{"id":28636,"date":"2024-02-27T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=28636"},"modified":"2024-02-27T13:07:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:07:45","slug":"the-humble-path-to-setting-things-right-and-being-exalted-with-christ-tuesday-of-the-second-week-of-lent-february-27-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-humble-path-to-setting-things-right-and-being-exalted-with-christ-tuesday-of-the-second-week-of-lent-february-27-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humble Path to Setting Things Right and Being Exalted With Christ, Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent, February 27, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Campus Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nTuesday of the Second Week of Lent<br \/>\nFebruary 27, 2024<br \/>\nIs 1:10.16-20, Ps 50, Mt 23:1-12<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28636-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.27.24_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.27.24_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.27.24_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>On Ash Wednesday each year, Jesus gives us the program for Lent and life when he announces \u201cRepent and Believe.\u201d There are two moments that he describes: the first stage of conversion is <em>averting<\/em> from everything unfit from God \u2014 from a bad life, from sin, from evil. The second stage is <em>adverting<\/em>, turning toward God, and then <em>converting<\/em>, turning with God, through putting our faith into practice. In today\u2019s opening prayer we asked for this, as we begged the Lord in his \u201cunceasing mercy\u201d and \u201cconstant help\u201d to keep us \u201cfrom all harm\u201d\u2014 \u00a0and no harm is greater than separating ourselves from God\u2019s love and fraternal love through sin \u2014 and be \u201cdirected to all that brings salvation,\u201d which is what real practical faith in the Gospel brings us. In today\u2019s readings we also see both moments portrayed very clearly.<\/li>\n<li>At the beginning of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, God through his emissary calls the Jews \u201cSodom\u201d and \u201cGomorrah\u201d to highlight the severity of their sins, invoking the most notoriously iniquitous cities of all time. Throughout Isaiah we see what those sins were. God speaks of their \u201cmisdeeds,\u201d their \u201cdoing evil,\u201d their \u201cscarlet\u201d and \u201ccrimson red\u201d sins. \u201cWash yourselves clean!,\u201d Isaiah cries out. In the Responsorial Psalm, God points out the hypocrisy of his people, saying, \u201cWhy do you recite my statutes and profess my covenant with your mouth\u201d as \u201cyou hate discipline and cast my words behind you?\u201d In the Gospel, Jesus begins a searing 35-verse call to repentance not only for the Scribes and Pharisees but for all of us who, like them \u2014 and in contrast to the sinners of Sodom and Gomorrah who previously gloried in their debaucheries \u2014 can be tempted to appear white on the outside while our souls remain scarlet on the inside. That hypocrisy, that acting, was the principal vice of the Scribes and the Pharisees and often can remain the downfall for those who behave in a religious way but whose hearts are far from the Lord. Jesus says of them that they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy religious burdens on others without lifting a finger to help them, whereas the truth, although often challenging, is meant always to set us free. The reason why they didn\u2019t lift a finger in charity and seek to help people who were struggling to align their lives to God\u2019s will was because they were doing everything not for God or others but to be seen: they widened the phylacteries that would contain verses of sacred scripture in their locks of hair, lengthened the tassels that were to remind them of revelation, and preferred to be acknowledged by everyone for their religious devotion in banquets, synagogues and marketplaces. They were the types who, Jesus told us on Ash Wednesday, pray, fast and give alms not out of love for God and others but to be rewarded by others\u2019 praise and esteem, the exact opposite of the type of motivation God wants: their motivation was not true love of God but rather self-love under the mask of devotion. They sat on Moses\u2019 seat but didn\u2019t share Moses\u2019 own humility before God (Ex 4:10,13). Their knowledge of the law, rather than moving them to conform their lives ever more to God\u2019s revelation, became in essence an obstacle, because it made them proud not humble; they manipulated their knowledge of the law to seek to grow in others\u2019 eyes. They sought the titles of \u201crabbi\u201d \u2014 which literally means \u201cgreat one,\u201d but is normally translated \u201cteacher\u201d \u2014 and \u201cfather\u201d and \u201cmaster,\u201d but in seeking these titles they were striving to take the place not only of Moses but of God: God is our Father; Jesus is our one Master; the Holy Spirit is our teacher and guide. Jesus once said about Capernaum, Bethsaida and Chorazin that if those of sinful Sidon and licentious Tyre had heard and seen what these three cities had heard Jesus say and watch do, that Sidon and Tyre would long ago have converted. And our call to conversion \u2014 2,000 years after Jesus backed up all of his preaching with the resurrection \u2014 needs to be greater still.<\/li>\n<li>That leads us to the second stage of conversion. It\u2019s not merely fighting against and eliminating sin. It\u2019s positively and passionately doing good. It\u2019s loving God and loving others as God loves others, with all we have and are. \u00a0Isaiah says we should be ambitious to \u201cmake justice your aim\u201d and \u201clearn to do good.\u201d He gives us hope that even if our sins be crimson and scarlet they can become white as snow; in other words they can be transformed from evil into good, by giving us the added motivation to make up for lost time, to recognize what a great and merciful God we have and imitate his loving mercy and generosity to those who need our help as much as we need God\u2019s mercy. He wants to change us from the inside out. \u201cCome now,\u201d God tells us through Isaiah, \u201clet us set things right.\u201d He invites us \u201cnow\u201d \u2014 because \u201cnow\u201d is the day of salvation, as we heard from St. Paul on Ash Wednesday \u2014 and doesn\u2019t put the burden on us, but takes the responsibility for fulfilling that call with us. He wants to help us to convert. The whole purpose of the Incarnation is so that Jesus could help us set things aright. In the Gospel, Jesus summarizes our cooperation with this holy desire of God by saying, \u201cThe greatest among you must be your servant.\u201d Jesus, the greatest ever, humbled himself to take on our nature, became our slave, washed our feet and our hands, head and souls, and called us to follow him along this path of humility and service. For him, and for those who truly follow him, to reign is to serve, not to be served. He wants us to share his ambition that we be truly great not in the eyes of others but in the eyes of his Father and in the Father\u2019s kingdom. He teaches us by his words and by his own life that the way up in greatness is the way down in humility. That\u2019s the second stage of conversion.<\/li>\n<li>And there\u2019s a particular focus of the language we can\u2019t miss. Jesus wants us to have the holy ambition to become great among each other by our serving each other. The \u201cgreatest among you,\u201d he says, which means we become great among each other, by washing each other\u2019s feet, by ministering to each other. There\u2019s a perennial temptation to think that the call to become the servant of the rest means to think about people on the outside, about neighbors who are strangers we meet waylaid on roadsides, but it always begins with greatness in the home and family, greatness among roommates, greatness among fellow students or co-workers or literal neighbors. Jesus has given us each other to help make us great if we respond by really loving and serving each other.<\/li>\n<li>To help us follow in their footsteps, Christ now gives us himself, showing us the saving power of God. He humbles himself fully to exalt us in humility, so that together with the great one, the Son of the Father and Master on the inside, we might learn to do good, aim at justice, hear the plea of the orphan, defend the widow and serve all with fidelity and perseverance as Christ did \u2014 until, God willing, we are able to experience the exaltation that comes from those who live by faith.<\/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\/isaiah\/1:10\">IS 1:10, 16-20<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Hear the word of the LORD,<br \/>\nprinces of Sodom!<br \/>\nListen to the instruction of our God,<br \/>\npeople of Gomorrah!<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Wash yourselves clean!<br \/>\nPut away your misdeeds from before my eyes;<br \/>\ncease doing evil; learn to do good.<br \/>\nMake justice your aim: redress the wronged,<br \/>\nhear the orphan\u2019s plea, defend the widow.<br \/>\nCome now, let us set things right,<br \/>\nsays the Lord:<br \/>\nThough your sins be like scarlet,<br \/>\nthey may become white as snow;<br \/>\nThough they be crimson red,<br \/>\nthey may become white as wool.<br \/>\nIf you are willing, and obey,<br \/>\nyou shall eat the good things of the land;<br \/>\nBut if you refuse and resist,<br \/>\nthe sword shall consume you:<br \/>\nfor the mouth of the LORD has spoken!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/bible\/psalms\/50:8\">PS 50:8-9, 16BC-17, 21 AND 23<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (23b)\u00a0To the upright I will show the saving power of God.<br \/>\n\u201cNot for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,<br \/>\nfor your burnt offerings are before me always.<br \/>\nI take from your house no bullock,<br \/>\nno goats out of your fold.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0To the upright I will show the saving power of God.<br \/>\n\u201cWhy do you recite my statutes,<br \/>\nand profess my covenant with your mouth,<br \/>\nThough you hate discipline<br \/>\nand cast my words behind you?\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0To the upright I will show the saving power of God.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen you do these things, shall I be deaf to it?<br \/>\nOr do you think that I am like yourself?<br \/>\nI will correct you by drawing them up before your eyes.<br \/>\nHe that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me;<br \/>\nand to him that goes the right way I will show the salvation of God.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0To the upright I will show the saving power of God.<\/p>\n<h4>Verse Before The Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/ezekiel\/18:31\">EZ 18:31<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Cast away from you all the crimes you have committed, says the LORD,<br \/>\nand make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/23:1\">MT 23:1-12<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cThe scribes and the Pharisees<br \/>\nhave taken their seat on the chair of Moses.<br \/>\nTherefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you,<br \/>\nbut do not follow their example.<br \/>\nFor they preach but they do not practice.<br \/>\nThey tie up heavy burdens hard to carry<br \/>\nand lay them on people\u2019s shoulders,<br \/>\nbut they will not lift a finger to move them.<br \/>\nAll their works are performed to be seen.<br \/>\nThey widen their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.<br \/>\nThey love places of honor at banquets, seats of honor in synagogues,<br \/>\ngreetings in marketplaces, and the salutation \u2018Rabbi.\u2019<br \/>\nAs for you, do not be called \u2018Rabbi.\u2019<br \/>\nYou have but one teacher, and you are all brothers.<br \/>\nCall no one on earth your father;<br \/>\nyou have but one Father in heaven.<br \/>\nDo not be called \u2018Master\u2019;<br \/>\nyou have but one master, the Christ.<br \/>\nThe greatest among you must be your servant.<br \/>\nWhoever exalts himself will be humbled;<br \/>\nbut whoever humbles himself will be exalted.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/081ae38cfc7a3e4a79e652365ab74571.jpg.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28637\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/081ae38cfc7a3e4a79e652365ab74571.jpg.webp?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1776\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28636-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.27.24_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.27.24_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.27.24_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\/2.27.24_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=28636-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/2.27.24_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2.27.24_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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