A Method of Hearing Mass by Way of Meditation.
Before The Service Begins, While Waiting For The Priest To Come In
call to mind the Last Supper, in which Christ instituted the sacrifice of the Mass, and gave Himself to us all to be our food. Oughtest thou not to acknowledge and give Him thanks for this excess of love?
Affections.
Jesus, “having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them unto the end.”—John xiii. 1.
“For Thou hast prepared a table before me, against them that afflict me.”—Ps. xxii. 5.
“I will sacrifice to Thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.”—Ps. cxv. 17.
When The Priest Is Descending From The Altar Before Commencing The Mass,
consider Christ after the Last Supper going from Mount Sion, where the Supper had been held, to the Garden of Gethsemani. “And His disciples also followed Him.”—Luke xxii. 39. And wilt thou forsake thy God in the time of temptation and trial?
Affections.