{"id":49525,"date":"2019-10-12T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=49525"},"modified":"2019-10-20T13:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T18:49:32","slug":"ars-praedicandi-ed-foleys-homily-for-october-13-28c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/12\/ars-praedicandi-ed-foleys-homily-for-october-13-28c\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Ars Praedicandi:<\/i> Ed Foley\u2019s Homily for October 13 (28C)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin<\/em><br>Old St. Pat&#8217;s Chicago <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Broadway luminaries Rogers and Hammerstein<br>included in <em>The King and I <\/em>the famous line<br>\u201cIf you become a teacher, by your pupils you\u2019ll be taught.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That wisdom has been realized in my life frequently.<br>One student taught me about Krister Stendahl\u2019s \u201choly envy.\u201d<br>Another led me deep into the richness of appreciative inquiry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A third (Richie North), in preparing a homily that needed to be<br>both accessible and theologically sound, wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cSimplicity is complex. It&#8217;s never simple to keep things simple. <br>Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is true when politicians call for free college tuition<br>or health care for all<br>or bringing troops home from Northern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simplicity is complex.<br>Which is also true of today\u2019s readings<br>that could give the impression that the underlying message is<br>simply \u201cbe thankful\u201d!&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/progressive-christian\/thankless-job-alyce-mckenzie-10-07-2013.html\">A favorite blogger<\/a>  &nbsp;jests that<br>that this could be her mother\u2019s favorite gospel<br>because it seems to be about cultivating good manners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\nwrites: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>My mother was big on thank you notes. She said you could tell a lot about a person depending on whether or not they bothered to write them. She told of a friend who, whenever a bride did not have the good manners to write a thank-you note for a wedding gift, would write:<\/em><\/p><p><em>Dear Amanda:<\/em><br><em>Thank you for inviting us to your lovely wedding. I am writing to make sure that you received our gift. If you didn&#8217;t, can you let me know and I&#8217;ll arrange for a duplicate to be sent to you? Wishing you every happiness in your marriage, Jeannie &amp; John Audacious<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noting the passive aggressive nature of the note,<br>the author does not suggest some fawning or groveling response,<br>but instead offers this possible reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Dear Jeannie and John, I did receive your gift, and many others that were even more lovely. I have decided not to write thank you notes since I am very busy and they are very time consuming. You may, if you wish, send me a duplicate gift. Hope your marriage lasts &#8211; Amanda<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blogger concludes by suggesting that today\u2019s readings<br>are not simply an instruction from Divine Miss Manners<br>about being grateful \u2013 <br>but point to more profound realities,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One celebrated homiletician believes the essential move in preaching<br>is to find the discrepancies or the \u201coops\u201d in the readings.<br>Doing so creates sufficient intrigue for unfolding<br>what he calls the homiletical plot.<br>(Eugene Lowry, <em>The Homiletical Plot: Expanded Edition<\/em>, 2001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An usual number of discrepancies abound in today\u2019s readings,<br>starting with that opening readings from the Book of Kings <br>which gives a snippet about Naaman\u2019s conversion.<br>Much is missing, including the first part of this chapter<br>describing Naaman as a military officer of Israel\u2019s enemy<br>whom the God of Israel had given many victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Israel\u2019s enemy has the backing of Israel\u2019s God.<br>Sure the story ends with the conversion of the outsider.<br>But it also ends with the punishment of the prophet\u2019s servant.<br>So, not just a gratitude tale<br>But one of unexpected reversals through the stranger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, of course, there is that not so simple Gospel.<br>The mother of our edgy exegete <br>could conclude that the story is about<br>9 smug Jews and 1 grateful Samaritan.<br>Great way to shame the regulars <br>into being more grateful \u2026<br>Then, again, \u201csimplicity is complex\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A signal that there is more going on than ingratitude<br>is the geographic location for this Jesus encounter<br>in the region between Samaria &amp; Galilee.<br>Seems contradictory; like a region between Chicago &amp; the burbs <br>which many of you prove doesn\u2019t exist <br>by your Sunday commute here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However the region between the U.S. &amp; Mexico<br>or North and South Korea does seem to exist,<br>a kind of no-man\u2019s-land<br>or political DMZ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this gospel, no-man\u2019s-land complications abound.<br>Like there is pretty compelling evidence <br>that these 10 did not have leprosy.<br>Both biblical scholars and medical scientists agree<br>true leprosy almost certainly did not exist <br>in ancient Palestine.<br>(John Pilch, <em>The Cultural World of Jesus,<\/em> p. 148)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">True, they had some kind of scaly skin disorder.<br>But it did not make them contagious, it made them unclean.<br>Biblical leprosy is not \u201ccatchy,\u201d it is \u201cdirty.\u201d (So Pilch.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, Samaritans and Jews hated each other,<br>but sharing the status of being unclean<br>erased the ethnic and racial divisions between these groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They became a band of brothers<br>scavenging for food together, maybe caring for each other,<br>certainly calling out in one voice to Jesus for pity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But by healing them, Jesus in effect <br>reinstated their ethnic and religious rivalry.<br>They were now well enough to hate each other again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Problem no. 3:<br>Jesus sends the 10 off to show themselves to the priests<br>so they can be declared clean and socially restored.<br>But the Samaritan could not go with the other 9,<br>for he was a heretic and an outlander.<br>He would have been stoned if he went near the temple<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe he came back to Jesus and expressed his gratitude<br>because he could not do it in the Jerusalem temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Problem no. 4:<br>The Samaritan was polite.<br>But we do not know if he was virtuous or even good.<br>Was he \u201csaved\u201d simply because he was courteous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly we don\u2019t know if the other 9 were unvirtuous.<br>They were doing exactly what Jesus told them to do.<br>Their gratitude was in their obedience, fulfilling the law.<br>Weren\u2019t they saved as well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe, after their temple sojourn,<br>they did try to come back and offer thanks to Jesus.<br>But Jesus was infamously peripatetic.<br>Who knows where he had wandered if they had returned?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are plenty of \u201coops\u201d in these readings.<br>Yet, even more challenging is the \u201cso what,\u201d<br>the holy resolution to these problematic revelations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So we return to the spiritual terrain between Samaria and Galilee,<br>to the itinerant no-man\u2019s-land we call Jesus,<br>to the sacred DMZ we call Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus of the gospels is consistently intolerant of hard boundaries<br>between the pious and the polluted,<br>clean and unclean,<br>insiders and outsiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To paraphrase Hemmingway, <br>Jesus is not only a moveable feast;<br>he is the divinely sanctioned moveable boundary,<br>a roving DMZ, who demilitarizes every person or group<br>who dare enter his ambit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019d undoubtedly make a terrible diplomat,<br>for if asked about the proper boundary<br>between North Syria and Turkey,<br>or between Kashmir and India,<br>like Ayn Rand\u2019s Atlas <em>(Atlas Shrugged, 1957), <\/em><br>I presume he would just shrug,<br>asking not where to put the boundaries,<br>but why they are there in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Few contemporary writes have spilled more ink<br>over the instinct to divide the world between us and them<br>than Robert Sapolsky, scientist and author of the bestseller<br><em>Behave: The Biology of Humans at our best and worst.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent article entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/55\/trust\/why-your-brain-hates-other-people-rp\">Why your Brain Hates other People: and how to make it think differently<\/a>,\u201d  he writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Humans universally make Us\/Them dichotomies along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, language group, religion, age, socioeconomic status, and so on\u2026 it\u2019s not a pretty picture. We do so with remarkable speed and neurobiological efficiency; have complex \u2026 classifications of ways in which we denigrate Thems; do so with a versatility that ranges from the minutest of microaggression to bloodbaths of savagery; and regularly decide what is inferior about Them based on pure emotion, followed by primitive rationalizations that we mistake for rationality. Pretty depressing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A professed atheist, Sapolsky does believe there is hope.<br>For him that hope rises when we individuate,<br>when we meet a \u201cthem,\u201d<br>experience their uniqueness,<br>honor their humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus was not only the King of Kings and Lord of Lords,<br>but the original prince of individuation,<br>a roving boundary smasher,<br>the divine opponent of all \u201cthem-ing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journalist Leslie Guttman was visiting a bookstore one day.<br>She writes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The bookstore was packed \u2026. A woman with long, black hair about five feet away \u2026was leafing through [a book]. I glanced up \u2026in time to see her slip a book into her satchel and walk off. I hesitated and then walked after her.&nbsp; \u201cPssst,\u201d I said, pointing at the satchel. Up close, I saw that she was about thirty \u2026 probably homeless. Her khaki parka was filthy, her hair matted. The satchel was bursting with her belongings. She gave me a sorrowful look \u2026 handed me the book and ran off.<\/p><p>The book was a journal designed for someone who was grieving. Someone like me\u2026 beautifully bound, the paper creamy and heavy. It had space to write the answers to statements like: \u2026 \u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to be without you when I . . .\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cShe\u2019s been wanting that book,\u201d said the manager who .., watched the whole thing. \u201cShe comes in all the time and looks at it. Sometimes, she puts it on hold, but then she never gets it.\u201d<\/p><p>Dammit! \u2026 Why did I have to be such a Goody Twoshoes? Why didn\u2019t I just let her steal it?&nbsp; I ran out of the store and caught up with her a block away. \u201cDid you just lose someone?\u201d I said.<\/p><p>\u201cMy grandmother,\u201d she [replied]\u2026 \u201cI miss her so much I can\u2019t stand it.\u201d I told her about my stepdad, who had just passed away. His kindness had knit our family together for eighteen years.<\/p><p>I \u2026 handed her the book, we both stood on the curb and wept.<\/p><p>For the first time since my stepdad died, I felt understood\u2014as only a stranger can understand you, without inadequacy or regret. Up until then, I had felt alone in my grief \u2026 reluctant to turn to my family because they were grieving, too.<\/p><p>But because the grieving thief and I didn\u2019t know each other, I had no expectations of whether I would be understood in my grief and no fear of being disappointed if I wasn\u2019t. <\/p><p>This encounter made me want to stay open to the chance meeting with an important stranger, the possibility of unplanned symmetry that is luminous and magical.<\/p><cite> Leslie Guttman, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thisibelieve.org\/essay\/76927\/\">Important Strangers<\/a>.&#8221;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unplanned symmetry out there in some unexpected DMZ \u2013<br>maybe that is what happened to Jesus <br>when the one leper returned.<br>Maybe the stranger\u2019s unexpected gesture to Jesus<br>in the Lord\u2019s journey to Jerusalem and imminent death<br>was a startling yet fortuitous gift back to the Son of God.<br>Not just a \u201cthank you,\u201d<br>but an affirmation that he was on the right path<br>even though it would cost him his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus proclaimed that the stranger was saved,<br>maybe because the stranger helped Jesus,<br>reaffirm his own salvific path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Living out in a land where boundaries are ambiguous,<br>where strangers abound,<br>lepers lurk,<br>and groups of \u201cthem\u201d wait around every corner<br>is dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus invites us out into the DMZ of life,<br>and in that hazardous no-man\u2019s-land,<br>to live out the faithfulness Paul demands of us<br>in the luminous and unplanned symmetry,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our chance encounters with the stranger,<br>knowing that we are not alone,<br>but always accompanied by God\u2019s brooding Spirit<br>through Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus &#8211; a roving boundary smasher, the divine opponent of all \u201cthem-ing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":49526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3119,3294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-plaza-new-ws","category-ars-praedicandi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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