 Quick note that today is also the feast of St. Bonaventure, the great Franciscan bishop, theologian, doctor of the church known as the seraphic doctor, much beloved by all who knew him. St. Bonaventure once said, the mass is a compendium of all of God's love, of all of his benefits to men, and each mass bestows on the world a benefit no less than what was conferred on it by the incarnation. Powerful words.