{"id":25406,"date":"2022-11-15T10:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=25406"},"modified":"2022-11-15T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:14:43","slug":"learning-to-walk-with-jesus-dressed-in-white-33rd-tuesday-ii-november-15-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/learning-to-walk-with-jesus-dressed-in-white-33rd-tuesday-ii-november-15-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Walk with Jesus Dressed in White, 33rd Tuesday (II), November 15, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nTuesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Albert the Great, Bishop and Doctor<br \/>\nNovember\u00a015, 2022<br \/>\nRev 3:1-6.14-22; Ps 15, Lk 19:1-10<\/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-25406-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.15.22_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.15.22_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.15.22_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 in the readings, we are able to focus on the heart of Jesus\u2019 interactions with us, the meaning of the incarnation, of his public ministry, of his passion, death, resurrection and beyond. \u00a0It can be summed up by two phrases at the end of the Gospel and first reading respectively: \u201cThe Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost\u201d and \u201cI stand at the door and knock.\u201d Those words of Jesus at the end of his interaction with Zacchaeus and the crowds and after his address to the Seven Churches of the Asian diaspora help us to grasp God\u2019s great desire to save us in his mercy. He knocks, he invites, he wants to sit us on his throne and share with us the victory of his triumph over sin and death. Let\u2019s enter into these readings and learn the lessons God wants us to capture.<\/li>\n<li>The Lord\u2019s merciful desire to save was on full display in the Gospel with Zacchaeus. His\u00a0love for sinners was so profound that he literally went to the deepest place on earth in search of perhaps the greatest public sinner of that city, to reconcile him to the Father. Jesus went to Jericho, the lowest city on the planet \u2014 853 feet below sea level \u2014\u00a0to find Zacchaeus, who was not just one of a bunch of tax-collectors loathsome to the Jewish authorities, but the chief tax collector of the region, which was\u00a0the equivalent of the don of the mafia. He conspired with the Romans to rip off his own fellow Jews through the crooked Roman tax system. Jesus had promised that he, the Good Shepherd, would leave the ninety-nine sheep in his fold to search out and save one lost sheep, and this is what he did, leaving the crowds behind and entering alone with Zacchaeus into his home and into his life. He called Zacchaeus, his lost sheep, by name and heaven rejoiced on that day more for him than for all the others. So, too, today and everyday, Jesus takes the initiative of knocking at the door of our souls, asking for entry, coming to us wherever we are, no matter the depths to which we\u2019ve sunk, no matter the fact that perhaps everyone else around us might despise us. Jesus never abandons us. To the extent that we repent of whatever sins we\u2019ve committed and accept Jesus\u2019 gracious invitation by \u201cwelcoming him with delight,\u201d we, too, like Zacchaeus, can have salvation come to us.<\/li>\n<li>The diminutive Zacchaeus\u2019 climbing of the tree, moreover, is more than merely an interesting detail. The text tells us that he was trying to see Jesus, but couldn\u2019t because of the crowd, so he ran ahead and climbed a tree along Jesus\u2019 route in order to be able to see him. We, too, often cannot see the Lord because other people get in the way. They block our sight in various ways. We\u2019re often too small of stature to see over such obstacles, and, unfortunately, too often others are too selfish, distracted, sinful, judgmental or out-of-it, to do anything to help us and bring us into the presence of the Lord. Like a little child, however, Zacchaeus climbs a tree to see the Lord. Such an act could have led to great mockery for a middle-aged public figure. But Zacchaeus didn\u2019t care. He wanted to see the Lord and no obstacle was going to stop him. His example challenges each of us to consider the extent to which we go, the trees or obstacles we\u2019ll climb, in order to see Jesus more clearly. In our prayer, we regularly \u201cleave the ground,\u201d separating ourselves from the crowds, to go to Jesus, to behold him, to make sure that we are able to focus on him. But then, just like Jesus called Zacchaeus to come down and spend the rest of the day with him, so Jesus does the same for us. Our mental prayer is a time in which we can fix our eyes on Jesus so that we can keep them on him the rest of the day.<\/li>\n<li>Zacchaeus\u2019 response to Jesus\u2019 invitation teaches us that true conversion to God also brings about a real conversion to others. The rehabilitation of our relationship with God is not meant to remain private, but is supposed to help us restore our relationship with others and inspire us to repair whatever harms we have caused.\u00a0Even though Zacchaeus, like his fellow tax-collectors, would have been guilty of ripping off the people of Jericho by unregulated over-taxation, he knew that he needed to make amends and to use the gift of his office to do good rather than evil. So he told Jesus, \u201cLook, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.\u201d\u00a0Strict justice would have required his giving back precisely what he had overcharged. If he had really wanted to be kind, he would have given it back with interest. But he was going to give it back with four-hundred percent interest, which was a sign of great contrition for the gravity of his previous sins of stealing and intimidation. Moreover, a strictly observant religious Jew would give ten percent of his income over to God and the poor. Zacchaeus committed himself to giving fifty percent of his income to those who were needy, which was a sign of great love and a recognition that others needed his money more than he did.\u00a0From that point forward, he was going to be an honest tax collector, a Christian tax collector, and use his office for his salvation and sanctification and for that of others. Zacchaeus likely remained a rich man, but one who used his riches, used what God gave him, for building up God\u2019s kingdom. We\u2019re called to do the same with whatever God has given us, lavishly sharing the mercy we\u2019ve received with others.<\/li>\n<li>We can also learn so much about the meaning of Jesus\u2019 coming to seek and save what was lost in today\u2019s first reading from the Book of Revelation. Jesus\u2019 words are\u00a0highly relevant because what he describes of these Christians in the sixth and seventh of the seven Churches to whom the Book of Revelation was addressed are applicable in many circumstances to many Christians\u00a0in the United States. In saying these strong words, Jesus was summoning them to conversion, so that they, like Zacchaeus, would recognize that they were lost and open themselves up to the salvation he was seeking to bring them. He was calling them to mercy and showing them the way to remain in his mercy. And so what I\u2019d like to focus on is not just the Divine Physician\u2019s diagnosis, but also his prescription.<\/li>\n<li>To the Christians in Sardis, Jesus said, \u201cI know your works, that you have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.\u201d On the outside and in name they seemed to be Christians but Jesus, who can read the heart, proclaimed\u00a0that they were dead on the inside. To be alive is to be growing and they weren\u2019t growing. When we stop growing, when our cells stop dividing, we\u2019re dead. It\u2019s also quite likely\u00a0that many of them\u00a0were in mortal sin and had voluntarily killed divine life within them. Jesus later noted that a few people in Sardis hadn\u2019t \u201csoiled their garments\u201d and would\u00a0\u201cwalk with me dressed in white\u201d \u2014 which is a summary of sanctity \u2014 implying at the same time that most of them had sullied their baptismal garments with serious sin and were no longer walking with Jesus on the path of holiness. Jesus gave them five things to do in response. First he told them \u201cBe watchful,\u201d to look out for him, to find like Zacchaeus did. Second, \u201cstrengthen what is left,\u201d which means to take advantage of the gifts and opportunities one still has, not to look back, to what was lost, but rather to the present and unite one\u2019s life with God. Third, he called them to receptivity: \u201cRemember how you accepted and heard,\u201d to live by it again and to repent. How important is our openness to God, especially to his word, in order to grow in the spiritual life. The Lord wants us to have a heart that is totally\u00a0receptive to his action, much like we see in our Lady. Fourth, he wants their to cleanse their garments of anything that has soiled them, which means to come to him for mercy, pointing to the importance of the Sacrament of Mercy. Lastly, he wants us to \u201cwalk with [him] dressed in white.\u201d He wants us to follow him, to be unashamed of our baptism, of our purity, of our gifts. These are ways to come fully to life.<\/li>\n<li>To the Christians in Laodicea, Jesus used even stronger language that pointed to their need for mercy and how to receive it and respond to it. \u201cI know your works,\u201d he said, and \u201cthat you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot but since you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.\u201d Jesus ultimately wants us to be on fire with love for him and others, but he\u2019d take our being cold because at least those who are cold shiver and recognize that they need the heat. Those who are tepid, he said, who are living\u00a0in 65 degree weather, think that they can just go on that way. Jesus says that such lukewarmness makes him sick to his stomach. The reason for their lukewarmness, he said, is a material self-sufficiency that leads them to place their faith, hope and love in material things rather than in God. They think they don\u2019t need God. \u201cYou say,\u201d Jesus adds, \u201c\u2018I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,\u2019 and yet do not realize that you are [spiritually] wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked.\u201d They don\u2019t even grasp how sick and shameful their circumstance is because they\u2019ve been deadened by their materialism and consumerism. Jesus, here, wasn\u2019t insulting them in order to put them down; he was telling them the truth in order to raise them up. Like a doctor\u2019s telling a patient directly about his cancerous condition and what drastic treatments will be needed, Jesus, who came to seek and save what was lost, was letting them know that they needed severe treatment of their <em>heart<\/em> and what it desired, of their <em>body<\/em>, and of their <em>eyes<\/em>. \u201cI advise you to buy from me,\u201d he said, \u201cgold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on so that your shameful nakedness may not be exposed and buy ointment to smear on your eyes so that you may see.\u201d He wanted them to \u201cbuy\u201d it, rather than just receive it, because he desired them to grasp what he was giving as the pearl of great price worth selling what they presently had, their golden calves, to obtain. He wanted them to purchase\u00a0the true spiritual wealth of fire-refined gold, the real treasure of the kingdom, through refining all they had through the fire of charity. He wanted them to purchase anew the white garments of baptism to cover themselves, as the sons of Adam and Eve who covered themselves, in the graces of baptism and walk with him in the grace of the communion begun in baptism. He wanted them to obtain the ointment of the Holy Spirit for their eyes so that they might see and value things aright. All of this was precisely an offer of salvation. Jesus said, \u201cThose whom I love, I prove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.\u201d He finished the words to the seven Churches by saying, \u201cBehold, I stand at the door and knock.\u00a0If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,\u00a0then I will enter his house and dine with him,\u00a0and he with me.\u201d Jesus is always knocking, politely asking entry into our lives, hoping that we will open the door to a life of total communion with him so that, as he promised, we can sit with him on his throne and share his victory.<\/li>\n<li>Someone who received the Lord into his life, who was eager to find him in the midst of so many fields of study, who opened the door when the Lord was knocking with a vocation, who was vigilant, grateful, receptive, cleansed, who would literally walk thousands of miles spreading the faith, who placed his treasure in the refined gold, baptismal garments, and sacred unction of God, was St. Albert the Great whom the Church celebrates today. How fitting it was that he was vested in the white garments of a Dominican. And his learning became in some way a tree with a perch through which so many others were able to see the truth of God and the Truth God is, including so many Dominican saints from Thomas Aquinas down to this day. He ended up writing 38 huge volumes on theology, Biblical interpretation, physics, geography, astronomy, mineralogy, chemistry and biology, and is the patron saint of natural scientists. His prodigious output might lead us to presume that all of this came easy to him, but it didn\u2019t. He needed to persevere through various struggles in his studies. He said later on in life that he had become very discouraged and was strongly inclined to return to secular life but our Lady appeared to him and promised to ask for him illuminating grace in his studies if he would persevere. He decided to persevere, he received that light, and he bore tremendous fruit, giving not just fifty percent but one-hundred to others.<\/li>\n<li>Just like the Lord went to the lowest place on earth to bring Zacchaeus back to the fold, so the Lord Jesus comes\u00a0continually to save us, no matter how far we\u2019ve sunk, and no matter how many times we\u2019ve fallen. And there\u2019s nothing he won\u2019t do to save us. When we and the whole human race were incapable of seeing Him on account of the great weight of sin which was reducing our humanity to smaller and smaller images of what we are called to be, and thereby when we were incapable of climbing any tree at all, he, out of his great love for us,\u00a0<em>climbed one on our behalf<\/em>, so that each of us might still be able to see him, perched upon his glorious wooden throne. He invites each of us here and now in this Eucharistic participation in his death and resurrection, to be lifted up by him onto that life-giving tree, so that as victors we might sit with him on his throne and as God\u2019s children might spend eternity in a\u00a0celestial tree house built upon the Cross\u2019 firm foundation. Today Jesus knocks on the door of our heart and says, \u201cI must stay in your house today.\u201d Like St. Albert the Great, let\u2019s let him in totally, so that he might dine with us and us with him, in a communion that will know no end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/revelation\/3:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=dff32db9c8&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">rv 3:1-6, 14-22<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">I, John, heard the Lord saying to me:<br \/>\n\u201cTo the angel of the Church in Sardis, write this:<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\u201c\u2018The one who has the seven spirits of God<br \/>\nand the seven stars says this: \u201cI know your works,<br \/>\nthat you have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.<br \/>\nBe watchful and strengthen what is left, which is going to die,<br \/>\nfor I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.<br \/>\nRemember then how you accepted and heard; keep it, and repent.<br \/>\nIf you are not watchful, I will come like a thief,<br \/>\nand you will never know at what hour I will come upon you.<br \/>\nHowever, you have a few people in Sardis<br \/>\nwho have not soiled their garments;<br \/>\nthey will walk with me dressed in white,<br \/>\nbecause they are worthy.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\u201c\u2018The victor will thus be dressed in white,<br \/>\nand I will never erase his name from the book of life<br \/>\nbut will acknowledge his name in the presence of my Father<br \/>\nand of his angels.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\u201c\u2018Whoever has ears ought to hear what the Spirit says to the churches.\u2019\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\u201cTo the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write this:\u201c<br \/>\n\u2018The Amen, the faithful and true witness,<br \/>\nthe source of God\u2019s creation, says this:<br \/>\n\u201cI know your works;<br \/>\nI know that you are neither cold nor hot.<br \/>\nI wish you were either cold or hot.<br \/>\nSo, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold,<br \/>\nI will spit you out of my mouth.<br \/>\nFor you say, \u2018I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,\u2019<br \/>\nand yet do not realize that you are wretched,<br \/>\npitiable, poor, blind, and naked.<br \/>\nI advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich,<br \/>\nand white garments to put on<br \/>\nso that your shameful nakedness may not be exposed,<br \/>\nand buy ointment to smear on your eyes so that you may see.<br \/>\nThose whom I love, I reprove and chastise.<br \/>\nBe earnest, therefore, and repent.\u201c<br \/>\n\u2018Behold, I stand at the door and knock.<br \/>\nIf anyone hears my voice and opens the door,<br \/>\nthen I will enter his house and dine with him,<br \/>\nand he with me.<br \/>\nI will give the victor the right to sit with me on my throne,<br \/>\nas I myself first won the victory<br \/>\nand sit with my Father on his throne.<br \/>\n\u201c\u2018Whoever has ears ought to hear<br \/>\nwhat the Spirit says to the churches.\u2019\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/15:2|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=d864a0efe9&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">ps 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (Rev. 3: 21)\u00a0<strong>I will seat the victor beside me on my throne.<\/strong><br \/>\nHe who walks blamelessly and does justice;<br \/>\nwho thinks the truth in his heart<br \/>\nand slanders not with his tongue.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>I will seat the victor beside me on my throne.<\/strong><br \/>\nWho harms not his fellow man,<br \/>\nnor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;<br \/>\nBy whom the reprobate is despised,<br \/>\nwhile he honors those who fear the LORD.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>I will seat the victor beside me on my throne.<\/strong><br \/>\nWho lends not his money at usury<br \/>\nand accepts no bribe against the innocent.<br \/>\nHe who does these things<br \/>\nshall never be disturbed.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>I will seat the victor beside me on my throne.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/19:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=7b289e29cf&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">lk 19:1-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">At that time Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town.<br \/>\nNow a man there named Zacchaeus,<br \/>\nwho was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man,<br \/>\nwas seeking to see who Jesus was;<br \/>\nbut he could not see him because of the crowd,<br \/>\nfor he was short in stature.<br \/>\nSo he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus,<br \/>\nwho was about to pass that way.<br \/>\nWhen he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said,<br \/>\n\u201cZacchaeus, come down quickly,<br \/>\nfor today I must stay at your house.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he came down quickly and received him with joy.<br \/>\nWhen they saw this, they began to grumble, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cHe has gone to stay at the house of a sinner.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord,<br \/>\n\u201cBehold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor,<br \/>\nand if I have extorted anything from anyone<br \/>\nI shall repay it four times over.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd Jesus said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cToday salvation has come to this house<br \/>\nbecause this man too is a descendant of Abraham.<br \/>\nFor the Son of Man has come to seek<br \/>\nand to save what was lost.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Unknown-1.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25407\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=196%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4434\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25406-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.15.22_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.15.22_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.15.22_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\/11.15.22_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=25406-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.15.22_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"11.15.22_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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