General. The liturgy of the Eucharist is a constant prayer to the Lamb and a thanksgiving to the Lord God for all He has done with us. May we use our bodies which enshrine the life He has given to us, our minds with which we exercise our intellectual faculties, and hearts where our emotions lay, to foster peace in our inner selves by keeping united to the Lord and retaining peace with all around us.

First Book of Samuel. The Lord calls, but we may have doubts in understanding whether He is really calling, or what His call means. Believing in God and His call means that the Christian is not a person who treads the wayward path of the worlds, but that great things are expected from him. What God expects of us is walking in His footsteps in the same direction this Eucharist shows, by dying to ourselves and our own projects, thus being resurrected to heavenly life.

Psalm 39. The Psalmist is happy and sings the Lord’s praises because he has answered God’s call and is living according to His will. To the Lord it is not victims and sacrifices that are pleasing, but the offering of oneself as a sacrcifice to accomplish God’s divine will in him.

First Epistle to the Corinthians. St Paul writes of the body and its doings, reminding us that we have been bought at a high price with the blood (in Biblical terminology, the life) of Our Lord Jesus Christ. We should then give glory to the Lord by means of our body which, together with other bodies, forms one larger body, the Church, which is the Spouse of Christ and one spirit with him and his Father.

St John. Seeing Jesus, John the Baptist bestows upon him the title Lamb of God, enticing Andrew to follow Jesus. This too was a calling, in that Andrew saw and went about announcing to his brother Peter that he had found the Messiah, the Anointed One of God. Whoever is happy to have found an end to his life, goes about spelling out the Good News, hoping others find the same joyfulness in their lives.

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