My wife and I are fortunate to have welcomed our fifth child back in October, so she’s almost six months now, which is always just a fun age.
In Mass, she loves to not only be held and look into your face, but she has to touch your face with both hands.
It’s not lost on me that in God’s wisdom He instilled in babies this longing—this deep desire to see and touch the face of their father.
And we as adults should also desire to see the face of the Father. To touch the face of the Father.
That’s what the Eucharist provides us: a way to actually encounter God through Jesus Christ.
A way to touch Him. To be close to Him. To look into His face.
It satisfies one of the simplest and maybe deepest longings of our lives on earth.
We think we need to understand everything, to have all the answers, to figure it all out before we can come to the Father.
But maybe we’re supposed to come like my daughter comes to me.
Just wanting to see His face. Just wanting to be close. With that simple, deep longing to be held by the Father.
Let us pray.
Lord, give us the simplicity of a child coming to her father. Help us approach You—and approach the Eucharist—with simple longing. We want to see Your face. We want to be close to You. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Keep fighting the good fight. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
