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10/14/26 Mysterious Realities · Omnia Christus

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  SPEAKER_00: To receive anything takes humility.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pride is the belief that I am self-sufficient,
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  SPEAKER_00: that no one tells me what to do that I get to decide.
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  SPEAKER_00: And humility means receiving from those who know more than I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chesterton called tradition the democracy of the dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, why should we limit the vote to only those who happen to be alive?
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  SPEAKER_00: His point was there's a much larger community.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a much larger reality that we're a part of.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the tradition.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's all these people that have gone before us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I say all this because after the prayers of consecration,
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  SPEAKER_00: as we celebrate the Eucharist,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's an interesting little phrase, which is the mystery of the faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: They re-translated the Mass not that long ago because in
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  SPEAKER_00: the first English translation, it said, this is the mystery of the faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was followed by this acclamation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it made sense for us to think that the acclamation was what those words referred to.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the mystery of the faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we eat this bread and drink this cup, et cetera, something like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, this little phrase,
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  SPEAKER_00: the mystery of the faith is an ancient part of our liturgy,
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  SPEAKER_00: but nobody really knows why it's there, what it means or to what it refers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the curious thing about tradition, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The curious thing about tradition is that we receive things from those who have gone
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  SPEAKER_00: before us without necessarily understanding why,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we are called to enter into them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these words in particular,
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  SPEAKER_00: the mystery of the faith,
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  SPEAKER_00: are words that require us to enter into and even include that word mystery.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the liturgy doesn't mean what we think it means, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: When we think mystery,
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  SPEAKER_00: we think like maybe a novel or a book or something that has something
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  SPEAKER_00: that isn't known, something that's trying to be discovered.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not exactly what the church means by mystery, mysterion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mystery means something that can only be understood with the help of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So maybe mystical might be a better word for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this little expression that we have right in the middle of
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  SPEAKER_00: the Eucharistic prayer,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the middle of our liturgy, is referring to this full action that we're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's saying that we can only understand this by faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can only understand this with the help of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we make that affirmation after the consecration,
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  SPEAKER_00: we can only understand that this is Jesus' body and blood with faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need faith to enter into this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is something that goes beyond our understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this little expression,
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  SPEAKER_00: and even what we do in the liturgy,
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  SPEAKER_00: is inviting us to walk by faith and not by sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Christ becomes bread and wine,
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  SPEAKER_00: when bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ, there's an illumination.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ is showing us that this bread and this wine This bread
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  SPEAKER_00: and this wine have become the body of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we need to take that attitude to everything that we do in life because
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  SPEAKER_00: the entire world,
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  SPEAKER_00: everything around us,
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  SPEAKER_00: every person we encounter is an expression of God's love for us,
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  SPEAKER_00: is an expression of God's will for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: The attitude of being before a mystery, of contemplating it, Of asking what is going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of seeing through everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's something that the liturgy wants to begin.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's not something that stops at the end of the liturgy.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we are honest, this is our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we need to take this attitude,
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  SPEAKER_00: take this way of seeing and this way of being to our daily lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that we can start to experience this all around us if we slow down,
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  SPEAKER_00: open our eyes and see the mystery of reality in which we live.