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Third Sunday Second Reading: Apocalypse 5: 11-14 Handel’s Messiah ends with a wonderful chorus based on this passage: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessing. Here, though, John is describing it as sung or shouted - not by a choir of a hundred or so - but ten thousand times ten thousand - thousands upon thousands. It is a glorious vision of the honour that is paid in heaven to the One whose blood redeemed creation. We forget that our redemption puts us in touch with the heavenly choruses. We often worship as if our songs and prayers were confined by the walls of our buildings and limited by our voices. They are not. We can’t understand how it happens - but, from time to time, we may sense that we are part of something much greater than we can physically see and hear. When that happens to you, don’t dismiss it as the product of hype and imagination - you will be able to tell the difference between that and the real thing. Hype and imagination only last as long as the experience - touching the Divine leaves an imprint on the soul that lasts for ever.
What does it mean for me?
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