Through this Church are applied the glorious fruits of the redemption.  Through this Church God would sanctify all mankind and lead them to eternal salvation.  The Church and the communion of the saints reveal to us God’s glory and love far more than all the wonders of the world.  A single saint is a greater miracle of the divine grace than the whole universe.  The redemption made of earth a preparatory school for heaven, and it behooves us, as St. Augustine says, in this life to give praise to God, because in heaven our work will be an eternal proclamation of the divine praises.  Our whole earthly life, as a befitting preparation for heaven, should be an imitation of the life of the blessed in heaven.  It ought to be a perpetual praise of God, until after a happy death we are admitted to the ranks of the celestial choirs.

II.  Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, who has brought to us the true knowledge of God, taught us also the true worship of God.  After He had accomplished the work of the redemption and had founded the Church, He returned to heaven.  Before this, however, He provided that He should also remain here upon earth.  He instituted the most Holy Eucharist, the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and thus remains in His Church until the end of time.  Jesus, the Head of the Church, offers Himself to the Father unceasingly in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass.  Thus the glorification of God takes place here upon earth as unceasingly as it does in heaven.  The praise of God takes place here on earth, furthermore, through the’ ecclesiastical hourly prayer, in which all the priests and religious of the Church unite throughout the world.  The Church dedicates the Sunday exclusively to the praise and service of God.  This day is to remind us of the creation accomplished by the Father, of the redemption accomplished by the Son, and of the sanctification accomplished by the Holy Ghost.  On this day especially are the members of the Church invited to contemplate these great works of God, and praise and thank Him for the same.

The entire year has been divided by the Church into three great festival cycles, Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost, and thus is consecrated to the Triune God.

We are exhorted to receive the holy Sacraments, and thus participate in the fruits of the redemption, sanctifying ourselves by a Christian life.  A truly Christian life is the best and highest worship of God here below, as it makes us worthy to be associated with the heavenly choirs, there to continue eternally our praises in the blissful vision of God.

We see then how the Church admonishes us to make our whole lives and all our works an unending “Glory be to God.”  In order that this may be accomplished we must above all things be faithful children and living members of the Church, brethren of Jesus Christ.