Holy Mass On the evening before the departure of the Jews from Egypt, Moses- according to the command of God-sacrificed a lamb. The lamb was offered to God, then prepared and consumed by the people, s a sign of their union wit the sacrifice. The blood of the lamb was sprinkled on the door-posts of the Jews to protect them from t5he avenging angel. For God had said: “I will see the blood and I will spare you.” On Mount Calvary, Jesus the lamb of God sacrificed Himself, pouring out His Blood to ransom not only the Jews but all mankind. Each Mass is a continuation if Jesus’ sacrifice- the bread becomes His Body and wine His Blood. This separate consecration manifests in a spiritual way the death of Jesus the Lamb of God who in a symbolic sense still pours out His Blood in sacrifice to the Father in adoration, reparation, thanksgiving and petition. The priest who offers holy Mass may have his own personal defects, but the offering of Christ, the mystical outpouring of His Blood, is holy, divine and perfect. There is nothing in this world of more value than one Sacrifice of the Mass. We unite with the priest in offering this sacrifice; we consume the Sacrificial Victim in Holy Communion. No Protestant Church, no other Religion can offer this Sacrifice or receive the Divine Lamb. On the entire world the sun never sets- twilight in one place is dawn in another. So the Chalice of the Blood of Christ – even at this moment as you read – is being raised up, the Sacrifice of the Mass is being offered somewhere. In spirit let us unite ourselves to the Divine Victim and let us receive in spirit the Body and Blood of Christ in “Spiritual Communion.” O crimson splendor of the Blood of Christ be our sun that never sets. O Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world have mercy on us. Receive our oblation united to your own, a Sacrifice of Praise!
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