{"id":25979,"date":"2023-01-27T10:37:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=25979"},"modified":"2023-01-27T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:39:09","slug":"the-holy-endurance-that-helps-grow-the-kingdom-of-god-third-friday-i-january-27-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-holy-endurance-that-helps-grow-the-kingdom-of-god-third-friday-i-january-27-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Endurance That Helps Grow the Kingdom of God, Third Friday (I), January 27, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">Fr. Roger J. Landry<br class=\"\" \/>Columbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br class=\"\" \/>Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br class=\"\" \/>Memorial of Saint Angela Merici<br \/>\nJanuary 27, 2023<br class=\"\" \/>Heb 10:32-39, Ps 37, Mk 4:26-34<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\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-25979-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.27.23_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.27.23_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.27.23_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The following points were\u00a0attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\">Today Jesus continues to speak to us about the objective good of his Kingdom and how to receive and respond to his gracious offer of it and grow and thrive within it. On Wednesday, if we didn&#8217;t have the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, we would have heard the Parable of the Sower and the Seed and focused on faith-filled receptivity, which Jesus said features hearing the Word, actively accepting it, and bearing fruit 30, 60 and 100-fold. Yesterday Jesus said that true faith can\u2019t be hidden, but shines like the light of a lamp placed on a lamp stand, and that the more we exercise the spiritual muscle of the theological virtue of faith, the more it will grow. Today he gives us a pair of images to teach us two more angles\u00a0about the increase\u00a0in faith that is meant to happen when we enter and live in his kingdom.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Jesus says, first, that faith grows like a mustard seed. \u201cWhen it is sown in the ground,\u201d Jesus says, \u201cit\u00a0is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth.\u00a0But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants\u00a0and puts forth large branches,\u00a0so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.\u201d Even a little bit of faith is enough, Jesus would say elsewhere, to move mountains. Even when it seems small, we should know that it contains within the power to grow to be enormous.\u00a0And by another image he describes one of the most important parts of that growth: it\u2019s God\u2019s work.\u00a0Jesus compares the growth in faith to what happens with a farmer scattering seed in the Holy Land, turning it over once, and then allowing the growth. \u201cIt is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land\u00a0and would sleep and rise night and day\u00a0and the seed would sprout and grow,\u00a0he knows not how.\u00a0Of its own accord the land yields fruit,\u00a0first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.\u00a0And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once,\u00a0for the harvest has come.\u201d The farmer certainly does a little of the work, but most of the work happens by what is contained in the seed, what is contained in the soil, and the water that comes. So it is with growth in faith. God has given us that seed, he\u2019ll provide the water of the sacraments, he\u2019ll provide the sunshine of various blessings, and he\u2019ll give so many of the nutrients like teaching and formation necessary for us to be rich, fruitful soil. And so we should have great confidence in God\u2019s work.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">One way God routinely acts to help that seed of faith grow large is through putting us in tests in which we need to exercise the spiritual muscles of faith. Every time we pass the test of faith under duress, our faith grows. We see this in today\u2019s first reading from the Letter to the Hebrews. It describes how the faith of the first Christians grew. The sacred author tells us, \u201cRemember the days past when, after you had been enlightened (baptized),\u00a0you endured a great contest of suffering.\u00a0At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and affliction;\u00a0at other times you associated yourselves with those so treated.\u00a0You even joined in the sufferings of those in prison\u00a0and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property,\u00a0knowing that you had a better and lasting possession.\u201d The last sentence points to how they were able to remain faithful in the midst of so many trials and \u201cgreat contests,\u201d\u00a0including the confiscation of their goods and even the confiscation of their earthly life. They knew that they had a \u201cbetter and lasting possession.\u201d<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">The late Pope Benedict, in his superb 2007 encyclical on Christian hope, <em>Spe Salvi,\u00a0<\/em>focused on the contrast between earthly possessions and this superior one, in his characteristically deep, beautiful and clear way. He wrote about today\u2019s passage from Hebrews,\u00a0\u201cHere the author speaks to believers who have undergone the experience of persecution and he says to them: \u2018You had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property (<i class=\"\">hyparchonton<\/i>), since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession (<i class=\"\">hyparxin<\/i>) and an abiding one.\u2019<i class=\"\">\u00a0Hyparchonta<\/i>\u00a0refers to property, to what in earthly life constitutes the means of support, indeed the basis, the \u2018substance\u2019 for life, what we depend upon. This \u2018substance,\u2019 life\u2019s normal source of security, has been taken away from Christians in the course of persecution. They have stood firm, though, because they considered this material substance to be of little account. They could abandon it because they had found a better \u2018basis\u2019 for their existence\u2014a basis that abides, that no one can take away. We must not overlook the link between these two types of \u2018substance,\u2019 between means of support or material basis and the word of faith as the \u2018basis,\u2019 the \u2018substance\u2019 that endures. Faith gives life a new basis, a new foundation on which we can stand, one which relativizes the habitual foundation, the reliability of material income. A new freedom is created with regard to this habitual foundation of life, which only\u00a0<i class=\"\">appears<\/i>\u00a0to be capable of providing support, although this is obviously not to deny its normal meaning. This new freedom, the awareness of the new \u2018substance\u2019 which we have been given, is revealed not only in martyrdom, in which people resist the overbearing power of ideology and its political organs and, by their death, renew the world. Above all, it is seen in the great acts of renunciation, from the monks of ancient times to Saint Francis of Assisi and those of our contemporaries who enter modern religious Institutes and movements and leave everything for love of Christ, so as to bring to men and women the faith and love of Christ, and to help those who are suffering in body and spirit. In their case, the new \u2018substance\u2019 has proven to be a genuine \u2018substance\u2019; from the hope of these people who have been touched by Christ, hope has arisen for others who were living in darkness and without hope. In their case, it has been demonstrated that this new life truly possesses and is \u2018substance\u2019 that calls forth life for others. For us who contemplate these figures, their way of acting and living is\u00a0<i class=\"\">de facto<\/i>\u00a0a \u2018proof\u2019 that the things to come, the promise of Christ, are not only a reality that we await, but a real presence: he is truly the \u2018philosopher\u2019 and the \u2018shepherd\u2019 who shows us what life is and where it is to be found.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s on the basis of this difference type of possession that the Letter to the Hebrews continues, \u201cTherefore, do not throw away your confidence;\u00a0it will have great recompense.\u201d It stresses that we need to have the endurance of faith based on the hope for this lasting possession in order to receive it, phrasing the battle of human life as a battle of perseverance versus drawing back. The sacred author says, \u201cYou need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised. \u2018<em class=\"\">For, after just a brief moment,\u00a0he who is to come shall come;\u00a0he shall not delay.\u00a0But my just one shall live by faith,\u00a0and if he draws back I take no pleasure in him\u2019<\/em>\u00a0(see Hab 2:3).\u00a0We are not among those who draw back and perish,\u00a0but among those who have faith and will possess life.\u201d<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Pope Benedict says that this passage\u00a0illumines for us the way to live as Christians. \u201cIn order to understand more deeply this reflection on the two types of substance\u2014<i class=\"\">hypostasis<\/i>\u00a0(basing our lives on God) and\u00a0<i class=\"\">hyparchonta\u00a0<\/i>(basing our lives on material things)<strong class=\"\">\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 and on the two approaches to life expressed by these terms, we must continue with a brief consideration of two words pertinent to the discussion which can be found in the tenth chapter of the\u00a0<i class=\"\">Letter to the Hebrews<\/i>. I refer to the words\u00a0<i class=\"\">hypomone\u00a0<\/i>(10:36) and\u00a0<i class=\"\">hypostole\u00a0<\/i>(10:39).\u00a0<i class=\"\">Hypomone\u00a0<\/i>is normally translated as \u2018patience\u2019 (endurance)\u00a0\u2014 perseverance, constancy. Knowing how to wait, while patiently enduring trials, is necessary for the believer to be able to \u2018receive what is promised\u2019 (10:36). In the religious context of ancient Judaism, this word was used expressly for the expectation of God that\u00a0was characteristic of Israel, for their persevering faithfulness to God on the basis of the certainty of the Covenant in a world which contradicts God. Thus the word indicates a lived hope, a life based on the certainty of hope. In the New Testament this expectation of God, this standing with God, takes on a new significance: in Christ, God has revealed himself. He has already communicated to us the \u2018substance\u2019 of things to come, and thus the expectation of God acquires a new certainty.\u00a0It is the expectation of things to come from the perspective of a present that is already given. It is a looking-forward in Christ\u2019s presence, with Christ who is present, to the perfecting of his Body, to his definitive coming. The word\u00a0<i class=\"\">hypostole<\/i>, on the other hand, means shrinking back (drawing back) through lack of courage to speak openly and frankly a truth that may be dangerous. Hiding through a spirit of fear leads to \u2018destruction\u2019 (<i class=\"\">Heb\u00a0<\/i>10:39). \u2018God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control\u2019\u2014that, by contrast, is the beautiful way in which the<i class=\"\">\u00a0Second Letter to Timothy\u00a0<\/i>(1:7) describes the fundamental attitude of the Christian.\u201d<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">So the Letter to the Hebrews is seeking to help us to have a faith that flourishes in a holy\u00a0<em class=\"\">hypomone\u00a0<\/em>(perseverance) because we have founded our lives on the\u00a0<i class=\"\">hyparxin\u00a0<\/i>(or\u00a0<em class=\"\">hypostasis<\/em>, substance) of faith. This is the type of growth in faith God wants to give us, the type of growth that makes us martyrs (witnesses) in life \u2014 particularly through living the evangelical counsels with the poor, chaste and obedient King \u2014 and, if necessary, martyrs also in death. Cancel culture is trying to those who hold to the truth. Christians are undergoing other forms of discrimination, harassment and persecution in different parts of the world. Now is the time to learn from the first Christians how to hold fast with endurance to the greater possession. Now is the time to ground ourselves on the true substance that will last. The sufferings we will endure will be an opportunity for us and others to grow in faith, hope and love.\u00a0Even if our faith seems too small now, we know that God wants to help it to increase, and he, like the good farmer, may help it grow like a mustard seed, the blade, the ear and the full grain.<\/li>\n<li>Today we have a great illustration of what Jesus is teaching us today in the life of St. Angela Merici (1470-1540), who received the Word of God on good and fruitful soil, who let the light of Christ\u2019s teaching radiate through her to so many students, who allowed God to water it so that the Word could grow to fill through her much of the world. She was\u00a0the foundress of the Company of St. Ursula, the first teaching order of women in the history of the Church. Angela was orphaned at 15 and when her younger sister died a few years later without the sacraments, she began to look around to see how many girls, both orphans and those growing up in poor families, who were receiving no education and Christian formation. The only instruction for girls at the time happened in rich families by tutors or happened in convents. The vast majority of young women received no educational formation at all, not to mention no formal instruction in the faith. The seeds sown were often left just by the wayside for lack of care and cultivation. St. Angela opened up her family home into a primitive school to try to teach the girls of her city, others joined her, and it eventually became a model that was approved by the Church and blessed by God with many vocations. Over the course of the five centuries since, the Ursulines have formed millions of Catholic kids helping the seeds of faith grow within them and have \u00a0spawned many other orders of teaching sisters. Her whole life can be summarized by Jesus\u2019 words in the Sermon on the Mount: \u201cWhoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven\u201d (Mt 5:19). She was one who obeyed God and spent her life forming sisters and with them countless children how to obey God, too. In\u00a0the Collect (opening prayer) of the Mass, we asked God that following St. Angela\u2019s example, \u201cwe may hold fast to your teaching and express it in what we do.\u201d That\u2019s another way of asking him to give us the grace of holy <em>hypomone<\/em> until the end!<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Today he gives us the greatest means ever to help it increase, allowing us to enter into Communion with Jesus, who is our\u00a0<i class=\"\">hyparxin<\/i><em class=\"\">, <\/em>our<em class=\"\"> hypostasis,\u00a0<\/em>and who\u00a0wants to help us from the inside to have this holy\u00a0<em class=\"\">hypomone.\u00a0<\/em>This small \u201cmustard seed\u201d of the host we\u2019re about to receive is is so great that it has the power to\u00a0grow to be all-encompassing in our life so that many others may come to rest in our faith, so that one day others may sing of us, what we sing of those in the Letter to the Hebrews, \u201cFaith of our Fathers, holy faith! We will be true to thee till death!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><em class=\"\">The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"\">Reading 1\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/hebrews\/10:32|\" class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=20e20b88c4&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Heb 10:32-39<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Remember the days past when, after you had been enlightened,<br class=\"\" \/>you endured a great contest of suffering.<br class=\"\" \/>At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and affliction;<br class=\"\" \/>at other times you associated yourselves with those so treated.<br class=\"\" \/>You even joined in the sufferings of those in prison<br class=\"\" \/>and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property,<br class=\"\" \/>knowing that you had a better and lasting possession.<br class=\"\" \/>Therefore, do not throw away your confidence;<br class=\"\" \/>it will have great recompense.<br class=\"\" \/>You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised.<br \/>\n<em class=\"\">For, after just a brief moment,<br class=\"\" \/>he who is to come shall come;<br class=\"\" \/>he shall not delay.<br class=\"\" \/>But my just one shall live by faith,<br class=\"\" \/>and if he draws back I take no pleasure in him.<br \/>\n<\/em>We are not among those who draw back and perish,<br class=\"\" \/>but among those who have faith and will possess life.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"\">Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/37:3|\" class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=d1cf91256b&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>R. (39a)\u00a0<strong class=\"\">The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.<\/strong><br class=\"\" \/>Trust in the LORD and do good,<br class=\"\" \/>that you may dwell in the land and be fed in security.<br class=\"\" \/>Take delight in the LORD,<br class=\"\" \/>and he will grant you your heart\u2019s requests.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0<strong class=\"\">The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.<\/strong><br class=\"\" \/>Commit to the LORD your way;<br class=\"\" \/>trust in him, and he will act.<br class=\"\" \/>He will make justice dawn for you like the light;<br class=\"\" \/>bright as the noonday shall be your vindication.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0<strong class=\"\">The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.<\/strong><br class=\"\" \/>By the LORD are the steps of a man made firm,<br class=\"\" \/>and he approves his way.<br class=\"\" \/>Though he fall, he does not lie prostrate,<br class=\"\" \/>for the hand of the LORD sustains him.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0<strong class=\"\">The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.<\/strong><br class=\"\" \/>The salvation of the just is from the LORD;<br class=\"\" \/>he is their refuge in time of distress.<br class=\"\" \/>And the LORD helps them and delivers them;<br class=\"\" \/>he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,<br class=\"\" \/>because they take refuge in him.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0<strong class=\"\">The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"\">Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/matthew\/11:25|\" class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=8d09ca6e8a&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">See Mt 11:25<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"\">R.\u00a0<strong class=\"\">Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br class=\"\" \/>Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth;<br class=\"\" \/>you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.<br class=\"\" \/>R.\u00a0<strong class=\"\">Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"\">Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/mark\/4:26|\" class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=375d063f3f&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Mk 4:26-34<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus said to the crowds:<br class=\"\" \/>\u201cThis is how it is with the Kingdom of God;<br class=\"\" \/>it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land<br class=\"\" \/>and would sleep and rise night and day<br class=\"\" \/>and the seed would sprout and grow,<br class=\"\" \/>he knows not how.<br class=\"\" \/>Of its own accord the land yields fruit,<br class=\"\" \/>first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.<br class=\"\" \/>And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once,<br class=\"\" \/>for the harvest has come.\u201dHe said,<br class=\"\" \/>\u201cTo what shall we compare the Kingdom of God,<br class=\"\" \/>or what parable can we use for it?<br class=\"\" \/>It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground,<br class=\"\" \/>is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth.<br class=\"\" \/>But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants<br class=\"\" \/>and puts forth large branches,<br class=\"\" \/>so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.\u201d<br class=\"\" \/>With many such parables<br class=\"\" \/>he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.<br class=\"\" \/>Without parables he did not speak to them,<br class=\"\" \/>but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Saint_Angela_Merici.jpg.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25981\" 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LandryColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, ManhattanFriday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time, Year IMemorial of Saint Angela Merici January 27, 2023Heb 10:32-39, Ps 37, Mk 4:26-34 &nbsp; To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below: https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.27.23_Homily_1.mp3 &nbsp; The following points were\u00a0attempted in the homily:\u00a0 Today Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13365,1063,3,12314,5],"tags":[7778,7777,7779,1557,7776,7774,7769,7775,1559,3279,2900,1761,7217,3233,4465,4468],"class_list":["post-25979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-2023-year-i","category-audio-homily","category-homily","category-podcast","category-year-i","tag-drawing-back","tag-endurance","tag-farmer","tag-heb-1032-39","tag-hyparchonta","tag-hyparxin","tag-hypostasis","tag-hypostole","tag-mk-426-34","tag-mustard-seed","tag-perseverance","tag-pope-benedict","tag-ps-37","tag-spe-salvi","tag-st-angela-merici","tag-ursulines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Holy Endurance That Helps Grow the Kingdom of God, Third Friday (I), January 27, 2023 - Catholic Preaching<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-holy-endurance-that-helps-grow-the-kingdom-of-god-third-friday-i-january-27-2023\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Holy Endurance That Helps Grow the Kingdom of God, Third Friday (I), January 27, 2023 - Catholic Preaching\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fr. 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