Here is the opening prayer from the mass of today. Well, actually this is the alternate opening prayer for the mass. Those of you who may not be aware of this little option, each mass celebrated on Sundays has two opening prayers options. The presider can choose which prayer he thinks speaks more clearly to the readings and his message or homily of the day.
Sometimes the alternate prayers are a little sappy but I was moved by today's alternate opening prayer. So here it is:
"almighty and ever present Father, your watchful care reaches from end to end and orders all things in such power that even the tensions and tragedies of sin cannot frustrate your loving plans. Help is to embrace your will, gives us strength to follow your call, so that your truth may live in our hearts and reflect peace to those who believe in your love..."
Just a comment or two.
The tensions and tragedies of sin do frustrate God's plans. But it is that frustration that ultimate leads to the coming of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
It is precisely because of that cosmic frustration brought about by our first parents in the garden of Eden that Christ comes. In the words of the Easter exultant, "oh happy fault that brought us such a savior."
Behold the Lamb of God, the one who seeks to unfrustrate our lives.
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