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Fr. Roger J. Landry
\nArchdiocese of St. Louis Advent Day of Prayer and Reflection
\n\u201cWaking Up the World! Pope Francis and the Joy-Filled Missionary Transformation of Religious Life\u201d
\nCardinal Rigali Center,\u00a0St. Vincent de Paul Chapel
\nSecond Saturday of Advent
\nDecember 13, 2014
\nSir 48:1-4.9-11, Ps 80, Mt 17:9-13<\/p>\n

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\u201cLord, make us turn to you; let us see your face, and we shall be saved!\u201d These words of our Responsorial Psalm today frame not just the other readings and the liturgical feast of St. Lucy but in a sense bring us back to the essence of the consecrated life.<\/p>\n

They point out the essential work of Elijah about whom we heard in the first reading who battled against the worship of sex in the cult of Ba\u2019al, who battled, in King Ahab and Jezebel, against the worship of self and the corruption of freedom to do evil rather than to love, and who battled against the materialism of living off of material bread in the great fast of 40 days on his journey to Horeb and in the great miracle done for the widow of Zarephath and her son. He was one who himself God had turned to him. He was one to whom God had revealed his face. And he sought to reveal that face of God to others so that they, too, might turn to God with faith and be saved. He was one whose words, Sirach tells us, were like a \u201cflaming furnace,\u201d and whose \u201cawesome\u201d deeds turned multitudes around to God, turning back, we\u2019re told, the \u201chearts of fathers toward their sons,\u201d so that they might pass on the faith as God had commanded them through Moses not just to the next generation but through the next generation to many generations to come. He became a living commentary on the words of the Psalm, someone whose very presence provoked conversion, helped people see God and moved them to respond to the path of salvation. Sirach would eulogize him saying, \u201cBlessed is he who shall have seen you and who falls asleep in your friendship,\u201d better translated, in your \u201cloving friendship.\u201d To have turned to and seen Elijah was to have turned to and seen a reflection of God, something that invited them to enter into a spiritual friendship of love with him that would lead them, like Elijah, to salvation. Pope Francis is asking consecrated men and women to wake up the world in a similar way, through their loving friendship with the poor, chaste and obedient Christ, to help people turn to him, to see enfleshed the smiling face of the Beatitudes, so that they, too, might live and fall asleep in Christ\u2019s friendship so that they may be awakened in eternal life.<\/p>\n

Jesus in the Gospel says that Elijah\u2019s work culminated in the work of St. John the Baptist. Through the prophet Malachi, God had foretold, \u201cBehold, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes\u201d (Mal 4:5) and Jesus in today\u2019s Gospel says that \u201cElijah will indeed come and restore all things,\u201d he\u2019ll restore the tribes of Israel, he\u2019ll restore the hearts of parents to raise their children firmly in faith, who will restore passion for God and for living his Covenant. Jesus adds, however, \u201cBut I tell you that Elijah has already come and they didn\u2019t recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased,\u201d and the disciples \u201cunderstood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist,\u201d who through his suffering was revealing an image of Christ\u2019s \u201csacred head so wounded.\u201d John\u2019s father Zechariah had prophesied that John would go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to turn people to the tender mercy of God, to guide their feet from crooked ways to the path of peace, so that those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death might be saved and rescued from the hands of their enemies and worship God without fear in holiness and righteousness all the days of their life. That\u2019s a mission John fulfills at the Jordan every Advent as a voice of One crying out in the desert to make straight the Lord\u2019s way, of one helping us all to turn back to God, to seek and see his face and enter on the path of salvation. The converted life of consecrated men and women, the radiance of his face reflecting off ours in our religious habits and moral habits, allows the world to taste and see the Lord\u2019s goodness and the gift of what it means to have been saved.<\/p>\n

We celebrate today with St. Lucy the feast of someone who turned to the Lord early in life, who sought his face, who saw him looking on her with love, and who wanted to give her whole life seeking to please the Lord and make him smile. She offered her virginity to God young in life, but her mother Eutychia had made plans to marry her off to a rich pagan. After her spurned suitor grasped that her vow of virginity likely meant that she was a Christian and turned her over to Diocletian\u2019s persecutorial administration, she was condemned to death in Syracuse, Sicily. What St. Ambrose said of St. Agnes\u2019 virginity we could likewise say of St. Lucy\u2019s: \u201cVirginity is not praiseworthy because it is found in martyrs, but because it itself makes martyrs.\u201d The type of love that leads one to consecrate herself totally to God in response to his love, to turn to him and to seek his face above all, is what makes a person strong in loving him to the end, loving him despite suffering, torture and even execution. When virginity, when consecrated celibate chastity for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, is assumed and lived to the full, it leads to loving fidelity in little and big things, it leads to a daily martyrdom, a witness, of the love we\u2019ve first received and can\u2019t help but radiate. The fact that Lucy \u2014 probably because of her name, which derives from the word Lux, Lucis<\/em> for light \u2014 has become the patron saint of those with eye maladies is a reminder for us of the importance of seeing all things by the light of faith, to overcome the sins that blind us, to look for God and having found him not to take our eyes off of him who can\u2019t take his eyes off of us. Through the choices consecrated men and women make for God \u2014\u00a0the choices that every consecrated baptized Christian ought to be making \u2014\u00a0we show the world to how to seek and see the real, real world in all its hidden splendor. We show them how not to be dazzled even by all the kingdoms of the world but to seek first the kingdom of God and his holiness so that we might obtain everything else as well. St. Lucy\u2019s total dedication to the Lord is something that today can help us to renew our own, so that we may contagiously seek the Lord\u2019s face and help others to learn to contemplate the divine beauty alongside of us.<\/p>\n

To seek the face of God is really a summary of the consecrated life. Faciem tuam, Domine, requiram<\/em> (Ps 27:8) is the way the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life summarize what the consecrated life is. \u201cYour face, O Lord, I seek.\u201d \u201cConsecrated life,\u201d it wrote in a 2008 instruction the Service of Authority and Obedience,\u201d which is \u201ccalled to make the characteristic traits of the virginal, poor and obedient Jesus visible, flourishes in the ambience of this search for the face of the Lord and the ways that lead to him (cf. Jn<\/em> 14:4-6). A search that leads to the experience of peace \u2014 \u2018in his will is our peace\u2019 \u2014 and which underlies each day’s struggle, because God is God, and His ways and thoughts are not always our ways and thoughts (cf. Is<\/em> 55:8). The consecrated person, therefore, gives witness to the task, at once joyful and laborious, of the diligent search for the divine will, and for this chooses to use every means available that helps one to know it and sustain it while bringing it to fulfillment.\u201d<\/p>\n

St. John Paul II in Vita Consecrata <\/em>compares the consecrated life as a whole to contemplating Christ\u2019s transfigured face. \u201cThe vocation of consecrated persons to seek first the Kingdom of God is first and foremost a call to complete conversion, in self-renunciation, in order to live fully for the Lord, so that God may be all in all,\u201d he wrote. \u201cCalled to contemplate and bear witness to the transfigured face of Christ, consecrated men and women are also called to a \u2018transfigured\u2019 existence.\u201d This transformative seeking and contemplation of Christ\u2019s face spurs the flourishing of love in the consecrated. \u201cThe fact that consecrated persons fix their gaze on the Lord’s countenance does not diminish their commitment on behalf of humanity; on the contrary, it strengthens this commitment, enabling it to have an impact on history, in order to free history from all that disfigures it. The quest for divine beauty impels consecrated persons to care for the deformed image of God on the faces of their brothers and sisters, faces disfigured by hunger, faces disillusioned by political promises, faces humiliated by seeing their culture despised, faces frightened by constant and indiscriminate violence, the anguished faces of minors, the hurt and humiliated faces of women, the tired faces of migrants who are not given a warm welcome, the faces of the elderly who are without even the minimum conditions for a dignified life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Benedict would stress in his powerful address to representatives of the world of culture at the College des Bernardins in 2008 that this service of consecrated men and women seeking God\u2019s face helps everyone rediscover the proper coordinates of life. He said that the essential goal of consecrated life, the way of life that inspired the first monks, was quaerere Deum<\/em>, seeking God. \u201cAmid the confusion of the times, in which nothing seemed permanent, they wanted to do the essential \u2013 to make an effort to find what was perennially valid and lasting, life itself.\u00a0 They were searching for God.\u00a0 They wanted to go from the inessential to the essential, to the only truly important and reliable thing there is.\u00a0 It is sometimes said that they were \u2018eschatologically\u2019 oriented.\u00a0 But this is not to be understood in a temporal sense, as if they were looking ahead to the end of the world or to their own death, but in an existential sense: they were seeking the definitive behind the provisional.\u00a0 Quaerere Deum<\/em>: because they were Christians, this was not an expedition into a trackless wilderness, a search leading them into total darkness.\u00a0 God himself had provided signposts, indeed he had marked out a path which was theirs to find and to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n

And having found it, and pondered it through a deep study of God\u2019s word that became the \u201cmirror\u201d for their lives, they couldn\u2019t keep it to themselves. Pope Benedict continued, \u201cWithin the monks\u2019 seeking there is already contained, in some respects, a finding.\u00a0 Therefore, if such seeking is to be possible at all, there has to be an initial spur, which not only arouses the will to seek, but also makes it possible to believe that the way is concealed within this word, or rather: that in this word, God himself has set out towards men, and hence men can come to God through it.\u00a0 To put it another way: there must be proclamation, which speaks to man and so creates conviction, which in turn can become life.\u00a0 If a way is to be opened up into the heart of the biblical word as God\u2019s word, this word must first of all be proclaimed outwardly.\u00a0 The classic formulation of the Christian faith\u2019s intrinsic need to make itself communicable to others, is a phrase from the First Letter of Peter\u2026:\u00a0 \u2018Always have your answer ready for people who ask you the reason (the logos<\/em>) for the hope that you all have\u2019 (3:15).\u00a0 \u2026 Christians of the nascent Church did not regard their missionary proclamation as propaganda, designed to enlarge their particular group, but as an inner necessity, consequent upon the nature of their faith:\u00a0 the God in whom they believed was the God of all people, the one, true God, who had revealed himself in the history of Israel and ultimately in his Son, thereby supplying the answer which was of concern to everyone and for which all people, in their innermost hearts, are waiting. \u00a0The universality of God, and of reason open towards him, is what gave them the motivation\u2014indeed, the obligation\u2014to proclaim the message. The fundamental structure of Christian proclamation \u201coutwards\u201d \u2013 towards searching and questioning mankind \u2013 is seen in Saint Paul\u2019s address at the Areopagus.\u00a0\u2026 Paul is not proclaiming unknown gods.\u00a0 He is proclaiming him whom men do not know and yet do know \u2013 the unknown-known; the one they are seeking, whom ultimately they know already, and who yet remains the unknown and unrecognizable. \u2026\u00a0The novelty of Christian proclamation is that it can now say to all peoples: he has revealed himself.\u00a0 He personally.\u00a0 And now the way to him is open.\u00a0 The novelty of Christian proclamation does not consist in a thought, but in a deed: God has revealed himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benedict concluded, \u201cOur cities are no longer filled with altars and with images of multiple deities.\u00a0 God has truly become for many the great unknown.\u00a0 But just as in the past, when behind the many images of God the question concerning the unknown God was hidden and present, so too the present absence of God is silently besieged by the question concerning him.\u00a0 Quaerere Deum<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 to seek God and to let oneself be found by him, that is today no less necessary than in former times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLord, make us turn to you. Let us see your face and we shall be saved.\u201d Today during this Advent day of prayer and recollection, we turn toward God whose coming in history, mystery and majesty we mark every Advent. We seek his face in his incarnation in Bethlehem, under sacramental signs, and in the beatific vision. We recognize that our salvation and others\u2019 hinges on heeding St. John the Baptist\u2019s call to behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. As we prepare to behold him with love at Mass today, we ask God through the intercession of St. Lucy, to help us and others keep our eyes fixed on him always so that we may be saved and come to experience eternal joy in that kingdom where we hope to see him transfigured and looking on us with love forever.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0readings for today’s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Reading 1\u00a0SIR 48:1-4, 9-11<\/a><\/h4>\n
In those days,
\nlike a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah
\nwhose words were as a flaming furnace.
\nTheir staff of bread he shattered,
\nin his zeal he reduced them to straits;
\nBy the Lord\u2019s word he shut up the heavens
\nand three times brought down fire.
\nHow awesome are you, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds!
\nWhose glory is equal to yours?
\nYou were taken aloft in a whirlwind of fire,
\nin a chariot with fiery horses.
\nYou were destined, it is written, in time to come
\nto put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD,
\nTo turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons,
\nand to re-establish the tribes of Jacob.
\nBlessed is he who shall have seen you
\nand who falls asleep in your friendship.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Responsorial Psalm\u00a0PS 80:2AC AND 3B, 15-16, 18-19<\/a><\/h4>\n
R. (4)\u00a0Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
\nO shepherd of Israel, hearken,
\nFrom your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth.
\nRouse your power.
\nR.\u00a0Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
\nOnce again, O LORD of hosts,
\nlook down from heaven, and see;
\nTake care of this vine,
\nand protect what your right hand has planted
\nthe son of man whom you yourself made strong.
\nR.\u00a0Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.
\nMay your help be with the man of your right hand,
\nwith the son of man whom you yourself made strong.
\nThen we will no more withdraw from you;
\ngive us new life, and we will call upon your name.
\nR.\u00a0Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.<\/p>\n

Alleluia\u00a0LK 3:4, 6<\/a><\/h4>\n

R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.
\nPrepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths:
\nAll flesh shall see the salvation of God.
\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gospel\u00a0MT 17:9A, 10-13<\/a><\/h4>\n
As they were coming down from the mountain,
\nthe disciples asked Jesus,
\n\u201cWhy do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?\u201d
\nHe said in reply, \u201cElijah will indeed come and restore all things;
\nbut I tell you that Elijah has already come,
\nand they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased.
\nSo also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.\u201d
\nThen the disciples understood
\nthat he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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