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| Christ the Most Perfect Victim for Cleansing Our Faults. In Every Sacrifice Four Things are to Be Considered.
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Chapter 14.—Christ the Most
Perfect Victim for Cleansing Our Faults. In Every Sacrifice Four
Things are to Be Considered.
19. They do not understand, that
not even the proudest of spirits themselves could rejoice in the
honor of sacrifices, unless a true sacrifice was due to the one
true God, in whose stead they desire to be worshipped: and that
this cannot be rightly offered except by a holy and righteous
priest; nor unless that which is offered be received from those for
whom it is offered; and unless also it be without fault, so that it
may be offered for cleansing the faulty. This at least all desire
who wish sacrifice to be offered for themselves to God. Who then is
so righteous and holy a priest as the only Son of God, who had no
need to purge His own sins by sacrifice,521
neither original sins, nor those
which are added by human life? And what could be so fitly chosen by
men to be offered for them as human flesh? And what so fit for this
immolation as mortal flesh? And what so clean for cleansing the
faults of mortal men as the flesh born in and from the womb of a
virgin, without any infection of carnal concupiscence? And what
could be so acceptably offered and taken, as the flesh of our
sacrifice, made the body of our priest? In such wise that, whereas
four things are to be considered in every sacrifice,—to whom it
is offered, by whom it is offered, what is offered, for whom it is
offered,—the same One and true Mediator Himself, reconciling us
to God by the sacrifice of peace, might remain one with Him to whom
He offered, might make those one in Himself for whom He offered,
Himself might be in one both the offerer and the
offering.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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