Day 27
The sacred everyday
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Since once again, Lord, I have neither bread, nor wine, nor altar to say Mass, 

I will make the whole earth my altar 

and on it will offer you all the labors and all the sufferings of the world.

Instead of bread, I will offer the harvest to be won by today’s labors. Lord, say again the words: This is my Body over every living thing which will spring up, grow, flower, ripen during this day. 

Instead of wine, I will offer every activity and force that withers, corrodes, fails, and dies; into my chalice I shall pour all the sap to be pressed from the earth’s fruits. Lord, say again the words: This is my Blood 

 

All the things which today will increase; 
all those that will diminish or die: 
all of them, Lord, I try to gather into my arms, holding them out to you.

We believe you are present in them.
This is the Mystery of Faith.  

                                                                                                Teilhard de Chardin SJ 

                                                                                                                    adapted from Mass on the World

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The challenge of the saints of the twenty-first century

is to begin again

to comprehend the sacred

in the ten thousand things of our world;

to reverence

what we have come to view as ordinary and devoid of spirit.
                                                                          Edward Hays in Secular Sanctity