The Catechism of the Catholic Church by The Catholic Church

The Catechism of the Catholic Church by The Catholic Church

Author:The Catholic Church
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Popes & the Vatican, Practices & Sacred Texts, Catholicism, Ritual, Worship & Devotion, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles, Other Religions
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


1366 The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit:

[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper “on the night when he was betrayed,” [he wanted] to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of man demands) by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit. [187]



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