Talks 2us - Totus2us

Father Michael Dunne: "Mother Teresa says to the sisters going to daily Mass: "Each sister is to do the work of the priest where the priest cannot go, and do what he cannot do. She must be imbibed by the spirit of Holy Mass, which is one of total surrender and offering. For this reason, Holy Mass must become the daily meeting place where God and his creature offer each other for each other and the world." What a staggering theology of the Mass - that you go to Mass offering yourself to God for the salvation of the world and, yes, God offers himself to you for the salvation of the world, and in that intimacy and communion we have joined the Cross and the Resurrection. Because when St Paul tells the Galations: "I am crucified with Christ and yet I am alive. Yet it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me." It looks as if he is talking about the crucifixion, about darkness; but he is not talking about the crucifixion. He never knew Jesus of Nazareth on earth; he has only known the Risen One and what he