Topic: “First Approach to the Holy Mystery”
Our participation in the Holy Mass ought to be full, conscious and active. Individual participation in the thanksgiving work of the community of believers is paramount. By inwardly taking part in the celebration of the Holy Mass we also approach the mystery of our Faith. One can neither see nor feel a mystery but must accept it and keep it faithfully, trying to live with it spiritually.
In this mystery (Holy Mass) it happens as if the priest walked up the stairs to the Chamber of the Lord's Last Supper and as if the faithful were allowed to follow Him there to begin the Holy sacrifice together with Jesus and His apostles. By attempt thus to imagine before our inward eye and to experience the events, all our everyday thoughts will fall away, provided we do not walk to church talking with others but instead attune ourselves to Holy Mass, to the mystery and the unspeakable greatness of our Faith.
The priest's approaching to the altar is as if he said to the faithful, “Come with me! all ye who are weary and are heavy ladened to the mystery of our Faith, the source and summit of our Christian lives. Behind that screen of mystery is Jesus with His apostles. We are allowed spiritually to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice with them”
May we always yearn to follow Christ in the reenactment of His great sacrifice for man.
Mary Immaculate, Mediatrix of Graces, pray for us
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