Come Away By Yourselves

The Assumption and the Coronation of Our Lady give us a glimpse of her heavenly glory.  Mary's holiness and glorification are a reflection of the glory and splendor of God.  By contemplating her eternal radiance, we are bolstered with joyful hope and encouraged to "shine like stars" in the midst of the world.  

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The virtue of temperance or moderation is essential to loving God.  To love God above all things, our desires and enjoyment of everything else need to be under control.  Temperance brings order and health to the soul, freeing it to give God and others more importance.  Performing small acts of self denial, thereby restraining our thirst for pleasure, gives us a chance to find our joy and happiness in God himself. 

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The Gospels reveal to us the richness of Jesus's humanity.  Jesus is interested in all sorts of people and all kinds of activities.  He deals with people personally, respectfully and with tenderness.  His human experience is fraught with all that we ourselves experience in life: fatigue and frustration, sadness and joy, friendship and loneliness, anger and, in his own way, even sin.  Getting to know Jesus's humanity makes it easier for us to talk with him in prayer.  Knowing that he lived a human life like ours assures us that he "gets us", that he understands what we are going through in our lives.  

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Jesus takes five loaves and two fish from a boy and multiplies them to feed a crowd of thousands.  When we trust him, Jesus takes our good will and our meager personal resources and similarly multiplies them to help us and others.  Fortunately, faith is something we can grow in by choosing to do so.  It is a free human act.  By admitting our limitations and weakness and then confidently trying our best to do his will, Jesus makes up the difference between our insufficiency and the great things he wants us to do.   

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Our Lord Jesus calls Christians the "salt of the earth" and "the light of the world."  The presence of believing Christians is fundamental for the health and salvation of humanity.  Realizing the gravity and urgency of our mission, we should put aside all division and distractions and commit ourselves to living our Catholic faith.  This demands daily trust in God, daily repentance from sin and daily conversion towards true charity. 

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The question of our personal identity is crucial to life.  Our identity is tied to our closest relationships and our life’s mission.  The deepest truth of who we are, however, is something we find in God and receive from Him, not something we have to figure out entirely on our own. By living the life God wants for us, we become our true selves and discover our true names. 

On the Feast of St. Josemaria, we reflect on one of his most important teachings: the sanctification of work.  After their conversion, the early Christians were encouraged to continue living the same life which God had already given them.  St. Josemaria encourages us to do the same.  Work is a blessing from God and key to a happy, fulfilled life.  Working well is a condition for offering our work to God, thus making it holy and sanctifying ourselves and others in the process.  Our life of prayer is an essential element in sanctifying our work, without times of intense prayer we cannot turn work into prayer. 

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In the middle of a violent storm, the apostles find Jesus asleep in the boat.  This divine sleep of the Son of God teaches us important lessons: the need for rest, the importance of trust in God during difficulties, and the great care that God our Father exercises over us.  Only by trusting in God's power and fatherly protection in and through times of trial will we experience our own resurrection to new life.  Only by trusting when times are hard do we come to really believe that God is our Father. 

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Jesus' Sacred Heart reveals the depth of his love for us.  Opened on the Cross, streams of blood and water poured out from Jesus' Heart.  Our own love for God hinges on our having a heart full of compassion, concern, and a practical spirit of service towards others.  As disciples of Jesus, we should be known for our love and care for each other and for all people.  Only by growing in charity will we truly imitate Jesus, our model and our Lord.  If not, our prayer life runs the risk of being inauthentic and hypocritical.

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The mystery of the Trinity is the mystery of God's inner life.  Revealing it to us in Jesus Christ, God shares with us his own deep intimacy so that we can know and love him.  The Trinity is also a mystery in which every Christian is enveloped.    By the work of the Holy Spirit, we are made children of God the Father in God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. 

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