E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

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THE CREED.
glorious Soul to raise His Body to Heaven forty days
after His Resurrection ; Christ is said to sit as a
monarch on His Throne on the right, holding as Man
the place of honour next His Father who set Him
on His right hand in the heavenly places. (Ephes. i. 20.)
And He shall come again with glory to judge
both the living and the dead. So far the Creed has
spoken of our Lord s redemption of the human race,
and of His ascent to Heaven that He may intercede it
;
now defines His judgment of the world on the last day.
The first coming of our Saviour was in humiliation as a
Babe in Bethlehem, the second will be in glory. He is
to judge, Christ judges the world as God and Man (see
St. John v. "and
26), He (the Father) hath given Him
because He is the Son
authority to execute judgment
of Man." These words of St. John mean that the judicial
power like the priestly power is a portion of and in
separable from our Lord s human nature. Qnia
(because) in the Vulgate might more correctly be qua-
tenns (inasmuch as He is the Son of Man). The living
and the dead by the living is meant those who are
alive at the second coming. They will die and rise
again.
again.
The dead at the second coming will also
All born of Adam will die and rise again.
rise
Of
whose kingdom there shall be no end.
words proclaim that Christ s reign as Man is
These
to con
tinue after the last day. Our Lord s Kingdom shall
last for ever and ever.
And (I believe) in the Holy Ghost the Lord and
Life-giver. The Council after defining the Divinity of
the Father and of the Son the same in nature, distinct
in person proceeds to define the Divinity of the Holy
Ghost. The Macedonian heretics denied that the Holy
Ghost was God, equal to and of the same substance as