To Doctor Father Michael:

I am very concerned about the fact that in the definition of the New Mass there is no mention of the New Mass being a “sacrifice”.

In the decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, dated April 6, 1969, here is what it states:

“The Lord’s Supper is the assembly or gathering together of the people of God, with a priest presiding, to celebrate the memorial of the lord.” (emphasis mine).

So, does this mean that, by definition, the New Mass is not a “sacrifice” in the Catholic sense?

If so, isn’t this against what the Council of Trent taught?

Thank you in advance for your reply.

S.T.

Dear S.T.:

Thank you for your related questions.

For the benefit of those Visitors/Readers who want only the bottom line, here are the answers:

Regarding the decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites saying:

“The Lord’s Supper is the assembly or gathering together of the people of God, with a priest presiding, to celebrate the memorial of the lord.”

you are correct.

However, there is a problem here!

What is it?

The problem is that there is yet another “definition” of the “NEW mass” because there are actually TWO contradictory “definitions” concerning the “NEW mass”, a.k.a. the Novus Ordo Missæ, a.k.a. the Novus Ordo Rite!

One is the “official definition” you have cited from the decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, dated Sunday, April 6, 1969:

“The Lord’s Supper is the assembly or gathering together of the people of God, with a priest presiding, to celebrate the memorial of the lord.”

It is self-evident that the word “sacrifice” is not to be found in this version of the “definition” of the “NEW Mass”.

Therefore, on the basis of this specific version of the “official definition” of the “NEW Mass”, you are totally correct when you state “that, by definition, the New Mass is not a ‘sacrifice’ in the Catholic sense”.

Yes, you are also correct when you state that this is “against what the Council of Trent taught”.

However, you are in error when you say “that in the definition of the New Mass there is no mention of the New Mass being a ‘sacrifice’”.

Why?

Because the second version of the “definition” of the “NEW mass”, albeit a contrary one, does use the word “sacrifice”.

Hopefully, this has answered your questions?

For the benefit of those Visitors/Readers who want detailed answers, please find the details below.

Thank you for reading!

God Bless You!

Father Michael, D.D.

OFFICIAL DEFINITION OF THE NOVUS ORDO RITE

“The Lord’s Supper is the assembly or gathering together of the people of God, with a priest presiding, to celebrate the memorial of the lord.  [12]”  (The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, ICEL-International Committee on English in the Liturgy-Sacred Congregation of Rites Decree, Sunday, April 6, 1969, Benno Walter Cardinal Gut [b. at Reiden, Switzerland on Thursday, April 1, 1897 - d. at Rome, Italy on Tuesday, December 8, 1970], Prefect of the S.R.C., President of the Consilium, Chapter II, # 7.)

“12.  Presbyterorum Ordinis, no. 5; CSL, no. 33.”   (The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, ICEL-International Committee on English in the Liturgy-Sacred Congregation of Rites Decree, Sunday, April 6, 1969, Benno Walter Cardinal Gut [b. at Reiden, Switzerland on Thursday, April 1, 1897 - d. at Rome, Italy on Tuesday, December 8, 1970], Prefect of the S.R.C., President of the Consilium, Chapter II, Footnotes; Footnote # 12.)

Footnote # 12 refers one to:  Presbyterorum Ordinis, no. 5 which is the decree of Synod Vatican 2 on the Life and Ministry of Priests.  CSL is the Vatican 2 Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy.  Since these two works are cited as the source of the “official definition” found in The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass as promulgated by Benno Walter Cardinal Gut [b. at Reiden, Switzerland on Thursday, April 1, 1897 - d. at Rome, Italy on Tuesday, December 8, 1970] who was the President of the Consilium which made up the Novus Ordo Rite, it is necessary to quote these two references to avoid any possible confusion:

“...through the ministry of the Bishop, God consecrates priests so that they can share by a special title in the priesthood of Christ.  Thus, in performing sacred functions they can act as the ministers of Him who in the liturgy continually exercises His priestly office on our behalf by the action of His Spirit...And especially by the celebration of Mass, men offer sacramentally the sacrifice of Christ.”  (Presbyterorum Ordinis, # 5.)

N.B.   The ontological essence and the metaphysical essence of a "sacrifice" is NOT the same thing as the ontological essence and the metaphysical essence of a "Sacrament".   Therefore, it is an error, rather it is an actual heresy to say that "men offer sacramentally the sacrifice of Christ"!   In the words of the Roman Catholic Council of Trent:

"But (between the Eucharist as a Sacrament and as a Sacrifice) the difference is very great; for as a Sacrament it is perfected by the [Double] Consecration; as a Sacrifice, all its force consists in its Oblation."  (The Catechism of the Council of Trent for Parish Priests, a.k.a. The Roman Catechism, a.k.a. The Catechism of Pius V , Issued by Decree of the Roman Catholic Pope Saint Pius V, Antonio-Michele Ghislieri [Friday, January 7, 1566 - Monday, May 1, 1572], Part II: The Sacraments, Chapter 4 - The Sacrament of the Eucharist, Question LXVII [67] - What are the Reasons for which the Eucharist was instituted by Christ the Lord; emphasis added).

Therefore, the terminology "men offer sacramentally the sacrifice of Christ" is the product of the NEW Theology Theologians who are all automatically excommunicated Modernist Heretics in virtue of the Roman Catholic Pope Saint Pius X, Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto [Tuesday, August 4, 1903 - Thursday, August 20, 1914], who automatically excommunicated all Modernist Heretics in his Motu Proprio (On His Own Initiative) Præstantia Scripturæ Sacræ, of Monday, November 18, 1907, # 4.

So also this means that the document itself - Presbyterorum Ordinis, # 5 - is clearly heretical and therefore its "definition" of the NEW mass is automatically heretical since "And especially by the celebration of Mass, men offer sacramentally the sacrifice of Christ" is blatant Modernist Heresy!  So here is a document of the CONVENTION of anti-Catholic Infiltrators, a.k.a. Synod Vatican 2, which teaches heresy about the mass!  But one more instance of their love of their extremely  deceptive usage of the juxtaposition of two distinct and different essences - both in terms of their respective ontological essences and the respective metaphysical essences!

How true it is that ALL of the "documents" of the CONVENTION of anti-Catholic Infiltrators, a.k.a. Synod Vatican 2, should be BURNED because they contain not only gross errors, but they also contain deceptive heresies which continue to victimize ignorant Catholics, even almost 50 years later!

“Although the sacred liturgy is above all things the worship of the divine Majesty, it likewise contains much instruction for the faithful.  For in the liturgy God speaks to His people and Christ is still proclaiming His gospel.  And the people reply to God both by song and prayer.”

“Moreover, the prayers addressed to God by the priest who presides over the assembly in the person of Christ are said in the name of the entire holy people and of all present.  And the visible signs used by the liturgy to signify invisible divine things have been chosen by Christ or the Church.  Thus not only when things are read `which were written for our instruction’ (Rom. 15:4), but also when the Church prays or sings or acts, the faith of those taking part is nourished and their minds are raised to God, so that they may offer Him their rational service and more abundantly receive His grace.”  (Constitution on the Liturgy, # 33.)

It should be clear to everyone that the definition which tells us that the Novus Ordo Rite is “to celebrate the memorial of the Lord”  (The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, Chapter II, # 7) is NOT the same thing as “the sacrifice of Christ” (as found in the heretical Presbyterorum Ordinis, # 5).

“The Lord’s Supper is the assembly or gathering together of the people of God...”   (The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, Chapter II, # 7) is NOT the same thing as “...by the celebration of Mass, men offer sacramentally...” (The heretical - Presbyterorum Ordinis, # 5).

“The Lord’s Supper is the assembly or gathering together of the people of God...” (The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, Chapter II, # 7) is NOT the same as “...Although the sacred liturgy is above all things the worship of the divine Majesty...”  (Constitution on the Liturgy, # 33).

“....the assembly or gathering together of the people of God...” (The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, Chapter II, # 7) is NOT the same as “...the prayers addressed to God by the priest who presides over the assembly...” (Constitution on the Liturgy, # 33).

About the only thing on which both the General Instruction and the Constitution on the Liturgy agree is the “with a priest presiding...” (The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, Chapter II, # 7) which is the same as “...by the priest who presides over...” (Constitution on the Liturgy, # 33).

Therefore, as you can see for yourself, there is to be found no CLEAR, OBJECTIVE, LOGICAL reason for saying that

“The Lord’s Supper is the assembly or gathering together of the people of God, with a priest presiding, to celebrate the memorial of the lord.  [12]” (The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, Chapter II, # 7.) is based upon either the heretical - Presbyterorum Ordinis, # 5 and/or the Constitution on the Liturgy, # 33.

The variances generated by a comparison of the various points of these documents are irreconcilable because not only are these variances illogical-that would be bad enough-but what is of the gravest concern is that these variances are irreconcilable with the Deposit of Faith as it has been preserved by the Catholic Church!

At the very best, EACH of the “official” contradictory documents of the Satanic      Vatican 2 church  are ambiguous and equivocal which begets confusion born from one faction of the NEW Theology Theologians teaching one thing and a different faction of the NEW Theology Theologians teaching something contradictory.

EXACTLY WHAT the “official definition” of the “NEW mass”, a.k.a. the Novus Ordo Missæ, a.k.a. the Novus Ordo Rite of the Satanic      Vatican 2 church really is, in the final analysis, is nothing but a contradiction!  It is like calling something “black” which is “white” and calling something “white” which is “black” - that which is “black” is not “white” and  that which is “white” is not “black”.

The deliberately deceptive juxtaposition of two distinct and different essences - realities - both in terms of their respective ontological essences and their respective metaphysical essences, makes the act of receiving the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist by the Laity during Holy Communion “during Mass” the same as the sacrificial act of oblation.  The act of receiving and the act of oblation are not the same thing because their realities - essences - are different.

Not only this, but the Administration of the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist to the Laity during Holy Communion is not even part of the Mass itself!

The reason is because the Missal itself does not have in it the Administration of the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist to the Laity as part of the Mass.  What happens for the Communion of the Laity is that the Mass itself is temporarily interrupted for the Mass Celebrant to Administer the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist to the Laity during Holy Communion.

Because  the Administration of the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist to the Laity during Holy Communion is not even part of the Mass itself, any “definition” of the Mass itself must logically EXCLUDE  the Administration of the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist to the Laity during Holy Communion.

Using their customary vague, contradictory, deceptive amphiboly

("Amphiboly, n. 1. a fallacy due to ambiguously selected language.  2.  in reasoning, a fallacy of four terms under the appearance of three terms in a syllogism", Bernard Wuellner, S.J., Dictionary of Scholastic Philosophy, p. 6.)

these NEW Theology theologians say:

“especially by the celebration of Mass, men offer sacramentally the sacrifice of Christ.”  (The Heretical Presbyterorum Ordinis, # 5.)

This statement adroitly IMPLIES the Sacramental reception of the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist by the Laity.  By doing this, they also adroitly and subtly IMPLY that the RECEPTION of the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist by the Laity (remember how priests are forbidden to have "mass" unless a congregation is physically present for the said "mass"!) is the sine qua non (without which not - i.e. without which) of the Mass.

In Anglo-Saxon English this simply means that without the RECEPTION of the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist by the congregation, there is no “mass” because the “mass” is only a sacramental sacrifice which makes “sacrifice” synonymous with “sacrament”!  This is heresy!

On the contrary, without the “sacrifice” there can be no “sacrament” because the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist is Confected during the Consecration of the Mass which is called "Transubstantiation".  This means that the Sacrament is totally dependent upon the Mass being a Sacrifice!  It is heresy to claim that the Sacrifice is totally dependent upon the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist to be a “mass” or to claim that the Sacrifice is totally dependent upon a congregation being physically present!

In other words, if there is no Sacrifice of the Mass, there can never be the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

In addition, they also fail to clearly teach that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is not only the RENEWAL, in an unbloody manner, of the one sacrifice of Christ on the Cross on that first Good Friday, but that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is also a Perpetual  Sacrifice!

Therefore, the Satanic      Vatican 2 church teaches heresy because a “sacrifice” is not “the memorial of the lord” and “the memorial of the lord” is not a “sacrifice”.

What is “the memorial of the lord”?  This vague, deliberately ambiguous term could mean a number of things.

For example, it could mean:

1.  The “NEW mass”, a.k.a. the Novus Ordo Missæ, a.k.a. the Novus Ordo Rite of the Satanic     Vatican 2 church.

2) The Stations of the Cross.

3) 40 Hours Devotion.

4) Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

5) A Crucifix.

6) The Gospels.

7) A Cross.

8) A Memorial Plaque of the place of the Birth of Christ in the stable.

9) A Memorial Plaque of the place of the Death of Christ on the Cross.

10) Etc.

The New and Eternal Covenant Requires a Perpetual  Sacrifice

Introduction

Distinction Between Sacrament and Sacrifice

“They [Pastors] should teach, then, in the first place, that the Eucharist was instituted by Christ for two purposes: one, that it might be the heavenly food of our souls, enabling us to support and preserve Spiritual Life; and the other, that the Church might have a  Perpetual  Sacrifice, by which our sins might be expiated, and our Heavenly Father, oftentimes grievously offended by our crimes, might be turned away from wrath to mercy, from the severity of just chastisement to clemency. Of this thing we may observe a type and resemblance in the Paschal lamb, which was wont to be offered and eaten by the children of Israel as a sacrament and a sacrifice.”

“Nor could our Saviour, when about to offer Himself to God the Father on the Altar of the Cross, have given any more illustrious indication of His unbounded love towards us than by bequeathing to us a visible Sacrifice, by which that bloody Sacrifice, which was soon after to be offered once on the cross, would be renewed, and its memory daily celebrated with the greatest utility, unto the consummation of the world by the Church diffused throughout the world”.

“But (between the Eucharist as a Sacrament and as a Sacrifice) the difference is very great; for as a Sacrament it is perfected by the [Double] Consecration; as a Sacrifice, all its force consists in its Oblation.”  (The Catechism of the Council of Trent for Parish Priests, a.k.a. The Roman Catechism, a.k.a. The Catechism of Pius V , Issued by Decree of the Roman Catholic Pope Saint Pius V, Antonio-Michele Ghislieri [Friday, January 7, 1566 - Monday, May 1, 1572], Part II: The Sacraments, Chapter 4 - The Sacrament of the Eucharist, Question LXVII [67] - What are the Reasons for which the Eucharist was instituted by Christ the Lord; emphasis added).

The New and Eternal Covenant Requires
The Offering of the Holy and Perpetual  Sacrifice of the Mass

God the Father promised Adam and Eve that He would send a Redeemer to  re-open the Gates of Heaven which had been slammed shut by Original Sin which meant that, without a Redeemer, no one could ever enter Heaven.

This explains why Christ’s bloody Sacrifice of the Cross constitutes the conclusion of the Old Covenant and the beginning of the New and Eternal Covenant.

All sacrifices prior to the coming of Christ have their fulfilment in Christ’s bloody Sacrifice on the Cross at Calvary.

“On the Cross there was but one sacrifice (hostia singularis) offered to God for the redemption of the world, and the death of Christ, the true sacrificial Lamb, announced so many centuries in advance, placed the children of promise in the liberty of faith. Then also was the New Covenant sealed, and the heirs of the eternal kingdom were inscribed with the Blood of Christ. Then was evidently effected the transition from the Law [the Old Covenant/Testament] to the Gospel, from the Synagogue to the Church, from the many legal sacrifices [of the Old Testament Mosaic Rite] to the one Sacrifice (a multis sacrifices ad unam hostiam), in such a manner that, when the Lord gave up His Spirit, the mystical veil, which concealed the innermost part of the Temple and its holy mystery from view, was suddenly and violently rent in twain from top to bottom. Then Truth abolished the figures (figuras veritas auferebat), and the [Old Testament] prophecies [about the Redeemer] became superfluous after their fulfilment.”  (Roman Catholic Pope, Saint Leo I [Saturday, September 29, 440 A.D. - Thursday, November 10, 461 A.D.], The Seventeenth Discourse on the Lord's Passion).

The tearing asunder of the veil before the entrance to the Holy of Holies of the Old Dispensation was a sign that the Old Covenant ceased when the New and Eternal Covenant of Sanctifying Grace had been instituted in virtue of the Sacrificial Most Precious Blood of Christ. With the ending of the Old Covenant, the ancient sacrifices also ceased, because they had become useless and totally irrelevant and powerless.

In other words, when the reality appears, the shadow vanishes, just as at the rising of the sun with morning daylight, the darkness of the night disappears. (Umbram fugat veritas noctem lux eliminat.)

The Old Law of the Old Testament had only “a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things" (Hebrews 10:1).

The Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross was a transient act, and as such it was accomplished but once, in one place only - on the hill of Calvary/Golgotha - on that memorable First Good Friday.

The Scriptures record how only a few persons stood at the foot of the Cross of Christ and watched the terrible price Jesus Christ paid as our Redeemer.

For everyone since then, the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross is an historical fact of which millions and millions of people today are unaware.

Dear Visitor/Reader:

When Christ died on the Cross did this mean that for the future there would never be any more sacrifices?  Did this mean that the Catholic Church was to be without a perpetual sacrifice?

Did this also mean that Christ, “the Author and finisher of Faith” (Hebrews 12:2), had made no plans to bequeath to His beloved Church a permanent sacrifice as an heritage? To say that Christ left the religion He founded without a perpetual sacrifice, is an assertion which, of itself, is totally false.

The offering of sacrifices for the purpose of Divine Worship has been instilled in human nature by God and is part of the natural law.

The history of the human race testifies to the use of sacrifices by various tribes and races of people, not only of animal sacrifices, but, sad to say, of human beings who were sacrificed, as witnessed, for example, by the pagan Aztecs.

Because human beings are composed of both a body and a soul, human beings are not able to express their own interior Religious Faith and their interior Spiritual Life by anything better than by sacrifice because only by sacrifice, per se, can people externally express their interior Religious Faith and their interior Spiritual Life because only sacrifice provides the most powerful proof for the Faith they believe and the Life they live.

This fact has been expressed many centuries ago:

“All ceremonies are Professions of Faith, in which the interior worship of God consists.  Now man can make profession of his inward faith, by deeds as well as by words; and in either profession, if he makes a false declaration, he sins mortally... Consequently, just as it would be a mortal sin now for anyone, in making a profession of faith, to say that Christ is yet to be born, which the fathers of old said devoutly and Truthfully; so too, it would be a mortal sin now to observe those ceremonies which the fathers of old fulfilled with devotion and fidelity. Such is the teaching of Augustine (CONTRA FAUST. xix.16)” (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., [b. 1225 A.D. in Rocca Secca, Naples, Italy - d. Wednesday, March 7, 1274 A.D., in Fossa Nuova, Italy], Doctor of the Church, Summa Theologica, Part I-II, Question 103, Article 4).”

The very fact that “All ceremonies are Professions of Faith, in which the interior worship of God consists” (Op. Cit.), is the theological and liturgical basis for the axiom, previously anticipated over 800 years before then, by the Roman Catholic Pope Saint Celestine I [Saturday, September 10, 422  - Tuesday, July 27, 432 ] who taught the principle:  Legem Credendi Lex Statuit Supplicandi.  [The Liturgical form of prayer becomes the standard of Faith.].

This is sometimes shortened to simply Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi:  The Law of Praying is the Law of Believing.  This simply means that you declare, by a public, exterior liturgical act of worship, both your own personal interior beliefs of your Faith and your own personal interior Worship of God, externally expressed in public Worship ceremonies.  Thus, you externally pray what you internally believe and you internally believe what you externally pray.

Sanctifying Grace does not destroy human nature. Rather, it improves, sanctifies, ennobles, and transforms human nature.  But all human beings need a visible sacrifice in order to comply with their Religious obligations to their Infinite Creator because all finite being are created by the Infinite God.  As seen from the above, this is consistent with human nature as such.  The Roman Catholic Church infallibly teaches that human nature requires “a visible sacrifice”:

“Our Lord Jesus Christ...our God and Lord....that He might leave to His own beloved Spouse, the Church, a visible sacrifice

[NOT sacrificeS]

such as the nature of man requires....offered up to God the Father His own Body and Blood under the species of bread and wine and He gave His Body and Blood under the same species to the Apostles to receive.....

For AFTER

[emphasis added]

He celebrated the Old Pasch

[of the Old Law of the Old Covenant/Testament],

...Christ instituted a

[i.e. ONE not “two” or “three” or more]

New Pasch

[note the singular form is used, not the plural PASCHES].

He Himself was this

[ONE]

New Pasch, to be offered by the Church through her Priests under visible signs

[i.e. rubrics]

...This is that clean oblation

[not oblationS]

...which was represented by various figures in sacrifices

[in the Old Law there were in fact more than one kind of sacrifice and thus the Council uses the plural here to designate more than just one kind of sacrifice-yet when it speaks of the Mass it speaks of only ONE sacrifice]

during the time of nature and of the

[Old]

Law (Cf. Gen. 4:4; 8:20; 12:8; 22;  Exod.  passim).  For it

[i.e. the ONE Mass]

includes all the good that was signified by those former sacrifices
[i.e. there was more than ONE kind of sacrifice in the Old Law];
it

[i.e. this ONE Mass]

is their fulfillment and perfection.”  (Roman Catholic Council of Trent, Session 22, Monday, September 17, 1562, On the Sacrifice of the Mass, Chapter 1).

Thus, the Roman Catholic Council of Trent, specifically and infallibly, teaches that human nature requires “a visible sacrifice”.

This also means that Almighty God, Whose providence arranges all things with Divine foreknowledge, goodness, and mercy concerning each human being, would not leave the Catholic Church without a permanent sacrifice which fulfills the needs of the inmost nature of human beings.

Because sacrifice, per se, is so well suited to human nature, it is to be found everywhere in recorded history, as cited above. In the Old Covenant/Testament, it was sacrifices which constituted the reality, the nature, and the ontological essence and the metaphysical essence of said liturgical ceremonies.

Logically, this also means that the New and Eternal Covenant cannot be without sacrifice because the New and Eternal Covenant is the fulfilment and completion of the SHADOW of the Old Law of the Old Covenant/Testament.

But the Old Law of the Old Covenant/Testament was only TEMPORARY as it awaited its perfect fulfillment and completion in the permanent and perpetual and eternal New Covenant/Testament.

This means that since the Old Covenant/Testament was only TEMPORARY, and which had its own proper glory, please consider how much more fitting and proper it is for the New and Eternal Covenant/Testament, which is to remain forever, be even more glorious than its shadow because it is the real thing.

On a daily basis, in the Old Law there were bloody and unbloody sacrifices. Both kinds were figures of the New and Eternal Law.  Just as the bloody sacrifices found their completion in the death of Christ on the Cross, so also, in like manner, can the figures of the daily offering of the unbloody sacrifices find their realization in the fact that in the New and Eternal Law there exists a perpetual  unbloody sacrifice.

In the Old Testament there were sacrifices which prefigured the future Sacrifice of
Redemption, placing it before eyes of the Israelites. In this way, they became a means of gathering, in advance, the fruits of the tree of the Cross.

Therefore, it is totally proper that the New and Eternal Law should also have a sacrifice, the object of which is to represent to all generations the Sacrifice of the Cross, accomplished once for all time on Calvary, in virtue of which it applied to them its Graces.

It should be self-evident that by the New Law Christ did not merely abolish the imperfect and temporary sacrificial worship of the Old Law, but changed it into one that was totally perfect.

The Religion instituted by the Eternal High Priest, Jesus Christ, is most perfect and most complete, for it possesses the plenitude of Divine Truth and Grace. In the Catholic Church, supernatural revelation has found its consummation, so that a richer and more copious outpouring of the Holy Ghost is not to be expected here below.

Why?  Because the Church of Christ is placed in the middle, between the figurative shadow of the Old Law and the final completion of the Heavenly Jerusalem. The Old Dispensation was the preparation and the breaking of the ground for the Catholic Church which forms the direct entrance and vestibule leading to the revealed and Beatific Vision of the Eternal Truth and Beauty to come.

But the perfection of Religion requires a perfect Divine Worship, which is the offering of a perfect Divine sacrifice which is the chief and the most excellent act of Religion.

IF the Catholic Church did not have a perpetual sacrifice, it would not have a Perfect Divine Worship.  So, it would not be complete in every respect but rather it would be imperfect, incomplete, and insufficient.  But Christ did not do this.

Since the Catholic Church is the most perfect, because her Divine Founder is Infinite God, she must possess the most excellent and the most sublime and worthy form of worship - the Worship of Sacrifice. Where there is no Sacrifice, there is no Priesthood and no Altar.

What would the Catholic Church be without Sacrifice, Priest and Altar?

She would be the Satanic       Vatican 2 church  with a “Supper..... to celebrate the memorial of the lord” - a vague, incompetent, and very deceptive “definition”!

“Supper..... to celebrate the memorial of the lord” - a vague, incompetent, and very deceptive “definition”!

She would be the Satanic       Vatican 2 church   with a TABLE for a “Supper..... to celebrate the memorial of the lord”.

She would be the Satanic       Vatican 2 church   with a “priest” who is the President of “the assembly” “presiding, to celebrate the memorial of the lord”.

“The Lord’s Supper is the assembly or gathering together of the people of God, with a priest presiding, to celebrate the memorial of the lord.  [12]”  (The General Instruction and the New Order of Mass, ICEL-International Committee on English in the Liturgy-Sacred Congregation of Rites Decree, Sunday, April 6, 1969, Benno Walter Cardinal Gut [b. at Reiden, Switzerland on Thursday, April 1, 1897 - d. at Rome, Italy on Tuesday, December 8, 1970], Prefect of the S.R.C., President of the Consilium, Chapter II, # 7.)

The Catholic Church takes its root in the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. The Holy Sacrifice is the source from whence the New Law has emanated with its Blessings and Graces. As the New Law was instituted and confirmed by sacrifice, it must of necessity be sustained and maintained by a perpetual  sacrifice.

Since the preservation of an object is equivalent to a continued creation, it is dependent upon the same cause as that of its creation. Hence it is not sufficient that the Catholic Church should have as its foundation a sacrifice which was offered once.  Instead, it must possess a sacrifice which is perpetually repeated as the fundamental support of its permanent existence.

Hence, Heretics use this for their "prime directive": Tolle Missam, tolle Ecclesiam - Take away the Mass and you destroy the Church!  This is the primary function of the anti-Catholic "NEW mass", a.k.a. the Novus Ordo Missae, a.k.a. the Novus Ordo Rite.

The Sacrifice of the New Testament can not be independent of the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. From this Infinite Sacrifice salvation flowed forth to human beings before and after Christ.  Therefore, this constitutes the primary point to which all other sacrifices are referred.

The object of the Perpetual Sacrifice of the New Covenant cannot be a means of acquiring for us additional merit or of rendering fresh satisfaction for the sins of men, but its sole purpose can be no other than to apply individually to human beings in need of help and salvation the satisfaction and merits of the Sacrifice of the Cross.

Sacrifice forms the primary point of exterior Divine Worship and with regard to its perfection stands on a par with it. Now since the New Law so immeasurably excels the Old Law, the former must possess a sacrifice incomparably more noble and more efficacious than did the latter.

The difference between the two Testaments is their respective sacrifices. In the Old Law the exterior and the carnal, the spirit of fear and of bondage prevailed.  Therefore, the bloody sacrifices offered up by unregenerate man, with the consciousness and acknowledgment of unatoned guilt, were altogether appropriate because they appealed to an irritated and avenging God, Who punishes sin with death because, contrary to the blatant heresy of the  Satanic       Vatican 2 church,   God IS in the “punishment business” as proven in many places in the Bible!

Because in New Law the interior and Spiritual prevails, we have here the Grace and joy of redemption, the Spirit of love and of Divine adoption.  Therefore, the New Testament is best suited for an unbloody sacrifice.

This unbloody sacrifice must correspond to the perfection of the New Law, which possesses the unfathomable riches and treasures of the Grace of Christ.  This means that the unbloody Sacrifice must not only represent figuratively the Sacrifice of the Cross, as did the Sacrifices of the Old Testament, but it must really and truly show forth and render present, the Sacrifice once accomplished upon Calvary.

Now such a presenting anew of the Sacrifice of the Cross becomes possible only when the offering upon our Altars is in no way inferior to the Sacrificial Victim immolated on the Cross that is, only when, in the Sanctuary of the Catholic Church, the Body and Blood of Christ are continually and mystically offered in an unbloody manner - being the “clean oblation” of the Old Testament prophecy:

"For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, My Name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is Sacrifice, and there is offered to My Name a Clean Oblation: for My Name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts. (Malachias 1:11).

But how can Christ, Who has risen from the dead, Who dieth now no more and over Whom death shall have no more dominion (Romans 6:9), be the Victim offered and the Victim Sacrificed in the “Clean Oblation”?

To all appearances the immortality and glory of our Saviour, Who ascended into Heaven, seem insuperable obstacles to a sacrifice?

Yet, what is impossible to finite man is possible with Infinite God. His infinite wisdom discovered never suspected means and the way to accomplish what to men was apparently impossible. By virtue of manifold and dazzling miracles our Lord conceals under the appearance of bread and wine upon the Holy Altar the grandeur of His glorified humanity, uniting in His adorable person life and death, uniting the condition of a Victim in Sacrifice with the possession of heavenly glory in His adorable person, with that of the Primary Offerer Who, as the Eternal High Priest, offers Himself in a state of Victimhood through His human instrument - the Mass Celebrant.

Since “the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14) and since God “was seen upon earth, and conversed with men” (Baruch 3:38), His dwelling among us and His association with us have never ceased.

When Christ ascended into Heaven, He would not leave us orphans, He would not deprive us of the joy and consolation of His presence (which is of course perceptible only by the Light of Faith, because His presence with us is Sacramental).

He made good His parting words in a marvelous manner:

“Behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world” (Matthew 28:20).

Christ remains in our midst as a Perpetual Sacrifice. He is the Head of the Church Triumphant in Heaven above, as well as of the Church Militant here below.

Christ is both in Heaven and Sacramentally on earth. His presence accords perfectly with the state of the heavenly, as well as with that of the earthly Church here below.

Therefore, He is bodily present in both places, but in a different way after the condition of each.

In Heaven, He sitteth at the right hand of God the Father, full of majesty and of glory.  On earth, He abides under the appearances of bread and wine, as a Sacrificial Victim in lowliness and obscurity.

So long as the Catholic Church continues here below combating and suffering, in labor and tribulation, Christ will abide as a Perpetual Sacrifice with her.  He Himself will always be the bright model and inexhaustible source of that life of sacrifice which is the Church Militant.

Amid the combat of mortal life, let us have recourse to the Holy Altar, with Faith and Confidence, at which the Holy SACRIFICE of the Mass is Offered, in order to implore strength, courage and victory from the Divine Victim and the Eternal High Priest.

ld Fast that Faith which has been received everywhere, always, by all.