As usual, I was hurried - arriving minutes late for my hour in the Adoration Chapel. I bustled in (quietly) and decided on a pew. As I knelt down before entering the pew, I looked up at the Host in the monstrance - and felt loved. Quiet came over me, and I couldn’t help but smile.
This is not a rare occurrence, as I am often flying in at the last minute. But, Jesus is waiting to put a smile on my face and in my soul. I give Him all my joys, my worries, my dilemmas of the day. He counsels me and consoles me. Words, thoughts, ideas come to mind that - if I don’t write them down - escape me when I leave His Presence.
I may moan and groan that I’m too tired, that I didn’t have time for lunch, or that I have too much to do at home. Never, once I have arrived, have any of those concerns mattered. I am with Jesus and that is all that matters.
Visitation Catholic Church
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Passover
The Jewish people did not always think of time as linear. When they celebrated Passover, it was more than a remembrance of an event in the past. In celebrating Passover, the Jewish people were present at Passover. In instituting the Eucharist at Passover, Jesus made Passover an archetype. He offered His Body and Blood to the Father as a sacrifice, a sacrifice which happened within twenty-four hours at Calvary. When He said to “do this in remembrance of Me” the apostles knew that He meant it to be more than just a memorial. The early Christians celebrated “the breaking of the bread.” From early writings, what the early Christians did closely resembles the Mass Today. They and we believe that in the Mass, we are offering the one sacrifice of Jesus at Calvary. As the Jewish people were present at Passover, so at the Mass we are present at Calvary. WE can do this because God is timeless. In the Mass, we are uniting ourselves with Jesus on the Cross. Therefore, our sacrifice at Mass is not a new sacrifice or another offering of what Jesus had done once for all. Trying to comprehend this is trying to look at the Grand Canyon and comprehend the distances in the view. All of the people through the past 2000 years offering Jesus to the Father for our sins in the Mass are with Jesus at Calvary offering Himself to the Father for the sins of the world.
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