{"id":25928,"date":"2023-01-19T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=25928"},"modified":"2023-01-19T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T18:20:54","slug":"the-extraordinary-attraction-work-and-intercession-of-jesus-second-thursday-i-january-19-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-extraordinary-attraction-work-and-intercession-of-jesus-second-thursday-i-january-19-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extraordinary Attraction, Work and Intercession of Jesus, Second Thursday (I), January 19, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nThursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nJanuary\u00a021, 2023<br \/>\nHeb 7:25-8:6, Ps 40, Mk 3:7-12<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25928-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.23_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.23_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.23_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in the Gospel we see something on which we can never focus enough: the great attractiveness of the Lord Jesus. St. Mark tells us that such a large crowd of people was following Jesus that he needed to have a boat ready to push a little bit away from the shore so that the people wouldn\u2019t crush him. They were coming from Galilee, Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, the Transjordan, Tyre and Sidon. For those who don\u2019t know the geography of the Holy Land very well, those locations might just be names. But Galilee was in the north and Judea\u00a0in the south of the Holy Land. Idumea was even further to the South. The Transjordan was the pagan inhabited region on the eastern side of the Jordan River and Sea of Galilee. Tyre and Sidon were pagan cities way to the north along the Mediterranean. To get a sense of the message St. Mark was communicating it would be as if Jesus were here in Manhattan and that people were walking to see him from Maine, Connecticut and as far away as Washington, North Carolina, and Montauk, Long Island, and it wasn\u2019t just Catholics coming but also atheists, secularists, and those of other religions. They were all pressing upon Jesus, who was curing and teaching. Even the demons couldn\u2019t resist. When they saw him, they fell down before him \u2014 in other words, in begrudging adoration \u2014 and shouted, \u201cYou are the Son of God.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>We need constantly to ask whether Jesus maintains this attraction for us and others. There are many today for whom Jesus has become a little like Abraham Lincoln, a revered figure of the past but not someone with whom one has a personal relationship. Just like many won\u2019t make the sacrifice to go to Springfield, Illinois, or to the Lincoln Memorial in DC, so many won\u2019t even make the effort to go to Church to spend an hour with him in adoration or, sometimes, even go to meet him at Mass. Many say they believe in him, but what they likely mean is that they believe he existed, lived, died, and even rose; they don\u2019t, however, really live by faith, committing themselves to him and being drawn fundamentally not by duty but by fascination, by love, by attraction. Those who are fascinated by Jesus will hunger for his word and become men and women whose lives are drenched by the daily dew of the Gospel. Those who are attracted by Jesus will come to him in adoration and say, as the young Samuel did, \u201cSpeak, Lord, for your servant is listening.\u201d Those who truly believe in what Jesus has said and done and who love him will seek to come to meet him at Mass every day they can and in confession to say sorry as often as they sin. Those who take Jesus seriously will, in union with him, go out as Good Samaritans to care for a wounded world. Jesus has never lost his attractiveness. He\u2019s as attractive today as ever. But many times our lives, our hearts, our minds, are so saturated with worldly cares and anxieties, with lesser hopes, with false gods that we place first in our lives, that the type of wonder, fascination, love and attraction we\u2019re supposed to have toward Jesus is extinguished partially or fully. Today is a great day to\u00a0ponder anew the real person of Jesus who is alive in the Sacraments, who speaks to us in\u00a0his Word and in prayer, who is present in his image in others, especially in the needy, and to make the effort \u2014 even the crazy effort of walking from our own Tyre or Idumea to the Sea of Galilee \u2014 to draw close to him.<\/li>\n<li>When we do, we will find something really startling and beautiful about the Jesus we meet. The Letter to the Hebrews describes this at the beginning of today\u2019s first reading. The sacred author tells us, \u201cJesus is always able to save those who approach God through him,\u00a0since he lives forever to make intercession for them.\u201d When we approach Jesus, he saves us. His entire life is one of intercession for us and our salvation. He took our nature to intercede for us and take our place on death row. He intercedes for us still. He prays for us. He seeks to help and guide us. For me one of the most powerful sentences in the Gospel is when Jesus, after declaring\u00a0that Satan desires to sift all of the apostles like wheat, says to St. Peter, \u201cBut I have prayed for you (singular), Peter, that your faith may not fail, but after you have converted, you will strengthen your brothers\u201d (Lk 22:31). Jesus prayed for Peter personally and he let him know it. The same Jesus prays for us personally. The same Jesus intercedes for us personally. The same Jesus seeks to save each one of us and is willing to be crucified to do so. How can someone who loves us this much not be attractive!<\/li>\n<li>But the way that Jesus wants to save us is not without our participation. He wants to save us through\u00a0transforming us from within to unite ourselves with him. As we\u2019ve seen in our journey through the Letter to the Hebrews over the last ten days at daily Mass, Jesus wants to involve us in his own priesthood so that we can convert our entire life into a sacrifice of love for God and others. We see one of the high points of this priestly ministry and participative priestly union in a very important doctrinal part of today\u2019s first reading. The Letter to the Hebrews says that Jesus \u201chas no need, as did the high priests,\u00a0to offer sacrifice day after day,\u00a0first for his own sins and then for those of the people;\u00a0he did that once for all when he offered himself.\u201d Many fundamentalist Protestants attack Catholicism because they think we violate this passage. Jesus offered a sacrifice once and for all and we Catholics, they say, offer the sacrifice of the Mass, which we claim to be Jesus\u2019 sacrifice from the Upper Room and Calvary, every single day. To them, this \u201cproves\u201d that our understanding of the Mass is flawed. But this is not, nor ever has been, the Church doctrine on the Mass. Catholics believe that Jesus offered his body and blood once and for all on Holy Thursday and Good Friday and that at Mass we enter into that one, eternal sacrifice offered for all. But today we\u2019re not just repeating exactly what we did yesterday. Something important changes from Mass to Mass, namely <em>the sacrifice we unite to Christ\u2019s one eternal Sacrifice<\/em>. Every Mass is different because of the offering we make in time together with Christ\u2019s one eternal offering. At the offertory, the priest prays, \u201cPray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the Almighty Father.\u201d This is a liturgical echo of St. Paul\u2019s words, \u201cI\u00a0urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship\u201d (Rom 12:1). We come to offer not just <em>something\u00a0<\/em>but our very selves to God as a living, holy, pleasing, spiritual sacrifice to the Father, united to Christ\u2019s sacrifice on Calvary. We offer it as Christ\u2019s Body united with the Head, as Christ\u2019s Bride united in one flesh union with her Bridegroom. That\u2019s what the Mass is, the offering of the whole Church together with Christ to the Father. Christ\u2019s sacrifice doesn\u2019t change, but ours does, each day. And Christ is interceding for us today to do so in such a way that our sacrifice will lead us to salvation by incorporating us into his own saving intercession.<\/li>\n<li>And on this second day of the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity, we know that Jesus, just as he did during the Last Supper when he prayed for us to be one just like he and the Father are one in the unity of the Holy Spirit, continues to pray for this gift, that we will convert and strengthen our brothers and sisters in the unity of faith. He makes that eternal prayer and wants us each day, in our participation at Mass, to unite ourselves to it, to bring our sacrifices for it. He wants people coming from all points of the world into one family.<\/li>\n<li>Today we don\u2019t have to travel hundreds of miles to meet Jesus at a seashore. We haven\u2019t come here from Tyre, Sidon, Jerusalem, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, and all across Judea and Galilee. We\u2019ve come from far closer, but the Lord is hoping to see the same interior willingness to climb over mountains and valleys to come to him and enter into his prayer and life. That\u2019s what we do today. We press upon him. We draw near. And we ask his intercession for us to become his total cooperators as we rejoice, God-willing as one, in the fulfillment of that \u201cmore excellent ministry,\u201d better covenant,\u201d and \u201cbetter promises.\u201d<\/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\/7:25|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=a1ba5bc462&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Heb 7:25\u20148:6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus is always able to save those who approach God through him,<br \/>\nsince he lives forever to make intercession for them.<br \/>\nIt was fitting that we should have such a high priest:<br \/>\nholy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners,<br \/>\nhigher than the heavens.<br \/>\nHe has no need, as did the high priests,<br \/>\nto offer sacrifice day after day,<br \/>\nfirst for his own sins and then for those of the people;<br \/>\nhe did that once for all when he offered himself.<br \/>\nFor the law appoints men subject to weakness to be high priests,<br \/>\nbut the word of the oath, which was taken after the law,<br \/>\nappoints a son, who has been made perfect forever.<br \/>\nThe main point of what has been said is this:<br \/>\nwe have such a high priest,<br \/>\nwho has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne<br \/>\nof the Majesty in heaven, a minister of the sanctuary<br \/>\nand of the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.<br \/>\nNow every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices;<br \/>\nthus the necessity for this one also to have something to offer.<br \/>\nIf then he were on earth, he would not be a priest,<br \/>\nsince there are those who offer gifts according to the law.<br \/>\nThey worship in a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary,<br \/>\nas Moses was warned when he was about to erect the tabernacle.<br \/>\nFor God says, \u201cSee that you make everything<br \/>\naccording to the pattern shown you on the mountain.\u201d<br \/>\nNow he has obtained so much more excellent a ministry<br \/>\nas he is mediator of a better covenant,<br \/>\nenacted on better promises.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/40:7|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=16f8fa2cdf&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (8a and 9a)\u00a0<strong>Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.<\/strong><br \/>\nSacrifice or oblation you wished not,<br \/>\nbut ears open to obedience you gave me.<br \/>\nBurnt offerings or sin-offerings you sought not;<br \/>\nthen said I, \u201cBehold I come.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIn the written scroll it is prescribed for me,<br \/>\nTo do your will, O my God, is my delight,<br \/>\nand your law is within my heart!\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.<\/strong><br \/>\nI announced your justice in the vast assembly;<br \/>\nI did not restrain my lips, as you, O LORD, know.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.<\/strong><br \/>\nMay all who seek you<br \/>\nexult and be glad in you,<br \/>\nAnd may those who love your salvation<br \/>\nsay ever, \u201cThe LORD be glorified.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/2timothy\/1:10|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=1f4dda0141&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">See 2 Tm 1:10<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nOur Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death<br \/>\nand brought life to light through the Gospel.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/mark\/3:7|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=4805becef4&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Mk 3:7-12<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples.<br \/>\nA large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea.<br \/>\nHearing what he was doing,<br \/>\na large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem,<br \/>\nfrom Idumea, from beyond the Jordan,<br \/>\nand from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.<br \/>\nHe told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd,<br \/>\nso that they would not crush him.<br \/>\nHe had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases<br \/>\nwere pressing upon him to touch him.<br \/>\nAnd whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him<br \/>\nand shout, \u201cYou are the Son of God.\u201d<br \/>\nHe warned them sternly not to make him known.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Marco-3-7-12.jpg.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25929\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Marco-3-7-12.jpg.webp?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5254\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25928-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.23_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.23_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.23_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\/1.19.23_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=25928-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.23_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"1.19.23_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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