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

The prophet says, \u201cshout for joy\u201d
\n\u2013 and the world scoffs.
\nZephaniah sings \u201cbe glad and exult with all your heart\u201d
\n\u2013 and the nation calls it mockery.
\nSt. Paul commands \u201crejoice in the Lord always\u201d
\n\u2013yet war abounds and children starve.
\nThe Apostle advises, \u201chave no anxiety\u201d
\n\u2013 as the pandemic rages.
\nAnd the Baptist preaches good news.<\/p>\n

In the words of one blogger:<\/a><\/p>\n

These are beautiful exhortations, and I wish I didn\u2019t find them so jarring.\u00a0\u00a0But \u201crejoice\u201d and \u201cexult\u201d are churchy words … that don\u2019t jibe easily with my 21st\u00a0<\/sup>century mindset.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cJoy\u201d itself is such an overused word in America\u2019s Christmas lexicon, I find it impenetrable.\u00a0\u00a0And as for shouting aloud?\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s a pretty tall order for a self-conscious introvert.\u00a0\u00a0Worse \u2026 the lectionary essentially\u00a0commands\u00a0<\/em>us to rejoice.\u00a0\u00a0Even on my best days, I resent commands \u2014 especially the sort that tell me what to feel. Rejoice?\u00a0 Sing praises?\u00a0 Shout?\u00a0 \u201cNo!\u201d my inner two-year-old screams, stomping her foot and crossing her arms.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t want to.”<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that the stock market is up,
\nunemployment has dropped to almost 4%,
\n60% of U.S. citizens are vaccinated
\nand most appear to be in a post-thanksgiving buying spree,
\nthe happiness meter is not very happy these days
\nwith the consumer confidence index plummeting<\/a>
\nand the National Opinion Research Center
\nsuggesting that more than in previous decades
\nAmericans are unhappy and pessimistic about the future.<\/a><\/p>\n

Laurie Santos is a psychologist teaching at Yale University.
\nNoticing that students seemed increasingly anxious and even depressed,
\nshe created what has become
\nthe most popular course in the 300+ history of that school:
\n\u201cPsychology and the Good Life,\u201d
\nnow packaged as a podcast called \u201cThe Happiness Lab.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

In the fall of 2019, she hosted the poet Ross Gay.<\/a>
\nRoss tells the story that once,
\nwhile walking a path between two farms
\nsurrounded by acres of sunflowers,
\nLinden trees and wildflowers were humming with bees.
\nThe experience was so captivating that he decided
\nto write an essay about that enchanting moment.
\nThat single essay eventually evolved into the book
\n365 Days of Delight<\/em>
\ncontaining essays written every day for a year
\nabout delight, and beauty and joy.<\/p>\n

In her interview on the happiness lab
\nProf. Santos wanted to talk about happiness.
\nBut Gay\u2019s book is subtitled A Poet\u2019s Guide to Finding Joy,<\/em>
\nso he preferred to talk about joy,
\noffering provocative insights
\non his journey into what he calls this mature emotion.<\/p>\n

In the interview, the poet made it clear
\nthat achieving joy was a labor,
\nsomething you had to work at,
\nmore rigorous than misery:
\nlots of folks effortlessly share what they hate
\nbut find it much more difficult
\nto share what gives them this deep delight.<\/p>\n

The poet then noted that his book was not a happiness journal
\nand contended that joy was as much about
\nholding each other\u2019s sorrow as having a great day,
\nthen observing ‘I don\u2019t think you can have joy without grief.’<\/p>\n

While that might sound contradictory
\nit also sounds quite revelatory
\nabout the Christian life
\nand this third Sunday of Advent\u2019s call
\nto rejoice and shout for joy
\nin the midst of so much suffering in our world
\nand often in our own families.<\/p>\n

In his book on human perception the neuroscientist Beau Lotto
\nmakes some assertions about the human brain
\nthat support the poet\u2019s instinct
\nto hold joy and sorry together.<\/p>\n

One is that the human brain is activated by contrast.
\nHe illustrates this by citing various eye and vision experiments,
\nconcluding that contrast is so essential to vision
\nthat if contrasts were eliminated, we would go blind.<\/p>\n

He then generalizes more broadly about human perception,
\nnoting that detecting differences or contrasts
\nis so essential to the functioning of our brains
\nthat when our senses are deprived of different relationships
\nthey can shut down. [1]<\/p>\n

The comments of the poet and the neuroscientist
\nhelp me understand a story about St. Francis
\nthat has always sort of puzzled me.<\/p>\n

It is a story found in the collection called the \u201cLittle Flowers\u201d<\/a>
\nin which St. Francis tries to explain to his companion,
\nBrother Leo, the nature of true joy:<\/p>\n

As the two walked in the winter cold, Francis repeatedly told Leo examples of what perfect joy is not. For example, he said, \u201cIf the friars were to make the lame to walk, if they should make straight the crooked, chase away demons, give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb, and, what is even a far greater work, if they should raise the dead after four days, write that this would not be perfect joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, Brother Leo asked Francis to explain what he meant by perfect joy. Francis responded by describing the possibility where they would arrive at their destination after walking in the rain and cold and, upon presenting themselves as brothers were accused of lying and turned away.\u00a0 That, Francis said, would be perfect joy.<\/p>\n

He went on to add, \u201cAnd if we knock again, and the porter comes out in anger to drive us away with oaths and blows, as if we were vile impostors, saying, \u2018Begone, miserable robbers, for here you shall neither eat nor sleep!\u2019 If we accept all this with patience, with joy, and with charity, O Brother Leo, write that this indeed is perfect joy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have always understood that story
\nas Francis\u2019 way to join his suffering with Christ
\nand in that find perfect joy.
\nBut the poet and the neuroscience also nudge me to believe
\nthat in my sorrow, my rejection, and my suffering
\nI can bring the empathy, the respect, and the care
\nwhen others experience such sorry, rejection, and suffering
\nthat could be a deep experience of mature joy
\nfor them as well as for me.<\/p>\n

A key turning point in today\u2019s gospel is when folks ask John
\nwhat they should do to truly repent
\nand find the path that leads to true joy.
\nNotice John does not tell them to erase their sorrows,
\nto lament their plight in the world
\nor even to simply repent for their sins and shortcomings.
\nRather he tells them to take their experiences,
\ntheir limited power and resources
\n(for these appear to be middle management folk at best)
\nand use them for the good of others,
\nproviding an opportunity for those with less:
\nless goods, less influence, less social mobility
\nto, in their own way, at least momentarily shout for joy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been almost a decade since I read Greg Boyle\u2019s
\nTattoos on the heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion.<\/em>
\nAs you might remember, \u201cFr. G.\u201d is a Jesuit
\nwho founded and directed Homeboy Industries,
\nthe world\u2019s largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, as pastor
\nof the poorest Catholic Church in LA
\nlocated in gang central between two housing projects,
\n\u201cG\u201d experienced lots of trauma, violence, death –
\nburying more victims of violence than even he could remember.<\/p>\n

At the same time, this memoir
\nis filled with stories of amazing delight.<\/p>\n

One that came to mind this joy shouting Sunday
\nconcerns a 23 year old homey, Miguel who worked on the graffiti crew.<\/p>\n

Boyle writes:<\/p>\n

He was an extremely nice kid whose pleasantness was made all the more remarkable by the fact that he had been completely abandoned by his family.\u00a0 He calls me one New Year\u2019s Day, \u201cHappy New Year, G.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cHey that was very thoughtful of you dog,\u201d I say.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know Miguel I was thinking of you on Christmas.\u00a0 So what did you do for Christmas,\u201d I asked, knowing that he had no family to welcome him in.\u00a0 \u201cOh you know, I was just right here,\u201d meaning his tiny little apartment.\u00a0 \u201cAll by yourself,\u201d I ask.\u00a0 \u201cOh no,\u201d he says, \u201cI invited homeys from the crew, you know, vato\u2019s <\/em>like me who didn\u2019t have no place to go for Christmas.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cReally,\u201d I tell him, \u201cthat sure what nice of you.\u201d\u00a0 But he has me revered and curious, \u201cSo,\u201d I ask him \u201cwhat did you do.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWell,\u201d he says, \u201cYou\u2019re not going to believe this but I cooked a turkey.\u201d\u00a0 You could feel his pride right through the phone.\u00a0 \u201cWow, you did?\u00a0 Well how\u2019d you prepare it?\u201d\u00a0 He says, \u201cghetto style.\u201d\u00a0 I tell him that I am not really familiar with this recipe.\u00a0 \u201cYa, well you just rub it with a gang of butter, throw a bunch of salt and pepper on it squeeze a couple of limone\u2019s over it, and put in the oven.\u00a0 It tasted proper.\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cWow, that\u2019s impressive; what else did you have besides the turkey?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cJust that, just turkey,\u201d he says.\u00a0 His voices tapers to a hush.\u00a0 \u201cYah, the six of us we just sat there staring at the oven, waiting for the turkey to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boyle concludes: one would be hard-pressed to image something more sacred and ordinary than these six orphans staring at an oven together.\u00a0 It is the entire law and the prophets, all in one moment right there in one humble, holy kitchen.\u00a0[2]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From deep want, experiences of abundance.
\nFrom profound sorry, the potential for delight.
\nFrom isolating loneliness, the emergence of community.
\nFrom impenetrable darkness, the promise of an eternal dawn.<\/p>\n

But only if we too seek not to be consoled but to console,
\nnot to be understood but to understand,
\nnot to be loved so much as to love.
\nFor it is in giving that we receive,
\nit is in pardoning that we are pardoned
\nand it is in dying that we ultimately find true joy
\nthrough Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n

\n

[1] Beau Lotto, Deviate: The science of seeing Differently <\/em>(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017), 101.<\/p>\n

[2] Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless compassion <\/em>(New York: Free Press, 2010), 88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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