Consider the angels...

 "The angels surround and help the priest 

when he is celebrating Mass."

St Augustine

"The heavens open and multitudes of angels

come to assist in the Holy Sacrifice

of the Mass." - St Gregory the Great

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"When Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary

is filled with countless angels who adore the

Divine Victim immolated on the altar."

St John Chrysostom

 

"All of Paradise is close to the altar

when I say Mass. ...

The angels around the altar 
adore and love."

St Padre Pio

                                                                                                                                                                                   

"How happy is that guardian angel

who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!"
St John Vianney

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Quotes in honor of remembering ...

St Frances of Rome

Italy ~ 1384 -1440

Wife, mother, monastic, mystic

Great devotion to Passion and faith in angels

Given gift to see Guardian angel in bodily form

Oft said by St Frances, "God's Will is mine."

Feast Day - March 9

 "It is most laudable in a married woman to be 

devout, but she must never forget she is a housewife.  

And sometimes she must leave God at the altar 

to find Him in her housekeeping." - St Frances of Rome

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St Frances of Rome, pray for us!

Tasteless or sweetness: Third Sunday of Lent...

 Third Sunday of Lent

The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, 
that I may never be thirsty or have to 
keep coming here to draw water."  - John 4:15

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"Although Jesus asked this woman for a drink, 

His real thirst was for her faith."

St Augustine

"Hence the loftier were the words of the Son of God, 

the more tasteless they were to the impure, 

as happened when He preached the sovereign 

and loving doctrine of the Holy Eucharist; 

for many turned away (Jn 6:60-61, 67).

Those who do not relish this language 

God speaks within them must not think 

on this account that others do not taste it.  

St Peter tasted it in his soul when he said to Christ:  

Lord, where shall we go; 

You have the words of eternal life (Jn 6:68).  

And the Samaritan woman forgot the water pot 

because of the sweetness of God's words (Jn 4:28)."

St John of the Cross (+1591)  

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St Photina (Woman at the Well - Feast Day: March 20), 

pray for us!

Lent - opening the heart to grace...

   "Dry bones and limp lives can come alive

by giving God permission to make us

what He wants us to be." - Fr. George Rutler

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"We entreat you not to offer God's grace 

an ineffectual welcome (II Cor 6:1).  

Yes, God's grace can fill us this Lent, provided 

we do not close the doors of our heart. 

We must be well-disposed, we must really want 

to change; we cannot play with God's grace. ...

We cannot regard this Lent as just another liturgical 

season which has simply happened to come around again. 

It is a unique time: 

a divine aid which we should accept. 

Jesus is passing by and He hopes that we 

will take a great step forward — today, now."

St Josemaria Escriva

Christ is Passing By

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Also remembering today...

Sts Perpetua & Felicity, pray for us!

Welcoming love...

 Lord, make my heart like unto Thine...

 "Let us live Lent, then, as a “Eucharistic” time 

in which, welcoming the love of Jesus, we learn to 

spread it around us with every word and deed. 

Contemplating “him whom they have pierced” 

moves us in this way to open our hearts to others, 

recognizing the wounds inflicted 

upon the dignity of the human person.

Pope Benedict XVI 
Lenten message 2007

The most necessary mission ...

 "Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands

full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on 

anyone who asks for them." - St Peter of Alcantara

Courtesy of OSV News photo/Sam National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion (Wisconsin)

Eucharistic Adoration 
is the most necessary mission to the Church, 
which has even more need of prayerful souls

than of powerful preachers or men of eloquence.

We must have souls who by their importunity 
re-open the treasures of grace 
which the indifference of the multitude has closed.

We must have true adorers; that is to say, 
people of fervor and sacrifice.

When there are many around the divine Savior, 
God will be glorified, Jesus loved; society 

will become Christian, won to Jesus Christ 
by the apostolate of Eucharistic prayer."

St Peter Julian Eymard