What takes my breath away is how vulnerable God makes Himself: instead
of sacrificing me at the altar, God sacrifices Himself at the altar for
me, not only for the forgiveness of my sin, but above all, God
sacrifices Himself in my place every day in order that He might become
One with me and I with Him. God longs for oneness with us to the point
that He sacrifices Himself anew each day at every Mass, offering anew
His Body to me, knowing full well that I could reject Him or even worse -
feel indifference towards His Gift of infinite Love. And yet, He
sacrifices Himself nonetheless - God Himself makes Himself a vulnerable
offering and Gift because He cannot bear to be separated from us.
Religion and spirituality is man's search for God. But Catholicism,
through the Mass, is God's search for oneness with man. That, I believe,
is the essential difference between Catholicism and every other
religion.
God entered time, and in so doing, gives us His physical, literal, beating Sacred Heart to consume in the Eucharist 9Holy Communion).What could be more profound than that?
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