A Not-So Heavenly Melody — UFFT #28

Christ is truly present among us. How blessed are we to be able to experience that?

Imagine this; you walk into a darkened room, empty except for a few people spaced out around. As your eyes begin to adjust to the extremely dim lighting, you see that there are about a hundred chairs, maybe more, placed around the room in a square pattern surrounding a small, raised table with a clean, white cloth draped over top. On top of the raised table, you see a few gently flickering candles casting their light about the room and sending sparkles onto a beautiful golden vessel. As you investigate more closely, you realize that this is just no ordinary vessel, this is a monstrance, and inside the monstrance is Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. You can’t take your eyes off of Him; everything else spectacular about the room seems to fade away as you focus more and more on the beauty that is the Eucharist. Suddenly, you begin to get this feeling within you, a feeling of utter disbelief that Christ would come to spend time with you. You begin to wonder, how could you ever give back during this time? How could you honor Him with all that you are during this time? What could you possibly do that would be worthy of having Him witness it?

This is exactly how I felt in this same situation this past summer. I was working at a summer camp for my Diocese and we were in the middle of an amazing Adoration time, but there were only a handful of people left in the room; the adult staff and the Behind the Scenes staff. I was in absolute awe over the fact that Christ was present in that room, which was kind of weird for me because it’s not the first time that I had been to Adoration by any means, but nevertheless I found my mind wandering in that direction. As I continued to pray and meditate and just BE in God’s presence, I kept getting this nagging voice in the back of my head. It said something very simple to me, something so simple that I just kept dismissing it without taking any time to consider it. The voice kept saying “There is an opportunity here. Don’t be afraid.”