The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

the Mass Jesus is with us, making His
merit to be ours, so that our worship
mounts to the High Throne robed in
His personality-no longer merely
ours, but, at the same time, that of
the Saviour of Calvary. With Jesus
we worship God to the full measure
of infinite sovereignty.
The Mass is an act of thanksgiving.
God is the benefactor: all that we are,
all that we have, comes from Him.
Shall we not give thanks for favors
and mercies? Here again how poor
and limited are we: how powerless to
thank the Infinite in manner adequate
to infinite desert! What then? Let
us take our part in the sacrifice of the
Mass. The Mass was instituted as a
thank-offering: Taking bread, He
gave thanks saying, This is
my body" In the Mass, the sacrifice
of Calvary is ours: our thank-offering
is that of Jesus: we thank the Infinite
to the full measure of infinite mercy
and love-
The Mass is an act of Precipitation
for sin. Sin is the great evil: and who
of us is free from it? Sin is the Of
tense against the Eternal and Al
mighty God-infinite in malice as God
is infinite in majesty and in claim
upon our obedience. Yet for sin there
is mercy. "The mercies of the Lord
T will sing forever. For
Thou hast said: mercy shall be built
up forever in Heaven" The sacri-
fee of Calvary was the stupendous
mystery of Gods mercy. There the
Incarnate Word shed His blood for
many unto the remission of sim
there offering, as His divine person
atty authorized, infinite merit in ex-
piation of infinite malice. And now
the sacrifice of Calvary is repeated in
the Mass, that each one take to him.
self the Victim of Calvary, that, what
ever the unworthiness, each one lift
himself to the portals of eternal JUS
tice in the name of the Incarnate
Word, and, holding in hand the blood
of the Man-God, invoke upon himself
as a right due to infinite merit the
smiles of eternal mercy, the graces
that fit the soul to receive pardon
and reconciliation.
The Mass is an act of Importation
of prayer for the graces and favors
that today we need, that tomorrow
we shall need Innumerable are ou1
wants, temporal and spiritual; and
powerless we are to satisfy them
Elsewhere must help be sought. The
helper is nigh, if we accept His serv
ice. The helper is the Victim of the
altar, the Incarnate Word, whose
prayers are always heard. Let us
possess ourselves of Him, make of Him
our petitioner before the Throne Of
love and omnipotence; and all is wei
with us. In the Mass we pray: no
not we: Jesus of Calvary prays witt
us and for us.
The Sanctification of the Sunday.
appeal to Catholics, whose belle
with regard to the Mass is as the
Church teaches, who have conscious
ness of the divine truth that in thu
Mass Christ is truly and really pres
ent, and there offers Himself in sacri
fee, that men through Him worship
give thanks, petition for pardon ant
favor. Christ is in the Mass as HI
was on Calvary-in manner neare
to us in the Mass than on Calvary
since on Calvary the sacrifice was TO
mankind in general, while in the Mas
it is for those special ones who ar
willing that the merits of the sacrifice
be their own particular heritage.
1 appeal to Catholics, that they TAX
delight in having part in the sacrific
of the Mass, by attendance at its cele
bration so often as circumstances a.
low. A blessed life it is. that of tn
Catholic who frequently in the weel
kneels before the Eucharistic altar
A blessed day, indeed, awaits tn
Catholic who at it's early dawn has pu
his hand in the hand of Jesus, an
ignited his heart from the heart Q
Jesus. For the time being, however
my prayer is for attendance at Mass
once a week-on Sunday, the Lord
Day.
There is the two-fold command
that we sanctify the Sunday, that W
sanctify it by attendance at the ho1
sacrifice of the Mass To disobey tn
command is mortal sin.
It is Sunday morning. Heave
speaks: observe the day of tn
Sabbath to sanctify it." Heave
speaks: the Victim of Calvary renew
upon the altar the sacrifice of Calvary
from the Altar Jesus pleads that 20
meet Him, and permit Him to shove
upon you the graces of the Redeml
ton. And your answer? 1t is-no
: other matters, interest and pleasure
of earth, claim my attention: I wi
not sanctify the Sunday: / will nj
meet the Saviour: will not go
Mass. Could forgetfulness of CO.
ingratitude towards God, go furthe
than when on Sunday morning G.
: tholic says: No; 1 will not go
l Mass?
So long as there is sufficient reaso
for staying away from Mass, the pr
cept is held in allegiance. This is a
other instance of divine love and 70
bearance. But when we can go, ar
do not go, the sin is mortal.
The dreadfulness of mortal sin!
once the soul is stripped of sanctif
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