18 Moreover there is another twofold fruit which we may and must derive fromthis great Sacrifice. The heart is saddened when it considers what a flood ofwickedness, the result - as We have said - of forgetfulness and contempt of thedivine Majesty, has inundated the world. It is not too much to say that a greatpart of the human race seems to be calling down upon itself the anger of heaven;though indeed the crop of evils which has grown up here on earth is alreadyripening to a just judgment. Here then is a motive whereby the faithful may bestirred to a devout and earnest endeavour to appease God the avenger of sin, andto win from Him the help which is so needful in these calamitous times. And theyshould see that such blessings are to be sought principally by means of thisSacrifice. For it is only in virtue of the death which Christ suffered that mencan satisfy, and that most abundantly, the demands of God's justice, and canobtain the plenteous gifts of His clemency. And Christ has willed that the wholevirtue of His death, alike for expiation and impetration, should abide in theEucharist, which is no mere empty commemoration thereof, but a true andwonderful though bloodless and mystical renewal of it.
Source: Mirae Caritatis (Vatican.va)