Thursday, November 7, 2019

Bishop Barron's Gospel Reflection November 7, 2019

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time

Luke 15:1-10

Friends, one feature of today’s Gospel passage is the craziness of the shepherd: “What man among you, having a hundred sheep and losing one, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine and go after the lost one until he finds it?” Well, the implied answer is “No one.” Who would take that great a risk, putting the ninety-nine in danger to find the one? It’s just bad economics. Why would God fret over one little soul? Why would he bother?

Well, it’s his nature. It’s what he does. As Catherine of Siena put it, he is pazzo d’amore (crazy in love). God is as crazy for you as if you were the only one in the world.

Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 488

Reading 1 Rom 14:7-12

Brothers and sisters:
None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself.
For if we live, we live for the Lord,
and if we die, we die for the Lord;
so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
For this is why Christ died and came to life,
that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
Why then do you judge your brother or sister?
Or you, why do you look down on your brother or sister?
For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God;
for it is written:

As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend before me,
and every tongue shall give praise to God.

So then each of us shall give an account of himself to God.

Responsorial Psalm Ps 27:1bcde, 4, 13-14

R. ( 13) I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life's refuge;
of whom should I be afraid?
R. I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
One thing I ask of the LORD;
this I seek:
To dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
That I may gaze on the loveliness of the LORD
and contemplate his temple.
R. I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD with courage;
be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.
R. I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

Gospel Lk 15:1-10

The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus,
but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying,
"This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."
So Jesus addressed this parable to them.
"What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them
would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert
and go after the lost one until he finds it?
And when he does find it,
he sets it on his shoulders with great joy
and, upon his arrival home,
he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them,
'Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.'
I tell you, in just the same way
there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents
than over ninety-nine righteous people
who have no need of repentance.

"Or what woman having ten coins and losing one
would not light a lamp and sweep the house,
searching carefully until she finds it?
And when she does find it,
she calls together her friends and neighbors
and says to them,
'Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost.'
In just the same way, I tell you,
there will be rejoicing among the angels of God
over one sinner who repents."

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Dear Michele,

31st Sunday of Ordinary Time
11-3-2019

Zacchaeus

There is a song by Billy Joel; called Piano Man. It is about Joel’s early life when he used to play the piano in a bar. Every night he would sing songs for the customers and in Piano Man, he tells their stories. He tells about the waitress who is practicing politics. And he tells about Joe who plays amateur psychologist.

Then he tells one more story about the man who comes to him and says, “Son, can you play me a melody?” I am not really sure how it goes, but it is sad and it is sweet and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.” We can picture the man; he is in his fifties, an old worn suit. His life has not turned out like he had thought, like he had hoped, like he had dreamed. Every night he comes into the bar and he gulps a few to take the edge off the day and the hushed conversation keeps the loneliness from creeping in.

And the soft lights and dark walls protect him from the sunshine outside. The mirror over the bar reminds him he is not the man he used to be. The man he should have been, the man his parents prayed he would become. And he sits listening to the piano man and he is saying to himself that he once knew himself because he knew the melody of his life.

And then he somehow forgot that tune, and now he needs someone to help him remember that song. “Son, can you play me a melody? I am not really sure how it goes. But it is sad and it is sweet and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.” We have a man like this in our gospel, Zacchaeus, the tax collector. Don’t think IRS, here think Mafia or drug dealers. He was seen as a traitor and collaborator with the occupying power; he was cut off from his own people.

As the man in the song goes to the piano man, so Zacchaeus goes to try and see Jesus. By climbing a tree, he communicated to Jesus his need, his search, his emptiness. So he climbs a tree, if he cannot speak to Jesus, at least he will see him. Then Jesus surprises everyone, he stops and speaks to Zacchaeus, the sinner and invites himself to Zacchaeus’ house. Then the tongues start to wag, “Doesn’t he know who this man is? What he is?”

Then Jesus says he has come to find that which was lost. Lost in the Bible does not mean to be damned or be beyond salvation. It means, quite literally, to be in the wrong place, to be somewhere you should not be.

Look to our own lives, yours and mine, our hearts are often in the wrong place. Wanting this or that, indulging in resentment or wallowing in self-pity. And our minds are in the wrong place.

Filled with Technicolor, wandering and fantasies or X-rated thoughts. Also, our affections are in the wrong place, fixated on the wrong ambitions on the wrong people. Our bodies are often lost in the wrong place. Here when they should be there, pampered when they should be stretched. Allowed to wait around when they should be waiting on others. Sometimes, parts of us, sometimes the whole of us-mind, heart, body, emotions-get lost.

Because our priorities are wrong, so how do we put things right? Most of the time from this pulpit I talk about our need for faith in Christ. But, today we are coming at that thought from the opposite direction. I am talking about his faith in us. All of us have sinned and we know it. But the gospel message is Christ believes in us, Christ is committed to us. One week after Jesus called Zacchaeus down from the tree; he would be arrested and put to death again in the presence of thieves up a tree.

And again with his last breath Jesus would welcome every crook or sinner who turned to him. Why? Because he had come to seek and to save those who were lost. People like you and me. In many ways we are all a bit like Zacchaeus, some of us more lost than others. But all of us lost to some extent or another.

Like Zacchaeus, we are small people in many ways. But, here every week at Mass we climb into the sight of God and we say we are not worthy that He should come under our roof. But Christ invites Himself in, He comes under our roof and gives Himself to us. And He can say to us what He said to Zacchaeus, this day salvation has come to this house. It is only in Christ that we can become whole; it is only in Christ that we can become complete. We do not need anyone to play us a tune.

There is a religious novelist, Lloyd Douglas who closes his version of the encounter between Jesus and Zacchaeus with these words. “Zacchaeus, said The Carpenter gently, what did you see that made you desire this peace?” “Good Master, I saw in You the Zacchaeus I was meant to be and when You showed me that, I could not turn away.”

Yours in Christ,

Fr. Bob Warren, SA

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