St. Anselm: Mediation on Today's Mass Readings

TODAY'S MASS READINGS
1: Tob 3:1-11,16-17

R: Ps 25:2-9

G: Mk 12:18-27

The Resurrection: Life in Full

Why do you stray so far in search of good things for your soul and your body? Love the one and only Good in whom are all good things. That is enough… There on high, all that anyone can love and desire is to be found.

Do you love beauty? “The saints will shine like the sun.” (Mt 13:43) Do you love the agility or the strength of a free body from which all obstacles have been removed? “They shall be like the angels of God”… Or a long and healthy life? There on high, eternal good health awaits you, for “the just live forever.” (Wis 5:15)… Do you want to be satiated? You shall be when God shows you his face in his glory (Ps 17:15). To be made drunk? “They have their fill of the prime gifts of your house.” (Ps 36:9) Or do you love a melodious song? There on high, the choirs of angels sing God’s praise without end. Are you seeking very pure delights? God will give you to drink from his delightful streams (Ps 36:9). Do you love wisdom? God’s wisdom will become manifest in person. Friendship? They shall love God more than themselves, they shall love one another as much as themselves, and God will love them more than they can ever love… Do you love harmony? They will all have one single will, for they will have no will other than God’s… Honors and wealth? God will set his good and faithful servants over many goods (Mt 25:21); even more, “they shall be called sons of God,” (Mt 5:9) and they shall really be that, for where the Son of God is, there also shall be the “heirs of God, heirs with Christ.” (Rom 8:17)

~ Saint Anselm (1033-1109), Monk, Bishop, Doctor of the Church Proslogion 25-26

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