Eucharistic Reflection - We Are Surrounded and Enveloped by God
“We live in God as children live in the womb of their mother: they are in her and are surrounded by her; they received nourishment and life from her; they depend on her and receive everything from her; they do nothing of themselves and are almost less than nothing; they have eyes and ears and they neither see nor hear their mother; they have a mouth but it is dumb; they have hands and arms and they can neither embrace or caress their mother. We are like that in God: we are surrounded and enveloped by Him; at each moment, He communicates nourishment and life through our body and our soul; we depend on Him in everything -‘without Him we can do nothing’ - and, if it is true that by the fact of our creation we have come from nothingness, it is also true that if it pleased God, we might return immediately to it. We have eyes and we cannot see God; ears, and in ordinary circumstances, we do not hear His voice; we have hands and we can neither take hold of Him or touch Him The day of our ...