Rather, the law of the LORD is their joy; God's law they study day and night. Psalm 1:2
Life presents wit, humor, sublimity, solemnity. Our brains allow us to reason, to make decisions. Life presents pain, terror, and fear. Each individual reacts differently. Being Christian is difficult. It asks us to accept, believe, and follow ancient documents written thousands and thousands of years ago. It is easy saying that we believe in God. Living a life that says we believe in God is difficult.
December days become shorter and shorter. The temperature is going lower and lower.
It is important to encourage our hearts, minds, and souls to expand, to learn about different subjects, to learn how to love, how to hope, how to share in the name of Jesus Christ. It is very important to learn how to embrace all sorts of goodness, kindness, and holiness. It is important to aspire for the goodness of heaven. It is important to inspire the kindness and compassion of Jesus Christ in ourselves and our neighbors. We must learn how to embrace charity, humility, and obedience to God in our daily lives. We must embrace our belief in social justice as taught by Jesus Christ.
The Mass allows each of us who believe and who open our hearts, minds, and souls, freely and completely to the Lord to experience an absolutely heavenly place, filled with love, filled with hope, filled with faith, beautifully surpassing my expectations. There is nothing old-fashioned about the Mass. There is something very comforting, very nurturing.
There is a simple plan to improve the spiritual life of all present, of all who allow themselves to believe, who allow themselves to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. The prayers and readings lead the imagination upward, heavenward, to the high gables of belfry towers of peace, goodwill, mercy. There is something delightfully fresh, delightfully cleansing, delightfully gentle. Each word has a purpose. Each word brings God alive before us, each word presents lessons on how to live in a manner pleasing to God.
There is something dreamy about the Mass. There is something magnificent. The Mass is more than an event. It is a portal, a doorway leading to love, leading to the Lord Jesus Christ. There is something translucent, transcendent about the experience of the Mass. The Mass is filled with old prayers which breathe new life into the hearts, minds, and souls of those present who listen and believe.
Each Mass presents something for our minds to wonder about, to ponder about after the Mass is over. The beauty of the Mass is that the simplicity of its design allows for and encourages us to listen attentively, to ask ourselves questions, to allow the questions to resonate, to think of the questions after the Mass is over. Each Mass allows and encourages us to discern, to ask ourselves how to be better servants of God, asks us how to do the work of God, asks us how do each one of us follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.
But wisdom is vindicated by her works. Matthew 11:19
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