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

Years ago, I had the privilege of studying
\nwith a prominent Protestant scholar<\/a>
\nwho often critiqued his own preaching tradition.<\/p>\n

While there has been significant change since then,
\nat that time most Protestant preachers did not
\nfollow a lectionary and instead selected their own texts.
\nProfessor White complained that some
\ntook advantage of this option
\nand consistently chose what he called \u201cuser friendly texts.\u201d
\nWhile not wanting to dishonor his splendid teaching legacy
\nI quite frankly wished that such was an option for me today.<\/p>\n

There is no way under heaven that this text could be construed
\nas \u201cuser friendly.\u201d
\nRather, it is one of the toughest pieces of Jesus speech
\nnot only the most controversial verses in Matthew,
\nbut maybe in the whole of the NT.<\/p>\n

Commentators have offered multiple strategies
\nfor dealing with this text\u2019s shocking severity
\nThree come to mind:<\/p>\n

Strategy 1 – the evangelical chickening out approach<\/strong>
\nwhich is to read the short version of the gospel
\navoiding much of what sounds like a divine tirade
\nand instead preach about the other readings
\nor better yet approaching Valentine\u2019s day
\n(which sounds like a ministerial copout to me).<\/p>\n

Strategy 2 – explain everything in the text<\/strong>
\npresuming that a line-by-line exegesis
\ncan render this text palatable.
\nWhile an interesting approach we don\u2019t have 2 hours
\nand even gifted exegetes are often stumped here.<\/p>\n

Strategy 3 – select some bit of the text
\n<\/strong>and use it to shed light on the whole text.
\nWhile more promising than the other two
\nwhich segment do you choose?
\nThe gruesome eye gouging
\nor the one the preacher knows the least about
\nlike adultery or divorce?
\nOr the one the preacher knows the most about… not going there.<\/p>\n

In the end, this still sounds like a masked attempt
\nto create a user-friendly text.<\/p>\n

So I opt for a 4th strategy
\nand without trying to psychoanalyze God \u2013
\n\u2013 risky business if not a potentially heretical one \u2013
\nattempt to suspend the flawed human wisdom Paul critiques
\nand explore the divine wisdom, even motivation
\nbehind this difficult gospel.<\/p>\n

Vatican II asserts that the church has much to learn from the world [1]
\nand maybe this Valentine weekend provides a useful prism
\nfor discerning the holy passion behind this challenging text.<\/p>\n

Even though the Church doesn\u2019t officially celebrate St. Valentine, [2]
\nUS society celebrates this feast turned holiday with decided gusto
\nthroughout this \u201cValentine\u2019s weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Economists predict that, while still below pre-pandemic levels,
\nwe will shell out almost 26 billion dollars on this holiday,<\/a>
\nmaking it the 4th biggest commercial holiday of the year.<\/p>\n

It is a season often marked by extravagant display,
\ne.g., back when they were talking
\nAngelina Jolie spent $30,000 on a 200-year-old olive tree
\nfor Brad Pitt who seems to have a thing for olives.<\/p>\n

Kim Kardashian got a living room full of roses one year,
\nComplete with Kenny G serenading in the midst of the roses.<\/p>\n

Beyonce once got a platinum cell phone from Hubby Jay-Z.<\/p>\n

Not to be outdone, one year David Beckham gave Mrs. Spice
\nan $8 million dollar Bulgari necklace.<\/p>\n

Such extravagance is certainly beyond the pale,
\nand though embarrassing giving the grinding poverty
\nso many endure around the globe,
\nthese levels of excess still intrigue if not awe us.<\/p>\n

While baptism does not promise us earthly wealth
\nit does enfold us in the extravagant love
\nof an outrageously demanding
\nimpossibly persistent God.<\/p>\n

It is scandalous that God would ask for so much: \u201cbe perfect\u201d
\nand indulge in such gospel exaggeration,
\n(like being condemned to hell for calling someone a fool!)
\nbut no more scandalous than what God did for us
\nin the living, dying and rising of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

But what should we expect
\nfrom a God whom Jack Shea describes as an \u201cinsomniac,
\npacing the night sky \u2026
\ntwo star-blazed eyes raking the earth\u201d for us. [3]
\nIt is almost laughable that the eternal \u201cHound of heaven\u201d
\nwho holds sway over galaxies and nebulas,
\nyet yearns for the attention of his creatures.
\nThat the Holy One who infused the Son with life-giving blood
\nso that he could pour it out in love for us.<\/p>\n

Unlikely Friendships<\/em> is a New Your Times bestseller by Jennifer Holland
\nthat describes unusual, even outrageous stories
\nof animal bonding across species.<\/p>\n

There is the Canadian Great Dane who found a baby fawn
\nand took charge of raising it until it could return to the forest,
\nthough the grown deer still comes back for visits.<\/p>\n

Or the English donkey who rescued a sheep
\nfrom an attack by a pit bull
\nand stayed by the sheep\u2019s side until it healed.<\/p>\n

Maybe most bizarre is the orphaned baby hippo
\nwho chose a 130-year-old giant male tortoise
\nas its surrogate mom when it arrived at a Kenyan zoo.
\nEqually bizarre was the male tortoise’s response,
\nnot only because of their age and sex differences
\nbut also because tortoises never raise their young.<\/p>\n

Cockatoos and cats,
\nlowland gorillas and kittens,
\nsnakes and hamsters,
\nand rhinos and Billy goats: strange bedfellows to be sure.<\/p>\n

None hold a candle to the coupling of God and humankind
\nand the Holy One\u2019s attachment
\nto this most fickle and imperfect species we call human.<\/p>\n

Playwright William Congreve famously wrote
\n\u201chell hath no fury like a woman scored.\u201d [4]
\nToday\u2019s gospel proves him wrong,
\nrevealing the God of Jesus Christ
\nso often spurned, even by the baptized
\ncould still be so passionate about us.<\/p>\n

But the illogical love of this divine stalker goes even further
\nas evidenced in today\u2019s Gospel tirade
\nrevealing that this daft divinity, infatuated with humanity
\nis in no way jealous or exclusive.<\/p>\n

On the contrary, God wants us to love every other creature
\nwith the same passion, the same consistency
\nthe same faithfulness, and the same charity
\nrevealed in Jesus, who loved us unto death.<\/p>\n

Even though God recognizes our very flawed nature,
\nthe gospel yet demands litmus tests of care and purity
\nmodesty and charity.
\nI doubt that Francis of Assisi or his papal name\u2019s sake
\ncould meet this high bar.<\/p>\n

In his incriminating poem, \u201cAs I walked out one Evening\u201d<\/a>
\nW.H. Auden writes:<\/p>\n

‘O look, look in the mirror,<\/em>
\n<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O look in your distress:<\/em>
\n<\/em>Life remains a blessing<\/em>
\n<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Although you cannot bless.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘O stand, stand at the window<\/em>
\n<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As the tears scald and start;<\/em>
\n<\/em>You shall love your crooked neighbor<\/em>
\n<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With your crooked heart.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Happily, even in this crooked, skewed, and listing world
\nthere are still glimpses of that purity of care
\nthat Jesus seems to be pummeling us toward: a true story.<\/p>\n

A middle school football team in Michigan<\/a>
\nschemed without their coach\u2019s knowledge
\nto create a small miracle for Keith,
\na classmate with learning disabilities
\nwho struggles with boundaries in the sweetest of ways
\ngiving everyone he meets hug after hug.<\/p>\n

Keith had been invited onto the football team
\nbut obviously never scored a touchdown.
\nDuring one game the team moved the football
\nas close to the goal line as possible without scoring
\nactually taking a fall on the 1-yard line.
\nFans were not happy.<\/p>\n

Keith was then surrounded by every player, given the ball,
\nand pushed into the end zone for a score.<\/p>\n

Network news interviewed the team\u2019s 14-year-old wide receiver
\nJustice Miller, who said that they just wanted Keith
\nto have a memorable experience.<\/p>\n

When the interviewer asked him how he experienced it
\nit was clear that Justice was profoundly changed as well,
\nreporting that after the event he had the widest smile
\nthat nothing could wipe off his face.<\/p>\n

then, this young theologian reflected:<\/p>\n

you know, Keith has never been cool or popular
\nand he went like from being pretty much a nobody
\nto making everyone\u2019s day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Justice also admitted that it was not his idea
\nbut in the final moments of that interview
\nwith tears running down his cheeks said:<\/p>\n

I went from somebody who mostly cared about himself
\nand my friends to caring about everyone
\nand trying to make everyone\u2019s day in everyone\u2019s life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You shall love your crooked neighbor
\nWith your own crooked heart.<\/p>\n

In about 8 months we will hear a section from Matthew\u2019s gospel
\nin which Jesus tells his disciples not to fear
\nbecause he will be with them always.
\nThe primary way Jesus chose to fulfill that covenant
\nwas to impart his spirit to the baptized.<\/p>\n

When the interview asked Keith\u2019s mother
\nabout the meaning of the event for Keith,
\nshe said she knows that somebody
\nwill always have his back from now
\nuntil the day he graduates.<\/p>\n

Jesus demands we do the same
\nin all of our imperfections, in all of our crooked ways
\nto have the backs of equally flawed friends, family, and strangers
\nfrom now until each of us graduates into the eternal banquet.<\/p>\n

That covenant is achieved by stopping evil before it escalates:
\nno anger: too often a trigger for killing;
\nno lusting: too often a trigger for infidelity;
\nno false oaths: too often a trigger for greed.<\/p>\n

That sounds extreme, and it is.
\nBut in these days of too many mass shootings,
\ntoo much racial prejudice, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,
\ntoo much war and poverty and polarization
\nextreme measures seem necessary.<\/p>\n

God has forged a covenant with every member of humankind
\nsomething, as Paul reminds us,
\nthe leaders and governments of this age
\ndo not know always grasp,
\ncertainly not as well as a middle school football team does.<\/p>\n

In this eucharist, we rehearse that covenant
\nand our response to it
\nso that we might choose rightly, live justly
\nand love peaceably through Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n

\n

[1] Gaudium et spes, <\/em>no. 40.<\/p>\n

[2] The Roman Calendar has the feast of the Apostles to the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius.<\/p>\n

[3] John Shea, The Hour of the Unexpected <\/em>(Niles IL: Argus, 1977), 31.<\/p>\n

[4] Mourning Bride <\/em>(1697), Act III, scene 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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