Devotion for Life for June 9th, 2026

Mystery in Communion

Have you noticed that we try to explain everything even if we are not sure or really know the explanation. Mystery seems to be a bad thing. Yet mystery is real and it helps us to come to faith. In our faith is an element of mystery. In the Great Prayer of Thanksgiving, we have the line, “In breaking bread and sharing wine with your people here and in all places we recall the mystery of our faith:

Christ has died;

Christ is risen;

Christ will come again.

Mystery is part of our faith, and it isn’t a bad thing. Having parts of our lives that are beyond our full understanding humbles us and helps us to work on trust. Not just trusting our own understand and learning but trusting God who is greater than our full understanding. Trusting Jesus who has gone beyond our own experience and ability. Yet we see the reality of what God has done and is doing in and through Jesus. It is trusting in the mystery that brings us together in faith through Jesus and celebrating the miracle of redemption and salvation. Living in and celebrating communion as Jesus did with the disciples, as people have been entering into the covenant promise throughout time. We are joining together in the same mystery of faith with each other and Jesus, in life and into eternal life.