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ePaper created 2015-02-27, 18:37:22 | version 1.33.01
God did not spare the life of his Son Jesus, but instead handed him over to death, death on the Cross, making him into an oblation (victim) of the perfect Sacrifice. The priest Melchizedek, priest of God the Most High, put into practice a particular type of priesthood: in his action of offering bread and wine (read Gn 14:18) the Church sees as a pre-figuration of its own offering of the bread and wine during the Consecration of the Mass. In the icon Abel and Melchizedek are represented. The lamb that is offered in sacrifice by Abel pre-figures Christ’s sacrifice, the Lamb of God. Melchizedek, a priest of God the Most High, instead offers bread and wine. Both offerings are clear pre-figurations of the Eucharist. 57