If I truly believe that Jesus is present body and blood soul and divinity at Holy Mass and I receive Him, wholly God, then I have God. If I have God then I have everything. If I have everything then I lack nothing. If I lack nothing then I have not to need anything but rather to give for all that I can gain now is souls for Jesus.
Anything within me unworthy, unfit, imperfect, broken, wounded, perverse, unholy—-anything wanton, it is taken care of in the oneness of the Lord by His holy indwelling through the precious Species for then I am a vessel of His mercy, His charity, His joy, His peace; I am a victim for Holy Mother Church. As long as I surrender my will, there is nothing God cannot accomplish in me, and the reality that I am living in both a natural and supernatural state, both body and spirit, means that I am not even limited by time itself. In other words, whatever healing and restoration I need, however crappy of a person I am or have been—Jesus said, ”Your faith has saved you.” Therefore if I have faith, I am already at once fully restored.
My mission then can be on my neighbor and their needs now and it’s in this way that the Church Militant proceeds and can only proceed to exist. This is what it means to pray and not worry. God never denies human inadequacy; in fact, on the contrary, He fully acknowledges it and provides (Like with Jeremiah ad Moses).
And so, we look forward to the “resurrection of the dead”; that those who present themselves as Christians come alive in order to carry out the great commission-to go out and make disciples of all nations. Do not ask then, “How Lord?” But “Where Lord? Where do you send me?”
January 31, 2023