Holy Thursday Prayer to Appreciate the Mass

O Lord Jesus,

in order that the merits of your sacrifice

on the Cross

might be applied to every soul of all time,

you willed that it should be renewed

upon the altar.

At the Last Supper, you said:

"Do this in remembrance of me."

By these words

you gave your apostles and their successors

the power to consecrate

and to the command to do what you yourself did.

I believe that the Mass is

both a sacrifice and a memorial-

reenacting your passion, death and resurrection.

Help me to realize that the Mass

is the greatest gift of God to us

and our greatest gift to God.