Catholic Christian Hermit: Perceiving, Living, the Mystical Element of Religion

I shared what I've been grasping with a couple Catholics. One grasps it and asked if the Mass, particularly the second part, mystical?  Well, the first part--the Living Word is most definitely due to it being Christ's Word, alive and with us in Mass and anywhere we want as we can hold His Word in our inner beings.  Plus, the consecration is as that is His Body and Blood--do this in remembrance of me.  Besides, mystically, we are in Christ or can be, and He in us, all the time, not only with the consecrated Host; but with us abiding, always.  We remain in His Love when we believe in the Son of God, Jesus Christ, and will to follow Him and strive to live His teachings.

The other Catholic I shared what to me is a crucial and immense puzzle piece of understanding and for spiritual progression, emailed back that my "brilliant [her attempt at compliment, kindly] mind is being worn out by thinking, thinking, thinking."  Well, the thinking is from a tremendous insight and answer to prayer, and it is truth, and it is leading me to more Jesus and His Living Word, abiding in Christ, and recognizing the mystical element of religion and reinforcing it not only in an institutional or intellectual element, but out on errand to get the stronger, more absorbable type of Sudafed, and in the added suffering I am having with pain plus sinus crud that is now 10-days hanging on.

Just an image of Jesus crucified is a major mystical element.  But so are what I'm perceiving in people in general when I'm out on the errands which were two today.  The thoughts are fruitful ones, and God is providing lots of examples in other than church institutions and intellect, but in the secular realm, as well, as to what occurs in any part of life or this world when the mystical element is out of balance or not ever mentioned or noticed, or thought about.  That is God as the Mystical Element present in and about us, and in others, as well, in the surroundings such as the beauty of all His Creation.

So while I flunked and was dismissed from knee PT today, and I've flunked as a parishioner, I'm having much success with becoming more aware of the mystical element of religion (and beyond, but religion can be in some ways viewed as integral and significant modality in life itself.

God bless His Re

al Presence, the Mystical Element, in us!