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 to his Father his body and blood, under the appearances of bread and wine; and, under those appearances, delivered the same to his Apostles, whom, at the time, he appointed the Priests of the New Testament. To them, and to their successors in the Priesthood, he gave command to offer the same, saying: Do this for a commemoration of me. (Luke xxii.) So the Catholic Church has always understood and taught. This is the clean offering which the prophet Malachy foretold should be offered in every place. This the offering which was prefigured by the various typical sacrifices of the law and of nature, comprising whatever good things they signified, consummating and perfecting all.” Sess. xxii. c. 1, p. 189.-“And because in this divine Sacrifice, which is performed in the Mass, the same Christ is contained, and offered in an unbloody manner, who, on the altar of the cross, offered himself in a bloody manner—the holy Synod teaches, that this Sacrifice is truly propitiatory, and that, by it, to the sincerely penitent, the sins we commit, however enormous they be, are remitted. For it is one and the same victim; the same Christ now offering himself by the ministry of the Priest, who offered himself on the cross; the difference being only in the manner of offering. By this offering, then, the fruits of that bloody offering are most plentifully received: so far is it from truth, that hereby the least part is derogated from it. Wherefore, according