As Christmas approaches, we have a few exciting Sundays at church, celebrating the Sacraments of Baptism, Penance and Eucharist with our children. Sacraments themselves are exciting, for they allow us to be church at our best, while opening us to seeing, hearing, touching, smelling God in the midst of our daily lives.
Amazing? Much more than amazing, for they take us to the very depths and extremities of our human reality. They take us where we could never imagine, for they reveal to us the mystery of God. This mystery is ultimately revealed to us through Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Mary. This happens as his life shows us that the human and divine come together in the midst of our reality. This is all due to God's choosing and action. Mystery has become a powerful word for me, as it so captures who we truly and fully are, so captures all that is the essence of life.
The great Teresa of Avila sums up the mystery of the human and divine. She wrote - "The journey to union with the Beloved is a journey home to the center of ourselves. ... The human soul is so glorious that God himself chooses it as his dwelling place. The path to God, then, leads us on a journey of self-discovery. To know the self is to know God."
Creation is a reflection of God. We discover and taste God in human reality. We show God through the lens of that same reality. This speaks of the beauty of life. Life, full of the divine, is itself exciting. Sacraments grant us entry to these divine mysteries, the deeper and richer meaning of life in the midst of the everyday. This is all so invigorating for sacraments continually reaffirm the divine message that the whole world is sacred.
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