Let us allow
ourselves to be “infected” by St.
Joseph’s silence.We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not
favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.
en t “When the Host is held on high and a chalice lifted…look up! Look up and see what Mary saw. See a naked man squirming as He bleeds against a blackened sky; see a battered human body, writhing on a tree, prisoned there by savage spikes that have torn through Sacred hands and feet; see thorn-tortured head tossing from side to side as anguished torso labors, lifts and strains; see the eyes of God roll towards heaven beseeching, as broken lips blurt out that soul piercing cry: “My God, My God, Why has Thou forsaken Me?” What is this? This is the Mass. This is Crucifixion. This is what Mary saw at the elevation of Christianity’s first Mass. This is what you should see at the Elevation of every Mass!” (From The Way to God by Father M. Raymond, O.C.S.O. )
(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) It is not surprising the devil does everything in his power to get us to lessen the time of personal dialogue with the Lord or to do it poorly. (St. John Marie Vianney from Sermons of the Cure of Ars)
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