A Third Design Our Lord Had In Instituting The Sacrifice Of The Holy Mass, Was, That It Might Be An Impetratory Sacrifice; By Means Of Which We Might Obtain All Necessary Graces To Love And Serve HIm; FOr Which End We Ought To Offer It.
A Third Design Our Lord Had In Instituting The Sacrifice Of The Holy Mass, Was, That It Might Be An Impetratory Sacrifice; By Means Of Which We Might Obtain All Necessary Graces To Love And Serve HIm; FOr Which End We Ought To Offer It.
Our Lord promised us, that all the petitions we should make in his name, should be infallibly granted us. We can never be said to ask so properly in his name and by his merits, as when we present him to his eternal Father to be our petitioner; when his precious body and blood are actually upon our Altars, where his sacred blood pleads for us; the virtue of which is infinite, and the voice akk-powerful to obtain ak that is requested. What can God refuse us, when we offer him a God in payment for what we ask?
We are assured that the only Son of God is given us; he is then all ours; Parvulus Filius datus est nobis. Therefore when we assist at Holy Mass, we may offer him as ours, with all the divine acts, which his soul then addresses to his eternal Father, and present them as our own. What a treasure have we then in hand! by means of which, we shall adore, give thanks, and pray by the prayers of Christ. How can we then but be heard?How rich is a soul that knows thus how to make use of the great treasure bestowed upon her! which is no less than Jesus Christ with all his merits. Let us then male use of it, to purchase all we want, begging with confidence al we stand in need of, for it is given us for that end.
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