Great and Wonderful Are God's Works

In today’s first reading, we pray the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb:

“Great and wonderful are your works,

Lord God almighty.

Just and true are your ways,

O king of the nations.

Who will not fear you, Lord,

Or glorify your name?

For you alone are holy.

All the nations will come

And worship before you,

for your righteous acts have been revealed.”

At every Mass, we join Moses and all of the saints and angels in heaven, proclaiming the greatness of the Lord, acknowledging the justice and truth of God’s ways and recognizing God as “King of the nations.”  We glorify God name, God, who alone is holy and to whom all nations will come, worshipping before the Lord, God of hosts.  God’s righteous acts are revealed in the consecration of every Mass, where earth and heaven join in worship, in becoming one with the Lord, who gives Himself to us in Holy Communion to reconfirm our union with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Let us shout: “Great and wonderful are all your works, Lord, mighty God” (the Antiphon of today’s Responsorial Psalm 98), for the Lord’s “right hand has won victory for him,” and for us.  “The Lord has made his salvation known” (Responsorial Psalm 98).

May we allow God today to make His salvation known through the way in which we relate to each other and in the way that we respond to injustices done toward us or other or in the way in which we react when confronted with truth—perhaps a truth we do not want to hear about ourselves.