{"id":27918,"date":"2023-11-12T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=27918"},"modified":"2023-11-12T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:40:13","slug":"the-personal-desire-for-jesus-the-bridegroom-thirty-second-sunday-a-november-12-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-personal-desire-for-jesus-the-bridegroom-thirty-second-sunday-a-november-12-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Personal Desire for Jesus the Bridegroom, Thirty-Second Sunday (A), November 12, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nConvent of the Missionaries of Charity, Bronx, New York<br \/>\n32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A<br \/>\nNovember 12, 2023<br \/>\nWis 6:12-16, Ps 63, 1 Thess 4:13-18, Mt 25:1-13<\/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-27918-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.12.23_MCs_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.12.23_MCs_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.12.23_MCs_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following text guided the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In today\u2019s Gospel, Jesus uses an image that perhaps to us might seem a little strange about the practices involving a wedding, but the details would have been very well understood by his contemporaries and by many of those still living in Palestine. There were two main stages in a marriage. The first would be the exchange of vows. When this took place, the couple was married, but the spouses would continue to live apart for a while, up to a year or more, while the husband earned the money and prepared everything to welcome his new wife into his home and underwrite the wedding reception. It was during this time, for example, that the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary; she was already wedded to Joseph but they had not started to live under the same roof. The second stage was when the bridegroom, the husband, would come to the house of the bride to pick her up and take her to his home. He would be accompanied by all the guests from his side as he went to her home. There he would meet her and all the guests from her side, her bridesmaids and others, who would be waiting for him along the way. Both groups would process back together to his home and when they arrived, they would celebrate the nuptials for eight days with all their friends and family \u2014\u00a0something they would consider far more enjoyable than leaving all of them behind for a honeymoon.<\/li>\n<li>The bridegroom could come at any time to pick up his bride and so people needed to be ready. Before he would come, he would send out a herald who would announce along the path, \u201cBehold the bridegroom is coming,\u201d but the husband himself could come within hours, days, up to a week. He could come in the middle of the night. There was a law that said that if one were out at night, one had to have a lamp, which was not only common sense but prevented any ambushes, etc. People who knew both bride and groom could either wait with the bride or accompany the bridegroom, but most would prefer the former because it was less walking! As soon as the bridegroom took the bride into his house, the doors really would be shut, to prevent latecomers crashing their party. This wedding tradition, which was universal at Jesus\u2019 time, is still found today in certain parts of the Holy Land and Middle East.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus uses this image as the background to communicate to us how we should be living our life in preparation for his return as Bridegroom at the end of our life or at the end of the world, whichever comes first. Jesus contrasts five wise bridesmaids versus five foolish ones, wanting us to imitate the lessons we see in the five wise ones. November is the month in which the whole Church reflects on the four last things \u2014 death, judgment, heaven and hell. By this image Jesus tries to help us prepare well for the first two, so that we may experience the third and avoid the fourth. But for this to happen, we need to learn three crucial lessons from the wise virgins.<\/li>\n<li>The first lesson is <em>vigilance<\/em> for the Bridegroom\u2019s coming. The heralds have already gone out to announce not just that Jesus is coming but is here. He is already married to his bride the Church, he regularly invites her to come with him each day, but he\u2019s also awaiting the time in which he will be able to celebrate with her the wedding banquet that will last not just eight twenty-four hour periods, but be an eternal eighth day (the day of resurrection, the new and eternal \u201cfirst day of the week\u201d). All of us have been given invitations and are members of the wedding party. Jesus wants us there. But we have to be ready to go with him whenever he arrives. Death, for a Christian, is not meant to be a scary thing. It\u2019s the time when Jesus the Bridegroom comes for us to take us to the home he has prepared where we will celebrate with him forever. We\u2019re called to await him with eager longing, with great expectation. He wants the lamps of our hearts burning for him, full of the oil of love. In today\u2019s second reading, St. Paul says he wants us \u201cto encourage one another with these words,\u201d the words he gave us about the meaning of Christian death. Because Christian death is the return of the Bridegroom and the entrance of one who deeply longs for his return into the eternal nuptial banquet, Christians should \u201cnot grieve as those who have no hope\u201d after the death of loved ones. We always have hope, not just for them if they lived in expectation of the Lord\u2019s return, but we have hope ourselves that one day he will come for us. He wants us to live by the words we prayed in the Psalm: \u201cYou are my God whom I seek, for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water.\u201d He wants us to long for him like in the first reading we are called to hunger for wisdom. She is \u201creadily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known in anticipation of their desire; Whoever watches for her at dawn shall not be disappointed, for he shall find her sitting by his gate.\u201d And relevant to the adjective Jesus uses to refer to the five he calls wise, the Book of Wisdom says, \u201cFor taking thought of wisdom is the perfection of prudence, and whoever for her sake keeps vigil shall quickly be free from care, because she makes her own rounds, seeking those worthy of her, and graciously appears to them in the ways, and meets them with all solicitude.\u201d For certain, the best way for us to stay alert for the return of the Bridegroom is for us to be ready, with hearts burning with love, for the presence of the Bridegroom now. The more we long for Jesus in the Eucharist, the more we will long to share eternal communion with him. The more we attentively listen to his Word in Sacred Scripture, the more prepared we will be to hear even the faintest footsteps of his advent. The more we seek to recognize him in the persons and events of each day, and love and embrace them as we would love and embrace Christ, the more ready we will be ready to embrace Christ when he appears without disguise.<\/li>\n<li>The second thing Jesus teaches us in the image of the ten bridesmaids is that <em>there are certain things that we cannot borrow. <\/em>Just as the unwise virgins didn\u2019t have enough oil for their own lamps \u2014 and oil stands for expectant love for the Lord \u2014 so we can\u2019t borrow anyone else\u2019s faith, hope or love. We need to have our own, otherwise we\u2019ll be caught unready and be left outside. This lesson is particularly important for the people of our age. One of my favorite authors, Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, now Trappist Father Simeon of Spencer Abbey, describes in his classic commentary on St. Matthew\u2019s Gospel, Fire of Mercy, that the \u201cfoolish virgins are foolish not only because they neglected to bring their own supply of oil with them to the momentous encounter with the Bridegroom, but also because they possess a na\u00efve and perhaps even subtly manipulative and self-indulgent view of the society to which they belong. They are spiritual freeloaders. They simply assume that they do not have to work for their own oil, that in a pinch, anyone\u2019s oil will burn just as nicely in their own lamps, that they should not strain themselves too much because there are many others \u2026 who will gladly do their work for them and that they, therefore, can relax in an attitude of entitlement and allow others to fill in the gap for them.\u201d In other words, they fail in their own responsibility, to prioritize their own personal relationship with the Bridegroom. I can\u2019t count how many times people who aren\u2019t faithful to the practice of the faith say when I am trying to cajole them into greater fidelity, \u201cI don\u2019t come to Mass, father, but my wife comes all the time.\u201d On other occasions, people who are ineligible for a sponsor certificate to become a godparent because they don\u2019t practice the faith, have said, \u201cBut my grandmother is one of the most active parishioners in the parish.\u201d Sometimes they will try to name-drop to obtain one, by saying, \u201cBut my great uncle is a monsignor.\u201d To all of them, I explain to them that there are certain things we cannot borrow, and one of them is another\u2019s relationship with the Lord. We can\u2019t borrow another\u2019s soul or spiritual life. And for those who are faithful to Christ, there\u2019s a lesson here, too, that there are certain things we cannot lend. While Jesus wants us to give of ourselves to others, to share with others freely the gifts He has so lavishly shared with us, there are certain things that we cannot give even to those we love. There are certain things that they must do for themselves. One is to develop this eager, expectant, vigilant, faithful, loving relationship with the Lord. Those who think that they can borrow other\u2019s relationships with the Lord when the Lord comes are indeed foolish, as Jesus says about the unwise bridesmaids.<\/li>\n<li>There is something in the parable we shouldn\u2019t miss. All ten virgins have the desire to encounter the Bridegroom. They all show up. They all have lamps. They all have some oil in the lamps. They are all tired and fall asleep. But what distinguishes the wise virgins is that they have brought extra flasks. They were prudent precisely in their having brought more. The oil represents, we could say, the unique thing each one of the bridesmaids has to offer the Bridegroom. Each one\u2019s oil is the gift of oneself, an all-inclusive personal act of pure love. The unwise have not committed in the same way, prepared to wait upon him. There is some self-giving, but not to overflowing. There\u2019s a partial commitment, but a partial commitment to love is not enough.<\/li>\n<li>The third lesson is that <em>there is a time that can be too late. <\/em>Certain things cannot be obtained at the last minute. The unwise virgins were caught off guard. They couldn\u2019t borrow oil, so they had to try to obtain some on their own, but they missed the bridegroom and were locked out. They knocked on the door saying, \u201cLord, lord, open to us.\u201d But then he replied with the words that I think are the saddest and most frightening in all of Sacred Scripture: \u201cTruly I tell you, I do not know you.\u201d The Bridegroom cannot know them because the would-be brides are offering only a borrowed facsimile of love that is not flowing from their heart. Their hearts are hollow like the empty lamps they carry. God is looking for one thing in us, the inimitable light that he has wanted to kindle in us and bring forth, the unique flame that can flare up only if we have allowed our heart and soul to catch the fire of his love. For the Lord to know us, for us to be on time for the wedding banquet, we have to spend our time here getting to know him intimately, as a friend, as a savior, as God. Many can put off this most important thing in life, which is to make God number one in our lives. We can allow the devil to deceive us by saying, \u201cThere\u2019s always time.\u201d We can allow him to insinuate that we can behave like the Good Thief, commit our sins, do our own thing in this life, and that the Lord Jesus will give us the chance at the end to say one prayer and everything we will work out. If we were to think that, though, we would be as foolish as the foolish virgins in the parable. Jesus tells us that there will be a time when there will be no time left. There will be a time when the door will be shut. The lesson of the parable is that now is the time for us to get to know the Lord so that the Lord may never say, \u201cI don\u2019t know you.\u201d Now is the time for us to prepare for his return. All of us have known people who have died unexpectedly, even young people. Even the healthiest person is this chapel could die today. The Lord in today\u2019s Gospel tells us that the wise among us will always be prepared. The moral he gives at the end of today\u2019s parable is crystal clear: \u201cKeep awake, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.\u201d To be awake means never to be asleep to God, but always to be alert, full of love, waiting for his return. Do I live as if today could be my last?<\/li>\n<li>Three lessons: an eager, expectant waiting for the Lord\u2019s coming in all his ways; a recognition that we can\u2019t borrow what we\u2019re going to need to meet the Lord when we comes; and a loving admonition from the Lord not to procrastinate on our preparations until it\u2019s too late. This Mass is meant to help us with each of the three. If we\u2019re truly ready to meet the Lord here, with our souls clean from serious sins, with our hearts hungering for Him, with the Lord himself, the Light of the World, burning inside of us fueled by the oil of love, we\u2019ll never be caught off guard, whether he comes today, tomorrow, or several decades from now. Our reaction to today\u2019s word of the Lord, and to the tremendous gift that is the Mass which is offered here every day, will therefore determine whether in the final analysis we\u2019re stupid or we\u2019re wise. Is our soul thirsting for the living God more than a desert pants for water? Are we keeping perpetual vigil seeking Wisdom incarnate? Have we come asking the Lord to fill not just our lamps but our flasks so that we can make a total self offering? The Lord who knows us desires to give us all these gifts. \u201cThe Bridegroom is here. Let us go out to meet Christ the Lord!\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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/wisdom\/6:12\">WIS 6:12-16<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Resplendent and unfading is wisdom,<br \/>\nand she is readily perceived by those who love her,<br \/>\nand found by those who seek her.<br \/>\nShe hastens to make herself known in anticipation of their desire;<br \/>\nWhoever watches for her at dawn shall not be disappointed,<br \/>\nfor he shall find her sitting by his gate.<br \/>\nFor taking thought of wisdom is the perfection of prudence,<br \/>\nand whoever for her sake keeps vigil<br \/>\nshall quickly be free from care;<br \/>\nbecause she makes her own rounds, seeking those worthy of her,<br \/>\nand graciously appears to them in the ways,<br \/>\nand meets them with all solicitude.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/63:2\">PS 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (2b) <strong>My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.<\/strong><br \/>\nO God, you are my God whom I seek;<br \/>\nfor you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts<br \/>\nlike the earth, parched, lifeless and without water.<br \/>\nR. <strong>My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.<\/strong><br \/>\nThus have I gazed toward you in the sanctuary<br \/>\nto see your power and your glory,<br \/>\nFor your kindness is a greater good than life;<br \/>\nmy lips shall glorify you.<br \/>\nR. <strong>My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.<\/strong><br \/>\nThus will I bless you while I live;<br \/>\nlifting up my hands, I will call upon your name.<br \/>\nAs with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied,<br \/>\nand with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you.<br \/>\nR. <strong>My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.<\/strong><br \/>\nI will remember you upon my couch,<br \/>\nand through the night-watches I will meditate on you:<br \/>\nYou are my help,<br \/>\nand in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy.<br \/>\nR. <strong>My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Reading 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1thessalonians\/4:13\">1 THES 4:13-18<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,<br \/>\nabout those who have fallen asleep,<br \/>\nso that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.<br \/>\nFor if we believe that Jesus died and rose,<br \/>\nso too will God, through Jesus,<br \/>\nbring with him those who have fallen asleep.<br \/>\nIndeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord,<br \/>\nthat we who are alive,<br \/>\nwho are left until the coming of the Lord,<br \/>\nwill surely not precede those who have fallen asleep.<br \/>\nFor the Lord himself, with a word of command,<br \/>\nwith the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God,<br \/>\nwill come down from heaven,<br \/>\nand the dead in Christ will rise first.<br \/>\nThen we who are alive, who are left,<br \/>\nwill be caught up together with them in the clouds<br \/>\nto meet the Lord in the air.<br \/>\nThus we shall always be with the Lord.<br \/>\nTherefore, console one another with these words.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/24:42\">MT 24:42A, 44<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nStay awake and be ready!<br \/>\nFor you do not know on what day your Lord will come.<br \/>\nR. <strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/25:1\">MT 25:1-13<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus told his disciples this parable:<br \/>\n\u201cThe kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins<br \/>\nwho took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.<br \/>\nFive of them were foolish and five were wise.<br \/>\nThe foolish ones, when taking their lamps,<br \/>\nbrought no oil with them,<br \/>\nbut the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps.<br \/>\nSince the bridegroom was long delayed,<br \/>\nthey all became drowsy and fell asleep.<br \/>\nAt midnight, there was a cry,<br \/>\n\u2018Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!\u2019<br \/>\nThen all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps.<br \/>\nThe foolish ones said to the wise,<br \/>\n\u2018Give us some of your oil,<br \/>\nfor our lamps are going out.\u2019<br \/>\nBut the wise ones replied,<br \/>\n\u2018No, for there may not be enough for us and you.<br \/>\nGo instead to the merchants and buy some for yourselves.\u2019<br \/>\nWhile they went off to buy it,<br \/>\nthe bridegroom came<br \/>\nand those who were ready went into the wedding feast with him.<br \/>\nThen the door was locked.<br \/>\nAfterwards the other virgins came and said,<br \/>\n\u2018Lord, Lord, open the door for us!\u2019<br \/>\nBut he said in reply,<br \/>\n\u2018Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.\u2019<br \/>\nTherefore, stay awake,<br \/>\nfor you know neither the day nor the hour.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tenvirg2.jpg.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27919\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/tenvirg2.jpg.webp?resize=197%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5336\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27918-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.12.23_MCs_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.12.23_MCs_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.12.23_MCs_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\/11.12.23_MCs_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=27918-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.12.23_MCs_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"11.12.23_MCs_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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