Sacrifice

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Let me be clearer because so much depends on our understanding the sacrifice sacrament of the Eucharist. Question. Did Jesus redeem the world when he died on the first Good Friday? The answer is an emphatic yes. Christ did redeem the world. What did he do by his death on Calvary? He won the graces that the world needs to be saved. He merited these graces. He gained these graces. But these graces have to be communicated and the principle channel for communicating the graces that Christ won for us on Calvary, I repeat, the principle channel of those graces, is the sacrifice of the Mass. How we need these graces! We need the grace of repenting down deep interiorly in our hearts. We need the grace of enlightenment so that our minds see that the only real tragedy on earth is human beings committing sin.

-Servant of God, Fr. John A. Hardon, SJ

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