Mass Communication

By Father Paul Nicholson —— Bio and Archives February 12, 2014

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After driving all day through what can only be called historic glaciers and icebergs of southern Ontario, and Michigan, I was struck by a science-fiction-looking-thing against the arctic landscape.

Rising up out of a farmers field was a huge cell phone tower. It struck me, I must say … I did not strick it 😊 but I caught a glimpse of cross in its steel and bolt. I don't go looking for insights, sometimes they just hit me … especially in the cloistered cell of my Toyota. Often my car is my place to pray, since I spend so much in my Carthusian Corolla! The Cross in the cell tower caused me to consider the sheer brilliance of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Long before the advent of the radio, or the television or even more currently, the cell phone and data roaming … Our Blessed Lord gave lavishly to His Holy Church the most perfect form of 'Mass communication'. Every Mass offered by a validly ordained Catholic priest is the one Sacrifice of Calvary made present to a particular time, and people. Just like the cell tower transmits a signal, and allows for an unimaginable amount of communication between people from distant lands to seem so close, the Holy Mass is the transmission of the one Sacrifice of Calvary, granting to us the grace of being there, when the God-Man offers Himself us to the Eternal Father as the Great Redeemer … the Heart of Christ is opened for us in the Mass, allowing us to be like fresh arterial blood to be united and purified and sent back out to the world. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is so perfect, that It eliminates space, and overcomes the complexity of time. The past, the present the future are all one in the Divine Oblation. More...