During Holy Communion at Anticipated Mass yesterday, I was asked by one of our senior lay ministers in the EMHC to go up to the church loft to offer the Eucharist to our choir, which I obeyed even whilst in doubt because the rite was almost concluding.
A part of me was saying that the choir would have already gone down, a few at a time, to receive Communion during the length of the Communion Rite but a part of me, a stronger part, felt impelled to just go and do what was asked without questioning it (maybe because the most instinctive and unthinking part of me knew that sharing the Savior in the Eucharist is ALWAYS a good thing) and so I went and climbed what felt like a long climb to the church loft.
There I met our beautiful and talented choir, and it instantly dawned upon my mind how deeply Christ loves our young people...
and it suddenly felt profoundly good to be there...
I felt my heart rejoicing like Saint Peter in the Transfiguration saying, "Lord, it is good that I am here!"
- selah -
We are a beautiful and amazing people, the love we profess in our hearts as a nation is capable of great and wonderful things, and I know no matter the depths of the darkness we confront in our times today, we shall in God as one nation prevail... unto better times for all.
