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THE PASSION AND DEATH OF CHRIST 489
'l'HE LAST SUPP
He said, ('Do this as often as you shall do it, for the commemoration of Me.'' By these words He gave to them and to their successors, the priests of the Catholic Church, the power to change bread and wine into His Body and Blood, and to o er up until the end of time the sacri ce of the Mass. Now would be ful lled the prophecy of Malachias : '' From the rising of the sun
even to the going down, My name is great among the Gentiles. And in every place there is sacri ce, and there is o ered to My name a clean oblation. For My name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of
Hosts.''
With love in their hearts, the apostles received the
