I am afraid I was a tad bit distracted at 6:30 Mass this morning. In the pews were three religious sisters, two from one order and one from another. The two had traditional habits with the veil, black shoes and ramrod straight posture when kneeling in prayer before Mass. The one was in modern garb, street clothes, a bit more casual all around, but no mistaking her for anyone other than a nun.
I was struck by how at that Eucharist the old and the new, the traditional and the progressive, the young and the elderly all congregate without rancor, division or fuss. We all are there for the same reason. We all are Catholic at that moment, in that Present.
I think it is because we all are caught up in the presence of the Truth, in the presence of Love. We are truly church from 6:30 to 7:00 each morning. Thanks be to God!
