THE EUCHARIST IS A SACRIFICE (part-3)

THE LAMB OF GOD: Before we consume the Sacred Species in Holy Communion, the presider echoes Saint John the Baptist’s words: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29). At the Last Supper, a few hours before His Body was nailed to a Cross and His Blood was poured out when a soldier’s lance pierced His Sacred Heart, Jesus specified that all He was about to do was for love for us, to redeem us from sin, and restore us to eternal life. He did all this, as Preface V for Easter says, by becoming “the Priest, the Altar and the Lamb of sacrifice.” (to be continued…) Father Maria Joseph Kodiganti