God At Work

So, tonight I went to a memorial mass for Pope John Paull II at The Cathedral St. Louis Basilica. It was a beautiful service, full of somber pageantry. The music was beautiful, the readings and homily poignant and appropriate. There was some crazy man who burst out in the middle of Archbishop Raymond Burke's Homily but was escorted out of the sanctuary. On, the way home Dan Fox was complaining about some girl that he had gone out on a date with and called her a bitch and then proceded to blame Jesus for taking her away from him as she is a youth group leader at a Catholic Church. He said he "want[ed] to fight him and crucify him again." This kid is special and has some serious issues.

Later tonight, I asked Dan Lewis to come down to my room because I wanted him to read the Quicunque Vult also known as The Creed of Saint Athanasius. The creed is a very eloquent version of the Apostle's and Nicene creeds:

Whosoever will be saved, before all
things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith.
Which Faith except
everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish
everlastingly.
And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one God in
Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the
Substance.
For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and
another of the Holy Ghost.
But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost, is all one, the Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal.
Such as
the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Ghost.
The Father
uncreate, the Son uncreate, and the Holy Ghost uncreate.
The Father
incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible.
The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghost eternal.
And yet
they are not three eternals, but one eternal.
As also there are not three
incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated, but one uncreated, and
one
incomprehensible.
So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and
the Holy Ghost Almighty.
And yet they are not three Almighties, but one
Almighty.
So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God.
And yet they are not three Gods, but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Ghost
Lord.
And yet not three Lords, but one Lord.
For like as we are
compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by
himself to
be both God and Lord,
So are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion, to say,
There be three Gods, or three
Lords.
The Father is made of none, neither
created, nor begotten.
The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor
created, but begotten.
The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son,
neither made, nor created, nor begotten,
but proceeding.
So there is one
Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Ghost, not three
Holy Ghosts.
And in this Trinity none is afore, or after other; none is
greater, or less than another;
But the whole three Persons are co-eternal
together and co-equal.
So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in
Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
He therefore that will
be saved is must think thus of the Trinity.
Furthermore, it is necessary to
everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess,
that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man;
God, of the
substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man of the Substance
of his Mother, born in the world;
Perfect God and perfect Man, of a
reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting.
Equal to the Father, as touching
his Godhead; and inferior to the Father, as touching his
Manhood;
Who,
although he be God and Man, yet he is not two, but one Christ; One, not by
conversion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking of the Manhood into God;
One altogether; not by confusion of Substance, but by unity of Person.
For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and Man is one
Christ;
Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the
third day from the dead.
He ascended into heaven, he sitteth at the right
hand of the Father, God Almighty, from
whence he will come to judge the
quick and the dead.
At whose coming all men will rise again with their
bodies and shall give account for their
own works.
And they that have
done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil into
everlasting fire. This is the Catholic Faith, which
except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved.

So, here's the kicker. Dan and I start to talk about the different songs we sing at church and "Christ Our Lord is Risen Today" comes up we start to talk about it. As I reach my hand for the computer, to play the song, it starts playing. No, I hadn't touched it nor did I know what song was about to play. This my friends is what we call God at work. The little things. That was CRAZY. I leave you with the lyrics to the version on Hymns Triumphant Volumes I & II:

Christ, the Lord, is risen today,
Alleluia!

Sons of men and angels say,
Alleluia!

Raise your joys and triumphs high,
Alleluia!

Sing, ye heavens, and earth, reply,
Alleluia!

Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!

Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Alleluia!

Once He died our souls to save,
Alleluia!

Where thy victory, O grave? Alleluia!

Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia!

Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!

Death in vain forbids His rise,
Alleluia!

Christ hath opened paradise,
Alleluia!