{"id":6407,"date":"2014-04-16T16:17:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T16:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2014-04-16T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T16:17:51","slug":"the-why-of-judas-betrayal-wednesday-of-holy-week-april-16-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-why-of-judas-betrayal-wednesday-of-holy-week-april-16-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Why of Judas&#8217; Betrayal, Wednesday of Holy Week, April 16, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSt. Bernadette Parish, Fall River, MA<br \/>\nWednesday of Holy Week<br \/>\nApril 16, 2014<br \/>\nIs 50:4-9, Ps 69, Mt 26:14-25<\/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-6407-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4.16.14-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4.16.14-Homily-1.mp3\">http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4.16.14-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yesterday we pondered Judas\u2019 betrayal with the help of St. John\u2019s account of the beginning of the Last Supper and contrasted it with St. Peter\u2019s. Today we look at the betrayal again from the perspective of St. Matthew. St. Matthew records that Jesus said about Judas, \u201cWoe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.\u201d The tragedy of the life of Judas, the reason why it was better for him never to have been born, is not simply because the names Judas and Iscariot have become synonymous with the most notorious traitor in the history of the world. It\u2019s because he had never come to grasp the point of human life. Even though he had been up close with the Lord Jesus for three years, he had never really come to know him and his merciful love. It\u2019s because at the end of his life when he looked at what he had done, he saw no way past the shame and ended his life rather coming to receive forgiveness from the one who was prepared to die to take away his sins. It is similarly better for anyone who doesn\u2019t come to know the love and mercy of the Lord never to be born because then their sins \u2014 and the unexpiated guilt of their sins \u2014 will kill them in this life and forever.<\/li>\n<li>Why did Judas betray Jesus? Most think it was for the money, that he was a greedy thief and would sell out Jesus for what he could get. \u201cWhat are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?\u201d They gave him 30 shekels of silver, the price of a slave, or about 90 days wages. Jesus had said that we cannot serve both God and money because we will love one and hate the other. Some think that Judas\u2019 avariciousness led him to love money and consequently to hate Jesus. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the reason because later he threw the money back in the temple area when he recognized he had betrayed an innocent man. Another reason that is proposed is because Judas himself thought he had been betrayed by Jesus. It\u2019s possible that he had thought that hooking himself to Jesus\u2019 train would be the path to satisfy his human ambitions, that he would become the money-man of the new Messianic administration; when he began to grasp that that was not in the cards, that his hopes in Jesus would not be fulfilled, aggrieved he turned on him. Another explanation is that he might have been seeking with impatience for Jesus to inaugurate his kingdom. Much like Mary at the wedding feast of Cana went to Jesus and precipitated his \u201chour\u201d by asking him to do a miracle for the young couple, so some think Judas may have been provoking Jesus to reveal himself and his kingdom fully when he would be put into the hands of those whom Judas thought Jesus had come into the world to overthrow. A fourth interpretation is less psychological than spiritual: he had allowed Satan to enter into his heart for some reason and that Satan tempted him to turn on Jesus and then turn on himself.<\/li>\n<li>Whatever the explanation, it is totally clear that Judas never believed that in betraying Jesus he was handing him over to a sentence of torture and death. He was shocked later when the chief priests and the Sanhedrin declared that Jesus must die and brought him before Pontius Pilate. He never thought that he was going to\u00a0<em>killing <\/em>Jesus by\u00a0betraying him. If he knew that that was what was going to happen to Jesus, it\u2019s pretty clear by his subsequent actions that he never would have betrayed him. And that\u2019s a really important lesson for us all. We would never gossip if we knew that our gossip would kill Jesus or kill someone else. We\u2019d never steal if we knew that our theft would murder Jesus or murder someone else. We\u2019d never neglect a needy person if we knew that as a direct result Jesus would die or that that Lazarus at our gates would die through our omission. But the spiritual reality is that\u00a0<em>our sins are really what led to Jesus\u2019 death.\u00a0<\/em>He died to take away our betrayals, our infidelities, our iniquities. It\u2019s somewhat tempting 2,000 years later to throw stones at Judas, but we have to recognize that Jesus was hammered to the Cross not just to forgive Judas\u2019 breaches of faith but our own. Why do we betray the Lord Jesus? Why do we prefer the Barabbas of our sins to Christ? Like Judas, we don\u2019t want Jesus to die, but unlike Judas, we now know in hindsight what our sins will do and have done. Blessed John Paul II would speak often of the <em>mysterium iniquitatis<\/em>, the mystery of our sinfulness, that our sins basically make little sense when we really think them out. That\u2019s one of the reasons why Jesus cried out to the Father in his first words from the Cross, \u201cFather, forgive them for they know not what they do.\u201d We really don\u2019t think our sinful choices through, because if we knew that our sins would crucify Jesus we would never choose them.<\/li>\n<li>On this last day of Lent \u2014 tomorrow we enter into a new liturgical season, the shortest of the year, the Blessed Triduum \u2014 it\u2019s key for us to grasp what the Lord is calling us to do as we turn away from sin and are faithful to the Gospel. Today in the first reading, the third of four Suffering Servant Songs, we hear Isaiah\u2019s reflections about what he and Jesus after him wants to do in us: \u201cThe Lord God has given me \u00a0a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary\u00a0a word that will rouse them.\u201d With eloquence, Jesus wants to arouse us from our spiritual somnolence. What\u2019s the \u201cword\u201d that will actually do that? First, it\u2019s a word that comes from the Father. \u201cMorning after morning\u00a0he opens my ear that I may hear,\u201d Isaiah says. Jesus would say that he speaks only what he hears from the Father. But second, it\u2019s a word he speaks with his own body language: \u201cI gave my back to those who beat me,\u00a0my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield\u00a0from buffets and spitting,\u201d all things we will be pondering over the next couple of days. The word of what our sins have done to Jesus should arouse us to contrition, to repentance, to \u00a0amendment. And that word of Jesus we should \u201cecho\u201d with our own life. Isaiah says, \u201cI have not rebelled, have not turned back. \u2026\u00a0The Lord God is my help,\u00a0therefore I am not disgraced;\u00a0I have set my face like flint,\u00a0knowing that I shall not be put to shame.\u201d He was resolute, setting his face toward Jerusalem like flint, the very hard rock always placed at the tips of spears in the ancient world. Jesus wants us to have that same firm resolve to set our faces toward him with trust and not to rebel or to turn back. He preaches this eloquent \u201cword\u201d to arouse the \u201cweary,\u201d because he knows that more than anything else our sins wear us down. We\u2019re also worn down by trying to struggle against evil on our own without God. He comes to join us in that fight.<\/li>\n<li>And where he does that most of all is here at Mass. Today in the Gospel there\u2019s an element we shouldn\u2019t miss about our preparing ourselves for Mass so that Jesus may strengthen us through our holy Communion with him to be as firm as flint in the faith. When the disciples asked Jesus where he wanted them to prepare to eat the Passover, he sent them into the city to a \u201ccertain man\u201d to tell him, \u201cMy appointed time draws near,\u201d and that that man would take care of the rest. Jesus had already clued this man in to what his appointed time meant and Jesus had already made all of the other arrangements. Similarly we\u2019re called to prepare ourselves for Mass, to hunger as the \u201cappointed time draws near\u201d and to arrange our hearts and souls so that Jesus may celebrate the Passover within us, helping us to pass with him from death into life.<\/li>\n<li>And I\u2019d like to finish with a small reference to someone who experienced this Passover in life, whom the Lord came to bring home 135 years ago today, our patroness, St. Bernadette. We don\u2019t celebrate her feast today because Wednesday of Holy Week trumps the memorial of any saint, including a patron saint, but we can invoke her in a special today and learn from her how to put into practice the \u201cword\u201d that the Lord himself gives us today with his \u201cwell-trained tongue.\u201d St. Bernadette always prepared herself for the Passover of Holy Communion with great expectation. Even at her first Holy Communion at the age of 14, she equated it with something as powerful as the apparitions of our Lady, something for which she\u2019s famous more than a century later. She prepared in all her prayer but I like to think she got ready especially through the prayer she learned from our Lady and always sought to teach others: how to make the Sign of the Cross with real faith, slowly and deliberately, uniting herself to Jesus on the Cross and simultaneously taking up her own Cross. So many people rush through making the Sign of the Cross because they don\u2019t really think about what they\u2019re doing, and when that happens in the supreme sign of our faith, then it can so much more easily happen in the way we prepare for Mass, pray the Mass, and live the Mass in life. Her sanctity began in a sense by learning from Mary how to make the sign of the Cross prayerfully and that led to her doing everything with prayerful deliberation. Let\u2019s ask her prayers today so that together with Jesus\u2019 prayer not only that the Father will forgive us for not truly knowing what we were doing but also that the Father will give us the grace to know what we\u2019re doing and do all things for his glory as Jesus did, as Bernadette did, and as God wants to help us to do as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/isaiah\/50:4\">IS 50:4-9A<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>The Lord GOD has given me<br \/>\na well-trained tongue,<br \/>\nThat I might know how to speak to the weary<br \/>\na word that will rouse them.<br \/>\nMorning after morning<br \/>\nhe opens my ear that I may hear;<br \/>\nAnd I have not rebelled,<br \/>\nhave not turned back.<br \/>\nI gave my back to those who beat me,<br \/>\nmy cheeks to those who plucked my beard;<br \/>\nMy face I did not shield<br \/>\nfrom buffets and spitting.The Lord GOD is my help,<br \/>\ntherefore I am not disgraced;<br \/>\nI have set my face like flint,<br \/>\nknowing that I shall not be put to shame.<br \/>\nHe is near who upholds my right;<br \/>\nif anyone wishes to oppose me,<br \/>\nlet us appear together.<br \/>\nWho disputes my right?<br \/>\nLet him confront me.<br \/>\nSee, the Lord GOD is my help;<br \/>\nwho will prove me wrong?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/69:8\">PS 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 AND 33-34<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (14c)\u00a0Lord, in your great love, answer me.<br \/>\nFor your sake I bear insult,<br \/>\nand shame covers my face.<br \/>\nI have become an outcast to my brothers,<br \/>\na stranger to my mother\u2019s sons,<br \/>\nbecause zeal for your house consumes me,<br \/>\nand the insults of those who blaspheme you fall upon me.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, in your great love, answer me.<br \/>\nInsult has broken my heart, and I am weak,<br \/>\nI looked for sympathy, but there was none;<br \/>\nfor consolers, not one could I find.<br \/>\nRather they put gall in my food,<br \/>\nand in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, in your great love, answer me.<br \/>\nI will praise the name of God in song,<br \/>\nand I will glorify him with thanksgiving:<br \/>\n\u201cSee, you lowly ones, and be glad;<br \/>\nyou who seek God, may your hearts revive!<br \/>\nFor the LORD hears the poor,<br \/>\nand his own who are in bonds he spurns not.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, in your great love, answer me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/26:14\">MT 26:14-25<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot,<br \/>\nwent to the chief priests and said,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat are you willing to give me<br \/>\nif I hand him over to you?\u201d<br \/>\nThey paid him thirty pieces of silver,<br \/>\nand from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over.On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread,<br \/>\nthe disciples approached Jesus and said,<br \/>\n\u201cWhere do you want us to prepare<br \/>\nfor you to eat the Passover?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said,<br \/>\n\u201cGo into the city to a certain man and tell him,<br \/>\n\u2018The teacher says, \u201cMy appointed time draws near;<br \/>\nin your house I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples.\u201d\u2018\u201c<br \/>\nThe disciples then did as Jesus had ordered,<br \/>\nand prepared the Passover.When it was evening,<br \/>\nhe reclined at table with the Twelve.<br \/>\nAnd while they were eating, he said,<br \/>\n\u201cAmen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.\u201d<br \/>\nDeeply distressed at this,<br \/>\nthey began to say to him one after another,<br \/>\n\u201cSurely it is not I, Lord?\u201d<br \/>\nHe said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cHe who has dipped his hand into the dish with me<br \/>\nis the one who will betray me.<br \/>\nThe Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him,<br \/>\nbut woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.<br \/>\nIt would be better for that man if he had never been born.\u201d<br \/>\nThen Judas, his betrayer, said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cSurely it is not I, Rabbi?\u201d<br \/>\nHe answered, \u201cYou have said so.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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