...present your bodies as a living sacrifice,
holy and acceptable to God,
which is your spiritual worship.
~Romans 12:1
The gift of Christ's Body makes everyone a priest; because everyone can offer the Body of Christ on the altar of his own life.
But the offering must be the offering of a human being who is intensely alive, a potent humanness, great sorrow and great joy, a life lit up with the flame of Love, fierce fasts and thirsts and feasts of sheer joy.
Everyone offering himself to God must offer the glory of life in himself, whether it be through giving it up or rejoicing in it; through a renunciation or an embrace.
Every gesture in life can be one with the gesture of the priest in the Mass.
~Caryll Houselander in The Reed of God
O Christ, ever greater! Through You, with You and in You, may I continually and gladly offer a living sacrifice of praise on the altar of my life to God, the Father of love and mercy. Amen! Alleluia!
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