The Beauty Of The Mass Quotes

“Let them produce the original records of their churches; let them unfold the roll of their bishops, running down in due succession from the beginning in such a manner that [that first bishop of theirs ] bishop shall be able to show for his ordainer and predecessor some one of the apostles or of apostolic men, — a man, moreover, who continued steadfast with the apostles. For this is the manner in which the apostolic churches transmit their registers: as the church of Smyrna, which records that Polycarp was placed therein by John; as also the church of Rome, which makes Clement to have been ordained in like manner by Peter. In exactly the same way the other churches likewise exhibit (their several worthies), whom, as having been appointed to their episcopal places by apostles, they regard as transmitters of the apostolic seed. Let the heretics contrive something of the same kind.” ​— ​(The Prescription Against Heretics, Chapter 32)”
― Charles S. Johnston, The Beauty Of The Mass: Exploring The Central Act Of Catholic Worship

“It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.”
― Charles S. Johnston, The Beauty Of The Mass: Exploring The Central Act Of Catholic Worship

“Just like Irenaeus appealed to Apostolic Succession to prove a Church teaching, later theologians would do the same throughout the centuries. The fact that some modern theologians are teaching doctrines that would’ve been foreign to the Apostles is enough to disregard them and stick to the Deposit of Faith. This appealing to the early Church is one of the things that most firmly set me on my path towards Catholicism, because when you read the early Church Fathers you can only come away with one conclusion; they were all Catholic.”
― Charles S. Johnston, The Beauty Of The Mass: Exploring The Central Act Of Catholic Worship

“If you break each main group down it gets even more splintered, just in Protestantism alone there are said to be over 35,000 different denominations, the majority of which are not in communion with each other and are sometimes openly hostile to each other.”
― Charles S. Johnston, The Beauty Of The Mass: Exploring The Central Act Of Catholic Worship