Helaas weet ik niet precies wat dit in 't Nederlands is. Iets met toewijding...kennelijk luisterde ik niet goed genoeg tijdens de Mis vandaag. Maar goed! Vandaag een mooi feest. In de Metten zijn er twee lezingen. De eerste komt uit de eerste brief van Petrus:
Be sure you are never spiteful, or deceitful, or hypocritical, or envious and critical of each other. You are newborn, and, like babies, you should be hungry for nothing but milk - the spiritual honesty which will help you to grow up to salvation - now that you have tasted the goodness of the Lord. ... I urge you, my dear people, while you are visitors and pilgrims to keep yourselves free from the selfish passions that attack the soul. Always behave honourably among pagans so that they can see your good works for themselves and, when the day of reckoning comes, give thanks to God for the things which now make them denounce you as criminals.
En dan, uit een preek van de heilige Caesarious van Arles:
Before baptism we were all shrines of the devil: baptised, we have become temples of Christ. The more profoundly we meditate on our salvation, the more deeply we come to realize that we are indeed the true and living temples of God. God does not live only in shrines made by man, structures of wood or stone, but above all he lives in the soul which is made after his image.... My beloved brothers, if we want to celebrate the birthday of this church with true joy, we must not destroy the living temple of God within us by our sins. I shall put it in a way everybody can understand. Let your souls be as spotless and shining as you want this church to be when you come to it.
Do you want this basilica to be spotless? Do not defile your own soul with the filth of sin. If you want it to appear radiant with light, God also desires that your soul be no plunged in darkness, but that, in our Lord's words, "the light of good works shine in us to give glory to him who is in heaven."
Mooi he? Pastoor sprak over hoe wij levende stenen van de Kerk zijn, hoe de Kerk een voorafbeelding van de Heilige Jerusalem is... Mass rocks
