2007/02/02

"Remembrance" in Luther's Eucharistic Writings (IV)

Christ has sacrificed himself once [Heb. 7:27, 9:25-26]; henceforth he will not be sacrified by anyone else. He wished us to remember his sacrifice. Why are you then so bold as to make a sacrifice out of this remembrance? Is it possible that you are so foolish as to act upon your own devices, without any scriptural authority? If you make a sacrifice out of the remembrance of his sacrifice, and sacrifice him once more, why do you not also make another birth out of the memory
of his birth, so that he may be born once more? (The Misuse of the Mass, LW 36:147)

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