John Paul II and The Holy Mass

John Paul II and
The Holy Mass

First Holy Mass as a Pope

The Celebration of of the Holy Mass has been the center feature of all activities of John Paul II, either in the Vatican or in any of his trips.

His hundreds of Holy Masses have been often attended by hundreds of thousands of people, up to two million in Poland.

His last Encyclical is on the Eucharist, and one of his best, don't miss it!:

Ecclesia de Eucharistia (17 April 2003)
[English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

The Eucharist-The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

    The Holy Mass is a little like Psalm 22:
   The first 22 verses is Jesus crucified, with 13 prophecies fulfilled to the letter in Jesus at Calvary... but all of a sudden, in verse 23 (or 22 in other Bibles), the crucified appears in the midst of the assembly praising the name of God, until the end of the Psalm...
    ... The Mass is something similar: Up to the Communion it is Jesus sacrificed, with his blood separated from his flesh, but all of a sudden, in the Communion, the same Jesus sacrificed is now alive in the heart of every Christian who received him, alleluia!... and that's why John Paul II refers usually to it as "the celebration", praise the Lord!, always with thanksgiving for being my prisoner of Love.