23 THE EUCHARISTIC LETTER
May the divine Goodness deign to bring us to understand the nobility of this end, and help us to be fit instruments in making it succeed.
To achieve this noble end - total double union - is humanly impossible. Medaille prays that God’s Divine Goodness will reveal to us the wisdom to understand it. Over time, the grace and energy and capacity to accomplish this ‘total double union’ will come from God and will flow through us ‘instruments’. Once again, we find Jean-Pierre’s endearing addressing of God as ‘Divine Goodness’ as the generative power and nurturance that flows from Goodness to goodness and brings forth well-being throughout all creation.
Becoming a “fit instrument” would seem to happen as the fruitfulness that comes with years of faithful practice of these familiar maxims:
Strive to be empty of all, detached from earthly affections (2:2)
Be receptive to grace in the moment. (6:9)
Maintain peace of heart by living in the present moment and avoid haste. (7:1, 5)
Like the cello and violin and potter’s clay, we are disposed to be the Master Musician’s or Master Potter’s finest work of art. Throughout all creation, there is that ‘groaning for completion’ as God, who is all Love, active and inclusive Love, draws us into a unity in diversity that is the fulfillment of our destiny. ‘May we all be one.”
Father Medaille uses the phrase ‘the nobility of this end.’ Was he hereby pointing us to our birthright, our rank and privilege as human beings in the family of God? We were born for this work, for this excellent dignity, for this magnanimous privilege of being sons and daughters of God. As heirs of this Kingdom of Love, we share in the life and love that is in continual ‘divine round dance’ in the Triune God. Father Medaille wants to awaken in us the sublime vocation of our being human and being fully alive. Humanity and divinity are made for this divine communing and there is a mutual partnership in the dancing.
Rise up, dear daughters and sons and claim your life work:
Are you enjoying the divine round dance yet?
Comments
I feel like a "fit instrument " when I let Him work in my ministry at the hospital on Fridays bearing the Eucharistic Lord to waiting, needy hearts. It does cost by joining in the dance but this is what I live for and who I am now, more than ever!
Humanity and divinity are made for this divine communing and there is a mutual partnership in the dancing. As time goes on, I begin to sense the daily beat and rhythm of the inner music. I love the 'Beams of Love' logo and how the community of Little Designers are all in gentle dance movement... The essential littleness and self-empting make for a very freeing and effortless dance!