How we can receive more from the Mass - 14
Any parent worth their salt will teach their children good habits: brush your teeth; don’t eat sweets before meals; don’t stay up late, respect others; pray before you eat and sleep. The list goes on. Why do parents do this? Many of these are simply good for our health, such as regularly brushing our teeth and getting into a bedtime routine. Also, habits provide resilience; we may not always feel like brushing our teeth or going to bed on time, but they become part of our daily routine and so we do them regardless. But also, habits form our attitudes. If you get into the habit of respecting others, you become a respectful person; if you get into the habit of praying, you become a prayerful person. There is one habit that we would do well to adopt as we say the Creed. Have you noticed how, in small print, we are told that we should bow as we say, “and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man”? Have you wondered why? A bow signifies our reve
