The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-09-30

be but that of Calvary; no other
priesthood but that of Jesus. $50
also" writes Paul, Christ was offered
once to exhaust the sins Of many"
The sacrifice of the Incarnate One
was all sufficient: another sacrifice
were a denial Of it's preeminent dig
nifty, usurpation Of its divinely-given
prerogatives. But the sacrifice of Cal
vary is repeated so that in every age
the disciples may stand by the cross
as did Mary and John, SO that the sac
rifice once for ever offered in general
atonement of sin may be particular
lied in favor of specialized individual
souls. The Eucharist is the compile
ment of the Incarnation, inasmuch as
it gives to each one, all to himself,
what on Calvary was given in general
form to the children of sinful race.
In the conservation the sword of the
mystic word sets the body apart from
the blood, the blood apart from the
body, so that while Jesus becomes
present, whole and entire, whether I'M
der the appearance Of bread, or under
the appearance of wine, He is there
present whole and entire, only in vir-
tue of the act of concordance which
inseperably links together all the vital
elements constituting in living being
nature and personality. The sacrficlal
sword the order of the priest-had
left the body and blood apart one from
the other: it was ''the lamb standing
as it were slain."
Truly and really the mass is sac
rifice-with Jesus the victim-with
Jesus the priest-the priest visible in
the mass merely the agent, the plenl-
potentiary of Jesus. The mass is the
repetition of the sacrifice of Calvary.
1t is of the mass that st. Paul speaks:
eve have an altar whereof they have
no power to eat who serve the taber-
nacle." The mass is "the continual
sacrifice" foreseen by. Daniel, to cease
only when the hour of final desolation
is at hand It is ''the sacrifice" the
clean oblation," foretold by Malachias,
offered up to the great God, Gin every
place. among the Gentiles, from the
rising of the sun even to the going
down." Truly, the Eucharist is the
complement full and entire, of Gods
great mystery of love, the Incarna-
ton.
The Eucharist Safeguards Faith in the
Incarnation.
One other consideration to show the
relation between the Eucharist and
the great mystery, to set forth the
Eucharist as the complement of the
Incarnation This time / speak of the
office of the Eucharist in upholdine
through the ages faith in the Incarna
| ton.
Of what use to men is the Incarna
tion-meaningful as it is in the coun
sells of the Godhead-if men do not ap
propriate it to themselves through
earnest and submissive faith? HE
that believeth in Him is not judged
But he that doth not believe is already
judged, because he believed not in the
name of the only-begotten Son of God.
"He was in the world, and the
world was made by Him, and the
world knew Him not" Well may We
repeat today the lament penned by ST
John with regard to his own times
with greater truth today then at any
other era of history since st. Johr
wrote his narrative of the coming Of
Jesus into the world. Despite the evi
dences of His grandeur and power
told in the Gospel, despite the records
of the marvels wrought by Him in His
Church, despite the all-towering intel
lectual and moral civilization, which
is christendom, the work of His
Church in the past eighteen centuries
the world today seeks to hide from its
vision the splendors of His majesty
denies His Godhead, and fain would
lower Him to the level of ordinary hu
mainly The war is against the In
carnation. Towards the Incarnation
speed the poisoned shafts of the vain
glorious scientist, the reader of dis
torted history, the proud and rebel
lious nationalist. Whencesoever the
attacks, and they come from all quar-
tiers, whatever the immediate target Of
their aim, the citadel towards which
they hurry is the Incarnation. The
Incarnation still believed, the whole
edifice of the Christian religion stands
safe and erect. The Incarnation blot
ted out from the thoughts of men, the
Christian religion is the meaningless
legend, the impotent hope of the dying
dreamer. None has discerned more
clearly the darkening signs, none has
sounded more loudly the trumpet Of
alarm, than the Waterman of the Vat
lean, Plus x. Hence his repeated
calls to the battlefield in defense Of
the Incarnate Word
You have observed at the same time
the constant exhortations of Plus x
in favor of vigorous faith in the Eu
charist. With the clear-sighted eye Of
the successor of st. Peter, the Pontif
recognizes that the Eucharist is the
palladium of the Incarnation, that the
most effective remedy against modern
unbelief in the Bethlehem of long ago
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