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Sunday, 1 February 2015
Fr. Raymond Homily Mass Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel Mark 1:21-28
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Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel Mark
1:21-28. Homily: Fr. Raymond
“He
taught them with authority”
We read today that the teaching of Jesus
made a deep impression on the people, why did it do this? because, unlike the Scribes,
He taught them with authority. This is really
a very strange thing when we consider who the Scribes were. The Scribes were, in fact, the officially
recognised authority in teaching the interpre-tation of the Law for the
Jewish people. Obviously however, the people
who were listening to Jesus had instinctively recognised that the teaching that
came from Him came with a force, with a personal authority, that
they had never experienced in the teaching of the Scribes. The Scribes were the official
interpreters of the law, but there was something much more powerful in the
words that came from Jesus; there was something much more commanding, something
much more of authority in the words that came from him than the words that came
from them.
The whole manner of Jesus teaching, if
the people could only grasp it, was, in fact, just like his miracles, one of
the manifestations of the Authority that came from his Divine Nature. The people couldn’t understand this but they
could obviously feel it, and they were overawed by it. Jesus wasn’t, just like the scribes,
preaching what they had read in the book of the law, no matter how sacred that
book was. Jesus was expounding that law
and that truth which was in fact his very own self. He was the Law. He was the Truth, in himself. He was speaking his own mind and heart and
will. Jesus didn’t just say: “What I
teach is the way”, “What I teach is the truth”.
He said “I am the way.” “I am
the truth”. Even the guards sent by the high priest to
arrest him returned empty handed and overawed; “No man has ever spoken like
this” they said.
Even for the rest of us ordinary
mortals, the way we say a thing can be a more important conveyor of our meaning
than what it is we say. How much more
true that must have been when Jesus spoke. The voice of Jesus conveyed not only
the truth behind it but also the authority and the warnings behind it. The voice of Jesus must also have conveyed
the love and the compassion behind it.
If we would hear that voice in all its moods we need only read the
Gospels with faith.
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Intercessions (Fr. Hugh):
1)
For Pope
Francis for his difficult task of leading the Church, and communicating the joy
of the gospel.
2)
The joy of the gospel.
Our Lord’s contemporaries were deeply impressed by his teachings.
Our Lord’s contemporaries were deeply impressed by his teachings.
3)
May we discover in the gospel this continuing presence.
4)
For SCIAF – the
Scottish organisation for God’s blessing on its work and in thanks for all the
help it has it has given.
5)
For the sick
and especially those suffering from mental ill-health.
6)
Tomorrow’s
celebration for the year’s celebration for the consecrated life in Edinburgh
and for more vocations.
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The Gospel - Mark 1:21-28 (Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
The Gospel - Mark 1:21-28 (Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
"The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord"
"The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord"
Now in Jerusalem there was a man named Simeon. He was an upright and devout man; he looked forward to Israel's comforting and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death until he had set eyes on the Christ of the Lord. Prompted by the Spirit he came to the Temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the law required, he took him into his arms and blessed God; and he said:
Now, Master, you can let your servant go in peace, just as you promised;because my eyes have seen the salvationwhich you have prepared for all the nations to see,light to enlighten the pagansand the glory of your people Israel.'
Over the preceding centuries, many prophets had longed to see the Messiah. But they had died without realising their greatest desire. Simeon and Anna were truly blessed to meet the Saviour of the world, even if the meeting was tinged with sadness because of their predictions about the future events in his life. Much like any family life, the promised future included the delights of the growing, developing child, and the background fear that the great destiny of each child may include sorrow and even heartbreak
So in our Gospel today a very young couple with their child enter the temple of God where they meet a much older man and woman. This meeting turned out to be a blessing for both generations. Youth was graced by the wisdom and living faith of age and age was graced by the trust of youth. All of the people who met in the temple today were a blessing to one another Mary, Joseph, Simeon, Anna and the Child Jesus.
The second reading further describes Jesus as the compassionate and trustworthy high priest.
Jesus this compassionate presence enters the temple of our lives each day as he entered the temple in Jerusalem. He enters our lives in a special way through the Eucharist. We are invited to welcome him as Simeon and Anna did -- Jesus Christ the light of all nations.
No matter what generation we belong to, our calling as followers of Jesus is to a new way of seeing and to be a blessing to one another through our presence.
An old rabbi once asked his students how they could tell when the night had ended and the day had begun. Could it be, asked one of the students, "when you can see an animal in the distance and tell whether it's a sheep or a dog" No, answered the rabbi. Another asked, "is it when you can look at a tree in the distance and tell whether its a fig tree or a peach tree? "No", answered the rabbi. Then when is it?" the students asked. Its when you can look on the face of any man or woman and see that it is your sister or brother. Because if you cannot see this, it is still night.
Tales of the Hasidim
My eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared for all the nations to see, l. (Lk 2:30-31)
Lord we pray that our eyes may be opened to a new way of seeing and that like Simeon we welcome Jesus among us in the temple of our ordinary lives, the light of the nations the salvation that we have received.
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Daily Readings for:February 01, 2015
(Readings on USCCB website)
Collect: Grant us, Lord our God, that we may honor you with all our mind, and love everyone in truth of heart. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Old Calendar: Septuagesima Sunday
In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!" Jesus rebuked him and said, "Quiet! Come out of him!" The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him (Mark 1:23-26).
Sunday Readings
The first reading is taken from the Book of Deuteronomy 18:15-20. This central section of this book describes the various offices and officers of the theocratic society which Yahweh, through his servant Moses, is setting up for the Chosen People.
The first reading is taken from the Book of Deuteronomy 18:15-20. This central section of this book describes the various offices and officers of the theocratic society which Yahweh, through his servant Moses, is setting up for the Chosen People.
The second reading is from the first Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians 7:32-35. He devotes chapter 7 to answering questions concerning marriage and virginity. In today's extract he emphasizes freedom to serve God fully, freedom from earthly cares which those who choose a life of celibacy have.
The Gospel is from St. Mark 1:21-28. St. Mark makes it clear that, from the very first day of Christ's public ministry, his messianic power began to be manifested to those who saw and heard him. The Jews of Capernaum were "astonished" at his teaching and "amazed" at his power over the evil spirits. "What is this," they asked one another, "a new teaching and the unclean spirits obey him!" But they were still a long way from recognizing him for what he was, the Messiah and Son of God. This is as might be expected, the astounding mystery of the incarnation was way beyond human expectation or human imagination. And it was our Lord's own plan to reveal this mystery, slowly and gradually, so that when the chain of evidence had been completed by his resurrection, his followers could look back and see each link in that chain. Then they would be ready to accept without hesitation the mystery of the incarnation and realize the infinite love and power of God that brought it about. We look back today through the eyes of the Evangelists, and, like them, know that Christ was God as well as man—two natures in one person. We should not therefore be "amazed" at the teaching of Jesus or at his power over the unclean spirits. What should amaze us really is the love that God showed mankind in becoming one of our race.
We are creatures with nothing of our own to boast of. We were created by God, and every talent or power we possess was given us by God. God's benevolence could have stopped there and we would have no right to complain. But when we recall the special gifts he gave man, which raise him above all other created things, we see that he could not, because of his own infinitely benevolent nature, leave us to an earthly fate. What thinking man could be content with a short span of life on earth? What real purpose in life could an intelligent being have who knew that nothing awaited him but eternal oblivion in the grave? What fulfillment would man's intellectual faculties find in a few years of what is for the majority of people perpetual struggle for earthly survival? No, God created us to elevate us, after our earthly sojourn, to an eternal existence where all our desires and potentialities would have their true fulfillment. Hence the incarnation, hence the life, death and resurrection of Christ, who was God's Son, as the central turning point of man's history.
Today, while amazed at God's love for us, let us also be justly amazed at the shabby and grudging return we make for love. Many amongst us even deny that act of God's infinite love, not from convincing historical and logical proofs, but in order to justify their own unwillingness to co-operate with the divine plan for their eternal future. This is not to say that their future, after death, does not concern them; it is a thought which time and again intrudes on all men, but they have allowed the affairs of this world which should be stepping stones to their future life, to become instead mill-stones which crush their spirits and their own true self-interests.
While we sincerely hope that we are not in that class, we can still find many facets in our daily Christian lives which can and should make us amazed at our lack of gratitude to God and to his incarnate Son. 'Leaving out serious sin which turns us away from God if not against him, how warm is our charity, our love of God and neighbor? How much of our time do we give to the things of God and how much to the things of Caesar? How often does our daily struggle for earthly existence and the grumbles and grouses which it causes, blot out from our view the eternal purpose God had in giving us this earthly existence. How often during the past year have we said from our heart: "Thank you, God, for putting me in this world, and thank you a thousand times more, for giving me the opportunity and the means of reaching the next world where I shall live happily for evermore in your presence"? If the true answer for many of us is "not once," then begin today. Let us say it now with all sincerity, and say it often in the years that are left to us.
— Excerpted from The Sunday Readings by Fr. Kevin O'Sullivan, O.F.M.
Commentary for the Readings in the Extraordinary Form:
Septuagesima Sunday
"Why do you stand here all day idle? . . . Go you also into the vineyard" (Gospel).
Septuagesima Sunday
"Why do you stand here all day idle? . . . Go you also into the vineyard" (Gospel).
As athletes of Christ we are called to a competitive "race" (Epistle). As workers with Christ we are ordered into the "vineyard" (Gospel).
It is a "race" with death for the "prize" of life eternal. Only "one receives the prize" by His own right, Christ! But, remember, He still runs in us if we do not lag in this "race," as did Israel under "Moses" (Epistle).
God comes to us "early" in life. Unitl the last "hour" He repeats, "Why . . . stand . . . idle?" Each "hour" brings us nearer to the "evening" of reward, not due to the excellence of our work in itself but mercifully given by God as a recompense (Gospel).
— Excerpted from My Sunday Missal, Confraternity of the Precious Blood
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