I like that the prayer for the intercession of Ven. Pius XII begins with the words, "Jesus, Eternal High Priest." It is a good phrase to meditate on as we pray and offer our lives to him. Ven. Pius XII explains this phrase: Christ the Lord, "Eternal Priest according to the order of Melchizedek" (Ps 110:4), "loving His own who were of the world" (Jn 13:1), "at the last supper, on the night He was betrayed, wishing to leave His beloved Spouse, the Church, a visible sacrifice such as the nature of men requires, that would re-present the bloody sacrifice offered once on the cross, and perpetuate its memory to the end of time, and whose salutary virtue might be applied in remitting those sins which we daily commit . . . offered His body and blood under the species of bread and wine to God the Father."
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:11:25 +0000
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