Thought of the Day May 2, 2018 Praise of God
This is what the
Catechism of the Catholic Church says about praise of God.
CCC2639: “Praise is the
form of prayer which recognizes most immediately that God is God. It lauds God
for his own sake and gives him glory, quite beyond what he does, but simply
because HE IS. It shares in the blessed happiness of the pure of heart who love
God in faith before seeing him in glory. By praise, the Spirit is joined to our
spirits to bear witness that we are children of God, testifying to the only Son
in whom we are adopted and by whom we glorify the Father. Praise embraces the
other forms of prayer and carries them toward him who is its source and goal:
the “one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist.”
The prayer of praise is pure worship and adoration of the One who is the beginning and end of all things. It is probably what Jesus meant when he said that the Father is worshiped in Spirit and truth. This is another way of saying that we offer to God a sacrifice of praise. For when we praise God, we are extolling and rejoicing in his greatness as The Other. “For great is the
Lord and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods” (1
Chronicles 16:25). Spend some quality time today praising God for who he is.
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