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Excerpt from “The Incredible Catholic Mass”
Fr. Martin von Cochem
Marchantius,writes “The Catholic Church can do nothing better, more holy, nothing more worthy of the Most High God, more pleasing to Jesus and Mary, more gratifying to the Angels and Saints, more profitable for both the just and sinners, more advantageous to the souls in Purgatory, than offer for them, the Sacrifice of the Mass." All theologians declare the same and concur in placing The Holy Mass far above all other good works.
In the preface to an old missal bearing the date 1634, we find an exhortation addressed to priests, bidding them to entertain a very high opinion of the excellence of the Holy Sacrifice and never doubt, that every time they celebrate it, they render God a more acceptable service than by the exercise of the loftiest virtues or by the suffering of all conceivable tortures for His sake.
All the praise, the love, the veneration, the worship, the thanksgiving which Christ presents to the ever-blessed Trinity in every Mass, far transcends all the praise of the Angels, the adoration of the Saints, so far, indeed—that all the penances, the prayers, the good works of Apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins and all the Saints offered to the Holy Trinity, would be less pleasing to the Divine Majesty than one single Mass.
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Fr. Martin von Cochem
Marchantius,writes “The Catholic Church can do nothing better, more holy, nothing more worthy of the Most High God, more pleasing to Jesus and Mary, more gratifying to the Angels and Saints, more profitable for both the just and sinners, more advantageous to the souls in Purgatory, than offer for them, the Sacrifice of the Mass." All theologians declare the same and concur in placing The Holy Mass far above all other good works.
In the preface to an old missal bearing the date 1634, we find an exhortation addressed to priests, bidding them to entertain a very high opinion of the excellence of the Holy Sacrifice and never doubt, that every time they celebrate it, they render God a more acceptable service than by the exercise of the loftiest virtues or by the suffering of all conceivable tortures for His sake.
All the praise, the love, the veneration, the worship, the thanksgiving which Christ presents to the ever-blessed Trinity in every Mass, far transcends all the praise of the Angels, the adoration of the Saints, so far, indeed—that all the penances, the prayers, the good works of Apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins and all the Saints offered to the Holy Trinity, would be less pleasing to the Divine Majesty than one single Mass.
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