This post became six for a single day. I managed to separate them out, but the six posts of this day are all to be considered as originating from the same stream of thought. The order in which they are read is unlikely to matter.

Funny story about my wife and I and our journey Home. The first mass after RCIA started in September, we were asked to carry the gifts to the alter during mass.  The invite came out of nowhere really. She asked if we were even allowed.  The usher shared that they’re not sacred, so absolutely.  I had no idea what was happening.  We received our instructions and got up and went to the back to gather them at the appropriate time.  She started on my right, stopped at the wine, I then was to take the unconsecrated Eucharistic hosts in the silver and gold lined bowl down. We picked them up, the bowl was way heavier than it should have been.

And the Goodness of God ends and The Blessing comes on next…

Anyway, we turn around, which puts her on my left, she was terrified that she’d slip.  We walk down and present the gifts to the priest, these work of human hands for him, acting in Persona Christi, to consecrate as an offering to the Lord our God. This occurs during the collection, which is also consecrated at the same time.  These works of human hands. That is how the priests make Holy our sinful selves and works. We sit down, and it dawned on me… I ask her.. did we just present ourselves, these works of human hands so that the priest and the Church can consecrate us and our marriage?  She nods. What. The… Umm… I have no words to describe the sense and magnitude of what just occurred, FOR us, not because us, but the Church, through her Ushers, invited us to the alter, in front of the body of the Church.  It. Was. Indescribable  It also is nothing like something I could ever have fathomed to even exist.

Have a blessed day.  Thank you for your perseverance.

Logging out,

Poor Fellow Soldier of Christ

Numbers 6:24-26 – The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace