Senior's Mass 2009
June 2009
‘Although you have not seen God, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.’
I have great pity for people who are slowly growing old, who are slowly losing their physical and mental powers and the only thing they have to look forward to is the total oblivion of death. For such people all the relationships they have built up, all the wisdom and experience they have accumulated over a long life is shattered and lost in the black hole of death.
I have no sympathy for us senior parishioners. The gradual loss of our abilities, our pains and aches, our growing list of infirmities are only milestones, ticking off the days, hours and minutes as we draw ever closer to the day of our birth into Eternal Life.
We can treasure our relationships, we can delight in our accumulated wisdom and experience because we know that these will only grow and blossom in the Kingdom of God.
This is what Christianity has done of us. This is what our faith has given us.
Let us rejoice and be glad.