A First Friday Meditation

The Sacred Heart and the Mass

“We believe that all who worthily receive Communion — not only the ministers at the altar, but also the faithful — participate in the Sacrifice of Jesus. Because of this participation, and with the help of the gift of piety, we should experience, in a divine, deep, and efficacious manner, the sentiments Jesus had in His Heart when He offered the Sacrifice of the Cenacle and the Sacrifice of Calvary. We should desire to unite our sufferings with the sufferings of Jesus, and to offer them together with His; to carry within our hearts an echo of the desire, immense and divine, that Jesus had within Him when He offered Himself as a Victim for the sins of the world.”

- From The Sanctifier, by Archbishop Luis M. Martinez