........It goes on to ask the question "how was it that the Gospel was so marvelously propagated in the days of St. Peter and the early Christians" Here is the surprising but perfectly satisfying answer:

"Because the Mother of God was still on earth, giving her precious aid in all the Masses celebrated by the Church. Think of the blinding sanctity in her who, as St. Thomas wrote, "borders on the Infinite". How the Masses celebrated while she was still on earth, and in which she, the Co-redemptrix, would be Co-offerer and Co-victim, must have cried to God!

You are a child of Mary, You must prove it by giving each priest who lifts a paten a whiter host, and pour ever richer wine and purer water into his golden cup. You can do that by your every joy and every sorrow, by every disappointment and every triumph , by every thought, deed and desire of your day - every day!"

Isn't that beautiful!!  Fr. Raymond OSCO