Eucharistic Liturgy, center of the Holy Mass.
We begin the first Eucharistic Prayer “with the confidence of children of God, calling him our most loving Father: clementissime. We pray for the Church and for all those who are a part of the Church -the Pope, our families, our friends and companions. And a Catholic, with his heart open to all, will pray for all, because no one can be excluded from his love. We ask God to hear our prayers. We call on the memory of the glorious ever-Virgin Mary and of a handful of men who were among the first to follow Christ and to die for him, and we recall our union with them."
Quam oblationem... (Bless and approve our offering...) “The moment of the consecration draws near. Now, in the Mass, it is Christ who acts again, through the priest: This is my body... This is the cup of my blood. Jesus is with us! The transubstantiation is a renewal of the miracle of God's infinite love. When that moment takes place again today, let us tell our Lord, without any need for words, that nothing will be able to separate us from him; that, as he puts himself into our hands, defenseless, under the fragile appearances of bread and wine, he has made us his willing slaves. Make me live always through you, and taste the sweetness of your love."
“More prayers, because we human beings almost always feel the need to ask for things -prayers for our deceased brothers and sisters, for ourselves. We have brought all our weaknesses, our lack of faithfulness. The weight is heavy, but he wants to bear it for us and with us. The Canon ends with another invocation to the Blessed Trinity: Per ipsum, et cum ipso, et in ipso...: Through Christ, and with Christ, and in Christ, who is all our love, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, almighty Father, for ever and ever.
Jesus is the way, the Mediator. In him are all things; outside of him is nothing. In Christ, taught by him, we dare to call God "Our Father" -he is the Almighty who created heaven and earth, and he is a loving Father who waits for us to come back to him again and again, as the story of the prodigal son repeats itself in our lives."
Ecce Agnus Dei... (This is the Lamb of God...) Domine, non sum dignus... (Lord, I am not worthy...) “We are going to receive our Lord. On this earth, when we receive an important person, we bring out the best -lights, music, formal dress. How should we prepare to receive Christ into our soul? Have we ever thought about how we would behave if we could only receive him once in a lifetime?"
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