We need to go to Mass to overcome suffering. Mass is the re-presentation of the Paschal Mystery (Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ). Therefore, Christians need to be incorporated into this in order to achieve salvation. Recently the Holy Father elaborated on this point.
The Church, as Christ’s Mystical Body and united with him, offers worship to the
Father. By identifying ourselves with Christ in his prayer to the Father, we
rediscover our deepest identity as Christians, as children of “Our Father who
art in heaven”. The liturgy is also an encounter of the whole Christ, that is,
with Christ and his body the Church. Thus, the liturgy is a sharing in the
prayer of the living, universal community of believers in Christ. Prayer becomes
the habitual realization of the presence of God, as we make the words of the
Church our own, and learn to speak in her and through her. The Church is most
truly itself in the liturgy, as it is the place where God comes to us and enters
our lives. Let us remember that the liturgy is celebrated for God, not for us;
it is his work; he is its subject. For our part, in the liturgy we must leave
ourselves open to be guided by him and by his Body, the Church.
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