Mass Quotes

“The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.”
― St. Francis of Assisi

“Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.”
― Deepak Chopra

“Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour.”
― Pope Benedict XVI

“Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares?”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to find faith.”
― Nicholas Stacey

“Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round".”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bears, which, like the fiery dragons of old, seemed to cherish unconquerable hostility to the Holy Church. ("The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo").”
― Bret Harte

“I do not in general have the impression that sexual abstinence helps produce energetic, independent men of action or original thinkers, bold liberators and reformers. Far more often it produces well-behaved weaklings who later merge into the great mass of those who habitually, if reluctantly, follow the lead given by strong individuals.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“But the mass itself had been so boring that even her fantasies of rescuing Jesus and giving him a tender, thorough sponge bath couldn't keep her awake.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“It was difficult to imagine that a full day hadn't yet passed since we boarded the airliner in New York. I paused. Medieval man believed that one was placed beyond the touch of time, and therefore aging, while attending Mass. What, I wondered, would he have made of those hours we left up in the sky? I would not change my watch until I gave the matter more thought.”
― Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

“Del gesto de revestirse se pone de manifiesto el acontecimiento interior y la tarea que de él deriva: revestirse de Cristo, entregarse a él como Él se entregó a nosotros.”
― Benedicto XVI

“Much of the power of the words is held in the act of saying or hearing them. Whatever meaning they carry is secondary. That is not to say that these things are done by rote in Mass—rather, it’s more of an incantation.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“To try to understand the words, first and foremost, is a fool’s errand. That’s why everyone thinks Christian fundamentalists, or really any kind of religious fundamentalists, are wackjobs or idiots or both. What most Catholics understand, it seems intuitively, or perhaps because they were baptized as babies and already put on their path without much of a say, is that they are supposed to behave like actors; it’s about learning the lines, the cues, then feeling them, there in the church and also out in the world. That’s it. That’s how Christianity is supposed to work; it is based on feeling, not knowledge. That’s what it means to be a follower.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“There’s nothing wrong with a celebration. The Eucharist is a celebration. And it’s a look back. We look back to Jesus’ Mass to help us look forward to heaven.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Dear Alessio, yes, I was an altar boy. And you? What part among the altar boys do you have? It’s easier to do now, you know: You might know that, when I was a kid, Mass was celebrated different than today. Back then, the priest faced the altar, which was next to the wall, and not the people. Then the book with which he said the Mass, the missal, was placed on the right side of the altar. But before reading of the Gospel it always had to be moved to the left side. That was my job: to carry it from right to left. It was exhausting! The book was heavy! I picked it up with all my energy but I wasn’t so strong; I picked it up once and fell down, so the priest had to help me. Some job I did! The Mass wasn’t in Italian then. The priest spoke but I didn’t understand anything. and neither did my friends. So for fun we’d do imitations of the priest, messing up the words a bit to make up weird sayings in Spanish. We had fun, and we really enjoyed serving Mass.”
― Pope Francis, Dear Pope Francis: The Pope Answers Letters from Children Around the World

“Light has no mass and takes up no space. A black hole singularity is not that from which light cannot escape. A black hole singularity is light. It is that from which mass cannot escape. All material mass has been converted into light, hence is now massless. The only way you can fit mass into a Singularity is by converting it into massless light.”
― Jack Tanner, The Dimitri Revolution: How DMT Changed Humanity

“All mass extinctions are preceded by environmental changes.”
― Steven Magee

“When you analyze mass shootings, you generally find root cause analysis points to the government.”
― Steven Magee

“A gluten based diet for the masses was born out of the Industrial Revolution’s development of cheap mass produced factory foods with long shelf lives.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Hospitals and doctors are getting rich off a sickened mass population.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Mass is self celebrating itself as self differentiated for companionship.”
― Wald Wassermann

“The origin of mass is self not wanting to be by itself.”
― Wald Wassermann

“Climate changed hurricanes are the new mass murderers.”
― Steven Magee

“The Lorentz transformations, with their absolute condition c (the speed of light, with light being massless, maximally length-contracted and time-dilated) show that the “physical” universe of matter, space and time actually exists within an Absolute Singularity of light.”
― Dr. Thomas Stark, Ontological Mathematics Versus Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

“Climate change will result in mass migrations of humans out of areas that can no longer sustain life and into naturally abundant areas.”
― Steven Magee

“Mail boxes were a mass casualty event in hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Fitness is not just about weight or mass but strength, endurance, and flexibility.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“Bells and incense!” scoffs the Puritan, but God gave people ears and noses. Are those organs of perception too humble to bring into church?”
― Dana Gioia, The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays