E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

io6 CONSECRATION OF THE WINE.
entire under the appearance of wine as under the
appearance of bread.
The Sacrament of the Eucharist is complete under
one kind, since under either kind there is present the
whole Christ.
But the Consecration, according to our Lord s
command, must ever be under both kinds, since it is
only from the double Consecration that the Blessed
Eucharist has the character of a Sacrifice. The
separate Consecration of bread and wine represents in
a mystical way the death of Christ, the parting of the
Body and Blood on the Cross. That Blood was shed
in the institution of the
really on the Cross : mystically
Eucharist and daily at Mass on our altars.
The Blood in the Chalice is the Blood shed on
the Cross and that Blood is received by us in the
Sacrament. "The Blood," says St. Thomas (Hi. q.
78. a. 3. ad. 7.),
" consecrated apart from the Body,
more closely represents the Passion of Christ and there
fore more suitably in the Consecration of the Blood
than of the Body mention is made of the Passion of
Christ and of the fruit it
produced." Chalice in
Scripture sometimes signifies passion as in St. Matt.
(xx. 22) :
" Can
you drink the Chalice which I am going to
drink?" and it signifies a drink in Psalm (xxii. 5):
" And my Chalice which inebriateth me, how goodly it
is."
The words of the New and Eternal Testament
contain an allusion to Exodus xxiv. 8. Testament or
Covenant, the original (Sia^*?;) means either. As the
Old Covenant of the Law was dedicated with the blood
of the Sacrifice, so now the New Covenant of the
Gospel is to be dedicated with the Blood of Jesus
Christ.