ഹോളി MASS

Holy Mass
“The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer! (Pope Paul VI)
For each Mass we hear with devotion, Our Lord sends a saint to comfort us at death. (Revelation of Christ to St. Gertrude the great)
Padre Pio, the stigmatic priest, said, the world could exist more easily without the sun than with out the Mass.
The Cure d’Ars, St. Jean Vianney said, if we knew the value of the Mass we would die of joy.
A great doctor of the Church, St, Anselm, declares that a single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death. St. Leonard of Port Maurice supports this statement by saying that one Mass before death may be more profitable than many after it.
“The Holy Mass would be of greater profit if people had it offered in their lifetime, rather than having it celebrated for the relief of their souls after death.”(Pope Benedict XV)
Once, St. Teresa was overwhelmed with God’s Goodness and asked Our Lord, “How can I thank you?” Our Lord replied, “Attend one mass.”
The Blessed Virgin Mary once told her faithful servant Alain: “My Son so loves those who assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that, if it were necessary He would die for them as many times as they’ve heard Masses.”
Receiving of the Holy Eucharist in communion as according to St. Augustine ’s teaching is the means of reparation for our daily shortcoming.
St. Peter Julian commented that just as the angels in heaven need the divine vision of God to sustain their lives, in the same way the receiving of the Holy Eucharist in communion at every celebration we attend is essential for us to sustain the strength of our lives.
For Jesus had said” I am telling you the truth: if you do not eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves.”
St. Thomas Aquinas said that celebration of Holy Mass is as equal to the death of Jesus suffered on the Holy Cross of Calvary .
According to St. Bernard (The contemporary of St. Francis of Assisi) to participate in a Holy Mass devotedly is more and rather very important than selling one’s whole possessions and giving to the poor or going on pilgrimage all over the world.
At each Holy Mass we are called to measure ourselves against the ideal of communion which the Acts of the Apostles paints as a model for the Church in every age. It is the Church gathered around the Apostles, called by the word of God, capable of sharing in spiritual goods, but in material goods as well. (John Paul II)

Because there is nothing in this world which is as really worth and valuable and precious as that of a Holy Mass.