WORDS. 1. Catholic. 2. Sacrifice. 3. Priest. 4. Altar. 5. Baptism. 6. Schism. SUMMARY. PRINCIPLES. There is "One Body"—the Church. Always material. 1. Typical, as under the Levitical Priesthood. 2. True-real, as under the ministry of Jesus Christ. 3. Memorial, as under the Christian Priesthood. Where there is Sacrifice, there is necessarily a Priesthood. Where there is a Priesthood, there is necessarily an Altar. The means by which we are made Members of the "One Body," is the Sacrament of Baptism, being a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righte ousness. Schism is the being cut off from the 1. By the anathema of the Church. WORDS. PRINCIPLES. members of Christ, the children of God, and inheritors of everlasting life; and thus continuing aliens to its privileges and blessings. 7. Sacrilege. Sacrilege is the withholding or in 8. Tradition. vading of sacred things. 1. Things appro- 2. Things dedi- 3. Invading. The tenth of all we possess. 1. Offerings and dedicated Lands. 2. Sacred Buildings. 3. Sacred Things. (1. The Priestly Office. 2. The Christian Mysteries without the necessary qualifications of Baptism. 1. Catholic Tradition is the universal testimony of the Primitive Fathers to the doctrines and institutions of the Apostles. 2. Modern Traditions, whatever is contrary to the teaching of the Church, which is declared by the Spirit to be "The pillar and ground of the Truth." |