Offered by Dcn. George Kelly

 

 

 

       

 

Saint Leonie Aviat said, “When Jesus died on the cross He was thinking of you!

When He rose from the dead He was thinking of you.

Now in the Kingdom He is thinking of you! You are precious to Him!

So, ‘Let us work for the happiness of others.’”   

 

The Cross in our Bodies

 

Years ago, I was watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio... And I was BLOWN AWAY!  I want to share what I learned.  Louie was talking about how inconceivably BIG our God is... How He spoke the universe into being.  Then He went on to talk about our universe creating God, Who knitted our human bodies together with amazing detail and wonder.

           

Louie went on to talk about how we can trust that the God, who created all this, also has the power to hold it all together when things seem to be falling apart...how our loving Creator is also our sustainer.

           

Laminin.

 

Here is how Wikipedia describes Laminins: 'Laminins are a family of proteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue' you see.... Laminins are what hold us together... LITERALLY.

           

They are cell adhesion molecules. They are what hold one cell of our bodies to the next cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart.  I have thought about it many times since .... Below is what the structure of laminin looks like...  AND THIS IS NOT a 'Christian portrayal' of it.... If you look up laminin in any scientific/medical piece of literature, this is what you will see....

 

 

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.  For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

(Colossians 1:15-17)

 

Thousands of years before the world knew anything about laminin, St. Paul penned those words. And now we see that from a very literal standpoint, we are held together...One cell to another.... By the cross.

 

Today reflect on the Incarnation, the Life, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of the Lord our Jesus Christ, He was thinking of you.

 

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

 

Saint Andre Bessette intercede for us.

 

May God Be Praised!