Question Five: On the End and Effects of the Sacrifice

341. General principle. - The sacrifice of the New Law succeeded all the earlier ones, and therefore "embraces all goods signified by those, as the consummation and perfection of all" (C. Trid., sess. 22, c. 1); whence it is offered for the four ends of sacrifices, and is at once latreutic, eucharistic, propitiatory, and impetratory. And therefore it has effects corresponding to the fourfold end. Concerning these it now comes to be said.