Showing posts with label Mass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mass. Show all posts

Thursday, February 9, 2017

QUOTATION: The Sacrifice of the Mass

Pope Pius XII
In order that the oblation by which the faithful offer the divine Victim in this sacrifice to the heavenly Father may have its full effect, it is necessary that the people add something else, namely, the offering of themselves as a victim.

--Pope Pius XII, Mediator Dei, 98

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

QUOTATION: The Mass

G.K. Chesterton
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

-G.K. Chesterton

Monday, October 7, 2013

QUOTATION: The Mass

St. Thomas AquinasThe celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

--St. Thomas Aquinas

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

QUOTATION: Present at Mass

St. Augustine of HippoThe angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

--St. Augustine

Friday, September 27, 2013

QUOTATION: Angels at Mass

St. John ChrysostomWhen the Eucharist is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels who adore the divine victim immolated on the altar.

--St. John Chrysostom

Saturday, August 17, 2013

QUOTATION: Mass for Expiation of Sins

By the oblation of Jesus Christ in the Mass, we offer to God a complete satisfaction for all the sins of men, and especially for the sins of those who are present at Mass ; to whom is applied the same divine blood, by which the human race was redeemed on Calvary.

Thus, by each Mass more satisfaction is made to God than by any other expiatory work. But although the Mass is of infinite value, God accepts it only in a finite manner, according to the dispositions of those who attend the holy sacrifice, and, therefore, it is useful to hear several Masses.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Holy Eucharist

Friday, December 21, 2012

QUOTATION: Collective Worship

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion: regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

--C.S. Lewis

Thursday, August 25, 2011

QUOTATION: Efficient Use of Time

The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.

--Blessed Frederic Ozanam