Sean Conley’s Reviews > Meeting Christ in the Sacraments > Status Update

“The Church is incurably romantic about marriage. Her belief in the essential goodness of the married state and the happiness and fulfillment that are to be found in it has not been shaken by the saddening experience of years or by the confidences she has received from those who have discovered only disillusion and embitterment in the inspected burdens of married life.”🥹

A lot of stuff on Holy Mass. Most went over my head. But basically, make Holy Mass the high point of your week, because it already is. You can acknowledge it or fail to acknowledge it, but it’s more beautiful and better for you if you acknowledge it. If you’re able to go daily, make your Morning Offering in the morning, and complete it by offering your whole life to God through Christ in the Holy Mass.

He’s on the Eucharist now👀

I’m coming to learn that most of the Latin Rite is heavily influenced by Thomism. So this book doesn’t shock you with the conclusions it arrives at. But the subtlety of how it arrives at the conclusions is what’s interesting. So much is going over my head but not nearly as much as if I were reading Love and Responsibility.

A lot about grace. Moral of the story, grace is a gift and you should accept it because its good for you. But you can say no to it. But don't say no to it! God is giving it to you in so many ways. Even when you don't realize it, grace is working on you, making you more like Christ. Even when you don't feel like it, its working, He is working.

A lot of this goes way over my head. But Christ is present in His written Word and in His spoken Word through the liturgy of the Church and physically present in the sacraments. It is He who baptizes, confirms, gives Himself in the Eucharist, binds in marriage, anoints in sickness, consecrates priests, and forgives sins. If I don’t understand anything else from this book it would be enough!