Sacred Moments

Enjoy your time alone with Jesus, savor it. Stop treating it like fast food . Because you will not find fine dining any where else like you have at the feet of Jesus.

Many come from a culture in which spirituality is measured by how solemn, dignified and holy your appearance is. This means that as a servant of God, you must wear white clothes, keep a serious face even if you are happy and carefully guard your behavior. You wouldn’t want to spoil your image by laughing out loud or running around playing with the kids.

Lately I’ve been thinking about Psalm 131:1–2 “O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. ” But how do we walk and enter into this kind of life, the life of a different world—so different than the one we see around us?

Peter risked becoming the joke of his hometown when he rowed out in broad daylight to the deep waters of Lake Gennesaret and let down his net to catch fish. Everyone watching him from the shore must have thought he’d gone mad. Even a small child could have told him that if he wanted to catch fish, he must do it at night and in shallow water. But this was a moment in Peter’s life when he did the right thing first

How true it is that people do not need to be instructed so much as to be reminded. We need to be reminded again and again of what Jesus Christ, the second person of the blessed Trinity has done for you and me. We need to hear again what it means to be a Catholic, a member of the mystical body.