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by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure anyone looks forward to having a grimacing mechanic
\nsay to us, as our car is going up on the rack at the garage,
\n\u201cnever seen a car that needs such serious repairs,\u201d
\nor your contractor shaking his head, pulling out his calculator
\nand noting that this renovation is really going to be expensive,
\nnor do we want our surgeon to tell us that
\nthe procedure we are about to undergo will be one for the textbooks.<\/p>\n

In that same vein, you probably don\u2019t want to hear a preacher say
\nthese are some of the toughest readings
\nI have had to preach on in a long time.
\nUnfortunately, that was my honest assessment
\nas I studied and prayed these readings this past week.<\/p>\n

The reading from Joshua is the easiest,
\nchosen to resonate with the gospel
\nand offering a quite positive response of people
\nwhen it comes to following the Lord.<\/p>\n

The second reading is a gendered powder keg:
\nthere\u2019s a longer and shorter version.
\nIt\u2019s the longer one that starts out about wives being
\nsubordinate to their husbands that has
\n\u201cdanger\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t you dare go there\u201d written all over it.<\/p>\n

I know biblical scholarship shows Paul was actually progressive
\nin the face of his patriarchal culture
\ndemanding that both wives and husbands honor each other,
\nbut to 21st-century North American ears
\nit sounds like a return to pre-suffragette days
\nso I tend to navigate around this Ephesians passage
\nwhen it looms on the lectionary landscape.<\/p>\n

However, if I thought I was going to find refuge in today\u2019s gospel
\nthese final verses of John 6 offered a rude surprise.<\/p>\n

We have been reading the 6th chapter of John now
\nfor a month of Sundays
\neven though we are in Cycle B focused on Mark\u2019s gospel.<\/p>\n

Back on July 25th the lectionary suddenly switched to John
\nand we have been reading sections of this long 6th chapter
\nfor multiple Sundays in a row.<\/p>\n

Since we are at the end of this journey into John\u2019s gospel,
\na little recap might be in order.
\nChapter 6 begins as a narrative of compassion:
\nJesus\u2019 heart went out to all who had been following him
\nso Jesus performed a miracle of the heart
\nfeeding the 5000 with a few loaves and fishes.<\/p>\n

After feeding his followers literally
\nJesus begins nourishing their minds and hearts
\nby revealing himself as the bread of life.<\/p>\n

However, three weeks ago and about 40 verses into John 6
\nthings start to get ugly as the crowd murmurs
\nthat they know his family, they know where he comes from
\nand it isn\u2019t from heaven.<\/p>\n

Then, like a rambunctious school board meeting on COVID-19,
\nthings rapidly go south
\nas Jesus not only identifies himself as \u201cbread\u201d
\nbut as \u201cflesh\u201d … a God with skin on,
\na God not only responsive to human need,
\nbut a God now become fully human,
\nwhose incarnation is now maybe too close for comfort.<\/p>\n

All the flesh talk really gets the crowd going
\nlike a first-century congressional shutdown,
\nor one of those pseudo-news talk shows
\nin which disagreement quickly devolves into insults.
\nMuch of the crowd thinks he\u2019s crazy,
\nbut Jesus stands his ground, insisting that
\nunless they eat his flesh and drink his blood,
\nthey will not have life.<\/p>\n

So here we are, the last Sunday of John
\nepisode five of this gospel cliffhanger,
\nbut instead of a happy resolution, congressional compromise, or some other metaphorical handshake across the aisle,
\nthe Son of God basically gets booed by his own supporters.<\/p>\n

Even hand-picked disciples found his words difficult.
\nNot only were some unwilling to accept them
\nbut in a stunning reversal and even personal rebuke,
\nJohn writes that \u201cmany of his disciples returned to
\ntheir former way and no longer accompanied him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, there are a few hardcore adherents who stay
\nbut one wonders whether this is a gospel for the remnant,
\nan announcement of beliefs to be embraced
\nonly by the few instead of good news for the masses.<\/p>\n

The British writer and lay theologian, G.K. Chesterton
\nis popularly known for his fictional priest-detective Fr. Brown.
\nFeatured in multiple films and TV series
\nChesterton was baptized as an infant,
\nbut fell away from the Church.
\nHe was led back to the Church of England by his wife
\nand eventually entered the Catholic Church in 1922.<\/p>\n

While living his Christian commitment with great zeal,
\nChesterton was also constantly reminded of its challenges.
\nThis awareness is well summarized in his famous comment that
\n\u201cthe Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
\nIt has been found difficult and left untried.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n

In pondering the challenges of following Christ,
\nboth in his own day as well as in ours,
\nI recalled a fictional exchange
\nbetween an auto mechanic and a heart surgeon:<\/p>\n

The heart surgeon took his car to his local garage for service, where he often exchanged a little friendly banter with the owner, a skilled but not especially wealthy mechanic.<\/em><\/p>\n

“So tell me,” said the mechanic, “I’ve been wondering about what we both do for a living, and why you get paid much more than me.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Go on,” said the surgeon.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Well consider this,” said the mechanic, as he worked on a large and sophisticated engine, “I check how it’s running, open it up, fix the valves, and put it all back together so it works as good as new. We basically do the same job, don’t we? And yet you are paid ten times what I am – how do you explain that?”<\/em><\/p>\n

The surgeon thought for a moment, then gently replied with a smile, \u201cTry fixing it with the engine running.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Without in any way disparaging the importance of car mechanics,
\nI do feel that negotiating the spiritual life
\nis a little more like open-heart surgery than engine repair.<\/p>\n

This is especially true in the call from today\u2019s readings
\nto decide, believe, follow, and endure:
\nTasks we have to achieve in our spiritual lives
\nwhen the rest of our relational, medical,
\nfiscal and emotional selves are running at full throttle.<\/p>\n

Faith is a tricky business!
\nIn the words of the writer and preacher Frederick Buechner:<\/p>\n

\u201cFaith is disorderly, intermittent, and full of surprises\u2026.Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.”\u00a0<\/em>[2]<\/p>\n

And yet, in this waiting stance,
\nin the ambiguity of the in-between
\nwhile engines are running at full throttle around us,
\nwe yet are expected to discern, decide, act and be faithful
\nin life, relationships, and belief.<\/p>\n

Of course, such deciding has consequences
\nas in that graced and precarious relationship
\nPaul broaches in our second reading: Marriage.<\/p>\n

As someone who knows precious little about marriage,
\nI ordinarily avoid preaching on this topic.
\nThe only time I ever heard my parents disparage a priest
\nwas on the way home from church
\nafter he had preached on marriage,
\nwhich my folks assessed as \u201cuninformed and stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n

I would not like to say something stupid
\nespecially in the presence of so many marriage experts.<\/p>\n

I do understand something of the leap of faith
\nthat becoming and sustaining this sacramental life requires,
\ninsights that come from wise relatives and friends,
\nhow over the decades have shared their wisdom about
\nthe commitment of marriage in the proverbial
\ngood times and bad.<\/p>\n

Particularly poignant for me is a reflection by friends and theologians
\nJames and Evelyn Whitehead who, at my request,
\npenned an essay on the spirituality of marriage
\nrefracted through the 50+ years of married life they shared.<\/p>\n

They write about multiple movements, evolving seasons in marriage
\nfrom infatuation to commitment
\nthen to fidelity and generativity,
\nthe evolution of shared care and a married lifestyle,
\nfinally arriving at the stage of devotion.<\/p>\n

It is that final stage that most captures my imagination.
\nThey write that devotion is love that is well-aged.
\nIt is the enfleshed affection that survives illness and aging.
\nBy this point, child-rearing is long gone,
\nactive careers are over,
\nand the couple\u2019s love becomes an affection
\nnuanced by the awareness of final days
\nof threatening illness.
\nThey conclude that such devotion might be considered
\nEros<\/em> with wrinkles.<\/p>\n

They illustrate this devotional journey by citing the memoire
\nof John Bayley, which recounted his care for his wife,
\nthe British philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch,
\nas she suffered the ravages of Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Bayley wrote:<\/p>\n

After more than forty years of taking our marriage for granted, marriage has decided it is tired of this and is taking a hand in the game. Purposefully, persistently, involuntarily, our marriage is now getting somewhere. It is giving us no choice, and I am glad of it.\u00a0<\/em>[3]<\/p>\n

That reflection by Jim and Evelyn Whitehead was published 2 years ago
\nis even more touching in light of Evelyn\u2019s death last fall.<\/p>\n

Her husband, Jim, is more than ever
\npondering the deep vocation of that devotion
\nas he grieves the loss of his beloved partner.<\/p>\n

Our society, our Church would benefit greatly
\nby drinking deeply of this difficult devotional gift:
\na counterpoint to the pervasive \u201cmake me great\u201d mentality,
\nthe antithesis of the power-lust and egocentrism
\nthat threatens the \u201cus\u201d with the almighty \u201cI\u201d
\nthat eschews the common good for personal gain,
\nthat brow-beats the other for personal advancement.<\/p>\n

The bible reminds us that it is not good for people to be alone (Gen 2:18).
\nIt is right and just that we endure with each other
\nin good times and in bad,
\nin sickness and in health,
\nand in the fullness of living and the auguring of death.<\/p>\n

Thus today we honor in a distinctive way the married:
\nthose who embody God\u2019s own covenant with humanity
\nthat the church declares to be the most perfect image
\nof Christ\u2019s spousal bond with his Church.
\nThe covenant love and devotion
\nforged in the crucible of married life
\nreveals the stubborn and enduring faith
\nmirrored at the end of today\u2019s gospel.<\/p>\n

So we pray that the gifts of those who live this sacramental bond
\nmight anoint this broken world, scarred church, and divided country
\nso that God\u2019s covenant with humanity, that they embody,
\nmight blossom into a new covenant with each other
\nbe that family or stranger;
\nfriend or foe;
\nor comrade in race, religion, or political affiliation
\nor opponent across each of those spectrums
\nas we are nonetheless all children of God,
\nthrough Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n

\n

[1] G.K. Chesterton, \u201cThe Unfinished Temple,\u201d in What\u2019s Wrong with the World, Collected Works (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1987), 4:61.<\/p>\n

[2] Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 72.<\/p>\n

[3] James and Evelyn Whitehead, \u201cPromises to Keep: A Spirituality of Christian Marriage\u201d (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2019), 9-10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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