Pope Paul VI Quotes

You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, other than maybe marriage and child-bearing, would be the Orthodox Liturgy.

Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.

The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

You happy beast, never forced to patter prayers nor dragged to Holy Mass.

It is the Mass that matters.

I pray the breviary every morning. I like to pray with the psalms. Then, later, I celebrate Mass. I pray the Rosary. What I really prefer is adoration in the evening, even when I get distracted and think of other things, or even fall asleep praying. In the evening then, between seven and eight o'clock, I stay in front of the Blessed Sacrament for an hour in adoration. But I pray mentally even when I am waiting at the dentist or at other times of the day.

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.

If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?

I am a Catholic.

I leave to the men of God the things that pertain to the service of God.

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

As a Catholic, I find mindfulness helps me participate in my religion more wholeheartedly. If you are praying the rosary, participating in the rituals at Mass, or listening to the priest preach, you will actually be paying attention! Whatever your religion is, it can enhance the experience of participating in that religion.

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

I go to a small Catholic school where we have mass every week and say a prayer every morning, but we also are in Los Angeles, where people are so progressive and open.

As a practising Anglican I go to church on a Sunday.

Believe it or not, I say my prayers in the morning and in the evening.