Saturday, 2/21/15
Isaiah wrote, “If you
hold back your foot on the Sabbath from following your own pursuits on my holy
day . . . . Then you shall delight in the Lord. And
he will make you ride upon the heights of the earth; he will nourish you with
the heritage of Jacob.”
What Isaiah said in those day about keeping the Jewish
Sabbath can apply to us in regard to getting to Mass on Sundays. A habit of
getting to Mass every Sunday will give us the three rewards of which Isaiah
spoke.
First, we will delight in the Lord. By giving the Lord our
Sundays, we will remove every hint of enmity from between us. We will be
entitled to boast of our close friendship with him, assured that he will back
us up on our claims.
Secondly, he will make us ride upon the heights. If you have
ever driven the Blue Ridge Parkway from Tennessee to Pennsylvania you would
have experienced the exhilaration
of cruising above the Shenandoah Valley at three thousand feet. You’d be above
the smoke stacks and the traffic jams. You were your own person, up there with
God. You can get a similar thrill from leaving cares outside as you kneel in
silent exchanges with your God.
Thirdly, the wonderful readings at Mass are your heritage
coming down to you from two, three, even four thousand years back. The homily
too, at times, will be part of the heritage nourishing you.
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