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 (Acts iv.  12);  that  this  salvation  was  wrought out by  the  death  of  Christ  on  the  cross,  who made peace  through  the  blood  of  His  cross, blotted out  the  handwriting  that  was  against us, and  took  it  away,  nailing  it  to  the  cross (Col. i.  20;  ii.  14);  that  this  redeeming  sacrifice and  death  of  Our  Saviour  is  continually shown forth  and  re-enacted  in  His  own  very body and  blood,  made  present  at  the  consecration in  holy  Mass  (i  Cor.  xi.  24;  Luke xxii.  19).

"Many things  Our  Lord  intends  and  wills only  conditionally  if  men  co-operate  with  Him. Thus  He  does  not  intend  to  convert  the Chinese,  unless  missionaries  go  to  China. Prayers  are  a  sort  of  missionaries.  Many souls  will  be  converted  if  they  are  well  prayed for,  and  not  otherwise.  But  the  most  efficacious prayer  is  that  which  goes  up  in  closest union  with  Christ  crucified,  pleading  in sacrifice  for  us.  Christ  crucified  thus  pleads in  every  Mass.  In  every  Mass,  as  the  Church says,  'the  memory  of  His  Passion  is  celebrated anew.'  I  can  not  spend  my  day  in hearing  Mass,  traveling  from  altar  to  altar. It  is  not  God's  purpose  that  I  should  do  that. But  the  Morning  Offering  of  the  Apostleship of  Prayer,  as  sanctioned  by  the  Holy  See, puts  me  in  relation  with  every  Mass  that  is