{"id":6492,"date":"2014-04-24T14:13:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2014-04-24T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T14:15:31","slug":"jesus-opening-of-our-minds-and-mouths-easter-thursday-april-24-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/jesus-opening-of-our-minds-and-mouths-easter-thursday-april-24-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus&#8217; Opening of our Minds and Mouths, Easter Thursday, April 24, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSt. Bernadette Parish, Fall River, MA<br \/>\nEaster Thursday<br \/>\nApril 24, 2014<br \/>\nActs 3:11-26, Ps 8, Lk 24:35-48<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to a partial audio recording of this homily, please click below. The digital recorder ran out of battery juice early in the homily so only the first\u00a0couple of minutes was captured.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6492-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4.24.14-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4.24.14-Homily-1.mp3\">http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4.24.14-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0There&#8217;s a very familiar pattern that we&#8217;ve been seeing in each of the readings this Easter week. At first the disciples who encounter Jesus are bewildered, shocked, fearful, unbelieving in his resurrection; no matter how many times Jesus told them exactly what would occur to him, they still didn&#8217;t believe when they saw him a couple of days after his brutal execution. The second stage is that Jesus convinces them that he&#8217;s real, that he&#8217;s alive, that he&#8217;s risen from the dead and he begins to instruct them, to show them that everything that happened to him was supposed to happen to him. Third, once they hear and see Jesus, they come to faith in his Resurrection and living Presence in front of them. Lastly, Jesus sends them out on a mission to complete his own mission. On Monday and Tuesday we see how this happened with Mary Magdalene from the perspectives of St. Matthew&#8217;s and St. John&#8217;s Gospels respectively. Yesterday we saw it with the disciples on the Road to Emmaus. And in today&#8217;s Gospel, we see these same four stages occur with the apostles in the Upper Room.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus enters the other room while Cleopas and the other disciple are briefing them on what just happened on their journey home to Emmaus. The disciples were &#8220;started and terrified and thought they were seeing a ghost.&#8221; They couldn&#8217;t believe that it was Jesus, even after the witness of the Emmaus disciples, of Mary Magdalene and the other Mary whom Jesus met on the way. Jesus confronts those fears straight on. He says, &#8220;Peace be with you!&#8221; He asks, &#8220;Why are you troubled?\u00a0And why do questions arise in your hearts?&#8221; Then he removed their doubts about his physical reality by saying, &#8220;Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.\u00a0Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones\u00a0as you can see I have.&#8221; After showing them his wounds and his feet, he proves that he&#8217;s not a ghost even more powerfully by eating a piece a baked fish, which only a real person could digest. And then he started to do for them what we saw him do with the disciples on the Road to Emmaus yesterday. He reminded them that he had to suffer, just as he and the prophets had foretold. &#8220;These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,\u00a0that everything written about me in the law of Moses\u00a0and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.&#8221; St. Luke stresses that he <em>opened their minds<\/em> to understand the Scriptures, saying, &#8220;Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer\u00a0and rise from the dead on the third day\u00a0and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,\u00a0would be preached in his name\u00a0to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.&#8221; Doubtless their own hearts began to burn like the hearts of the Emmaus disciples and they began to believe. Then Jesus gave them their mission as he <em>opened their mouths<\/em>: &#8220;You are witnesses of these things.&#8221; They were to be witnesses of Christ&#8217;s resurrection, but not only his resurrection. They were to be witnesses of how Jesus fulfilled &#8220;written about [him] in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms,&#8221; that &#8220;the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead \u2026 and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached in his name to all the nations beginning from Jerusalem.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We see St. Peter fulfilling that very mission in today&#8217;s first reading. As the crippled man they healed in yesterday&#8217;s Gospel was clinging to him, he started to explain the significance of the man&#8217;s healing to the assembled crowd in Solomon&#8217;s Portico in the Temple: this man was walking and healed not because of Peter or John, but because of the saving name of the Living Jesus. He used the man&#8217;s obviously miraculous healing as an opportunity to preach repentance for the forgiveness of sins in that same holy name to all nations, beginning right there in the heart of Jerusalem. &#8220;Why are you amazed at this,\u00a0and why do you look so intently at us\u00a0as if we had made him walk by our own power or piety?&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t their power; it was the power of Jesus, &#8220;whom you handed over and denied in Pilate\u2019s presence,\u00a0when he had decided to release him. He told them they preferred Barabbas over the &#8220;Holy and Righteous One&#8221; and murdered the &#8220;Author of life&#8221; \u2014 both of the latter terms expressions that Jesus was God. &#8220;But,&#8221; St. Peter said, &#8220;God raised him from the dead; of this we are all witnesses.\u00a0And by faith in his name,\u00a0this man, whom you see and know, his name has made strong.&#8221; So after he helps them through their period of incredulity, he seeks to get them to the stage of faith by demonstrating how all that happened to Jesus was supposed to happen, and offer to them the same mercy through repentance and the forgiveness of sins that Jesus had offered them. &#8220;Now I know, brothers and sisters,\u00a0that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did;\u00a0but God has thus brought to fulfillment\u00a0what he had announced beforehand\u00a0through the mouth of all the prophets,\u00a0that his Christ would suffer.&#8221; God had also foretold the times of reconciliation, the &#8220;universal restoration\u00a0of which God spoke through the mouth\u00a0of his holy prophets from of old.\u00a0For Moses said: &#8216;A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">from among your own kin;\u00a0to him you shall listen in all that he may say to you.\u00a0Everyone who does not listen to that prophet\u00a0will be cut off from the people.&#8217;\u00a0Moreover, all the prophets who spoke,\u00a0from Samuel and those afterwards, also announced these days. \u2026\u00a0For you first, God raised up his servant [Jesus] and sent him to bless you\u00a0by turning each of you from your evil ways.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Just as much as Peter who had his mind and mouth opened by the Lord to be a witness of all the things that happened to Jesus, \u00a0he also became a witness by his life and not just by his lips. St. Peter had said that God prophesied that &#8220;his Christ would suffer,&#8221; and that&#8217;s not just a reference to Jesus the &#8220;anointed,&#8221; the &#8220;Messiah,&#8221; (which is what the Greek word &#8220;Christ&#8221; means) but for everyone who is anointed by God in union with Jesus. Every Christian is, literally, a little Christ and will suffer on account of our witness to him. Peter and John, immediately after this seen are going to be arrested by the very same people who conspired to have Jesus crucified. But they were unafraid because if God could raise Jesus from <em>crucifixion\u00a0<\/em>on the third day, then there was no need for any of his followers to fear even brutal death. That&#8217;s why they were able to preach with a holy\u00a0<em>parrhesia,\u00a0<\/em>a Spirit-inspired boldness, that no one could intimidate. They weren&#8217;t afraid to suffer any longer because they knew that their sufferings would be salvific and their death would be merely a change of address, to a place where Jesus had gone to prepare for them.<\/li>\n<li>We see &#8220;all these things&#8221; being lived out and fulfilled in the life of the saint the Church celebrates today, St. Fidelis of Sigmarengen,\u00a0who was martyred for proclaiming the fullness of the faith in Calvinist Austria 392 years ago today. The Calvinists used to seek to murder Catholic preachers because of their idea of predestination. Stating it somewhat simplistically, if someone were predestined for heaven, they would accept Calvinism; if they were not predestined for heaven, then they could just expedite the process of their eternal separation from God. He was being threatened with death by the Calvinists for converting back so many of their brothers. On April 24, 1622, he had an intimation at the end of a morning homily he was preaching that that day would be the last day of his life. He said, &#8220;Father Fidelis is near the day he will become food for worms.&#8221; Later in the day he was confronted by 20 Calvinist soldiers who called him a false prophet and told him to embrace Calvinism. &#8220;I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace, your heresy,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages. I&#8217;m not afraid of death.&#8221; As one of soldiers started to beat him with his backsword, he prayed, &#8220;Forgive my enemies, O Lord, who blinded by passion do not know what they are doing. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, help me.&#8221; Another sword stroke pierced his skull and killed him, as the soldiers stabbed him and then hacked off his left leg to punish him for his many missionary journeys. But he was &#8220;faithful&#8221; (Fidelis) to Jesus to the end, even to his words of forgiveness from the Cross. And today we celebrate that he lives with Jesus in eternity, just like he experienced his Risen life on earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Today the same Jesus who met the terrified disciples in the Upper Room meets us here. Just as he led them through a &#8220;liturgy of the word&#8221; to understand how all that the prophets and he had foretold had to transpire, so he has led us on a similar journey. Just as he told them to see and touch him, so he has us behold him as the Lamb of God and not just to touch him but to be touched by him on the inside and become one with him in Holy Communion. And just as he sent them out as witnesses of risen life and his teachings to the end of the world, beginning from Jerusalem, so he will say to us at the end of this Mass, &#8220;Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord&#8221; to all nations, beginning from Fall River. We will suffer for doing so, but it&#8217;s here that Jesus not only opens our minds and mouths but strengthens us to remain faithful when we do, so that repentance for the forgiveness of sins \u2014 and the Divine Mercy that meets that repentance \u2014 will allow people to learn how to hear, know, love and proclaim Jesus&#8217; holy, saving name and come to share Jesus&#8217; resurrection!<\/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\/acts\/3:11\">ACTS 3:11-26<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>As the crippled man who had been cured clung to Peter and John,<br \/>\nall the people hurried in amazement toward them<br \/>\nin the portico called \u201cSolomon\u2019s Portico.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen Peter saw this, he addressed the people,<br \/>\n\u201cYou children of Israel, why are you amazed at this,<br \/>\nand why do you look so intently at us<br \/>\nas if we had made him walk by our own power or piety?<br \/>\nThe God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,<br \/>\nthe God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus<br \/>\nwhom you handed over and denied in Pilate\u2019s presence,<br \/>\nwhen he had decided to release him.<br \/>\nYou denied the Holy and Righteous One<br \/>\nand asked that a murderer be released to you.<br \/>\nThe author of life you put to death,<br \/>\nbut God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.<br \/>\nAnd by faith in his name,<br \/>\nthis man, whom you see and know, his name has made strong,<br \/>\nand the faith that comes through it<br \/>\nhas given him this perfect health,<br \/>\nin the presence of all of you.<br \/>\nNow I know, brothers and sisters,<br \/>\nthat you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did;<br \/>\nbut God has thus brought to fulfillment<br \/>\nwhat he had announced beforehand<br \/>\nthrough the mouth of all the prophets,<br \/>\nthat his Christ would suffer.<br \/>\nRepent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away,<br \/>\nand that the Lord may grant you times of refreshment<br \/>\nand send you the Christ already appointed for you, Jesus,<br \/>\nwhom heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration<br \/>\nof which God spoke through the mouth<br \/>\nof his holy prophets from of old.<br \/>\nFor Moses said:<em>A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you<br \/>\nfrom among your own kin;<br \/>\nto him you shall listen in all that he may say to you.<br \/>\nEveryone who does not listen to that prophet<br \/>\nwill be cut off from the people.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cMoreover, all the prophets who spoke,<br \/>\nfrom Samuel and those afterwards, also announced these days.<br \/>\nYou are the children of the prophets<br \/>\nand of the covenant that God made with your ancestors<br \/>\nwhen he said to Abraham,<br \/>\n<em>In your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.<\/em><br \/>\nFor you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you<br \/>\nby turning each of you from your evil ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/8:2\">PS 8:2AB AND 5, 6-7, 8-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (2ab)\u00a0O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nO LORD, our Lord,<br \/>\nhow glorious is your name over all the earth!<br \/>\nWhat is man that you should be mindful of him,<br \/>\nor the son of man that you should care for him?<br \/>\nR.\u00a0O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nYou have made him little less than the angels,<br \/>\nand crowned him with glory and honor.<br \/>\nYou have given him rule over the works of your hands,<br \/>\nputting all things under his feet.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nAll sheep and oxen,<br \/>\nyes, and the beasts of the field,<br \/>\nThe birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,<br \/>\nand whatever swims the paths of the seas.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/24:35\">LK 24:35-48<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way,<br \/>\nand how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread.While they were still speaking about this,<br \/>\nhe stood in their midst and said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cPeace be with you.\u201d<br \/>\nBut they were startled and terrified<br \/>\nand thought that they were seeing a ghost.<br \/>\nThen he said to them, \u201cWhy are you troubled?<br \/>\nAnd why do questions arise in your hearts?<br \/>\nLook at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.<br \/>\nTouch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones<br \/>\nas you can see I have.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd as he said this,<br \/>\nhe showed them his hands and his feet.<br \/>\nWhile they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed,<br \/>\nhe asked them, \u201cHave you anything here to eat?\u201d<br \/>\nThey gave him a piece of baked fish;<br \/>\nhe took it and ate it in front of them.He said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cThese are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,<br \/>\nthat everything written about me in the law of Moses<br \/>\nand in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.\u201d<br \/>\nThen he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.<br \/>\nAnd he said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cThus it is written that the Christ would suffer<br \/>\nand rise from the dead on the third day<br \/>\nand that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,<br \/>\nwould be preached in his name<br \/>\nto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.<br \/>\nYou are witnesses of these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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