Throughout the Christian ages, during times of critical attention and public need, the Church has celebrated the Eucharist so that this Supreme Prayer of Jesus Christ to His Father will carry our anxieties before the Divine Throne and serve to alleviate our fears.  Our basic belief in the celebration of the Mass includes our firm conviction that Christ gave us this sacrament to ensure us a share in everlasting life and to forgive sin.  In all the historic events of the last two thousand years, Christians have united their prayer to the Savior's so that our frail and frightened selves might be given peace and tranquility -- a peace and tranquility, as Jesus said, that the world does not give us.