The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"360 THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.should offer Himself often, as the high priestenter-leth into the Holies every year." Again Every:priest standeth, indeed, daily ministering, and oftenoffering the same sacrifices, which can never takeaway sins but this; Man, offering one sacrifice forsin, forever sitteth at the right hand of God." 2St. Paul says that Jesus was offered once. Howthen can we offer Him daily? I answer, thatJesus was offered once in a bloody manner, and itof this sacrifice that the Apostle speaks. But inthe sacrifice of the Mass He is offered up in an unbloody manner. Though He is daily offered on tenthousand altars, the sacrifice is the same as that ofCalvary, having the same High Priest and victimJesus Christ. The object of St. Paul is to contrastthe sacrifice of the New Law, which has only onevictim, with the sacrifices of the Old Law, where thevictims were many and to show the; insufficiencyof the ancient sacrifices and the all-sufficiency ofthe sacrifice of the new dispensation.But if the sacrifice of the cross is all-sufficient,what need then, you will say, is there of a commemorative sacrifice of the Mass? I would ask a Protestant in return, Why do you pray, and go to church,and why were you baptized, and receive Communion,and the rite of Confirmation ? What is the use ofall these exercises, if the sacrifice of the cross is allsufficient?You will tell me that in all these actsis1Heb. ix. 25. Ibid. x. 11, 12.