The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-26
SACRIFICE OF MASS
SUBJECT OF LECTURE BY FATHER
 HEALY.
Paulist Priest Delivers Able Lecture On Catholic Doctrine To Interested Congregation At The
 Cathedral,

Mobile, Feb 22-(SpeciaD-The lect-
 ure by the Paulist fathers at the Cath edral tonight was in line with that of Sunday night, the subject being the | Sacrifice of the Mass" Father Healy | said in part:
 Throughout the Old Testament sacri- l flee is set before us as the divinely ap- pointed means by which man shall wor- ship God We all know, of course, that
 the sacrifices of the old law derived
 their efficacy from thear relation to the one sacrifice, which alone could take
 away the sins of the world; the sacri-
 fee, namely, of Jesus Christ on Cal
 vary's cross, of which all the old law
 sacrifices were but prefiguratiOn. Some
 of these sacrifices were blood offerings.
 as, for instance, that of the Paschal Lamb, sacrifice our Lord himself of fered three times during His public min istry, the last time being the night be-
 fore He died Others were clean ob- ligations' or pure offerings as for instance, the sacrifice of Melchisedech, consisting of bread and wine (Genesis. xiv: 1S). The Paschal Lamb was per- haps the most striking of the prophe- cies of Christ's death on the cross, who Is the lamb that was slain. Apoca- lypse).
 We find our Lord in company with the Apostles offering the sacrifice of the Paschal Lamb the night before He died Logically this is the last time this sacrifice can be offered. for its pro- phecy shall be fulfilled the next day, when the Lamb of God Is due to die on the cross But Calvary did not put an end to all sacrificial worship, for we find that at the last supper our Lord in- stituted a ceremony to commemorate His death even to the end of time. This consisted in the offering of bread and wine over which were spoken the words This is my body this Is my blood In this ceremony and in the observance of Christ's command by the church down to the present day is found the fulflll- ment of the Psalmists' prophetic utter snce: Thou art a priest forever, accord ing to the order of Melchisedech.' Ps. cx-4
 That the ceremony Christ instituted. which was to show forth His death even till He come,' is a real sacrifice. is evident not only from the fact that 1t fulfils the prophecies of the Old Testa- ment. but also from the fact that Christ's words are sacrificial fin char acter and suggestion. Do this in com memoration of me Is more correctly translated from the original offer this memorial of me; and the word 'nem- oriar ar 'anamnesis' in the original. is a strictly sacrificial expression. invaria- bly, so used In both the Old and New (Hebrews x-.3)
 Christ therefore. ordained that as the sacraflce of the Paschai Lamb was intended to show forth the Lords death till He came in the flesh, the eucharis- tic sacrifice was to show forth His death till He come again in glory.
 With St. Paul the eucharistic service is always regarded as sacrifice for he speaks of a sacrifcia1 priesthood fin Heb. KY: 15-16, the word minister in the original having an exclusive sacer- dotal significance. He also contrasts the altar and sacrifie' of the Chris tan with those of the Jews ana pagan" Cor x: 14-21
 Father Healy then went Into a his. torical discussion of his subject show ing that the present Cathalic doctrine is identical with the doctrine of the universal Christian In the first sixteen centuries, the first denial and the re- jection of the sacrificial idea coming from the so-called "reformers.'
 He then showed how all the ceremon- ial of the mass as observed in the Catholic Church is symbolical of the de- tails connected with Christ's passion and death.