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About Truth.

The opening prayer of today’s Mass asks, “Help us to cling to your truths with fidelity.”  We ask this of course through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Thus we need God’s grace to cling to His truths, for as Jesus explains in today’s Gospel, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him…” (Jn. 6)  Jesus is Grace and Truth, He abides with us in the Blessed Sacrament - the Father draws us to Him in the Holy Mysteries.  He left us this Holy Sacrament that we might cling to Him in love and He might free us, protect us, and reveal to us the Father.  Everything that is delicious is contained in this bread come down from heaven… all that is true and good.

The Holy Mysteries cannot be fully apprehended by the intellect, they require the submission of faith in love, as does the Truth in a world of lies.  In other words, they “help us to cling to God’s truths with fidelity.”  God’s commands are all true, and we pray for His help when lies oppress us (Ps. 118).  And we find this help in the Holy Eucharist; the celebration of Mass, and reserved in the tabernacles of Roman Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories.  If we struggle with sin or infidelity, clinging to the Lord in the Holy Eucharist will “turn our feet from evil paths” and help us to “cling to His truths with fidelity.”   

“They shall all be taught by God” (Jn. 6)

“Lord, how I love your law!

It is ever in my mind.

Your command makes me wiser than my foes;

for it is mine forever.

I have more insight than all who teach me

for I ponder your will.

I have more understanding than the old

for I keep your precepts.

I turn my feet from evil paths

to obey your word.

I have not turned from your decrees;

you yourself have taught me.

Your promise is sweeter to my taste

than honey in the mouth.

I gain understanding from your precepts

and so I hate false ways.” - Ps. 118: 97-104

“Since he clings to me in love I will free him, protect him for he knows my Name.”- Ps. 9o