PRIEST AND VICTIM

How marvelous is the priesthood of the Christian, for he is both the victim that is offered on his own behalf, and the priest who makes the offering. He does not need to go beyond himself to seek what he is to immolate to God: with himself and in himself he brings the sacrifice he is to offer God for himself.... Truly it is an amazing sacrifice in which a body is offered without being slain and blood is offered without being shed.

(Saint Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Doctor of the Church, 406-450)