Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart...
Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know…It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!
-- St. Pio of Pietrelcina (25 May 1887 – 23 September 1968)
THE GIFT OF FAITH
ReplyDelete"It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!"
The 'mere child' with faith can perceive that with ease, aided by the gift of faith; the 'wise' man of the secular world, on the other hand grapples with it and either dismiss it with his usual intellectual pride, or try to disprove it with his arrogance and hatred of the Church.