{"id":59045,"date":"2022-01-18T15:27:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=59045"},"modified":"2022-01-23T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T20:18:08","slug":"ars-praedicandi-third-sunday-in-ordinary-time-c-ed-foley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/18\/ars-praedicandi-third-sunday-in-ordinary-time-c-ed-foley\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Ars Praedicandi:<\/i> Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), Ed Foley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While it might seem pass\u00e9<br \/>\n&#8211; in this era of texting, Instagram,<br \/>\nSnapchat, YouTube,<br \/>\nWhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Google hangouts -nonetheless, the spoken word can still be a powerful medium<br \/>\nfor engaging minds and changing hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Market evidence for this assertion<br \/>\nis found in the continued rise of audiobooks in popularity.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2021\/06\/audio-publishers-association-12-percent-audiobook-revenue-growth-in-2020-covid19\/\">The Audio Publishers Association,<\/a> for example,<br \/>\nnoted that in 2020, the last year there are complete statistics,<br \/>\n71,000 audiobooks were published in the U.S.,<br \/>\na 39% increase over the previous year<br \/>\ngenerating revenues to the tune of 1.3 billion dollars that year.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just this market trend, however,<br \/>\nthat underscores the power and potential of the spoken word.<br \/>\nNote, for example, that while U.S. Constitution<br \/>\ndoes not require that the Commander in Chief<br \/>\nto deliver a live state of the union address<br \/>\n&#8211; Thomas Jefferson notably abandoned the practice<br \/>\nand sent a written message to Congress \u2013<br \/>\npresidents since Woodrow Wilson have embraced<br \/>\nthe power of the in-the-flesh personally vocalized address<br \/>\nas a way not only to report to Congress<br \/>\nbut also to advocate for preferred policies and legislation.<br \/>\nSo, despite the COVID surge,<br \/>\nyou know Biden isn\u2019t going to bypass this bully pulpit<br \/>\neven though it\u2019s been pushed off until March.<\/p>\n<p>While the spoken word can be effective, even influential,<br \/>\nit is not infallible, either in its speaking or its hearing.<\/p>\n<p>A malapropism is the mistaken use of an incorrect word<br \/>\nin place of a similarly sounding word<br \/>\nresulting in at least nonsensical if not humorous results<\/p>\n<p>You may remember Mike Tyson complaining, for example,<br \/>\nthat he was \u201cfalling into Bolivian\u201d<br \/>\nor Dan Quayle\u2019s contention that<br \/>\n\u201cRepublicans understand the importance of bondage<br \/>\nbetween a mother and child\u201d<br \/>\nOr Yogi Berra announcing that<br \/>\n\u201cTexas has a lot of electrical votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So with some regularly we often misspeak<br \/>\nand maybe with even more regularity, we mishear.<\/p>\n<p>A mondegreen is the mishearing of a phrase or song lyric<br \/>\nthat prompts the substitution of similar-sounding words<br \/>\nresulting in new, sometimes quite amusing meanings. [1]<br \/>\nThese \u201cearslips\u201d are quite common among children, for example,<br \/>\nOne 7-year-old thought \u201cI pledge allegiance to the flag\u201d<br \/>\nwas actually, \u201cI led a pigeon to the flag.\u201d<br \/>\nAnother phrase in that pledge that gets jumped in children\u2019s ears<br \/>\nis \u201cone nation, indivisible\u201d<br \/>\nthat sometimes comes out as<br \/>\n\u201cone nation, in a dirigible\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cone nation, and a vegetable,\u201d and even<br \/>\n\u201cone naked individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, it\u2019s not just children who mishear.<br \/>\nAdults do this all the time \u2013 especially with <a href=\"https:\/\/stacker.com\/stories\/3387\/lyrics-50-famously-misunderstood-songs-explained\">song lyrics:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius\u201d<br \/>\nOften comes out as the dawning of \u201cthe age of asparagus\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The line in <em>Desperado<\/em>\u00a0by the Eagles that goes<br \/>\n\u201cyou\u2019ve been out riding fences, for so long now\u201d<br \/>\ngets reinterpreted as<br \/>\n\u201cyou\u2019ve been outright offensive, for so long now\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And of course, the Beatles <em>Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds<\/em><br \/>\nHas that ear puzzle \u201cthe girl with kaleidoscope eyes&#8221;<br \/>\nwhich regularly gets interpreted as<br \/>\n\u201cthe Girl with colitis goes by.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What prompts these excursions into malapropisms and mondegreens<br \/>\nabout misspeaking and mishearing<br \/>\nare distinctive lectionary texts appointed for our hearing today<br \/>\nthat both underscore the power of the Word for our believing,<br \/>\nbut also the danger in that Word<br \/>\nthat is easily misunderstood, misappropriated<br \/>\nor simply dismissed as irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s opening lection from the book of Nehemiah<br \/>\noffers an idealized narrative of God\u2019s chosen people<br \/>\nlistening attentively to the book of the law<br \/>\n&#8211; The book of Deuteronomy as we call it \u2013<br \/>\nbeing deeply moved by that word,<br \/>\nunderstanding it through the interpretation of Ezra<br \/>\nand through that word being reconstituted as a people<br \/>\nafter the decimating experience of the exile.<\/p>\n<p>The idealized, even romanticized nature of this text<br \/>\nis evident in a description that reports that the reading<br \/>\ntook place from early morning until midday<br \/>\n(like from dawn till noon \u2026 so maybe 6 hours?)<br \/>\nand the people were apparently attentive through it all.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t imagine attempting such a thing<br \/>\nwith a contemporary congregation.<\/p>\n<p>But what is important here is not a calculation of minutes,<br \/>\nbut a calculus of commitment<br \/>\nthat is possible and even required<br \/>\nwhen one immerses themselves in God\u2019s word.<\/p>\n<p>There is an apparently true story of a toddler<br \/>\nwhose favorite storybook was kept by his bedside<br \/>\nand his mother read it to him almost every night<br \/>\nfor weeks on end.<br \/>\nOne day the mother found the toddler standing on the book<br \/>\npushing very hard with his little feet<br \/>\nand obviously getting very frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>The mother was at a loss to understand<br \/>\nor ease his frustration<br \/>\nuntil the six-year-old sister explained<br \/>\nthat Tony liked the book so much<br \/>\nhe wanted to become part of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Nehemiah seems to be telling us something similar<br \/>\nabout the fractured and broken Israelites<br \/>\nwho wanted again to become part of God\u2019s saving story.<\/p>\n<p>While this first reading is meant to complement the Gospel &#8211;<br \/>\nJesus\u2019 own inaugural state of the kingdom address<br \/>\nto his hometown crowd &#8211;<br \/>\nLuke\u2019s story has a very different ending,<br \/>\nthough we have to wait until next week<br \/>\nto hear the end of this episode<br \/>\nthat literally turns into a \u201ccliffhanger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For while there is initial admiration<br \/>\nfor the local kid made good,<br \/>\neventually his neighbors rise up in indignation,<br \/>\ndrag him to a cliff on the edge of town<br \/>\nand attempt an early disposal of the Son of God.<\/p>\n<p>They clearly neither had the ears nor the stomach<br \/>\nto hear such a justice message,<br \/>\nby this uppity kid from the hood.<\/p>\n<p>I think that many of us live between Nehemiah and Luke,<br \/>\nbetween wanting to become part of God\u2019s saving story<br \/>\nbut wanting to edit out certain parts of that story<br \/>\nwith its messages about poverty of spirit,<br \/>\nembracing enemies, lifting up the lowly<br \/>\nand accepting death as the path to eternal life.<\/p>\n<p>Paul often tussled with the Corinthian community<br \/>\nwho had similar difficulties entering the Jesus narrative.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s second reading he offers a solution to this dilemma<br \/>\nwith an original proposal about our spiritual physiology<br \/>\nand while in his discourse on feet and eyes and hands<br \/>\nhe doesn\u2019t make any explicit reference to the ear<br \/>\n(which he does in some other writings) [2]<br \/>\nhe is reminding us that the earbone is connected to the heartbone<br \/>\nand we need to continuously adjust our perceptions<br \/>\nso that God\u2019s Word can break through<br \/>\nour many forms of impaired hearing.<\/p>\n<p>I recently read a story about Ben Underwood. [3]<br \/>\nBorn in 1992 in Sacramento,<br \/>\nhe went blind from retinoblastoma by the time he was 3.<\/p>\n<p>His visionary mother was determined that he should<br \/>\nexperience his childhood like any other kid<br \/>\nso she made practice jumping up and down steps<br \/>\ndoing other challenging spatial tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually Ben began to adapt by clicking with his tongue,<br \/>\nmaking clicking noises against the roof of his mouth<br \/>\nand listening to the sounds that bounced back to him.<br \/>\nWhat is technically known as echolocation,<br \/>\nthe same sonar technique that allows bats<br \/>\nto perceive their environments,<br \/>\nhe literally changed his brain in the process<br \/>\nso he could interpret the world around him<br \/>\nwithout sight.<\/p>\n<p>In this new acoustic landscape<br \/>\nhe could differentiate a parked car from a parked truck.<br \/>\nHe could recognize a particular neighbor by her walk.<br \/>\nHe played basketball and tetherball<br \/>\nand even beat his brother at video games<br \/>\nsimply by learning the significance of the different sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientists confirm that we can actually<br \/>\ntransform our brain\u2019s capacity to perceive<br \/>\nin new and surprising ways, as did Ben Underwood.<\/p>\n<p>Analogously, is it not possible for the baptized<br \/>\nunder the guidance that same Spirit<br \/>\nJesus invokes in today\u2019s gospel<br \/>\nto transform our heart\u2019s capacity to perceive<br \/>\non liberating and grace-filled ways<br \/>\nby learning the \u201cJesus click,\u201d<br \/>\nacquiring the gift of cardio-location<br \/>\nfor hearing the very heartbeat of God<br \/>\nin the world around us and in each other?<\/p>\n<p>Paula Underwood, a member of the Iroquois Nation,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.awakin.org\/v2\/read\/view.php?tid=654\">tells the story of her father teaching her to listen.<\/a> [6]<br \/>\nWhenever someone said something to us, Dad would say,<br \/>\n\u201cYou remember what he said, honey?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paula got very good at repeating verbatim what people said,<br \/>\neven if they were quite long discourses.<br \/>\nOne elderly gentleman, Mr. Thompson, would often come by<br \/>\nand tell her father stories.<br \/>\nEventually, Paula learned all of Mr. Thompson\u2019s stories<br \/>\nand could repeat them with great accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>In a turning point in her own perception<br \/>\nher Dad once said, \u201cI know you know his story,<br \/>\nbut did you hear his heart?\u201d<br \/>\nPaula\u2019s perceptual world opened up that day, as she responded,<br \/>\n\u201cYes, he is very lonely and comes and shares his memories<br \/>\nbecause he\u2019s asking you to keep him company<br \/>\nin his memories.\u201d<br \/>\nShe later reflected, that at that moment,<br \/>\nher heart echoed his heart.<br \/>\nShe concludes \u201cwhen you can listen at that level \u2026<br \/>\nyou can hear what the Universe is saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The celebrated 20th-century theologian Karl Rahner<br \/>\ncharacterized human beings as \u201chearers of the word.\u201d<br \/>\nIt was his way of stressing that by our very nature<br \/>\nwe are instinctively attuned to God\u2019s own self-communication.<\/p>\n<p>Metaphorically we might have eyelids,<br \/>\nbut we don\u2019t have ear-lids<br \/>\nand are physiologically open to the very speaking of God.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes we have spiritual ear blockage,<br \/>\nan inability to hear God speaking<br \/>\nthrough unfamiliar, sometimes accented voices<br \/>\nthat sound an internal alarm<br \/>\nabout some potential enemy<br \/>\nrather than another child of God.<\/p>\n<p>On this \u201cauditory Sunday\u201d<br \/>\nwe pray for a stronger connection<br \/>\nbetween earbone and heartbone,<br \/>\nbetween attending and embracing,<br \/>\nand between listening and loving<br \/>\nthat we might grow into authentic hearers of the word<br \/>\nwith renewed hearts<br \/>\nand open spirits<br \/>\nthrough 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