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Whenever I bow before the Holy Trinity, my Holy Angel does the same, just as He echoes every reverent sign of the Cross.

When faithful people pray the Holy Rosary, Holy Angels surround them, and keep watch, in reverent silence.

When faithful people pray the Holy Rosary, Holy Angels surround them, and keep watch, in reverent silence.

Just as a school-mistress gladly accepts a courteous greeting, so Christ treasures our reverent gestures.

If Christ - with reverence - offers humble praise to the Father, dare anyone on earth offer praise with less reverence?

At every Mass, Christ is made Really Present with us. It's as if our Risen Saviour stands before us, at the altar, His head bowed in reverence for God the Father, to Whom He lifts His arms as He prays for us. Christ offers to Heaven all the prayers that we pray 'through Him, with Him, and in Him'. In the power of the Holy Spirit, this one great sacrificial prayer is both powerful and effective.

The Holy Angels guard the Church, always; they are all reverent, amidst those who carelessly disturb them with loud chatter.

Christ sees our behaviour in church - some bad behaviour due to ignorance, some due to carelessness or lack of love for Him. He does not take offense. He loves us all dearly. Yet when He sees how some people treat His house of prayer, and His Presence, it's as if He is on the Cross, being struck by His enemies.

From the tabernacle, Christ looks on in sadness, as He sees His holy 'house of prayer' treated as a market-place.

From the tabernacle, Christ looks on in sadness, as He sees His holy 'house of prayer' treated as a market-place.

Christ counts as done to Himself the good or evil that we do to others. He counts as done to Himself whatever insult, blow, ill-humour, or lack of reverence is directed to those 'other Christs', our priests, whom Christ has chosen to lead and serve us.

Whoever recites a prayer with reverence and love is like a child who brings a pretty leaf to her grandfather in trust and delight.

By representations, in our sanctuaries, of Heavenly realities, people find it easier to pray: hearts and minds are raised to God.

It is love for God that 'counts' in prayer. Someone who gives his entire attention to God in love and reverence might find himself rising to the 'heights' with no effort, as if on a magic carpet - unlike those who try to storm Heaven with loud demands. The Saints lean down, to encourage us all to approach God with patience and humility.

Just as a priest receives more honour when a perfect gift is carefully presented to him, not just thrown in front of him; so God our Father receives greater honour when the perfect sacrifice of Christ is offered by the members of the Church with reverence, than with haste or carelessness.

At Mass, it's as if a blazing fire of Divine love penetrates the church - love from the Father Who 'gives' His Son to us at every Mass. If we could see the flames, how reverent we would be, in the Presence of the All-Holy!

At Mass, it's as if a blazing fire of Divine love penetrates the church - love from the Father Who 'gives' His Son to us at every Mass. If we could see the flames, how reverent we would be, in the Presence of the all-holy!

The Christian life consists of trust in Christ, giving up sin, following His way even in darkness, and moving towards the Glory of heaven.

The Saints and Angels are honoured when we show reverence towards them. All together, we offer praise and reverence with one voice to God on high.

People who use a Catholic church as merely a concert hall for secular music, or a meeting place for secular gatherings (sometimes even removing the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle) are like people taking a beautiful and sacred Reliquary box, to use it as a sandwich tin for a parish picnic.