Look at that first reading. I daresay I have never had an easier time placing myself in the scene. If my love does not grow now, it might be said rightly I have never believed. I watched a livestream of the Mass, and when the time for the usual reception of Holy Communion came, I had only tears. They have hardly stopped. I am wracked with waves of love and grief.
It remains beyond my understanding why anyone would willingly choose to be away from the altar. Never have I felt more at home than in God's house, where it pleases Him to remain as "God with us" in the Eucharist. My only pain is the day when He leaves us at night into Good Friday. It's like he is bodily there, in every church, on His throne. He does not reign with terror, but presides in quiet. We are home and safe; we are family.
Indeed, this is the true faith distilled: "And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Many people are afraid of God, which is to say they are guilty before Him. Yet the very reason His messengers say, "Do not be afraid" is because in the end, there is no fear in love.
One day soon, we will sing, "Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord!"
It remains beyond my understanding why anyone would willingly choose to be away from the altar. Never have I felt more at home than in God's house, where it pleases Him to remain as "God with us" in the Eucharist. My only pain is the day when He leaves us at night into Good Friday. It's like he is bodily there, in every church, on His throne. He does not reign with terror, but presides in quiet. We are home and safe; we are family.
Indeed, this is the true faith distilled: "And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Many people are afraid of God, which is to say they are guilty before Him. Yet the very reason His messengers say, "Do not be afraid" is because in the end, there is no fear in love.
One day soon, we will sing, "Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord!"
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