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16 What are the characteristics of Christ’s Sacrifice? It is a Sacrifice: of love: the Eucharist, because it makes present the Death and Resurrection of Christ, expresses in a supreme way the offering that Jesus made of his own life to the Father for us, and for this reason it shows and makes present Christ’s love for the Father and the Father’s love for him; of reparation: because Christ offers his life as an expiate, to erase out the sins of all men and women, and he does it for us, taking our place, taking our sins upon himself. “He carried our sins in his body on the wood of the Cross” (Is 53,12); of reconciliation: because Christ reconciles us with the Father, with each other and with the created world, and he does this with his Blood, which shows the relationship of communion that God had already established in the Old Testament with His People. of communion: because in the Sacrifice of his Son God unites us to himself and to each other, through the Holy Spirit who is Love. 17 How is the Holy Mass also the sacrifice of the Church? In the Holy Mass, the Sacrifice of Christ, who is the Head, also becomes the sacrifice of the Church, which is His Body. He unites his Church to himself: In interceding with his Father for the whole Church, for humanity and for the faithful departed. 88