Monday, February 28, 2011

They Do Not Recognize Love

My great delight is to unite myself with souls...When I come to a human heart in communion, my hands are filled with graces which I want to give to souls. But souls do not pay attention to me: they leave me to myself and busy themselves with other things. They do not recognize love. They treat me as a dead object. - Jesus Christ to Saint Faustina

Do Not be Afraid of The Truth

I would like to say to those passing through a difficult moment in their journey of faith, and those who take little part in the life of the Church or live "as though God did not exist," not to be afraid of the Truth, never stop searching for the profound truth about yourselves and other things. God will not fail to provide Light to see by and Warmth to make the heart feel that he loves us. - Pope Benedict XVI

We Have Been Called to Penetrate The Intimacy of God's Own Life

‎We do not exist in order to pursue just any happiness. We have been called to penetrate the intimacy of God's own life, to know and love God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and to love also--in that same love of the one God in three divine Persons--the angels and all men. - Saint Josemaria Escriva

The Papists Have The Word of God

We are compelled to concede to the papists that they have the Word of God, that we received it from them, and that without them we should have no knowledge of it at all. - Martin Luther

Pray

Pray for the wicked, pray for the lukewarm pray even for fervent souls, but pray especially for the Supreme Pontiff, for all the spiritual and temporal needs of holy Church, our most tender mother: A special prayer for all those who are working for the salvation of souls and for God's glory - Saint Padre Pio

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

What Will my Father in Heaven Think?

You have no time to occupy your thoughts with complacency or or consideration of what others will think. Your business is simply, 'What will my Father in heaven think?' - Saint Katherine Drexel

Monday, February 21, 2011

Behold Me Prostrate Before Your Immense Majesty

Eternal God, behold me prostrate before your immense majesty, humbly adoring you. I offer you all my thoughts, words, and actions of this day. I offer them all to be thought, spoken, and done entirely for love of you, for your glory, to fulfill your divine will, to serve you, to praise you, and bless you. I wish and intend to do everything in union with the most pure intentions of Jesus and Mary. - Saint John Leonardi

My Soul Proclaims The Greatness of The Lord

Magnificat anima mea Dominum

Order All my Life For The Glory And Honor of Your Name Alone

Merciful God, grant that I may eagerly desire, carefully search out, truthfully acknowledge, and ever perfectly fulfill all things which are pleasing to You. Order all my life for the glory and honor of Your name alone. Enlighten me to know what You want of me, and help me to do it properly and without profit to my salvation. Grant that I may not fail or swerve either in prosperity or adversity; that I be not lifted up by the one, nor cast down by the other. Let me enjoy only what leads to You, and grieve only for what leads away from You; let me neither seek to... please, nor fear to displease, any but You alone. May all transitory things grow vile in my eyes, O Lord, and make all that is Yours be dear to me for Your sake, and You, my God, dear above them all. May all joy be irksome to me that is without You, may all labor and toil delight me which is for You, and rest be weariness which is not in You. Amen. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

If You Are Afraid to Love, Never Become a Priest

If you are afraid to love, never become a priest, never say Mass. The Mass will draw you down upon your soul a torrent of interior suffering which has only one function: to break you wide open and let everybody in the world into your heart. For when you begin to say Mass, the Spirit of God awakens like a giant inside you and bursts the locks of your private sanctuary. If you say Mass, you condemn your soul to the torrent of a love that is so vast and insatiable that you will never be able to bear it alone. That love is the love of the Heart of Jesus, burning within your own heart and bringing down upon you the huge weight of His compassion for all the sinners of the world. - Thomas Merton

Make Your Lives Intensely Eucharistic

Make your lives intensely Eucharistic. - Venerable Pope John Paul II

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Allusion of Tolerance

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. - William F. Buckley, Jr.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Whoever Professes the Christian Religion Yet Professes it is Only a Subjective Truth is Not Worthy of the Name "Christian"

Whoever professes the Christian religion, yet in politics and daily life profess that it as only a subjective truth and that religion has no place outside of itself has lost their purity and is not worthy of the name 'Christian.' - Appian Nesbitt

Friday, February 11, 2011

For we do not Receive These Things as Common Bread or Common Drink; But as Jesus Christ

St. Justin Martyr was born a pagan but converted to Christianity after studying philosophy. He was a prolific writer and many Church scholars consider him the greatest apologist or defender of the faith from the 2nd century. He was beheaded with six of his companions some time between 163 and 167 A.D.

"This food we call the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake except one who believes that the things we teach are true, and has received the washing for forgiveness of sins and for rebirth, and who lives as Christ handed down to us. For we do not receive these things as common bread or common drink; but as Jesus Christ our Savior being incarnate by God's Word took flesh and blood for our salvation, so also we have been taught that the food consecrated by the Word of prayer which comes from him, from which our flesh and blood are nourished by transformation, is the flesh and blood of that incarnate Jesus."

Thursday, February 10, 2011

You Are Called to Throw Out The Nets of The Gospel Into The Stormy Seas of Our Time

You have been called to play roles that concern the Universal Church. You are called to throw out the 'nets of the Gospel', into the stormy seas of our time...to obtain the adherence of men and women to Christ, so as to draw them out-so to speak-from the salty waters of death and from the dark...to live in communion with Jesus Christ. - Pope Benedict XVI

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Arbitrary Deformations of The Liturgy Caused Deep Pain

Many people who clearly accepted the binding character of the Second Vatican Council, and were faithful to the Pope and the Bishops, nonetheless also desired to recover the form of the sacred liturgy that was dear to them. This occurred above all because in many places celebrations were not faithful to the prescriptions of the new Missal, but the latter actually was understood as authorizing or even requiring creativity, which frequently led to deformations of the liturgy which were hard to bear. I am speaking from experience, since I too lived through that period with all its hopes and its confusion. And I have seen how arbitrary deformations of the liturgy caused deep pain to individuals totally rooted in the faith of the Church. - Pope Benedict XVI, letter to present the Motu Proprio

Monday, February 7, 2011

I Adore You From the Abyss of My Nothingness

My Lord Jesus Christ, who for the love which You bear
us, remain night and day in this Sacrament full of compassion
and love, awaiting, calling, and welcoming all who come to visit
You, I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the
Altar. I adore You from the abyss of my nothingness, and I
thank You for all the graces which You have bestowed upon me
and in particular for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament,
for having given me Your most holy Mother Mary as my
Advocate, and for having called me to visit You in this church. I
now salute Your most loving Heart; and this for three ends:
first, in thanksgiving for this great gift; secondly, to make
amends to You for all the outrages which You receive in this
Sacrament from all Your enemies; thirdly, I intend by this visit to
adore You in all the places on earth in which You are present in
this Sacrament and in which You are the least reserved and the
most abandoned. My Jesus, I love You with all my heart. I
grieve for having hitherto so many times offended Your infinite
goodness. I purpose by Your grace never more to offend You
for the time to come. And now, miserable and unworthy though
I be, I consecrate myself to You without reserve; I give You
renounce my entire will, affections, my desires, and all that I
possess. Henceforward, dispose of me and of all that I have as
You please. All that I ask of You and desire is Your holy love,
final perseverance and the perfect accomplishment of Your will.
I recommend to You the souls in Purgatory, and especially those
who had the greatest devotion to the most Blessed Sacrament,
and to the most Blessed Virgin Mary. I also recommend to You
all poor sinners. Finally, my dear Savior, I unite all my affections
with the affections of Your most loving Heart, and I offer them,
thus united, to Your Eternal Father, and beseech Him in Your
name to vouchsafe for Your love, to accept and grant them.
Amen.

Transport Yourself Quickly in Spirit Before the Tabernacle

When you awake in the night, transport yourself quickly in spirit before the Tabernacle, saying, 'Behold, my God, I come to adore You, to praise, thank, and love you, and to keep you company with all the Angels..' - Saint John Marie Vianney

Thursday, February 3, 2011

He Disciplines us For Our Good, That we May Share His Holiness

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us ...and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. - Hebrews 12:7-11

Filled With a Fire of Love

I no sooner began to pray than my heart is filled with a fire of love. This fire does not resemble any fire of this lowly earth. It is a delicate and very gentle flame which consumes without causing any pain...This is a wonderful thing for me, something I will perhaps never understand until I get to Heaven. - Saint Padre Pio

Protect Yourselves by Prayer, Fasting, And, Above All, Community Prayer

Mirjana, one of the visionaries of Medjugorje, had a particular vision on 14th April 1982. While she was waiting for Our Lady to appear, Satan arrived disguised as Our Lady. She writes

"He was ugly, horribly ugly. You cannot even imagine how ugly, he almost killed me with his gaze, I almost fainted. He then told me,'You must leave God and Our Lady because they will make you suffer, come with me and I will make you happy in love and life.' My heart echoed -No, no, no! Then Satan went away and Our Lady came and she said to me:

"I am sorry for this, but you must know that Satan exists and has asked God to allow him to test the Church for a certain period with the intention of destroying Her. God allowed him to have one century, saying ,'You will not destroy Her.'

This century in which we are living is under Satan's power. When the secrets I have confided to you come about, his power will be destroyed. Satan has become aggresive because he is losing his power. He is breaking up marriages, causing quarrels amongst priests, obsessing people, even killing them.

Therefore, protect yourselves by prayer, fasting and, above all, community prayer. Renew the use of holy water, wear blessed and holy objects and put them in your homes."

Are You Aware That God Did Not Leave us on Our Own But He Gave us His One Church With His Own Teaching Authority to Guide us in Truth

Are you aware that you are so loved that God himself took on our human nature to become one of us in everything except sin and showed us the way to himself through God the Son Jesus Christ? (We are loved by God who through his Son died for ...our sin, rose from the dead to give us everlasting life: John 3:16; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:9-10; Galatians 2:20. Jesus is True God and True man: John 1:1, 10:38, 12:45, 20:28; Colossians 2-9; Philippianss2:5-11). Your sin is but a drop in the ocean of God's love and mercy. No sin is too great for our God to forgive. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).

Are you aware that God did not leave us on our own but he gave us his one Church with his own teaching authority to guide us in truth. Yes, a Church that would never fall to the powers of hell that Jesus himself built upon Peter the rock and the first pope which would have successors to lead it? "You are Peter the rock (kepha in Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke) and upon this rock (kepha) I will build my church" (Matthew 16:18-19, 18:17-18; Luke 10:16; John 16:12; Ephesians 2:20; Acts 1:20, 1:25-26; 1 Timothy 3:1-8, 5:17, 4:14).

Are you aware that the Church (the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church) is the Pillar and Foundation of the Truth (1 Timothy 3:15)? If the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth does that sound like all that you need is the Bible alone? No, what about the Traditions we are to keep a tight hold onto along with Scripture (2 Thessalonians 2:15). Also, can the one Church of Jesus be split into 28,000 competing denominations? No, because there is "One Lord, One faith, One baptism, One God & Father of us all" Ephesians 4:3-6; 1 Corinthians 1:10. Jesus Prayed that we may be ONE (John 17:17-23).

Why choose the Catholic church? Because it is the only historical Christian church that has been around for almost 2000 years and can trace itself back to the apostles. In fact, the early first, second, third century Christians were Catholic and held to Catholic beliefs such as the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Today's pope Benedict XVI can trace himself in an unbroken line of succession to St. Peter the apostle and 1st pope himself! Orthodox Christians broke away from the Catholic church in the year 1054. The first Protestant church broke away from the Catholic Church in the year 1517 with Martin Luther (a Catholic monk) who started the Lutheran Church. The split has continued till this day with 28,000 plus denominations. I myself shall remain in the church that Jesus Christ founded, the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church established in the year 33 A.D.

Are you aware that Jesus gave his Church 7 Sacraments (visible signs of invisible grace) which are unending rivers of God's grace which nourish us on our Journey in this world to God?

--Baptism is where one is born again of water and Spirit, receives Justifying grace (made right before God) & Sanctifying grace (empowered by God to do good and grow in a holy life devoted to him). We become adopted children of God, members of his Church and have original (the sin we inherit from our parents Adam and Eve) & personal sins washed clean from our souls by the free gift of God's grace. John 3:5; Romans 5:18-19; Colossians 2:11-12; Titus 3:5; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Romans 6:4; 1 Peter 3:21.

--Confirmation is where you become a mature member of the Church and accept the faith personally. You also receive a deeper outpouring of the Holy Spirit and of the seven gifts which you received at Baptism. The seven gifts are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord. You are empowered to share your faith with all and you are sealed with the Holy Spirit. Acts 19:5-6, 8:14-17; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; Ephesians 1:13; Hebrews 6:2.

--Confession is where Jesus gives us the sacrament of Reconciliation to forgive us our sins committed after Baptism. Yes, Jesus wants us to receive his forgiveness and grace to stay away from sin through his priest in Confession. Jesus empowered his apostles to forgive sins in his name, "Jesus breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven" (John 20:21-22). The priest forgives us in the Person of Christ or Persona Christi (2 Corinthians 2:10). This is why the Church says we need to confess our sins to a priest because Jesus has given his priest the power to forgive in his name.

--Holy Eucharist is where by the power of the Holy Spirit bread and wine are substantially changed into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our risen Lord Jesus Christ. Bread and wine no longer remain after the words of consecration at Holy Mass, only Jesus remains totally and equally present under both forms of the consecrated bread and wine. Here our Lord makes us one with himself and each other who shares in this Holy Communion. The simple act of receiving is to say, "yes Lord I believe it is you that I am receiving and believe all that your Catholic Church believes. Here our Lord nourishes us with his own Body and Blood and gives us the grace to follow him day in and day out. Here our Lord waits for us in the Tabernacle to spend time with him in adoration.

Yes, Jesus commanded us to "Eat his Body and to Drink his Blood" John 6:35-71). Yes, Jesus instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper (Matthew 26:26). As with the Apostles the Church continues to celebrate this at Holy Mass. Here the once and for all sacrifice of Christ at Calvary is made present for us to encounter and unite ourselves with Jesus' perfect sacrifice to the Father through the Holy Spirit. But before we receive one should examine themselves to make sure they are in the State of Grace or God's friendship not guilty of mortal sin or sins that lead to death (James 1:14-15; 1 John 5:16-17)

If you are not sure you should then first go to confession (1 Corinthians 10:16, 11:23-29). Why would you want to put the Lord into a sinful body? Confess your sins first and then come to the Lords table. In Exodus 12:8, 46 "the Paschal lamb had to be eaten. In John 1:29 "Jesus is called the Lamb of God" so we too must eat as Jesus has commanded us.

--Anointing of the sick is where we are given the grace of healing. (Mark 6:12-13 and John 5:14).

--Holy Orders is where those who are called are ordained to a special ministry of the ordained priesthood of Christ. Yes, we are all part of a royal priesthood by virtue of our baptism, but some are called to a special order of the ordained priesthood. (1 Peter 2:9-10; Acts 20:28; Luke 22:19; John 20:22; Acts 6:6, 13:3, 14:22; 1 Timothy 4:14; 2 Timothy 1:6; Titus 1:5).

--Matrimony is where Jesus takes two, a man and woman and joins them together in one flesh in the eyes of God. (Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7-12, Ephesians 5:22-32; 1 Thess 4:4).

Yes our Lord and God Jesus Christ has blessed us with all this and more.

Are you aware that Catholics do not worship Mary and the Saints? We honor them and respect them. We ask them to pray for us to Jesus like you would ask someone here to pray for you. They are not dead but are alive with God for God is the Go...d of the living not of the dead and all are alive with him (Mark 12:26-27, 9:4). They are those who died in God's friendship and are now with him in Heaven. Death cannot separate those in Christ (Romans 8:35-39) and we are all part of the one body of Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:21-23; Colossians 1:18, 24; 1 Corinthians 12:12-27; Romans 12:5). We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1).

We are to offer prayer, petitions for all (1 Timothy 2:1-7) through Jesus our One mediator. We are to love one another with mutual affection, this does not stop at death for those who are in heaven fulfill this in ways we cannot imagine. Our statues and images are not grave idols because one would have to worship the statue or image which we Catholics do not do. They are mere reminders of those who have gone before us in Christ. They are like a family picture of a deceased loved one, do you worship your loved ones? Nor do we worship our statues! God even commanded images to be made (Exodus 20:4-5; Numbers 21:8-9; 1 Kings 6:23-29, 7:25-45).

Are you aware what the Catholic Church really teaches in these and other matters? Do you think you can just write off the church as nothing of importance in your life. Think again because God does exist and he came to us in the person of Jesus to show us the "The Way, The Truth and The life. No one can come to the Father except by Jesus." (John 14:6).

He established one Church to guide us and teach us his ways. His Church is like a mother to us. You may not even have God in your life, I would like to invite you into a relationship with him that can and will be nourished by him through his Church. You may be a Catholic who is not practicing their faith, may I urge you to start by learning your faith, loving your faith and living your faith. Don't believe that this doesn't matter to you because it does and will have eternal effects depending the way you chose. Jesus said that "if you deny me then I will deny you", will you deny him?

You may already be a Christian of another denomination. May I encourage you to investigate the Catholic church yourself to see what it really believes, you may be surprised what you find out. Go to the source or as they say "the horses mouth" to learn the facts of these truths. Yes we have more in common than you may think. But the Fullness of the Truth is in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church whom Jesus Himself founded and protects throughout all time. Don't you think it is time to encounter the whole truth today?

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Do Not Grow Slack in Zeal

Do not grow slack in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. - from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans, Chapter 12

Abuses Are Done Away With by Teaching Rather Than Commanding

‎Be assured that abuses are done away with by teaching rather than by commanding. If we make threats, let it be done sorrowfuly, in the words of Scripture, and in terms of the world to come. In this way it is not we who are feared because of our power, but God because of our words. - Saint Augustine

Prayer is The Effusion of Our Heart Into God's

Prayer is the effusion of our heart into God's...when it is well done, it moves the Divine Heart and makes Him always more inclined to grant our requests. Let us pour out our whole soul to God in prayer. He is captivated by our prayers and comes to our aid. - Saint Padre Pio

The Catholic Church vs. Protestant "Denominations"

Protestantism is not a valid mode of prolongation of Christ’s Incarnation as His Church or Mystical Body begun on Pentecost.

In the 16th century, there was a break of spiritual continuity in several directions at once from Christ’s true Church, which means that none of the denominations at the time or now can even be called Churches in a true sense. They’re only associations of believers, lacking the essential supernatural elements to be organic supernatural communions in continuity with the Body of Christ as a local Church. They are as a result sort of distorted pre-Churches.

By contrast, consider an undistorted Catholic pre-Church: the first gatherings of Korean Christians, started by lay Korean scholars who were at the Chinese Imperial City converted there to Christ by the first Jesuits in the 17th-18th centuries. They took the True Faith back to their homeland and converted many to the Faith, even baptizing them, gathering for prayer, etc. They asked for priests, but none were able to get there for a long time to bring the Eucharist, which is the foundation of the Church sacramentally. But even with priests they were only a mission and not yet a Church. They did not become a Church until a bishop was permanently among them as their stable pastor, bringing the fullness of the supernatural Christ reality of the Apostolic Church in a supernaturally organic body.

Likewise, earlier there was the formation of the undistorted Catholic pre-Church in Japan founded by St. Francis Xavier with priests after him but no permanent bishop – owing to persecution – until after the rediscovery in the 19th century of the faithful Christian descendants of these 16th century Catholics, who had only the sacramental life of Baptism and Marriage for three centuries and so were incomplete rather than distorted communities as contrasted with communions. They do not become a full local Church until the foundation of the full sacramental life of the Universal Church, which comes with a permanent bishop who as their visible head makes them into a supernatural organic communion of a local Church, united to the universal Church.

But with Luther came a supernatural break in Faith, in Hope and in Charity or Divine Love in the Christian – thus a break with the Holy Spirit, Who was driven out of Christians who broke with the communing with Him in the Catholic Church.

Because of that there was a supernatural break in the sacramental life and spirituality of the Church. . .

Because of that with the Apostolic continuity of Divine Authority within the Church, and. . .

Because of that with Christendom (the social and cultural incarnation of the Catholic Christian Faith), which lost the North (except for Ireland) but continued in the South of Europe, having then developed into the Baroque Catholic culture from Poland to Latin America and colonies in the East, most notably the Philippines.

This means that the Protestant Revolution was not from the Holy Spirit, since the Spirit of Christ only says and does what Christ does and wants; and Christ both intended to found One, visible Communion that was built on Peter and the Twelve (Matt. 16:13ff) to be an extension of His personal ascended and resurrected body and accomplished that intention by sending the Holy Spirit upon the community of about 120 gathered around Mary, His Mother, and the Twelve, transforming that gathered community into a supernatural Communion of the Church on Pentecost, a visible body of people organically related visibly among head and members, clergy and laity, and interiorly by the life of grace and charisms.

Protestantism did not supernaturally renew the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church in the West. It viciously destroyed it in Northern Europe. One has only to notice the hatred and violence with which this was done to see that that could not come from the Holy Spirit: there was no Divine Love! Especially the Calvinists were the Taliban of their times, resorting to unprovoked killing and destruction of sacred things and institutions of unbelievable proportions. The Catholic renewal of the Holy Spirit was going on slowly for 150 years before Luther (Spain had a vibrant renewal in the 15th century, continuing into the 16th). It came to fruition in the rise of the new religious orders and the crop of spectacular Saints of all kinds, and through the Council of Trent by 50 years after Luther’s initial salvo of fury and took another 50 years to change society in Catholic territory.

The second sign that the Revolt was not from the Holy spirit was the disunity in every direction, i.e., of doctrine, practice, sectarianism; another sign was the secular domination and concession to the state of power over religion (or in Geneva of theocratic rule over society); another, the popular upsurge in immorality in which both extremes against the mean of virtue were simultaneously or alternately indulged in; another in the complete elimination of the contemplative in church life with the destruction of the Catholic spirit of the Liturgy and monastic life. But above all it is in the spirit of presumptuous and self-righteous pride and self-will of the Reformers that we see the break with the Holy Spirit, and how this was repeated in their converts. Luther towards the end of his life admitted the society was much more moral before than after the Reformation.

Now the descendants of the first rebels are different from their fathers, in that they did not automatically lose the Holy Spirit by their actions and choices. They rather inherited a skewed faith through no fault of their own. Thus among those offspring of the rebelling generation who were baptized and believing in Christ, the Holy Spirit had them invisibly, supernaturally joined by grace to the One Catholic Church (because there is only one valid Baptism which is by definition Catholic, though they did not find that out until they died). But there were imperfectly and incompletely joined to her (and therefore to Christ her Invisible Head), as is the case today. Christ does breathe graces of the Holy Spirit upon them but the direction of those graces is meant to bring them into full supernatural communion with the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and therefore visible, historically continuous Communion of His own Church from the beginning, centered in Rome (because of Peter).

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Stop Trying to Include God in Your Plans, Instead Ask Him to Include You in His

You will have more success in life if you stop trying to include God in your plans and instead ask Him to include you in His.

Forget About Whether Something is Needed or Useful; See it as a Whim of Jesus

‎I made the resolution never to consider whether the things commanded me appeared useful or not...it is love alone that counts. Forget about whether something is needed or useful; see it (the demand, rule, obligation, etc.) as a whim of Jesus. - Saint Therese of the Child Jesus

Every Consecrated Host is Made to Burn Itself up With Love in A Human Heart

‎Every Consecrated Host is made to burn Itself up with love in a human heart. - Saint Jean-Marie Vianney

It is in The Liturgy That The Work of Our Redemption is Accomplished

For it is in the liturgy, especially in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist, that "the work of our redemption is accomplished," and it is through the liturgy especially that the faithful are enabled to express in their lives and manifest to others the mystery of Christ and the real nature of the true Church. - Sacrosanctum Concilium