{"id":25886,"date":"2023-01-14T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T16:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=25886"},"modified":"2023-01-14T14:49:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T19:49:40","slug":"the-word-of-god-as-the-surgical-blade-of-the-divine-physician-first-saturday-i-january-14-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-word-of-god-as-the-surgical-blade-of-the-divine-physician-first-saturday-i-january-14-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word of God as the Surgical Blade of the Divine Physician, First Saturday (I), January 14, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nSaturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nJanuary\u00a014, 2023<br \/>\nHeb 4:12-16, Ps 19, Mk 2:13-17<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio\u00a0recording of\u00a0this homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25886-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.14.23_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.14.23_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.14.23_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following\u00a0<\/em><i>points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During this first week in Ordinary Time, we\u2019ve been hearing all week long about the power of the Word of God with the help of the Letter to the Hebrews and the beginning of St. Mark\u2019s Gospel. We\u2019ve stressed up until this point that Jesus is the definitive Word of the Father who has said all that the Father wanted to communicate. He\u2019s taken on our human nature in order to speak to us in humanly intelligible ways, with human words and with human actions. And the message he has come to deliver is one of salvation and liberation, leading us through suffering and death to perfection and glory.<\/li>\n<li>Today we come to the climax of this first week in the two parts of today\u2019s first reading. The Letter to the Hebrews summarizes\u00a0all we\u2019ve heard, saying, \u201cThe word of God,\u201d by which it means both Jesus, the incarnate Word and the words he says and God inspires others to say for him, \u201cis living and effective,\u00a0sharper than any two-edged sword,\u00a0penetrating even between soul and spirit,\u00a0joints and marrow,\u00a0and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.\u201d The Word of God is first alive and capable of raising us from the dead. It\u2019s not a word from the past but one very much from the present. The Word of God is, second, effective, its performative, it has real power.\u00a0We\u2019ve seen the power of his word in the Gospel scenes of this week, how Jesus\u00a0has called us to repent, believe, follow him and fish for others and how Peter, Andrew, James, John and today Matthew have indeed left everything to follow him, how at a word Jesus\u00a0has cast out demons, forgiven sins, made a paralyzed man walk, and healed countless sick people. That is the power of the word that at the beginning said, \u201cLet there be light\u201d and there was light. Third, the word of God is \u201csharper than any two edged sword,\u201d the sharpest of all ancient tools and weapons. We would say today it is sharper than any surgeon\u2019s scalpel or the finest razor blade. Fourth, that scalpel penetrates, it is able to cut through the finest of all articulations, separating \u201csoul and spirit,\u00a0joints and marrow,\u201d and even excising from us our sins. Jesus the incarnate Word is\u00a0so living, effective, sharp and penetrating that he can \u201cdiscern reflections and thoughts of the heart\u201d because \u201ceverything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him\u00a0to whom we must render an account.\u201d He is able to do this not only by his divine omniscience but also by his human experience. He has entered into our human reflections and thoughts, he has shared our transparency before God and looks at our reality not just with divine but human eyes.<\/li>\n<li>A few years ago I had the privilege to accompany the Board of Directors of the American Bible Society to Rome. When we met Pope Francis, he spoke to us about this passage \u201con the power of God\u2019s word.\u201d He said, \u201cThat word is <i>living and active<\/i>. At the very beginning of creation, God spoke and the world came to be (cf. <i>Gen <\/i>1:6-7). In the fullness of time, Jesus gave us words that are \u2018spirit and life\u2019 (<i>Jn <\/i>6:63). By his word, he restored broken hearts, as in the case of Zacchaeus and the tax collector Matthew, to whom \u2018he said, \u2018Follow me\u2019. And he got up and followed him\u2019 (<i>Mt <\/i>9:9). \u2026 God\u2019s word is<i> sharp\u2026 <\/i>for it penetrates to the depths and brings to light the dark recesses of the soul. As it penetrates, it purifies. The double edge of this \u2018sword\u2019 may at first wound, but it proves beneficial, for it cuts away everything that distances us from God and his love. \u2026\u00a0Finally, God\u2019s word <i>judges thoughts and intentions<\/i>. The word of life is also truth (cf. <i>Jn <\/i>14:6), and his word \u2018creates\u2019 truth in us, dissipating every form of falsehood and duplicity. Scripture constantly challenges us to redirect our path to God. Letting ourselves \u2018be read\u2019 by the word of God thus enables us to become in turn \u2018open books,\u2019 living reflections of the saving word, witnesses of Jesus and proclaimers of his newness.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>That living, active, sharp and discerning power of the Word brings us to the second part of today\u2019s passage, which I think contains the most consoling words in all of Sacred Scripture. The Letter to the Hebrews tells us that because God the Son\u00a0has entered into our our experience, entered into our suffering and death, we should be emboldened to follow everything he says as he leads us on a passover through earthly vicissitudes and sufferings to perfection and eternal glory. \u201cSince we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God,\u00a0let us hold fast to our confession.\u00a0For we do not have a high priest\u00a0who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses,\u00a0but one who has similarly been tested in every way,\u00a0yet without sin.\u201d Jesus fully took on our humanity. He sympathizes, he literally \u201csuffers with\u201d us, because he has been tempted every way we are but never consented. He knows the challenges we face and has met them. Think about the temptations you\u2019re facing\u00a0today, you faced yesterday, you\u2019ve faced in your life, Jesus faced every single one. We know that the devil subjected Jesus to \u201cevery temptation\u201d (Lk 4:13), but Jesus never consented. So when we\u2019re being tested, he can help us pass that test since he knows what we\u2019re going through. That leads to the most consoling conclusion: \u201cSo let us confidently approach the throne of grace\u00a0to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.\u201d Because Jesus knows what we need, we can approach him with confidence to receive forgiveness and grace to remain faithful. Notice that the sacred author does not say that because we have such a high priest who has experienced our temptations, \u201cJust do whatever you want, because Jesus knows you\u2019re a weak sinner. Give into the devil\u2019s temptations because Jesus is an indulgent pushover who came into our world to die so that you could sin boldly.\u201d No, the Letter to the Hebrews calls us to approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and opportune help. The throne of grace is God the Father\u2019s throne before which Jesus is interceding for us as our high priest. The throne of grace is God\u2019s word enfleshed in Jesus. The throne of grace is in a special way the Confessional, where God\u00a0gives us that forgiving love\u00a0and strengthening assistance, to embolden us through all our struggles. And God encouraged us to approach emboldened by Jesus\u2019 compassionate understanding and strengthened by his encouraging word.<\/li>\n<li>We see how powerful God\u2019s word is, and how he invites everyone to his throne of grace, in today\u2019s Gospel. Jesus\u00a0visits St. Matthew (whose Jewish name was Levi) in the very act of collecting taxes \u2014 which was consider by the Jews a tremendous sin of collaboration with the Romans and basically a mafia-like extortion racket ripping off fellow Jews \u2014 and calls him with his living and effective word to leave his mammon behind and follow him. Matthew does. Even though Matthew was a notorious public sinner, Jesus called him to the throne of grace and mercy and Matthew left his customs post and came immediately to that merciful throne. The Lord\u2019s double-edged sword cut him from his worldliness and his penetrating glance helped him to discern the deepest thoughts and reflections of his heart on the meaning of God, of his own life and what he needed to do. And St. Matthew\u2019s first response was to invite his friends to that same throne of forgiveness and assistance.\u00a0When people rejected Jesus\u2019 drawing near, speaking to and having table communion by eating with\u00a0\u201ctax collectors and sinners,\u201d he emphasized the whole nature of his incarnation. \u201cThose who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.\u00a0I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.\u201d In order to be called by God, we need to grasp that we\u2019re sinners in need of a Savior, sick in need of a doctor. We need Jesus more than the most suffering cancer patient needs an oncologist to give chemo. We can have no part of Jesus unless we recognize that we need him to save us from our sins. We draw near his throne not to receive cotton candy and a pat on the back telling us to just go on doing what we\u2019ve been doing, but to receive mercy and help. One of the reasons why Jesus doubtless called St. Matthew is to show everyone that he\u2019s serious about calling sinners so that he can heal them. He called one of the most notorious public sinners to be his disciple and then apostle. He\u2019s likewise called us to be Catholic not because we\u2019re better than everyone else \u2014 we\u2019re not \u2014 but to be signs of the power of his merciful love among our friends just like Matthew was among his. That\u2019s what it means to be a Christian, not to mention, in my case, a priest.<\/li>\n<li>Doubtless St. Matthew is\u00a0interceding for us today to allow the Word of God to have the same impact in our life. Doubtless he wants us to be consoled by Jesus\u2019 sharing all our temptations precisely so that we can have confidence to approach him. Doubtless he wants us to grasp that the same Lord who called him is pointing to us today and saying, once more, \u201cFollow me\u201d and is desiring\u00a0us to bring our friends to meet him, not merely\u00a0in our \u201chome,\u201d but in his home, where he feeds us from his throne of grace with all the timely help we need to come to the place where we hope to surround him on the throne of grace forever!<\/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\/hebrews\/4:12|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=1b2cecd18e&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Heb 4:12-16<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The word of God is living and effective,<br \/>\nsharper than any two-edged sword,<br \/>\npenetrating even between soul and spirit,<br \/>\njoints and marrow,<br \/>\nand able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.<br \/>\nNo creature is concealed from him,<br \/>\nbut everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him<br \/>\nto whom we must render an account.<br \/>\nSince we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens,<br \/>\nJesus, the Son of God,<br \/>\nlet us hold fast to our confession.<br \/>\nFor we do not have a high priest<br \/>\nwho is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses,<br \/>\nbut one who has similarly been tested in every way,<br \/>\nyet without sin.<br \/>\nSo let us confidently approach the throne of grace<br \/>\nto receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/19:8|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=ac657e9e33&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (see John 6:63c)\u00a0<strong>Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe law of the LORD is perfect,<br \/>\nrefreshing the soul;<br \/>\nThe decree of the LORD is trustworthy,<br \/>\ngiving wisdom to the simple.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe precepts of the LORD are right,<br \/>\nrejoicing the heart;<br \/>\nThe command of the LORD is clear,<br \/>\nenlightening the eye.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe fear of the LORD is pure,<br \/>\nenduring forever;<br \/>\nThe ordinances of the LORD are true,<br \/>\nall of them just.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.<\/strong><br \/>\nLet the words of my mouth and the thought of my heart<br \/>\nfind favor before you,<br \/>\nO LORD, my rock and my redeemer.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/4:18|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=95c2956c17&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Lk 4:18<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor<br \/>\nand to proclaim liberty to captives.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/mark\/2:13|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=3554c62027&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Mk 2:13-17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus went out along the sea.<br \/>\nAll the crowd came to him and he taught them.<br \/>\nAs he passed by, he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus,<br \/>\nsitting at the customs post.<br \/>\nJesus said to him, \u201cFollow me.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he got up and followed Jesus.<br \/>\nWhile he was at table in his house,<br \/>\nmany tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and his disciples;<br \/>\nfor there were many who followed him.<br \/>\nSome scribes who were Pharisees saw that Jesus was eating with sinners<br \/>\nand tax collectors and said to his disciples,<br \/>\n\u201cWhy does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus heard this and said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cThose who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.<br \/>\nI did not come to call the righteous but sinners.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-calling-of-st-matthewe2809d-by-bernado-strozzi-1620.jpg.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25887\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-calling-of-st-matthewe2809d-by-bernado-strozzi-1620.jpg.webp?resize=300%2C227&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9120\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25886-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.14.23_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.14.23_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.14.23_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\/1.14.23_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=25886-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.14.23_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"1.14.23_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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