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Children of all ages, especially our First Communion children, I want to share with you a phrase that is often used as a greeting and as a response; that has its’ beginnings some 250 years or so.
Goes like this: God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.
And I am sure that all of us children can think of at least one way God has been and continues to be good because:
God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.
Well, today, on this your First Communion Day, we celebrate another way that God is good all the time.
The gift of Holy Communion, the gift of the Body & Blood of Jesus. The gift of God’s Presence… shared with us is meant to be shared with everyone so that you and I remember and others will also come to know that: God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.
Today in the second Bible reading, the people of Philippi and all of today are reminded that “We must have the same attitude as Jesus!”
How are our thoughts and words and actions like Jesus every day? Do our thoughts, words and actions remind others that: God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.
As I shared last week at Mass, God’s goodness is always more “GOODER” than we would think.
How can… How will you and I be “MORE GOODER” today, tomorrow and every day? Just as: God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.
If we want, our attitudes, our words, our actions, can be that of Jesus. Every week our God shares with us ways, even new ways, to be Jesus and bring Jesus to everyone, every day.
WHY? Because… God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.
Every week when we attend Mass, we are learning more, understanding more of what the attitude of Jesus needs to be in our lives as person, family and Parish.
WHY? Because… God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.
We who hear God’s Word, who receive Holy Communion, are meant to BE Jesus, to BRING Jesus to one another and to everyone.
So that you and I and all we meet never forget that: God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.