In today's first reading, 2 Cor 3: 15-4:1, 3-6, Paul reminds us that "all [who gaze] with unveiled face[s] on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit." In Psalm 46, God says to us "Be still and know that I am God." In the stillness, as we gaze upon God in the Scriptures, in nature, in the core of our being, in the heart of our loved ones--spouses, children, babies--God is at work transforming us into other Christs!
Paul tells us that the "Gospel is veiled...for those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they may not see the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." There is the belief that more and more people do not believe in God, that more and more people have walked away from the Eucharist and that more and more of our churches are empty when religious services are being held, though our priests and our ministers, as Paul reminds us, "do not preach [about themselves] but Jesus Christ as Lord, and [themselves] as slaves for the sake of Jesus. For God who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in [their] hearts to bring to light the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of Jesus Christ."
Are you, am I, present at religious services? Do you, do I, take being still in the presence of our God, a God who lives within all of creation, who dwells in the core of our hearts, who is present in the Eucharist in every tabernacle in our Catholic Churches. Do you, do I, seek the "light [that] shine[s] out of darkness, [that shines] in our hearts to bring the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of Jesus Christ" to our attention and thus to the attention of our children, our spouses and anyone we encounter? Or are you, am I, "blinded" by the "god[s] of this age," money, material things, pleasure, sex, and other substitutes that we seek to fill the emptiness that only God can fill?
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