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In Westminster Cathedral, and in every Catholic church, the Sacrifice of Calvary is re-presented for our salvation at the Mass

Those who cannot be bothered to go to Mass are guilty of more than just laziness, in God's sight. They are like those friends of Jesus who deserted Him during His Passion. And so it is, when His friends cannot be bothered to attend and pray at the Holy Sacrifice.

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

Jesus is Present with us at Mass, praying to the Father on our behalf, for help in our needs, and for eternal salvation. We can unite all our prayers with his great sacrificial prayer

The Lord does not want us to do penance all the time, and become miserable, or proud of our self-sacrifice. There's a time for penance and rigour, and a time for a good rest, with a cup of hot chocolate, and a biscuit - in the Lord's company, at peace.

God receives the greatest honour when the priest's supreme desire at Mass is to give glory to Him through a reverent offering of the Holy Sacrifice. A good priest also wishes to edify the congregation, but he recognises that the Mass is God's act: infinitely powerful and effective no matter how well or badly the participants prepare and take part.

Through the one Sacrifice of Christ, re-presented at every Mass, we are united with the Heavenly Court and the souls of Purgatory

In a picture of the Court of Heaven, where God the Father reigns in glory, Our Blessed Lady is placed on the steps which lead to the Father's throne. There, she is honoured, as Christ offers His Eternal Sacrifice to the Father, in the Spirit, and also honours the Saints.

The Godhead is so holy and ineffable and glorious. The glory of the Godhead is like shards of glass or ice: piercing, powerful, and even painful for those unaccustomed to the light; and we can only enter it with and through Jesus Christ our Saviour and Mediator.

When people accept God's call, and approach Him, some halt soon afterwards, being afraid that He will ask them to do uncongenial tasks, or make sacrifices they don't want to make. They do not really open their hearts to Him in prayer, for the same reason, and picture the Godhead as a massive fortress or walled city, with an open door they do not want to enter. They do not discover, therefore, all the joys and delights found inside by God's friends.

At every celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Christ is Really Present, praying for sinners, gazing towards the Father, just as when Christ once prayed from the Cross. His one prayer is eternal. His one sacrifice is re-presented, Sacramentally, at Mass, in every place and era.

Ever since the time when Christ offered His life for sinners, on Calvary, and prayed for us to be forgiven, that same Sacrifice and sacrificial prayer have been offered by Christ for sinners: in a sacramental manner, all over the world, century by century, at every celebration of the Mass.

We are right to unite ourselves with Christ's self-offering in the Mass, but we give God the Father further glory if we pause in private prayer, throughout the day, to renew our self-offering. In that way we honour God and draw grace upon ourselves and the Church, and we can be certain that Christ is with us at every step of the way.

Christ's Precious Blood once poured from His Body on the Cross; and that Sacrifice is re-presented in the Mass today, in a sacramental manner, as we pray for our sins to be forgiven.