😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you. Do you like to be in the presence of your friends? I would guess most people would answer yes, but that could look very different for each person. What do you like to do with your friends? That could vary, depending on how long you’ve known each other and how well you know each other. It could also vary based on the category of friend you’re thinking of, such as work, sibling, childhood, church, adventurous, chill, and so on. In Dr. Emerson Eggerichs’ Love and Respect program, he discusses face to face and side by side relationships. Depending on if you want to engage with someone or if you are perfectly content just being in each other’s presence without hardly a word spoken, may also play a factor in who you might contact to spend time with. Sometimes we choose to spend time with someone, just in case they may need us, such as during the end stages of someone’s life.
Last Sunday was the Feast of Corpus Christi, in which we celebrate the most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist. In Bishop Robert Barron’s homily for Corpus Christi Sunday, he spoke of the power of Eucharistic Adoration. Eucharistic Adoration is something I’m still new at. I’m still in that discovery phase of this relationship and find myself wanting to go back to learn a little more each time.
Eucharistic Adoration is one of those events, moments, experiences, that I could tell you the details of, but is hard to fully comprehend until you experience it. Something that I greatly appreciate about our family of parishes is that they offer many opportunities during the week for Eucharistic Adoration. I find that my time spent in Eucharistic Adoration is a combination of a face to face, engaging relationship and a side by side, quiet presence. There are times when much is being spoken, plans are being laid out, and concerns and fears are being discussed. There are other times fully engulfed in silence, which could be me waiting on God or God waiting on me to engage with Him. In all reality, there are also plenty of times in which my mind wonders off and I have to reign my thoughts in, hence God waiting on me. At Mass Sunday, during his homily, Fr. Lee said nothing has changed the world as much as the Body and Blood of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. I don’t know if that is something that could quantifiably be determined, but by faith I believe. There are truths in this world that will only be revealed by and through God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Which is why it is so important that we open ourself to and commit to spending time with God. Go ahead and schedule date night with God right now. Seriously, put Him on your calendar. Plan something special for Him. Be creative. Will it surprise Him…no, but He’ll be excited and you just might surprise yourself.
Bless others and be blessed.
Shelly :0)
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