What to expect, continued...

We have listened to the WORD of the Father through Christ in Christ and by the living Breath or Spirit of Christ, and as God's One and Only Child we have responded to that WORD in word in prayer.

Now we respond in physical action, so this is not "spiritual," but actually, through sign and action. 
The Liturgy of the Sign or Sacrament (The Anaphora) - Action

We are One with Christ, We are no longer individuals worshipping "God," but God's Beloved Child standing before Our Father in Heaven, offering of what he has given us what we have made-- bread, wine and our very selves,  to be the Sign, the living Witness of God in Human Flesh.

We lay it upon the Table of the Lord, the Altar. And as the hands of Christ himself, the Priest blesses God for the bread, the wine, and for our flesh and blood and asks God to make these outward and visible signs of Christ in the world, by opening the eyes of all people to see them so through his holy Spirit.

Here we see him not only in the "stuff" of the world about us, but in the "stuff of heaven itself"-- in words, deeds, joy, hope, love, peace,  and other angels or messengers of God who do him will.

Now seeing that Christ is Present in Bread, Wine, the flesh and blood of one another, in his Spirit giving life to every living creature, "We join our voices with Angels and Archangels, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Peter and Paul, St. Mark, all the Dead in Christ who Live in Him, with those who shall come after us, "and all the company of heaven," the Sanctus or "Holy, Holy, Holy."

We are in Heaven. And we pray in the very words the Son of God taught us to pray before Our Father in Heaven "as one Voice," The Our Father. commonly called The Lord's Prayer.

We then all part-take or partake of that Sign, share-together in that Sign that we become the bearers-together of that Sign in our very Flesh and Blood, and then pray that we might remain faithful, semper fidelis, in being that Sign of Christ-Present in the world.

Through the Oracle of the Priest, God pronounces his Blessing of us and we leave to be Christ Bearers "for the sake of thwe world." We are not sent to  "tell people about Christ," but to Be Chist to others in all that we do.

If we see results, "Blessed be God!" If we do not, "Blessed be God!"  All thing shall come to their perfection, their glory in Christ."

And so we leave in Peace, entering not the world we left, but God's Kingdom.

God keep you.

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