Three reasons I attend Mass every Sunday

1. To honor, glorify, and give thanks to God

Psalm 150:6 "Let everything that has breath give praise to the Lord! Hallelujah!"

Exodus 20:8 "Remember to keep holy the Sabbath."

Matthew 22:37-38 "You shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the greatest and the first commandment."

2. To be reminded of Christ's sacrifice on the cross for my sins, offer a penitent heart, and to become one with Him through Holy Communion

Isaiah 53:4-5 "Yet it was our infirmities that He bore, our sufferings that He endured...But He was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins."

Luke 18:13 "O God be merciful to me a sinner."

John 6:34 "Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life and I will raise him on the last day."

3. To go forth after Mass renewed in my faith and zeal, proclaiming the Good News by my actions, attitude and words toward my neighbors

Mark 16:15 "Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel."

Romans 12:11 "Do not grow slack in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord." 

1 Corinthians 16:13-13 "Be on your guard, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Your every act should be done with love."

Biblical Consequences of Our Life's Work

Faith, Works, Consequences

Matthew 5:48 “So be perfect just as your Heavenly Father is perfect.”

Matthew 6:15 “But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.”

Matthew 7:2 “For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.”

Matthew 7:13-14, 21 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few. Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in Heaven.”

Matthew 12:36-37 “I tell you, on the day of judgment, people will render an account for every careless word they speak. By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Matthew 15:8 “This people honors Me with their lips but their hearts are far from Me.”

Matthew 16:27 “For the Son of Man will come with His angels in His Father’s glory, and then He will repay everyone according to his conduct.”

Matthew 19:30 “But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”

John 5:29 “…all who are in the tombs will hear His voice and come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of the condemnation.” 

John 14:15 “If you love Me you will keep My commandments.”

Romans 2:6-8 “God will repay everyone according to His works: eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness.”

Romans 2:16 “…God will judge people’s hidden works through Christ Jesus.”

Romans 14:10, 12 “For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God…. Every one of us will have to give an account of himself before God.”

1 Corinthians 3:13-15 “…the work of each will come to light, for the Day will disclose it. It will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. If the work stands, that someone will receive a wage. But if someone’s work is burned up, that one will suffer loss; the person will be saved, but only as through fire.” 

2 Corinthians 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that one may receive the recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil.”

Galatians 6:7 "A man will reap only what he sows."

Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them.”

Titus 1:16 “They claim to know God but by their deeds they deny Him.”

Hebrews 10:36 "You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised."

James 1:26 “For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.”

James 3:13 “Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show his works by a good life in the humility that comes from wisdom.”

1 Peter 1:16 “Be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct, for it is written,  ‘be holy because I am holy.’”

2 John 6 “For this is love, that we walk according to His commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, in which you should walk.”

Revelation 14:13  “I heard a voice from Heaven say. ‘Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.  Let them find rest from their labors for their works accompany them.’”

Revelation 21:27 “But nothing unclean will enter it…(the new Jerusalem Heaven).”