Tuesday, 19th Week of OT (Ss. Pontian and Hippolytus)

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“See that you do not despite one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly father.”
When I was in class preparing for Confirmation as a boy, my teachers used to always tell us, “Confirmation is when you become an adult in the Church.” And to an extent it’s not wrong, right? What is the role of adults in society? To rule society, to govern all of creation. And, of course, the building block of society, the place we as adults rule and govern first and foremost is the home. In other words, we rule and govern over children first.
But as our Lord says, the greatest among us is to be the servant of all. What that means is that when we rule and govern over children, we actually do so by serving them. And that’s how Confirmation is adulthood in the Church, properly understood. You and I know, my dear sisters, that Confirmation is not a Sacrament which allows us to make the decision to walk away from the life of faith. Rather, Confirmation is the Sacrament which empowers us to serve. To serve whom? To serve those who are just baptized, those children in the faith.
As “adults in the Church” by virtue of our Confirmation, I’d like to think our guardian angels no longer look upon the face of the Father constantly. Actually, I’m sure they have to make the sacrifice of being around me constantly to make sure I don’t fall into sin or hurt myself somehow. Our guardian angels make that sacrifice for us.
But something that I’m going to carry with me as we begin a new school year at St. Gabriel—and I hope you’ll also carry this among yourselves, Sisters—the thing to carry with us is that we should serve our children joyfully. Yes, we want to show them that the promises of the Lord are sweeter than honey. Yes, we want to show them his decrees are our delight. Yes, we want to be that instrument of joy to them. But you and I both know that some days are tougher than others.
And when those tough days come, I hope we remember these words of our Lord: that the guardian angels of these children always look upon the face of the Father. And that’s probably true even of those who haven’t received the Sacrament of Confirmation; because if they haven’t yet become “adults in the Church,” they’re certainly still infants in the Church, no matter how old they are. May we not soon forget that we can pray to their guardian angels just as we pray to our own. And may we have strong faith in the power of the prayers of those angels who always look upon the face of our heavenly Father.
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