As Needed

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This morning was one of those mornings. I was in a mood, the kids were in moods, dad was in a mood. Too many things to do. Too many people with their own agendas -- none harmonizing, all colliding. It would have been so easy to skip Mass, avoid the headaches, the conflicts, the arguments. I remembered a saying (and forgive me, but I cannot remember the exact quote or with whom it originated -- if you know please educate me): if you think you don't have time to pray, pray more.

I can forgo cooking, cleaning, laundry, schooling, eating, sleeping. But, I should never give up Mass. Nor should I allow my family.

As God always leads us where we need to go, Mass was just what I needed. In the quiet of the church before Mass began, I read in the Mass meditation from my Magnificat:

Your life, such as it is, is a pre-ordained thing, and it is for you to drink your cup even as Christ drank his. His life and death, if they apparently were failures, were not so in reality. We also are children of that divine Father who held to the lips of His Son a beverage to drink, and so our lives have a wonderful mysterious significance. And it is in this light that we ought to look at human things and be superior to them; never letting them overpower us, as if they were some dark arrangement, as if they were the result of some malign power. No, human things are the will of the Father for us as they were the will of the Father for his divine Son.
--Dom Vonier, OSB

Never give up Mass.





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