Our Lady's Tears: Mass as a Sacrifice

Friday, December 7, 2007

Mass as a Sacrifice

(photo credit - Cathcon)

It behooves us all to think on all the things that happen at EVERY mass that we cannot see. Picture the sacrifice that our Lord makes for you. Picture the angels who gaze with amazement at every consecration. Think of the poor souls who cry out with joy as the drops of Christ's blood fall upon them from the altar of your church.

1 comment:

Kristin said...: I really love that picture. It reminds me of something I read awhile ago that a friend gave me, it was a whole packet that went into extreme detail about what goes on at every part of the Mass, and it talked about how the water from the side of Christ relieves the suffering of the souls in Purgatory, and how everybody's guardian angel is present, and things like that. Of course I'm not doing it justice, but I promise it was really beautiful. :); 12/10/2007 08:53:00 PM

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St. Winifred

Also St. Gwenfrewy or Winefride, she was the daughter of a Welsh nobleman, Tyfid ap Eiludd. Her suitor, Caradog, was enraged when she decided to become a nun, and decapitated her. Her head rolled downhill, and, where it stopped, a healing spring appeared. Winefride's head was subsequently rejoined to her body due to the efforts of her maternal uncle, Saint Beuno, and she was restored to life. She later became a nun and abbess at Gwytherin in Denbighshire, and Caradog, cursed by St. Beuno, melted into the ground. She died 660.