wine ; and under the symbols of those same things, he the memory thereof remain even unto the end of the that his priesthood was not to perish with his death, trayed, that he might leave to his own beloved spouse memoBation of me, he commanded them and their INSTITUTION OF THE EUCHARIST 35 man requires, whereby that bloody sacrifice, once to be mission of those sins which we daily commit, declaring ordaining, that another priest should rise, according to many as were to be sanctified. Hence, our God and New Testament ; and by those words, Do this in com- as the Catholic Church has always understood and delivered his own body and blood to be received by order of Melchisedech, he offered up to God the Father Lord, though he was about to offer himself once on the world, and its salutary virtue be applied to the re- himself constituted a priest for ever, according to the his own body and blood under the species of bread and the church, a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of his Apostles, whom he then constituted priests of the in the Last Supper, on the night in which he was be- successors in the priesthood to make this offering even might consummate, and lead to what is perfect, as the order of Melchisedech, our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his death, an eternal redemption ; yet, because accomplished on the cross, might be represented, and altar of the cross unto God the Father, there to effect,