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Traditional Mass & The Whole Life of Jesus Christ


Q Can we say that the traditional mass symbolizes the whole journey (whole life) of Jesus Christ?


A In the Creed, after the profession in the Eternal Birth of Jesus from the Father (¡°I believe¡¦ in Jesus Christ, His only-Son our Lord¡±), we profess three great moments of the Life of Christ: 1/ His Incarnation: ¡°Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary¡±, 2/ His Passion and death: ¡°suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried¡±, and 3/ His glorification: ¡°He rose again the third day, ascended into Heaven, sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.¡±


These three great moments of the Life of Christ are also those on which we meditate in the (Traditional) Rosary: the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries. And we do find these also in the Mass, but in a much more living manner. Indeed the Mass is not merely a profession of Faith, it is not merely a meditation and contemplation on the Life of Christ, it is much more! These mysteries are somehow really continued, made present, relived at every Mass.

 

Indeed our Lord Jesus Christ comes on the altar and is really present in the Blessed Sacrament with the same flesh that He took on the day of the Incarnation. St Justin, a mere 50 years after the death of the last Apostle, St John, wrote: ¡°And this food is called among us "Eucharistia" [¥Åὐ¥ö¥á¥ñ¥é¥ò¥óί¥á = the Eucharist]¡¦ For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.¡± (1st Apol., ch. 66)


The parallel with the Incarnation is explicit: as St John wrote ¡°the Word was made flesh¡± (Jn. 1:14), St Justin insists that this food is that SAME flesh, not a mere representation of it. So the Mass truly continues the mystery of the Incarnation, much more than the simple meditation of the joyful mysteries. This is what he ¡°was taught¡±: by whom, if not by the very hearers of the Apostles themselves? This is the Faith of the very first generation of disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ, the antique Faith of the Church! Hence it is not surprising that St Augustine would write: ¡°Let no one eat this Flesh unless he first adored it¡¦ and not only we do not sin adoring it, but we sin if we don¡¯t!¡± (Enn. In ps. 98:9)


There are manifest bonds between Christmas and the Holy Eucharist: indeed Bethlehem in Hebrew means ¡°house of bread¡±; the baby Jesus is ¡°wrapped in swaddling clothes and put in a manger¡±, just as His flesh is hidden under the appearances of the Sacrament in order to be eaten by us. As the Magi adored the Baby Jesus, so ought we to adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament: it is the same flesh that was put in a manger there, and is given to us to eat at Mass.

 

Why was the Word made flesh? ¡°For us men and for our salvation¡± answers the Creed. And how did He save us? By His Sacrifice on the Cross. Now the Mass is the very ¡°Sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ¡± as St Cyprian calls it. The Council of Trent teaches very clearly that the Mass is not a mere remembrance of the Sacrifice of the Cross, it is the very offering of that same Sacrifice. Our Lord Jesus Christ made His Body and Blood really present on our altars precisely for this purpose, to continue to offer His Sacrifice, to united us in the offering of His Sacrifice, so that all those who attend Mass can receive the same graces as our Lady, St John and the holy Women at the foot of the Cross! Indeed our Lord Jesus Christ wanted all His faithful to be able to become one with Him in His very offering, so that ¡°through His Passion and Cross we may reach the glory of His Resurrection¡±, as we say in the Angelus – or to put it in St Paul¡¯s words: we are ¡°joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him¡± (Rom. 8:17).


Hence St Augustine wrote: ¡°By this, He (Christ) is also priest: He offers and He is offered. He willed that the sacrament of his reality be the Sacrifice of the Church, which, because it is His Body, learns to offer herself through Him¡¦ To this true and supreme sacrifice all false sacrifices [pagan sacrifices] ceased.¡± (De civ. Dei, 10:20). Through Jesus Christ, with Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ the Church, being the body of which He is the head, offers herself daily in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.


Our Lord Jesus Christ continues the virtues of His Life at Mass: indeed as He was hidden for 30 years at Nazareth, so He is hidden in the Blessed Sacrament, yet it is He, the Son of God! As He taught His Apostles for three years, so He continues His teaching in the first part of the Mass. But He continues also His glorious mysteries by the fruits that He brings by this greatest of all the Sacraments. As He said, ¡°In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit,¡± (Jn. 15:8), so is He glorified by the fruits that He brings in this Sacrament of His love. St Thomas Aquinas says that, as we receive in this Sacrament not merely grace, but the very Author of grace Himself, there is no limit to the graces we can draw from it. We get grace at its very source, the open Heart of Jesus! This is where the martyrs received the courage to give them blood for Christ, because they were nourished with His very Body and Blood! Countless fruits of holiness have come from the Holy Mass, from the participation in the Sacrifice of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ! And this glorifies Christ.


And all this is manifest in the Traditional Mass. By its adoration of Jesus really present in the Blessed Sacrament, it manifests the continued Incarnation. By its right emphasis on the Sacrifice it manifests the continued Redemption. Its ancient prayers, which have sanctified generations and generations of saints, are still efficacious today for the sanctification of the faithful.

 

And we can say that at every Mass, our Lord Jesus Christ continues to say to His Mother, showing her His beloved disciples (=us): ¡°behold thy son¡± and to us He says: ¡°behold thy mother¡±. No one would help us to understand and live the Mass as well as our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary.


Yours sincerely in Jesus and Mary,
 Father François Laisney