Well, sisters, we'll finish this seminar on the Eucharist by talking about three modern,

well, they're both, the modern, broadly speaking, post-Reformation, Thomist theories of the real presence of Christ's passion,

or the effects of Christ's passion in the sacrifice of the Mass.

How is it that the sacrifice of Calvary acts upon us and upon the church

or elevates the life of the church into the self-offering of Christ in and through the sacrifice

of the Mass? And I'm going to look at three different theories.

Unfortunately, a lot of this little class

will just involve reading texts and commenting on them,

but it just helps focus so we get our mind

around these different three theories.

So the first one I'm going to talk about,

we could call it representation and application,

a classical Dominican interpretation.

You will remember that in the one article that Aquinas did write on the sacrifice to

mass that we looked at yesterday afternoon, he talks about the fact that there's a, it's for two

reasons the sacrifice, because it represents mystically,

ontologically, because of the real distinctiveness of the double consecration.

God changes the bread into the body of Christ and the wine into the blood of Christ.

It represents mystically and ontologically the separation of the body and blood of Christ

at Calvary.

So that's one reason.

It's a sacrifice.

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