Venerable John Henry Newman, C.O., preached a sermon, of which
the following notes survive: The One Sacrifice 1. Christ a
sacrifice. We keep the feast at Easter: 'Christ our Pasch,' etc.
2. What is meant by sacrifice?—offering, killing, eating.
Objects—(1) worship, (2) thanksgiving, (3) propitiation, (4)
impetration. 3. Heathen sacrifices, 1 Cor. x. 20, 'The things
which the heathen sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not
to God.' Taurobolium, etc.; human sacrifices, etc. 4. Jewish
sacrifices, Lev. ix., x., xvi. 5. Fulfilled in Christ. Two
things—death and intercession. Therefore the Aaronic priesthood
and bloody sacrifice fulfilled in one act and time by our Lord
in the flesh. Scripture speaks of our Lord as not only
fulfilling a bloody sacrifice (which is once for all), but
besides this of a sacrifice according to Melchisedech, that is,
bread and wine. 6. Superiority—once for all; all sin. 7. His
mercy in continuing the sacrifice, that it might not be a mere
matter of history. 8. This is the Mass; whic