All grace enters the world through the Mass

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I’ve heard it taught that all grace enters the world through the Mass. It may have come from Fr. Ripperger. Knowing that the Mass is the Calvary sacrifice, I didn’t question it.

Can anyone support or refute the claim?

If all grace comes from the mass, will a reduction in the number of Masses result in less grace worldwide?
 
Is there any chance you could provide a quote from the source you heard this from?
 
I wish I could. That’s partly the reason for creating the topic.
 
Just because they suspended mass for now, doesn’t mean people stop praying… God will shower us with His Grace.

Besides where 2 or 3 gather in His name, He is there. I live alone so I will gather in His name here, with you all, if the Catholic church I go to closes.

God Bless us.
 
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The teaching was that grace first enters through the Mass and is then distributed.
 
I see.

Well, I don’t believe I know enough to comment, but I would say that mass is still going to be offered, because priests will still be offering it privately.
 
God is not a numerologist. Grace flows through the Mass and Sacraments, but those are not the only vias of grace.

This is not like holding our breath! Cancelled masses are done by Christ’s shepherds in caring for their flock.

I can find nothing wrong with that.
 
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As @ioannes_pius said, in my diocese at least, the usual Masses are still being offered. They simply aren’t public any longer, and are held behind closed doors.
 
From a natural context, cancelling Masses to prevent the spread of disease is the right thing to do.

Might there be unintended, but possibly necessary, supernatural consequences?
 
Support for the claim:
For the Holy Eucharist is truly and necessarily to be called the fountain of all graces, containing, as it does, after an admirable manner, the fountain itself of celestial gifts and graces, and the author of all the Sacrament, Christ our Lord, from whom, as from its source, is derived whatever of goodness and perfection the other Sacraments possess. (Catechism of the Council of Trent, On the Sacrament of the Eucharist)
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The logic seems to be: Since the Eucharist is Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ is God and God is the source of all graces, the Eucharist is the source of all graces.

The Council of Trent said, “The most holy Eucharist has indeed this in common with the rest of the sacraments, that it is a symbol of a sacred thing, and is a visible form of an invisible grace; but there is found in the Eucharist this excellent and peculiar thing, that the other sacraments have then first the power of sanctifying when one uses them, whereas in the Eucharist, before being used, there is the Author Himself of sanctity.” (Council of Trent, Session 13 On the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, Chapter 3 On the excellency of the most holy Eucharist over the rest of the Sacraments)

Similarly, the Catechism of the Catholic Church said:
1324 The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.”[134] “The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.”[135]
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Will a reduction in the number of Masses result in less grace worldwide? Not necessarily; although God has thus bound all graces to the Eucharist, he himself is not bound by his sacraments.
 
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