Since time immemorial, humanity has used external symbols with which men and women show affection and friendship to God and these are used as a distinctive mark of the faith that the person manifests. For example, we have the case of women who used to have a custom, covering their heads and part of the face with a veil as a sign of subjection to God and showing Him her surrender.
We can read a catechesis regarding it in the first letter of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians (1 Cor 11: 2-16)
2 I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the traditions just as I passed them on to you. 3 But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man,[a] and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. 5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved. 6 For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head.
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7 A man ought not to cover his head,[b] since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. 8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; 9 neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 10 It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own[c] head, because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. 12 For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
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13 Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14 Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. 16 If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.
Today these external symbols are still kept in the different Christian churches, and in people who profess Judaism and the Muslim religion.
However, it is noteworthy that man always recognizes his weakness in the face of life and death, even non-believers. Thus today an extraordinary event has marked the wardrobe of most of humanity as is the mouth cap, an object that had always been used by doctors, nurses and construction workers, but that now has been adopted by all people as tool to prevent possible contagion from the virus called COVID19, although this in itself is not a religious symbol if it shows that we men are defenseless and that health does not depend on us alone, but rather that there is a bigger mystery that covers everything.
Like the need that arises in these days to use the mouth cap, so we must give daily praise to God, He has sent us his Son Jesus Christ who with his passion, death and resurrection has freed us from sin and his yoke. He gives us the promise of eternal life. By giving our hearts to Christ, praying and blessing God daily in a quiet place, reading and meditating on the Bible, being in communion with our brothers and helping others, we will achieve the path of love, peace and happiness that the Lord desires for our life.
To end here I include the message that the Golden Censer has given me today, with a verse from the Deuteronomy´s book:
It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. Deuteronomy 13:4 NIV
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Recive my affection and blessings.
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