E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

THE ELEVATION OF THE HOST AND CHALICE. 107
The Mystery of Faith. These words according to
some writers (who disagree with Suarez), we owe to
St. Peter. Transubstantiation is a truth above reason
which we take on the authority of God s word, hence a
mystery of Faith. The words which shall be shed
for you were addressed to the Apostles then before our
Saviour s eyes. And for many. The Blood is shed for
all : and for many efficaciously that is, many, the saved,
reap the full benefit of our Lord s death while the lost,
through their own fault, use it to their destruction.
To the remission of sins. These words express
the great end of the Sacrifice of the Cross, the washing
away of the sins of the world.
After pronouncing the words of Consecration the
priest, laying the Chalice on the Corporal says, As
often as ye shall do these things ye shall do them
in remembrance of Me. The Council of Trent defines
in Sess. xxii. Can. 2. that by these words our Lord
made His Apostles priests, and prescribed that they and
other priests, their successors in the priesthood, should
offer the Sacrifice of His Body and Blood.
THE ELEVATION OF THE HOST AND
OF THE CHALICE.
The Church has ever adored the Blessed Sacrament
from the time of Its institution. But the outward
signs by which the Church has expressed this adoration
have not always been the same. In the Greek liturgies
the Elevation of the Eucharist takes place shortly
before the Communion. Formerly in the Latin Mass
the Blessed Sacrament was elevated only at the words