{"id":27273,"date":"2023-08-17T05:39:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T09:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=27273"},"modified":"2023-08-17T21:49:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T01:49:20","slug":"regularly-crossing-the-jordan-by-becoming-merciful-like-our-father-19th-thursday-i-august-17-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/regularly-crossing-the-jordan-by-becoming-merciful-like-our-father-19th-thursday-i-august-17-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Regularly Crossing the Jordan by Becoming Merciful Like Our Father, 19th Thursday (I), August 17, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nShrine of Our Lady of Martyrs, Auriesville, NY<br \/>\nThursday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nAugust 17, 2023<br \/>\nJosh\u00a03:7-11.13-17, Ps 114, Mt 18:21-19:1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27273-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/8.17.23_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/8.17.23_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/8.17.23_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yesterday the Church focused in the Gospel on fraternal correction in seeking to bring people back into communion from a wayward life. But it\u2019s not enough merely to correct. There needs to be forgiveness offered as well for genuine reconciliation to be effected, so that people can truly pray and live \u201cin the name\u201d of Jesus. So, continuing with Jesus the conversation we entered yesterday, Peter asks how often must he forgive his brother when his brother sins against him. The Rabbis had taught, based on a misinterpretation of passages of the Prophet Amos, that we needed to forgive three times, to give someone a forth chance. Peter multiplied that by two and added one and said, \u201cAs many as 7 times?\u201d This would be a very high standard, giving someone an eighth chance, before writing someone off as incorrigible. Jesus replies, \u201cNo, Seventy Sevens.\u201d Whether that means 70\u00d77 (490) or 70+7 (77) times really doesn\u2019t matter, because seven in the Biblical mentality is a number already with a sense of infinity. It means to forgive without limit.<\/li>\n<li>To drive home his point, Jesus then gives us a parable that I think is one of his most powerful for us to understand, if not nearly as well known as it ought to be. He describes two debtors. The first debtor is brought into the King for owing what our translation says is a \u201chuge amount.\u201d The actual term used by St. Matthew is \u201c10,000 talents.\u201d A talent was equivalent to 6,000 denarii and a denarius was a full day\u2019s wage. That means that the man owed 60,000,000 days worth of work, something that would take him 164,271 <em>years\u00a0<\/em>to pay off. His request, after he had fallen prostrate on the ground and begged for time to pay it back, was totally absurd. He would need to live to be 165,000 years old. To monetize his debt in today\u2019s terms in order to better understand it, if he were making $100 a day (or $12.50 an hour), he would have owed $6 billion. But the text tells us that when the King saw the man on the ground begging absurdly for time, his \u201cheart was moved with pity\u201d (literally, he was sick to his stomach, his viscera exploded with compassion) and he forgave the entire debt. He didn\u2019t even make him pay what he could. He forgave it all. We\u2019re supposed to see in this what God does for us. He forgives our entire debt. He forgives us 7, 77, 490 times and more.<\/li>\n<li>But then we see that the servant who had been forgiven\u00a0<em>billions,\u00a0<\/em>who was a billionaire in merciful love, went off and met a servant who owed him 100 denarii, something that could be paid off in about 3 months. This second debtor, using the very same words and actions as the first, fell down begging for time to pay it off. The first debtor must have recognized that the phrase and actions being employed reminded him of his own recent condition. But instead of sharing mercy with the second debtor, he went up and started to\u00a0<em>choke him\u00a0<\/em>in anger and threw him into prison until his family was able to raise the 100 denarii (in today\u2019s money $10,000 at $100 a day for 100 days) to pay him back. At that point the other servants of the King, seeing the behavior of their colleague, were \u201csaddened\u201d and \u201cdisturbed\u201d and they went to the Master, not so much to tattle-tale as to let him know of what was happening in his kingdom, that his standard of mercy was not being shown. He called in the first debtor, called him \u201cwicked\u201d and asked the poignant question: \u201cI forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.\u00a0Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant,\u00a0as I had pity on you?\u201d Rather than paying the mercy forward, he stifled the flow. And he was sent to prison until she should pay back the last penny, something that, because of the size of his debt, was impossible. Because he was unwilling to forgive a small debt, he would be in prison forever; his lack of forgiveness, rather than what he owed, was what got him sent to an unending incarceration!<\/li>\n<li>We learn two great lessons from this Parable. The first is about the debt we\u2019ve incurred to God because of our sins. It\u2019s\u00a0<em>unpayable.\u00a0<\/em>We owe more to God than the rising U.S. national debt. There\u2019s no way we can ever pay it back. That\u2019s why Jesus needed to come to pay it for us. An infinite debt needed an infinite payment, something Jesus himself could do as the sinless God-man but we can never do. It\u2019s key for us to grasp this. Many times we think all our sins are venial, easily forgiven, \u201cpeccadillos,\u201d whereas they were what required Jesus\u2019 death to repay in justice. Our sins against God in justice require an infinite punishment. The sin of Adam and Eve at the beginning of time required an infinite punishment. The sin of the Israelites in the desert preventing Moses and his contemporaries from entering the Promised Land required an infinite punishment. The sins of the Israelites after entering the Promised Land that eventually led to the exile required an infinite punishment. Our sins require an infinite punishment. Because of this, we all have to be more grateful to God for the gift of his mercy than someone who has just been forgiven of a $6 billion debt would be to his creditor. In the Psalms we pray, \u201cDo not forget the works of the Lord!,\u201d and the greatest work we should never forget is how much he has forgiven us!<\/li>\n<li>That leads to the second lesson we learn. We need to pay the mercy forward. We have been made rich in mercy by God\u2019s generosity and we\u2019re called to share it. It\u2019s like God has made us billionaires and he wants us liberally to share that gift with those who owe us because of the debts of their sins toward us. Even when people have amassed big debts to us \u2014 they killed a loved one drunk behind the wheel, they\u2019ve abused us, they\u2019ve tortured us or our loved ones, they\u2019ve made it their life\u2019s purpose to spread calumny against us to massacre our reputation \u2014 those debts are <em>nothing\u00a0<\/em>in comparison with the debt we have incurred against God. When others come to us asking for our forgiveness, we need to remember that what they\u2019re requesting is $10,000 in comparison with the $6 billion remitted to us. We who have received much need to give much, knowing that what we give is nothing compared to what we\u2019ve been given. Jesus taught us to pray, \u201cForgive us our debts (sins) as we have forgiven our debtors,\u201d commenting afterward, that\u00a0unless we forgive our brothers their sins our heavenly Father will not forgive us ours. Jesus made the same point just as emphatically at the end of the parable: \u201cSo will my heavenly Father do to you\u201d \u2014 send you into prison until you pay back an unpayable debt \u2014 \u201cunless each of you forgives his brother from his heart.\u201d We\u2019re supposed to forgive not just with words, but with a compassionate heart, just like God has forgiven us so many times. If we don\u2019t grasp this lesson, we will end up in Hell not so much because of the sins we\u2019ve committed but because of our failure to forgive others their sins against us. We won\u2019t receive God\u2019s mercy unless we first share it, not because he doesn\u2019t want to flood us with his merciful love but because our hearts can\u2019t receive it unless they are in turn forgiving others.<\/li>\n<li>This lesson about forgiveness and paying it forward is hinted to in today\u2019s first reading. God has the Israelites cross through the Jordan on dry ground, which is meant to be a reminder to them of what he permitted at the Red Sea 40 years earlier. The miraculous crossing at the Jordan is a sign of God\u2019s forgiveness of the sins of the desert and a foreshadowing of what happens in Baptism, where something that could drown us actually gives us life. But we need to remember the day we spiritually crossed the Jordan at our baptism, how we became sons and daughters of the Heavenly Father, and how as a result we&#8217;re called to love as God loves, to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect, and to be merciful as our heavenly Father is merciful. For that, we need the Sacrament of Confession that restores us to our heavenly inheritance and then we need to share that mercy. The early saints used to call the Sacrament of Confession a \u201csecond baptism,\u201d as our souls are restored to their baptismal beauty. In Confession we are able to enter into the waters anew and God miraculous leads us through them safely with Jesus being or carrying the \u201cark of the new and eternal covenant\u201d that prevents the waters from submerging us, but instead helps them to cleanse us.<\/li>\n<li>Here at the Shrine of the North American Martyrs and the birthplace of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, it&#8217;s easy to reflect on the gift of mercy in their lives. The martyrs crisscrossed the Atlantic, traversed all types of terrain, in order to bring God&#8217;s mercy to the people of this continent, and so often needed to extend it for all of the sufferings they endured as a result. St. Kateri Tekakwitha&#8217;s conversion happened when she asked who could teach her what was most pleasing to God, and we know that it is mercy God desires, not sacrifice. We ask their intercession so that we might become transformed by God&#8217;s mercy like they were, so that we will be missionaries, ministers, men and women of that mercy to others.<\/li>\n<li>We relieve this mystery of God\u2019s wondrous mercy, and are renewed in our calling every day, here at Mass, when we are enriched by God in the new Covenant in his Blood for the forgiveness of sins, enter with him into the Ark, and pass with him into the kingdom he established. Let us ask him, as we receive the riches of his mercy, to \u201cdo this\u201d in memory of him and pay his mercy forward.<\/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 href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/joshua\/3:7\">JOS 3:7-10A, 11, 13-17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The LORD said to Joshua,<br \/>\n\u201cToday I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel,<br \/>\nthat they may know I am with you, as I was with Moses.<br \/>\nNow command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant<br \/>\nto come to a halt in the Jordan<br \/>\nwhen you reach the edge of the waters.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">So Joshua said to the children of Israel,<br \/>\n\u201cCome here and listen to the words of the LORD, your God.<br \/>\nThis is how you will know that there is a living God in your midst,<br \/>\nwho at your approach will dispossess the Canaanites.<br \/>\nThe ark of the covenant of the LORD of the whole earth<br \/>\nwill precede you into the Jordan.<br \/>\nWhen the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the LORD,<br \/>\nthe Lord of the whole earth,<br \/>\ntouch the water of the Jordan, it will cease to flow;<br \/>\nfor the water flowing down from upstream will halt in a solid bank.\u201d<br \/>\nThe people struck their tents to cross the Jordan,<br \/>\nwith the priests carrying the ark of the covenant ahead of them.<br \/>\nNo sooner had these priestly bearers of the ark<br \/>\nwaded into the waters at the edge of the Jordan,<br \/>\nwhich overflows all its banks<br \/>\nduring the entire season of the harvest,<br \/>\nthan the waters flowing from upstream halted,<br \/>\nbacking up in a solid mass for a very great distance indeed,<br \/>\nfrom Adam, a city in the direction of Zarethan;<br \/>\nwhile those flowing downstream toward the Salt Sea of the Arabah<br \/>\ndisappeared entirely.<br \/>\nThus the people crossed over opposite Jericho.<br \/>\nWhile all Israel crossed over on dry ground,<br \/>\nthe priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD<br \/>\nremained motionless on dry ground in the bed of the Jordan<br \/>\nuntil the whole nation had completed the passage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/114:1\">PS 114:1-2, 3-4, 5-6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R.\u00a0Alleluia!<br \/>\nWhen Israel came forth from Egypt,<br \/>\nthe house of Jacob from a people of alien tongue,<br \/>\nJudah became his sanctuary,<br \/>\nIsrael his domain.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia!<br \/>\nThe sea beheld and fled;<br \/>\nJordan turned back.<br \/>\nThe mountains skipped like rams,<br \/>\nthe hills like the lambs of the flock.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia!<br \/>\nWhy is it, O sea, that you flee?<br \/>\nO Jordan, that you turn back?<br \/>\nYou mountains, that you skip like rams?<br \/>\nYou hills, like the lambs of the flock?<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia!<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/119:135\">PS 119:135<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nLet your countenance shine upon your servant<br \/>\nand teach me your statutes.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/18:21\">MT 18:21\u201319:1<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Peter approached Jesus and asked him,<br \/>\n\u201cLord, if my brother sins against me,<br \/>\nhow often must I forgive him?<br \/>\nAs many as seven times?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus answered, \u201cI say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.<br \/>\nThat is why the Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king<br \/>\nwho decided to settle accounts with his servants.<br \/>\nWhen he began the accounting,<br \/>\na debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount.<br \/>\nSince he had no way of paying it back,<br \/>\nhis master ordered him to be sold,<br \/>\nalong with his wife, his children, and all his property,<br \/>\nin payment of the debt.<br \/>\nAt that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said,<br \/>\n\u2018Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.\u2019<br \/>\nMoved with compassion the master of that servant<br \/>\nlet him go and forgave him the loan.<br \/>\nWhen that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants<br \/>\nwho owed him a much smaller amount.<br \/>\nHe seized him and started to choke him, demanding,<br \/>\n\u2018Pay back what you owe.\u2019<br \/>\nFalling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him,<br \/>\n\u2018Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.\u2019<br \/>\nBut he refused.<br \/>\nInstead, he had the fellow servant put in prison<br \/>\nuntil he paid back the debt.<br \/>\nNow when his fellow servants saw what had happened,<br \/>\nthey were deeply disturbed,<br \/>\nand went to their master and reported the whole affair.<br \/>\nHis master summoned him and said to him, \u2018You wicked servant!<br \/>\nI forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.<br \/>\nShould you not have had pity on your fellow servant,<br \/>\nas I had pity on you?\u2019<br \/>\nThen in anger his master handed him over to the torturers<br \/>\nuntil he should pay back the whole debt.<br \/>\nSo will my heavenly Father do to you,<br \/>\nunless each of you forgives his brother from his heart.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When Jesus finished these words, he left Galilee<br \/>\nand went to the district of Judea across the Jordan.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/f94d189a9cedfb85b8610a445e013a97.jpg.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27274\" 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