The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08
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SANCTJFICATION OF THE SUNDAY

cellence and power. The sacrifice of
the Old Law were the futile attempts
of human despair. 1t is OF them that
the Eternal Word had said: "Sacri-
fee and oblation thou wouldst not"
What then? Nought but that the
Eternal Word Himself should be the
victim: But body thou hast fitted
to me. Then, said /, behold l come,
that should do thy will, o God" "Be-
hold | come: new covenant is in
stituted: new sacrifice is offered
this time the Incarnate Word dying
on the Cross Of Calvary. The Incar-
nate Word was made man-to die in
his human nature, to merit in his di-
vine personality. At last there was
worship adequate to infinite excel
lence. From the Cross of Calvary,
the exclamation went forth: "All is
consummated." Through it's vicarious
Saviour, humanity rose, as never it
could heretofore have risen, to the
high throne of the Infinite: it held in
it's hand a pledge of infinite value:
to the Infinite being it spoke with full
title to be heard.
The Mass Repeats the Sacrifice of
Calvary.
Yet all was not done. The act of
Calvary was for mankind in general:
but how is the act of Calvary to be
applied to each particular man: how
is each man, singly and separately,
to appropriate to himself the graces
earned for mankind in general? The
Last Supper had already given the
answer.
At the Last Supper, Jesus, who had
loved His own who were in the world
!'loved them unto the end" Taking
bread, He gave thanks, and brake, and
gave to them, saying: This is my
body, which is given for you. Dc
this in commemoration of me-" "I1
like manner the chalice also, after
He had supped, saying: This is the
chalice, the new testament in my
blood, which shall be shed for you.
It is the mystery of transatlantic
ton; it is the mystery of the priest
hood of the New Law. ''This is my
body, which is given for youths is
the chalice, the New Testament in my
blood, which shall be shed for you
The bread is changed into the body
of Christ, the wine into His blood: i
is the first Mass, said by Christ Him
self. And then to the Apostles: "DC
this for a commemOration of me"
the power is impaired to do wha
Christ had done-to change bread int
His body, and wine into His blood
The Last Supper is to be repeated, il
full majesty and virtue, through tn
ages, wherever the successors of thu
apostles repeat over the elements o
bread and wine the words of Christ
"This is my body" which is givel
for youths is the chalice, the New
Testament, in my blood, which shall
be shed for you"
In the doctrine of the Church, tn
Mass is truly and really the sacrific
of Calvary, repeated through the age
for the salvation and the spiritual eI
richment of souls participating in it
merits and graces. The victim in tn
Mass is the victim of Calvary, Chris
Jesus: the priest is the priest of Ca
vary, Christ Jesus-the visible prizes
being but the agent, the instrumen
of the High Priest, Christ Jesus. O.
Calvary there was actual physics
death. In the Mass the death is my
stical, the result of separate const
crations of the bread and of the wine
So far as the sword of the wor
reaches, there is death-the body
separated from the blood. If death
not actual, it is only because Chris
now lives, to die no more. A sacr
flee was shown to the Seer of tn
Apocalypse: "And l saw: and behol
in the midst of the throne lam
standing as it were slain" So it
on the Eucharistic altar, so soon a
the words of conservation are spoken
the victim is there, "as it were slain
: Four-foId Purpose of the Holy
{ Sacrifice.
IF thou didst know the gift of Co
and who it is that saith to thee, Civ
mo RI drink. fhOI marianne wOI11d