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//. Fulfilment of the Figures. 35
Do ye this in remembrance of me, he commissioned
them and their successors in the priesthood to conse
crate and offer his body and blood, as the Catholic
Church has always understood and And
taught."
further on the Council declares that the Lord, appeased
by the oblation of the Sacrifice of Mass, grants us his
graces and the remission of sins. It *
says It is one
:
and the same victim ;
the one that offers sacrifice is
the same one who, after having sacrificed himself on
the Cross, offers himself now by the ministry of the
priest there is no difference except in the manner of
;
offering."
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Jesus Christ has, then, paid the price of our redemp
tion in the Sacrifice of the Cross. But he wishes that the
fruit of the ransom given should be applied to us in the
Sacrifice of Altar, being himself in both the chief sacrificer,
who offers the same victim, namely, his own body
and his own blood; with this difference only, that on the
Cross his blood was shed, while it is not shed at the
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Is igitur Deus et Dominus noster, etsi semel semetipsum in ara
crucis, morte intercedente, Deo Patri oblaturus erat, ut aeternam illic
redemptionem operaretur; quia tamen per mortem sacerdotium ejus
exstinguendum non erat; in cosna novissima, qua nocte tradebatur,
ut dilectae sponsae suae Ecclesiae visibile, sicut hominum natura exigit,
relinqueret sacrificium, quo cruentum illud semel in cruce peragendum
repraesentaretur, ejusque memoria in finem usque saeculi permaneret,
atque illius salutaris virtus in remissionem eorum, quse a
nobis quotidie committuntur, peccatorum applicaretur, Sacerdotem
secundum ordinem Melchisedech se in aeterniim constitutum declarans,
corpus et sanguinem suum sub speciebus panis et vini Deo
Patri obtulit; ac, sub earumdem rerum symbolis, Apostolis, quos tune
Novi Testamenti Sacerdotes constituebat, ut sumerent, tradidit; et
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eisdem eorumque in sacerdotio successoribus, ut offerrent, praecepit
per haec verba: Hoc facile in meam commemorationem; uti semper
Catholica Ecclesia intellexit et docuit." Sess. 22, c. I.
Una enim eademque est Hostia, idem nunc offerens Sacerdotis
ministerio, qui seipsum tune in cruce obtulic, sola offerendi ratione
diversa." Sess. 22, c. 2.