Taken from Fr. Goffine's Explanations of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, Holydays, and Festivals throughout the Ecclesiastical Year, 36th edition, 1880

Quote:EPISTLE. (Heb. ix. 11 — 15.) Brethren, Christ being come, a high-priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is. not of this creation, neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of a heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as are denied, to the cleansing of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the Holy Ghost, offered himself without spot to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God? And therefore he is the Mediator of the new testament; that by means of his death, for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament; they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

EXPLANATION. St. Paul here teaches, that Christ as the true high-priest of the New Testament, through His Precious Blood on the altar of the cross, has indeed made perfect satisfaction for sins, but that the sinner must also do his own part, by cooperating with Christ to make himself less unworthy of participating in His passion and merits, and to appropriate to himself its fruits. This is done when he diligently and devoutly assists at the unbloody Sacrifice of the Mass by which the fruits of the death on the cross are attributed to us; when, according to the will of the Church, he purifies his conscience by true contrition and confession; and when he seeks by trust in Christ's merits to render some satisfaction for his sins through voluntary penance and faithful following of Christ.

ASPIRATION. Grant us; O meek Jesus, Thy grace, that through perfect sorrow for our sine and the exercise of good works we may become participators in the merits of Thy bitter passion.

The Angelus - October 1982

• the reality of the Real Presence,
  
• the reality of the Sacrifice,
  
• the reality of the power of the priest.
  

• the purification of the priest's fingers over the chalice and into the chalice;
  

• the obligation for the priest to keep joined together those fingers which have touched the Host after the consecration, in order to avoid all contact with the profane;
  

• the pall protecting the chalice;
  

• the obligatory gilding of the inside of the sacred vessels;
  

• the consecration of the altar if it is fixed;
  

• the altar stone and the relics placed in the altar if it is movable;
  

• the number of altar cloths reduced from three to one;
  

• the prescriptions concerning the case where a consecrated Host falls on the ground.
  

• Communion received standing and often in the hand;
  

• thanksgiving after Communion, which, although extremely brief, one is urged to make sitting down;
  

• standing after the consecration.
  

Quote:"There is no longer anything in the Mass as it is now renewed to upset the evangelical Christian."

Quote:"The new Catholic Eucharistic prayers have dropped the false perspective of a sacrifice offered to God."

Quote:"The Novus Ordo Missae departs in an impressive fashion, both as a whole and in its details, from the Catholic theology of the Holy Mass."

The Angelus - October 1982

• the reality of the Real Presence,
  
• the reality of the Sacrifice,
  
• the reality of the power of the priest.
  

• the purification of the priest's fingers over the chalice and into the chalice;
  

• the obligation for the priest to keep joined together those fingers which have touched the Host after the consecration, in order to avoid all contact with the profane;
  

• the pall protecting the chalice;
  

• the obligatory gilding of the inside of the sacred vessels;
  

• the consecration of the altar if it is fixed;
  

• the altar stone and the relics placed in the altar if it is movable;
  

• the number of altar cloths reduced from three to one;
  

• the prescriptions concerning the case where a consecrated Host falls on the ground.
  

• Communion received standing and often in the hand;
  

• thanksgiving after Communion, which, although extremely brief, one is urged to make sitting down;
  

• standing after the consecration.
  

Quote:"There is no longer anything in the Mass as it is now renewed to upset the evangelical Christian."

Quote:"The new Catholic Eucharistic prayers have dropped the false perspective of a sacrifice offered to God."

Quote:"The Novus Ordo Missae departs in an impressive fashion, both as a whole and in its details, from the Catholic theology of the Holy Mass."

PRAYERS BY ST. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI