Quote of the Day (Fanny Howe, on Truth and the Mass)

“As it is in the liturgy, so it is in the world: Truth is as fleeting as a sunbeam, and each time you go to Mass you see truth drop in a place it hadn’t before. A word here, a phrase there, and each time a different one is as potent as the little sip of wine at the end. The truth exists, but it surrounds rather than informs people’s acts, which are constructed around evasion and resistance.” —American poet and Catholic convert Fanny Howe, “Footsteps Over Ground,” in A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith, edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler (2012)

Quote of the Day (St. John Fisher, on the Mass as the ‘Spiritual Sun’)

"The Mass is the spiritual sun which rises every day to spread its light and heat to all souls."—St. John Fisher (1469-1535), quoted in R. Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., The Priest in Union with Christ, translated by Rev. G. W. Shelton, S.T.L. (1954)

(Image of Fisher from the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger)