1Words of Consecration at Mass
‘Take this all of you and eat of it, for this is my Body, which will be given up for you’ ‘Take this, all of you, and drink from it, this is the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will be poured out for you and for many, for the forgiveness of sins. Do this in memory of me.’
2Agnus Dei
‘Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us…Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.’
3Catechism of the Catholic Church 1324
‘The Mass is the source and summit of the Christian Life’
4 St John Vianney
‘Not going to Communion is like someone dying of thirst beside a spring.’
5Youcat 295
“Conscience is the inner voice of man”
6Gaudium et Spes 16
“Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of man”
“Conscience reveals that law which is fulfilled by love of God and neighbour”
7Catechism of the Catholic Church 2039
“Personal conscience and reason should not be set in opposition to the moral law or Magisterium”
8 John 19:30
“’It is finished” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit”
9Ephesians 1:22)
God “has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things”
10Youcat 108
“Because death is now no longer the end of everything, joy and hope come into the world”
11Mark 15:21-39
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me…then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last”
12John 20:17
“I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’
13Acts 2:1
‘And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind.”
14St Padre Pio on the Mass
It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
15St Irenaeus on salvation
showed the parallels between Christ and Adam. Christ is the New Adam. Adam caused sin through the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Christ conquered sin through his death on the tree of life, the cross.
16St Anselm on salvation
St Anselm said that Jesus' obedience 'paid a ransom' for the sins of mankind
17John 6:35
Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.