If Albert Einstein’s thought on Relativity and Isaac Newton’s formula of Gravity, can provoke such a change of an entire civilization, then, affirming that a holy and faithful reception of the Eucharist achieves so much more in fostering the world’s goodness, would not be a frivolous statement of piety, but a perfect fact about the reality of progress.
Eucharist is the actual source of all the positivity that we see, yet we study with admiration the Einstein and Newton’s wonders, and forget that we who receive Christ in the Eucharist are the actual protagonists of civilisation.
But, how are we sure that all these Eucharistic ponderations are not figments of our imaginations? The answer lies in an unselfish verification of their effects. Like the Disciples at Gethsemane, we are often asleep and do not perceive in us and in the world, the unbelievable Eucharistic consequences of Ite missa est. The gusto of life as an awakening is in the verification of these Eucharistic actions in our daily activities.
With a humble attentiveness and a holy perseverance, we can perceive the growing effect of the Eucharistic authenticity in our lives and in the world. It was not a day that we and our ancestors create the present mess, to presume that within this realm of existence, the resolution of them would take a day, is an illusion begging for forgiveness. A God who has not come to abolish the law, but, with grace and mercy, has come to complete them, works on everyone uniquely within the confine of their space and time. Blessed is he who can wait and see.
God’s work of recreation goes on. Do not dwell on the spectacular, an attentiveness and perception of little things is what produces a multiplication of thanksgiving, the origin of a multitude of blessings. Take nothing for granted, His work continues in us, sharp and prompt but, gentle as silence; directing our plights, perfecting our actions, warding us from every evil and inspiring every little motives and actions of ours.
Let us perceive His actions (Jn 10: 38) in little things, such as, a reduced frequency of our losing things, serendipity, just in time experiences, meeting important appointments. He conquers massive evils by giving victories in little things.
Gradually, He reduces our fears and develops in us a humble and authentic confidence. As in the process of metamorphosis, our fallen natures are gradually flayed and made to give way to the freedom of the Spirit, where we grow from glory unto glory (2 Cor 3: 18).
Slowly but surely, amidst the ‘flip-flop’ of life, we shall perceive the orderliness of our lives, even amidst trials, sins and inconsistencies; we shall gradually develop the capacity to accept the things that we cannot change, build the courage to change the things that we can change, and receive the clarity and wisdom of perceiving the difference between these two.
‘Ite Missa est’, “go forth. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord”. The Liturgy becomes ours, the Eucharistic baton is passed unto us. The church becomes for us, not simply a building along the high street, but a manifested source, where we experience the continuation of the liturgy, in us, and in the whole universe, within the uniqueness of our being.
Resurrection then becomes a positive ad infinitum.
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