When Simeon saw the Infant Christ and recognised who he was, he took the Child in his arms.  So believing, trustful Christians, having recognised Our Blessed Lord as their God and Saviour, take him into their very hearts, there to share their being and their life.

It is this inner life with Our Blessed Lord, the life of faith, which distinguishes the true Christian from the conventional one.  It is possible to attend church with the utmost regularity and yet for there to be no personal relationship between oneself and God: to regard the services as the meetings of an organisation, and to give God no more than a perfunctory and distant recognition of his association with them.

But a faithful soul has a conscious bond with God which is renewed and deepened by the offering of himself or herself in the worship of the Church.