cally present, still is not observable, excepting to the eye of faith only; where the sword of the sacrificer is the word of Christ, pronounced by his ministering priest, and which works the mystic separation of the body from the blood; where this blood is not poured out nor spilled, except in mystery, and where there is no death, except by representation. Still, it is a sacrifice, in which Jesus Christ is verily contained, and immolated to God, under this figure of death,—a sacrifice continually commemorating that once offered on the Cross. The Eucharistic sacrifice abstracts nothing from the sacrifice at Calvary: on the contrary, it exists only by its connexion with that bloody sacrifice, and receives all its virtue and all its efficacy from Such is the Catholic's doctrine on the sacri it. fice of the Mass. CONTENTS. CHAPTER II. SECTION I. HISTORY OF THE MASS. 1. Christ said the first Mass.-2. Christ directed the Apostles to celebrate Mass.-3. The Apostles said Mass.-4. A ceremonial instituted by the Apostles for offering up Mass.-5. Attested by St. John.-6. The remarks of some Protestants noticed.-7. The Liturgy indicated by St. Ignatius M.-8. Noticed by Pliny.9. Described by St. Justin. SECTION II. LAY COMMUNION. 10. Belief of the Church on Lay Communion.-11. Communion under one kind, of Apostolic institution.-12. When and why generally adopted by the Latin Church.-13. Agreeable to Scripture.-14. Objection from Scripture answered.—15. Unleavened bread used at the last supper.-16. Unleavened bread used by the Latin Church; by the Maronites, and Armenians. -17. The Sacrament hinted at in the Apocalypse.-18. The circular form of the Host very ancient. S PART THE SECOND. CHAPTER II. HISTORY OF THE MASS AND LAY COMMUNION. SECTION I. HISTORY OF THE MASS. I. CHRIST SAID THE FIRST MASS. up OUR divine Redeemer was the first to offer that holy sacrifice, since called the Mass. This he did, when, after having celebrated the Jewish Passover, he instituted the holy Eucharist. Then it was, that our Lord took bread and wine, and blessed them, and made them his body and his blood.* He deposited the holy victim, which expiates the sins of man, upon the sacred table; and he placed it there in the form of a victim, because *St. Matt. C. xxvi, V. 26. |