God the things that are God's, that you perform your religious duties.
2. Among the first and foremost of these duties, I place attendance at divine service on Sundays and holydays, and the suitable observance of these days in a religious spirit. Therefore assist, whenever you possibly can, at Holy Mass on all Sundays and holydays. For there is nothing in the world more pleasing to God than the sacrifice of the altar. We do not pray alone in Holy Mass, but Jesus Himself pleads in our behalf and prays with us. He offers to His heavenly Father all that He did and suffered His whole life long in order to honor and glorify Him; His obedience, His charity, His humility, and so on. He offers there His body which was crucified, His blood which was shed for our salvation; in a word, He now offers for us the identical sacrifice which He once offered for us upon the cross.
3. For nineteen hundred years have men journeyed to the Holy Land, in order to gaze, once at least in a lifetime, upon the hallowed spot where the sacred Victim was slain, in order to behold the Mount of Calvary where the precious blood of the incarnate Word was shed, where our Blessed Redeemer, Jesus Christ, deigned to die for our sins. Now to assist at Holy Mass means in a way to visit the place where Our Lord was crucified, to ascend Mount Calvary in company
