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First Sunday of Advent (B): Watch! Learning from the new edition of the Roman Missal.

25 Friday Nov 2011

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“Be watchful!  Be alert!  You do not know when the time will come … Watch!”  These are the words of our Lord to his disciples in this Sunday’s gospel reading (Mk. 13:33-37).  As disciples of Christ today these words must also resonate in our hearts and we must take the time to worthily reflect upon them. 

Now that we have survived Black Friday and are officially into the commercial season of Christmas, our faith invites us with the blessing and lighting of the Advent wreath to enter also into a faith-filled preparation for the celebration of our Lord’s birth. 

Watch!  Let our hearts be prepared to receive the Christ and to know the wondrous things God has done for us! 

A good question to ask is how might we “watch”, how do we develop the ability to see with the eyes of faith?  It is a fair question.  After all, the commercial season of Christmas is quite efficient at initiating people, even at an extremely young age, into its understanding of the season.  So, it is possible to do. 

I would like to suggest that the introduction of the new Roman Missal gives us, as Church, a unique opportunity this Advent season.  The liturgy is the heart of who we are as Church – it is both our source and our summit.  In the Mass we encounter Christ uniquely – we hear him speak, we watch his actions, we receive his very body and blood.  In the grace of the sacrament Christ cures our blindness and opens our eyes and we learn to see with the eyes of faith. 

There are two different responses that the community is asked to make in the new translation that I would like to reflect upon as opportunities of learning how to watch.  These are the responses of “And with your spirit.” and the response at the invitation to communion: “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.”

The response, “And with your spirit.” runs throughout the liturgy.  Wherever the celebrant says, “The Lord be with you.” the response now given is “And with your spirit.”  It is a closer translation to the original Latin.  But more than being just an exercise in literalism I would like to propose that this “And with your spirit.” translation is quite revolutionary and is indeed counter-cultural.  In many ways these four words distinguish the faith-filled preparation for Christmas from the commercial preparation. 

The response reminds us and gives testimony to the truth that there is a spiritual reality to life and, in fact, all of creation.  We live in a time of the dictatorship of materialism; the pervasive thought that only that which can be measured, weighed and quantified scientifically is real.  There is no spirit, there is no soul and, if carried to its logical conclusion, there is no God.  There is no hope.  The dictatorship of materialism seeks to lock one into a reduced, limited and limiting view of reality that as it greatly extols “freedom of thought” and human dignity in truth is a denial of both.  It is pervasive and its affects are varied: from the need to acquire more “stuff” to the defining of the human person and relationships only in terms of commerce (i.e. “What can this person do for me?”) and the reduction of time as a moment of possibility and encounter to a moment to be measured only in terms of production.  Ultimately it leads only to a place where the human person is reduced and hope is lacking.

With the response, “And with your spirit.” the Church gives witness to a different view of reality.  Life is more than just “stuff”, there is a dignity to the human person and a unique possibility to relationship, time is a gift that is meant to be valued and a gift open to the infinite.  There is a sacramental quality to all reality that cannot ultimately be denied.  With the lighting of the Advent candles the Church is not naive to the darkness of the present times but watches, recognizes and places its hope in the dawning of the coming Daystar who is Christ and very Kingdom of God.  Before this light the darkness of the world and the darkness of the heart flees. 

At the invitation to communion when the consecrated Body and Blood of Christ is held up and the priest says, “Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world.  Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.”  The people now respond, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.”

This more accurate response gives witness to how the Eucharistic liturgy is grounded in Sacred Scripture.  In the eighth chapter of Matthew a centurion comes to Jesus seeking healing for his ill servant.  Our Lord responds to the centurion’s request by saying that he will come with him in order to cure the servant.  To this the centurion responds, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof: but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed.”  The gospel then goes on to say that Jesus is “amazed” at the man’s faith.

At the invitation to communion we also are asked to make a sign of deep faith.  “Yes, I believe.  This is the very body and blood of my savior that I am about to receive.  Say the word and my soul shall be healed.”

I would like to also hold “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof…” in relation to this Sunday’s first reading from the prophet Isaiah (Is. 63:16b-17, 19b, 64:2-7).  In the reading we hear the plea and the yearning of the people of Israel for the justice of God (a plea and yearning we know in our world today): “Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaking before you, while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for, such as they had not heard of from of old.  No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you doing such deeds for those who wait for him.”

“Rend the heavens … the mountains quaking before you … you wrought awesome deeds …”  “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof…”

Truly, none of us are worthy yet this is what God has done for us in Christ.  We need both the humble awareness and the great faith of the centurion.  The Eucharist is the most frightening of gifts.  In it the very One who rends the heavens comes to dwell under the tiniest roof of our existence. 

“Watch!”, says the Lord. 

In the liturgy the Church watches and yearns for the return of the bridegroom and we learn to see with eyes enlightened by faith.  

  

    

Thanksgiving Day

24 Thursday Nov 2011

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Virtues Matter – The Theological Virtues

21 Monday Nov 2011

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This coming Sunday (First Sunday of Advent, 2011) Catholic churches in the English speaking world will begin use of the third English translation of the Roman Missal.  There has been quite a bit of commentary either favoring the new translation or criticizing it.  The intent of the new edition is to draw closer to the original Latin; which for the Catholic Church and its two thousand year liturgical tradition is no small matter.  “Lex orandi; lex credendi” – the law of prayer establishes the law of belief. 

For our purpose here I would like to point to one change in the liturgy.  At the very beginning of the Mass and running throughout the liturgy the priest celebrant addresses the community gathered with, “The Lord be with you.”  In the second translation of the Missal the community response was, “And also with you.”  Now, in the third translation (being faithful to the original Latin) the response of the community is: “And with your spirit.” 

This shift to “with your spirit” highlights, I believe, a deeper and needed awareness of human anthropology. In an age of materialism that relentlessly seeks in pervasive ways (some subtle, some not) to define, and I would add restrict, an awareness of reality to only that which can be measured and weighed, the response “And with your spirit.” strikes a rather revolutionary and counter-cultural tone.

From the very beginnings of our worship this response on the part of the believing church state that we have a certain perspective on reality and that we do not buy into assumptions founded in the dictatorship of materialist thought.  There is a spiritual dimension to life and all reality.  “And with your spirit.” is a liturgical profession of the Church in its belief in this spiritual dimension to reality and the human condition.

The Church’s understanding of the “theological” virtues (faith, hope and love) is likewise a profession of this awareness of the spiritual dimension of the human condition.  Where the four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance) can be acquired and developed by human effort and will – although open to being elevated by divine grace (CCC # 1810); the theological virtues “relate directly to God.” (CCC # 1813)  Just as “And with your spirit.” professes a belief in the spiritual dimension so does the designation of faith, hope and love as “theological” virtues profess an awareness of both the possibility and need of a lived relationship with God (who is spirit) necessary for a truly authentic and fulfilled life. 

(The theological virtues) dispose Christians to live in a relationship with the Holy Trinity.  They have the One and Triune God for their origin, motive and object.  The theological virtues are the foundation of Christian moral activity; they animate it and give it its special character.  They inform and give life to all the moral virtues.  They are infused by God into the souls of the faithful to make them capable of acting as his children and of meriting eternal life.  They are the pledge of the presence and action of the Holy Spirit in the faculties of the human being.  (CCC # 1812-1813) 

In the Christian understanding of these virtues as theological not only do we find that these virtues perfect and fulfill our individual lives and our interactions one with another and undergird the living of human community but these virtues dispose us to live in relationship with the Holy Trinity. 

In forthcoming blog posts I will delve more deeply into each of the theological virtues.  I would like to conclude this post with one thought for consideration.  In the western world we are living in a time that is witnessing a growth in atheistic and agnostic thought.  The reasons for this are many and varied I believe and space here will not allow for an adequate exploration of these reasons.  Non-belief is now a valid option for many people.  Some voices of non-belief are extremely anti-religion (I would even say “fundamentalistic” in their approach and thought) but not all are.  The virtues in life and in society provide a place of encounter where cooler heads can meet and dialogue.  We need to learn how to live together for the common good.  Talking, if guided by honesty and respect, does not necessarily mean the selling out of ones core values.  In the virtues we find a privileged place of encounter that can provide great benefit for all of society.   

Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) – the boldness of beauty

13 Sunday Nov 2011

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In the beginning of her book An American Childhood Annie Dillard tells the story of watching a neighbor girl skate on the city street on a cold, Pittsburg winter night:

The night Jo Ann Sheehy skated on the street it was dark inside our house.  We were having dinner in the dining room – my mother, my father, my sister Amy, who was two and I.  There were lighted ivory candles on the table … Now we sat in the dark dining room, hushed…  Behind me, tall chilled windows gave out onto our narrow front yard and street.  A motion must have caught my mother’s eye; she rose and moved to the windows, and Father and I followed.  There we saw the young girl, the transfigured Jo Ann Sheehy skating alone under the streetlight. 

She was turning on ice skates inside the streetlight’s yellow cone of light – illumined and silent.  She tilted and spun.  She wore a short skirt, as if Edgerton Avenue’s asphalt had been the ice of an Olympic arena.  She wore mittens and a red knitted cap below which her black hair lifted when she turned.  Under her skates the street’s packed snow shone; it illumined her from below, the cold light striking her under her chin.  

I stood at the tall window, barely reaching the sill; the glass fogged before my face, so I had to keep moving or hold my breath.  What was she doing out there?  Was everything beautiful so bold? 

Nelson Mandela once said: It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented?”  Actually, who are you not to be.  Playing small does not serve the will of God.  We are born to make manifest the glory of God within us.  It is not just within some of us, it is within everyone.  The more we light our own light shine; the more we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.

In today’s Gospel (Mt. 25:14:30) we are given the parable of the talents.  The term “talent” in our Lord’s day was used to denote a certain measurement of wealth.  It is due to this very parable that the word “talent” has the meaning which we know today.  In the parable, the master who is departing on a journey leaves a different sum of talents with three different servants.  The first two servants double what was given them and are rewarded accordingly.  The third servant (out of fear) buries the talent he is given and makes nothing.  He is punished for his laziness. 

So, we see this parable as an instruction about using the gifts, the talents that we have been given in life and not being fearful.  It is also helpful to note where this parable falls within Matthew’s gospel.  It is in the section where Jesus is discussing the end times and it comes right before the section where Jesus sets the criteria for judgment of our lives.  (The Gospel passage we will hear next Sunday.)

With the awareness of this context we see that the use of talents is not toward the goal of comfort in this life but toward the goal of the reign of God.  This parable warns us that the servant preferred to hide his life in a hole, in an avaricious and egoistic tranquility … Jesus unveils the ambiguity of one who contents himself with how things are, has no desire to change, no aspiration to transform life and, no ambition for a happier life for all. (Bishop Vincenzo Paglia)

The Kingdom of God begins with each one of us when we make the choice to not close ourselves off in our own self interest but make the bold choice for life and to help alleviate the sufferings of the other person.  It is a choice that must begin within – the choice to begin changing our own hearts and the choice to bring the Gospel to our world and live the Gospel for our world.

“Does beauty have to be so bold?” wondered the young Annie Dillard.  Yes, it does.  We are each born to make manifest the glory of God within us.   

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) – Wisdom and the quest for laundry detergent

06 Sunday Nov 2011

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This Sunday I would like to reflect on two images found in the readings: 1. the figure of Wisdom from the first reading (Wisdom 6:12-16) and 2. the wise and foolish virgins from the gospel (Mt. 25:1-13).

Specifically from the first reading there is this passage: “because (Wisdom) makes her own rounds, seeking those worthy of her, and graciously appears to them in their ways, and meets them with all solicitude.”  Often, and especially in the modern university setting, we approach knowledge and truth as something “out there” – to be attained, but primarilly passive.  The facts are there to be arrived at.  The truth can be known but we, on our part, have to go and get it.  It is similar to going grocery shopping.  The other day I realized that I was out of laundry detergent but I knew that there was laundry detergent “out there”.  Kroger has it.  I went to the store, I found the right aisle (if it was a store I was unfamiliar with I might need to ask for guidance) and there was the detergent sitting passive on the shelf. 

We often view truth in our modern understanding the same way but the biblical notion which we find expressed in the reading from the Book of Wisdom turns this assumption on its head.  Yes, there is truth and knowledge “out there” to be acquired in life but also Wisdom “makes her own rounds, seeking those worthy of her…”  God’s wisdom is not passive, sitting on a shelf and waiting.  Wisdom is active of its own accord.  To force the above analogy, it is like the laundry jumping off the shelf, walking down the road and knocking on your front door.  Wisdom seeks out.  Wisdom graciously appears to us in our ways and meets us with all solicitude.

This understanding of the active nature of Wisdom casts a light on the parable of the wise and foolish virgins.  It is worthy to note that both the wise and foolish virgins fall asleep while waiting for the bridegroom.  This is not where the distinction between the two lies.  For all people, “it is easy to rest on our old habits and certainties, it is easy to be overcome by the sweet slumber of self-love, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the weight of our own selfishness.”  All are asleep.

But then the cry comes announcing the groom’s arrival!  What is this cry?  “It is the cry that arises from the far country of the poor, it is the cry that comes from the peoples at war; it is the cry of the lonely elders that ask for company,” it is the cry of the one who is hurting and alone.  “Upon hearing the cry, we jump awake, but if we do not have the extra oil on hand we find all the excuses for not responding.”

It is the “extra oil” that distinguishes the wise from the foolish virgins.  The extra oil is the Word of God as it has come to us and been received and treasured in our hearts and lives.  “It reawakens us to love.  If we do not have the Gospel in our heart then we will not know how to respond to the cry of the poor or how to live a meaningful life.”

Our world stands in need of lives enlightened by Wisdom and by the Word of God – which are active and which seek out hearts that are open and receptive.

Yes, there is wisdom out there to be acquired but sometimes wisdom comes knocking at our own door.
(Quotes referenced are taken from a reflection by Bishop Vincenzo Paglia) 

Virtues Matter – Moral reasoning

06 Sunday Nov 2011

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 “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” (Flannery O’Connor)

Before launching into the theological virtues in our continuing reflection on the role and necessity of virtue in a life well lived, I thought it might be worthwhile to share some thoughts on the status of moral reasoning in our times.  After all, this is the context in which we live and the context in which we have to exercise the very virtues which we have been reflecting upon.
Specifically, I would like to share some quotes and insights from the book, Lost in Transition.  (I have found his book to be very enlightening as well as extremely sobering.)  Lost in Transition is the end result of an extensive multi-year sociological survey conducted of current eighteen to twenty-five year old men and women (aka “emerging adults”).  It is very solid in its research and its approach.
One of the areas that the book explores is the moral reasoning capabilities of the age range surveyed.  These capabilities, the authors found, are minimal to practically non-existent.  The authors stress that this lack of moral reasoning capabilities is not so much a reflection on the generation surveyed as it is a reflection of the failure of previous generations to teach and instruct.  (Quotes below are taken from Lost in Transition.)
“But for the moment our point is simply this: the adult world of American culture and society is failing very many of its youth when it comes to moral matters.  We are letting them down, sending many, and probably most, of them out into the world without the basic intellectual tools and basic personal formation needed to think and express even the most elementary of reasonably defensible moral thoughts and claims.  And that itself, we think, is morally wrong … Colleges and universities appear to be playing a part in this failure as well.” 
In relation to our focus on the virtues there is a specific conclusion supported by the research that I believe to be extremely relevant.  “Central to many of the confusions in emerging adult moral reasoning is the inability to distinguish between objectively real moral truths or facts and people’s human perceptions or understandings of those moral truths or facts.  The error of not distinguishing these two things is this: the realities themselves are confused with, and therefore dependent upon, people’s cognitive grasp of them.  What actually exists is conflated into what is believed to exist.  But those are different things that must be kept separate.  For example, the moral truth that human slavery is a categorical moral evil stands true whether or not people understand and believe it…” 
“They (emerging adults) think that people believing something to be morally true is what makes it morally true.  They assume that if some cultures believe different things about morality, then there is not a moral truth at all.  These mentalities naturally lead to moral skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, and, ultimately, nihilism.  Are we surprised then that these are precisely the directions in which we see many emerging adults today actually heading?” 
Finally, a prophetic word of warning: “We think that fact is neither new to the world nor the end of the world.  However, we also do not believe that the moral orders and experiences of societies remain constant throughout history.  Things can definitely get morally better or worse.  And the difference between better and worse can matter profoundly for the potential flourishing of human life in those societies.” 
The thoughts expressed are indeed sobering and I highly recommend the book to anyone working with youth and/or young adults or anyone just generally interested in understanding the moral climate of our times. 
There are two points that I think are worthy of consideration here: 1. the confusion that just believing something to be morally true is what makes it true and 2. the realization that a “good” moral atmosphere in society is not necessarily a given – things can get morally better or worse and this does have profound effects in regards to human flourishing. 
Both points, I believe, are based in an almost criminally negligent naivety regarding reality that when pressed and examined collapses like a house of cards.  If truth were limited to what I and some others might “believe” (i.e. moral relativism or moral individualism) then we would indeed be in a very sad state of affairs.  Part of developing the capacity of moral reason is not to deny the foundational reality of truth but to learn how to discern when truth is being upheld and when it is being betrayed, even by those who might profess a unique knowledge of what is true (i.e. the 9/11 terrorists or church officials and political leaders who cause scandal).  It is not that there is no foundational reality to truth; it is that truth can be betrayed.  Moral reasoning both demands a distinguishing of the two and, when rightly developed and exercised, provides the tools and skills needed to make the distinction. 
There is a moral climate in which we live and it should not be considered a given that this climate will always be conducive to human flourishing.  Also, ensuring that the climate does support human flourishing takes both work and continual vigilance.  I want to note that the authors of Lost in Transition do not propose a certain set of beliefs in this regard but they do say that the ability to reason well, to both know and formulate one’s own thoughts, to show respect and to be able to enunciate ones beliefs well is of key importance in the work of ensuring a climate where human flourishing can be achieved.  This precisely is what is both lacking and not being passed on to our emerging adults.  Theirs is a generation that has grown up in a silent void when it comes to matters of moral reasoning and truthfully expressing deep belief; again, not to their fault but to that of the preceding generations. 
Knowing and practicing the virtues (both cardinal and theological) is one way, I believe, of developing the discipline and skill of moral reasoning and overcoming the silent void of moral indifference that truly wounds and limits even as it professes an “enlightened” neutrality. 

Feast of All Souls

02 Wednesday Nov 2011

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Taken from the Office of Readings for the Feast of all Souls:

St Ambrose, a book on the death of his brother Satyrus



We see that death is gain, life is loss. Paul says: For me life is Christ, and death a gain. What does “Christ” mean but to die in the body, and receive the breath of life? Let us then die with Christ, to live with Christ. We should have a daily familiarity with death, a daily desire for death. By this kind of detachment our soul must learn to free itself from the desires of the body. It must soar above earthly lusts to a place where they cannot come near, to hold it fast. It must take on the likeness of death, to avoid the punishment of death. The law of our fallen nature is at war with the law of our reason and subjects the law of reason to the law of error. What is the remedy? Who will set me free from this body of death? The grace of God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.


We have a doctor to heal us; let us use the remedy he prescribes. The remedy is the grace of Christ, the dead body our own. Let us then be exiles from our body, so as not to be exiles from Christ. Though we are still in the body, let us not give ourselves to the things of the body. We must not reject the natural rights of the body, but we must desire before all else the gifts of grace.


What more need be said? It was by the death of one man that the world was redeemed. Christ did not need to die if he did not want to, but he did not look on death as something to be despised, something to be avoided, and he could have found no better means to save us than by dying. Thus his death is life for all. We are sealed with the sign of his death; when we pray we preach his death; when we offer sacrifice we proclaim his death. His death is victory; his death is a sacred sign; each year his death is celebrated with solemnity by the whole world.


What more should we say about his death since we use this divine example to prove that it was death alone that won freedom from death, and death itself was its own redeemer? Death is then no cause for mourning, for it is the cause of mankind’s salvation. Death is not something to be avoided, for the Son of God did not think it beneath his dignity, nor did he seek to escape it.


Death was not part of nature; it became part of nature. God did not decree death from the beginning; he prescribed it as a remedy. Human life was condemned because of sin to unremitting labour and unbearable sorrow and so began to experience the burden of wretchedness. There had to be a limit to its evils; death had to restore what life had forfeited. Without the assistance of grace, immortality is more of a burden than a blessing.


The soul has to turn away from the aimless paths of this life, from the defilement of an earthly body; it must reach out to those assemblies in heaven (though it is given only to the saints to be admitted to them) to sing the praises of God. We learn from Scripture how God’s praise is sung to the music of the harp: Great and wonderful are your deeds, Lord God Almighty; just and true are your ways, King of the nations. Who will not revere and glorify your nature? You alone are holy; all nations will come and worship before you. The soul must also desire to witness your nuptials, Jesus, and to see your bride escorted from earthly to heavenly realities, as all rejoice and sing: All flesh will come before you. No longer will the bride be held in subjection to this passing world but will be made one with the spirit.


Above all else, holy David prayed that he might see and gaze on this: One thing I have asked of the Lord, this I shall pray for: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, and to see how gracious is the Lord.

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