Attending Mass and Leaving Early

There are people who go to mass every Sunday and then right after communion are racing already in going out of the church because they don’t want to catch the traffic in the parking area. This is a worst tragedy! Here you are trying to spend time with God an hour or so of your entire week and not finishing it. It’s like going into a movie house and not watching the last few scene of the movie.

How many hours do you have for yourself in a week? And even for an hour or so, you cannot give to Him? Worst you even shortchanged it for a lame reason of wanting to go first away from the parking area because of traffic.

Don’t go to mass, if you plan ahead of not finishing it. How dare you received Christ in communion and never finish the mass. Are you not ashamed of yourself, you partake in the meal and leave right away? Do that to a friend who invited you for a meal or imagine you inviting friends for a dinner and they leave right after they eat without even bothering to tell you that they are leaving! Here we are partaking in a heavenly banquet, more than any highest banquet we can experience on earth. We totally missed the whole point!

We cannot shortchange God. How dare are we to receive the communion and leave as soon as we received it. Gatecrasher! How dare you shortchange the God who has given you everything, good life, good job, good family, and good country! You will say, you are busy, and the priest has so many announcements. So what now, what is additional 30 minutes? It’s not even 10% of your total time for the entire week that you spent for yourself. Be warned of what is written in the Gospel of Luke chapter 12:13-21, it says, “Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

Let us not wait for trials to come before we acknowledge Him. Let us change our ways before it’s too late. Never shortchange God.  

by aats