Ave Maria Meditations
Our Lord has willed that the Immolation of the Altar shall renew the Immolation of the Cross, by reproducing it in order to apply its fruit to every soul. It is the same Christ who offers Himself to His Father in the odor of sweetness. This unbloody oblation is as acceptable to God as the Sacrifice of Calvary: here Jesus is the Victim, as He was when upon the Cross, and as He was when He came upon the Earth. Upon the altar, Christ Jesus comes again into this world every day as a victim; every day He repeats His oblation and His immolation for us.
Doubtless He wishes us to offer Him to the Father; but neither does He ever weary of urging us to offer ourselves to His Father in union with Him, that it may be accepted and, having shared in His Sacrifice here below, may likewise share in His eternal glory.
Blessed Columba Marmion
