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 '''29. How is the manner of offering different in both? '''

On the Cross Christ offered Himself in a bloody manner; but in the Mass He offers Himself in an unbloody manner, whilst He renews the Sacrifice accomplished on the Cross, without suffering or dying any more.

'''30. If Christ dies no more, how, then, can the Sacrifice which He consummated on the Cross be renewed in the Mass? '''

It is renewed, because in the Mass Christ offers Himself really and truly under the emblems of the bloody death which He suffered on the Cross — that is, under the separated appearances of bread and wine.

'''31. How do we prove that, from the time of the Apostles, the Mass has always been celebrated? '''

We prove this, 1. By the words of St. Paul, which clearly show that as early as in the times of the Apostles the Christians had an altar of their own; 1 for where an altar is, there must also be a Sacrifice; and 2. By the undeniable testimonies of the holy Fathers, the decrees of the Councils, the most ancient prayers of the Mass, and by many other memorials of the Eastern and Western Churches.