Rejoice in the Lord Always
The Christian sense of rejoicing, however, goes beyond the renunciation of earthly things. This is because of what Christ offers us by faith. When we believe in Him, when we reach out to him in prayer, when we lift up our hearts and offer them to the Lord, He shares with us something splendid and glorious, something so beautiful that our hearts will never tire of it as long as we cleave to Him by faith.
What does it mean to rejoice in the Lord? It means to attend to Him who is coming to us, to offer Him our hearts. This allows Him to pick them up with his own hands and to join them to His own. In this moment, our hearts are transformed, a new creation begins to unfold. A new holy communion, forged by the Cross, is laid open to us. In this moment of grace which no natural light can see, the Father looks on us with His beatifying love just as He gazes on his own Son. For a moment open to eternity, Christ’s joy becomes our joy. Filled with this life, light and love, can we remain silent or indulgent or anxious? No. Such love is too big to be kept inside and left unexpressed. It is a driving passion that consumes every fiber of our being. Such love, such joy needs to be expressed to those whom we most love, to those who most need it, to those we do not know and even to those whom we do not yet know how to love.
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