The Importance of DAILY MASS


     Pope Saint Pius X foresaw the days in which we now live. With the wisdom of one who understood the consequences of sin, he foresaw the present condition of the world which defies God by its infidelity, its sacrileges and its blasphemies. He, like Saint John Bosco before him, even foresaw the future condition of the Church in our day, invaded by Modernists and besieged by Marxists—years before the Blessed Mother warned that, "Russia will spread her errors throughout the world." In his first encyclical (E Supremi of October 4, 1903), Pope Pius even acknowledged being "terrified" to become the Pope at that time because he saw world developments as presaging the coming of the Antichrist. Yet, he well knew of the ultimate triumph of Christ and what the Blessed Virgin would predict as the triumph of her Immaculate Heart.

The Saintly Pontiff prescribed the remedies for the evils of the day, and chief among those remedies was the frequent reception of Our Lord in Holy Communion. Saint Pius X saw the need of the young people for access to the Blessed Sacrament to draw and hold their love and loyalty to Him against the world's unrelenting effort to beguile and corrupt them. He urged that the priests of the Church make it possible for the children to receive Holy Communion often, even daily, if possible. That meant that he wanted the children to have access to daily Mass, since that is the primary means through which Our Lord's sacramental Presence is offered to them.

The priests of the Society of Saint Pius V hearken to the voice of Saint Pius X in doing all they can to provide young and old alike access to Our Lord in Holy Communion every day in His Holy Sacrifice, the Mass. We realize that not everyone will appreciate—some might even resent—the time and effort devoted to the daily Mass and, in their opinions, taken away from more important occupations such as study, recreation, sports training and physical exercise, etc. But our priests also understand the mind of the Church, and the needs of the human race right now. We understand the importance of every little child, every teenager, every young and older adult who makes an act of love for Our Lord in receiving Him devoutly each day and every day. Certainly there will be those who do not love Him and do not place any value on honoring Him and receiving Him in Holy Communion. Some will no doubt resent giving their time and effort to their Creator and Redeemer. And others might even encourage their lack of appreciation for the Mass by sympathizing with them. But for every one such person there are others who love Our Lord and happily join their hearts with His Own during the Mass and who lovingly receive Him at every opportunity. It is such daily acts of love by “the little ones” which please God so much that He tolerates the sins of so many others. Each and every Holy Communion devoutly and lovingly received each and every day by each and every one of those children of God is another plea for Divine mercy for the world. “Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven!”