5/8/2021
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| Duccio, "Madonna w. Angels," c. 1305 |
It’s going to be helpful to combine Pius X’s estimation of the MBS as daily nourishment & preservative from sin with Pius XI’s notion of proper guardianship. This, in fact, is part of a groundworks for a strong eucharistic piety. And when you combine the two your get this neat third thing, I don’t know yet what to call it. But it’s that thing were in participating at Mass and in Holy Communion you realize that your immediately—[perhaps we need to break down this adverb]—present at the single most important moment in the existence of time, space, you, the universe, your family, your Church, God’s relationship with his people, all prayer, etc. Moreover, you’ve got breakfast to make and appointments in about an hour and a finance council meeting to prepare for, and an offer to purchase the building to consider, etc. In other words, while not exactly contrasting the sublime with the ridiculous, it’s actually probably closer to that than to any other mash-up that comes presently to mind. Neat how He envisioned exactly this, did it anyway, and uses it [this mash-up of contrasts] as the place where he’s going either to rescue me and my parish, or not. My eternity hangs in the balance and meanwhile I’m trying not to say mass too fast, or not to start too late, or not to rush the prep. He trusts us, again, with determining our eternity. Staggering. Staggered. There, now pick yourself up, post this to your silly blog, and go get ready for Mass.
