"That Mountain Which is Christ"

 

            Life here on earth is certainly a great mystery. It is short but has such a monumental influence of our endless eternity. It is difficult at times to keep on trusting God and to keep on believing in the life-giving truths of the Catholic Church, but persevering in the same gives us eternal life. We have to keep on believing and proclaiming with our lives that Jesus Christ is Lord.

            At times in our lives, a day may seem to be unexciting, or monotonous, or meaningless, and we may fail to be able to summon up, so to speak, the strength to keep going on. But even in those dark times must we relentlessly trust in Christ Jesus, with the simple faith of a child who knows his father is near though perchance unseen. “Jesus, I trust in Thee.” Thus may we continue to ascend that “mountain that is Christ” (from I think the Collect of the Traditional Latin Mass of St. Catherine of Alexandria). And though we may be living as though in fire, “in the midst of the fire I was unburned” and “in the heart of the flames I was uninjured” (not the exact words, but from that same Mass).

            For this same reason we must ever be on our task, and ever continue to do that which is God’s holy will, in every place and in every circumstance. Seldom should we be idle, but instead we must forever work towards building the Kingdom of God on earth, so that all peoples may rejoice together in unity and peace. Across all time and space, may God’s holy will be done and may his Kingdom come, and thus may all that exists speed towards its destiny, its telos, its final end, may all things ever tend heavenwards, towards the Fatherland, towards that mountain which is Christ.

            May all things ever tend towards Thee, Christ Jesus.