Christ is the Center of the Mass

and our Catholic Faith

The center of our Catholic Faith is Christ and the Eucharist. The Eucharist is Christ — Christ is the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the core — the axis of the Mass, from the offering of the host and the chalice, to the solemn consecration and the physical consumption. Christ is the axis around which the Mass revolves and the Mass itself is the axis on which the whole church revolves.

    Christ is life on earth — from His Mystical Body created when He was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary to His public ministry — His teachings which he handed down in one magnificent, generous thrust to all the ages. He is the Head and we are the members — this Church of His and ours, in blessed togetherness, leads straight up to Calvary. There it remains, revolving around and around the Cross in a never ending circle that spirals upwards — upwards towards heaven.

    It is through Christ and the Eucharist, that the receiving into our bodies of His Flesh and Blood, that we nourish and keep alive the Spirit of life and grace in our souls. Without this life of the spirit we would lack the strength needed to struggle (and, it is a struggle, sometimes grueling and never ending) forward and upwards towards our eternal destination. Without this nourishment the going would be rugged indeed. Without it the soul would grow faint and limp and would languish and die of starvation.