Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
This day and age carries a strong secular current. Many aspects of society are becoming more secular and more indifferent to religion, if not outright hostile towards it. Society is losing a sense of the sacred and the holy. And that is the great tragedy. Worship and holiness are the things that people need the most. An active Church life gives someone a healthy life. Different studies in the fields of psychology and social sciences confirm this. Worship gives many benefits to the life of the body. The life of the spirit cannot survive without it as well. Spiritual life is the most important of the two. Without it, no life survives. The spiritual life is nourished and made whole in Mass and the Church.
Let us conclude our reflection this week by focusing on the sanctity, and the necessity, of worship. Mass attendance and personal devotions are so much more than obligations. They are the sacred aspects of life that give us life. In the true Church Jesus founded, with its holy scripture, sacraments, and traditions, we find joy in worship, for there we find true life. We come to our Lord when we give our lives over totally to our faith. When we do, it flows into every aspect of life. Then we can say wholeheartedly, “let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.” Amen.
Reflection by Br. Matthew Marie, OSB
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