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Sermon 30A 2005 SERMON 30A 2020. Some of those Pharisees in the Gospel obviously didn’t think much of Jesus, seen in that question they ask him, another attempt to get him to say something they could use against him, perhaps they thought he would answer it wrongly or bizarrely, instead he gives the most orthodox of answers. In answer to that question of what is the greatest commandment, he quotes the Jewish law, from the book of Deuteronomy, the very heart of the Jewish faith, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment.” And he continues, “The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself.” There is nothing controversial here, no attempt to outwit his questioners, the heart of faith is simply to love God and to love your neighbour. These words would have been very familiar to all the people of the time, they formed the part of a Jewish daily prayer, called the “Shema”, said every day, to remind each person of the heart of their faith. And to love God absolutely, with all your heart, soul and mind, with everything that you are. And yet even though Jesus gives this very straightforward answer to that question of the Pharisees, in his ministry he showed a new depth to these commandments. In anther place in the Gospels he is asked the same question and gives the same answer, but is then asked, “but who is my neighbour”, and in response preaches the parable of the Good Samaritan, a parable which teaches that everyone is our neighbour, not just those we share the same faith with. Jesus preached a new definition of neighbour, a very challenging one. But even this wasn’t really new, in the first reading today, from the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, the people are commanded to love their neighbour, and that includes, strangers and aliens in the land, not just those of the same faith and place as them. This is supposed to be a distinguishing mark of the Jewish and Christian faiths, our care for our neighbour, and everyone is our neighbour, who we are supposed to love, in the same way we love and care for ourselves.. But sometimes when we use the word love it can too easily become sentimental, we can think of the love expressed in song and on a cinema screen, but the love Jesus talks of today is much more down to earth and hard edged. In the Old Testament this was often expressed by using another term, hospitality, the care given to a stranger or visitor, there was real obligation to care for such people. The hospitality, care, love we show does set us apart from others, where so often the stranger, the asylum seeker, the beggar are demonised, as not being worth our care. But surely all that Jesus did teaches us the opposite, he calls us to a care and love of others that will cost us, to care for those we may not like, who we may not like the look of, people we find annoying and irritating, people whose behaviour, lifestyle and opinions we disagree with, or it may be someone who has sinned against us or those we know; this kind of care costs us. But so it should, because we are supposed to imitate Jesus, to be like him. Every time we celebrate mass we are reminded of this, and quite appropriately we are reminded of it right at the end of mass, after we have heard the word of God, after we have offered the sign if peace, after we have received holy communion, the priest says right at the end, Go forth the mass has ended, in the very last words of mass we are commissioned to go out and to love God and one another, the mass isn’t the end of our obligation it is the beginning. Finally, today we celebrate the lives of the holy martyrs of England and wales, we celebrate the love they showed in staying loyal to the faith during the penal days, staying loyal especially to the beleief in the sacrifice of the mass, in the real presence, and the role of the Holy Father, the Pope; persecution which lasted from the 1530’s through to the 1680’s. Today we especially remember those who were canonized 50 years ago today by Pope Paul VI, an incredible group of priests, monks, religious and lay men and women. Each of them has their own feast day, but they are remembered as a group on this day each year in Wales, and on 4th May in Engaldn each year. In addition to these 40, 200 other martyrs were canonized or be-attided by Popes Leo xiii and Pius xi. The Group of Forty are 3 Carthusians: Augustine Webster d.1535 John Houghton 1486-1535 Robert Lawrence d.1535 1 Augustinian friar John Stone d. 1538 1 Brigittine: Richard Reynolds d. 1535 2 Franciscans: John Jones d. 1598 (Friar Observant – also known as John Buckley, John Griffith, or Godfrey Maurice) John Wall d. 1679 (Franciscan – known at Douai and Rome as John Marsh, and by other aliases while on the mission in England) 3 Benedictines: John Roberts d. 1610, Ambrose Barlow d. 1641, Alban Roe d. 1642 10 Jesuits: Alexander Briant 1556-81, Edmund Campion 1540-81, Robert Southwell 1561-95 Henry Walpole 1558-95, Nicholas Owen 1540-1606, Thomas Garnet 1575-1608 Edmund Arrowsmith 1585–1628, Henry Morse 1595-1644, Philip Evans 1645-79 David Lewis 1616-79 13 Priests of the Secular Clergy: Cuthbert Mayne 1543–77, Ralph Sherwin 1558-81, Luke Kirby 1549-82 John Paine d. 1582, John Almond d. 1585, Polydore Plasden d. 1591 Eustace White 1560-91, Edmund G(J)ennings 1567-91, John Boste 1544-94 John Southworth 1592-1654, John Kemble 1599-1679, John Lloyd d. 1679 John Plessington d. 1679 7 members of the laity – 4 men and 3 women/mothers Richard Gwyn 1537-84, Swithun Wells 1536-91, Philip Howard 1557-95 John Rigby 1570-1600, Margaret Clitherow 1586, Margaret Ward 1588 Anne Line 1601 .
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