{"id":8387,"date":"2015-03-06T23:47:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T04:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=8387"},"modified":"2015-03-06T23:47:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T04:47:19","slug":"building-our-life-on-christ-the-cornerstone-second-friday-of-lent-march-6-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/building-our-life-on-christ-the-cornerstone-second-friday-of-lent-march-6-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Building our Life on Christ the Cornerstone, Second Friday of Lent, March 6, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\n\u201cThe Graces All Catholics Should Receive from the Year for Consecrated Life\u201d<br \/>\nCasa Maria of the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word<br \/>\nIrondale, AL<br \/>\nMarch 6-8, 2015<br \/>\nGen 37:3-4.12-13.17-18, Ps 105, Mt 21:33-43.45-46<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-8387-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/3.6.15-Retreat-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/3.6.15-Retreat-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/3.6.15-Retreat-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>In today\u2019s Responsorial Psalm, at the beginning of our retreat, we\u2019re called to \u201cremember the marvels the Lord has done!\u201d It\u2019s a time to come to thank him for salvation history. To thank him for all the blessings of our life, especially since our last retreat. To thank him for getting us here. To thank him for his coming to meet us. But it\u2019s also a chance to thank him for the way he wants to transform even the most difficult sufferings we\u2019ve endured into fertilizer for spiritual growth. If the Lord can transform even the terrible ugliness of envy, betrayal, rejection, into goods, then it is so much easier for us to see how all things can work out for the good for those who love him, how even things that seem disgraces and failures can be transformed into marvels. This is a beautiful, providential, deep way to enter into what God wants to do in us during this retreat to amaze us and through us to stun the world.<\/li>\n<li>In the first reading from the Book of Genesis, we see how Joseph the future Patriarch\u2019s brothers were envious of him because he was their father Jacob\u2019s favorite. Their envy led them first to \u201chate [Joseph] so much that they would not even greet him.\u201d But then that interior poison led them much further. When he went out to help his brothers tend the flocks in Dothan, the brothers conspired to plan to murder him and toss his dead body into a cistern and then lie about it to their father by saying a wild beast had devoured him. They wanted to replicate Cain\u2019s invidious and insidious murder of his brother Abel. To save Joseph\u2019s life, one of the brothers, Reuben, persuaded the others just to abandon him into an empty cistern so that he might be able to rescue him later. And so they agreed and threw him down into an inescapable situation, with most of the brothers likely thinking that, while they themselves didn\u2019t shed his blood, it would just be a longer dying process. But then they saw a group of Ishmaelites, basically their second cousins through their grandfather Isaac\u2019s half-brother Ishmael, and sold him into slavery for 20 pieces of silver, not as an act of mercy but of simple profiteering from what they anticipated would be a situation tantamount to his death in Egypt. At every stage, the envy at his good fortune led to evil. Their brotherly betrayal was a prophetic type of what would eventually happen to Jesus when he would be sold by one of his spiritual brothers, one of his closest friends, for silver, too.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus describes that betrayal, and the envy that led to it, in today\u2019s Gospel. Jesus spoke to the chief priests and the scribes in a parable about the way they had treated all the messengers God had sent them and how they were going to treat him. In the prophets Israel had often been referred to as a vineyard planted by God. God had made the Israelites stewards of that vineyard but expected a harvest when vintage time grew near. The prophets were the ones sent to remind them of that yield of good deeds, but, as Jesus said, \u201cone they beat, another they killed and a third they stoned.\u201d Other prophets were sent and maltreated the same way. Finally God sent his Son but, in prophetic tones that would be fulfilled in the cry of \u201cCrucify Him!\u201d in Pontius Pilates\u2019 praetorium, they shouted out, \u201cThis is the heir. Come let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.\u201d They wanted to be owners, not stewards, and were prepared to kill in order to maintain their privileges. They wanted to be the ones in charge of the inheritance of faith, not God himself. The chief motivation behind the persecution of the prophets and the crucifixion of Jesus, it is implied, was envy, envy that led to a hatred so much that it resulted in homicide.<\/li>\n<li>But that\u2019s not the end of either story. God always seeks to bring good out of evil and in both cases God\u2019s goodness triumphed over the worst of human wickedness. Joseph\u2019s being sold for 20 pieces of silver, becoming a slave in Egypt and his ability to interpret dreams eventually brought him to the attention of Pharaoh and to the second position in the Kingdom, an office he was able to use not only to save millions of Egyptians lives during a time of famine but also his family. Likewise, Jesus\u2019 being sold for 30 pieces of silver, taking on the appearance of a slave in order to serve us all and enduring the worst of nightmares led him to save not only millions of Egyptian lives and so many fellow Israelites but the entire human race, including those who had conspired to have him crucified. To use his own words, quoting the Psalms, \u201cThe stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone.\u201d That is indeed a marvel in our eyes!<\/li>\n<li>These considerations\u00a0should lead to three\u00a0sets of resolutions on our part. The first is about the terrible evil of envy and the destruction to which it leads. Envy is sadness and anger about someone else\u2019s being blessed, it\u2019s a coveting of what others have that knows no limit. We need to see it for the capital sin that it is. And the greatest way to oppose envy is to be <em>grateful<\/em> for all we have rather than upset at what we don\u2019t have and to thank God for the way he\u2019s blessed others, especially our family members and friends.<\/li>\n<li>The second resolution is about how to endure difficulty, hardship and betrayal suffered because of the evil and envy of others. God always seeks to bring good out of evil and we need to have confidence that our hardships endured can lead to our salvation and the salvation of others. \u201cAll things work out for the good,\u201d St. Paul writes to the Romans. Especially when we\u2019re in a situation like Joseph or like Jesus, we need to remember that it\u2019s not the whole story, that God can always use that evil for good.<\/li>\n<li>The third resolution is to build our lives on Christ the Cornerstone. We are able to do that much better paradoxically because we&#8217;ve rejected building our life on him in the past and we&#8217;ve opened ourselves to his mercy. As we sing in the Exultet at the Easter Vigil, &#8220;O Felix Culpa!,&#8221; &#8220;O Happy Sin, that brought us such a great redeemer.&#8221; When we grasp how much we&#8217;ve been forgiven, we discover who God is, who we are, how much we&#8217;re loved and what we need to do not to reject him again. It&#8217;s much easier to build ourselves on him securely when we have learned how not to take him and his mercy for granted.<\/li>\n<li>Today as we prepare at the beginning of this retreat to receive the \u201cstone rejected by the builders\u201d in Holy Communion \u2014 the greatest marvel in our eyes of all \u2014 we ask him for the grace to build our entire life on Him, our most secure foundation, to draw good out of all the evil we\u2019ve suffered out account of the envy of others, and to help us never to succumb to that capital sin but rather to rejoice in all that he\u2019s given us and given others. The Lord is continuing to work his marvels \u2014 and he will be seeking to do wonders for us on this retreat. Let us say &#8220;Amen!&#8221; to all he&#8217;s seeking to accomplish, and build our existence on what we&#8217;re saying Amen to!<\/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\/genesis\/37:3\">GN 37:3-4, 12-13A, 17B-28A<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons,<br \/>\nfor he was the child of his old age;<br \/>\nand he had made him a long tunic.<br \/>\nWhen his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons,<br \/>\nthey hated him so much that they would not even greet him.<\/div>\n<div>One day, when his brothers had gone<br \/>\nto pasture their father\u2019s flocks at Shechem,<br \/>\nIsrael said to Joseph,<br \/>\n\u201cYour brothers, you know, are tending our flocks at Shechem.<br \/>\nGet ready; I will send you to them.\u201dSo Joseph went after his brothers and caught up with them in Dothan.<br \/>\nThey noticed him from a distance,<br \/>\nand before he came up to them, they plotted to kill him.<br \/>\nThey said to one another: \u201cHere comes that master dreamer!<br \/>\nCome on, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here;<br \/>\nwe could say that a wild beast devoured him.<br \/>\nWe shall then see what comes of his dreams.\u201dWhen Reuben heard this,<br \/>\nhe tried to save him from their hands, saying,<br \/>\n\u201cWe must not take his life.<br \/>\nInstead of shedding blood,\u201d he continued,<br \/>\n\u201cjust throw him into that cistern there in the desert;<br \/>\nbut do not kill him outright.\u201d<br \/>\nHis purpose was to rescue him from their hands<br \/>\nand return him to his father.<br \/>\nSo when Joseph came up to them,<br \/>\nthey stripped him of the long tunic he had on;<br \/>\nthen they took him and threw him into the cistern,<br \/>\nwhich was empty and dry.They then sat down to their meal.<br \/>\nLooking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead,<br \/>\ntheir camels laden with gum, balm and resin<br \/>\nto be taken down to Egypt.<br \/>\nJudah said to his brothers:<br \/>\n\u201cWhat is to be gained by killing our brother and concealing his blood?<br \/>\nRather, let us sell him to these Ishmaelites,<br \/>\ninstead of doing away with him ourselves.<br \/>\nAfter all, he is our brother, our own flesh.\u201d<br \/>\nHis brothers agreed.<br \/>\nThey sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/105:16\">PS 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (5a)\u00a0Remember the marvels the Lord has done.<br \/>\nWhen the LORD called down a famine on the land<br \/>\nand ruined the crop that sustained them,<br \/>\nHe sent a man before them,<br \/>\nJoseph, sold as a slave.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Remember the marvels the Lord has done.<br \/>\nThey had weighed him down with fetters,<br \/>\nand he was bound with chains,<br \/>\nTill his prediction came to pass<br \/>\nand the word of the LORD proved him true.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Remember the marvels the Lord has done.<br \/>\nThe king sent and released him,<br \/>\nthe ruler of the peoples set him free.<br \/>\nHe made him lord of his house<br \/>\nand ruler of all his possessions.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Remember the marvels the Lord has done.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/21:33\">MT 21:33-43, 45-46<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people:<br \/>\n\u201cHear another parable.<br \/>\nThere was a landowner who planted a vineyard,<br \/>\nput a hedge around it,<br \/>\ndug a wine press in it, and built a tower.<br \/>\nThen he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.<br \/>\nWhen vintage time drew near,<br \/>\nhe sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce.<br \/>\nBut the tenants seized the servants and one they beat,<br \/>\nanother they killed, and a third they stoned.<br \/>\nAgain he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones,<br \/>\nbut they treated them in the same way.<br \/>\nFinally, he sent his son to them,<br \/>\nthinking, \u2018They will respect my son.\u2019<br \/>\nBut when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another,<br \/>\n\u2018This is the heir.<br \/>\nCome, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.\u2019<br \/>\nThey seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.<br \/>\nWhat will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?\u201d<br \/>\nThey answered him,<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u00a0will put those wretched men to a wretched death<br \/>\nand lease his vineyard to other tenants<br \/>\nwho will give him the produce at the proper times.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to them, \u201cDid you never read in the Scriptures:<\/div>\n<div><em>The stone that the builders rejected<br \/>\nhas become the cornerstone;<br \/>\nby the Lord has this been done,<br \/>\nand it is wonderful in our eyes<\/em>?<\/div>\n<div>Therefore, I say to you,<br \/>\nthe Kingdom of God will be taken away from you<br \/>\nand given to a people that will produce its fruit.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables,<br \/>\nthey knew that he was speaking about them.<br \/>\nAnd although they were attempting to arrest him,<br \/>\nthey feared the crowds, for they regarded him as a prophet.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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