I beseech in the Lord, all my brothers who are priests, now and in the future, and those who desire to be priests of the Most High, that when they celebrate Mass, they be pure and offer purely and with profound reverence the true sacrifice of the Most Holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that they offer it with a holy and sincere intention, and not from worldly motives or out of fear or love of some human being, as though pleasing humans.
But let their will, aided by the grace of God, be directed to him, desiring by means of the Mass to please the Most High God alone, because he alone works in the Mass as it pleases him.
Letter to the Whole Order
Monday, November 27, 2006
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and of the sisters that are nuns? what does he ask of them?
ReplyDeleteGood question, Megan. Francis was actually referring to the Consecration of the Eucharist. At another point he says, " A man stained with sin despises and tramples on the Lamb of God, when, as the apostle says, not discerning the sacred bread, which is Christ, from other food, he eats unworthily by being guilty of unworthy actions...And on account of those priests who will not lay these seriously to heart, we are condemned, when the Lord says, 'I will curse your blessings.'"
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