E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

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She must teach all her Master s Doctrine, inculcate
all His precepts, and use all His Sacraments. She
must be ready to explain and defend her Doctrine
against attack, and she must at any time and at any
place furnish all that is " men. Were she to
requisite for the Salvation of
withhold anything necessary for
Salvation, she would be false to her mission."
(See
Father Gerard s Religious Instruction, p. 80.)
The Church is Apostolic because, in the words of
the Catechism,
" She holds the doctrines and traditions
of the Apostles, and because, through the unbroken
succession of her Pastors, she derives her Orders and
her Mission from them." Orders confer supernatural
powers as of Ordaining, Consecrating, and Absolving,
&c., and Mission gives the right to exercise these
powers. True Orders do not of themselves prove the
true Church. Apostolic Mission is also required. In
the Catholic Church we find both Orders and Mission.
She is therefore the one true Church.
I confess one Baptism
for the remission of
sins. Baptism can be validly administered by any one,
be he Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, or Jew; but by
whomsoever administered there is only one Baptism,
which our Lord instituted of water and the Holy Ghost.
For the remission of sins : Baptism remits the guilt
and punishment of any sin great and small and admits
the soul, who dies immediately after that Sacrament has
been conferred, straight to Heaven. No man sees God
face to face in Heaven without Baptism or the desire
of it ; the latter is contained in an act of perfect sorrow
or perfect love of God. 1
And I look for the resurrection of the dead we
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Baptism by blood or martyrdom also opens Heaven to souls :
only Baptism by water makes us members of the Body of the Church.