{"id":61947,"date":"2023-07-09T23:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=61947"},"modified":"2023-07-17T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T14:02:01","slug":"ars-praedicandi-fourteenth-sunday-of-ordinary-time-ed-foley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/09\/ars-praedicandi-fourteenth-sunday-of-ordinary-time-ed-foley\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Ars Praedicandi:<\/i> Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At first glance today&#8217;s are not the most challenging lectionary readings<br \/>\nfilled as they are with a multitude of gracious and affirming images:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a meek savior<\/li>\n<li>peace for the nations<\/li>\n<li>God\u2019s mercy<\/li>\n<li>the Spirit dwelling within<\/li>\n<li>a messiah who lightens our burdens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the same time there are ominous allusions to problems or dangers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the warrior\u2019s bow<\/li>\n<li>challenges of the flesh<\/li>\n<li>the ignorance of the presumedly wise<\/li>\n<li>and the burdens of labor and life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So our task is to explore this stew of ideas<br \/>\nthat they emerge as at least a modest spiritual banquet<br \/>\nrather than homiletic pablum devoid of any gospel spice.<\/p>\n<p>It is a well-accepted principle<br \/>\nthat the frameworks you use to examine an issue<br \/>\nimpact the outcome of that examination.<\/p>\n<p>It is also well-established that our favorite strategies<br \/>\nare not always the most effective.<\/p>\n<p>This is sometimes known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/thedecisionlab.com\/biases\/law-of-the-instrument\">law of instrumentation\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\nwhich stresses the ineffectiveness<br \/>\nof using the skill or tool most familiar to us.<br \/>\nThus the famed psychologist Abraham Maslow wisely noted:<br \/>\n\u201cIf the only tool you have is a hammer,<br \/>\nit is tempting to treat everything in the world as if it were a nail!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I know my tendencies toward certain preaching strategies<br \/>\nlike using the sciences or capitalizing on contemporary news stories,<br \/>\nlike NASCAR racing in Chicago or the racial unrest in France,<br \/>\nbut these seemed inadequate for tackling key themes<br \/>\npunctuating today\u2019s Word,<br \/>\nparticularly about the intricacies of relationships<br \/>\nand especially the demands of friendship.<\/p>\n<p>In casting around for a suitable tool for prying open these texts<br \/>\nI remembered an unexpected gift received years ago.<br \/>\nFriends sometimes send a book that might resonate with my preaching.<\/p>\n<p>This gift, however, was completely outside my literary universe:<br \/>\na massive, boxed set of the complete Calvin and Hobbes comics<br \/>\ncomprising 1440 pages stretching over 3 volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Assured by the gift-giver that there was wisdom to be gleaned here,<br \/>\nmy OCD-self had to devise a strategy for excavating that wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Since each fully illustrated book opened to about 2 feet across<br \/>\nI placed it on an old wooden book stand on a side table<br \/>\nand commenced daily reading of a page or two:<br \/>\na task that stretched over two years.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin and Hobbes centers on the relationship between<br \/>\na precocious 6 year old boy named Calvin<br \/>\nand his philosophical partner in crime: a stuffed tiger named Hobbes.<br \/>\nThe key dynamic is that Calvin sees Hobbes as fully human and alive<br \/>\nwhile everyone else sees him as an inanimate stuffed toy.<\/p>\n<p>They are sometimes touted as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/717006\/7-reasons-calvin-and-hobbes-have-the-best-friendship\">best friends<\/a> in the history of comics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>they were always exploring; adventure was best when shared<\/li>\n<li>they invented clubs or activities that often included only the 2 of them<\/li>\n<li>they told each other the truth though that was usually Hobbes to Calvin<\/li>\n<li>they supported each other\u2019s crazy ideas\n<ul>\n<li>especially Calvin\u2019s insane experiments or daredevil escapades<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>and Hobbes always knew when Calvin needed a hug. As Calvin remarked, \u201cthings are never quite as scary when you\u2019ve got a best friend.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In multiple ways throughout the Gospel<br \/>\nJesus defines his relationship with his disciples<br \/>\nas one of friend and companion, rather than parent or master.<br \/>\nBut in redefining this divine-human dynamic<br \/>\nhe reveals serious challenges to being God\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n<p>Akin to those depicted in the \u201cgospel according to Calvin and Hobbes\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jesus calls us out of our complacency into the unexpected adventure we call discipleship<\/li>\n<li>sometimes that experience of discipleship can feel like a very small club, like only you and God\u2019s first born are on mission<\/li>\n<li>the Spirit of Jesus prods us into risky endeavors like loving enemies and embracing strangers<\/li>\n<li>this relationship is marked by searing truthfulness, usually Jesus calling us out<\/li>\n<li>And Jesus understands when we need a holy hug \u2026 but today that comes to us in the form of an evangelical yoke.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The yoke is a metaphor often used in Jewish literature<br \/>\nto reference the law given to Moses<br \/>\na law that encompassed not only the 10 written commandments<br \/>\nbut the oral law encompassing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewfaq.org\/613_commandments\">613 other commandments<\/a><br \/>\nas well as over 1500 so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britshalomstatecollege.org\/torah-commentaries\/2017\/11\/20\/making-fences-around-the-torah\">fence laws<\/a>\u201d for people to obey<br \/>\nakin to preventative barriers or defenses<br \/>\nintended to keep people from breaking God\u2019s law.<\/p>\n<p>As one can imagine, trying to observe the 613 commandments<br \/>\nand the multitude of those well-intentioned canonical \u201cfences\u201d<br \/>\ncould be a burden.<\/p>\n<p>As an alternative, Jesus offers his \u201clighter yoke\u201d<br \/>\nhis distillation of over 2000 fences and laws into 2<br \/>\nloving God, and neighbor as ourselves:<br \/>\nboth required for initiation into Jesus\u2019 friendship.<\/p>\n<p>In this post-pandemic era, our society seemed newly primed for friendship.<br \/>\nHowever, despite renewed interest in the topic<br \/>\nand many well-recognized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/adult-health\/in-depth\/friendships\/art-20044860\">health benefits\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\nthe role of friends today is experiencing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americansurveycenter.org\/research\/the-state-of-american-friendship-change-challenges-and-loss\/\">pronounced decline.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 2021 survey reports that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we have fewer close friendships than we once did<\/li>\n<li>we talk to our friends less often<\/li>\n<li>and we rely less on friends for personal support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While there are multiple factors contributing to this situation<br \/>\nincluding increased post-pandemic mobility<br \/>\nand the heightened demands of our families and employment,<br \/>\nthere is also scientific evidence that the older we get<br \/>\nthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/jessica-stillman\/psychology-relationships-adult-friends.html\">more difficult it is for us to make friends.<\/a><br \/>\nSome calculate that creating casual friendships takes 50 hours;<br \/>\nnurturing a close friendship takes at least 200 hours<br \/>\nnot including the many ensuing hours of maintenance<br \/>\nsuch intimacy requires.<br \/>\nSuch relational challenges are pushing some folk to the point<br \/>\nof needing to hire a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/better\/lifestyle\/i-hired-friendship-coach-help-me-make-friends-here-s-ncna1141571\">friendship coach!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a sense, through baptism we have the best coach in the cosmos<br \/>\nGod\u2019s Spirit \u2026<br \/>\nwhose gifts such as wisdom, prudence and courage<br \/>\nprod and enable us<br \/>\ninto the Jesus yoke of authentic love of God<br \/>\nand enduring mission to our neighbors<br \/>\nall the while nurturing that all-important ingredient of self-love<br \/>\nembedded in this succinct Jesus code.<\/p>\n<p>The implicit challenge to accepting this coaching, however,<br \/>\nevokes the key dynamic in the Calvin &amp; Hobbes tale:<br \/>\nMost of us don\u2019t have the vision of Calvin<br \/>\nto see that the Tiger is real,<br \/>\nto hear the wisdom from those whom we render invisible,<br \/>\nto accept the hug from those we\u2019d rather erase than embrace,<br \/>\nand to recognize the spirit of God in the stranger, other, or enemy.<\/p>\n<p>I know the Paul we heard proclaimed in the second reading<br \/>\ncan sound like a bit of a social killjoy or morally superior:<br \/>\n\u201cdon\u2019t do this, don\u2019t do that \u2026<br \/>\ndon\u2019t flirt with evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22),<br \/>\ndon\u2019t drag believers to court (1 Corinthians 6)\u201d<br \/>\nand today, \u201cdon\u2019t live according to the flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But what Paul is NOT saying is that we should give up being enfleshed<br \/>\nabandon incarnation<br \/>\ndecide not to be a completely embodied believer.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, the Pauline corpus is precisely about<br \/>\nfully materialized, substantiated, tangible believing<br \/>\nand treating everyone else as an embodied reflection of God.<\/p>\n<p>Like many small children &#8211; like Calvin himself &#8211;<br \/>\na little girl was afraid of the dark and struggled to go to sleep.<br \/>\nTime after time, she came back to the family room<br \/>\nand begged her mother to stay with her all night.<br \/>\n&#8220;I can&#8217;t do that,&#8221; her mother replied, &#8220;but you should not be afraid<br \/>\nyou are not alone. God is always with you. &#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;But I don&#8217;t want God,&#8221; the little girl cried.<br \/>\n&#8220;I want somebody with skin on! &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The baptized have many titles<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 mystical body<br \/>\n\u2022 priestly people<br \/>\n\u2022 beloved disciples<\/p>\n<p>But eschewing the easy frameworks<br \/>\ncautioned by that law of instrumentation<br \/>\nwhat if we are allowed to be reconceived as the \u201cskin of God?\u201d<br \/>\npeople yoked to the very flesh of humanity<br \/>\nin which no one is reduced to an inanimate object,<br \/>\neven a cute one,<br \/>\nand no child is allowed to feel that their only friend is invisible to others.<\/p>\n<p>One of the prejudices that increasingly shocks me today<br \/>\nis the growing vitriol towards the trans community.<br \/>\nAdmittedly this is not a world I know a lot about<br \/>\nbut I do have a young relative who identifies with this community<br \/>\nand they are one of the brightest,<br \/>\nmost emotionally intelligent<br \/>\nand loving young people that I know.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately many would apparently like to turn her into a Hobbes<br \/>\nbasically invisible, certainly inaudible, maybe even inanimate<br \/>\nbecause of their own inability to see with the wisdom of a Calvin.<\/p>\n<p>One trans blogger, finding solace in the Gospel of Calvin &amp; Hobbes, wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the strip suddenly \u2026 describe[d] things that resonated with me: what it was like to live in a world where expressing your realest self is \u2026 penalized, and [how important it is to find] a friend \u2026 [especially] if your blood family fails to understand or accept the truest version of you. Calvin could never fully be himself; the worlds he dreamt up were always lovelier and more marvelous than the dull world he was supposed to live in. It reminded me of the pressures I had felt \u2026 pretending to be what the largely anti-queer society \u2026 wanted me to be\u2026. And yet [Calvin] \u2026 found Hobbes \u2026 who understood him and allowed him to live out his dreams\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jesus\u2019 gospel invitation today is not to live a life without burdens,<br \/>\nbut to take on his yoke<br \/>\nsweetened by mercy,<br \/>\nshouldered in generosity,<br \/>\nand lightened by love.<\/p>\n<p>The living saints around us honor us with their witness revealing<br \/>\ntime and time again<br \/>\nthat here is no burden in carrying<br \/>\nthe beloved, the child, the sibling<br \/>\nonly grace and gratitude \u2026<br \/>\nfor as the folk wisdom reminds us,<br \/>\n\u201che\u2019s not heavy, he\u2019s my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today we take up that yoke again,<br \/>\nespecially with those that society too easily erases,<br \/>\nembracing the Hobbes among us,<br \/>\nwhile praying for the heart of a child, the eyes of a Calvin<br \/>\nthrough Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Fr. 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