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In modern times, the sacrificial nature of the Mass is often seriously down-played to the detriment of the faithful. Pope John Paul II lamented this in his encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia that, “at times one encounters an extremely reductive understanding of the Eucharistic mystery. Stripped of its sacrificial meaning, it is celebrated as if it were simply a fraternal banquet.” Speaking about...

and of the Mass pertain to the same mystery and cannot be separated from each other. The Lord is immolated in an unbloody way in the sacrifice of the Mass and he re-presents the sacrifice of the Cross and applies its salvific power at the moment when he becomes sacramentally present, through the words of consecration, as the spiritual food of the faithful, under the appearances of bread and wine.146 At the elevation we should glance at the Eucharistic species in adoration, remembering that at the
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