E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

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THE CREED.
begotten of the only true God ; begotten, not made,
begotten eternal as He who begets, not made from
substance existing before: consubstantial with the
Father, the same substance numerically with the Father
Christ has one and the same nature, essence, substance
as the Father. By whom all things were made. The
Father is said to create
that He communicated
through
to the
the Son in the sense
Son the essence and
power wherewith He creates along with the Father.
Who for us men, and for our salvation, by these
words the end of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ is
clearly stated. He came for us
condemn us but to save us.
men on
Came
earth not to
down from
Heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost.
Christ remaining God took flesh not by the power of
man, for no man was His father, but by the power of
the Holy Ghost miraculously, of the Virgin Mary.
Mary was a Virgin in her miraculous Conception, a
Virgin in the miraculous birth of her Child, and a
Virgin after birth ; always a Virgin, as the Church says
semper Virgo. And was made Man. In one
sentence here is the whole doctrine of the Incarnation ;
the Divine nature in Christ was not made, the human
was. Christ became, what He was not before, Man with
a body and soul like ours. Two natures, consequently
divine and human, in one Person.
He was crucified also for us. By these words was
fulfilled the prophecy of our Lord in St. Matthew xx.
"
19, they shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to be mocked
"
and scourged and crucified for US- These words for
" He loved me and delivered
us must not be forgotten ;
Himself up for me "
;
and was buried ;
suffered under Pontius Pilate
suffered refers obviously to the pains
of body and of mind which our Lord bore for us, the