Papa,...!

A vivid image and experience of surrender came flooding into my mind's eye this morning. My husband and I were standing at the altar of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle with arms outstretched as we did on our thirty-first wedding anniversary last December when renewing our Benedictine oblation.

Following the ancient Benedictine tradition, we said the Suscipe three times:

"Receive me, O Lord, according to your word,

and I shall live;

let me not be put to shame in my hope." Ps 118:116

Or in a child's words, "Papa, I am yours!" 



Oh, the grace and peace in surrender, in the free act of offering ourselves to Him anew.
http://www.frpaulhinnebusch.org/Meaning_of_Suscipe_.pdf