{"id":31821,"date":"2025-11-05T15:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=31821"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:43:22","slug":"what-it-takes-to-follow-and-proclaim-christ-31st-wednesday-i-november-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/what-it-takes-to-follow-and-proclaim-christ-31st-wednesday-i-november-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Takes to Follow and Proclaim Christ, 31st Wednesday (I), November 5, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Msgr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nAnnual Retreat for the Priests of the Diocese of Charleston<br \/>\nSand Dunes Resort, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina<br \/>\nWednesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nVotive Mass for the Evangelization of Peoples<br \/>\nNovember 5, 2025<br \/>\nRom 13:8-10, Ps 112, Lk 14:25-33<\/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-31821-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.5.25_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.5.25_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.5.25_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><em>The following text guided the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>In yesterday\u2019s Gospel, Jesus gave us a parable about the Church\u2019s mission \u2014 to invite everyone to a great dinner, a joyous banquet \u2014 and likewise taught us how not to respond to that invitation. We saw that people excused themselves to care for their fields, oxen, and newly married wife, none of whom recognized the importance of the calling they were receiving.<\/li>\n<li>In today\u2019s Gospel, Jesus doubled down on the point he was making in order that we grasp clearly the greatness of the call and the need to make decisive choices to put God in his proper place and order all other aspects of our life to him. This is stuff that every missionary to be effective must first grasp and live.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus does so in a dramatic way.\u00a0St. Luke tells us that \u201cgreat crowds\u201d were traveling with him. He had fixed his face on Jerusalem (Lk 9:51) and was on a long way of the Cross; the multitudes, like the apostles, thought and hoped that they were on a triumphal procession for Jesus to be recognized as Messiah, to unite the people and to drive out the Romans. Jesus turned around to the crowds and didn\u2019t say, \u201cHow nice of you to come!\u201d Rather, out of love he challenged them \u2014 really challenged them out of love \u2014\u00a0to know what they were signing up so that they would be prepared to follow him all the way. He wanted them to count the cost of discipleship and be willing to pay it, knowing that to obtain the pearl of great price, to enter the banquet of the kingdom, wouldn\u2019t come on the cheap. He tells us that to follow him as his disciple to salvation, we have to do three things:\n<ul>\n<li>First, we need to \u201chate\u201d father and mother, spouse and children, brothers and \u00a0sisters. The Hebrew word for \u201chate\u201d doesn\u2019t mean \u201cdetest,\u201d but rather \u201cput in second place\u201d or \u201cknock down a peg.\u201d Jesus, after all, calls us to\u00a0<em>honor\u00a0<\/em>our father and mother, not despise them. But we have to make sure that they don\u2019t become gods in our life, that if there is ever a choice between what God is asking of us and what our family members are asking of us, that we say \u201cGod\u2019s will be done\u201d instead of \u201cMy loved one\u2019s will be done.\u201d And we need to remember that if we do \u201chate\u201d them in this way, we actually will\u00a0<em>love<\/em>\u00a0them more because we will love them in God.<\/li>\n<li>Second, Jesus says one needs to hate \u201ceven his own life,\u201d \u201ccarry his own cross\u201d and \u201cfollow\u201d Him. We need to account Jesus\u2019 life more valuable than our own, in imitation of him who deemed our life more valuable than His. This is the faith that led the martyrs to heaven. If we love our comforts, our life in this world more than we love God, then we won\u2019t be completing the work of salvation because Jesus clearly taught us that to save our life we must lose it and that unless we fall to the ground and die like a grain of wheat we won\u2019t bear the fruit of salvation.<\/li>\n<li>Third, Jesus says one must \u201crenounce all his possessions.\u201d We must renounce the stuff that possesses us and then as good stewards use everything we have and are for God and his service, giving of ourselves together with our things for God and others, because if we cling to possessions we will not be able to fit through the eye of the needle to salvation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In buttressing the conditions of the completion of the work of our salvation, Jesus employs two analogies that point to the cost of discipleship. He says that to build a tower, we need to calculate the cost and get the proper supplies lest we not finish what we began. Likewise, to win a battle, we have to know whether we have the resources to defeat the enemy. In building the tower toward heaven, among the supplies we have to have is detachment from ourselves, our loved ones, our possessions and our life. In fighting against the twenty thousand troops of the evil one, we have to divest ourselves of whatever will hinder us in battle, whatever earthly desires the devil can use against us. We won\u2019t be able to finish what\u2019s been started unless we count and pay the cost, knowing that in the biggest picture of all, this is the wisest and greatest deal in life, the treasure worth more than everything else. We also need to know that Jesus never calls us to something \u2014 especially something this hard \u2014 without providing the means necessary to do it. His help, however, doesn\u2019t eliminate our sacrifice, but it does make the sacrifice lighter and sweeter.<\/li>\n<li>Today in the first reading, St. Paul tells the first Roman Catholics and all of us about the cost that needs to be paid, about what we\u2019re really signing up for if we follow Jesus. It\u2019s a clear continuation of what we pondered yesterday in meditating on the 20 ways he described we needed to \u201clet [our] love be sincere.\u201d Today he says, \u201cOwe nothing to anyone except to love one another.\u201d Not only is this a statement against amassing financial debt \u2014 words that are very important today in a culture that doesn\u2019t save but charges beyond their means on credit cards, and borrows way beyond our means as a national government \u00a0\u2014 but it is a reminder for us that we do have a\u00a0<em>debt<\/em>\u00a0to love one another. Loving one another is not a good suggestion by Jesus. It\u2019s not even just a command. It\u2019s a debt to pay, it\u2019s a real duty, it\u2019s something we owe others. This might seem strange at first to think we owe everyone a debt of love, but when we take seriously Jesus\u2019 words that whatever we do for the least of our brothers and sisters, we do to him (Mt 25:31-46), then it\u2019s easier to understand, if still hard to do: because we owe a debt to Jesus for everything \u2014 for our life, our salvation, our gifts, etc. \u2014 we pay that debt in the way we love each other. St. Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, wrote in\u00a0<em>Love and Responsibility<\/em>\u00a0that the other is someone before whom the only worthy response is love. This debt is paid, first, in keeping the commandments. Today St. Paul lists the \u201csecond tablet\u201d of the Decalogue, focused on love of neighbor, reminding us that the \u201cone who loves one another has fulfilled the law\u201d and \u201clove is the fulfillment of the law.\u201d Jesus said something similar in St. Matthew\u2019s Gospel when he reminded us that all the law and the prophets, including obviously the Ten Commandments, hinges on the love of God with all our mind, heart, soul and strength, and the love of our neighbor as we love ourselves.<\/li>\n<li>How are we doing in paying that debt to everyone we meet? We often think that we are loving others by the simple fact that we wish them good things or don\u2019t hate them, but love is a sacrifice of ourselves for the good of the other as other, and we need to ask ourselves whether, when we look at each other and at others in general, we find ourselves in a real debt of love for them that we feel impelled from within to pay. Just like St. Therese Lisieux, each of us is called to be love in the heart of the Church, to love others with the love with which Christ has loved us first, and to do this\u00a0<em>concretely<\/em>. There are lots of ways that we could apply this to our lives, but I\u2019d like to focus on three.\n<ul>\n<li>First, if we\u2019re really loving others, do we ever tell them we love them? Jesus himself said to us during the Last Supper, \u201cJust as the Father loves me, so I love you,\u201d and he wants us, having been loved by him, to say to others, \u201cJust like Jesus loves me, I want to love you\u201d and \u201cI love you with the love of Jesus.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Second, if we\u2019re really loving others, we\u2019ll be making willing sacrifices for them. Jesus\u2019 love led him to lay down his life for us, and all love is a reflection of that basic nature of love, which is a willingness to say no to ourselves to say yes for another, to do all that we morally can for another. St. Paul is saying we have a debt that leads us to sacrifice for others.<\/li>\n<li>Third, if we\u2019re really loving others then, as St. Paul said yesterday, we\u2019ll be doing so \u201cwith affection.\u201d It\u2019s not enough to sacrifice. God wants us to sacrifice from the heart, not just \u201cpaying a debt\u201d that we owe to someone reluctantly, but with passion freely doing something for someone we either naturally or with effort want to treat with great warmth. God loves a cheerful giver, so he loves an affective lover, friend, Christian self-giver. I love the story of St. Therese\u2019s treatment of the curmudgeonly old sister whom nobody really cared for, and how, through loving her with affection, she changed for the better in her relations with everyone. To me, it seems obviously that that old sister was just wanting for real human love, for friendship, for agape, for the love of Christ mediated through his Mystical Body. Everyone needs that. Our brother priests need it. Our faithful need it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We can and should, moreover, interpret this debt of love in a missionary key. If love of neighbor as ourself is the summary of the second tablet, if essentially the golden rule is the measure of our behavior, to do unto others what we would want our neighbors to do to us, would any of us, knowing what we know, experiencing the meaning of friendship with Christ, even want our neighbor to fail to share the faith with us?<\/li>\n<li>Pope Francis spoke about this in Evangelii Gaudium in what I think is one of its most powerful passages. He reminds us that the primary reason for evangelizing is the love and salvation of Jesus that we have received, urging us to greater love of him. \u201cWhat kind of love would not feel the need to speak of the beloved, to point him out, to make him known?\u201d Evangelization responds to that expectation. \u201cWe have a treasure of life and love that cannot deceive, and a message that cannot mislead or disappoint.\u201d And therefore he says that our motivation flows from love and appreciation. He says, \u201cWe are convinced from personal experience that it is not the same thing to have known Jesus as not to have known him, not the same thing to walk with him as to walk blindly, not the same thing to hear his word as not to know it, and not the same thing to contemplate him, to worship him, to find our peace in him, as not to. \u2026We know well that with Jesus life becomes richer and that with him it is easier to find meaning in everything.\u00a0 This is why we evangelize.\u201d Just as we would never want someone to withhold the great gift of our faith from us \u2014\u00a0despite the loving challenges Jesus gives us in the Gospel \u2014 so we want to share that wealth, that love, that friendship with Jesus.<\/li>\n<li>To strengthen us to love by his standard, Christ himself comes as Love incarnate to make his abode in us and help us from the inside. This is where we get the resources to build the tower and win the war. This is where we unite with him in praying for all our family members, where we bring our crosses and receive his strength to yoke ourselves to him by means of them, to die to ourselves so that he may live, and to detach ourselves from worldly goods to find in him our treasure. In the Psalm we prayed, \u201cBlessed the man who is gracious,\u201d who \u201clavishly he gives to the poor.\u201d Jesus graciously and lavishly gives himself to us each morning in our poverty. He says by this gift \u201cI love you\u201d with all I am and have, and then he sends us forward as missionaries to love not just like that but together with him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/romans\/13:8\">ROM 13:8-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nOwe nothing to anyone, except to love one another;<br \/>\nfor the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.<br \/>\nThe commandments,\u00a0<em>You shall not commit adultery;<br \/>\nyou shall not kill;<br \/>\nyou shall not steal;<br \/>\nyou shall not covet<\/em>,<br \/>\nand whatever other commandment there may be,<br \/>\nare summed up in this saying, namely,<br \/>\n<em>You shall love your neighbor as yourself<\/em>.<br \/>\nLove does no evil to the neighbor;<br \/>\nhence, love is the fulfillment of the law.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/112:1\">PS 112:1B-2, 4-5, 9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. ( 5a)\u00a0Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those in need.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nBlessed the man who fears the LORD,<br \/>\nwho greatly delights in his commands.<br \/>\nHis posterity shall be mighty upon the earth;<br \/>\nthe upright generation shall be blessed.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those in need.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nHe dawns through the darkness, a light for the upright;<br \/>\nhe is gracious and merciful and just.<br \/>\nWell for the man who is gracious and lends,<br \/>\nwho conducts his affairs with justice.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those in need.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nLavishly he gives to the poor;<br \/>\nhis generosity shall endure forever;<br \/>\nhis horn shall be exalted in glory.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those in need.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1peter\/4:14\">1 PT 4:14<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nIf you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you,<br \/>\nfor the Spirit of God rests upon you.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/14:25\">LK 14:25-33<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Great crowds were traveling with Jesus,<br \/>\nand he turned and addressed them,<br \/>\n\u201cIf anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,<br \/>\nwife and children, brothers and sisters,<br \/>\nand even his own life,<br \/>\nhe cannot be my disciple.<br \/>\nWhoever does not carry his own cross and come after me<br \/>\ncannot be my disciple.<br \/>\nWhich of you wishing to construct a tower<br \/>\ndoes not first sit down and calculate the cost<br \/>\nto see if there is enough for its completion?<br \/>\nOtherwise, after laying the foundation<br \/>\nand finding himself unable to finish the work<br \/>\nthe onlookers should laugh at him and say,<br \/>\n\u2018This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.\u2019<br \/>\nOr what king marching into battle would not first sit down<br \/>\nand decide whether with ten thousand troops<br \/>\nhe can successfully oppose another king<br \/>\nadvancing upon him with twenty thousand troops?<br \/>\nBut if not, while he is still far away,<br \/>\nhe will send a delegation to ask for peace terms.<br \/>\nIn the same way,<br \/>\neveryone of you who does not renounce all his possessions<br \/>\ncannot be my disciple.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-10.47.32-AM.png.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31822\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-08-at-10.47.32-AM.png.webp?resize=300%2C226&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9098\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-31821-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.5.25_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.5.25_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.5.25_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\/11.5.25_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=31821-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/11.5.25_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"11.5.25_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Msgr. 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