let us pray
instruct the hearts of the faithful by
the life of the holy ghost friend is by
the same spirit be truly wise
rejoice in this consolation through the
same christ
hail mary full of grace the lord is
is
very well so thank you for coming again
this is our third conference about
uh the first week first time we had the
class was about
um sacrifice being the highest form of
adoration
and adoration being the highest form of
the virtue of religion
last week we heard about our divine lord
who is the only adequate
sacrificer the only one who can pay
the infinite debt for debt for sin and
how he
is now in heaven as our mediator
constantly offering the prayer to his
father
of his five wounds for our
remission of sin while on earth he is
constantly offering his holy sacrifice
made new over and over
again on the altar
and finally last week we studied a
little of how
only the priest can be the sacrificer
because he's the ordained minister and
that point will come again
come up again tonight but first i'd like
to return to our saint who is kind of
our
theme of these classes for as long as
her
story lasts that saint philomena
last week we looked inside into some of
the authenticity
of her relics her remains
in the catacomb catacomb of saint
priscilla i was telling you how the
tiles
the three tiles which read pakistakum
philomena
actually are in the right order and the
grave has never been violated
and for that reason the relics which are
inside
the grave are the true relics of the
person whose name is on the outside of
the grave
so this evening i'm going to jump ahead
a little bit in the story of saint
philomena
to some of the more well-known people we
know
we know and then i'll jump back again
and
so forth but the theme will be always
saint philomena
for as long as we study her life
remember of course that her name
philomena means not just light
but daughter of the light the light
being our lord jesus christ
she was given that name by her parents
after they
they converted to the true faith and
then conceived the child they were
barren
until that time until they took the true
faith
and um they called her light when she
was born
in honor of our divine lord who is the
light of this world
and then when they baptized her just a
few days later they called her phil
lomina
meaning the daughter of the light
and when our blessed mother appeared to
philomena
in the prison when she was imprisoned by
diocletian
at the age of 13. she was in prison for
37 days and our lady came to her with
her divine child in her arms and
she said my daughter you will be here
another three days
and then we'll begin many tortures
you will be humiliated because of your
physical state but all of your
humiliation will cause
greater glory to my son
and she said have no fear our blessed
lady told her have no fear
you have my name and you have my son's
name
the more i study the story the more i
see that
philomena was something essential for
the beginning of the church
outside of the catacombs but you have
the name
you have the name of my son you have and
you have my name
uh my son is light of the world
he's taken away the darkness of sin i
also am called
moon and star of the sea
and dawn our lady she has
terms of light also which come from her
sun the moon is a reflection of the sun
the sea reflects the light of the sky
the dawn is the beginning of the
sunlight
but our lady has light in so far she
reflects that of her son
and she said you have our name philomena
so you know many christians are going to
come to the faith because of you and
your sacrifices
and so that's what kept philomena
faithful for the different tortures
we've heard about the last few
classes so i'm going to jump ahead here
to a saint
who's probably the one most responsible
for making saint philomena known
and that would be saint john vienne or
the curie of ours
in the 19th century at the beginning
saint philomena's relics were discovered
in 1802
uh the same relics arrived at her place
in munyano of italy
in 1805 and then miracles started
happening everywhere
so people were hearing about saint
philomena and saint philomena
and the curie of ours heard of her in
france
and he right away started praying to her
so we're talking about the 1830s by that
time
and uh you'll we'll hear this story on
another night
which was that of pauline jerichot
uh venerable pauline jerichot she was
the one who
was the founders of the propaganda fidei
thanks to her we have a whole commission
in rome which is set aside for bringing
the faith to the missions
and that's another story but this woman
became very very ill
and she was already a friend of the
curie curie of ours
she was french woman she lived in france
she consulted
saint john vienne regularly and he said
to her she had a great sickness of the
heart
heart disease and she was dying it was
so obvious
he said um pray to saint philomena
make a pilgrimage to muniano
which if you study the geography we're
in you know
france and she has to travel
over the alps to go through italy get
italy get down to the southern part of
italy and to
muniano to visit the relics of
saint philomena which she did
amazingly who knows how she did it in
her physical state but she did
she was cured and the cure was
authenticated by
pope gregory the 16th yes pogrover 16th
and for that reason he canonized uh
saint philomena until that time she was
not saying philomena was not canonized
she was just working miracles
but thanks to the the the the journey
of uh pauline jerichot the pope finally
canonized her and she was saint
so this pauline jericho brought back to
eventually went back to france
visit this she had she had to stay with
a pope for a whole year
first in rome so the pope would be sure
that this is the same woman he saw this
is so sick
and he she was already a friend of the
pope before this um illness
because the propaganda fide and
she stayed from rome for a whole year
and finally went back to
france she saw the cure
and she thanked him so much for the
command to go visit
the relics of saint philomena and she
gave him a relic
uh just so you remember relics are
first-class relics second or third
first are either bone or blood of the
saint
second are a part of the habit of the
saint or
something they were constantly in
contact with like the breviary or
something that they use daily or some
sheets of their bed or something like
that
uh that's the second class relic and
third class relic is anything we touch
to the saint
so she brought back for the curie um
a first class relic he constructed an
altar
about the year 1837
and from there on out well actually it
had already begun but
he was a great devotee of saint
philomena he's the one who sent
paulie and jericho to the saint
philomena to begin with
and um all kinds of miracles happen in
the church of
ours the curie of ours in
and it's kind of an interesting um
relation there between saint philemian
philharmin and the cure
he was so holy already that he was
working miracles
but he was especially working miracles
because he had the relic of saint
philhamien in his church
and she and he was one making her so
well known
throughout the world so many times he
would cure someone
as soon as they started praising him
thank you so much for
giving my sight back or thank you so
much for giving my
uh my able ability to walk again oh sir
he was embarrassed about the thing
that's how saints are
all he knows is that he loves god if
there are wonders happening on happening
around him
it's nothing to do to himself that's
what saints know
so causing great embarrassment so the
first thing that says no it is not i who
have cured you is
saint philomena and he would say things
like
to no one he would say i wish the saint
philomena would her work
her cures in other places so as not to
bring all the fame to me
um
so uh saint philomena constantly
performed miracles through the hands of
the curie
uh this embarrassed him this however did
not dissuade
saint philomena from doing this and so
he blamed it
blamed all these cures on her blame to
be in quotation marks
and he would often say i wish he would
do her cures and miracles
someplace else so as not to bring
attention to me
soon all of france was praying paying
devotion to her
with churches in her name everywhere
uh in the church of ours they had on the
average
14 cures per week
either due to saint philomena or to
saint john vienne
uh the region of long gray in france
alone
had 12 churches in the name of saint
philomena
and these and her um cultists
the devotion to her attracted many
people on three dates in particular
august the 11th which is her birthday in
heaven the day she arrived in heaven
may the 25th the fine which is the
finding of her relics in 1802
and sunday within the octave of the
ascension which is called the patronage
of saint philomena
so the year 1843
arrived if you remember i said saint
john vienne
built the altar in her honor in her
honor with the relic in 1837.
1843 arrived and the curie was
fatally ill he had double pneumonia
on may the third he was too exhausted to
preach he retired to his humble room
the next five days he became
progressively worse
three doctors consulted him and finally
told him there was nothing more they
could do for him
the confessor of the cure of ours was
called and gave him last rites
the priest said have you forgiven your
enemies
saint john said i don't wish harm to
anyone
i have no enemies to forgive
the next morning the curie asks for mass
to be offered
for him at the altar of saint philomena
while the mass was going on he was not
present at the mass he was in his
private room while the mass was going on
at the very
beginning he was very anxious
but as soon as the mass started let's
see before the mass started he was very
anxious
as soon as the mass started he became
perfectly calm
during the mass he was seen to be
whispering or murmuring with someone the
whole time
while a greater look of peace came over
his face
obviously he was speaking with saint
philomena as soon as the mass ended
he joyfully announced that he was cured
and it was true there was no doubt no
more double pneumonia
the body was still very very weak from
all the malnutrition that happens in
these things
but he promptly got up from his bed he
went to the church
knelt in front of the blessed sacrament
to give thanks to god for the cure
and then he went to the altar of saint
philomena to spend
a good long time in kala queen
meditation with her
he said that at that time at that
colloquy
uh with saint philomena she gave him
thoughts and secrets about the love of
god
that he would retain until the end of
his life
that's how cool saying philomena is to
the cure of ours and thanks to him
all of us know about her
um when we say that about how saint
philip
st philomena revealed secrets to him
gave him thoughts about the love of god
until this dying day
that reminds us reminds me very much
anyway of
saint paul the epistle we're going to
hear in a couple days
how being united to our lord jesus
christ in his imprisonment
he knew about the breadth and length and
height and depth
of the love of the sacred heart but
without that suffering he would not have
known
so sooner or later all these saints
sooner or later they overlap
and here's we have saint philomena
overlapping with saint john viene
overlapping with saint paul the love of
our lord jesus christ which they learn
through their suffering so very good
with the thoughts of saint philomena in
mind
about um suffering and sacrifice and
loving god
we go into the holy sacrifice of the
mass again
remembering that adoration is the
highest form of sacrifice
and our lord jesus christ is the only
adequate sacrifice
he's the only one can that can pay the
infinite debt of sin
because he is god he is infinite and he
pays that
in the person of man because man is the
one that sinned
that's how we're so grateful to the
hypostatic union
the fact that the divine nature of our
lord jesus christ informed the human
nature of his body and soul
and completely transformed it it's due
to that
transformation that you and i are
redeemed that you and i can be connected
to the humanity of our lord jesus christ
and thus ascend to his divinity
there is
excuse me we study the unbloody
sacrifice of the altar
the unbloody sacrifice of the altar
our lord makes present his sacrifice of
calvary on the altar
in an unbloody manner this
is the clean oblation
that was spoken of in the old testament
ever since melchizedek until the time of
our lord jesus christ and until now
the clean oblation keep in mind what a
person
a jewish person an israelite person
would have thought of sacrifice
sacrifice is an animal the best
sacrifices
are it's bloody sorry to use this word
it's messy
uh it doesn't look so glorious but one
knows that he's offering up
life as a representation of his own life
for his sins whereas
the sacrifice that you and i see is the
clean oblation
upon the altar we see bread and wine but
we know the re that the reality is
that is body and blood of our lord jesus
christ on the altar
and melchizedek is the first one who
prefigured the sacrifice of our lord
melchizedek
is a priest and a king who lived the
time of abraham
and abraham as you know is the root the
source
of all christianity he's the one that
was chosen to be the father of great
nations from whom would come the
redeemer
from whom we are that starts with
abraham
and abraham himself
was blessed by the king and priest
melchizedek
melchizedek is the king of salem which
means the king of peace
melchizedek blesses abraham
meaning that he's somehow greater than
abraham because the greater blessed the
lesser
melchizedek receives alms from abraham
which is true
abraham gave a donation to
melchizedek and we know that donations
go from the lesser to the higher
you all give donations to the church
because the church is higher
and melchizedek offered a sacrifice
which was
bread and wine and not an animal
not oil not some kind of plant life he
offered bread and wine
in that bread and wine he was already
prefiguring
the clean oblation of our lord
and one of the titles of our lord jesus
christ is that he is a priest
according to the order of melchizedek it
means he's greater than abraham
it means he offers a sacrifice which is
not bloody
the one that's on the altar and it means
that
he offers the clean oblation and
furthermore
melakaiah says it is the clean oblation
which is known
to all the gentiles which is offered
from the rising of the sun to the
setting thereof
it means from the east rising sun to the
setting road to the west the whole world
sees the clean oblation of our lord
jesus christ
upon the altar
and only we as catholics know about that
even the jewish people the old testament
people as close to god as they were
they are the chosen race physically
speaking humanly speaking they are the
chosen race
they've received they've refused the
life of grace
that our divine lord offered them and so
now we see them as a just a human and
carnal race anymore
but they were once the human and
spiritual race
even these people when they are
worshipped in the temple
the temple which is one of the most
glorious buildings ever made
with the sacrifices so ordained by god
in the book of
exodus books of exodus and deuteronomy
even then they have a carnal carnal
and exterior sacrifice and saint paul
constantly refers to this they have a
carnal and exterior sacrifice they do
not have the offering of
a contrite heart they do not have the
offering of a contrite
spirit which is giving glory to god
they have a carnal and exterior
sacrifice whereas the christian
since the time of our lord jesus christ
has the interior
into spiritual and interior sacrifice
how is that we come to mass we assist at
mass we see
the priests offering sacrificing at the
altar
but we see no blood we
smell no burning you can imagine what
the temple must have smelled like if
we're human beings we like the smell of
roasting flesh it must have smelt
kind of desirable and they would say
there was a smoke and incense
type of incense being offered to god
because they were not the ones
principally who were able to eat from
those sacrifices
but we don't see that we don't smell it
we don't physically we don't sense that
sacrifice
and that is because even though it is a
true sacrifice there's no doubt about it
it's a true
and physical real sacrifice in the altar
without it the cross of our lord jesus
christ will remain
locked in time without being able to
apply its merits to our souls
that's why our lord insisted at the last
supper with his apostles
do this in commemoration of me
you know you must offer the sacrifice
otherwise it remains
locked stagnant held in one place and um
this is true sacrifice we don't
with the eyes physicalize we don't see
it we don't smell it we don't sense it
but we know from our the words of our
divine lord it is a sacrifice it is the
sacrifice
it is spiritual and interior it is
making a spiritual and
interior conversion of our souls
with the jew the israelite before the
time of our lord jesus christ
there was something spiritual about the
sacrifice saint paul says that it was
making reparation for sin insofar as i
looked forward to
the sacrifice of our lord jesus christ
which would make the final reparation
for sin
but saint paul says but in itself it was
not cleansing the conscience
it was not purifying the soul it was
making reparation for sin and
so far it was connected to the
crucifixion but it was not cleansing the
conscience
he says how much more will the sacrifice
the shedding of the blood of our lord
jesus christ
cleanse the conscience and that is what
you and i have
when we assist at i'll say the true
sacrifice
this is not to say the sacrifice of the
israelites was false i'm just saying
that
it has its fulfillment in our lord jesus
christ
when our lord died on the cross you know
that the veil of the temple was
torn in two it shows that
there is no need for the temple anymore
from now on
the sacrifice sacrifice of our lord is
open to all souls
and it also means
this sacrifice until the time of our
lord jesus christ
left the jewish people in a material
world
in their material sins material problems
the bondage of fear
is how saint paul describes it whereas
with the sacrifice of our lord
we're freed from that bondage of fear
and we're separated from the world
and now we're living the spiritual life
with our lord jesus christ
very good
there is the
old covenant and the new covenant
in the old covenant
uh the people had to be faithful to the
law
and they had the bloody sacrifice which
i just described to you
in the new covenant
we don't focus so much on the law
because we have
our lord jesus christ with his shedding
of blood on the cross
that shedding of blood may present on
the altar and therefore
the souls are inspired
to not just to obey the law but the
souls are inspired to do
more and more whatever they can
in order to um give more glory to god
and try to think of it and try to focus
on it for we as
for us as catholics we live in an age
and it's been 500 years of this age
already
with a catholic church at least humanly
and according to man et cetera
is breaking down all right there's no
there's no use to deny that but our lord
jesus christ is with his church he will
be with it to the end of the world
principally in his sacrifice the holy
communion but in many many other ways
so we're used to seeing protestants and
hearing protestants and
and eventually after several hundred
years to have a certain kind of respect
for them that they
persevere as much as they do and i've
seen protestants protesting
immoral things and bad things in the
united states so the catholics don't
even care about anymore
don't get up to do anything about it
anymore all right so not praising them
just giving credit where credit is due
here you are here we have this poor
protestant who studies his bible
110 of the day
as compared to a catholic who has
everything who has
transubstantiation let's say
the changing of the bread and wine on
the altar
into the blood body and blood soul and
divinity of our lord jesus christ
he has christ himself with his real
presence on the altar
the catholic and many times he doesn't
even care about it
and much more so in the last 50 years
because our theology and our doctrine
has been
watered down and he confused so much to
give us the idea that we believe
just this and only the same thing as
protestants believe
which is very unfortunate but we have
everything
but unfortunately we don't give it as
much enthusiasm as the
protestant does many in many cases
so um we're now in the new covenant
when our lord jesus christ insisted on
this new covenant
it was on the occasion of the last
supper
with his his apostles the last supper as
you
probably know has three parts
our lord started with the
pasco lamb or the you could say the
ceremonial victim
and then from there he went to the
washing of the feet of the apostles
and then he concluded the evening with
them with the institution of the holy
eucharist
now it was necessary and not an accident
at all
that our lord instituted the holy
eucharist on the same night
as it was necessary to eat the paschal
lamb
pascal lamb as you know had to be it
eaten entirely
from head all the way to the tail and
what they could not eat they had to burn
so the idea of immolation is obvious
this lamb stands for is the figure of
the redeemer that will completely
spend himself complete shed every last
drop of his blood
to pay the price for our sin so our lord
ate that paschal lamb with his apostles
and then after the washing defeat they
returned to the table and he instituted
the holy eucharist
from some of the elements of the
ceremonial meal itself
he gave them his flesh and blood
he instituted the eucharist the
institute of the priesthood
and it's necessary they did that on that
occasion to show us that
the old covenant what used to be
more of a human sacrifice a fleshly and
carnal sacrifice
had been sublimated had been lifted to
the new covenant which is not just a
lamb
whose blood is shed but actually the
flesh of god
himself being shed sorry being being
offered and sacrificed uh for
our redemption and that was the
beginning of the new covenant
now there are many references
in holy scripture in the church fathers
in the writings of the church
to insist that the
elements of the chalice at the last
supper
were really the blood of our lord jesus
christ
we know that he could could not make
that blood present
if he wasn't going to shed that blood
very very close to the last supper
but the covenant
sealed in the blood of our lord jesus
christ was already effective
from holy thursday night
and we might think that's a little
strange we might
think well wouldn't that have happened
uh not until
good friday when he really did
offer his body and blood when the veil
of the temple really did
get torn from top to bottom and the
answer is no
he was already making that covenant on
the night before
the crucifixion because that really
is his blood in the chalice as well as
the what appeared to be bread really is
his flesh
now why do i insist so much on this i
guess that's an important point of
course it's important
what's so great about this for us what's
irrelevant about it for us
the answer is when you assist at holy
mass
and you see the priests breaking bread
so to speak
offering the holy sacrifice
you are seeing the same sacrifice that
our lord
offered to his apostles which was the
covenant itself
it is no small thing
no small thing at all
and this is an important point for you
also
the priest that offers the mass
we've studied this before he is the
altair christus or the other
christ
that person can be very intelligent or
maybe not so intelligent
that person might be able to preach or
not preach
that person might be a good
administrator or bad administrator
that person might be good in dealing
with people or that person might be very
disagreeable
in dealing with people that person might
be proud or that person might be humble
but at the holy sacrifice of the mass it
is our lord
who is offering that sacrifice just as
he offered on the cross
and just as he made it present the last
supper it is the
unbloody sacrifice it is a clean
oblation
it is superior to that of the old
testament because it's not just the
prefigurement
it's the reality and it's offered
for the whole world it's not just
offered for
the people that are present at the
sacrifice as was the um
sacrifice in the temple
you know when we think about it when
we're at holy mass we are present at
all those realities which the
apostles were present for
this was not merely a communion
celebration
but a sacramental state of sacrifice
the act of consecration at the last
supper was
truly a sacrificial act
this is my body which has food under the
appearance of bread
is broken for you that is the
sacrificial
banquet
we must be careful with this term
banquet
or even sacrificial banquet
it's a term which has been abused in my
estimation
by the novus ordo mass they focus very
much on supper
banquet assembly community
etc we hear all those words which in
themselves are quite worthy words
but we keep saying it's true it's true
it's true yes it's true
where is the word sacrifice and you
never hear it
and that's because of what we said last
week also sacrifice denotes
guilt guilt comes from sin
sacrifice means we need a priest who's
going to find you know make make
reparation
offer sacrifice for us and to be
repaired etc and those are terms that
modern man
no longer wants to hear and has been
several hundred years
in play until finally we have
most of the members of the church saying
we don't need sacrifice
man is sufficient to himself to go to
god
but in sacrificial banquet it is true
we assist at the sacrificial banquet our
lord is offering us his body and blood
just as he did with his apostles but it
is indispensable
that this banquet be connected with
sacrifice it would have been sorry to
say it
it would have been completely empty if
our lord had
given his body and blood supposedly to
his apostles without having sacrificed
himself
without being going to sacrifice himself
which shall be shed for you which will
be offered for you
the separation itself of body and blood
implies death
you know when you're at the alt when
you're at mass um
and the body and blood are made present
in a mystical real presence is on the
altar
in a mystical way his body and blood
have been made present in a separate way
causing what we call what we call a
mystical
death of our lord jesus christ on the
altar just as he died
really on the cross
our lord is the lamb
which has been slain who lives forever
that's a term that comes from the
apocalypse the lamb
slain who lives
sounds like a contradiction but it's not
slain lamb means
what happens to our lord jesus christ on
the cross
and that lamb is made present on the
altar
every day and he continues to live
in his sacrifice and through the mass
he was slain on the cross and he
continues to be made present on the
altar every day
lying as if slain but living
victorious and triumphant
there is a prefigurement of that also in
the old testament the story you know
uh which is abraham who finally had a
son when he was more than 100 years old
and guided promising
him you'll be as numerous as the sand of
the sea it's the stars of the sky and
sand of the sea
uh and there was no sun
finally he had a son over home 100 years
old the son grew up to be a man and god
said okay
prove to me that you love me now
sacrifice him oh that was prefigurement
of god himself offering his own son
abraham without hesitation brings his
son isaac up the mountain
to sacrifice him mount horeb
and just when he's about to put the
knife in the heart of his son
out comes a ram to be offered instead
a lamb slain yet lives triumphantly
isaac was already dead in a way he'd
morally had already been sacrificed by
his father
god stopped the hand of his father in
order to make another sacrifice
but that's the death of our lord jesus
christ that was prefigured there
he was slain but he continues to live
and
the sacred heart of jesus bursts
forth one more time in his divine
radiating flames of love by remaining
upon the altar for his flock
until this banquet finds his fulfillment
in the kingdom of god
that is until the end of the world
remember our lord
when he instituted the chalice he said
i will not the next time i drink this
fruit of the vine with you will be in
the next
world we'll be in heaven what he means
is
you're going to continue to offer and
offer and offer this sacrifice
and it will have his fulfillment in
heaven
the sacrificial banquet will become the
time that you spend in heaven with me
giving praise to god my father me with
my wounds
in his honor and you with all the
suffering that you're going to do as
part of your
union with my chalice
so really you know when we assisted mass
the all the generosity of our divine
lord for his father
in suffering and offering himself up
becomes our generosity
in the liturgy of uh saint james
it is said let all mortal flesh be
silent
christ is about to be sacrificed and to
be given as food to the faithful
sacrifice and banquet banquet is never
mentioned without sacrifice
apologetic proof apologetic means
a doctrinal proof that shows the truth
truth of the catholic faith
from the first ages of faith it has been
the practice
and doctrine of the church to regard the
sacrificial character
of the eucharist this can only come from
divine revelation
in the catacombs of saints there are
constant
witnesses to the uh
meal and the sacrifice going together
the the sacrifice the sacrifice of the
mass which is the banquet
pictures of altars or tombs with
fishes on the altar and loaves at either
sides
showing that the one who's really
present on the altar is our lord jesus
christ
but he's being slain on the altar and
that sacrificial food
is being given to the faithful
the early christians in the catacombs
secretly offered the mysteries
which made them seal their testimony
with their own blood
so that they could triumph over all the
powers of the world
and hell and they had the strength to do
this
because christ's sacrifice was their
sacrifice
so the insistence this evening was on
the superiority
of the sacrifice of our lord jesus
christ compared to that of the old
testament
and how its interior and spiritual and
how it's unbloody instead of bloody
and how it's the complete fulfillment of
everything they ever
offered in the old testament so i think
all of us have a very good and clear
idea
how important is the sacrifice without
it
no reparation from our sins without it
no cleansing of our conscience
without it no sanctification and finally
no salvation and sacrifice i know i've
come back to the word at least a
thousand times
in this one conference but that is the
point of reference
that's the substance that's the
foundation
uh you've probably heard it said that um
the holy eucharist is the
foundation of our faith if you don't
have
uh the truth of the holy eucharist if
you don't have
if you don't believe it you're not a
catholic and you don't have what's
necessary to save your soul
it is the foundation of the faith and
why is that because the holy eucharist
is the sacrifice
of our lord made present for our
sanctification
we totally depend on sacrifice
it's not just because that's the
tendency of man all races and all
whatever peoples have done sacrifice and
therefore christians have their own way
of sacrifice too and
that's why they do it it's just it's
just pure anthropology that's not true
we have sacrificed because our lord
jesus christ is the sacrifice
and that's the way he wants to that's
the way he unites us to his father
opens the door to heaven again by this
adoration so great for his father
very good i insist on it because now i'm
going to show you the let show you in
the last few minutes
what has happened to the sacrifice of
the mass in the last 50 years of the
church
traditionally the definition of the mass
was
and should always be forever
the unbloody sacrifice of the new law in
which the body and blood of christ
under the species of bread and wine by a
mystical immolation
are offered by a legitimate minister of
christ
to god in order to acknowledge his
supreme dominion
and apply to us the merits of the
sacrifice of the cross
excellent we've got a priest who is the
minister of god
who offers the sacrifice of jesus in the
form of bread and wine
to make reparation for the sins of the
faithful in order that
we can give the greatest praise to god
excellent
what has become of
this definition since 1969
here we go the lord's supper or mass
is the sacred assembly or congregation
of the people of god
gathering together with a priest
presiding in order to celebrate the
memorial
of the lord for this reason christ's
promise applies
supremely to such a local gathering of
the church where two or three come
together in my name
there am i in the midst these are all
words which
relativize sacrifice priest
adoration sanctification they'd all just
reduce the terms which are not clear
anymore
and which in many ways are contrary to
the first terms
why would they have done that
in vatican ii uh their big emphasis
is ecumenism and modernism ecumenism is
to
relegate the catholic church put the
catholic church on a level with whatever
christian doctrine christian pseudo
doctrine is out there
and modernism is to say that
what was true yesterday is not true
today it just floats
so they don't want to use strong terms
about defining what the mass is anymore
didn't even
call it the mass they said the lord's
supper or the mass
they avoid language like unbloody
sacrifice
immolation merits etc
because non-catholics reject these
teachings
very good that was the definition
instead of talking about okay and i'll
give you a quote here
we've quoted him a couple of lessons ago
father luca brandolini says
this new definition so he's a modernist
this new definition defines the mass
exactly because we begin with
the assembly instead of beginning with
god we begin with
the people who are in the pews and in it
the sign of the assembly
is returned to its first position it
means it should have always been that
way
not focusing on the priest not focusing
on the altar but focusing on the
group of faithful it's all very
democratic you know the people the
people the people
sometimes in government maybe that's a
good thing you know the representatives
need to
be ministering to the people yes
but you don't start with the holy
sacrifice of the mass that way the most
important thing is the assembly of the
people
the great sign which defines and
qualifies the whole celebration
according to the new order of the mass
is the eucharistic assembly
i still haven't heard the word sacrifice
all we're talking about is how the
people get together
and eucharistic don't be deceived that
doesn't necessarily mean the host
it kind of means the whole people
together in so much as they are giving
thanks to god
and just to continue going through
that definition that new definition it's
now called lord supper instead of mass
to deny that the mass was a true
sacrifice
and also to stress that what we simply
what we have now is simply a
memorial we're going to recall how jesus
said this to his apostles
that's why when they offer the new mass
there's never a
sacred moment where the priest is only
in silence speaking with the host
who is god you just have a pure
narration narration the story
no one gets a second to meditate
but and he took bread and he break and
he offered it to his disciples saying
this is my flesh and after that he took
the chalice
and he and he said this is my blood
which shall be offered of you for the
new covenant just this one long
narrative story going on
and you don't get the sense that what
he's saying is really affecting
what his work his words not affecting
what he's saying
whereas in the traditional mess when you
see the priest bowed over the altar
in complete intimacy with god you know
that his words are changing that bread
into body and blood
and the same with his words over the
chalice changing the chalice into
i say body and blood because actually
all of our lord jesus christ is in every
particle of host and all of jesus christ
every drop of precious blood
but uh like so the chalice is changing
to blood
it's so obvious but he's not so obvious
in the new mass
very good continue they say sacred
assembly
the essence of the mass is no longer
sacrifice the essence
as we said of the mass is no longer
sacrifice
but on the assembly we don't come here
to focus on that up there we come here
to focus on
what's going on in the pews that's why
you might have noticed that novus ordo
churches
it's quite acceptable that people visit
with each other talk with each other
before mass begins and then when you
hear the ding-ding of mass to start
that's kind of okay the movie's about to
start now so let's have everyone
uh lower their voices so we ought to
respect for this spectacle
something like that i know here you know
when you come to the church
the silence itself kind of shouts out to
you
uh because we're in the presence of the
sacrifice of our lord
people of god this term
we used to say the congregation or the
faithful
and now they insist on the word people
of god why is that
because by saying that oh he said we
used to say the church
by not saying the church anymore we talk
about the people of god
it leaves room to think that well anyone
who's been baptized
whether even if they're heretics or
schismatics those are people of god also
so they use that word a lot nowadays to
get rid of this idea of church
congregation faithful those who accepted
all
12 articles of the apostles creed
gathering together all right
instead of focusing on sacrifice
gathering together
connotes assembling for the lord's
supper
memorial with the priest presiding
no no no no it should be the priest
offering
priest presiding even though those two
words share a lot of consonants and
vowels and i don't know what all
the priest does not preside the priest
is offering sacrifice
and i already told you he doesn't even
have to be a great man
he can be a disagreeable man not humble
not even that intelligent but sorry
he's been made a minister ordained
minister of god he is or he is
offering a valid sacrifice he's not
presiding
he's offering a sacrifice without which
no one is going to be sanctified
in order to celebrate their order their
assembly that is gathered in order to
celebrate
uh
yes given the idea that the faithful the
people of god
are the ones celebrating the eucharist
maybe alongside the priest but let's say
with as much
value and as much um
thickest efficacy effectiveness as the
priest himself
it doesn't say that the priest is there
to celebrate it says the assembly is
there to celebrate
the new definition they're celebrating
the memorial of the lord
getting away from the idea of sacrifice
sacrificing just saying we're going to
commemorate our lord
and um and christ will be present
because there am i in the midst that's i
would say the um
what do you call the final slash the
coup de
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they use holy words and worthy words
because the words from our lord himself
to get away from other words of our lord
it should be that they are gathered
there so the priest can offer the
eternal sacrifice for their sins
instead they say the assembly is there
to celebrate the eucharist because
where two or more gathered in my name
there am i in their midst they've said
nothing about sacrifice
they talked about some kind of spiritual
presence of christ
or moral presence of christ at the
expense of mentioning
christ offering his body and blood for
their redemption
we know that christ is substantially
present at the mass in
transubstantiation
the changing of bread and wine into the
body and blood by the words of
consecration
of the priest but they have said in his
new definition
that christ is not present substantially
they haven't said he's present at all
they've only said he's present by grace
only insofar as we're two or more gather
my name there am i in the midst
but they have not said that he's
substantially present in
the host and
what causes him to be present the
gathering of christ's followers in his
name
it's like you know this all depends on
the faith on the people
it doesn't depend on god so
there are our distinctions of the new
mass compared to the old mass or the
traditional mass
and um to recap the class then
not non-bloody sacrifice clean oblation
it's for the whole world it's superior
to that of the old testament
it's internal and spiritual rather than
carnal and
exterior and carnal and without this
sacrifice none of us would be cleansed
and unfortunately since the the new mass
has
the new mass has come out these things
are not insisted upon
watering down the catholic mass into a
kind of a protestant belief where christ
is present
in so far as we're thinking about him
but that's about it
very good uh god bless you for your
presence and we'll say a prayer
the name of the father and son holy
ghost hail mary full of grace the lord
is
you