Holy Mass Quotes

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

Pope Paul VI

Prayer, Perfect, Catholic

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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

John Vianney

Sacrifice, Holy Eucharist, Given

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The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Thomas Aquinas

Jesus, Sacrifice, Catholic

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It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.

Pio of Pietrelcina

Would Be, World, Thursday

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Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know...It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!

Pio of Pietrelcina

Spiritual, Sacrifice, Soul

"The Mystery of the Cross in Padre Pio of Pietrelcina". Book by Gerardo Di Flumeri (p. 16), 1983.

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The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

Pope John Paul II

Christian, Holy Eucharist, Thursday

Pope John Paul II (2003). “The Eucharist in the life of the church: encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia, with three presentations from the 3rd Nigerian National Eucharistic Congress, Ibadan, November 15-17, 2002”

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When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

Saint John Chrysostom

Christian, Angel, Sanctuary

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Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved

Mother Teresa

Jesus, Sacrifice, Light

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How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!

John Vianney

Angel, Soul, Guardian

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From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

Pope John Paul II

Moments, Holy, Mass

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A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

Anselm of Canterbury

Catholic, May, Intention

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He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

Saint Augustine

Vigor, May, Sin

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

Frederic Ozanam

Each Day, Half, Way

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When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

John Vianney

Sacrifice, Joy, Body

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I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the streets and I find the same Jesus hidden in the dying destitute, the AIDS patients, the lepers, the abandoned children, the hungry, and the homeless. It's the same Jesus.

Mother Teresa

Jesus, Children, Simple

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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

Saint Augustine

Sacrifice, Holy Eucharist, Way

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What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

Leonard of Port Maurice

Catholic, Grace, Virtue

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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

Saint Augustine

Angel, Sacrifice, Helping

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I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.

Leonard of Port Maurice

Believe, Catholic, Would Be

St. Leonard of Port Maurice “Sacred Treasures of the Mass”, Lulu.com

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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

John Vianney

Flower, Sacrifice, Soul

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My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image

Saint Colette

Jesus, Eye, Wish

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In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

George Weigel

People, Church, Celebration

Source: eppc.org

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Adoration outside Holy Mass prolongs and intensifies what has taken place in the liturgical celebration and makes a true and profound reception of Christ possible. I . . . warmly recommend, to Pastors and to all the faithful, the practice of Eucharistic adoration

Pope Benedict XVI

Taken, Practice, Profound

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Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! . . . I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it.

Anne Catherine Emmerich

Evil, Vision, Owing

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Each morning at Holy Mass, the Bread of Life will help the body as well as the soul, if we have faith. If we but touch the hem of His garment...and how much more have we than that! We can find Him, at every moment, on the altar. Be with Him there. Better than all books! Thank the Trinity over and over again for this Gift. Rest in His presence, and my guardian angel will adore Him for me. Silence.

Edel Quinn

Morning, Book, Angel

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