A few tips on Sunday Mass, genuflection and visits.

  A few tips on   Sunday Mass,  genuflection and visits.
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Our parish priest is celebrating Holy Mass daily for our spiritual welfare.

We should participate in the week days  Masses whenever we can.

But Sunday Mass is compulsory.

Many people have lost the obligation sense of the Sunday Mass.

They attend the Sunday Mass if they please or fail to attend it for no serious reason.

They don't feel that
non-attendance of the Sunday  Mass without a reasonable reason   is a sin.

For them it is no better than going for a film,

which is a matter one's will and pleasure, not obligation.

Some prove themselves 'outstanding' Christians throughout the Mass,  except  Communion time.

For them Communion is no better than sweet distribution.!

The funniest thing is that

some such people are always

in the front of

the decision making meetings

of the Parish! 

Real Christians participate in the Sunday Mass,

not because it is an obligation

but because it is their life.

They participate in the Mass

fully,

consciously

and actively.

The modern world

has lost the sense

of the sacred

in the churches today.

We must remember that
the Church is the House of God

and a sacred and holy environment.

Therefore,

in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament,

there should be cultivated silence,

  that fosters both prayer

and reverence.

We must genuflect before Eucharist

because Jesus is God,

Whom we must adore,

not merely revere.

Reverence is for men,

for God, 'adoration'.

The Kings of the East prostrated themselves

before the Child Jesus in Bethlehem;

Prostration before the Blessed Sacrament is good,

but it is not possible

when the Church is full of people.

Genuflection is always possible.

So let us genuflect before Jesus,

to show our accepting  Him

as our adorable Creator.

Yes, Jesus,

now present in the Blessed Sacrament,

is the Lord of all the Lords

the King of all the Kings

and

above all

Our Creator,

  worthy of worship and praise.

Our worship is done by our genuflection.

One little poem I remember

  having learnt

during my boyhood days

about  Eucharistic visits:

“Whenever I see a Church,

I stop to make a visit,

so that

when I die

the Lord will not say,
"who is it?”

We should cultivate the habit of

now and then stopping to visit Jesus

truly present in the Blessed Sacrament

in the tabernacle.

Even though the visit might last five minutes,

this is very pleasing to Jesus whose Sacred Heart rejoices

every time we visit Him and remember Him!

Lourdu Selvam.