Since life is like a game, where we play hard to achieve something, we should not be surprised that there will be times when we win and succeed, and times when we lose. We should not be surprised and be unduly affected by this fact of life.
We should just try to be a good winner, gracious and humble, when we win, or a respectful and congratulatory loser, when we lose. We should just go on with the game of life, training ourselves to be a better player, but always for the glory of God. That should be the abiding motive of all we do in this regard.
To achieve this kind of attitude, what we have to do is to unite our whole life, and everything in it, to the very passion, death and resurrection of Christ that is made a sacrament in the Holy Mass. It’s in the Holy Mass where whatever drama we can have in our life, including the worst scenario, is resolved into the victory and success of Christ’s redemptive work.
We need to be theological in our thinking to capture this reality and live in accordance to it not only from time to time, but rather all the time and everywhere, whatever our situation is.
We have to overcome the very common phenomenon of treating the Holy Eucharist as just a special part of our life that we may attend to in some special moments of the day or on Sundays and holy days of obligation only.
Our whole life should, in fact, be a Holy Mass, uniting everything in it in the ultimate sacrifice Christ made for our salvation. With it, regardless of how our earthly life goes and ends, the victory of Christ’s resurrection is assured for us. (Fr. Roy Cimagala)
