What is Mass?

First page of Fr Martin von Cochem's book Explanation of the Holy Sacrifice of Mass: The holy Mass is called in Latin sacrificium, by which word a thing far greater and higher than an offering is signified. A sacrifice in its full and proper signification is an offering, external to ourselves, made to the most high God, and consecrated and hallowed in a solemn manner by a lawfully appointed and duly qualified minister of the Church, to recognise and testify to the supreme dominion of Almighty God over all creatures. From this definition it will be seen that a sacrifice is much more than a simple offering. It represents a lofty and sublime act of worship, due to the infinite God alone, and not to any creature. That this solemn sacrifice may be offered to none other than God alone is proved by St Augustine from the universal custom of all nations. Who, he says, has ever been found to assert that sacrifice should be offered to anyone save the true God only, or to such false deities as are wrongfully held to be the true God? And in another place he says: The devil would not require sacrifices from his votaries if he did not know this to be a prerogative of the divinity. Many of the great and powerful ones of the earth have arrogated to themselves acts of homage which are of right paid to God alone, but few indeed have presumed to command that sacrifice should be offered to them. Those who did this desired to be regarded as gods. Hence it may be seen that the offering of sacrifice is an act of worship which it is not fitting to pay to men, to the saints, or to the angels, but to God alone. St Thomas of Aquin says: It is natural to mankind to make sacrificial offerings to the omnipotent God, and man is incited thereto by a natural instinct without an express command or special injunction. This we see exemplified in the case of Abel, Noah, Abraham, Job and other patriarchs who offered sacrifice, not in obedience to the law of God, but to the mere impulse of nature. And not only did those persons who were enlightened by God offer sacrifices to Him: the heathen also simply following the light of nature sacrificed to their idols, believing them to be true deities. In later times the Law given by God to the children of Israel made it obligatory upon them to offer sacrifice to Him daily..."

Mass Described in the Bible

Is it possible to recognize the true worship of the new covenant and therefore the true Church in the Bible? Of course. The Hebrews were warned many times they would lose their inheritance, that the old and "perpetual" covenant having been broken too many times by the priests and people was to be rescinded, that the Temple sacrifice would come to an end, that Jerusalem would be destroyed, that the Gentiles would inherit God's mercy and love.

Through the prophet Jeremiah, "Behold the days shall come, says the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: the covenant which they made void."

And the prophet Malachi: "I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not receive a gift of your hand. For from the rising of the sun to the going down my name is great among the Gentiles and in every place there is sacrifice and there is offered to my name a clean oblation."

This prophesied the marks by which we recognize true worship: it would be an atonement or propitatory sacrifice (unlike the new Catholic and Anglican "service"); it would be an oblation, that is, a ritual offering not just a service (unlike the Protestant and Muslim and modern Jewish services); it would be clean, not bloody, unlike the old Temple rites of the slaughter of animals; it would be worldwide and universal in every nation and the same among all peoples, the Gentiles, unlike the little sects all different and unlike the old covenant rite which took place only in Jerusalem and only for Hebrews; it would be one, that is, pleasing to God, the same everywhere. This international church under the Messiah was prophesied by King David in Psalm 2. "You are my Son, this day have I begotten you. Ask of me and I will give you the Gentiles for your inheritance."

Jesus once asked the scribes and Pharisees, "Whose son is the Christ?" And they answered, "David's son." They became silent when Jesus then asked them, "Then why does David call him his Lord, as in Psalm 109 (or 110): "The Lord said to my Lord." They were silent because the Pharisees rejected the idea of God becoming a man. They rejected already the teaching of God through the prophet Isaiah that the Messiah would be God himself. And not only that but that his coming into the world would be very natural indeed, as God the baby, in the womb of the Virgin. It has been immortalized by Handel in his Messiah. Isaiah 9: "For unto us a child is born, and unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name [Jesus, Emmanuel] shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." The child of Bethlehem Ephrata is "the mighty God," God Almighty.

The same Psalm 109 (110) states: "The Lord has sworn and he will not repent: You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchisadech." Who is the priest David is referring to? Christ the high priest. What kind of sacrifice is Christ offering forever? The sacrifice of a priest of the order of Melchisadech. Who is Melchisadech? "Melchisadech, the King of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, for he was a priest of the most high God"--Genesis 14. The sacrifice according to the order of Melchisadech is bread and wine.

When did Christ the high priest offer the sacrifice of bread and wine? At the Last Supper. "And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke, and gave to his disciples, and said: Take and eat. This is my Body. And taking the chalice, he gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, Drink all of this. For this is my Blood of the new covenant which shall be shed for you and for many for the remission of sins."

I Corinthians 11 adds: "Do you this, as often you shall drink, for the commemoration of me." The word "commemoration" is in the Greek Anamnesis, meaning not-forgetting, re-membering and the Lest We Forget. It is used to translate a specialized ritual word found in Leviticus to denote the memorial oblation--Azkara. Also Leviticus 2 and 5 and 6, and Numbers 5.

In fact the sacrificial bread and wine rite of the Church of the new covenant was already prefigured by the Old Covenant memorial oblation of bread and wine and incense and oil--in Greek the Anamnesis, in Hebrew the Azkara--on the altar of incense in the Temple. It is mentioned in passing in Leviticus 24 but the holy ceremony was not written down but remained as a part of oral law.

"You shall take also fine flour and shall bake twelve loaves...And you shall put upon them the clearest frankincense that the bread may be for a memorial of the oblation of the Lord. Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord, being received by the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. And they shall be Aaron's and his sons' that they may eat them in the holy place, because it is the most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right."

The new Azakarah of Mass combined into one rite the old Azakarah and the Last Supper or Pesach or Pascha or Passover with Calvary. Gospel of Luke chapter 22: "Now the feast of the unleavened bread, which was called the Pasch, was at hand."

So the sacrifice forever of Christ the high priest in the memorial sacrifice of bread and wine is the most holy sacrifice of the Lord, a perpetual, continual sacrifice, and part of the everlasting covenant. Christ is the high priest making the offering of himself--his body and blood--in the form of bread and wine. St Paul stated: "without blood there is no forgiveness of sins."

The priests are only his instruments and servants lending him their voice and hands. The purpose of the priest of the new covenant was to serve as a medium for Christ the high priest to offer the daily sacrifice for the good of the people. For rain in the land and peace in the world and every other human supplication as well as propitiation for sin.

We have no other access to Calvary and Christ but this. Note that Jesus does not say it is the memorial oblation of bread and wine, but the memorial oblation "of me." And "this is my body." This bread is his body and this wine is his blood.

"Amen amen I say to you, except you eat the Flesh of the Son of man and drink his Blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood has everlasting life and I will raise him up on the last day. For my Flesh is really meat and my Blood is really drink."

By whom then is this sacrifice "forever" to be performed? Jesus ordained his disciples. By the utterance of the Divine Word, saying "Do this," he ordained them priests of the order of Melchisadech to offer the sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Jesus in the form of and under the appearance of bread and wine.

St.Paul, an ordained priest, spoke of his fellow priests as "ministers of Christ and dispensers of the mysteries of God." Mysteries should rightly be translated "sacraments" for sacramenta is Latin for the Greek word mysteria. By dispensers he means that the priest and no other is to dispense Holy Communion. He goes on to say that such men must be found faithful. That is, not heretics or apostates who no longer believe.

St Paul explained to the Hebrews: "He became to all that obey Him the cause of eternal salvation, called by God a high priest according to the order of Melchisadek. Of whom we have much to say, and hard to be intelligibly uttered, because you are become to weak to hear...Every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things that pertain to God that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins...Every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices."

This is the new covenant referred to in Jeremiah: Behold the days shall come, says the Lord, and I will make a new covenant, and the clean oblation in every place around the world, referred to by Malachi.

The only good and pure satisfaction for sin we can offer God is Jesus crucified and risen on the altar of incense of the new covenant church in the Mass. We have no other access to Calvary. Union through Holy Communion is the only way to receive Jesus and to be united with God and be divinised as St Peter wrote and so to be elgible to go to Heaven--the Mass or Azkara is the key to eternal life. If you want Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and Friend and King, you must receive him in this way that he has directed and was carried on unchanged until recently by the only institution that survived 2000 years under God's protection, the Roman Catholic church.

The Memorial Oblation was described by early Christian writers as shown by the documentary record in the 2nd century Apostolic Constitution, the 1st century Didache, and the writings of 2nd century St Justin and St Ignatius. Anybody who reads the Apostolic Constitution (see below) will immediately recognize the old Mass but not the so-called New Mass.

However, no-one valuing their soul should step into a modernised Catholic church. Yes, it's paradoxical, but the shortest path to hell is now your local Catholic parish church. "For when the blind lead the blind, they both fall into the pit together." The corruption of the best makes for the worst, and as Jesus said, "great will be the fall of that house."

St Paul: "They changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator...and as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense...foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy, who not having known the justice of God did not understand that they who do such things are worthy of death and not only they that do them but they also that consent to them that do them."

If you want back your faith, your children, your soul, your churches, you must boykott these diabolically corrupted churches.

In the interim get togetber and hold your prayer meeting (Rosary and Passion meditation) in the open air. He who loses all for the sake of the Lord will gain it all and more, he who holds on, covetous and insecure, loses all. Those who pray together thereby form a proto-church, a mustard seed. Mary and Jesus will be there with you and your prayers for the arrival of a Mass will somehow be answered.

What Jesus Said About Mass

I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man eat of it, he may not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for ever. These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum. Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard; and who can hear it? But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you? If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that did not believe and who he was that would betray him. And he said: Therefore did I say to you that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father. After this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away? And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.

In the Psalms and the Old Testament, as in the Middle East today, the expression eat his flesh is a metaphor for despise, despoil, destroy him. It is not a metaphor that means believe in him! The reformers say that but they have no evidence. The reformers claim the Eucharist is not Jesus just a symbol of Jesus--"not discerning the body of the Lord." So they make do with grape juice and biscuit. The revolt began with the Nicolaitans mentioned in St.John's Apocalypse. They were also called Docetists. About year 100, a friend of St.John, St.Ignatius Bishop of Antioch wrote: "The Docetists abstain from the Eucharist because they allow not that It is the Flesh of our Saviour." Can't Jesus who is God change water into wine? Can't he make a loaf feed a thousand? Can't he change wine into his own blood? St.Ambrose: “If the word of the Lord Jesus is so powerful as to summon into existence that which did not exist, namely the world, how much more powerful need this word be to change into something else that which already has existence?” When ice melts to water, the appearance changes but the substsnace doesn't. At Mass the substance changes but the physical attributes like the tendency to crumble does not. There are many miracles in which the holy bread took on the appearance and actual physical attributes of flesh and the holy wine became blood in appearance as well as substance. Scientific analysis revealed the blood to be type AB and the bread of the Eucharist as heart muscle. Hence Sacred Heart is not just a metaphor.

Would God have deceived the Christians for more than a thousand years by letting them worship bread and wine? He didn't say, "This represents my Body" but "This is my Body." God is no deceiver, therefore the Eucharist is what he said it is. Where the Reformers fall down is in shunning the intimacy of a personal Trinitarian God, aversion to the Son of God's Incarnation inside the Virgin's womb as planned from all eternity, also as in fear of his "entering under our roof" in Communion. The Sacrament forms us into his likeness so that we may take the key to heaven and enter through the narrow opening of the cross and thus "pass over" to the Promised Land. Christianity is a marriage covenant and a tie that binds us to heaven as God's bride while yet on earth. To "receive Jesus" it is not enough to profess love and declare devotion. You need to be united to God to go to heaven. You need to consummate the marriage. The consummation is both physical and spiritual in the sacrament of love and unity. Jesus is the vine, we are the branches, and the branch lives by the life-giving sap of the Eucharist. Without which no man can be saved. God used physical means by becoming a man to save us from our spiritual woes. True religion is the union of the physical and the spiritual, matter and mind. It is not one or the other but both. "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man...you shall not have life in you. He that eats my flesh...has everlasting life and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is truly meat."

Meaning of Word Mass

"Going therefore, teach you all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." It was the Lord's last word on earth, called the "great commission." It is in this concept that you find the origin of the use of the word "Mass." It was because of the importance of the concept of sending and the importance always given to this command, the great commission. For the Latin word for Mass was Missa. "Missa" comes from just before the end, just before the final blessing with the words, "Ite missa est." Confusion has been thrown over the meaning of those words by the false council called the Second Vatican and its false translations of everything. Many people mistakenly believe it means: "Go the Mass is ended." Very true, but only in an ironical sense, for the translators have destroyed the Mass. Some traditional people believe it means "so it has been sent," meaning the Hostia or Victim of the Holy Sacrifice, the God-man Jesus sacrificially offered up to God from the altar in the perpetuation of the sacrifice of Calvary. Certainly that is what Mass essentially is but it is not the meaning of the word "Mass" in "ita missa est." Another vague sounding new translation "Go to love and serve the Lord" is actually not far away from the original meaning. The answer is given by St Augustine. He explained "missa est" is the abbreviation of "missa est congregatio." Not the "hostia" or the divine victim but the congregation is understood. It is a sending but it is the congregation of the faithful who are being commissioned by these words and "sent." The meaning may be something like this. "The Holy Sacrifice just accomplished was the sending to God of our oblation Jesus in the form of bread and wine. Now it is your turn to be sent, to sacrifice yourselves, Jesus being formed in your souls, to save the souls of your brothers and sisters, as Mass saves you, to bring them to our Lord Jesus Christ in the priests of His church and the Mass. Go for the lost sheep of Israel. "As the Father has sent me, so I send you...as lambs among wolves." He is asking all: Bring me souls, save every last one of the precious souls whom I created to love and be loved forever by Us in heaven. Bring them to purification through My blood in My Church. For I thirst!" The idea of bringing souls to Christ is a central part of what it is to be a Christian. The desire to save souls is a sign of a living faith. It is a fruit of grace and charity in action. The sending of the people is the lay apostolate, the Great Commission of the people. The congregation are commanded to go and do likewise, imitate Christ and the priest, follow their example, take up the cross, make disciples, bring people to a good priest and their salvation. The name of Mass therefore actually connotes Lay Apostolate and Great Commission. The Sacrament of Mass bringing about what it signifies: namely, Christians with grace and love in their heart and action in their hands, feet and voices. "And their eyes were opened, and Jesus strictly charged them, saying, See that no man know this. But they going out spread his fame abroad in all that country."

Ancient Christian Mass

How did the early Christians worship in the apostolic age? A fairly complete description of early Christian liturgy is contained in the 7th section of the Apostolic Constitutions. This, according to the learned Bunsen, was written no later than the first half of the 2nd century. You can find it in the book, The Ante-Nicene Christian Library. The translation is the work of a Protestant clergyman. The most learned of Protestant historical researchers acknowledge the genuineness of the original document. The important point is this original rite of Christian worship is almost exactly the same as the Roman Catholic rite of worship before the reformers tried to ban it in the second half of the 20th century.

And after the reading of the Law, the Prophets, and our Epistles, and Acts and the Gospels, let him that is ordained salute the Church, saying: the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the Father, and the unity of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. And let them answer: And with your spirit. And after these words let him speak to the people the words of exhortation. Then follows the dismissal of unbelievers, catechumens and penitents.

The bishop then prays and salutes the congregation saying. The peace of God be with you all. And let them answer: And with your spirit. Let us stand upright before the Lord with fear and trembling to offer. When this is done let the deacons bring the gifts to the bishop at the altar, and let the presbyters stand at his right hand and on his left, as disciples stand before their master. Let the high priest therefore together with the priests pray over the oblation, that the Holy Spirit may descend upon it, making the bread the body of Christ and the cup the blood of Christ.

And prayers being ended, let him put on his shining garment and stand at the altar and make the sign of the cross upon his forehead with his hand, and say: The grace of Almighty God and the love of our Lord Jesus Christ and the unity of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And let all with one voice say: And with your spirit. The high priest: Lift up your mind. All the people: We lift it up to the Lord. The high priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord. All the people: It is meet and right to do so.

Then let the high priest say: It is very meet and right before all things to sing a hymn to Thee Who art the true God, Who art before all things, from Whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. Who alone art unbegotten and without beginning and without a ruler, Who didst bring all things out of nothing into being by Thy only begotten Son, God the Word, the living Wisdom, the first-born of every creature, the Angel of Thy great counsel, and the High Priest, but the King and Lord of every intellectual and sensible nature, Who was before all things, by Whom were all things. For all these things, glory be to Thee, O Lord Almighty. Thee do the innumerable hosts of angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities and powers, Thine everlasting armies, adore. The cherubim and the six-winged seraphim, together with thousand thousands of archangels, and ten thousand times ten thousand of angels incessantly and with constant and loud voices, and let the people say it with them: Holy, holy, holy, Lord of hosts, heaven and earth are full of His glory: be Thou blessed for ever. Amen. And afterwards let the high priest say: For Thou art truly holy and most holy, the highest and the most highly exalted forever. Holy also is Thy only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. He was pleased by Thy good will to become man Who was man's creator; to be under the laws Who was Legislator; to be a sacrifice Who was an High Priest; to be a sheep Who was a Shepherd. And he appeased Thee, His God and Father, and reconciled Thee to the world, and freed all men from the wrath to come; and was made in the womb of a Virgin, Who formed all mankind that are born into the world: He took flesh Who was without flesh; He Who was begotten before time was born in time; He lived holily and taught according to the law; He finished the work which Thou gavest Him to do; He was delivered to Pilate the governor, and He that was the Judge was judged; and he that was the saviour was condemned; He that was impassable was nailed to the cross; and He Who was by nature immortal died; and he that is the giver of life was buried; he arose from the dead the third day; he was taken up into the heavens, and is ssat down on the right hand of Thee Who art His God and Father. Being mindful therefore of those things that he endured for our sakes, we give Thee thanks, O God Almighty, not in such manner as we ought, but as we are able, and fulfil His constitution.

For in the same night that he was betrayed, he took bread in holy and undefiled hands, and looking up to Thee, His God and Father, He broke it and gave it to his disciples saying: This is the mystery of the New Covenant. Take of it and eat. This is My Body which is broken for many for the remission of sins. In like manner also he took the cup and mixed it of wine and water and sanctified it and delivered it to them, saying: Drink you all of this, for this is My Blood, which is shed for many for the remission of sins: Do this in remembrance of Me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show forth My death until I come.

Being mindful therefore of His passion and death and resurrection from the dead and return into the heavens and His future second appearing wherein He is to come in glory and power to judge the quick and the dead, and to recompense every one according to his works, we offer to Thee our King and God according to His constitution this bread and this cup, giving Thee thanks, throught Him, that Thou God Who standest in need of none of our offerings. And do Thou accept them, to the honour of Thy Christ, and send down upon this sacrifice Thine Holy Spirit, the witness of the Lord Jesus' sufferings, that he may show this bread to be the body of Thy Christ, and the cup to be the blood of Thy Christ, that those who are partakers thereof may be strengthened for piety, may obtain the remission of their sins, may be delivered from the devil and his deceits, may be filled with the Holy Spirit, may be made worthy of Thy Christ, and may obtain eternal life upon Thy reconciliation to them, O Lord Almighty.

We further pray unto Thee, O Lord, for Thy Holy Church spread from one end of the world to another, which Thou hast purchased with the precious blood of Thy Christ, that thou wilt preserve it unshaken and free from disturbance until the end of the world, for every episcopate who rightly divides the word of truth. And let all the people say: Amen. Sanctify our body and soul and grant us the favour to be made pure from all filthiness of flesh and spirit and may obtain the good things laid up for us and do not account any of us unworthy but be Thou our comforter, helper, and protector, through Thy Christ, with Whom glory, praise and thanksgiving be to Thee and to the Holy Spirit forever. Amen. And after all have said: Amen, let the deacon say: Let us attend. And let the bishop speak thus to the people: Holy things for holy persons. And let the people answer: There is one that is holy, there is one Lord, one Jesus Christ, blessed forever, to the glory of God the Father. Amen. Glory be to God in the highest and the Son of David. Blessed be He that cometh in the name of the Lord, being the Lord God Who appeared to us. Hosanna in the highest.

And after that let the bishop partake; then the presbyters and deacons; and all the people in order, with reverence and godly fear. And let the bishop give the oblation, saying: The body of Christ. And let him that receiveth say, Amen. And let the deacon take the cup and when he gives it say: The blood of Christ, the cup of life, and let him that drinketh say, Amen. And when all have partaken let the deacon say: Now we have received the precious body and the precious blood of Christ, let us give thanks to Him Who has thought us worthy to partake of these His holy mysteries and let us beseech Him that it may not be to us for condemnation but for salvation, to the advantage of soul and body, to the preservation of piety, to the remission of sins, and to the life of the world to come. Let the deacon say: Bow down to God through His Christ, and receive the blessing. And let the bishop add this prayer and say: O God Almighty the true God, be gracious to me and hear my prayer for Thy name's sake and bless those that bow down their necks unto Thee, and grant them the petitions of their hearts. For to Thee belongs the glory and praise and majesty and worship and adoration, and to Thy Son Jesus Thy Christ, our Lord and God and King, and to the Holy Spirit, now and always, forever and ever. Amen. And the dream shall say: Depart in peace.

The Mass They Banished

Compare the early Christian rite above with the true Mass translated from Latin into English. Though separated by nearly 20 centuries, they are similar in structure, language and especially solemnity. Mankind and children too crave solemnity. They want to worship and adore the Divine Majesty. We start again at the offering prayers.

Accept, O Holy Father, Almighty and Eternal God, this immaculate host which I, your unworthy servant, offer to you, my living and true God, for my numberless sins, offenses and negligences and for all those present and for all faithful Christians living as well as dead, that it may profit me and them unto salvation in eternal life. Amen. O God Who established human nature with wonderful dignity and more wonderfully restored it, grant that through the mystery of this water and wine, we may be made partakers of His humanity, Who condescended to become partaker of our humanity, Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, Who with You lives and reigns in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen. We offer you, O Lord, the chalice of salvation, humbly begging of Your clemency that it may rise before Your divine Majesty with a pleasing fragrance for our salvation and for that of the whole world. In a humble spirit and with a contrite heart, may we be accepted by You, O Lord, and may our sacrifice be so offered in Your sight as to please You, O Lord God. Come, O Sanctifier, Almighty and Eternal God, and bless this sacrifice prepared for the glory of Your holy name. [Then after the Washing of Hands accompanied by the Psalm] Accept, most holy Trinity, this offering we are making to You in remembrance of the passion, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ, our Lord, and in honour of Blessed Mary ever Virgin, Blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, that it may add to their honour and aid our salvation, and may they deign to intercede in heaven for us who honour their memory here on earth. Pray, brethren, that my Sacrifice and yours may become acceptable to God the father Almighty. May the Lord accept this Sacrifice from your hands to the praise and glory of His name, for our advantage and that of all His holy Church. Amen.

The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. Lift up your hearts. We have lifted them up to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God. It is fitting and just. It is fitting indeed and just, right and conducive to salvation for us always and everywhere to give thanks to You, O holy Lord, Father Almighty, Everlasting God, Who with Your only-begotten Son and the Holy Spirit are one God, one Lord; not in the unity of a single person but in the trinity of a single nature. For that which we believe on Your revelation concerning Your glory, that same we believe of Your Son, that same of the Holy Spirit, without difference or discrimination. So that in confessing the true and everlasting Godhead, we shall adore distinction in persons, oneness in being, and equality in majesty. This the angels and archangels, the cherubim and seraphim do praise, day by day they cease not crying out as with one voice saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are filled with Your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Therefore most gracious Father, we humbly beg of You and entreat You through Jesus Christ our Lord, to deem acceptable and bless these gifts, these offerings, these holy and unspotted oblations which in the first place we offer You for Your holy Catholic Church, that You would deign to give her peace and protection, to unite and guard her the whole world over, together with Your servant our pope, and our Bishop, and all true believers who cherish the Catholic and apostolic faith. remember O Lord Your servants and handmaids and all here present, whose faith and devotion are known to You, on whose behalf we offer to You or who themselves offer to You this Sacrifice of praise for themselves, families and friends, for the good of their souls, for their hope of salvation and deliverance from all harm, and who offer their homage to You, O God eternal, living and true. In the communicating and venerating we observe the memory first of all of the glorious and ever Virgin Mary, Mother of the Lord and God Jesus Christ, next that of Your blessed apostles and martyrs, Peter and paul, Andrew, James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon, and Thaddeus, of Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian, and of all Your saints, by whose merits and prayers grant that we may be always fortified by the help of Your every protection. Graciously accept therefore we beseech You this service of our oblation and that of all Your household. Provide that our days be spent in Your peace, save us from everlasting damnation, and cause us to be numbered in the flock You have chosen.

O God, deign to bless what we offer and make it approved, effective, right, and wholly pleasing in every way, that it may become for our good the Body and Blood of Your dearly beloved Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Who the day before he suffered, took bread into His holy and venerable hands and havig raised His eyes to You, O God, Almighty Father, giving thanks to You, He blessed it, broke it, and gave it to His disciples, saying: All of you take and eat of this. For this is My Body. In like manner, when the supper was done, taking also this goodly chalice into His holy and venerable hands, again giving thanks to You, He blessed it and gave it to His disciples, saying: All of you take and drink of this: For this is the Chalice of My Blood or the new and eternal covenant, the mystery of faith, which shall be shed for you and for many unto the forgiveness of sins. As often as you shall do these things, you shall do them in My commemoration.

Mindful therefore O Lord not only of the blessed passion of the same Christ, Your Son, our Lord, but also of His resurrection from the dead, and finally His glorious ascension into heaven, we Your ministers as also Your holy people offer to Your supreme majesty of the gifts bestowed upon us, the pure Victim, the all-perfect Victim, the holy Bread of life eternal and the Chalice of perpetual salvation. And this deign to regard with gracious and kindly attention and hold acceptable, as You deigned to accept the offerings of Abel, Your just servant, and the sacrifice of Abraham our patriarch, and that which Your chief priest Melchisadec offered to You, a holy sacrifice and a spotless victim. Most humbly we implore You, Almighty God, bid these offerings be brought by the hands of Your holy angel to Your altar above, before the face of Your divine Majesty, that those of us who by sharing in the Sacrifice of this altar shall receive the most sacred Body and Blood of Your Son, may be filled with every grace and heavenly blessing. remember also O Lord Your servants and handmaids who have gone before us with the sign of faith and rest in the sleep of peace. To these O Lord and to all who rest in Christ, wse beseech You to grant of Your goodness, a place of comfort, light and grace. To us sinners also, Your servants, trusting in the greatness of Your mercy, deign to grant some part and fellowship with Your holy Apostles and Martyrs, with John, Stephen, Matthias, Barnabas, Ignatius, Alexander, Marcellinus, Peter, Felicitas, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucia, Agnes, Cecilia, Anastasia, and all Your saints, into whose company we implore You to admit us, not weighing our merits, but freely granting us pardon. Through Christ our Lord. Through Whom, o Lord, You always create, sanctify, fill with life, bless and bestow upon us all good things. Through Him, and with Him, and in Him, is to You, God the Father Almighty, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

Prompted by the saving precepts and taught by Your divine teaching, we adre to say: Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen. Deliver us, we beseech You, O Lord, from alm evils, past, present and to come, and by the intercession of the blessed and glorious Mary, ever Virgin, Mother of God, together with Your blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and Andrew and all the saints, grant of Your goodness peace in our days, that aided by the riches of Your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all disturbance. Throught the same Jesus Christ Your Son Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen. May the peace of the Lord be always with you. And with your spirit. May this mingling and consecration of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ help us who receive it to life everlasting. Amen.

Lamb of God, You Who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, You Who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, You Who take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

O Lord Jesus Christ Who said to Your apostles: Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you, regard not my sins but the faith of Your Church, and deign to give her peace and unity according to Your will. O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, Who by the will of the Father, with the cooperation of the Holy Spirit, have by Your death given life to the world, deliver me by this Your most sacred Body and Blood from all my sins and from every evil, make me always cling to Your commandments and never permit me to be sepratated from You. Let not the partaking of Your Body, o Lord Jesus Christ, which I, though unworthy, presume to receive, turn to my judgment and condemnation, but through Your goodness, may it become a safeguard and an effective remedy, both of soul and body.

I will take the Bread of heaven and call upon the name of the Lord. Lord, I am not worthy to receive You under my roof, but only say the word and my souls will be healed. May the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve my soul unto life everlasting. Amen. What shall I make to the Lord for all He has given me? I will take the chalice of salvation and I will call upon the name of the Lord. praising will I call upon the Lord and I shall be saved from my enemies. May the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve my soul unto life everlasting. Amen. What has passed our lips as food, O Lord, may we posses in purity of heart, that what is given to us in time be our healing for eternity. May Your Body, o Lord, which I have eaten, and Your Blood which I have drunk, cleave to my very soul, and grant that no trace of sin be found in me, whom these pure and holy mysteries have renewed. The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. Go, the congregation is sent. Thanks be to God. May the tribute be pleasing to You, most holy Trinity, and grant that the sacrifice which I, all unworthy, have offered in the presence of Your Majesty, may be acceptable to You, and through Your mercy obtain forgiveness for me and all for whom I have offered it. May Almighty God bless you: the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Anna is the name of the mother of Mary, the mother of our Lord. Who better to turn to in these perilous times than Mary? When all the signs of the times tell us her Divine Son God's patience is exhausted. Mystical apparitions of the universal mother have been steadily increasing in the age of apostasy. Her words and graces are a comfort to the last of the men and women of desire, a confirmation of Jesus' promise, "I will not leave you orphans...Behold I am with you always." The more Jesus is eclipsed in the age of the scoffer, the more his Church is betrayed from within, the more our mother Mary comes to us the people of desire. "Mother, behold your son! Son, behold your mother!" That's why the Rosary is the most powerful way of connecting with Jesus, for where Mary is behold the Lamb of God! Who honours the One honours the mother, who despises Mary despises the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the most holy Trinity that sent her. The prophet Zachary: "Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered and I will turn my hand to the little ones."

I Am With You Always

Pope St Pius V in his decree Quo Primum stated: "By this or decree, to be valid in perpetuity, we determine and order that never shall anything be added to, omitted from, or changed in this Missal. We specifically warn all persons in authority of whatever dignity or rank, Cardinals not excluded, and command them, that as a matter of strict obedience, never to use or permit any ceremonies of Mass prayers other than the ones contained in this Missal ordered by the Sacred Council of Trent and encompassing all that is necessary to preserve a pure and universally uniform way of worshipping God...At no time in the future can a priest whether secular or order priest, ever be forced to use any other way of saying Mass. And so as to preclude once and for all any scruples of conscience and fear of ecclesiastical penalties and censures we herewith declare that it is in virtue of Apostolic Authority that we decree and detarmine that this our present order and decree is to last in perpetuity and can never be legally revoked or amended at a future date...And if anyone would nevertheless ever dare to attempt any action contrary to this order of ours given for all times let him know that he has incurred the wrath of Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul."