What if the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was always and
everywhere offered in accordance with the dignity, reverence and obedience our
God merits? If we truly worshiped Him as He deserves, do you think more Catholics
would willingly and lovingly come to Mass and give their Lord the worship and
adoration He ought to receive?
May the following reflection help move us in that direction wherever there may be a need to do so:
When the Host is held on high and
a chalice lifted…look up! Look up and see what Mary saw. See a naked man squirming as He bleeds
against a blackened sky; see a battered human body, writhing on a tree,
prisoned there by savage spikes that have torn through Sacred hands and feet;
see thorn-tortured head tossing from side to side as anguished torso labors,
lifts and strains; see the eyes of God roll towards heaven beseeching, as
broken lips blurt out that soul piercing cry: “My God, My God, Why has Thou
forsaken Me?”
What is this? This is the Mass. Mass.
(Father M. Raymond, O.C.S.O.
from God, A Woman and the Way)
(Image credit to
Copiosa.org)
I believe the world would be so completely different than it is now if we all participated with a fullness of faith in the Holy Mass. I believe that it would be like heaven here, and that we would be a transformed people, caught up in the glory of the Father's love.
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