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 fice should be the daily sacrament of this oblation; which Church, as it is the body united to its head, learns to offer herself through him. The ancient sacrifices of the Saints were the manifold and various signs of this true sacrifice.-And to this high and true sacrifice all others gave way.” De Civit. Dei, L. x. c. 20. T. vii. p. 256.-Speaking of the Jews converted by St. Peter, he says: “ They were converted; they were baptised; they approached to the table of the Lord; and now believing, they drank that blood, which in their rage they had shed.” Serm. lxxvii. De Verb Ev. Matt. T. v. p. 420.-“You ought to understand what you have received; what you are about to receive; and what you ought every day to receive. The bread that you behold on the altar, sanctified by the word of God, is the body of Christ. That cup-that which the cup contains, sanctified by the word of God, is the blood of Christ. By these the Lord was willing to set forth his body, and that blood, which he shed for us for the remission of sins." Serm. ccxxvii. In die Pasch. ad Infantes. T. v. p. 973.—“ We receive with a faithful heart and mouth the mediator of God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus, who has given us his body to eat, and his blood to drink; although it may appear more horrible to eat the flesh of a man, than to destroy it, and to drink human blood, than to spill it." Contra Adv. Legis. et Proph. L. ii. c. ix. T. viii. p. 599.—“ We have heard our master, our divine Redeemer, recommending to us the price of our redemption-his own blood. For he spoke to us of his body and