Jan 28 Homily: Fr Vigoa — Transcript

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1. 0:00well one of these accounts these
2. 0:03documents is that of St
3. 0:05Mark the gospel that we're reading from
4. 0:10today our opening prayer for today this
5. 0:13fourth Sunday in ordinary time is a good
6. 0:16one
7. 0:17short but to the
8. 0:20point it's it's remin
9. 0:23introducing to us in this opening
10. 0:26chapter is to undo the effects of the
11. 0:30fall of Man the event that takes place
12. 0:33way back in the Book of Genesis in which
13. 0:36man allowed evil to come into the
14. 0:39world Jesus God and man will begin to
15. 0:43kick out evil and dismantle its
16. 0:48effects that his mission and that his
17. 0:51first miracle in Mark is an exorcism
18. 0:53makes that point very
19. 0:57clear that theme of undoing the effects
20. 0:59of eil represents the long Arc of The
21. 1:02Narrative of the Gospel of Mark one will
22. 1:05see many times over this next year but
23. 1:09in particular in the reading today we're
24. 1:11reminded of something fundamentally
25. 1:13important to our Christian
26. 1:16faith to set that up let's review a
27. 1:19little bit of the background for the
28. 1:20passage
29. 1:22today we see as Jesus enters the
30. 1:25synagogue and begins teaching that this
31. 1:27demon reveals itself
32. 1:30the whole in this interesting dialogue
33. 1:32between Jesus and the demon the spirit
34. 1:35addresses Jesus crying out to him and
35. 1:37says I know who you are you are the Holy
36. 1:40One of
37. 1:42God to which Jesus responds by telling
38. 1:44him be
39. 1:46quiet and he tells him to be quiet
40. 1:48before expelling
41. 1:51him why did Jesus command the spirit of
42. 1:54evil to be quiet after all the spirit
43. 1:57was
44. 1:58correct Jesus Jesus is the Holy One Of
45. 2:01God why not allow him to Proclaim it
46. 2:04before the assembly gathered here all
47. 2:06those people that were there
48. 2:09watching well to answer that question we
49. 2:11need to remember what the sin of the
50. 2:13demon actually
51. 2:15is it's not that they're
52. 2:18stupid in fact they're smarter than we
53. 2:21are possessing a devastating intellect
54. 2:25far beyond ours and it's not that they
55. 2:28have a lack of knowledge of the
56. 2:29scripture
57. 2:30again they know the Bible better than we
58. 2:33do they can quote chapters and verses
59. 2:36all day
60. 2:38long it's not that they denied who Jesus
61. 2:41was on the contrary of faith and it was
62. 2:44not an act of
63. 2:46love was stating a
64. 2:49fact that knowledge was not enough
65. 2:53simply knowing who Jesus was was
66. 2:56insufficient that's why Jesus silences
67. 2:58him
68. 3:00he would not be proclaimed to the World
69. 3:02by a faithless revelation of a
70. 3:06demon St Paul writes in this in the
71. 3:10Beloved first to the First Corinthian
72. 3:12the letter to the Corinthians if I speak
73. 3:15in human and Angelic tongues but do not
74. 3:18have love I am a resounding gong or
75. 3:21clashing
76. 3:23symbol and if I have the gift of
77. 3:25Prophecy and comprehend all the Min all
78. 3:28the Mysteries and all the knowledge but
79. 3:30do not have love I am
80. 3:34nothing Paul is reminding us of our
81. 3:37earlier point that knowledge by itself
82. 3:40is
83. 3:41insufficient that the smartest most
84. 3:44knowledgeable person on Earth with an
85. 3:46embittered and unconverted heart is on
86. 3:49the same road of predition as those
87. 3:53demons so what do we take away from this
88. 3:56encounter between Jesus and Jesus Christ
89. 3:59a relationship with a concrete person
90. 4:02living
91. 4:05true and on that love we owe him as Lord
92. 4:08and God the love of our neighbor that
93. 4:10flows from that love because when we
94. 4:12love God with all of our hearts and our
95. 4:14minds then we begin to love our neighbor
96. 4:18we begin to love those even those who
97. 4:20have hurt
98. 4:22us because of the deep love we have for
99. 4:26Christ we too can repeat the exclamation
100. 4:29of the deep demon today we can too we
101. 4:30can say Jesus you are the Holy One Of
102. 4:34God but if it's not that it's something
103. 4:38a devotion a knowing that comes from our
104. 4:41heart it's just the
105. 4:44intellect it's just like a
106. 4:46demon but when we say it it's not simply
107. 4:49a statement of fact but an act of
108. 4:51devotion and
109. 4:53love the knowledge that we gain about
110. 4:55our faith or about theology
111. 4:58or which we again lift up to the Lord we
112. 5:01pray that God help us to carry out his
113. 5:04greatest
114. 5:06commandment because when I know
115. 5:09Jesus know him here but more importantly
116. 5:12know him in the heart when I truly know
117. 5:16Jesus then I can love him with all my
118. 5:19heart and all my mind and because I love
119. 5:21him with all my mind and all my heart
120. 5:23then I can now love my
121. 5:25neighbor to love God not only with
122. 5:28knowledge but with our mind minds but
123. 5:30also with a great devotion of our hearts
124. 5:34amen
125. 5:35amen