{"id":27682,"date":"2023-10-09T09:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=27682"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:12:47","slug":"running-toward-rather-than-away-27th-monday-i-october-9-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/running-toward-rather-than-away-27th-monday-i-october-9-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Toward Rather Than Away, 27th Monday (I), October 9, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of Saint John Henry Newman<br \/>\nOctober 9, 2023<br \/>\nJon 1:1-2:1-2.11, Jon 2:3-5.8, Lk 10:25-37<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27682-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/10.9.23_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/10.9.23_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/10.9.23_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in the readings we see two great dynamisms, two fundamental polarities in life. The first we see in Jonah in the first reading. When God reveals his will to him, he seeks to flee from the presence of the Lord. He boards a boat heading to Tarshish, which was basically in western Spain, as far west as Jonah would have known of the geography of the time. But such fleeing from the Lord is never a private action. It always impacts those around us, as Jonah\u2019s sinful polarity was risking the life of the fellow mariners.<\/li>\n<li>We see that same polarity in the first two figures in the Parable of the Good Samaritan in the Gospel. The priest and the levite were fleeing from the love of God and love of neighbor, were fleeing from the type of charity to which God was calling them at the moment. Only the Samaritan, someone whom Jews thought were perpetually in flight from God by worshipping God on Mount Gerizim rather than in Jerusalem, heard God\u2019s call and responded. If Jesus gave the parable today, it would be as if a man had been mugged, abused, and dropped in a sewer waiting to die and the Pope and Missionaries of Charity, hearing the groaning, crossed the road so that they wouldn\u2019t get involved, but then a drug dealer and pimp, or a member of Al Qaeda, or someone convicted of a heinous crime, or someone else many of the people in the world think a despicable loser drew near to care for him, nurse him back to health and sacrifice money for his future care.<\/li>\n<li>What leads to the transition from fleeing from the Lord to that of drawing near? The answer is found in the responsory to the first reading, which is in fact part of the second chapter of Jonah that was excised from the first reading so that we could make Jonah\u2019s prayer our own. Prayer, real contact with God, transforms us from those who flee the Lord to those who serve and love and the Lord, especially in others. God himself transforms us to set us on his path.<\/li>\n<li>Today in the Gospel, Jesus describes that path for us. A scholar of the law approaches to test Jesus about what he needs to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus flips the question around and asks the scribe what he thinks the answer is from his study of the law. He gives the same synthetic answer that Jesus gave elsewhere (Mt 22:34-40): to love God with all we have and to love our neighbor like\u00a0we love ourselves. Jesus told him that he had answered correctly, but he added something else: \u201c<em>Do<\/em>\u00a0this and you will live.\u201d It was clear that the scholar\u00a0<em>knew\u00a0<\/em>what needed to be done, but Jesus, seeing his heart, recognized that the struggle for this scribe would be to practice what he knew. Salvation isn\u2019t dependent so much on our intelligence, on what we know, but who we are, and our character is forged by our action. We see how right Jesus was in the scribe\u2019s follow-up question. Wishing to justify himself, he asked, \u201cAnd who is my neighbor?\u201d At first glance, the question might seem one of sincere inquisitiveness, but behind it is the premise that there are some people who are his neighbors and some who are not. The typical Jews of the time thought that they were to love their neighbor and hate their enemy (Mt 5:43), that they were supposed to care for those Jews who followed the law, but cut themselves off from sinners, from Samaritans, from Gentiles and from basically everyone who didn\u2019t toe the line. The scribe wanted to be justified in\u00a0<em>not loving <\/em>certain of his neighbors.<em>\u00a0<\/em>That\u2019s why Jesus told him the Parable of the Good Samaritan to show him that the neighbor is one who draws near out of love for those around him, before adding, \u201cGo and do the same.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jesus changed the way that he looked at loving his neighbor from \u201cobjectively\u201d seeking to define who was and was not his neighbor that he should treat with love, to \u201csubjectively\u201d becoming a neighbor to everyone, to be willing to love and treat with mercy whomever one meets. St. John Paul II wrote in <em>Love and Responsibility<\/em> that a human being is someone to whom the only worthy response is love. He surrounds us with neighbors who are hurting precisely to \u201cunleash love\u201d in us, as St. John Paul II wrote in <em>Salvifici Doloris.\u00a0<\/em>He permits people to be in need so that we can learn what it means to become a neighbor and actually act as a neighbor: a person who sees everyone as someone to whom one should show love and mercy, someone who recognizes everyone is in his neighborhood. This is what Jesus did to us, drawing close to us when we were dying, left in a ditch, mugged by the evil one, left for dead. He bound our wounds, carried us on his shoulders, poured his precious blood into us, brought us to the inn of the Church and promised to repay everyone who is kind to us at his second coming. And he as a Good Samaritan continues to come to us with all our wounds every morning. He wants us to follow him in loving like this.<\/li>\n<li>Today the Church celebrates the feast of Saint John Henry (Cardinal) Newman, one of the greatest figures of the 19th century and one of the most celebrated converts in the history of the Church. In his poetry and in his Sermons, he consistently focused on the Church as the Inn to which Christ entrusts all of the wounded before he returns at his second coming. He looked to the Church in this way even prior to becoming Catholic. He wrote in a poem in 1833 from Palermo about the Church\u2019s charity, which he had seen when he visited Rome and which for him had compelling attraction, \u201cOh that thy creed were sound! \/ For thou dost soothe the heart, thou Church of Rome \/ By thy unwearied watch and varied round \/ Of service, in thy Saviour\u2019s holy home. \/ I cannot walk the city\u2019s sultry streets, \/ But the wide porch invites to still retreats, \/ Where passion\u2019s thirst is calm\u2019d, and care\u2019s un-thankful gloom. \/ The home-sick solitary finds a friend: \/ Thoughts, prison\u2019d long for lack of speech, outpour their tears; and doubts in resignation end. \/ I almost fainted from the long delay \/ That tangles me within this languid bay, \/ When comes a foe, my wounds with oil and \/ wine to tend.\u201d He still didn\u2019t think that the Church\u2019s \u201ccreed\u201d was sound, but he was very moved by the \u201cservice\u201d that he saw for the \u201chome-sick solitary,\u201d for those full of tears, and sees himself in the \u201cfoe\u201d whom the Church would tend with wine and oil. In notes for a Sermon on the Good Samaritan for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost that he would give later, he would focus on this point, stressing that the Church \u201cis the good Samaritan to Protestants. Observe again the text, \u2018He who showed mercy to him.\u2019 Has the Catholic Church or Protestantism done this for us?\u201d The answer was clearly the Catholic Church. The Church is supposed to be a whole mystical body of Good Samaritans, the Inn in which all of the wounded can find a friend. To be a Christian means to be a Good Samaritan. It means to draw near. It means to cross the road. It means to act with mercy. And he specifically called us to show that mercy to Protestants, who, without knowing it, are \u201cwounded\u201d in their missing the fullness of the means of salvation. He was calling us to work to cross the road to help them cross the Tiber.<\/li>\n<li>Many times we\u2019re tempted to run away from this vocation to be Good Samaritans just like Jonah did his. We have lots of good excuses, lots of things we need to do that we prioritize over charity. We have lots of \u201cships to Tarshish.\u201d But Jesus wants us to grasp that the most important thing we need to do, the greatest way we can serve him, is by loving God with all we\u2019ve got and loving our neighbor, the concrete neighbor in need whom we encounter each day. Loving that neighbor in deeds is what he wants. Pope Francis has been stressing this point since he assumed the papacy. He has lamented a \u201cglobalized indifference\u201d that hardens our hearts to those who are suffering so that, even if we feel some compassion toward them, we don\u2019t do anything. We say, \u201cPoor fella\u201d and pass by the other side. The Kingdom of God that Jesus Christ came to establish is a Kingdom of Good Samaritans, in which we recognize we\u2019re our brothers\u2019 and sisters\u2019 keepers, and readily \u2014 not just out of duty but out of genuine, sincere neighborly love \u2014 tend to the wounds those around us have. The more we ponder Jesus\u2019 own wounds in his sacred humanity, the more straightforward this becomes. When we ponder with faith and real love Jesus\u2019 suffering, when we see his scourge marks, when we look at the nail marks and his bleeding head and bloody eyes, we become Veronicas and Simons of Cyrene. Then we\u2019re able to see Christ in the distressing disguise of those who likewise are beaten down by the world, who are hungry, thirsty, naked, a stranger, ill, imprisoned or otherwise in need (Mt 25:31-46). And we draw near to care for the One who drew near to care for us.<\/li>\n<li>The greatest means by which the Good Samaritan cares for us and changes us to care loving for our neighbor is here at Mass, as he nourishes us in the inn of the Church with his body, blood, soul and divinity that we offer to the Eternal Father for our sins and those of the whole world.\u00a0In Jesus we became neighbor to everyone and he strengthens us to become the hands, feet, and heart of the mystical body to go out in search of those wandering from Jerusalem to Jericho whom Jesus wants us to lift out of the ditch and help get back on the road that leads to the Celestial Jerusalem. This is the means both by which we love God and love our neighbor\u00a0with all we are and have. This is the path to eternal life.<\/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\/jonah\/1:1|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=3a0de58646&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Jon 1:1\u20132:1-2, 11<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p>This is the word of the LORD that came to Jonah, son of Amittai:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSet out for the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it;<br \/>\ntheir wickedness has come up before me.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Jonah made ready to flee to Tarshish away from the LORD.<br \/>\nHe went down to Joppa, found a ship going to Tarshish,<br \/>\npaid the fare, and went aboard to journey with them to Tarshish,<br \/>\naway from the LORD.<\/p>\n<p>The LORD, however, hurled a violent wind upon the sea,<br \/>\nand in the furious tempest that arose<br \/>\nthe ship was on the point of breaking up.<br \/>\nThen the mariners became frightened and each one cried to his god.<br \/>\nTo lighten the ship for themselves, they threw its cargo into the sea.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship,<br \/>\nand lay there fast asleep.<br \/>\nThe captain came to him and said, \u201cWhat are you doing asleep?<br \/>\nRise up, call upon your God!<br \/>\nPerhaps God will be mindful of us so that we may not perish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then they said to one another, \u201cCome, let us cast lots<br \/>\nto find out on whose account we have met with this misfortune.\u201d<br \/>\nSo they cast lots, and thus singled out Jonah.<br \/>\n\u201cTell us,\u201d they said, \u201cwhat is your business?<br \/>\nWhere do you come from?<br \/>\nWhat is your country, and to what people do you belong?\u201d<br \/>\nJonah answered them, \u201cI am a Hebrew,<br \/>\nI worship the LORD, the God of heaven,<br \/>\nwho made the sea and the dry land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now the men were seized with great fear and said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cHow could you do such a thing!\u2013<br \/>\nThey knew that he was fleeing from the LORD,<br \/>\nbecause he had told them.\u2013<br \/>\nThey asked, \u201cWhat shall we do with you,<br \/>\nthat the sea may quiet down for us?\u201d<br \/>\nFor the sea was growing more and more turbulent.<br \/>\nJonah said to them, \u201cPick me up and throw me into the sea,<br \/>\nthat it may quiet down for you;<br \/>\nsince I know it is because of me<br \/>\nthat this violent storm has come upon you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still the men rowed hard to regain the land, but they could not,<br \/>\nfor the sea grew ever more turbulent.<br \/>\nThen they cried to the LORD: \u201cWe beseech you, O LORD,<br \/>\nlet us not perish for taking this man\u2019s life;<br \/>\ndo not charge us with shedding innocent blood,<br \/>\nfor you, LORD, have done as you saw fit.\u201d<br \/>\nThen they took Jonah and threw him into the sea,<br \/>\nand the sea\u2019s raging abated.<br \/>\nStruck with great fear of the LORD,<br \/>\nthe men offered sacrifice and made vows to him.<\/p>\n<p>But the LORD sent a large fish, that swallowed Jonah;<br \/>\nand Jonah remained in the belly of the fish<br \/>\nthree days and three nights.<br \/>\nFrom the belly of the fish Jonah prayed<br \/>\nto the LORD, his God.<br \/>\nThen the LORD commanded the fish to spew Jonah upon the shore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/jonah\/2:3|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=9e000d95c2&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Jonah 2:3, 4, 5, 8<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R.\u00a0<strong>You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nOut of my distress I called to the LORD,<br \/>\nand he answered me;<br \/>\nFrom the midst of the nether world I cried for help,<br \/>\nand you heard my voice.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nFor you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea,<br \/>\nand the flood enveloped me;<br \/>\nAll your breakers and your billows<br \/>\npassed over me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nThen I said, \u201cI am banished from your sight!<br \/>\nyet would I again look upon your holy temple.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen my soul fainted within me,<br \/>\nI remembered the LORD;<br \/>\nMy prayer reached you<br \/>\nin your holy temple.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/john\/13:34|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=7ec92f4a1f&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Jn 13:34<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nI give you a new commandment:<br \/>\nlove one another as I have loved you.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/luke\/10:25|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=3e6e9ee3ad&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Lk 10:25-37<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said,<br \/>\n\u201cTeacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to him, \u201cWhat is written in the law?<br \/>\nHow do you read it?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cYou shall love the Lord, your God,<br \/>\nwith all your heart,<br \/>\nwith all your being,<br \/>\nwith all your strength,<br \/>\nand with all your mind,<br \/>\nand your neighbor as yourself.\u201d<br \/>\nHe replied to him, \u201cYou have answered correctly;<br \/>\ndo this and you will live.\u201d<br \/>\nBut because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus,<br \/>\n\u201cAnd who is my neighbor?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus replied,<br \/>\n\u201cA man fell victim to robbers<br \/>\nas he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.<br \/>\nThey stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead.<br \/>\nA priest happened to be going down that road,<br \/>\nbut when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.<br \/>\nLikewise a Levite came to the place,<br \/>\nand when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.<br \/>\nBut a Samaritan traveler who came upon him<br \/>\nwas moved with compassion at the sight.<br \/>\nHe approached the victim,<br \/>\npoured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them.<br \/>\nThen he lifted him up on his own animal,<br \/>\ntook him to an inn, and cared for him.<br \/>\nThe next day he took out two silver coins<br \/>\nand gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction,<br \/>\n\u2018Take care of him.<br \/>\nIf you spend more than what I have given you,<br \/>\nI shall repay you on my way back.\u2019<br \/>\nWhich of these 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