Transitus Oblates are encouraged to daily assist at the Divine Liturgy (the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass), which is the heart of liturgical worship and the source, center, and summit of the Christian Life, though the minimum of Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation are all that is required.
Oblates, who for whatever reason cannot assist at Mass, are obliged to celebrate the liturgical day: to know the feast and saint of the day, to read the daily Scripture readings with their corresponding prayers, meditations, and lessons, and to make a formal act of spiritual communion. Thus Oblates will “live in such a manner as to be able to receive Holy Communion every day.” – St. Augustine
The faith of St. Francis, who often said, “I see nothing bodily of the Most High Son of God in this world except His most holy Body and Blood,” should be the inspiration and pattern of our life of oblation and spiritual martyrdom. Eucharistic worship--the Sacrament of Love--constitutes the soul of all Christian life, and becomes of itself the school of active love. “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Oblates are encouraged to assist at the most sacred, orthodox, and dignified Catholic liturgy available to them, preferably the Traditional Latin Mass [“Extraordinary Form” of the Roman Rite]--“the most beautiful thing this side of heaven"--according to the 1962 Roman Missal. Oblates should avoid all liturgies that are not in true and proper accordance to the rubrics and spirit of the Sacred Liturgy in light of the Church’s immemorial Tradition, especially those with deficient texts, translations, or improvisations, questionable validity, heterodox teaching, secular music, immodest dress, irreverent behavior, etc. so as not to endanger one’s soul or to commit an offense against the Almighty God.
