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October 24 2021 - Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time
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No comments: Friday, 15 October 2021October 17th 2021. Twenty-ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time
GOSPEL Mark 10:35-45
Translated from a homily by Don Fabio Rosini, broadcast on Vatican Radio
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GOSPEL Mark 10:35-45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him,
"Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you."
He replied, "What do you wish me to do for you?"
They answered him, "Grant that in your glory
we may sit one at your right and the other at your left."
Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking.
Can you drink the cup that I drink
or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?"
They said to him, "We can."
Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink, you will drink,
and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;
but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give
but is for those for whom it has been prepared."
When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John.
Jesus summoned them and said to them,
"You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them,
and their great ones make their authority over them felt.
But it shall not be so among you.
Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.
For the Son of Man did not come to be served
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."
The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ
SUMMARY OF HOMILY
1. The request of the brothers is selfish. Yet it is a form of prayer and Christ purifies it.
The first reading from the prophet Isaiah is an incredible prophecy of the sacrificial self-giving of Christ. It is very relevant for the Gospel. James and John ask Jesus for their glorification ahead of the other disciples. Though this request is objectionable, yet it is a form of prayer. When we pray, we are often asking God for something. We are often expressing mundane and carnal desires that arise from our fears and our fragility. These desires need to be visited by Gods grace. The request of the brothers to have positions of prominence is a very common craving of human beings. We have this anxiety to see ourselves being successful, to have importance and standing. We want to be someone, but what we really need is to allow God to work within us. In reply, Jesus asks the brothers if they are willing to drink the chalice that he must drink. At the Passion, this drinking of a chalice involves subjecting oneself in obedience, following Gods will, rather than pursuing ones own inclinations. When the brothers assent, Jesus says, Fine. You will drink the chalice. You will be baptised in my baptism, immersed in this new life. In other words, Jesus accepts their unseemly request and makes something better of it.
2. Instead of focussing on own projects, we need to immerse ourselves in Gods will
The point is this. We can get up in the morning and seek to do something which brings us glory, but what we really need to do is to immerse ourselves in what God is going to send us today, drink the chalice that he sets before us. God has prepared something for me today and it is important that I be immersed in that. It is not important that my own desires and projects for today be realised.
3. At the end of our lives we will not ask ourselves what we have, but what we gave
The others are indignant. Why are they angry? Because they too wished to be the most prominent and are annoyed to be outflanked by the brothers! Jesus then tells them the secret of greatness. Real greatness lies, not in power, but in the capacity to serve and care for the life of others, the power to love which Jesus shows on the cross. The Son of Man came, not to be served, but to serve. Authentic life involves being open to the will of God, drink the chalice that he prepares for us, so that we can become the place where others find repose. What fulfilment and satisfaction we receive from giving life to others! How beautiful is the Christian life, to abandon oneself to the will of God so that we manifest his image, becoming founts of peace and forgiveness, of beauty and welcome. When we are at the end of our lives, we will not wonder if we were great or powerful. We will not ask ourselves how much we have, but rather how much we gave. Yes, we can drink the chalice that Christ drinks, we too can abandon ourselves into the hands of the Father, serve others and become sources of life.
ALTERNATIVE HOMILY. . . James and John ask Jesus to give them the most important positions of glory in the future kingdom. It might surprise us to read that Jesus does not chide or scold them. Instead he seeks to purify their desires and looks for what is good underneath their egoistic demands. Yes, they can indeed have the glory that they seek, but they must first be close to him in his sacrificial love. This is how it is for all of us. We all have disordered desires for self-advancement. Underneath these is the authentic desire for true life. If we wish to be close to Jesus in his glory, then we must be close to him in the way we love and serve others. This is true glory! The worst aspect of the demand made by James and John is that they sought to choose their own positions in the future kingdom. But it is God who chooses that. We must receive what he gives us and follow him. It is communion to which we are called, not individual self-aggrandisement. The other apostles become indignant when they hear that James and John have made such a request, but their indignation is really a form of competitiveness. Jesus then addresses himself to all of them. Do all of you wish to be great? Do you all wish to have glory? That is good! It is not a bad desire in itself. But if you wish to have real glory, then put yourselves at the service of others. If you wish to be great, then become the slave of others. It is love and service that gives glory. It is self-transcendence that makes us great. It is the overcoming of our egos that makes us wonderful. This authentic glory is buried within our disordered search for human glory. Let us allow ourselves to be annihilated by this authentic glory revealed in the Gospel for Sunday.
No comments: Friday, 8 October 2021October 10th 2021. TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME
GOSPEL: Mark 10:17-30
Translation of a homily by Don Fabio Rosini broadcast on Vatican Radio
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GOSPEL Mark 10:17-30
Jesus was setting out on a journey when a man ran up, knelt before him and put this question to him, Good master, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: You must not kill; You must not commit adultery; You must not steal; You must not bring false witness; You must not defraud; Honour your father and mother. And he said to him, Master, I have kept all these from my earliest days. Jesus looked steadily at him and loved him, and he said, There is one thing you lack. Go and sell everything you own and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me. But his face fell at these words and he went away sad, for he was a man of great wealth. Jesus looked round and said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! The disciples were astounded by these words, but Jesus insisted, My children, he said to them, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. They were more astonished than ever. In that case they said to one another who can be saved? Jesus gazed at them. For men he said it is impossible, but not for God: because everything is possible for God.
The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ
SUMMARY OF HOMILY
1. In order to love, we must leave aside all else
A rich young man asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life, to possess life to the fullest. It is interesting that Jesus begins by pointing to the commandments, to the fact that obedience to God is the first requisite. This requires forgetting ones own mindset and submitting to the plan of salvation of God. Jesus then lists the commandments that are directed towards right relationship with ones neighbour. The young man replies that he has kept all of these. Why has the observance of these laws not brought life to this man? Because he has observed the word of God without entering into relationship with God. In fact, Jesus looks at the young man with love and invites him to give up everything else in order to have the right attachment to Jesus. If a man wishes to love a woman, then he must place that love above everything else in his life. If a father wishes to love his children, then he must put everything else in second place. Money and possessions cannot be made the priority if we are to love authentically. We are unhappy failures if we put money before love. Possessions lead to slavery if they are not placed in the service of love.
2. The eye of a needle was a gate you entered on your knees without merchandise
The disciples begin to worry and ask Jesus how any of us can enter into life, because each one of us has many material attachments. Jesus then says, It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Some scholars believe that the eye of an needle was the smallest gate of a city that was closed last in the evening after all the other gates were closed. This permitted people who arrived at the last minute to enter, but camels could only fit through it on their knees, with all of their merchandise unloaded. To pass through this door, a camel had to be carrying nothing. We too must carry nothing on our backs if we wish to enter the Kingdom! In order to enter into any relationship in a genuine way, we must leave other things aside. The reason the rich young man has not had life is because he has only observed the commandments; he has refused to leave the other things aside. Let us underline this: if we are to enter into life with Christ, we must put him in first place.
3. The emphasis of this Gospel is not on what we give up but what we receive in return
It is a mistake, however, to think that this Gospel focusses on renunciation. In reply to Peter, Jesus emphasizes that the central issue is not what the disciple has given up but the huge blessings he receives in return. When we allow ourselves to enter into a relationship with God, we receive much more than we give. This shedding of everything for the sake of the sake of the Lord seems difficult but everything is possible with God. Once we are with God, once we place ourselves in his presence, then we are able to freely detach ourselves. In fact, this freedom is in contrast to the sadness of the young man. We all have the same fear as this man of renouncing something, but in God we find the strength. Like the camel, let us shed our load and enter the city, for God is good, God is beautiful.
ALTERNATIVE HOMILY. . . Jesus tells the rich young man that he can have life in the fullest sense if he keeps the commandments. The young man replies that he already keeps the commandments, thus showing that simple observance of rules has not given him life. This brings us to the crux of this Gospel: what kind of relationship must we have with God if that relationship is to bestow life in the fullest sense? Clearly, keeping commandments (as the young man has done) is not enough. The answer is provided by Jesus. Jesus looks at the young man with love and tells him to renounce his possessions and follow him. This is what Jesus wants from us: a relationship of love. If we love someone, then we do not say to them, I love you to this extent only. There are certain things that I have that you cannot share. There are certain things to which I am attached, and I am not willing to give up these attachments for you. The relationship with Jesus must be total if it is to be authentic. This is what Jesus is saying to the young man. The young man simply keeps the rules but is not attached to God. He is too attached to his possessions. If we do not serve God then we will serve something else. If we do not draw life from God then we will try to draw it from somewhere else. We are all attached to our physical well-being, our physical possessions, our esteem in the eyes of others. We try to draw life from these things and they are obstacles to our drawing life from God. Jesus looks at us with love and asks us to renounce all these lesser things, entering instead into a radical relationship of attachment to him.
No comments: Saturday, 2 October 2021October 3rd 2021. Twenty-seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time
GOSPEL Mark 10:2-16
Translated from a homily by Don Fabio Rosini, broadcast on Vatican Radio
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GOSPEL Mark 10:2-16
The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked,
"Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?"
They were testing him.
He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?"
They replied,
"Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce
and dismiss her."
But Jesus told them,
"Because of the hardness of your hearts
he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together,
no human being must separate."
In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.
He said to them,
"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
commits adultery against her;
and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery."
And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them,
but the disciples rebuked them.
When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them,
"Let the children come to me;
do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to
such as these.
Amen, I say to you,
whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child
will not enter it."
Then he embraced them and blessed them,
placing his hands on them.
The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ
SUMMARY OF HOMILY
1. This Gospel is for everyone because our nature is SPOUSAL.
The first reading from Genesis and the Gospel from Mark both speak of the call of married couples to indissoluble union. As always, the Gospel is not just relevant for one sector of humanity (married couples) but speaks to every person in every condition of life. Each one of us is challenged to deepen our understanding of our fundamentally spousal nature. St Paul tells us that the union of man and woman must be understood in the light of the relationship between Christ and the Church, which is all about the gift of oneself. In Italian, there is the expression, You have not wed yourself to this plan. Of course, you cannot marry an idea or a thing, but the expression refers to ones self-involvement in a project. It is possible to live without ever entering into a spousal type of relationship. Some people have been married for decades without ever donating themselves to the other! On the other hand, there are single people who live lives of love, putting themselves entirely into the service of others. God issues a universal and radical call to do everything by giving ourselves, by offering ourselves, by uniting ourselves to others.
2. What stops us from true spousal behaviour? Hardness of heart
What opposes this universal call? The hardness of our hearts. At the very moment we need to be true to our call, we invent rules that permit us to be released from the bond. In moments of crisis, when it is hard to remain with the other person, our hearts harden and we return to the business of defending my own little space. Once we enter into marriage, we soon discover that reality is different to our dreams. The moment comes when we must transcend ourselves and enter into Gods plan for us, no longer being two separate people, but one flesh only, where we forget ourselves. We can go through life, selecting our relationships, uniting ourselves to others insofar as it suits us, rejecting the very things that we are called to do. The word conjugal has interesting origins. It means to have the same yoke (the instrument laid upon a beast of burden so that they will bear the weight of the load they are carrying). This requires that both walk at the same pace. If one beast of burden in a pair stops, then the other must stop also. Either the rhythm of my life is dictated by my own egotistical preoccupations or it is open to walking with others. How beautiful it is to do things together, to sing together, to do the little and large things of life together. This is the call of the Gospel.
3. We should have no fear of living in a spousal way; this is how Christ loves us
The passage ends with the disciples trying to stop people bringing children to Jesus. He rebukes them, saying, To ones such as these belongs the Kingdom of Heaven. What does he mean, that we take on attitudes that are infantile or immature? No. We are to welcome the Kingdom as a pure gift, without the tortuous suspicions of adults who wonder what God really wants from us. In fact, there is an ambiguity in the original Greek. It might mean, to welcome the Kingdom as a child welcomes the Kingdom, OR, to welcome the Kingdom as you would welcome a child. We should have no fear of the Kingdom, of Gods rule, no more than we fear a child. He calls us to live. The Gospel ends with Jesus embracing the children. Everything that Christ does is an echo of the love he receives from the Father, a love that he has brought to us so that we might love each other as Christ has loved us.
ALTERNATIVE HOMILY. . . Would you try to climb the Himalayas with tennis shoes? No, but how often people in our world try to embark on the journey of marriage without being remotely equipped in the right way! In the Gospel this Sunday, the Scribes want to talk about how to escape from marriage once it has gone wrong. Jesus, instead, wants to return to the ultimate foundation of marriage, a matter of the heart. He takes a child, embraces it and places it in the centre of the discussion. We must first of all embrace Christ in a childlike way before we can embrace each other. The relationship with Jesus is the basis of the indissolubility of marriage and the eternity of all our other relationships. The problem is that we seek to undertake marriage on the basis of hormones or passions, but these come to an end all too quickly. If we try to found our relationships on the capabilities of our own flesh, then we will find that it is a very fragile foundation indeed. And if our marriage is in difficulty, then trying to straighten out some of its superficial features can only have very limited success. The solution to marriage problems is to return to the origin of marriage: Gods love for us, his forgiveness, and his call to us to love and forgive each other. This is the true source of the indissolubility of marriage.
No comments: Friday, 24 September 2021
September 26th 2021. Twenty-sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time
GOSPEL Mark 9:38-43, 47-48
Translated from a homily by Don Fabio Rosini, broadcast on Vatican Radio
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GOSPEL Mark 9:38-43, 47-48
At that time, John said to Jesus,
"Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name,
and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us."
Jesus replied, "Do not prevent him.
There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name
who can at the same time speak ill of me.
For whoever is not against us is for us.
Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink
because you belong to Christ,
amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.
"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,
it would be better for him if a great millstone
were put around his neck
and he were thrown into the sea.
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed
than with two hands to go into Gehenna,
into the unquenchable fire.
And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off.
It is better for you to enter into life crippled
than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.
Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye
than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,
where 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.'"
The Gospel of the Lord:Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ
SUMMARY OF HOMILY
1. The Kingdom is inherently open to all, not just to an exclusive elite.
In the first reading, Joshua demands that Moses not allow unauthorized persons to utter prophecies. Moses replies, Are you jealous on my account? How I wish that all were prophets in Israel! The zeal of Joshua failed to see that which really counted. In the Gospel, we have a similar zealous reaction of the disciples, who wish to impede someone who is not part of their group, but is casting out demons. In reply, Jesus gives a lesson on a fundamental aspect of the Kingdom of Heaven: if God did not have an inclusive mentality, none of us would be saved. If the Kingdom of Heaven did not have an inherent openness to everyone who wished to enter, then we would all be in trouble!
2. Jesus uses very strong language to emphasize what counts
Jesus first demands this inclusivity, then he goes on to speak about the good which this man is doing. If anyone carries a cup of water in Jesus name, he will not lose his reward! Following this, Jesus discourse become very serious and challenging: If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. He says similar things about the eye and the foot. Why these harsh sayings? Because it would be better to lose a hand than to exclude a brother or sister, to forbid access to a little one who just might enter the Kingdom of Heaven. That which really counts is communion with our brothers and sisters, not etiquette or party membership. If we place reasons, principles or abstract ideas above communion then we have gone astray. Our association arises from something cold and dry, not from life itself.
3. Communion requires circumcision of the heart, a cutting away of self-absorption
Jesus then says that it is better to enter into life without an eye, a hand or a foot, than not to enter at all. The Jewish people practiced circumcision, the removal of a piece of flesh, in order to enter into the Covenant with the Lord. Similarly, for us to enter into life, we need to undergo a circumcision. Part of our heart, part of our actions (the hand), part of our way of seeing things (the eye), part of the way of life that we follow (the foot), that are not compatible with communion must be cut off. In a certain sense, one always enters life lame, blind or without hands. And this form of renunciation is essential if we are to avoid the delirium of being part of an exclusive set. The elitist group cuts off those who are not part of the group, but Jesus is asking us to make the cut within ourselves, to stop thinking in terms of superior/inferior, us/them. We are Catholic, and the word means universal. It is in our DNA to be inclusive, in truth and in love. Communion, the reaching out to others, is always more important than abstract principles.
ALTERNATIVE HOMILY . . . The disciples are upset because someone is casting out demons in Jesus name. But they ignore the fact that this person is doing good and instead object to the fact that he does not belong to their special club. Exclusivity is a common problem in religious circles. We insist that people conform to certain conditions before they can belong to our elite group. People get a sense of belonging and a sense of identity by membership in groups that exclude others. Adolescents sometimes do terrible things in order to belong to a certain group or to show public conformity to a certain ethos. Jesus condemns this behaviour in very strong terms. The language he uses is paradoxical because that is how the Semites communicate things. The Bible is a complex work that requires a refined level of interpretation. It is not to be read in simplistic, superficial or fundamentalist terms. Jesus does not want us to pluck out our eyes, cut off our hands or chop off our feet. But he wants to tell us that it would be preferable to lose a limb or an eye rather than lose one of our brothers or sisters. The Holy Spirit leads to communion, not to exclusion. In fact, Jesus not only lost a hand, foot or eye but had his whole body nailed to the cross in order to bring all people into loving communion with his heavenly Father.
No comments: Friday, 17 September 2021September 19th 2021. Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
GOSPEL: Mark 9, 30-37
Translated from a homily by Don Fabio Rosini, broadcast on Vatican Radio
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GOSPEL: Mark 9, 30-37
Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee,
but he did not wish anyone to know about it.
He was teaching his disciples and telling them,
The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him,
and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.
But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him.
They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house,
he began to ask them, What were you arguing about on the way?
But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way
who was the greatest.
Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them,
If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.
Taking a child, he placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them,
Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me;
and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.
The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ
SUMMARY OF HOMILY
1. We do not want to embrace the kind of life that Jesus is calling us to.
In the first reading from Wisdom, we hear how the godless persecute the just man and put him to the test, to see if he is truly the son of God. This prepares us for the Gospel. Chapter 9 of Marks Gospel has the third announcement of Christs Passion. Here, Jesus is being very specific. The Son of Man is to be given into the custody of men, when he will be killed before rising on the third day. The disciples do not understand but are afraid to question him. This is the fear we all experience when we do not want to go beyond our customary mode of survival, our own ideas, our own mentality, to a deeper and more authentic form of existence.
2. We all make something the centre of our existence. Often, it is comparison to others that becomes our fixation.
Later, Jesus asks them what they were discussing on the road. They were debating which of them was the greatest. This is a microcosm of ecclesial life! For any of us to live, we must have a source of life. If we do not make God the source and centre of our life, if abandonment to the Fatherhood of God is not the wellspring of our existence, then we turn to other things, such as carnal pleasures. Eventually, we begin to seek meaning in being superior in some sense to others, in constant comparisons of myself to the people around me. Thus we live by seeking to assure ourselves that others are lesser than me. How many of our Christian projects, for all their appearances of worth, are really directed towards self-promotion and self-gratification. The effort to be the first among the disciples is an effort of this sort.
3. It is through love, which involves making ourselves last, that we find fulfilment.
Jesus responds by saying that he who wishes to be first must put himself in last place. He agrees that the desire to be the greatest is itself acceptable. It is right that we should seek as much as possible in life, to want things that really count. Ok! Lets be the greatest! How? By being the servant of all, just as Christ is the first but makes himself last. Then Jesus takes a child, embraces it, and says that whoever welcomes a child like this, welcomes Christ and the Father who sent him. This is a key message. Our call is to welcome other people, not compete with them. From the time of Adam and Eve, we have sought to be like God. But the key is to be with God, to be with other people, not superior to them or in competition with them. The drive for victory, for self-affirmation, is not the life of the Spirit. In the Our Father, Jesus teaches us that Gods name be held holy before all else. It is not our name that we must seek to promote. True joy does not come in victory but in love. When we love, we cease to be the centre; service becomes the centre. That which gives us the most fulfilment in life is to truly welcome another, putting his needs before my own. We are not talking about a slavish, servile existence, but authentic love. Whenever you welcome someone as you would welcome a child, then you welcome God himself.
ALTERNATIVE HOMILY. . . Jesus teaches his disciples the fundamental Paschal mystery: he must be handed over to be killed, but he will rise again after three days. The disciples do not understand, but still do not bother to ask the Lord to explain. We prefer not to enter into the crux of life! We prefer to remain on the surface and live our Christianity in a superficial way. This is highlighted by what happens next: the disciples start to argue about which of them is the greatest! Jesus is telling them about the life that comes through the cross, but they are fixated with the life that comes from their own egos! The glory we obtain from being greater than others is shallow and limited compared to the glory of the children of God that comes from following Jesus. In response, the Lord places a child in the midst of the disciples and embraces him. This gesture of welcome is the key to the faith. In fact, the word welcome is repeated by Jesus four times. We must welcome what the Father is sending us. We must embrace it and value it. The key to the Christian life is not our activities and initiatives but our openness and welcome of the crosses that God sends us.
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