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Those friends of Christ today who cannot be bothered to go to Mass act like those friends of Christ, long ago, who ran away when Christ was arrested and crucified.

Those friends of Christ today who cannot be bothered to go to Mass act like those friends of Christ, long ago, who ran away when Christ was arrested and crucified.

Those friends of Christ today who cannot be bothered to go to Mass act like those friends of Christ, long ago, who ran away when Christ was arrested and crucified.

Those friends of Christ today who cannot be bothered to go to Mass act like those friends of Christ, long ago, who ran away when Christ was arrested and crucified.

Those friends of Christ today who cannot be bothered to go to Mass act like those friends of Christ, long ago, who ran away when Christ was arrested and crucified.

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

God receives the greatest honour when the priest's supreme desire at Mass is to give glory to Him through a reverent offering of the Holy Sacrifice. A good priest also wishes to edify the congregation, but he recognises that the Mass is God's act: infinitely powerful and effective no matter how well or badly the participants prepare and take part.

When priest and people all face in the same direction at Mass, they are all looking together, towards the Father, to praise Him through Christ.

When priest and people all face in the same direction at Mass, they are all looking together, towards the Father, to praise Him through Christ.

When the praise of the Church on earth, with and through Christ its Head, rises up to Heaven, it's as if Heaven is startled and delighted - so powerful and glorious is that praise. It 'explodes', as when the light from thousands of fireworks explodes during a national celebration.

In faith we can see a blazing light, high up in church above the sanctuary. There, in heaven, the Father sits in glory, a papal crown upon His head, as He gazes upon everyone below who praises Him through Jesus Christ at Mass.

Through the one Sacrifice of Christ, re-presented at every Mass, we are united with the Heavenly Court and the souls of Purgatory

When people accept God's call, and approach Him, some halt soon afterwards, being afraid that He will ask them to do uncongenial tasks, or make sacrifices they don't want to make. They do not really open their hearts to Him in prayer, for the same reason, and picture the Godhead as a massive fortress or walled city, with an open door they do not want to enter. They do not discover, therefore, all the joys and delights found inside by God's friends.