The Master is here; He is calling you!

The celebration of the Eucharist, the Mass, must be the center of our life. As the old wish goes, “Lord, help me make the Mass, not just a part, but the heart of my day.” Dominic Tang, the Chinese Archbishop was imprisoned for twenty-one years for nothing more than his loyalty to Christ, and his one, true Church. After five years of solitary confinement, in a windowless damp cell, his jailers came to tell him he could leave it for a few hours, to do whatever he wanted. What would it be? A hot shower? A change of clothes? Certainly, a walk outside? A chance to call or write to family? “What will it be?” asked the jailer. “I would like to say Mass,” replied Archbishop Tang.

~ Card. Timothy Dolan: Priests for the Third Millennium, p.240