The great revelation: Whoever we are, whatever we’ve got, it’s still not enough. Whatever preparation we’ve done, it’s not enough. However attentive we are, it’s not enough. There is great peace in letting that knowledge sink into your heart: We’re not enough, and never can be — no, not even if we’re a shoeless Nigerian toiling through the Mangrove to get to Mass.
But Christ is all.
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Image: “Church Pew with Worshipers” by Vincent van Gogh [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
This was beautiful. Thank you. Lots to think about.