Spirituality for Beginners

Fr. Bede's almost-daily reflections. When it comes to the spiritual life, we're all beginners. I also send these out by email. Contact me at bcamera@anselm.edu. God bless!





Thursday, August 30, 2012

Can going to Mass actually change us?


I came across this in my lectio today, and thought it worth sharing.
 
"Ritual action is always self-engaging and full of risk. Through our offering gestures we open ourselves to the possibility that we will be changed forever. We cannot pray to the living God to receive us and our gifts without the real possibility that God will accept these offerings and make us and them the Body of Christ. Such is our faith; such is our hope. It is a risk we take in the belief that whatever we have left behind will be repaid a hundredfold in this life and the next. Since we do not live our lives all at once, we come back again and again to Eucharist to offer ourselves and our gifts in order that bit by bit we may be transformed into the very One we receive in communion."

C. Vincie, “The Mystical Implications” in A Commentary on the Order of Mass of The Roman Missal, 2011.
 
Have a nice day.

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