Some things we just don't notice. We go through life seeing things every day and we don't really see them. Today, for instance, I just noticed that in the first Eucharistic Prayer, we pray:
Be pleased to look upon these offerings
with a serene and kindly countenance,
and to accept them,
as once you were pleased to accept
the gifts of your servant Abel the Just,
the sacrifice of Abraham, our father in faith,
and the offering of your high priest Melchizedek,
a holy sacrifice, a spotless victim.
Who is Abel the Just? Remember in Genesis 4: 4, the story of Cain and Abel? This Abel is known as Abel the Just. Abel's sacrifices were accepted because he gave his love in his sacrifices. He also became the first martyr Matt 23: 35. Abel has a feast day, too--January 2. He is the patron of dying people, murder victims and shepherds.
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