{"id":28328,"date":"2024-01-19T04:41:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T09:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=28328"},"modified":"2024-01-20T06:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T11:21:00","slug":"the-vocation-to-reverence-and-mercy-in-living-the-gospel-of-life-second-friday-ii-january-19-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-vocation-to-reverence-and-mercy-in-living-the-gospel-of-life-second-friday-ii-january-19-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vocation to Reverence and Mercy in Living the Gospel of Life, Second Friday (II), January 19, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSt. Patrick&#8217;s Church, Washington, DC<br \/>\nFriday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nVotive Mass of Thanksgiving for the Gift of Human Life<br \/>\nJanuary 19, 2024<br \/>\n1 Sam 24:3-21, Ps 57, Mk 3:13-19<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio\u00a0recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28328-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.24_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.24_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.24_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, as we celebrate this Votive Mass of Thanksgiving to God for the Gift of Human Life after having participated in the March for Life, the readings of this Mass help us to focus powerfully on our vocation to be apostles proclaiming and living the Gospel of Life. In the Gospel passage we just heard, we ponder the calling of the apostles by name. Jesus, we know from St. Luke\u2019s account, had prayed all night before, asking his Father for light on who should be chosen and then, the following day, called the twelve by name. Jesus has likewise prayed about and for us before calling us by name. It was not we who chose him but he who chose us and appointed us to bear fruit that will last. Today we thank God for the gift of our Christian vocation, our vocation to life, our vocation to protect and enhance the sacredness of every human life, our vocation to holiness, and whatever calling within those callings he has given us, the vocation to marriage, priesthood, religious life, or whatever ecclesial vocation he has given us.<\/li>\n<li>But it&#8217;s not enough to be called. Jesus wants to form us to live out our vocation to the full. In today\u2019s Gospel we see an essential description of the formation Jesus gave the apostles and wants to give each of us. \u00a0Jesus called Simon, James, John, Andrew, Philip, the others, and each of us to be \u201cwith him\u201d and so that \u201che might send [us] forth to preach and to have authority to drive out demons.\u201d The first criterion is that we are supposed to <em>be<\/em>\u00a0<em>with him.<\/em> Our first priority tis to spend time with him. This points obviously to our prayer, to the need to set aside the necessary time to be with the Lord, to converse with him, to listen to him, to pour out our needs and the needs of those we serve, our thanks, our praise and our sorrow. This call to be \u201cwith Jesus,\u201d however, goes well beyond prayer. We need to develop a living awareness that, thanks to our baptism, we have become ontologically united with Christ: that who we are, and everything we do, is in mysterious and wondrous communion with him, something that is enhanced and intensified by our Eucharistic communion. No matter how many activities we engage in over the course of a day, year or lifetime, they are all meant to be part of our Christian vocation to be together with Christ, to be yoked to him in daily life, to act as an instrument in essential communion with him. The second essential aspect of our formation is that he wants to send us out \u2014 united with him \u2014 to preach and drive out demons. Every vocation contains a mission and the mission is to continue Jesus\u2019 mission. One essential aspect of our vocation to live in the kingdom is its exorcistic dimension, to reject Satan, his evil works and empty promises, as we seek together with the Church to expel Satan and his stranglehold on ourselves, on others, and on the culture.<\/li>\n<li>Today, as together with hundreds of thousands of others we march for life here in Washington, DC, we ponder just how much we need to be with Jesus and to go forth as salt, light and leaven to overturn the diabolical culture of death and destruction, that permits those made in God\u2019s image and likeness to be rejected and eliminated at the earliest days of life, that refuses love to women in need, that preaches pride rather than repentance and mercy for abortions had.<\/li>\n<li>In today\u2019s first reading, Saul was for the second time trying to kill David and David was presented with a chance to take Saul\u2019s life before Saul would take his. But David refused to lay a hand on the \u201cLord\u2019s anointed.\u201d So great was his reverence for God that he would never seriously countenance doing anything against someone in an intimate relationship with God, regardless of that person\u2019s sins against God or against him. That\u2019s part of the message we preach and love: doing no harm, in fact loving, those in intimate relationship with God \u2014 loving children, their mothers, their fathers, even those who make themselves the enemies of the unborn. If we are with Christ as he sends us out, we will.<\/li>\n<li>And we will seek to love them with the mercy Christ brought into the world. In today&#8217;s Psalm, we cried out repeatedly, &#8220;Have mercy, O God, have mercy.&#8221; We proclaimed that we have taken refuge in him who is merciful and faithful and we rejoiced that his mercy towers to the heavens and his faithfulness to the skies. Many times in the Gospel,\u00a0the evangelists mention that Jesus&#8217; \u201cheart was moved with pity\u201d for the crowds \u2014 literally his innards were bursting with compassion, he was sick to his stomach at their situation. In response, they mention five actions Jesus did. Each of the five is highly relevant to forming a culture of mercy in advance of the culture of life.\n<ul>\n<li>The first thing Jesus did was teach. Likewise, united with and sent out by him, we need to pass on the truth with charity. The truth about the humanity and dignity of the child. The truth about the real good of women. The truth about what is really happening. The abortion industry is full of lies and euphemisms: \u201cchoice,\u201d &#8220;freedom,&#8221; \u201cwomen\u2019s rights\u201d \u201cwomen\u2019s health\u201d \u201cblob of tissue\u201d \u201cbetter for the fetus\u201d etc. This culture of the lie, coming from the father of lies, needs to be opposed by passing on with love what God has revealed and what human reason can see.<\/li>\n<li>The second thing Jesus did was to heal. Similarly, we need to bring that healing. How important it is for women who have had abortions to experience hope and healing! For seven years I served as chaplain to the Sisters of Life in Manhattan and one of their essential apostolates is &#8220;hope and healing&#8221; for those women who have suffered abortion. The healing isn\u2019t quick or easy, but it can and does happen, with patient accompaniment, prayer, and the grace of the sacraments. We need to offer that to all people however wounded by the culture of death.<\/li>\n<li>The third thing Jesus did was to feed. Likewise, there are often so many material needs that can conduce a vulnerable woman toward abortion. With mercy we need to try to help meet those needs for food, clothing, housing, work, legal help.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth work of mercy Jesus did was to forgive. The Church must carry on this crucial work of forgiveness. The first way is to help those who have chosen, facilitated, promoted or tolerated abortion to experience the forgiveness of Christ in the way Christ himself established. Their consciences, once they begin to function appropriately, lead them to recognize the gravity of what they\u2019ve done, but often they are like Lady MacBeth, trying to wash the stain away, not realizing that there\u2019s no detergent in the world powerful enough; only God can do that, and he does in the Sacrament of his Mercy. Part of living the Gospel of Life is to be like friends of the paralyzed man bringing those we know, who might be emotionally crippled, to God working through his priests so that they might receive the mercy Jesus sent the apostles, their successors and their priest collaborators to bring to the world. It\u2019s also necessary for all of us to be merciful and forgive those who have made themselves the enemies of the pro-life movement and done harm at various levels to us and other pro-lifers.<\/li>\n<li>The fifth form of mercy relates to today\u2019s Gospel. In St. Matthew\u2019s version of the scene, Jesus, looking with compassion on the mangled and abandoned shepherd-less sheep, asks everyone to pray for laborers to take in the harvest that is already ripe. And after they have prayed, Jesus immediately calls 12, the 12 we encounter in today\u2019s Gospel from St. Mark. Out of mercy, Jesus gets us to pray for more laborers and then calls us to continue his mission by becoming those laborers. We\u2019re all Christians because of 2,000 years of prayers to the Harvest Master, and we\u2019re allied diligently to go to the world to seek to perpetuate Jesus\u2019 work. We also need to be praying and calling others to join us in the fields. How beautiful and hopeful it is to see how young the March for Life is, because the Church has been praying for these young people to join us in the fight and we\u2019re happy that they\u2019re responding, in some way, to that call.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Today as we thank God for the gift of human life, as we remember our personal summons to be his disciple and apostle, we we pray for a greater sense of reverence for every human being, we pray, \u00a0\u201cHave mercy on me, O God, have mercy!,\u201d We ask God to \u201csend his mercy and his faithfulness\u201d and he responds by sending his Son, the true Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ, who revealed himself to St. Faustina as &#8220;Mercy Incarnate.&#8221; He is the one who calls us to be with him here at Mass. He is the one who, at the end of Mass, sends us out to preach and oppose the devil. He is the one who teaches us how to treat, and form others to treat, those with whom he is in relationship from the womb with reverence, not only never laying a hand on them to do harm, but embracing them with love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/1samuel\/24:3|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=3ebdc69fc3&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">1 Sm 24:3-21<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Saul took three thousand picked men from all Israel<br \/>\nand went in search of David and his men<br \/>\nin the direction of the wild goat crags.<br \/>\nWhen he came to the sheepfolds along the way, he found a cave,<br \/>\nwhich he entered to relieve himself.<br \/>\nDavid and his men were occupying the inmost recesses of the cave.<br \/>\nDavid\u2019s servants said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cThis is the day of which the LORD said to you,<br \/>\n\u2018I will deliver your enemy into your grasp;<br \/>\ndo with him as you see fit.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nSo David moved up and stealthily cut off an end of Saul\u2019s mantle.<br \/>\nAfterward, however, David regretted that he had cut off<br \/>\nan end of Saul\u2019s mantle.<br \/>\nHe said to his men,<br \/>\n\u201cThe LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master,<br \/>\nthe LORD\u2019s anointed, as to lay a hand on him,<br \/>\nfor he is the LORD\u2019s anointed.\u201d<br \/>\nWith these words David restrained his men<br \/>\nand would not permit them to attack Saul.<br \/>\nSaul then left the cave and went on his way.<br \/>\nDavid also stepped out of the cave, calling to Saul,<br \/>\n\u201cMy lord the king!\u201d<br \/>\nWhen Saul looked back,<br \/>\nDavid bowed to the ground in homage and asked Saul:<br \/>\n\u201cWhy do you listen to those who say,<br \/>\n\u2018David is trying to harm you\u2019?<br \/>\nYou see for yourself today that the LORD just now delivered you<br \/>\ninto my grasp in the cave.<br \/>\nI had some thought of killing you, but I took pity on you instead.<br \/>\nI decided, \u2018I will not raise a hand against my lord,<br \/>\nfor he is the LORD\u2019s anointed and a father to me.\u2019<br \/>\nLook here at this end of your mantle which I hold.<br \/>\nSince I cut off an end of your mantle and did not kill you,<br \/>\nsee and be convinced that I plan no harm and no rebellion.<br \/>\nI have done you no wrong,<br \/>\nthough you are hunting me down to take my life.<br \/>\nThe LORD will judge between me and you,<br \/>\nand the LORD will exact justice from you in my case.<br \/>\nI shall not touch you.<br \/>\nThe old proverb says, \u2018From the wicked comes forth wickedness.\u2019<br \/>\nSo I will take no action against you.<br \/>\nAgainst whom are you on campaign, O king of Israel?<br \/>\nWhom are you pursuing? A dead dog, or a single flea!<br \/>\nThe LORD will be the judge; he will decide between me and you.<br \/>\nMay he see this, and take my part,<br \/>\nand grant me justice beyond your reach!\u201d<br \/>\nWhen David finished saying these things to Saul, Saul answered,<br \/>\n\u201cIs that your voice, my son David?\u201d<br \/>\nAnd Saul wept aloud.<br \/>\nSaul then said to David: \u201cYou are in the right rather than I;<br \/>\nyou have treated me generously, while I have done you harm.<br \/>\nGreat is the generosity you showed me today,<br \/>\nwhen the LORD delivered me into your grasp<br \/>\nand you did not kill me.<br \/>\nFor if a man meets his enemy, does he send him away unharmed?<br \/>\nMay the LORD reward you generously for what you have done this day.<br \/>\nAnd now, I know that you shall surely be king<br \/>\nand that sovereignty over Israel shall come into your possession.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/psalms\/57:2|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=378d8dae5c&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">PS 57:2, 3-4, 6 and 11<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (2a)\u00a0<strong>Have mercy on me, God, have mercy.<\/strong><br \/>\nHave mercy on me, O God; have mercy on me,<br \/>\nfor in you I take refuge.<br \/>\nIn the shadow of your wings I take refuge,<br \/>\ntill harm pass by.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Have mercy on me, God, have mercy.<\/strong><br \/>\nI call to God the Most High,<br \/>\nto God, my benefactor.<br \/>\nMay he send from heaven and save me;<br \/>\nmay he make those a reproach who trample upon me;<br \/>\nmay God send his mercy and his faithfulness.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Have mercy on me, God, have mercy.<\/strong><br \/>\nBe exalted above the heavens, O God;<br \/>\nabove all the earth be your glory!<br \/>\nFor your mercy towers to the heavens,<br \/>\nand your faithfulness to the skies.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Have mercy on me, God, have mercy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/2corinthians\/5:19|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=8e6a804682&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">2 Cor 5:19<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nGod was reconciling the world to himself in Christ,<br \/>\nand entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/mark\/3:13|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=da0332dc82&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Mk 3:13-19<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted<br \/>\nand they came to him.<br \/>\nHe appointed Twelve, whom he also named Apostles,<br \/>\nthat they might be with him<br \/>\nand he might send them forth to preach<br \/>\nand to have authority to drive out demons:<br \/>\nHe appointed the Twelve:<br \/>\nSimon, whom he named Peter;<br \/>\nJames, son of Zebedee,<br \/>\nand John the brother of James, whom he named Boanerges,<br \/>\nthat is, sons of thunder;<br \/>\nAndrew, Philip, Bartholomew,<br \/>\nMatthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus;<br \/>\nThaddeus, Simon the Cananean,<br \/>\nand Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/woman-crying.jpg.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28329\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/woman-crying.jpg.webp?resize=300%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5518\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28328-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.24_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.24_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.24_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\/1.19.24_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=28328-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/1.19.24_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"1.19.24_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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