E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
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<strong>THE</strong> CREED. 63<br />
name of the governor is added to impress the great<br />
truth on the memory of the faithful. And was buried.<br />
the Nicene<br />
The Apostles Creed says dead and buried,<br />
omits dead. The death of the Lord is plainly<br />
stated in the fact of His burial. By the death of<br />
Christ we mean that the blessed Soul of our<br />
Jesus<br />
Lord, to which the Divinity clung, was separated from<br />
His Body, with which also the Divinity remained<br />
inseparably united. He took a body capable of suffer<br />
ing. He died from violence, but when He chose and<br />
as He chose. He allowed violence to take its natural<br />
effect. (See His own words in St. John x. 1 7.) The Council<br />
adds buried, because burial is the strongest proof of<br />
death, and from the fact of Christ s burial the miracle<br />
of His Resurrection is more glorious and clear. Christ s<br />
Body in the tomb could not suffer corruption.<br />
And the third day He rose again according to<br />
the Scriptures. Christ foretold that He would rise again,<br />
not vaguely some day, but the third day. This means He<br />
was in the tomb a part of Friday, all Saturday, and a<br />
part of Sunday He rose ; again by His own power and<br />
not by the power of another, as Lazarus and<br />
Divinity ;<br />
many others rose, only to die again ; Christ rose to die<br />
no more ;<br />
"<br />
from the<br />
Knowing that Christ rising again<br />
dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have<br />
dominion over Him." (Romans vi. 9.) On the Resur<br />
rection rests the whole truth of Christianity. By that<br />
fact Christ and His Church stand or fall ; the Council<br />
adds according to the Scriptures, the inspired word<br />
has taught this great article of Faith. And ascended<br />
into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of the<br />
Father. The work of redemption over, Christ as Man,<br />
Body and Soul, ascended into Heaven not merely by the<br />
power of the Divinity, but by the power granted to His