From the mouths of babes

This week at my Catechism class one of the kids asked if Jesus older than Mary since "there was no time when God was not." We then got into a discussion about what it means to have eternally existed. Mind you, this is with seven year olds. One of the boys in my class exclaimed, "It means that God is unlimited!" I was quite impressed by his statement and the conviction in his voice. May we all, at all times and everywhere, remember that God is unlimited.

The second quote came from mass last night. Mass was held in a side chapel and there weren't many people there. There was one mother who came though with three young children. The youngest child, who looked about two, was just so adorable. She was sweet as can be. Anyways, at the end of mass, after the final blessing and as Fr. was starting to process out she declared at the top of her voice "Thanks be to God!" as if she'd just registered what the congregation had said. Maybe she was just repeating what the rest of us had said, but for some reason this little child boldly proclaming thanksgiving to God really struck me. How many times do we go to mass, hear the priest say "Go in the peace of Christ to love and serve the Lord" respond with "Thanks be to God!" and are on our way without reflecting upon what we are giving thanksgiving for or the significance of our words?