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and that has to do with not understanding how great god is
but if we can get some idea of how great god is
then we can get an idea of how offensive sin must be
because when we sin we offend god who is infinite
an infinite being we ourselves are not sufficient nor adequate to pay the price
of our own sin and that is why thanks be to god he sent
his son our lord jesus christ who is god and man who paid the infinite
debt of our sin our lord jesus christ is priest is the high priest and he offers
sacrifice for sin and by offering this sacrifice he reconciles man to god again

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and that is why we have uh the priesthood because we have our lord jesus christ
and because our lord jesus christ offered the adequate sacrifice and that is why
everything depends on this sacrifice to bring man back to god
again and that is the essence of what we're studying here
so to go back to a little bit of an inspiring story
to help us keep thinking about sacrifice you may remember from
a couple weeks ago the life of saint philomena that she was
imprisoned by diocletian the emperor because
she would not consent to marry him and then he just started practicing all kind
of torture on her uh starting with the imprisonment our lady appeared to her
three days before the end of her imprisonment of 40 days with her son in her arm
in her arms saying that uh i will comfort you you're physically
you're going to be very humiliated and you're going to go

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through much suffering right now but i will give you all the strength
that you need in order to be a testimony to the
to my son and actually what i didn't tell you last a couple weeks ago was
uh she said you have the same name as i do
and you have the same name as my son my son is light
and i am the one which reflects the light
the dawn or the star or the moon you are daughter of light
so you're carrying out the same mission as we do we do and we did
said our blessed mother to uh saint philomena
and then she went through three three at
least three horrible tortures which were the a scourging and then um
being dragged through the streets of rome sorry i skipped one which was uh to be
put into the tiber which she didn't suffer at all she was supposed to suffer
by the anchor around her neck she didn't suffer that
at all she was freed by the angels uh she was dragged through the streets

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of rome behind a chariot and she was pierced with arrows one time
and survived it just they tried to pierce her a second time with arrows
flaming and and they didn't have any effect in fact
the arrows turned back on the executioners and she survived all that and finally
as a testimony to the divinity of our lord she was allowed by god
to be either pierced in the neck or beheaded and that was the end of her life at
three o'clock on a friday there was saint philomena
that's the most impressive part of the story but uh
it helps to understand um how we get to that part of the story
there were three different people that were given a revelation of the story for
life uh what i just gave to you is from sister maria luisa
of jesus in italy whose story had the most details but there was also a canon
of a church and a young artist that were all given the revelation

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similar to that i mean not contradicting it all at all
saint philomena is known as the wonder worker
of the 19th century because that's when her body was discovered
the year was 1802 182 in the catacombs of saint priscilla
uh the men the excavators who are constantly studying these catacombs
in order to find relics to venerate found this body found these remains with
three tiles above the tomb marking it the tomb was not opened yet
and the tiles when put together in the right
in what we would call the right order would say pax takum philomena peace
be to you philomena but curiously enough the way the tiles are placed
if there's three tiles or three you know three tiles

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the very center says pakstay piece you and the one to the right says kum fe
and the one at the left-hand side where we where we would normally begin reading
says uh lumina lumina so it looks like lumina
paxte confit which is kind of a riddle in itself but professionals you know
archaeologists and people who know the christian faith
say that that was very common at that time uh in the roman tradition if you have
three tiles or any kind of you know usually odd number where you're
going to give a message you put right in the very center right
in the very center peace be to you because to say peace be to you back in
the roman christian times would have meant our lord jesus christ be in your soul
peace be to you pakista right in the very center
and then the tiles on the other two sides are going to bring out that

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expression pakistan confit and you're saying so some say well that was either a
mistake when they put the tiles in or somebody has opened this tomb
and um they have put remains of some other saint inside and when they put the
tiles back on the tomb they put them in the wrong order
but that is wrong and it's wrong because
the tiles have no cracks in them they're they're
they're ceramic tiles and you can understand
perhaps reusing marble or some kind of stone because it's more valuable
but if it's just clay they would have got new clay
tiles to make is to put the tiles back up again
and also if when you're going to use tiles it's like bricks you're going to use

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mortar and none of the mortar shows signs of having been
removed with the tiles and put back on again there's no cracking or breaking
in that mortar so whoever put those tiles there
put them there on that tomb of that saint for a reason
and the reason i bring it up is as you probably know
1961 there was historical study of various saints that did not
correspond with the history of the church and they take they took the name of
saint philomena off of the universal calendar
of the saints which probably was not a big problem in this country i certainly
i know it certainly wasn't a big problem in the united states because
it the feast would have been august the 11th and it was not celebrated
universally in the united states you can still find it in the votive
section or something like that but in the missile but it was not

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universally celebrated so one would think well they didn't hurt
the church too much by saying that about saint philomena
because it wasn't a universal celebration i'll go ahead and add in my own little
comment here that yes they did hurt the church a lot
because that was an effort to say saint philomena is either no longer a
saint or she was never a saint when they went ahead and did that
because practically what ends up happening even though you say well
in the united states or probably here as well in singapore
uh she wasn't on the universal calendar anyway
so we didn't do any do her any damage they still took a lot of
credibility away from her when they did that and so you end up with people
not making processions in her honor anymore not making no venus to her anymore
not having a statue of her in their home anymore because well she's not what she
used to be and perhaps it was even a false devotion
that's an unfortunate thing i say it because um i just told part of the story

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explained the authenticity of her tomb and we cannot take her away from the
universal calendar just because someone's going to tamper with that authenticity
now um i'll get okay so we'll just leave the
story of saint phil amino there for the time being and we'll continue with other
parts of her life and and her devotion to her in other classes
so what we studied last time as i told you was religion adoration and sacrifice
and that the only the only adequate sacrifice adequate
means which pays the infinite debt the only adequate sacrifice we have is
that of our divine lord he is god and he is infinite
and therefore he can pay an infinite debt

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and this evening we'll consider how our lord has a bloody sacrifice
on the cross what we witness here at the altar
is an unbloody sacrifice which is making the cross of our lord jesus christ
present in an unbloody manner but it still has its strength
from the bloody sacrifice of our lord on the cross
we are going to see how only our lord jesus christ is
the high priest who can pay this infinite debt
we're going to see how uh in heaven our lord jesus christ is a mediator
and an intercessor by praying to his father for sinners and what is the prayer
of our divine lord in heaven for sinners is to show his

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wounds to his father which are a constant adoration to his father the hand the
wounds of the hands the wounds of the feet and the wounds of the side
of our lord are a constant adoration to his father
and that adoration is a prayer for us and finally we will see how we
who receive of the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ
are meant to repeat in our own life a life of sacrifice
so the um the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ
on the cross is the only remission of sin the only payment for sin but
uh it doesn't just stop there last week or
i keep saying last week but last time uh
i told you there are four ends of prayer to adore to thank

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to beg pardon for sin and to beg for the things we need in this life
the graces we need in this life and the big one is propitiation beg
pardon for sin and our lord jesus christ certainly obtains that on the cross
but our lord's sacrifice is not only sufficient
you know to pay the price of the debt of sin
but it is what's called super abundant that's to say even when it's done paying
all the price for all the sin of the whole world for all history before
and during and after our divine lord there's still
an infinite amount left and that's called the super
abundant grace which our lord won for us on the cross
and that grace which overflows from the cross
is the grace which is meant to sanctify us besides paying for the dead of all of

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our sin let's go to that topic about paying the debt of all of our sin um
we know that just our divine lord the second person of blessed trinity
descending from heaven in a certain way leaving the blessed trinity
in order to be present with us here on earth is already an infinite
coming down an infinite condescension of our lord jesus christ that right
right there is enough sacrifice to pay for all of
our sins and the sins of a thousand worlds and you know when we say the word
thousand worlds we mean an infinite number of worlds
that right there that condescension not to speak of shedding of blood as a child
not to speak of humiliations as a child you know that running away to save the
life of the christ child from the from herod who was seeking his life

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that's a suffering that's a humiliation those things are plenty
sufficient to pay the price for our sins but it was by divine decree that is to
say by god the father he wanted the world to be redeemed
by nothing less than the cross saint augustine's words are uh what was
sufficient in justice which would have been the incarnation to pay for our sins
was not sufficient in charity meaning that
the charity of god the mercy of god is so much greater than
just what is required and our lord paid that debt to the last drop of his blood
on the cross in order to fulfill that decree of his father that this payment
must be only by the cross but keep in mind that he did not have to do that

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it would have been a sufficient payment for our sins just
any act as a human being to pay for our pray for our sins because
of the huge condescension of our lord coming from above
it's very important that we remember and that we
emphasize that our lord jesus christ is god and therefore he can pay the
price of our sin but he's also a man he belongs to our human family
he was born of the virgin if our lord jesus christ had kind of
come out of nowhere and become a man already at the age of
what appears to be 30 years old kind of like adam and eve came into this world
he would never have been a member of our human family
our blessed mother is a daughter of adam which is she's a perfect daughter of

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adam our divine lord is the son of the blessed virgin mary he
belongs to the same human family he assimilates our nature
in himself in order to pay in order to pay the debt of our nature i'm sure
we worked out this way and our lord jesus christ was obedient to it
there's there there's a magnificent expression of saint augustine
right around the time of christmas where he says what was not assumed
was not redeemed what was not assumed was not redeemed
meaning as long as our lord jesus christ became a human being
with a human intelligence with human suffering because
adam caused it made it so that men would suffer hunger fatigue
temptation towards anger our lord jesus christ had all that and

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by assuming that weakness of man without sinning without making any
weakness of sin by assuming that weakness of man
he took it all upon himself and put it to death
on the cross with him as saint paul says so it's very important that we remember
not only is our lord god to pay the infinite debt infinite debt but he is man
to pay that debt in the person of man assimilate that weakness of man
in order to pay the price for it so our lord is no stranger to human frailty
and is not some being from some other place they cannot relate to our
infirmity sometimes if i were to ask you you know everyone
close their eyes and think of sort of the perfect man in your mind
uh you would come up with someone in the mind which is like an

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apollo from some sort of a greek god man uh that would be uh so strong
he would impress everybody i'm not going to say that our lord is a weak ling
but i am going to say and it's not just from me that
and according to isaias you have fashioned me a body in which i can suffer
those words would mean that our lord jesus christ had a body
which was much more sensitive than ours so that every kind any kind of suffering
he received he felt it much more than you or i would feel it
the same thing with the um the mind or the kind of the moral being of our lord
jesus christ we've all we've all talked about people
who are a bit sensitive usually what we mean by that is
they think every insult is against them and they react in a very defensive way

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they're sensitive that's a derogatory use of the word
but uh no our lord was sensitive also in what he felt or understood
he was very keen very perceptive and what other people
were feeling in themselves and for that reason he could have so much compassion
on them but when we speak of the sacrifice of our lord
we have to admit that he is very sensitive in his body
and very sensitive in his soul to any kind of suffering
and why so that he could pay the most debt he could offer the most
suffering in reparation for sin all the way to the day of the crucifixion
we often speak about the insults which which the soldiers gave
our divine lord they say they offered him gall
and vinegar to drink and we usually recall that on good friday and that's
the time the right time to correct it and most uh to to to recall it

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uh but actually those drinks were not made to hurt our lord
gaul was offered to all prisoners uh at least those
in the capital punishment goal was offered to all prisoners to
lessen the pain of the nails being driven through their flesh
or the pain of trying to breathe while you're on the cross it's a
anti an anesthetic our lord refused it he did not want anesthesia
he wanted to feel the pain of the cross and then when our lord finally shouts
out from the cross that he has thirst they offer him vinegar to drink
and we think that's a big insult not quite that vinegar is a common wine
and the romans themselves carried that in their whatever their backpack was
back in those days for themselves to drink it was wine they
had allowed to go a little bit spoiled which made a um
acidic flavor sour flavor and they found that that quenched their

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thirst more effectively they offered that to our lord to drink
and he refused it you might have thought ever since your childhood why did our
lord refuse another suffering if they offered him vinegar
it wasn't supposed to be another suffering he was supposed to refresh him
and he refused it he wanted to feel all the pain
of the crucifixion and he had a body and a soul which was much more effective
than ours to feel it our lord jesus christ a what is unique about his
priesthood from the cross and also his priesthood here at the altar
is that our lord does not look for a ram or some kind of animal
where he's going to uh put his own guilt kind of in a
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that's a man does that's what abel did that's what noah did that's what moses
did god did want did not want man putting himself to death
to death god did not want man well effectively
committing suicide and to pay for his sins for one thing would be inadequate i
think i've told you that before you know as much as we might say well
i'm going to take my own life to pay for this infinite sin i made against you
guess what besides besides committing suicide
it doesn't pay the debt because we are just finite creatures
although our sin is infinite because it offends an infinite god
our lord jesus christ has a mission from
his father which is to offer up his life for sinners
there is not one moment in the passion of our lord jesus christ
from holy thursday night until his death at three o'clock
in the afternoon on friday afternoon there is not

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one moment there where our lord is not in control of the whole
event going on around him we have a proof of that in saint john's gospel
not the other three but saint john's yes uh where um
you know our lord has prayed for three hours in the garden of gethsemane his
uh apostles have fallen asleep on him three times and then finally comes the
cohort from the temple led by judas judas
kisses our lord to give the sign of the others if that's he that is he he must
grab him overtake him and then our lord turns to the cohort and says
whom do you seek and they say jesus of nazareth he says i am he
and at once the whole cohort we're talking about hundreds of soldiers
fall to the ground you know you might say that's adoration or was not

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that's because our lord as god was sustaining him
sustaining them in the standing position from the first place he just withdrew
for a few seconds their power to sustain their own weight on their own feet
and they fell to the ground our lord gave them a show of his divinity
and there was the last time he showed his divinity
and you don't see it again until the resurrection but that does not mean that
our lord is not in control of the situation
witness the words of our divine lord to saint peter when saint peter's trying to
fend off the um those who have come to arrest our lord
our lord says put the sword away is not the time for it
and don't you think that me as god i would be able to defend myself with twelve
legions of angels at this very time this very moment
allegiant has six thousand twelve times six forty eight thousand angels at this

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time our lord says no we we don't need that now what we need is a sacrifice
now is the hour of darkness i'll admit that
but what this what these dark people are going to affect
is the liberation of the whole world from sin
and that's going to happen through this sacrifice our lord is completely
in control of the situation he wants it he wants it to happen
he is the one sacrificing the victim there is no such thing as sacrificing a
victim without doing it of your own will when able when noah when moses
sacrificed a victim they wish to give up forfeit the ownership of that creature
and say this belongs to god our lord jesus christ
does the exact same thing by his the offering of his own life
he says this this belongs to life you have given me a body

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which is fashioned to suffer and now i offer this body and this
i offer this body i offer this sacrifice his whole human nature
i offer this sacrifice to you and our lord voluntarily offers that
so when you assist at mass and you see the priest offering a the bread and wine
which become the body and blood of our lord jesus christ
and which are immolated in a mystical way
upon the altar you are the reality which you are witnessing
is our lord jesus christ freely offering up his body and blood
to give glory to his father and to pay the debt of sin um there is no

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um salvation without suffering sorry there is no forgiveness of sin
without penance there is no redemption from sin without sacrifice
and particularly the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ
that is the offering that we see at the altar where our lord is the priest
offering and making the offering and our lord
is the victim being offered at the same time our lord is the priest making the
offering and our lord is the victim being offered
when you see the priest celebrating or offering the holy sacrifice of the mass
you are seeing the altair christus the other christ

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saint paul says that in the new testament there is only one priesthood
in the old testament there were as many priesthoods as there were priests
old testament would have been thousands and thousands of priests
belonging to the tribe of levi uh offering sacrifices
and different kinds of sacrifices you have the
holocaust sacrifice you have the peace offering
and you have the sin offering one of them is a complete destruction of the
animal another one is a destruction of most of the animal but
some parts are left for both the priests and for the families
to partake of and finally one is an offering of
a good part of the animal and then only the priests get to have part of that
but different kinds of sacrifices different kinds of priests
but in the new testament there is only one priest
and that is our lord jesus christ and when you see thousands and thousands of
priests as there you used to be all of those priests are nothing but the

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extending out of the priesthood of our lord jesus christ
and be careful it's very important that we insist on these priests
who are the extension of the priesthood of our lord jesus christ
these priests are truly ordained priests by a bishop
at the very close of the conference this evening
we'll see how there's been some change of mentality in that
in the new thinking they would like to convince us that
the faithful attending mass are priests also and that the mass is offered
as long as they are there with the priest otherwise they
there's no celebration of mass without them i'll come back to that point
but the main thing i want you to remember remember right now is that
only the priest offers the sacrifice and he is offering the sacrifice because
he is the extension of our lord's priesthood

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and that's what's going on at the altar our lord is the priest
high priest and he's offering himself as the victim
as it was once explained to me when i was a young man
uh we can say that god who is our lord jesus christ is offering god himself
the infinite victim to god his father that is the reality that we are
witnessing at mass when our lord died upon the cross
he was making the perfect act of adoration to his father
we know that before he went to the cross he spent an excruciating night

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in the garden of gethsemane what caused this pain was that
our lord was bringing his human will around to completely submitting itself
to the divine will so that he would give everything to his
father not just the physical suffering which was immense
but also the spiritual or moral suffering which was even much bigger
to completely sacrifice oneself for so many sinners that was a huge thing
and a huge suffering to our lord then the next day he went through all
the physical sufferings one of the interpretations of our lord's
one of our lord's last words from the cross which was i thirst
was his desire that souls profit and benefit from this

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excruciating sacrifice which he was making physically and morally i thirst
i look for souls that are going to be be sanctified by this
offering and as you know as we all know uh and as we have studied in a sermon
recently if our lord cured ten lepers only one came back to say thank you
kind of showing us what are the odds of the generosity of our lord
to our sinners and the return that he gets back from us
if he pays with his life for the sins of 10 people
one person will return to say thank you one person will return to say
let me live by your sacrifice let me be sanctified by your sacrifice
let me live in your sacrifice this coldness and indifference
with which so many respond to the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ

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is more painful to him than the passion itself
the coldness and the indifference of men so we've looked at how
only our lord our lord sacrifice on the cross which is the bloody sacrifice
can pay for our sins and then as a result result of that
we also have the super abundant grace which is all the grace to sanctify
ourselves when we receive holy communion when we confess our sins
when we assisted holy mass it's not because
we're in grave danger of death or we're in grave sin
or in grave danger of committing sin a great sin or something
it's not because of those things it's because we wish to

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build up in our soul the life of sanctifying grace which
our lord has given us and wish to build it up and build it up and build it up so
we can give more and more glory to his father in heaven
that is making use of the super abundant grace which goes beyond
the propitiation for our sins so we've seen the sacrifice we've seen how
only it is adequate to pay for our sins we've seen how that is the super
abundant sacrifice uh we've seen how our lord in heaven
is making intercession that sounds a little unusual it sounds like
only saints make intercession but understand it correctly
intercession is a mediator he is constantly showing
his wounds to his father which are his greatest
sign of obedience to the will of his father those
wounds are shining like sons all of them s-u-n-s

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sons giving glory to his father and they are the constant prayer to his father
to help sinners on earth that is what our lord is accomplishing
in heaven and then on earth he is continuing his sacrifice by the mass
which you all attend all the time do you know that the idea of christians
coming together to give glory to god without a mass did not exist until about
1520 something like that 1 520 years after our divine lord
some christians got it into their mind but we can get together we and we don't
need the sacrifice of the altar that was never heard of before that time
i know it's been 500 years since then which is sounding more ancient than dirt
for us but more in the heat than the hills for us but think of that

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1520 years of christianity passed where christians would not
think of convening for worship without offering the holy sacrifice of
our lord upon the altar that only starts in the last 500 years
to tell us how important that is when our lord said to his apostles
shortly after his resurrection he said whatever you ask in my name
you will receive hitherto you have never you have not asked for anything in my
name which is kind of interesting i would have thought the apostles
many occasions with our divine lord three years of spending time with him
they would have asked for things from god through
him they could see his miracles they could see
how he could just give anything he wanted and whenever he wanted
they would have asked him for things which is true but our lord means

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something different here you have hitherto hitherto you have not asked for
anything in my name meaning the result the holy sacrifice the sacrifice of the
cross has now made me mediator with all of you in a way which i was not before
because of the sacrifice i am and i will be forever
offering prayers to my father for you now is the time to ask me for things
because my presence in heaven with the wounds
shining at my father are going to give you anything you ask
for that's what he means by hitherto you've not asked for anything
in my name in the name of my crucifixion in the name of my sacrifice which is
paying this redemption for you all our lord's human nature i keep talking
about his sacrifice and how it paid the debt and he was he's adequate
and all that uh there's one mystery i won't spend too much time on it but

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we've learned it in catechism and it's good to hear repeat it
um our lord has two natures his divine nature and a human nature
and the union of these two in one person is called hypostatic union
it's because he is god or his godness his divinity
that anoints i know there's no oil seen but that anoints his human nature and
elevates that human nature to the level of a creature
higher than any other and it is correct that the
body and soul of our lord jesus christ are creatures
and is by that divine nature touching them that it lifts it up so high
and that's how we end up with this that only through the
humanity of our lord jesus christ can we be saved because that is connected to
his divinity or saint paul says he he is the firstborn of all creatures
it's because the human nature is so elevated
in his humanity we live and move and are very good so we will close with a

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comparison to what we might see today in the novus ordo mass
the new order of mass remember how we started this conference
he's i said that we've lost some concepts nowadays
we don't understand what a priest is because we don't understand what sacrifices
we don't understand what sacrifice is because we don't understand
what sin really is offense against god and therefore we don't even see people
going to confession i'm talking about the big general we i'm
not talking about necessarily even this congregation here
i think all of us get the idea that it's kind of exceptional come to this church
which has 250 members compared to all the other big churches around us
and that's because i think we still have
some idea of these things confession sin sacrifice priest

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but in the novus ordo they don't have these ideas anymore they're not talked
about anymore they're not insisted upon we understand that uh in order to be
to have our sin paid for our lord needs to offer the infinite sacrifice
this sacrifice is made present on the altar by the priest
only the priest who is ordained can offer this sacrifice well now in the
new mass what they like to think is there are or there is the people of god
who simply join the priest in celebrating the eucharist
and in that there is no offering of the sacrifice of calvary for sins

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that's what they've done uh i'll repeat that they believe that the people of god
are simply joining the priest in celebrating the eucharist and there is
no offering of sacrifice for sins that's what they think
a few points from what they call the general instruction of the mass that
would be the new max they have this idea in the general instruction
which says that the people they don't speak of the congregation
anymore or the faithful they speak of the people of god they have expressions
which show what they're thinking that the people are con celebrating with christ
or with the priest and here would be some quotes
in the instruction of how they say this the people of god

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exercising their priestly function intercede for all humanity
they offer the victim not only through the hands of the priest
but also together with him meaning that they're not totally reliant on the
priest to offer the sacrifice but together with him
just as he's offering at the altar they are also offering at their pews
and those is about six or seven times in the general instruction that that is
mentioned this idea of the people of god uh celebrating with the priest was
condemned by pope pius xii in 1947 in the encyclical mediator dei obviously
when the novus ordo came out it was 20 years later
and they had just scrapped that condemnation and went ahead with it anyway

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it was condemned and just to give you a little idea where
they would get this idea of the priesthood of the faithful be careful
there is a passage in saint peter's epistle where he speaks about
all of you are a kingly priesthood or a royal priesthood
the reference in the context is you've been
is you've been baptized into the blood of our lord jesus christ
meaning that your life is going to be a sacrifice just as his life was a
sacrifice and in that context he says everyone is baptized as priestly
but he doesn't say that you're part of the ministerial priesthood
consecrating bread and wine and making into the body and blood of our lord
he does not say that however modernists get a hold of the phrase capitalize on
it utilize it just for their intentions to say priesthood of the faithful

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priesthood of the people of god and that is wrong um here's a quote of them
in in the general instruction they say that the mass
is not an act of the priest with whom the people unite themselves
as the mass used to be explained rather the eucharist is rather than
an act of the people israel the eucharist is rather
an act of the people whom the ministers serve
by making christ present sacramentally so you almost get the idea that
the people could offer the mass without the priest present
the eucharist is rather an act of the people whom the ministers serve
by making christ present sacramentally in that i see a glorification of man and
not submitting to a priest who is offering an altar christus

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another christ who is offering the sacrifice not because the priest
yeah whatever human person is some great person no the priest as alter christus
is doing a great thing and then one more expression
and they say so it is important that a pastoral celebration
manifest this view that the faithful the people of god
are offering the eucharist celebrating the eucharist
and not fall into the error of making the people's participation
seem less than the ministers that's a problem uh you know they're saying um
not fall into the error of making the people's participation
appear less than the ministers well the minister is the priest
if you don't have him sacrificing at the altar there's not going to be a

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sacrifice if in the congregation there are people present as magnificent
if there are not people present the sacrifice still being offered at the altar
and our lord jesus christ wants that sacrifice
and that would explain why you might see if there are no faithful present at a
nova sort of mass the priest will not offer mass
because he's thinking if there are no faithful
there's no reason to celebrate the eucharist whereas a traditional priest
uh and you might have seen this if there are five priests present and all need
to get their mass celebrated i don't know between seven o'clock and nine
o'clock in the morning you might see one priest at the main
altar and several other priests at their own altar
simultaneously offering masses which are not attended by people only the central
masses attended by people because they know that christ wants that
sacrifice altar offered to pay for sins and by every priest not just one priest

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joined by 10 others celebrating the same time as he is
it's a different mentality which is which is essential
it's a it's an essential change in mentality
in the traditional way the priest is offering a sacrifice
to pay the price for sins in the novus ordo way the people of god are helping
or on their own they are celebrating eucharist
with a priest to pray to god but that's it nothing about sacrifice nothing about
sin nothing about victim nothing about priesthood
it really is a protestant protestant way of thinking
like i say it wasn't until the year 15 20 that it was conceivable
that people would get together for christian worship without
the body and blood of our lord jesus christ but now it's
things have evolved into that again and in what we see

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in the novus ordo mass very good so principle point to remember our points
to remember from this lecture are that our lord jesus christ pays the infinite
debt in a bloody manner with a sacrifice on the cross
not just what's necessary to propitiate for our sins but also to
gain graces for souls our lord is the priest and at the same time the victim
of his sacrifice our lord has priests at the altar sharing in his priesthood
and finally we are meant to offer our lord our lives as sacrifice with the
sacrifice of our lord jesus christ so we'll close with a prayer

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in the name of the father and son holy ghost of grace the lord is jesus
the name of the father you