1/23/2024 0 Comments Catholic church peace be with you![]() He said, in essence, “God, it’s your presence among us that makes us unique. If I stay with you I’m going to have to kill you.” Moses said something very important in response. At one point God said to Moses, basically, “I’m going to send an angel with you, and that angel will take you to the Promised Land. The children of Israel were coming out of Egypt as a stiff-necked people. God is with me.”īack in the Old Testament it made a difference. When you hear those words, “The Lord be with you”, in the back of your mind just say to yourself, “I accept that. ![]() ![]() He also wants to do something in your life. Not only is God going to do something here today in the Mass. Know this, O Gideon, God is with you, and if God is with you that makes all the difference in the world. Maybe you came in with a bunch of problems and obstacles in your life. I want to encourage you when you hear those words in the Mass, take heart. The Lord is with you” (Luke 1:28)? We have many examples in the Bible where people were reminded that God is with them. “as I was with Moses, so I will be with you I will not fail you or forsake you.” (Joshua 1:5)Īnd who could forget the beautiful story of the Blessed Virgin Mary, when the Angel Gabriel greeted her with the words, “Hail, full of grace. Nebo and Joshua was going to take the people to the Promised Land, and God encouraged him with these words: It’s not dependent upon your strengths or your abilities or your wisdom. Maybe you feel like Gideon at times, when you don’t have anything going for you at all, and when you hear the words, “The Lord be with you,” that’s powerful. He was visited by an angel and the words he heard were, “The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor” (Judges 6:12). The words, “The Lord be with you” said by the priest were heard by people like Gideon, who was the least man from the least tribe and he didn’t think God could use him at all. When you come to Mass, God wants to do something in your heart, because when you leave Mass God wants you to do some things out there with your family, at your work, and among your neighbors. God had a big plan for a lot of people in the Bible, and he has a big plan for you. Typically they were directed toward someone who was about to do something really great. There are a number of cases in Scripture where those words were used. Every part of the Mass you can find in the Bible and there’s great significance in the Mass, particularly when you know the Bible and its background.įor instance, the words “The Lord be with you” are taken from the Bible. We should though because those foundations are tremendous. We certainly don’t tend to think much about the biblical foundations of the Mass. Sometimes we get into a pattern of saying things in the Mass and we don’t really think about what we’re saying and what it really means. For years it was, “And also with you.” Now it’s “And with your spirit.” Immediately after that, the priest will say to you and to the entire congregation, “The Lord be with you.” We’ve heard those words so many times growing up, and we know exactly what to say after. In our last post we talked about how the Mass begins with the simple prayer, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” In this series we’re hoping to illuminate various aspects of the Mass and talk about how you can become more actively involved in every aspect of it.
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