Deuteronomy 8:3, Exodus 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20, Matthew 13:10-17, Daniel 3:52-56

Daily Meditation:  Deuteronomy 8:3

 

Deuteronomy 8:3

3 He made you experience want, he made you experience hunger, but he gave you manna to eat which neither you nor your fathers had known, to show you that man lives not on bread alone, but that all that proceeds from the mouth of God is life for man.

My Beloved, it is good that You send us difficulties and hardships from time to time.  It keeps us close to You as we realize that our help and our consolation comes from You alone.  Once the time of our testing has passed we emerge stronger and have more empathy for those who suffer as we have.  It is You and Your Word that sustains and gives life to the soul.  Earthly bread fills the belly for a while and we become hungry again.  The bread we crave symbolizes all that is fading, temporary and passing - Your Word on the contrary is spirit and life and is eternal.

Daily Mass Readings:  Exodus 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20, Matthew 13:10-17, 

                                     Daniel 3:52-56

Exodus 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20

Beloved, as I was reading these verses I kept thinking, "Wow!, wow!"  and yet my Lord what we experience daily in the celebration of the Eucharist and in the Sacraments is even more amazing.  In the Old Testament You visited Your people occasionally but in the tabernacles, in our Adoration chapels we have Your constant, enduring Presence.  We who are baptized into Your Body are always united to You in life and in death.  By the grace that You have merited for us we will someday be united to You as closely as we are united to You when we receive You worthily in the Eucharist.  Here we experience by faith, in heaven we will enjoy the Beatific Vision of Your glory.  When I receive You in the Eucharist, we become more intimately one in our spiritual union, than in an earthly and spousal union. 

My Beloved I bow down in adoration, worship and thanksgiving to You for so great and marvellous a Gift.

Matthew 13:10-17

My Beloved Lord and my God, the tragedy of our times is that never before in the history of the Church has the world been so accessible to us through travel and communication.  Our border keep shrinking through all the gizmos and gadgets that we have that make live so easy.  The more we have of this world's goods the more does our focus of the eternal become hazy and out of reach.  

Revealed Truth is ours if only we care to embrace it.  Nothing is hidden any more.  Your treasures are freely available for the asking at the touch of a button on the internet.  This is why my Beloved the world hears and cannot understand because the senses have become blunted seeking only the next thrill, the next sensation that titillates the palate for a while and then loses its savor and begins to disgust.  The world does not want what You have to offer - eternal life.  It wants to drink this passing life to its dregs and they do so until they become caricatures, as they ape youth, running after the illusory fountain of life and overlooking the Fountain of Life through which all grace flows.  

To possess You and be possessed by You is to be beautiful like Blessed John Paul II and Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta in their old age.

Divine Beauty has nothing to do with age - it just is wordlessly beautiful.  To the world Your Word will always be heard in riddles too difficult to understand.

Daniel 3:52-56

52 “Blessed are you, Lord, God of our fathers, be praised and exalted for ever.

Blessed is your holy and glorious name, celebrated and exalted for ever.

53 Blessed are you in the temple of your sacred glory, your praises are sung for ever.

54 Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom, honored and glorified for ever.

55Blessed are you who fathom the depths, who are enthroned on the cherubim, praised and exalted for ever.

56 Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven, praised and glorified for ever.