inundado por um mistério de luz que é Deus e N´Ele vi e ouvi -A ponta da lança como chama que se desprende, toca o eixo da terra, – Ela estremece: montanhas, cidades, vilas e aldeias com os seus moradores são sepultados. - O mar, os rios e as nuvens saem dos seus limites, transbordam, inundam e arrastam consigo num redemoinho, moradias e gente em número que não se pode contar , é a purificação do mundo pelo pecado em que se mergulha. - O ódio, a ambição provocam a guerra destruidora! - Depois senti no palpitar acelerado do coração e no meu espírito o eco duma voz suave que dizia: – No tempo, uma só Fé, um só Batismo, uma só Igreja, Santa, Católica, Apostólica: - Na eternidade, o Céu!  |  |
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The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass HOLY Mass is the unbloody sacrifice of the New Testament in which the Body and Blood of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, are offered to God under the appearance of bread and wine. Humanity's redemption was accomplished when Christ bowed His head in death on the Cross. The Holy Mass is the sacrament of the sacrifice of Redemption, through which more abundantly than through any other means (Council of Trent) the merits of Christs redeeming death are applied to souls. The Mass is not a mere symbol recalling the sacrifice of the Cross. It is a sacrament, a symbol that does what it signifies. Through the separate consecration of the bread and wine, Christ our Lord, speaking through His priests, portrays the shedding of His Blood and His dying on Calvary, and becomes really present under symbols that show Him to be in a state of victimhood. In accomplishing this act, Christ presents once more before His Father His immolation on the Cross, with all that it involves of love and obedience, of adoration, thanksgiving, propitiation and petition. Thus, St. Cyprian writing to the Christians of the 3rd century declared: The sacrifice which we offer to God is the Passion of our Lord Himself. Besides being the sacramental renewal of Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, the Mass is also our sacrifice. Holy Baptism grafted us in Christ, the true Vine. We are members of Christ's Mystical Body, the Church. Christ our Head is the priest and the victim of every Mass. The Sacred Ministers act in the person not only of our Savior, but of the whole Mystical Body and of everyone of the faithful. Christ offers not only Himself as Head of the Church, but in Himself His mystical members as well. (Pope Pius XII, Mediator Dei.) In every Mass, therefore, we are associated with the complete consecration, the obedience unto death of Christ our Head. Attendance at Mass should be for us the renewal of our Baptismal promises, a sincere dedication to Christian living, to the following of Christ, to doing the Will of God. THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF THE MASS THE Holy Mass really consists of two services. The First Part, from the Prayers at the foot of the Altar to the Creed inclusively, is a service of prayer and instruction called Mass of the Catechumens, because, during the early centuries of Christianity, people under instruction, but not yet baptized (Catechumens), were permitted to be present at this service, but were excluded from the Eucharistic sacrifice. The Second Part called Mass of the Faithful, because only the baptized were permitted to assist, is the Eucharistic sacrifice. This part begins with the Offertory Verse and continues until the end of Mass. | ||||||||||||
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