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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
representative way in a very
vicarious way in that animal and then
emulate it
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
in the name of the father and son holy
ghost of grace the lord is jesus
the name of the father
you