{"id":5936,"date":"2014-03-06T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2014-03-06T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T13:48:17","slug":"choosing-life-through-losing-it-for-christ-thursday-after-ash-wednesday-march-6-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/choosing-life-through-losing-it-for-christ-thursday-after-ash-wednesday-march-6-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Life through Losing it for Christ, Thursday after Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSt. Bernadette Parish, Fall River, MA<br \/>\nThursday after Ash Wednesday<br \/>\nMarch 6, 2014<br \/>\nDt 30:15-20, Ps 1, Lk 9:22-25<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5936-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3.6.14-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3.6.14-Homily-1.mp3\">http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3.6.14-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Todays\u2019 readings, on this second day of Lent, are about the choices we are called to make to the graces God gives us that St. Paul appealed yesterday that we wouldn\u2019t take in vain.<\/li>\n<li>The choice is framed by Moses in today\u2019s first reading. He had led the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, accompanied them through the desert for 40 years and now they were on the opposite side of the Jordan from the long-awaited Holy Land. God had told Moses that he would die before crossing, so Moses in today\u2019s first reading, was giving as a sort of last will and testament, a summary of what God had done for them and taught them. As the long experience of their time in the desert had taught them, however, God\u2019s wondrous actions were not enough. The 10 plagues weren\u2019t enough. The passing through the Red Sea on dry land wasn\u2019t enough. Manna from heaven. Quails. Water from the Rock. The theophanies in giving the 10 commandments. None were sufficient to keep many of the Jews faithful. Many of them complained, others made a golden calf, even Aaron the high priest fell into the clutches of a wavering faith. So Moses want to urge them to choose and chose highly. He framed the decision facing as it truly was, a decision of life and death.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cToday I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the Lord, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy. If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods, I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy. I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the Lord, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>He reminded them that the choice for God is a life-giving choice, a choice full of blessing and the choice against God, even if it might seem at first a choice that leads to life and happiness, is actually fatal. This is not something, of course, that they recognized. Throughout the desert they complained that they had left their fleshpots in Egypt behind just to perish in the desert by following the Lord. Along the way, many times they thought that the choice for God was a choice for death. But it was a choice for life. And those who sought the counterfeit path of turning their hearts away from God, of refusing to listen, of adoring and serving other gods, never made it out of the desert.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s the choice that faces all of us in Lent. Lent historically and actually is a catechumenate, a 40 day of preparation for baptism at the Easter Vigil or, for those of us who have already been baptized, a 40 day renewal of the meaning of our baptism. Like the Jews, we have been set free from the slavery of sin and death, passing through the waters of baptism like the Jews passed through the Red Sea. We are presently in the desert with Jesus for these 40 days looking with him toward the eternal promises land that is anticipated in the celebration of Easter. It\u2019s a time for us to focus on the graces of our liberation and the choice God has given to our freedom between life-giving fidelity through \u201cloving him, walking in his ways and keeping his commandments,\u201d through \u201cheeding his voice and holding fast to him\u201d or the path that leads to death under the seduction of bringing life.<\/li>\n<li>The contrast between these two paths is highlighted in today\u2019s Psalm, which is the first of all the Psalms and the one that in a sense orients the praying of every psalm. It describes the \u201cblessed man\u201d who \u201cdelights in the law of the Lord and meditates on it day and night\u201d as like a \u201ctree planted near running water that yields its fruit in due season and whose leaves never fade.\u201d He receives life and is able to give life from his contact with the \u201cliving water\u201d of God. On the hand, the \u201cwicked\u201d man, the one follows \u201cthe counsel of the wicked, \u2026 walks in the company of way of sinners, [and] sits in the company of the insolent\u201d as \u201clike the chaff that the wind drives away.\u201d There are no roots, no substance, no life. The Psalm says, \u201cthe way of the wicked vanishes.\u201d That\u2019s the choice facing us as we begin Lent.<\/li>\n<li>Well, the question comes to us: Isn\u2019t this choice a no-brainer? Who, after all, would consciously choose <i>death <\/i>over <i>life? <\/i>It\u2019s like the choice between eating filet mignon or tree bark. But in the Gospel we see why the choice, though conceptually simple, is morally challenging.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus tells us that the path of life is paradoxically a path of self-denial. Just as he was going to \u201csuffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the scribes and be killed\u201d before being raised to unending life on the third day, so \u201cif anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself\u2028 and take up his cross daily and follow me.\u2028\u201d He gets even more explicit about that paradox: \u201cFor whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,\u2028 but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.\u2028\u201d In order to obtain life, we need to die to ourselves. We need to lose our life for the sake of God and the Gospel in order to retain it. In the choice between self-denial and self-affirmation, we think that the latter is the path of life, but it really is the former. In the path between the Cross and the comfy recliner, we think the latter is the path of life, but it is the former. In the path between following Christ to Calvary and going to Club Med, we think that the latter is the path of life, but it is the former. The path of life doesn\u2019t seem to be life-giving and the path of death on the contrary does. But that\u2019s what we have to grasp. There\u2019s a choice between forfeiting oneself to gain the whole world or forfeiting the whole world to gain oneself.<\/li>\n<li>This is why living a good and holy Lent is so important. Lent is meant to help us to make the choice for real life, to help us to walk in the footsteps of Christ, to plant ourselves in his living water in the midst of the desert so that we may grow to eternity. But we need to make the full and conscious choice for life, which requires the full and conscious choice to deny ourselves, pick up our Cross and follow Christ. The three Lenten practices, when we choose to live them generously, are all geared to do this. All three teach us self-denial: fasting denies the dominion of our lower appetites, almsgiving denies our selfishness, concentration, prayer denies our egocentrism. Each, in a sense, is a Cross that leads to our self-death, because at times giving into our cravings, spending what we have on ourselves, and using our time for our own pursuits seems the path of life but they\u2019re not. And each helps us to follow Christ in his own fasting, giving of himself to the point of death, and prayer. But for these to occur, we really must choose bold resolutions that can help facilitate these spiritual fruits, rather than soft ones that even if we keep them won\u2019t really lead to the crucifixion to the worldliness that is necessary in order to experience the life that Jesus wants to give.<\/li>\n<li>Today, with Moses, Jesus and the Church place before us this choice between life and death, between a blessing and a curse, between the fruitful tree and the chaff. To make the choice for life we need faith and God will give us that gift. Looking at Jesus on the Cross and remembering that that choice of love was paradoxically the most life-giving choice of all can embolden us. I think of the lyrics of one of my favorite Lenten hymns that teach us this lesson &#8220;When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died; \u00a0my richest gain I count but loss, \u00a0and pour contempt on all my pride. Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God; all the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood. \u2026 Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were an offering far too small; love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>As we prepare now to receive the fruits of Jesus&#8217; losing his life to save ours in the Holy Eucharist, we ask him for all the graces he knows we need to count the riches gains in the world but loss, to sacrifice our vain charms to his blood and to give our soul, life and all in the choice for LIFE with Him who chose us first!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/deuteronomy\/30:15\">DT 30:15-20<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Moses said to the people:<br \/>\n\u201cToday I have set before you<br \/>\nlife and prosperity, death and doom.<br \/>\nIf you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God,<br \/>\nwhich I enjoin on you today,<br \/>\nloving him, and walking in his ways,<br \/>\nand keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees,<br \/>\nyou will live and grow numerous,<br \/>\nand the LORD, your God,<br \/>\nwill bless you in the land you are entering to occupy.<br \/>\nIf, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen,<br \/>\nbut are led astray and adore and serve other gods,<br \/>\nI tell you now that you will certainly perish;<br \/>\nyou will not have a long life<br \/>\non the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy.<br \/>\nI call heaven and earth today to witness against you:<br \/>\nI have set before you life and death,<br \/>\nthe blessing and the curse.<br \/>\nChoose life, then,<br \/>\nthat you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God,<br \/>\nheeding his voice, and holding fast to him.<br \/>\nFor that will mean life for you,<br \/>\na long life for you to live on the land that the LORD swore<br \/>\nhe would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/1:1\">PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (40:5a)\u00a0Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.<br \/>\nBlessed the man who follows not<br \/>\nthe counsel of the wicked<br \/>\nNor walks in the way of sinners,<br \/>\nnor sits in the company of the insolent,<br \/>\nBut delights in the law of the LORD<br \/>\nand meditates on his law day and night.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.<br \/>\nHe is like a tree<br \/>\nplanted near running water,<br \/>\nThat yields its fruit in due season,<br \/>\nand whose leaves never fade.<br \/>\nWhatever he does, prospers.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.<br \/>\nNot so the wicked, not so;<br \/>\nthey are like chaff which the wind drives away.<br \/>\nFor the LORD watches over the way of the just,<br \/>\nbut the way of the wicked vanishes.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/9:22\">LK 9:22-25<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cThe Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected<br \/>\nby the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,<br \/>\nand be killed and on the third day be raised.\u201dThen he said to all,<br \/>\n\u201cIf anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself<br \/>\nand take up his cross daily and follow me.<br \/>\nFor whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,<br \/>\nbut whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.<br \/>\nWhat profit is there for one to gain the whole world<br \/>\nyet lose or forfeit himself?\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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