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Don’t forget that the Mass is a sacrifice
SIR – Nicholas Hinde (letter, September 7) is probably correct to suggest that the high point of Mass nowadays is Communion, and that the identity of the sacrifice of the Mass with that of Calvary is neglected. This makes an interesting contrast with the state of affairs before the introduction of the vernacular liturgy. Before the Council the high point was more likely to be the Consecration, precisely because this is the moment at which Jesus’s sacrifice at Mass takes place. Once the priest has pronounced the words “This is my Body” and then “This is my Blood”, Jesus’s Body and Blood are separately present, and so the sacrificial death itself becomes actively present.
