On that day, The branch of the LORD will be luster and glory, and the fruit of the earth will be honor and splendor for the survivors of Israel. Isaiah 4:2
Each day we are given an opportunity to exalt the goodness, the mercy, the presence of God in our lives. We can celebrate this fact each time we attend Mass, each time we participate in the Eucharist. During the Mass both the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist help us move closer to God. Prayers are said in remembrance of God. Each day we are given opportunities to live in honor of the Lord Jesus Christ by making choices that reflect charity, humility, and obedience to God.
This is an age when as individuals and as Christians, deference and reverence to God are not luxuries but necessities. This is an age when everything is shiny and bright, when everything is for sale, when everything is a commodity, when almost everything depreciates. God's love for us does not change. It remains just as beautiful, just as alluring, just as attractive. How we look at it changes because of our choices, our sins, our mistakes. God asks for our obedience. God asks us to love one another. Each individual, each Christian decides both whether and how they will respond to God's request.
There are moments during Mass of such exquisiteness when the entire world is splendid with God's love, with God's hope. The Eucharist is a moment wonderful and inspiring. Here is hope. Here is faith. Here is love. The individual ceases to exist for a moment, a transcendent moment, when time falls away, and each one of us is at the Last Supper with Jesus Christ, each one of us are searching within our hearts, minds, and souls for patience, deference, reverence. Each time I hear the prayers of the Eucharist, there is a magnificence in the words, in the cadence, which creates a yearning to be more good, more kind, more holy; a yearning to serve the Lord with my entire being. The mystery of the Eucharist is an unique promise, spectacular and wondrous, of love, humility, obedience for each Christian to discover and to live.
Each day we are given the opportunity live within the shimmering light of goodness, the shimmering light of God's love.
For over all, his glory will be shelter and protection: shade from the parching heat of day, refuge and cover from storm and rain. Isaiah 4:6
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