Holding God

Can you imagine holding Christ in your arms? Can you imagine the blessing of hearing from the Holy Spirit that you would not die before you saw Christ? Well, today both are true, and both are possible. Today the Church commemorates the memory of Saint Symeon the God-Receiver. He was the one to whom God granted this special blessing when Christ was just 40 days old.

With yesterday’s Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, it is a good time to remind us that it wasn’t only Saint Symeon who received the promise to see God. WE have received the same promise, but we get something more special. Not only do we get to see God, if we have eyes to see. We get to hold him much closer that in our arms

We are blessed to receive God in our baptism and hold him deep inside of our bodies every time we receive Holy Communion. Holding a child in your arms eventually comes to an end, but Holy Communion and living with God in our very bodies is forever. Just wanted to remind you of this great blessing today.