Early Views of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper (8): The Idea of Sacrifice

The sacrifice constitutes an essential element today in the Roman Catholic doctrine of the mass. The Romish Church distinguishes between the Mass and the Eucharist. The bass precedes the Eucharist and is, of course, necessary for it. There can be no Eucharist, no partaking of the body and blood of Christ and of thanksgiving to God without the Mass. In the Mass the bread and wine aye actually changed into the body and blood of the Lord through the intercession of the priest, and the body and...