A nobleman happened on a great festival to go to Holy Communion at the same Mass as his servant. In the church he accidentally dropped his glove. The servant, noticing this, came forward, picked it up and handed it to his master, saying “Your Excellency, you have dropped your glove.”

The nobleman replied in a whisper: “His Excellency is left outside. Here there are no distinctions of rank, only one Lord, the Master of us all, whom we are both going to receive.”

Upon entering His Church, how many of us even acknowledge the presence of this One Lord and Master - the very God Who made us all?