{"id":23591,"date":"2021-12-18T03:50:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T08:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=23591"},"modified":"2021-12-15T03:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T08:53:41","slug":"fourth-sunday-of-advent-c-conversations-with-consequences-podcast-december-18-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/fourth-sunday-of-advent-c-conversations-with-consequences-podcast-december-18-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Sunday of Advent (C), Conversations with Consequences Podcast, December 18, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/radio\/shows\/conversations-with-consequences\">Conversations with Consequences<\/a> Podcast<br \/>\nHomily for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (C), Vigil<br \/>\nDecember 18, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this short Sunday homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-23591-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.18.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.18.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.18.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following text guided the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is Fr. Roger Landry and it\u2019s a privilege for me to be with you as we enter into the consequential conversation God wants to have with each of us this Sunday as we begin our proximate preparation for Christmas. On the Fourth Sunday of Advent each year, the Church always has us focus on the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Church does this not merely because Mary has an obviously unforgettable role in the birth and life of Jesus. The real reason is because the Blessed Mother is the model of how <em>we should be living our advent<\/em>. Mary is, we could say, <em>the personification of Advent<\/em>. God the Father, through her Immaculate Conception, had prepared her from the first moment of her life to be a worthy mother of his Son. Like a faithful daughter of Israel, she had prayed throughout her youth for the coming of the Messiah. When she was a young girl, she discovered that she was part of God\u2019s answer to that prayer, but in a way that would far have exceeded any Hebrew maiden\u2019s prayers: not only would the Messiah be her son, but her Son would also be God. Her \u201cyes!\u201d to the Archangel Gabriel launched the immediate preparation for the birth of Jesus the Messiah.<\/li>\n<li>Each year on the fourth Sunday of Advent, we explicitly follow the footsteps Mary traced on that first Advent. In doing so, we\u2019re doing more than traversing the physiological and historical events that preceded the birth of the Lord. We\u2019re entering into Mary\u2019s response of faith that is a guide for us along our own pilgrimage of faith. And so with the Lord, let us climb within Mary\u2019s womb, so to speak, and listen to the beat of her contemplative heart, which was treasuring within this greatest of all mysteries, so that our Christmas may be fruitful like that first Christmas.<\/li>\n<li>Today we travel with Mary to <em>Ein Karim<\/em>, the birthplace of St. John the Baptist. During the Annunciation, after the Archangel Gabriel had told Mary that the power of the Most High would overshadow her and she would conceive in her womb a Son whom she would call Jesus, Gabriel told her as well that her cousin, Elizabeth, had also conceived a son in her old age. As soon as the Archangel departed from Nazareth, Mary, too, made plans to leave. Although she was still a young teenager, she \u201cwent with haste\u201d to take care of her elderly kinswoman who was pregnant for the first time. We know, today, that if a woman is pregnant in her 40s, there are many health risks. It is possible that Elizabeth was considerably older than that and ancient Middle Eastern healthcare was nothing to brag about. Without question, Elizabeth would have needed some assistance. But notice that the Angel didn\u2019t command Mary to go to help her. He didn\u2019t even suggest that it would be a good thing for her to go. He just stated the fact that Elizabeth was pregnant and that was enough for Mary to spring into action. Mary\u2019s love spawned in her the desire to help out. Mary\u2019s example of care for those in need is an example for us all.<\/li>\n<li>Ein Karim was located a couple of miles outside of Jerusalem, which was 60 miles from Nazareth. For Mary to get there, first she would have had to walk about 40 miles downhill into the plains of Jericho, then very steeply uphill for about 20 miles to the Holy City of Jerusalem, before crossing the Holy City and descending to Zechariah\u2019s house. None of that scared her. We don\u2019t know if she traveled alone in the typical caravan of pilgrims. There\u2019s no evidence that St. Joseph accompanied her, or her parents Saints Joachim and Anne. But while we don\u2019t know with whom she traveled, we do know that she traveled with incredible faith. During her journey, there was no way she could have confirmed humanly that she was pregnant. Jesus would still have been the tiniest embryo in her womb, probably eight or sixteen cells according to his human nature by the time she left, well before an infant had legs to kick. She could only know she was pregnant by faith in Gabriel\u2019s words. Doubtless along the journey, she was meditating on what the Angel said to her and how all of the prophecies of the Old Testament were being fulfilled in her. In going to Ein Karim, Mary became the first missionary, the first bearer of the Good News that would change all of human history, forming Jesus to be the itinerant preacher he would become even before he had developed the tiniest of feet. Mary was able to bring incredible joy to Elizabeth and to the fetal John the Baptist, <em>because she was bringing Christ. <\/em>And Mary was able to burst out with joy in her famous Magnificat during this scene for precisely the same reason.<\/li>\n<li>This brings us to the first of three lessons we can learn on this fourth Sunday of Advent: <em>to bring joy to others this Christmas, we really have to bring them Christ<\/em>. Jesus is the greatest gift that we can ever bring to someone we love. This is something all of us need to remember especially at Christmas. We can buy kids all types of clothes and toys, but if we aren\u2019t trying to give them the Lord Jesus, then we\u2019re really giving them little more than monopoly money. We can send out a thousand cards and letters, but if we\u2019re not praying for those we write that they come to the Lord and if we\u2019re not trying to help them to encounter Jesus with our meager words, then, to a large degree, what we\u2019re sending is not much better than junk mail. Unless we try to bring Christ to them, we\u2019re really not giving them anything truly lasting. Mary didn\u2019t bring Elizabeth ancient Hebrew pregnancy textbooks; she wasn\u2019t bringing John the Baptist a cute little circumcision outfit; she was bringing Christ and, hence, she was bringing them <em>everything! <\/em><\/li>\n<li>As we prepare for Mass this Sunday, Mary wants to bring us Christ in the same way she brought him to Ein Karim. She wants us to learn from her example and to inspire us to bring her Son to others with great haste and joy this week. We all know people who need Jesus in their lives, who need his mercy, who hunger for his love and his presence, perhaps without even being conscious of it. But many of us can behave like spiritual Ebenezer Scrooges, selfishly keeping our relationship with Jesus completely to ourselves, and not sharing the greatest Gift we\u2019ve every received with anyone else. Mary\u2019s example shows us the way to live Advent well and explicitly challenges and calls us to bring Jesus to our relatives and to those we know who are in need.<\/li>\n<li>We see in the Gospel this Sunday that as soon as Elizabeth heard the sound of Mary\u2019s greeting, John the Baptist leaped in her womb, Elizabeth herself was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she burst out saying: \u201cBlessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me? \u2026 And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.\u201d The Holy Spirit inspires Elizabeth to bless Mary among all women because of two things: the <em>blessed fruit of her womb <\/em>and her <em>faith<\/em> that the Lord\u2019s words to her would be fulfilled. In other words, she was blessed because of her embryonic savior and son and because of her faith in him.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s the second lesson we can grasp on this Advent pilgrimage with Mary: that the greatest blessings in this world are <em>Jesus<\/em> and our <em>faith in him<\/em>. These are the gifts we should be longing for this Christmas, because these are the ones that will truly make us happy. Even if we were to receive for Christmas the entire inventory of whole Amazon warehouses, that would not be as valuable to us as the gift of God and the gift of increased faith in him. It is important for us to grasp how much God wants to be able to praise and bless <em>us<\/em> for our firm faith that all that he has promised us will be fulfilled. Mary cried out in her hymn of praise later in this scene, \u201cAll generations will call her blessed.\u201d And that prophecy came true. We still call her blessed today, for the same reasons, because \u201cthe Lord \u2014 the blessed fruit of her womb \u2014\u00a0is with her,\u201d and because of her faith, which is the model for every disciple\u2019s. As we prepare for Christmas, the Lord is calling us to make these our priorities. The Father who gave us the gift of his Son that first nativity wants to give us that Son anew this Christmas, to be God-with-us, Emmanuel \u2014\u00a0but he wants us to <em>ask for him<\/em> in faith and respond to him in faith, by making the time to be with God in prayer, by saying \u201clet it be done to me according to your word\u201d and by allowing the Lord\u2019s words to be fulfilled in us in all the decisions we make.<\/li>\n<li>The last lesson that we\u2019re called to emulate from that first Advent Mary lived is what she did at the end of the scene. As soon as Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, blessed her, Mary\u2019s contemplative heart exploded in prayer: \u201cMy soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my savior!\u201d Mary\u2019s response to the blessing of God\u2019s love in coming into this world, into her heart and into her womb, was not just <em>faith<\/em> but <em>prayer<\/em>, which is properly called <em>faith-in-action<\/em>. If God doesn\u2019t just exist but is really God-with-us, then our response in faith should be prayer, to be-with-God. The Advent preface every priest in the world prays this Sunday stresses the irreplaceable importance of prayer in preparation for Christmas: \u201cIt is by his gift that already we rejoice at the mystery of his Nativity, so that he may find us watchful in prayer and exultant in his praise.\u201d Mary\u2019s heart was filled with this wonder and praise. Her soul magnified the Lord and her spirit rejoiced in God. Ours are called to do the same. God wants to help us to magnify him, to rejoice in his love and thank him for all his blessings. Only the soul that does not magnify itself can magnify the Lord, and that can only happen when we center our lives on God and not on ourselves or on material possessions or anything else. If we were to ask Mary our Mother for the best way to prepare for her son\u2019s birth at Christmas, she would doubtless say that the most important is going to her Son in prayer.<\/li>\n<li>The same Holy Spirit who overshadowed Mary in Nazareth this Sunday will overshadow the altar. The same Jesus whom Mary carried <em>in utero<\/em> to her cousin Elizabeth will come to us in Holy Communion. Through Mary\u2019s intercession, may we do what she did after the Annunciation and bring that Jesus out to others who so need him this Christmas, so that he can make them and us leap again!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Gospel on which the homily was based was:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Gospel<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/1?39\">Lk 1:39-45<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>Mary set out<br \/>\nand traveled to the hill country in haste<br \/>\nto a town of Judah,<br \/>\nwhere she entered the house of Zechariah<br \/>\nand greeted Elizabeth.<br \/>\nWhen Elizabeth heard Mary\u2019s greeting,<br \/>\nthe infant leaped in her womb,<br \/>\nand Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,<br \/>\ncried out in a loud voice and said,<br \/>\n\u201cBlessed are you among women,<br \/>\nand blessed is the fruit of your womb.<br \/>\nAnd how does this happen to me,<br \/>\nthat the mother of my Lord should come to me?<br \/>\nFor at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears,<br \/>\nthe infant in my womb leaped for joy.<br \/>\nBlessed are you who believed<br \/>\nthat what was spoken to you by the Lord<br \/>\nwould be fulfilled.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1913\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-23591-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.18.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.18.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.18.21_Landry_ConCon_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\/12.18.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=23591-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.18.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"12.18.21_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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