The Power of the Mass if for you! It is the sacrifice of sacrifices, because it is the sacrifice of God for US. There is NO better activity that anyone in the entire world can do than attend a Mass in the state of grace, and receive Jesus in the Eucharist. Like the Blessed Virgin Mary, we become living tabernacles of God after Communion! Through time and space, we connect with the original Last Supper (the Church does not re-sacrifice Jesus at each mass; rather, each Mass is a re-creation of the original Mass).
St. John Vianney said,
All Good Works together are not of equal value with the sacrifice of the Mass,
because they are the works of men, and the holy Mass is the work of God.
Martyrdom is nothing in comparison; it is the sacrifice that man makes of his
life to God; the Mass is the sacrifice that God makes to man of His Body and of
His Blood. Oh, how great is a priest! if he understood himself he would die. . .
. God obeys him; he speaks two words, and Our Lord comes down from Heaven at his
voice, and shuts Himself up in a little Host. God looks upon the altar. "That is
My well-beloved Son, " He says, "in whom I am well-pleased. " He can refuse
nothing to the merits of the offering of this Victim. If we had faith, we should
see God hidden in the priest like a light behind a glass, like wine mingled with
water.
A Guide to the Holy Mass
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