**”The offering of the priest and of the whole Church, without that of Jesus, would neither be holy nor acceptable to God, because we are only sinful creatures,” he said, “but Jesus’ offering, without that of his body which is the Church, would also be incomplete and insufficient: not, be it understood, to procure salvation, but because we receive it and appropriate it. It is in this sense that the Church can say with St. Paul: ‘in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.’”**
**”Do we teach Christian boys and girls to say, at the moment of consecration: ‘Take, eat, this is my body, offered for you.’ **
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