Holiness is you who have become the Kingdom of God, it is you divinized by the gift of yourself. Precisely, if we see that this is really about a Presence, about a person-to-person exchange, if we see that each gesture allows us to be in communion with divine life, we will understand that the eternal is now…
That is exactly what we must do. There is no question for us of waiting until the afternoon. It is now, here…That is where God is waiting for you. There lies your eternity, your infinite communion, because each human act, if it is a gift of ourselves, is an act creating eternity. There is nothing else to expect. If you die tonight and your day has been full of God, you will be in eternity because you yourselves will have become eternity. This is the only way of triumphing over death, by making the “now” eternal. Here, now, today in the kitchen, bringing the dishes of food to the table, in recreation, before your bills in your office, it is at every instant that divine life is calling you, that it can circulate through you, communicate itself to others, provided you are attentive to life with its immense dimensions.
God is not someone we can speak about, he is someone we breathe, whom we communicate through the atmosphere emanating from ourselves. People around you will feel if you are in constant communion with God. There is not a religious action: it is the whole life that is religious, the whole life or nothing, I repeat, the whole life or nothing…
That is why Our Lord, who wanted to instill in us the infinite dignity of our lives, spent thirty years doing manual labor, a labor that apparently had nothing religious about it, the most ordinary work which he gathered in the Eucharist as bread and wine.
You need no more than that to be in communion with God. Labor, rest, the daily relationships of humans among themselves, that is religion provided every act is vested with this divine presence and communicates it.
Father Maurice Zundel
Father Zundel (1975) was a Swiss mystic, poet, philosopher, liturgist, and author