{"id":26422,"date":"2023-03-18T03:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T07:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=26422"},"modified":"2023-03-15T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:35:14","slug":"fourth-sunday-of-lent-a-conversations-with-consequences-podcast-march-18-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/fourth-sunday-of-lent-a-conversations-with-consequences-podcast-march-18-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Sunday of Lent (A), Conversations with Consequences Podcast, March 18, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/radio\/shows\/conversations-with-consequences\">Conversations with Consequences<\/a> Podcast<br \/>\nHomily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, A, Vigil<br \/>\nMarch 18, 2023<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this short Sunday homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-26422-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.18.23_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.18.23_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.18.23_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The following\u00a0text guided the short homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is Fr. Roger Landry and it\u2019s a privilege to have a chance to ponder with you the consequential conversation God wants to have with us as we mark the Fourth Sunday of Lent. In the Gospel, Jesus will cure a man blind from birth, but he works this miracle far differently from the many other times he cured those who had no sight. In the other cases, the blind men asked, in fact, cried out, begging for help. This Sunday, the blind man doesn\u2019t say a thing. He\u2019s just there, along the road, and becomes the object of a theological question from the disciples about the cause of his blindness. Jesus stated that the reason he was was blind from birth was to allow God\u2019s works to show through him; his whole life in darkness until that point was so that he could encounter the saving power of Jesus and from that moment onward be a tremendously conspicuous example of God\u2019s own light shining brightly through him. That truth influences the way Jesus performs this miracle, because Jesus had two healings in mind \u2014 first a physical one for him and then a spiritual one for him and for us all.<\/li>\n<li>The Lord Jesus first spits on the ground, makes mud with his saliva, and then goes up <em>unbidden<\/em> to the blind man and smears his eyes with mud. The blind man could have easily thought that someone was making fun of and abusing him, as probably happened often. But the Lord is not done. Jesus then tells him to go to wash in the pool of Siloam. The blind man could have reckoned, \u201cWhat a stupid and pointless hassle! Wipe mud on my eyes and then send me, who can\u2019t see, to wash in a pool, where I can easily fall in and drown.\u201d Jesus, however, must have given that command in a way that inspired trust. By the man\u2019s willingness to carry out this simple imperative Jesus gives him, the man embarks, without knowing it, on the great adventure of faith, on the exciting journey from darkness into light. Jesus allows this man, unlike the other blind men he cured \u2014 and this is the second difference from the other cures Jesus worked \u2014 to <em>participate actively in his own healing<\/em>, so that through the process, he might receive not just the ability to see the physical light of the world but also a much deeper light, the light of faith in Jesus, the true light of the world.<\/li>\n<li>Three-and-a-half weeks ago, Jesus did to us something similar to what he did to the man born blind in this Sunday\u2019s Gospel. Someone acting in His Name smudged our foreheads not with muddy saliva but moistened ashes, and gave us a two-part command, the very same directive with which Jesus began His whole public ministry, \u201cRepent and believe in the Gospel!\u201d This was Jesus\u2019 way for us to participate in our own healing during this blessed time of Lent, in our own coming from the darkness into his light, in our own exodus from sin to love, in our own Passover from death to life. We might have been tempted to consider this more or less an empty rite, something merely symbolic, but Jesus wanted to work in us during this time a true miracle of healing, through our participation and trust in this two-part therapeutic process.<\/li>\n<li>The first part of the cure of our blindness begins with <em>repenting<\/em>, which means turning away from the life of sin that blinds us. Sin darkens the intellect and distorts the will so that often we can no longer even see the good clearly or easily choose it when we do. The repentance that is part of our cure means recognizing that sin has left us partially or totally sightless, that we\u2019re blind and that we need the Lord\u2019s help to see. The second stage in our cure, Jesus told us on Ash Wednesday, is <em>believing in the Good News<\/em>. Jesus says to the man in the Gospel, \u201cDo you believe in the Son of Man?\u201d The man\u2019s physical cure \u2014 a miracle that caused a tremendous stir among the people in Jerusalem and allowed God\u2019s works to shine in him \u2014 was merely a prelude to his spiritual cure that would involve not just leaving darkness, but living in the Light of Christ. \u201cDo you believe in the Son of Man?\u201d The man responded with a faithful willingness, as well as a humble recognition that he needed help. \u201cWho is he, sir, that I may believe in him?\u201d \u201cYou have seen him,\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cand he is speaking to you now.\u201d In the healing Jesus wants to carry out in us this Lent, he asks us the same question, \u201cDo you believe in the Son of Man?\u201d Jesus is the Gospel incarnate, and \u201cbelieving in the Good News\u201d means believing in Him. With similar humility to the man healed by Jesus in the Gospel, we\u2019re called to say, \u201cShow me, Lord, that I may believe!\u201d With that docility, the Lord can then show us, in new and deeper ways, \u201cYou have seen him and he\u2019s speaking to you now.\u201d He speaks to us in times of prayer, especially the extra prayer we try to make in this desert period of Lent. He speaks to us in Sacred Scripture and through the Church he founded. He speaks to us through our almsgiving, as he tells us, \u201cI was hungry, thirsty, naked, a stranger, ill, imprisoned and otherwise in need and you cared for me.\u201d He speaks to us in fasting, so that we may attune all of our appetites with gratitude to the physical and spiritual food he gives us. He speaks to us in day-to-day events, including in the midst of the war in the Ukraine, with concerns about the effects of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, with family members and friends sick and suffering, and all of the other struggles we may be enduring.<\/li>\n<li>To come to see Jesus anew, to hear him speak to us \u201cnow\u201d in every moment of our lives, to come to look at all things with the Light of Christ \u2014 that is the whole point of the Lenten adventure of faith. These forty days are a gift from God to help us to leave the darkness caused by sin and see Jesus and all things as they really are, as he himself sees them. At a practical level, how is our vision supposed to change this Lent? What does it mean to be cured by Christ of our spiritual blindness and to see things in his own light? In order for us to appreciate the <em>miracle<\/em> Christ wants to work in us this Lent, I\u2019d ask you first to think what it would have been like for that man born blind returning from the pool of Siloam. He had never seen anything, and now he could see everything. He could see colors. He could see the splendor of the temple. He could see where he was going. For the first time, he could see himself reflected in the pool. He could see the faces of those who were talking to him. He could see the face of Jesus. His whole life would have changed! <em>A similar change is meant to happen to us<\/em> when Christ heals our sight and makes it possible for us to see things with his light, to look at everything, including our crosses, through the lenses of faith, to see things as God sees them, and, therefore, to see all things accurately. Practically speaking, it means hearing Jesus say in the various events and people we encounter through the day, \u201cYou have seen him and he is speaking to you now.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Someone who shows us how to look at the world in the light of faith is Saint Joseph, whom the Church normally celebrates on March 19. Because the Fourth Sunday of Lent takes precedence liturgically over the Solemnity of St. Joseph, the Church this year has moved his feast to Monday. But it\u2019s good for us to recall the example of the man God the Father chose to raise his Son according to his humanity, to protect his Son\u2019s mother, and to raise us and protect the Church. At the beginning, St. Joseph, a just man, was blind to what God was doing with Our Lady, when she returned from the Visitation pregnant by some agency beyond him. He loved her. He venerated her purity. But she was nevertheless pregnant. He was planning to divorce her quietly lest she be stoned to death and was without question asking God what he should do when God spoke to him in a dream and told him not to be afraid to take Mary, his betrothed wife, into his home and to recognize that she was pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit. He began to see everything in a new light: Mary, Jesus whom he would name, as well as his own vocation. From that point forward, he centered his whole life on Jesus, the light who illumines everyone. He\u2019s praying for each of us that we will similarly open up to how our life, too, is meant to be fully centered on Jesus, the savior of the world.<\/li>\n<li>The Fourth Sunday of Lent is always called \u201cLaetare Sunday\u201d because at this mid-way point of this season of conversion and penance, Christ wants to fill us with the joy with which he filled the blind man in Jerusalem. He came into the world so that his joy may be in us and our joy made complete. He wants to enter whatever darkness we may be experiencing and turn the lights on. He wants to help those preparing for baptism, and all of the baptized, to experience the beauty of his light and take confidence that the one who has conquered darkness and death is with us until the end of time. He wants to engage each of us, like he did the blind man in the Gospel, in a consequential and healing conversation that will continue until we are able to see Jesus face to face in the heavenly Jerusalem, where, with St. Joseph, our Blessed Mother and all of the saints, we will rejoice forever in the unending splendor of God\u2019s eternal light. God bless you all!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Gospel on which the homily was based was:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"name\">Gospel<\/h3>\n<div class=\"address\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/9?1\">Jn 9:1-41<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body\">As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth.<br \/>\nHis disciples asked him,<br \/>\n&#8220;Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,<br \/>\nthat he was born blind?&#8221;<br \/>\nJesus answered,<br \/>\n&#8220;Neither he nor his parents sinned;<br \/>\nit is so that the works of God might be made visible through him.<br \/>\nWe have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day.<br \/>\nNight is coming when no one can work.<br \/>\nWhile I am in the world, I am the light of the world.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen he had said this, he spat on the ground<br \/>\nand made clay with the saliva,<br \/>\nand smeared the clay on his eyes,<br \/>\nand said to him,<br \/>\n&#8220;Go wash in the Pool of Siloam&#8221; \u2014which means Sent\u2014.<br \/>\nSo he went and washed, and came back able to see.<\/p>\n<p>His neighbors and those who had seen him earlier as a beggar said,<br \/>\n&#8220;Isn&#8217;t this the one who used to sit and beg?&#8221;<br \/>\nSome said, &#8220;It is, &#8221;<br \/>\nbut others said, &#8220;No, he just looks like him.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;I am.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo they said to him, &#8220;How were your eyes opened?&#8221;<br \/>\nHe replied,<br \/>\n&#8220;The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes<br \/>\nand told me, &#8216;Go to Siloam and wash.&#8217;<br \/>\nSo I went there and washed and was able to see.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd they said to him, &#8220;Where is he?&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They brought the one who was once blind to the Pharisees.<br \/>\nNow Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes on a sabbath.<br \/>\nSo then the Pharisees also asked him how he was able to see.<br \/>\nHe said to them,<br \/>\n&#8220;He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo some of the Pharisees said,<br \/>\n&#8220;This man is not from God,<br \/>\nbecause he does not keep the sabbath.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut others said,<br \/>\n&#8220;How can a sinful man do such signs?&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd there was a division among them.<br \/>\nSo they said to the blind man again,<br \/>\n&#8220;What do you have to say about him,<br \/>\nsince he opened your eyes?&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;He is a prophet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now the Jews did not believe<br \/>\nthat he had been blind and gained his sight<br \/>\nuntil they summoned the parents of the one who had gained his sight.<br \/>\nThey asked them,<br \/>\n&#8220;Is this your son, who you say was born blind?<br \/>\nHow does he now see?&#8221;<br \/>\nHis parents answered and said,<br \/>\n&#8220;We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.<br \/>\nWe do not know how he sees now,<br \/>\nnor do we know who opened his eyes.<br \/>\nAsk him, he is of age;<br \/>\nhe can speak for himself.&#8221;<br \/>\nHis parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews,<br \/>\nfor the Jews had already agreed<br \/>\nthat if anyone acknowledged him as the Christ,<br \/>\nhe would be expelled from the synagogue.<br \/>\nFor this reason his parents said,<br \/>\n&#8220;He is of age; question him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So a second time they called the man who had been blind<br \/>\nand said to him, &#8220;Give God the praise!<br \/>\nWe know that this man is a sinner.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe replied,<br \/>\n&#8220;If he is a sinner, I do not know.<br \/>\nOne thing I do know is that I was blind and now I see.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo they said to him,<br \/>\n&#8220;What did he do to you?<br \/>\nHow did he open your eyes?&#8221;<br \/>\nHe answered them,<br \/>\n&#8220;I told you already and you did not listen.<br \/>\nWhy do you want to hear it again?<br \/>\nDo you want to become his disciples, too?&#8221;<br \/>\nThey ridiculed him and said,<br \/>\n&#8220;You are that man&#8217;s disciple;<br \/>\nwe are disciples of Moses!<br \/>\nWe know that God spoke to Moses,<br \/>\nbut we do not know where this one is from.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe man answered and said to them,<br \/>\n&#8220;This is what is so amazing,<br \/>\nthat you do not know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes.<br \/>\nWe know that God does not listen to sinners,<br \/>\nbut if one is devout and does his will, he listens to him.<br \/>\nIt is unheard of that anyone ever opened the eyes of a person born blind.<br \/>\nIf this man were not from God,<br \/>\nhe would not be able to do anything.&#8221;<br \/>\nThey answered and said to him,<br \/>\n&#8220;You were born totally in sin,<br \/>\nand are you trying to teach us?&#8221;<br \/>\nThen they threw him out.<\/p>\n<p>When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out,<br \/>\nhe found him and said, &#8220;Do you believe in the Son of Man?&#8221;<br \/>\nHe answered and said,<br \/>\n&#8220;Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?&#8221;<br \/>\nJesus said to him,<br \/>\n&#8220;You have seen him,<br \/>\nthe one speaking with you is he.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said,<br \/>\n&#8220;I do believe, Lord,&#8221; and he worshiped him.<br \/>\nThen Jesus said,<br \/>\n&#8220;I came into this world for judgment,<br \/>\nso that those who do not see might see,<br \/>\nand those who do see might become blind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this<br \/>\nand said to him, &#8220;Surely we are not also blind, are we?&#8221;<br \/>\nJesus said to them,<br \/>\n&#8220;If you were blind, you would have no sin;<br \/>\nbut now you are saying, &#8216;We see,&#8217; so your sin remains.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_711\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-26422-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.18.23_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.18.23_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.18.23_Landry_ConCon_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\/3.18.23_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=26422-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.18.23_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"3.18.23_Landry_ConCon_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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