The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-16
CONWAY
TALKS ON MASS
Explains the Sacrifice to
Large Non Catholic
Audience.

In the mission conducted for non
Catholics at st. Luke's church last
evening, Rev. B. L. Conway spoke to a
large audience Of the Sacrifice Of the
Mass" He said in part:
1.-The mass, according to Catholic doc
trine, is not only a commemoration of
the sacrifice of the cross by which
Christ obtained for US eternal redemp-
ton (Heb. tx, 12), but also a true and
proper sacrifice. It's priest is Jesus
Christ, the priest of the altar merely
acting in His name and with His au-
thOrity; it's victim, Jesus Christ, mere
ly present under the appearance of
bread and wine; it's sacrifice consist
ing in the mystical rite Of conservation.
"All down the course of history sac
r1flce has been the principal act of ex-
ternal worship. Just as man gives gifts
to his fellow man to express external
1y his inner feelings of love and graft
tude, so reason taught men the innate
aptitude Of gifts to God or sacrifices
to manifest our worship Of the giyer Of
every good gift.
Among the Jews, by divine appoint
ment, sacrifices were expressly COM
manded and ordered by God in the
most minute detail of the law Of Moses.
There were sin offerings, peace Of
feringS, holocauSts or burnt offerings
to foreshadow the one great sacrifice
the death of the Son Of God upon the
cross for mans salvation. The epistle
to the Hebrews continually points to
them as types and shadows Of Christ,
who by His own blood entered once
into the holy of holes, having obtained
eternal redemption
1.-The Catholic church declares that
from the very beginning until the Ref
ormation the daily worship of all
Christians conferred in the daily eu-
charistic sacrifice called the mass.
I'm the church of Corinth we see
that mass was offered up. st. Paul, in
warning the early Christians against
taking part in the ido1atrous worship
around them, plainly makes a COMPARE
son between the pagan sacriicial altar
and the altar (table) of the Christians.
He declares further that eating the
flesh of a victim made the pagans
sharers in the sacrif1cial offerings, and
that therefore a Christian who at the
altar of the Lord received Jesus
Christ's body and blood ought not to
eat victims sacrificed to idols. If there
were no eucharistic sacrifice, of which
the Christians partoOk, the argument
of the apostles would be utterly with
out meaning
''St. Paul new well the story of the
last supper, which he records faith
1ul1y WIN 81. Matthew SL. MdIk ana
ST. Luke. Jesus said plainly: This is
My body; this is My blood He
changed the substance of the bread and
wine into the substance of His own
body and blood.
HE set forth mystically the real eff
fusion of His blood, which was to take
place the next day upon the cross.
$50 in the Catholic church alone is
fulfilled the ancient prophecy of Mala-
chi: From the rising Of the sun, even
to the going down, My name is great
! among the Gentiles. and there is of
fered to My name a clean oblatiOn.'
(MaL L., 10-11. For everywhere is set
up the Christian altar. From the first
century, when men were ministering
(going through the liturgy, the Greek
term for mass, to this day. to the Lord
(Acts xii, p in a small portion Of Pal
estine to the twentieth, when the world
is encircled by myriads of gold and sill
yer chalices filled with the blood of the
Redeemer, the sacrifice Of the cross has
been daily perpetuated among the sons
Of men"