{"id":9494,"date":"2015-07-21T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2015-07-21T22:21:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T02:21:41","slug":"becoming-jesus-sibling-and-mother-16th-tuesday-i-july-21-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/becoming-jesus-sibling-and-mother-16th-tuesday-i-july-21-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Jesus&#8217; Sibling and \u2026 Mother, 16th Tuesday (I), July 21, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Convent of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nTuesday\u00a0of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of St.\u00a0Lawrence of Brindisi, Doctor of the Church<br \/>\nJuly 21, 2015<br \/>\nEx 14:21-15:1, Ex\u00a015, Mt 12:46-50<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9494-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7.21.15-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7.21.15-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7.21.15-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0following points were attempted in this homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yesterday, Jesus described those who were asking him for yet another sign as a &#8220;faithless and adulterous generation.&#8221; Today he proposes his mother Mary as the counterpoint to that generation. Jesus has come, we see in today&#8217;s Gospel, to found a family composed of those who do the will of his Father together as Jesus does, whose words upon coming into the world were, &#8220;Behold, I have come to do your will, O God&#8221; (Heb 10:7). Mary&#8217;s whole life can be encapsulated by her expression to God through the Archangel Gabriel, &#8220;Let it be done to me according to your word.&#8221; This is what characterizes the family Jesus has come to found.<\/li>\n<li>We know that that family comes into existence through the incredible miracle of baptism. We ponder just how great baptism is in today&#8217;s first reading. Our imaginations are pushed to the wondrous brink when we ponder the Israelites walking through the Red Sea at the bottom of the sea bed with walls of water on the left and the right. But as great a miracle as that was, what God has done for us through the exodus of the waters of baptism is even greater, as he&#8217;s led us on a passover from alienation to God through original sin to divine filiation.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not enough, however, for us to remain just ontological sons and daughters of God through baptism. Jesus wants us to become moral children as well, those who identity is shown by how they obey the heavenly Father. That&#8217;s what the Gospel is about.<\/li>\n<li>But Jesus says something startling in the Gospel. We can somewhat understand how he might call us his &#8220;brother and sister&#8221; through imitating him and entering into his filial obedience of the Father. But he also says that the one who does the will of his heavenly Father is &#8220;my mother&#8221; as well. To understand what this means, we need to go back to St. Ambrose. Even though there&#8217;s only one mother of Jesus in the flesh, every Christian believer, Saint Ambrose told\u00a0us, in some way meant to become Christ&#8217;s spiritual mother, someone who interiorly conceives and gives birth to the word of God: &#8220;Thus, what took place for Mary can daily take place in each of us, in the hearing of the word and in the celebration of the sacraments,&#8221; Pope Benedict wrote, commenting on St. Ambrose&#8217;s insight.\u00a0I want to repeat that last sentence. What took place for Mary can take place in each of us\u00a0<em>daily<\/em>, when we hear the Word, when we receive the Word made flesh in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, when we allow Jesus and his word to grow within us in such a way that we give birth to him in loving actions. Each of us is meant to conceive the Word, to become pregnant with it, and let it grow so big that we have to give it to the light, transmuted by our own existence as our existence has been transmuted by it. This is what Mary shows us how to do. This process happens by the power of the Holy Spirit, who seeks to overshadow us as he did Mary as we attach ourselves to Christ by means of a spiritual umbilical cord that nourishes not him as the child growing within, but us as the spiritual mothers.<\/li>\n<li>And this is an image of how the word is meant to be shared with others, how the tradition of the Gospel is passed on. The future Pope Benedict wrote about this in a great pre-papal book entitled in English <em>Seek What Is Above.\u00a0<\/em>He wrote, \u201cIn Luke, Mary stands as the embodiment of the Church\u2019s memory. She is alert, taking events in and inwardly pondering them. Thus Luke says [literally] that she \u2018preserved them together\u2019\u00a0 in her heart, she \u2018put them together\u2019 and \u2018held on to them.\u2019 Mary compares the words and events of faith with the ongoing experience of her life and thus discovers the full human depth of each detail, which gradually fits into the total picture. In this way faith becomes understanding and so can be handed on to others: it is no longer a merely external word but is saturated with the experience of a life, translated into human terms; now it can be translated, in turn, into the lives of others. Thus Mary becomes a model for the Church\u2019s mission, that is, that of being a dwelling place for the Word, preserving and keeping it safe in times of confusion, protecting it, as it were, from the elements.\u00a0\u2026\u00a0So the process of fruitful transformation can take place in a twofold direction: she saturates the Word with her life, as it were, putting the sap and energy of her life at the Word\u2019s disposal; but as a result, conversely, her life is permeated, enriched and deepened by the energies of the Word, which gives everything its meaning. First of all it is she who digests the Word, so to speak, transmuting it; but in doing so she herself, with her life, is in turn transmuted into the Word. Her life becomes word and meaning. That is how the gospel is handed on in the Church; indeed, it is how all spiritual and intellectual growth and maturity are handed on from one person to another and within mankind as a whole. It is the only way in which men and mankind can acquire depth and maturity. In other words, it is the only way to progress.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>One who lived this whole process of becoming impregnated with the word of God and being transmuted by it so that he might pass the Word on to others permeated and enriched by his own life was St. Lawrence of Brindisi, the great Capuchin Doctor of the Church whom we celebrate today. He was one who from his earliest days with extraordinary intelligence and an incredible memory such that he learned almost all of the modern European languages as well as the ancient ones used in the Bible, which he learned inside out in the original languages. But rather than allowing his intelligence to go proudly to his head, he humbly sought out God\u2019s wisdom not as a thing to be known but a gift to be lived and nourished through prayer. As a six year old boy, he used to give powerful homilies to his family members and other parishioners on the meaning of Christ\u2019s incarnation at Christmas time, something that points to the reality of what it means for the Word to become flesh and dwell among us, as in the impregnated Mary. Eventually after he had become a Capuchin Franciscan, he became a famous preacher of the need to repent and believe the Gospel, to cease disobeying and being to follow the will of God, first to Catholics in traditional mission and sermons, then to Protestants in Germany who had left during the Reformation and finally, at Pope Paul V\u2019s request, to the Jews in the Jewish Ghetto in Rome. In all three circumstances, his enfleshment of the beauty of God\u2019s word, his awe at God\u2019s holy wisdom, and his radiance of the happiness that comes from walking in the Lord\u2019s way brought many to profound conversion and to the fulfillment of faith through the Catholic Church. At the beginning of Mass today, we prayed to\u00a0God the Father to grant us \u201cthat in the same spirit [of St. Lawrence], we may know what must be done and, through his intercession, bring it to completion.\u201d That&#8217;s the way St. Lawrence lived the Gospel and wants to help us to do the same.<\/li>\n<li>Today as we come forward to celebrate the Eucharist, we know that Jesus wants to make us every more his family, his kin, his mother and siblings, by strengthening all of us to receive his Word within like Mary and St. Lawrence, to let that Word grow so that it takes on our flesh, and to strengthen us to pass on that word courageous as a gift to others. And to strengthen us to do so, he gives us his own body and blood, with his humanity received from Mary, to help us relive her mystery in him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/exodus\/14:21|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=df3d4ed5fa&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Ex 14:21\u201415:1<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,<br \/>\nand the LORD swept the sea<br \/>\nwith a strong east wind throughout the night<br \/>\nand so turned it into dry land.<br \/>\nWhen the water was thus divided,<br \/>\nthe children of Israel marched into the midst of the sea on dry land,<br \/>\nwith the water like a wall to their right and to their left.The Egyptians followed in pursuit;<br \/>\nall Pharaoh\u2019s horses and chariots and charioteers went after them<br \/>\nright into the midst of the sea.<br \/>\nIn the night watch just before dawn<br \/>\nthe LORD cast through the column of the fiery cloud<br \/>\nupon the Egyptian force a glance that threw it into a panic;<br \/>\nand he so clogged their chariot wheels<br \/>\nthat they could hardly drive.<br \/>\nWith that the Egyptians sounded the retreat before Israel,<br \/>\nbecause the LORD was fighting for them against the Egyptians.Then the LORD told Moses, \u201cStretch out your hand over the sea,<br \/>\nthat the water may flow back upon the Egyptians,<br \/>\nupon their chariots and their charioteers.\u201d<br \/>\nSo Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,<br \/>\nand at dawn the sea flowed back to its normal depth.<br \/>\nThe Egyptians were fleeing head on toward the sea,<br \/>\nwhen the LORD hurled them into its midst.<br \/>\nAs the water flowed back,<br \/>\nit covered the chariots and the charioteers of Pharaoh\u2019s whole army<br \/>\nthat had followed the children of Israel into the sea.<br \/>\nNot a single one of them escaped.<br \/>\nBut the children of Israel had marched on dry land<br \/>\nthrough the midst of the sea,<br \/>\nwith the water like a wall to their right and to their left.<br \/>\nThus the LORD saved Israel on that day<br \/>\nfrom the power of the Egyptians.<br \/>\nWhen Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the seashore<br \/>\nand beheld the great power that the LORD<br \/>\nhad shown against the Egyptians,<br \/>\nthey feared the LORD and believed in him and in his servant Moses.Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD:I will sing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant;<br \/>\nhorse and chariot he has cast into the sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/exodus\/15:8|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=5c9f047463&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Exodus 15:8-9, 10 and 12, 17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (1b)\u00a0<strong>Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.<\/strong><br \/>\nAt the breath of your anger the waters piled up,<br \/>\nthe flowing waters stood like a mound,<br \/>\nthe flood waters congealed in the midst of the sea.<br \/>\nThe enemy boasted, \u201cI will pursue and overtake them;<br \/>\nI will divide the spoils and have my fill of them;<br \/>\nI will draw my sword; my hand shall despoil them!\u201d<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen your wind blew, the sea covered them;<br \/>\nlike lead they sank in the mighty waters.<br \/>\nWhen you stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them!<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd you brought them in and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance\u2014<br \/>\nthe place where you made your seat, O LORD,<br \/>\nthe sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands established.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/john\/14:23|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=d20dd43bee&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Jn 14:23<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhoever loves me will keep my word,<br \/>\nand my Father will love him<br \/>\nand we will come to him.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0<strong>Alleluia, alleluia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a id=\"\/bible\/matthew\/12:46|\" href=\"http:\/\/usccb.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b927174dbe854683d4b527f98&amp;id=5cd262acf1&amp;e=b55e3798ee\">Mt 12:46-50<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">While Jesus was speaking to the crowds,<br \/>\nhis mother and his brothers appeared outside,<br \/>\nwishing to speak with him.<br \/>\nSomeone told him, \u201cYour mother and your brothers are standing outside,<br \/>\nasking to speak with you.\u201d<br \/>\nBut he said in reply to the one who told him,<br \/>\n\u201cWho is my mother? Who are my brothers?\u201d<br \/>\nAnd stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said,<br \/>\n\u201cHere are my mother and my brothers.<br \/>\nFor whoever does the will of my heavenly Father<br \/>\nis my brother, and sister, and mother.\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\/07\/Parting-of-the-Red-Sea.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9497\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Parting-of-the-Red-Sea.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Parting of the Red Sea\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Parting-of-the-Red-Sea.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Parting-of-the-Red-Sea.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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