Conclusion of Chapter II

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Marginal label (printed p. 347): Missa, quare sic dicitur?

hoc quod dicitur in Psalmo XXXIX, 7: Tunc dixi: Ecce venio. In capite libri scriptum est de me, ut facerem voluntatem tuam. Et subjungit Apostolus, ad Hebr. X, 10: In qua voluntate sanctificati sumus per oblationem corporis Jesu Christi semel.

Ab hac oblatione qua nos quotidie in hac hostia Deo Patri offerimur ad ostium caeli, vocatur haec hostia Missa: quia per talem oblationem nos Patri mittimur ad introducendum in caelum, non quod Jesus Filius sibi mittatur, qui semper est secum, sed quod nos in ipsa hostia Deo oblati mittimur: et ideo jam omnibus quae sunt de ordine Missae rite celebratis, clamat in Ecclesia diaconus: « Ite, missa est. » Ac si dicat: Hostia et nos in hostia Patri missa est, ite profectu virtutum tamquam hostiae incorporati et ad Deum missi. Et respondet chorus: « Deo gratias: » quia in hoc est summum omnium gratiarum: hoc enim summum est de quo ipse Filius gratias agit Patri in tanto sacramento. Matth. XXVI, 26: Accepit Jesus panem, et benedixit, ac fregit, deditque discipulis suis, sicut in ante habitis dictum est.

Marginal label (printed p. 347): Mass, why is it so called?

this which is said in Psalm 39:7: "Then I said: Behold, I come. In the head of the book it is written of me, that I should do your will." And the Apostle adds, Hebrews 10:10: "In which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once."

From this offering, by which we are daily offered in this host to God the Father at the door of heaven, this host is called Mass, because through such an offering we are sent to the Father to be introduced into heaven; not that Jesus the Son is sent to himself, who is always with himself, but that we, offered to God in the host itself, are sent. And therefore, when now all things that belong to the order of the Mass have been duly celebrated, the deacon cries out in the Church: "Go, the missa is." As if he said: The host and we in the host have been sent to the Father; go, incorporated as hosts by progress of virtues and sent to God. And the choir answers: "Thanks be to God," because in this is the summit of all graces; for this is the summit concerning which the Son himself gives thanks to the Father in so great a sacrament. Matthew 26:26: "Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke, and gave to his disciples," as was said in what was held before.