Worth Revisiting - Is The Lord in Our Midst or Not?

We thank Allison Gingras at Reconciled To You  and Elizabeth Riordan at Theology Is A Verb  for hosting Worth Revisiting each week. It is a privilege to share our work with them and their followers.

Here is my contribution: 

 

Is The Lord in Our Midst or Not?

(Originally published on March 18, 2019)

One question continues to echo through the centuries. "Is the Lord in our midst or not?"

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After fleeing the Egyptians, the Jews grumbled about the lack of bread, the absence of meat and about the shortage of water. In response to each of their complaints, God provided them with the material items they sought – none of which could permanently satiate their appetites. 

Our Lord knew the Israelites would always be hungry or thirsty so long as they ignored His invitation to an intimate relationship with Him. The Israelites’ focus was always on themselves. They complained about God abandoning them and not providing for them.  

A Timely Reminder

Monday Musings - Come Join the Saints and Angels

[We MUST listen to Blessed John Henry Newman. 

We MUST conduct ourselves with the utmost reverence every time we enter a Catholic Church since our loving Lord is really and substantially present there. It is His House!  

We MUST understand why we come to, who is really present at, and what is actually happening during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Our continued failure to address these issues  jeopardizes the salvation of lost and confused souls.]

 

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“…all we do in Church is done on a principle of reverence; it is done with the thought that we are in God's presence. But irreverent persons, not understanding this, when they come into Church, and find nothing there of a striking kind, when they find everything is read from a book, and in a calm, quiet way, and still more, when they come a second and a third time, and find everything just the same, over and over again, they are offended and tired. "There is nothing," they say, "to rouse or interest them." They think God's service dull and tiresome, if I may use such words; for they do not come to Church to honor God, but to please themselves. They want something new. They think the prayers are long, and wish that there was more preaching, and that in a striking oratorical way, with loud voice and florid style.

What Might Sacred Look Like?

We have lost the sense of, and appreciation for, the Sacred!

May this short two minute clip from reclaimingthesacred.com help you rediscover that sense and re-ignite a hunger for the heavenly and transcendent.

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Thanks to Father Z for passing it along.

You're My God!

Lord, be merciful to us sinners! As another day draws to a close, accept this song as our gift to You.

(Credit to Michael W. Smith)

Let This Be Our Prayer

Let's make this our Prayer:

You are my God, my Lord, my Savior and my Redeemer, my all!


Courtesy of Father Stan Fortuna and the Happy Priest, Father James Farfaglia

Make Us Love You More and More

Let this be our prayer.