Today I was graced to understand the feeling of Shekinah—glory cloud—I’ve felt at key moments during the Mass since I began attending months back—even before I was confirmed and able to take the Eucharist.
The key moments of Ruach HaKodesh for me are during the singing of “Holy Holy Holy”, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord”, “Lamb of God you take away the sins of the world…Have mercy on us”, “When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again”, “Our Father” and most intensely the consecrating “Amen”. I had described this feeling to friends on several occasions as being filled to the point of bursting with something I cannot hold. But today, it was revealed to me by the Paraclete that what is spiritually going on is my, and the congregations’, aptly called assistance at Mass.
Our participation in the attendance and worship in Mass is our sacrifice offering which is part of what is required to consecrate a host and transform it into the real presence of Jesus Christ. It all culminates in the “Amen” the congregation sings. This is the moment I’m “bursting”.
What is happening is that we are being allowed to actually give our offering for consecration. The feeling I had perceived as filling is actually a leaving of spiritual energy. What is most remarkable is that those who can take the Eucharist receive this spiritual energy back physically as Christ. It is our spiritual energy returning to us sanctified, purified and materialized as Christ.
John 14
[16] And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever. [17] The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him: but you shall know him; because he shall abide with you, and shall be in you. [18] I will not leave you orphans, I will come to you. [19] Yet a little while: and the world seeth me no more. But you see me: because I live, and you shall live. [20] In that day you shall know, that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
