Menti Nostrae

Indeed, the sacrifice which the Lord made upon Calvary, hanging on the cross, was not only the immolation of His own Body; for He offered Himself, a Victim of expiation, as the Head of the human race and, therefore, “while commending His Spirit into the hands of the Father, He commends Himself to God as man, in order to commend to the Eternal Father all mankind”.^{37S. ATHANS., De incarnatione, n. 12: Migne, P.G., XXVI. 1003s.}