1. The Liturgy of the Mass.
Why is daily Mass necessary? To go to heaven we must love God. Christ said; ‘If you love Me, keep My commandments.’ Where do we find all the commandments of Christ that we must know and observe? In Divine Revelation. Is it enough for us to read the Bible, master and obey the commands of Christ as found there? No. We don’t just read the Bible. We learn our religion from the official teaching of the Church as laid down in the Liturgy of the Mass.
2. The order in obeying the commands of Christ.
There are several commands of God the Father in the Old Testament and several commands of God the Son in the New Testament. Both are available in Divine Revelation or the Bible. But to find those commands in the Bible, learn how to obey them and actually obey them is total confusion. And St. Thomas said so. He said that God had intentionally jumble up all the commands of God in the Bible so that nobody can know them, nobody can interpret them correctly and nobody can obey them. In short, We can learn how to love God by obeying His commands through the Liturgy of the daily Mass.
God had, intentionally, jumbled up all the commands in Scriptures to confuse those false preachers who intend to use Christ’s teaching to enrich themselves as all false preachers do. Most of them are millionaires with private jets. God made it in such a way that no false preacher can be a source of salvation. The Liturgy of the Catholic Church, also, describes who our true preachers should be.
3. The proper order in learning and obeying the commands of Christ.
The commands of Christ are all jumbled in total confusion in the four Gospels. Its proper interpretation, given by Christ, Himself, is not found in the Gospels. Though given by Christ to the first Christian community verbally, it was later on written down by the Fathers of the Church. The best experts in Scripture cannot know the proper order in observing the commands of Christ and its proper interpretation. Christ, alone, can teach souls both……in prayer during the Liturgy.
4. The Liturgy is the official school house of Catholic teaching.
The teachings of Christ is presented in the form of commandments and in proper order, from the easiest to the most perfect within the Liturgy of the Mass. The soul must follow this regimen zealously and with haste. Never slacking, never stopping, and never regressing.
To aid the soul to progress to perfection ‘as the Heavenly Father is perfect’ the Liturgy informs the soul the steps; in what step the soul is and the next step the soul must take. So his progress is continuous, keeping in mind the words of St. Thomas; the soul who stops, regresses. So the soul must continue to progress.
The Liturgy shows all the steps from the first, for beginners, to the last, for the perfect. And in proper order. This proper order is not found in the Gospel purposely.
5. For example, during the on going pandemic.
Let us take an example on how the Liturgy works. Two years ago, God was going to chastise the world for its sinfulness. Before He chastised the world, the Liturgy prepared the world with Ash Wednesday. The pandemic was going to be like an angel of death; people will be dying over the entire world. Since this pandemic is a chastisement to remind the world that it has sinned and in danger of going to hell, the Liturgy taught how sins are forgiven according to the New Testament, on Ash Wednesday last year, just before the pandemic.
If the world listened, learned and obeyed the daily Gospel lessons from Ash Wednesday up to Easter, like Nineveh, God would have restrained His hands and not chastised the world. There would have not been a pandemic. The lesson on how to prepare one’s soul to repent to stop the chastisement was taught by the Liturgy in its Sunday and daily Masses from Ash Wednesday up to Easter.
No priest, bishops and not even Pope Francis preached the necessity of the virtue of Penance from Ash Wednesday. So God let His hand fall and the world was chastised with this pandemic. Since the world had not stop sinning and refused to acquire the virtue of Penance (as described by St. Thomas of Aquinas) the pandemic continues. As such, it has no end. It could go worse into another chastisement. Maybe a great earthquake, a super volcano or even a world war.
Though there was Sunday and daily Masses before the pandemic, it seems that no one preached the 50 commands of Christ from Ash Wednesday up to Easter. Because no one knew those commands, how to observe them and how to obey them, which is the work of evangelization as described by Christ in His Apostolic Commission to His apostles. Evidently, no one knew the commands of Christ and the proper order in observing those commands. Not last year and not this year.
These things can be learned in the Liturgy of the Mass. Why did God cancel the Liturgy world wide. There were no Sunday and daily Masses. As Ezechiel wrote; when God sees that people are not interested in saving their souls, God does not send good preachers and teachers. Both preachers and listeners remain totally ignorant of the way to salvation.
A few may really be interested in saving their souls, God, personally intervenes on their behalf. This is extraordinary, but it often happens today.
6. Sunday Mass, alone, cannot perfect the Faith.
To be saved, a soul must have perfect repentance and perfect Faith enlivened with Charity. Faith and Charity is obedience to all the commands of Christ. The commands of Christ is given in each Gospel of the Mass, both during Sundays and daily Masses. So those hearing Mass on Sundays only cannot learn seven commands every week. Ignorance of seven commands, the soul cannot have perfect Faith enlivened with Charity, i.e. he cannot be saved. Having missed the Gospels of the Sunday and daily Masses for the last two years during the pandemic, nobody can know all the commands of Christ. No such person can be saved. And that is you and me.
7. What are you going to do about it?
In your locked down home, study the Liturgy of the Mass with you Daily Missal. Read the Gospel. Look for the correct interpretation from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, short cut, Summa theological, by St. Thomas of Aquinas can combines all the Fathers and doctors of the Church. Then put it into practice.
The pandemic is a test, if you do the above or not. If you do it, there is nothing to worry.