Spirituality: Oscar Romero, The Goal of One Mass

One day, there will be no more Masses,
    no more need of temporal priests, 

    because all of us, 

        through the labors of priests, of bishops, 

        of catechists, of lay ministers of the word, 

        of all God’s priestly people, 

will have achieved humanity’s incorporation into Christ, 

and Christ will be the one priest, 

        formed in his historical and eternal fullness by all of us 

        who in the course of history have made with him 

                one sole priesthood, 

                one sole offertory, 

                one sole Mass 

                        that will last eternally to sing God’s glory. 

This is the destiny, the objective for which we priests work in history. 

There, my brother priests, 

    in everlasting glory along with all of our people, 

    our people glorified, 

    we shall feel the boundless satisfaction of having worked with Christ to make humanity God’s living temple, the living image of God’s Spirit in eternity. 

DECEMBER 10, 1977