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“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.” - 2 Corinthians 5:20
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Scripture makes clear that we are called to be ambassadors for Christ. That makes it important for us to understand exactly what an ambassador is and what an ambassador does. When we consider that we are representatives of our King, how should this affect our behavior, our relationships, and our purpose?
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Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!
Today, I would like to reflect on the connection between prayer and the communion of saints. In fact, when we pray, we never do so alone: even if we do not think about it, we are immersed in a majestic river of invocations that precedes us and proceeds after us. A majestic river.
Contained in the prayers we find in the Bible, that often resound in the liturgy, are the traces of ancient stories, of prodigious liberations, of deportations and sad exiles, of emotional returns, of praise ringing out before the wonders of creation… And thus, these voices are passed on from generation to generation, in a continual intertwining between personal experience and that of the people and the humanity to which we belong.
Reflections Today
Luke has a beautiful story of Jesus’ appearance to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. Jesus joins them on their journey, but they mistake Him for a stranger, as their vision is still blurred by grief and a sense of failure, and because to see the resurrected Jesus, their eyes are to be “opened.” First, the Lord opens their minds to the understanding of Scriptures, that first the Messiah should suffer before He enters into His glory. Then He opens their eyes at the breaking of the bread.
Applying this narrative to the Mass, St. John Paul II says that when our minds are opened to the understanding of Scriptures, the signs begin to speak. We will understand the signs and actions in the liturgy, and how they are signs of Christ Himself present among us, if we have first partaken from the “table of the Word of God” in the Liturgy of the Word.