568 Saint Catherine of Siena - The Dialogue

" Your Mercy constrains You to give even more to man, namely, to leave Yourself to him in food, so that we, weak ones, should have comfort, and the ignorant commemorating You, should not lose the memory of Your benefits. Wherefore every day You give Yourself to man, representing Yourself in the Sacrament of the Altar, in the body of Your Holy Church. What has done this? Your Mercy. Oh, Divine Mercy! My heart suffocates in thinking of you, for on every side to which I turn my thought, I find nothing but mercy. Oh, Eternal Father!"

569 Saint Catherine of Siena

"When I am not able to receive my Lord, I go into the church, and there I look at Him ... I look at Him again ... and this satisfies me."

570 The Holy Mass - Alphonsus de Liguori

"God Himself cannot bring about an action more holy and greater than the celebration of one Holy Mass."

571 The Holy Mass - St. Leonard of Port

"I believe that if there were no Mass, the world would by now have sunk into the abyss under the weight of its wickedness. The Mass is the powerful support which sustains it."

572 The Holy Mass - St. Laurence Justinian

"No human tongue can enumerate the favors that trace back to the Sacrifice of the Mass. The sinner is reconciled with God; the just man becomes more upright; sins are wiped away; vices eliminated; virtue and merit gain growth and the devil's schemes are frustrated."

573 The Holy Mass - St. Leonard of Port Maurice

"O you deluded people, what are you doing? Why do you not hasten to the churches to hear as many Masses as you can? Why do you not imitate the Angels who, when a Holy Mass is celebrated, come down in squadrons from Paradise and take their stations about our altars in adoration to intercede for us?"

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