{"id":8947,"date":"2015-05-07T07:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=8947"},"modified":"2015-05-07T09:25:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:25:39","slug":"the-most-important-words-in-human-history-fifth-thursday-of-easter-may-7-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-most-important-words-in-human-history-fifth-thursday-of-easter-may-7-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important Words in Human History, Fifth Thursday of Easter, May 7, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, New York, NY<br \/>\nThursday of the Fifth Week of Easter<br \/>\nMay\u00a07, 2015<br \/>\nAct 15: 7-21, Ps 96, Jn 15:9-11<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8947-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5.7.15-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5.7.15-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5.7.15-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>Today in the Gospel Jesus says what I believe are the most important words in the history of the world. They\u2019re important whenever anyone says them, but the fact that he said them in the way that he said them, and then put them into his own body language, makes them the most life-changing phrase ever: \u201cI love you,\u201d he tells us. We need to stop and ponder the reality of those words! \u201cI love you,\u201d Jesus tells us. But then he puts them into a context that ought to astound\u00a0us: \u201cJust as the Father loves me, I love you.\u201d The Father loves him perfectly. The Father loves him profoundly and intimately. And Jesus tells us that he loves us in that same way. And he doesn\u2019t merely love us \u201call\u201d in that way, but he loves each of us in that way, as St. Paul wrote in his letter to the Galatians, \u201cHe loved\u00a0<em>me\u00a0<\/em>and gave his life for\u00a0<em>me\u201d <\/em>(Gal 2:20).<\/li>\n<li>Grasping this reality is essential not only for the Christian life but for human life. \u201cMan cannot live without love,\u201d St. John Paul II wrote in his first encyclical\u00a0<em>Redemptor Hominis.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cHe remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.\u201d This is true for love in general. We need the love of family, the love of friends, the spousal love of a husband or wife (either human or divine), the total self-giving love of someone who values us that much. Without it, we\u2019re lost. We\u2019re an enigma to ourselves. Many people who don\u2019t experience this love\u00a0spend their lives looking for it in places they can\u2019t find it. If they haven\u2019t experienced the love of a mom or dad, they often get themselves into trouble seeking that love in relationships that will never really substitute. If they\u2019ve suffered violence in relationships that should have been loving, often they\u2019ll get involved in lifestyles that will try to reconstruct the love that should have been present in the first place.<\/li>\n<li>And what is true in terms of human love is also true in terms of divine. There are many people \u2014 and many Catholics \u2014 who have never really experienced the love of the Lord. Their notion of the faith is perhaps an angry God, or a distant, negligent God, or a God who is a stern taskmaster making sure they fulfill all their duties lest they be punished, or even an indulgent God who doesn\u2019t care about them enough to concern himself with their self-destructive choices. They haven\u2019t experienced a\u00a0<em>loving\u00a0<\/em>God. Many people are filled with a type of self-pity and self-hatred because they have never experienced God\u2019s love and often don\u2019t believe they are lovable by God or anyone else, that they can never please him, that they\u2019re constantly letting him, themselves and everyone else down. Today Jesus says to them, and to all of us, \u201cI love you \u2026 just as my Father loves me!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Then Jesus gives us the most important command of the Christian life. \u201cRemain in my love.\u201d As much as he loves us, he knows that many of us run away from that love. That type of burning love can make\u00a0us uncomfortable because we don\u2019t think we\u2019re worthy of it, because we don\u2019t want to let God down. We know that that love is meant to change us, to lift us up, and many times we don\u2019t want to cooperate with that resurrection. One of the things that we see in life is that when people think they\u2019re less than they are, often they begin to sink to their self-identity so that they can \u201cprove\u201d to others that they\u2019re as \u201cbad\u201d as they believe they are. We can also do that spiritually. We can flee from God\u2019s love because it\u2019s too much for us. That\u2019s why Jesus gives us the imperative to abide in his love, to rest in it, to let it change us and become the defining characteristic of our life.<\/li>\n<li>Third, he tells us how to remain in that love. \u201cIf you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love.\u201d We can\u2019t remain in his love if we break the commandments, not because he\u2019ll pull his love away from us \u2014 his love is everlasting and he\u2019ll never pull away\u00a0\u2014 but because the commandments are all about living in the love of God and the love of neighbor that flows from living in the love of God. We can\u2019t love God if we\u2019re worshipping other gods or giving into superstitions, if we\u2019re abusing his holy name, if we\u2019re blowing him off on the Lord\u2019s day. We can&#8217;t be loving him in those\u00a0whom he loves if we\u2019re dishonoring the parents he gave us, hating or killing those he created, taking advantage of them out of lust, stealing from the goods he gave them, lying to them, or getting envious over the blessings of human love he has given them or of material blessings. All the law and the prophets, Jesus tells us, hang on the two-fold commandment of loving God and neighbor and that\u2019s why we can\u2019t remain in his love if we\u2019re violating the love that is contained in the commandments God has given us. But in this condition to remaining in his love, Jesus is leading by example. He never says merely \u201cDo what I say!\u201d but always, \u201cFollow me!,\u201d and he does so in this circumstance as well. After telling us that to remain in his love we need to keep him commandments, he adds, \u201cJust as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments and remain in his love.\u201d Love, as Pope Benedict was accustomed to say, is\u00a0<i>idem velle, idem nolle,\u00a0<\/i>willing and rejecting the same things as the Beloved. If we love God we\u2019re going to love what he loves. Jesus, in loving the Father, loved the Father\u2019s will. Likewise, if we truly love the Lord and remain in his love, we\u2019ll loved what we loves and seek to do what he out of love wills for us and others.<\/li>\n<li>And then Jesus tells us what remaining in his love leads to: \u201cI have told you this so that\u00a0my joy might be in you and\u00a0your joy might be complete.\u201d The fruit of love is joy. We see this all the time when people fall in love. Being loved and loving others in return changes people for the better. They recognize how good life is. You can\u2019t wipe the smile from their faces. I used to love to see this dramatic transformation in high school students when I was a chaplain at Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River. I still rejoice in it in young couples preparing for marriage, and in older couples who have rekindled their first love.<\/li>\n<li>But that type of love we see in human relationships is supposed to be even more evident in our life of faith. Jesus has told us of his undying love for us and of the Father\u2019s love for him so that we might have his joy in us and our joy may be complete. The first thing to note here is that\u00a0<em>Jesus was full of joy<\/em>! Many times our image of Jesus doesn\u2019t have him smiling. We can project onto him our own seriousness.\u00a0<em>But Jesus was the most joyful human being who ever lived!<\/em>\u00a0He was joyful because he lived in the Father\u2019s love. He was joyful before all in his public ministry, with a joy that attracted people to leave their livelihoods and follow him, because they wanted that joy. His joy was doubtless even more radiant after his resurrection, when he was able to show others the reason for a joy that the world couldn\u2019t give or rob. And Jesus wants us to have that joy! If we experience his love, we will have that joy!<\/li>\n<li>The reality, however, is that many Christians don\u2019t live with this joy. Pope Francis has said that joy is meant to be the \u201csign of a Christian\u201d and therefore, \u201ca Christian without joy is either not a Christian or is sick.\u2026 A healthy Christian is a joyful Christian.\u201d Many times, he added, Christians have faces like \u201cpickled peppers,\u201d who are\u00a0sourpusses. In his apostolic exhortation\u00a0<em>The Joy of\u00a0the Gospel,\u00a0<\/em>he said that there are some who behave as if they\u2019re always returning from a funeral or as if life is a perpetual Lent with no Easter. He\u2019s calling us all to live our faith with the joy that flows from the Gospel, the joy that flows from knowing we\u2019re loved by God and by living in that love. This is a joy that isn\u2019t lost but in fact is intensified in suffering. We see that in the stories of the martyrs who were singing hymns on the road to execution as if they were proceeding to a wedding. And once Christians start living with that type of joy then people will be busting down the doors to experience that same joy. That\u2019s the way we\u2019re called to spread the Gospel, so that they might follow the trail of our joy to the Source of that joy in the love Jesus has for us and has for them.<\/li>\n<li>We see an application of this love in today&#8217;s first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, which concerns the deliberations of the Council of Jerusalem about what to do with Gentile Christians. The point of their conversation was so that the Gentile Christians\u00a0would enter into and experience the love of God, rather than the oppression of 613 commandments many of which were preparatory so that the Jews\u00a0could receive the love of God and pass it on, but many of which had become idols rather than means. St. Peter stood up and said two things that are really important for us to grasp. The first is that we are \u201csaved through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way as they,\u201d reminding them of what God had done for the family of Cornelius the Centurion when St. Peter had baptized the whole family. We are saved by the <em>unmerited love<\/em> of God, who loved us so much that he sent his own Son so that we might not perish but have eternal life. We\u2019re not saved, in others words, by the \u201cyoke\u201d of all the precepts of the law \u2014 \u00a0in other words by our own actions, \u201cthat neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear.\u201d The second truth is that to put that yoke or burden on the shoulders of the disciples would be tantamount to \u201cputting God to the test\u201d since he has obviously accepted them through what Peter testified about the way the Gentiles were accepted and what Paul and Barnabas were themselves saying. Peter\u2019s words, inspired by the Holy Spirit, held the day. St. James, who had a tremendous reputation about the Judaizing Christians and among the strictest Jews in general for his fasting, prayer and rigorous observance of the Mosaic law fulfilled in Jesus, spoke about how the prophets had foretold that the Lord would bring about that \u201cthe rest of humanity may seek out the Lord, even all the Gentiles on whom my name is invoked.\u201d He therefore said that they should accept the Gentiles as God has, but put three conditions on them that are consistent with living in the love of the Lord.\n<ul>\n<li>The first was to \u201cavoid pollution from idols.\u201d That wasn\u2019t just idolatry, but from eating the meat sacrificed to idols. In the pagan temples, when a cow for example was sacrificed, a little of the meat would be burned, some would be given to the pagan priests, but most would be returned to the family for a feast in which they would offer themselves to the pagan gods. Jews had always been particularly sensitive to this type of participation in idolatrous sacrifices\u00a0and Jews and Gentiles would never be able to eat together if the Gentiles were insensitively communing with pagan sacrifices in this way.<\/li>\n<li>Likewise he said that they should not eat the \u201cmeat of strangled animals and blood.\u201d The entire Old Testament was meant essentially to teach the Jews that they were not God. One of the ways God helped them to realize this was by the way he had them prepare food. Blood was the sign of life \u2014 if there\u2019s blood flowing in an animal, the animal is alive. To kill an animal with the blood still in it was to play, to some degree, the part of God. So God commanded in the Old Covenant that the animal should be killed in such a way that all the blood would be drained out of it before the Jews would try to prepare the animal for a meal. That way they were not tempted to play the Lord of life and death over animals, but only to eat animals in which there was clearly no life \u2014 no blood \u2014 left. God would surpass this dietary restriction and pronounce all foods clean in a dream St. Peter would have, but St. James recognized that Jewish and Gentile Christians would never be able to have the communion of shared meals if the Gentiles were eating the meat from strangled animals, because it would be jarring to them as if the Gentiles were playing God.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, he commanded that they should avoid \u201c<em>porneia,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>meaning all sexual sin. They would not be remaining in the love of the Lord if they were lusting after others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>And we\u2019ll see in tomorrow\u2019s reading that this when Judas and Silas, Paul and Barnabas, announced the decision to the Gentile Christians in Antioch, there was great rejoicing, the joy that flows from living in the salvation that Christ has given by his grace, by living in his love that was very much alive in the Christian community.<\/li>\n<li>We remember that Jesus told us these words, \u201cI love you \u2026 just as the Father loves me,\u201d on Holy Thursday. It\u2019s at Mass,\u00a0at our participation in what he began on Holy Thursday, that Jesus not only says those words but puts them into body language. He\u2019ll tell us in tomorrow\u2019s Gospel that no one has greater love than to lay down his life for his friends, and Jesus gives his life for us \u2014 his body, blood, soul and divinity \u2014 here in the Eucharist, which is our participation in time in his one eternal sacrifice in the Upper Room and on the Cross on Calvary to save us. This is the way he loves us each day. By receiving this love and remaining in it, we are filled with God, strengthened to keep his commandments, and ought to be filled with joy. The most joyful man who ever lived comes to live within us. That joy should fill us with contagious excitement to participate in Mass and move us to bring that joy out to a world that in many places of which that joy is absent. This is the joy of the Gospel we receive and are called to radiate. May we bring this \u201csign\u201d and \u201cseal\u201d of Christian life to all we\u2019ll meet today!<\/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\/15:7\">ACTS 15:7-21<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">After much debate had taken place,<br \/>\nPeter got up and said to the Apostles and the presbyters,<br \/>\n\u201cMy brothers, you are well aware that from early days<br \/>\nGod made his choice among you that through my mouth<br \/>\nthe Gentiles would hear the word of the Gospel and believe.<br \/>\nAnd God, who knows the heart,<br \/>\nbore witness by granting them the Holy Spirit<br \/>\njust as he did us.<br \/>\nHe made no distinction between us and them,<br \/>\nfor by faith he purified their hearts.<br \/>\nWhy, then, are you now putting God to the test<br \/>\nby placing on the shoulders of the disciples<br \/>\na yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?<br \/>\nOn the contrary, we believe that we are saved<br \/>\nthrough the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they.\u201d<br \/>\nThe whole assembly fell silent,<br \/>\nand they listened<br \/>\nwhile Paul and Barnabas described the signs and wonders<br \/>\nGod had worked among the Gentiles through them.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">After they had fallen silent, James responded,<br \/>\n\u201cMy brothers, listen to me.<br \/>\nSymeon has described how God first concerned himself<br \/>\nwith acquiring from among the Gentiles a people for his name.<br \/>\nThe words of the prophets agree with this, as is written:<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\"><em>After this I shall return<br \/>\nand rebuild the fallen hut of David;<br \/>\nfrom its ruins I shall rebuild it<br \/>\nand raise it up again,<br \/>\nso that the rest of humanity may seek out the Lord,<br \/>\neven all the Gentiles on whom my name is invoked.<br \/>\nThus says the Lord who accomplishes these things,<br \/>\nknown from of old.<\/em>It is my judgment, therefore,<br \/>\nthat we ought to stop troubling the Gentiles who turn to God,<br \/>\nbut tell them by letter to avoid pollution from idols,<br \/>\nunlawful marriage, the meat of strangled animals, and blood.<br \/>\nFor Moses, for generations now,<br \/>\nhas had those who proclaim him in every town,<br \/>\nas he has been read in the synagogues every sabbath.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/96:1\">PS 96:1-2A, 2B-3, 10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (3)\u00a0Proclaim God\u2019s marvelous deeds to all the nations.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nSing to the LORD a new song;<br \/>\nsing to the LORD, all you lands.<br \/>\nSing to the LORD; bless his name.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Proclaim God\u2019s marvelous deeds to all the nations.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nAnnounce his salvation, day after day.<br \/>\nTell his glory among the nations;<br \/>\namong all peoples, his wondrous deeds.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Proclaim God\u2019s marvelous deeds to all the nations.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nSay among the nations: The LORD is king.<br \/>\nHe has made the world firm, not to be moved;<br \/>\nhe governs the peoples with equity.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Proclaim God\u2019s marvelous deeds to all the nations.<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\/15:9\">JN 15:9-11<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cAs the Father loves me, so I also love you.<br \/>\nRemain in my love.<br \/>\nIf you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,<br \/>\njust as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments<br \/>\nand remain in his love.\u201cI have told you this so that<br \/>\nmy joy might be in you and<br \/>\nyour joy might be complete.\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\/05\/jerusalem-council.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8951\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jerusalem-council.jpg?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"jerusalem-council\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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