How'd They Do That?

Do you remember what it was like to go to the movies before computer animation made every impossible scene possible?

We would frequently leave the theater with one question on our lips. How in the world do you think they did that?

Then, they told us it was through the power of computer animation. We stopped asking the question. For the most part, we stopped wondering about it at all. Instead, we left the theater and said just one of two things. Great movie. Or, what a snooze.

No mystery. No wonder. No amazement.

We're a little like that with all areas of life. We are trying to manipulate the mystery of conception. We are trying to sabotage the moment of birth. We don't believe in love-you-forever. We've stopped believing in the greatest mystery of all. The Real Presence.

While the rest of the world has lost the sense of mystery, Catholics cling to it tenaciously. We believe in the miracle of conception. We embrace the joy of birth. We believe in love-forever-after. And we believe in the greatest mystery of all. Jesus Christ comes to us, really comes to us, in the Eucharist. We receive Our Lord every time we pray the Mass and walk forward, bow and say amen. He is there, as tangibly as when He walked the earth, and when we lift our eyes to the Altar and see the raised Eucharist, we know - we know - that heaven has touched earth once again.

And we welcome Him within.