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Edward Foley, Capuchin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s Gospel, a group of visiting Greeks \u2013 probably Gentiles \u2013<br \/>\nposed a question to the apostle Philip,<br \/>\nwho had a Greek name,<br \/>\ncould have spoken Greek,<br \/>\nand may have been perceived as the go-to-Greek<br \/>\nwhen it came to Jesus and his inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>The question they posed is flatly translated as<br \/>\n\u201cSir, we would like to see Jesus.\u201d<br \/>\nBut they are not looking for a quick selfie,<br \/>\nor a Jesus autograph on a scrap of papyrus,<br \/>\nbut more an opportunity to talk,<br \/>\nto dialogue,<br \/>\nto engage.<\/p>\n<p>Like 1st century precursors of Oprah,<br \/>\nit sounds like they want to interview Jesus,<br \/>\nto chat over lunch<br \/>\nor have a leisurely dinner and ask the real questions.<\/p>\n<p>You may have run across a similar question<br \/>\nthat has been asked of celebrities and friends,<br \/>\nshown up in college applications and job interviews,<br \/>\nand been floating around for decades:<br \/>\n&#8216;If you could have lunch with anyone, who would it be?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Or, in its more elaborate form,<br \/>\nif you could throw a dinner party<br \/>\nand invite any 6 people, living or dead,<br \/>\nwhom would you invite?<br \/>\nI spent far too much time<br \/>\ngoing down that rabbit hole on the internet<br \/>\nbut the results were fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Frequently named guests were<br \/>\nAbraham Lincoln,<br \/>\nAlbert Einstein,<br \/>\nNelson Mandela,<br \/>\nThomas Jefferson,<br \/>\nand, not surprisingly, Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Some took a more challenging turn,<br \/>\nlike inviting some of the world\u2019s most notorious criminals,<br \/>\npopulating a dinner party<br \/>\nwith Jessie James, Al Capone and Adolf Hitler.<br \/>\nOthers opted for a circle of artists such as Russian novelists<br \/>\nor celebrated musicians from Mozart to Hendrix.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the lists I could find online were dominated by males,<br \/>\nthough occasionally a Michelle Obama or Elizabeth I<br \/>\nmade the shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>While it is of little value for me to disclose my own list &#8211;<br \/>\ntrying to upstage every other dinner party<br \/>\nwith my mythical gathering of luminaries &#8211;<br \/>\nwhat intrigues me more is the \u201cwhy\u201d behind the lists.<br \/>\nIs the gathering for entertainment?<br \/>\nIf so, I\u2019d invite Mark Twain.<br \/>\nIs it to solve mysteries?<br \/>\nIf so, I\u2019d be sitting next to Amelia Earhart.<br \/>\nOr maybe it just a serene wisdom moment<br \/>\nwith Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Gamaliel &amp; me,<br \/>\nquietly enjoying a Japanese tea ceremony.<br \/>\nToday the word does not simply ask us if we would like to see Jesus,<br \/>\nto have him autograph our baptismal certificate,<br \/>\ngive us communion,<br \/>\nor maybe have a home Mass with our families.<\/p>\n<p>Rather the always impertinent Word of God wants to know why.<br \/>\nWhat would be the outcome of such a meeting?<br \/>\nA euphoric high documented by a few great photos?<br \/>\nThe interview of a life-time sure to garner a Pulitzer prize?<br \/>\nOr the prophetic gift of Jeremiah announced in the 1st reading:<br \/>\na radically envisioned life of covenant,<br \/>\na transformed way of being,<br \/>\nand a divinely inspirited heart transplant?<\/p>\n<p>In my imagination, the prophet Jeremiah is one of those folks<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather read about than live with.<br \/>\nHe must have been one incredibly tough truth-teller,<br \/>\nnot only announcing when my wardrobe was out of style,<br \/>\nmy manners on the wane,<br \/>\nand even my hygiene slipping,<br \/>\nbut also, when my spirituality was beyond pathetic<br \/>\nand on the verge of being eternally embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>He was that kind of truthtellers for God\u2019s first Chosen People,<br \/>\nreminding them how<br \/>\nthey had violated their covenant with their Creator,<br \/>\nespecially because of their worship of other gods,<br \/>\nbut also, as reiterated by other theologians of the period,<br \/>\nbecause of the way they had oppressed the poor.<br \/>\nSound familiar? Love of God AND neighbor?<\/p>\n<p>So pious yet assertive, Jeremiah pushes the covenant envelope<br \/>\nand announces a second chance &#8211; a fresh covenant;<br \/>\nnot one with new content,<br \/>\nbut rather one with new geography;<br \/>\nnot an external set of stone tablets<br \/>\nuseful for whacking us<br \/>\nwhen we get out of line.<br \/>\nBut a more visceral set, inscribed on hearts,<br \/>\non internal flesh,<br \/>\non the very center of our being<br \/>\nthat does not shame us with commandments,<br \/>\nbut fires us with love.<\/p>\n<p>In attempting to imagine what a heart inscribed covenant might be,<br \/>\nI am helped by imaginative bloggers and believers.<br \/>\nOne of them, Baptist minister Stacy Simpson<br \/>\noffers this reflection entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/branded-god\">Branded by God<\/a>.\u201d<br \/>\nShe writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The image of God writing on the heart of the people is a compelling one, it also has a frightening aspect to it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Think of a tattoo. Better yet, think of getting branded. Now that tattoos have gone mainstream, those who stay ahead of trends are getting branded. I met a guy who did this. He said it &#8220;hurt like hell&#8221; for a very longtime. Now it\u2019s a scar and he is &#8220;branded for life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pain, indelibility, identity are the central aspects of what it means to be marked. If it didn\u2019t involve pain, it wouldn\u2019t be indelible: marks that don\u2019t hurt are the ones that wash off. If it were not indelible, what it revealed about a person\u2019s identity wouldn\u2019t be so critical. Literature on tattoos and brands warns potential customers to be sure that they want the mark they are getting and to consider it permanent. Tattoo your arm with &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; in your 20s, and you better still be married to her 30 years later.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s an interesting reflection, at least for this Roman Catholic,<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">who learned at an early age<br \/>\n<\/span>through endless catechism classes<br \/>\nthat baptism left an indelible mark on our souls?<br \/>\nTranslation: at baptism, a covenant was inscribed on us.<br \/>\nOur very hearts were tattooed by God<br \/>\nin the image of the only-begotten.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks,<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been listening to a most amazing book:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynharari.com\/book\/sapiens-2\/\"><em>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humanity<\/em><\/a> by Yuval Noah Harari.<\/p>\n<p>While there are multiple aspects of this book that intrigue me,<br \/>\none that resonated with today\u2019s Gospel is in chapter 5,<br \/>\nin which this Israeli scholar and Oxford grad<br \/>\ndiscusses the power of wheat.<\/p>\n<p>Harari begins this discussion, imbedded in what he calls<br \/>\nthe agricultural revolution,<br \/>\nby reminding us that 10,000 years ago wheat was just wild grass<br \/>\nconfined to a small range in the Middle East.<br \/>\nBut within a few short millennia<br \/>\nit was growing all over the world, becoming what he calls<br \/>\none of the most successful plants in the history of the earth.<br \/>\nSo, world-wide wheat covers 2.25 million square kilometers,<br \/>\n10 times the size of Britain.<br \/>\nIn explaining this phenomenon,<br \/>\nHarari notes that we lived largely as hunter-gatherers<br \/>\nuntil 10,000 or so years ago,<br \/>\nbut then our forebears began investing more and more effort<br \/>\ninto cultivating wheat,<br \/>\nliving a much more difficult life than hunger-gatherers<br \/>\nwho only worked about 4-6 hours a day to feed themselves.<br \/>\nNow homo sapiens spent 10 hours a day<br \/>\nclearing fields of rocks,<br \/>\neradicating weeds and insects and foraging animals,<br \/>\nand digging irrigation ditches in the scorching sun.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional language is that we \u201cdomesticated\u201d wheat,<br \/>\nbut the world domestication comes from<br \/>\nthe Latin word \u201cdomus\u201d which means \u201chome.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd, as Harari points, out,<br \/>\nthe wheat is not living in \u201chomes,\u201d<br \/>\nit\u2019s homo sapiens who had to create dwellings<br \/>\nright next to the fields to care and protect them.<br \/>\nHis conclusion is that we did not domesticate wheat;<br \/>\ninstead, it domesticated us.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was no wheat farmer, but he lived close to the ground,<br \/>\nfiguratively and literally as a 1st century Palestinian Jew.<br \/>\nAnd while not an agriculturalists,<br \/>\nhe understood something about domestication,<br \/>\nwhether it was sheep or fig trees,<br \/>\nprodigal sons or fishermen apostles.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus\u2019 domesticating stories are unusual,<br \/>\nparticularly in one respect.<br \/>\nHarari narrates wheat\u2019s power to domesticate<br \/>\nbecause the wheat promises life.<br \/>\nJesus as God\u2019s first grain of wheat, however,<br \/>\ninvites a domestication<br \/>\nthat presumes homo sapiens build huts,<br \/>\nremove stones and pebbles,<br \/>\nand eradicates pests and pestilence<br \/>\nnot so the wheat can thrive,<br \/>\nbut so that it can die &#8211;<br \/>\nso that it can give up its life<br \/>\nto seed justice and care,<br \/>\nto seed respect and dignity,<br \/>\nand to seed a love of neighbor equal to a love of God.<\/p>\n<p>Just when the end of Lent seems within reach,<br \/>\nEaster is looming on the horizon,<br \/>\nastronomical spring dawning across the land,<br \/>\nand vaccinations are ramping up across the country,<br \/>\nthis could be a somewhat discouraging, even troubling message &#8211;<br \/>\nnot only because it reminds us<br \/>\nthat Good Friday is the gateway to Easter,<br \/>\nbut that our own self-sacrificing vocation,<br \/>\nto be wheat for others,<br \/>\ntattooed on our hearts at baptism<br \/>\nis yet to be fully realized.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Dorothy, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur,<br \/>\nspent most of her ministry in Brazil<br \/>\nworking to give the poor of the Amazon Region a voice.<br \/>\nSister Dorothy was martyred in 2005 &#8211;<br \/>\nshot 6 times &#8211;<br \/>\nfor standing up for the rights of the poor,<br \/>\nas well as refusing to be intimidated<br \/>\nbecause of land disputes<br \/>\nwhich resulted in mass deforestation<br \/>\nin Brazil\u2019s Amazon forest.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 HBO released a documentary, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1183701\/\">They Killed Sister Dorothy<\/a>,\u201d<br \/>\nchronicling Sister Dorothy\u2019s life and death<br \/>\nas well as the trial that brought to justice not only the shooters,<br \/>\nbut the landholders who were behind the murder.<\/p>\n<p>Premiered in Dayton Ohio, Sr. Dorothy\u2019s hometown,<br \/>\nafter the movie there was time for comments and questions<br \/>\nwith the producer of the movie,<br \/>\nas well as Sister Dorothy\u2019s brother, David &#8211;<br \/>\nalso a missionary,<br \/>\nwho was integral in the making of this movie.<br \/>\nDavid recounted events which had caused him to believe<br \/>\nthat \u201cDot\u201d knew that her life may be ended<br \/>\nby those she had angered<br \/>\nby her unrelenting dedication to her Gospel beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>One of Sister Dorothy\u2019s colleagues commented<br \/>\nabout how Sr. Dorothy\u2019s was buried on the land she loved so much.<br \/>\nThen, after a pause, she stated that<br \/>\n\u201cSr. Dorothy was not buried, she was planted.<br \/>\nHer work continues to grow, change is happening.\u201d<br \/>\nThe audience sat in stunned silenced after these words,<br \/>\nand then erupted in applause for this \u201cplanting\u201d of Sr. Dorothy,<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy planted in Brazil &#8211;<br \/>\nJesus planted on Calvary.<\/p>\n<p>And Christians, planted deep in a baptismal pool<br \/>\nwhere we rehearse transformation,<br \/>\nwe learn to germinate<br \/>\nand we practice dying,<br \/>\nso that not only we<br \/>\nbut others who have suffered through<br \/>\ntoo many broken covenants,<br \/>\ntoo much oppression,<br \/>\ntoo much marginalization,<br \/>\ncan also find life in this world and the next<br \/>\nthrough Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Christians, planted deep in a baptismal pool where we rehearse transformation, we learn to germinate and we practice dying, so that not only we but others who have suffered through too many broken covenants, too much oppression, too much marginalization, can also find life in this world and the 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