You could come to Mass, and fail to meet at her with Jesus Christ - Father Peter Grześkiewicz CSsR
I will go to the Altar of God, the God who gives joy to my youth. Accedes to the sacred service, I want to play it well. I ask you, Lord Jesus, the grace of recollection that my thoughts are with you, that my eyes were on the altar, and put my heart only to you. Amen.
These words - probably most famous altar in Poland - is almost always preceded by my participation in the Eucharist. I must admit beating their breasts, it does not always properly focus on them and even forget that in a moment proceed to the altar of God . Sometimes I visit quite focused on other matters, even if also for the liturgy, may, however, more mundane, organizational. I'm only human, but fortunately God often gives me the grace to what is happening in the Eucharist, lived quite deliberately - even if it is a mystery, despite the passage of years, it remains for me, something unfathomable, incomprehensible.
recently when I attended the Holy Mass in my mind constantly circled one word - deification. It is interesting that on a busy street Worker, where just around the corner blooms normal life - people do shopping, rushing to work or waiting at the bus stop - right behind the chapel door in such an unusual way that God's presence God.
bell and the entrance hymn. People of God stands. Priest - alter Christus (another Christ) - kneels and kisses the altar. Sometimes it's difficult to believe that Jesus comes to us in person priest. It can happen, and so that not only looks, but the daily behavior of the priest did not remind us of the very behavior of Christ. But the Lord wants us to come in this way, regardless of who celebrates Mass. One of the first words of the priest Lord be with you (or: love of God and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ ... ) - seem to only confirm this fact.
And also with you - corresponds to the congregation. Where two or three gather in my name, there am I among them - we read in Matthew chapter 18. Also in this meeting is the sacred presence of Christ. Each of those present in the Eucharist, baptized a member of his church, each of which is a part of his body. Sometimes it's difficult for us in this way to look at our brothers and sisters - those who know and those who remain anonymous to us. Although every man is a sinner - Jesus becomes present in the meeting in his name.
Liturgy of the Word - here the presence of God probably does not have to explain. When we listen to readings from Holy Scripture speaks to us by God Himself - even if the reader reads a teenager, a few years older deacon or priest. This is the moment at which we can often shut down and lose consciousness, that is the word for us. There is also a danger that knowing some of the passages of Scripture we come to the conclusion that nothing new has happened to them do not know. But God is present, and His word, though it is immutable, it is also alive. faith comes from hearing - writes the Apostle. Words God, grow with the one who reads them - say St. Gregory the Great. Therefore, you must be careful not to overlook the presence of God in the Liturgy of the Word. It is as if separate from the life giving food.
Finally we come to what is most important - God is present under the Eucharistic species. During the consecration is in our midst the greatest extent possible. Even if it is hidden in the Host , even in the form of wine - there is indeed from His Body and His Blood. This presence of Christ is the most striking - a god known whenever and wherever in the world can be touched, which allows you to feed ourselves? Which god in any religion is so gracious and loving, to say: take and eat, this is my body ... This is my blood ... There is no god, there is no other true but Jesus, who wants me I became for him a kind of tabernacle.
I, the tabernacle - although not originally practiced to the extent the storage of the Lord Jesus, today - and for practical reasons - it is present in our temples. If the Mass takes place in the church, also recalls the presence of the tabernacle of the Lord. Tabernacle ensure that he smashes tent among us - would say Mother Teresa of Calcutta. It was to provide for her so important that I would say that it is not so much open a new convent, at the Tabernacle, which makes her Missionaries of Charity can live with the living God under one roof.
And what about the other characters? Cross, icons, objects and vestments - if they do not remind us of God, or do not express this at the beginning of deification? The liturgy is full of Christ, he is its essence - and we just sometimes forget this. It is therefore possible that, as stated earlier this quotation from the text - rozminięcie the Lord Jesus, even in such favorable circumstances, a meeting with him. This is all the more painful that - as Mother Teresa says, which still consistently coming back - he wants us to love and desire is expressed particularly on the cross.
It is blessed with Calcutta shows us that although it is appropriate to love of the Eucharist as the summit of Christian life, we can not quit this love in the temple, but we should leave it to the streets of our cities. Go in peace - we hear on the sending. The room we have to take others as she used to. On Maundy Thursday our Lord instituted the Eucharist, the day after he gave his life for us, but after three days rise again. This may not be something we ignore.
Let the blessed Mother Teresa that I will use your own words.
Jesus proved his love for us by giving your life itself. >> Being rich, became poor \u0026lt;\u0026lt;for you and me. He gave himself completely. He died on the cross. But before he died, he made himself the Bread of Life to satisfy our hunger for love, hunger for himself. He said: >> If you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you \u0026lt;\u0026lt;. The size of his love made him hungry to:>> I was hungry and you feed me. If ye fed me not, ye shall not enter into eternal life \u0026lt;. God still loves the world. He sends you and me to bear witness to this love, this, that He is merciful. This is what we are to His love and His compassion in the world today. That we However, they were able to love, we must have faith, because faith is put into action is love. Love of the deed is service. That is why Jesus made himself the Bread of Life, so we can feed him and see him in a pitiful disguise poorest of the poor.
Our life should be permeated by the Eucharist, Jesus in the Eucharist because you know how much God wants us to love and how much you would like to return our love. From Jesus in the Eucharist we receive the light and the power needed to satisfy the desires of God.
to finish the Mass. I would like to thank God for this expression of his love for me. Thank you for priests who are acting in the Holy Sacrifice of beauty. I still have the memory image of one of them is in the monastery of Carmelite nuns after the deal the Communion He performed purification. He did so very carefully, so he tried to ensure that no smallest drobinka Host has not been omitted, there was no doubt that he believed that the form of inconspicuous bread hidden God. Thank you also for my colleagues - the altar servers and lectors - which so often is given to me to stand at the altar of the Lord. Finally - thank you for friends who in the Eucharist continues with me in prayer and I can actually learn from them the love of Jesus in the Sacraments.
Just as I started to text, so it will end. May we - as he says after finishing the prayer altar of the Holy Mass - followed always ways of salvation.
God, whose goodness has called me to your service, make me thy sacred participation in the mysteries of today and all my life, walked only path to salvation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
PS In writing this post, I used to include novena to Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the information from the Committee for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments of the Polish Episcopate.
I just remembered that one day I was told that the Mass looks sad. I guess I should re-think about it - maybe something in it?
encourage you to use the prayer box!
And here's some interesting action - an expression of love for another human being. I invite you to:
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