In the Prayer Over the Offering this week, we ask God that what we profess with devotion and faith may be ours through these heavenly mysteries

What do you profess? It is time to up our profession game. If, through the heavenly mysteries, or the saving work of Jesus, we profess a holy powerful Church, what will we receive?

It’s time to up our profession game. It’s time to bring the power of a living God to the world today.

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In the prayer this week, the heavenly gift in the prayer is Jesus. The working is the “work” of the sacrificial action of Jesus on the Cross.

The prayer also gives rise to the question, “How much does the saving work of Jesus mean to me?” When we come to love God for what He has done for us, giving him possession to our minds and bodies becomes a delight.

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When is prayer true prayer?

True prayer makes us united in heart and mind, not just with each other, but with God.

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The prayer this week reminds me that we get “the better end of the stick” when it comes to God. He gives us the blessing of salvation and signs and symbols in the visible world that show us what happens in the invisible world.

All we have to do is make a sacred offering and believe.

Do we long for unity and peace in the Church? Sometimes it seems like there is sand between not only members of the church, but between the members and the Church.

The gifts of unity and peace are ours through the one sacrifice offered once for all. We only need to make a heart-felt acceptance of them.

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It’s a line we may tend to want to skip over when we pray the Lord’s Prayer (aka the Our Father). However, we hear it in a new way in the Prayer after Communion in the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

To live on earth as it is in heaven is a place of peace and power. Let HIs will be done!

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Let’s have some fun and do some role-playing as we lectio this week. It’s take our turn at being the offering.

As the offering, God is pleased to accept us just like we are, sinful and both proud and ashamed of it. However, He transforms us. One of the ways He does that is when He transforms our faults into grace, which he freely bestows on us.

Being the offering is the best place to get a first-hand view into the transforming power of God.

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Riddle: What can you offer at mass that is something you brought with you and doesn’t fit in your purse or wallet?

It’s you! When we make ourselves and oblation, or offering present to God, we hold up our part of the sacrifice of Jesus. He always and forever offers Himself to the Father, the church, and the world, and we are called to go and do likewise.

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Firm foundation isn’t just a secure place to stand. Firm, or validum in Latin, means efficacy.

Because of God, our words are prayers, our buildings are churches, and the Bible isn’t just another book.

Through His mercy, He gives us the means to become holy. As we become holy, we come to realize that the good things truly are the eternal things.

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In this week’s prayer, we recognize that with the presence of Jesus comes grace. Have you ever realized that at the Last Supper, When Jesus held the bread and said, “This is my body,” that he was present both physically and sacramentally?

That SAME Jesus is present in the SAME way at Mass. However, it is our responsibility to be willing to let him dye, or imbue, us and make us new.

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