered me from these tribulations and made them sweet, for his mercy is for ever.\u00a0In the midst of these torments, which usually terrify others, I am, by the grace of God, full of joy and gladness, <em>because I am not alone\u2014Christ is with me<\/em>.\u00a0Our master bears the whole weight of the cross, leaving me only the tiniest, last bit. He is not a mere onlooker in my struggle, but a contestant and the victor and champion in the whole battle. Therefore upon his head is placed the crown of victory, and his members also share in his glory. \u2026 \u00a0I write these things to you in order that your faith and mine may be united. In the midst of this storm I cast my anchor toward the throne of God, <em>the anchor that is the lively home in my heart<\/em>. \u2026\u00a0Come to my aid with your prayers, that I may have the strength to fight according to the law, and indeed\u00a0to fight the good fight and to fight\u00a0until the end and so finish the race. We may not again see each other in this life, but we will have the happiness of seeing each other again in the world to come, when, standing at the throne of the spotless Lamb, we will together join in singing his praises and exult for ever in the joy of our triumph. Amen.\u201d That\u2019s what it means to our &#8220;giving testimony.&#8221; That&#8217;s what it looks like to be given &#8220;a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute.&#8221; That&#8217;s the gift God wants to give us in the midst of this insecure age.<\/li>\n<li>Today God the Father sends not a hand to start moving on the walls of this chapel, but his Son, who in the Eucharistic Prayer we\u2019ll use, is described as the \u201chand You stretch out to sinners.\u201d We will not take up sacred vessels to use for alcohol, but Jesus himself will take up a chalice and change wine into his blood. He will seek to make us, indeed, vessels used not for debauchery but to give him \u201cglory and eternal praise.\u201d This is the greatest means by which we will become not\u00a0<em>tekel\u00a0<\/em>but\u00a0<em>qadosh,\u00a0<\/em>weighty or holy, and have our names written by God\u2019s hand, like those of the Vietnamese martyrs, in the eternal book of life.<\/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\/daniel\/5:1\">DN 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his lords,<br \/>\nwith whom he drank.<br \/>\nUnder the influence of the wine,<br \/>\nhe ordered the gold and silver vessels<br \/>\nwhich Nebuchadnezzar, his father,<br \/>\nhad taken from the temple in Jerusalem,<br \/>\nto be brought in so that the king, his lords,<br \/>\nhis wives and his entertainers might drink from them.<br \/>\nWhen the gold and silver vessels<br \/>\ntaken from the house of God in Jerusalem had been brought in,<br \/>\nand while the king, his lords, his wives and his entertainers<br \/>\nwere drinking wine from them,<br \/>\nthey praised their gods of gold and silver,<br \/>\nbronze and iron, wood and stone.<\/div>\n<div>Suddenly, opposite the lampstand,<br \/>\nthe fingers of a human hand appeared,<br \/>\nwriting on the plaster of the wall in the king\u2019s palace.<br \/>\nWhen the king saw the wrist and hand that wrote, his face blanched;<br \/>\nhis thoughts terrified him, his hip joints shook,<br \/>\nand his knees knocked.<\/div>\n<div>Then Daniel was brought into the presence of the king.<br \/>\nThe king asked him,<\/div>\n<div>\u201cAre you the Daniel, the Jewish exile,<br \/>\nwhom my father, the king, brought from Judah?<br \/>\nI have heard that the Spirit of God is in you,<br \/>\nthat you possess brilliant knowledge and extraordinary wisdom.<br \/>\nI have heard that you can interpret dreams and solve difficulties;<br \/>\nif you are able to read the writing and tell me what it means,<br \/>\nyou shall be clothed in purple,<br \/>\nwear a gold collar about your neck,<br \/>\nand be third in the government of the kingdom.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Daniel answered the king:<br \/>\n\u201cYou may keep your gifts, or give your presents to someone else;<br \/>\nbut the writing I will read for you, O king,<br \/>\nand tell you what it means.<br \/>\nYou have rebelled against the Lord of heaven.<br \/>\nYou had the vessels of his temple brought before you,<br \/>\nso that you and your nobles, your wives and your entertainers,<br \/>\nmight drink wine from them;<br \/>\nand you praised the gods of silver and gold,<br \/>\nbronze and iron, wood and stone,<br \/>\nthat neither see nor hear nor have intelligence.<br \/>\nBut the God in whose hand is your life breath<br \/>\nand the whole course of your life, you did not glorify.<br \/>\nBy him were the wrist and hand sent, and the writing set down.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThis is the writing that was inscribed:<br \/>\nMENE, TEKEL, and PERES.<br \/>\nThese words mean:<br \/>\nMENE, God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it;<br \/>\nTEKEL, you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;<br \/>\nPERES, your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/daniel\/3:62\">DN 3:62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (59b)\u00a0Give glory and eternal praise to him.<br \/>\n\u201cSun and moon, bless the Lord;<br \/>\npraise and exalt him above all forever.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Give glory and eternal praise to him.<br \/>\n\u201cStars of heaven, bless the Lord;<br \/>\npraise and exalt him above all forever.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Give glory and eternal praise to him.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery shower and dew, bless the Lord;<br \/>\npraise and exalt him above all forever.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Give glory and eternal praise to him.<br \/>\n\u201cAll you winds, bless the Lord;<br \/>\npraise and exalt him above all forever.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Give glory and eternal praise to him.<br \/>\n\u201cFire and heat, bless the Lord;<br \/>\npraise and exalt him above all forever.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Give glory and eternal praise to him.<br \/>\n\u201cCold and chill, bless the Lord;<br \/>\npraise and exalt him above all forever.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Give glory and eternal praise to him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/luke\/21:12\">LK 21:12-19<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Jesus said to the crowd:<br \/>\n\u201cThey will seize and persecute you,<br \/>\nthey will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons,<br \/>\nand they will have you led before kings and governors<br \/>\nbecause of my name.<br \/>\nIt will lead to your giving testimony.<br \/>\nRemember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand,<br \/>\nfor I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking<br \/>\nthat all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute.<br \/>\nYou will even be handed over by parents,<br \/>\nbrothers, relatives, and friends,<br \/>\nand they will put some of you to death.<br \/>\nYou will be hated by all because of my name,<br \/>\nbut not a hair on your head will be destroyed.<br \/>\nBy your perseverance you will secure your lives.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dan5writing.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23340\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dan5writing.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dan5writing.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dan5writing.jpg?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dan5writing.jpg?resize=344%2C194&amp;ssl=1 344w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dan5writing.jpg?w=560&amp;ssl=1 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8157\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-23339-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.24.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.24.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.24.21_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\/11.24.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=23339-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.24.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"11.24.21_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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