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16 Catechism of the Catholic Church (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1994), no. 1374, p. 346. 17 Ibid. , no. 1364-1367, p. 343-344. 18 Ibid. , no 1391, p. 351, and 1416, p. 356. 19 St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Peri Hermeneias , book I, lectio 14. Cf. Catechism , no.600, p. 155. 20 Pope John Paul II has said in his Wednesday Catechesis (8/10/88): The event of Golgotha belongs to the past. The reality of the Trinity constitutes an eternal divine “today.” This is why the whole of humanity can participate in this “today” of the Son’s sacrifice. The Eucharist is the sacrament of this unfathomable “today.” The Eucharist is the sacrament — the greatest the Church has — through which the divine “today” of the Redemption of the world meets our human “today” in an ever new way. 21 Catechism, no. 737, 1085, 1104, and 1165. 22 St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Incarnation, Birth and Infancy , 239. 38 Jesus, Mercy Incarnate