Listening

 

  

Blessed Elisabeth of the Trinity prayed:

"O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my
life in listening to You, to become wholly teachable
that I may learn all from You. Then through all nights,
all voids, all helplessness, I want to gaze on You always
and remain in Your great light."

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We come to Holy Mass to hearken to the words of the Word, to be

wounded by them, to be espoused by them in such a way that,

as the one Body of Christ, we are drawn upward with our Divine Head

to the Father in the Holy Spirit. A listening Church will be one in

which Saint Paul's goal for the Corinthians is necessarily fulfilled:

"power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment" (1 Cor 7:35).  

 Fr M Kirby, o.Cist