Completing What is Lacking (Col 1:24): A Biblical Exploration of Ecclesial Co-atonement

“In the Eucharist, Christ joins our sufferings to the body he gives and the blood he sheds, and he offers them up for the salvation of the world. Our task is to say ‘yes,’ and thereby co-offer him and ourselves; this, our appropriation of the atonement, is itself a participation in its enactment.”