HAYES, RICHARD

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: oies; but, on the contrary, to receive Christ as a sacrament, either species is sufficient; as either species, and every particle of either species, contains Christ entire in his whole humanity and in his whole divinity; not by the change effected in the consecration, for that produces the body or the blood alone, but by the intimate union of his divine person with his body, blood and soul; which, having once assumed, the Son of God never relinquished, nor allowed to separate, except at his death; when his body, blood and soul were separated, not from the divinity, but from each other, for the short space of three days. The Catholic Church further holds, that Christ is present in the sacrament, as long as the appearance and qualities of bread or wine continue; and that when these are destroyed, either in the stomach of the receiver, or by any other means, then Christ is no longer there. Finally, the Catholic Church believes, that by the words, Do this in commemoration of me, our all-powerful Redeemer ordained his Apostles Priests of the new law, empowering and commanding them to do what he had done; namely, to change bread and wine into his body and his blood, and offer them up in sacrifice: that this power, together with all the others necessary for the permanency of his religion, is transmitted to their successors, the priests of the Catholic Church: that, consequently, Christ, in his humanity and divi- nity, is present on every altar where Mass is celebrated: that this daily sacrifice, is substantially and meritoriously, the same, as the bloody sacrifice of the cross, because the divine victim is the same in both: and, that it is likewise a commemoration of his death, because the mode, and only the mode of oblation is different; the former being effected by the re...

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