"He is so great, I so small..."

"But when does our littleness so come home to us as when we stand in God's presence? He is the great God, who is today and yesterday, whose years are hundreds and thousands, who fills the place where we are, the city, the wide world, the measureless space of the starry sky, in whose eyes the universe is less than a particle of dust, all-holy, all-pure, all-righteous, infinitely high. He is so great, I so small, so small that beside him I seem hardly to exist, so wanting am I in worth and substance. One has no need to be told that God's presence is not the place in which to stand on one's dignity. To appear less presumptuous, to be as little and low as we feel, we sink to our knees and thus sacrifice half our height; and to satisfy our hearts still further we bow down our heads, and our diminished stature speaks to God and says, Thou art the great God; I am nothing."

~from Sacred Signs by Romano Guardini

Ave Maria!  As I read the above excerpt from Msgr. Guardini's excellent book Sacred Signs, I envisioned myriads of angels falling down to worship the One "who was and is and is to come" (Rev 4:8).  If even the angels "adoring, bend the knee" before the Lamb upon His throne, how can I do anything less than kneel in humble adoration and eternal gratitude when I receive the King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Rev 19:16) in Holy Communion?!

O come:  let us bow and bend low.

Let us kneel before the God who made us.

~Psalm 95(94):6