A Personal Account: A Woman Tells of the Power of the Mass in Her Life

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Years ago, there was a little blurb in the bulletin (no author was cited) that read:

“There is a huge room in heaven filled with boxes of brightly wrapped packages. Many, many gifts for each of us. God will take us to that room when we get to heaven. In surprise we ask God, “Why now?” God will answer us, “They were the gifts I prepared for you while you were on earth. They were waiting for you every weekend at Mass. These are the ones you didn’t pick up. They contain answers to prayers, encouragement, and many of the things you asked for. I had to wait until now to gives them to you.” Don’t miss your weekly gift.

This passage struck me so strongly, I have saved it for more than twenty-five years now.
 
This is a neat way to express a certain truth, that is, that we fail to gain grace not because it isn’t offered, but because we don’t accept what is offered.

There is some inaccuracy, here, though. When we arrive at Heaven, we don’t suddenly gain a higher place or a higher level of grace by our presence there. Part of the reason that we should be so worried about missing out on grace here on earth is that once we have arrived in Heaven, there is no more opportunity to gain a higher place in Heaven. The only things you take with you are your merits, virtues and vices (the latter of which will be purged in Purgatory), and that which you take with you are all that you have.
 
This is a neat way to express a certain truth, that is, that we fail to gain grace not because it isn’t offered, but because we don’t accept what is offered.

There is some inaccuracy, here, though. When we arrive at Heaven, we don’t suddenly regain all those graces which we missed while on earth.

Part of the reason that we should be so worried about missing out on grace here on earth is that once we have arrived in Heaven, there is no more opportunity to gain a higher place in Heaven. The only things you take with you are your merits, virtues and vices (the latter of which will be purged in Purgatory), and that which you take with you are all that you have.
 
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