“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” C.S. Lewis
“If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain.” 1 Corinthians 15:13-14
If Jesus wasn’t raised from death, everything we believe and profess is garbage. But, if the resurrection is a true, historic fact, there is nothing of more importance.
Many Christian Catholics want to walk the middle ground – “I believe is Jesus but, it’s ok I don’t pray or read the Bible, it’s ok that I missed Mass for this or that.” There is no middle ground. There can be no ‘cafeteria Catholic’. Either it’s all a lie or it is absolute fact.
If Jesus is Who He says He is, everything He taught and said is critical to all souls. Since we know He is exactly Whom He claims to be, we won’t even consider the flip side.
Jesus is God, He came to show us the Father and give us His Holy Spirit. Jesus dies and was raised from the dead on the third day. That is a fact.
That makes the Mass and Holy Eucharist more important than anything else in the world, including food or our discomforts. Jesus was very clear on how important receiving His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity is in the Eucharist. “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.” John 5:53-56. So much is this truth important to Him (and us), that one of the last things Jesus did was give us the Mass and Eucharist at the last supper.
Don’t let anything get between you and salvation through the Eucharist. Surrender all the world’s distractions for just a moment with Jesus in the Mass. Make the Eucharist infinitely important in your life.