{"id":7221,"date":"2014-08-28T07:41:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2014-08-28T10:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T14:31:03","slug":"the-faithful-and-prudent-servant-21st-thursday-ii-august-28-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-faithful-and-prudent-servant-21st-thursday-ii-august-28-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faithful and Prudent Servant, 21st Thursday (II), August 28, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSt. Bernadette Parish, Fall River, MA<br \/>\nThursday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor<br \/>\nAugust 28, 2014<br \/>\n1 Cor 1:1-9, Ps 145, Mt 24:42-51<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily,\u00a0please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7221-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/8.28.14-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/8.28.14-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/8.28.14-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>Today, as we ponder the last few days of daily Mass readings from the Gospel of St. Matthew that are focused on our judgment, Jesus contrasts for us the \u201cfaithful and prudent steward\u201d and the \u201cwicked\u201d steward. Insofar as each of us wants to be in the first category, it\u2019s key for us to grasp the indications Jesus gives about a good steward\u2019s discipleship and apostolate.<\/li>\n<li>The first thing we observe is that the faithful and prudent steward is awake and alert constantly to God\u2019s presence and \u201cprepared\u201d to respond to him. Jesus calls us to be more alert to God\u2019s coming than a householder would to a burglar\u2019s. Many times we go through life asleep. We can even sleep-walk through Mass, through the Rosary, through other prayers, without really grasping\u00a0that God is present, listening to us and trying to speak. The first thing that is needed to become the type of steward God wants and expects is to have a continual presence of God.<\/li>\n<li>The second quality of a faithful and prudent\u00a0steward is that he is awake and alert to distributing the master\u2019s food to the members of the master\u2019s household at the proper time. It\u2019s not enough for him to have presence of God, but, as a result of that presence of God, he enters into the love of the Lord for the members of the Lord\u2019s family, distributing the nourishment he himself has received to them as they need it. Jesus says, \u201cBlessed is that servant who his master on his arrival finds him doing [this distribution],\u201d that he who has been faithful in that activity will be \u201cput in charge of all of his property.\u201d And since that Master will come \u201cat an hour you do not expect,\u201d the faithful and prudent steward is always seeking to give the Lord to others.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus contrasts this good and faithful servant with the \u201cwicked servant\u201d who is unaware of the Master\u2019s coming, and rather than serve others, gives into a life of pleasure as he \u201ceats and drinks with drunkards\u201d and a life of violence as he \u201cbegins to beat his fellow servants.\u201d These are activities he would never do if he were awake to the Master\u2019s presence, but because of that lack of awareness, of being asleep to the Master\u2019s coming, he begins to act in a wicked way, abusing his office and the gift of his life to hurt rather than to feed.<\/li>\n<li>Becoming a faithful and prudent servant is something that God wants to help us to do. In today\u2019s first reading, from the beginning of St. Paul\u2019s First Letter to the Corinthians which we will be hearing for the next three weeks at daily Mass (through Sept 20), the apostle tells us that God calls us \u201cto be holy\u201d and \u201cto communion\u201d (fellowship) and because of this has \u201cenriched [us] in every way, with all discourse and knowledge \u2026 so that [we] are not lacking in any spiritual gift as [we] wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,\u201d who, as he himself says in the Gospel, may come at any hour. St. Paul says, \u201cHe will keep you firm to the end, irreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d \u00a0God will give us all the help we need to be alert to his presence so that we may give him to others, but we have to receive and respond to that help, which he seeks to give us by \u201cbreaking in\u201d to our home with our permission constantly. The wicked servant refuses that help in a practical way whereas a faithful and prudent servant cooperates and corresponds.<\/li>\n<li>Today we celebrate a man who highlights, at different times of his life, both the unfaithful and imprudent servant and the faithful and prudent one. His early years were ones in which he lived like a wicked servant unaware of God and engaging in a life of intellectual vanity, verbal beatings even of his mother, and sex and a life of debauchery. He was somnambulating through life thinking that the dream world of his own making was the real world. But eventually, through the example of Christians, like his mother, like St. Ambrose and several friends who lived as if Jesus were very much alive and sought to serve others with joy, he began to long for conversion, \u201cbut not yet.\u201d He was in a constant interior thunderstorm he said. One day as he was weeping over his state in the back yard of a friend, he heard what sounded like kids singing from a neighboring yard saying, \u201cTolle et legge,\u201d \u201cTake and read.\u201d He thought it was a strange game for kids to play, but finding no kids, he thought it was a message perhaps from an angel. So he took up the Sacred Scriptures and began to read what his eyes found first. It was a passage from St. Paul\u2019s Letter to the Romans which served as a spiritual alarm clock for him: \u00a0\u201cIt is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed;\u00a0 the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness [and] put on the armor of light;\u00a0let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in rivalry and jealousy.\u00a0But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh\u201d (Rom 13:11-14). \u00a0That passage seemed like it was written precisely for him \u2014 as it indeed it was, for him and for us! \u2014 and it gave him the courage from God finally to leave the long night of spiritual sleep and the darkness of the flesh behind and live with the Lord in the day.<\/li>\n<li>Later he would grasp that\u00a0that the Lord had been present the entire time, but he had been ignorant of his presence. In one of the most famous passages ever written, he revealed how the Lord who finally broke through all five of his senses to manifest his loving presence:\u00a0\u201cLate have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.\u201d Augustine grasped that he had been searching for God all along, searching for the truth, searching for his affection, but was looking for it in the wrong places of false philosophy and counterfeit love. Eventually he discovered it in Christ\u2019s self-revelation of his Truth and Love. He discovered that his heart would be restless until it rested in God, and to rest in God meant to humble himself in faith to accept God\u2019s truth and live by it. Once he was awakened, he sought to remain always in the presence of the Lord and his truth.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>But that was only the first stage of his conversion to become a good, faithful and prudent servant. The second stage was when he was explicitly called to serve others by feeding them with the Gospel. When he had returned to Africa after his mother\u2019s death, he founded a monastery for which he wrote the rule and where he began to write some of his great theological works. It was a perfect situation for him, it seemed, and he was cranking. One day when he had gone to visit a friend in the small city of Hippo, he was attending Mass and the elderly bishop asked the people to pray that the Lord would send him someone who could help him with his preaching duties in Latin, because he had become too infirm to preach. The people looked around and saw in the crowd Augustine, once the greatest rhetoric professor in the empire and now a monk, and proposed him. Augustine didn\u2019t want to have anything to do with that work, which would require giving up a lot of his writing in order to care for ordinary people with ordinary concerns. But he sensed that it was the Lord calling him to be humble and, like the Lord, begin to live for others.\u00a0\u201cChrist died for all,\u201d he read in St. Paul\u2019s second letter to the Corinthians, \u201cso that those who live should not live for themselves, but for him who died for them\u201d (2 Cor 5:15). And so he made the great sacrifice, being ordained a deacon and a priest and eventually, after the bishop\u2019s death, bishop and successor. We, too, all need to have this type of conversion in life, to living not for ourselves but for others, to giving others the food that God has given to us, and to being constantly alert to the occasions for doing so. For many Christians, this happens with the birth of children, where they have to put a hold on many of their own ambitions and even sleep patterns to care for someone else. Augustine learned this when he became, almost overnight, the father of a whole diocese, and he fed them with the food of the Gospel.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>But that wasn\u2019t the end of his conversion. As Pope Benedict told us back in 2007 in Pavia, where St. Augustine\u2019s tomb is located, at the end of his life, St. Augustine\u00a0began to ponder the truths to which St. Paul always gave witness in today\u2019s first reading, that God will ensure that we will never lack any spiritual gift. St. Augustine began to realize that everything he had was a gift of God\u2019s mercy, every talent, every insight, everything he had ever done. He saw that his life, that any Christian life, is a constant response to the presence of God who is constantly blessing us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens. Even though he was aware of God\u2019s presence after his conversion, he wasn\u2019t yet aware that God was constantly helping him in everything he did. And so he converted profoundly to a much greater docility and humility in life, living by what God was giving in every moment, so that he could become the channel to give that food of mercy, in the Gospel, in the sacraments, in charity, in community life to others. Even when we\u2019re aware of God\u2019s presence and living for others, very often we, too, are unaware that everything that we do that is good is our response to God\u2019s gift. We, like Augustine, whether late or early in life, need to become aware of this Love who is within us in everything we do, even though often we\u2019re oblivious.<\/li>\n<li>Mass is the opportunity to bring us to the same conversion Christ speaks about in the Gospel and St. Augustine experienced. It\u2019s here that we seek the truth and God seeks to nourish us with it in the readings of Sacred Scripture and in sacred preaching. It\u2019s here that we become aware of Jesus\u2019 real presence, not only under the appearances of bread and wine but in all aspects of our life. It\u2019s here that God seeks to make us capable of feeding others, of doing \u201cthis in memory of\u201d him, as we live not for ourselves, but give our body and our blood for others in need. It\u2019s here where we grasp the profound lesson of mercy, that if God the Father didn\u2019t spare his only begotten Son but gives him to us every day on the altar as we participate in what Jesus\u2019 self-giving from the Upper Room and Calvary, then\u00a0he will give us everything else besides, so that we won\u2019t lack any spiritual gift and will be kept firm to the end as we await the definitive revelation of Jesus Christ where we hope that he won\u2019t need to shout through our deafness but whisper with joy to us what he\u2019s already said to St. Augustine, \u201cWell done, good and faithful servant. Enter your Master\u2019s joy!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000;\">Reading 1<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #008061;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1corinthians\/1:1\">1 COR 1:1-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,<br \/>\nand Sosthenes our brother,<br \/>\nto the Church of God that is in Corinth,<br \/>\nto you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy,<br \/>\nwith all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.<br \/>\nGrace to you and peace from God our Father<br \/>\nand the Lord Jesus Christ.I give thanks to my God always on your account<br \/>\nfor the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus,<br \/>\nthat in him you were enriched in every way,<br \/>\nwith all discourse and all knowledge,<br \/>\nas the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you,<br \/>\nso that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift<br \/>\nas you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nHe will keep you firm to the end,<br \/>\nirreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nGod is faithful,<br \/>\nand by him you were called to fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000;\">Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #008061;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/145:2\">PS 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (1)\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 700 !important;\">I will praise your name for ever, Lord.<\/span><br \/>\nEvery day will I bless you,<br \/>\nand I will praise your name forever and ever.<br \/>\nGreat is the LORD and highly to be praised;<br \/>\nhis greatness is unsearchable.<br \/>\nR.<span style=\"font-weight: 700 !important;\">\u00a0I will praise your name for ever, Lord.<\/span><br \/>\nGeneration after generation praises your works<br \/>\nand proclaims your might.<br \/>\nThey speak of the splendor of your glorious majesty<br \/>\nand tell of your wondrous works.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 700 !important;\">I will praise your name for ever, Lord.<\/span><br \/>\nThey discourse of the power of your terrible deeds<br \/>\nand declare your greatness.<br \/>\nThey publish the fame of your abundant goodness<br \/>\nand joyfully sing of your justice.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 700 !important;\">I will praise your name for ever, Lord.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000;\">Gospel<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #008061;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/24:42\">MT 24:42-51<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cStay awake!<br \/>\nFor you do not know on which day your Lord will come.<br \/>\nBe sure of this:<br \/>\nif the master of the house<br \/>\nhad known the hour of night when the thief was coming,<br \/>\nhe would have stayed awake<br \/>\nand not let his house be broken into.<br \/>\nSo too, you also must be prepared,<br \/>\nfor at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.\u201cWho, then, is the faithful and prudent servant,<br \/>\nwhom the master has put in charge of his household<br \/>\nto distribute to them their food at the proper time?<br \/>\nBlessed is that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing so.<br \/>\nAmen, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property.<br \/>\nBut if that wicked servant says to himself, \u2018My master is long delayed,\u2019<br \/>\nand begins to beat his fellow servants,<br \/>\nand eat and drink with drunkards,<br \/>\nthe servant\u2019s master will come on an unexpected day<br \/>\nand at an unknown hour and will punish him severely<br \/>\nand assign him a place with the hypocrites,<br \/>\nwhere there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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