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Is there any prayer that is equivalent to the Holy Mass? The Holy Mass surpasses all other prayers in terms of their importance; in fact no other action of the Church can match its efficacy to the same title and degree. The Mass is the most precious gift the Church could possess as it makes its journey through history. The Mass contains all the spiritual riches of the Church because it makes all the members into one body in Christ. Why does the Eucharist surpass all the other sacraments? The Sacrament of the Eucharist is “a more consoling source of devotion, a lovelier object of contemplation and holier in what in contains than all the other sacraments; for it contains Christ himself and it is a kind of consummation of the spiritual life and in a sense the goal of all the sacraments” (PAUL VI, Mysterium fidei, 38). In order to understand more fully why the Eucharist surpasses all the others Sacraments and all the other prayers it is appropriate to look more deeply at the various elements that constitute the Holy Mass. This is what we will do next. 74