The Fundamentals
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Himself is our High Priest . . . by whom we are sanctified, even by the offering of Christ once made, who took away our sins and fastened them upon the cross. . . . This is our sacri fice, this is our propitiation and sacrifice for the whole world. How, then, saith Pope Pius, we have no sacrifice ?” 7. Rome denies the cup to the laity. The Council of Trent pronounces two anathemas as to this. One will suffice. “If anyone saith that the Holy Catholic Church was not in duced by just cause and reasons to communicate under the species of bread only, laymen, and also clerics, when not conse crating, let him be anathema” (Session XXI; canon 1, 20). This is unscriptural. Our Lord instituted the feast in the use of both bread and wine. Down to the fifteenth century both elements were used. Denying the cup to the laity was the cul mination of many previous errors, such as confounding the sign and the thing signified, the propitiating sacrifice of the mass, the priesthood of ministers and the stupendous miracle of converting bread and wine into the real flesh and blood of Christ. 8 . Rome traffics in masses. The priests claim to remove souls from purgatory for a certain number of masses, each hav ing a certain price. Not long ago Queen Christina of Spain left money for 5,000 masses to be said for herself and 5,000 for her husband. As no priest could offer the mass more than once a day, they had to be let out to country priests. More recently, the Abbe Brugidon endeavored to raise money toward building a church in Rome by receiving payment for masses to be said when the church was completed. There is much doubt as to whether the church will ever be built, but 260,000 masses have been already paid for. A number beyond the power of the Abbe ever to accomplish. Such stupendous frauds will shock the moral sense of the Christian world and awaken the Church to a recognition of the mystery of iniquity in the Church of Rome.
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