{"id":5898,"date":"2014-02-28T18:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2014-02-28T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:45:19","slug":"faithfully-loving-with-sacrifice-and-patience-seventh-friday-ii-february-28-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/faithfully-loving-with-sacrifice-and-patience-seventh-friday-ii-february-28-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithfully Loving with Sacrifice and Patience, Seventh Friday (II), February 28, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSt. Bernadette Parish, Fall River, MA<br \/>\nFriday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nFebruary 24, 2014<br \/>\nJames 5:9-12, Ps 103, Mk 10:1-12<\/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-5898-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2.28.14-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2.28.14-Homily-1.mp3\">http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2.28.14-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in the Gospel Jesus speaks about the meaning of marriage, but in so doing he describes not just what marriage is God\u2019s plans but opens a window into who God is, who the human person is, and how he\u2019s called to love.<\/li>\n<li>When the Pharisees come to Jesus to try to trip him up with a question about whether it is licit for a man to divorce his wife, Jesus said that Moses permitted divorce because of the hardness of hearts, but that divorce and remarriage is not part of God\u2019s plans. Jesus begins at the beginning, with the creation of the human person: \u201cFrom the beginning of creation,\u00a0God made them male and female.\u00a0For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother\u00a0and be joined to his wife,\u00a0and the two shall become one flesh.\u00a0So they are no longer two but one flesh.<em>\u00a0<\/em>Therefore what God has joined together,\u00a0no human being must separate.\u201d\u201dGod created man male and female,\u201d as we read in the Book of Genesis; \u201cin the image of God he made\u00a0<em>them<\/em>.\u201d That\u2019s why Blessed John Paul II in his beautiful catechizes on Human Love in the Divine Plan (popularly called the Theology of the Body) said that the greatest expression of the\u00a0<em>imago Dei\u00a0<\/em>is the family: God is a unitary Deity but a loving communion of persons and therefore, the image of God is more than just man\u2019s rational nature, but his capacity to live in a communion of love. And the greatest human example of that loving communion of persons is marriage, where analogously to the way that the Father\u2019s and Son\u2019s love spirated the Holy Spirit the love of a man and a woman can beget a child, who is a fruit of their love and a source for that love to grow. That\u2019s what marriage was in the beginning, the primordial sacrament, the external sign in the visible world pointing to the interpersonal communion who is God. All of nature, from the beginning, is communal, and the human person was created with a nuptial nature meant to bring him into communion with others and with God.<\/li>\n<li>When Jesus came he sought to elevate marriage from this primordial sacrament to one of the seven sacraments, a sign and means of intimate communion with God. It was meant to point to, and be inserted within, the nuptial dimension of the Covenant God makes with us his people. After quoting the words Jesus cited in today\u2019s Gospel from the Book of Genesis, that a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh, St. Paul says, \u201cThis is a great mystery and I\u2019m speaking of Christ and the Church\u201d (Eph 5:32). Human marriage now is meant to be a sacrament not just of God\u2019s interpersonal loving communion but also a Sacrament pointing to the spousal convent God makes with his redeemed people. Since Christ\u2019s love for the Church is faithful, indissoluble and fruitful, human marriage is meant to be the same. If someone wants to get a glimpse of Christ\u2019s love for us, we should be able to point to the way a Catholic husband loves his wife, laying down his life to make her and their children holy. If someone wants to see how the Church is supposed to respond in love to the love of God, we should be able to indicate a Christian wife\u2019s fidelity to her husband.<\/li>\n<li>Because marriage is connected to the reality of the inner life of God and the whole structure of the redemption, we can now see very easily why the devil who wants to destroy God\u2019s plans would attack the family. He attacked the first family of Adam and Eve, getting them to distrust God, turn on and blame each other, cover their vulnerable parts from each other lest the other take advantage of them or they should their lust in return, and ultimately, in the next generation, to kill each other. The devil always attacks the family because of its centrality in God\u2019s plans.<\/li>\n<li>One of the ways he seeks to attack the family is through the hardening of hearts that can lead couples to divorce. If no man can rend asunder what God has joined then that means that no amount of Family Court judges can divide but God has united, and that even the husband or the wife don\u2019t have the power to nullify the interpersonal communion God has brought about. And yet so many do and every divorce is a tragedy, a contradiction of the communion and covenant God had intended. It only takes one to bring about this rupture of communion. In Biblical times, all it took was for a man to write a decree of divorce and give it to his wife. It didn\u2019t have to be for anything serious at all. Many women, no doubt, were victimized by this. But in our own day, especially in places where there\u2019s no fault divorce, any party can do so. Sometimes it can happen because of the hardness of heart that flows from the adultery of the heart we call lust. Sometimes it can happen because of the hardness of heart that flows from lack of forgiveness. But divorce is not part of God\u2019s plan. In fact there is no divorce in God\u2019s plans. If he\u2019s actually joined a man and a woman \u2014 if they freely gave valid consent with openness to life, with a desire to love and honor each other with fidelity, conscious of what marriage is \u2014 then divorce is just a piece of paper. That\u2019s why Jesus says at the end of this passage,\u00a0\u201cWhoever divorces his wife and marries another\u00a0commits adultery against her;\u00a0and if she divorces her husband and marries another [in order to survive, because in Jewish culture a woman was taken care of by a man (a husband, a father, a son, an older brother)],\u00a0she commits adultery.\u201d Even if there\u2019s been a divorce civilly for whatever reason, there\u2019s still a marriage joined by God and people need to remain faithful to it.\u00a0In many cases it\u2019s hard, even heroic, but it\u2019s key for us to remember Jesus has been heroic in his fidelity to us, no matter how many times we\u2019ve been unfaithful to him, and he promises us the grace of his presence to help us through those difficult times. But we need to believe in him and in his words even when they\u2019re challenging.<\/li>\n<li>This is one of the reasons why the subject of divorced-and-remarried Catholics is so vexing. Sometimes spouses have been abandoned with several kids and felt that the best thing for the kids was to remarry without even seeing whether their first marriage was valid in a Church tribunal. We absolutely don\u2019t judge their souls, but, out of compassion for them and for others, we need to be clear about Jesus\u2019 words with regard to divorce-and-remarriage. Presuming that the couple isn\u2019t living as brother and sister, we need to say, in fidelity to Jesus, that they are in a state of adultery as long as their first, validly married spouse is alive.<\/li>\n<li>In the media during the last few weeks, there\u2019s been a lot of buzz with regard to the upcoming Extraordinary Synod on the Family that Pope Francis has convened for this Fall and whether the Church will change her discipline with regard to admitting divorced-and-remarried Catholics to Holy Communion. The Church very much desires to accompany people in this circumstance, to help heal their wounds, to help them grow in love for God and others and progress in the saving way of truth. One cardinal has recently tried to chart out a path for them to be able to receive Holy Communion, proposing that if they undergo a period of penance and receive forgiveness for however they contributed to the failure of their \u201cfirst\u201d marriage, they could be readmitted. But the problem is not \u00a0the \u201cfirst\u201d marriage. The problem is the \u201csecond\u201d marriage. They may have not done anything at all to lead to the failure of the first marriage; they may be totally a victim. But they have made a <em>choice<\/em> with regard to the \u201csecond\u201d marriage, which according to Jesus\u2019 words, is a situation of adultery. The question about readmitting divorced-and-remarriage Catholics to Holy Communion is the question about whether we should be admit adulterers to Holy Communion, those who are persevering in the state of adultery. If we believe that adultery is a sin \u2014 and we do because God clearly teaches that it is \u2014 then to admit divorced-and-remarried Catholics to Holy Communion would be a failure for us to live the truth with regard to the proper dispositions necessary to receive God\u2019s forgiveness (which involves a firm purpose to eliminate the causes and near occasions of sin), the proper dispositions necessary to receive Holy Communion (which requires moral certainty that we\u2019re in the state of grace, a state of holy Communion with God), and the reality of the indissolubility and fidelity of marriage in God\u2019s plans. Some say that those who are divorced-and-remarried really need the power of Christ received in Holy Communion, and that\u2019s doubtless true, because we all need that grace, but to give Holy Communion to someone who is not going to address the issue of adultery would be analogous to giving chemotherapy to a lung cancer patient in one arm while the person has a lit cigarette in the other. We need to address the underlying issue of the spiritual cancer.<\/li>\n<li>So that\u2019s why I can\u2019t believe that the Church is ever going to change her teaching and discipline here with being unfaithful to God. There may be ways \u2014 and we want to find them! \u2014 to help couples in this circumstance by helping them to obtain declarations of nullity or at least to remain faithful to the Lord in prayer and charity when they can\u2019t obtain them, but we can\u2019t minimize or avoid the objective state of adultery in which they\u2019re living, because not only would we not be loving to the Lord, but we would not be loving to them, since adultery is a serious sin, which unrepented and unforgiven, could lead someone to eternal separation from God. We would be guilty of spiritual malpractice just as much as an oncologist would be guilty of medical malpractice if he didn\u2019t really seek to help his patient give up the cigarettes that are causing the cancer.<\/li>\n<li>How do we build marriages that don\u2019t end up in divorce? St. James in today\u2019s first reading gives us some very important principles, basing himself once again on what Jesus taught us in the Sermon on the Mount. These are principles that apply to all our relations, but they\u2019re important, too, with regard to marriage.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDo not complain, brothers and sisters, about one another.\u201d Marriages start to go south once the spouses begin to complain rather than compliment each other. It\u2019s one of the reasons why the Church has spouses commit to \u201clove and honor each other as husband and wife for the rest of your lives.\u201d To honor each other each day for the rest of one\u2019s life means, basically, to praise and revere each other, to say, \u201cYou did this. You didn\u2019t have to. And I\u2019m grateful.\u201d Many times in marriage people can lose that reverence, that daily gratitude. They can start focusing on the 10% in each other that irritates them more than the 90% they love. Rather than thanking a wife for spending 90 minutes preparing dinner, the husband can complain that the asparagus is too soggy. Rather than thanking her husband for taking overtime to provide for the family, the wife can nag him repeatedly, \u201cWhen are you finally going to take out the trash?\u201d Couples need to praise more than criticize.<\/li>\n<li>The second tip St. James gives is to stop judging each other\u2019s motives. Basing himself on Jesus\u2019 injunction in the Sermon on the Mount \u201cDon\u2019t judge lest you be judged,\u201d St. James tells them to remember that \u201cThe Judge is standing before the gates\u201d and not to judge so that \u201cyou may not be judged.\u201d If we\u2019re going to judge others at all, we should choose to judge them favorably rather than negatively, to give them the benefit of the doubt rather than treat them with a hermeneutic of suspicion.<\/li>\n<li>The third tip is to persevere. St. James said, \u201cTake as an example of hardship and patience, brothers and sisters,\u00a0the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.\u00a0Indeed we call blessed those who have persevered\u201d and then invoked the famous perseverance of Job. Marriage is hard. It requires patience. Just like a prophet is least accepted in his native place, so often husbands and wives are least appreciated in their home. That\u2019s why St. James reminds us to follow the sacrifice and patience of the prophets. There will be rough times, just like there were for the prophets, but in the end things turned out forever well. Marriage is a sanctifying institution, a bridge to heaven, and sometimes the way its seeks to make us saints is through persevering forgiveness.<\/li>\n<li>The last tip is about reiterating one\u2019s consent. Repeating Jesus\u2019 words in the Sermon on the Mount, St. James says, \u201cLet your \u2018Yes\u2019 mean \u2018Yes\u2019 and your \u2018No\u2019 mean \u2018No.'\u201d For married couples, this means not only that they should be truthful to teach other, but that they continue to reiterate their \u201cYes,\u201d their \u201cI do!,\u201d to each other each of the days of their marriage. They said \u201cyes\u201d when they pledged to love each other in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, in poverty and prosperity, all the days of their life. It\u2019s obviously a huge challenge when they enter a time they\u2019d consider \u201cbad\u201d or \u201cworse\u201d to remember and reiterate one\u2019s commitment. But that\u2019s precisely what Jesus always does to us, renewing his commitment to us every time we fall. He\u2019ll give us the strength we need to love each other as he has loved us by being as merciful with each other as he is with us.<\/li>\n<li>The place where we get that strength is here at Mass. The Mass is the consummation of the spousal union between Christ and his Bride the Church, when we, the Bride, take within ourselves the body and blood or the Bridegroom and become one flesh with him. What God has joined, and he has joined us with his Son through the Sacraments, no one can separate. The more we come here faithfully to love the Lord and receive his merciful love, the more we can share that with each other, so that our love for each other can be an echo of Christ\u2019s love for us and we can say to our spouses and others, \u201cThis is my body, this is my blood, given out of love for you!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"cs_control_3684\">\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/james\/5:9\">JAS 5:9-12<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Do not complain, brothers and sisters, about one another,<br \/>\nthat you may not be judged.<br \/>\nBehold, the Judge is standing before the gates.<br \/>\nTake as an example of hardship and patience, brothers and sisters,<br \/>\nthe prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.<br \/>\nIndeed we call blessed those who have persevered.<br \/>\nYou have heard of the perseverance of Job,<br \/>\nand you have seen the purpose of the Lord,<br \/>\nbecause\u00a0<em>the Lord is compassionate and merciful<\/em>.But above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear,<br \/>\neither by heaven or by earth or with any other oath,<br \/>\nbut let your \u201cYes\u201d mean \u201cYes\u201d and your \u201cNo\u201d mean \u201cNo,\u201d<br \/>\nthat you may not incur condemnation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/103:1\">PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 8-9, 11-12<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (8a)\u00a0The Lord is kind and merciful.<br \/>\nBless the LORD, O my soul;<br \/>\nand all my being, bless his holy name.<br \/>\nBless the LORD, O my soul,<br \/>\nand forget not all his benefits.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is kind and merciful.<br \/>\nHe pardons all your iniquities,<br \/>\nhe heals all your ills.<br \/>\nHe redeems your life from destruction,<br \/>\nhe crowns you with kindness and compassion.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is kind and merciful.<br \/>\nMerciful and gracious is the LORD,<br \/>\nslow to anger and abounding in kindness.<br \/>\nHe will not always chide,<br \/>\nnor does he keep his wrath forever.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is kind and merciful.<br \/>\nFor as the heavens are high above the earth,<br \/>\nso surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him.<br \/>\nAs far as the east is from the west,<br \/>\nso far has he put our transgressions from us.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is kind and merciful.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/10:1\">MK 10:1-12<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Jesus came into the district of Judea and across the Jordan.<br \/>\nAgain crowds gathered around him and, as was his custom,<br \/>\nhe again taught them.<br \/>\nThe Pharisees approached him and asked,<br \/>\n\u201cIs it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?\u201d<br \/>\nThey were testing him.<br \/>\nHe said to them in reply, \u201cWhat did Moses command you?\u201d<br \/>\nThey replied,<br \/>\n\u201cMoses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce<br \/>\nand dismiss her.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Jesus told them,<br \/>\n\u201cBecause of the hardness of your hearts<br \/>\nhe wrote you this commandment.<br \/>\nBut from the beginning of creation,\u00a0<em>God made them male and female.<br \/>\nFor this reason a man shall leave his father and mother<br \/>\nand be joined to his wife,<br \/>\nand the two shall become one flesh.<br \/>\nSo they are no longer two but one flesh.<\/em><br \/>\nTherefore what God has joined together,<br \/>\nno human being must separate.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.<br \/>\nHe said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cWhoever divorces his wife and marries another<br \/>\ncommits adultery against her;<br \/>\nand if she divorces her husband and marries another,<br \/>\nshe commits adultery.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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