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Everybody yearns for happiness, for the perfect happiness that will never end. Alas! So often, when it seems within our grasp, our hopes are dashed and we are left to await the fulfillment of our dreams after our sojourn in this valley of tears. Yet, in today's Gospel, Jesus is giving us a recipe for happiness, and not only for the next world, but for this one, too. The recipe is detachment from the goods and attractions of this world so as to cultivate our hearts to appreciate and savour the things of God.
In our first reading, St Paul goes even further. Our resurrection, he says, has already begun in this world with our baptism, by which we stripped ourselves of our selfish and wordly vices, and put on a new self that includes the Risen Christ living with us. So, if we live with and for Christ, our Heaven and our happiness without end will begin already in this world.
"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." (Jn. 6:68)
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DAILY OFFERING
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Eternal Father, I offer You everything I do this day; my thoughts, words, joys and sufferings. Grant that, vivified by the Holy Spirit and united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, my life this day may be of service to You and to others. I also pray that all those preparing for marriage discover in Sacrament the source of Christ's grace for living a fithful and fruitful love. Amen.
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PRAYING WITH THE CHURCH
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INTENTION
That the right to religious freedom may be respected by the governments of all peoples.
Elaboration
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