Hello everyone. I hope you are well and keeping safe. Happy Sunday! As I prepare for Mass today, I ask God to bless you and help you in any way that you need and grant any intention that you have. I leave you with a part of the Office of Readings today written by the Second Vatican Council Fathers. They teach us to think of heaven and allow heaven to have an impact here and now.
We do not know the time when earth and humanity will reach their completion, nor do we know the way in which the universe will be transformed. The world as we see it, disfigured by sin, is passing away. But we are sure that God is preparing a new dwelling place and a new earth. In this new earth righteousness is to make its home, and happiness will satisfy, and more than satisfy, all the yearnings for peace that arise in human hearts. On that day, when death is conquered, the sons of God will be raised up in Christ; what was sown as something weak and perishable will be clothed in incorruption. Love and the fruits of love will remain, and the whole of creation, made by God for man, will be set free from the frustration that enslaves it.
From the Second Vatican Council's pastoral constitution "Gaudium et spes" on the Church in the modern world