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Wednesday, 13 September

Today in Church History

What happened in the life of the Church on this day across twenty centuries.

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✦ Feast Day c. AD 347–407
Feast of John Chrysostom
Chrysostom's homilies on Hebrews contain the most precise fourth-century statement of the Mass as the one sacrifice of Calvary re-presented: "We do not offer a different sacrifice... but the same always... He who offered is the same who now offers by the ministry of the priests." Many celebrations, one sacrifice — not many sacrifices.
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