{"id":23804,"date":"2022-01-31T05:15:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=23804"},"modified":"2022-01-31T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T14:37:19","slug":"valuing-others-aright-persons-over-pigs-and-even-kingdoms-fourth-monday-ii-january-31-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/valuing-others-aright-persons-over-pigs-and-even-kingdoms-fourth-monday-ii-january-31-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Valuing Others Aright: Persons over Pigs and Even Kingdoms, Fourth Monday (II), January 31, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of St. John Bosco<br \/>\nJanuary 31, 2022<br \/>\n2 Sam 15:13-14.30;16:6-13, Ps 3, Mk 5:1-20<\/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-23804-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.31.22_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.31.22_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.31.22_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\u2019s Gospel is about more than one more dramatic exorcism from Jesus. It points to something that needs to be exorcised from all of us in every age. After Jesus frees this man from a legion of demons \u2014 and a legion in the Roman army was 600 troops \u2014 by casting them into a herd of 2,000 pigs who, now possessed, ran off a cliff and drowned in the Sea of Galilee, the people of that pagan region of the Gerasenes didn\u2019t rejoice at the liberation of the man who used to gouge himself with stones, break chains that attempted to bind him, and terrorize the people of the region; they didn\u2019t come to Jesus to ask him likewise to free the other possessed people in the region, or to cure their sick or to teach them; instead, they asked him to leave their region. Jesus was bad for business. They worried that if he stayed he might next endanger their sheep, too, or their grain, or other aspects of their livelihood. They essentially cared more for the swine they had lost than the brother they had gained.<\/li>\n<li>This is not a problem just for ancients. Still today, people can give possessions primacy over people, allowing people to be disturbed, even possessed, as long as their possessions are left undisturbed. Pope Francis wrote about this in his apostolic exhortation\u00a0<em>Evangelii Gaudium:\u00a0<\/em>\u201cHow can it be that it is not a news item,\u201d he asks, \u201cwhen an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?\u201d For many people, the stock market is more important than people dying through neglect. And this is one of the greatest ways the devil seeks to possess multitudes, through the concupiscence of the eyes or materialism. We remember the way he tried to tempt Jesus in the desert to set his sights on material bread, by turning stones into bread, to become a baker instead of a savior, to focus on his stomach more than his soul, on himself more than God. But Jesus refused, saying we live on more than bread, but by every word that comes from God\u2019s mouth. This is what uniting ourselves to Jesus\u2019 spiritual poverty through the profession of the evangelical counsel of poverty makes possible.<\/li>\n<li>People are more important than things and we must remember this and live by it. We\u2019re in a culture today in which if a human being is still very much alive but in a persistent vegetative state, many think that we need to let the person die in order to save more money for the care of others. What this really means is to make profits for some by allowing people to die. It\u2019s to put things before love, possessions before people. And when possessions become dominant, we ask Jesus to leave just like the Gerasenes did, because Jesus is constantly telling us to treat the poor the way we would treat him. And if we would ignore a man\u2019s dying of exposure or resent rather than rejoice at a possessed man\u2019s liberation what we\u2019re essentially saying is we don\u2019t care if Jesus were to die of exposure or if Jesus were to be gashing himself with stones \u2014 attitudes that already show that we don\u2019t want to have room for Jesus, we really don\u2019t want him to stay.<\/li>\n<li>We see a similar objective and subjective dehumanization at work in what\u2019s pointed to by today\u2019s first reading. On Saturday, we heard God through Nathan tell King David that the sword would never depart from his house and today we see how David\u2019s son Absalom, many years after David\u2019s quadruple sin of lust, adultery, deception and murder, raised the sword to try to take his father\u2019s kingdom. It would have been very easy for King David to have responded to the betrayal of his son with anger and pride. He could have said, \u201cI have killed people by the tens of thousands and defeated Goliath. I am the greatest warrior and general in the history of this nation and have forgotten ten times more than Absalom and his partisans will ever learn about warfare. I\u2019ll teach my son and every other insurrectionist a lesson they\u2019ll never forget.\u201d But he didn\u2019t do this. <em>His son was more important than his kingdom<\/em>. He also realized that if he put up resistance in Jerusalem, many innocent citizens would end up losing their lives, and <em>he recognized that their lives were more important than his kingdom.<\/em> He grasped that Absalom\u2019s betrayal was a penance for his own\u00a0betrayal of God many years earlier. He entrusted himself to God and left the city in penitential fashion, with his head covered and his feet exposed. Even when Shimei started to curse and stone David along the path out of the city and Abishai asked David for the permission to \u201clop off his head,\u201d David refused, because Shimei\u2019s life was more important than David\u2019s pride. David simply entrusted himself and his fate to God. How much civil rulers need to learn from this example! Over the course of history and still today, people have been repeatedly used as pawns in their ruler\u2019s disputes. When rulers\u2019 pride or possessions are threatened, they have declared war on each other, not even knowing the names of the soldiers who would die defending their honor, not knowing the mothers who would weep for their sons, the wives who would weep for their husbands, the children who would mourn their slain fathers.<\/li>\n<li>Today the Church celebrates the feast of someone who had particular concern for those whom society had written off and wanted rid of. St. John Bosco was born in 1815 in the small village of Becchi close to Turin in northern Italy. When he was just two, his father died leaving his mother Margherita to care for the three young boys as a peasant farmer during a time of great drought and social unrest. She was a woman of great faith who did all she could, but even at a young age John needed to be apprenticed to an uncle. And he was one of the lucky ones that he had an uncle to whom he could be sent when his mother no longer could feed him. When he was nine, he had a dream that changed his life. In it, he was surrounded by a group of children who were fighting, swearing and blaspheming. He tried to calm them down, first by reasoning, then with force, but to no avail. Finally a lady appeared to him \u2014 whom he later concluded was the Blessed Mother \u2014 and said, \u201cSoftly, softly, if you wish to win them! Take your shepherd\u2019s staff and lead them to pasture.\u201d As he gently invited and encouraged them to follow him, he saw them transformed from wild beasts into lambs. When he awoke, he knew that his duty was to help poor boys, beginning with those in his own village, to undergo such a transformation. He first sought the kids who were hanging out and causing trouble in the city squares. He did his best to teach them the catechism and invite them to Church, but there were initially few takers. He noticed how much they were fascinated, however, by the various jugglers, magicians and gymnasts who would come through town seeking their adulation and money. So he began to learn those arts \u2014 and master them. Soon he was challenging the other jugglers, conjurers and acrobats to competition and beating them. His prize was the attention of the young ruffians, to whom he promised to teach his newfound skills <em>after<\/em> they had a catechism lesson or came to Church. But he readily saw that there were limits to what he could give them as a poor and poorly-educated shepherd boy. He desired to become a priest. Eventually a priest, too, recognized in him signs of a priestly vocation. He was taught how to read so that he would be able to go to school and seminary. His upkeep and his clothes were provided by charity, the mayor paid for his hat, the pastor his coat, one parishioner his cassock, another a pair of shoes. During seminary he would continue to go out on Sundays to draw the boys to Mass and make sure these waifs \u2014 whom few cared for and so many wanted to be rid of \u2014 would be taken care of. It was during seminary that St. Joseph Cafasso, the seminary rector just a few years his senior, recognized his vocation to give his entire life to the care of these abandoned, lost sheep, seeking to love them with the love of Christ and bring them to live by faith truly Christian lives. St. John Bosco organized activities on Sundays but very few people wanted hundreds of street kids around them, and so he struggled to find a permanent place. Eventually he got a big barn and began to build it up. He founded schools to train them as shoemakers, tailors and printers. He began to give them accommodations so they weren\u2019t sleeping on the streets and entrusted their care to his mother Margherita who came to live with them. His orphanage would grow to house more than 800 boys for whom he would beg for food. Some of the bright boys he would eventually begin training to be priests to serve young people like these in the Salesian order God would lead him to found. These young people, who were perpetually falling through the cracks of society, who often were tempted to become social troublemakers because of neglect and various abuses, he deemed, worthy of his life and his love.<\/li>\n<li>He got this love from a deep focus on Christ as the Good Shepherd who would hunt down every lost sheep, and from our Lady, who had immense motherly love for every child entrusted to her by her Son. St. John Bosco yearned for everyone in the Church to learn how to care for these boys with the love of the Good Shepherd and Our Lady, mother and help of Christians. This was solidified by a dream he revealed to the boys on\u00a0May 30, 1862, when he was 46 years old. He told all the orphans he was housing that a few nights before, he had a dream in which he had seen a huge naval battle in which a big ship guided by the Pope with a flotilla of other boats led by bishops, was being attached by so many opposing forces, who were trying to ram and sink the barque of Peter. The winds and the ferocious waves were against the papal fleet. But then he saw two huge pillars coming out of the sea. At the top of one stood Mary, Help of Christians, and at the top of the other was a huge Host underneath which was the inscription \u201cSalvation of the Faithful.\u201d Don Bosco saw in his dream that the Pope and the boats in his flotilla labored to anchor themselves to these two pillars and once they did, the opposing ships were scattered and broken to pieces. St. John Bosco interpreted the dream as an indication of the types of attacks, the opposing winds and seas, the salvos of enemies that would try to sink the Church, but he also saw the remedy: anchoring oneself to Jesus in the Eucharist and to the Mother who gave us that blessed Fruit of her womb and shows us how to relate to him in faith. Anchoring ourselves to the God-man and to the one who shows us how to receive him and respond to him will keep us in the love of God and of neighbor, even in the midst of a dehumanizing age.<\/li>\n<li>Today the same Jesus who cast the demons out of the swine comes to cast himself into us. When we ask, \u201cWhat have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?,\u201d he replies that he hasn\u2019t come here to destroy us but rather to sanctify us. He has come not to torment us but to teach and spiritually strengthen us. He will not tell us to be quiet but to tell us to proclaim from the rooftops his Gospel. He wants to cast himself into us that we will all rush out and not drown in the Sea of Galilee but bring others to bathe themselves in the graces flowing from baptism and in the Living Water coming from his pierced side. We beg him not to depart from us but to remain with us and, like he gave St. John Bosco, to give us the grace to announce not just to our family but to all those he wants as members of his family what the Lord in his mercy has done for us and what he in his love wants to do for them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/2samuel\/15:13\">2 SM 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>An informant came to David with the report,<br \/>\n\u201cThe children of Israel have transferred their loyalty to Absalom.\u201d<br \/>\nAt this, David said to all his servants<br \/>\nwho were with him in Jerusalem:<br \/>\n\u201cUp! Let us take flight, or none of us will escape from Absalom.<br \/>\nLeave quickly, lest he hurry and overtake us,<br \/>\nthen visit disaster upon us and put the city to the sword.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>As David went up the Mount of Olives, he wept without ceasing.<br \/>\nHis head was covered, and he was walking barefoot.<br \/>\nAll those who were with him also had their heads covered<br \/>\nand were weeping as they went.As David was approaching Bahurim,<br \/>\na man named Shimei, the son of Gera<br \/>\nof the same clan as Saul\u2019s family,<br \/>\nwas coming out of the place, cursing as he came.<br \/>\nHe threw stones at David and at all the king\u2019s officers,<br \/>\neven though all the soldiers, including the royal guard,<br \/>\nwere on David\u2019s right and on his left.<br \/>\nShimei was saying as he cursed:<br \/>\n\u201cAway, away, you murderous and wicked man!<br \/>\nThe LORD has requited you for all the bloodshed in the family of Saul,<br \/>\nin whose stead you became king,<br \/>\nand the LORD has given over the kingdom to your son Absalom.<br \/>\nAnd now you suffer ruin because you are a murderer.\u201d<br \/>\nAbishai, son of Zeruiah, said to the king:<br \/>\n\u201cWhy should this dead dog curse my lord the king?<br \/>\nLet me go over, please, and lop off his head.\u201d<br \/>\nBut the king replied: \u201cWhat business is it of mine or of yours,<br \/>\nsons of Zeruiah, that he curses?<br \/>\nSuppose the LORD has told him to curse David;<br \/>\nwho then will dare to say, \u2018Why are you doing this?\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nThen the king said to Abishai and to all his servants:<br \/>\n\u201cIf my own son, who came forth from my loins, is seeking my life,<br \/>\nhow much more might this Benjaminite do so?<br \/>\nLet him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.<br \/>\nPerhaps the LORD will look upon my affliction<br \/>\nand make it up to me with benefits<br \/>\nfor the curses he is uttering this day.\u201d<br \/>\nDavid and his men continued on the road,<br \/>\nwhile Shimei kept abreast of them on the hillside,<br \/>\nall the while cursing and throwing stones and dirt as he went.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/3:2\">PS 3:2-3, 4-5, 6-7<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (8a)\u00a0Lord, rise up and save me.<br \/>\nO LORD, how many are my adversaries!<br \/>\nMany rise up against me!<br \/>\nMany are saying of me,<br \/>\n\u201cThere is no salvation for him in God.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, rise up and save me.<br \/>\nBut you, O LORD, are my shield;<br \/>\nmy glory, you lift up my head!<br \/>\nWhen I call out to the LORD,<br \/>\nhe answers me from his holy mountain.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, rise up and save me.<br \/>\nWhen I lie down in sleep,<br \/>\nI wake again, for the LORD sustains me.<br \/>\nI fear not the myriads of people<br \/>\narrayed against me on every side.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, rise up and save me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/5:1\">MK 5:1-20<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea,<br \/>\nto the territory of the Gerasenes.<br \/>\nWhen he got out of the boat,<br \/>\nat once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him.<br \/>\nThe man had been dwelling among the tombs,<br \/>\nand no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain.<br \/>\nIn fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains,<br \/>\nbut the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed,<br \/>\nand no one was strong enough to subdue him.<br \/>\nNight and day among the tombs and on the hillsides<br \/>\nhe was always crying out and bruising himself with stones.<br \/>\nCatching sight of Jesus from a distance,<br \/>\nhe ran up and prostrated himself before him,<br \/>\ncrying out in a loud voice,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?<br \/>\nI adjure you by God, do not torment me!\u201d<br \/>\n(He had been saying to him, \u201cUnclean spirit, come out of the man!\u201d)<br \/>\nHe asked him, \u201cWhat is your name?\u201d<br \/>\nHe replied, \u201cLegion is my name. There are many of us.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he pleaded earnestly with him<br \/>\nnot to drive them away from that territory.<\/div>\n<div>Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside.<br \/>\nAnd they pleaded with him,<br \/>\n\u201cSend us into the swine. Let us enter them.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he let them, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine.<br \/>\nThe herd of about two thousand rushed down a steep bank into the sea,<br \/>\nwhere they were drowned.<br \/>\nThe swineherds ran away and reported the incident in the town<br \/>\nand throughout the countryside.<br \/>\nAnd people came out to see what had happened.<br \/>\nAs they approached Jesus,<br \/>\nthey caught sight of the man who had been possessed by Legion,<br \/>\nsitting there clothed and in his right mind.<br \/>\nAnd they were seized with fear.<br \/>\nThose who witnessed the incident explained to them what had happened<br \/>\nto the possessed man and to the swine.<br \/>\nThen they began to beg him to leave their district.<br \/>\nAs he was getting into the boat,<br \/>\nthe man who had been possessed pleaded to remain with him.<br \/>\nBut Jesus would not permit him but told him instead,<br \/>\n\u201cGo home to your family and announce to them<br \/>\nall that the Lord in his pity has done for you.\u201d<br \/>\nThen the man went off and began to proclaim in the Decapolis<br \/>\nwhat Jesus had done for him; and all were amazed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Don_Bosco_%40_Torino_1880_original.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23805\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Don_Bosco_%40_Torino_1880_original.jpg?resize=224%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8356\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-23804-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.31.22_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.31.22_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.31.22_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\/1.31.22_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=23804-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.31.22_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"1.31.22_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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