It can be very easy to go into auto-pilot during Mass. If you have been going to Mass long enough, you may not even need to think about the words you say or the actions you take. However, did you know that at Mass, God is reaching out to you in a personal way? Sr. Mary Grace, Sr. Ann Immaculée, and Sr. Marie Veritas reflect on the enormous impact that Mass can have on your life. They encourage each of us to enter more deeply into the Mass so that ultimately, we can enter into deeper friendship with the Lord.

Snippet from the Show
“Let the Mass take over your life.”

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Quotes

• What material food produces in our bodily life, Holy Communion wonderfully achieves in our spiritual life. Communion with the flesh of the risen Christ, a flesh “given life and giving life through the Holy Spirit,” preserves, increases, and renews the life of grace received at Baptism. This growth in Christian life needs the nourishment of Eucharistic Communion, the bread for our pilgrimage until the moment of death, when it will be given to us as viaticum (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 1392).
• “I am the food of grown men, grow, and thou shalt feed upon Me; nor shalt thou convert Me, like the food of thy flesh into thee, but thou shalt be converted into Me” (Confessions of St. Augustine)
• “There is nothing authentically human – our thoughts and affections, our words and deeds – that does not find in the sacrament of the Eucharist the form it needs to be lived to the full. Here we can see the full human import of the radical newness brought by Christ in the Eucharist: the worship of God in our lives cannot be relegated to something private and individual, but tends by its nature to permeate every aspect of our existence.” (Sacramentum Caritatis, Paragraph 71)
• “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35).
• “The Christian faithful need a fuller understanding of the relationship between the Eucharist and their daily lives. Eucharistic spirituality is not just participation in Mass and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. It embraces the whole of life” (Sacramentum caritatis, Paragraph 77)
• “There is nothing more beautiful than to know him and speak to others of our friendship with him” (Pope Benedict XVI).

Challenges of the Week

• Engage in the offertory. Bring your gifts, gratitude and suffering and place it on the altar. Allow God to “make holy these gifts” that you have placed on the altar.
• Allow the Eucharist to permeate every aspect of your existence.
• Have courage and ask God the following: God, where do you want to send me on mission? How can I live the Mass in my “home setting”?
• Pray with people. Whether it is a friend, family member or stranger, if someone shares a difficulty with you, do not be afraid to offer to pray with them. Do it right then and there.

The Sisters of Life are women religious, who profess the three traditional vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and a fourth vow to protect and enhance the sacredness of human life. They were founded by Cardinal John O’Connor in New York in 1991, and received formal approbation as a religious institute in 2004, under Cardinal Edward Egan.
The mission of the Sisters of Life includes serving women who are vulnerable to abortion, giving them the support and resources to be able to choose life for themselves and their children; hosting weekend retreats; evangelization; outreach to college students; and helping women who have suffered after abortion to encounter the mercy and healing of Jesus Christ.