{"id":28714,"date":"2024-03-04T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=28714"},"modified":"2024-03-04T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:51:04","slug":"trusting-in-and-thirsting-for-christ-the-living-water-monday-of-the-third-week-of-lent-march-4-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/trusting-in-and-thirsting-for-christ-the-living-water-monday-of-the-third-week-of-lent-march-4-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Trusting in and Thirsting for Christ the Living Water, Monday of the Third Week of Lent, March 4, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nMonday of the Third Week of Lent<br \/>\nMarch 4, 2024<br \/>\n2 Kings 5:1-15, Ps 42, Lk 4:24-30<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>To listen to an audio\u00a0recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28714-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.4.24_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.4.24_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.4.24_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The\u00a0following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The third week of Lent begins a new phase\u00a0in our Lenten pilgrimage. The first two-and-a-half weeks of Lent, from Ash Wednesday through Saturday of the Second Week, are all about Jesus\u2019 call to conversion, to repent, to respond to God\u2019s gift of mercy, and through prayer, fasting and almsgiving, to become with God\u2019s help holy as he is holy, <em>teleios\u00a0<\/em>(fit for purpose, \u201cperfect\u201d) as he is\u00a0<em>teleios,\u00a0<\/em>merciful as he is merciful. Beginning on the Third Sunday, we begin a specifically baptismal itinerary, helping the Elect preparing for baptism to crave ever more the Living Water, Jesus. It\u2019s also a chance for those of us who have already entered the saving waters to ponder anew the crucial continuing relevance of our own baptism not as an event from many years ago but as the defining reality of our life, leading us to want to keep our temple clean and to bear fruit from having been attached to the vine. During these upcoming two weeks, through the end of the Fourth Week at daily Mass (and Fifth Sunday in Cycle A), God wants to help the Elect and us to say, with the words of today\u2019s Psalm, \u201cAthirst is my soul for the living God!,\u201d and with the Samaritan Woman, \u201cGive us that water always!,\u201d the Living Water, Jesus, who begins to well up within us to eternal life on the day of our baptism. Today\u2019s readings and feast help us to examine whether we have a faith that thirsts for God.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus returned to his hometown synagogue on the Sabbath, opened up the scroll of the Prophet Isaiah, read the section from Isaiah 61 that focuses on what the Messiah will do when at last he comes and then said, \u201cToday this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.\u201d At first the people were amazed. But then they began to murmur, \u201cIsn\u2019t this the carpenter?\u201d They began to take offense at him because he was one of them and how could one of them actually be the long awaited one? Their hearts began to harden. They weren\u2019t responding with faith. That\u2019s why Jesus today said to them, \u201cNo prophet is accepted in his native place.\u201d Their admiration eventually turned to resentment and hatred. Their hardened hearts soon became homicidal as they tried to murder him by throwing him head first off a cliff. He came to his own, St. John would say, but his own didn\u2019t accept him. They already had confined him to an unthreatening box and they weren\u2019t going to let him escape.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus gave two examples in the Gospel of the type of open, faithful, thirsting hearts that God expects. The first is the widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:7-16). During a famine, God sent the Prophet Elijah to her home. Elijah asked her to prepare for him some water and some bread, but the woman replied that all she had was a little flour and a little olive oil left and that she was preparing to make her last meal for her and her son before they would starve to death in the famine. Elijah told her not to be afraid because God would take care of all three of them, that the jar of flour would not be used up or the jug of oil run dry until the Lord sends rain. With trust, the woman did as Elijah said and the three of them survived for three and a half years. Jesus implies in his example that God wouldn\u2019t have found such total trust in Israel and so Elijah had to go to a foreigner, someone who would believe in God enough not to presume he or she knew God\u2019s designs but rather to do what the Prophet commanded. Do we have the trust in God to do what he commands us through his prophets?<\/li>\n<li>The second example Jesus employs is even stronger, and it\u2019s based on what we read in today\u2019s first reading. Jesus says that there were many lepers in Israel at the time of Elisha, but the only one who was cured was Naaman the Syrian, presumably because he was the only one who would come with sufficient faith to be cured by God. That faith wasn\u2019t easy to come by, as we see in account from the Second Book of Kings. Naaman was a very successful general of the King of Aram\u2019s army and came down with an unbelievable amount of wealth \u2014 ten silver talents (each about $16,500 in today\u2019s money), six thousand gold pieces and ten very precious festal garments \u2014 seeking a cure for his leprosy at the instigation of one of the Jewish servants of the Naaman\u2019s wife. He was hoping initially to buy a miracle or to get one done by the very impressive external status of the petitioner. Elisha the Prophet, however, knew that what he needed was the humble faith necessary to allow God to work. So Elisha didn\u2019t even come to the door to greet him \u2014 even though it would have been only a few feet \u2014 but simply sent a note to bathe seven times in the Jordan River. At first Naaman was outraged, thinking he had wasted his time and so much hope coming down, only to be asked to do something so simple as bathe in a river when there were better rivers back in Syria. (The waters of the Jordan are full of sediment and looks more like liquid sand than an ordinary river). But the people in his retinue reasoned with him that if he would have done something hard or spectacular, he should have the faith to do something simple and straightforward. And he had the faith and humility to change and to bathe \u2014 and on the seventh washing his leprous flesh became baby skin, totally restored.<\/li>\n<li>That whole miracle points to the type of faith we need to have with regard to the great gift of baptism and to the type of merciful healing Christ wants to give us in Lent. To human logic, the claims of baptism seem preposterous. Just like Naaman initially scoffed at what washing seven times in the Jordan river could do, so we can say with regard to the far greater claims of baptism, \u201cHow can a few drops of water on someone\u2019s head and a short prayer [&#8216;I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit&#8217;] really totally cleanse someone\u2019s soul, make someone a temple of God\u2019s presence, incorporate someone into Christ\u2019s Mystical Body, and implant within the person a stream of Living Water flowing up to eternal life?\u201d But that\u2019s exactly what it does. We\u2019re called constantly to grow in our faith-filled recognition of what happened on the day of our baptism and how it\u2019s supposed to impact our life today. Without a doubt, Naaman would never have forgotten the day he was cured through obeying Elisha and bathing seven times. We should never forget the even greater miracle that happened to us. And we should welcome Jesus within us in baptism, not like the Nazarenes who rejected him, but like the one Nazarene girl did when Jesus took on her own flesh. Jesus the Merciful Messiah incorporates us to him in baptism.<\/li>\n<li>But it\u2019s not only with regard to baptism that we should have faith but to so many other interactions when God has us do something that on the surface that seems different from the way we would expect but that may have unbelievable consequences if we do so with faith. We might think that praying, fasting and giving alms are all really small, somewhat inconsequential practices, but when we do them with faith they can conform us to Jesus in his praying, fasting and self-giving. \u00a0We might think that for our post-baptismal sins to be forgiven we should have to walk barefoot all the way to California, but Jesus calls us to receive his mercy by confessing our sins to his priests to whom he has given the Holy Spirit for the remission of sins. We might think that for our spiritual nourishment, the most important thing would be to read an entire library of spiritual books, but Jesus says it is to make him in the Holy Eucharist the source and the summit of our life. We might think that in order to get to heaven, we need to do a whole series of absolutely heroic deeds, but Jesus says that we need to love and care for him in the hungry, thirsty, naked, stranger, ill or imprisoned.<\/li>\n<li>One of the most important parts of the Lenten conversion God is asking of us is that we learn how to trust in him and in what he says and does rather than try, like the Nazarenes, to conform him to our own limited categories. We need to approach him with faith rather than hardened hearts. To accept Jesus with honor means to recognize who he is, to thirst for him, to welcome him and what he teaches, and to obey him with faith, like the widow of Zarephath, Naaman and the converted St. John of God. As we prepare to receive him now within ourselves, the place he has deigned to make a tabernacle of his holy presence, we ask him to increase our faith and gratitude in what he has already done for us and in us and to increase our trust and longing for what he still very much desires to do. We ask him to help us thirst for him and, just as water extinguishes a fire, to have the living water of the ocean of his mercy wipe away our sins and fill us to overflowing with divine love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/2kings\/5:1\">2 KGS 5:1-15AB<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Naaman, the army commander of the king of Aram,<br \/>\nwas highly esteemed and respected by his master,<br \/>\nfor through him the LORD had brought victory to Aram.<br \/>\nBut valiant as he was, the man was a leper.<br \/>\nNow the Arameans had captured in a raid on the land of Israel<br \/>\na little girl, who became the servant of Naaman\u2019s wife.<br \/>\n\u201cIf only my master would present himself to the prophet in Samaria,\u201d<br \/>\nshe said to her mistress, \u201che would cure him of his leprosy.\u201d<br \/>\nNaaman went and told his lord<br \/>\njust what the slave girl from the land of Israel had said.<br \/>\n\u201cGo,\u201d said the king of Aram.<br \/>\n\u201cI will send along a letter to the king of Israel.\u201d<br \/>\nSo Naaman set out, taking along ten silver talents,<br \/>\nsix thousand gold pieces, and ten festal garments.<br \/>\nTo the king of Israel he brought the letter, which read:<br \/>\n\u201cWith this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you,<br \/>\nthat you may cure him of his leprosy.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen he read the letter,<br \/>\nthe king of Israel tore his garments and exclaimed:<br \/>\n\u201cAm I a god with power over life and death,<br \/>\nthat this man should send someone to me to be cured of leprosy?<br \/>\nTake note! You can see he is only looking for a quarrel with me!\u201d<br \/>\nWhen Elisha, the man of God,<br \/>\nheard that the king of Israel had torn his garments,<br \/>\nhe sent word to the king:<br \/>\n\u201cWhy have you torn your garments?<br \/>\nLet him come to me and find out<br \/>\nthat there is a prophet in Israel.\u201d<br \/>\nNaaman came with his horses and chariots<br \/>\nand stopped at the door of Elisha\u2019s house.<br \/>\nThe prophet sent him the message:<br \/>\n\u201cGo and wash seven times in the Jordan,<br \/>\nand your flesh will heal, and you will be clean.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Naaman went away angry, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cI thought that he would surely come out and stand there<br \/>\nto invoke the LORD his God,<br \/>\nand would move his hand over the spot,<br \/>\nand thus cure the leprosy.<br \/>\nAre not the rivers of Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar,<br \/>\nbetter than all the waters of Israel?<br \/>\nCould I not wash in them and be cleansed?\u201d<br \/>\nWith this, he turned about in anger and left.<br \/>\nBut his servants came up and reasoned with him.<br \/>\n\u201cMy father,\u201d they said,<br \/>\n\u201cif the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary,<br \/>\nwould you not have done it?<br \/>\nAll the more now, since he said to you,<br \/>\n\u2018Wash and be clean,\u2019 should you do as he said.\u201d<br \/>\nSo Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times<br \/>\nat the word of the man of God.<br \/>\nHis flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.<br \/>\nHe returned with his whole retinue to the man of God.<br \/>\nOn his arrival he stood before him and said,<br \/>\n\u201cNow I know that there is no God in all the earth,<br \/>\nexcept in Israel.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/42:2\">PS 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (see 42:3)\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nWhen shall I go and behold the face of God?<br \/>\nAs the hind longs for the running waters,<br \/>\nso my soul longs for you, O God.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nWhen shall I go and behold the face of God?<br \/>\nAthirst is my soul for God, the living God.<br \/>\nWhen shall I go and behold the face of God?<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nWhen shall I go and behold the face of God?<br \/>\nSend forth your light and your fidelity;<br \/>\nthey shall lead me on<br \/>\nAnd bring me to your holy mountain,<br \/>\nto your dwelling-place.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nWhen shall I go and behold the face of God?<br \/>\nThen will I go in to the altar of God,<br \/>\nthe God of my gladness and joy;<br \/>\nThen will I give you thanks upon the harp,<br \/>\nO God, my God!<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Athirst is my soul for the living God.<br \/>\nWhen shall I go and behold the face of God?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/4:24\">LK 4:24-30<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth:<br \/>\n\u201cAmen, I say to you,<br \/>\nno prophet is accepted in his own native place.<br \/>\nIndeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel<br \/>\nin the days of Elijah<br \/>\nwhen the sky was closed for three and a half years<br \/>\nand a severe famine spread over the entire land.<br \/>\nIt was to none of these that Elijah was sent,<br \/>\nbut only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.<br \/>\nAgain, there were many lepers in Israel<br \/>\nduring the time of Elisha the prophet;<br \/>\nyet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen the people in the synagogue heard this,<br \/>\nthey were all filled with fury.<br \/>\nThey rose up, drove him out of the town,<br \/>\nand led him to the brow of the hill<br \/>\non which their town had been built,<br \/>\nto hurl him down headlong.<br \/>\nBut he passed through the midst of them and went away.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-29-at-7.28.43-PM.png.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28715\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-29-at-7.28.43-PM.png.webp?resize=283%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2519\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28714-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.4.24_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.4.24_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.4.24_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\/3.4.24_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=28714-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.4.24_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"3.4.24_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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