Lesson Twelve in Christ and the Sacraments, with Fr Thomas Joseph White, OP, DPhil (Oxon), STL, Rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
Christ died for us, and in doing so merits the grace of salvation we receive.
This grace is applied to our lives chronologically after the event of the sacrifice of Christ, which has already transpired. But the Eucharist not only symbolizes to us where the grace comes from, but it's the occasion in and through which the grace of salvation is dispensed to us in a particular way.
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