Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

21 It is hid from the eyes of all living. and the fowls of the air know it not.  22 Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.  23 God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.  24 For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all things that are under heaven. (…)

And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding. (Job 28)

I searched in my online Bible for end of time and found this quote, and it captures perfectly what I had in mind to say. In the Act of Faith for the preparation for communion in my missal, it says that I adore the power that wrought them (the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, the Body, Blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus), the same power that said: ‘Let there be light,’ and light was made. “Verily, Thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel, the Savior.”

The mystery of the Eucharist is a mystery because no human could have come up with the idea of it, and now, when God has revealed it, it is impossible for us to plumb the depth of it. In the words of my 12 year old Minecraft buff son, it is like how Minecraft always has new updates. Just like an ever growing and living thing cannot be fully captured or understood on a natural level, so a mystery of divine revelation cannot ever be fully captured or understood on a spiritual level. 

Another mystery of the Church is Mary, the mother of Jesus. Nobody could have come up with the idea of who she is, and now when God has given a sign we cannot ever say enough about her, never fully capture her, what she is, who she is, why she is. Jesus said from the cross, Behold your Mother. Far from unnecessary or distracting or misleading,  She is a mystery revealed by God, intrinsically, indelibly bound to the mystery of the Eucharist. It is certainly peculiar that anyone could ever disobey God’s command and refuse to ponder her mystery when God has given her to us for just that very purpose. If she had not been revealed as a mystery, we could not have conceived of the idea of her, and now when we have been told of her, we must abandon evil and follow Wisdom.

At least, I intend to! I am unable to do anything else. She is my mother, and God’s mother. When I sit on her lap and wonder and ponder her, I am drawn right into the Mystery of God Himself.

When I was a teenager I was afraid of God, of the mystery that cannot ever be fully understood. I was afraid that the mystery would somehow close me off from God. I didn’t trust Him and didn’t give enough weight to that He has revealed His mystery. He came to earth to say, This is my Body, This is my blood. I ought to have doubted Him IF he was a God who did not reveal Himself to me. But that’s not the God Who Is. He sits in the lap of Mary, and He offers me a spot on her knee! He is the Medicine that will give me eternal life. If I abandoned evil, I will have understanding.