Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no oneโฆ.
Pope John Paul IIEvery Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us into intimate communion with her, the mother, whose sacrifice 'becomes present' just as the sacrifice of her Son 'becomes present' at the words of consecration..... At the root of the Eucharist is the virginal and maternal life of Mary
Pope John Paul IINobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.
Pope John Paul II