Moses says to Joshua: "Would that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit on them." (Num 11: 29) Moses obedient to the LORD called seventy men from Israel. Two men, who remained in the camp, prophesied in the camp not in the Tent of Meeting. Can we think of the Sunday Mass as the Tent of Meeting? It is there we encounter the Lord and, indeed, receive him in the sacrament. It is the Spirit who gathers us, speaks to us through the Word and works the transformation that makes what was previously bread and wine the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. We know that in that moment we receive an outpouring of the Spirit and the guarantee of God's presence in our lives. This does not mean however that God is restricted in his saving action to us. We are dependent on him however he does not rely on us. His power and his Spirit extend throughout the world in ways unknown to us. If we cooperate with his grace, however, we know that we shall experience his power and encounter him in all that is good.
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