May we all “grow up” and “see” how to be the best Catholics we can.
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Question 1: “What ‘word’ might be added to Today’s Reading?”
Answer: “Today’s Reading, 1 Cor.12:31 to 13:13, includes ‘At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, . . .’ Some may insert the word ‘clouded’ for a better description of what we see: ‘At present we see indistinctly, as in a clouded mirror.’”
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Question 2: “Doesn’t The Bible say to not add or remove words?”
Answer: “That’s why we do not ‘cloud the issue’ by thinking God left out a ‘word’! The fact is that ‘seeing’ is done inside our mind. Light from our optic nerve is sorted out in our brain to make sense of what we see. At Judgment, we will ‘see’ ourselves as God ‘sees’ us. Deep in our mind, we will ‘see’ what we truly are.”
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Question 3: “What do Catholics hope to ‘see’ that we are?”
Answer: “We hope to ‘see’ that we are among those people described in Today’s Psalm 33:2-5, 12, 22: ‘Blessed the people The Lord has chosen to be His own.’”
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Question 4: “What is ‘seen’‘by people The Lord has chosen to be His own.’?”
Answer: “Catholics ‘see the words’ in John 6:63 and 6:68: Jesus said: ‘The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.’ Peter, The First Pope, agreed: ‘You have the words of everlasting life.’”
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Question 5: “What are His ‘words of everlasting life’?”
Answer: “They are the ‘words’ in Chrst’s call to Catholic Communion that John 6 repeats 12 times! ‘If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.’”
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Question 6: “Who are the ‘unchosen people’ who do not ‘see’ how important it is to receive Catholic Communion?”
Answer: “Jesus tells us in Luke 7:31-35 that ‘They are like children who sit in the market place and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance. We sang a dirge, but you did not weep.’
Then Jesus explained how those ‘children’ make the same excuses to not obey Jesus! ‘John the Baptist came, neither eating food nor drinking wine, and you said ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ The Son of man came, eating and drinking, and you said ‘Look, He is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’
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Catholics are not self-centered ‘children’. We are ‘adults’ who are blessed to respect He Who Fulfilled the Prophecies enough to gratefully obey His Church-Creating Word to The First Catholic Pope: “And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
May all of us “grow up” to be the best Catholics we can.
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