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XI PAGB

Baptism, attests their kingly priesthood, which gives them a share in the Oblation (the Religion) that Christening imof the High Priest Jesus plies their share in the Religion (i. e. the 114. sacrifice) of Christ Their one purpose of life and death is the same as that of Christ, namely, the immolating themselves to God's 114. the Moreover, the Baptised, glory

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Temple built, by the Holy Ghost, on the Corner Stone, Jesus ; 115. Being Temple, there must be the Liturgy 115. It is the coming of the Holy Ghost into us, which makes us be sanctuaries of the Divinity 116.—Justly, then, the Feast of Trinity Sunday came immediately after Pentecost 116. Feast and of Corpus Christi followed that of Trinity Christened, are living stones of the

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that told the Church, the Bride, that the glorification of God, One in Three Persons, was the fruit of the divine Nuptial Banquet ; it told us, that our Jesus would not give himself to us, except in the stupendous ACTION of the Sacrifice, which consummates the glory of the Trinity; 117. The sublime text regarding Jesus's sanctifying himself, that we might be sanctified; 117.— And, as Sacrifice thus consummates all sanctity (holiness) in the Head and in the Members, it alone, also, consummates the Union of Christ and his Church ; 118. Therefore, the Mass is so exclusively prominent during the whole of the Time after Pentecost it is the Season of divine Union ; and the Mount of Sacrifice is the Church's Station; 118. The official place of Union is Calvary, our Altar ; 119. what this present Volume aims at, in its comments 119

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Epistle. {Rom. viii.) How is it, that all created nature is in bondage, on account of man's sin

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