{"id":9542,"date":"2015-07-27T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T14:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=9542"},"modified":"2015-07-27T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T14:12:34","slug":"responsible-versus-scandalizing-leaven-17th-monday-i-july-27-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/responsible-versus-scandalizing-leaven-17th-monday-i-july-27-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsible versus Scandalizing Leaven, 17th Monday (I), July 27, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nChurch of the Holy Family, Manhattan<br \/>\n17th Monday of Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nJuly 27, 2015<br \/>\nEx 32:15-24, Ps 106, Mt 13:31-35<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, \u00a0please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9542-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7.27.15-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7.27.15-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7.27.15-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Parable of the Sower and the Seed last week, Jesus described the power of the seed when it hits good \u2014 receptive and responsive \u2014 soil: it can produce abundant fruit, 30, 60 and 100 fold over. \u00a0In the Parable of the Mustard Seed today, we see what can happen in the kingdom when the power of the Word meets with receptive and responsive faith. What starts as a tiny seed can become a huge shrub.<\/li>\n<li>This was likely a very consoling and personal message for the first disciples of Jesus. They likely felt themselves a very small minority surrounded by hostile forces. The Scribes, Pharisees and Herodians were already conspiring to kill Jesus their Shepherd. They saw the power of the Roman army, they saw the hostility of the religious leaders, they faced the rejection of those in the cities to whom they had gone to preach who met them with hardened soil by the wayside, and they knew their human abilities and probably tempted on occasion to think that what they were about was a hopeless enterprise. Jesus was reminding them that even though the kingdom starts small, it will become big because of the intrinsic power working through those with faith. Jesus would say elsewhere that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed we could move mountain ranges into the sea.<\/li>\n<li>We see this truth about the growth of the kingdom, of course, with the\u00a0<em>fiat\u00a0<\/em>of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that changed the history of the world. We see it with what the Lord was able to do beginning with the 11 faithful apostles. We see it in the history of many religious orders. We see it in the history of many missions, parishes and dioceses. The parable of the mustard seed has been repeated many times over now so that we should have even greater confidence in it.<\/li>\n<li>But for this type of growth to occur, we need to understand something important about the other parable Jesus gives: that of the leaven. We know that just a little bit of leaven is needed to leaven the whole dough, but leaven is necessary. One Christian on a street, or in a work place, or in a family, or in a parish can have a dramatic impact. But there&#8217;s another type of leaven at work. Jesus would warn the disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod, the hypocritical rigorists or the laxists. Just like good leaven can leaven the dough, so one bad apple can spoil the whole bushel. To see mustard side growth there needs to be good leaven.<\/li>\n<li>We see the contrast between good and bad leaven in today&#8217;s first reading in the contrast between Moses and his brother, Aaron, the first priest of the new Mosaic dispensation. While Moses was up on Mt. Sinai praying and receiving the Ten Commandments, they people grew impatient and wanted to have something tangible to worship. They wanted a golden calf,\u00a0an image of what they were adoring and wanted to become: they were hungering ultimately to live according to animal instincts rather than God&#8217;s law and to place their treasure in money rather than in God. Aaron, rather than lead and correct them, sought to please their lower desires. Exodus says that Aaron &#8220;let the people run wild&#8221; (Ex 32:25). He had them bring all of their gold jewelry, put it in the furnace, and then \u2014 in the lamest excuse of all time said \u2014 and &#8220;this calf came out.&#8221; He accepted no responsibility. Moses didn&#8217;t let him off the hook with an excuse that even the most pathetic teenagers wouldn&#8217;t have attempted: \u201cWhat did this people ever do to you\u00a0that you should <em>lead<\/em> them into so grave a sin?\u201d He had the duty to lead them to God as a priest and instead he fashioned an idol, built an altar to it and said, &#8220;Tomorrow we will have a feast to the Lord.&#8221; He led them in the worship of a false god. And his bad leaven spoiled the Israelites.<\/li>\n<li>We see, on the other hand, Moses&#8217; good leaven. Even though he wasn&#8217;t guilty in the least of the sins of the Israelites, he took responsibility for them and went before the Lord begging him to be merciful, even saying that if he couldn&#8217;t spare them out of justice, to hold him accountable and strike him out of the book of life. The leaven that will help the kingdom grow happens when people take personal responsibility for the salvation of others, who do reparation for their sins, who pray for them, who seek to take them from the worship of various idols to the worship in cult and life of the one true God. In this intercession, Moses was a type pointing to Jesus who later would intercede for us in the same way, allowing himself to be struck down to take away our sins, so that our idol worship \u2014 which summarizes all our sins \u2014 would be forgiven. Jesus has placed that leaven in us and he wants our faith to rise so that others can take a pinch of us and place it in other dough to make it rise.<\/li>\n<li>This whole mystery of starting small and growing big is summarized in the Mass. If we\u00a0receive even a little piece of the Host within us, we receive God and all his power. He wants to grow in us from that seeming small start to transform us in such a way that with him living in us we might leaven the whole world. He seeks to help us clean out the old leave at the beginning of Mass so that our hearts, souls and our lives might all be lifted up to the Lord. Let us receive this gift, this tiny mustard seed, this grain of wheat (Jn 12:24), on good soil so that we might relive in us the full meaning of the Parables Jesus today proclaims.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/exodus\/32:15\">EX 32:15-24, 30-34<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Moses turned and came down the mountain<br \/>\nwith the two tablets of the commandments in his hands,<br \/>\ntablets that were written on both sides, front and back;<br \/>\ntablets that were made by God,<br \/>\nhaving inscriptions on them that were engraved by God himself.<br \/>\nNow, when Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting,<br \/>\nhe said to Moses, \u201cThat sounds like a battle in the camp.\u201d<br \/>\nBut Moses answered, \u201cIt does not sound like cries of victory,<br \/>\nnor does it sound like cries of defeat;<br \/>\nthe sounds that I hear are cries of revelry.\u201d<br \/>\nAs he drew near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing.<br \/>\nWith that, Moses\u2019 wrath flared up, so that he threw the tablets down<br \/>\nand broke them on the base of the mountain.<br \/>\nTaking the calf they had made, he fused it in the fire<br \/>\nand then ground it down to powder,<br \/>\nwhich he scattered on the water and made the children of Israel drink.Moses asked Aaron, \u201cWhat did this people ever do to you<br \/>\nthat you should lead them into so grave a sin?\u201d<br \/>\nAaron replied, \u201cLet not my lord be angry.<br \/>\nYou know well enough how prone the people are to evil.<br \/>\nThey said to me, \u2018Make us a god to be our leader;<br \/>\nas for the man Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt,<br \/>\nwe do not know what has happened to him.\u2019<br \/>\nSo I told them, \u2018Let anyone who has gold jewelry take it off.\u2019<br \/>\nThey gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.\u201dOn the next day Moses said to the people,<br \/>\n\u201cYou have committed a grave sin.<br \/>\nI will go up to the LORD, then;<br \/>\nperhaps I may be able to make atonement for your sin.\u201d<br \/>\nSo Moses went back to the LORD and said,<br \/>\n\u201cAh, this people has indeed committed a grave sin<br \/>\nin making a god of gold for themselves!<br \/>\nIf you would only forgive their sin!<br \/>\nIf you will not, then strike me out of the book that you have written.\u201d<br \/>\nThe LORD answered, \u201cHim only who has sinned against me<br \/>\nwill I strike out of my book.<br \/>\nNow, go and lead the people to the place I have told you.<br \/>\nMy angel will go before you.<br \/>\nWhen it is time for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/106:19\">PS 106:19-20, 21-22, 23<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (1a)\u00a0Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.<br \/>\nOur fathers made a calf in Horeb<br \/>\nand adored a molten image;<br \/>\nThey exchanged their glory<br \/>\nfor the image of a grass-eating bullock.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.<br \/>\nThey forgot the God who had saved them,<br \/>\nwho had done great deeds in Egypt,<br \/>\nWondrous deeds in the land of Ham,<br \/>\nterrible things at the Red Sea.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.<br \/>\nThen he spoke of exterminating them,<br \/>\nbut Moses, his chosen one,<br \/>\nWithstood him in the breach<br \/>\nto turn back his destructive wrath.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/james\/1:18\">JAS 1:18<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nThe Father willed to give us birth by the word of truth<br \/>\nthat we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/13:31\">MT 13:31-35<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed<br \/>\nthat a person took and sowed in a field.<br \/>\nIt is the smallest of all the seeds,<br \/>\nyet when full-grown it is the largest of plants.<br \/>\nIt becomes a large bush,<br \/>\nand the\u00a0<em>birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches<\/em>.\u201dHe spoke to them another parable.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Kingdom of heaven is like yeast<br \/>\nthat a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour<br \/>\nuntil the whole batch was leavened.\u201dAll these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables.<br \/>\nHe spoke to them only in parables,<br \/>\nto fulfill what had been said through the prophet:<\/p>\n<p><em>I will open my mouth in parables,<br \/>\nI will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mustard-seed-601-x-400.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9546\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mustard-seed-601-x-400.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mustard-seed-601-x-400\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mustard-seed-601-x-400.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mustard-seed-601-x-400.jpg?w=601&amp;ssl=1 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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