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Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the Second Week of Advent<br \/>\nDecember\u00a05, 2022<br \/>\nIs 35:1-10, Ps 85, Lk 5:17-26<\/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-25566-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.5.22_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.5.22_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.5.22_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the\u00a0homily:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Throughout the first week of Advent, we\u2019ve been speaking of the triple dynamism of Christ\u2019s coming to us, our going to meet him, and, having been transformed by the encounter, traveling with him forward. Yesterday, St. John the Baptist reminded us of our need to prepare the way for this encounter and make straight the paths. On Saturday, Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah who will feed us, quench our thirst and teach us will speak to us from behind and say, \u201cThis is the path. Walk in it!\u201d Today the Prophet Isaiah tells us that this path Jesus will come into our world to indicate is\u00a0a special one: it\u2019s a highway called \u201cthe holy way.\u201d And Isaiah says that this way of sanctity has several characteristics:\n<ul>\n<li>First, \u00a0\u201cno one unclean may pass over it.\u201d It\u2019s not only for those who desire holiness, but those who have been cleansed. God\u2019s mercy, in other words, precedes our repentance, our making straight the paths.<\/li>\n<li>Second, it\u2019s \u201cfor those with a journey to make.\u201d It\u2019s not for the inert\u00a0who\u00a0desire to remain exactly where they are, who don\u2019t want to change, who don\u2019t want to move.<\/li>\n<li>Third, it\u2019s an exodus route\u00a0on which \u201cthe redeemed will walk.\u201d Even when we\u2019re redeemed that is not the end of the journey, but in a sense the beginning. Once we\u2019ve been redeemed, now we can begin that journey. \u201cSalvation,\u201d as we prayed in the Psalm, is \u201calong the way of his steps.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>But this journey along the highway of holiness is something\u00a0that sometimes we don\u2019t have the strength to journey on our own. Jesus said elsewhere in the Gospel that the road that leads to life is narrow and few find it but the way that leads to perdition is broad and there are many on it. The highway to hell, in other words, is congested\u00a0and the eternal express has little traffic. Many of us need the help not only of God but of others to get on the path of holiness. We can think of those who first taught us the faith, those who nourished us in faith, those who continue to pray for us, and guide us, and inspire us, correct us with love, and set the example for us. We can think about those people who really helped us when we couldn\u2019t move, when we were neck-deep in uncleanness. We can think about those who are constantly picking us up as we fall and helping us anew. And we can think about the way as Catholics we\u2019re called to assist others to come to God\u2019s mercy, to gain the strength for the journey, and to walk with us on the pilgrimage\u00a0of the redeemed.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s Gospel is about that. We see how the friends of the paralyzed man perseveringly and faithfully overcame every obstacle to bring their friend to Jesus. When they couldn\u2019t get him in through the front door, they did what was very difficult \u2014 keep him balanced on his stretcher as they lifted him up on the roof and then lowered him right on top of Jesus. In the case of the paralyzed man, he needed more than to fill in valleys and level mountains. He needed friends to help him overcome the obstacle of too many people in the way and to climb roofs. But he got that help. And when Jesus saw him, he helped him with the first condition: he made him clean, saying to him, on account of the true friends\u2019 faith, \u201cYour sins are forgiven.\u201d To show in the face of criticism he had that power and that desire to make us all clean, he cured him of his paralysis and sent him on a journey: \u201cRise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.\u201d He began the journey of the redeemed: St. Luke tells us, \u201cHe stood up immediately before them,\u00a0picked up what he had been lying on,\u00a0and went home, glorifying God.\u201d And that praise was contagious. St. Luke adds: \u201cAstonishment seized them all and they glorified God,\u00a0and, struck with awe, they said, \u2018We have seen incredible things today.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>During this Advent season, we need not only to thank God for all those who have brought us to Jesus so that we may be cleansed, healed, strengthened, and begin the walk of the redeemed following the Redeemer, but become true friends of others, bringing them to Jesus in our prayers, through our invitations, even in our cars or other ways of transportation. Like the friends of the paralytic, we have to be willing to break social convention, to do something others might consider crazy, in order to help them come to Jesus, especially to receive the forgiveness of their sins through his mercy in the Sacrament he established for that purpose. We also need to allow others, including each other, to carry us in this way rather than out of shame prefer to stay paralyzed in our own problems. Jesus came into the world to transform and change us, but sometimes to receive what he wants to give, we need to allow others to help us. Jesus has the power\u00a0to make deserts, parched lands and steppes bloom with abundant flowers, and shine like the splendor of the forests of Lebanon. He has the power and desires\u00a0to strengthen feeble hands, make firm weak knees, embolden\u00a0frightened hearts, open blind eyes, clear deaf ears, make the lame leap and the mute sing. No matter how injured we or others are, he wants to touch us and make it possible for us to journey with the redeemed along the highway of holiness, the way of the saints.<\/li>\n<li>That journey of the redeemed always leads to and from the altar, where we meet the same Jesus who healed the paralyzed man. It\u2019s here that we bring all our loved ones in our prayers. It\u2019s here that they bring us. It\u2019s to get here that we should overcome every obstacle.\u00a0It\u2019s here that the Lord wants to strengthen our hands in prayer and in work, fortify our knees for kneeling in adoration and in service, make our frightened hearts steadfast in love, our eyes see him in others, our ears hear his voice and the cries of those in need, and help us to sing and to leap with joy. It\u2019s here that kindness and truth meet, that justice and peace kiss. It\u2019s here that the Lord wants to help us rise with his Risen Body, pick up our stretcher rather that continue to use it as a crutch, and go not only home but throughout the world proclaiming God\u2019s glory to every creature and helping them to join us on the road of the redeemed.\u00a0It\u2019s here that\u00a0astonishment should seize us all as we glorify God and, struck with awe, say, \u201cWe have seen incredible things today,\u201d and \u201cheard incredible things,\u201d and most amazing of all, we have received within the one who not only has power on earth to forgive sins, but power to make us saints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/isaiah\/35:1\">IS 35:1-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The desert and the parched land will exult;<br \/>\nthe steppe will rejoice and bloom.<br \/>\nThey will bloom with abundant flowers,<br \/>\nand rejoice with joyful song.<br \/>\nThe glory of Lebanon will be given to them,<br \/>\nthe splendor of Carmel and Sharon;<br \/>\nThey will see the glory of the LORD,<br \/>\nthe splendor of our God.<br \/>\nStrengthen the hands that are feeble,<br \/>\nmake firm the knees that are weak,<br \/>\nSay to those whose hearts are frightened:<br \/>\nBe strong, fear not!<br \/>\nHere is your God,<br \/>\nhe comes with vindication;<br \/>\nWith divine recompense<br \/>\nhe comes to save you.<br \/>\nThen will the eyes of the blind be opened,<br \/>\nthe ears of the deaf be cleared;<br \/>\nThen will the lame leap like a stag,<br \/>\nthen the tongue of the mute will sing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Streams will burst forth in the desert,<br \/>\nand rivers in the steppe.<br \/>\nThe burning sands will become pools,<br \/>\nand the thirsty ground, springs of water;<br \/>\nThe abode where jackals lurk<br \/>\nwill be a marsh for the reed and papyrus.<br \/>\nA highway will be there,<br \/>\ncalled the holy way;<br \/>\nNo one unclean may pass over it,<br \/>\nnor fools go astray on it.<br \/>\nNo lion will be there,<br \/>\nnor beast of prey go up to be met upon it.<br \/>\nIt is for those with a journey to make,<br \/>\nand on it the redeemed will walk.<br \/>\nThose whom the LORD has ransomed will return<br \/>\nand enter Zion singing,<br \/>\ncrowned with everlasting joy;<br \/>\nThey will meet with joy and gladness,<br \/>\nsorrow and mourning will flee.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/85:9\">PS 85:9AB AND 10, 11-12, 13-14<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (Isaiah 35:4f)\u00a0Our God will come to save us!<br \/>\nI will hear what God proclaims;<br \/>\nthe LORD \u2013for he proclaims peace to his people.<br \/>\nNear indeed is his salvation to those who fear him,<br \/>\nglory dwelling in our land.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Our God will come to save us!<br \/>\nKindness and truth shall meet;<br \/>\njustice and peace shall kiss.<br \/>\nTruth shall spring out of the earth,<br \/>\nand justice shall look down from heaven.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Our God will come to save us!<br \/>\nThe LORD himself will give his benefits;<br \/>\nour land shall yield its increase.<br \/>\nJustice shall walk before him,<br \/>\nand salvation, along the way of his steps.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Our God will come to save us!<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia<\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nBehold the king will come, the Lord of the earth,<br \/>\nand he himself will lift the yoke of our captivity.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/5:17\">LK 5:17-26<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">One day as Jesus was teaching,<br \/>\nPharisees and teachers of the law,<br \/>\nwho had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem,<br \/>\nwere sitting there,<br \/>\nand the power of the Lord was with him for healing.<br \/>\nAnd some men brought on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed;<br \/>\nthey were trying to bring him in and set him in his presence.<br \/>\nBut not finding a way to bring him in because of the crowd,<br \/>\nthey went up on the roof<br \/>\nand lowered him on the stretcher through the tiles<br \/>\ninto the middle in front of Jesus.<br \/>\nWhen Jesus saw their faith, he said,<br \/>\n\u201cAs for you, your sins are forgiven.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Then the scribes and Pharisees began to ask themselves,<br \/>\n\u201cWho is this who speaks blasphemies?<br \/>\nWho but God alone can forgive sins?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus knew their thoughts and said to them in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat are you thinking in your hearts?<br \/>\nWhich is easier, to say, \u2018Your sins are forgiven,\u2019<br \/>\nor to say, \u2018Rise and walk\u2019?<br \/>\nBut that you may know<br \/>\nthat the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins\u201d\u2013<br \/>\nhe said to the one who was paralyzed,<br \/>\n\u201cI say to you, rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">He stood up immediately before them,<br \/>\npicked up what he had been lying on,<br \/>\nand went home, glorifying God.<br \/>\nThen astonishment seized them all and they glorified God,<br \/>\nand, struck with awe, they said,<br \/>\n\u201cWe have seen incredible things today.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/lal278518.jpg.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25567\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/lal278518.jpg.webp?resize=300%2C289&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4146\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25566-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.5.22_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.5.22_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.5.22_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\/12.5.22_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=25566-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/12.5.22_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"12.5.22_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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