"Unbloody" Quotes from Famous Books
... is to be received, while they themselves must acknowledge, that they have abolished communion itself as well as consecration on nearly all the days of the year, and that they have reduced the oblation of the mass from a 'mystery' and a 'venerable, tremendous and unbloody sacrifice' (Palmer vol. 2, p. 84) to an offering of bread and wine. They have thus deprived their followers of the inestimable fruits of communion enumerated by Christ in the gospel—yet these forsooth are the men ... — The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome • Charles Michael Baggs |