Our starting point to freedom may be the passionate care of ourselves and our future prosperity, but if this care stops and does not pierce deeper into the universal care of everything, we may be caught up within the fabric of nihilism. The more we expand our hearts to embrace everything, the more passionate we are and the deeper will be our awareness of what living is about, until we realise what this whole business of living is about. It is about us. Everything is us.

This manner of living can only thrive within the seal of a covenant. Union without covenant is ephemeral, but be careful what you enter into covenant with. The truest bond and seal of covenant is that which enables man to become absolute with the Absolute, not without. This is the point where we experience an ever new and eternal truth of the universe.

For the reaason that we lack the capacity to devote ourselves entirely to the Absolute, the Lamb comes in our place on Calvary and showed us what devotion is about. It is about love, it is about sacrifice. Herein lies the meaning of  the everlasting covenant. This sacrifice, although made once and for all, is not just a remembrance. It is at once a memorial and a reality. Attend to that domain where that age long sacrifice on Calvary is being perpetuated in time, because we still exist within the confines of time and space.

Eternal realities must still be perpetuated for us to sustain the capacity to embrace God’s love, so that we can experience reality as it truly is. Our alibi is in the Lamb who is both man and God. The Lamb has come to remedy us and to raise us to the capacity to be God. That is why Christians are called Children of God, and why we dare to call God our Father!

It is all about us. It is within the Eucharistic mystery that we can experience the ultimate covenant in truth.