As a preparation for our life after the resurrection, our Lord tells
us in the gospel how we should live here and now. He teaches us to be
peaceable, long-suffering, undefiled by desire for pleasure, and
detached from worldly wealth. In this way we can achieve, by our own
free choice, the kind of life that will be natural in the world to come.
Through the Holy Spirit we are restored to paradise, we ascend to the
kingdom of Heaven, and we are reinstated as adopted children. Thanks
to the Spirit we obtain the right to call God our Father, we become
sharers in the grace of Christ, we are called children of light, and
we share in everlasting glory.
In a word, every blessing is showered upon us, both in this world and
in the world to come.
As we contemplate them even now, like a reflection in a mirror, it is
as though we already possess the good things our faith tells us that
we shall one day enjoy. If this is the pledge, what will the
perfection be? If these are the firstfruits, what will the full harvest be?
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Lord, may everything we do begin with Your inspiration and continue
with Your help,
so that all our prayers and works may begin in You and by You be happily ended.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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