Whenever I have missed someone’s presence, it has been my habit to remember them at Mass.

And in its essence, with our presence at Mass and it being constantly celebrated all over the world and the whole cohort of angels and saints being present as well, doesn’t it seem to you that not only is it a blessed occasion to receive the Son’s offering but that it’s also the closest those of us still hidden from eternal mysteries ever get to those who have gone before?

It occurred to me for the first time today that my mom may be among that number and more present there than anywhere else. And I imagined in my prayers, during my prayers, that she was kneeling beside me and that we could still worship the Word made flesh together.

Where are you going?
Where are you going?
Can you take me with you?
For my hand is cold
And needs warmth
Where are you going?

Far beyond where the horizon lies
Where the horizon lies
And the land sinks into mellow blueness
Oh please, take me with you

Let me skip the road with you
I can dare myself
I can dare myself
I’ll put a pebble in my shoe
And watch me walk (watch me walk)
I can walk and walk!
(I can walk!)

I shall call the pebble Dare
I shall call the pebble Dare
We will talk, we will talk together
We will talk (chorus) about walking
Dare shall be carried
And when we both have had enough
I will take him from my shoe, singing:
“Meet your new road!”
Then I’ll take your hand
Finally glad
Finally glad
That you are here
By my side

By my side
By my side
By my side

(Spoken- Judas)
Then the man they called Judas Iscariot
Went to the chief priests, and said
“What will you give me to betray Him to you?”
They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

(Spoken – other character)
And from that moment, he began to look out for an opportunity
To betray Him.
(Matthew 26:14-16)

By my side
By my side
By my side
By my side

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