{"id":25338,"date":"2022-11-08T15:54:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=25338"},"modified":"2024-11-12T06:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:28:24","slug":"good-faithful-virtuous-servants-and-friends-32nd-tuesday-ii-november-8-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/good-faithful-virtuous-servants-and-friends-32nd-tuesday-ii-november-8-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Good, Faithful, Virtuous Servants and Friends, 32nd Tuesday (II), November 8, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nTuesday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nAlverna Center, Winona, Minnesota<br \/>\nRetreat for the Priests of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester<br \/>\nNovember\u00a08, 2022<br \/>\nTi 2:1-8.11-14, Ps 37, Lk 17:7-10<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Today&#8217;s homily was not recorded because of a recorder malfunction. The following text guided the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>In today\u2019s Gospel, Jesus gives us priests on retreat what at first might seem like a disconcerting lesson. Rather than the consoling words to fatigued apostles, \u201cCome to me all you who labor and are burdened and I will give you rest\u201d (Mt 11:28), or elsewhere after they had just finished a missionary journey and were so besieged by crowds they didn\u2019t have time even to eat, \u201cCome away by yourself to a deserted place and rest for a while\u201d (Mk 6:31), Jesus in today\u2019s Gospel describes what we should do after having come in from hours laboring in the vineyards, not to rest and eat, not to think we\u2019re entitled to a brief respite and meal, but to consider ourselves \u201cunprofitable servants\u201d who have only done what is commanded. This scene is a continuing of yesterday\u2019s Gospel when, as you recall, we pondered Jesus\u2019 words about setting good example rather than scandal and of forgiving continuously when someone repents, which provoked his apostles to say, \u201cLord, increase our faith!\u201d After Jesus described the power of faith the size of a mustard seed, Jesus talks in the passage we have today about the perseverance, humility and gratitude of faith. He describes a servant who has just come in from the fields. Such a servant would never expect his boss to have him sit down at table and serve him as some type of reward for doing what he was supposed to do, but rather to continue serving. \u201cSo should it be with you,\u201d Jesus draws the lesson. \u201cWhen you have done all you have been commanded, say, \u2018We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.\u2019\u201d The lesson is this: Jesus wants us to go on continuing to work in his vineyard, to set good Christian example, to be merciful like he is merciful, to live by faith. There\u2019s no point at which we should say, \u201cI\u2019ve forgiven enough, now I can stop.\u201d There\u2019s no time when we should say, \u201cI set a good example earlier. Now I can do my own thing.\u201d Jesus wants us to persevere with gratitude for the gift of faith and like him continue serving others with love as he loved and served us to the end.<\/li>\n<li>In the affirmation culture we inhabit, in which we are constantly trying to give everyone ribbons and awards and recognition not principally for merit but just for showing up, Jesus\u2019 words might almost seem cruel. We think that if anyone is going to affirm us, it\u2019s going to be God. To our modern ears, Jesus\u2019 calling people \u201cunprofitable\u201d or \u201cuseless\u201d servants seems almost verbal abuse. He seems to be saying that no matter how hard we work for him, no matter how hard we try, no matter how much we succeed, at the end of the day we\u2019re just useless. He implies that he isn\u2019t \u201cgrateful\u201d for anything we\u2019ve done, but that all we\u2019ve done is what we were obliged to do and should expect no thanks. The point Jesus was making in the Gospel is not that God isn\u2019t grateful for efforts and that we likewise should not be grateful for others\u2019 efforts. He was trying to change our motivations in doing our work for the Gospel, so that we\u2019re not doing it for recognition but doing it out of love for God and others.\u00a0During the Sermon on the Mount, with words we hear every Ash Wednesday, Jesus told us not to pray, fast or give alms \u201cso that others may see them,\u201d because if that were our motivation, we would already have received our reward. He told us, rather, to do them with purity of intention, to do them for God, to do them out of love, promising us that \u201cThe Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward\u201d us.\u00a0Jesus is not encouraging us to do good things just to receive this reward from the Father; rather, he\u2019s encouraging us to do good things out of love for God and others, merely reminding us that the Father is never blind to our actions and motivations and will in fact remember and reward us for all that we do with the proper motivations.\u00a0He\u2019s also encouraging us toward humility and gratitude. The Christian life is about serving, rather than being served, and Jesus is summoning us to seek to continue to serve, even after a long day\u2019s work, something exemplified by many hardworking mothers who continue to care for their families after long days at the workplace. And the Christian serves with the life, the talents, and the energy God has given, and so the first response of the Christian ought to be to thank God for these gifts and the trust he has placed in us by giving us a share in his salvific work. Yes, in one sense, we\u2019re \u201cuseless servants.\u201d But he has given us all the help he knows we need so that we can prove to be \u201cgood and faithful servants,\u201d who are \u201cno longer called servants but friends\u201d and who will inherit as a reward the kingdom prepared since the foundation of the world. So this is a summons to continue serving, to continue building God\u2019s kingdom, even though we may be tired and exhausted like the servant in the Gospel, knowing that God really is grateful, but doing what we\u2019re doing simply because it\u2019s the right thing to do in response to God\u2019s gift and call.<\/li>\n<li>In today\u2019s first reading, St. Paul describes the various traits in which we need to persevere as good and faithful servants, as true friends of God. St. Paul talks about the virtues he wants to encourage in various classes of people \u2014 senior men, senior women, young people, even Titus himself \u2014 but while, at certain times of life some of these\u00a0virtues may be more important, no matter how young we are, all of them are Christian virtues to which we should aspire \u201cso that the word of God may not be discredited\u201d and so that critics \u201cwill be put to shame without anything bad to say about us.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Say what is consistent with sound doctrine \u2014 We all have a duty to speak in a way that\u2019s consistent with the truth that God has revealed. If we teach contrary to the truth \u2014 whether we\u00a0consciously or unconsciously know that it contradicts what God has taught through revelation and through the Church \u2014 we can draw people to follow us down a wrong path. We need to know sound doctrine and have the love for God and for others to pass it on. Much of our present predicament is because sound teaching wasn\u2019t passed on and lived.<\/li>\n<li>Temperate \u2014 This means \u201csober\u201d in terms of food and drink. With the passing of time, we should learn what our limits are, what are true pleasures, and how not to over-indulge. Drunk or gluttonous seniors are a sad scandal to all.<\/li>\n<li>Dignified \u2014 This means that one is \u201cserious\u201d and aware of living in the light of eternity, one who, as St. Leo the Great will remind us on Thursday, remembers one\u2019s Christian dignity and lives in according with that intrinsic worth. We need to set an example of dignified behavior especially when others act in an undignified way.<\/li>\n<li>Self-controlled \u2014 The word means \u201cprudent,\u201d someone that has things under control, who doesn\u2019t give in to flights of anger or passion. This is the one thing St. Paul says young people need to have, to know their limits and follow them.<\/li>\n<li>Sound in faith, love and endurance \u2014 We must be healthy in our total self-entrustment to God and what he teaches, in sacrificing ourselves for God and others, and for perseverance until the end.<\/li>\n<li>Reverent \u2014 We must learn how to revere God and the things of God, especially others. To be reverent means to be conscious that one is dealing with sacred things. That reverence must pass to the way we treat others.<\/li>\n<li>Not slanderers \u2014 Gossip is a truly ugly scandal. Pope Francis says that it is slaying our brother Abel with our tongue.<\/li>\n<li>Not addicted to drink \u2014 How sad it is to see someone who is addicted to anyone or anything other than God! An elderly lady addicted to drink is a sign that not even with the passage of years has one learned basic human lessons.<\/li>\n<li>Teaching what is good \u2014 We can\u2019t keep goodness to ourselves.\u00a0<em>Bonum\u00a0diffusivum sui,\u00a0<\/em>the good spreads itself. We need to teach what is good.<\/li>\n<li>Chaste \u2014 We must be capable of unselfish love.<\/li>\n<li>Good homemakers \u2014 Women in particular must know the art of filling a house with the warmth and love so as to make a home, a skill that parishes likewise need.<\/li>\n<li>Control themselves \u2014 If one has no self-discipline, then one can\u2019t discipline \u2014 or make disciples of \u2014 others.<\/li>\n<li>Model of good deeds \u2014 To know what they should do, others should be able to copy our actions, which is the most powerful teaching of all.<\/li>\n<li>Integrity in teaching, dignity and sound speech \u2014 We need to have an integrity to follow what we teach on behalf of Christ, to carry ourselves as a Christian and to speak as a Christian ought.<\/li>\n<li>Reject godless ways and earthly desires \u2014 We have to make a choice for Christ which means that we likewise have to make a firm choice to separate ourselves from the things that are not of God and from spiritual worldliness. To believe in God we have to reject Satan, all his evil works and all his empty promises.<\/li>\n<li>Justly \u2014 We need to give God and others what they deserve, which is whole-hearted loving service until the end.<\/li>\n<li>Devoutly \u2014 Devout means \u201cde voto,\u201d or from an vow or commitment that we\u2019ve made to God and to others. It points to something that comes from the heart with love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These are the standard Christian virtues that set a good example for others. It might sound like a long list, as if St. Paul is proposing to us an unmeetable standard. But after summoning us to that style of life, he reminds us of God\u2019s help to meet it, saying, \u201cthe grace of God has appeared, saving all and training us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live temperately, justly and devoutly in this age.\u201d God gives us what we need.<\/li>\n<li>Someone who shows us that this life is possible is the great Carmelite we celebrate today. St. Elizabeth of the Trinity. With great humility, she recognized her nothingness, but also the power of God\u2019s grace who calls us to live with him. One of the most inspirational things about her is that she clearly\u00a0wasn\u2019t born a saint. She needed God\u2019s training to reject the godless way of a ferocious temper. Her mother and a confessor told her that, because of her strong personality, she would either become a terror or a saint. A big change took place with her first Confession at the age of seven. It brought her what she called her \u201cconversion\u201d and from that point forward she vowed, despite ongoing struggles, to become a \u201csweet, patient and obedient daughter.\u201d As she was preparing for her first Holy Communion four years later when she was 11, a religious sister told her that her name, Elizabeth, meant \u201cHouse of God\u201d \u2014 actually it means \u201coath of God,\u201d but the sister thought that the combination of \u201cEl\u201d (God) and \u201cbeth\u201d (house) was determinative despite the intervening letters (<em>omnia in bonum!<\/em>) \u2014 and that thought arrested her. She thought that she could not have such beautiful a name and not live as a house of God. Such a house could not abide someone who was prone to explosions and a source of trouble to others. She asked for the Lord\u2019s help who came to dwell within and whose presence she grew more aware of and treasured.\u00a0A great pianist and award winner at the Dijon Conservatory, she started to use her musical abilities for God\u2019s glory rather than her own, by singing in two Church choirs. She would eventually say that she wanted to do all things for the praise of God\u2019s glory. She began teaching Catechism so that others would share the same holy desire. She lived just 250 yards from a Discalced Carmelite Monastery and she wanted to enter there in order to serve God with everything she had, a response to a calling she discerned God had given her. She visited the convent when she was 17 and the superior there gave her a copy of a circular manuscript of a French Carmelite who had died just months before, and that first version of what would become St. Therese\u2019s <em>Story of a Soul<\/em> had a big impact on her and her desire to grow in prayer. Her widowed mother resisted her vocation for several years in the hope that Elizabeth would finally fall for one of her many suitors, but finally relented enough to say that she would need to wait until 21. Elizabeth did and entered at 21, where she would come to know God and serve him in others for five years, until she would die of Addison\u2019s disease at the age of 26.\u00a0Her life for Christ in the Holy Eucharist, as a house of God, led her to grasp that she could find him in the little things of each day, saying, \u201cI find Him everywhere while doing the wash as well as while praying.\u201d She became known as the \u201cprophet of the presence of God.\u201d Saint Elizabeth\u2019s beautiful prayer about God\u2019s dwelling within us in grace is contained for us in paragraph 260 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church describing how not only is God\u2019s plan for us to enter into the perfect unity of the Trinity in heaven, but to become a dwelling place of God now. \u201cO my God,\u201d she prayed, \u201cTrinity whom I adore, help me forget myself entirely so to establish myself in you, unmovable and peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. \u2026 Grant my soul peace. Make it your heaven, your beloved dwelling and the place of your rest. May I never abandon you there, but may I be there, whole and entire, completely vigilant in my faith, entirely adoring, and wholly given over to your creative action.\u201d She accepted her own immense sufferings as a gift from God to bring about a union with Christ on the Cross and to allow her to join Christ in the salvation of souls, making up what was lacking in his sufferings for the sake of his body the Church. She wasn\u2019t afraid to die, saying, \u201cI am going to Light, to Love, to Life,\u201d because in this world, within her, she was regularly communing with that same Light, Love and Life.\u00a0Before Saint Elizabeth died, she said, \u201cI think that in Heaven my mission will be to draw souls by helping them to\u00a0<em>go out of themselves<\/em>\u00a0in order to cling to God by a wholly simple and loving movement, and to keep them in this great silence within, which will\u00a0<em>allow God to communicate Himself to them and to transform them into Himself.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Her work, which she continues after her labors on earth, is to pray that we will be kept by God in the silence of prayerful union \u2014 prayerful mutual knowing \u2014 that will transform us progressively into communion with God, so that we will by the power of the Holy Spirit and following the command of Jesus go out of ourselves to bring others into that same communion with God and with us. As a profitable servant, she\u2019s praying for us and the whole Church now.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus had said that the prudent and faithful steward, in contrast to a useless one, is someone who acts in the supposed absence of the Master as he does in his presence. St. Paul at the end of today\u2019s passage says to Titus that God gives us the grace to live always in the presence of the Master, to \u201cawait the blessed hope, the appearance of the glory of the great God and of our savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people as his own, eager to do what is good.\u201d We repeat those words in every Mass after the Our Father as we prepare to receive that Blessed Hope, Jesus, on the altar, who gives himself to us so that we might live purely as his dwelling place, eager to serve. Even though we may be useless servants and even though we should have no expectation whatsoever to be served, that\u2019s in fact what Jesus does at every Mass, cleansing and feeding us with himself as he did the apostles in the Upper Room, and preparing us for the eternal banquet where he seeks to serve and feed us out of love forever. Through the intercession of St. Paul and St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, let\u2019s receive that help so that we may continue working out of love for God and others and for God\u2019s glory and kingdom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>The\u00a0readings for today&#8217;s homily were:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3 \">\n<div class=\"innerblock\">\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Reading 1<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/titus\/2?1\">Ti 2:1-8, 11-14<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>Beloved:<br \/>\nYou must say what is consistent with sound doctrine,<br \/>\nnamely, that older men should be temperate, dignified,<br \/>\nself-controlled, sound in faith, love, and endurance.<br \/>\nSimilarly, older women should be reverent in their behavior,<br \/>\nnot slanderers, not addicted to drink,<br \/>\nteaching what is good, so that they may train younger women<br \/>\nto love their husbands and children,<br \/>\nto be self-controlled, chaste, good homemakers,<br \/>\nunder the control of their husbands,<br \/>\nso that the word of God may not be discredited.<\/p>\n<p>Urge the younger men, similarly, to control themselves,<br \/>\nshowing yourself as a model of good deeds in every respect,<br \/>\nwith integrity in your teaching, dignity, and sound speech<br \/>\nthat cannot be criticized,<br \/>\nso that the opponent will be put to shame<br \/>\nwithout anything bad to say about us.<\/p>\n<p>For the grace of God has appeared, saving all<br \/>\nand training us to reject godless ways and worldly desires<br \/>\nand to live temperately, justly, and devoutly in this age,<br \/>\nas we await the blessed hope,<br \/>\nthe appearance of the glory of the great God<br \/>\nand of our savior Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nwho gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness<br \/>\nand to cleanse for himself a people as his own,<br \/>\neager to do what is good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3 \">\n<div class=\"innerblock\">\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Responsorial Psalm<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/37?3\">37:3-4, 18 and 23, 27 and 29<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>R.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0(39a)<strong> The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nTrust in the LORD and do good,<br \/>\nthat you may dwell in the land and be fed in security.<br \/>\nTake delight in the LORD,<br \/>\nand he will grant you your heart\u2019s requests.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe LORD watches over the lives of the wholehearted;<br \/>\ntheir inheritance lasts forever.<br \/>\nBy the LORD are the steps of a man made firm,<br \/>\nand he approves his way.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nTurn from evil and do good,<br \/>\nthat you may abide forever;<br \/>\nThe just shall possess the land<br \/>\nand dwell in it forever.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3 \">\n<div class=\"innerblock\">\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Alleluia<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/14?23\">Jn 14:23<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>R. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhoever loves me will keep my word,<br \/>\nand my Father will love him,<br \/>\nand we will come to him.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3 \">\n<div class=\"innerblock\">\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Gospel<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/17?7\">Lk 17:7-10<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p>Jesus said to the Apostles:<br \/>\n\u201cWho among you would say to your servant<br \/>\nwho has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field,<br \/>\n\u2018Come here immediately and take your place at table\u2019?<br \/>\nWould he not rather say to him,<br \/>\n\u2018Prepare something for me to eat.<br \/>\nPut on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink.<br \/>\nYou may eat and drink when I am finished\u2019?<br \/>\nIs he grateful to that servant because he did what was commanded?<br \/>\nSo should it be with you.<br \/>\nWhen you have done all you have been commanded, say,<br \/>\n\u2018We are unprofitable servants;<br \/>\nwe have done what we were obliged to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Unknown.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25339\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Unknown.jpeg?resize=225%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" 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