{"id":8873,"date":"2015-04-30T06:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=8873"},"modified":"2015-04-30T10:37:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T14:37:49","slug":"union-with-christ-in-the-mission-fourth-thursday-of-easter-april-30-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/union-with-christ-in-the-mission-fourth-thursday-of-easter-april-30-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Union with Christ in the Mission, Fourth Thursday of Easter, April 30, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, New York, NY<br \/>\nThursday of the Fourth Week of Easter<br \/>\nMemorial of Pope St.\u00a0Pius V<br \/>\nApril 30, 2015<br \/>\nActs 13:13-25, Ps 89, Jn 13:16-20<\/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-8873-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4.30.15-Homily-with-Sisters-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4.30.15-Homily-with-Sisters-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4.30.15-Homily-with-Sisters-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Another, shorter version of the homily was given at Holy Family Parish. To\u00a0listen to it, please click below: <\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8873-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4.30.15-Homily-at-Holy-Family-1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4.30.15-Homily-at-Holy-Family-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/4.30.15-Homily-at-Holy-Family-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>We pondered yesterday the meaning of consecration in the choosing of Saints Paul and Barnabas for the work of the Lord. The Holy Spirit asked for them to be set apart for the work to which he had summoned them, and after prayer, fasting and the laying on of hands, they set out. Today in the Gospel, Jesus says, &#8220;I know those whom I have chosen.&#8221; He calls us to himself, he consecrates us, so that united with him, we can be sent out, just like Paul and Barnabas, to wash others&#8217; feet, to announce to them his Word, to call them to communion with him and us. Jesus says at the end of today&#8217;s passage something truly amazing. He swears an oath and says, &#8220;Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send\u00a0receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.\u201d This is not an &#8220;intentional&#8221; point but in some deep way a sacramental-ontological one: the reason why in receiving us others receive Christ is because they&#8217;re receiving us in communion with Christ, and because of that communion they&#8217;re always receiving God the Father because Christ is in perpetual communion with the Father.<\/li>\n<li>When we are sent out by Christ to proclaim the Gospel, we&#8217;re not just proclaiming words but in our own flesh we are bringing Christ \u2014 or at least we&#8217;re supposed to be! \u2014 and hence in accepting us they are welcoming Christ&#8217;s Mystical Body that is in organic communion with Christ the Head of that Body. We see this with in the scene with Saints Paul and Barnabas in today&#8217;s\u00a0first reading (which we&#8217;ve extended to embrace the\u00a0first reading of Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter as well, since we&#8217;ll be celebrating the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker). Saints Paul and Barnabas\u00a0are asked by the leader of the Synagogue in Antioch in Pisidia, \u201cMy brothers, if one of you has a word of exhortation for the people, please speak.\u201d God wants us all to have that \u201cword of exhortation\u201d from him and wants us to give it. We&#8217;re called, like St. Peter wrote in his first letter, always to be willing to give the reason for the hope we contain within us. In the Psalm today, we prayed, \u201cForever I will sing the goodness of the Lord\u201d and professed\u00a0that \u201cthrough all generations my mouth shall proclaim your faithfulness.\u201d The Lord wants us to be so inspired by our consecrated communion with him that we\u2019re always singing of his goodness, to us, to the world, to others, and to proclaim his fidelity to all his promises. Many times in life rather than singing of the Lord\u2019s goodness, we\u2019re can give into temptations to complain\u00a0monotonously about our problems, or to criticize, or to spread\u00a0bad news rather than Good. Many times rather than giving a word of encouragement we give discourses of discouragement. Rather than sharing a word of exhortation, we\u2019re often deflating others with pessimism. Rather than praising God\u2019s faithfulness, we\u2019re praising ourselves. A Christian who grasps the meaning of Easter, who lives a new life in communion with\u00a0the Lord, is a Christian who\u2019s singing with joy even in the midst of challenge and hardship, and that\u2019s the type of hymn the Lord wants all of us to be singing each day in chorus.<\/li>\n<li>In the Gospel, Jesus, as part of the many ordination instructions he gave on Holy Thursday that would be remembered and put into action after his\u2019 resurrection, talks about the messenger and the one who sent him, saying as I mentioned above that &#8220;whoever receives the one I send receives me and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.\u201d Jesus to\u00a0some degree\u00a0\u2014 we don\u2019t want to take it too far, but we do need to ponder his words \u2014 is making others\u2019 reception of the Father and the Son who he sent\u00a0at least partially dependent on their receiving those whom he sends out, meaning\u00a0<em>us.\u00a0<\/em>And how can they receive us \u2014 and the Son and the Father as a consequence \u2014 unless we give ourselves to be received?\u00a0To give this word of exhortation, to sing the goodness of the Lord, to proclaim his faithfulness, to continue Jesus\u2019 mission as his ambassadors, this is meant to become the driving force of Christian life. We must make the effort that\u00a0Christian missionary work requires.<\/li>\n<li>We see that effort concealed in the beginning of today\u2019s first reading. Pamphylia, where Saints Paul and Barnabas landed, was a malaria infested swamp. It would be like traversing the Everglades. But they did it. Then there was a perilous journey 3,600 miles up a rock face to Antioch in Pisidia, one of the ancient world\u2019s most dangerous climbs. To make matters worse, the path upward was full of bandits. But Paul and Barnabas\u00a0courageously persevered because of their hunger to share the Gospel, to share God, to share the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and the whole Church with those they had never met. Proclaiming the Gospel, as we know from the sagas of so many missionaries in every age, \u00a0is seldom easy work. It requires zeal. It requires effort. But as Jesus says in today\u2019s Gospel, \u201cIf you understand this, blessed are you if you do it.\u201d The question for us is: if Paul and Barnabas could overcome so many dangers to proclaim the Gospel to total strangers, will we overcome the much smaller impediments to proclaim the Gospel to our family, friends and neighbors, to the people who call on the phone, to the people who visit the Visitation Mission? What efforts are we making\u00a0to share our faith, to share our communion with Jesus? At the end of our life, what \u201cActs\u201d will be able to be written about our own missionary journeys? Will a heavenly chronicler be able to list the swamps we\u2019ve traversed and the mountains and obstacles we\u2019ve surmounted?<\/li>\n<li>The second thing we learn in today\u2019s readings is a basic outline of how to give this word of exhortation and sing of the favors of the Lord. Odds are that when we proclaim the Gospel, we&#8217;re\u00a0proclaiming it to a group other than Jews in the Diaspora! But St. Paul gives us a model we can apply to every situation. Today he beings\u00a0a\u00a026 verse homily. Today we have the first 13 verses combined with the 8 that would have been heard tomorrow. I&#8217;d encourage you as\u00a0your\u00a0homework for the day to meditate\u00a0over the last five. But throughout this &#8220;word of exhortation,&#8221; we see how St. Paul puts the Gospel into a\u00a0<em>context<\/em>\u00a0of what is relevant for his listeners.\n<ul>\n<li>He begins by discussing his listeners\u2019 hopes and expectations, their longing for a Messiah, so that he can show how Jesus is the fulfillment of their deep desires. He shows there\u2019s a purpose to history.<\/li>\n<li>Second, he declares forthrightly that\u00a0<em>Jesus is the fulfillment of their hopes<\/em>. He discusses that\u00a0even though Jesus\u00a0is their hope, many, in blind folly, rejected him, but that rejection didn\u2019t have the final word, because\u00a0<em>God raised him from the dead,\u00a0<\/em>showing that hope placed in him is never in vain.<\/li>\n<li>Then Paul\u00a0makes that news actual, bringing us to a moment of decision. He describes how this is Good News, joy, for all of us who accept Jesus and begin to live by his ways \u2014 and bad news for those who disobey that summons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This is the pattern of proclamation for us in every age. We begin with the context of people\u2019s aspirations and hopes, how Jesus fulfills them, how God has triumphed over people\u2019s sins and rejection in the past, and how he wants us to share in that victory, but we must choose to respond to that incredible offer. St. Paul would elsewhere describe his own conversion and how he was among those who initially opposed, but came to grasp this life and that\u2019s what motivated him to share Jesus with others, to exhort them to learn from his mistakes, to sing of the favor of the Lord\u2019s mercy and invite others to join that chorus of praise. Likewise it\u2019s from our experience of mercy, from our failure to correspond fully and yet being given a second, or third, or 70th times 7th chance, that we find the passion to share that same gift.<\/li>\n<li>The saint we celebrate today, because of his union with the Lord, sought to live this way. As a member of the Order of Preachers, Antonio Ghislieri sought always to share a word of exhortation with others, but the problem was that the Church in many places had become corrupt. There were problems with some of the popes, with many of the bishops, with so many priests and religious orders and with the faithful people. He became a great reformer and as the Church was seeking to respond to the scandals that led to the Protestant Reformation by means of the Council of Trent, the Cardinals elected him to implement Trent&#8217;s decrees. He reformed the way the Church prayed the Mass, prayed various of the Sacraments, and prayed the liturgy of the hours. He helped form the first seminaries to train future priests (before they were trained in apprenticeships, and if the priest teacher weren&#8217;t holy, it would be hard to produce future holy priests). He traversed over the course of his life various ecclesial swamps and political rock cliffs. One of the most famous happened at the Battle of Lepanto, when Christians battled Muslims off the coast of Greece as Muslims were seeking to invade Europe. Pope St. Pius V led the Church in prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary by means of the Rosary and God gave him images of what was happening in battle hundreds of miles away, images that proved true when triumphant Christian sailors\u00a0returned to Rome months later. He helped to restore the hope of the Christian people by his words of encouragement and by his faithful and holy life. We&#8217;re all called to do the same. Just as much as the Lord said about him, &#8220;I know those whom I have chosen,&#8221; so he says it about us. He wants to enter into an intimate friendship with us now. He wants to establish a communion with us so deep that others to whom he sends us will be able to sense the love of God loving them through us.<\/li>\n<li>As we begin our day the way St. Pius V\u00a0would begin his, at Mass, we ask through his intercession that we may be inspired to sanctify all the work that the Lord has given us to do today, especially that most important work of spreading the Gospel. Jesus gave us the\u00a0words of today&#8217;s Gospel during the Last Supper, right after he washed his disciples\u2019 feet. As we prepare to enter in time into that new and eternal Passover and receive Jesus\u2019 very risen life inside, we ask that, like Pius V, we will be \u201cblessed\u201d by \u201cdoing this in memory\u201d of Him as we are sent out by him, with him, to encourage the world!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/13:13\">ACTS 13:13-25<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">From Paphos, Paul and his companions<br \/>\nset sail and arrived at Perga in Pamphylia.<br \/>\nBut John left them and returned to Jerusalem.<br \/>\nThey continued on from Perga and reached Antioch in Pisidia.<br \/>\nOn the sabbath they entered into the synagogue and took their seats.<br \/>\nAfter the reading of the law and the prophets,<br \/>\nthe synagogue officials sent word to them,<br \/>\n\u201cMy brothers, if one of you has a word of exhortation<br \/>\nfor the people, please speak.\u201dSo Paul got up, motioned with his hand, and said,<br \/>\n\u201cFellow children of Israel and you others who are God-fearing, listen.<br \/>\nThe God of this people Israel chose our ancestors<br \/>\nand exalted the people during their sojourn in the land of Egypt.<br \/>\nWith uplifted arm he led them out,<br \/>\nand for about forty years he put up with them in the desert.<br \/>\nWhen he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan,<br \/>\nhe gave them their land as an inheritance<br \/>\nat the end of about four hundred and fifty years.<br \/>\nAfter these things he provided judges up to Samuel the prophet.<br \/>\nThen they asked for a king.<br \/>\nGod gave them Saul, son of Kish,<br \/>\na man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.<br \/>\nThen he removed him and raised up David as their king;<br \/>\nof him he testified,<br \/>\n<em>I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart;<br \/>\nhe will carry out my every wish<\/em>.<br \/>\nFrom this man\u2019s descendants God, according to his promise,<br \/>\nhas brought to Israel a savior, Jesus.<br \/>\nJohn heralded his coming by proclaiming a baptism of repentance<br \/>\nto all the people of Israel;<br \/>\nand as John was completing his course, he would say,<br \/>\n\u2018What do you suppose that I am? I am not he.<br \/>\nBehold, one is coming after me;<br \/>\nI am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.\u2019<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">My brothers, children of the family of Abraham,<br \/>\nand those others among you who are God-fearing,<br \/>\nto us this word of salvation has been sent.<br \/>\nThe inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders failed to recognize him,<br \/>\nand by condemning him they fulfilled the oracles of the prophets<br \/>\nthat are read sabbath after sabbath.<br \/>\nFor even though they found no grounds for a death sentence,<br \/>\nthey asked Pilate to have him put to death,<br \/>\nand when they had accomplished all that was written about him,<br \/>\nthey took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.<br \/>\nBut God raised him from the dead,<br \/>\nand for many days he appeared to those<br \/>\nwho had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem.<br \/>\nThese are now his witnesses before the people.<br \/>\nWe ourselves are proclaiming this good news to you<br \/>\nthat what God promised our fathers<br \/>\nhe has brought to fulfillment for us, their children, by raising up Jesus,<br \/>\nas it is written in the second psalm,<br \/>\n<em>You are my Son; this day I have begotten you<\/em>.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/89:2\">PS 89:2-3, 21-22, 25 AND 27<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (2)\u00a0For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nThe favors of the LORD I will sing forever;<br \/>\nthrough all generations my mouth shall proclaim your faithfulness.<br \/>\nFor you have said, \u201cMy kindness is established forever\u201d;<br \/>\nin heaven you have confirmed your faithfulness.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\n\u201cI have found David, my servant;<br \/>\nwith my holy oil I have anointed him,<br \/>\nThat my hand may be always with him,<br \/>\nand that my arm may make him strong.\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\n\u201cMy faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him,<br \/>\nand through my name shall his horn be exalted.<br \/>\nHe shall say of me, \u2018You are my father,<br \/>\nmy God, the Rock, my savior.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/13:16\">JN 13:16-20<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When Jesus had washed the disciples\u2019 feet, he said to them:<br \/>\n\u201cAmen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master<br \/>\nnor any messenger greater than the one who sent him.<br \/>\nIf you understand this, blessed are you if you do it.<br \/>\nI am not speaking of all of you.<br \/>\nI know those whom I have chosen.<br \/>\nBut so that the Scripture might be fulfilled,<br \/>\n<em>The one who ate my food has raised his heel against me<\/em>.<br \/>\nFrom now on I am telling you before it happens,<br \/>\nso that when it happens you may believe that I AM.<br \/>\nAmen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send<br \/>\nreceives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/janstyka-saintpeter02.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8875\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/janstyka-saintpeter02.jpg?resize=300%2C205&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"janstyka-saintpeter02\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/janstyka-saintpeter02.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/janstyka-saintpeter02.jpg?w=339&amp;ssl=1 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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