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 ''Orat. x. in S. Feriam v. T. 1. p. 406. In Novo Auct. Cambefis, Paris. 1648.

St. LEO, L. C.-“To the end that the shadow might give way to the reality, and, in the presence of truth, that representations might cease, the ancient observances are now annulled (at the passion of Christ) by a new Sacrament, the victim passes into another victim, blood excludes blood, and the legal festival, by being changed, is fulfilled.--The Disciples, being seated with their Master to eat the mystic supper, while the Jews held council how they might kill him, Jesus ordained the Sacrament of his body and blood, teaching what victim was to be offered to God; nor did he refuse the mysterious banquet to the traitor Judas.” Serm. vii. de Passione Dom. p. 259.-" The participation of the body and blood of Christ causes us to pass into that which we receive; whence being dead, and buried, and rising again in him, we carry him about with us in spirit and in our flesh.” Ibid. Serm. xiv. p. 284.—“The Lord having said : Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you ; you ought so to partake of the holy table, that you entertain no doubt whatever as to the truth of the body and blood of Jesus Christ; for we there receive by the mouth, what is believed by faith; and vainly do we reply- Amen, if any doubt be entertained as to what is received.” T. 1. Serm. xci. De Jejunio 7mi mensis, p. 355. Edit. Venetiis, 1753.—“ Denying in Christ the reality of a human body, these men make void the truth of his passion and resurrection. And so immersed are they in the shades of ignorance, as not to have learned either by hearing or by