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The Importance of the Eucharistby Pope Benedict XVI "The Sunday obligation for all the faithful (is) a well-spring of authentic freedom enabling them to live each day in accordance with what they celebrated on 'the Lord's Day.' The life of faith is endangered when we lose the desire to share in the celebration of the Eucharist and its commeration of the paschal victory. Participating in the Sunday liturgical assembly with all our brothers and sisters, with whom we form one body in Jesus Christ, is demanded by our Christian conscience and at the same time it forms that conscience. To lose a sense of Sunday as the Lord's Day, a day to be sanctified, is symptomatic of the loss of an authentic sense of Christian freedom, the freedom of the children of God...we need to remember that it is Sunday itself that is meant to be kept holy, lest it end up as a day 'empty of God.'"
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The Importance of Prayerby Blessed Columba Marmion
"Now prayer - the life of prayer - maintains, stimulates, quickens and perfects those feelings of faith, humility, trust, and love which together constitute the best predisposition of the soul to receive an abundance of divine grace. A soul to whom prayer is a familiar thing profits more from the sacraments and other means of salvation than does another in whom prayer, intermittent prayer, is disconnected and without vigor. A soul that is not faithfully devoted to prayer can recite the Divine Office, assist at Holy Mass, receive the sacraments, hear the word of God, but its progress will often be mediocre. Why is that? Because the principal author of our perfection and of our holiness is God himself, and prayer keeps the soul in frequent contact with God; it establishes, and having established keeps going, a fire-hearth in the soul, as it were - one where, even if it is not in action all the time, love's fire is all the time smoldering, at least. And as soon as that soul is put into direct communication with the Divine life (for instance in the sacraments) this is like a strong breath of air that sets the soul ablaze, stirs it up, fills it with a marvelous superabundance. A soul's supernatural life is measured by its union with God through Christ in faith and love. This love has to produce acts: but those acts, if they are to be produced in a regular and intense way, require a life of prayer. It can be established that so far as its ordinary paths are concerned, progression forward in our love of God depends in practice on our life of prayer."
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