The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-13
Observation-Disclosures.
Monsignor Capeps Definition of the Mysteri-
Gus Doctrine.

MonsignOr Capeps Definition of the Mysteri-
Gus Doctrine.
From Sermon in Washington.
When Jesus was about to part from us He
declared in language which came from Him,
the God of truth, that He would never leave
US; that He would be with us always even
to the very end of time. We were not to be
orphans here upon earth we were to feel
the presence of Him, our Redeemer, who
loved us with the fullest love. 1t is here up
on this altar He exercises His mercy-that
He is to be the dispenser of that wondrous
mercy which He brought from heaven to
earth. He is here as priest according to the
order of Melchisedec. Do this, said He, in
commemoration or remembrance of me and
in making this declaration He imposed upon
His apostles the obligation of perpetuating
His priesthood, according to the order of
Melchisedec.
So then. my brethren, when the priest of
God Almighty will in some three-quarters of
an hour take the bread into his hands and
bless and break, and when he will take that
chalice and repeat after a blessing. those
words of Jesus Christ, then there will be per
formed a wonder the like OF which is not
known on Gods earth. We look with won
der upon the discoveries OF science, we behold
with astonishment the power of electricity or
the transmission of sound; but what are
these wonders of science in comnarison with
that wonder in the presence OF which each
one of us will be awed? Jesus Christ, the
son of God, will exercise the priesthood
which He possesses, and in order to help us
for, as the words come from the lips of the
priest, the omnipotence of God Almighty will
be brought into play, and that which is
bread will by that same power be
changed into the sacred body,
into the sacred blood of Jesus
Christ. There will yet be to eye what there
was before there will yet be to taste what
WI mis-
There will be the form, there will be the
color, there will be the taste of bread as be-
fore, but the omipotence of God Almighty
will have been exercised on the substance of
! that bread, and the substance will become
| the very body of our blessed Lord, will be-
come His blessed blood; and there will be
shown forth on that altar that death which
He endured on Calvary's height.
Brethren, can we'll understand that many
will stand aghast on hearing proposition of
| this kind; l can understand that you who
| assist at the holy sacrifice every Sunday will,
when the truth is put before you, stand in
| its presence with aNe-Elth great respect;
| vet brethren, while awe is upon us, and
| respect is upon us there is the light of faith,
/ which tells us that God in His 0mnipotence
| laid il down as the law that we were to do this
| in remenl berance of Him even to the very
end of time. At the very moment there is
| presented to God on high that pure oblation
| for sin. 1t is at once a true thanksgiving to
| God Almighty for the gFaees and blessings
| that he has bestowed upon US. In that mo-
nent there will ascend from the altar to God
himself that one acs of alteration embodied
| in the person of the second person of the
most holy trinity clothed IN human flesh, and
| who is there as our brother, and will offer to
God Almighty true and pure sacrifice
/ God will look down from on high on US who
are here assembled, and there upon that
altar will see spotless aud stainless sacrifice
| His own Son. presenting once more that suf
| fering which be endured for the sins of men,
/ Then will the eountenanee of God Almighty
t be turned toward us, and the sins of our
daily life, and the wrongs which rise from
earth as a stagnant pool in his sight will be
/ lost in the completeness of that sacrifice
which is, offered by Jesus Christ in this won
droas mode. This is what Christ ful6lls here
| on earth, and,s therefore, verify may we say:
This is indeed the house of Godl