In today's first reading, the prophet Isaiah has the following vision: "I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filing the temple. Seraphim were stationed above; reach of them had six wings: with two they veiled their faces, with two they veiled their feet, and with two they hovered aloft. They cried one to another, 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts! all the earth is filled with his glory!'" Seeing this vision, Isaiah realized who he was and exclaimed: "'Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!' Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember that he had taken with tongs from the altar. he touched my mouth with it and said, 'See, now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness if removed, your sin purged.'"
At every Catholic Mass, we proclaim: "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest." And shortly after that prayer, the Lord God does come down upon our altar in the consecration of the bread and wine into the body and blood, soul and divinity of Christ when the priest ask the Spirit of God to transfigure the gifts into Christ Jesus. And God does just that through the consecrated hands of the priest, a gift of his ordination to the priesthood.
Holy, holy, holy" is our God. who, at every Catholic Mass, stoops down from the heavens and, in Holy Communion, enters our bodies, minds, and souls, transforming us into Christ Jesus. We are then sent out into the world to be the hands, the feet, the heart and minds of Christ to all we serve! And we are sent out, not alone, but with Christ living within us and working through us!
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